Lead, Follow, Act

**Lead, Follow, Act** is the ninth episode of the second season in the series *A Little Curious,* and the 34th episode in total. It aired on February 28, 2000. It focuses on the subjects of the words lead, follow, and act.

## Segments

### Lead The Way (Cel)

Mr. String has lost his glasses and asks Bob if he's seen them. He does and Mr. String asks him to "lead the way" and they see Pad and Pencil drinking from drinking glasses, at least that's what Bob originally thought. Luckily, Pencil knows where Mr. String's sunglasses are and Mr. String asks them to "lead the way" again.

### Follow the Leader (CGI)

Bob, Mary Jane, Lacey, Mr. String and Plush all play follow the leader, but Plush has a little trouble following the rules.

### A Little Reality

Some kids are playing Follow the Leader with a boy acting as the leader.

### The Case of the Bad Actor (CGI)

A horrible noise is in the air, and Bob and Undercover Cup are on the case as they try to find the bad actor. With Pad by their side, they try to hear where the sounds are coming from. As they get closer to the bad actor, tomatoes are thrown, and Pad tells Undercover Cup that people throw tomatoes at bad actors when they really stink. Finally, they find the source of the bad acting; it's Pencil with a toupee! Pad asks Pencil why he was acting badly, but it was all a soliloquy for how much Pencil loves her. Case closed!

### A Little Reality

A group of young actors put on a variety show displaying different kinds of acts.

### Song: Pencil (Cel)

The Pencil song "Scribblin’ On" is played.

### I Must Follow You (Cel)

Pad is off for a little stroll, and Pencil, who misses her already, decides to follow Pad all over the "world" (in reality, he was only traveling around the house; the desert was a sandbox, the high seas was the bathtub, and the mountain top was a rock) while Pencil sings "I Must Follow You". Pad, unaware that she is being followed, says, “Did you ever have the feeling that you were being followed?”

### A Little Reality

Out on a lake, turtles and baby geese are following their mothers.

### Take Us To Your Leader (Stop Motion)

Bob and Plush are playing space aliens, when they meet Little Cup asking them what they're doing. The titular cup then asks to join in, and the trio continue pretending down the path. Mr. String gets scared when he sees Bob, Little Cup and Plush, but Bob informs him that they're only pretending. Mr. String joins in, but then gets scared all over again after taking another look at them and runs away.

### Song: Bob (Stop Motion)

The Bob song "Follow the Bouncing Bob" is played.

### Follow What I Do (Stop Motion)

Mr. String, who was swinging on a swing, quickly informs Lacey to tie her laces, so he shows her with a jingle, but she doesn't get it a few times. Eventually, he ends up tying himself up, and Lacey eventually gets it. She walks off and leaves him all tied up.

### A Little Reality

In this segment, kids race to the finish line.

### Hard Act to Follow (Cel)

Little Cup and Plush star in the play, Hansel and Gretel, while Mop is narrating the story. Everything goes fine at first, but Plush starts going off script and eats the set in the process. Mop constantly tells him he's not following the story. Plush eventually eats the whole gingerbread house and the play unexpectedly ends.

### Act Surprised (CGI)

Mr. String opens a present early, so Doris has him act surprised to save face.

### Leader of the Pack (CGI)

Mrs. Shoe tells Mary Jane and Lacey how she fell for Mr. Shoe by singing “Leader of the Pack” by The Shangri-Las.

### A Little Reality

In this segment, follow the marching band leader and follow the kids' band leader.

## Trivia

* This is the only known episode that ends with an A Little Reality segment.
* The A Little Reality segment about kids running a race was previously seen in First, Last, Step but features Bob's narration and new music.
* This episode was pulled from reruns in 2016 due to the cover of “Leader of the Pack”.