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- Check out those racers! - Whoa!
- So much speed out there. So much coolness. - I know.
- You know what else is gonna be out there?
- No. - Us!
- Whoa. - Shyeah! We'll be racing
'round the track right after this message thingy!
♪♪
One, two, a 1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Peg plus Cat! ♪
♪ Peg plus Cat! ♪
- ♪ One, two, three! - Yeah come on let's go! ♪
- ♪ Four, five, six! - Hey! What do you know? ♪
- ♪ Seven, eight, nine! ♪ - Whoa! What comes next? ♪
- ♪ Ten? - Ten! ♪
- ♪ You're the best! We are 2 ♪
♪ Na na na na na, me plus you ♪
♪ Na na na na na, we're Peg plus ♪
- ♪ Cat! - Peg plus ♪
- ♪ Cat! - Peg plus ♪
- ♪ Cat! - Peg plus Cat! ♪
(laughing)
- "The Race Car Problem."
- Howdy! I'm Peg, and this is Cat.
And we're about to enter a super cool race
called the Talla-peg-a 20!
Tell 'em what we named our race car, Cat.
- Hot-Buttered Lightnin'! And she is...
- (both): Built for speed! - Whoa!
- We built her by using boxes for the sides,
and this big cylinder in the middle that holds them together.
Then we found 4 round things to use as wheels!
- She's a sweet ride!
- I'll put my special marble on the tippy top for good luck.
- Like we'll need it! Uh-huh. (fanfare)
- Sounds like it's time for the race! Ready, Cat?
- I was born ready.
- Then start up Hot-Buttered Lightnin' and let's roll!
- (both): Yahoo!
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
- Oops. - We lost a wheel!
Luckily, I told Cat to bring an extra one, just in case!
- Let's ride!
- (both): Yow! Yow! Ow! Ow!
- A television set?! Oh, no!
Our new wheel isn't round like a wheel is supposed to be!
We've got a BIG PROBLEM!
This wheel is un-roll-able!
And we didn't bring an extra extra wheel.
Way to go, Cat! - Huh?
- This trash can lid is the perfect wheel!
It's round and ready to roll!
- Cool!
- Which means...
♪ Problem solved, the problem is solved ♪
♪ We solved the problem, problem solved! ♪
Talla-peg-a 20, here we come! - Wahoo!
- Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Talla-peg-a 20!
- I can't wait to see the other cars!
- They don't stand a chance! - (Ramone): Let's meet the racers!
Our first contestants are the pirates
in their fearsome Pirate Mobile!
- (pirates): Arrrr! - Part car and part ship,
this homemade race car is fast on land and sea!
(spectators oohing)
Our next contestants are the teens
in their awesome Pizza Mobile! - (teens): Woot, woot!
- Fueled on nothing but potato chips and cherry cola,
this fashionable race car is one hot slice of speed!
(spectators cheering) (Honk! Honk!)
And here comes our next racer!
In his incredibly sleek, aerodynamic, and jet-propelled
Triangle Mobile, it's... the pig!
- Hm! (spectators cheering)
- And finally, it's Peg and Cat in their homemade race car
made out of garbage, Hot-Buttered Lightnin'!
(old-fashioned honk)
- All the other cars are so much bigger and cooler than ours.
- We don't stand a chance.
- We've put so much love, hard work, and sweat into his little car.
- It even smells like sweat!
- But there's no way we could win a race against those cars.
We've got a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
I guess we should just give up and head home.
- Did you just say, "give up"? - Well, yeah.
♪♪
- ♪ You can never solve a problem ♪
♪ By saying you give up ♪
♪ So try your best and never rest ♪
♪ And you just might win the golden cup ♪
- That was gorgeous! - I do what I can.
- And so will we! We'll give it our best shot!
- Hello out there in race car land!
I'm Connie. - And I'm Viv,
coming to you live from the Talla-peg-a 20!
- Ooh! They're about to begin.
- OK, when you drive around the track once,
it's called a lap. The first car to drive 20 laps wins the race!
- (racers): Hooray!
- Gentlemen, ladies, parrots,
swine, start your engines!
On your mark... get set...
(whistle blown)
(coughing)
- (Connie): And they're off! - (Viv): That pig
in his Triangle Mobile has taken an early lead.
- Whoa! What was that?
- Ramone stuck a number on the side of our car
to show how many laps we've completed: 1.
The pirates have gone 4 laps.
And the teens have gone 6 laps.
- So, we're doing pretty good, eh?
- Not really.
Four is more than one. This sign means "more than".
- ONE, two, three, FOUR. You're right!
- And 6 is even more than 4.
- One, two, three, FOUR, five, SIX. You're right again!
We'll never win! - Remember what Ramone said.
- Something about giving up. - He said not to!
- And we won't! - That's the spirit!
- The racers seem to be slowig down to enjoy a quick bite.
- Well, everyone likes a little snack.
- Give me that peach! - That's my peach!
- Like, mmm! - The only racers not slowing down seem to be
little Peggie and her cat friend.
- Oh, can't we stop for just one bite of pizza, please?
- There'll be time to snack when the race is done.
We're up to 10 laps!
- Ten-riffic!
- He totally put a 13 on our car!
- (all): We're, like, finally in the teens!
Woot, woot! - (pirates): Arrrr!
- Guys, if we keep driving, we'll totally drive into
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and then--
- And then drive right out of the teens!
- O-M-G!
- We should just, like, quit while we're still in the teens!
- (girls): Totes McGoats. (whistle blown)
- The teens drove off the track, which means - mm! - they are out of the race!
- But no one ever goes away empty-handed
at the Tall-a-peg-a 20! They get to choose a prize
from the Consolation Prize Bag! (spectators cheering)
(spectators cheering) - We're up to
15 laps! Eighteen?
- We've done more laps than the pirates, right?
- Well, no, Cat.
Just like 8's more than 5, 18's more than--
- Fifteen! - All right, Cat,
you're learning. - Losing, but learning!
- Ooh! Will you look at this! The pirates are closing in
on that pig to take the lead!
- (pirates): We arrrr! - Let me drive!
I want to steer us to victory! - No, let me do it!
- No! I'm a better driver! - Stand back, the lot of ye!
I'm captain of this ship! - (pirates): You're making me cranky!
- Oh, boy - Whoops.
- Whoa! - Batten down the hatches!
- Mommy! - We're about to run aground!
- Abandon ship! Awk!
- Arrr! - That was fun!
- Woo-hoo! - Can I do it again, Mommy?
- Mm, I guess the pirates are out of this race.
- So, the only ones left are
Peg and Cat, and that pig.
- The pig just finished 19 laps! He only has 1 more to go!
- We're doomed.
- But look! He's so sure he'll win,
he's slowing down to play his triangle!
Now's our chance to catch up to him!
- Yeah!
- Come on, Hot-Buttered Garbage! - Lightning.
- Keep it together! - Whoa-ho-ho-ho!
- My marble!
- Ow.
- The cylinder that held our car together is broken!
- That thar pig is near the end. - He's almost at 20!
- Without a cylinder, there's no way we can
keep our car together, and the pig's about to win!
I am totally FREAKING OUT!
(Cat blows a whistle.) Cat's right.
I should count backwards from 5 to calm down.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
That's it! The telescope is a cylinder,
so we can use it to hold our car together!
Come on, Hot-Buttered Lightnin'! We've got a race to win!
- Word! - Peg and Cat are closing in!
- But the Pig is almost at the finish line!
- Ooh! The teens have picked out their consolation prizes.
Race flags shaped like triangles.
- ♪ Yahooooo ♪!
- Because we chose the right-shaped objects in all the right places,
Hot-Buttered Lightnin' is unstoppable!
- Math really revved up our engine!
- Which means...
♪ Problem solved! The problem is solved! ♪
♪ We solved the problem! - Triangles are awesome! ♪
- ♪ Problem solved! ♪ - To the finish line!
- ♪ They could not have solved the problem ♪
- ♪ If they'd given up ♪
- ♪ So try your best - And never rest ♪
- ♪ And you just might win ♪ - They just might win ♪
- (Connie and Viv): And the winners are Peg and Cat!
- (Cat and Peg): The golden cup!
- (all): Hooray! - (Parrot): Awk!
- Let's get a picture of all the racers in the order
of laps they completed, from lowest to highest.
- (racers): OK! ♪♪
- ♪ Well... when you got a bunch of numbers ♪
♪ And they're sorta outta whack ♪
♪ Here's a way you can arrange 'em with the others on the track ♪
♪ Here's a 19 and a 13, and as you can plainly see ♪
♪ You stand here, you stand there, 'cause 9 is more than 3 ♪
- ♪ More than, less than, that's how you figure ♪
♪ How to sort a lot of numbers from smaller to bigger ♪
♪ Take my advice, you don't even have to guess ♪
♪ When you know which one is more ♪
- ♪ Which one is more! ♪
- ♪ And which one is less ♪
- ♪ But what do with 18? How does this fit with those two? ♪
♪ Since I know 8's more than 3 and less than 9, here's what we do ♪
♪ Thirteen's least, so stay there ♪
♪ As I solve our little riddle ♪
♪ Nineteen's most, so stay there ♪
♪ With 18 in the middle ♪
- ♪ More than, less than ♪
♪ That's how you figure how to sort a lot of numbers ♪
♪ From smaller to bigger ♪
♪ Take my advice, you don't even have to guess ♪
♪ When you know which one is more ♪
- ♪ Which one is more! ♪
- ♪ And which one is less ♪
- ♪ Your numbers start with 1 ♪
♪ And ours starts with 2 ♪
♪ Since 2 is more than 1 ♪
♪ We know just what to do! - Woo-hoo! ♪
- ♪ You're going way up there to the highest, coolest place ♪
♪ 'Cause you've got the biggest number and you've won the race ♪
- ♪ More than, less than ♪
♪ That's how you figure how to sort a lot of numbers ♪
♪ From smaller to bigger ♪
♪ Take my advice, you don't even have to guess ♪
♪ When you know which one is more ♪
- ♪ Which one is more! ♪
- ♪ And which one is less ♪
(laughing)
- Wee-ha!
♪♪ - Hot-Buttered Lightin' won us
one race, but she's not finished. - Oh, no.
- She's gonna win us... 8 races!
- Eighteen! - Twenty-eight!
Actually, winning one race is fine.
- One's enough. (laughing)
(sighing)
- ♪ We're splashing in the bathroom! - In the tub! ♪
- ♪ At the sink! - On the floor! ♪ - Splishing! Splashing! ♪
♪ Splashing some more! ♪
- Welcome to the bathroom!
We're making a pizza
for the teens, with 13 meatball rocks on it!
- First the dough! - Great job, Cat.
- I dough what I can. - Now the sauce and cheese.
And to top it off,
13 meatball rocks!
Here you go, Tessa! Wait, what's that?
They want 17 rocks instead of 13?
Teens love meatballs,
so let's count up until we get there.
Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen!
- Bon appe-teen! Whoa!
- (woman): You guys OK in there? - We're OK, but--
- Our pizza got a little soggy!
- We need more pizza chefs to help us make
teen-pleasin' pizza!
Go to our totally rocking website at pbskids.org!
Till then, we're Peg and Cat... - ♪ Splashing some more! ♪
♪♪
- One, two, a 1, 2, 3, 4!
♪ Peg plus Cat! ♪
♪ Peg plus Cat! ♪
- ♪ One, two, three! - Yeah c'mon let's go! ♪
- ♪ Four, five, six! - Hey! What do you know? ♪
- ♪ Seven eight nine! - Whoa! What comes next? ♪
- ♪ Uh, 10? - Ten! ♪
- ♪ You're the best! ♪
♪ We are two, na na na na na ♪
♪ Me plus you, na na na na na ♪
- ♪ We're Peg plus - Cat! ♪
- ♪ Peg plus - Cat! ♪
- ♪ Peg plus ♪ - Cat! ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat! ♪ (laughing)
(Honk! Honk!)
- "The Big Gig Problem."
(Honk! Honk!)
- OK, so, our band,
the Electric Eleven, is totally on tour!
That means we're driving around to amazing places
and spreading joy through the power of our groovy music!
(cheering) - I gotta tells ya!
- Oh, right, and we've got t-shirts.
Once size fits all cats.
Anyway, today we're playing a big gig.
- A big what? - A gig is what cool musicians
call it when they play to a crowd.
And we're playing for 100 chickens at the farm!
- Yo, Peg, I think we almost there.
What's the address again?
- The address is...
22!
- Let's see. Look! There's #21!
And, oh, and there's 23!
But where's 22?! I don't see it!
- (pigs): It's clearly not there!
- I can't believe this is happening!
If we can't find the farm, then we can't play our gig!
This is a BIG GIG PROBLEM!
If we can't play our gig,
then 100 chickens won't get the gift of our groovy music!
And I can't let that many chickens down!
Hey, it's 22!
Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three!
So the address numbers DO go in order!
You found the farm, you amazing farm-finding cat!
And so...
♪ Problem solved, the problem is solved ♪
♪ We solved the problem, problem solved ♪
And check it out.
When you count in the 20s, you count 21, 22, 23, 24.
It's just like counting 1, 2, 3, 4,
but with a 2 in the front! That's so cool.
Come on, everybody, we're here!
Wow! This stage looks great!
It's like a rock concert mixed with a petting zoo -
pure perfection!
How's that banner coming, Cat? - Eh.
- OK, band, while Cat hangs up our banner, we should practice.
After all, we are playing for 100 chickens!
- That's a lot of chickens. - Mm-hmm! You know that's right.
- To warm up, we'll sing the "Problem Solved" song.
Ready, everyone?
A 1, a 2, a 1, 2, 3, 4!
- ♪ Problem solved, the problem is solved! ♪
♪ We solved the problem, problem-- ♪
- Wait! Is it just me, or are we missing a saxophone?
Mama Bear, Baby Bear, but where's Papa Bear?
Papa Bear! Where are you?
- ♪ Gotta whittle some wood, chew some hay ♪
♪ Lie in a hammock with a beaaaaar ♪
- Papa Bear, what are you doing?!
Well, whatever you're doing, we've got a show to play!
You can't lie here and whittle. You're in the band!
- I WAS in the band; now I'm in the hammock.
- Hoo-eee! Look. A tractor.
- Nice. - Ugh! This is not happening!
I can't believe Papa Bear is quitting the band!
Now there aren't even 11 of us in the Electric Eleven!
Which means we have to change the name.
And if we have to change the name, we have to change...
the banner. Thanks, Cat!
The question is: what number should I change it to?
Hmm. - Hey, Peg!
- Ramone? What are you doing here?
- I'm in charge of setting up the sound and lights for your big gig.
- Thanks! But I don't know if there's going to be a gig.
Papa Bear quit, and now I don't know how many of us there are.
- Well, when you have one fewer of something, it's just like counting backwards.
See, counting forwards, we have 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
But if we want to take one away, it's like counting backwards.
Eleven, ten.
- I get it!
So I need to change the banner from 11 to 10.
Thanks, Ramone. - I do what I can.
- Well, I hate to change the banner,
but the show must go on! Right, everyone?
Everyone? Where are they?
- They left! They're all doing... stuff
with the farm animals! - Oh, no.
The pig is rolling in the mud with the hog!
The goat is grazing with the cow!
Baby Bear is frolicking with the sheep!
Those other goats are playing with a baby chick
on the farmer's fiddle!
Cat, we've got a REALLY BIG PROBLEM!
Oh, and now the goat that was grazing with the cow is milking the cow.
- You've done this before? - Well, I've read about it.
- One missing band member, and we could maaaybe deal with it.
But this is too many!
If we don't get them to come back,
we might not be able to play our gig!
This is a BIG GIG PROBLEM!
- Well, how are we gonna get them back in the band again?
- Wait, I've got it!
Hat crackers!
Hey! Band mates!
Or should I say former band mates?
If you come back to the Electric Eleven,
I'll give you some of these crackers I keep under my hat.
Do we have a deal? They're really salty,
and kinda warm - really warm, actually.
Probably from the heat from my head.
And a lot of them are broken. But they're still good.
What is it, Cat?
Oh, no!
The animals are all eating delicious, farm-fresh food!
They'll never want my broken hat crackers now.
Well, you know what? I'm not letting a little thing
like most of the band members quitting stop us from playing our gig.
But we still need to fix the banner.
I already changed it from 11 to 10 when Papa Bear quit,
but a whole bunch of other band members quit since then.
So we gotta count backwards from 10.
- ♪ The pig is eating ice cream ♪
- ♪ Fine! I'll lower it from 10 to 9 ♪
- ♪ Mama Bear is napping ♪
- ♪ Great! That total's down to 8 ♪
- ♪ These goats are fiddling with some chicks ♪
- ♪ Another 2, that makes it 7, 6 ♪
- ♪ Oh, man ♪
- ♪ You know, that's about half the band ♪
- ♪ Baby Bear is chopping wood ♪
- ♪ Five, this isn't looking good ♪
- ♪ These pigs are learning basket weaving ♪
- ♪ Four, three, it's like the whole band's leaving ♪
- ♪ The goat's prepared some cheese fondue ♪
- ♪ Delicious, but that just leaves 2 ♪
- ♪ Two loyal souls, who could they be? ♪
- ♪ Peg plus Cat ♪
♪ Just you and me ♪
Well, Cat, I guess it's just the 2 of us.
(stomping) What's that stomping sound?
- ♪ Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep ♪ - The 100 chickens!
They're here! And they're all fired up for the big gig!
- Hey, Peg! I got the stage all ready for your band.
What do you think? - Ramone!
It's amazing! - Thanks!
- Cool, and you even polished my saxophone.
- And my microphone! - And our dancing shoes!
- Woo! - Hold on a second here.
I thought you guys quit the band.
- Peg, forgive us. We were taken in
by the glitz and the glamour of farm life,
and we lost sight of what truly matters to us as musicians.
- You mean the music?
- No! Looking cool on an awesome stage
in front of 100 chickens!
- All right, it's good to have you back, band mates!
And best of all, we can change the banner
to the original number: 11!
- Hey, can I play the fiddle with y'all?
- Sure! I don't see why not. - Whoa!
- Cat, this is great. Just a few minutes ago,
there were only 2 of us in the band!
Now there's, like...
Hmm, actually, how many of us are there?!
Let's count. We were the Electric Eleven.
Now we're... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 20,
21, 22, 23! Twenty-three! Finally we can play the gig!
- Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! - And just in time, too.
Those chickens are really getting restless.
- So, where do I stand?
- Oh, I still have to count the farmer.
Wait a minute. This can't be.
I... I don't know what comes after 23.
I'm freezing up! I'm blanking! I don't know
if it's stage fright, or counting fright, or chicken fright!
But I am TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!
(Cat blows a whistle.) Cat's right.
I should count backwards from 5 to calm down.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Wait, the mailbox! That's it!
You figured it out, you amazing
mailbox-leaning-on Cat. - I did?
- When you found the farm's address, I realized
that counting in the 20s is just like counting from 1 to 9.
Like 1, 2, 3, 4.
But you put a 2 in the front, so it would be like:
21, 22, 23, 24! Aha!
Twenty-four comes after 23,
and that's how many of us are in the band!
Twenty-four! Perfect!
We can call ourselves The Tart and Twangy Twenty-Four!
♪♪ ♪ There's 24 of us up here ♪
♪ We're the world's biggest band! ♪
- ♪ And I can say for sure 24 is more than you can count on both your hands ♪
- ♪ But even if 2 or 3 more chicks came up and joined the group ♪
- ♪ We wouldn't dilly-dally to add 'em to the tally, let me give you folks the scoop ♪
- ♪ When you're counting in the 20s, just start with 20 - Woo! ♪
- ♪ Then count on up from 1 to 9 - Like you normally do! ♪
- ♪ No matter what you're counting and whatever the amount ♪
- ♪ If you can count from 1 to 10
- ♪ By golly, that's what counts! ♪
And hey! Here come some more chickens to join the band!
So that makes 25, 26, 27 of us in the band!
That's a BIG band!
- Peg, I have a question.
What about counting in the 30s?
- I'm glad you asked that, little pig. Farmer, take it away!
- ♪ There was a farmer who had 30 bulls ♪
♪ Then he bought an extra 2 ♪
♪ He wanted to count the total amount ♪
♪ But he didn't know what to do ♪
- ♪ Hey, now, Mr. Farmer, don't you fret and don't you fear ♪
♪ No amount o' bull is uncountable, so just you listen here ♪
- ♪ When you're counting in the 30s, just start with 30 - Woo! ♪
- ♪ Then count on up from 1 to 9 - Like you normally do! ♪
- ♪ No matter what you're counting and whatever the amount ♪
- ♪ If you can count from 1 to 10 ♪
- ♪ By golly, that's what counts! ♪
So, the farmer had 30 bulls, then he bought 2 more,
so that's 31... 32 bulls! - Well, I'll be hoed and plowed!
- But tell me, Peg,
what about counting larger numbers?
Like 40? Or 50? Or 60?
- I'm glad you asked that, Mr. Goat!
♪ The best part is, you count the same ♪
♪ Up and down the number line ♪
♪ From 42 to 68 ♪
- ♪ Up to 99 ♪
- ♪ So no matter what you're counting ♪
- ♪ By the pound - Or by the ounce ♪
- ♪ If you can count from 1 to 10 ♪
- ♪ By golly, that's what counts ♪
- ♪ If you can count from 1 to 10 ♪
- ♪ By golly ♪
♪ That's what cooooooounts! ♪
- Papa Bear, you were right about this hammock.
- Com-fy!
- Would you mind shifting your elbow?
It's on my solar plexus.
- Oh, you mean my elbow? - Or mine?
- Whichever one's on my solar plexus.
- That's me. Sorry. (Peg giggling)
- What's so funny?
- I didn't know bears HAD a solar plexus.
(Cat laughing) - I don't know what a solar plexus is.
- Neither do I. (all laughing)
- I just heard it once.
Oh! Nope, that's it!