Episode 238 : What ' s the Story ? It ' s time for the Annual Woodland Valley Storytelling Festival at the Big Blue House and viewers are invited to come and listen in ! As everyone gets ready for the story , Bear prepares the food and other accommodations , while also stopping to help his friends in the Big Blue House . Tutter ' s found a great beginning and ending for his story , but it ' s seriously lacking a middle . Bear also helps Treelo and Ojo with an idea for telling a story in pictures . Finally , guests from all over Woodland Valley start arriving in droves - everyone from Doc Hogg to Big Old Bullfrog . Doc Hogg " entertains " everyone with the story of his life ; Pip and Pop read from a comic titled " The Adventures of Clamiana Jones " ; Lois tells a tale in off - key song and Shadow sings the tale of " The Frog Prince " . Synopsis . Bear welcomes the viewers to the Big Blue House . He ' s really glad they ' re there today because today is the Annual Woodland Valley Storytelling Festival . This is a time every year when the inhabitants of Woodland Valley gather together for an enjoyable round of storytelling . Bear discusses various methods of storytelling and sings the song " Once Upon a Time . " Tutter calls for Bear , wanting to read him the story he made for the festival . Tutter ' s story is " extremely " short , only two sentences long - - - " Once upon a time , there was a mouse . The end . " Bear is stunned into a brief silence , but tells Tutter that it ' s a very good beginning and ending . It ' s just that he needs to work on the middle . Tutter realizes what he ' s done wrong and Bear gives him some tips - - - i . e . what happened to the mouse , what did the mouse do next , etc . Bear finds Ojo and Treelo in the attic . They ' re doing something for the festival too , but they don ' t feel like they ' ve had much luck . All they have is a bunch of pictures featuring a bunny . They don ' t feel that they have a story yet , but Bear helps out once again . Bear helps them to see that pictures can tell a story . After all , one picture can be about a certain thing happening and then there can be another . Maybe the rabbit blasts off into outer space . With Bear ' s help , Ojo and Treelo are ready and raring to finish their story . The guests are finally starting to arrive for the festival . Doc Hogg makes himself comfortable - - - and hoggs the snacks as well ! Pretty soon , almost everyone in the village is there . Lois , Big Old Bullfrog , Grandma Flutter are all among the attendees , and Jeremiah Tortoise serves as the judge . He and Doc Hogg trade amusing barbs about the slowness of the judging and the storytelling . The time comes for the actual storytelling . Tutter finally got his story together and tells an exciting and suspenseful tale about a mouse who did battle with a dragon . Pip and Pop read from a comic book titled " The Adventures of Clamiana Jones " . Treelo and Ojo put together their story in pictures and take turns telling it . Doc Hogg tells the story of his life , but nearly puts everyone to sleep . Just when they think it ' s over , he tells them that it ' s only the beginning of the story . Lois sings a screechy and off - key song about herself . Finally , Shadow tells a twisted version of " The Frog Prince . " Big Old Bullfrog is moved to tears by the story . Bear tells Tutter that he ' s learned to tell a wonderful story and Tutter thanks him for his help . Jeremiah does the judging , but decides that there ' s no winner . He thought the stories were all good . Bear heads up to the attic to tell Luna about his day . Luna enjoys hearing about all of the different stories . Bear tells her that he ' s disappointed that he didn ' t have a chance to tell a story himself . Luna , however , tells Bear that he just told her a story - - - the story of his day . She says that she always enjoys hearing these stories and then they perform " The Goodbye Song . " After turning off the light in the attic , Bear remembers one last thing he wanted to tell the viewers - - - he ' s all ears any time that they want to tell him a story .