02x65 - How the Grouch Stole Solstice

[bunniefuu]

♪ Once upon a future time ♪

♪ In a place called Stardust Bay ♪

♪ Countin' down to adventure now ♪

♪ Rockets on a mission, we're on our way ♪

♪ SPACE RACERS ♪

♪ Surfing the solar winds ♪

♪ SPACE RACERS ♪

♪ Together the fun begins ♪

♪ Way out where the planets, moons, and stars ♪

♪ All shimmer shine, shine ♪

♪ Havin' a great time exploring ♪

♪ SPACE RACERS ♪

Hey, wait for me!

♪

Constellation decoration!

My favorite part of Winter Solstice Eve!

Hey, Robyn, what's my winter solstice

constellation decoration?

Uh, Ursa Major, The Big Bear.

And I'm Pegasus, The Winged Horse.

Which constellation is that, Eagle?

Eagle, the mighty rocket.

Very, uh, creative.

Whoa!

It's beautiful!

I can't wait 'til tomorrow.

Winter Solstice Day is so much fun!

And Winter Solstice Night is even more fun!

We get to stay up all night!

On the longest night of the year!

♪ It's the most marvelous ♪

♪ Longest night of the year ♪

♪ The skies will be glowingly, gleamingly, beamingly clear ♪

♪ The stars will be shining on faces aglow ♪

♪ We'll stay up all night ♪

♪ I hope there'll be snow ♪

♪ Let everyone cheer, let everyone know ♪

♪ It's the most marvelous, longest night of the year ♪

♪ It's the most marvelous, glorious night of the year ♪

♪

♪ For everyone in the northern hemisphere ♪

♪ The Earth on its axis is tilted, you know ♪

♪ At this time of year from the sun sunny glow ♪

♪ So the sun rises late and sets early and so ♪

♪ It's the most marvelous, longest night of the year ♪

♪ Our worries can wait ♪

♪ Our work is all done ♪

♪ We're feeling so celebrational ♪

♪ We'll sing and we'll dance ♪

♪ Have nothing but fun ♪

♪ And the reason the season's sensational ♪

♪ It's the most amazing, longest night of the year ♪

♪ Everyone's smiling and wishing good solstice cheer ♪

♪ Doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo, doodle-ee-doo ♪

♪ La, dee, da, odalay, oh, doo, ee, doo ♪

♪ Don't know all the words but I'm wishing you ♪

♪ The most amazing, longest night of the-- ♪

Year?

What are you singing?

Oh, singing? Was that me?

Okay, okay, I-- I love the winter solstice celebration.

It's so shimmery and glimmery,

and all the decorations and all the rockets,

having fun and all the--

Bah, lug nuts.

Oh, the bah, lug nuts. Just what I was saying.

What a waste of valuable time.

Do you know what that means?

Um... fun?

It means we lose three days of work!

Three days!

We must work every day

if we are ever going to win

the Globel Prize for best space academy!

♪ This winter solstice celebration ♪

♪ Aggravates my aggravation ♪

♪ Just wasteful and distasteful ♪

♪ All this joy ♪

♪ So with great determination ♪

♪ I say this solstice celebration ♪

♪ Is something that I simply must destroy ♪

♪ I must think... think, think, think ♪

♪ Before I go berserk ♪

♪ Of how to stop the solstice ♪

♪ And get these shirkers back to work ♪

♪ This winter solstice holiday ♪

♪ Must be made to go away ♪

♪ Forever let it never reappear ♪

♪ But how, oh, how? ♪

♪ Wait, I say ♪

♪ Could it be? ♪

♪ It could, hooray ♪

♪ I think I... ♪

♪ Yes, I have an idea ♪

♪ It's the most marvelous, longest-- ♪

Will you stop that?

Stopping.

Thanks, guys.

Beautiful.

[yawning]

Better get some sleep.

Tomorrow's gonna be a short day

but a long night.

Yeah, I'm b*at.

Yeah.

Are you guys as excited as I am

about the winter solstice celebration?

Because if you are as excited as I am,

you just can't sleep and all you want to do

is zip, zip, zip around and--

I don't think I can stop talking.

Can I stop talking? No, I don't--

Starling, we're all excited,

but we need our sleep so we can have the most fun tomorrow

all day and all night.

[yawning] Oh, yeah.

[yawning] I am so tired.

[yawning]

Yeah, tired, hmm.

Well, good night.

[yawning] Now I'm even more tired.

Good night.

Good night.

Uh, hi.

Mr. Vulture has to see you right away

about a mission.

A mission? It's winter solstice.

I know! Isn't it wonderful?

Mission Control Room!

At once!

I was getting to that.

These three space telescopes

can help us see to the farthest reaches of the universe.

They have very powerful lenses and mirrors.

And they must be adjusted precisely as you're instructed.

Now? It's winter solstice.

Yes, now!

It's vital to our winning the Globel Prize

for best space academy!

Ava!

♪ It's the most marvelous ♪

♪ Longest night of the year ♪

[frustrated gibberish]

Stop! Stop! Stop that song!

Just do exactly as you're instructed

and you won't miss a moment

of your, oh, so special winter solstice nighttime thing.

Aww.

That completes the adjustments.

You have just enough time to get back for the solstice sunset.

♪ It's the most marvelous, longest night of the year ♪

♪ Ah-da-da, dee-da-da, dee-da-da-da ♪

Hmm.

And I just don't know where they are.

I mean, I couldn't even find Robyn and...

Here they are.

Eagle, Robyn, Hawk, over here.

Where have you guys been?

Last-minute mission.

Let's just enjoy the solstice sky.

All: Ahh...

Look, Ursa Major.

And Pegasus!

There is nothing more beautiful than a winter solstice sky.

All: Yeah.

And now good night, solstice, or should I say... good morning?

[laughing]

[group gasping]

Ah, what's going on?

What happened to solstice night?

Fellow rockets,

I have freed you from this silly celebration!

Now you can get back to work

so that we may put all our energies

toward winning the Globel Prize!

The adjustments Vulture had us make to the space telescopes.

Ava, could our mission have something to do

with all of this?

Ava: My sensors tell me

that the space telescopes were just activated.

Calculations indicate the mirrors you adjusted

would be reflecting sunlight to Earth

much like the moon but way brighter.

The shape of the mirrors and the lenses

must be intensifying it.

Ava: Affirmative.

Calculations also indicate worst solstice ever.

♪ Stardust Bay, Stardust Bay ♪

♪ We can turn the night to day ♪

♪ We can work while others play ♪

♪ Stardust Bay, Stardust-- ♪

Who's with me?

I can't believe it.

Vulture sent us on a mission

to help destroy the winter solstice celebration.

But-- But, Robyn,

didn't you say the winter solstice

happens every year and nothing can change that?

Uh... I guess I did.

You're right!

You will thank me

when that Globel Prize

is sitting proudly on my trophy shelf!

Uh, I mean, um, in a place where everyone can see.

Ohh!

A wise rocket told me

that nothing can stop the winter solstice.

Clearly, your wise rocket isn't so wise.

Winter solstice isn't about light or dark

or winning a prize.

It's more about a feeling.

♪ It's the most marvelous ♪

♪ Longest night of the year ♪

♪

♪ The skies will be glowingly, gleamingly, beamingly clear ♪

No! It's time to get back to your work!

And your studies! ♪ The stars will be shining ♪

♪ On faces aglow ♪

♪ We'll stay up all night, I hope there'll be snow ♪

♪ Let everyone cheer, let everyone know ♪

♪ It's the most marvelous, longest night of the year ♪

Ohh...

I guess you can turn off the night.

But you can't turn off... feelings.

[groaning]

Maybe you should, um, think about

shutting off the space telescopes?

[grumbling]

Very well.

A super solstice to all!

And to all a long night.

♪ It's the most marvelous, longest night of the year ♪

♪