Growing Pains

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**Growing Pains** is the twentieth episode of the first season and is narrated by Tom Conti.

## Plot

One beautiful day, Andy, Teddy and Looby decide to have a picnic on the green. Teddy is eager to get started but Looby tells him to be patient and wait for everyone else. While Andy and Looby get the picnic ready, Teddy decides to go and play. Teddy wants Andy and Looby to watch him slide down the slide but they take no notice, just then everyone else arrives for the picnic. Teddy is now swinging on the swing, then he flies off the swing and lands in the picnic hamper. Looby tells Teddy it is lucky that she and Andy have emptied the hamper otherwise the food would've been squashed. Teddy climbs out of the hamper and wants a sandwich but Looby tells him to be patient as they are other people at the picnic as well. Teddy is worried that there won't be any sandwiches left for him but there are.

As Andy eats a egg and cress sandwich, he says he knows an interesting way on how to grow cress. Teddy wants to know what it is right away but Andy tells him he doesn't have the right stuff with him just now, then he whispers to Looby that growing cress might teach Teddy some patience. After the picnic is over, Andy and Teddy go to Andy's house and Teddy wants to know all about growing cress. Andy takes out a roll of kitchen paper, some biscuit cutters and a packet of cress seeds from his special cupboard. Andy says as Teddy is growing the cress, they'll do it at his house.

When Andy and Teddy get to Teddy's house, Andy asks Teddy to find a plate, a spoon and a jug of water. Andy puts the plate on Teddy's table then he tells Teddy to put about twenty sheets of kitchen roll on the plate. Teddy does that but in a messy pile so Andy tells him to do it in a neat pile. The water is needed next and Andy pours enough to make the paper damp. Then Andy tells him to put the biscuit cutters on the paper. Teddy chooses a dog-shaped cutter, a boat-shaped cutter and a heart-shaped cutter.

Andy sprinkles the cress seeds inside the biscuit cutters then carefully takes them off the paper. Teddy wonders where the cress is and Andy says he has to be patient. Teddy then asks what the spoon is for so Andy explains that he needs to water to kitchen paper every day until the cress is ready in about a week, then Andy says goodbye to Teddy and leaves. Through out the whole week, Teddy waters the kitchen paper and every day the cress grows until one day, Teddy decides the cress has grown enough and takes it to show Andy and Looby.

Andy is at Looby's house when Teddy arrives and Looby thinks his cress looks wonderful, when she asks if Teddy grew it all by himself, he proudly explains that he has. Soon the three friends have made egg and cress sandwiches from Teddy's cress and when Looby offers Teddy a sandwich, he says Looby can have the first one. Andy and Looby are amazed and think growing cress has taught Teddy to be patient, until Teddy starts stuffing himself with sandwiches.

## Characters

* Andy Pandy
* Teddy
* Looby Loo
* Bilbo
* Tiffo (does not speak)
* Orbie (does not speak)
* Missy Hissy (does not speak)

## Compilations

### YouTube

* Fun In The Sun
* Out In The Fresh Air
* The Complete Series 1