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Mister Rogers visits the studio of artist Red Grooms, who is currently working on a trolley painting. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Lady Elaine in fits because she can't seem to draw the Eiffel Tower well.
Mister Rogers introduces many different ways of dealing with anger, such as singing, playing the piano, and exercising, including his friend Maggie Stewart's favorite - swimming. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll and Mayor Maggie are worried about how upset Lady Elaine is over not being able to draw Grandpere's Tower. In an angry fit, Lady Elaine turns the tower upside-down. Can Lady Elaine get over her anger and make things right in the Neighborhood again?
Maggie Stewart brings a water-and-oil motion sculpture to the television house. Jay Styperk, a wheelchair basketball specialist, gives Rogers a few exercises.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde is distraught that, in a fit of anger, she had turned Mr. McFeely into a doll.
Betty Okonak Templeton visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe in an effort to ease Lady Elaine's mean mood.
Mister Rogers visits a rehearsal of the international sensation STOMP. He meets the members and sees how they use everyday things like buckets, brooms, pipes, and their hands and feet to make exciting music. In Make-Believe, all the neighbors are unhappy over the upside-down tower and Lady Elaine's behavior. Lady Elaine, realizing that her anger got out of control, rights the tower and finds that apologizing is a good first step towards making amends.
Mr. McFeely presents Rogers with a ""hide-and-find ball,"" with which they play a little hide-and-seek. Later in the program, Rogers hears a storyteller at Mrs. McFeely's house. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets puzzled by a gift for Purple Panda—one that he is not supposed to open.
Mister Rogers arrives with an African violet and takes a long look at the flower before he sings Look and Listen. Mr. McFeely stops by a small green ball which he and Mister Rogers take outside where they meet a talented juggler named JoAnn Swaim. Ms. Swaim provides a very simple juggling lesson before showcasing her talents by juggling as many as seven balls.
In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday is looking carefully at an African violet and King Friday does not understand the use of what his son is doing. The King departs for the J Room where his juggling instructor is waiting. Recognizing Prince Tuesday's love for the flower, Handyman Negri listens and Mayor Maggie sings and signs Then Your Heart is Full of Love.
Mayor Maggie and Neighbor Aber have still been unsuccessful in delivering the strange package to Purple Panda. At the Museum-Go-Round, they show the package to Lady Elaine before Neighbor Aber tosses it in the air and it disappears. Surfacing in the hands of Handyman Negri, the package has changed colors once again. Handyman Negri also loses the package by tossing it in the air but quickly finds it sitting on the Trolley.
Back at the house, Mister Rogers shares a Neighborhood photo album featuring pictures of several of his neighbors as children and adults. Mr. McFeely returns with a video showing various time-lapse images of things changing in nature. The video includes a caterpillar changing into a butterfly which makes Mister Rogers think to take out toy caterpillar. The toy changes into a butterfly as well.
Rogers demonstrates that he doesn't change when he wears dark glasses or a hat. Lady Aberlin tries the same tactic in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Mr. McFeely shows a time-lapse videotape of how the television house is set up in the studios of WQED in Pittsburgh.
Rogers fixes the ball float in his toilet. Maggie Stewart demonstrates some sign language, using a book in the process. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is still perplexed by that mysterious package for Purple Panda. And things don't get any better once Purple Panda arrives.
Rogers shows a wooden egg containing a speckled egg. He then returns to the McFeely's house, where plants are transplanted and ducklings are delivered. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde retrieves the package for Purple Panda. Much to everyone's surprise, the package opens itself.
Lady Elaine frets about all the noise made by someone's ""vacuum sweeper.""
Jabali Afrika performs at Negri's Music Shop. Lady Elaine Fairchilde has a bad dream about ""vacuum sweepers,"" and tries to rid them from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers visits B. Smith's restaurant and reunites with B. Smith herself, who had appeared in a Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment back in 1969. Smith returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and leaves a napkin for Queen Sara. But that napkin is swept away, thanks to Lady Elaine's army of ""vacuum sweepers.""
After Rogers draws with colored chalk, he sees a videotape on how such chalk is made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Purple Panda is called on to help Lady Elaine overcome her fear of ""vacuum sweepers.""
Mister Rogers arrives with a megaphone he has borrowed from Marilyn Barnett. After showing how it amplifies his voice, Mister Rogers uses a cardboard tube to make his own megaphone. Ms. Barnett stops by to pick up her megaphone and to do some exercises with Mister Rogers.
In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is still working to recover all of the missing vacuum sweepers. Lady Aberlin, Neighbor Aber, Prince Tuesday, and Purple Panda are outside the Museum-Go-Round when Lady Elaine uses an newly installed megaphone to announce that the Museum is closed for cleaning. After Lady Elaine finally admits that she is afraid of vacuum sweepers, Purple Panda sings a song that helped him get over his own fear of vacuums. Feeling more comfortable, Lady Elaine agrees to return all of the vacuum sweepers she has taken.
Back at the house, Mister Rogers talks about the importance of talking about your feelings when you are afraid or worried. Visiting the Inner-City Arts Center, Mister Rogers meets Bob Bates who shows him around. Throughout the center, young artists are working on a variety of projects including sculpture, painting, and music.
Returning to his house, Mister Rogers concludes by singing It's You I Like.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has witnessed cereal falling like snow over a couple of areas. It stopped snowing cereal over at the Platypus Mound, but not at Daniel's Clock.
Rogers' friend Brad Brewer, a knitter and puppeteer, talks of the puppets and puppet shows he has performed. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Elsie Jean Platypus explains the cereal stopped falling on the Platypus Mound when she wasn't afraid of it. But Daniel is afraid of the cereal snowfall on his Clock.
Rogers visits the McFeelys' house to see the lambs they are babysitting. Later Mr. McFeely plays a videotape on how lambs are sheared. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe sends its armor-clad King to the Clock, where he will attempt to command the cereal stop falling. But only Daniel's presence at the Clock can stop the downpour.
Rogers doesn't immediately put on his sweater, and already people sense this television visit will break the mold. He takes viewers to see his immunization at a doctor's office. It is designed to alleviate children's fears. Daniel Striped Tiger finally faces his fears, with the aid of Chuck Aber and Lady Aberlin. They give him an inflatable boat prior to appearing at the Clock. Only Daniel can stop the falling cereal at the Clock, and he does.
With the crisis at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe over, Daniel Striped Tiger asks that his pile of cereal be distributed to the people who need it most. A forklift is just the tool to cart boxes of cereal from the Clock.
