The Birthday Machine/Transcript

June: Art by... Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Quincy: And...

["Brandenburg Concerto No. 5" playing]

Leo: Music by... Johann Sebastian Bach.

The scene starts at the Rocket Room that heroes are tidying up the whole mess.

Quincy: Hi, I'm Quincy. And these are my friends, Leo, June, and Annie. We're all helping our friend Rocket clean up his room.

[Rocket jingles]

Quincy: Do you ever help clean up? Great!

June: Wow, Rocket! You have lots of cleaning tools. You've got a dust-o-matic.

Annie: And a window washer.

Leo: And a zoomer broomer.

Quincy: Okay, Rocket, are you ready to start cleaning?

[Rocket jingles]

Quincy: Ready... Set...

All: Go!

["Brandenburg Concerto No. 5" playing as Rocket cleans]

[Sweeping]

June: Look at him clean!

[Water splashing; rubbing]

Leo: Go, Rocket!

Quincy: Now all he has to do is dust his books.

[Dusting as a piece of paper falls off from the book]

[Rocket jingles]

Quincy: Rocket found something. It's some kind of drawing. Awesome.

Annie: Wow!

Leo: Cool!

June: Interesting.

Leo: It's a drawing of a machine.

Annie: I wonder what the machine does.

[Machine drawing playing "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5"]

Annie: Look, look, look! It's moving!

Leo: And it's playing music!

Quincy: The machine in the drawing has three pieces. The first piece turns around and around.

[Drawing of first piece playing first thirteen notes]

Quincy: The second piece claps.

[Drawing of second piece playing middle four notes]

Quincy: And the third piece moves up and down.

[Drawing of third piece playing last two notes]

Annie: Look, look, look! The machine is making something. It's making balloons and presents and cakes.

Leo: On what special day do you get balloons, presents, and cake? On your birthday! That's right! The machine in the drawing makes birthdays!

June: It's a birthday machine!

Quincy: It can make today my birthday and Annie's birthday and Leo's birthday and June's birthday and Rocket's birthday.

[Rocket jingles]

Annie: [Giggles] Rocket loves birthdays.

Quincy: When's your birthday? Great!

June: I wish we could have our birthday today.

Quincy: But we can have our birthday today. If we find three pieces, we can build a birthday machine and make today all of our birthdays!

Annie: Wow!

June: Let's do it!

Leo: We've got a mission!

[Baton jingles]

Leo: We have to find the three pieces and build the birthday machine. To Rocket!

All: We've got a mission

Leo: Come on. Welcome aboard. Buckle your seatbelts.

All but Leo: Seatbelts buckled!

Leo: Prepare for blastoff! We're going to need a lot of power to blast off. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.

[Rocket revving]

Leo: June is patting. Quincy's patting. Annie's patting.

[Annie giggles]

Leo: But we need more power! Put your hands on your laps and pat with us. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Faster! Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.

[Rocket revving]

Leo: Now raise your arms as high as you can and say blast off!

All Blast off!

Annie: Hold on tight, cause here we go!

All: Whoa!!

Leo: Come on, team! Let's go build the birthday machine and make today our birthdays! Quincy, let's take a look at the drawing to see what we find.

Quincy: The first part of the birthday machine turns around and around like this.

[Drawing of first piece playing first thirteen notes]

Quincy: The second piece claps together like this.

[Drawing of second piece playing middle four notes]

Quincy: And the third piece moves up and down like this.

[Drawing of third piece playing last two notes]

Annie: What a fun song.

Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

All: [Laughing]

June: That's a great song, Annie.

Quincy: It's the birthday machine song.

Annie: Come on. Let's all do it together.

All: Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

Annie: Sing with us.

All: Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

Annie: Great singing!

[First piece playing first thirteen notes]

[Rocket jingles]

Annie: Rocket hears something.

[First piece playing first thirteen notes]

Quincy: Listen to that. Does that sound like the turning piece of the birthday machine? Yes, that's right. That's the first piece of the birthday machine.

Quincy: Rocket, follow that music.

June: Look. That's Florence Italy. The first piece of the birthday machine is in Florence.

[Whoosh]

June: Whoa. This is the Laurentian Library. That's one of the oldest libraries in the whole world.

Annie: [Gasps] It sounds like the music is coming from inside.

Quincy: Come on, guys.

Annie: This library is huge! How will we ever find the first piece of the birthday machine?

Quincy: Do you see the first piece? Where is it? Yeah, there it is. It's way up there on the second floor.

June: Uh-oh. But there's no way to get to the second floor. There aren't any stairs.

[Intense harpsicord music playing]

Annie: Look, look, look! The books are dancing off the shelves!

June: We must have woken them up.

Leo: [Giggles] And they're super friendly.

Annie: Maybe the books can help us! Excuse me, books. Can you help us get the first piece of the birthday machine?

[Books jingling]

Quincy: I cannot believe it! The books are making stairs so we can climb up and get the first piece of the birthday machine.

Annie: But we need more books to make the stairs go higher.

Leo: I know what to do. We have to wake up more books. Let's claps our hand together like a book.

[Clapping like a book in rhythm]

Leo: Can you clap the beat with me? Great. Clap you hands like a book. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. The books are stacking themselves higher and higher. Keep clapping. Clap. Clap. Clap. It's working!

June: We did it! The staircase of books is finished.

Leo: Great clapping.

[Jingly music playing as Quincy gets the first piece]

Quincy: We found the first piece of the birthday machine, the turning piece.

Leo: Yeah!

Annie: Hooray!

June: We got the first piece!

Leo: Have fun dancing books! Thanks for you help.

[Music playing]

Leo: Hey, Rocket, look what we found!

[Rocket jingles]

All: Blast off!

Annie: Sing the birthday machine song with us.

All: Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

Quincy: We've got the first piece of the birthday machine!

Annie: But we still need to find more pieces, the clapping piece...

[Drawing of second piece playing middle four notes]

Quincy: And the piece at the end that goes up and down.

[Drawing of third piece playing last two notes]

[Second piece playing middle four notes]

Annie: Listen. That sounds like the second piece of the birthday machine, the clapping piece. Rocket, follow that music.

[Whoosh]

Annie: The music is coming from down there. Whoa! It's a city on the water.

Leo: We're in Venice. The only way to get through Venice is in a boat called the gondola.

Quincy: Well, we have a boat, too. Right, Rocket?

[Rocket jingling]

Leo: All right!

June: Perfect!

Quincy: Way to go Rocket!

June: Look at all the gondolas.

[Second piece playing middle four notes]

Annie: I hear the second piece.

Quincy: But I don't see it. Do you see the second piece? Where? Yeah, there it is, on the top of the bridge.

Annie: Oh-no! The second piece is tipping over!

Leo: It's going to fall into the canal!

[Thump]

Quincy: I cannot believe it! The second piece fell right into that blue gondola.

Leo: Quick, Rocket, follow that gondola!

[Gentle music playing]

Leo: Uh-oh. We don't know which way the blue gondola went. There are two different canals.

June: I have a plan. We can listen for the second piece. Remember, the second piece sounds like this.

[Drawing of second piece playing middle four notes]

June: Now let's listen to this canal.

[Different music playing]

June: Did that sound like the second piece? No. That song is coming from a big red gondola. Let's listen to the other canal.

[Middle four notes playing]

June: Did that sound like the second piece? Yes, that's where the missing piece went. Go that way, Rocket.

Annie: Look, look, look! It split into three more canals.

June: Let's listen to the three canals. The second piece sounds like this.

[Middle piece playing middle four notes]

June: Let's listen to this canal.

[Swishy music playing]

June: Did that sound like the second piece? No, it didn't go that way. That song is coming from a black gondola. Let's listen to the next canal.

[Jingly music playing]

June: Did that sound like the second piece? No. The missing piece isn't that way. That's a yellow gondola. Let's listen over here.

[Middle four notes playing]

June: Did that sound like the second piece? Yes, that's it. Good listening. Go down that canal, Rocket.

Annie: There's the blue gondola with the second piece.

[Thump]

Annie: Oh-no! That green gondola bumped the blue gondola! It's rocking back and forth!

[Splash]

Leo: Quick, Rocket, transform!

[Whirring]

[Splash]

Leo: Faster, Rocket!

[Thump]

[Splash]

June: Hooray!

Quincy: Way to go, Rocket!

Annie: You save the second piece of the birthday machine!

Leo: All right!

Annie: We did it!

June: Whoo-hoo!

Quincy: Now we have the clapping piece.

[Both pieces playing first and middle parts]

Quincy: Look, both pieces are working together. Look at them go! We have the first two pieces of the birthday machine. Now all we need is the third piece. The one that goes up and down.

[Drawing of third piece playing last two notes]

Leo: Come on. Let's find the last piece of the birthday machine and make today our birthdays! Prepare for blast off! We're going to need a lot of power to blast off. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Now raise your arms as high as you can and say blast off!

All: Blast off!

Leo: Wow! You give Rocket so much power, we blasted right out of the water!

Annie: Let's sing the birthday machine song. Sing with us.

All: Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

[Third piece playing last two notes]

Quincy: Whoa. Listen to that. What does that sound like? Yes, it sounds like the last piece. It's the third piece of the birthday machine.

Leo: Rocket, follow that music.

Annie: It's coming from that leaning tower! That's the leaning tower of Pisa. The last piece must be in there.

Leo: Come on, team. Let's get the last piece.

June: Wow! I'm getting dizzy running around and around this tower! That's because it's crooked.

[Last two notes playing]

Quincy: Come on, guys! The music is getting louder and louder. We're almost at the top.

Annie: Oh-no! There are three pieces, and they all look the same!

June: But how are we going to find the right piece for our birthday machine?

Quincy: I know what to do. We need to find the piece that sounds exactly like my violin, like this.

[Playing last two notes on violin]

Quincy: Let's listen.

[First piece playing flute notes]

[Second piece playing violin notes]

[Third piece playing harpsicord notes]

Quincy: Ooh, that was hard. Let's listen again.

[First piece playing flute notes]

[Second piece playing violin notes]

[Third piece playing harpsicord notes]

Quincy: Which one sounds like the violin? Yes, that's the one!

June: Great!

Leo: Fantastic!

Annie: Hooray!

Quincy: We found the third piece, the piece that goes up and down.

Leo: Let's go build the birthday machine! To Rocket!

[Rocket jingling]

Leo: That's right, Rocket. We found the last piece of the birthday machine.

Quincy: Now let's put the machine together. We need to figure out where this last piece belongs. Does the piece go on this side of the machine?

[Machine parts playing "Brandenburg Concerto Number 5" in wrong order]

Quincy: No, that's not where it goes. Does it go on this side of the machine?

[Machine parts playing "Brandenburg Concerto Number 5" in correct order]

Quincy: Yes! That's it! That's where it goes! Rocket, attach it there.

[Snap]

[Birthday Machine playing "Brandenburg Concerto Number 5" slowly]

June: Look, the birthday machine is starting!

Annie: Let's help the machine. Sing the birthday machine song!

All: Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

[Machine whirring]

Annie: It's working, but the machine meeds more power. Sing louder! Forte!

All: Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

Annie: Sing even louder! Fortissimo!

All: Use your hands for turning, turning, turning, turning

Clapping, clapping

Up, down!

[Birthday Machine playing "Brandenburg Concerto Number 5" lively]

Quincy: Whoo-hoo! The birthday machine is working! It's making...

Annie: Balloons! I love balloons on my birthday!

[Rocket jingles]

Leo: Presents!

June: And goodie bags!

Quincy: And party hats!

Annie: And birthday cakes!

Quincy: The birthday machine is making today Annie's birthday, and Leo's birthday, and June's birthday, and my birthday!

Leo: And look, it's Rocket's birthday too! Happy birthday, Rocket!

[Rocket jingling]

Annie: Happy birthday, learning tower of Pisa!

Leo: And look, here come the books!

Annie: Happy birthday, books!

All: Happy birthday everyone!

Quincy: Thanks for all your help. You made today everyone's birthdays!

Leo: Mission completion!

[Baton jingles]

Leo: It's time for...the curtain call!

[Applause]

Leo: Let's clap for our team! Clap with us! Let's clap for Annie! Quincy! June!

Others: Leo!

All: Rocket!

[Rocket jingling]

June: Let's clap for the art! Clap for "The Laurentian Library" by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Leo: And now, for the moment you've all been waiting for: Let's clap really, really hard for the special music we've heard today!

["Brandenburg Concerto No. 5" playing]

Leo: "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major" by Johann Sebastian Bach!

All: Yay, Bach!

June: You've helped a lot today.

Quincy: Give yourself a hand. Go on, clap for yourself.

June: Bravo! Bravo!

Annie: Yay for you!

Leo: See you on the next mission!