(rain pouring down)
CUSACK: Peep and Chirp have been waiting all morning
for Quack to come over.
They waited a lot of the afternoon, too.
And that was enough.
CHIRP: I think it's really rude of Quack
to tell us he was coming and then not even show up.
(Quack grunting)
There, that'll show you.
See? See this, hmm?
Aah! Chirp, Peep, get off the ground, quick!
You know, float or something.
PEEP: Why are you...
No time to talk.
Here, get on the stick.
Like this.
Ow! Ow. Quack.
CHIRP: Quack, what is going on?
(fearfully): Lurmies.
CHIRP: What?
It sounds like you're saying, "Lurmies."
QUACK: I am saying "Lurmies."
They live under the ground, waiting, waiting, waiting
to slither out.
PEEP: Slither?
Yes!
Out of the ground, millions of them, and they have big teeth!
I think.
CHIRP: I've never seen a lurmie.
How big are they?
Um, 50 feet, more... more or less.
I don't know.
BOTH: 50 feet?
QUACK: And do you know what happens if you step on a lurmie?
PEEP: What?
QUACK: Exactly! Nobody knows!
That's why I need your help building this.
It's a path above the lurmies!
Peep, we'll build it from here to your place,
and then all the way to Chirp's bush-tree thingy.
Yeah, we'll never have to walk on the ground again.
Whoa!
Only I'm going to need some help.
CHIRP: Uh...
QUACK: So you're in?
Good.
Because, you know, I've already done the hard part, right?
I found the sticks.
CUSACK: Peep and Chirp knew they'd need
a lot of building materials to make Quack's path.
They got Beaver Boy to help.
Quack, meanwhile, kept a sharp lookout for lurking lurmies.
PEEP: Quack, look at all the stuff we found.
Now we can start building your path.
Yes, but someone brave should stay in the pond and keep watch.
Someone like me.
In fact, me.
CHIRP: Okay, honk this if you see a lurmie.
PEEP: A little more this way.
Okay, that looks good.
Maybe we need more cans to keep it steady.
PEEP: There.
Four cans should work.
CHIRP: Hmm. The floor still feels a little...
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Unsteady.
These cans are round, so they roll instead of keeping still.
That's the problem.
BEAVER BOY: They're not round everywhere.
CHIRP: Beaver Boy's right.
Look-- on each of the ends it's flat.
So if we (grunts) lift this up...
PEEP: Yep, it doesn't roll.
CUSACK: The construction workers lifted all four cans
onto their flat sides.
But after they put the cardboard on top,
there was still a problem.
Hmm.
(horn honks)
QUACK: What? Where, what, what? What was that?
The horn! It's lurmies!
Help!
No?
Ooh, oh.
Oh, I like it.
CHIRP: Uh, Quack, it's not really ready yet.
QUACK: It's perfect!
Only it's a little hard to get (grunting) to the...
(yelling)
QUACK: Okay, it needs some work.
PEEP: The cans are all the same height when they're lying down.
But if you stand them up, those two are shorter than those two.
CHIRP: Would you say they're exactly half as tall?
BEAVER BOY: Uh-huh.
And I like how they stack.
CHIRP: So we just need two more cans.
PEEP: The floor is flat! Hooray!
And we'll get up there how?
PEEP: Stairs?
QUACK: Yes.
I'm on it.
Hmm. Hmm.
Aha!
(chuckling)
(grunting)
CHIRP: Quack, you can't stack something on top of a ball.
Chirp, we just figured out when it's a round thing
you have to lay it on its flat side,
which for this thing is right here.
Um... here.
No, here.
Here? Here? Here?
Where's the flat side on this thing?
I don't think it has one.
Hmm.
Okay, then let's build stairs with these.
These have lots of flat sides.
Hey!
CHIRP: I think stairs need to be flat.
Try these.
(gasps)
Oh, no! Rain!
We've got to hurry.
They come out after it rains.
And by "they," I mean the lurmies!
CUSACK: The birds discovered that their stairs
were less wobbly when the big boxes were on the bottom
and when each box rested on its widest side.
(Quack chuckling)
Mm-hmm.
Just 500 more of these and we'll reach Peep's house, and then...
(screams)
Lurmies! Up the stairs!
Get on the path.
They're back. The lurmies!
No, wait. The horn.
Honk the horn!
(horn honking)
QUACK: Excuse me, can you move, please?
Duck coming through. Quack.
Where are they?
I don't see them.
QUACK: There, see them?
Right there.
CHIRP: You mean those?
Those are earthworms.
QUACK: Exactly.
Earthworms, lurmies, (sputtering) same thing!
PEEP: You said they were 50 feet long.
QUACK: I said more or less, so that would be less.
Hmm, I remember them being bigger.
Hey, where are you guys going?
CHIRP: We're going to go enjoy the rest of the day.
Oh, okay, well, now that I'm off the ground... hmm, not bad.
Not bad at all.
Because you know what?
Lurmie, wormie, call it what you want...
(yawns)
I still wouldn't want to step on one.
(snoring)
(mumbling in his sleep)