The Maddie Adventures of the Talking Words Factory

{This story takes place in the LeapFrog house where Mr. Frog is doing tricks.}

Mr. Frog: And now for my next trick, I shall make a word! {The cards are stacked together, but then he pulls them out.} Pick a letter, any letter.

Tad: T, T, Tapping T!

Pablo: Good work!

Mr. Frog: Good! First I'll take this tapping card with the letter, T-t-t-t...t!{He moves the card while making the "t" sound which makes it tap and then he puts it on a t-t-t-table.} Okay, pick another card! {Tad does so.}

Tad: {he sees the card and screams a little}

Zoe: What happened, Tad?

Tad: {giggles} No, silly Zoe. {shows the card to his dad} The A says Aah. {then puts the card on the table}

Mr. Frog: Do you know what sound this letter makes?

Tad: {snaps his fingers, like a cool dude does} That's the letter D, as in D-D-Daddyio.

Lynese: ...and as in d-d-d-dog. {Lynese snaps her fingers too.}

Mr. Frog: Now put all of those letter sounds together!

Tad: {thinks, but then puts all the letter sounds together to make:} T-A-D. Tad! That's my name!

Mr. Frog: Right- {Mr. Frog's cell phone rings.} Excuse me, son.

{over the phone is Mr. Websley}

Mr. Websley: I'm not calling you early, but I've been up since my quack-quack-quack crack of dawn! And your Talking Dictionary is a quack-quack huge success! {opens the Talking Dictionary Book} D-U-C-K spells duck!

{Donald Duck laughs.}

Mr. Frog: {whispers to Tad} It's Mr. Websley.

Mr. Websley: {hugging the book so joyfully} Oh-ho-ho, I love this book! {then holds the book with a demanded look on his face} I'm delivering my order to the double quack! {He then points to Mr. Frog on the phone} Delivery by today!

Mr. Frog: Today?

Mr. Websley: {over cellphone} Glad you agree. {hangs up}

Mr. Frog: {gets sad, but then walks up to Tad, happily, as Tad has made cards stack together} Sorry, Tad, I've gotta work. How about we sound our words later?

Tad: Sure, Dad. {gives his dad a big hug}

Lynese: I'm hungry!

Mr. Frog: OK, Zoe.

{Mr. Frog walks offscreen, opening the door, letting the air in, and blowing all the letter cards away. One card was the A that screamed "Aaah!", and it slided down to the remote.}

{Tad is playing with his letter cards, as the TV turns on.}

Who's Your Best Dad? Weasel Host: Are you at home thinking to yourself, "My dad is the best dad in the whole wide world!"?

Tad: Well, yes he is.

Weasel Host: Wouldn't you like to know that your dad is the best dad in the whole wide world?

Tad: You bet!

Weasel Host: Then enter the "My Dad is the Best Dad in the Whole Wide World" contest! Just read off today's newspaper, and send it off on 6 PM, this evening.

{Back at home, Tad Frog is writing "DAD" in "The Best Dad Contest".}

Keiko: Heya, Tad. What you doing?

Tad: Hey, Keiko. I'm trying to figure out how to do "The Best Dad Contest". I know my letters, but what do I do? {The Best Dad Contest has some words that Tad answered, that are all written in "TAD". Keiko sees that.}

Keiko: Ohhh, looks like we need to help Pablo and my special new friend Evie Pickerill.

Tad: But where is she?

Keiko: She's outside pushing Lily on a tire swing.

{Outside, Keiko and Tad walk up to Evie pushing Lily on a swing.}

Evie: Come on, Lily! Swing a little slower, the pigeons are watching us!

Keiko: Hey, Evie, Tad and I need help with this, thing which I call it.

Evie: I've only got two hands, Keiko!

{Evie keeps pushing Lily on a tire swing, but gets exhausted. Lily swings on a tire on her own while taking the paper.}

Evie: Phew! Glad that's over. Now I gotta feed the pigeons. {walks off while chuckling}

Lily: {while swinging on a tire} I can figure out most of the words, but it looks like something's important. We better get Leap.

Keiko: I bet he's playing basketball with Madeline Jane.

{We cut to a wide shot of the basketball hoop, and we zoom out to see that Leap has a wrench in his hand, although he seems to be fixing his bike. Maddie is a news reporter with a microphone in her hand.}

ANNOUNCER: We take you to Maddie Fretz with Leap with a fast breaking news story!

Maddie: {to the viewer} Uh, Heyo, this is Maddie Fretz here with Leap in this film called, Talking Words Factory! Here I am, in my news reporter outfit, and here we have Leap. Leap, this is Maddie Fretz, and do you know anything about the Talking Word Factory?

Leap: Yeah, I do, Maddie. When I was 3, Dad took me to the Talking Word Factory, and taught me all about putting letters together, to make words!

Maddie: Yeah, and look, here comes your brother, Tad, your sister, Lily, and Keiko Yodisha, with ZOOM newcomer Evie Pickerill Kingswinford! Hang on while I shoot this basketball in the hoop for you!

Tad: Heya, guys. My dad can't know. It says here, for a contest, it's a surprise. {Leap gives Tad a high-five, and the basketball lands on Leap's hand, as Maddie shot the basketball in the hoop.}

Leap: Leave it to us! Ready, Maddie?

Maddie: Ready! SO, this is Maddie Fretz returning you to our film.

{fade to Leap, Lily, Tad, Maddie, Evie, Greg, Emma, DJ Lance, Brobee, Muno, and Keiko all going to the Talking Words Factory}

Lily: Here it is!

{The Talking Words all start to say "The Talking Words Factory" all together now.}

Lily: Gee, Evie. If we're lucky, we'll run into Professor Quigley!

Greg: There's no Professor Quigley around here, Lily. Are you letting your imagination appear again?

Emma: No, Greg. But look!

{Tad was the one to bump into Professor Quigley}

Tad: Well, I'm lucky.

Professor Quigley: Heya, kids, how are you, kids, c'mon, kids, sorry, kids, but I've got to take care of a big order.

Keiko: {whispers to Evie} Come On, Evie. How come this professor doesn't know how to speak?

Evie: {whispers to Keiko back} Keiko, he's just a professor. Now listen to what he's saying, Keiko.

Tad: You mean the big order for Mr. Websley?

Professor Quigley: No, my big order for lunch.

Orange Robot: One hot dog with everything. {gives it to the professor}

Professor Quigley: Looks good. And Tad, a dictionary is a book that fits all kinds of words, and explains what each word means. {as he eats the hot dog with everything}

Tad: {with Lily and Leap} I have this contest to fill in about my dad.

Lily: He needs to learn...

Leap: ...how to put the letters together...

Maddie: ...to make words.

Zoe: Hey, everybody! I can help! There are some amazing machines built right here at the Talking Words Factory!

Professor Quigley: Yes, Zoe! And it's all created by a genius scientist.

Leap: Wow!

Muno: and who is that?

Maddie: Yeah, and who makes stuff?

Professor Quigley: ME!

Brobee: Uh, I don't get it!

Mr. Frog: Professor Quigley!

Maddie: Uh-oh, it might be Frog.

Leap: It is Dad, hide before Mr. Johnson sees us.

Zoe: I've got to hide behind this blonde girl with glasses I see too!

DJ Lance: That's You, Zoe!

{they all hide}

Mr. Frog: Professor, we need more dictionaries for the Talking Words! Either that, or I'll have to fix the entire basement before the entire factory will overload!

David: Can you do them by yourself, professor?

{Maddie takes the clipboard of the letters then Leap, in his hiding spot, with Lily, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Evie, Keiko, Greg, Emma, Zoe, and Tad, they all hand it to the professor}

Professor Quigley: {speaking with his mouth full of a hot dog with everything}

Mr. Frog: Thanks, Professor. I'll check with you at the end of the day. {on the back of Professor Quigley, we see Leap at the bottom holding Kermit, with Kermit holding Bert, and Bert holding Ernie with his hands, and Grover and Lily and Tad do the same as Tad is on the top}

Professor Quigley: {gets shocked as he sees the letter clipboard thingy} Without a crew, I might lose the entire of the alphabet soup!

{Leap tumbles with Lily, Tad, Greg, Emma, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Evie, Keiko, Maddie, and Zoe, and they all fall down.}

Leap: Professor...

Kermit: ...if you help make Tad words...

Lily: ...we'll help you make words for the Talking Dictionary!

Professor Quigley: Then let's get cracking!

Emma: YAY!

Grover: These frogs will be building words in no time!

Professor Quigley: Building words is easy! First you need vowels. Can you say the letter at each vowel as it appears?

{the A vowel appears}

Zoe: A!

Tad: The A says... {makes a scary face}

A: AAAAAH!

Emma: E! For Emma! That's me!

Tad: The E says... {hears what it will say}

E: EH! {The E disappears, and here comes the I}

All: I!

Tad: The I says...

Maddie: Here's what will happen. The ick will fall on the letter, I.

{the ick does fall on the letter as it says the letter sound}

All: O!

Tad: {as he swings from a vine} The O says...

O: {says the vowel as it swings from a vine, as he's like Tarzan}

U: U!

Tad: The U says...{gliding with an umbrella}

Professor Quigley: Excellent! Vowels are each letter that stick together, that way, it's the secret to making words! {cut to where Leap, Lily, Tad, Keiko, Evie, Emma, Greg, Muno, Brobee, DJ Lance Rock, and Maddie are following Professor Quigley} You see, kids. When the vowels first come into the factory, they're just like the other letters! But then, we turn it into special sticky letters, in The Sticky-Ick-O-Rama! {we cut to the vowels when they sing}

All Vowels: We're A,

E: E!

I: I!

O: O,

U: U!

All Vowels: We're the vowels, we're the glue! We stick the words together, we're very sticky letters. {These vowels all go to a waterfall filled with honey, then the vowels all start singing again, as they get spread with peanut butter spray. The vowels all start to sing again, as they get popped with Blast-O Bubble Gum, and they all get sprayed with some kind of soda spray that has bubbles on it. Then all that stuff on the sticky letters makes them turn red, so that's why they are very sticky icky letters. These vowels all start to walk, but Professor Quigley picks up the U, leaving A, E, I and O behind.}

Zoe: Nice and gooey!

{Leap, with his arms behind his back, watches, and so does Lily, and Tad, and Keiko, Evie, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Emma, Greg, and Maddie. We fade to them seeing the Word Bammer 100, which the professor calls it Bammy.}

Professor Quigley: And I'll tell you, she still builds much words just as well as ever!

{The Bammy turns on, as Leap, Maddie, Lily, Tad, Evie, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Emma and Keiko all see it.}

Bammy: Ready, set, you bet!

Zoe: We all have words to build, Bammy!

Bammy: Every letter makes the sound, the sound you need to hear, first things first, and then the next, until the word is clear!

Zoe: Bammy here puts words together to make, uh...

DJ Lance: frogs.

Greg: Nope, they don't think so. Cause they make words, not frogs, Lance.

Tad: Right!

Keiko: Hey, Professor, Tad needs help with this Best Dad contest he's been working on, but he can't figure out what to do.

Professor Quigley: Let's see...{as he sees the blank words on the Best Dad Contest that Tad is trying to do} My dad is a cool blank.

Tad: {thinks, then gets an idea} My dad is a cool, cat!

Brobee: Like Garfield! {chuckles}

Professor Quigley: Let's build the word, cat! It sounds like one sound, but it's really three sounds to put them together!

Zoe: Like the starting sound, the middle sound, and the ending sound.

Professor Quigley: Tad, do you remember the sounds of each letters? {as he hits the button that makes the words appear}

Tad: {as he makes the sound of a c which makes him cold, and the A which makes him scream, and finally the sound of the letter T}

Professor Quigley: That's it, Tad! Now, a bit faster.

Tad: {puts them all together to make the word "CAT"}

Professor Quigley: {to Bammy's speaker} Order up, one C-c-c!

{We c-c-cut to the C's in the c-c-cold, and one C jumps onto the table}

Tad: Yep, that's the starting sound as in CAT!

Muno: That's right, Tad!

Professor Quigley: And now we have the middle sound. {to the speaker again} Order up! One A! {the A comes out of the vowel, with a robot hand, and Professor Quigley makes the scary sound called "OOGA-OOGA" which makes the A scream} Works every time. And now the ending sound in cat! {Tad dances as he makes the sound of a T} Order up, Bammy! One T! {The T comes tapping around and slides down on that table} Let's watch what happens when Bammy bams them together! {taps on the thing which makes a hammer appear and BAM! The letters all go together to make the word, CAT!}

Bammy: That's CAT! {the cat appears}

Tad: Hey! I made a word. {he then writes the word CAT on the paper, as Lily and Leap watch, and so do Maddie, Evie, Keiko, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Greg, and Emma} So that's just the right word!

Professor Quigley: And we're gonna build all the words in Mr. Websley's Talking Dictionary!

Leap: For Tad, here's a pat. {pats Tad on the hat}

Lily: You built the word "CAT!"

Maddie: And cat rhymes with hat!

Tad: Yeah, it does, Maddie!

Bert: {chuckles} And what do you think of that, Ernie?

Ernie: {chuckles as well} I don't know, Bert.

{Lily laughs.}

Professor Quigley: CAT, PAT, HAT! That gives me an idea!

Grover: And don't forget that! Ah ha ha!

Professor Quigley: Bammy, we're gonna make all the words that end with AT! Please make a badge of AT ending sounds and send them back to Whammy, Bammy!

Bammy: Whatever you say! They're coming your way!

{Leap, Evie, Keiko, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Greg, Emma, Maddie, Lily and Tad all follow Professor Quigley and Zoe to the Word Whammer 3000.}

Professor Quigley: Meet the Word Whammer 3000! I call him Whammy, for short!

Leap, Lily, and Tad: Wow!

DJ Lance: Heh, I bet this thing really cracks him out.

Lily and Tad: Yeah!

Greg: Hey, look! Here come the AT's!

{The AT's on a tray all say "AT" while on a conveyor belt that moves.}

Professor Quigley: Great! They're all here! Now Tad, what letter ends with "AT"?

Tad: Bat!

Professor Quigley: Cat..and bat! {as he holds the "C" in his hands} Can you hear it? {adds the C in Cat, and the B in Bat, and then does it again and again until he stops} They both end in...

Tad: At!

Professor Quigley: And that's that!

Word Whammer 3000: Word Builder 3000, ready to run. Building words is lots of fun.

Professor Quigley: Whammy sends us whatever word we want, like AT for instance. Now watch this, kids. We've got Bat, Cat, and A-ha! Order up one letter F, Whammy!

{the flying F flies in the tube, and onto the conveyor belt to make the word "FAT"}

Keiko: You got it!

Professor Quigley: Now why don't we use the letter H too? Order up, letter H, Whammy!

Whammy: Whatever you say. Letter H is on the way.

{The H is too hot, on a summer day, and it hops to the tube and onto the conveyor belt.}

Professor Quigley: Release another "AT", Whammy!

{And then an AT appears on a tray and on the conveyor belt, so together they make the word "HAT".}

Tad: H, AT! Hat!

Professor Quigley: Great, Tad!

Zoe: So how about the letter M?

Professor Quigley: Right, Zoe. But what sound does it make?

Tad: Mmmm!

{Anthony appears}

Anthony: Did I hear MMM?

(Anthony eats an apple, one of his favourite foods)

Professor Quigley: Yep! Order up a letter M, Whammy!

{The M starts to jump while holding a muffin on its hand, then gets sucked into a tube, onto the conveyor belt, and on a tray of AT's.}

Tad: Mmmm, AT! {while holding a muffin}

Anthony: Can I have that mmmuffin!

Whammy: That's Mat! {shows a mat}

Professor Quigley: Great, Tad!

Tad: I CAN READ!

Brobee: {to the viewer} He can read? I didn't know that.

Professor Quigley: Yes, you can! And we built lots of great words! {all the words like HAT, PAT, FAT, and MAT all ran away} C-A-T. What a perfect word for Mr. Websley's dictionary! Be brave, you're off to the word of the Talking Dictionary. {his smile begins to turn into a sad face, but he sniffs his nose with his tissue}

Lily: What's wrong, professor?

Professor Quigley: I miss my cat.

Muno: Don't worry, I'll help you find your cat.

{Suddenly, they hear a meow.}

{Leap, Lily, and Tad all laugh.}

Evie: {laughing too} Boy, imagine a cat meowing.

Keiko: Guess that's why that professor misses his cat like Garfield. I bet he's eating his lasagna. {laughing}

Evie: Now look, he's dancing to the music.

{Professor Quigley dances to the music.}

Professor Quigley: First you take the C, then you add the AT. C-A-T! Cat! Now you've got a word!

{So do Leap, Lily, and Tad.}

Professor Quigley: First you take the C, then you add the AT. Put them both together, now you've got CAT!

Leap, Lily and Tad: First you take the B, then you add the AT. Put them both together...

Professor Quigley: Now you've got bat!

Maddie: I think I'll have to join in too! First you take the F, then you add the AT. Put them both together...

Tad: Now you've got FAT!

Professor Quigley, Leap, Lily and Tad: First you take the H, then you add the AT. Put them both together...

Keiko: Now you've got HAT!

Whammy: First you take the Z, then you add the AT. Put them both together...now you've got ZAT!

{The conveyor belt stops, and the AT's on a tray all stop and get curious on how it stopped. A record scratch is heard.}

Evie: Whoa, whoa, hey, hey, stop the music!

Professor Quigley: Zat's not a word.

Whammy: Z-at. Can't you see? I used the AT, and that makes ZAT.

Emma: Yeah, but zat's not okay.

Whammy: Not okay? Why, I say?

Maddie: Well, some letters make other words that don't sound alike. But, I could be wrong.

Leap: And only the real words make it into the dictionary.

Professor Quigley: That's right, Maddie and Leap! The real words only make it into the dictionary! And we're just getting started.

{we fade to Professor Quigley using the Whammy, which he calls it, while Maddie and Leap watch. Muno, Brobee, DJ Lance, Keiko, Evie, Zoe, Tad, Lily, Greg, Emma, and Anthony all watch}

Tad: Building words is fun, and I need some more words to make more!

Keiko: Hey, Evie, what's the next one? I can't remember.

Evie: Hmm, it says "my dad is the best dad I've ever" uh...

Tad: Met!

Professor Quigley: Hey, let's build "ET" words! We'll start with the word, met! Whammy, send me an M, please!

Whammy: An M for you, and you, and you.

{Lily, Tad, Emma, Greg, Brobee, DJ Lance, Muno, Evie, and Keiko all seem surprised.}

Professor Quigley: Whammy, order up E letters and T letters.

Whammy: Letter E and Letter T! Here they come! Look and see!

{The E comes out of the Vowel sound, and the T comes tapping in the tube. Cut to Professor, asking Tad what the E says.}

Professor Quigley: What does the E say?

Tad: Eh...

Muno: C'mon, what does the E say?

Tad: Eh... {giggles} T! M-E-T! {takes out his "Best Dad Contest" paper and writes "MET"}

Professor Quigley: And if we order up a J, Whammy...

Whammy: J, J, J, letter J.

{The J's all jump on a trampoline, and the first J jumps, on the tube and onto the conveyor belt.}

Tad: J-E-T! Jet!

Professor Quigley: Exactly!

Tad: Jet sounds like Pet. Try it with the letter P!

{The P pops out with popcorn and lands on a tray with the "ET".}

Tad: Pet!

Professor Quigley: Right again! Pet, Jet, Met, same ending sound, different first letters! What else rhymes with ET?

Lily: Get...

Muno: ...set...

Brobee: ...let...

Plex: ...and wet!

Lily: Plex! How'd you get here?

Plex: I wanted to make the last "ET" sound because there's also wet.

Professor Quigley: First you take the G, then you add the ET, put them both together...

Tad: Now you've got Get!

Professor Quigley: First you take the S, then you add the ET, put them both together..

Evie: Now they spell set!

Lily: First you take the L, then you add the ET, put them both together...

Keiko: Now they spell let!

Herbert Birdsfoot: First you take the W, then you add the ET, put them both together...

Tad: Now they spell wet!

Professor Quigley: Good job, Tad!

{Leap walks in, and so does Maddie.}

Leap: What a great machine, Professor!

Maddie: Yeah, I've never seen it make "ET" words before!

Professor Quigley: And there's one good thing about the Word Whammer, it's terrific for cracking nuts! {Professor Quigley tries one.} Needs salt.

Leap: What other words do you think you need, Tad?

Maddie: Yeah, like what other words are there?

Tad: Uh, something about dad's heart.

Lily: My dad's heart is very, blank.

Tad: Big!

Zoe: Big, big, big!

Professor Quigley: Let's build some words that end with "IG"! Just sound one out, and tell Whammy what letters you'll build!

{Tad does so with the letters B, I, and G.}

Professor Quigley: Order up, letter B, Whammy!

{The B's all sing the sound about B, and one B jumps into the tube while making the B sound. Grover is wearing a gray wig, while wearing this type of clothing he uses in the orchestra band, and the B is still in the tube.}

Professor Quigley: Now let's add an IG Family!

Tad: B, IG. Big!

Whammy: You are right! See the light?

{as Tad writes the word "BIG" on the Best Dad Contest paper}

Professor Quigley: Right!

Grover: You're almost finished!

Whammy: Better hurry, I'll tell you why. Mr. Websley and David...are dropping by.

Zoe: Whoa!

{Grover and the professor both see the words that are stuck on the conveyor belt, and they get back together while the Professor gets on the conveyor belt.}

Grover: Uh-oh! Professor, wait!

Professor Quigley: I'll be fine, Grover! Kids, please keep making words! Leap and Kermit, you're in charge! Lily, Muno, Brobee, Lance, Emma, Greg, Keiko, and Evie, help Tad with his education! {as "education" is heard, he is still on a conveyor belt}

Zoe: Oh no! The professor is stuck with all the words on the conveyor belt that's moving!

Lily: Now what do we do?

Evie: Yeah, what do we do, Keiko?

Keiko: I don't know, Evie.

{Maddie picks up the clipboard and says:}

Maddie: We'll tell you what we're going to do! We're going to build more words! Professor Quigley is counting on us!

Leap: And there are words to build, dictionaries to fill, and we're the ones for the job!

{cut to Lily and Tad}

Tad: Ready to build, Miss Maddie and Leap!

{Lily does that too}

Leap: Now let's see here, uh...

Maddie: Hey, I've got one, what else rhymes with IG?

Brobee: {laughs} Pig!

Zoe: {laughs} And fig!

Keiko: Uh, Whammy. {uses the speaker} Order up! One P and another IG, please! Also, please give us one F, and another IG!

Whammy: The letter P and F are coming through, and another IG will come too!

{The P and the IG all get on the tray, and so do the F and the IG too}

Tad: P-I-G! Pig!

Lily: Pig! You did it, Tad!

Maddie: Bye bye, piggy. {the P and the IG all go on the conveyor belt}

Zoe: I wouldn't want to eat a fig if I was him. {the F and the IG all go on the conveyor belt too}

Evie and Keiko: {laughing}

Evie: Hey, Keiko. What should we do next?

Keiko: Should we build more words?

Lily: Here, Keiko, I'll help. {takes the Best Dad Contest Paper and reads it. Leap watches Lily read} {reading} Let's see, if there's one guy who's at the top, then that guy must be my...

Tad: Pop!

Maddie: Order up, please. {to Whammy's speaker, he makes the sound of the letter P, the letter O, and the letter P again}

Tad: Pop! {says it again}

Leap: You did it, Tad!

{Tad writes POP right here on the blank line}

{fade as we see Tad and Lily on the Whammy thing, and the words on the floor, with the word "MAT" on the conveyor belt.}

{Leap and Maddie walk by as they see all the words.}

Maddie: Wow! Look at all of the words!

Leap: Wait until Professor Quigley sees what we've done!

Maddie: What do you think we should we do next, Leap?

Leap: I think we should do more! Come on! {He accidentally hits the lever with his right hand which makes Whammy go super speedy!}

Maddie: Just don't hit the lever with his right hand! Oh no!

Whammy: SUPER SPEED! SUPER SPEED!

Leap: Oops!

Maddie: Now look what you did!

Leap: I didn't mean to, Maddie!

{Lily tries to pull the lever to make it stop, but then lands on the floor, breaking the lever.}

Lily: Double oops!

Emma: {sighs} Not again, Lily!

Lily: Sorry!

Tad: Uh-oh! {jumps onto the floor and uses the Whammy to make it stop, but it keeps going super speedy!}

Greg: Oh no! Now I bet the words are all coming out of the conveyor belt, that's for sure!

Whammy: Warning, warning, super speed! Words are coming all, you need!

{All the vowels and the words all come out of the conveyor belt, like FIN, PIN, TIN, and WIN!}

{Professor Quigley jumps as he sees what's going on with the Whammy.}

Professor Quigley: Leaping lack whiskers!

{The vowels and the words all come up like JET, JUG, RUG, RIG, FIG, FAN, and MAN!}

Zoe: This machine has gone mad!

{The words all spell MAD all over again, and the tube takes Tad the Frog. Tad lands on a conveyor belt.}

Tad: T-A-D {as the hand makes the word that spells:} TAD!

Leap: {as he points to Tad with a cool look on his face} Good one, Tad!

{Lily nods her head.}

{Professor Quigley pops out of the words.}

Professor Quigley: Hey! More words for the dictionary! Thanks, kids!

{Tad jumps out of the words. Leap and Lily look surprised.}

Tad: That was fun!

Zoe: Fun, fun!

Professor Quigley: Fun's a great word, and that's what I need for the dictionary!

Evie: That's a word Keiko and I can use too!

Tad: Whammy, I need...{makes the sound of an F, and a U, and finally, an N.}

Whammy: Ordering letters, F-U-N! Here they come, are you ready then?

{The letter F starts to hop on the conveyor belt, and on a tray with the UN family which makes the word FUN. Tad uses his Best Dad Contest by using the paper while Lily reads the paper.}

Lily: It says...my dad is always lots of...{looks at Tad with a cute look on her face}

Tad: FUN! {then he writes "FUN" on that Best Dad Contest paper}

Professor Quigley: Order up, Whammy! All the words that end with UN, like Bun, and Sun.

Zoe: Yeah, do you have any words that end with UN?

Whammy: Ordering words that end with UN! I will get you every one!

{The UN words appear like Bun, Fun, Sun, and Run.}

Lily: With all these words, we'll be done with the Talking Dictionary in a blast!

Tad: Hey, Professor. I need one more word for this contest.

Professor Quigley: What word do you need, my boy?

Tad: {looks at the Best Dad Contest paper}

{Lily, Muno, Brobee, DJ Lance, Emma, Greg, Evie, and Keiko all see Tad's Best Dad Contest paper.}

Lily: {reading} My dad is the blank dad in the whole wide world!

Evie: What do you think it is, Keiko?

Keiko: Oh, I don't know, Evie, but it couldn't be best.

Tad: BEST! But I can't figure out...

Zoe: Wow, best!

Professor Quigley: Best! Do you know what you need? You need to put two letters in the place of one!

Tad: Exactly, but...

{Professor runs off with the letters, S, and a T.}

Professor Quigley: To blend letters together, we'll have all the letters that we build in this favorite part of the factory!

{Fade to Leap, Muno, Brobee, DJ Lance, Greg, Emma, Evie, Keiko, and Maddie following Professor Quigley and Zoe, upstairs. Leap stands on the red block, Tad stands on the blue block, Lily stands on the purple block, and Professor Quigley stands on the orange block.}

Professor Quigley: Now hang on! {he uses the rope and then Leap, Lily, Tad, the professor, along with the S and the T, all go into the slide.}

Zoe: Hey, where'd they go?

Maddie:

{We cut to Professor Quigley, Leap, Lily, Tad, the S, and the T sliding down to the Sound Slide. Grover is watching them slide down the Sound Slide. Tad jumps onto Professor Quigley's hands.}

Professor Quigley: Let's see, if we make the word STOP, stop rhymes with what?

Tad: POP!

{Professor uses the Frog Remote so that the board shows up. It adds POP and STOP, and does it again, and again.}

Tad: So we need ST and OP!

Professor Quigley: Right! Watch this!

Ernie: Look, Tad, there's Lily, and Bert, with the slithering letter S!

{Lily slides down with Bert with the slithering letter S on a new slide while making the S sound.}

Keiko: And here comes Leap and Maddie with the tapping letter T.

{Maddie slides down with Leap with the tapping letter T, while the T moves to another slide while it makes the T sound.}

Zoe: Watch out, S and T!

Professor Quigley: Oh, it's okay. Watch this!

{The S makes the S sound while sliding down, and the T makes the T sound while sliding down too. And together, they make ST, and they land on a pillow while they stick together.}

{Professor Quigley, Tad, and Zoe all slide down.}

Professor Quigley: Now the letters S and T are all stuck together while they landed, and don't forget their sounds. Listen.

{ST makes the Sound.}

Zoe: Great! Now let's take them back to Whammy!

{Leap uses the cart, while Lily, Tad, and the professor run. Zoe, Maddie, Emma, Greg, Muno, Brobee, DJ Lance, Evie and Keiko run as well.}

Professor Quigley: Whammy, let me have one of those OP's, please.

Whammy: About to drop, here's your OP!

{the OP drops on the tray, and the ST hops on the tray}

Zoe: Okay, Tad! Sound it out for us!

Tad: ST-OP! ST-OP! {they put them all together to make:} STOP! {..which makes the machine come to a stop}

{cricket chirping}

Keiko: Hey, Evie. What happened to this Whammy machine that the professor called it?

Evie: Well, Keiko. I guess Tad must have told it to stop.

Zoe: Uh, false alarm. Somebody get the machine to start again, please. {the machine starts again}

{Leap, Keiko, Evie, Greg, Emma, Muno, Brobee, DJ Lance, Maddie, Lily, and Tad all follow Professor Quigley and Zoe}

Tad: What other blends are there, professor?

Professor Quigley: Well, Tad, there are a lot of blends.

Zoe: There's ST-OP, or ST-EP, or the blend can come at the end, like BEST.

Tad: {takes out his Best Dad Contest paper and writes BEST until Grover interrupts}

Zoe: {laughs} Let us tell you, Tad!

Professor Quigley: You take a blend, and the start above the end...

Zoe: ...there's really nothing to it, let us show you how to do it!

Professor Quigley: If you take the word pop, you can change it into stop! With a blend, ST, ST, Stop!

Zoe: If you take the word fog, you can change it into frog! {as he picks up Maddie}

Professor Quigley: With a blend, FR, FR, Frog! {Leap hops on the F, and the R, while Lily hops on the F.}

Maddie: That's us!

Professor Quigley: If you take the word CAP, you can change it into CLAP! With a blend, CL, CL, Clap!

{cut to Leap, Lily, and Maddie with some blending words like VET, that changes into VEST with a blend}

Professor Quigley: A blend is your friend!

Zoe: And there's lots and lots of blends,

Professor Quigley: With a BL, E, ND! BLEND! {the spotlight disappears and all that's left is the word BLEND}

{we fade to Leap, Evie, Keiko, Maddie, Emma, Greg, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Lily, Tad, Professor Quigley, and Zoe}

Professor Quigley: And now that we've built all these words, we can all put it into Mr. Websley's dictionary!

Tad: {with a letter} Thanks for all the help, professor.

Greg: Yes, thanks. We have to get going.

Bert: Yeah, and Tad has to go home, his application is June since he got it finished.

Professor Quigley: Great, Tad! I'll have to mail it off for you. {he has the mail in his hand, but then the tube blows it away}

Maddie: What was that, professor?

Professor Quigley: I think it needs more time.

Mr. Frog: But that's not all, I just got done feeding the dog, and I had to see if my kids are doing...

{Mr. Frog walks by but stops as he sees Leap, Lily, Tad, Keiko, Evie, Maddie, Greg, Emma, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance, Professor Quigley, and Zoe.}

Mr. Frog: Leap, Lily, Tad, what are you three doing here? And why's Maddie, Zoe, Emma, Greg, Brobee, Muno, and DJ Lance Rock here with you three?

Leap: Well, Dad...

Maddie: You see, these three AlphaVille Frogs wanted to surprise you and...

The Weasel Host which Tad saw on TV: Excuse me? Are you Mr. Frog, Tad's Dad?

(Captain Feathersword, Dorothy, Shirley Shawn, Wags, and Henry arrive)

Greg and Emma: Hi Captain, Hi Dorothy, Hi Shirley Shawn, Hi Wags, Hi Henry!

Dorothy: We would just like to see this frog who is Tad's Dad?

Mr. Frog: Yes, that's me. Can I help you two?

Captain: Congratulations, Mr. Frog! You have just finished "My Dad is the Best Dad in the Whole Wide World" contest!

{the weasel runs off with the Wiggly Friends, leaving Mr. Frog confused}

Henry: And here we have the mother of this house, who always take care of her kids, all the way from your house, Mr. Frog, here is Mrs. Frog from Leap Frog!

Mrs. Frog: {runs to give Mr. Frog (her husband) a big hug} Oh, darling! Congratulations! {Leap, Tad, and Lily join in as well. Greg, Emma, Muno, Brobee, DJ Lance, Maddie, Evie, Keiko, and Grover all watch.}

Weasel Host: Yes, Mr. Frog! You are the Grand Prize Winner! And it's all because of this made by your son, Tad! He made all the right words in the Best Dad Contest!

Tad: I did fill it in myself.

Weasel: You're a remarkably young lad, Tad.

Wags: Let's all congratulate Tad, the good frog in this whole Alphaville World who did the Best Dad Contest!

Dorothy, Wags, Henry, Shirley Shawn, and Captain Feathersword: Yaaaaay!

Leap: {offscreen} He sure is.

Maddie: So Tad, what do you say?

Tad: {begins to sing} First I learned my letters... every one from A to Z...

David: Oh no, this frog's not gonna sing...

Mr. Websley: QUACK-quack! What's going on here! This better be important! Where's my dictionary?

Mr. Johnson: Uh, well...

Professor Quigley: Right here, Mr. Websley. {comes in with a truckload of Mr. Websley's Talking Dictionary Books} With my frog helpers, it's a snap. {snaps his fingers but tips the dictionary books over Mr. Websley until Mr. Websley pops out}

Mr. Websley: Oh boy, a dictionary book, quack-quack! Thank you!

Mr. Johnson: Why me?

Professor Quigley: Tad, you were saying?

Tad: {gets on the spotlight, began to sing} First I learned my letters, every one from A to Z, {slides down the A} but when I tried to make some words, I was mixed up as I can be. Then I asked my brother and my sister...oh, and don't forget Maddie, Greg, Emma, Brobee, Muno, DJ Lance Rock, Keiko, and Evie, what to do. Professor Quigley, and Grover, showed me. Now I'll sing it all for you. The Sticky-Ick-O-Rama when we stick the words together, like an A that says A! Add a sound at the beginning, and one at the end...T, A, D, make T-A-D! I made a new sound at the beginning, and I made a word like D-A-D! Blend the sound together like the G, L, GL! And I'm so glad that my dad is my dad! I can do it! I can make my own words, I can spell out the words I've heard...it's really not as hard as I thought it would be, and I learned it all in the Talking Words Factory! {lands on the floor} Oh yeah!

{The Talking Words Factory ends with a circle fading out.}