Jack and the Beanstalk

If you’re looking for the character, go to Jack Beanstalk.

Jack and the Beanstalk is the fourth episode in the first season.

Plot[]

Baby Joy, Whyatt's little sister, is having a little-sized tantrum, and he will calm her down! The Super Readers use their literacy powers to venture up Jack's Beanstalk and meet a real giant, who's acting like a big baby. Whyatt learns about the soothing power of music from his big brother Jack, and the Super Readers save the day.

Summary[]

The episode begins as Whyatt gets a call from Joy. Whyatt runs to see if we can help. As he run, he greets Poppa Pig along the way and meets his brother.

Baby Joy has a tantrum. Whyatt gets a bottle of milk and a smiley toy, but she still has that giant-sized tantrum. Whyatt calls the group and they meet up at the Book Club where he told his friends that it was Joy and that she is crying so much and doesn’t know how to help her, that even Princess Pea had to cover her ears. As Whyatt finishes stating his problem, Princess Pea summons the book "Jack and the Beanstalk", which is about Whyatt's big brother, Jack, and they need to find 5 Super Letters inside the book. They all transform, zoom away, and Super Why reads along three pages. They climb the beanstalk as Alpha Pig is helping to build alphabet stairs, which is the easy way for him and the other Super Readers to get to the giant. Princess Presto spells the word "open" to open the drawbridge, and Super Why replaces the words to complete the sentences, but the giant doesn't want to have a snack or a drink. Jack arrives in time and plays a song for the giant, and Super Why places the word "bed" in the sentence. As the super readers went back to the Book Club, the letters are... M-U-S-I-C and the answer is MUSIC. Whyatt realizes music can make Joy smile and not be grumpy.

As Whyatt went back to Joy's bedroom and she was still grumpy and upset as her mom was trying to cheer her up, Whyatt played the ukulele and played the same song that Jack played for the giant and Joy stops crying and is very happy and is cheered up, his mom is also happy and praises him for his idea. They went out where his friends are and Whyatt said “It worked!”

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Transcript[]

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Trivia[]

This episode marks the first appearance of Jack Beanstalk.
It was also revealed that Jack is Whyatt's big brother.
From this episode onward, the title of the book does not have all uppercase letters, like in the first three episodes, with a few exceptions such as Tiddalick the Frog.
The title refers to the 1952 Abbott and Costello movie Jack and the Beanstalk, and it also refers to the 1967 Gene Kelly and Ted Cassidy movie of the same name.
In the original story, Jack is a poor boy who manages to make his fortune by stealing various treasures from the giant at the top of the beanstalk. In the episode, this is all absent, and Jack himself doesn't appear until near the resolution, and uses a harp to put the giant to sleep (which is actually a detail from the original).
The story the super readers go into Jack and the Beanstalk, also references Gilligan's Island V for Vitamins, where Gilligan dreams about the story.
Near the end of the episode, Whyatt uses the ukulele to play an instrumental version of Jack's signature and theme song to calm Baby Joy down.
This is the only Super Why! episode to have right answer in the story changing segment. All other episodes just have one or zero.
When the giant says, "Fee fi fo filk!", not asking for a cup of milk, he transforms into an infant to even more when the cup of milk disappears, but he stops whining when he goes back to his normal self.
In this episode, "Fee fi fo fak!" means "No thaks!" and "Fee fi fo filk!" means "No thilks!".
In this episode, the giant says "Fee fi fo fak!" in a sad voice and "Fee fi fo filk!" in an angry voice.
When Alpha Pig says "Lickety letters!", Princess Presto chases Wonder Red, who chases Super Why, except him who is already at the top.
The "Baby Kate Cry" from Arthur, which is a stock sound effect found on the General Series 6000 library, is used in this episode whenever Baby Joy throws a tantrum at multiple times.
Whyatt's mom calls him a super smartie, which is what Wee Willy called the viewer(s) in the pilot episode.

Goofs/Errors[]

When Pig makes it to the top of the beanstalk, Red is wearing her normal clothes.
When Super Why flies towards the first sentence of the story, Jack doesn't appear in the picture. But after he takes out his Why-Writer to highlight the sentence and before he starts reading the sentence, Jack appears in the picture.
In the same scene where Jack appears in the picture, his eye pupils are the same color as his skin instead of white.
When the giant says, "Fee fi fo fak!", not asking for a silly snack, his foot stomping sounds aren't used.
When the giant isn't asking for a cup of milk, he transforms into a naked infant, but after Jack Beanstalk first appears in the story, he is seen in his normal clothes.
Right when Pig says “beanstalk” he sounds like Owen in Portage Time 2012.
The strawberries aren't mentioned, but they're referred to as a silly snack, as said by the giant.