[laughing]
Aah!
[laughing]
-[whirring]
-Come on, guys, let's go!
-Yeah! Woo-hoo!
-Yeah, dude!
[laughing]
Boop.
♪ StoryBots
Living inside computer parts ♪
-♪ The StoryBots ♪
-[yelling]
♪ Helping kids get super smart ♪
-♪ They love to learn ♪
-♪ Love to learn ♪
-♪ And adore adventure ♪
-Whoo-hoo!
♪ And answering questions
Is their business and pleasure ♪
♪ There's a whole department
Whose only task ♪
♪ Is to answer anything we ask ♪
♪ So let's see if Team B
Can solve another mystery ♪
-♪ The StoryBots ♪
-[all whooping]
♪ Meet Beep and Bing, Bang, Boop, and Bo ♪
♪ Just ask them what you wanna know
Just ask the StoryBots ♪
♪ And when they get a stumper
That demands investigation ♪
♪ It's to the outer world
On a hunt for information ♪
♪ StoryBots ♪
♪ Got a question, got lots? ♪
♪ If something's got you baffled
Worry not ♪
♪ Just ask the StoryBots ♪
♪ Just ask the StoryBots ♪
Boop!
[whirring]
-[phones ringing]
-[Hap mumbling]
Bonfire! Jumpsuit! Tuna!
Hmm. Yup.
Mm-hm. Hmm...
-[gasps]
-Good job, Fred.
I need a little coffee, pronto!
-[grumbles]
-[both laughing]
Little coffee.
-[mug smashes]
-Hilarious.
-Bacon! Eggs! Biscuits! Huh?
-[phone ringing]
-What do you want?
-[mumbling]
Oh, yes, Your Majesty?
Right away, ma'am.
Immediately, ma'am. Thank you.
-Huh? [shouts]
-[alarm beeps]
Get me an answer team, on the double.
[yells]
[grumbles]
Answer Team B reporting for duty, sir.
-What's with all this bird seed?
-[chuckles] It's for the birds, man.
What birds?
[shouting] Shoo! Aah!
-[grunts]
-They like us.
[gasps] They like me.
[grunting] Well, stop dillydallying.
We have a question to answer. Hey! Ow!
Hi, my name is Peyton.
-Hey, there. How are you?
-So nice to meet you.
-Are you in there?
-Yeah, we're right here.
Under all these pigeons.
-How can we help you, Peyton?
-I have a question for you.
How do ears hear?
[all] Uh...
Hey, do you know how ears hear,
little chickadee?
[cooing]
Oh, I know where
we can find the answer.
StoryBots, prepare for transport.
Let's find out how ears hear.
[all] Outer world, here we come.
[whirring]
[pigeon clucks]
That's it, no more Mr. Nice Guy.
Scram, shoo.
-[grumbles] Huh?
-[crackling]
-[cheeping]
-[gasping, then shouts]
What the--? Not you, too.
[shouting] Ow, my eye.
[StoryBots yelling]
[StoryBots yelling]
[funk music playing nearby]
[chuckling]
I like this music.
Yeah, man. I can't help but groove.
-Bing, what are we doing here?
-My friend Bobby makes music.
I thought she could tell us
how ears work.
Bobby? Wait, is your friend the--?
[air horn blaring]
Bobby Boombox in the house.
[all] Whoa!
[laughs] What up, Bing?
♪ StoryBots, StoryBots ♪
[laughs] We're trying to answer a question
for a kid named Peyton.
Yeah, she wants to know how ears hear.
[rapping] ♪ So you wanna know about
How things work up inside your ears? ♪
♪ Let me tell you
What you need to know ♪
♪ About every sound you hear ♪
♪ A b*at, a song, a bell, a gong
Yeah, any kind of sound ♪
♪ It starts when something vibrates
That means it jiggles around, like this ♪
-[rhythmic thumping]
-♪ Feel the b*at ♪
♪ Now everything you see or touch
Around you everywhere ♪
♪ Is made of tiny molecules
That's right, y'all, even air ♪
Where's my crew?
[all] Go! Go! Go! Yeah!
♪ Now when I clap my hands or shout
I push those molecules about ♪
♪ Check out how each one bumps the next
Now they're making waves ♪
♪ Those waves go spreading through the air
That's how sound behaves ♪
Did she say waves?
This just keeps getting better.
But how do the sound waves
go into people's ears?
♪ Your outer ear is funnel-shaped
It flares out nice and wide ♪
♪ To catch the sound waves when they hit
So they go right inside ♪
-♪ When you hear a jam like this and say ♪
-♪ That's pretty sweet ♪
♪ You know it's made of sound waves
Come on now, feel the b*at ♪
Man, Bobby Boombox is the best.
Yeah! And now we know how ears work.
Come on, guys, let's head on home.
Bing, we only know
how ears catch sound waves.
-What happens when they go in the ear?
-Oh, well, they, uh...
Oh, man.
If we wanna learn how ears work,
I think we've gotta go to one.
♪ Hey, ho ♪
[laughing]
-Hey, Bobby?
-What's up, y'all?
-Do you think you could give us a boost?
-Oh, sure, I can.
Hey, molecules, you ready?
-Yup. We got this.
-Oh, yeah, Bobby. We got you, girl.
I've gotta turn it all the way up.
We've gotta make sure you StoryBots
can really feel that b*at!
[StoryBots yelling]
Yee-haw, awesome.
Hey, dudes, hang ten.
We're catching a sound wave.
[Bing] Yeah. Awesome.
-[easy-listening music playing on speaker]
-[both laughing]
[heavy metal music playing on speaker]
-[country music playing on speaker]
-Yee-haw!
-[easy-listening music playing on speaker]
-[both laughing]
[various music playing on speakers]
[panting]
[both laughing]
Radio.
♪ Marconi, Marconi
The genius inventor Marconi ♪
♪ In the land of fedoras
And tasty spumoni ♪
♪ There lived a young genius
Whose name was Marconi ♪
♪ He'd tinker, daydream
Read through the day ♪
-♪ Do something useful ♪
-♪ His father would say ♪
♪ Now, scientists then
Were already aware ♪
♪ That electrical waves
Could be sent through the air ♪
♪ Which soon led his curious brain
To inquire ♪
♪ Could messages somehow be sent
Without wire? ♪
♪ He took to his lab
And succeeded quite well ♪
♪ With a gadget that set off
A faraway bell ♪
-♪ He showed it to experts, who told him ♪
-♪ Dear boy, it won't work long-distance ♪
-♪ It's only a toy ♪
-♪ He could've put it away on a shelf ♪
-♪ But Marconi decided ♪
-♪ I'll see for myself ♪
♪ It worked and it transmitted
Farther each day ♪
♪ He showed it in England
It blew them away ♪
♪ He built them a radio system for ships ♪
♪ To stay in close contact
On long ocean trips ♪
♪ As he added new stations
His company grew ♪
♪ Till all over Europe the messages flew ♪
♪ He then built antennas
So strong and gigantic ♪
♪ Their signals could travel
Across the Atlantic ♪
♪ He soon became rich
He was known far and wide ♪
-♪ That's my boy ♪
-♪ Said his father with pride ♪
♪ As others then built
On his bold innovations ♪
♪ They gave us
Our popular radio stations ♪
♪ The airwaves are busy
That's no baloney ♪
♪ Because of the brains
Of Guglielmo Marconi ♪
♪ Marconi, Marconi
The genius inventor Marconi ♪
[all yelling]
Hello!
Look out, everybody!
[all grunt]
[chuckling]
StoryBots. Cute.
-Well, aren't you a nice big face?
-What's your name, friend?
I am Eardrum.
What are you guys doing in the middle ear?
We're trying to answer a question
for a kid named Peyton.
Yeah. She wants to know how ears hear.
-[all gasp]
-[vibrating grunt]
-Did you guys feel that?
-What, you mean the sound wave?
Yes. The sound waves come from outside
and bounce me all around.
-Oh, that sounds fun.
-It is very important.
I bounce so the others may know.
-Others?
-Know what?
[groaning]
Pass through here
if you want to learn more.
Whoa, sweet chamber.
Whoa.
Check this out.
Righteous. [echoing]
-[chuckles] Cool.
-There's nobody in here.
-Uh, maybe they're on the other side.
-[Bing] Hey, guys.
Check out this bridge. Come on. Woo-hoo!
[StoryBots grunting]
Um, Beep, is that a bottomless pit?
Well, nothing is really bottomless, right?
-[chuckles nervously]
-[groaning]
[Bang] Here we go.
[all] Whoa!
-Tremor, man.
-Huh.
[gasps]
Why, hello.
[all yelling]
[all grunting]
Be careful, Malleus. Watch your head.
-I do not control the drum, Incus.
-You always say that.
[screams]
You're such a pain.
The drum hits me, I hit you,
then you hit Stapes.
-That is our job, Incus.
-Excuse me.
Oh, this must be the worst job
in the entire body.
Behave. We have company.
Oh, my goodness, company.
Pardon our manners.
I am Malleus.
-And I am Incus.
-And I am Stapes.
-We are the bones of the middle ear.
-What are you guys doing in here?
When the great drum beats,
we pass along its message.
It is our noble task.
[all grunting]
[all shouting]
There is no bottomless pit.
There is no bottomless pit.
What brings you here, StoryBots?
We really need to know how ears hear.
Can you help us?
Well, all we do is pass along
the b*at of that drum.
Pass it along, yes.
But if the beats are too quiet,
we must make them louder.
[all shouting]
If they're too loud,
we must soften them up.
[grunting]
[all groan]
Through myself, then Incus,
and finally, Stapes,
the b*at of the drum passes on
through the oval window.
-And where does that lead?
-To the sacred cochlea.
-[Incus] Oh, how do you know?
-I know things.
-[Incus] You've never been anywhere.
-[Stapes] Behave.
What do you think happens in there?
[all shout]
-I don't know, but let's get out of here.
-Come on, guys, we can make it across.
-Go, go, go!
-Come on, Bo.
[all shouting and grunting]
Hey!
[Bo shrieking]
-Huh?
-Boop!
[Beep] You can do it, Boop.
You can make it.
Boop?
Quick, Boop, before the drum hits.
[dramatic choral music plays]
[slo-mo grunting]
[slo-mo groans]
-Hi, Boop.
-[gasps] Incoming!
[Cochlea] Greetings, StoryBots.
Whoa.
[dog sniffing]
Hmm?
[barks]
[both] Huh?
[barks]
[laughing]
Bones.
[both laughing]
♪ What keeps your body from going squish
Lying on the ground like a jellyfish? ♪
♪ It's the bones in your body
That help you dance at the party ♪
♪ Your pelvis attaches
To your femur and feet bones ♪
♪ Your ribcage sprouts from your spine ♪
♪ When your vertebrae wiggles
Around and around ♪
♪ Well, your skull bone
Will have a good time ♪
♪ How many bones are shown
In the x-ray pics? ♪
-♪ Kids have , adults ♪
-♪ Lots of bones in your body ♪
♪ Big and small in your body ♪
♪ As you groove they move
And bend at the joints ♪
♪ Where your ligaments flex
Like a spring ♪
♪ Some joints twirl like a merry-go-round
Others go back and forth like a swing ♪
♪ When you put all your bones
Together as one ♪
♪ It's what we call your skeleton
All the bones in your body ♪
♪ And the joints in your body
Help you dance at the party ♪
♪ Raise your bones up in the air ♪
[Cochlea] Welcome to the inner ear,
StoryBots.
-StoryBots.
-StoryBots.
-Welcome, StoryBots.
-Welcome.
-Uh... hi.
-Who are you?
We are the hair-like cells of the cochlea.
-Of the cochlea.
-The cochlea.
-The hair-like cells of the cochlea.
-What brings you here?
Uh, those three bony dudes knocked us
through the oval window.
Yeah, what was that about?
[all grunt]
[all] Ah...
[all giggling]
[all] Whoa.
When Stapes hits the oval window,
the fluid around us moves.
[cells giggling]
They're so pretty.
And look at them dance, man.
Our dance changes
depending on how the fluid moves.
[all] Ah...
And each dance sends a different signal
to the Smart One.
-To the Smart One.
-To the Smart One.
-Smart One.
-Who is the Smart One?
The Smart One interprets the signals.
-The Smart One interprets the signals.
-[cells repeating]
Guys, maybe the Smart One can help us
answer Peyton's question.
StoryBots,
let's find this answer.
-[Bang] Yeah, let's do it, man.
-Come on.
-Let's do it.
-One, two, three.
[all shouting]
[all gasp] The signal.
Whoa, would you look at that.
There are signals coming from everywhere.
-And they're all going to one place.
-[Beep] Awesome.
[Bo] Holy moly.
-Hurry, guys.
-All right.
-Okay, team.
-Yeah, let's do it.
[all gasp]
Hey, StoryBots.
[StoryBots shriek]
-Guys, hang on!
-[all yelling]
[all gasping]
-Oh, wow, okay.
-Who are you?
I'm the brain. I run this operation.
Lungs, muscles, stomach, emotions.
You name it, I'm in charge.
Wow.
You sure have a lot going on.
This is nothing. I'm barely being used.
I could run this place
with my eyes closed.
In fact, I do, eight hours, every night.
I'm sorry to interrupt, Ms. Brain, but--
[StoryBots grunting]
You know, if my human stopped playing
so many video games
and picked up a book once in a while,
there'd be no limit
to what I could accomplish.
Wow, that's great and all, Ms. Brain,
but we're in a hurry.
-Trying to find an answer for Peyton.
-She wants to know how ears hear.
Yeah! Do you know anyone
that could help us out?
I can.
-Awesome.
-Sweet.
-Cool.
-I did not see that coming.
So, you remember how the eardrum
and the bones of the middle ear
passed along vibrations of sound waves
to the cochlea?
[all] Yeah.
And how those crazy hair-like cells
in the cochlea
turned the sound waves
into electrical signals?
-Yup.
-Sure do.
Well, my job is to figure out
what those signals mean.
-Cool.
-No way.
This one is telling me
there's a bird nearby.
[birds tweeting]
Sweet.
And this one is telling me
someone is at the door.
-[knocking on door, then doorbell rings]
-Wow.
Pretty impressive, right?
Oh, and what's that one?
[gasps] Look out!
[train horn blaring]
[all shouting]
That was a freight train.
[all groaning]
The point is, StoryBots,
that every sound has a unique signal.
All I do is match the signal
with the sound that created it,
and that's how ears hear.
-[Bang] Cool.
-[Beep] All right.
Well, it looks like
we got our answer, guys.
Thanks for the help, Ms. Brain.
-Bye.
-Bye, Brain.
-Brain, thank you.
-Thanks for your help.
You're welcome, StoryBots. See you later.
[computer]
StoryBot fun fact number ,,.
"Did you know that the Earth
is . billion years old?"
All right, now,
let's blow out those candles.
[wheezing]
[gasps]
I love chocolate cake.
♪ Such a beautiful, such a beautiful ♪
♪ Such a beautiful, beautiful world ♪
♪ I'm the Earth, and for what it's worth
Twenty-five thousand miles is my girth ♪
♪ I've got more than seven billion people
Living on me ♪
♪ All across my amazing geography ♪
♪ Check out my mountains, valleys
And trees so tall ♪
♪ And I've got lakes, rivers
And waterfalls ♪
♪ Volcanoes, craters
Swamps with alligators ♪
♪ Tropical islands at my equator ♪
♪ The North and South poles
Have lots of ice ♪
-♪ Only polar bears say ♪
-♪ This weather's nice ♪
♪ I've got so much land
I'm so immense ♪
-♪ I've got seven different continents ♪
-♪ Seven ♪
♪ North and South America, Europe, Asia
Africa, Antarctica, and Australia ♪
♪ But the biggest thing
Everybody can see ♪
♪ Is that I got a lot of water
All over me ♪
♪ I have oceans
With lobsters, whales, otters ♪
♪ Three quarters of me
Is covered in water ♪
-♪ I orbit the sun, that's his line ♪
-♪ I'm so hot ♪
-♪ And the moon orbits me ♪
-♪ It's my time to shine ♪
♪ I'm filled with life, both big and small
The most beautiful planet of all ♪
♪ Such a beautiful, such a beautiful ♪
♪ Such a beautiful, beautiful world ♪
-[phones ringing]
-[Hap muttering]
See-saw, peenie wallie, "Macarena." Huh?
[StoryBots yelling]
[crashing]
Uh... like, where's Hap?
[Hap grunting]
[StoryBots yelling]
[panting]
What are you StoryBots doing?
I told you to get an answer,
not dillydally.
We got the answer, boss.
We know how ears hear.
It all starts when objects bump
into each other
-and cause air molecules to move.
-One molecule hits another and another.
Soon, you have a wave of sound
moving through the air.
The outer ear catches those sound waves
and bounces them into the eardrum.
The eardrum hits a tiny bone
called the malleus.
Which hits a bone called the incus.
Which hits a final bone called the stapes.
When the stapes taps the oval window,
it causes the hair-like cells
inside the cochlea to sway.
Each unique motion
sends a different signal to the brain.
And when the brain interprets
those signals as real world things...
[all] That's how ears hear.
Just-- Just give me that tape.
♪ From waves of moving molecules
To vibrations in the ear ♪
♪ To electrical signals in our brains
That's what it means to hear ♪
♪ When objects move
The nearby molecules get pushed around ♪
♪ Bumping one another in a chain reaction
They form these waves of sound ♪
♪ They reach the ear
Which directs them like a funnel ♪
♪ To the ear canal
Which is sort of like a tunnel ♪
♪ To the eardrum
Not the kind you play ♪
♪ It's just a little flap
That the sound waves sway ♪
♪ So the eardrum sends vibrations made
Along an itty-bitty bones parade ♪
♪ From the malleus to the incus
To the stapes, they go ♪
♪ Amplifying the sound
As it gets passed on ♪
♪ Like a relay race baton ♪
♪ Reaching another flap
That's called the oval window ♪
♪ And through there
It passes the vibrations ♪
♪ Through the cochlea
A fluid-filled cavity ♪
♪ Packed with these hair-like cells ♪
♪ And the motion in this ocean
Well, it makes those hair-cells sway ♪
♪ And that triggers electrical signals
That get processed in the brain ♪
♪ From waves of moving molecules
To vibrations in the ear ♪
♪ To electrical signals in our brains
That's what it means to hear ♪
♪ That's what it means to hear ♪
That was... informative.
[all chattering excitedly]
-Hey, look, it's Peyton.
-Hi, StoryBots.
-Peyton.
-Hey, how you doing?
Isn't it cool that there are
invisible sound waves?
-Are they in here?
-Yup, they're all around us.
-Where?
-Here, and here, and over here.
And here. Don't forget over here.
Oh, and there, too...
-Oh, and probably some right here, too.
-[groans] We don't have time for this!
We got work to do!
Questions to the right, the left!
I think we should invest
in some ear plugs.
-[Hap] Now! Move, move! Work, work!
-Bye, boss.
♪ StoryBots
Living inside computer parts ♪
♪ The StoryBots
Helping kids get super smart ♪
♪ They love to learn
They love to learn ♪
♪ And adore adventure ♪
♪ And answering questions
Is their business and pleasure ♪
♪ There's a whole department
Whose only task ♪
♪ Is to answer anything we ask ♪
♪ So let's see if Team B
Can solve another mystery ♪
♪ The StoryBots
Meet Beep and Bing, Bang, Boop, and Bo ♪
♪ Just ask them what you wanna know
Just ask the StoryBots ♪
Boop!