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I want to be... just like U...
Young Y wants to know why he can't sing with the vowels.
Season 1
Episode 4
Air Date January 26th, 2010
Level Blue Level 5
Learning Competency Vowel Y /aɪ/
Writer Max Allen (Lead Writer)
Director Unlisted
Hide is the twentieth episode of the first series of Alphablocks.
Plot
Plot
The vowels, A, E, I, O, and U, sing in harmony, until Y shows up. E says this group is vowels only. Shy Y sings about his desire to be a vowel.
Why... can't I be more like U?
I... I just don't know what to do.
O, E, A, they all know what to say.
But I'm much too shy to even try...
Yes, I'm okay at the start
Of "yellow", "yo-yo", or "yacht"
But I'd like to be heard at the end of a word
And I'm trying to be something I'm not
WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY!?
T and R appear to tell Y that all he has to do is tr... but they need a vowel. The five vowels show up.
/t/-/ɹ/-/æ/, TRA!
/t/-/ɹ/-/ɛ/, TRE!
/t/-/ɹ/-/ɒ/, TRO!
It doesn't work. I and U refuse to help them, but Y can do it.
/t/-/ɹ/-/aɪ/, TRY!
Y becomes striped like the vowels, much to their surprise.
Y:
/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/ I can do it!
/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/, not too shy!
/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/-/aɪ/, I'm so happy I could cry!
I feel like I could fly, up into the...
I: I get the idea!
Y: ...sky!
The episode ends when Y sings harmonically with the vowels.
Words
Words
hug (fantasy)
win (fantasy)
pot (fantasy)
pet (fantasy)
pat (fantasy)
yellow (fantasy)
yacht (fantasy)
tra (nonsense word)
tre (nonsense word)
tro (nonsense word)
try
shy (stealth word)
cry (stealth word)
fly (stealth word)
sky (stealth word)
Total words: 1 (real), 7 (fantasy), 8 (all together)
Trivia
Trivia
Song: Why?
B, D, J, M, Q, V, X, and Z are absent in this episode.
Consonants C, F, G, H, K, L, N, P, R, S, T and W make a cameo in this episode. Some were only shown in the dream.
A, E, I, O, and U's pajamas used in Lips look like the outfits they wore in this episode, sans the hats and some of the stripes are white.
E's only spoken line is "Sorry, this group is vowels only."
U's only spoken line is "Uh? U called?"
A's line is only her sound. It was heard 3 times.
This was the first episode in series order where a nonsense word is sounded out. It was done three times, that being "tra", "tre", and "tro".
If the vowels were in rainbow order, they would be E-O-Y-A-U-I.
Y can also make an "ee" (/i/ as in "shiny") or "i" (/ɪ/ as in "symbol") sound. This implies that the Y is a semi-vowel.
The character "I" had refused to make a nonsense word because if she did, they would've spelled "tri" (a prefix for "three" which is also a homophone of "try").
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