- Mr. Rogers: [after tasting an ice cream shaped like a gorilla] When I was a boy and I had something like that that looked like a person or an animal, sometimes I didn't want to eat it. I guess I thought that if I ate it, I might get to be just like it, or it might be angry with me or something. Have you ever had animal crackers, or a chocolate bunny, or an ice cream Santa Claus - anything like that to eat? Well, as I grew, I knew that ice cream was ice cream and cake was cake, no matter what shapes they were in. They're very different from real animals and real people. We're alive, you and I. We're fancy, on the outside and the inside.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Everybody ready for the big games?
- Mr. Strother: A lot of people are. As you know, King Friday is in charge of time keeping.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: I know, and I've decided to be in charge of the weather.
- Mr. Strother, King Friday XIII: The weather?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Yes, there's always weather whether you want it or not.
- Mr. Strother: But, of corse, we are hoping for good weather for the games.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde, Mr. Strother: Uh, we'll see. See you two later. Toot toot!
- [exits]
- Mr. Strother: I never heard of anyone being in charge of the weather before.
- King Friday XIII: Lady Elaine always needs to be in charge of something important.
- Mr. Strother: I'm learning that.
- Mr. Rogers: Nobody could be in charge of the weather in our real neighborhood, could they? And X the Owl couldn't help it if he was fastest in all the games. He's just naturally fast because he can fly. That's just the way he is. Everybody's made differently. And just because some people or birds are faster than others, that doesn't mean the slow ones aren't lovable or just as valuable.
- Mr. Rogers: Sometimes snow is a lot of fun. Both children and grown-ups are often excited to see the snow. But when snow falls and spoils what you're planning to do, then it isn't much fun.
- Lady Aberlin: Lady Elaine, are you in there?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Sorry, I can't come out, dear.
- Lady Aberlin: But I need to talk with you.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: I'm working on some experiments.
- Lady Aberlin: Do they have to do anything with... snow?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Yes, how did you guess?
- Lady Aberlin: Come out here and see.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: [comes out and sees the falling snow] Oh, dear! I didn't know it would work *this* well.
- Mr. Strother: [comes by] What's going on?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Well, I have been experimenting. I didn't know it would work so much.
- Mr. Strother: Well, we'd better help you get rid of this or there be anything but... skiing in this neighborhood.
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Ooh, it's kind of pretty though, isn't it?
- Lady Aberlin: Come on, Lady Elaine!
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Oh, all right, spoil sport. Come on in, you two.
- Mr. Rogers: When I was really little, I used to watch the school children playing hopscotch, and I wanted to play it so much. But I just couldn't seem to do it right. I'd fall, or my stone would always get on the lines, or I'd go in the wrong numbers with the wrong feet, and things like that. But after a while, my legs got stronger and I could hop better, and I learned. And by the time I went to school, I could play it too. So it's important to remember that the things you can't do right now, you may be able to do when you're older. That is important to remember. But no matter what age you are, practice is an important part of becoming good, at hopscotch or at any game. And when you're finally able to do something that you've practiced a long time, you get a really good feeling.
- Mr. Rogers: [after tasting his gorilla-shaped ice cream] It takes a lot of growing to know what's real and what's just pretend. But you're growing in so many ways, and people can like you exactly as you are.