Shapes and New Words

"Practice, patience, and maybe a little music might help."

- Joji  'Shapes and New Words'  is an episode of Ready, Set, Read!, copyright 2020 and released in 2021.

Synopsis
Joji comforts Ogot about temperament relating to his 'masterpiece'. After a leitmotif about shapes, James Lez Read provides us fun facts about the letter S.

Opening/Closing Segment
Ogot struggles to draw, making him frustrated in the process. Joji, however, intervenes and asks him to calm down and have patience, after describing the term. He also sings a song to lift up his spirits, but Ogot wants him to provide company, preventing him from reading his book. In the second segment, Cathy jumps on her seat and talks about their trip to the museum. They proudly praise the hard-working minds of Filipinos, a trait they share alike. Cathy does not know the terms given by Joji, but later explains their definition. At the end of the episode, Ogot shows his completed 'masterpiece' to Cathy and Joji, with unananimous positive results.

Intermission #1
Like New Words (Part 2), Joji and Cathy play games where your knowledge on shapes is evaluated. In one game, Joji shows us a series of shapes, and asks the number of a specific set from them. In the next one, Cathy wants us to find the different shapes in a group, with the type and amount varying. In an animated segment, a square and a triangle boast about their capabilities in sides and corners, but a circle rolls by, having none of those. Suddenly, it rains, making the circle the lone mover.

James Lez Read's lesson for today
In his house, James appreciates words containing the 's' sound, like 'snake', 'sun', and 'eggs'. In one segment, he (as a caricature of himself) asks us to look for things in a playground with the 's' sound, whether the beginning or the end. Like other games, second chances are implemented.

Transcript
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Cast
Seth Regen Montgomery Dungca as Joji and James Lez Read Ogot Cathy Marj Nene

Trivia

 * This is the first episode where Joji wears a gray shirt, since bright colors is a constant for him.
 * This marks the first time a cartoon version of James narrates one of his games.
 * Technically, mathematicians refer a circle as a polygon with infinite sides, but they do not rule out the existence of none.
 * This is the first episode where a repeated bookend gets extended, explaining Cathy's appearance in Joji's house.

Errors

 * Joji's gray shirt turns to pink (a standard of his) in the drawings.
 * The word 'shovel' is not included in James' game.