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"Remembering With Elephants" is an episode of the Playhouse Disney animated series Stanley.

Summary[]

Stanley is about to go to the supermarket with his mom, but he can't find one of his sneakers. So to help him remember, he learns about Elephants and discovers that they remember things by retracing their steps.

Plot[]

One morning, Harry, Elsie, and Dennis are all sleeping, when something big and loud starts to wake them up. Harry hides under the bed, thinking it might be an elephant in the room, but it actually turns out to be Stanley pretending to be an elephant with a grey blanket and a slinky toy on his nose. Dennis then reminds Stanley that he's supposed to go with his mom to the supermarket, which Stanley isn't too wild about.

Stanley heads downstairs to the kitchen to get a drink of orange juice. Unfortunately, his brother, Lionel has finished the last of it. His mom then calls him to get ready for the supermarket, but Stanley still doesn't think it'll be exciting. However, he immediately brightens up to it after his mom says they could get some Crumbly Crust Donuts, and instantly heads back to his room to get dressed.

Stanley is almost ready, but only has his left sneaker on and can't find the other right one. He asks his pets if they've seen it, but Harry is still hiding under the bed from the 'elephant' in the room, Elsie is trying to sleep, and Dennis doesn't even wear sneakers (due to fish not having feet). Stanley starts to get upset that he can't remember where it is, since if he doesn't find his sneaker, he can't go to the supermarket, which means no donuts. He then tries to think of an animal that could help him remember, which reminds him of the old saying: 'an elephant never forgets'. To find out if the saying is true, Stanley decides to look up elephants in the Great Big Book of Everything.

Stanley begins to look it up under the letter L, but then remembers that the word actually starts with an E before the L. Stanley and Dennis go into the book and find out that elephants grow up to 13 feet tall (about 4 times Stanley's height) and can weigh as 6 tons/12,000 pounds. They also drink up to 13 gallons of water a day and eat up to 300 pounds of trees daily. Remembering the saying about elephants never forgetting, Stanley and Dennis discover that the saying comes from how the female elephants always remember to retrace their steps when they migrate.

Stanley brings the female elephant out of the book into his room, but it ends up frightening Elsie and squashing Harry against the wall. Realizing that plan didn't work, Stanley then gets an idea to retrace his steps to find his sneaker, just the same as elephants do. But before he can, he sends the elephant back into the book where she belongs.

Once the elephant is gone, Stanley tries to think of where his sneaker may be. He remembered having both of them on until he went to bed. Dennis reminds him that he kicked one of them off with his foot, but he didn't do it with the other one. Instead, he took it off with his hands and threw it somewhere. After realizing that, Stanley suddenly remembered where it was: the closet. Stanley then finds his sneaker in the closet and puts it on just as his mom calls.

Stanley heads downstairs, but his mom can't find her car keys. Stanley tells her to try retracing her steps to help her remember. She remembers that she had them the other day when she wore her red coat and finds them in the coat pocket. With her keys and his sneaker found, she and Stanley are now able to go to the supermarket and get some donuts.

Cast[]

Trivia[]

  • Moral: Everybody forgets things sometimes. But when you do, it helps to retrace your steps.
  • The episode is also adapted into a picture book titled An Elephant Never Forgets.

Errors[]

  • Throughout the episode, Stanley is shown to be wearing only one sneaker, but when Dennis describes how tall an elephant is, he appears to be wearing both sneakers.
  • When the elephant matriarch comes out of the book, in the top right corner of the background, there’s a small bit of writing that reads ‘End’.
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Episodes
Season One: "Up the Apple Tree / Kangaroo Clean-Up" • "Daddy Pride / Show-and-Tell Shark" • "Bearly Awake / The Eagle Has Landed" • "Watch Out for Lionels / Growing Pains" • "Frog Legs / Whoo's Afraid of the Dark?" • "Tiger Hunt / Monkey Bar Business" • "Camel Commotion / There's Snow Place Like Home" • "A Whale of a Song / Sloth for a Day" • "Busy Busy Octopus / Honest Ostrich" • "Dolphin Talk / Whole Lotta Snakin' Going On" • "Platypus Problems / Rabbit Habit" • "Savanna-Speeders! / Tyrannosaurus Wrecks" • "Hippo Helpers / Where's Stanley?" • "Penguin Party / Leave it to Beavers" • "The Joker / Baby Pictures" • "You've Got Pigeon Mail / It's a Prairie Dog's Life" • "Remembering with Elephants / Garbage Can Bandit" • "Little Dog Lost" • "Snow Monkey See, Snow Monkey Do / Sick Day Stanley" • "The Big Spill / Peekaboo Parrot" • "Gorilla Sleepover / Sea Lion Slip-Up" • "Worms at Work / Caterpillar Countdown" • "In a While, Crocodile / The Color of Stanley" • "Searching for Spring / Save the Bluebird!" • "The Pond Couple / Who's Afraid of Walter Wolf?" • "A Little Squirrel Music / A Boy's Best Friend is His Fish"

Season Two: "Ant Picnic / The Tooth About Teeth" • "Eel-lectricity / Roller Rhino" • "Keep 'Em Flying / Guess What's Coming For Dinner" • "The Really Real Dragon / A Billy Goat for Dad" • "Bloodhound Blues / Clock-a-Doodle-Doo!" • "Mistaken Mermaid / It Pays to Be a Pelican" • "Woodpecker Woes / P.U. Pup" • "Grandma Griff's Mystery Guest" • "Mockingbird Scat / Horsepower" • "Proud as a Peacock / Dances with Flamingos" • "Sunburn Stanley / Time for Toolfish" • "Web Weavers / Muddy Buddies" • "The Robbing Raven / Flashlight Fireflies" • "Mysterious Moe / Spelling Bee Situation" • "Follow the Lemur / Zebra Jigsaw" • "Hummingbird Humdinger / Koala Cuddle" • "Double-Duty Dad / Look Who's Helping" • "Tasmanian Tantrum / Sea Otter Safety" • "Going-Away Goose / Time to Climb!" • "Stanley's Super Spectacles / The Ugly Griffling" • "Doing Like Ducks / Speedy Does It" • "X-Ray X-tra! / Under the Umbrella Bird" • "I Scream for Ice Cream / Snack Savers" • "A Little Nightingale Music / Super Squirrel" • "Outfoxing Lionel / Jackrabbit Hide-and-Seek" • "Me and My Palfish / At the Zoo!"
Season Three: "Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up" • "To Catch a Hamster / Pearls of Wisdom" • "Living with Leopards / A Happy Chinese New Year" • "A Turkey of a Thanksgiving" • "The Way of the Buffalo / Follow That Falcon" • "Shell Game / Sheep and a Haircut" • "No News Like Snow Shoes / Ladybug, Ladybug" • "Curse of the Angry Coral / A Little Bird Told Me" • "Stanley's Great Big Book of Adventure"

Objects
The Great Big Book of Everything
Songs
My Man StanleyThe Great Big Book of EverythingGoodnight, DennisEveryday is EarthdayWhat Shall We BeWe're BatsGood as GoldNuts About NutsLend a Helping Hand
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