Mister Rogers talks about dinosaurs and how, as a child, he would make up stories about things that scared him. He reaffirms that dinosaurs do not live on earth anymore. Mister Rogers says that pretending can be a problem when a child believes what he is pretending. He goes to Bob Trow’s Workshop to watch him make different sizes of wooden blocks. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday has been having bad dreams about monsters and dinosaurs and he pretends that he has a funnel that has super-powers. Lady Elaine has a secret meeting with Purple Panda. In the Neighborhood school the children are learning that only “birds, and bugs and bats can fly.”
Mister Rogers brings in models of dinosaurs, then goes to visit a museum to see the Dinosaur exhibit and learn about different dinosaurs. Chef Brockett comes to visit Mister Rogers with a vegetable treat. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde has dressed Purple Panda in a dinosaur costume to play a trick on the others. Prince Tuesday and Ana Platypus are trying some “superhero” play, wishing they could fly and be very powerful. Prince Tuesday thinks his “super funnel” can do anything and Ana thinks her super skirt can make her fly for real.
Mister Rogers and Mr. McFeely visit the set of “The Incredible Hulk” television program, starring Bill Bixby. They talk with the actors about how some things on television may look real but are not. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Purple Panda, dressed up as a Dinosaur, is scaring everyone. Prince Tuesday finds out it helps to talk about his fears. Mister Rogers walks off the set to show the Neighborhood model that appears on the program.
Mister Rogers returns to Universal Studios to see how the “Incredible Hulk” actor, Lou Ferrigno, puts on his costume and make-up. They talk about angry feelings. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Neighbors are concerend about the “dinosaur” they saw who is scaring everyone. Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri make plans to catch the “dinosaur.” Mister Rogers explains that its people who make toys and machines work. Machines cannot operate by themselves.
Mister Rogers brings in heavy-equipment toys. He remembers when he went to visit friend on a construction site and learned how to work the backhoe, a machine that might remind some children of a monster with big teeth. At Brockett’s Bakery, Chef Brockett teaches Mister Rogers how to make pudding. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, the plan to catch the dinosaur works. Its Purple Panda in a dinosaur costume! He is sorry he scared everyone. The others tell him that he does not have to do everything that people tell him. Lady Elaine learns that jokes aren’t meant to scare people.