03x08 - Rocket Train Surprise Party/ Cloudy with a Chance of Fun

[bunniefuu]

- Hello, folks.

It's me, the conductor.

Today, the kids throw a birthday party

For a very special friend.

But it's a surprise. Shh!

So come on along with me on the dinosaur train.

All aboard!

- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪

[Train whistle toots]

- ♪ Once upon a time ♪

♪ There was a mom ♪

♪ Her name was mrs. Pteranodon ♪

♪ Sitting on her nest ♪

♪ She heard a scratch and then said ♪

- Oh, boy, my eggs are hatching!

- ♪ One by one, her kids popped free ♪

♪ Baby pteranodons, one, two, three ♪

- I'll name you tiny, shiny, and don.

- ♪ But tiny said ♪

- Wait, there's one more, mom.

- ♪ The last little baby ♪

♪ Was a different size ♪

♪ With teeth and a tail ♪

♪ And big green eyes ♪

♪ He didn't look anything ♪

♪ Like the rest ♪

- What am I doing in a pteranodon nest?

- ♪ But dear old mrs. Pteranodon said ♪

- Oh, this is your family, and I'm your mom.

You may be different, but we're all creatures.

All dinosaurs have different features.

Come on, buddy. We'll take a vacation.

I'll get us a ticket at pteranodon station.

We'll travel the world in sunshine and rain

And meet all the species on the...

- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ I want to ride ♪

- ♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride ♪

[Train whistle toots]

- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪

- [Roaring]

- [Humming]

Tickets! Tickets, please!

[Humming]

- You're certainly in a good mood, mr. Conductor.

- I'm just in a great mood 'cause I'm in my favorite place

In the whole mesozoic, the dinosaur train!

Ohh, I am one lucky troodon.

- We're lucky too, mr. Conductor.

- Every day is special when we ride with you.

- Speaking of special days, today is one.

It's my birthday.

[All gasp]

Your birthday?

- Please, no. Shh!

I'm not keen on the word getting out.

And I certainly don't want anyone

To go out of their way to make a fuss over me.

- Mr. Conductor, did you ever have a birthday party?

- No, tiny, I haven't had a party since I was a kid,

But, oh, I guess that's fine with me.

[Sighs] tickets, please!

- Tiny, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

- I think so.

Both: let's have a birthday party for the conductor.

- Great idea, team!

I love parties.

- I have a really big idea.

Let's make it a surprise party.

- Yeah! We can invite all his friends.

- We can have tons of food and a cake.

- We can have it right here on the train.

- These are all wonderful ideas, kids.

- Wait.

Doesn't a surprise party mean I have to keep a secret?

Because, ooh, that would be hard for me.

- Don't worry, don.

I'll keep you from spilling the beans.

- Huh?

- That means telling the conductor about his surprise.

- Thanks.

I really hope I can keep the secret from--

Oh, hi, mr. The conductor.

[All gasp]

- We're not talking about anything secret here,

And definitely not about your--

- You have a great train! We love the dinosaur train.

[Both cheer]

- Oh, you kids!

- [Sighs]

- I know just who to talk to about food

And a special birthday cake.

The dining car waiter.

Shh!

- Psst! [Whispering]

- I was thinking of a surprise party too!

The conductor would never expect it.

- We should invite the conductor's favorite friends.

There's morris stegosaurus...

- Hank ankylosaurus...

- Erma eoraptor, oh, and the king.

[Together] king cryolophosaurus!

- Wait.

How do we pick everyone up

All around the mesozoic

Without the conductor knowing?

- Maybe we could secretly fly

Or run really fast?

- The faster, the better.

Hey, I know.

Both: the rocket train!

- We'd have to ask thurston troodon,

The rocket train conductor,

If he'll drive us around.

He's always at troodon town.

- Can we go there and ask him?

- Yes! Let's do it, team.

[All cheer loudly]

[All cheer quietly]

- I'll make the birthday cake.

Hmm, let's see.

What kind of special cake would the conductor like?

- Probably one covered with yummy leaves.

- Yuck! How can he eat leaves?

- Psst! Don!

- Really enjoying those leaves, aren't you, ned?

- Mm-hmm!

- You know what my favorite leaf is?

Gingko. Mmm-mmm, so tasty!

[Both gasp]

- So he leaves gingko leaves.

- Mr. The conductor,

What are those gingko leaves you like so much?

- Don, if you were a herbivore,

You would be chomping on delicious gingko leaves

Day and night.

Follow me.

The gingko is a short, stubby bush

That grows in the jurassic.

These bushes sprout their tasty leaves

While growing near streams.

Gingko bushes grew taller and taller as time went on,

And by the cretaceous time period,

They've become trees!

Let's take a look at the gingko's leaves.

They are fan-shaped,

And I'm a fan of the fan-shaped.

- Do you think gingko leaves would taste good on a--

- Sandwich or salad or with other leaves?

- Oh, they taste good on anything, any time,

In my humble opinion.

- Look! We're almost at troodon town.

[Bells chiming]

- Next stop, troodon town station!

Troodon town, next stop!

[Train brakes squeaking]

Ohh, getting off in troodon town?

- Uh, yes.

I mean, we thought it'd be fun to spend the day here.

- Ooh, a surprise visit, eh?

- Did you say a sur-- - don!

- I mean, nothing. No surprise.

I was just talking in my sleep. [Snoring]

- Hmm.

All: hello, thurston the conductor!

- Hello, welcome to the fastest train in the mesozoic,

The rocket train!

No plans today?

Then I bet you'd like a ride, right, kids?

- [Chirps] yes!

We'd love to ride your train.

See, we're having a surprise party today

For mr. Conductor.

- We need to pick up a bunch of his friends

As fast as we can from all around the mesozoic.

- Plus collect gingko leaves at gingko grove.

And we know the rocket train is fast.

Can you help us?

- Why, I'd love to!

First, I love surprise parties!

And knowing it's for my old rival--i mean, friend--

The conductor makes it even better.

I've never seen old sonny boy really surprised.

[Chuckling]

Let's do it! All aboard!

[All cheer]

Thank you, thurston!

Hank ankylosaurus!

Erma eoraptor!

Morris stegosaurus!

King cryolophosaurus!

- [Laughs]

- Okay, we've picked up his friends.

Now we need to get leaves for the cake.

- Then next stop is gingko grove station.

Who wants to help drive the train?

Kids: I do!

Both: me too!

- Don, you first.

- I 'm driving the rocket train.

♪ La, la, loo ♪ [laughs]

- [Humming]

Well, since my train is nearly empty,

I'll take the opportunity to thoroughly clean

The passenger coach.

- [Chuckles]

- Gingko grove station in the jurassic time period.

Well, let's find that gingko grove.

[Kids cheering]

- Growing in clumps near a stream.

This must be them!

Okay, everybody, let's collect

As many gingko leaves as we can.

- Remember, the leaves should be shaped like a fan.

- Right! Let's go, team!

Oh!

- Wait.

These leaves are round, not shaped like fans.

Must find fan-shaped gingko leaves.

[Gasps]

[Straining]

t*nk?

- Oh, hello.

[Together] t*nk triceratops!

- [Gulps] yup, it's me.

Hi, everyone. - Hello, t*nk.

Hi, trudy.

- Hello there, pteranodon family.

- But triceratops are from the late cretaceous.

What are you doing in the jurassic?

- Oh, t*nk just loves jurassic gingko leaves so much,

We sometimes travel here on the dinosaur train to eat them.

- [Gulps] gingko are the best leaves ever.

Did you come here to eat them too?

I thought you were carnivores.

- We are, but we're making a birthday cake

Out of gingko leaves for the conductor's birthday party.

- Want to come? - Can we, mom?

- Of course, t*nk. Let's join them.

[Kids cheer]

- Oh, wait. The party is a surprise.

Don't tell anyone.

And don't tell anyone that I told you.

- I think that should be enough leaves.

Let's go, kids. - To the rocket train!

[All cheer]

[Whistle blows]

- [Sighs]

Not one single dinosaur came onboard.

Well, I can always dust and wax

My already very clean train.

I wonder if our passengers will come back.

You know, sometimes I worry they'll all start riding

The rocket train instead.

- [Scoffs] that'll never happen.

You know everyone loves the dinosaur train.

- [Chirps] my turn!

Next stop, troodon town, in the cretaceous time period.

- Where we're having a surprise party for--oops.

I remember. No talking about it.

- Next stop, troodon town.

[Sighs]

Well, my train is cleaner than it's ever been

And very ready for passengers.

- I bet before you know it,

A whole lot of hungry dinosaurs will be on board.

- Oh, I'm sure you're right.

[Train whistle toots faintly]

Huh? What's that?

Oh, grand!

It's the rocket train.

Well, hello, pteranodon family!

So coming back to the dinosaur train?

[All cheer]

- Oh, hello, thurston.

- Hello, sonny boy.

You look well.

- Oh, I'm very well.

Your rocket train is running well as well?

- Never better.

Oh, there is one gadget on my engine's control panel

That seems to be malfunctioning.

I wonder if you'd mind taking a look at it.

- I would love to.

- Go, go, go. Hurry up.

- Come on, party time! - Go, go, go!

- Shh!

Birthday noisemakers.

Don't clack them until the conductor comes in.

- Come have a look at my very clean train.

- [Gasps] shh!

- A little gift to myself.

Ready for a secret, thurston?

Today's my birthday.

No telling anyone, please.

- Oh, sonny boy, your secret is safe with me.

- Huh.

The lights are so dim.

How will any passengers know they can come on board?

[Both giggle]

All: surprise!

Happy birthday, mr. Conductor!

- My own birthday party?

All: yes!

- Ohh! Oh, my, oh, my.

I really, really am surprised.

- Surprise!

I can finally say it.

I kept the secret this whole time.

- We really did surprise you, didn't we, mr. Conductor?

- Oh, you sure did, tiny. Oh, I love it!

- We couldn't have done it without the rocket train.

Thurston really helped us.

- Thurston? He did?

- Yeah, he took us all over the mesozoic really fast

To pick everyone up.

- And he took us to find gingko leaves.

- G-g-gingko leaves?

- Yes, for this cake.

- Well, bless my scales and feathers!

And to think I thought

You were gonna steal all my passengers.

- Sorry, what was that? - Oh, nothing!

All my passengers back on the dinosaur train.

[Laughs] it's wonderful!

Oh, thank you, thurston.

- [Clears throat]

To mr. Conductor

And to his dinosaur train,

The greatest train in the mesozoic!

All: to mr. Conductor!

Happy birthday!

[All cheer]

- Gingko leaf cake for everybody!

- Hi there.

I'm dr. Scott the paleontologist.

Did you know that the very first flowers

Appeared near the end of the age of dinosaurs?

Yup, that means jurassic dinosaurs

Like stegosaur and apatosaurus never saw or smelled a flower.

During the triassic and jurassic periods,

There were plenty of plants around,

From tiny ferns to giant conifers,

But not a single flower.

So plant-eating dinosaurs had to find something else to eat.

Flowering plants showed up in the cretaceous period

And soon took over the plant world.

There were big flowering trees like magnolias and maples

And beautiful little flowering plants.

Flowers added a lot more color to the cretaceous world

And a whole new kind of food for plant-eating dinosaurs.

So when you see a flower, remember,

They've been around for millions of years--

Since the age of dinosaurs--

And so have gingko trees.

Look at this fossilized gingko leave.

It shows us that some kinds of gingkos

That lived millions of years ago are similar

To gingkos alive today.

The oldest gingko plants lived long before the first flowers,

Way back in the early jurassic.

Fossil gingkos discovered by paleontologists

Are mostly small and shrubby,

Very different from the tall gingko trees we see today.

Okay, get outside, get into nature,

And make your own discoveries.

- Hello, folks.

It's me, the conductor.

Today, the pteranodon kids will find out

All about different kinds of clouds

And how they make rain.

So come on along with me on the dinosaur train.

All aboard!

[Laughter]

- [Munching loudly]

- Larry, I'd appreciate it if you would not eat

Any more leaves off my trees.

It's pretty simple: my trees, my leaves.

- That's not very neighborly, neighbor.

- I'm sorry. That's just how I feel.

- Look at those white, puffy clouds.

That one looks like an upside down dinosaur train.

- Hmm. What are clouds, anyway?

- Clouds are really nothing.

Just what you see: white pieces of fluff

That float along.

- I think clouds are more than that.

They are made of something. Maybe water.

- Water? [Laughs]

How could something be made of water?

- All right, sure, laugh.

But doesn't rain come from clouds?

- Those nice puffy clouds?

They're just shapes of fluff that blow around.

- [Sighs]

I really think rain comes from clouds.

- Well, that's fine. That's what you think.

I just don't.

Okay, time for us to go home, lily.

- Aww. - Oh, hey, say, pteranodons.

I promised lily a picnic tomorrow at the big pond beach.

Care to join us?

[All gasp] can we go, dad?

Please? - Well, it's fine with me.

Plus it'll get larry away from my trees and leaves.

All: yay! A picnic!

- [Laughs] great!

Tomorrow, then. It's a plan.

- Hey, look at those clouds.

They look darker. I wonder what that means.

- Yeah, they're probably full of rain.

Larry, you may want to make a different plan

For the picnic at the beach.

- Ahh. [Blows raspberry and laughs]

It's not gonna rain.

We're having the picnic tomorrow.

In fact, listen to this:

If it does rain tomorrow,

I will personally get dinner for you and your whole family.

All: really? - Really.

- Really? Dinner sounds good to me, larry.

And who knows? Maybe it won't rain.

But I think that--

- So we'll meet tomorrow morning at the station

And ride the dinosaur train to the big pond together

For a picnic.

[Laughs]

It'll be a bright, sunny day all day!

Well, hello, pteranodons!

What do you know? Blue skies!

Is it raining?

Oh, wait.

It's not raining, is it?

- You're right, larry, it's not raining now.

- Look, part of the sky is getting cloudy.

- [Laughs]

Let's not start with that silly

"Clouds are water and make rain" talk.

[Laughs]

- Hello, pteranodons and lambeosauruses!

All: hello, mr. Conductor!

- We're going to the big pond for a picnic.

- And it's a perfect sunny day for it.

No clouds or rain to get in the way.

[Thunder rumbles]

[Groans] really?

- I can't believe it. It started to rain.

- Okay, kids, hop on board.

- All aboard!

Mr. Lambeosaurus, all aboard.

- Hmm, it sure looks like the rain

Is coming from those clouds.

- Sure does, don. - [Sighing]

- Mr. Conductor, what do you know about clouds?

Everything? - Well, not everything.

That's why I like to explore-- so I can learn more.

And I do like clouds, miss tiny.

Clouds form when air is heated by the sun.

The hot air rises and cools,

Making water droplets that come together

To form a cloud.

- So all the clouds we see are full of water?

- Yes, indeed, don.

Clouds are made of billions of tiny droplets

Or water or ice crystals that are so light,

They can float in the air.

- Oh! Gah! [Sighs]

- So then why do the clouds make rain?

- Excellent question, shiny.

- I agree, and the answer is simple.

When a cloud becomes too heavy with so many drops of water,

It has to release them, so it rains.

But what always fascinated me about clouds

Were that there are different kinds.

Voila!

Don't they look different from each other?

- They do! - I never noticed that.

- These are called cirrus clouds.

They're thin, wispy clouds made mostly of ice.

Next are the stratus clouds.

They are usually grayish and large,

Covering the entire sky like a big fog.

And these third clouds are called cumulus.

They are the whitest and puffiest ones.

- I see those all the time.

They really look like they're made of nothing.

- Actually, mr. Lambeosaurus,

Cumulus clouds are definitely made of water.

You see, they can turn into very dark thunderstorm clouds

And produce a lot of rain.

[Thunder rumbling]

- Oh, okay, I get it. I was wrong about clouds.

They are made of water or ice, and rain does come from them.

- I just learned that right now too, dad.

- What if we try and spot those different kinds of clouds

In the sky today?

- What a great idea, buddy.

We could make cloud spotting into a game.

- Yeah, today at the big pond!

Those are three kinds of clouds.

We can have three teams.

I pick stratus clouds!

Dad, will you be on my team?

- You bet. We're the shiny stratus team.

- I like those cirrus clouds. - Me too, a lot.

Can I be on your team? - Sure, lily.

- And buddy and I are team cumulus.

- But, dad, you're not on a team.

- Believe me, I'm fine, lily.

I'll be team larry,

Watching you all find your clouds.

- Now we have to remember what our cloud looks like.

- Just do what I did as a troodon tot.

I used to play a cloud spotting game too.

And the way I remembered what the clouds looked was

By drawing a picture of them.

Mother would give me a leaf

And a small, pointy stick to draw with.

All: good idea!

- And, in fact, here are leaves and pointy drawing sticks

For each of you.

There you go. Now you can draw your cloud.

And keep your drawing with you to look at later

When you're cloud hunting.

All: thanks, mr. Conductor!

- You know, dads, I thought it would be fun

For the kids to take a little detour

To a great place I know

Where you can observe all different kinds of clouds.

It's called cloudy point.

- Well, sounds perfect to me.

- Sounds like a place with a lot of clouds.

- Indeed it is, mr. Lambeosaurus.

I spent many a cloudy afternoon in my youth there,

Watching the different-- oh, watching?

That reminds me!

According to my watch...

Next stop, cloudy point station!

Cloudy point!

- Kids, remember to take your cloud drawings with you.

All: we got them! Whoo-hoo!

- Okay, everyone, have fun!

And when you see your type of cloud,

Shout its name out loud!

Hey, that rhymes.

Ohh, they're gone.

- Okay, bring on the cloud show.

All: there's some clouds!

- Good.

Okay, compare it to your leaf drawing.

- Thin clouds, wispy.

Oh, like the conductor said.

Those clouds are ours.

[Together] cirrus clouds!

- Good cloud spotting, lily.

Got to say, that cloud doesn't look icy from here.

- I want to find my cloud next.

Help me, dad! - You bet, kiddo.

Okay, stratus cloud, where are you?

Hey, is that one?

- No, nope. Sorry.

[Gasps] there!

Here come my stratus clouds!

- Your gray clouds have pretty much taken over the sky.

- Hmm, I guess we won't see any puffy white cumulus clouds

In this gray sky.

- I still see a little bit of cirrus clouds.

Go cirrus!

Both: the sun!

- Oh, no!

The sunshine is burning through my stratus clouds!

- They're white. They're puffy.

Both: they're cumulus clouds!

- I can't picture those cumulus clouds

Ever turning dark and becoming rain clouds.

- Yeah, they're so white and puffy.

- Oh, no! Is that thunder?

- Nope, it's my tummy making noises.

I guess I'm a little hungry.

- Yeah. - I could eat.

- So, larry, yesterday, didn't you say something

About if clouds made rain, you'd get us all dinner?

- [Stammering] did I say that?

Me? Clouds? Rain?

- Dad. - Okay, okay.

- So where should we have our picnic?

- At the big pond, just like I promised.

[Kids cheer]

- To the dinosaur train

And a huge dinner from larry.

- [Groans]

- We saw all the clouds you taught us about,

Mr. Conductor.

- Excellent!

Cloudy point delivers again.

- The best thing was, lily and I saw our cirrus cloud first.

- I spotted my stratus clouds right after that.

And my clouds were the biggest.

- Kids, remember, it isn't a contest.

- Mr. Pteranodon is right.

- But, dad, didn't you and mr. Pteranodon

Have a contest about clouds and rain?

And isn't it dinnertime?

[Laughter]

- I know. I know.

I'm coming up with a dinner menu.

It should be a fun picnic

Now that the rain is over for today.

- And look, here we are!

Next stop, big pond station!

- Okay, first, I'll catch a bunch of fish, gather leaves,

Decide on a dessert-- something big!

- Ooh, sounds scrumptious, mr. Lambeosaurus.

- Look! Our cumulus clouds.

And they're turning darker.

- [Groans] they'll float away.

That's what clouds do.

Okay, to the beach and our picnic!

[Thunder rumbling, kids cheering]

- Wow, buddy.

Now look how dark our cumulus clouds are!

- Not my tummy.

- [Groaning] all right, cumulus clouds.

You win!

You're full of rain,

And you're letting us know it.

So no big pond picnic. New plan!

All: inside picnic!

Hooray!

- [Munching]

Well, larry, we all learned a lesson today.

Clouds are made of water and ice.

- Yes, we all know that now.

And there are many more kinds of clouds

Than any of us knew about:

Cirrus, stratus, and, of course, the cumulus,

That may look fluffy and white, but...

All: they make the most rain.

- Oh, bless my pointy-toe claws!

Everyone sure did learn a lot today.

- Even larry. - [Chirps]

We also learned that the dining car

Still makes really yummy fish-wiches!

[Laughter]

[Indistinct chatter]

- Hi there.

I'm dr. Scott the paleontologist.

Wow! Look at those clouds.

What do you think they're made of?

Whether they're white and fluffy

Or dark and stormy,

Clouds are made of billions of tiny droplets

Of water or ice crystals.

The droplets in a single cloud are so light

That the whole cloud floats in the air.

Did you know that all droplets that fall from clouds

Start out as ice or snow?

They turn to rain only when the air around them warms up.

If the air between the cloud and the ground

Stays cold enough-- below freezing--

Then we get snow.

Clouds come in many different shapes and sizes.

Not all clouds are way up high in the sky.

Fog is a special type of cloud that forms close to the ground.

So just think, if you've ever walked around on a foggy day,

You've touched a cloud.

So remember, get outside, get into nature,

And make your own discoveries.

- We love playing games...

- Like all aboard.

- You can play too online at:

- And lots of other games.

- There's so much to learn about all kinds of dinosaurs.

Both:

- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪

- ♪ We're gonna ride ♪

- ♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride ♪

[Train whistle toots]

- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪