Are You My Family?

Opening Title

1. "**Are You My Family?**" is the 5th episode of *Seven Little Monsters*.

## About

A quarrelsome One and Six have different ideas of how to stage their Mother's Day Party. Tempers flare, and One suggests that if Six can't follow her plan, she might be happier with another family—Six searches for a "New" family, winding up as the star attraction at the circus. But, the Monsters persuade her to come home as One realizes that without Six, they are not complete.

## Plot Summary

One and Six complain about making a card and doing a performance, but they disagree with some of their ideas. One refuses to perform and wants to make a card, and Six refuses to make a card and wants to perform; they could've agreed to do both the card and the performance together so that they wouldn't whine over whatever they want to do for Mom.

## Trivia

* Today, Three is himself for the whole episode. It is one of the very few episodes in which Three shows his standard personality, and he's talking in his normal voice, too, although he does make a few accents during the episode. It is also the first and only episode where Three's not in any disguise except a clown; throughout the episode, he's only wearing his regular clothes and nothing else.
* The title of this episode is a reference to the P.D. Eastman book *Are You My Mother?*
* This episode marks the first appearance of the seven-seater bike. It will be seen again in "Out Of Sight."
* As soon as the monsters enter the circus tent with their bike, they become clowns and jesters.
* This episode can be viewed as a "female" version of “The Mystery of the Missing Five,” since when Six runs away because One hurt her feelings, it is similar to when Five ran away due to Four hurting his feelings. However, One did not cry a little, nor did the rest of the monsters.
* At the end of the episode, when Mom gets back, One's not a clown anymore, she's a ringmaster, Two's still a clown, Three's not a clown anymore or standard, he's an elephant, Four's not a clown anymore, he's technically normal but wearing a purple muscle shirt, Five's not a clown anymore, he's an elephant like Three, Six's not the star of the circus anymore, she's just normal as herself. Hence, she's the only one with nothing; Seven's still a clown.
* When the boys watch One and Six swing around at the circus and Seven saying the word "Wow," he doesn’t have any ears.
* When One suggests making the card before Six suggests performing, Three thinks they're building a car and gets excited when he says "vroom vroom," meaning he could've almost turned into a race car driver again from “Good Morning.” Still, he misheard One saying that they're not building a car, and she didn't say "car"; she said they're making a card as she says "card," which confused him, meaning that if they're just making a card, then he just stays himself regular wearing his normal clothes.
* When Six and One were falling from the circus tightrope, Six said, "Uh oh," but technically, she sounded like she said that in One's voice because One said precisely the same thing in “Splitting Hairs.”
* One says everyone but Six wants to make the card, and Six says they want to perform One.
* When the monsters sing the Seven Seater Bike song, they count their names to themselves, but Seven is the only one not to say his name by himself because as soon as they reach 7, everyone says his name, including him, just not him alone.
* Even though One is a ringmaster, she's wearing a disguise, too, just like Three does in almost every episode.
* **Lessons:** Arguing can make things worse.

## Goofs

* When One says to Six, "Why don't you just try and find a new family that would put up with you?" and Six says to One, "Maybe I will," the screen doesn't change; only the positions change where One and Six are standing, but they're the only ones that move into other positions before One says "Go ahead."
* When Two gives the red construction paper to Three, Three is seemingly taller than Two.
* When One turns into a clown, her nose is entirely normal, but when she cheers for Six, saying, “Go Six, go!” she's got a clown nose.