Pip and Posy: Perfect Playday

[Playful orchestral music plays]

Description: In an animation, Posy, a brown-haired mouse, steps forward.

Posy: Pip!

Description: Pip, a grey-haired rabbit, steps forward.

Pip: Posy!

[Both giggle]

Description: Pip and Posy grab each other’s hands and dance together. Pip wears a long-sleeved white-and-green striped shirt and jeans. Posy wears a blue-and-red T-shirt with a blue-and-white polka-dot skirt. Pip carries Posy on his back. Posy tosses her toy frog, Froggy, high in the air. She catches Froggy as Pip’s toy pig, Piggy, lands in Pip’s hand.

Pip: Oh!

[Both giggle]

Posy: Come on!

Pip and Posy: Let’s play!

[Both giggle]

Description: Pip and Posy run together.

[Title: Pip and Posy]

[Upbeat music plays, glue squelches]

Description: Posy squeezes a line of glue on a piece of macaroni.

Posy: Squeeze!

[Posy imitates an airplane engine, squelch]

Description: At his dining table, Pip holds a frame decorated with macaroni, and Posy flies her piece over, pretending it is an airplane. She glues it to the top of the frame.

Posy: Plonk.

Pip: Done. A picture-perfect picture frame. What should we put in it?

Posy: How about... me?

[Posy laughs, babbles, Pip laughs]

Description: Posy holds the frame in front of her face and sticks out her tongue. Pip shakes his head.

Pip: No. A real photo. Hmm. Oh! I know.

[Both giggle, rustling]

Posy: Oh.

[Both laugh]

Description: Pip runs away from the table, and Posy follows him. In his bedroom, he slides a box out from under his bed.

Pip: Ah. Ah.

[The music stops]

Posy: Ooh, what's that?

Pip: My box of special things.

[Lid rustles, Posy gasps]

Description: Pip removes the lid and shows Posy toys, rocks, crafts, and photos inside.

Posy: Oh.

[Tap]

Description: Pip puts the box on the floor, and he and Posy kneel beside it.

Pip: Look. From our food stall.

[Pip imitates a gobbling sound, Posy giggles]

Description: Pip picks up a toy corn cob and pretends to eat. Posy picks up an insect craft with wings and antennae.

Posy: Oh, I love this.

[Pip giggles, light music plays]

Pip: Oh, there's a photo!

[Upbeat music plays]

Description: In the photo, Pip and Posy wear swimsuits and sun hats as they play with a beach ball. Pip holds an ice cream cone in each hand while Posy runs towards the beach ball in the air.

Pip: Oh, wow.

[Both laugh, the music stops]

Description: Posy sits beside Pip on the floor.

Pip: When was this?

Posy: I don't remember, but we're so happy. It looks like the most amazing day ever!

[Both laugh]

Posy: Wouldn't it be fun to have another day as perfect as that one?

[Pip gasps, upbeat music plays]

Pip: Maybe we can! We just need to do all the things we're doing in the photo!

[Posy squeals]

Posy: Um, okay. What should we do first?

[Pip gasps]

Description: They look at the photo.

Pip: We need to wear swimsuits! Quick! Let's put them on!

[Posy gasps, giggles, door creaks, rustling, creak, door slams]

Description: Pip opens his wardrobe and takes out his yellow swimsuit.

Pip: Got mine! Oh, but yours will be at your house.

[Posy laughs, rustling]

Description: Posy picks up her red backpack.

Posy: Actually, I always pack my cozzie just in case!

[Both laugh]

Description: Later, Posy and Pip run downstairs wearing their sunhats and swimsuits. Posy holds the photo and stops on the last step.

Posy: I'm going for a swim. Sploosh!

Description: Posy jumps off the step.

[Posy splooshes]

Description: Posy pretends to swim across the living room.

Pip: Don't forget to put sun cream on.

[Pip raspberries, giggles]
Description: Pip imitates squeezing sunscreen out of a bottle and rubbing it on his arms and face.

Posy: Sploosh.

[Both laugh, Pip imitates splashing]

Description: Pip jumps off the bottom step.

Posy: Costumes, tick.

[Both gasp]

Posy: Let's go outside.

[Door creaks, both gasp, both pant, wind gusts]

Description: Pip and Posy open the patio doors, run outside and stop as leaves blow past them. They both cross their arms over their chests.

BOTH: Oh! Brr!

Posy: Oh, it's a bit cold. Um, maybe we should put our normal clothes back on.

Pip: But then it won't be the same as the photo.

Posy: Mm.

[Posy gasps]

Description: Posy points at her hat.

Posy: We can keep our hats on.

[Pigeon coos, door creaks, wings flap]

Description: Later, a pigeon pecks at the ground near the patio doors. The doors open, and the pigeon flies away as Pip and Posy run outside in their usual outfits, wearing sunhats. Pip holds the photo in his left hand.

Posy: See? We still look a bit the same.

[Pip laughs]

Pip: Okay. Okay. Next, we need... Ooh, ice creams! I had strawberry, and you had...

Posy: Banana! Let's go to the park and get some!

[Posy giggles]

Description: Posy takes the photo and runs. Pip puts out his hand as raindrops fall.

Pip: Huh? Uh... Aw, rain.

[Gate creaks, slams, rain patters]

Description: Posy opens a red gate, then shuts it and walks back to Pip.

Posy: Oh, we can't get ice cream in this. It'll shloop off the cones.

Pip: Hmm.

[Pip gasps]

Pip: It doesn't matter! We can make some here instead!

[Door creaks, rustling, rain patters]

Description: Pip enters the house, and Posy looks inside through the patio doors.

Posy: Make some here? How?

[Pip giggles, door creaks, clink]

Description: Later, Pip carries a tray with a banana, whipped cream, strawberries, and a jar of sprinkles to the dining table. Posy sits at the table with a plate in front of her.

Pip: Ha.

Posy: Pip, what you doing?

Description: Pip holds a strawberry in front of each eye.

Pip: I see, I see a strawberry ice cream.

[Pip sings gibberish, giggles, upbeat music plays]

Description: Pip puts the strawberries on the tine of a fork.

Posy: Oh.

[Posy giggles]

Posy: A banana one for me!

[Banana thumps]

Description: Posy stands her banana vertically on the fork, and it falls onto her plate.

Posy: Oh, oh! Whoop.

[Squelch]

Description: Posy pushes her fork into the banana and lifts it off the plate.

Posy: Tada! Much better.

[Thump]

Description: The end of Posy’s banana falls onto the tray plate.

Posy: Oh.

[Both laugh]

Description: Pip picks up the whipped cream.

Pip: These ice creams need to be... creamier!

[Posy laughs, whipped cream sprays, Posy shrieks

Description: Pip covers the strawberries and banana with whipped cream.

Posy: Pip! That's too much!

[Both laugh]

Description: The fruit and whipped cream wobble on the forks.

Pip: Whoa! Whoa!

Posy: Ah! Ah!

[Both laugh, splat, Posy gasps, both laugh]

Description: Whipped cream slides off the banana and lands on the table.

Pip: Oh, sprinkles!

[Rattling, thunk, slurping]

Description: Pip shakes sprinkles onto the whipped cream and puts the jar on the tray. He and Posy lick the whipped cream off their fruit.

Posy: Mmm. Mine sort of looks like a banana caterpillar.

[Pip gasps, Posy laughs]

Pip: And mine's a sticky strawberry tree.

[Both laugh]

Description: Pip picks up the photo and looks at the ice cream cones.

[The music stops]

Pip: Oh. But they're not perfect like those ones.

Posy: Yeah.

[Rustling, squelch]

Description: Pip and Posy put their forks and fruit on the tray plate.

Pip: Hmm.

Posy: Wait. We haven't done the best bit yet. Let's play with your beach ball!

[Chairs scrape]

Description: Posy pushes back her chair and points at the photo. Pip stands.

Pip: Oh. Okay. It's around here somewhere.

[Both laugh, lid creaks]

Description: Pip and Posy run away from the table. Pip opens a toy chest in the corner of the living room and looks inside.

Posy: Uh...

[Pip giggles, items bang, ball squeaks]

Description: Pip searches the toy chest. Nearby, Posy pulls the flattened beach ball from a basket.

Posy: Oh. Uh, I think I found it.

Pip: Aw, we can't play with that. It's got no puff in.

[Posy gasps, upbeat music plays]

Description: Posy puts the flat ball down on the sofa and picks up an orange balloon.

Posy: Your balloon has!

[Pip gasps, both giggle]

Posy: Let's play with this instead!

Pip: Ooh!

Description: Posy backs away and holds up the balloon.

Posy: Ready?

[Giggling, tap]

Description: Posy hits the balloon toward Pip.

Posy: Hi-yah!

[Pip laughs]

Pip: To Posy!

[Thump, Pip grunts, Posy giggles]

Description: Pip hits the balloon toward Posy.

Posy: To Pip.

[Thump]

Description: Posy hits the balloon to Pip.

Pip: Posy-osy-osy!

[Thump]

Description: Pip hits the balloon to Posy.

Posy: Here comes a big one! Pip-a-da-Pip!

[Thump, clatter, Pip gasps, thump, macaroni clatters, the music stops, rustling]

Description: Posy hits the balloon, and Pip backs into the table, knocking the picture frame to the floor. Macaroni falls off and lands beside the frame. Posy runs across the room and picks up the frame.

Posy: Oh! Our picture-perfect picture frame!

Description: Posy puts the frame on the table.

Pip: Oh! Nothing has gone right today.

[Posy sighs]

Posy: I guess we can't have another day as perfect as that one.

[Pip sighs]

Description: Pip picks up the photo.

Pip: Let's just put it back.

[Pip sighs, bed creaks]

Description: In the bedroom, Pip drops the photo into the box. As it falls, a feather blows off the other photos. Posy picks them up and sits on the edge of the bed.

Posy: Oh. More photos.

[Pip chuckles, light music plays]

Description: In a photo, Pip and Posy have milk around their mouths.

Pip: Look, Posy. Remember when we grew milky birds?

[Both laugh, rustling]

Description: Posy looks at the next photo, where Pip gives her a piggyback ride in the playground. In the next photo, they sit at Pip’s dining room table. He wears a nurse’s hat, and Posy has an eyepatch pulled up above her right eye.

Posy: And that's when we played Pirate Hospital.

[Rustling, upbeat music plays]

Description: In a photo, Pip and Posy wear hats.

Pip: We're having an amazing time in all of them.

Posy: Hmm. That's because... every day's a perfect day when me and you are together, even today!

[Both laugh]

Pip: You're right!

[Posy gasps]

Posy: We should put one of the photos in our frame! But-- but which one?

Pip: Hmm.

[Pip gasps]

Pip: None.

[Pip giggles]

Description: Pip jumps off the bed.

Pip: I've got a better idea.

[Both laugh, camera thunks]

Description: Pip runs out of the room, and Posy follows him. In the living room, Pip puts his camera on the fireplace mantel. Posy stands behind him, holding their whipped cream and fruit on forks.


Posy: Ready, Pip!

[Both laugh]

Pip: Timer on.

[Camera beeps]

Description: Pip sets the camera, then runs out of the frame.

Pip: Five. Four.

Posy: Come on. Three. Two. One!

[Giggling, thump, camera shutter snaps]

Description: Pip runs toward Posy with the balloon and bumps into her as the camera snaps a photo. Later, the framed photo shows a drop of whipped cream falling toward Pip and the orange balloon in front of Posy’s face.

[Posy giggles]

Posy: The perfect picture of a perfectly perfect day.

[Posy giggles, macaroni clatters]

Description: Pip and Posy watch a piece of macaroni fall off the frame.

Pip: Well, almost.

[Both laugh]

[Playful orchestral music plays]

[End credits: Showrunner Jeroen Jaspaert. ‘Perfect Playday written by James Walsh. Based on the books “Pip and Posy” by Axel Scheffler and Camilla Reid. Published by Nosy Crow. Developed for Television by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang. With the voice talents of Felix Tandon as Pip. Raphaella Crow as Posy. Isha Kaur Athwal as Frankie. Nellie Pickerill as Jamila. Isaac Gittins as Zac. Ashwin Sakthivel as Mo. Original music by Ellie Wyatt and Joss Peach. Producer: Vici King. Executive Producer: Michael Rose]

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