Sunday, April 29, 2018

The Missing Piece

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(curious chattering)

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There's nothing an inquisitive monkey likes more than discovering new things......and the museum's a great place for discoveries, like how different something can seem when you look at just a small part of it.

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Ooh! (chattering)

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(off-screen) Hi, George.

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Huh? (chatters "Hi")

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You're getting a close look at our dinosaur exhibit, I see.

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Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.

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Then you'll be interested in this. This newly-discovered stegosaurus skeleton is our next exhibit.

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(chattering) Ooh! Ah!

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(Alvin Einstein and Anthony Pizza are digging and polishing)

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Discovering dinosaur bones looked like the best job in the world.

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Ooh!

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The museum always gave George lots to think about...

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(dog barking)

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...unlike Charkie, who only ever thought about one thing: playing.

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(chattering excitedly) Whoa! Ooh! Ooh-ah!

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He'd discovered a bone!

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(sniffing)

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That magnifying glass would've come in handy, but Charkie was probably blocks away by now.

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Charkie: (barking)

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Ah! Uh-huh.

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Charkie: (barking excitedly)

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(chatters "Hey!") (chattering excitedly) (chattering intently)

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George couldn't let Charkie chew on it. What if some dinosaur lost this bone on its way to the museum?

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(Curious George dreams about him putting a bone on a skeletal dinosaur)

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(moans)

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(laughs)

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Charkie: (barking)

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(puzzled chattering)

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The stegosaurus had all his bones. So did the triceratops...

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(groaning)

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...and the tyrannosaurus. If a dinosaur hadn't lost it, what kind of bone could it be?

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(puzzled chattering)

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Charkie: (barking)

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(yells)

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Charkie: (barking)

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Ah... (hoots)

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Luckily, there was always a box of Hundley's treats in the lobby.

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(hooting) (chatters)

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Charkie: (whines)

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Man with the Yellow Hat: Hmm. Tough puzzle.

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It was way too small to be a bone from a man.

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Man with the Yellow Hat: You want to help with my puzzle, George?

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Uh-uh.

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Did he know anyone with smaller bones?

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Ah! (chattering excitedly) Uh... Uh-uh.

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The bone wouldn't even fit in a canary.

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Hmm?

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(snake hissing)

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Huh? Ooh.

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And it wasn't bendy enough to be inside a snake. The octopus didn't seem to have any bones.

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Ooh...

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George needed to find bigger, less wiggly animals.

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(chattering) Huh?

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A giraffe was too big.

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(hooting) Aw... Oh. Hmm... (chattering excitedly)

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The meerkats would not cooperate.

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(chattering) Oh.

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It was too small for a lion bone, and they seemed to think either the bone or George was their lunch.

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(lion roaring)

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(chattering)

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This wasn't easy. All George knew, for sure, were places the bone couldn't have come from. Maybe it came from something no one had ever seen.

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(chattering excitedly) (dreams about him putting a bone on the skeletal dinosaur)

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Some undiscovered dinosaur.

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You're a scientist now, George.

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Huh?

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But how could a monkey figure out exactly what an undiscovered dinosaur looked like?

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(door closes)

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(chattering)

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Man with the Yellow Hat: Hi, George.

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(chatters curiously)

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Man with the Yellow Hat: Oh, I dropped some puzzle pieces. I can't finish the elephant without all the pieces.

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The pieces George found didn't look like pieces of elephant.

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(inquisitive chattering)

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Man with the Yellow Hat: You found them!

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(confused chattering)

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Man with the Yellow Hat: Well, now, you can't tell what you've got by looking at only one piece. You have to put them all together. See?

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(gasps)

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So, to see what his discovery looked like, George had to find the rest of the bones. If he found one bone in the park, the rest must be close by.

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Charkie: (barking)

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(chatters "Oh, no!")

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Charkie kept treating George's discovery like a toy, which may explain why you never see any dog scientists.

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Charkie: (barking) (barking)

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(chattering, hooting)

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She didn't have it. Her paws were dirty. She buried it!

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(screams) (excited chattering, hooting)

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Charkie: (barking)

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(gasps) (hooting) Aha!

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Another bone!

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(hooting happily)

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This was George's very own dinosaur dig site!

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Ah!

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A dinosaur waiting for millions of years to be found!

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(chattering excitedly) (chatters "Huh?")

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But something wasn't right. The bones were all alike.

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(groans)

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Hi, George. What do you have there?

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(chattering)

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You found all of these?

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Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

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Here in the park?

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Charkie: (barking)

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Betsy: Charkie! So this is where you've been hiding all your chew toys!

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(chattering) Huh?

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Steve: Ha! Those are Charkie's missing bones, all right.

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(hooting)

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Steve: And we just bought her a brand-new one, too!

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(chatters) (groans)

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So that's why Charkie treated George's discovery like a toy.

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Charkie: (chews a bone)

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Betsy: What a find! We've been looking for her missing toys all year long!

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Steve: Thanks for finding them, George!

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Huh?

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All you made a helpful discovery, George. Who knows, maybe someday, you'll even dig up a dinosaur.

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Oh? Yeah. (chatters)

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Betsy: We got to go. Bye-bye.

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Steve: See ya, George.

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Have fun, George.

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Officer Ken: (off-screen) Hey there!

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Huh?

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Officer Ken: Have you been digging up my park?

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Uh-huh.

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Officer Ken: Then you've got a hole to fill in.

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(hooting, then chattering "Okay. Okay")

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Discovering dinosaur bones was harder than it looked. But even if the bone George found wasn't a real dinosaur bone, it was pretty close.

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