The Fixies English - THE MAGIC WAND - Full Episodes

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[Music]

don't

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see

wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden wish

tom thomas

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go to

the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish tadish

[Music]

that wasn't the idea looks like a dog to

me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish tadish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around

wow i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no like be

careful how can you live being this tall

it's so inconvenient and i thought it

was tough when you were so tiny tom

thomas are you ready hey why do we have

three dogs all of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seem to be an

impossible dream but today anyone can

take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins for storing lots of

money people use a safe a large metal

box with a very strong lock now that

kind of piggy banks almost impossible to

break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it

yeah forget it i have nothing to put my

money into but what if there's already

enough for roller skates and what if

there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

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tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two

coins wait no lick what one coin two

coins what are you counting you have to

add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

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what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

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i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

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you're my friend aren't you

of course then smash the piggy bank will

you

okay look i'm gonna do it

[Music]

are you okay

i'm okay

thank you

tom thomas thank you my friend no

problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here to buy a piggy bank that's totally

brand new

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but if i told my daddy it's all inside

your head

you really

[Music]

the key card

[Music]

well professor you genius your kennels

back in action

why thank you

i've been longing for a cup of tea

yes

there's no tea left in here

[Music]

then i'll go ask lisa if she has some ah

look professor you genius you forgot the

key

[Music]

the key don't close the door cinka you

must be joking that's a key this is

nothing but a plastic card but it

is a special kind it's called a key card

to open up the combination lock you need

to enter a code in the correct order

that means if you can't remember the

code you can't open the lock

but if the lock uses a key card there

isn't any code to memorize because the

code is held inside the card's memory

and the lock can read the code from the

card of course key cards don't work with

any lock they have to be smart blocks

that are able to read electronic codes

when the smart lock reads the correct

code it opens right up

[Music]

elisa do we have any tea here of course

professor you genius

wonderful i'll take one bag then

oh i left my key inside the lab can i

borrow yours

just don't forget to give it back of

course i'll give it back come on elisa i

got myself a tea bag professor you

genius the water's boiling fantastic

wait a second ah oh no i was supposed to

give something back to elisa why don't

you go and ask her right i'll be right

back

[Music]

professor you genius

that's card number two now

[Music]

elisa

i promised you something didn't i yes

the key you said you'd return it yeah

sure let me get it just a sec

oh oh i locked it in the lab it's

terrible how will you ever get back into

the laboratory now you see

there is one way but it's a secret would

you mind leaving for a couple of minutes

colleague professor can you do me a

little favor

the key i think i left it on the table

yeah right it's true so how do we solve

this i need to think about it what's

there to think about we just have to go

and push it under the door

you think you can do it yeah it's time

to get to work

hey what's going on

were you just calling for me yeah uh no

lisa not for you

it's so heavy do you know where digit

ran off too

digits off somewhere thinking he's

always doing that when it's time to work

hard to port

hard to starboard way to go nolik

then who were you talking to

actually oh

what's that where

what

what was that come on let's try again

yeah look do you see that ah that it's a

telekinesis

it's the power to transport things with

your mind

you are just astounding

was that done with your mind too the

door yeah sure

you are a genius

[Music]

professor eugenius is a very talented

scientist and a dear old friend of the

fixies he always helps the fixies and

the fixies are happy to help him too

professor eugenius let the fixie set up

their school right here at his

laboratory it's hard to imagine a better

place for a fixie school people from all

over the city bring all sorts of things

to the laboratory to be tested from

computers phones and furniture to food

and toys professor eugenius uses his

expertise to check the quality of all

these different things to help him carry

out his experiment his laboratory is

filled with a variety of tools and

machines

yes professor eugenius is a very smart

man but he can be absent-minded lucky

for him he's got us pixies around

[Music]

thanks for everything

sliding the key card under the door that

was cinca's awesome idea but the door

opened wide while the card was still on

the floor

that's strange there's nothing strange

about it i don't want to open it

wow

i climbed in the lock that's all figured

out how it worked and

titty very clever that's a real tadish i

guess that thinking before you go and

fix something ought to be what we all

study next

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the bee

tom thomas

hello

how come you're eating jam straight from

out of the jar because

it tastes so good

oh a bee

[Music]

shoe get out of here leave it alone it's

just a plain old bee well i was bitten

by one of those plain old bees once

don't do it go away you pests

flies are pests these are very helpful

and useful how can a bee ever help us

out

bees are hard workers they are

constantly collecting nectar from

flowers

flying from flower to flower bees

transport pollen on their bellies thanks

to this process of pollination flowers

produce fruit and seeds in other words

bees help plants reproduce

the bees use the nectar they collect to

make that delicious sweet honey loved by

kids of all ages and bee honey is not

only delicious it's also nutritious

so i'm still afraid of it what if it

bites me bees don't bite by the way they

sting

[Music]

well now i'm gonna show you

[Music]

don't

the bee's the one who should be afraid

you tyrant yeah you let it go tyrant why

are you calling me names who's stopping

her she can fly away if she wants

we need to show her the way out

well how

here little bee

fly this way

why don't you try going

then what can i say

[Music]

don't move it'll sting you it doesn't

want to sting both of you like to eat

sweets you like eating jam and so does

the bee why don't you carry your socket

to the window

go on fly

no that's not gonna work you need to go

and get more jam

here little bee

yum yum

go on and fly you're free

let her eat first don't be greedy i'm

not being greedy

if she eats she can make honey out of

your jam

long ago people could only collect honey

by destroying the nests of wild bees

and that went on until someone came up

with the idea of taming those insects

they started by leaving enough honey for

the bees to survive through the winter

people took care of bees in these

hollows until they learned to build

small houses for them called beehives

and a town made of these bee houses is

called an apiary bees live and work

together in the beehives making honey

while beekeepers take care of the bees

and collect the honey these are real

team players they tell each other where

the best flowers grow do you know how

they do it one of the bees does a dance

and then the rest of the bees watch the

dance and learn where they need to fly

you poor thing

tom thomas tired you out

i told you there's nothing to be afraid

of you see

she's just so nice and kind i'm not

afraid of her she wouldn't let me eat my

jam that's all well now it's time for

you to fly away

whoa she's playing rough here i want to

try ah and no look you're too little

you'll have to grow to do this job whoa

whoa whoa calm down now now let's fly

hey cinco the windows back there i can

see that without you

[Music]

so how can i get you to turn around

cool hooray

she's listening to me

[Music]

don't miss the window

[Music]

now

so long honeybee

[Music]

tom thomas do you have any more of that

jam left yeah what for

bring it here we'll get more bees to fly

how come what do you mean how come

because it's my turn for a b ride

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but

[Music]

why are we going to the dishwasher again

we have a busy day ahead of us and we

all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious knowledge

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices

getting charged up in a car makes a

fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha

there you are go get charged right now

i'm not going look at tom thomas he

doesn't want to have breakfast either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana

i found some chocolate too and i found

strawberry ice cream start up the mixer

when you get up from your videos

[Music]

there is still something you need

[Music]

indeed

[Music]

a little milk sauce

[Music]

that you need

[Music]

wow this mixer's cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simka

what in the world were you up to

and what happened to noblek

just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

[Music]

are such nutritious

creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go

to the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

[Music]

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish

[Music]

oh that wasn't the idea looks like a dog

to me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish tadish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around wow

i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no be careful

[Music]

how can you live being this tall it's so

inconvenient and i thought it was tough

when you were so tiny tom thomas are you

ready hey why do we have three dogs all

of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seemed to be

an impossible dream

but today anyone can take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

can you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's

[Music]

please don't let the secret

[Music]

the level

tom thomas

i'm really sorry the movie this weekend

i have to cancel

you do

i need to go to africa for work i leave

tomorrow

oh cool you think i could go with you to

africa can you even find it on the map

africa

here we go

mm-hmm

no you're still too little

when you grow as tall as

the top of africa then i'll take you

with me

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing down there i

want to know if i'm as tall as the top

of africa or not

well do you know your height

okay then let's measure you and mark how

tall you are you just need to hold the

book all right

[Music]

uh how do we measure what's higher the

top of africa or this line over here

[Music]

hmm

[Music]

it's a tough one we need a piece of

flexible clear tubing oh i can get it

for you i know where it is and we'll

build a simple tool to find out the

answer it's called a water level

let's do an experiment first we'll pour

water into two bottles a little bit more

into one and a little less into the

other now we'll connect them with a tube

so that the water can flow between them

you see the water flows and flows and

then it stops it stops when there's the

same amount of water inside of both

bottles and if we do this with a simple

tube it becomes a useful tool called a

water level in which the water on both

sides is always the same height

[Music]

i'm gonna watch the water level on this

end all right

be careful how you lift it or the water

can get out

what's going on

the water inside the tube is even with

the line there you go tom thomas where

the water is right now is how tall you

are

and well it looks like tom thomas isn't

quite tall enough for africa

what if we hold the tube a little higher

you can try if you want but the water's

gonna stay where it is

[Music]

see the water level on your side always

stays the same as on the other side

uh i'm not getting that tall for a while

yet

and what if we just lower the map a

little

that wouldn't be honest but it would be

clever

there are a lot of great proverbs but my

favorite one is measure twice cut once

and to measure things right you need

measuring tools the simplest one is a

ruler with itself we can find out the

length of an object a watch can tell us

how much time is passed a speedometer

shows us how fast we are moving like in

a car or on a bike an electric meter

keeps track of how much electricity we

are using

a decibel meter can tell us who is

screaming or stomping louder

and a beam compass is used to accurately

measure the size of a coin or a hole we

couldn't get by without wonderful tools

like these

if we didn't measure the things we are

building carefully everything around us

would just come loose fall apart

dad

look dad

hmm that's strange looks like you are a

little taller

does that mean you'll take me with you

yeah

are you ready yay

but everyone who goes to africa has to

get vaccinated you're okay with that

aren't you i need vaccinations to go are

you sure yeah there's one against

malaria ct fly crocodile bites all

together there are 10 shots 10 shots

yeah 10.

dad you know

i was joking after you left the room i

moved the map down okay i see and i was

joking about all those shots you need

what you mean you don't need to get

shots you gotta just not ten so how many

nine of them there's no vaccination

anywhere to stop a crocodile from biting

[Music]

you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet

[Music]

the robot

did i already tell you what i'm hoping

you'll get me for my birthday present

yes honey only a thousand times or so a

robotizoid r 300 would just be the

greatest with mega vision i want it i

really do

i do

well tomorrow you'll find out but now

it's time to sleep tom thomas

wow that is one great present and we got

tom thomas absolutely zero for his

birthday uh we're just terrible friends

so how does this robot work

okay

so let's give this a try shall we

first we'll take a walk

and how does he have any idea where the

robot's going i can tell you

one of the robots eyes is a video camera

the robot sends the picture to the

screen on the controller so the player

can see where the robot is going yeah

and that's just one thing they know how

to do

a robot is a smart machine that can do

very difficult or dangerous work for

humans with its strong metal arms a

robot can move heavy objects or put

together parts to build cars and other

machines

robots are often sent into outer space

or to the bottom of the ocean to help

scientists

there are also robots that can

understand what people are saying and

robots that can talk and even make jokes

just like people

i've got it

now let's turn you around

[Music]

what was that

uh look

you know

he destroyed him no stop you were

playing with that right you think tom

will notice oh

i know what you're doing all night i'm

off to bed i'll get him to work i'll

stay up until i do cinca

let's try it no we're gonna need some

help

when your tv has broken when your cell

phone has croaked your laptop fairly

working the kettles had a

us where we're stroke

for it's known far and wide but any kind

of problem is clearer from inside

one two three

inside will be

to fix what's wrong

our work will never end

appliances are fickle they need a loyal

friend and midnight

every single

[Music]

will be

all day and night

we fix things right

one two three

inside will be

all day and night

we fix things right we live to keep on

working and work for us is fun so we'll

just keep on working

and deep inside of gadgets if you look

when it's dark you might just see us

race around like multi-color sparks

one two three

[Music]

we fix things right

one

[Music]

all day

wow

you got it

we need to hide

robotizoid r300 i can't believe it

[Music]

well happy birthday to you tom thomas

i'm sorry tom thomas last night your

robot you know i broke it

dad it works perfectly don't you see

[Music]

i'm so proud of you you fixed it

[Music]

i couldn't fix it at all i tried

everything oh you want to tell me that

the robot fixed itself

what a joker

[Music]

mom dad thanks so much i love it

and how about thanking us

i should have known it was you who fixed

the robot happy birthday happy birthday

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money's safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins

for storing lots of money people use a

safe a large metal box with a very

strong lock

now that kind of piggy banks almost

impossible to break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it yeah forget it

i have nothing to put my money into but

what if there's already enough for

roller skates and what if there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

[Music]

tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

[Music]

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

[Music]

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two coins wait no lick what one coin

two coins what are you counting you have

to add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

[Music]

what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

[Music]

i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

[Music]

you're my friend aren't you of course

then smash the piggy bank will you

okay knowledge i'm gonna do it

[Music]

no listen are you okay

i'm okay

thank you tom thomas thank you my friend

no problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here

to buy a piggy bank that's totally brand

new

[Music]

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up

[Music]

they take

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simka

it's a cartoon about gulliver in the

land of lillypoo

my friend genie let me borrow it i have

it till tomorrow

and what's the story about

well it's about this guy who gets

shipwrecked where people are just so

teeny teeny tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simca i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little fusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master fixie

repairmen

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up

i can't give her back a disc that's

messed up don't panic we'll take a look

at it come lay it down over here

[Music]

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disk

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

in the air and flush it to each other

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the catapult

[Music]

what was that huh

strange

thomas isn't here

there's no way these toy soldiers could

have shot it themselves

now that was a good shot

it wasn't real long and not high either

and off target

it was pretty awful it was good but

awful i got it so what do we do we need

to raise it up a little higher hey fire

no lick why in the world would you shoot

at a fixie fixies they're supposed to be

in school right now

actually i'm on my way to school how

about you fire why aren't you in class

because there it's totally boring but

here look what a cool shooter we found

what did you call it you've got no idea

what this is it's called a catapult guys

a cat with gold eyes it isn't a cat with

gold eyes it's a catapult guys

[Music]

catapults are ancient propulsion

machines they were used to shoot stones

heavy arrows or barrels with burning tar

the main part of the catapult is a

special piece of rope it is twisted very

very tightly like a spring the rope is

then wrapped around a big spoon and then

if you pull the spoon back put a stone

in it and let it go

the catapult fires a shot

and the stone flies far far away

uh-huh

all right so here we go

came up short what do you mean short

what are you waiting at you'll see spoon

needs to go further back just a little

guys you're gonna break the glass

yeah no like

now push

all right

[Music]

yes right on target now let's fly out

into space wait what space what kind of

flying who's gonna fly

i'm gonna fly haha right out the window

right up to the moon first fix fixing

onto the world knowledge are you ready

for your flight into space yes sir

get out of the spoon now i'll be the

first fixie on the moon yeah no look

enough of this what kind of joke is this

it's not a joke at all he's gonna fly

into space and how come it's not you

because he's lighter hold on

humans didn't go straight into space

themselves they sent dogs out there

first

chuseoka is not gonna fit in here simka

why don't you go and let us finish fine

i will go but only after nolik finds

himself a helmet hmm you're right about

that i'll go find a helmet

[Applause]

the catapult was invented in ancient

times but people still use them today

only now instead of launching stones

catapults are used to launch jet

airplanes you see the runway on an

aircraft carrier is quite short so

catapults are used to help the planes

move fast enough to take off

catapults can also be used to save the

life of a pilot when an airplane has an

accident a catapult activates in the

cabin the pilot is shot into the sky and

comes back to the ground with a

parachute

a plain old slingshot is also a kind of

catapult it's just a very little one but

be careful with this toy it can be

dangerous to others and to you too

as for us fixies the only time that we

use catapults is on a peaceful mission

up there what should i say to them hi

there and you can ask them to launch you

back so let's do it

fire watch it

stop don't

sim car

no lick

i'm not getting

[Music]

[Applause]

nope just a bit short

[Music]

it's not our fault you're just heavier

than knowledge and that's why you came

up short

purpose maybe we can try one more time

what

[Music]

can you

believe creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

chess

hmm

how about that

then i'll play

my pawn and i'll play

my pawn

grandpas we need our spool and it's

missing oh congratulations

professor have you seen it anywhere the

spool i haven't seen we're playing chess

can't you see

do you like board games like dominoes

for instance just about everybody has

played it but do you know where it came

from domino's was invented by the

ancient chinese they made tiles and

decorated them with dots like on a pair

of dice

and this is a game that looks a lot like

checkers but it's a lot more challenging

it's called back cannon backgammon

originated in persia and from there it

spread all over the world

but the most challenging game of them

all is the game of chess

chess was invented in india and today

the game of chess is loved in every

country it's played by adults by

children and even by computers

chess is a real sport

but the most important thing for playing

chess is not the power in your arms but

the power in your brain

hey look i found it yeah

hey what's going on

that's our spool please let us take it

back there's something we have to do

with it but we're using it can't you

wait it's a replacement for the missing

pawn oh oh no that can work for a while

as the pond's replacement

yeah

i can do it

all right you can take it

and you stand right over here

one two three up we go

class so how do we play

you're going to play for the whites and

now i'm going to capture your night

and we

we're gonna knock over yours take that

whoa whoa whoa young man slow down it

goes back here

[Music]

get back to your square what for pawns

don't move like that and how do they

move

only one square per move and only

forward

of all of the pieces the little pawn is

the weakest what a mess so which one's

strongest huh this it's the queen she's

the most dangerous threat to the other

king ah how come i couldn't be queen

then that black king would have to deal

with me oh yes

in chess each player has a black or

white army with eight pawns two knights

two bishops two castles and a queen

all of them work together for their king

trying to protect him while attacking

the enemies king if the king finds

himself in a position where he can be

captured the attacking player says check

and if the king finds himself with

nowhere to run from the attack it's

called checkmate whoever check makes the

other players king first is the winner

[Music]

hmm

i'll move my queen yeah

and me

my queen

then i'll just capture your queen

really then i'll just capture yours

grandpas should i go now

not yet

so do you feel like surrendering ha

you're kidding do you know it forward

hooray

we'll step aside forward

let's go and capture the night he got

away

all right paul and once more go forward

great grandpas

where do i go now don't you see the edge

don't go anywhere now you're the queen

what the rules of chess say that if a

pawn makes it all the way to the other

side he could become anything that was

captured earlier

hooray

then i'll be the queen and i'll be the

strongest piece in the whole game

hey queen

get back here

in case you don't know this isn't over

yet

we capture the pawn with the queen queen

this is your new place

check check

yeah

now come to here

checkmate my colleague

of course it is

it is mate

yeah

i lost

hooray to these traditions

professor we found the missing part for

you so that means nola can leave with us

i'm not going anywhere with you

this is the greatest game you'll ever

play in your life all you should have

seen how i put professor you genius in

it check me

really

well grandpa's helped me a little

actually it was grandpa's telling me

where to move

but i'm the queen now

[Music]

mp3s and tv

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simca it's a

cartoon about gulliver in the land of

lillypoo

my friend jeannie let me borrow it i

have it till tomorrow

and what's the story about well it's

about this guy who gets shipwrecked

where people are just so teeny teeny

tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simka i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little pusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master pixie

repairman

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up i

can't give her back a disc that's messed

don't panic we'll take a look at it come

lay it down over here

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean uh what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disc

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

thank you

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let

[Music]

the mixer

masia why are we going to the dishwasher

again we have a busy day ahead of us and

we all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious no lick

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices getting charged

up in the car makes a fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha nola there you are go get charged

right now i'm not going look at tom

thomas he doesn't want to have breakfast

either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana i found some chocolate

too and i found strawberry ice cream

start up the mixer

when you get up from your bed

[Music]

open your favorite cereal

[Music]

delicious indeed

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

wow this mixer is cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simca

what in the world were you up to and

what happened to

novick just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

nutritious

[Music]

to each other

[Music]

please

[Music]

the chain reaction

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing

no look leave me alone

no really what is that quit distracting

me will you

[Music]

no look look at what you've done

i it's all because you wouldn't quit it

wouldn't quit what

i was struggling with that thing for

half an hour and you ruined it

[Music]

hey tom thomas can you hear me

tom thomas

let me out

[Music]

no like is that you banging

yeah and how did you end up in there

none of your business why are you so

rude to me cuz i feel like it

oh yeah enjoy sitting there well who

needs you goodbye

[Music]

oh cinka what happened to you did you

bang yourself and so what

does it hurt leave me alone tula you

always have to be fussing over everybody

come on why aren't you so angry huh no

look what's rude to me that means you

have to be rude to me

forgive me tula and where's no like

right now there

let's go see him

no look it's tula are you all right i'm

fine why were you so rude with your

sister

cause tom thomas was rude with me

i get it it's a chain reaction

a what

[Music]

setting a log on fire isn't easy but

it's easy to light a match use the match

to light kindling the kindling to light

a twig and a twig to light the log

have you ever seen a fire grow it's an

example of a typical chain reaction so

be extra careful with fire because just

one match or little piece of smoldering

coal can lead to a huge disaster yes

they can make a whole forest first into

flame and burn down to the ground and

all because of a simple chain reaction

i don't get you watching reaction what

do you mean

thomas was rude to you then you were

rude to zumka then simka was rude with

me so there it is a chain reaction yeah

and the rudeness was like a little spark

it just spread and spread and spread

like a forest fire

will you forgive me

yeah all right i've got an idea why

don't we try starting our very own chain

reaction the other way around what do

you mean well instead of spreading angry

and rude feelings we can spread

happiness but how

it's simple all we need to do is smile

and say nice things to each other what a

great idea we could work together and

fix tom thomas's mood

and i know how

come help me pick up this domino will

you

everything in the whole universe is made

up of atoms particles so extremely small

that you can't even see them through a

microscope but when a tiny atom splits

it makes a tiny explosion and that

explosion can start another explosion

and another explosion and another and

now you've got a chain reaction and

that's how a lot of tiny explosions work

together to make the gigantic explosion

of an atomic bomb the deadliest weapon

known to man but atomic energy can also

be used for peaceful purposes for

example nuclear power plants use this

energy to produce electricity and hot

water and nuclear-powered icebreakers

can break through the thick arctic ice

so ships can sail on their way

[Music]

they're all done no look

bring them in

and now we're gonna teach tom thomas how

a chain reaction can work to make you

feel really good he's coming on your

marks now

what's going on

no really tom thomas watch this

[Music]

[Applause]

that was so totally awesome i can't

believe what i saw how did you do that

it was just a real a chain reaction

what

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

[Music]

the electric train

[Music]

and suddenly the earth is attacked by an

alien spaceship

[Music]

if help arrives here on time we'll be

saved

move faster faster come on get off the

train move it move it

thomas we came here to play

oh finally you're here i need some

aliens for this game

what kind of aliens are you talking

about just plain old aliens you know the

ones they come destroy the earth in just

about everything

we don't want to destroy anything at all

why can't we be

the train engineers huh

train engineers

you don't know anything about driving a

train oh we know plenty about trains

humans invented the railroad long ago

but back then the rails were made out of

wood

people didn't start making metal rails

until the end of the 18th century but

the first railroad cars had no engines

to give them their power instead they

used horses to pull them along

later horses were replaced by the steam

engine wooden coal would burn in their

furnaces to boil the water in the

boilers making the steam that turned

their wheels and the fixies were there

to help those trains go

making sure all of the parts could work

together smoothly

but now steam engines have long gone

away the railroad uses electricity now

for its power these electric trains race

along the railway at almost the speed of

an airplane

[Music]

so you might know trains but you'll

still be the aliens this railroad is

mine so you're gonna play the way i want

the train is unloaded and leaving the

station

you can play choo-choo by yourself and i

will

[Music]

hmm

hey

why did you stop

[Music]

this doesn't help either it's not going

at all

simka

[Music]

no lick

where are you did i hurt your feelings

or something

mom is dad gonna be home soon

no is something the matter we've been

attacked by evil aliens the train has to

be fixed right away or we'll never

escape them

you want some tea

i've got to think of something

cinca nolic i know you're in there

please forgive me if i hurt your

feelings

i'm really sorry

there's nobody but you that can save the

world from the evil aliens

all right it talked us back into it well

let's go and check the rails no look

follow me

i'm faster

whoa well so much for being faster it

looks like i found the break

tom thomas the rails are broken

i know and so you know but that's why

your train's not running

just like a real train model trains run

on electricity but there aren't any

batteries inside the locomotive to pull

the other cars the engine gets its

electricity from the rails

each piece of the rail has a wire in it

if the rails come apart the electricity

can't flow through the track and get to

the train

and without electricity the trains

engine just stops going

so reconnect the rails and your train

will run again

uh-huh

put them together ah

yes

[Music]

hooray

the train's running

way to go so will you play with me now

and which way are we playing this time

whatever you want i'm with you

the train rushes down the track with no

i guess it's engineered when suddenly

from out of the sky comes an alien

spaceship

[Music]

[Applause]

greetings to you o people of planet

earth i come from far away from another

galaxy have you come to destroy

everything

i've come to fix it all

[Applause]

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let that secret up but if you need a

fixture please

Transcript

[Music]

don't

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see

wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden wish

tom thomas

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go to

the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish tadish

[Music]

that wasn't the idea looks like a dog to

me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish tadish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around

wow i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no like be

careful how can you live being this tall

it's so inconvenient and i thought it

was tough when you were so tiny tom

thomas are you ready hey why do we have

three dogs all of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seem to be an

impossible dream but today anyone can

take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins for storing lots of

money people use a safe a large metal

box with a very strong lock now that

kind of piggy banks almost impossible to

break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it

yeah forget it i have nothing to put my

money into but what if there's already

enough for roller skates and what if

there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

[Music]

tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two

coins wait no lick what one coin two

coins what are you counting you have to

add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

[Music]

what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

[Music]

i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

[Music]

you're my friend aren't you

of course then smash the piggy bank will

you

okay look i'm gonna do it

[Music]

are you okay

i'm okay

thank you

tom thomas thank you my friend no

problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here to buy a piggy bank that's totally

brand new

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but if i told my daddy it's all inside

your head

you really

[Music]

the key card

[Music]

well professor you genius your kennels

back in action

why thank you

i've been longing for a cup of tea

yes

there's no tea left in here

[Music]

then i'll go ask lisa if she has some ah

look professor you genius you forgot the

key

[Music]

the key don't close the door cinka you

must be joking that's a key this is

nothing but a plastic card but it

is a special kind it's called a key card

to open up the combination lock you need

to enter a code in the correct order

that means if you can't remember the

code you can't open the lock

but if the lock uses a key card there

isn't any code to memorize because the

code is held inside the card's memory

and the lock can read the code from the

card of course key cards don't work with

any lock they have to be smart blocks

that are able to read electronic codes

when the smart lock reads the correct

code it opens right up

[Music]

elisa do we have any tea here of course

professor you genius

wonderful i'll take one bag then

oh i left my key inside the lab can i

borrow yours

just don't forget to give it back of

course i'll give it back come on elisa i

got myself a tea bag professor you

genius the water's boiling fantastic

wait a second ah oh no i was supposed to

give something back to elisa why don't

you go and ask her right i'll be right

back

[Music]

professor you genius

that's card number two now

[Music]

elisa

i promised you something didn't i yes

the key you said you'd return it yeah

sure let me get it just a sec

oh oh i locked it in the lab it's

terrible how will you ever get back into

the laboratory now you see

there is one way but it's a secret would

you mind leaving for a couple of minutes

colleague professor can you do me a

little favor

the key i think i left it on the table

yeah right it's true so how do we solve

this i need to think about it what's

there to think about we just have to go

and push it under the door

you think you can do it yeah it's time

to get to work

hey what's going on

were you just calling for me yeah uh no

lisa not for you

it's so heavy do you know where digit

ran off too

digits off somewhere thinking he's

always doing that when it's time to work

hard to port

hard to starboard way to go nolik

then who were you talking to

actually oh

what's that where

what

what was that come on let's try again

yeah look do you see that ah that it's a

telekinesis

it's the power to transport things with

your mind

you are just astounding

was that done with your mind too the

door yeah sure

you are a genius

[Music]

professor eugenius is a very talented

scientist and a dear old friend of the

fixies he always helps the fixies and

the fixies are happy to help him too

professor eugenius let the fixie set up

their school right here at his

laboratory it's hard to imagine a better

place for a fixie school people from all

over the city bring all sorts of things

to the laboratory to be tested from

computers phones and furniture to food

and toys professor eugenius uses his

expertise to check the quality of all

these different things to help him carry

out his experiment his laboratory is

filled with a variety of tools and

machines

yes professor eugenius is a very smart

man but he can be absent-minded lucky

for him he's got us pixies around

[Music]

thanks for everything

sliding the key card under the door that

was cinca's awesome idea but the door

opened wide while the card was still on

the floor

that's strange there's nothing strange

about it i don't want to open it

wow

i climbed in the lock that's all figured

out how it worked and

titty very clever that's a real tadish i

guess that thinking before you go and

fix something ought to be what we all

study next

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the bee

tom thomas

hello

how come you're eating jam straight from

out of the jar because

it tastes so good

oh a bee

[Music]

shoe get out of here leave it alone it's

just a plain old bee well i was bitten

by one of those plain old bees once

don't do it go away you pests

flies are pests these are very helpful

and useful how can a bee ever help us

out

bees are hard workers they are

constantly collecting nectar from

flowers

flying from flower to flower bees

transport pollen on their bellies thanks

to this process of pollination flowers

produce fruit and seeds in other words

bees help plants reproduce

the bees use the nectar they collect to

make that delicious sweet honey loved by

kids of all ages and bee honey is not

only delicious it's also nutritious

so i'm still afraid of it what if it

bites me bees don't bite by the way they

sting

[Music]

well now i'm gonna show you

[Music]

don't

the bee's the one who should be afraid

you tyrant yeah you let it go tyrant why

are you calling me names who's stopping

her she can fly away if she wants

we need to show her the way out

well how

here little bee

fly this way

why don't you try going

then what can i say

[Music]

don't move it'll sting you it doesn't

want to sting both of you like to eat

sweets you like eating jam and so does

the bee why don't you carry your socket

to the window

go on fly

no that's not gonna work you need to go

and get more jam

here little bee

yum yum

go on and fly you're free

let her eat first don't be greedy i'm

not being greedy

if she eats she can make honey out of

your jam

long ago people could only collect honey

by destroying the nests of wild bees

and that went on until someone came up

with the idea of taming those insects

they started by leaving enough honey for

the bees to survive through the winter

people took care of bees in these

hollows until they learned to build

small houses for them called beehives

and a town made of these bee houses is

called an apiary bees live and work

together in the beehives making honey

while beekeepers take care of the bees

and collect the honey these are real

team players they tell each other where

the best flowers grow do you know how

they do it one of the bees does a dance

and then the rest of the bees watch the

dance and learn where they need to fly

you poor thing

tom thomas tired you out

i told you there's nothing to be afraid

of you see

she's just so nice and kind i'm not

afraid of her she wouldn't let me eat my

jam that's all well now it's time for

you to fly away

whoa she's playing rough here i want to

try ah and no look you're too little

you'll have to grow to do this job whoa

whoa whoa calm down now now let's fly

hey cinco the windows back there i can

see that without you

[Music]

so how can i get you to turn around

cool hooray

she's listening to me

[Music]

don't miss the window

[Music]

now

so long honeybee

[Music]

tom thomas do you have any more of that

jam left yeah what for

bring it here we'll get more bees to fly

how come what do you mean how come

because it's my turn for a b ride

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but

[Music]

why are we going to the dishwasher again

we have a busy day ahead of us and we

all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious knowledge

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices

getting charged up in a car makes a

fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha

there you are go get charged right now

i'm not going look at tom thomas he

doesn't want to have breakfast either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana

i found some chocolate too and i found

strawberry ice cream start up the mixer

when you get up from your videos

[Music]

there is still something you need

[Music]

indeed

[Music]

a little milk sauce

[Music]

that you need

[Music]

wow this mixer's cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simka

what in the world were you up to

and what happened to noblek

just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

[Music]

are such nutritious

creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go

to the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

[Music]

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish

[Music]

oh that wasn't the idea looks like a dog

to me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish tadish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around wow

i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no be careful

[Music]

how can you live being this tall it's so

inconvenient and i thought it was tough

when you were so tiny tom thomas are you

ready hey why do we have three dogs all

of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seemed to be

an impossible dream

but today anyone can take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

can you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's

[Music]

please don't let the secret

[Music]

the level

tom thomas

i'm really sorry the movie this weekend

i have to cancel

you do

i need to go to africa for work i leave

tomorrow

oh cool you think i could go with you to

africa can you even find it on the map

africa

here we go

mm-hmm

no you're still too little

when you grow as tall as

the top of africa then i'll take you

with me

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing down there i

want to know if i'm as tall as the top

of africa or not

well do you know your height

okay then let's measure you and mark how

tall you are you just need to hold the

book all right

[Music]

uh how do we measure what's higher the

top of africa or this line over here

[Music]

hmm

[Music]

it's a tough one we need a piece of

flexible clear tubing oh i can get it

for you i know where it is and we'll

build a simple tool to find out the

answer it's called a water level

let's do an experiment first we'll pour

water into two bottles a little bit more

into one and a little less into the

other now we'll connect them with a tube

so that the water can flow between them

you see the water flows and flows and

then it stops it stops when there's the

same amount of water inside of both

bottles and if we do this with a simple

tube it becomes a useful tool called a

water level in which the water on both

sides is always the same height

[Music]

i'm gonna watch the water level on this

end all right

be careful how you lift it or the water

can get out

what's going on

the water inside the tube is even with

the line there you go tom thomas where

the water is right now is how tall you

are

and well it looks like tom thomas isn't

quite tall enough for africa

what if we hold the tube a little higher

you can try if you want but the water's

gonna stay where it is

[Music]

see the water level on your side always

stays the same as on the other side

uh i'm not getting that tall for a while

yet

and what if we just lower the map a

little

that wouldn't be honest but it would be

clever

there are a lot of great proverbs but my

favorite one is measure twice cut once

and to measure things right you need

measuring tools the simplest one is a

ruler with itself we can find out the

length of an object a watch can tell us

how much time is passed a speedometer

shows us how fast we are moving like in

a car or on a bike an electric meter

keeps track of how much electricity we

are using

a decibel meter can tell us who is

screaming or stomping louder

and a beam compass is used to accurately

measure the size of a coin or a hole we

couldn't get by without wonderful tools

like these

if we didn't measure the things we are

building carefully everything around us

would just come loose fall apart

dad

look dad

hmm that's strange looks like you are a

little taller

does that mean you'll take me with you

yeah

are you ready yay

but everyone who goes to africa has to

get vaccinated you're okay with that

aren't you i need vaccinations to go are

you sure yeah there's one against

malaria ct fly crocodile bites all

together there are 10 shots 10 shots

yeah 10.

dad you know

i was joking after you left the room i

moved the map down okay i see and i was

joking about all those shots you need

what you mean you don't need to get

shots you gotta just not ten so how many

nine of them there's no vaccination

anywhere to stop a crocodile from biting

[Music]

you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet

[Music]

the robot

did i already tell you what i'm hoping

you'll get me for my birthday present

yes honey only a thousand times or so a

robotizoid r 300 would just be the

greatest with mega vision i want it i

really do

i do

well tomorrow you'll find out but now

it's time to sleep tom thomas

wow that is one great present and we got

tom thomas absolutely zero for his

birthday uh we're just terrible friends

so how does this robot work

okay

so let's give this a try shall we

first we'll take a walk

and how does he have any idea where the

robot's going i can tell you

one of the robots eyes is a video camera

the robot sends the picture to the

screen on the controller so the player

can see where the robot is going yeah

and that's just one thing they know how

to do

a robot is a smart machine that can do

very difficult or dangerous work for

humans with its strong metal arms a

robot can move heavy objects or put

together parts to build cars and other

machines

robots are often sent into outer space

or to the bottom of the ocean to help

scientists

there are also robots that can

understand what people are saying and

robots that can talk and even make jokes

just like people

i've got it

now let's turn you around

[Music]

what was that

uh look

you know

he destroyed him no stop you were

playing with that right you think tom

will notice oh

i know what you're doing all night i'm

off to bed i'll get him to work i'll

stay up until i do cinca

let's try it no we're gonna need some

help

when your tv has broken when your cell

phone has croaked your laptop fairly

working the kettles had a

us where we're stroke

for it's known far and wide but any kind

of problem is clearer from inside

one two three

inside will be

to fix what's wrong

our work will never end

appliances are fickle they need a loyal

friend and midnight

every single

[Music]

will be

all day and night

we fix things right

one two three

inside will be

all day and night

we fix things right we live to keep on

working and work for us is fun so we'll

just keep on working

and deep inside of gadgets if you look

when it's dark you might just see us

race around like multi-color sparks

one two three

[Music]

we fix things right

one

[Music]

all day

wow

you got it

we need to hide

robotizoid r300 i can't believe it

[Music]

well happy birthday to you tom thomas

i'm sorry tom thomas last night your

robot you know i broke it

dad it works perfectly don't you see

[Music]

i'm so proud of you you fixed it

[Music]

i couldn't fix it at all i tried

everything oh you want to tell me that

the robot fixed itself

what a joker

[Music]

mom dad thanks so much i love it

and how about thanking us

i should have known it was you who fixed

the robot happy birthday happy birthday

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money's safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins

for storing lots of money people use a

safe a large metal box with a very

strong lock

now that kind of piggy banks almost

impossible to break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it yeah forget it

i have nothing to put my money into but

what if there's already enough for

roller skates and what if there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

[Music]

tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

[Music]

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

[Music]

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two coins wait no lick what one coin

two coins what are you counting you have

to add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

[Music]

what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

[Music]

i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

[Music]

you're my friend aren't you of course

then smash the piggy bank will you

okay knowledge i'm gonna do it

[Music]

no listen are you okay

i'm okay

thank you tom thomas thank you my friend

no problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here

to buy a piggy bank that's totally brand

new

[Music]

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up

[Music]

they take

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simka

it's a cartoon about gulliver in the

land of lillypoo

my friend genie let me borrow it i have

it till tomorrow

and what's the story about

well it's about this guy who gets

shipwrecked where people are just so

teeny teeny tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simca i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little fusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master fixie

repairmen

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up

i can't give her back a disc that's

messed up don't panic we'll take a look

at it come lay it down over here

[Music]

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disk

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

in the air and flush it to each other

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the catapult

[Music]

what was that huh

strange

thomas isn't here

there's no way these toy soldiers could

have shot it themselves

now that was a good shot

it wasn't real long and not high either

and off target

it was pretty awful it was good but

awful i got it so what do we do we need

to raise it up a little higher hey fire

no lick why in the world would you shoot

at a fixie fixies they're supposed to be

in school right now

actually i'm on my way to school how

about you fire why aren't you in class

because there it's totally boring but

here look what a cool shooter we found

what did you call it you've got no idea

what this is it's called a catapult guys

a cat with gold eyes it isn't a cat with

gold eyes it's a catapult guys

[Music]

catapults are ancient propulsion

machines they were used to shoot stones

heavy arrows or barrels with burning tar

the main part of the catapult is a

special piece of rope it is twisted very

very tightly like a spring the rope is

then wrapped around a big spoon and then

if you pull the spoon back put a stone

in it and let it go

the catapult fires a shot

and the stone flies far far away

uh-huh

all right so here we go

came up short what do you mean short

what are you waiting at you'll see spoon

needs to go further back just a little

guys you're gonna break the glass

yeah no like

now push

all right

[Music]

yes right on target now let's fly out

into space wait what space what kind of

flying who's gonna fly

i'm gonna fly haha right out the window

right up to the moon first fix fixing

onto the world knowledge are you ready

for your flight into space yes sir

get out of the spoon now i'll be the

first fixie on the moon yeah no look

enough of this what kind of joke is this

it's not a joke at all he's gonna fly

into space and how come it's not you

because he's lighter hold on

humans didn't go straight into space

themselves they sent dogs out there

first

chuseoka is not gonna fit in here simka

why don't you go and let us finish fine

i will go but only after nolik finds

himself a helmet hmm you're right about

that i'll go find a helmet

[Applause]

the catapult was invented in ancient

times but people still use them today

only now instead of launching stones

catapults are used to launch jet

airplanes you see the runway on an

aircraft carrier is quite short so

catapults are used to help the planes

move fast enough to take off

catapults can also be used to save the

life of a pilot when an airplane has an

accident a catapult activates in the

cabin the pilot is shot into the sky and

comes back to the ground with a

parachute

a plain old slingshot is also a kind of

catapult it's just a very little one but

be careful with this toy it can be

dangerous to others and to you too

as for us fixies the only time that we

use catapults is on a peaceful mission

up there what should i say to them hi

there and you can ask them to launch you

back so let's do it

fire watch it

stop don't

sim car

no lick

i'm not getting

[Music]

[Applause]

nope just a bit short

[Music]

it's not our fault you're just heavier

than knowledge and that's why you came

up short

purpose maybe we can try one more time

what

[Music]

can you

believe creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

chess

hmm

how about that

then i'll play

my pawn and i'll play

my pawn

grandpas we need our spool and it's

missing oh congratulations

professor have you seen it anywhere the

spool i haven't seen we're playing chess

can't you see

do you like board games like dominoes

for instance just about everybody has

played it but do you know where it came

from domino's was invented by the

ancient chinese they made tiles and

decorated them with dots like on a pair

of dice

and this is a game that looks a lot like

checkers but it's a lot more challenging

it's called back cannon backgammon

originated in persia and from there it

spread all over the world

but the most challenging game of them

all is the game of chess

chess was invented in india and today

the game of chess is loved in every

country it's played by adults by

children and even by computers

chess is a real sport

but the most important thing for playing

chess is not the power in your arms but

the power in your brain

hey look i found it yeah

hey what's going on

that's our spool please let us take it

back there's something we have to do

with it but we're using it can't you

wait it's a replacement for the missing

pawn oh oh no that can work for a while

as the pond's replacement

yeah

i can do it

all right you can take it

and you stand right over here

one two three up we go

class so how do we play

you're going to play for the whites and

now i'm going to capture your night

and we

we're gonna knock over yours take that

whoa whoa whoa young man slow down it

goes back here

[Music]

get back to your square what for pawns

don't move like that and how do they

move

only one square per move and only

forward

of all of the pieces the little pawn is

the weakest what a mess so which one's

strongest huh this it's the queen she's

the most dangerous threat to the other

king ah how come i couldn't be queen

then that black king would have to deal

with me oh yes

in chess each player has a black or

white army with eight pawns two knights

two bishops two castles and a queen

all of them work together for their king

trying to protect him while attacking

the enemies king if the king finds

himself in a position where he can be

captured the attacking player says check

and if the king finds himself with

nowhere to run from the attack it's

called checkmate whoever check makes the

other players king first is the winner

[Music]

hmm

i'll move my queen yeah

and me

my queen

then i'll just capture your queen

really then i'll just capture yours

grandpas should i go now

not yet

so do you feel like surrendering ha

you're kidding do you know it forward

hooray

we'll step aside forward

let's go and capture the night he got

away

all right paul and once more go forward

great grandpas

where do i go now don't you see the edge

don't go anywhere now you're the queen

what the rules of chess say that if a

pawn makes it all the way to the other

side he could become anything that was

captured earlier

hooray

then i'll be the queen and i'll be the

strongest piece in the whole game

hey queen

get back here

in case you don't know this isn't over

yet

we capture the pawn with the queen queen

this is your new place

check check

yeah

now come to here

checkmate my colleague

of course it is

it is mate

yeah

i lost

hooray to these traditions

professor we found the missing part for

you so that means nola can leave with us

i'm not going anywhere with you

this is the greatest game you'll ever

play in your life all you should have

seen how i put professor you genius in

it check me

really

well grandpa's helped me a little

actually it was grandpa's telling me

where to move

but i'm the queen now

[Music]

mp3s and tv

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simca it's a

cartoon about gulliver in the land of

lillypoo

my friend jeannie let me borrow it i

have it till tomorrow

and what's the story about well it's

about this guy who gets shipwrecked

where people are just so teeny teeny

tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simka i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little pusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master pixie

repairman

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up i

can't give her back a disc that's messed

don't panic we'll take a look at it come

lay it down over here

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean uh what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disc

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

thank you

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let

[Music]

the mixer

masia why are we going to the dishwasher

again we have a busy day ahead of us and

we all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious no lick

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices getting charged

up in the car makes a fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha nola there you are go get charged

right now i'm not going look at tom

thomas he doesn't want to have breakfast

either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana i found some chocolate

too and i found strawberry ice cream

start up the mixer

when you get up from your bed

[Music]

open your favorite cereal

[Music]

delicious indeed

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

wow this mixer is cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simca

what in the world were you up to and

what happened to

novick just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

nutritious

[Music]

to each other

[Music]

please

[Music]

the chain reaction

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing

no look leave me alone

no really what is that quit distracting

me will you

[Music]

no look look at what you've done

i it's all because you wouldn't quit it

wouldn't quit what

i was struggling with that thing for

half an hour and you ruined it

[Music]

hey tom thomas can you hear me

tom thomas

let me out

[Music]

no like is that you banging

yeah and how did you end up in there

none of your business why are you so

rude to me cuz i feel like it

oh yeah enjoy sitting there well who

needs you goodbye

[Music]

oh cinka what happened to you did you

bang yourself and so what

does it hurt leave me alone tula you

always have to be fussing over everybody

come on why aren't you so angry huh no

look what's rude to me that means you

have to be rude to me

forgive me tula and where's no like

right now there

let's go see him

no look it's tula are you all right i'm

fine why were you so rude with your

sister

cause tom thomas was rude with me

i get it it's a chain reaction

a what

[Music]

setting a log on fire isn't easy but

it's easy to light a match use the match

to light kindling the kindling to light

a twig and a twig to light the log

have you ever seen a fire grow it's an

example of a typical chain reaction so

be extra careful with fire because just

one match or little piece of smoldering

coal can lead to a huge disaster yes

they can make a whole forest first into

flame and burn down to the ground and

all because of a simple chain reaction

i don't get you watching reaction what

do you mean

thomas was rude to you then you were

rude to zumka then simka was rude with

me so there it is a chain reaction yeah

and the rudeness was like a little spark

it just spread and spread and spread

like a forest fire

will you forgive me

yeah all right i've got an idea why

don't we try starting our very own chain

reaction the other way around what do

you mean well instead of spreading angry

and rude feelings we can spread

happiness but how

it's simple all we need to do is smile

and say nice things to each other what a

great idea we could work together and

fix tom thomas's mood

and i know how

come help me pick up this domino will

you

everything in the whole universe is made

up of atoms particles so extremely small

that you can't even see them through a

microscope but when a tiny atom splits

it makes a tiny explosion and that

explosion can start another explosion

and another explosion and another and

now you've got a chain reaction and

that's how a lot of tiny explosions work

together to make the gigantic explosion

of an atomic bomb the deadliest weapon

known to man but atomic energy can also

be used for peaceful purposes for

example nuclear power plants use this

energy to produce electricity and hot

water and nuclear-powered icebreakers

can break through the thick arctic ice

so ships can sail on their way

[Music]

they're all done no look

bring them in

and now we're gonna teach tom thomas how

a chain reaction can work to make you

feel really good he's coming on your

marks now

what's going on

no really tom thomas watch this

[Music]

[Applause]

that was so totally awesome i can't

believe what i saw how did you do that

it was just a real a chain reaction

what

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

[Music]

the electric train

[Music]

and suddenly the earth is attacked by an

alien spaceship

[Music]

if help arrives here on time we'll be

saved

move faster faster come on get off the

train move it move it

thomas we came here to play

oh finally you're here i need some

aliens for this game

what kind of aliens are you talking

about just plain old aliens you know the

ones they come destroy the earth in just

about everything

we don't want to destroy anything at all

why can't we be

the train engineers huh

train engineers

you don't know anything about driving a

train oh we know plenty about trains

humans invented the railroad long ago

but back then the rails were made out of

wood

people didn't start making metal rails

until the end of the 18th century but

the first railroad cars had no engines

to give them their power instead they

used horses to pull them along

later horses were replaced by the steam

engine wooden coal would burn in their

furnaces to boil the water in the

boilers making the steam that turned

their wheels and the fixies were there

to help those trains go

making sure all of the parts could work

together smoothly

but now steam engines have long gone

away the railroad uses electricity now

for its power these electric trains race

along the railway at almost the speed of

an airplane

[Music]

so you might know trains but you'll

still be the aliens this railroad is

mine so you're gonna play the way i want

the train is unloaded and leaving the

station

you can play choo-choo by yourself and i

will

[Music]

hmm

hey

why did you stop

[Music]

this doesn't help either it's not going

at all

simka

[Music]

no lick

where are you did i hurt your feelings

or something

mom is dad gonna be home soon

no is something the matter we've been

attacked by evil aliens the train has to

be fixed right away or we'll never

escape them

you want some tea

i've got to think of something

cinca nolic i know you're in there

please forgive me if i hurt your

feelings

i'm really sorry

there's nobody but you that can save the

world from the evil aliens

all right it talked us back into it well

let's go and check the rails no look

follow me

i'm faster

whoa well so much for being faster it

looks like i found the break

tom thomas the rails are broken

i know and so you know but that's why

your train's not running

just like a real train model trains run

on electricity but there aren't any

batteries inside the locomotive to pull

the other cars the engine gets its

electricity from the rails

each piece of the rail has a wire in it

if the rails come apart the electricity

can't flow through the track and get to

the train

and without electricity the trains

engine just stops going

so reconnect the rails and your train

will run again

uh-huh

put them together ah

yes

[Music]

hooray

the train's running

way to go so will you play with me now

and which way are we playing this time

whatever you want i'm with you

the train rushes down the track with no

i guess it's engineered when suddenly

from out of the sky comes an alien

spaceship

[Music]

[Applause]

greetings to you o people of planet

earth i come from far away from another

galaxy have you come to destroy

everything

i've come to fix it all

[Applause]

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let that secret up but if you need a

fixture please

Transcript

[Music]

don't

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see

wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden wish

tom thomas

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go to

the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish tadish

[Music]

that wasn't the idea looks like a dog to

me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish tadish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around

wow i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no like be

careful how can you live being this tall

it's so inconvenient and i thought it

was tough when you were so tiny tom

thomas are you ready hey why do we have

three dogs all of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seem to be an

impossible dream but today anyone can

take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins for storing lots of

money people use a safe a large metal

box with a very strong lock now that

kind of piggy banks almost impossible to

break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it

yeah forget it i have nothing to put my

money into but what if there's already

enough for roller skates and what if

there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

[Music]

tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two

coins wait no lick what one coin two

coins what are you counting you have to

add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

[Music]

what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

[Music]

i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

[Music]

you're my friend aren't you

of course then smash the piggy bank will

you

okay look i'm gonna do it

[Music]

are you okay

i'm okay

thank you

tom thomas thank you my friend no

problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here to buy a piggy bank that's totally

brand new

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but if i told my daddy it's all inside

your head

you really

[Music]

the key card

[Music]

well professor you genius your kennels

back in action

why thank you

i've been longing for a cup of tea

yes

there's no tea left in here

[Music]

then i'll go ask lisa if she has some ah

look professor you genius you forgot the

key

[Music]

the key don't close the door cinka you

must be joking that's a key this is

nothing but a plastic card but it

is a special kind it's called a key card

to open up the combination lock you need

to enter a code in the correct order

that means if you can't remember the

code you can't open the lock

but if the lock uses a key card there

isn't any code to memorize because the

code is held inside the card's memory

and the lock can read the code from the

card of course key cards don't work with

any lock they have to be smart blocks

that are able to read electronic codes

when the smart lock reads the correct

code it opens right up

[Music]

elisa do we have any tea here of course

professor you genius

wonderful i'll take one bag then

oh i left my key inside the lab can i

borrow yours

just don't forget to give it back of

course i'll give it back come on elisa i

got myself a tea bag professor you

genius the water's boiling fantastic

wait a second ah oh no i was supposed to

give something back to elisa why don't

you go and ask her right i'll be right

back

[Music]

professor you genius

that's card number two now

[Music]

elisa

i promised you something didn't i yes

the key you said you'd return it yeah

sure let me get it just a sec

oh oh i locked it in the lab it's

terrible how will you ever get back into

the laboratory now you see

there is one way but it's a secret would

you mind leaving for a couple of minutes

colleague professor can you do me a

little favor

the key i think i left it on the table

yeah right it's true so how do we solve

this i need to think about it what's

there to think about we just have to go

and push it under the door

you think you can do it yeah it's time

to get to work

hey what's going on

were you just calling for me yeah uh no

lisa not for you

it's so heavy do you know where digit

ran off too

digits off somewhere thinking he's

always doing that when it's time to work

hard to port

hard to starboard way to go nolik

then who were you talking to

actually oh

what's that where

what

what was that come on let's try again

yeah look do you see that ah that it's a

telekinesis

it's the power to transport things with

your mind

you are just astounding

was that done with your mind too the

door yeah sure

you are a genius

[Music]

professor eugenius is a very talented

scientist and a dear old friend of the

fixies he always helps the fixies and

the fixies are happy to help him too

professor eugenius let the fixie set up

their school right here at his

laboratory it's hard to imagine a better

place for a fixie school people from all

over the city bring all sorts of things

to the laboratory to be tested from

computers phones and furniture to food

and toys professor eugenius uses his

expertise to check the quality of all

these different things to help him carry

out his experiment his laboratory is

filled with a variety of tools and

machines

yes professor eugenius is a very smart

man but he can be absent-minded lucky

for him he's got us pixies around

[Music]

thanks for everything

sliding the key card under the door that

was cinca's awesome idea but the door

opened wide while the card was still on

the floor

that's strange there's nothing strange

about it i don't want to open it

wow

i climbed in the lock that's all figured

out how it worked and

titty very clever that's a real tadish i

guess that thinking before you go and

fix something ought to be what we all

study next

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the bee

tom thomas

hello

how come you're eating jam straight from

out of the jar because

it tastes so good

oh a bee

[Music]

shoe get out of here leave it alone it's

just a plain old bee well i was bitten

by one of those plain old bees once

don't do it go away you pests

flies are pests these are very helpful

and useful how can a bee ever help us

out

bees are hard workers they are

constantly collecting nectar from

flowers

flying from flower to flower bees

transport pollen on their bellies thanks

to this process of pollination flowers

produce fruit and seeds in other words

bees help plants reproduce

the bees use the nectar they collect to

make that delicious sweet honey loved by

kids of all ages and bee honey is not

only delicious it's also nutritious

so i'm still afraid of it what if it

bites me bees don't bite by the way they

sting

[Music]

well now i'm gonna show you

[Music]

don't

the bee's the one who should be afraid

you tyrant yeah you let it go tyrant why

are you calling me names who's stopping

her she can fly away if she wants

we need to show her the way out

well how

here little bee

fly this way

why don't you try going

then what can i say

[Music]

don't move it'll sting you it doesn't

want to sting both of you like to eat

sweets you like eating jam and so does

the bee why don't you carry your socket

to the window

go on fly

no that's not gonna work you need to go

and get more jam

here little bee

yum yum

go on and fly you're free

let her eat first don't be greedy i'm

not being greedy

if she eats she can make honey out of

your jam

long ago people could only collect honey

by destroying the nests of wild bees

and that went on until someone came up

with the idea of taming those insects

they started by leaving enough honey for

the bees to survive through the winter

people took care of bees in these

hollows until they learned to build

small houses for them called beehives

and a town made of these bee houses is

called an apiary bees live and work

together in the beehives making honey

while beekeepers take care of the bees

and collect the honey these are real

team players they tell each other where

the best flowers grow do you know how

they do it one of the bees does a dance

and then the rest of the bees watch the

dance and learn where they need to fly

you poor thing

tom thomas tired you out

i told you there's nothing to be afraid

of you see

she's just so nice and kind i'm not

afraid of her she wouldn't let me eat my

jam that's all well now it's time for

you to fly away

whoa she's playing rough here i want to

try ah and no look you're too little

you'll have to grow to do this job whoa

whoa whoa calm down now now let's fly

hey cinco the windows back there i can

see that without you

[Music]

so how can i get you to turn around

cool hooray

she's listening to me

[Music]

don't miss the window

[Music]

now

so long honeybee

[Music]

tom thomas do you have any more of that

jam left yeah what for

bring it here we'll get more bees to fly

how come what do you mean how come

because it's my turn for a b ride

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but

[Music]

why are we going to the dishwasher again

we have a busy day ahead of us and we

all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious knowledge

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices

getting charged up in a car makes a

fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha

there you are go get charged right now

i'm not going look at tom thomas he

doesn't want to have breakfast either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana

i found some chocolate too and i found

strawberry ice cream start up the mixer

when you get up from your videos

[Music]

there is still something you need

[Music]

indeed

[Music]

a little milk sauce

[Music]

that you need

[Music]

wow this mixer's cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simka

what in the world were you up to

and what happened to noblek

just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

[Music]

are such nutritious

creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go

to the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

[Music]

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish

[Music]

oh that wasn't the idea looks like a dog

to me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish tadish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around wow

i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no be careful

[Music]

how can you live being this tall it's so

inconvenient and i thought it was tough

when you were so tiny tom thomas are you

ready hey why do we have three dogs all

of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seemed to be

an impossible dream

but today anyone can take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

can you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's

[Music]

please don't let the secret

[Music]

the level

tom thomas

i'm really sorry the movie this weekend

i have to cancel

you do

i need to go to africa for work i leave

tomorrow

oh cool you think i could go with you to

africa can you even find it on the map

africa

here we go

mm-hmm

no you're still too little

when you grow as tall as

the top of africa then i'll take you

with me

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing down there i

want to know if i'm as tall as the top

of africa or not

well do you know your height

okay then let's measure you and mark how

tall you are you just need to hold the

book all right

[Music]

uh how do we measure what's higher the

top of africa or this line over here

[Music]

hmm

[Music]

it's a tough one we need a piece of

flexible clear tubing oh i can get it

for you i know where it is and we'll

build a simple tool to find out the

answer it's called a water level

let's do an experiment first we'll pour

water into two bottles a little bit more

into one and a little less into the

other now we'll connect them with a tube

so that the water can flow between them

you see the water flows and flows and

then it stops it stops when there's the

same amount of water inside of both

bottles and if we do this with a simple

tube it becomes a useful tool called a

water level in which the water on both

sides is always the same height

[Music]

i'm gonna watch the water level on this

end all right

be careful how you lift it or the water

can get out

what's going on

the water inside the tube is even with

the line there you go tom thomas where

the water is right now is how tall you

are

and well it looks like tom thomas isn't

quite tall enough for africa

what if we hold the tube a little higher

you can try if you want but the water's

gonna stay where it is

[Music]

see the water level on your side always

stays the same as on the other side

uh i'm not getting that tall for a while

yet

and what if we just lower the map a

little

that wouldn't be honest but it would be

clever

there are a lot of great proverbs but my

favorite one is measure twice cut once

and to measure things right you need

measuring tools the simplest one is a

ruler with itself we can find out the

length of an object a watch can tell us

how much time is passed a speedometer

shows us how fast we are moving like in

a car or on a bike an electric meter

keeps track of how much electricity we

are using

a decibel meter can tell us who is

screaming or stomping louder

and a beam compass is used to accurately

measure the size of a coin or a hole we

couldn't get by without wonderful tools

like these

if we didn't measure the things we are

building carefully everything around us

would just come loose fall apart

dad

look dad

hmm that's strange looks like you are a

little taller

does that mean you'll take me with you

yeah

are you ready yay

but everyone who goes to africa has to

get vaccinated you're okay with that

aren't you i need vaccinations to go are

you sure yeah there's one against

malaria ct fly crocodile bites all

together there are 10 shots 10 shots

yeah 10.

dad you know

i was joking after you left the room i

moved the map down okay i see and i was

joking about all those shots you need

what you mean you don't need to get

shots you gotta just not ten so how many

nine of them there's no vaccination

anywhere to stop a crocodile from biting

[Music]

you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet

[Music]

the robot

did i already tell you what i'm hoping

you'll get me for my birthday present

yes honey only a thousand times or so a

robotizoid r 300 would just be the

greatest with mega vision i want it i

really do

i do

well tomorrow you'll find out but now

it's time to sleep tom thomas

wow that is one great present and we got

tom thomas absolutely zero for his

birthday uh we're just terrible friends

so how does this robot work

okay

so let's give this a try shall we

first we'll take a walk

and how does he have any idea where the

robot's going i can tell you

one of the robots eyes is a video camera

the robot sends the picture to the

screen on the controller so the player

can see where the robot is going yeah

and that's just one thing they know how

to do

a robot is a smart machine that can do

very difficult or dangerous work for

humans with its strong metal arms a

robot can move heavy objects or put

together parts to build cars and other

machines

robots are often sent into outer space

or to the bottom of the ocean to help

scientists

there are also robots that can

understand what people are saying and

robots that can talk and even make jokes

just like people

i've got it

now let's turn you around

[Music]

what was that

uh look

you know

he destroyed him no stop you were

playing with that right you think tom

will notice oh

i know what you're doing all night i'm

off to bed i'll get him to work i'll

stay up until i do cinca

let's try it no we're gonna need some

help

when your tv has broken when your cell

phone has croaked your laptop fairly

working the kettles had a

us where we're stroke

for it's known far and wide but any kind

of problem is clearer from inside

one two three

inside will be

to fix what's wrong

our work will never end

appliances are fickle they need a loyal

friend and midnight

every single

[Music]

will be

all day and night

we fix things right

one two three

inside will be

all day and night

we fix things right we live to keep on

working and work for us is fun so we'll

just keep on working

and deep inside of gadgets if you look

when it's dark you might just see us

race around like multi-color sparks

one two three

[Music]

we fix things right

one

[Music]

all day

wow

you got it

we need to hide

robotizoid r300 i can't believe it

[Music]

well happy birthday to you tom thomas

i'm sorry tom thomas last night your

robot you know i broke it

dad it works perfectly don't you see

[Music]

i'm so proud of you you fixed it

[Music]

i couldn't fix it at all i tried

everything oh you want to tell me that

the robot fixed itself

what a joker

[Music]

mom dad thanks so much i love it

and how about thanking us

i should have known it was you who fixed

the robot happy birthday happy birthday

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money's safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins

for storing lots of money people use a

safe a large metal box with a very

strong lock

now that kind of piggy banks almost

impossible to break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it yeah forget it

i have nothing to put my money into but

what if there's already enough for

roller skates and what if there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

[Music]

tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

[Music]

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

[Music]

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two coins wait no lick what one coin

two coins what are you counting you have

to add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

[Music]

what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

[Music]

i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

[Music]

you're my friend aren't you of course

then smash the piggy bank will you

okay knowledge i'm gonna do it

[Music]

no listen are you okay

i'm okay

thank you tom thomas thank you my friend

no problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here

to buy a piggy bank that's totally brand

new

[Music]

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up

[Music]

they take

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simka

it's a cartoon about gulliver in the

land of lillypoo

my friend genie let me borrow it i have

it till tomorrow

and what's the story about

well it's about this guy who gets

shipwrecked where people are just so

teeny teeny tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simca i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little fusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master fixie

repairmen

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up

i can't give her back a disc that's

messed up don't panic we'll take a look

at it come lay it down over here

[Music]

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disk

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

in the air and flush it to each other

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the catapult

[Music]

what was that huh

strange

thomas isn't here

there's no way these toy soldiers could

have shot it themselves

now that was a good shot

it wasn't real long and not high either

and off target

it was pretty awful it was good but

awful i got it so what do we do we need

to raise it up a little higher hey fire

no lick why in the world would you shoot

at a fixie fixies they're supposed to be

in school right now

actually i'm on my way to school how

about you fire why aren't you in class

because there it's totally boring but

here look what a cool shooter we found

what did you call it you've got no idea

what this is it's called a catapult guys

a cat with gold eyes it isn't a cat with

gold eyes it's a catapult guys

[Music]

catapults are ancient propulsion

machines they were used to shoot stones

heavy arrows or barrels with burning tar

the main part of the catapult is a

special piece of rope it is twisted very

very tightly like a spring the rope is

then wrapped around a big spoon and then

if you pull the spoon back put a stone

in it and let it go

the catapult fires a shot

and the stone flies far far away

uh-huh

all right so here we go

came up short what do you mean short

what are you waiting at you'll see spoon

needs to go further back just a little

guys you're gonna break the glass

yeah no like

now push

all right

[Music]

yes right on target now let's fly out

into space wait what space what kind of

flying who's gonna fly

i'm gonna fly haha right out the window

right up to the moon first fix fixing

onto the world knowledge are you ready

for your flight into space yes sir

get out of the spoon now i'll be the

first fixie on the moon yeah no look

enough of this what kind of joke is this

it's not a joke at all he's gonna fly

into space and how come it's not you

because he's lighter hold on

humans didn't go straight into space

themselves they sent dogs out there

first

chuseoka is not gonna fit in here simka

why don't you go and let us finish fine

i will go but only after nolik finds

himself a helmet hmm you're right about

that i'll go find a helmet

[Applause]

the catapult was invented in ancient

times but people still use them today

only now instead of launching stones

catapults are used to launch jet

airplanes you see the runway on an

aircraft carrier is quite short so

catapults are used to help the planes

move fast enough to take off

catapults can also be used to save the

life of a pilot when an airplane has an

accident a catapult activates in the

cabin the pilot is shot into the sky and

comes back to the ground with a

parachute

a plain old slingshot is also a kind of

catapult it's just a very little one but

be careful with this toy it can be

dangerous to others and to you too

as for us fixies the only time that we

use catapults is on a peaceful mission

up there what should i say to them hi

there and you can ask them to launch you

back so let's do it

fire watch it

stop don't

sim car

no lick

i'm not getting

[Music]

[Applause]

nope just a bit short

[Music]

it's not our fault you're just heavier

than knowledge and that's why you came

up short

purpose maybe we can try one more time

what

[Music]

can you

believe creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

chess

hmm

how about that

then i'll play

my pawn and i'll play

my pawn

grandpas we need our spool and it's

missing oh congratulations

professor have you seen it anywhere the

spool i haven't seen we're playing chess

can't you see

do you like board games like dominoes

for instance just about everybody has

played it but do you know where it came

from domino's was invented by the

ancient chinese they made tiles and

decorated them with dots like on a pair

of dice

and this is a game that looks a lot like

checkers but it's a lot more challenging

it's called back cannon backgammon

originated in persia and from there it

spread all over the world

but the most challenging game of them

all is the game of chess

chess was invented in india and today

the game of chess is loved in every

country it's played by adults by

children and even by computers

chess is a real sport

but the most important thing for playing

chess is not the power in your arms but

the power in your brain

hey look i found it yeah

hey what's going on

that's our spool please let us take it

back there's something we have to do

with it but we're using it can't you

wait it's a replacement for the missing

pawn oh oh no that can work for a while

as the pond's replacement

yeah

i can do it

all right you can take it

and you stand right over here

one two three up we go

class so how do we play

you're going to play for the whites and

now i'm going to capture your night

and we

we're gonna knock over yours take that

whoa whoa whoa young man slow down it

goes back here

[Music]

get back to your square what for pawns

don't move like that and how do they

move

only one square per move and only

forward

of all of the pieces the little pawn is

the weakest what a mess so which one's

strongest huh this it's the queen she's

the most dangerous threat to the other

king ah how come i couldn't be queen

then that black king would have to deal

with me oh yes

in chess each player has a black or

white army with eight pawns two knights

two bishops two castles and a queen

all of them work together for their king

trying to protect him while attacking

the enemies king if the king finds

himself in a position where he can be

captured the attacking player says check

and if the king finds himself with

nowhere to run from the attack it's

called checkmate whoever check makes the

other players king first is the winner

[Music]

hmm

i'll move my queen yeah

and me

my queen

then i'll just capture your queen

really then i'll just capture yours

grandpas should i go now

not yet

so do you feel like surrendering ha

you're kidding do you know it forward

hooray

we'll step aside forward

let's go and capture the night he got

away

all right paul and once more go forward

great grandpas

where do i go now don't you see the edge

don't go anywhere now you're the queen

what the rules of chess say that if a

pawn makes it all the way to the other

side he could become anything that was

captured earlier

hooray

then i'll be the queen and i'll be the

strongest piece in the whole game

hey queen

get back here

in case you don't know this isn't over

yet

we capture the pawn with the queen queen

this is your new place

check check

yeah

now come to here

checkmate my colleague

of course it is

it is mate

yeah

i lost

hooray to these traditions

professor we found the missing part for

you so that means nola can leave with us

i'm not going anywhere with you

this is the greatest game you'll ever

play in your life all you should have

seen how i put professor you genius in

it check me

really

well grandpa's helped me a little

actually it was grandpa's telling me

where to move

but i'm the queen now

[Music]

mp3s and tv

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simca it's a

cartoon about gulliver in the land of

lillypoo

my friend jeannie let me borrow it i

have it till tomorrow

and what's the story about well it's

about this guy who gets shipwrecked

where people are just so teeny teeny

tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simka i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little pusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master pixie

repairman

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up i

can't give her back a disc that's messed

don't panic we'll take a look at it come

lay it down over here

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean uh what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disc

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

thank you

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let

[Music]

the mixer

masia why are we going to the dishwasher

again we have a busy day ahead of us and

we all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious no lick

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices getting charged

up in the car makes a fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha nola there you are go get charged

right now i'm not going look at tom

thomas he doesn't want to have breakfast

either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana i found some chocolate

too and i found strawberry ice cream

start up the mixer

when you get up from your bed

[Music]

open your favorite cereal

[Music]

delicious indeed

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

wow this mixer is cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simca

what in the world were you up to and

what happened to

novick just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

nutritious

[Music]

to each other

[Music]

please

[Music]

the chain reaction

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing

no look leave me alone

no really what is that quit distracting

me will you

[Music]

no look look at what you've done

i it's all because you wouldn't quit it

wouldn't quit what

i was struggling with that thing for

half an hour and you ruined it

[Music]

hey tom thomas can you hear me

tom thomas

let me out

[Music]

no like is that you banging

yeah and how did you end up in there

none of your business why are you so

rude to me cuz i feel like it

oh yeah enjoy sitting there well who

needs you goodbye

[Music]

oh cinka what happened to you did you

bang yourself and so what

does it hurt leave me alone tula you

always have to be fussing over everybody

come on why aren't you so angry huh no

look what's rude to me that means you

have to be rude to me

forgive me tula and where's no like

right now there

let's go see him

no look it's tula are you all right i'm

fine why were you so rude with your

sister

cause tom thomas was rude with me

i get it it's a chain reaction

a what

[Music]

setting a log on fire isn't easy but

it's easy to light a match use the match

to light kindling the kindling to light

a twig and a twig to light the log

have you ever seen a fire grow it's an

example of a typical chain reaction so

be extra careful with fire because just

one match or little piece of smoldering

coal can lead to a huge disaster yes

they can make a whole forest first into

flame and burn down to the ground and

all because of a simple chain reaction

i don't get you watching reaction what

do you mean

thomas was rude to you then you were

rude to zumka then simka was rude with

me so there it is a chain reaction yeah

and the rudeness was like a little spark

it just spread and spread and spread

like a forest fire

will you forgive me

yeah all right i've got an idea why

don't we try starting our very own chain

reaction the other way around what do

you mean well instead of spreading angry

and rude feelings we can spread

happiness but how

it's simple all we need to do is smile

and say nice things to each other what a

great idea we could work together and

fix tom thomas's mood

and i know how

come help me pick up this domino will

you

everything in the whole universe is made

up of atoms particles so extremely small

that you can't even see them through a

microscope but when a tiny atom splits

it makes a tiny explosion and that

explosion can start another explosion

and another explosion and another and

now you've got a chain reaction and

that's how a lot of tiny explosions work

together to make the gigantic explosion

of an atomic bomb the deadliest weapon

known to man but atomic energy can also

be used for peaceful purposes for

example nuclear power plants use this

energy to produce electricity and hot

water and nuclear-powered icebreakers

can break through the thick arctic ice

so ships can sail on their way

[Music]

they're all done no look

bring them in

and now we're gonna teach tom thomas how

a chain reaction can work to make you

feel really good he's coming on your

marks now

what's going on

no really tom thomas watch this

[Music]

[Applause]

that was so totally awesome i can't

believe what i saw how did you do that

it was just a real a chain reaction

what

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

[Music]

the electric train

[Music]

and suddenly the earth is attacked by an

alien spaceship

[Music]

if help arrives here on time we'll be

saved

move faster faster come on get off the

train move it move it

thomas we came here to play

oh finally you're here i need some

aliens for this game

what kind of aliens are you talking

about just plain old aliens you know the

ones they come destroy the earth in just

about everything

we don't want to destroy anything at all

why can't we be

the train engineers huh

train engineers

you don't know anything about driving a

train oh we know plenty about trains

humans invented the railroad long ago

but back then the rails were made out of

wood

people didn't start making metal rails

until the end of the 18th century but

the first railroad cars had no engines

to give them their power instead they

used horses to pull them along

later horses were replaced by the steam

engine wooden coal would burn in their

furnaces to boil the water in the

boilers making the steam that turned

their wheels and the fixies were there

to help those trains go

making sure all of the parts could work

together smoothly

but now steam engines have long gone

away the railroad uses electricity now

for its power these electric trains race

along the railway at almost the speed of

an airplane

[Music]

so you might know trains but you'll

still be the aliens this railroad is

mine so you're gonna play the way i want

the train is unloaded and leaving the

station

you can play choo-choo by yourself and i

will

[Music]

hmm

hey

why did you stop

[Music]

this doesn't help either it's not going

at all

simka

[Music]

no lick

where are you did i hurt your feelings

or something

mom is dad gonna be home soon

no is something the matter we've been

attacked by evil aliens the train has to

be fixed right away or we'll never

escape them

you want some tea

i've got to think of something

cinca nolic i know you're in there

please forgive me if i hurt your

feelings

i'm really sorry

there's nobody but you that can save the

world from the evil aliens

all right it talked us back into it well

let's go and check the rails no look

follow me

i'm faster

whoa well so much for being faster it

looks like i found the break

tom thomas the rails are broken

i know and so you know but that's why

your train's not running

just like a real train model trains run

on electricity but there aren't any

batteries inside the locomotive to pull

the other cars the engine gets its

electricity from the rails

each piece of the rail has a wire in it

if the rails come apart the electricity

can't flow through the track and get to

the train

and without electricity the trains

engine just stops going

so reconnect the rails and your train

will run again

uh-huh

put them together ah

yes

[Music]

hooray

the train's running

way to go so will you play with me now

and which way are we playing this time

whatever you want i'm with you

the train rushes down the track with no

i guess it's engineered when suddenly

from out of the sky comes an alien

spaceship

[Music]

[Applause]

greetings to you o people of planet

earth i come from far away from another

galaxy have you come to destroy

everything

i've come to fix it all

[Applause]

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let that secret up but if you need a

fixture please

Transcript

[Music]

don't

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see

wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden wish

tom thomas

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go to

the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish tadish

[Music]

that wasn't the idea looks like a dog to

me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish tadish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around

wow i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no like be

careful how can you live being this tall

it's so inconvenient and i thought it

was tough when you were so tiny tom

thomas are you ready hey why do we have

three dogs all of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seem to be an

impossible dream but today anyone can

take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins for storing lots of

money people use a safe a large metal

box with a very strong lock now that

kind of piggy banks almost impossible to

break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it

yeah forget it i have nothing to put my

money into but what if there's already

enough for roller skates and what if

there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

[Music]

tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two

coins wait no lick what one coin two

coins what are you counting you have to

add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

[Music]

what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

[Music]

i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

[Music]

you're my friend aren't you

of course then smash the piggy bank will

you

okay look i'm gonna do it

[Music]

are you okay

i'm okay

thank you

tom thomas thank you my friend no

problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here to buy a piggy bank that's totally

brand new

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but if i told my daddy it's all inside

your head

you really

[Music]

the key card

[Music]

well professor you genius your kennels

back in action

why thank you

i've been longing for a cup of tea

yes

there's no tea left in here

[Music]

then i'll go ask lisa if she has some ah

look professor you genius you forgot the

key

[Music]

the key don't close the door cinka you

must be joking that's a key this is

nothing but a plastic card but it

is a special kind it's called a key card

to open up the combination lock you need

to enter a code in the correct order

that means if you can't remember the

code you can't open the lock

but if the lock uses a key card there

isn't any code to memorize because the

code is held inside the card's memory

and the lock can read the code from the

card of course key cards don't work with

any lock they have to be smart blocks

that are able to read electronic codes

when the smart lock reads the correct

code it opens right up

[Music]

elisa do we have any tea here of course

professor you genius

wonderful i'll take one bag then

oh i left my key inside the lab can i

borrow yours

just don't forget to give it back of

course i'll give it back come on elisa i

got myself a tea bag professor you

genius the water's boiling fantastic

wait a second ah oh no i was supposed to

give something back to elisa why don't

you go and ask her right i'll be right

back

[Music]

professor you genius

that's card number two now

[Music]

elisa

i promised you something didn't i yes

the key you said you'd return it yeah

sure let me get it just a sec

oh oh i locked it in the lab it's

terrible how will you ever get back into

the laboratory now you see

there is one way but it's a secret would

you mind leaving for a couple of minutes

colleague professor can you do me a

little favor

the key i think i left it on the table

yeah right it's true so how do we solve

this i need to think about it what's

there to think about we just have to go

and push it under the door

you think you can do it yeah it's time

to get to work

hey what's going on

were you just calling for me yeah uh no

lisa not for you

it's so heavy do you know where digit

ran off too

digits off somewhere thinking he's

always doing that when it's time to work

hard to port

hard to starboard way to go nolik

then who were you talking to

actually oh

what's that where

what

what was that come on let's try again

yeah look do you see that ah that it's a

telekinesis

it's the power to transport things with

your mind

you are just astounding

was that done with your mind too the

door yeah sure

you are a genius

[Music]

professor eugenius is a very talented

scientist and a dear old friend of the

fixies he always helps the fixies and

the fixies are happy to help him too

professor eugenius let the fixie set up

their school right here at his

laboratory it's hard to imagine a better

place for a fixie school people from all

over the city bring all sorts of things

to the laboratory to be tested from

computers phones and furniture to food

and toys professor eugenius uses his

expertise to check the quality of all

these different things to help him carry

out his experiment his laboratory is

filled with a variety of tools and

machines

yes professor eugenius is a very smart

man but he can be absent-minded lucky

for him he's got us pixies around

[Music]

thanks for everything

sliding the key card under the door that

was cinca's awesome idea but the door

opened wide while the card was still on

the floor

that's strange there's nothing strange

about it i don't want to open it

wow

i climbed in the lock that's all figured

out how it worked and

titty very clever that's a real tadish i

guess that thinking before you go and

fix something ought to be what we all

study next

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

phones and toasters

and tv screens even roller coasters

without them

ticking

without them lights go out but if you

heat up

[Music]

the bee

tom thomas

hello

how come you're eating jam straight from

out of the jar because

it tastes so good

oh a bee

[Music]

shoe get out of here leave it alone it's

just a plain old bee well i was bitten

by one of those plain old bees once

don't do it go away you pests

flies are pests these are very helpful

and useful how can a bee ever help us

out

bees are hard workers they are

constantly collecting nectar from

flowers

flying from flower to flower bees

transport pollen on their bellies thanks

to this process of pollination flowers

produce fruit and seeds in other words

bees help plants reproduce

the bees use the nectar they collect to

make that delicious sweet honey loved by

kids of all ages and bee honey is not

only delicious it's also nutritious

so i'm still afraid of it what if it

bites me bees don't bite by the way they

sting

[Music]

well now i'm gonna show you

[Music]

don't

the bee's the one who should be afraid

you tyrant yeah you let it go tyrant why

are you calling me names who's stopping

her she can fly away if she wants

we need to show her the way out

well how

here little bee

fly this way

why don't you try going

then what can i say

[Music]

don't move it'll sting you it doesn't

want to sting both of you like to eat

sweets you like eating jam and so does

the bee why don't you carry your socket

to the window

go on fly

no that's not gonna work you need to go

and get more jam

here little bee

yum yum

go on and fly you're free

let her eat first don't be greedy i'm

not being greedy

if she eats she can make honey out of

your jam

long ago people could only collect honey

by destroying the nests of wild bees

and that went on until someone came up

with the idea of taming those insects

they started by leaving enough honey for

the bees to survive through the winter

people took care of bees in these

hollows until they learned to build

small houses for them called beehives

and a town made of these bee houses is

called an apiary bees live and work

together in the beehives making honey

while beekeepers take care of the bees

and collect the honey these are real

team players they tell each other where

the best flowers grow do you know how

they do it one of the bees does a dance

and then the rest of the bees watch the

dance and learn where they need to fly

you poor thing

tom thomas tired you out

i told you there's nothing to be afraid

of you see

she's just so nice and kind i'm not

afraid of her she wouldn't let me eat my

jam that's all well now it's time for

you to fly away

whoa she's playing rough here i want to

try ah and no look you're too little

you'll have to grow to do this job whoa

whoa whoa calm down now now let's fly

hey cinco the windows back there i can

see that without you

[Music]

so how can i get you to turn around

cool hooray

she's listening to me

[Music]

don't miss the window

[Music]

now

so long honeybee

[Music]

tom thomas do you have any more of that

jam left yeah what for

bring it here we'll get more bees to fly

how come what do you mean how come

because it's my turn for a b ride

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

but

[Music]

why are we going to the dishwasher again

we have a busy day ahead of us and we

all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious knowledge

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices

getting charged up in a car makes a

fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha

there you are go get charged right now

i'm not going look at tom thomas he

doesn't want to have breakfast either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana

i found some chocolate too and i found

strawberry ice cream start up the mixer

when you get up from your videos

[Music]

there is still something you need

[Music]

indeed

[Music]

a little milk sauce

[Music]

that you need

[Music]

wow this mixer's cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simka

what in the world were you up to

and what happened to noblek

just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

[Music]

are such nutritious

creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

the magic wand

[Music]

oh tom thomas how did you get here it

was a piece of cake i just got this cool

magic wand as a gift see wow

there's no such thing as a magic wand i

don't believe you

you just wait and you wish is the one's

command check it out today i want my

school to be closed golden

your teacher from school just gave me a

call she said your school has totally

disappeared how odd

so i'm not going to school

well how instead of school we'll go

to the park

hooray

[Music]

real magic oh it's so great no there's

no magic they're only illusions i don't

know what illusions are it's when what

we think we're seeing is not what is

actually happening

have you ever seen a magician pull a

rabbit out of an empty hat

do you think it's magic no it is only an

illusion

in reality the rabbit's hidden inside

the table that the magician puts his hat

on the lid of the hat is made with a

secret hatch and when the magician puts

his arm inside the hat he grabs the

rabbit from the table below and ta-da

how every magic trick works may be a

secret but every illusion does have an

explanation

[Music]

i'm telling you this one's totally

magical right now i can make a rabbit

appear out of this trash can for you

golden wish

[Music]

oh that wasn't the idea looks like a dog

to me wait one more time

golden wish

[Music]

golden wish

tom thomas will you cut it out one

chusaka was already enough for us and

now there's three

[Music]

hey tom thomas

please tell your rabbits

that they can stop barking so loudly

shame on you for attacking helpless

little kids

wait i'll make you bigger now

golden wish tadish

[Applause]

[Music]

what you scared so you're only brave

enough to chase little kids around wow

i'm huge

i'm as huge as tom thomas i'm huge oh

no be careful

[Music]

how can you live being this tall it's so

inconvenient and i thought it was tough

when you were so tiny tom thomas are you

ready hey why do we have three dogs all

of a sudden

oh my word

[Applause]

why are you screaming

i was dreaming that someone had given me

a magic wand and then i had to make it

big see and and and my mom saw you

that's awful

that would have made me scream i wish i

had a magic wand of my very own

we fixies aren't ones to believe in

magic but we do believe in what humans

can do because humans often work wonders

for ages flying in the sky seemed to be

an impossible dream

but today anyone can take off to the sky

in an airplane it used to be that humans

thought that only magic could take them

to the moon but now astronauts have

already walked on its surface in fairy

tales people were able to see and talk

to each other through a magic mirror but

today we have the internet and

telephones we can use

refrigerators televisions automobiles

computers there are so many things that

humans have created wondrous things that

they used to only be able to dream about

like a miracle from a fairy tale

[Music]

a magic wand why do you need it

first i'd skip school today

tom thomas are you ready

i told you we're going to the park and

what about school i'll skip it

hmm

good joke

could this be a dream too

no it's just that today is sunday and

that's the magic of it

[Music]

can you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's

[Music]

please don't let the secret

[Music]

the level

tom thomas

i'm really sorry the movie this weekend

i have to cancel

you do

i need to go to africa for work i leave

tomorrow

oh cool you think i could go with you to

africa can you even find it on the map

africa

here we go

mm-hmm

no you're still too little

when you grow as tall as

the top of africa then i'll take you

with me

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing down there i

want to know if i'm as tall as the top

of africa or not

well do you know your height

okay then let's measure you and mark how

tall you are you just need to hold the

book all right

[Music]

uh how do we measure what's higher the

top of africa or this line over here

[Music]

hmm

[Music]

it's a tough one we need a piece of

flexible clear tubing oh i can get it

for you i know where it is and we'll

build a simple tool to find out the

answer it's called a water level

let's do an experiment first we'll pour

water into two bottles a little bit more

into one and a little less into the

other now we'll connect them with a tube

so that the water can flow between them

you see the water flows and flows and

then it stops it stops when there's the

same amount of water inside of both

bottles and if we do this with a simple

tube it becomes a useful tool called a

water level in which the water on both

sides is always the same height

[Music]

i'm gonna watch the water level on this

end all right

be careful how you lift it or the water

can get out

what's going on

the water inside the tube is even with

the line there you go tom thomas where

the water is right now is how tall you

are

and well it looks like tom thomas isn't

quite tall enough for africa

what if we hold the tube a little higher

you can try if you want but the water's

gonna stay where it is

[Music]

see the water level on your side always

stays the same as on the other side

uh i'm not getting that tall for a while

yet

and what if we just lower the map a

little

that wouldn't be honest but it would be

clever

there are a lot of great proverbs but my

favorite one is measure twice cut once

and to measure things right you need

measuring tools the simplest one is a

ruler with itself we can find out the

length of an object a watch can tell us

how much time is passed a speedometer

shows us how fast we are moving like in

a car or on a bike an electric meter

keeps track of how much electricity we

are using

a decibel meter can tell us who is

screaming or stomping louder

and a beam compass is used to accurately

measure the size of a coin or a hole we

couldn't get by without wonderful tools

like these

if we didn't measure the things we are

building carefully everything around us

would just come loose fall apart

dad

look dad

hmm that's strange looks like you are a

little taller

does that mean you'll take me with you

yeah

are you ready yay

but everyone who goes to africa has to

get vaccinated you're okay with that

aren't you i need vaccinations to go are

you sure yeah there's one against

malaria ct fly crocodile bites all

together there are 10 shots 10 shots

yeah 10.

dad you know

i was joking after you left the room i

moved the map down okay i see and i was

joking about all those shots you need

what you mean you don't need to get

shots you gotta just not ten so how many

nine of them there's no vaccination

anywhere to stop a crocodile from biting

[Music]

you believe that fixies are such

itty-bitty creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet

[Music]

the robot

did i already tell you what i'm hoping

you'll get me for my birthday present

yes honey only a thousand times or so a

robotizoid r 300 would just be the

greatest with mega vision i want it i

really do

i do

well tomorrow you'll find out but now

it's time to sleep tom thomas

wow that is one great present and we got

tom thomas absolutely zero for his

birthday uh we're just terrible friends

so how does this robot work

okay

so let's give this a try shall we

first we'll take a walk

and how does he have any idea where the

robot's going i can tell you

one of the robots eyes is a video camera

the robot sends the picture to the

screen on the controller so the player

can see where the robot is going yeah

and that's just one thing they know how

to do

a robot is a smart machine that can do

very difficult or dangerous work for

humans with its strong metal arms a

robot can move heavy objects or put

together parts to build cars and other

machines

robots are often sent into outer space

or to the bottom of the ocean to help

scientists

there are also robots that can

understand what people are saying and

robots that can talk and even make jokes

just like people

i've got it

now let's turn you around

[Music]

what was that

uh look

you know

he destroyed him no stop you were

playing with that right you think tom

will notice oh

i know what you're doing all night i'm

off to bed i'll get him to work i'll

stay up until i do cinca

let's try it no we're gonna need some

help

when your tv has broken when your cell

phone has croaked your laptop fairly

working the kettles had a

us where we're stroke

for it's known far and wide but any kind

of problem is clearer from inside

one two three

inside will be

to fix what's wrong

our work will never end

appliances are fickle they need a loyal

friend and midnight

every single

[Music]

will be

all day and night

we fix things right

one two three

inside will be

all day and night

we fix things right we live to keep on

working and work for us is fun so we'll

just keep on working

and deep inside of gadgets if you look

when it's dark you might just see us

race around like multi-color sparks

one two three

[Music]

we fix things right

one

[Music]

all day

wow

you got it

we need to hide

robotizoid r300 i can't believe it

[Music]

well happy birthday to you tom thomas

i'm sorry tom thomas last night your

robot you know i broke it

dad it works perfectly don't you see

[Music]

i'm so proud of you you fixed it

[Music]

i couldn't fix it at all i tried

everything oh you want to tell me that

the robot fixed itself

what a joker

[Music]

mom dad thanks so much i love it

and how about thanking us

i should have known it was you who fixed

the robot happy birthday happy birthday

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the piggy bank

[Music]

tom thomas why are you throwing away

your money that's not what i'm doing i'm

storing it this is a piggy bank oh

here's another coin

i don't like it snout that's one very

suspicious looking pig are you positive

your money's safe with her don't worry

whatever i put into my bank here is not

getting back out

this piggy bank won't give up a cent you

greedy piggy come on nolick simka must

have taught you about how banks work

humans came up with the idea of piggy

banks because they wanted a good place

to save their coins

for storing lots of money people use a

safe a large metal box with a very

strong lock

now that kind of piggy banks almost

impossible to break open

the biggest safes are in bed banks use

them to store their customers money and

other valuables

there are even safes and banks that are

whole rooms you'd need an awful lot of

change to fill up one of these piggy

banks

so why are you saving up all this money

for roller skates how much more do you

need to save i don't know i can't see if

there's enough in there

then just go and open it but there's no

way to do that the only way is to smash

it real hard so smash it yeah forget it

i have nothing to put my money into but

what if there's already enough for

roller skates and what if there's not

oh right then i guess i'll count your

money for you

[Music]

tadish

oh whoa tom thomas you've got a fortune

in here

[Music]

there are many different kinds of money

and they're not just coins either

long ago people paint each other with

shells and squirrel skins and even

parrot feathers

and of course metal coins are more

convenient than any of those things and

paper money is even more convenient than

coins one piece of paper can be worth as

much as a hundred coins or even a

thousand all that needs to be done is to

print more zeros on it and that's all

today humans can pay for almost anything

without paper money or coins whatsoever

if you have enough money in the bank you

can just walk into a store give the

cashier your bank card and take your

purchase home with you without handing

over any money the bank knows how much

money you spend and they pay the store

for you later it's so convenient

[Music]

so will you count them here we go one

coin

and two coins wait no lick what one coin

two coins what are you counting you have

to add together all of the different

numbers

huh you should have told me that before

i never learned how to yeah that's what

i figured come on out

[Music]

what can i do

what if you try stacking the coins so

they're like stairs that's what i'm

already doing

why don't you try tilting the piggy bank

over hang on

stop

i'm getting buried put it back the way

it was before this is worse ah

just put the pig down

no look hang in there please i'll get

some thread and lower it down to you

[Music]

i can't get a hold of it it's too far

away hey tom thomas smash the piggy bank

what

just smash your piggy bank but i like it

and what you don't like me of course i

like you well who do you like more

[Music]

you're my friend aren't you of course

then smash the piggy bank will you

okay knowledge i'm gonna do it

[Music]

no listen are you okay

i'm okay

thank you tom thomas thank you my friend

no problem at least now you can count up

how much money you have nah there's no

reason to do it there's no way it's

enough for roller skates you sure

what a shame

but now you've got all of this money

here

to buy a piggy bank that's totally brand

new

[Music]

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up

[Music]

they take

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simka

it's a cartoon about gulliver in the

land of lillypoo

my friend genie let me borrow it i have

it till tomorrow

and what's the story about

well it's about this guy who gets

shipwrecked where people are just so

teeny teeny tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simca i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little fusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master fixie

repairmen

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up

i can't give her back a disc that's

messed up don't panic we'll take a look

at it come lay it down over here

[Music]

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disk

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

in the air and flush it to each other

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the catapult

[Music]

what was that huh

strange

thomas isn't here

there's no way these toy soldiers could

have shot it themselves

now that was a good shot

it wasn't real long and not high either

and off target

it was pretty awful it was good but

awful i got it so what do we do we need

to raise it up a little higher hey fire

no lick why in the world would you shoot

at a fixie fixies they're supposed to be

in school right now

actually i'm on my way to school how

about you fire why aren't you in class

because there it's totally boring but

here look what a cool shooter we found

what did you call it you've got no idea

what this is it's called a catapult guys

a cat with gold eyes it isn't a cat with

gold eyes it's a catapult guys

[Music]

catapults are ancient propulsion

machines they were used to shoot stones

heavy arrows or barrels with burning tar

the main part of the catapult is a

special piece of rope it is twisted very

very tightly like a spring the rope is

then wrapped around a big spoon and then

if you pull the spoon back put a stone

in it and let it go

the catapult fires a shot

and the stone flies far far away

uh-huh

all right so here we go

came up short what do you mean short

what are you waiting at you'll see spoon

needs to go further back just a little

guys you're gonna break the glass

yeah no like

now push

all right

[Music]

yes right on target now let's fly out

into space wait what space what kind of

flying who's gonna fly

i'm gonna fly haha right out the window

right up to the moon first fix fixing

onto the world knowledge are you ready

for your flight into space yes sir

get out of the spoon now i'll be the

first fixie on the moon yeah no look

enough of this what kind of joke is this

it's not a joke at all he's gonna fly

into space and how come it's not you

because he's lighter hold on

humans didn't go straight into space

themselves they sent dogs out there

first

chuseoka is not gonna fit in here simka

why don't you go and let us finish fine

i will go but only after nolik finds

himself a helmet hmm you're right about

that i'll go find a helmet

[Applause]

the catapult was invented in ancient

times but people still use them today

only now instead of launching stones

catapults are used to launch jet

airplanes you see the runway on an

aircraft carrier is quite short so

catapults are used to help the planes

move fast enough to take off

catapults can also be used to save the

life of a pilot when an airplane has an

accident a catapult activates in the

cabin the pilot is shot into the sky and

comes back to the ground with a

parachute

a plain old slingshot is also a kind of

catapult it's just a very little one but

be careful with this toy it can be

dangerous to others and to you too

as for us fixies the only time that we

use catapults is on a peaceful mission

up there what should i say to them hi

there and you can ask them to launch you

back so let's do it

fire watch it

stop don't

sim car

no lick

i'm not getting

[Music]

[Applause]

nope just a bit short

[Music]

it's not our fault you're just heavier

than knowledge and that's why you came

up short

purpose maybe we can try one more time

what

[Music]

can you

believe creatures

even when they're magnified it's hard to

see their pictures they're tiny

infinitesimal so small it makes you

doubt but if you meet up they please

[Music]

chess

hmm

how about that

then i'll play

my pawn and i'll play

my pawn

grandpas we need our spool and it's

missing oh congratulations

professor have you seen it anywhere the

spool i haven't seen we're playing chess

can't you see

do you like board games like dominoes

for instance just about everybody has

played it but do you know where it came

from domino's was invented by the

ancient chinese they made tiles and

decorated them with dots like on a pair

of dice

and this is a game that looks a lot like

checkers but it's a lot more challenging

it's called back cannon backgammon

originated in persia and from there it

spread all over the world

but the most challenging game of them

all is the game of chess

chess was invented in india and today

the game of chess is loved in every

country it's played by adults by

children and even by computers

chess is a real sport

but the most important thing for playing

chess is not the power in your arms but

the power in your brain

hey look i found it yeah

hey what's going on

that's our spool please let us take it

back there's something we have to do

with it but we're using it can't you

wait it's a replacement for the missing

pawn oh oh no that can work for a while

as the pond's replacement

yeah

i can do it

all right you can take it

and you stand right over here

one two three up we go

class so how do we play

you're going to play for the whites and

now i'm going to capture your night

and we

we're gonna knock over yours take that

whoa whoa whoa young man slow down it

goes back here

[Music]

get back to your square what for pawns

don't move like that and how do they

move

only one square per move and only

forward

of all of the pieces the little pawn is

the weakest what a mess so which one's

strongest huh this it's the queen she's

the most dangerous threat to the other

king ah how come i couldn't be queen

then that black king would have to deal

with me oh yes

in chess each player has a black or

white army with eight pawns two knights

two bishops two castles and a queen

all of them work together for their king

trying to protect him while attacking

the enemies king if the king finds

himself in a position where he can be

captured the attacking player says check

and if the king finds himself with

nowhere to run from the attack it's

called checkmate whoever check makes the

other players king first is the winner

[Music]

hmm

i'll move my queen yeah

and me

my queen

then i'll just capture your queen

really then i'll just capture yours

grandpas should i go now

not yet

so do you feel like surrendering ha

you're kidding do you know it forward

hooray

we'll step aside forward

let's go and capture the night he got

away

all right paul and once more go forward

great grandpas

where do i go now don't you see the edge

don't go anywhere now you're the queen

what the rules of chess say that if a

pawn makes it all the way to the other

side he could become anything that was

captured earlier

hooray

then i'll be the queen and i'll be the

strongest piece in the whole game

hey queen

get back here

in case you don't know this isn't over

yet

we capture the pawn with the queen queen

this is your new place

check check

yeah

now come to here

checkmate my colleague

of course it is

it is mate

yeah

i lost

hooray to these traditions

professor we found the missing part for

you so that means nola can leave with us

i'm not going anywhere with you

this is the greatest game you'll ever

play in your life all you should have

seen how i put professor you genius in

it check me

really

well grandpa's helped me a little

actually it was grandpa's telling me

where to move

but i'm the queen now

[Music]

mp3s and tv

[Music]

please don't

[Music]

the dvd

[Music]

get away from here

so where did it go

oh here it is

[Music]

hey there tom thomas so what's on the

desk

hi there nolick hi there simca it's a

cartoon about gulliver in the land of

lillypoo

my friend jeannie let me borrow it i

have it till tomorrow

and what's the story about well it's

about this guy who gets shipwrecked

where people are just so teeny teeny

tiny

fixies you mean no not fixies

lilliputians

uh-huh you know what simka i think that

you fix these might have come from those

little pusions

no way

our grandpa told us a completely

different story of the pixies

when something is very well made then

the saying goes that it was made with

just a little bit of salt

in old times craftsmen made things to

last and in each appliance they would

leave just a little piece of their soul

those little pieces of their soul would

turn into tiny craftsmen called fixies

who would then make the appliance their

home and take care of it every day and

that's how the very first fixies came

about

but as the years have passed fewer

things are being made by hand and more

and more things are getting made by

machines and factories that means there

are less and less new fixies coming from

human souls

luckily fixies can fall in love with

each other and have their own family

raising their children and teaching them

well so they'll grow up to become

skillful and honest master pixie

repairman

so you're mistaken we're not

lilliputians at all we're fixies

yeah fixies

[Music]

listen tom thomas why don't you show us

the movie

yeah yeah i want to learn about lilly

pushes too really i do sure i'll show

you

[Music]

oh no what's going on i broke it up i

can't give her back a disc that's messed

don't panic we'll take a look at it come

lay it down over here

tom thomas

why is this disco covered in jelly

because i was touching it with my

fingers i mean uh what else

it's obvious you don't know how a disc

works at all

and you know how it works yeah i know

if we take a look at a digital disc

through a powerful microscope we can see

rows of tiny valleys of different

lengths these valleys are actually a

code for the cartoons games or music

recorded onto the disc inside a disc

player a laser beam reads the code and

helps turn it back into pictures and

sounds

but if you scratch the disc or smudge

the disc with dirty fingers the laser

can't read it and the disc won't play

that's why you need to keep discs clean

and stored in cases

[Music]

so that's why you should only hold discs

along the edges and when you're done

watching them you have to put them back

inside their boxes

and what about this one

do we have to get rid of it not so fast

no look this calls for a major cleaning

let's get the brooms

[Music]

[Applause]

thank you

[Music]

okay tom thomas check the disc

there you go

now you're holding it right

[Music]

hooray the disc works fine hooray now we

can watch the movie about the

lilliputians

hey gulliver why are you sitting there

you've seen this movie already i know

and what what what look at that pile of

discs where do you need to put them

huh in their boxes

[Music]

i almost caught one yesterday

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let

[Music]

the mixer

masia why are we going to the dishwasher

again we have a busy day ahead of us and

we all need to be charged up with energy

i don't like charging myself up in the

dishwasher then how about the microwave

no lick or the kettle

no thanks i don't like it when we go

inside anything at all in that kitchen

there's not one interesting thing in

there and where's it interesting huh

in the computer

mafia will you let me get charged up in

the computer the energy there is sweeter

our diet has to be nutritious no lick

not just delicious people don't eat just

candy do they

humans get energy from food while the

fixies get their energy from appliances

humans eat all sorts of foods and so do

fixies they need the energy that comes

from different devices getting charged

up in the car makes a fixie faster

in a computer smarter and then a clock

more accurate

to get a balanced energy diet fix these

mustn't stay inside of one place all the

time like a television it's healthier

for us to move from one device to

another

[Music]

good morning tom thomas

what's the matter

for breakfast i got cereal with milk mom

says that milk is so healthy but i think

it's just awful

aha nola there you are go get charged

right now i'm not going look at tom

thomas he doesn't want to have breakfast

either

[Music]

why don't you

milk tastes awful to him

tastes awful he just doesn't know how to

drink it right

look what we've got here

what

a mixer

[Music]

a mixer is a kitchen appliance that's

used to mix together different foods

with a mixer you can make things like

frosting sauces or an omelette but the

most delicious thing you can make with a

mixer is a milkshake it's easy just put

some fruit syrup juice ice cream or

anything else you'd like into a

container and then add milk now use the

mixer to stir it all up until it's

smooth and creamy and that's it you've

got yourself a milkshake

[Music]

guys what do we have for a milkshake

we've got a jar of jelly will it work

that'll work

and strawberry jam that'll be great

here's a banana i found some chocolate

too and i found strawberry ice cream

start up the mixer

when you get up from your bed

[Music]

open your favorite cereal

[Music]

delicious indeed

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

wow this mixer is cool isn't it

you think we can make one more shake

just one they were good sure if you want

where did all the milk go

way to go looks like you drank all of it

and i remember when you said how milk is

awful

i didn't know how to drink it right

[Music]

simca

what in the world were you up to and

what happened to

novick just come i'll show you

[Music]

no lick here you are

didn't you say that charging up in the

kitchen is boring for you

the mixer's not boring it gives you

energy that's yummy delicious and

nutritious

[Music]

to each other

[Music]

please

[Music]

the chain reaction

[Music]

tom thomas what you doing

no look leave me alone

no really what is that quit distracting

me will you

[Music]

no look look at what you've done

i it's all because you wouldn't quit it

wouldn't quit what

i was struggling with that thing for

half an hour and you ruined it

[Music]

hey tom thomas can you hear me

tom thomas

let me out

[Music]

no like is that you banging

yeah and how did you end up in there

none of your business why are you so

rude to me cuz i feel like it

oh yeah enjoy sitting there well who

needs you goodbye

[Music]

oh cinka what happened to you did you

bang yourself and so what

does it hurt leave me alone tula you

always have to be fussing over everybody

come on why aren't you so angry huh no

look what's rude to me that means you

have to be rude to me

forgive me tula and where's no like

right now there

let's go see him

no look it's tula are you all right i'm

fine why were you so rude with your

sister

cause tom thomas was rude with me

i get it it's a chain reaction

a what

[Music]

setting a log on fire isn't easy but

it's easy to light a match use the match

to light kindling the kindling to light

a twig and a twig to light the log

have you ever seen a fire grow it's an

example of a typical chain reaction so

be extra careful with fire because just

one match or little piece of smoldering

coal can lead to a huge disaster yes

they can make a whole forest first into

flame and burn down to the ground and

all because of a simple chain reaction

i don't get you watching reaction what

do you mean

thomas was rude to you then you were

rude to zumka then simka was rude with

me so there it is a chain reaction yeah

and the rudeness was like a little spark

it just spread and spread and spread

like a forest fire

will you forgive me

yeah all right i've got an idea why

don't we try starting our very own chain

reaction the other way around what do

you mean well instead of spreading angry

and rude feelings we can spread

happiness but how

it's simple all we need to do is smile

and say nice things to each other what a

great idea we could work together and

fix tom thomas's mood

and i know how

come help me pick up this domino will

you

everything in the whole universe is made

up of atoms particles so extremely small

that you can't even see them through a

microscope but when a tiny atom splits

it makes a tiny explosion and that

explosion can start another explosion

and another explosion and another and

now you've got a chain reaction and

that's how a lot of tiny explosions work

together to make the gigantic explosion

of an atomic bomb the deadliest weapon

known to man but atomic energy can also

be used for peaceful purposes for

example nuclear power plants use this

energy to produce electricity and hot

water and nuclear-powered icebreakers

can break through the thick arctic ice

so ships can sail on their way

[Music]

they're all done no look

bring them in

and now we're gonna teach tom thomas how

a chain reaction can work to make you

feel really good he's coming on your

marks now

what's going on

no really tom thomas watch this

[Music]

[Applause]

that was so totally awesome i can't

believe what i saw how did you do that

it was just a real a chain reaction

what

[Music]

they take care of our machines irons

[Music]

the electric train

[Music]

and suddenly the earth is attacked by an

alien spaceship

[Music]

if help arrives here on time we'll be

saved

move faster faster come on get off the

train move it move it

thomas we came here to play

oh finally you're here i need some

aliens for this game

what kind of aliens are you talking

about just plain old aliens you know the

ones they come destroy the earth in just

about everything

we don't want to destroy anything at all

why can't we be

the train engineers huh

train engineers

you don't know anything about driving a

train oh we know plenty about trains

humans invented the railroad long ago

but back then the rails were made out of

wood

people didn't start making metal rails

until the end of the 18th century but

the first railroad cars had no engines

to give them their power instead they

used horses to pull them along

later horses were replaced by the steam

engine wooden coal would burn in their

furnaces to boil the water in the

boilers making the steam that turned

their wheels and the fixies were there

to help those trains go

making sure all of the parts could work

together smoothly

but now steam engines have long gone

away the railroad uses electricity now

for its power these electric trains race

along the railway at almost the speed of

an airplane

[Music]

so you might know trains but you'll

still be the aliens this railroad is

mine so you're gonna play the way i want

the train is unloaded and leaving the

station

you can play choo-choo by yourself and i

will

[Music]

hmm

hey

why did you stop

[Music]

this doesn't help either it's not going

at all

simka

[Music]

no lick

where are you did i hurt your feelings

or something

mom is dad gonna be home soon

no is something the matter we've been

attacked by evil aliens the train has to

be fixed right away or we'll never

escape them

you want some tea

i've got to think of something

cinca nolic i know you're in there

please forgive me if i hurt your

feelings

i'm really sorry

there's nobody but you that can save the

world from the evil aliens

all right it talked us back into it well

let's go and check the rails no look

follow me

i'm faster

whoa well so much for being faster it

looks like i found the break

tom thomas the rails are broken

i know and so you know but that's why

your train's not running

just like a real train model trains run

on electricity but there aren't any

batteries inside the locomotive to pull

the other cars the engine gets its

electricity from the rails

each piece of the rail has a wire in it

if the rails come apart the electricity

can't flow through the track and get to

the train

and without electricity the trains

engine just stops going

so reconnect the rails and your train

will run again

uh-huh

put them together ah

yes

[Music]

hooray

the train's running

way to go so will you play with me now

and which way are we playing this time

whatever you want i'm with you

the train rushes down the track with no

i guess it's engineered when suddenly

from out of the sky comes an alien

spaceship

[Music]

[Applause]

greetings to you o people of planet

earth i come from far away from another

galaxy have you come to destroy

everything

i've come to fix it all

[Applause]

[Music]

but if you need a picture please don't

let that secret up but if you need a

fixture please

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