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Private Notes
Rogers and Mr. McFeely visit a house built into the side of a wall. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets word that Westwood is building a sandbox.
Rogers follows clues in a treasure hunt, the end of which leads to a balloon artist. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chuck Aber gives a balloon ring to Lady Elaine. She is overcome with the suggestion that Aber has proposed to her.
Mr. McFeely shows a videotape of his visit with sculptor Allen Dwight. He carves a marble structure, which McFeely gives to Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine tells Lady Aberlin her secret.
Rogers meets with Crist Delmonico, a blind painter. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is about to tell all that she and Chuck Aber will get married. The news surprises everyone—Aber most of all.
Mister Rogers finds a clipboard on his porch with a small piece of paper that says "read this note" but the rest of the paper is blank. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Neighbor Aber explains to Lady Elaine that the balloon ring he gave to her does not mean that they are to get married. Back at the house, Mister Rogers hears an alarm coming from the suitcase Mr. McFeely delivered with the film.
Rogers listens to folk singers Andy Holiner and Alice Johnson. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, several residents decide to wear hats for fun. Then along comes Randy S. Caribou, who can wear all the hats at once.
Mister Rogers brings with him a clay figurine of Randy S. Caribou, and puts him within the Neighborhood of Make-Believe models. Joining the Randy figurine are clay figurines of several other Make-Believe puppet characters. Later in the program, Mister Rogers watches a team of kids playing soccer. When the Make-Believe adventure starts, Randy S. Caribou plays hide-and-seek with the Neighborhood Trolley. But Randy soon puts himself in a sticky situation when he squashes a cake made to look like a soccer ball.
Mister Rogers shows off an assortment of baskets, most of which Mr. McFeely brought. Both men visit the Special Olympics tryouts at the nearby school gymnasium. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Bob Dog invite King Friday XIII to go 'round the mulberry bush. It was the first time King Friday was ever asked to hoin in a game. When Randy S. Caribou talks about his emerging team, Bob Dog and Lady Aberlin jump at the chance to join.
After showing a new board game based on the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mister Rogers gets a visit from Suzie McConnell, an expert basketball player-teacher. Mr. McFeely shows a video of Dance Alloy, with dancers gliding along huge rubber balls. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe team rounds itself out, with Henrietta Pussycat and X the Owl joining King Friday, Lady Aberlin, Bob Dog, Prince Tuesday, Ana Platypus, Daniel Tiger and Randy S. Caribou, of course. Queen Sara prefers not to join.
Upon his arrival, Mister Rogers talks about learning to play peekaboo as a young boy. With him, Mister Rogers has brough two different kinds of bowling balls -- a large one and a small one. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the pussycat-owl-king-woman-dog-boy-girl-reindeer-tiger team has assembled at the castle but is having difficulty deciding on a game that would be appropriate for all team members. Back at the house, Mister Rogers has placed the Neighborhood of Make-Believe figures in the order they were mentioned in the pussycat-owl-king-woman-dog-boy-girl-reindeer-tiger team name.
Mister Rogers and Mr. McFeely get a glimpse of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, with Dr. Joan Embery as Rogers' guide. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the unseen Princess Zelda is preparing a play about a giraffe with a short neck.
Mister Rogers watches a roll of film develop at a film lab. The newly-arrived Princess Zelda recruits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe residents to appear in the upcoming play.
"Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe" begins with the melancholy Josephine yearning to grow a longer neck. Her friend, Hazel the Elephant, had told her to wish at the same spot for the past year, but nothing happened. Now Hazel tries to talk Josephine to attend the nearby school.
In Part Two of "Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe," Josephine and Hazel go to school, where they meet all sorts of other animals. Among the classmates are a shy giraffe and a snake that doesn't know how to hiss. Josephine attends the "Attractive Active Animals" class.
Josephine feels that the school's Attractive, Active Animals class is not helping her, especially because Sam Snake has finally learned how to hiss. Hazel tells J.R. Giraffe to give Josephine words of encouragement. In the process, both J.R. and Josephine accept themselves, and each other, for who they are.
