Rough, Smooth, Picture is the eighth episode of the first season in the series A Little Curious, and is the eighth in total. It aired on March 22, 1999. It focuses on subjects of the words rough, smooth, and picture.
Segments[]
Rough and Smooth Skating (Digital Cel)[]
Mrs. Shoe gets ready to take a picture of Mary Jane and Lacey on skates, and right when they prepare to say "cheese", the two skate down rough brick and slippery sidewalks, making them skate roughly and smoothly respectively. After Mrs. Shoe chases them down, she prepares to take their picture again, but they end up flying in the sky at the exact moment.
A Little Reality[]
A little girl rides her tricycle against a smooth sidewalk and rough, rocky road, and eventually into the grass.
Rough Sailing (Digital Cel)[]
Little Cup is "sailing" across the water in the bathtub, with rough waves being created by Bob jumping around. Then he stops jumping and blows him, which makes him sail smoothly.
A Little Reality[]
In this segment, several boats are sailing across the water.
A Picture of Doris (Digital Cel)[]
Pad tells everyone they are painting pictures of Doris, each of them painting in their own different way. Pencil makes his picture using "Lots and Lots of Dots", which is also the name of the picture, and Pad says how she's amazed by all those small dots making a big picture of Doris, which makes Doris comment "Who are you calling big?". Mop is painting Doris using her hair, explaining that the many strokes make it look different, and she wants something so open, yet, so closed, and Doris states she resembles that remark. Meanwhile, Mr. String is shaping himself into a Doris model, and Pad compliments it saying that she could picture Doris right there in the room. Doris shouts that she is right here and her knocker is getting cold, but Bob tells her not to move and jumps into orange paint and splatters it on his painting that is just nothing but splatter effects. But Pad says even though it doesn't resemble Doris, he still captured her true beauty. Bob says she's pretty, and Doris also says she's "pretty as a picture".
A Little Reality[]
A boy is finger painting strokes of color all over a large piece of paper messily, and at the end, Bob states "Nice picture!"
Smooth Out the Edges (Stop Motion)[]
Pad asks Pencil for a smooch when she states he is rough around the edges. So she pulls out sandpaper which makes him scream, and then rubs the paper all over him which makes him smooth again.
A Little Reality[]
In this segment, a spoon is smoothing yellow icing all over a cake, then squeezing blue and green dots, and then using red frosting and googly eyes to make a Bob picture on top of it.
Moving Pictures (CGI)[]
Doris shows us a black and white picture of Bob right next to the seesaw, another of him getting closer, and a couple more of the same photos. Then she tells us to add color and sound, and we got a moving picture. The picture forms a clip of Bob jumping around on the seesaw, spinning in the air, and leaving the scene.
Song: Mr. String (CGI)[]
The Mr. String song "Ohh Boyy!" is played.
Picture Perfect (Digital Cel)[]
Mop wants to take a photo of Mr. String for her scrapbook and tells him to look his best as she wants to capture the real him. The camera is out of film, so she gets some more. Mr. String looks in a mirror and then thinks if the String in the mirror is really him, or if the real String is the real him. He starts to panic and makes some quick touch-ups to himself, such as straightening his tie and fixing his hair, claiming that someone will mistake him for a pineapple bush, and then he'd have to wear a Hawaiian shirt and do a hula dance in the sand and complains that sand is too sandy and lies on the ground. Mop runs back and tells him to hold his pose, and captures the picture of the frazzled Mr. String as that's the "real him". String groans off-screen.
A Little Reality[]
A group of classmates gathers and moves around for picture day. The camera snaps a photo of them, and then another one.
Rough Day (CGI)[]
Bob sees a soccer ball scoring into a net, so he tries to do it but misses. Then a basketball scores into a net, but he can't reach the net. He meets up with Doris and Mop and explains everything that went wrong, and Doris tells him that he's having a rough day. Bob tells them that he didn't go over anything rough, but Mop corrects him that it means that nothing is going right. So the two sing a song to explain what a rough day means. In the end, Bob leaves to go have a "smooth day".
Rough Sketch (CGI)[]
Bob and Undercover Cup are on another case to see who's been writing bad checks in Pad. Pad explains that the bad check writer was tall and handsome, so Pencil draws a "rough sketch" which is a fat pencil, and draws another one that has the bottom of his tip is bigger than the top, and he ends up drawing himself perfectly. Pad says that the checks he writes aren't wobbly, but Pencil states he was quivering for her, and the two hug. Bob and Cup walk off with the case being closed, with Cup stating "that was a rough one!".
A Little Reality[]
In this segment, a person hovers a picture frame over various things, such as a girl sitting above a rock cliff, a boat, and various other things in the area.
Song: Plush (Digital Cel)[]
The song "He's a Plush" is played.
Rough, Rough (Stop Motion/Claymation)[]
Doris is seen out in a flower field when knocking is heard. She goes "Who's there?" and "Rough!" is heard. After saying "Rough who?" Plush opens the door and says "Rough, rough!", a pun on "ruff, ruff". Doris says she left herself wide open to that.
Trivia[]
- In Picture Perfect, Mr. String says "Oh, boy, a picture of me!". In the other two episodes this segment is in, he actually says "Oh, boy, the real me!"
- Smooth Out The Edges was directed by the gothic musician/animator Aurelio Voltaire, who later became famous for his work on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
- The word picture would be focused again along with the words bubble (from Light, Dark, Bubble) and mirror (from Slippery, Sticky, Mirror) in Bubble, Picture, Mirror.