Gloria counted the days until Friday, three days she had to hold her tongue and put up with Porter so he didn't get suspicious.  So for three days she was polite and didn't mention anything unusual in the testing results.  Two or three times she mentioned that 5110 was looking ill.  She excused the rat from several tests, in case Porter noticed anything but she suspected she needn't have bothered.  His thoughts were on his weekend bash and little else.

Willoughby spent those days at the Etch-A-Sketch, tirelessly turning knobs and forming patterns on the screen.  He had mastered several patterns so far but he didn't know what they stood for and so was quite frustrated with his efforts.  The screen got filled and then he could not see anymore what he was making and so his time for practice was limited. He had to wait for Gloria to come home and turn it over until he could figure out how to do it himself.  It was during one of these experiments in trying to work with the writing screen that he discovered something wonderful.

Willoughby was attempting to build a kind of catapult.  He had gathered a couple of pencils and wedged one end under the Etch-A-Sketch and was searching for just the right thing to place under the middle of the pencils.  The remote control for the television had proved to be too small, it didn't provide the height he needed but a careless pressing of some buttons had changed the channels several times, coming to rest on the most interesting show he had seen so far.

Some small humans and some large animals of types he had never seen danced and sang. As they sang, language patterns appeared on the screen. These animals had strange fur and spoke in human language.  He soon surmised that the sounds they were shouting out as the patterns flashed by were the names of these patterns.  Finally, he knew the names of these patterns.  Willoughby had discovered children's educational television.