High, Low, Stretch

**High, Low, Stretch** is the 24th episode of the first season in the series *A Little Curious*, and the 24th in total. It aired on July 12, 1999. It focuses on subjects of the words high, low, and stretch.

## Segments

### High Jump (Version 1) (CGI)

Pad, Pencil, Mr. String, and Bob are on a sports field getting ready for a high jump, with Doris announcing. Bob, Pad, and Mr. String all jump, with Mr. String being the highest.

### A Little Reality

A woman jumps and flips over a hurdle and onto a mat numerous times.

### How Low Can You Go? (CGI)

Mop plays a game of limbo while singing a song. Bob, and Pad and Pencil go, then Mr. String, who says he'll have to bend himself over and over, and someone will mistake him for a paperclip and take him to work, and he forgot to wear a bowtie. Nevertheless, he gives himself limbs and bends down. The last turn is Plush, who digs down into the ground, going really low.

### A Little Reality

Real kids are playing limbo and crawling under a metal pole.

### Rubberband Stretch (Cel)

Plush spots a rubber band on the ground, so he plays with it and tumbles all around trying to stretch with it, eventually tying himself up with it at the end.

### A Little Reality

In this segment, we see various things through a funhouse mirror, which stretches the pictures all around.

### Song: Mr. String (Crayon Drawings)

The Mr. String song "Doin' the Thin Thing" is played.

### High Flyer (Stop Motion/Cardboard Cutouts)

Mary Jane and Lacey get ready to fly a kite, and Mr. String says it's a beautiful day to fly kites, and so he uses himself as kite string. The shoes run as fast as they can to lift the kite and Mr. String in the air, so high he can see the birds, which makes him think they'll find him as one of them and send him to feather school. So he yells to lower the kite, but the two shoes think he says "hello", and then he replies with "hi!", and they think he said "high". Mr. String asks a bird how to get to feather school, then floats in the air.

### A Little Reality

A boy flies his kite higher and higher in the air.

### Seventh Inning Stretch (Cel/Cardboard Cutouts hybrid)

At a baseball game, it's time for a seventh inning stretch. Doris admires to Little Cup how it's so nice to be in a baseball stadium in the sunshine, and now they can stretch. Doris stretches high and low, and Little Cup hops out and does what she does. But then she shouts that her hinges start to hurt, and Cup copies her by yelling the same thing and throwing his juice onto her. Little Cup laughs.

### A Little Reality

Several kids are doing stretching exercises, by stretching their arms and their faces.

### High Chair, Low Chair (CGI)

At the dinner table, Doris asks Bob to pass the turnips, and so Bob asks Mr. String to pass the turnips, and then Mr. String asks Little Cup to pass them, but he's too low to reach the table. Mr. String worries that he's too little to reach the napkins, and if he spills, there won't be any way to clean the mess and the juice will flood the kitchen and Mr. String left his submarine in the bathtub, so Doris tells him to go get the high chair.

After that, Doris asks Bob to pass the mashed potatoes, and then he asks Mr. String. Little Cup has the mashed potatoes up in his really high chair, and the bowl falls down and splats on Mr. String.

### A Little Reality

In this segment, firemen stretch the ladder of their firetruck as high as it goes, and one climbs up it.

### High Note, Low Note (CGI)

Pad is singing high notes, with Pencil, Bob, Little Cup, Mop, and Doris listening. Little Cup asks what is a high note, and Pad sings another one, and then Mop does a higher note. Then Little Cup attempts it and does the highest note. Bob then sings a low note, and so does Pencil, and then Little Cup does the lowest note which makes the whole kitchen vibrate. Little Cup says "That was fun!"

### A Little Reality

Kids are seen eating pizza and stretching the melted cheese.

### Stretch Your Imagination (Cel {White on Blue Background})

Mop sings a song about stretching your imagination.