The Birthday Balloons/Transcript

June: Art by… Henri Rousseau.

Quincy: And…

[Eine Kleine Nachtmusik playing]

Leo: Music by… Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Scene starts at Leo and Annie's House celebrating Annie's 4th Birthday.

Annie: Hi! I'm Annie. And today is my birthday. Yay! Happy birthday to me! Do you like birthday parties? Great! I want you to come to my birthday party. My brother and my friends are helping get ready. See? June is putting up the streamers. Quincy is helping with the noisemakers.

[Noisemakers blowing]

[All laughing]

Annie: And my brother Leo is helping too. He's putting icing on my cake. Mmm! I love birthdays. But do you wanna know what my favorite thing about birthdays is? It's balloons!

Annie: I love balloons!

Annie: I love, I love balloons!

Annie: I love balloons!

Annie: I love, I love balloons!

[Annie Giggling]

Quincy: Hey, Annie, I got you a present.

Annie: Balloons! Yay! Thanks, Quincy!

Quincy: You're welcome.

June: I got you a present too, Annie.

Annie: More balloons! Thank you, June.

June: You're welcome.

Leo: Hey, Annie! You'll never guess what my present is.

Annie: Oh, wow! I love it!

Leo: I think she likes my present.

All: Yay!

[Balloons playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

Annie: Listen!

June: Amazing! The balloons play your song.

Annie: I love balloons!

Annie: I love, I love balloons!

Annie: I love balloons!

Annie: I love, I love balloons!

Quincy: Yay! That's the coolest!

[Wind blowing]

Annie: Oh, no! My balloons!

June: What a disaster!

Quincy: What do we do?

Annie: We can get my balloons back. Right, Leo?

Leo: Sure we can. Follow me, team! We've got a mission!

[Baton jingling]

Leo: We're gonna get Annie's balloons back. Leo: To Rocket!

All: We've got a mission!

We've got a mission!

Leo: Ready? Do, re

Quincy: Me, fa

June: Sol, la

Annie: Ti, do

All: Little Einsteins!

Annie: We're on our way, the mission of the day

Quincy: Starts when we say "Rocket"

All: Rocket!

June: Leo will guide us

Annie: With you right beside us

Leo: Blast off into the sky

We're going on a mission

Start the countdown

All: Five, four, three, two, one!

Leo: Everyone to Rocket

All: ''Rev it up now. Vroom!''

[Rocket jingling]

Leo: Rocket, we need to get Annie's birthday balloons.

Quincy: They're floating away.

[Rocket jingling]

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

Others: Seatbelts buckled!

Leo: Prepare for blast off! 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 giggling]

Leo: But we need more power! Put your hands on your lap 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!

Leo: Let's get those balloons!

Annie: I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

All: I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

[Balloons playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

Annie: I hear them! My birthday balloons!

Quincy: There they are!

Leo: Follow those balloons, Rocket!

Annie: Oh, no! My balloons are floating into those clouds. How are we going to find them?

Leo: We need to use the Look and Listen Scope.

[Scope beeping]

[Monitor turning on]

Annie: My balloons are headed to Seattle!

Leo: Rocket, we have to go to Seattle.

Annie: Look! It's the Seattle Space Needle. Oh, no! The balloons are headed right for it!

Quincy: Not the Space Needle!

Annie: If my balloons touch the needle, they'll pop!

June: Don't worry. I've got an idea. Rocket can use his breeze blower to blow the balloons away.

June: They're getting closer to the needle! Hurry, Rocket! Turn on your breeze blower.

[Breeze Blower blowing]

June: The blower needs more power!

Leo: Let's help the breeze blower blow harder. When I point to you with my baton, like this…

[Baton jingling]

Leo: Take a deep breath and blow at the balloons. Ready? Now blow!

[All blowing]

Leo: Blow!

[All blowing]

Leo: Blow!

[All blowing]

[Breeze Blower blowing]

Quincy: Whoa!

Leo: It worked.

June: That was excellent blowing.

Annie: Thanks, guys.

Leo: Rocket, follow those balloons!

Annie: They're going into the jungle. Hurry, Rocket!

June: Look, it's a tropical rain forest.

Leo: The balloons are going past the waterfall. They went this way, Rocket, watch out for the vines!

[Vines tangling]

Leo: Uh-oh. We have to get Rocket untangled.

June: These vines are enormous! We can't pull them off.

[Vine playing glissando]

Quincy: Hey! This vine sounds like my violin!

[Vine playing glissando]

Quincy: See? When it shakes, it sounds like a violin string.

June: Quincy, maybe you can use your violin bow to shake the vines off.

Leo: Quincy, go for it!

[Bowing vine]

Leo: We need to help Quincy bow away the vine. Move your arm like this. Play your violin!

[Vines playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

Leo: That's it, keep bowing!

[Vines playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

Leo: Play your violin!

[Vines playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

All: Yay!

[Sinister music playing]

Quincy: What was that noise?

Annie: I think it's a… a snake!

June: Uh-oh.

Annie: Where's the snake? Yeah! There it is.

June: We have to hurry before the snake gets here.

Leo: Bow with us! Ready? Bow!

[Vines playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

Annie: Yay! It's working!

[Sinister music playing]

Quincy: It's the snake! It's almost here!

Leo: Just one more vine to bow! Come on, bow with us!

[Vines playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

Annie: We did it!

Quincy: Now let's get out of here.

[Rocket whooshing]

Quincy: I think we lost the snake.

[Jingly music playing]

Quincy: What was that?

June: That sounds like a bird.

Leo: Do you see the bird? Yeah, there it is.

Annie: Excuse me, Bird. Have you seen my balloons?

[Bird singing no]

[Tooting music playing]

June: That sounds like a monkey.

Leo: Where's the monkey? You found him.

Leo: Hello, Monkey. My sister Annie needs to find her birthday balloons. Have you seen them?

[Monkey singing no]

[Sinister music playing]

June: Oh, no! The snake is back.

Leo: What are we gonna do?

[Snake playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

June: Hey, I think the snake is singing.

Annie: I know that song.

Leo: Annie, come back!

Annie: I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

Quincy: He's a friendly snake.

June: Yeah, and he's singing Annie's birthday balloon song.

Annie: Snake, did you see where my balloons went?

[Snake singing yes]

Annie: You did? Where?

[Affirmative music playing]

Annie: Do you see my balloons? Where are they? Oh, yeah! You found them!

Leo: Thanks for helping.

Quincy: You're a very nice snake.

[Snake singing thank you]

Leo: Let's get those balloons!

Annie: Goodbye, Snake. Thank you!

Leo: Buckle your seatbelts.

Others: Seatbelts buckled!

Leo: We're going to need a lot of power to blast off. Put your hands on your lap and pat with us to the beat. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.

[Rocket whirring]

Leo: Now raise both arms and say, "Blast off!"

All: Blast off!

[Rocket blasting]

Annie: I see them! My balloons!

I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

All: I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

Annie: They're heading for Antarctica.

Quincy: Whoa! We've come a long way.

Leo: Rocket, down there!

[Slipping]

Leo: Uh-oh! It's ice!

June: Rocket can't control where he's going!

All: Whoa!

Leo: Rocket, this isn't working! Fly back up!

[Honking music playing]

Annie: Look, look, look! Penguins!

Quincy: They're sliding on their bellies. That's so funny!

June: Yeah, penguins can't fly, so sometimes they slide on their bellies.

Quincy: That gives me an idea. Rocket, try it again. Slide like the penguins. Slide on your belly!

[Rocket jingling]

Annie: Yay, Rocket!

Leo: You're like a penguin.

Quincy: Rocket, way to slide!

Annie: Look, look, look! My balloons!

Leo: Rocket, use your grab-nabber!

All: One! Two! Three! Yay!

Quincy: That was very cool.

June: Wait, we're still missing one.

Quincy: What balloon are we missing? Oh, right. We don't have the star one that Leo gave Annie. Uh-oh.

June: It's going to pop on that pointy iceberg!

Annie: Rocket's hands are full. Leo, what do we do now?

Leo: Don't worry, Annie. I'll get your balloon. Come on! I'm gonna need your help.

Annie: Let's use the Look and Listen Scope to help Leo.

[Scope beeping]

Leo: Come on! Swing your arms with me! Legato — nice and smooth. Swing, swing, swing. We better hurry. Swing faster!

June: Oh, no! Leo's headed straight for those bumps!

Quincy: If Leo hits the bumps, he'll slip and fall.

June: We have to help Leo stop swinging legato.

Quincy: Yeah, he needs to go staccato and jump over the bumps.

Annie: Help me tell Leo to jump. Can you say "staccato"? Great! Say, "staccato!" Staccato!

Leo: Staccato? Thanks for warning me!

[Thumping]

Leo: Staccato!

[Thumping]

Leo: Staccato!

[Thumping]

Leo: Thanks for your help.

Quincy: I can't look.

Leo: Here I go!

Quincy: What happened? Did he get the balloon?

Annie: He got it!

June: Amazing!

Quincy: Wahoo!

Annie: You're the best big brother ever!

Leo: Happy birthday, Annie.

June: Hey, Annie. Quincy has a great idea.

Quincy: Now that we have all your balloons, let's have your birthday party right here! In Antarctica!

Annie: Can we really?

[Honking music playing]

Leo: Look, the penguins are already on their way.

June: It looks like they're coming from all over Antarctica.

Quincy: Some are sliding on their bellies.

June: Some are hopping over ice floes. But most are just walking to the party.

Quincy: We're going to need a lot of goody bags.

Leo: Happy birthday, Annie!

[Honking music playing]

[Balloons playing "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"]

[All laughing]

Leo: I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

Leo: Now everybody sing! I need you to sing, too. Ready? Sing!

All: I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

All: I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons,

I love balloons.

I love, I love balloons.

[Fireworks popping]

All: Happy birthday, Annie!

Leo: That's funny!

(In the UK: Annie: That one is pretty! I like fireworks!)

Quincy: That's the coolest!

(In the UK: Quincy: That's the greatest!)

Annie: Thank you, Rocket.

Leo: Mission completion!

[Baton jingling] 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]

Annie: My balloons! Let's clap for my balloons!

[Balloons jingling]

June: Let's clap for the art! "The Merry Jesters" by Henri Rousseau.

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

["Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" playing]

Leo: "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!

All: Yay, Mozart!

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!

[All penguins and party hats appear and came on to the stage!]

All: [Laughing]