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It's Bedtime (a.k.a. Wimzie Stays Up Late)
The daycare is going to be on TV Friday. Wimzie goes through her routine at bedtime ""I'm not tired yet, I'm not tired yet."" So Gratziella does an experiment and lets Wimzie stay up late each night, to prove the next morning that she'll be tired. Wimzie is tired, but doesn't want to admit it. This makes Wimzie to tired to watch herself on TV, so just in case, Gratziella tapes the show.
Writing:
Release Date:
Thu, Jan 01, 1970
Country: CA
Language: En
Runtime: 30
Country: CA
Language: En
Runtime: 30
Bruce Dinsmore
Horace (voice)
Holly Gauthier-Frankel
Loulou (voice)
Tyrone Benskin
Rousso (voice)
Sonja Ball
Wimzie (voice)
Jennifer Seguin
Graziella (voice)
Thor Bishopric
Jonas (voice)
Jane Woods
Yaya (voice)
Season 2:
Horace helps win a football game. Afterwards, the gang call him ""Horace the Hero"". This makes Horace feel so good, that he becomes a sore winner, and won't stop bragging about himself. He then only plays games that he only wins. The kids then stop playing with Horace, and he feels left out. Yaya explains that he shouldn't be a sore winner.
The kids paint pictures for Gratziella's airline. The kids all paint flowers and suns, but Horace paints what he felt like. He painting looks like a blue blot. The kids tease Horace, and say his painting is weird. Horace is hurt, and hides the paints and brushes. Gratziella talks to Horace about other people who were different: Stravinsky, the Wright Brothers, and Van Gohg. Horace admits to hiding the paints. Gratziella holds an experiment, she has each kids paint their own version of a storm. In the ends, each one has a different storm: Wimzie paints a rainstorm, Jonas paints a tornado, Horace paints a hurricane (making sure the seagulls aren't hurt), and Lou Lou makes a 3-D tree being stuck by lightning. The kids realize that differences make the world a better place, and they apologize to Horace for teasing him.
When Wimzie is appointed judge of the dress-up contest, each kid tries to win her vote by giving her a favorite toy. Ultimately, Wimzie finds a way to make everyone a winner.
Wimzie inedvertanly begins a habit of saying the word ""stupid"" in every unpleasing situation. After Wimzie fails to stop when Yaya asked, Yaya starts a ""charity"". Everytime Wimzie says ""stupid"", Yaya makes Wimzie pay one penny. Eventually, Wimzie runs out of money, and can't buy a red box at Mrs. Ferris's yard sale.
The kids are arguing over who's better-boys or girls. Yaya helps them realize that it's better to celebrate everyone's specific talents and ablilities.
One night, a thunderstorm passes through. Wimzie wakes up scared, and is embarrased, thinking her friends will think she's a baby. The next day, Wimzie claims that she wasn't afraid one bit. Lou Lou was scared, and spends the rest of the day with Yaya.
Wimzie learns about trading. She then wants to trade something for Jonas's new cowboy vest. So, she trades her mom's new airplane model. Wimzie later learns from Yaya that the airplane model was special to Gratziella because it was presented to her at her airline. Wimzie tries to trade back Jonas's cowboy vest, but he isn't about to depart with the plane. Wimzie makes a depressing decision, and trade her most favorite ant doll. Later that night, Gratziella talks to Wimzie about how much she cared about her to trade her favorite toy to get the plane back. Gratziella tells Wimzie she can have the toy back, and Jonas can have the plane back.
Horace is sad because his dad is gone on a long business trip. This means no building things together, no backyard basketball, and no backyard barbequeing. Wimzie feels sorry for Horace, and decides to give him a ""substitute daddy"". Rouso volunteers, and does the things with Horace that his real dad does with him. However, Rouso starts to spend so much time with Horace, Wimzie feels neglected. Horace decides to give Rouso back, but Wimzie decides that they can share Rouso.
Rousso teaches Wimzie how to do a magic rope trick. When Wimzie performs, she delights everyone except Lou Lou, who is afraid of magic.
When Jonas challenges Wimzie to a game of hide-and-seek, she's determined not to be found! She and Lou Lou won't budge-even when Rouso and Gratziella try to round them up for the movies and begin worrying that they might be missing or hurt!
Wimzie and the gang enter a jingle contest for Banana Bits Cereal, to win a rock-and-rolling wagon, and a year supply of Banana Bits. Wimzie wins the contest, but is devestated to find out she hates the cereal. Wimzie has second thoughts about performing her jingle on TV, because her jingle states how much she loves the cereal. But Wimzie still wants a rock-and-rolling wagon, and gets an idea. Once on TV, Wimzie introduces the gang, who perform the jingle for her. In the end, Horace, Jonas and Lou Lou win a wagon, and so does Wimzie.
When the guest at a lunch party call Wimzie ""oink-oink"", she's afraid more people will make more fun of her manners and refuses to go to Gratziella's company breakfast, until Yaya reviews the abc's of breakfast etiquette.
When Loulou arrives with her leg in a cast, all the kids are impressed-except Jonas. Yaya learns that he feels responsible for his sister's broken leg because she tripped on his roller skates.
It's Yaya's birthday, and the kids throw her a surprise party. But this involves throwing Lou Lou's blankie up a tree for her to distract Yaya. The blankie fall out of the tree, so Horace takes it with him to the dentist. In the end, Lou Lou is reunited with her blankie, and Yaya is presented with a surprise party.
Wimzie is being so careless; the kids won't let her touch any of their things for fear she might destroy them. Wimzie thinks a ghost is making her drop things. But with Yaya's help, she soon learns that she can be responsible and cure her case of ""the dropsies"".
The kids find a cacoon on the bush in the back yard. They describe this amazing little object Ickie, Yuckie, and looks like Wimzie's hair. Wimzie's feelings are hurt, and wears a football helmet, in fear that they'll make fun of her hair again. Everyone tries to urge Wimzie to take off her helmet, but she won't, even though her neck is starting to hurt. Rouso, Gratziella, and Yaya try to show Wimzie not to let what others say about her appearance by claiming others made fun of their bodyparts, and start hiding them. Wimzie thinks this rule doesn't apply to her. In the end, the cacoon hatchs, and a butterfly comes out. Wimzie then decides to come out of her ""cacoon"".
After Yaya read the kids the story of Cinderella, the kids start to get the idea to make Lou Lou their Cinderella. They make Lou Lou do all kinds of little jobs, while they take it easy and play games. Everytime she finishes the job, the kids claim they're too tired to play, and give her another job. At the end of the day, Yaya give the kids cookies that look like them, but didn't have enough batter to make Lou Lou cookies. Feeling bad, the kids give their cookies to her, and tell Yaya how bad they treated Lou Lou that day. They apologize, and she is no longer, Cinder-Lou Lou.
Wimzie doesn't like Rouso nicknaming her ""Wizzie"", but doesn't want to tell her dad for fear that he'll get angry. With the help of LouLou and Yaya, Wimzie gathers the courage to tell him what's on her mind. Eventually, Wimzie feels differently about the nickname when she learns that ""Wizzie"" is her dad's name of endearment for her.
Wimzie and the gang watch Yaya work a test in her magazine. The kids want to be tested too, so Yaya tests them from her magazine. When Wimzie gets the lowest score, she claims she's a big loser. After watching Rouso keep on having to do a recount of his penny count, Wimzie askes Yaya for a recount. It turns out Yaya made a mistake, and Wimzie really has the highest score. Wimzie then becomes a sore winner, and the kids won't play with her anymore. Yaya tests them again, and Jonas ends up tiing with Wimzie. Wimzie then realizes it's just a silly little test, and scores don't tell whether you're the best, or not.
Lou Lou loves Yaya, in fact, she thinks of her as a second mother. But the next day, Jonas discourages Lou Lou from loving Yaya so much in fear that she'll hurt her real mom's feelings. It turns out that she wasn't really hurt, she was allergic to the cat they took in. Meanwhile, Horace fights his cat allergies too.
Wimzie becomes displeased with all the chores she has to do, so she moves out! Not really out though, she sets up a tent in the back yard, and moves all of her furniture in it. Yaya and Gratziella show Wimzie how chores are important, by skipping chores themselves. This means Wimzie no longer has clean clothes, the kids have no snacks. Wimzie realize that chores are more than work, they're helpful to others. Wimzie moves back in, and starts doing chores again.
Jonas is depressed, the kids prefer Horaces toy spaceship that lights up, over his homemade pirate ship. Yaya explains that homemade toys are just as special as store bought, even better, because homemade toys have more imagination. So Jonas makes a homemade spaceship, and gets into a fight with Horace over who has the better spaceship. Horace starts playing a little rough, and breaks his spaceship. So Jonas and him team up to fix it, and add more creative features.
Wimzie's parents want to brighten up her dull weekend. They promise to take Wimzie and Bo to Monster World amusement park first thing Saturday morning. But just as they are ready to go, first Rousso and then Gratziella are called to emergencies. Wimzie is upset that her parents couldn't keep their promise.
Yaya reminds everyone that only grown-ups can answer the phone at Wimzie's House. Wimzie momentarily forgets the rule and answers a mysterious caller. The caller claims Wimzie has won a Tony Maroni Macaroni Maker – the perfect gift for Rousso and Gratziella's anniversary, so Wimzie seems. But a tangled web of lies are attached to the macaroni maker, starting with the $50 charge for shipping.Songs: Permission First, There Are Ways To Say I Love You.
Wimzie has a nightmare that Jonas hated her. Wimzie thought the dream was so real, she gives Jonas the silent treatment the next day. Jonas feels so bad that he gives Wimzie the silent treatment too. Wimzie and Jonas are now officially ex-bestfriends. It isn't until Jonas frees her being stuck on a ladder that Wimzie realizes that Jonas is still her bestfriend and that dreams aren't real.
Wimzie and Yaya have spent a great deal of time and effort making a cake for Parents Day. When Yaya isn't looking, a series of circumstances unfold that damage the cake. At Yaya's insistence, Wimzie and Jonas each describe the unfortunate event. Then Lou Lou and Horace give their versioms. It's up to Yaya to sort out the truth.
Wimzie is excited, when Gratziella returns home from work, she's going to take the kids out for ice cream. A huge fog that hits the town delays Gratziella. Yaya experiments with the kids. Experiment 1: Ice Cream comes from dirt. Ice cream comes from milk, that comes from a cow, that eats grass, that grows in the dirt. (this shows Horace that dirt is special) Experiment 2: Spider webs. Yaya makes a fake spider web to show that destroying it, destroys a part of nature. Experiment 3: Radar. Yaya has the kids walk around in the fog. They can't see and bump into things, but when they ""beep"", they found their way by follow the sounds. Gratziella returns, and take the kids out for ice cream.
Wimzie decides to hide Shaggy, a lost dog the kids finds, despite her dad's decision to bring him to the pound. But she soon realizes that the dog may be even more important to someone else.
Wimzie has a new tape set that teaches her about different types of birds. Wimzie won't stop talking about birds. When she over hears the other kids talk about howthey wish she would stop talking, she gives them the silent treatment, and the only way for them to get her to talk again is to beg. The others aren't about to beg anytime soon.
While digging up new specimens for his dirt collection, Jonas finds old parlor game containing ""gold"" coins. Fascinated by the golden coins, the children each try to accumulate as many as possible, often at each others' expense. Whereas the children had been in the habit of helping each other out with no thought of compensation, golden coins are exacted for every deed. Horace keeps forgetting to preparing an anniversary gift for his parents and, at the last minute, Horace is very sad to realize he still has nothing to give his parents. Seeing him so glum, Jonas, Wimzie, and Lou Lou get together to make a present for Horace to give to his parents...no charge!
The kids have Family Career Day. Jonas and Lou Lou go to their father's restaurant, Horace goes to his father's science lab, and Wimzie of course goes with Rouso to the firestation. The next day, Lou Lou and Jonas present a giant sandwich, and Horace presents a handmade radio that broadcasts French weather reports. Wimzie feels her career day wasn't as exciting, so she claims she saved a hundred people from a fire at the popcorn factory. The others throw Wimzie a hero's party, but Rouso tells Wimzie to tell the truth. When she did, it turns out thar Lou Lou and Jonas didn't really make the sandwich, and Horace didn't really make the radio.
The daycare is going to be on TV Friday. Wimzie goes through her routine at bedtime ""I'm not tired yet, I'm not tired yet."" So Gratziella does an experiment and lets Wimzie stay up late each night, to prove the next morning that she'll be tired. Wimzie is tired, but doesn't want to admit it. This makes Wimzie to tired to watch herself on TV, so just in case, Gratziella tapes the show.
A careless Wimzie learns the hard way how utterly helpless she and her friends are without electricity. SONGS: Uh-Oh!, Not Too Much TV.
After watching Gratziella practice a foreign language for her new airline route, the kids assume she's posessed by an alien. She explains that she was learning about a new country and it's culture and language. The kids decide they'd like to learn to...except Wimzie. She claims that when Gratziella speaks in the new language, she's another person. The other kids have a ball, watching Rouso dress like a Scotsman playing the bagpipes, Gratziella dressed like a flaminco dancer, eating different foods, and watching different dances. Wimzie remembers a few of these events from her favorite TV show, and decides to join in the fun.
Horace loves to eat. In fact he overeats. Yaya explains that that you should only eat when your really hungry. The kids tease Horace saying that he'll grow as big as a dinosaur. It shows when he sits down an breaks a chair. Rouso says one way to loos way is to exercise. Horace then starts exercising non-stop until he's small. Rouso says that if he doesn't stop soon, he'll be exhausted.
Jonas brings in a surprise for after lunch. All Wimzie knows from Lou Lou is that it sounds like ""Fuh"". Wimzie tricks Jonas into telling her, then Horace tricks Wimzie into telling him, and then Lou Lou trick Horace into telling her. In the end, Jonas's surprised is spoiled when he discovers it's missing when he hid it in the garden. Yaya had it all along because it was melting in the sun The surprise was fudge.
Rouso's sister Alice is coming for a visit. He and Gratziella are excited to see her, but dread bringing out their wedding present she gave them, which is an ugly statue that makes Bo cry. When Rouso and Gratziella are out, Horace accidentally breaks it from keeping Bo from breaking it. The kids try to glue it back together, but don't remember what it looked like since they hardly had anything to do with it. Time runs out and Rouso and Gratziella return, releaved that the statue is broken, but now instead of scaring Bo, it scares Yaya.
Horace loves the ""Bumper and Whammer Show"". In fact, he loves it so much, he becomes Whammer. He starts giving the other kids noogies, and belly bumps. The kids become irritated with him, and begin to ignore him. Horace goes to far, and makes Wimzie break her statue for Yaya. Yaya explains to Horace that he needs to be himself if he wants to have friends. In the end, Horace returns to himself, and fixes the statue for Yaya.
Gratziella gives Wimzie a telescope, but reminds her not to use it to spy on people. But when Horace smells something burning, Wimzie decides to make an exception to the rule. She looks into the telescope and discovers a fire!
Yaya has a scavenger hunt with her magic starfruit that grants a wish to whoever finds it. The kids have a hard time finding it, so to pass the time, Yaya tells them a story. Horace sits on the couch, not knowing he's sitting on top of the starfruit. Yaya tells the story of a kingdom that came down with a plague of blue polka dots. Wimzie thinks it's weird, and Horace wishes she had the polka dots so she'd know what it feels like. Wimzie then has a face full of blue polka dots, and the others have nothing to do with her anymore. Horace still plays with Wimzie, who gets her revenge by wishing the others have pink feathers. With that, the kids get into a fight over who's the weirdest. Yaya explains to the kids that's not what's on the outside that counts, but what's on the inside. Bo then wishes that Yaya has whiskers. Horace feels left out, so Yaya hides it one more time.
What the Dickens has happened? Wimzie, Loulou, Jonas, and Horace have made Christmas presents for each other and Bo, but they have all mysteriously disappeared. Worse, everyone's parents will be late because a snowstorm has hampered the incoming flights.
