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Chef Shawn’s Bad Hair Day / Thinking Inside the Box
7/30/2026 | 26m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Chef Shawn’s Bad Hair Day / Thinking Inside the Box
Chef Shawn’s Bad Hair Day: Chef Shawn is ready for his close-up, since a photographer from the food magazine Sporks Illustrated is visiting camp today. There’s only problem – Shawn has woken up to a BAD HAIR DAY! Can the campers get him primped in time for his big photoshoot? Thinking Inside the Box: Imaginations are powerful things. No one knows this better than Blueberry. When an empty card
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Blueberry's Clubhouse
Chef Shawn’s Bad Hair Day / Thinking Inside the Box
7/30/2026 | 26m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Chef Shawn’s Bad Hair Day: Chef Shawn is ready for his close-up, since a photographer from the food magazine Sporks Illustrated is visiting camp today. There’s only problem – Shawn has woken up to a BAD HAIR DAY! Can the campers get him primped in time for his big photoshoot? Thinking Inside the Box: Imaginations are powerful things. No one knows this better than Blueberry. When an empty card
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipBlueberry I just think it would be wise to get some snacks before we go on our hike.
I've already packed three bags of trail mix, but what if we need some snacks Oh, emergency snacks or.
Or maybe pack up to the pack of Or maybe extra emergency snacks?
Fine.
Let's just get them and go We're wasting daylight.
Did you hear that?
Hear what?
You're.
Where is everybody, anyhow?
Barb flow.
Chef Sean growls.
What?
It's that under the table.
What was that?
Mom, look under the table.
Chef.
Sean.
Hey, girls.
What are you doing under the tab A stick up for gum.
It's cool because it sounded a l like your from.
I may have been crying, but that's just because it's so What's awful?
There's a man coming to the mess today.
A photographer.
Oh.
Sports illustrated.
Supposed to do the coloring at t Yeah.
They want to take a picture on the camp.
Onomatopoeia.
Golden spatula.
It's beautiful.
Oh.
That's great.
You're going to be famous.
I don't want to be famous.
I just want to cook for hungry c like you.
Well, you can still cook for us.
What's so bad about having your taken?
What's so bad?
What's so bad?
I'll show.
Sure.
Whoa whoa whoa.
I know it's awful.
Oh, but it's awfully French, you Yeah.
Just like you.
Yeah.
Just, So they're called cookies.
Okay.
And they are the greatest invention humanity has ever had.
Hey, guys.
Whoa!
Who spends her most.
Oh, the photographer's going to be here any minute.
I just want to cook for hungry c First noteworthy brilliance.
Oh, hey.
Hey, you guys.
You know, that reminds me of the fry cook who first discov the golden spatula.
The golden spatula was known all across Arkansas.
Though no one had ever seen it.
Really?
Cooks thought it was a myth, but one cook believed it was rea He believed so much that he hike into the Ozark Mountains in search of the mystical, and t he would leave no stone unturned Climb every mountain.
Check every swimming hole.
It was followed and ad for 38 mi which is quite a distance.
We don't have time for this.
If this photographer is coming, got to get to work.
I agree.
Benji.
Bart, you two go take a watch and tell us if the photographer Yes.
Blueberry and I will find something to do with y Okay.
We will make a sound that you wi it's us.
Whenever he gets close, we'll make the sound of a sad, sad duck movie.
I mean, if I do the space turkey But don't worry, Sean, we're going to get you ready for your moment of fame.
I don't care about fame.
I just want to cook for the camp Hey, Mark, I bet if you finish your story, it would take Chef Sean's mind off his troubles.
Where was I?
Oh, yes.
The fry cook and his companions search of dinner after hunger st They found onions, carrots, even They probably had enough for din but the fry cook felt like they needed to go a little Maybe he could finally be the co to find the golden spatula.
Eventually, the hikers came upon an ancient Its branches hung low and scragg unlike Sean's hair.
At each end of the branch were l This tree was called the Reading and it was covered in letters, but only certain letters a, p c r e m. The ancient tree startled them by speaking.
If you seek the golden spatula, spell a single word using only these letters, but you must use them all.
The tree's challenge was that all the letters must be used to spel a single word, or a single word.
Hanging out with my book, a book a book, a book about, looking like what?
0000.
Hey, fellas.
My name is Dave from Sports Illu I'm standing in Cold Air magazin Yes, I'm here to look for the ke Oh, well, look no further.
Buh.
Your chef's on the other.
Oh of course.
You just.
I just thought you'd be taller.
That's what they all thought, That's what they all thought.
Who?
Who?
Hello.
Never mind, never mind.
It was just a joke.
You know what?
Never mind as well.
I'm just gon Oh, beautiful.
Come.
Okay.
It's time for the big reveal.
Oh, I don't know.
That's a no for me, dog.
Let's try something else.
Hey, down here!
Hey, don't.
Come.
Up!
You sure about this, guys?
I really think this is the one, Okay.
I mean, I'm going to believe you because you guys wouldn't want to embarrass me.
You're gonna look great in your Okay, but not the photographer.
Oh.
I'm full.
Are you okay?
We weren't quite done.
Excuse me.
Oh.
Oh, hey.
My name is Dave from Sports Illu and I am here to photograph the real Shawn.
Delicious.
Miller, I guess all this time Shawn said delicious is his middle name.
He wasn't kidding.
When was that?
Isn't this what you were here fo The golden spatula?
Oh.
You bet.
Oh, but what makes this thing so special, anyhow?
Oh.
Oh.
Well, the fry cook and his companions worked hard putting the leathers in all kinds of different orders Ram, I am car.
See?
Ha, ha!
But the fox reminded them that they must use all the leathers in one word.
Yeah, well we tried.
Yeah.
We really need to get back to the other camper.
Oh, I forgot to mention that there were a dozen young campers waiting for dinner back at base camp.
Tummies rumbling, I imagine that Camper turtles.
Help me sound this out, Yeah, we heard.
Ha!
Let's try it.
Let's try it.
Ready?
Hey.
Oh.
Oh.
The sails on the work camper form syllables.
Place your hand under your chin every time your hand drops.
You found a syllable.
Can you.
Oh, kelp.
Oh.
Can you hear that?
That word has two syllables.
The reading willows word is comp Yeah.
Oh.
Indeed it was.
The golden spatula is now yours.
How does it feel to be the most famous fry cook in Arka I don't want to be famous.
I just want to cook delicious and nutritious meals for hungry The reading willow or the clever Cook the golden spatula and so the fry cook stayed there in the forest, cook for the hungry campers each summ And that fry cook's name.
Archibald.
Onomatopoeia.
Wait, so the fry cook's name is On a pier, as in camp.
Onomatopoeia.
Oh it's true.
The fry cook who discovered the golden spatul He went on to found camp on them camper soup?
No, that was his first recipe.
Oh, that's a great story.
But what does it have to do with getting your picture taken today, Shawn?
It's like what Chef Sean said.
He doesn't want to be famous.
He just likes cooking for us, th Yeah.
Archibald, onomatopoeia didn't do it for the spatula.
He made campers soup for the cam All right, Shawn, it's time for your photo.
You got this.
Oh.
Oh.
No problem.
You that bad, Oh, well, who cares about your hair?
You deserve to be in that magazi because of how much you care abo and how much you care about cook Yeah, we love you because you lo Thanks, girls.
Spatula.
Ow!
Ow!
Ow ow!
Oh!
You, Oh!
Thank you, thank you.
Oh!
Bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow.
That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.
I'll never forget it.
Thank you.
Oh, wait wait wait wait.
Mr.
Dan, the photographer from Sports Illustrated.
The gold standard in a culinary Are you crazy?
No, no, no, it's just.
It's just like a hairspray in my That's all for you to cry, thoug I was moved as well.
Okay.
All right, let's do this.
Photo, man.
Come on.
Okay.
Let me.
See?
Say, golden spatula.
Hello.
I'm robo reader.
I'm the computer that controls this spaceship, and I need help recovering the w The more words you help me read the faster we can fix this ship.
Ready?
What letters do you see here?
That's right.
P o n d e r. The first letter is P, which makes up sound.
What do we know about the second O is a vowel.
And this word, it makes a short o sound, as in frog or rock.
Is there anything special about the next two letters in ou It's two consonants and and they make the sounds o and.
But when we put those together, they form a consonant blend, even though we still hear each letter sound together, they make the sound.
All right.
What are our final two letters?
E and R alone.
These letters make the sounds F but when we team them up, we call that a bossy R, because together they make the single sound R. Great.
So let's round out our new word r and r, O r ponder.
We read the word ponder.
Ponder means to think about some carefully for a while.
As in what are blueberries?
Favorite things to do is ponder what her favorite snack is.
Thank you for helping me read the word ponder and save it to my powerbank.
See you next time!
You.
Go!
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
What's going on?
Where am I?
What's the soothing music in my Oh!
We had to do something with this kind of screaming.
This music so savage beast.
It's more of a three part harmon Harmony.
Screaming.
I don't know what you're talking You're right inside the box.
Pretty sure it's empty.
Empty?
Oh, it's worse than I imagined.
What's the big deal?
It's barely big enough for my uncle Harry shoes or my c Tina's used to retainer collecti Oh, don't you see?
Anything is possible with an emp Anything?
Anything.
It could be a ship full of pirat or giant dogs.
Or giant pirate dogs.
Anything is possible.
It's okay.
It's okay.
I think blueberry is talking about imagi Yes, exactly.
Imagination.
My doctor says I have an overactive imagination and if I imagine too hard.
Well, anything could happen here I have no.
It really isn't, though.
Some doctor feel better.
What?
Let me see that, doctor.
Better for me.
From using my imagination to imagine or imagine imagining I mean, how terrible could it po Tyler.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa 0000, boy.
Oh.
Oh, right.
Right.
Hey, this place isn't so bad.
Blueberry was right.
This place can't be anything.
Just imagine if it were a coastal laboratory on an idyllic and quaint country Ooh!
Oh, this is crazy.
And inside, the tables are lined with beaker And that thing with weird ends a They're all lined with weird scientific stuff.
And in the middle of the room, there's a hulking behemoth of a contraption of machine, of that can turn into.
You don't wa and do something you want.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Like those old uncle Harry shoes Oh, Cantor.
It's like a piano you can take w How deep is this thing?
And who needs a bunch of old ret For a birthday cake.
But not just any cake.
It has a cake instead of a cake instead of a cake.
It's like a duck in one cake.
Oh.
Birthday cake.
What flavor?
I don't know, blueb Guess you got to come in and fin Well, it's, two darkened, glommed down there Oh, my laboratory has a window.
A magnificent, ornate window, complete with a cactus box and the cacti, who are very skilled physicians, can play any instrum for anyone in the entire kingdom Oh, that's a funky beat.
Ooh, ooh.
Oh, Jack!
Jack!
That's right.
Tyler, you've got to stop this.
What's the matter, blueberry?
Oh, well, we can have cake here.
Where it's safe.
I have some emergency cake under Emergency cake?
Oh, you never had cake as good a Oh, it has chocolate mousse and That tastes like Saturday morning sunshine.
Orange slices.
Ooh.
Well, that sounds wonderful, but imagining can be very dangerous.
We have got to be careful.
If things get too dangerous, we can just take shelter in our Oh, Illinois.
Oh, yeah.
Whoa!
So cool.
But how do you know the lab is s We can have a password that we need a spell to get in.
Like the word shelter.
But what if I don't know how to spell the word shelter?
N Let's figure it out together.
How many syllables on the word s Now remember, put your hand on y When you're ready to say the wor Every time your hand drops.
That's one syllable.
Tell her shelter.
How many times did your hand dro Oh.
Twice.
There are two syllables in the w shelter.
What?
Sounds make up two syllabl Shh.
Oh.
It's, Shh.
Oh.
Oh.
So that first syllable starts with the sound.
That's the letters S and H toget Oh, and that's just like when I'm in the librar eating cookies too loud.
And everyone says sh.
Exactly.
And that second sound is the let It's a letter.
Is a short sound made by the let Oh, and I know the third sound.
Oh, is made by the letter L, and then the second syllable sta with the sound that is the lette The last sound is, that's the le and are working together like in Now you can spell shelter.
S h e l t e r. This one.
Oh, my.
Wait, wait.
What is the shelter, anyway?
Oh I know.
A shelter is a place that protects you, uncovers you from all danger.
That's like this laboratory.
A safe place.
Anytime we get scared, we can just spell the word shelt and come back here.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
Yeah.
Now that we have a shelter, I think it's time for an adventu There.
I bet that Castle is holding a tournament or a festiv And there's knights and jesters and all sorts of fancy folk.
You know, Whoa!
I've got games.
Turkey dinner and even arts and crafts.
Ellie, your imagination is out o Blueberry.
You worry too much.
But, but, but but nothing.
I declare you knight.
Barry.
Oh, it's nothing to be afraid of Oh, look at this beautiful kingd we created by yourselves.
We can't be afraid to imagine.
But you know what would go great with a view like this?
What a piece of cake.
Back at the shelter.
Come on, let's go.
ACH!
Blueberry!
We're in control.
How could anything get worse?
Don't you see?
You've imagine a world with a ca and a knight and an every story.
Forever and ever.
Anytime there's a castle and a k there is always a big, huge, scary looking.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yes.
Oh, we gotta get out of here.
This is the magical place that didn't scare away dragons.
Oh, maybe it hot dog up.
Ooh!
Toothpaste.
Yeah.
You know, three out of four dentists are utterly disgus We're going nowhere, right?
Go even bigger.
Even scarier.
What about.
I am a, emo otter.
Whatever.
Right.
You seen a dragon?
We gotta have something big and something strong.
Ooh, I think I know.
Hey, what is that?
One of my dad's gym socks.
They're big.
And my mom said she's never smelled anything so strong in her life.
Whoa.
Oh, this'll do it.
I'm gonna defeat a dragon.
I don't know.
Hey, I've never fought a dragon Oh.
Oh.
No frills.
Oh, well, Blueberry.
Is this supposed to happen?
Blueberry.
All the boxes must be like this.
Whoa!
Easy now.
Whoa!
Easy.
Whoa!
Hey, hey!
Take shelter.
Shelter.
Oh, shelter and cake.
S h e l t e r. T o. What is happening?
You imagination.
Whoa, whoa!
Is everything okay, booby?
I think so, The password worked, and I'm back in the lab, but my My sword is no more.
I think I also lost my weight.
Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!
Let me.
Blueberry.
You cooked up that dream dragon.
You have to help the king to live in harmony and sing songs in harmony.
That's it.
Oh, right, fellas, we got a dragon to soothe.
Yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Woo hoo!
You're doing it!
You're doing it!
Blueberries.
Oh!
Now that's what I call music Volume 13.
It's working.
It's working.
The dragon is dancing.
He likes it.
He's going.
He's going away!
And now for my treasure.
I'm here.
What you did today.
Blueberry was very brave.
You defeated a dragon.
Oh, well, it wasn't a real drago But, you know, sometimes our imaginations can make us thi and feel things that are really And they seem really scary.
We just have to remember any sca our imagination can come up with isn't really real.
And something that isn't real.
Is it?
Something to be afraid of Unlike this cake.
Oh, should we not eat this?
That's probably a good idea.
Okay.
Well, there's other cake in the Oh, the emergency cake.
Oh, sweetheart.
Oh, you tricked him.
More cake for me.
La la la la la la.
Paris clubhouse.
That's where we're hanging out.
Come on, everybody, get down there!
Now!
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la.
I think this tastes good.
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