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A transcript of the "Grown-Up!" episode.

Please note that because the characters talk in very simple sentences, the dialogue isn't grammatically correct and may be hard to understand without visuals.

Scene 1: Out on the lawn

[On the front lawn, Oobi and Grampu are relaxing in lawn chairs.]

  • Oobi: Oh, hi. Oobi, Grampu front yard. Yeah.
  • Oobi and Grampu: [both sigh]
  • Grampu: Sunshine beautiful.
  • Oobi: Sunshine beautiful.
  • Grampu: Mmm.
  • Oobi: Yeah.

[Oobi hears a wailing siren in the distance.]

  • Oobi: Hmm? Oh.

[Two firefighters pass by, driving their fire engine.]

  • Oobi: Oh, fire engine. Firefighters. Cool. [imitates a siren and laughs] Siren.
  • Grampu: [laughs]
  • Oobi: Hey, Oobi siren. You siren. Ready? You, siren. Hmm?
  • Oobi and Voices: [all imitating siren]
  • Oobi: [laughter] Good siren. [sighs] Firefighter cool.

[Next, a musician passes by, strumming his guitar.]

  • Musician: ♪ Doobi, doobi, doobi doo. Doobi, doobi, doo. Doobi, doobi, doobi doo. Doobi, doobi, doo. ♪
  • Grampu: Oh. Oh, uh, musician.
  • Oobi: Ah, musician cool.

[Oobi imitates the musician's song.]

  • Oobi: ♪ Doobi, doobi, doobi doo. Doobi, doobi, doo. ♪ [laughs]

[A businessperson walks by, talking into her bluetooth headset.]

  • Businessperson: Meeting. Meeting, work, business. Lunch, lunch, lunch. Business, work, meeting.
  • Grampu: Oh, uh, businessperson.
  • Oobi: Ah, businessperson cool.

[Grampu doesn't agree.]

  • Grampu: Eh.
  • Oobi: Huh. [sighs] Firefighter, musician, businessperson. Hmm. Grown-ups cool.

[Oobi does a thumbs-up.]

  • Grampu: Grown-ups cool. Kids cool.

[Grampu does a thumbs-up too.]

  • Oobi: Uh-uh. Grown-ups cool.
  • Grampu: Oobi! Pretend grown-up?
  • Oobi: Pretend grown-up? Oobi play!
  • Grampu: [laughs]

Scene 2: Grown-up clothes

  • Oobi: [to the viewers] Oh. Oobi pretend grown-up.
  • Grampu: [groaning off screen]

[Oobi walks over to Grampu, who's bringing in a huge trunk full of clothes.]

  • Oobi: Huh? Oh.
  • Grampu: Whew. [humming]

[Grampu takes some of the clothes out.]

  • Oobi: Clothing?
  • Grampu: Grown-up clothing.
  • Oobi: Ooh, grown-up clothing.

[Someone knocks on the door.]

  • Oobi: Hmm.

[Oobi opens the door, and Kako walks inside.]

  • Kako: Oobi!
  • Oobi: Kako!

[Oobi and Kako do their secret handshake.]

  • Oobi and Kako: Whoo! [laughing]
  • Kako: [looking at the clothes] Ooh.
  • Oobi: Oh, Kako.
  • Kako: Hmm?
  • Oobi: Pretend grown-up.
  • Kako: Pretend grown-up?
  • Oobi: Mm-hmm.

[Grampu puts a golfer's hat on Oobi's head.]

  • Oobi: Eh? Eh? Eh?
  • Kako: Oh! Pretend grown-up. Kako play.
  • Oobi: Yeah!
  • Grampu: Enjoy.

[Oobi and Kako look through the clothes.]

Scene 3: Pretend firefighters

[Oobi and Kako run around the living room, dressed like firefighters.]

  • Oobi and Kako: [imitating siren and horns honking]
  • Oobi: Oobi firefighter.
  • Kako: Kako firefighter.
  • Oobi: Oobi, Kako help people.
  • Kako: Mm-hmm.
  • Oobi: Oh.

[Oobi takes out a belt and pretends it's a hose.]

  • Oobi: [imitating rushing water] Shh...
  • Kako: Pretend hose.
  • Oobi: Pretend water.
  • Oobi and Kako: [imitating water] Shhh...

[Oobi points to an elephant toy on top of Grampu's piano.]

  • Oobi: Ooh, look! Elephant!
  • Kako: Help elephant.
  • Oobi: Help elephant.
  • Kako: [imitating water] Shhh...

[Oobi and Kako run over to the elephant toy. Oobi tries to bring it down, but he can't reach it.]

  • Oobi: [groaning]
  • Kako: [gasps]

[Kako helps push Oobi up.]

  • Oobi and Kako: [grunting]

[Oobi grabs the elephant and brings it down to the center table.]

  • Oobi: Whoo! Elephant safe.

[Kako picks up the elephant and pretends it can talk.]

  • Kako: [as the elephant] My hero! [kissing noises]
  • Oobi: [embarrassed] Kako!
  • Kako: [laughing] Firefighters hooray!
  • Oobi: Hooray!
  • Kako: Hooray!

[While the boys cheer, Uma walks in.]

  • Uma: Oobi, Kako?
  • Oobi: Hi, Uma.
  • Uma: Hi.
  • Kako: Kako, Oobi pretend grown-ups.
  • Uma: Pretend grown-up?
  • Oobi: Grown-ups cool.
  • Kako: Mm-hmm.
  • Uma: Kids cooler.
  • Oobi and Kako: Uh-uh.
  • Uma: Uh, Uma play?
  • Oobi: Yeah.
  • Kako: Mm, Uma play.
  • Uma: Yeah.

[All three kids run over to the trunk full of clothes.]

  • Oobi: Oobi, Kako, Uma pretend grown-up.
  • Oobi, Uma, and Kako: [laughing]
  • Kako: Ooh.
  • Uma: Too big.
  • Kako: Aah.

Scene 4: Musicians

[Now, the kids are dressed as musicians. Oobi is a tambourine player, Kako is a guitar player, and Uma is a singer.]

  • Oobi: Oobi musician.
  • Kako: Kako musician. [strums his guitar]
  • Uma: Uma musician.
  • Oobi, Uma, and Kako: Yeah! [laughing]
  • Oobi: Oobi tambourine. [jangles his tambourine]
  • Uma: Oh.
  • Kako: Kako guitar. [strums his guitar]
  • Uma: Uma singer. La, la, la, la. [looks at the viewers] Oh! Uma sing, "la, la, la." You sing, "la, la, la." Ready? You, sing.
  • Uma and Voices: [all singing together]
  • Uma: Ooh, you good musician. Hmm.
  • Oobi: Hey, musicians play together!
  • Kako: Yeah, musicians together.
  • Uma: Mm-hmm.
  • Kako: And a one and a two and a...
  • Uma: La, la, la, la. La, la, la, la. Laaaaa!
  • Oobi and Kako: [laughing]
  • Kako: See, musicians cool.
  • Oobi: See, Uma, grown-ups cool.
  • Uma: Hmm. Kids cooler, hmm.
  • Oobi and Kako: Uh-uh.

[Oobi and Kako walk back to the trunk of clothes.]

  • Oobi and Kako: Come on. Come on! Come on.

[The kids start throwing clothes everywhere.]

  • Kako: See?
  • Oobi: Ooh.
  • Kako: Whoa, and this.
  • Uma: Yeah.
  • Kako: And this.

Scene 5: Interviews

[An interview segment starts. Grampu interviews a girl named Brynne, who is holding toy tools.]

  • Brynne: Hi, Grampu.
  • Grampu: Hi, Brynne. Oh, one day Brynne grown up. Job?
  • Brynne: Doctor.
  • Grampu: Oh, doctor. Show Grampu.

[Brynne holds a toy otoscope up to Grampu's eyes.]

  • Brynne: This is for your eyes like this. They're good.
  • Grampu: Oh.

[Next, Brynne puts a toy thermometer in Grampu's mouth.]

  • Brynne: And this is for your mouth.
  • Grampu: Aah.

[Finally, Brynne puts a toy stethoscope on Grampu's arm.]

  • Brynne: And this is-- and this is for, um, your heartbeat.
  • Grampu: Oh. Oh! Brynne good doctor. Grampu healthy?
  • Brynne: Mm-hmm.
  • Grampu: Oh, good. Whew. [laughs] Lovely.
  • Boy: I don't like to be a grown-up 'cause we never can grow back to a kid. I still want to be a kid.

Scene 6: Businesspeople

[Now, the kids are dressed up in business clothes.]

  • Oobi: Oobi businessperson. Ha!
  • Kako: Kako businessperson.
  • Oobi: Business, business, business?
  • Kako: Work, work, work.

[The boys take out a stack of sticky notes. They start sticking them everywhere.]

  • Oobi and Kako: Paper.
  • Kako: Work.
  • Oobi: Business.
  • Kako: Paper.
  • Oobi: Business, business.
  • Kako: Business.
  • Oobi: Work.
  • Kako: Hmm, paper.
  • Oobi: Hmm, business, business.

[Uma has a toy cell phone and pretends to talk on it.]

  • Uma: [imitating a cell phone] Boop, beep, beep, boo, boop, bee, boop. Hello, Uma! Talk, talk, talk. Talk, talk, talk. Ooh, business work. Bye.

[Uma joins Oobi and Kako. They all stick the sticky notes everywhere.]

  • Kako: Paper.
  • Oobi and Kako: Work.
  • Kako: Paper.
  • Oobi: Business, business.
  • Uma: File, business.
  • Oobi: Oh, Uma? Uma phone?
  • Uma: Oh, phone.

[Uma gives her toy phone to Oobi.]

  • Oobi: [on the phone] Hello. Work, work. Business, business. Ooh, Uma.

[Oobi gives the phone back to Uma. Meanwhile, he and Kako keep saying “work, business, paper” over and over.]

  • Uma: [on the phone] Hello! Uma! Talk, talk. Talk, talk, talk. [getting louder] Talk, talk, talk!
  • Oobi and Kako: Business. Paper. Work, paper. Paper, work.

[Soon, there is too much talking and paper-shuffling for the kids to handle. They all fall down in a flurry of sticky notes.]

  • Oobi, Uma, and Kako: Aah!
  • Uma: [on the phone] Bye.
  • Oobi: Grown-ups cool?
  • Uma: [negatively] Mm-mm.
  • Oobi and Kako: [realizing] Kids cooler.
  • Uma: Mm-hmm. Thank you.

[Uma leaves, satisfied that the boys now agree with her.]

Scene 7: An astronaut

[Oobi walks outside. He says hi to the family's garden gnome, Fritz.]

  • Oobi: Hey, Fritz. Hi, Grampu.
  • Grampu: Oh, hi, Oobi.

[Just then, an astronaut walks by the house.]

  • Astronaut: [breathing loudly]
  • Grampu: [gasps] Astronaut! Grampu, Oobi wave. [to the viewers] Oh, you wave. Ready? You wave.
  • Voice #1: Hi, astronaut.
  • Voice #2: Hi, astronaut, hi! Hi!
  • Oobi: Hi, astronaut.
  • Grampu: Hi, astronaut. [sighs] Astronaut. Wow!
  • Oobi: [unimpressed] Eh.
  • Grampu: “Eh"? Grown-ups cool.
  • Oobi: Grown-ups cool…
  • Grampu: Yes.
  • Oobi: Kids cooler.
  • Grampu: [shrugs] Yes, kids cooler.
  • Oobi: [laughing]

[Oobi turns to the viewers to say goodbye.]

  • Oobi: Oobi, you friends. Bye.
  • Voice #3: Bye, bye, Oobi. Bye.
  • Voice #4: Bye, Oobi.
  • Voices: [laughing]

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Season 1 "Slide!" • "Follow the Leader!" • "Pretend Catch!" • "Peekaboo!" • "Tag!" • "Dance!" • "Share Pretzels!" • "Watermelon!" • "Soup!" • "Hot Dog and Ketchup!" • "Empty and Full!" • "Popcorn!" • "Worm!" • "Apple Picking!" • "Pretend Wind!" • "Dig!" • "Hide and Seek!" • "Nature!" • "Music!" • "Guitar!" • "Bongo Drums!" • "Quiet Read!" • "Clap Hands!" • "Painting!" • "Macaroni Jewelry!" • "Paint Shapes!" • "Pinch Pot!" • "Drawing Game!" • "Neighborhood Art!" • "Toothpaste!" • "Wet and Dry!" • "Bubble Bath!" • "Feelings!" • "Cake!" • "Flush!" • "On & Off!" • "Prince Oobi!" • "Bubbles!" • "Tea!" • "Ice Cream!" • "Water Games!" • "Guess!" • "Bird!" • "Cat!" • "Puppy!" • "Animal Cookies!" • "Itsy Bitsy Spider!" • "Toys!"
Season 2 "Camp Out!" • "Uma Swing!" • "Uma Bathroom!" • "Dance Class!" • "Kako's Puppy!" • "Uma's Birthday!" • "Asparagus!" • "Haircut!" • "Grampu Day!" • "Make Pizza!" • "Showtime!" • "Oobi's Car!" • "Garden Day!" • "Piano Lesson!" • "Uma Chicken!" • "Sleepover!" • "Play Ball!" • "Build Fort!" • "Petting Zoo!" • "New Friend!" • "Uma Sick" • "Playdate!" • "Make Art!" • "Rainy Day!" • "Pretend Circus!" • "Make Music!"
Season 3 "Video!" • "Grown-Up!" • "Shopping!" • "Uma Dreams!" • "Chopsticks!" • "Clean Up!" • "Kako Dinner!" • "Sign Language!" • "Halloween!" • "Checkup!" • "Uma Trip!" • "Frieda Friend!" • "Neighborhood!" • "Uma Preschool!" • "Theater!" • "Baby!" • "Chez Oobi!" • "Valentine!" • "Parade!" • "Babysitter!" • "Recital!" • "Dinosaur!" • "Nature Walk!" • "Sing!" • "Fishing!" • "Superheroes!"