01x09 - The Cheese Ball Cup Final/Angelina and Anya

[bunniefuu]

(orchestral music)

- Can I carry your bag, William?

Can I?

- Of course.

- Thanks.

(bike revving)

- Watch out, Longtail!

- Careful Sammy, you

could've knocked us over!

- Oh, careful Sammy. You

could've knocked us over.

Look at wimpy Longtail.

Going dancing with

the girls again?

- Give us a twirl then William.

- I don't twirl!

I pirouette!

- Oh he pirouettes.

- Just leave me alone.

- You can't play

real games, can you?

Like cheeseball?

- William could b*at

you at cheeseball

anytime he liked.

(Sammy laughs)

- Prove it the twinkle toes.

Go on, prove it!

- You show them William.

- Well,

I don't really know.

- See!

(Sammy laughs)

What a wimp!

Come on, we're late for

cheeseball practice.

- William. William wait!

What about ballet class.

(soft piano)

- I wonder what's

happened to William?

- Maybe he forgot?

- Don't be silly Alice.

William would never

forget ballet class.

(clapping)

- Could I have everyone's

attention, please?

I have some rather bad news.

William, won't be

coming anymore.

He has decided

to give up ballet.

(gasps)

- What?

(bell rings)

William?

- Angelina, what

are you doing here?

- Hello William.

Why have you stopped

doing ballet?

- Ah,

well you see

I'm not interested anymore.

- Not interested?

But you love ballet!

- Well, no I don't.

- You don't?

Why not William?

- Well,

ballet is for wimps.

- Wimps!

Is Mikael Whisker's a wimp?

Andre Ratalouv? And

what about me, William?

Are you calling me a wimp?

- Oh no. Of course not.

I just want to try

something else.

- [Mr. Longtail] William!

- There isn't anything else!

- You've forgotten your boots.

Oh, hello Angelina.

(Mr. Longtail laughs)

Great news isn't it?

- Hello Mr. Longtail.

Um, what news?

- My William is in the

Chipping Cheddar team

for tomorrow's

Cheeseball Cup Final.

- What?

- Yes, oh yes. We Longtail's

have a fine tradition

in the noble game of cheeseball.

(William sighs)

Now, Williams' great-grandfather

- Dad, I've got to go!

- Oh, yes. You don't want

to be late for practice.

- Cheeseball?

- [Cheeseball Players]

Hey, watch it!

Over here!

To me! To me!

- Yay

- All right lads, let's begin.

Catch, Longtail!

- Hooray!

Well played William!

(laughter)

- Here's Longtail,

hurt his tummy wummy.

- Get up Longtail.

Right, I want you

all to find a partner

for tackling practice.

- Looks like your my

partner, Longtail.

- But cheeseball?

How could he possibly

want to play cheeseball?

- Don't know.

- It's such a silly game.

- Oh dear.

- I mean, he's never

said anything about

cheeseball before.

- Oh, ouch.

He's not very good is he?

- No, not very good at all.

- Practice over. I'll

se you all tomorrow.

- If you thought that was tough,

you wait till the

final tomorrow.

The Brown Hill b*ll*ts

will make mince meat

out of you!

(Sammy laughs)

- Oh!

- Well done William!

That was great!

- We're going to

help you William.

- You are?

- Yes, we're going to teach

you how to play cheeseball.

- Oh, thank you very much.

- It says here that a

team has five players,

the player that crosses the

opponents line with the

ball scores a point.

The team with the most points at

the end of the game wins.

Simple.

Right. William, try

to tackle Alice.

- Ready William?

- Righto!

Come on, William!

- Faster, Alice!

Tackle her William!

- I win!

- Okay William.

This time you've got

to get past Alice.

Ready?

Go!

- I win again!

- Oh dear.

- It's no good.

I'm not even good enough

to play for the reserves.

- Well that's it. There were

six of you at the practice.

- So?

- Well there are only

five players on each side.

Why don't you ask

Mr. Scrummage if you

can be the reserve player?

That way you'll

still be on the team,

but you won't have to play.

- Brilliant.

- But that's being a wimp.

- Well, it's up to you William.

- But the Brown Hill

b*ll*ts are very rough.

- And very big.

- Still, it's your decision.

Well, if you are going to

play, can I have your bike?

- What?

- Well I doubt you'll be

needing it after the match.

Oh, can I have your kite?

- What do you mean?

- Can I have something?

- Where's Sammy?

I can't believe he's late again.

Right. Today, we're playing

the Brown Hill b*ll*ts.

What I wouldn't give to coach

such an invincible team.

Why, when they're

in full flight,

they're like a runaway train.

It's poetry in motion.

- Where would you like

these Mr. Scrummage?

- Over there.

- I wish I was the reserve.

- Me too.

- Where was I?

Oh yes. Those

unbeatable b*ll*ts.

The roughest, toughest

team I've ever seen.

Yes, well not to worry.

I'm sure with a bit of

luck, you'll be fine.

Now, let me here the

Chipping Cheddar battle cry!

Chip, chip, chipping!

- Cheddy, cheddy, cheddar.

- Sammy Watts, your late.

- Sorry Coach, but

I crashed my bike.

- Oh no.

- Longtail?

- Yes, Mr. Scrummage?

- Get your boots on.

- Oh no.

- Cripes.

- My sons playing, you know.

William. Comes from a long

line of cheeseball players.

Now, his great grandfather

- Here they are!

Here's Chipping Cheddar!

And there's William!

William?

- But I thought he

was only the reserve.

- Not anymore he's not.

- Oh no.

- Oh no.

(whistle blows)

(audience cheers)

- Oh crumbs.

- What a wimp.

- Where's William?

I can't see him.

- He's at the

bottom of that pile.

Thanks to your

friend, we're losing.

Hey! You should stick

to dancing twinkle toes!

- Get up Longtail.

- That's it. Why didn't

I think of it before?

- Huh?

(audience cheers)

- William! On your

toes, William!

Remember Miss Lilly's

classes. That's it!

Now, sway to the left.

Wonderful!

Now run William!

Run like the wind!

(audience cheers)

Pirouette, William, pirouette!

Well done William.

Oh no. What's he doing?

(audience cheers)

- Wow, that was fantastic!

Nice one William.

Ow!

- [Henry Mouseling]

William! William!

- That's my son, William.

That's William with two l's.

- Chipping Cheddar danced

a famous cup victory.

You were brilliant William.

- Thanks, but I think I'll

stick to ballet from now on.

Cheeseball is for wimps.

- Sammy darling, higher!

- It hurts!

(laughter)

(piano music)

- [Alice] Ow

- [Angelina] What's

your favorite?

Blackberry pie or

blackberry crumble?

- Both.

- We'll have to make both then.

Um

So how many have you got?

- Um, oh, none Angelina.

- Me neither!

I just don't

understand it Alice.

Last year these bushes

were full of blackberries.

- I remember. I ate three

basketfuls all in one go!

- Well, let's try

a bit further in.

Ah ha

- Oh! Sorry, I, was just

looking for blackberries.

- Somebody must have

picked them all.

- Every single one.

- But who would do that?

- Oh, I was really looking

forward to that blackberry pie.

- Well it's not like

they actually belong

to anyone, is it?

- Penelope, that's

the whole point!

They belong to everyone.

Well, nobody we know

would've done it.

- No, it must've been

those harvest mice.

You know, the ones

camping in the field.

- Our mother said,

"They can't be trusted."

- [Teacher] Good

morning everyone!

I want you to

welcome a new pupil.

Come here dear.

I promise they won't bite.

(laughter)

This is Anya Mousezauski.

Anya will be with us for a

few weeks while her parents

help with the harvest.

- She must be from that camp.

- She's the one

we saw yesterday.

- Sit here dear, Angelina

will look after you.

(Penelope blows air)

- Oh.

- Ow!

- Oh, dum di dum.

- Odd ears.

(laughter)

- I'm sorry we

frightened you yesterday.

- That's okay.

- Do you want to go?

- Oh it's like flying.

I haven't been on a swing

since we left the Dacovia.

- Dacovia?

- Miss Lilly, my ballet

teacher is from Dacovia.

- Is she?

Which part is she from?

- Oh, I don't know.

- Whoops!

(laughter)

I dance too, not ballet though.

- Hey, Angelina!

It's not a good idea to

hang around with thieves.

- What are you talking about?

- Your family took

all the blackberries.

- No, it wasn't us! It

was a lady wearing a

- Just like a

harvest mouse to fib.

We don't want mice like

that in our village, do we?

- Why don't you go back

to wherever you came from?

- Yeah! Odd ears!

(laughter)

(soft music)

(laughter continues)

- Poor thing!

- Anya's mother isn't here yet.

Maybe we should wait with her.

- But Angelina, we'll

be late for ballet and

you know what Miss Lilly

says about being late.

- Well.

Just one lick?

- Darling we won't

have enough cakes

for the school fair if

you eat all the mixture.

- Oh.

- Here.

- There was a new

mouseling at school today.

- Really?

- Mmmm.

Her families come to

help with the harvest.

- The farmers are

always glad of the help

at this time of year.

Is she nice?

- Yes. She's really nice, Mom.

But some of the other

were mean to her.

- Oh dear. Well, she's

lucky to have a friend

like you to stick up for her.

Want to lick now?

- No, thanks.

- No odd ears today?

- Maybe they've moved

to another village

to steal their blackberries.

- Oh, shush!

- I wonder where Anya is?

- [Anya's Dad] Well,

what have we here?

- Oh!

- Anya you have a visitor.

(Anya coughing)

- Thanks Papa.

- Please, come in.

(coughing continues)

- Are you ill?

- No, not really.

I didn't want to

go to school today,

so I said I wasn't

feeling very well.

- Anya, I'm sorry

about yesterday.

- It's all right.

- I mean, I should

have said something.

I should have, been

a better friend.

- It always happens,

you get used to it

when you change

schools every season.

- But, you are

coming back tomorrow?

- I'm not sure.

- Oh that's

beautiful. What is it?

(folk music playing)

That was the most wonderful

dance I've ever seen.

Anya will you teach it to me?

- Of course I will.

- Well, how about

some tea first.

I'm sorry it's not

blackberry jam,

but Anya and I couldn't find

a single blackberry, could we?

- No, that lady must

have picked them all?

- What lady?

- She was over here somewhere.

She was wearing a red skirt,

with blue flowers, like

- Like this?

- Yes!

- And there it was,

stuck in the brambles.

So all we have to do is

find out who's it is,

and we have our thief.

- Hey, what are you doing

with our moms scarf?

- Once a thief, always a thief.

- Odd ears.

- It's not Anya who's the thief.

- What?

- No, I think you know

who the real thief is.

- Yes.

- What do you mean?

- Your mother picked

all the blackberries.

- And you knew all the time.

- What if mom did pick them?

It's not stealing. You said

they belong to everyone.

- Anyways, it was

for the school fair.

- Yes, Mom has this special

recipe for blackberry jelly.

- Yes, it's

delicious. You'll see.

She'll make loads of money

for the school and then

you will be thankful.

(calm music)

(bowling pins fall)

- It taste like burnt rubber.

- I quite agree.

- If you're going to

take all the blackberries

you might at least

make a decent jelly.

- , , , , oh goodness,

so many.

Great. Thanks!

That's tickets!

- And I've sold .

- That's twice as

much money we made for

the school last year.

- Great. Come on

or we'll miss it.

- Right.

(folk music playing)

(audience cheers)

- Goodbye and thank

you for everything.

- Goodbye. Come back soon.

- Yes, and bring

some more music.

- Oh, we will.

- I wish you weren't leaving.

- So do I. But I'll be back

again next harvest time.

- Promise?

- I promise.

Besides, you said

you'll teach me ballet.

(orchestral music)

- [Angelina] Vanessa is

teaching Toby and Antonia

how to do folk dancing.

That's why they're

wearing shows with heels

rather than ballet shoes.

I love ballet but folk

dancing is wonderful too.

And some of the steps

are quite different

from classical ballet.

Now Toby is doing jumps,

and Antonia is doing a step

called pas de bas, and

those are called runs.

Vanessa is showing

Callum how to clap

in time to the music.

Clapping is very

popular in folk dancing.

He's also learning

which leg to start on.

Now Callum's doing a

rhythm step in two-four.

And those are picked up runs,

where he kicks his heels

up behind him as he dances.

It's not easy to get

the timing right.

This sequence of steps

is called a reverence.

It's a very good way

of finishing a dance.

That was really good Callum!

I think Charlotte, Peloma and

Antonia want to have a go.

It's difficult to

dance in those skirts

because there's

so much material.

They're called character skirts,

and they're especially

for folk dancing.

This is a rhythm

step in three-four.

The girls have to make sure

they keep in time

with the music.

Now the girls are doing heel

and toe steps with jumps.

You have to be careful to keep

your feet pointing in

the right direction.

And to clap at the right time.

And now the girls are

doing pas de bas again.

That was great!

I think Peloma wants to

learn some more steps.

Oh good, Kaitlyn's

going to show them what

the older girls do.

That's a hop, heel,

hop, toe and gallop.

And those in and out steps

are called half breaks.

That's a pivot and

that's a [Indistinct].

Now Kaitlyn's doing a promenade.

And more half breaks.

I'm going to practice some

foot dance steps right now!

(soft piano music)