Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV Series)
1539: Food (1984)
Fred Rogers: Mr. Rogers, Daniel Striped Tiger
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Quotes
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Mr. Rogers : [At a vegetable soup factory] Look at the peas coming along here. Oh, that looks like a waterfall. It's a peafall. Look, it's a peafall instead of a waterfall.
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Daniel Striped Tiger : [Bob Dog has made a vegetable soup can tree. Daniel thinks it's real] Isn't that great? You told me it would grow, Bob Dog. Some people told me it wouldn't work. And they said they hoped I wouldn't be too disappointed if it didn't.
Bob Dog : Who are they?
Daniel Striped Tiger : Ana and Lady Aberlin. But I'll show them.
Bob Dog : Yeah.
Daniel Striped Tiger : Now, will you help me with something?
Bob Dog : What do you want me to do, Daniel?
Daniel Striped Tiger : This will be wonderful. I want to plant each one of these little cans and we'll have that many more trees. And then I'll get more big cans and plant them and we'll have a whole garden of trees and get lots of cans of soup everyday for this neighborhood and any other neighborhood that needs them.
Bob Dog : Cans everyday?
Daniel Striped Tiger : Oh sure. If we can grow vegetable soup right in the can, we've really discovered something very important. Don't you understand?
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Mr. Rogers : Even if it's something disappointing, it's still better to know the truth. Because people can deal with disappointment. And once they've done that, they can feel that they have really grown. And that can be such a good feeling.
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Mr. Rogers : Did your mom or dad ever ask you to eat a vegetable you hadn't tasted before? Did you wish you didn't have to try it? Sometimes if you try just a little, you'll find you really like it. Different people like different things.
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Mr. Rogers : It takes so many people to grow and prepare the food of the world, doesn't it?
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Mr. Rogers : Cans aren't like seeds. They don't grow, do they? Poor Daniel didn't understand.
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Mr. Rogers : Even though it's sometimes very hard, most people like to know the truth about things.
