Back to School is Cool

## Stats

**Back to School is Cool** is an episode of *Pinky Dinky Doo*, which aired on April 24, 2006. The Great Big Fancy Word in this episode is "apprehensive".

## Summary

Pinky and Mr. Guinea Pig celebrate about going back to school. Tyler is under his blanket and says "back to school drools". Pinky pulls it off and tells Tyler that it's time to get dressed, but he doesn't want to go to school. When Mommy tells them to get ready as the bus will arrive any moment, Tyler hides in a pile of clothes and still refuses to go. Pinky thinks that Tyler is apprehensive. This gives Pinky a story idea about bad hair day. So the trio travels to the Story Box.

The story begins one normal day, except it wasn't all too normal because it was school picture day. When Pinky looks in the mirror though, her hair is a complete mess, which definitely is a "Pinky Dinky Don't!". Pinky wonders what happened: a tornado got into her hair, two cats had a fight in her hair, or her hair turned haunted with ghosts. Tyler says that all of the above occurred. Pinky starts to get apprehensive about taking her picture, so Mr. Guinea Pig attempts to style her hair with a few new dos, one of them being an Elvis Presley cut (complete with his quote "Thank you, thank you very much!"). Pinky just decides to put a big hat over the hairdo.

At school, she finds Nicholas dressed up as Abraham Lincoln, complete with a stovepipe hat. He takes his hat off and shows that he is also having a bad hair day as his hair is a long rectangle as opposed to his triangle. They go to class to see if everyone else is having bad hair days, and sure enough they all are. Bobby's hair looks like broccoli, Abby McTaffy's hair looks like trash, even Miss McGanza's hair looks like a beehive complete with real bees buzzing around it. Daffinee however enters the room completely normal, except she reveals her awful hair behind a cardboard cutout of her regular hair. The principal announces everyone to report to the gymnasium for their pictures, making everyone apprehensive.

Pinky asks Miss McGanza if she can think big, and so she does, except this time, her hair is the one that swells up instead of her head. Pinky brings up three plans: they could shave their heads, knit their hair into sweaters, or just calm down and take their pictures the way they are. Everyone pitches in with Pinky and they take the silliest school picture ever as the story ends. Pinky asks Tyler if he is still feeling apprehensive, but he remembers that his school is right next to hers, so they plan to sit by each other on the bus.

## Games

* What Came First?
* Which is the Right Pinky?

## Trivia

* Differences between the book and the episode:
	+ The Story Box is absent, and Pinky just shuts her eyes, wiggles her eyes, and cranks her imagination.
	+ The hat Pinky wears is a tinfoil cone hat.
	+ When Pinky thinks big in the book, her hair grows longer and longer and makes the class look like a "shady rainforest", but in the episode it just inflates like Pinky's balloon head, and then deflates, making her fly around like usual.
	+ The photographer's birdie in the episode is a generic green bird, but in the book it is Mr. Guinea Pig with a beak on.