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The song cheers all of the students up until the owner of the school, Mr. Many of the school animals play instruments to accompany the song.
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The performance features Greg walking across the dining hall tables and passing the bottle of molasses to the different school animals to pour on their potatoes. As Langtree plays the piano, Greg sings Potatoes and Molasses. Greg sees a bottle of molasses on Miss Langtree's piano and he grabs it and asks her to play a more cheerful song on the piano. Greg notices how sad the bland potatoes make the students so he comes up with a plan to make them tastier. Each student is served a plate of very bland potatoes. Greg and his animal friends walk inside and join the students at meal time. The gorilla, still chasing Greg and the animals, is knocked out by the possum, who hits the gorilla in the head with a stick. Due to the ringing of the bell, Miss Langtree sends her students off to the dining area for meal time. Greg and his animal friends hide on the bell atop the school house which causes the bell to ring. As they are searching for another old cat, a gorilla jumps out of the bushes, scaring them away. He finds one, and the deer finds the second, but Greg says this cat is too old. Greg tells the animals they should play "two old cat," which he believes is played by literally finding two old cats. Outside of the school, Greg is talking to a raccoon, a deer, and a possum, none of which attend school. Miss Langtree goes on to sing Langtree's Lament, which expresses her sadness regarding Jimmy's disappearance while also teaching the alphabet. Her usage of the word "nonsense" reminds her of Jimmy Brown, a man whom she once loved, but who ran away. Miss Langtree tells Wirt to stop talking, stating that she won't tolerate his nonsense. Beatrice tries to get Wirt to leave by suggesting that Greg could be in trouble, but just then, they see Greg running around outside through the school's window. He sarcastically reminds Beatrice that he's such a pushover that he has to do everything he is told to do. She tells them to sit down and Wirt, trying to annoy Beatrice, does what she asks. They are greeted at the door by the school's teacher, Miss Langtree. Meanwhile, Wirt and Beatrice come upon the exact same school house and they walk in. Greg, wandering alone through the woods, finds a small school house, but he steers away from it because he doesn't want to go to school. As the three are walking, Wirt and Beatrice lose track of Greg. Beatrice sarcastically remarks that Greg should be more like Wirt, who according to Beatrice, is a "pushover" who always does what he is told. Greg is bored, so he urges Wirt and Beatrice to do something fun with him. Wirt stops to tie his shoes and Beatrice complains that Wirt is slowing them down. Greg is singing a song about visiting Adelaide's house. The chapter starts off with Greg, Wirt and Beatrice walking along a path.
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Miss Langtree's father, who invested in the school to teach animals how to read and write, threatens to shut it down. Enjoy your day.Wirt, Gregory, his Frog, and Beatrice stumble across a school run by Miss Langtree where all the students are animals. (I know the last part is a later episode I just thought maybe it tied together somehow due to the similarities. Even though from a visual stand point it appears that Jason is not all that perfect as wirt perceives him to be. Also the other children appear to mislead him in a later episode when saying that wirts crush Sara is going out with Jason funderberker that night crushing his hope.
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Once again he's being a pushover in a sense and has to find a way to communicate in order to stop being ignored and falsely labeled a "lover" I think this may represent his inability to communicate in his life and constantly allowing anxiety and fear to make his decisions for him. I theorize that each episode teaches wirt a lesson and the lesson of this episode seems to be allowing himself to be ignored and labeled by the tavern people then eventually mislead by them that the woodsman is the beast. In the fourth episode towards the end the beast is talking to the woodsman and says "maybe you should let me hold the lantern for awhile" I always found it odd the beast would seem interested in keeping the woodsman daughter alive which at the time made me assume this was a big clue.
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I found it really symbolic the act of wirt behaving like a pushover on purpose because he appears to be somewhat of a pushover in real life allowing his emotions to halt him from living his life. Then attempting to prove a point to beatrice began allowing himself to be pushed around. At the beginning of the third episode it talks about how miserable life can be.