Drop, Lift, Flat

**Drop, Lift, Flat** is the third episode of the second season in the series *A Little Curious,* and the 28th episode in total. It aired on January 17, 2000. It focuses on the subjects of the words drop, lift, and flat.

## Segments

### Don't Drop It (CGI)

Doris gives Plush an egg to deliver to Mop, who is making egg drop soup. As he walks, he steps on a roller skate which causes him to fly in the air, and then he slides down the slide but quickly catches the egg. When he reaches Mop's house, Little Cup trips and spills himself, and so he slides to the floor and spins. Mop takes the egg, but then she slides it on the table and drops it. Mop asks for another and tells him not to drop it, which makes Plush look at the camera.

### A Little Reality

Some kids have an egg and spoon race with some dropping and messy results.

### So Quiet You Can Hear a Pin Drop (CGI)

Bob and his pals are talking really loudly, much to the dismay of Doris who's trying to get sleep. When they exit, Doris admires how quiet it is, and is so quiet you can hear a pin drop, and a pin falls and drops on the floor.

### Weight Lifter (Cel)

Doris is at a desk announcing a "heavyweight lifting contest" where weightlifters lift large weights. Plush is first in the contest, and after struggling, he manages to lift it up, even keeping it idle in the air as he spits on his paws. However, he ends up dropping it and it breaks a hole in the stage.

### Lift Me Up (Cel)

While watching a parade, a football game and a tap dance routine, Little Cup asks to be lifted up. Each time Mop lifts him up, some of his juice spills on Mr. String, who responds "Will somebody *PLEASE* put him down?"

### A Little Reality

In this segment, cars arrive at a service station to be lifted up, so they can be fixed and head on their way.

### Song: Little Cup (Cel)

The Little Cup song "What's Up, Little Cup?" is played.

### Flat Dough (Watercolor)

Pad teaches Bob, Plush, and Mr. String how to make flat crust pizza, and sings how the dough should be flat while flattening the dough with Pencil. Little Cup asks if he can pour the sauce and sprinkle the cheese, but Pad spots a lump on the dough, which is actually Pencil. After the song sung is finished, Mr. String's dough that he tosses in the air lands on Pencil and squishes him. Pad comments how perfectly flat String's dough is, and Pencil comes out saying he is "flat" as well, laughing.

### A Little Reality

In this segment, kids dressed in construction worker uniforms build a tower of colorful steel barrels and paint cans by lifting them into place without dropping them, a steamroller comes and flattens the steel barrels and paint cans and the kids clean up the mess.

### Flat Stones (Cel)

Doris and Plush are at a pond that she used to skip stones at. She shows Plush the necessities to skip a flat stone on the water, and when he throws it, it skips all across the pond.

### Lift Your Spirits (CGI)

Bob the Ball is sick in bed so Doris, Little Cup and Mr. String arrive to cheer him up and "lift his spirits".

### Drip Drop (CGI)

In a kitchen sink, Little Cup catches the many water drops falling from the faucet as Bob moves it around.

### A Little Reality

In this segment which takes place in a greenhouse, water coming from sprinklers above shower the flowers.

### Flat is Where It's At (Stop Motion)

Pad sings about how she is a pad and how flat she is.

### Song: Mary Jane and Lacey (Collage/Stop Motion)

The Mary Jane and Lacey song "Love That Shoe" is played.

### Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Cel)

Mary Jane and Lacey are playing outside, then it starts raining and they complain about it to their parents. Mr. Shoe and Mrs. Shoe talk about all the good things about rain as they sing "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" by B.J. Thomas.

## Trivia

* This episode was pulled from reruns in 2016 due to the cover of “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”.
* The live-action segment with the egg and spoon race was filmed at Dietz Stadium in Kingston, New York.