Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV Series)

1485: Competition (1981)

Fred Rogers: Mr. Rogers, King Friday XIII, Lady Elaine Fairchilde, Daniel Striped Tiger

Quotes 

• Mr. Rogers : [after unsuccessfully making a rainbow]  Well, Mr. McFeely knows a lot of things about stuff like that, I'm gonna call him.

  [Picks up the phone and dials] 

  Mr. Rogers : Mr. McFeely? Oh, am I glad you're there. I've been trying to make a rainbow. I thought I could do it with a flashlight and some spray. Yeah, just water spray. Didn't work. Projector? Yes, I have a projector. Yeah, and some white paper too. Oh, could you come over with that now? Oh, I see. What about the gold? Mr. Aber is not there yet? Okay, nothing seems to be working out right today. All right, well, I'll see you a little later then. Thanks, anyway.

  [Hangs up the phone; Singing] 

  Mr. Rogers : What do you do with the mad that you feel when you feel so mad you could bite? / When the whole wide world seems oh so wrong / And nothing you do seems very right / What do you do? / Do you punch a bag?/ Do you pound some clay or some dough? / Do you round up friends for a game of tag and see how fast you go? / It's great to be able to stop / When you've planned a thing that's wrong / And be able to do something else instead/ And think, this song / I can stop when I want to / Can stop when I wish / Can stop, stop, stop anytime / And what a good feeling to feel like this/ And know that the feeling is really mine / Know that there's something deep inside/ That helps us become what we can / For a girl can be someday a woman / And a boy can be someday a man.

• King Friday XIII : You do know that it's the bow from the rain I'm looking for, don't you?

• Charles R. Aber : I brought this special attachment for the plane car.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : What sort of attachment?

  Charles R. Aber : Well, it's supposed to make rain.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Who would want rain in make believe?

  Charles R. Aber : I guess King Friday.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Oh, he's the goofiest king I ever heard of.

• Lady Elaine Fairchilde : And what's this about rain? I don't want rain unless it's raining gold.

• Mr. McFeely : Now for the experience, We need a projector first.

  Mr. Rogers : I have it in here.

  [Takes the projector out of his closet] 

  Mr. McFeely : And a screen. Well, We can use this pad as a screen.

  [Grabs a drawing pad] 

  Mr. McFeely : And we can set it up in the kitchen. Ready?

  Mr. Rogers : I am ready!

  Mr. McFeely : Right this way to the kitchen.

  [They go to the kitchen] 

  Mr. McFeely : Well, We can put the projector to the table and,

  Mr. Rogers : [as place the projector on the table]  This is where I tried my rainbow experience and just did not work.

  Mr. McFeely : Now we will try it. Let me see, Oh it's not high enough! Maybe, I know! How about blocks!

  Mr. Rogers : Blocks? Okay!

  [as he brings out a bag of blocks out of the cabinet] 

  Mr. McFeely : And I will plug the projector in. Just set them on the table shake them out.

  Mr. Rogers : [as he shakes the blocks out of the bag]  Is that enough?

  Mr. McFeely : That's fine, I will set it in a minute! We just have to raise the projector up. Just a little bit. These shall do it. And will put the projector on top. Now, I have special thing I want to show you. What I have in my pocket is a prism.

  Mr. Rogers : Wow, It looks like a plastic to me.

  Mr. McFeely : Well, It is cut plastic. Let's pretend it's a raindrop.

  Mr. Rogers : Raindrop?

  Mr. McFeely : Yeah, a raindrop. And light of the projector is the sunlight. That's you see rainbow from the raindrop. Now we can turn the projector, Oh! We need to turn off the lights.

  Mr. Rogers : The switch is on the wall.

  Mr. McFeely : Yes, There's the switch.

  [He shuts the lights off] 

  Mr. McFeely : . And we turn on the, There's the switch

  [Turns the projector on] 

  Mr. McFeely : . Now, hold the screen up.

  Mr. Rogers : [as he holds the screen]  Wow, That's beautiful! Look at all those colors!

• [after make-believe] 

  Mr. Rogers : In that contest, everybody got to enjoy the prize. What a make-believe rainbow that was! But, of course, make-believing is sort of like dreaming, isn't it? What do you think you might dream about a rainbow? Lady Elaine would probably dream about gold in the rainbow. Mm-hmm, that's all that seemed to be on her mind.

• Handyman Negri : But how can there be a rainbow today?

  Lady Aberlin : Yes, how can there be a rainbow without any rain?

  King Friday XIII : Mr. Aber is the only person who can answer that.

  Charles R. Aber : How do you like the prize, Ana?

  Ana Platypus : Oh, I like it, but it's really big.

  Charles R. Aber : Well, most rainbows are.

  Handyman Negri : But how did you make a rainbow without rain?

  Charles R. Aber : Well, first I tried the rain attachment, and that didn't work. Then I thought, anything is possible in Make-Believe, so I pretended a rainbow, and that did work.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Well then, I'm just going to look for the pot of gold that I have always heard was at the end of the rainbow. Haven't you heard about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

  Lady Aberlin : Yes, but I've never seen it.

  Lady Elaine Fairchilde : Neither have I, but I am going to have it. You can have the rainbow, I will have the gold.