Long, Short, Roll is the seventeenth episode of the first season in the series A Little Curious, and the seventeenth in total. It aired on May 24, 1999. It focuses on subjects of the words long, short, and roll.
Segments[]
Long Jump (CGI)[]
On a path, Mary Jane jumps high, and Mr. String measures it. Then Lacey jumps even farther, and Plush jumps the farthest and longest, so far that Mr. String struggles to stretch up to him and accidentally launches himself even farthest.
A Little Reality[]
In this live action segment, a woman and a man perform long jumps in the sand, with one little boy following along.
Long Story (CGI)[]
Pencil finally comes back with stamps Pad wanted, and he falls down with sleepiness. Pad asks what took so long, and Pencil says it's a long story and that he was waiting in the line at the post office in a long, long, long, long, long, long line. Pencil says this many times which makes Pad doze off, eventually making the front at long last. But then the stamps rolled and rolled until they rolled off a hill, and he falls off the table. Pad wakes up and asks if she could hear it again.
Short Story (Stop Motion)[]
Mary Jane asks Lacey what's she doing in her room, and she's reading a short story. Mary Jane comes up with a short story and tells it: "Once upon a time, the end." and the two laugh.
Short Cut (Digital Cel)[]
Mop is amazed at how long her hair grew, and wants Mr. String to cut it really short. He worries it'll be too short, thinking she might look like a mushroom and will have to spend the rest of her life in a pizza box. So he cuts two small snippets at her tail end and then blow dries it, creating a "whale spout" style.
But Mop wants it to be shorter, so he creates a bowl cut. Then he shaves off the entirety of her hair and fears that she'll hate it, but Mop loves her new brush cut. She gives Mr. String a smooch, and he falls down.
A Little Reality[]
In this segment, kids visit a barbershop and get their hairs shaved.
Bob on a Roll (CGI)[]
Bob rolls around in a savanna going with what the singer is singing, and he eventually meets Plush. The two also meet Mr. String in a cowboy hat, and then the three herd the cow-skinned balls.
Roly Poly (Watercolor)[]
Little Cup, Pencil, and Mr. String do the "Roly Poly" as they roll down a hill. Doris says she's getting too old for that stuff, but she decides to give it a go anyway. However, she hurts herself and falls on top of the three. Doris opens herself and the three laugh and chuckle.
A Little Reality[]
Kids roll down a hill and play roly-poly until they are now getting dizzy.
Song: Mop (CGI)[]
Mop's song is played.
Long Ago (Digital Cel)[]
Little Cup asks Doris why is she looking down, and Doris says she's yearning for an egg cream, the most tasty drink in all the world. Cup gets disgusted, but Doris informs him that there's no eggs, or cream, in the drink, and opens herself to a younger version of her in a diner and says that it includes chocolate syrup, seltzer water, and milk. Suddenly, Little Cup goes away and comes back with the drink inside of him, making Doris tear up saying he knows the shortest way to her heart.
Long, Long, Short Short Short (CGI)[]
Mary Jane and Lacey walk into their parents doing the Cha Cha, a dance they did when they were young. They dance more, and the two girls try to do it but don't understand, so they sing and dance to them. The girls eventually dance like they did.
A Little Reality[]
In this segment, four kids play a violin quartet.
Song: The Shoe Family (CGI)[]
The Shoe Family song is played.
Rolling in Dough (Digital Cel)[]
Pad teaches Bob, Mary Jane, and Lacey to cook French rolls. For the first step, she makes the dough by blending flour and water with a spoon, then for the second step, she questions Pencil to make sure the dough isn't too thick or too thin, so he comes sliding to the bowl but falls in the dough. For step three, Pad kneads the dough. Mary Jane wonders where Pencil is, and Pad finds him in the dough. Pencil claims he needed to be "kneaded" by her, and she kisses him. Next for step four, Pad rolls the dough with Pencil, and for the final step, the dough is rolled into little balls.
Pad then unveils the final cooked product, with Pencil being baked into one of the rolls. He cracks himself out of one and laughs, knowing that someday he'd be rolling in dough.
A Little Reality[]
At a table, children roll many cylinders of clay (or Play-Doh) into a long line that goes across the entire table.
Roll Call (Digital Cel)[]
Doris, dressed up in a sergeant outfit, does a roll call with Bob, Plush, Mr. String, and Pad and Pencil, then has the characters show their left, back, right, and front sides.
The Long Yawn (Digital Cel)[]
A tired Bob on a chair yawns really loudly and long, then falling asleep.
Trivia[]
- The barbershop the kids visit in the live action segment was called Cozy's Cuts for Kids, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It appears to be no longer open.
- The word roll would later be focused again along with the words spin (from Fast, Slow, Spin), and pop (from Empty, Full, Pop) in Roll, Spin, Pop.