The Rollbots' Adventures of Happy Feet/Transcript

This is the script for The Rollbots' Adventures of Happy Feet.

[The story begins at The Flip City Police Department HQ]

Manx: Well, that speeder was only the beginning but I managed to catch him in no time flat.

Penny: Very impressive, Manx.

Tinny: Cool!

Spin: Good job.

Captain Pounder: Rollbots, gather around.

[They obey]

Spin: What's up, Captain?

Captain Pounder: Looks like it's time we go on a adventure outside Flip City.

Botch: The guy thought we could use a change of scenery.

Spin: It could be fun.

Tinny: Yeah. Who knows what we might discover.

Penny: We can make new friends.

Lance: And learn new cultures.

Manx: And see new places we've never seen before.

Captain Pounder: All very true. Now, I've had the Tensai build a dimensional transportation device that will take us to the chosen destination.

Spin: Show us, Captain.

[The scene changes to the Tensai lab where Captain Pounder leads them to the machine]

Captain Pounder: Here it is.

Spin: Whoa. That's awesome.

Tinny: Amazing.

Lance: Quite the eye catcher, if I do say so myself.

Botch: How does it work?

Captain Pounder: You'll see in a minute.

[The machine turns on, and a portal opens to the chosen destination]

Captain Pounder: [moving towards it] Let's go. [changes to his ball form and rolls in]

Spin: Let's do it.

[He and the others change to their ball forms and follow Captain Pounder]

[The scene changes to outer space where the portal opens and the Rollbots come out and change to their robot forms]

Tinny: Whoa! Where are we?

Captain Pounder: Outer space, Tinny.

Lance: Wow! We're above Earth!

Spin: Wait, do you hear that?

Botch: Hear what?

Spin: It sounds like singing.

Woman Off-Screen: Once there was a way~

Penny: Follow that voice.

[The voice continues singing as they follow it]

Woman Off-Screen: To get back homeward~

Spin: We're getting closer.

Man Off-Screen: All the stars out tonight~

Woman Off-Screen: Once there was a way~

To get back home~

Man Off-Screen: I only have eyes~

Woman Off-Screen: Sleep pretty darling~

Do not cry~

Lance: Where as these voices coming from?

Man Off-Screen: For you~

Woman Off-Screen: And I will sing a lullaby~

Man Off-Screen: With a song in my heart~

Spin: I don't know, Lance.

Woman Off-Screen: So tell me~

Captain Pounder: It's coming from over there.

[They follow the voices over the moon towards Earth]

Woman and Man Off-Screen: Tell me something good~

Botch: Which part of Earth is that signing coming from?

Woman Off-Screen: Yeah, yeah, yeah~

Tell me that you love me~

Tell me, baby~

[The earth spins to reveal Antarctica]

Penny: It's coming from Antarctica.

Manx: It's so white.

Captain Pounder: Alright, everyone follow me.

[They follow him as the song continues]

Men and Woman Off-Screen: Tell me something good~

[The Rollbots land on Antartica's white surface]

Rollbots: Wow!

Man Off-Screen: Only you~

Woman Off-Screen: But how can you know for sure?

Spin: Over there!

[They follow the singing to a colony of emperor penguins]

Man Off-Screen: Can make this world seem right~

Woman Off-Screen: Is there really just one?

Man Off-Screen: I need your love~

Woman Off-Screen: So many songs but I feel so lonely.

Spin: Emperor penguins?

Penny: How can they sing? They're animals.

Botch: They're not supposed to talk.

Captain Pounder: Maybe so but these penguins are special and you're about to see why.

[He leads them into the colony and points to one of the female penguins, Norma Jean]

Captain Pounder: Now, keep an eye on the female penguin and watch what happens.

Lance: OK.

Norma Jean: You don't have to be beautiful~

To turn me on~

Norma Jean's backing group: Oh, yeah~

Norma Jean: I just need your body, baby~

Male Penguin 1: Hello~

Norma Jean: From dusk to dawn~

Male Penguin 1: Is it me your looking for~

Norma Jean: You don't need experience~

Male Penguin 2: Take~

Norma Jean: To turn me on~

Male Penguin 2: These broken wings~

Norman Jean: You just leave it up to me~

Male Penguin 3: Let's talk about eggs baby~

Let's talk about you and me~

Norma Jean: Don't have to be cool to be my pearl~

Don't have to be cool to rule my world~

Ain't particular song I'm more compatible with~

I just want your extra...~

(Spoken) Boys. Boys! Give a chick a chance.

Memphis: (singing) Well since my baby left me~

I found a place to dwell~

It's down at the lonely street, at heartbreak hotel~

I'm feelin so lonely baby~

I'm feelin so lonely...~

(with Norman Jean) I'm feeling so lonely~

Norman Jean: I could die~

Memphis: Don't have to be rich to be my girl~

Norma Jean: don't have to be cool to rule my world~

Memphis: You rule my world~

Norma Jean: In no particular song I'm more compatible with~

Norma Jean and Memphis: I just want your extra time and your kiss~

Lovelace: His mom and dad met in the usual way. The song became love......and love became the egg.

[The scene changes to Memphis moving the egg onto his feet]

Norma Jean: Memphis? You got it, sugar?

Memphis: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Safe and warm.

Norma Jean: Hold it tight, now.

Memphis: Whoa, I think I felt a move in there.

Lovelace: And in the usual way......the moms left for the fishing season......while the dads stayed home to do egg time.

Norma Jean: You gonna be okay, Daddy?

Memphis: Oh, sure, honey. We'll be waiting for you, right here on Lonely Street.

Norman Jean: I love you more and more, tell me why~ Bye-bye, now.

Memphis: Goodbye, Norma Jean. Don't you worry about a thing.

Norma Jean: Don't wanna let you go~

I never can say goodbye, boy~

[The Rollbots come out of hiding and approach Memphis]

Rollbots: Hello.

Memphis: Whoa. Who are you guys?

Captain Pounder: I'm Captain Pounder of the FCPD. This is Spin, Tinny, Penny, Lance, Botch, Macro and Manx.

Memphis: Nice to meet you. I'm Memphis.

Spin: We'll help you take care of the egg until your wife gets back.

Memphis: Thanks. What kinds of things are you?

Captain Pounder: We are Rollbots. [changes to his ball form] Which means we're both balls [switches back to bot form] and robots.

Memphis: I see. That ain't penguin.

Captain Pounder: I know but still, you can count on us to help you keep that egg safe at all costs.

[The scene changes to the sun setting as the cold winds blow in]

Noah the Elder: When all others leave...

Other elders: We remain!

Noah the Elder: When the sun vanishes...

Other Elders: We remain!

Memphis: I'm feelin' so lonely~

I'm feelin' so lonely--~

I'm feelin' so lonely--

Noah the Elder: Heed the wisdoms, brothers! Make a huddle!

Other elders: Warm thy egg!

Noah the Elder:Make a huddle!

Other Elders: Share the cold!

Memphis: Share the cold.

Noah the Elder: Each must take his turn against the icy blast... if we are to survive the endless night. Raise your voices, brothers! Give praise to the Great 'Guin... who puts songs in our hearts and fish in our bellies!

Norman Jean: Ain't no particular song I'm more compatible with~

Memphis: Oh, baby, l think l wanna dance now.

[Memphis drops his egg]

Memphis: No, no, no, no, no, no!

Spin: Follow that egg!

Penny: Come on!

[They go after it]

Lovelace: There is a wisdom, brothers and sisters, that stands above all others. Never, ever...

Memphis: It's okay.

Lovelace: No matter what...

Memphis: No harm done, you see?

Lance: That was way too close.

Botch: Tell me about it.

Lovelace: Drop your egg.

Memphis: No, we're cool. We're cool.

Captain Pounder: Well, at least nothing bad happened.

Penny: Yeah. That egg would be frozen in ice if we hadn't been there.

Lovelace: Of the many thousands who sang through that long night of winter, it was Memphis who cried out most fervently to turn the Earth and bring back the sun.

[The scene changes to the sun rising over the Earth and Antarctica. It made the ice crack and mountains fall down and crack the ice surface. Moments later, a baby penguin hatches from it's egg]

Baby Penguin: Da-da.

[Other penguin chicks hatch. All of them have hatched except Memphis'. Another male penguin, Maurice, and his chick, Gloria, come over to him and the Rollbots]

Spin: Come on, little guy. Tell us you're okay.

Maurice: Memphis, is everything okay?

Memphis: l don't know. l can't hear anything.

[Gloria taps the egg with her beak]

Gloria: ls it empty?

Maurice: Honey.

Gloria: Can l have it?

Maurice: Gloria.

Penny: No, it's okay.

Botch: Penny?

Penny: What?

Botch: Why do you say it's OK?

Penny: Because if the chick didn't make it, it would be fine for her to have it.

Captain Pounder: Besides, we just need to be patient. The results could come up any time now.

Maurice: lt happens sometimes, Memphis.

Memphis: Yeah.

[Gloria taps the egg again. Memphis turns away when suddenly the egg starts moving]

Memphis: Wait, you hear that?

Maurice: Yeah.

Memphis: Hey, l can hear you, buddy.

Spin: He made it!

Lance: Oh, Huzzah!

Memphis: Oh, your papa's here, it's okay.

Gloria: [giggles]

Memphis: Oh, he's okay, Maurice. Whoa, there it is!

[The chick's first foot pops out]

Memphis: That's his little foot there.

[The other foot comes out]

Memphis: There's his other one.

[The egg gets up and toddles off. Gloria, Memphis, Maurice and the Rollbots follow]

Memphis: That's different.

Manx: Totally.

Gloria: Hey! Come back here, Mr. Mumble.

Memphis: Gloria... She can call him whatever the heck she likes.

Spin: And Mumble's the perfect name for him. [to the egg] Get back here!

Memphis: Whoa, little Mumble.

[Spin grabs the egg and they fall off the edge and tumble, spin to a wall and land on the ground where the egg shatters, revealing Mumble]

Gloria: Mumble? Mumble?

Memphis: You okay?

Captain Pounder: Spin, you alright?

Spin: I'm good, Captain. And so is this little guy. [to Mumble] Hey, that's a cute little dance you got there.

Mumble: Freezing. Freezing.

Memphis: Oh, you'll get used to it.

Lance: Yes, like most of them do.

Memphis: Come on. Come to your daddy.

[Mumble goes to Memphis followed by Spin. Other male penguins watch]

Male Penguin 1: What do you make of that?

Male Penguin 2: Little wobbly in the knees.

Male Penguin 3: Is he okay?

Male Penguin 2: I don't know.

Manx: What are you doing there, little guy?

Memphis: What you doin' there, boy?

Mumble: l'm happy, Pa.

Memphis: What you doing with your feet?

Mumble: They're happy too.

Memphis: l wouldn't do that around folks, son.

Mumble: Why not?

Memphis: Well, it just ain't penguin, okay?

Mumble: Okay.

Memphis: Yeah. Hey, come on over here. Get under here. Get warm.

[Mumble readies himself]

Memphis: Watch the beak. Watch the beak-- Beak! [Mumble hits him between the legs making him yelp in pain] The beak. Okay, good boy.

Spin: [laughs] That was funny.

[Moments later, the fathers are all waiting for the wives to appear]

Elder: So late. What's keeping them?

Noah the Elder: Pray, brothers, the Great 'Guin does not test us with a lean season.

Elder: Why, Noah? Have we not all been dutiful?

Lance: What's taking them so long?

Penny: Lance, be patient.

Captain Pounder: I'm sure they'll be here soon.

Manx: We just need to be patient.

Memphis: So when you see your mama...

Mumble: l stand perfectly still.

Memphis: You got it.

Mumble: But how will l know which one's my mama?

Memphis: Oh, you'll know. She's got a wiggle in her walk and a giggle in her talk. And when she sings, it darn near breaks your heart.

Botch: Yeah. Totally.

[The wives suddenly appear from the mist]

Male Penguin: Hey, wait. l see them. l see them!

Male Penguin 2: You're right! You're right!

Noah the Elder: Wives, ho!

Male Penguin 3: Wives, ho!

Mumble: Wives, ho!

Memphis: Mumble, get back here. No, Mumble! Get back-- Mumble! Mumble! Mumble! Mumble!

Lance: Where has he got to?

Spin: Come on, we've gotta find him!

Captain Pounder: Keep you eyes peeled for him!

Rollbots: Yes, sir!

[The Rollbots split up to search for Mumble]

Maurice: Michelle? Michelle?

Male Penguin: Roxanne?

Maurice: Michelle?

Female engine: Alfie?

Michelle: Maurice!

Maurice: Michelle! Michelle!

Gloria: Mommy!

Michelle: Oh, she's so darling.

Memphis: Excuse me. Pardon me, pardon me. Mumble? Mumble?

Penny: Oh, Mumble.

Mumble: Mama?

Spin: Mumble!

Mumbleb: Mama?

Captain Pounder: Mumble!

Memphis: Mumble!

Mumble: (off-screen) Mama? Mama?

Memphis: Mumble, boy, where are you?

Mumble: (off-screen) Mama!

Norma Jean: Memphis?

Memphis: Oh, Mama. Oh, Mama. Oh, my.

Norma Jean: Daddy.

Spin: Finally found your mate, huh.

Penny: No sign of your son.

Norma Jean: So where's the baby?

Memphis: Well, honey, l'll find him.

Norman Jean: You lost the baby? Memphis!

Memphis: lt's okay.

Mumble: [toddling over] Mama? Mama?

Memphis: Stay!

[Mumble stops and Norma Jean sees him]

Norma Jean: Come to Mommy.

Memphis: No, Mumble.

Mumble: [coming over] Mama, Mama.

Norma Jean: Hey, what's wrong with his feet?

Memphis: Oh, that's just a little thing he's got going. He'll grow out of it.

Botch: We'II see about that.

Penny: Yep. We will.

Mumble: Mama!

Norma Jean: Oh, Memphis, he's gorgeous.

Memphis: lsn't he, though?

Norma Jean: Look at you. l got something for you. Open up. [she regurgitates into Mumble's mouth]

Memphis: Oh, l love the way she does that.

Spin: Ew!

Manx: Gross!

Lance: That is absolutely disgusting!

[The scene changes to Mumble hurrying to school followed by the Rollbots]

Baby penguins: W, X, Y and Z.

Miss Viola: Good morning, class.

Baby penguins: Good morning, Miss Viola.

Miss Viola: Right Well, today we begin with the most important lesson you will ever learn at Penguin Elementary. Does anyone know what that is? Anyone? Anyone? Someone? Seymour?

Seymour: Fishing?

Miss Viola: No. Mumble?

Mumble: Don't eat yellow snow?

Miss Viola: No, that's not it, no.

Gloria: lt's our Heartsong, Miss.

Miss Viola: Thank you, Gloria. Excellent, yes. Without our Heartsong, we can't be truly penguin, can we?

Baby Penguins: No.

Miss Viola: But, my dears, it's not something that l can actually teach you. Does anybody know why? Anyone? Anyone?

Gloria: You can't teach it to us, ma'am, because we have to find our Heartsongs all by ourselves.

Miss Viola: Well done, you.

Gloria. lt's the voice you hear inside, who you truly are.

Miss Viola: Yes. Thank you, Gloria. Excellent, lovely, thank you.

Captain Pounder: Ma'am, I am Captain Pounder of the FCPD. This is Spin, Lance, Penny, Tinny, Botch, Macro and Manx.

Miss Viola: Very nice to meet you. I'm Miss Viola. Now, let's all be very still now. Take a moment and let it come to you.

[A moment of silence]

Baby Chicks: Pick me! Pick me!

Seymour: I've got one! Pick me! Pick me! Me! Me!

Miss Viola: One at a time. Yes, Seymour.

Seymour: Don't push me~

'Cause I am close to the edge~

I'm trying not to lose my head~

Miss Viola: Yes, l like that one. l could really get jiggy with that. Lovely.

Gloria: I'm ready! I've got one!

Miss Viola: Oh, l thought you might, Gloria.

Gloria: Midnight creeps so slowly~

Into hearts of those~

Who need more than they get~

Daylight deals a bad hand~

To a penguin~

Who has laid too many bets~ That's as far as l got so far.

Penny: Nice. Okay, I've got one. Here goes. [clears her throat]

One day, not so far away~

The night won't seem so lonely~

One day, in every way~

That someone will care for me~

And it warms my heart~

To know that I'll be loved~

But for now it's just...~

One day~

Miss Voila: Excellent, Penny.

Mumble: That's beautiful.

Miss Viola: Well, Mumble, since you seem so keen to share.

Mumble: Mine's sort of a boom and a (blows raspberry) And another boom.

Miss Viola: You heard that in there?

Mumble: Do you like it?

Miss Viola: l'm afraid that's not a tune.

Mumble: lt's not?

Miss Viola: No, dear. A tune is like: La, la, la, la, la, la, la.

Mumble: Oh, okay.

[Mumble tries to copy but it comes out all off-key]

Noah: Who is that?

Elder: That is the offspring of Memphis and Norma Jean.

Noah: The wee hippity-hopper.

[Mumble continues to try and copy but his screeching voice makes icicles fall from above onto him]

Baby chicks: (laughing)

Gloria: lt's not funny!

Miss Viola: No. No, not in the least. A penguin without a Heartsong is hardly a penguin at all.

Random baby chick: l think he broke my ear.

Spin: That's funny. He can't sing?

Botch: Now that is weird.

[Later, Miss Viola talks to Mumble's parents]

Miss Viola: ln all my years, l've never, l mean-- And you having such fine voices. Well, it's bizarre. Did anything happen, you know, during early development?

Norma Jean:No, all fine. Normal incubation.

Miss Viola: Right.

Norma Jean: Wasn't it, honey?

Memphis: Yeah. Yeah, it was a tough winter, l guess.

Miss Viola: Right, right.

Memphis: He did hatch a little late.

Miss Viola: Yes, l understand. Yes.

Norma Jean: To think he might spend his life alone...

Miss Viola: Quite, quite.

Norma Jean: Never to meet his one true love.

Memphis: Oh, please, Miss Viola, isn't there something we can do?

Miss Viola: Well, there is always Mrs. Astrakhan.

Memphis: Mrs. Astrakhan?

Mis Viola: lf anyone can, Mrs. Astrakhan can.

[The camera shifts to Mrs. Astrakhan's place]

Mrs. Astrakhan: Can't sing? Can't sing? Rubbish, darling. Every little penguin has a song. When l have finished, your singing will be giving everyone the goose pimple.

Botch: Whoa. She's a smooth talker.

Mrs. Astrakhan: Now, to begin. First, we must find a feeling. Happy feeling, sad feeling. Maybe lonely feeling.

[She turns to Mumble]

Mrs. Astrakhan: You feel it?

Mumble: Yeah.

Mrs. Astrakhan: Good. Now, let it out. Be spontaneous.

[She heard clapping coming from Lance]

Mrs. Astrakhan: Why are you clapping?

Lance: Well, because you're so good at being uh, theatrical.

Mrs. Astrakhan: Thank you. [she then hears Mumble tap dancing] What is that?

Mumble: l'm being spontan-you-us.

Captain Pounder: Kid, I don't think that counts as being spontaneous.

Botch: And you mispronounced the word.

Mrs. Astrakhan: They're right. You want to meet beautiful girl? You want to make the egg?

Mumble: Oh, yes.

Mrs. Astrakhan: Well, sing! And no jiggy-jog. Do not move muscle. No moving!

Mumble: [off-key] Twinkle, twinkle, little star!

[The others looks startled]

Mrs. Astrakhan: Enough! Okay. We go back to the top. Forget body. Look inside soul. Feel the feeling. Enormous feeling. So enormous it fills whole body. lt must escape or you explode. Now, open your little beak. Come on. Yes, yes. Lift up the head, that's it. Now.... Now.... Now~

[Mumble opens his mouth and takes a deep breath but then he starts tap dancing once more. Mrs. Astrakhan is devastated by her failure and goes to an pedestal made from ice]

Mrs. Astrakhan: Disaster! Catastrophe! l never fail before. Never! Never! (sobs)

Mumble: Was that my fault?

Penny: Don't worry, honey. I'm sure she'll get over it.

Manx: Yeah. We all get over failures sometimes.

[Later, Norma Jean, Memphis, the Rollbots and Mumble are walking together whilst Mrs. Astrakhan continues to sulk behind them in the distance]

Norma Jean: Well, l thought it was kind of cute.

Memphis: But it just ain't penguin, okay?

Norma Jean: So what if he's a little different? l always kind of liked different.

Memphis: He's not different. He's a regular emperor penguin.

Botch: There's nothing wrong with being different.

Lance: It makes us who we are.

Mumble: Hey, you know what? l can leave school. l can go to work. The three of us.

Memphis: Whoa, little fella. You ain't going nowhere till you got yourself an education. You get them singing muscles big and strong, you got that?

Mumble: l'll try, Pa.

Memphis: You bet you will. The word triumph starts with try, and it ends with...?

Mumble: Umph.

Memphis: That's right. A great big umph. l'm going fishing.

Mumble: Oh, Mumble.

Penny: Don't listen to him, little guy. Your tap dancing is way better than singing.

Spin: He needs to accept you for who you are.

Manx: Don't worry. I'm sure he'll come around eventually.

Captain Pounder: Let's help him show just how great dancing can be.

[The scene then changes to Mumble and the Rollbots standing on a cliff overlooking the colony]

Lovelace: That first hard summer, while his mom and dad were working overtime on the great commute to the sea, Mumble and his new friends found a place away from disapproving eyes where a funky little fella could be himself.

Spin: Okay, ready?

Rollbots: Ready.

[Mumble and the Rollbots start to tap-dance as the song "I Wish" plays in the background. A Skua stands behind them]

Boss Skua: Hey, [the Rollbots and Mumble turn to face him] what you doing there, flipper bird?

Mumble: Nothing. What are you doing?

Boss Skua: Nothing. Just dropped in for a little lunch.

Mumble: There's food? Here?

Skua 2: Leg or wing?

Mumble: Oh, no, no, wait. Not me, l'm a penguin.

Boss Skua: Exactly. The flipper birds, that's you, eat the fish. The flying birds, that's me, eat the flipper bird and the fish. And lately, there ain't a lot of fish. So....

Skua 3: This time l'm getting the juicy bits.

Skua 4: Me first!

Skua 2: Hey, you want a piece of me?

Boss Skua: Hey, hey, hey! l'm trying to think about lunch.

Mumble: Wait! Watch this!

Boss Skua: Yeah, that's weird, all right. Listen. For once, [steps on Mumble] we're gonna do this civilized.

Captain Pounder: Hey, get off him! [grabs Boss Skua's leg]

Boss Skua: Get off of me! [throws Captain Pounder off]

Mumble: [spotting the tag on Boss Skua's leg] Hey, what's that on your leg?