13x07 - The Lilting Loons

[bunniefuu]

♪ Cyberchase. We're moving

♪ We're beating Hacker at his game ♪

♪ Don't tell me that he's trying to hack the Motherboard ♪

♪ We'll get him every time

♪ Cosmic worlds

♪ Freaky places that we've seen ♪

♪ We've got the power

♪ Of one, two, three, four

♪ Running in a Cyberchase

♪ We'll meet him face to face

♪ We'll stick together all the time ♪

♪ Adventures in Cyberspace

♪ The chase is on

♪ Just wait and C-Y-B-E-R chase ♪

[upbeat music]

- Cyberspace emergency response.

Where's the emergency?

- The caller said it was here.

- I don't see an emergency.

[Digit whirring]

- Oh, this pond is a mess!

- Whoa, look at all this trash.

- And the water is so cloudy.

- [Jackie] Lilting Loon Pond, home of the lilting loons.

Doesn't look like much of a home to me.

- [Inez] And I don't see any loons.

- No wonder the loons left.

- I feel so bad.

- Their song is so beautiful and soothing, watch.

[lilting loons calling]

[dramatic music]

- Hey!

[Buzz exclaims]

Just like I planned, picnic time!

- For the record, I am way too important

and have far too many things to do

than to have a picnic.

- I got the food!

- Oh, great.

Eating picnic food on the ground.

- But Boss, a Hacker, Buzz, Delete picnic

is just what we all need.

- I'm thinking the same thing.

A day away from the stress

of trying to take over Cyberspace

is just what the boss needs.

- I'll be the judge of that.

Now let's get this relaxing picnic over with.

- Come on, DD, let's eat.

- What?

Oh, right, okay.

[dramatic music]

- [Matt] Look at all this stuff.

- Plastic straws and plastic bags.

- And hair.

- Ew.

- Ugh, hair?

- There's soapy suds in here too.

- No wonder the water's so cloudy.

- I remember when this pound was so clear

you could see all the way to the bottom.

- How far down can we see now?

- Let's find out.

The Digit's old let's see how murky the water is measurer.

Each of these knots is one cyber foot apart.

[Digit whirring] [dramatic music]

Oh, the rock's disappeared already.

One knot, two knots.

That's it, only two cyber feet,

that's as far down as we can see?

- Oh, that's not good.

That's not good at all.

- The pond is so full of trash,

the lilting loons can't swim or dive in it.

- We've got to do something.

The loons and whoever called are counting on us.

- This straw says Botsberg Elementary School.

- This one too.

Look at all these straws.

- Ugh, and all these plastic bags.

Artie's Party Favors.

- We need to find out why someone is dumping these straws

and bags in the pond.

- I found them.

The pond is here, but the school is all the way over here.

And Artie's Party Favors is over here.

- [All] Hmm.

[Delete sighs]

- Whoopsie!

- Let them go, DD, no big deal.

How do you like the cheese sandwiches, Boss?

Pretty good, huh?

- They're just okay.

Are there any more?

- Sure are, Boss.

Do you want another one, DD?

DD, you want another sandwich?

- No, thanks.

You see, I actually left a light on in the Reeka, yeah.

- Not that I really like the chips,

are there any more?

- So how far is the school from the pond?

- [Inez] The scale on the map says one cyber inch

is equal to one cyber mile.

- [Digit] And the school is two cyber inches

away from the pond.

- [Inez] So if one cyber inch is one cyber mile

than two cyber inches is two cyber miles.

Which means, the school is two cyber miles from here.

- [Matt] And Artie's Party Favors

is not too far from the school.

- Right, let's check them out.

[wind blowing] [dramatic music]

- And the hair and the suds, where'd they come from?

- Good question, Dig.

- This probably would've wound up in the pond too.

[bush rustling]

- Wait, what was that?

- I think we're being watched.

- [Group] Delete?

[dramatic music]

- What are you doing here?

- Oh me?

I was just...

Jogging by, yeah, that's it. [chuckles]

See?

- What are you really doing here, Delete?

- Yeah, is Hacker up to something?

- I'm here because it was I, Delete Irving Bot

who placed the emergency call.

- [Group] You, why?

- Your middle name is Irving?

- I called because the loons left

and I don't know where they went or why they went

and I need them back.

- You care about the loons, really?

- I do, the loons are my friends.

Their song helps me relax.

Working for Hacker isn't easy, you know?

- Hey, I love the loons too.

- Their song means so much to me. [cries]

- I really don't like seeing Delete like this.

- If we help the loons, we help Delete.

- Aw, it's okay, Delete, we'll get them back.

- Delete, we're pretty sure the loons left

because of all the pollution in their pond.

- Can't we just clean it up?

- We can, but if we clean it up-

- We need to make sure the pollution doesn't come back,

then maybe the loons will return.

- Really?

- Yeah.

There's a lot of pollution here.

- And just now, this cup almost ended up in the pond.

- [gasps] That cup came from our picnic in the park.

Did I make the pollution that made the loons leave?

- It looks like lots of people did.

- Think of this as a warning, Delete.

And make sure no more trash blows away from your picnic.

- I can do that.

- And we'll see what we can do to clean up the pond

and get the loons back.

[dogs barking]

[girls laughing]

- The school and Artie's party shop are still that way.

Come on.

- Wait.

Soapy suds straight ahead.

- Aw, look at those adorable dogs.

Could these soapy suds be the same

as the ones that are in the pond?

- Could be.

This dog hair looks like the same kind of hair

we saw in the water.

- But how did the suds and the hair

get all the way from here to the pond?

- I'll find out what's going on here,

you three go to Artie's and the school.

- Sounds like a plan, let's go.

- Say hi to the puppies for me.

- Hey, guys, how's it going?

Quite the set up you've got here.

I've never seen a dog wash before.

- We're giving the money we made

to the local dog shelter.

- Cool, been doing this long?

- About a week.

Every day after school.

- Hmm, well, have fun.

Huh.

- These cookies are meh, but I'll have another one or two.

- Got them!

- Here you go, Boss.

- Allow me to take the plastic off and throw it away.

- Why, thank you, Delete.

- DD, you okay?

- Sure.

We will get your pond healthy again, I promise.

- Here we are, Artie's party shop.

- And there's a red plastic bag.

- I'll check out Artie,

why don't you two head over to the school?

- Good idea, Inez.

Come on, Dig.

- Excuse me, hi, I'm looking for Artie.

- You found her, need a favor for your party?

[party favor whirs]

- No, thanks, but I wanted to let you know

that a bunch of your red plastic bags

somehow ended up in a pond, way over there in the park.

- Really?

Sorry to hear that,

but once our customers leave with the bags,

I don't really know what they do with them.

- Yeah, I get it.

But maybe if you didn't use plastic bags to begin with,

they wouldn't be thrown away.

- Hi, Artie, how you doing?

- You make a good point.

- Artie, could you help me for a minute?

- Okay, talk to you later.

- Okay.

How do the plastic bags get from here to the pond?

It's a mystery.

[wind blowing]

But maybe I'm about to find out.

[dramatic music]

Hmm.

- Dig, look.

- We're in the right place.

- Excuse me?

- Yes?

- We're sorry to disturb you.

- We think a bunch of your plastic straws

got into the pond in the park.

- But that's so far away, how is that possible?

[school bell rings]

Sorry, it's story time.

I really want to figure this out.

Can you wait a little bit?

- Of course, story time is the most important time.

- Dig, we were right, look what they're drinking with.

- The same straws we found in the pond.

- Look what I have for you.

[wind blowing]

- Come on, Jacks, follow that straw.

[upbeat music]

- Hmm.

- The soapy suds and dog hair

float down the street and right into a storm drain.

- Yeah, Artie's party bags went into a storm drain too.

- Same thing here.

The wind blew the straws from the school

right down the drain.

- But how does the trash get from three different drains

that are miles apart into the same pond?

- No idea.

If we could just follow the suds and hair

and bags and straws maybe we could find out.

- Then Dig just might have the answer.

- Your shrink ray.

- Matt, Inez, hold up your Skwaks,

prepare to get tidy.

[shrink ray whirs]

- Whoa!

- Look at me, I'm tiny.

- Next, some transportation.

Kevin, it's the Dig, I need three of your tiniest

indestructo vehicles.

- [Kevin] No problem, you want snap delivery?

- Yeah, snap delivery, please.

- [Kevin] You got it, they're coming right up.

- Whoa!

- Yeah!

- [Digit] Yes, great, thanks, Kev!

- This is amazing, Dig.

- Time to see where the pollution is going.

- Okay, people, follow that trash.

[dramatic music]

[Jackie laughing]

- All right, I'm in the pipe.

The suds and clumps of dog hair are in front of me.

- Copy that, Matt.

Tracking the plastic bags.

- On the trail of the straws.

- And Little Bot Riding Hood lived happily ever after.

- Again.

- You got it, Boss.

- Just found this sandwich bag

and this napkin to throw away.

No more trash in this area.

- This picnic is so relaxing.

- Once upon a time, Little Bot Riding Hood went to-

- Matt, Inez, where are you?

- Still following the dog hair and soap suds,

and moving faster.

- Same with me, gaining on the plastic bags.

- Still chasing the straws.

Where is this going to end?

[water rushing]

- Yikes, look out!

- That was close.

- At least we're safe.

- Um, guys? - Whoa!

- Uh oh.

[all yelling]

- I can't look!

Where does this pipe lead to?

- You might want to look.

- Daylight.

[all yelling]

[dramatic music]

Wait, we're at the pond.

- So that's how all the pollution ends up here.

- We've got to do something now.

- Matt, not sure how much we can do, being so tiny.

- Normal size, coming up.

[shrink ray whirring]

Okay, let's do something.

- But what?

All the stuff we were chasing is now in the pond.

- Okay, what do we know?

We know if we clean up this new mess,

more will just keep coming.

- [Group] Right.

- And we know that trash goes through the storm drain

into the pipes and empties into this pond.

- [Group] Right.

- How can I forget?

- We also know where this pollution comes from.

- Artie's Party Favors.

- Botsberg Elementary School.

- The dog wash.

- Exactly, all these small problems led to a big problem

for the loons.

- Then maybe if we solve all the small problems,

we'll also solve the big problem.

- Sounds like a plan to me, Dig.

- Are they back yet?

Are the loons back yet?

- Not yet, Delete, we're working on it.

- All this pollution is coming in

through that storm pipe.

- Well, I can clean this up.

- And we're going to help stop the pollution.

Well, at least some of it, from getting here

in the first place.

- You know, it's great that you're doing this,

but see all that soapy water and dog hair?

Do you know where it's going?

- Down the storm drain, that's good, right?

- Not really.

It ends up polluting the Pond of the Lilting Loons.

- [gasps] I love the loons.

- What do we do?

Shut down our dog wash?

[dog barks]

- No, but you could cut down on the water

by using buckets of water instead of hoses.

And try scooping up the dog hair

before it goes down the drain.

[group laughing]

Small actions, big solutions.

- So I thought about what you said about the plastic bags,

and I can definitely do better.

- This is great news, Artie.

- No more plastic bags at Artie's,

only reusable cloth bags.

- Hey Artie, love the new bags, great idea.

- Aw, thanks, Artie.

- Thanks to you, Inez.

[party favor whirs]

Did someone say party?

- Yep, small actions, big solutions.

- Does everyone know the Pond of the Lilting Loons?

- [Child] Love that place.

- [Jackie] Well, look what we found there.

- You were right, those are our straws.

- That they are.

We know for sure they came all the way from here

to the pond and they're polluting the water.

- Uh oh, the loons don't like pollution.

- What can we do?

- At my school back home, we don't use straws anymore.

- Hmm, let's take a vote.

Straws or no straws?

- [Children] No straws, no straws, no straws!

- Looks like we are done with straws.

[children cheering]

- Small actions.

- Big solutions.

[Buzz snoring]

- What?

How'd I get down here?

Where's my hammock?

[Buzz chuckles]

- What are you doing on the ground, Boss?

- Delete, have you seen my hammock?

Delete, where are you?

- Huh, there.

Hey loons, the pond is all clear, come back, I miss you!

- Delete!

We found a way to keep most of the pollution away.

- No more soapy suds or dog hair.

- No more plastic bags.

- No more plastic straws.

- And the pond is clean and healthy.

You can almost see the bottom.

- We could only see down two knots before,

let's see what we can see now.

- I think you hit bottom, Dig.

Pull it up.

- One, two, three, four knots.

That's four cyber feet.

- Two cyber feet further down

than when we measured the first time.

- The pond is healthier already.

- Delete, my picnic has been ruined.

I was so relaxed.

Where is my hammock?

Hello.

- Sorry, Boss, but I needed the hammock

to make sure nothing else gets into the pond.

I'll empty it every week.

- Hey Delete, you thought of that all by yourself?

- I did.

- I'm proud of you, Delete.

- But what about my relaxation?

- The loons can help you with that.

- The loons!

[lilting loons calling]

They're back, they're back, they're back!

- I don't care about these birds.

I want my hammock, I want my rest, I want my relaxation.

[lilting loons calling]

[Hacker sighs]

- See, the loons are good for everyone, even the boss.

- [All] Small actions, big solutions!

[lilting loon calling]

- I'll just listen.

[lilting loons calling]

[all snoring]

- Stay right where you are.

It's Cyberchase For Real.

- I love hanging out at my grandma's house.

I visit every summer, it's so much fun.

I was really happy when my friend Alex came to visit.

- I'm so excited to go swimming.

- I'm excited too.

I think it's so cool that we share the lake

with other animals.

- What kind of animals?

- Well, fish, of course.

And also ducks, turtles, herons.

It's so much fun to watch them swim and fly.

Oh no!

- What, oh no?

- The lake water's turned green.

- You're right.

- This makes me mad, because my grandma and I

and other people who use the lake

are careful to keep it clean.

But sometimes, the fertilizer that people use

to make grass grow flows into the lake,

and that causes the blue-green algae to grow really fast.

- Algae, you mean like the stuff

that turns fish tanks cloudy?

- Right, algae are living things, like plants.

Blue-green algae blooms happen

when it's really hot and rainy.

But when you see them in the lake,

it means it's not safe, so we can't go swimming.

It's a problem that can spread to other lakes

along the watershed.

- What's the watershed?

- The watershed connects this lake to creeks,

brooks, a river, and the ocean.

I'll show you.

When it rains, the water flows down nearby hills,

and into the creek.

Then the creek runs into the lake.

- [Alex] I see.

- [Courtney] Here's where we are.

Where the creek flows into the lake.

At the other end, the water spills over the dam

and flows into the brook.

- Can we see that?

- Sure.

- [Alex] Wow.

- From the brook, the water flows into another creek,

and then into a river, and eventually the ocean.

The lands surrounding these bodies of water

is part of the watershed too.

- So algae in the lake means no swimming?

- Yeah, I'm sorry, I know you're disappointed.

But there's something else we can do that's fun.

Down the block, there's a tennis court.

- That's a great idea.

Courtney, it doesn't really matter what we do,

everything we do together is fun.

[upbeat music]