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Furby After Dark
Season 5 Episode 551
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NIGHT WATCHMAN (EBENEZER, cheerful):
All right, toys—another calm, orderly night.
Nothing’s going to—
SFX: A sudden electronic WHIRR from a g…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
More Joy
Season 5 Episode 550
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NARRATOR:
It’s Christmas Eve at the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts—
after the last visitor has gone,
after the gift-shop…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Man in Motion
Season 5 Episode 548
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This episode begins with the night watchmen engaged in conversation with Rubik's Cube.
NIGHT WATCHMAN:
Mr. cube, I want the museum-tour vers…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Christmas Eve
Season 5 Episode 549
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NARRATOR:
It’s Christmas Eve at the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts—
after the last visitor has gone,
after the gift-shop…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Color of Thinking
Season 5 Episode 547
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NARRATOR:
In the center of the case sits a classic 3×3 Rubik’s Cube—
a pocket-size universe that has humbled presidents, professors, and per…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Hidden Reel
Season 5 Episode 546
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NARRATOR (WARM, LOW):
Welcome to Celebrate Creativity…
and Conversations with Toys. This episode is VIEW-MASTER: CLICK INTO WONDER.
This pod…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Practice Baby
Season 5 Episode 545
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NIGHT WATCHMAN (reading):
“Betsy Wetsy. Vintage baby doll.
A ‘practice baby’—a caretaking toy reflecting changing ideas about childhood play…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Tell Tale Toy
Season 5 Episode 544
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The alphabet blocks are gathered around the bobble head figure of Edgar Allan Poe - complete with Raven. The alphabet blocks seem to be f…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Poe and the Stars
Season 5 Episode 543
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Tonight we leave the playhouse wing and walk—quietly—into a different kind of stage: a mirrored room, a window, and a tube of glass and br…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Jealous Angels
Season 5 Episode 542
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NARRATOR / NIGHT WATCHMAN (gentle, amused):
It’s amazing what feels different in a museum at midnight.
In the daytime, the lights are bright…
2 months, 3 weeks ago