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| Plot | Finchen befriends an echo |
| Air date | November 6, 2005 |
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Scene | Finchen is looking for Samson at his cave. Finchen yells "Hallo" into the cave, but instead of a reply from Samson, a different voice yells "Hallo" back. Nils comes by and tells Finchen that Samson is not home. Finchen can't understand it, since she received an answer when she yelled. Nils explains to Finchen that it had to be an echo that she heard, and Finchen wonders what an echo is. |
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Muppets | Ernie repeats everything Bert says and does. Bert gets annoyed and suggests to play the game the other way around, to which Ernie starts talking very fast while patting his head and rubbing his tummy. |
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Cartoon | Two boys roll down a hill. |
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Scene | Finchen is having fun yelling things into the cave to hear the echo. She discovers that if she yells questions, she doesn't get an answer back. She doesn't notice a guy sneaking up on her... |
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Film | Kids are testing various items to see what makes the most noise. |
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Muppets | Wolle hosts the talk show "Wolle am Mittag" and the guest is Pferd, who claims to be able to turn himself invisible. It turns out that Pferd just covered his eyes while claiming to be invisible. Wolle attempts to convince Pferd that he is still visible, then demonstrates invisibility by hiding under the table. Pferd is impressed by Wolle's skills; he can hear him but not see him. |
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Animation | A clay man hikes up a letter M. |
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Scene | Finchen is wondering what the echo in Samson's cave looks like. Finchen is surprised to see that a person is standing next to her. It turns out to be the echo Hugo Hall. He greets Finchen in English, French, Turkish and German, and those are just a few of the many languages that he speaks, since he travels around a lot, but he likes it in the mountains. He then sings a song about himself. |
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Cartoon | Demonstration of near and far. |
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Muppets | Grover climbs a mountain and counts from 1 to 10 with his own echo. (EKA: Folge 1521) |
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Film | A family takes a trip in the mountains. |
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Scene | Hugo tells Finchen that he has lost his way while attempting to find his home in the mountains. Finchen promises him to help. |
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Film | Kids experiment with various sounds. |
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Muppets | A Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet cowboy shouts across a canyon to hear the echo. "Yippee ki-yi-yo!" is repeated back to him perfectly. When he shouts "One!", the echo repeats back, "¡Uno!" The cowboy is startled. "Two!" he shouts, and the echo repeats, "¡Dos!" "You s'pose that's Mexico over there?" he asks. He continues to count to ten, with the echo repeating the numbers back in Spanish. Frustrated, he shouts, "How are you?" "¡Muy bien, gracias!" is the reply. "Oh, this is ridiculous," the cowboy says, and throws his cowboy hat into the canyon. A sombrero is thrown back in return. |
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Animation | Thelma Thumb looks for the binoculars that Cyrus has lost. |
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Scene | Finchen goes to borrow a pair of binoculars from Nils so she can help Hugo. Nils thinks it's funny that Finchen claims to be helping an echo find its home, but decides to play along. Finchen and Hugo climb to the top of Samson's cave, where they find Hugo's home using the binoculars. Hugo then leaves to go home, and after Hugo leaves Nils comes up on top and Finchen happily tells him they have found Hugo's home. Nils waves and yells good luck to Hugo, and ponders a bit about the response he gets. |
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