Episode Details

Say What?! is the daily news show for kids 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: two capybaras, the biggest guinea pigs on the planet, wander calmly into a grand government building in Brazil, explore the front desk, get joined by a third, and are finally defeated by a spinny gate. A whole town in America straps wheels to real bathtubs and races them down a road, complete with brakes, steering and a rule that the tub must still hold water, all because of a joke a newspaper made up long ago. And in five days the Moon slides right in front of the Sun, turning day to dusk for about two minutes over Iceland, Spain and a corner of Portugal, for the first time in that part of the world since 1999. Plus a Friday caller from Japan, where children clean their own classrooms, who has polished the floor, the stairs, the desk, the shoes and finally the teacher.

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