Episode 37: Poetry Day

Poetry Day
Season 2, Episode 37
Air date	April 10, 2001
Written by	Joe Fallon
Directed by	Loui Berger Lisa Simon
Episode guide
Previous Episode 36: Clickety Clack!	Next Episode 38: Bobby The Hopping Robot

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Theo is giving out t-shirts before the poetry day starts.
	SCENE 2	Click and Cleo prepare the play by announcing the audience by adding words to their poems with the "ai" sound.
	SCENE 2 cond't	Lionel and Leona want to write a poet with the "ai "sound, so Cleo makes them do it.
	Insert	Walter and Clay think it's Poultry Day, but it annoys Busterfield saying "It's Poetry!!!"
	SCENE 2 cond't	The first poem begins, being read by Theo, called "Waiting for the Train" with some words with the "ai" sound.
	Insert	Busterfield explains that the poem has rhymes like "train" and "rain", but Clay and Walter still get stuck on the "poultry" idea.
	Insert	The grey hand takes the "ai" sound from train
	Muppets	Martha Reader and The Vowelles: pail
	Cartoon	Word Machine: pail, tail, sail, pail
	Muppets/ Film	Hugo and Ines: The Pail
	Song/Celebrity	Fonix sings "A I can Bring you Pain"
	Animation	Colored Patterns: gain, pain, paint
	Muppets	Gawain's Word: paint
	Cartoon	Tiger Words: paint
	SCENE 3	Robert Louis Stevenson told his poem called "Rain".
	Insert	Walter and Clay liked the poetry story, but Buster says that not all have to have a story.
	SCENE 3 cond't	Lionel and Leona now are telling a poem called "Drain Chain"
	Insert	Busterfield knows the previous poem was about the words in poetry, because the words have the accented the poet's raw emotions. Then makes Clay's brain hurt.
	Song	"When Two Vowels Go Walking"
File:IMG 2727.png	Celebrity	Fred Says: drain
	Cartoon	Sky Words: drain, brain, train, rain
	Cartoon	The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Rain
	Insert	The grey hand put the "ai" sound back
	SCENE 4	A chicken from the jazz band tells a poem about dancing with a chicken in the rain.
	SCENE 4 (cont'd)	Cleo thanks everyone and to have another Poetry Day next year, until the pigeons appeared to say that they have a poem that's called "A Poem" that makes Busterfield move around different backgrounds. And Click finally used the lever to raise the curtain instead of using the swtiches.
	Insert	The pigeons flew back to the dome when Busterfield says "Bravo" to them because their poem was beautiful, but Walter still doesn't understand about "poultry", Busterfield ended the episode by saying "I take it all back" in his annoyance with "poultry" again.

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