Wimzie's House Season 1, Episode 9: Horace, The Boy who Cried Wolf

The Cookie Crisis

Shenanigans abound after Rousso makes his special cookies for the boys down at the fire station. Later, Jonas and Wimzie accidentally drop the cookie tin. Scared that they may have broken the cookies into little pieces, they keep the cookie tin out of Rousso's sight. To do so, they have to hide, run around and lie about the tin's whereabouts.

30 min

Boo!

Yaya starts a game of ""Boo"", in which you sneak up on an unexpecting person and yell ""BOO""! Wimzie tries the game on Jonas, who quickly dislikes the game because everytime he tries to play with his dirt collection....BOO! Wimzie then gets everyone into the game, and they start booing Jonas. Jonas finally has a nervous breakdown and starts booing everyone in frustration. Yaya finds out why this was bothering Jonas and puts a perminate stop to Boo.

30 min

The Magic Crayon

Yaya creates a pencil that writes on air for Horace, who isn't crazy about coming to daycare. Horace loves the pencil, but when he isn't watching Lou Lou finds it and gives it to Wimzie. Horace thinks Wimzie stole it and won't give it back. Yaya tells Horace if he wants something to speak up. Horace demands for the pencil, and Wimzie returns it, and Lou Lou learns that she shouldn't give things that belong to other people.

30 min

I Want my Mommy!

It's Gratziella's day off, and she plans to have a playdate with the kids today. Unfortunately, here plans are interrupted when Bo comes down with an ear infection. She ends up spending a majority of her time taking care of Bo. Wimzie then becomes jealous, Jonas feels sorry for her since he too has to share his parents with Lou Lou, so he teaches Wimzie how to play hookie. Wimzie causes Gratziella to become overwhelmed with having to take care of two sick children. Wimzie confesses to faking, and apologizes to her and Bo. In the end, Gratziella turns taking care of Bo into a game of doctor for the kids. Meanwhile, Horace tries to get rid of his hiccups.

30 min

Flower Power

Wimzie and Jonas are awed by Rouso's own created flowers. Rouso has invented such flowers as Orca Orchid and Phillip Dandrum. Wimzie and Jonas decide to plant their own flower. Yaya gives them a ""tootlip"" seed. The flower takes seven days to grow, but still grow it. After the seven days, they've grown a full-grown toolip. It's so called because when you blow into it's lips, it toots. Wimzie and Jonas then get territorial over it. They later discover that a dozen other tootlips have grown, so they give each one to the other kids.

30 min

Babies Have it Made

Wimzie is jealous because babies have it made. Bo has everything done for him, while she has to do for herself. Wimzie wishes she was baby, so at naptime, she has a dream that she was a baby. She realizes how tough a baby's life is, the other don't understand what she tries to say, she doesn't get pizza, and she can't play big-kids games. Wimzie wakes up, and is closer to her baby brother, Bo.

30 min

The Scaredy Cats, Woooo

Wimzie has her first sleepover, how exciting! She invites everyone, Lou Lou, Jonas, and Horace (Bo tags along too). Yaya even bakes special double chocolate chip cookies for the ocassion (and still makes sure Rouso doesn't sneak one.) Horace makes fun of Lou Lou when when she wants to go home after finding out that she has to sleep away from home, and has to listen to scary stories. Yaya encourages Lou Lou to stay, so she can have cookies, and stay up past their bedtimes. She stays after, but Horace goes into hiding for fear the others will make fun of him for being afraid of the dark. Wimzie has Jonas pitch up his tent, so Horace can sleep outside with the lights on, and they can sleep in the tent where its dark. Horace soon misses his friends, and joins the fun in the tent.

30 min

Treasure Hunt

Yaya has staged a treasure hunt. Each of the kids must find a hidden musical instrument before they can delve into Yaya's kazoo cakes. A restless Wimzie steals a bite and discovers to her regret just what hiding the truth can mean.

30 min

What's the Matter with Horace?

Horace arrives at Wimzie's house in a foul mood. But Horace's mood changes as he introduces his imaginary friend, Spike the Mosquito, whose parents had a yelling fight that morning, to the gang. Yaya realizes that it's really Horace's parents who had the yelling fight. Later, Gratziella and Rouso argue, but they find a way to settle their differences, assuring Wimzie and Horace that fights and disagreements between parents don't mean they don't love each other.

30 min

You're not my Friend!

Wimzie, Jonas, Lou Lou, and Horace's friendship is in trouble when they exclude one another from certain games. Yaya is fed up, and separates each one from the others until they learn their lesson.

30 min

It's Called to Share or Not to Share

Wimzie gets a new present in the mail, a musical camera. Everytime you take a picture, the camera plays a little tune. Wimzie doesn't wish to share her camera, so the other kids stop playing with her. She decides to share it for a little while, but when she decides to stop sharing, the kids get territorial with it, and Horace accidentally smashes with his tools when it flies through the air and lands on his workbench. Wimzie is hopping mad, and Yaya decides to put the rule of sharing to rest.

30 min

The Plays the Thing

It's a rainy day, it's a rainy day. It's raining outside and the kids can't go out and play. This leaves them with nothing to do. Yaya comes up with the idea for the kids to put on a Cinderella play. But they're displease when Bo gives the part of Cinderella to Horace, the evil stepmother to Jonas, the godmother to Wimzie and the prince to Lou Lou. It's either the play, or be bored for the rest of the day, so the kids decide to go ahead with the play.

30 min

The Lucky Pen

Jonas is getting better at his basketball shots. Rouso gives him a lucky pin as a reward. Jonas believe the pin brings him good luck, but when he miss places it, he runs into bad luck by breaking cups, missing baskets, and breaking Rouso's fireman of the year trophe. Wimzie makes a fake pin to make Jonas feel better. It works, and Jonas discovers it's not the pin that brings him good luck, it's him.

30 min

Queen for a Day (a.k.a. The Sick Pest)

After Horace, Jonas, Lou Lou, Gratziella, Rouso, and Bo recover from a flu bug, Wimzie catches it. Wimzie is then sent to bed. Wimzie gets bored, even though she's been provided with toys, coloring books, orange juice, and a blue crazy straw. Wimzie keeps blowing into a moosecall whenever she wants company. Yaya then threatens to take it away from her if she doens't rest. Eventually, she finally does fall asleep, while hre friends sneak her some more games, snacks, comic books, and toys. Wimzie gives one last blow to thnak her friends.

30 min

A Fishy Fish Story, Blub, Blub, Blub

Wimzie wants a pet so bad. She doesn't care if it's a dog, cat, or even elephant as long as she can have a pet. Yaya decides to purchase a daycare pet for all the kids to love. She presents them with a goldfish. The kids are disapointed, but decide to give it a try. Wimzie names the fish, Fido, and the kids are fascinated with him at first, but their duties of taking care of him dramatically slack off. After they discover Fido is missing, the kids think he ran away since they didn't take care of him much. Yaya has Fido, in a new tank filled with fresh water, and decides the kids aren't old enough to watch after a pet yet.

30 min

To Tell the Truth

Wimzie falsely accuses Bo of spilling something she was told not to touch. Feeling guilty, she confesses to Yaya, who tells her about the value of honesty.

30 min

Jonas the Actor!

Wimzie starts a play, and wants all of her friends in it. They join in, but once discovered that the play will be presented in front of the entire neighborhood, Jonas fakes a sore throat, and a stubbed toe. Wimzie finds out that Jonas is faking because he's afraid he'll mess up the play because his cousin called him a clutz. Wimzie is sworn in not to tell anyone about Jonas's false illness. Yaya eventually finds out, and encourage Jonas to imagine that everyone in the audience is his friends. Jonas does, and makes it through the play with no trouble at all.

30 min

Lou Lou Thinks Big! (a.k.a. All Alone)

Lou Lou is depressed because next to Bo, she's the smallest person at daycare. This excludes her some such events like playing board games, and ball games with the others. Lou Lou tries every which way to become bigger faster, from wearing Gratziella's shoes, to eating a mountain of fruits and vegetables. Rouso's ball shooting machine goes haywire, and no one and reach a button that shuts it off. Lou Lou gives it a try, and stops the machine. Yaya and Rouso explain to Lou Lou that even small people are important, and you won't be small for long.

30 min

You Just Gotta Keep Trying

Afer seeing a realistic portrait of Lou Lou, drawn by Wimzie, Lou Lou is determined to draw a realistic portrait of Wimzie. After many failed attempts, she doesn't give up. After watching Yaya playing a guitar, Wimzie wants to play too, after her first try, she's ready to give up, but Yaya encourages her that she need to have more and more lessons if she wants to get better. Wimzie doesn't want to wait, and gives up. Lou Lou then presents a realistic portrait of Wimzie. Wimzie is touched, and decides if Lou Lou ended up being that good by not giving up, Wimzie decides to continue with her guitar practicing.

30 min

A Medal for Horace (a.k.a. Happy Yaya Day)

Wimzie holds a ""Happy Yaya Day"" to let Yaya know how much they care about her, and appericiate her. Everyone gets her nice presents, but Horace forgets. Horace decides to give Yaya his special summersault medal. Horace then is depressed because he misses his medal. Wimzie tells Horace to tell Yaya what happened, and ask for the medal back, but Horace doesn't want to be a gimmie giver. Wimzie tells Yaya, and she decides to hold a ""Happy Kids Day"", she gives each kid a present, and give Horace his medal back. Horace and Yaya are both happy.

30 min

By the Numbers

A counting game has repercussions when everyone but Lou Lou can do it. She thinks that becoming more like Wimzie will enhance her abilities, but ultimately learns that it's much better to be yourself.

30 min

I'm Really Mad at Dad

Rouso comes home from a two-week business trip. Everyone throws him a welcome home party. Bo missed him so much, he expresses his feelings by being mad a Rouso. When Rouso then unapproves Wimzie's current obsession with cereal, then Wimzie is mad at Rouso too. Rouso feels so sad, but after he fixes Bo's toy train, Bo is back on friendly terms with his dad. So Rouso then decides to join Wimzie in a bowl of cereal, and Wimzie apologizes for being so nasty at him.

30 min

Aahhchoo!

30 min

Wimzie's Hushabye

Wimzie realizes she was wrong for not accepting Yaya's stuffed magical talking bird, Max, on it's own terms: that it would rather be a private special friend, than a public one. As a result, it clams up when everyone else is around. Wimzie makes a public apology to Max, who, touched by her gesture, comes to her defense and speaks up.

30 min

The Tattletales

Yaya eplains the difference between regular tattling, which she doesn't want to hear, and important ""tattling"", like when Horace bruises his knee, and no one tells Yaya.

30 min

I Dare You!!!

Rouso goes into training at the firedepartment. One of the obstacles, is more of a dare he claims. Afterwards, Jonas and Horace get into an episode of daring each other to do stupid things. First, Horace dares Jonas to give him a crayon. Then Jonas dares Horace to eat an entire bunch of green grapes. Horace dares Jonas to catch an apple, Jonas dares Horace to catch an egg. Both of them miss, and Yaya gives them both timeouts. Jonas decides to get Horace back by daring him to climb a broken laddar out back. Lou Lou tells Rouso, and explains to them that it's more brave to decline a dare, than accepting it. Rouso decides to decline the dare at the firedepartment. Meanwhile, Yaya is trying to get rid of her hiccups.

30 min

We Want Toys! We Want Toys!

Wimzie see a commercial for a new toy called a Binga-Boinga, which is like the pogostick of the future. Wimzie wants one in the worst way, but Rouso says for Christmas, and Gratziella says for her birthday. The next day, Horace gets one because his dad said he loved him. Wimzie comes to the conclusion that her parents won't get her a binga-boinga because they don't love her. Yaya explains that gift-giving is only one of many ways for showing love. Rouso shows Wimzie how much he loves her by skipping his firemen's picnic to take her camping.

30 min

The Personal Trainer 1,2,1,2,1,2

Jonas is so out of shape because he hasn't exercised in months. It starts to show when he can't even lift his dirt collection of the table. Wimzie becomes Jonas's new personal trainer. Everyday she helps Jonas get back into shape. In about two weeks, to show how he's back in shape, he and Horace get into an armwrestle, but Jonas take the fall so Horace could win and be happy.

30 min

Jonas and All of His Hits

After Lou Lou accidentally made Jonas's ants run away, he has a very bad day. He is so mad, everytime someone displeases him, he hits them. He hits Lou Lou after they argue, and Rouso talks to hit about how violence is not the answer. After Horace get into a scrap about Horace's castle, the two get into a fist fight. Both are given timeouts, and Yaya tries to explain to Jonas that there are other ways to express anger, and to calm it too. Yaya has Jonas beat dirt out of the rugs, and it make him feel better. Wimzie wants to help, which annoys Jonas, and he hits her. Rouso seperates him from the others until he calms down. He watches Rouso calm his anger by singing, when his model he's building becomes frustarting. Jonas counts to 10 when he gets mad at Wimzie when she and Horace play volcano (which was originally Jonas and Wimzie's project). In the end Jonas is no longer angry, and Rouso presents Gratziella a model plane he built.

30 min

Who Do You Trust? (a.k.a. No TV Contest)

Yaya has a No TV Contest. Lou Lou, Wimzie, and Horace fail. Jonas claims he didn't watch TV, and receives the prize, which is a Cosmic Piggie Power Ring. Jonas gets so excited, he tells what he saw on TV last night. The kids then loose their trust in Jonas, so Jonas tries to win back their trust.

30 min

Jonas's Big Purple Map

30 min

Wimzie's Three Wishes

Wimzie wishes innocently for Graziella and Rousso to spend their time at home, not at work. When both are laid off, Wimzie is frightened. Fearing that her family will be without food, Wimzie calls several neighbors for help. SONGS: The Wishing Song, Families and Friends.

30 min

Who's the Boss

Jonas is appointed leader of building a spaceship, and his bossiness is causing a mutiny! He soon learns the difference between being a leader, and being a boss, and the kids finally build their spaceship together.

30 min

The Great Moving Day

Wimzie is excited because Mitzi Moonstar might be coming to daycare. But Gratziella and Rouso believe that Wimzie will be sad when she finds out that a neighbor is moving. Lou Lou over hears and believes it's Wimzie that's moving. She, Jonas, and Horace start a yardsale to raise money for their mortgage. They sell their most precious toys to raise money, but to make sure Wimzie doesn't find out, they say it's Mitzi that's moving. In the end, Lou Lou finds out that it was another neighbor that was really moving, and Wimzie knew all along. Yaya gives all the customers a refund, and they get their toys back.

30 min

The Mighty Monster Power Piggies

Wimzie resists peer pressure by doing Tai Chi with Yaya while everyone else only wants to play Mighty Monster Power Piggies. The kids see the allure of doing something different, and the piggies disappear, for the moment.

30 min

Wimzie's Scary Dream

Making scary masks fills Wimzie's subconscious, as each time she sleeps, a scary dream confronts her.

30 min

The Little Red Wimzie

While most of the kids are sitting around in boredom,Wimzie tries to arouse fun by setting up a tent outside. Graziella, too, has a way to keep busy.

30 min

Friendship Day

While preparing for Friendship Day, the kids agree it's easy to be friends, until a series of misunderstandings make them so mad they don't even want to makeup.

30 min

Bye, Bye Birdie

Rouso is awaken by Miss Ferris's nopisy cat out in their backyard. When Wimzie and the gang play outside, they find a dead bird. They learn that the cat killed the bird because their hunters by nature. The kids decide to hold a funeral for the bird, before they learn the bird had left behind a nest full of babies. They take turns watching over the baby birds, until they're big enough to flyaway.

30 min

A Little Privacy, Please?

Wimzie accidentally plays an audiocassette recording of Yaya's diary. This leads Wimzie to ponder about privacy. Despite her friends' curiosities, Wimzie will not play any more of Yaya's diary…until Horace makes an offer no one can refuse.

30 min

I'm Scared for Daddy

Rouso breaks his arm during a fire rescue. He rescued a boy's dad from a fire, the dad fell ontop of Rouso, breaking his arm. Rouso has the week off, and spends his time with Wimzie and the gang. When Rouso's arm is fully healed, he reports he has to return to work. Wimzie goes into siclusion, in fear her dad will injure himself again. Gratziella explains to Wimzie that accidents can happen anytime, anywhere, and are unpredictable. Meanwhile, Yaya babysits a neighbor's pet turtle.

30 min

Bo Goes Bonkers!

Bo suddenly becomes so full of energy, and starts distracting Yaya, who is making puppets for the kids' puppet show. Wimzie and the gang offer to watch after Bo while she makes the puppets. Bo goes into hiding, which makes Yaya change her mind, and puts Bo to bed. Meanwhile during naptime, Bo crawls of out his crib, messes up Wimzie's room, and overflows the bathtub. While Yaya cleans up, Bo tries to play with scissors, but the gang stop him before he gets hurt.

30 min

Identical Cousins

The daycare gets a visit from Horace's twin cousin, Morris.

30 min

Hand-me Down Sweater

It's trash day, and Rouso throws out stuff that's useless, but recycles things that are still useful. Lou Lou and Jonas both have new sweaters, but Lou Lou is sad because her's is just a hand-me down from Jonas, and Wimzie and Horace tell her only new estuff is special. She throws it away, and Yaya explains that old stuff can be just as special too. The trash is picked up, but is Lou Lou's sweater gone for good? Of course not, Wimzie saved it, and decorated it so Lou Lou would think it's still special.

30 min

I Think I Forgot Something

When Wimzie causes Rouso to lose his memory by throwing the Blizzer Ball in the house, the children learn they should always report an accident to a grownup, even when it means they might get into trouble.

30 min

Mommy's Afraid

Graziella is overwhelmed with the thought of test-flying a new plane and backs out. It plays on her psyche for days. At the same time, Horace has to gain confidence in himself, which in turn will embolden others.

30 min

The Stuke a Piddleys

Jonas gives Rousso a backstory. In the course of fantasizing a talk show, Wimzie acts bossy to Jonas, calling him a ""stookapiddlie"" *according to the captions). And things only go downhill from there. Jonas thinks the only way to fix things is to fix his mavoca, which throws his voice. Both Loulou and Horace try to help Jonas's cause, which only makes matters worse.

30 min

The Toothfairy

Horace's tooth comes loose, giving him the perfect oppertunity to meet the toothfairy in person. But she never comes since Horace stays awake. Yaya explains that the toothfairy only appears when you're sleep. But Horace won't close his eyes until he meets the toothfairy. Wimzie starts a game of hide and seek, so she will put her plan into action to pose as the toothfairy to satisfy Horace. Horace falls asleep, but Gratziella accidentally trips and wakes him up. Horace gets wise, but is still shocked to find the toothfairy finally visited him when he was sleeping.

30 min

Wimzie's Late

Wimzie starts getting into a habit of being late. This causes trouble when she's late for getting sugar for cookies, and getting a book for storytime. Rouso takes the kids on a cruiseship, but since Wimzie takes so long to get ready, she gets left behind. Rouso explains to Wimzie about being puncual.

30 min

The Great Cookie Caper

That Bo! He just can't leave other people's things alone. When Wimzie's special cookie disappears, she searches her friends' personal belonging without their permission and learns a lesson about accusing people without proof.

30 min

Wimzie's Big Trip

Mitzi's mother has invited Wimzie on a journey to Dragon Park. Wimzie is overcome with the prospect of traveling. SONGS: It's Fun To Go Travelling, Disappointment.

30 min

The Lost Bone

Wimzie finds that her effort and perseverance have paid off when she finally pronounces the word ""archeologist"" perfectly for the first time since her discovering and excavation of a horse bone in the garden.

30 min

Official Backwards Day

Yaya holds an official backwards day. On this day, the kids dress upside out, and inside down. They also talk backwards, yes means no, no means yes, yay means boo, hello means goodbye, and she said so means she didn't say so. Although, the game gets out of hand when Wimzie and the kids say that they didn't see Rouso's calculator, when they did. Rouso finds out from Yaya that they were playing backwards day, but his calculator turns out to really be missing. It turns out Bo had the calculator after all.

30 min

Doctor Wimzie

Gratziella is sick in bed with a stomach virus. Wimzie then becomes Doctor Wimzie and keeps on checking on Gratziella non-stop. Gratziella wants to rest, but can't because of Wimzie's constant care. Yaya tells Wimzie to give Gratziella her special tummy medicine. Gratziella drinks it, instead of rubbing it on her tummy. Rouso worries thay Gratziella will be even more sick. Yaya tells that even she drinks the medicine and there's nothing to worry about. Gratziella then thanks Wimzie for being a good little doctor.

30 min

The Assistant Grown-Up

Wimzie doesn't want to go to bed early, and do little kid stuff anymore. So Yaya does an experiment to see how Wimzie likes having responsibilties like an adult. The next day at daycare, Yaya keeps Wimzie frim playing with the others to help do the housework like prepare the snacks, and cleaning up. Horace starts a detective game to search for Wimzie's lost sticker. Wimzie wants to join in, but Yaya won't let her until she finishes her responsibiities. That night, Wimzie decides she rather be a kids while she still can.

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