"Curious George" George Fixes Betsy's Wagon/Curious George Takes a Dive (TV Episode 2007) Poster

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Curiosity Gears the Recalls and Recalls the Gears
WeatherViolet4 November 2010
First, in the City, on Friday afternoon, a perfect time for a trip, Curious George recycles by carrying materials to the Recycling Center, but when Curious George drops some things along the sidewalk, Steve the City Neighbor Boy offers him a ride in his sister, Betsy's, wagon because Steve is going that way to Package Place, to pick up a parcel ordered by Aunt Margaret. (But in another episode, Curious George waits at Aunt Margaret's for Delivery Man to bring her packages.)

Well, Steve pushes the wagon through Endless Park en route to Recycling Center, but when a wheel pops off, Curious George is unable to stop the wagon from rolling down the hill, and it collides with a tree and wrecks!

But when Steve and Curious George decide to play a game of discus, hurling the severed wheel, it rolls across Endless Park, and away from their site, and so they chase it, while it rolls completely away.

Now, Package Place will be closing soon, so they are unable to search any longer. But the parcel is too large to fit into Betsy's wagon until they submit the goods to Recycling Center, where Curious George procures a baby buggy wheel, while Steve decides upon a log segment, but when the log segment doesn't move, the wagon slips, and lands upon Steve's foot.

Then, because he's in the Fifth Grade (a later episode cites Third Grade), Steve cleverly decides upon wearing roller skates, to hold the wagon, while Curious George pulls, but this does not work well either, and so Steve decides to try Curious George's baby buggy wheel.

And then, Steve and Curious George able to transport the package, which Aunt Margaret has purchased for Betsy, by wheeling it in her wagon with the one baby buggy wheel, but after it wears thinly, Steve and Curious George search for additional wheels, but because they are not the same size, nothing works, or at least not until Curious George suggests that they borrow the other three baby buggy wheels so that they all roll at the same size.

So, what will Betsy reveal about the contents of Aunt Margaret's gift once Curious George and Steve finally deliver her package, after Curious "George Fixes Betsy's Wagon?"

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Next, in the Country, the Man with the Yellow Hat designs a garden project as Curious George digs deeply so that the seedling's roots don't dry out, when Curious George discovers worms living in the dirt below the surface and wonders how anything could survive underground.

Well, the Man with the Yellow Hat explains that animals do live underground and underwater, such as the turtle, which Curious George has already discovered back when he and Bill the Country Neighbor Boy went swimming in Lake Wannasink Lake.

Now, in flashback sequence, Curious George and Bill dive into Lake Wannasink Lake, while Mr. Quint fishes from his rowboat. And, when Bill explains that animals live underneath the water, Curious George imagines lions and tigers and bears but discovered eels, snails and fish, along with the turtle who lives on land, but who also swim beneath the water of the Lake, that is, if Curious George permits this.

Then, you see, Curious George tries to keep the turtle safe on land to prevent it from drowning, but because Curious George splashes him with mud, the turtle needs a bath, and so Curious George takes him into the Country house to bathe him.

And then, when Curious George dreams of having the turtle for a brother (dream within flashback), he figures the turtle to be homesick, and so he retrieves lake-side sand, complete with snails, to pour into the bathtub. And, when Curious George jumps into Lake Wannasink Lake, Mr. Quint offers to assist him, by gearing him to dive beneath the water, with flippers, a net, goggles (from Bill) and life-preserving gear. Curious George returns to Lake Wannasink Lake to retrieve water, slim, frogs and fish....

But, when the Man with the Yellow Hat prepares to bathe after a long, hard day, the Man with the Yellow Hat discovers Curious George's mess in the bathtub, and so the Man with the Yellow Hat eagerly instructs Curious George upon how to return to water, sand and animals back to Lake Wannasink Lake.

So, back to the present day, do you think that worms would be happy living in a habitat of dirt beneath Curious George's bed? Or has Curious George already learned his lesson as he reminisces about the turtle and the time when "Curious George Takes a Dive?"
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