The Cold-Blooded Penguin

Fun Forever

11/12/2023

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00:00 - To... - Elfin, the end.

00:02 Yes. Thank you. Professor?

00:05 This story takes us way down to the South Pole.

00:09 Rather than have you stand on your heads, let's turn the theater over.

00:16 There. That's better.

00:19 Two things you will find most of down here are ice...

00:23 ...and penguins.

00:27 It's amazing that anybody would want to live here,

00:30 but most penguins wouldn't live anywhere else.

00:33 You couldn't find better weather for fishing,

00:38 skiing,

00:40 tobogganing,

00:42 or swimming.

00:43 And there is nothing the average penguin likes better than a day at the beach.

00:50 But come on, let's meet Pablo.

00:53 He lives down at the end of Main Street.

00:56 Let's go in and see what's cooking.

00:58 Pablo could never remember having been warm enough,

01:03 and so his closest companion was Smokey Joe,

01:06 his little stove.

01:08 Between chills, Pablo had one burning desire,

01:19 to spend the rest of his life on some tropical shore.

01:25 So we see him bravely set forth for the isle of his dreams.

01:29 The other penguins turned out to give him a big send-off.

01:32 But when he gets just so far away from his stove...

01:37 ...see what happens?

01:42 Too bad. Perhaps he'll give up this wild idea.

01:50 But no! He's off to another start.

01:55 This time he's bringing a friend.

01:58 Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

02:03 Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

02:07 Anyway, it was a hot idea.

02:14 Well, maybe he'll be content to stay at home this time.

02:20 (Squeaking)

02:22 But no! There he goes,

02:27 hot-footing it to the land of the sun.

02:30 By now, the farewell committee has been reduced to two.

02:35 (Squeaking)

02:37 Discouraging, isn't it?

02:52 Suddenly, Pablo got one of those ideas that change a person's whole life.

03:02 A boat. But where would he get a boat?

03:05 Just watch.

03:07 "Where there's a will, there's a way," they say.

03:19 And now, the official launching.

03:31 Day after day, the south wind carried him north.

03:35 One day, a blanket of fog rolled in.

03:40 And it was so thick...

03:44 (Fog horn blowing)

03:50 ...must be near Cape Horn.

03:54 As the fog lifted...

03:57 ...he found himself headed straight through the Straits of Magellan

04:01 and northward along Chile's rocky coast.

04:04 One day, a storm cloud came up.

04:07 Just a little bitty old storm cloud, though.

04:11 It just tried awful hard to have its first storm.

04:17 Didn't amount to much, though.

04:22 One day, on lookout, Pablo had a bit of a shock.

04:26 A water spout off the port bow.

04:29 But it proved to be the Juan Fernandez Islands where Robinson Crusoe once lived.

04:36 And still does, apparently.

04:39 (Bell ringing)

04:42 Four bells and all's well.

04:45 According to Pablo's chart, he should be nearing Viña del Mar.

04:50 And strangely enough, that's just where he is.

04:54 He sailed past Lima, capital of Peru.

04:57 Hugging the coastline with a tenacity of purpose seldom found in a penguin.

05:02 One day, his telescope picked out a city high up on top of a mountain.

05:07 The map said it was Quito.

05:09 And it was right smack on the equator.

05:12 It wasn't as easy to cross, but with a little help from Neptune, he made it.

05:20 So, making a left turn, he followed the equator, headed for the Galapagos Isles.

05:25 Ah, that good old sun.

05:29 Pablo felt that he'd never get enough of it.

05:32 Oh, he hadn't counted on this.

05:40 Things looked pretty bad.

05:43 Help! Man the pumps! She's come to leak!

05:46 Pipe all hands on deck! Do things! Get going! Take to the lifeboats!

05:50 Abandon ship! Unruffle the mizzenmask and man the pokes!

05:54 Well, don't just stand there! Get going! Schwab the decks!

05:57 Help!

06:00 (hissing)

06:02 (hissing)

06:04 (hissing)

06:20 (hissing)

06:23 (hissing)

06:25 Look! What's that?

06:39 Just what he's been looking for!

06:41 Pablo has finally reached the Isle of his dreams.

06:49 And so, as the warm, tropical sun sinks slowly in the west,

06:54 we leave little Pablo.

06:56 A bird in paradise.

06:58 A picture of health in his new coat of tan.

07:01 He should be the happiest penguin in the world.

07:04 Only, sometimes, he gets to thinking...

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