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00:00Can you believe that Fixies are Such itty-bitty creatures?
00:09Even when they're magnified It's hard to see their features.
00:13They're tiny, infinitesimal, So small it makes you doubt.
00:17But if you meet a Fixie, please, Don't let their secret out!
00:31The Spare Part
00:45Hey, what's going on? It was just working.
00:49Hi there, Tom Thomas!
00:50Simka, Nolik, look, I've got a problem.
00:53Sorry, no time to play. We're busy.
00:55Busy? With what?
00:56We got put in charge here for the day.
00:59We even get to use one of the pack-o-mats.
01:01Papus and Masiya went out to visit our Fixie friends.
01:04Papus used to be with them at the space center years ago.
01:10Ever since he was a boy, Papus dreamed of going into space.
01:13Then why not? Fixies work on rockets too.
01:16He even got a job at the astronaut training center.
01:19He was put in charge of the centrifuge.
01:22And he made sure it worked perfectly.
01:24The centrifuge is a sort of very fast carousel for training astronauts.
01:29And Papus trained inside of it too.
01:31Unfortunately, Papus never knew the rocket was scheduled to fly on his day off.
01:36And when he found out, it was too late.
01:38And the rocket blasted off without him.
01:41Since then, Papus hates his days off.
01:44But he still longs to fix something like that centrifuge.
01:47You know, something turning around like a washing machine.
01:51Too bad for Papus that the one in his house seems to keep working perfectly fine.
01:58So that means today you fix everything?
02:00Uh-huh!
02:01Well then, it's your lucky day because my car just broke down.
02:04Hurrah! We've got work to do! Nolik, let's go!
02:13Well, what broke down here?
02:15Wait a sec!
02:18Here. This part burned out.
02:20It's all covered in black.
02:22I wonder where we can get the same part but a clean one.
02:25A clean one?
02:27Nolik! Genius!
02:29There's the same exact part inside the dishwasher! We can take it from there!
02:33Come on!
02:35Do you have any idea how all these parts are connected to one another?
02:38With this thing right under you.
02:40It's a special part called a circuit board.
02:46A circuit board is made like this.
02:48First, the board gets covered with a thin layer of metal.
02:51Then, paths are laid on the circuit board.
02:54Then, the circuit board is connected to the circuit board.
02:57Then, the circuit board is connected to the circuit board.
03:00Then, the circuit board is connected to the circuit board.
03:03Paths are laid onto the board where the electricity is going to flow.
03:07After that, all of the extra metal is washed off of it with a special cleaning liquid,
03:12leaving the metal paths that were drawn on the board.
03:16These paths work just like wires to connect the parts on the board to each other.
03:22And then all that's left to do is attach those parts to their places on the paths.
03:29Pull it!
03:30Pull it!
03:32Tideesh!
03:41Tom Thomas! Tideesh!
03:44Hurrah! It works again!
03:47Tom Thomas, I'm about to start the dishwasher.
03:50Are there any dirty dishes in your room?
03:53Nah.
03:54Slow down!
03:55Slow what down?
03:57Slow down your mom!
03:58We took the new part out of the dishwasher, see?
04:01Mom! Wait! Don't start it!
04:04You need to put… put…
04:07Yeah, put in this one dirty cup.
04:10Nolik, follow me!
04:11Inside the TV is the same part!
04:22Now back to the dishwasher!
04:28We barely made it!
04:30We grabbed the part from the TV in the living room!
04:33Not the TV! My mom's favorite program is about to start!
04:45The television is working now!
04:47And where did you get the part for it?
04:49From your dad's computer in his office!
04:52Hi, everybody! I'm home!
04:54Hi, Han! Are you ready for dinner?
04:56In a bit! I've got to finish a little work on the computer.
04:59Simka, hurry!
05:01Where else can we find that part?
05:03Stop! That's enough running!
05:06Here, take it back from the car.
05:11And then we put the part back into the computer and it started working again!
05:15Oh, that was really silly!
05:17Remember, you little experts, never repair any device at the cost of another one!
05:22I understand now.
05:23And I understand.
05:25If you were smart, you could have taken the part out of the old radio in the closet.
05:29Papus, but you know the radio wouldn't work then.
05:32That old thing hasn't been working for years!
05:34Masiya and I have pulled out half of those parts already!
05:40The Drain
05:46Hey, Nolik! Come help me! The fan in the computer needs dusting!
05:49Not right now!
05:50Me and Tom Thomas are painting a card for his parents' anniversary!
05:53Oh, look! Poor you! You must be so tired!
05:56Hi, Simka! It's really great you're here!
05:58I have a question. Twelfth anniversary. Is it spelled with an F or is it with a V?
06:04Ah, you know what?
06:05First put down the number twelve, and then put a dash on there, and then a TH.
06:10Oh, right! But first I'll change the water. I'll be right back.
06:18Oh, Mama left her ring here.
06:23Whoa!
06:24Ah, no! Ah, ah, no!
06:28Oh, no! What have I done?!
06:32I spoiled my mom and dad's special day!
06:35Where? In the bathroom?
06:37My mom's ring was lying there, and I dropped it into the sink, and now it's washed away.
06:44Ah, there goes the day.
06:46It didn't wash anywhere!
06:48Don't you know anything about how a drain trap works?
06:51About a what?
06:52A drain trap's a special curved pipe under the sink basin.
06:59Water flows out of the faucet and flows down into the drain trap, and after that it goes down to the sewer.
07:05But when you turn off the water, not all of it washes away. Some of it stays down in the drain trap.
07:11It's made that way so the smell from the sewer won't get back into the house.
07:17A ring is much heavier than water, so if you happen to drop it down the drain, it won't wash away.
07:22It will stay at the bottom of the drain trap.
07:28Well, that means we still got a chance!
07:30Yeah, but how in the world can we get it out of that trap?
07:33Who knows? I don't know how to swim.
07:36Don't worry, it's all under control.
07:38Do you have any thread?
07:40Plenty of it.
07:41Go get it, and I'll be back in a flash!
07:46I can't fix it like this. I need my welder.
07:49Papus, I need to borrow your pack-o-mat for a little while.
07:53Now that's a coincidence! I need to use it too!
07:59Masiya, then I need to use your pack-o-mat!
08:02What?
08:03I'll bring it right back!
08:04Hey, where are you going? Just watch what you're doing, dear!
08:08Just like the name says, Fixies live to help machines and appliances.
08:13But machines are very big and Fixies are very small, so they can't get by without tools.
08:19Long ago, Fixies worked with just about anything they could find.
08:23Little feathers, threads, pins, but now they have backpacks called pack-o-mats.
08:29Inside a pack-o-mat are all sorts of tools.
08:32Just push the button and the pack-o-mat spins around quickly,
08:35shooting out a hook or a magnet or even a parachute.
08:39Every adult Fixie has their own pack-o-mat.
08:42But before children can get them, they have to go to school and study hard
08:46and then pass an exam before they have the rights of a full-fledged Fixie.
08:49And it's only after all of that that young Fixies get their own pack-o-mats.
08:54And what? You're going down there with just that on?
08:57Not just like this!
09:02That looks good!
09:03Yeah, like that!
09:05When I tug the thread, pull me up!
09:09Huh?
09:10She was just saying, when I tug on the thread, you need to pull me up!
09:14I got it!
09:15He just said, when I tug on the thread, you need to pull me up!
09:18She was just saying, when I tug on the thread, you need to pull me up!
09:22I got it!
09:23He just said, I got it!
09:27She said, she doesn't need me to repeat what you say!
09:49Simka, Nolik, thank you! You really saved the day!
09:55That's what Fixies are for!
09:57I said, that's what Fixies are for!
10:00Tom Thomas, who are you talking with in there?
10:03It's me, Simka!
10:05And I'm Tom Thomas!
10:07And I'm Simka!
10:09And I'm Simka!
10:11And I'm Simka!
10:13And I'm Simka!
10:15And I'm Simka!
10:17Who are you talking with in there?
10:19Oh, your mom came back!
10:24No one.
10:28Hey, can you turn back into Fixies? I gotta ask you a question.
10:31I forgot. Should I write 12th anniversary with an F or do I write with a V?
10:37Just write the number!
10:39You're right!
10:41The refrigerator!
10:47Good job! My homework is all done!
10:59Tag! You're it!
11:17Simka, I'm stuck! Help me!
11:19Just stay still!
11:22You're really stuck!
11:24Simka, we're not gonna leave me, right?
11:26We aren't. But I'm afraid, Nolik, you'll be stuck for a while.
11:31Tom Thomas! Help me!
11:34What's going on?
11:35Look, this blob of white stuff grabbed on to Nolik and it won't let go of him!
11:39Oh, it's the white stuff!
11:42This blob of white stuff grabbed on to Nolik and it won't let go of him!
11:46Oh, it's a piece of gum.
11:48It's my bubble gum.
11:51Oh, thanks a lot, Tom Thomas! Now what's the plan to get me unstuck from here?
11:55Here's what we do. It's gotta be frozen.
11:57Once I sat on gum too and my mom put my pants in the freezer.
12:01The gum froze up and it came right off.
12:04I don't want to go into the freezer!
12:06Don't worry, Nolik. I'll stay right here with you.
12:09Just hold on. It won't take long at all.
12:12Why do I need to hold on?
12:14The gum's already holding on to me.
12:18Simka, do you know why it's so cold in the freezer when outside it's warm?
12:25I'll explain it to you.
12:29A refrigerator has a pump that pushes a special liquid through a long tube.
12:35Inside the refrigerator, the liquid in the tube wants to turn into a gas.
12:40To do that, it takes the heat from everything inside and that makes the refrigerator cool.
12:46Then the pump sucks in the gas and pushes it out as a hot liquid into the tubes on the back of the refrigerator.
12:53That lets all of the heat collected from the inside escape into the air outside.
13:00I wish I was somewhere warm.
13:03Hold on! I'll go get us some warm clothes to wear.
13:07I don't want to hold on. I want to go with you.
13:10Just hang in there.
13:11I'm hanging.
13:12Tom Thomas, open up!
13:28Masiya, do we have any warm clothing to wear?
13:31Why in the world do you need it?
13:33I just do.
13:34Well, I need to know what is happening.
13:44Hooray!
13:46Tom Thomas! Simka! Open up the door!
13:52It looks like I'm gonna freeze up in here for good.
13:58A Fixie is constantly surrounded by all sorts of danger.
14:04Inside a dark freezer, a Fixie can lose his way and freeze to death.
14:09If he's not paying attention, he can drown inside of a washing machine or inside of a dishwasher.
14:14And a careless Fixie is always at risk of getting an electric shock.
14:19Or suppose there's a short circuit inside of an appliance that starts a fire.
14:24If this happens, you need to run away if you want to survive.
14:28And what about humans?
14:30Well, they don't even believe that we Fixies exist at all,
14:33so they can accidentally drop something on top of a Fixie,
14:36or step on one, or kick us across the room.
14:39So if we don't get out of the way in time…
14:43So what I'm saying, Fixies, you need to be careful out there and pay attention.
14:47So be smart and stay safe, fellow Fixies!
14:51I don't understand this at all!
14:53He was right here!
14:55Poor Nolik! I wonder where he went.
14:59Look at this! Footprints!
15:06Nolik! You're alive!
15:09You scared me half to death!
15:11How did you get out of there?
15:13Well, you told me about how a refrigerator works.
15:16And so I found that cold tube and started crawling on it until it got hot and then I was here!
15:21Hey, there's smoke coming out of you! We need to cool you down right away!
15:25Huh? Where?
15:29I don't want to go into the refrigerator!
15:31Stop! I was joking!
15:34Look how it froze! I could break my teeth on it!
15:37You aren't gonna chew it anymore!
15:39I'd never do that. Not after Nolik sat on it.
15:42Well, you didn't need to stick it where it doesn't belong.
15:45Hey, I apologize. I'll go and throw it away.
15:48Maybe you'll try the trash can?
15:52The Cell Phone
15:59Hey, Nolik! Come on out and play!
16:03He's not allowed!
16:05He was punished!
16:07Can you tell me what you did?
16:09I grabbed a pac-man and I forgot to ask.
16:13How long do you have to sit there?
16:15Until Masiya and Papus come home from their boo-boo-boo-boo-boosness.
16:20What did you say?
16:21Business. A work trip.
16:23They're inside of your father's cell phone right now.
16:26They were busy doing repairs in there when he left the house for work.
16:32Do you know the reason why a mobile phone is also called a cell phone?
16:37Mobile phones are connected to other mobile phones with the help of special radio stations
16:43that are put on top of towers and building roofs.
16:46Each one of these stations sends signals to its own area below.
16:50And each area is called a cell.
16:53A mobile phone works anywhere it can find a nearby station that it can connect to.
16:58So as long as there is a station nearby, you can talk as much as you want.
17:04You can even move from one cell to another.
17:07And without you ever knowing it, your mobile phone will switch from one station to another one.
17:13So your conversation can keep on going, even if you're running after a bus or riding on it.
17:23Tom Thomas! Hello!
17:26There you go! My dad came back home already.
17:29Hi, Dad! How are you?
17:31Can you believe it? It looks like I lost my phone!
17:36What do you mean you lost it? Where?
17:39I have no idea.
17:42So what? I'm gonna have to sit here forever now?
17:46You? Our parents are missing!
17:52The phone stopped shaking a while now.
17:54We're probably already at home.
17:57Not home to me!
18:02How can we ever get home to our children?
18:07Where's my Masiya?
18:09Don't whine. We'll work something out.
18:12Don't worry. I got a phone. Let's give them a ring.
18:16They can't answer your call.
18:18But what if they answer us? Call them, Tom Thomas!
18:27I think...
18:28Don't even think it! We're not allowed to talk to humans.
18:32We're not gonna talk to them. We're just gonna listen.
18:35We need to close the contacts.
18:42It's no use.
18:45Oh! They answered the phone!
18:47Let me talk!
18:48Papus! Masiya! It's me, Simka!
18:51Simka?
18:52Yeah! Masiya!
18:54Yeah! Masiya, where are you?
18:57In the telephone!
18:59The phone part is not what she's asking you.
19:01Oh! It smells a lot like gasoline in here!
19:05Ask your father. Was he anywhere around gasoline?
19:12Dad!
19:14Dad, did you go anywhere today where it smells like gasoline?
19:19Gasoline? I had to go to the gas station.
19:22That's the place where your telephone disappeared.
19:25Are you sure?
19:27Yeah!
19:28Well, I've got…
19:30Intuition.
19:31Intuition?
19:33Intuition, huh?
19:34You know what? I'll go check.
19:43Come and check out our fixie ringtone!
19:48Telephonus! Telephonus!
19:51Telephonus! Telephonus!
19:54Telephonus!
19:55Zing! Bing! Your telephone is ringing!
20:00Won't you answer, please?
20:02Zing! Bing! Your telephone is ringing!
20:07Won't you answer, please?
20:09Your phone is ringing!!!
20:21It's just incredible! You see? I found it!
20:25Son, you're one clairvoyant!
20:28I didn't notice when it fell out of my pocket back at the gas station.
20:32My children!
20:33Oh, my Masiya!
20:34Papus!
20:35Oh, my sweeties!
20:41So, just by any chance,
20:43you think you might happen to know where I can find that nice watch I lost?
20:47No.
20:49Don't worry, there's no rush.
20:50Just use that… intuition you've got!
21:00The Mirror
21:06Hi there, Tom Thomas!
21:08Why has this mirror been standing here in the hallway for a whole week already?
21:12My dad can't seem to find any time to hang it on the wall.
21:15Are you sure it won't fall?
21:17It hasn't fallen so far.
21:23So, Nolik, do I look like Spider-Man?
21:29No, you don't look like him at all.
21:33You can't climb on walls like Spider-Man!
21:36Yeah, I'm sure you can do it.
21:38I can do it!
21:39Just give your chewing gum to me.
21:47Spider-Man
21:50See that? Like in the movie!
21:52Oh, like that's really hard!
21:54Just keep watching!
22:01That's hard!
22:03Feast your eyes and see what the only spider fixie in the whole wide world can do!
22:18Woo!
22:23Catch me!
22:24I gotcha!
22:27The mirror!
22:28Whoa!
22:38Long ago, the only way humans could see their reflection was to look into water.
22:43The very first mirrors appeared about five thousand years ago.
22:47They were made out of silver or bronze.
22:50Legend has it that the Greek scientist Archimedes
22:53once burned down an entire enemy fleet with the help of mirrors like these.
22:59But humans only became able to see their reflections well
23:03after they started making mirrors out of glass.
23:06And we still use glass mirrors today.
23:09But of course mirrors are not only used for looking at our reflections,
23:12they are also used in telescopes to collect the light of distant stars.
23:16And humans also use mirrors inside of automobile headlights
23:20so they will shine even brighter.
23:22Just look at all the things mirrors can do for you!
23:30Looks like it didn't break.
23:32Help me lift it so we can lean it back up on the wall.
23:39Tom Thomas!
23:41I've gotten a reflection in the mirror!
23:43That's impossible!
23:44Because only vampires can't see their reflections.
23:48Or ghosts.
23:49But I'm not in there!
23:50So then.
23:51I guess you've become a ghost!
23:59No, not a ghost! I don't like them!
24:02Hey, what's all the racket?
24:03Did you guys get yourself into trouble again?
24:06Simka!
24:07Me and Tom Thomas were playing Spider-Man,
24:10and I turned into a ghost for some reason.
24:13Yeah, a ghost.
24:14That's silly! They don't even exist!
24:18You don't have any reflection either!
24:21Simka!
24:22You're a ghost just like I am!
24:29That's just goofy!
24:34Look! Just look! Here I am!
24:36Well, hi there!
24:37But why couldn't I see myself over here?
24:40It's probably because the mirror is scratched on the back.
24:43Tom Thomas, do you think you can rotate the mirror?
24:47It's just like I said.
24:49Some of the special coating got scraped off of the back.
24:54A mirror is not just a piece of plain glass.
24:57Plain glass lets light pass through it.
24:59But a mirror reflects light.
25:02To turn a piece of glass into a mirror,
25:04people spray a special shiny coating on one of its sides that reflects everything.
25:09And then to protect the shiny coating,
25:12an extra layer of paint is put on top of it.
25:15But even with that protection, you still have to handle mirrors carefully.
25:19Because mirrors can easily scratch or even break!
25:25And do you think that this one is possible to fix?
25:28Yeah, we can do it!
25:29It's a good thing you have a pack-o-mat with you!
25:32I thought we might need it after you started screaming over here.
25:36Don't tell me you've got paint in there for a mirror!
25:38A pack-o-mat's got everything you'll ever need!
25:52It's all ready!
25:55My dad's coming!
26:00Tom Thomas!
26:01What are you doing here?
26:03Checking if you hung it.
26:04Yeah, right.
26:05I'll definitely hang that mirror on the wall soon.
26:09Like, tomorrow!
26:12Or next week!
26:15The Cartoon
26:18Yeah.
26:24Like that.
26:26Yeah.
26:27Tom Thomas, aren't you done yet?
26:29Yeah, show us your surprise and quit drawing!
26:32But this is the surprise!
26:35So, make yourselves comfortable.
26:38Quiet on the set and action!
26:49Great crash, huh?
26:51You should put a huge bump on his head!
26:53It's just like a cartoon that you drew in there!
26:56He did draw us a real cartoon there!
26:58Oh, right!
26:59Real cartoons, they only show them on television!
27:02But they make them exactly the same way!
27:07Animation is made with many-many pictures called frames.
27:12Each one of the frames is a little bit different from the one that comes right before it.
27:17For example, a character can lift his arm up a little bit at a time.
27:21And then, if you watch the frames very quickly one right after the other,
27:26it looks like the character is really moving.
27:28And that's how cartoons are made!
27:31And you know what?
27:32To make one minute of a cartoon, you might have to draw more than a thousand frames!
27:39Oh, wow!
27:40I'm not patient enough for that!
27:43It's no big deal that your cartoon is short.
27:46Especially since it's funny!
27:49Yeah, it's so funny!
27:51Tom Thomas, who is this kooky guy you drew here?
27:54You're just joking, Nolik!
27:56You don't recognize yourself?
27:57So this is supposed to be me on here?
28:01Did you already forget what happened to you this morning?
28:06Simka, you're it!
28:07You can't catch me!
28:11I'm too fast for you!
28:17You weren't too fast for the pole!
28:19Simka!
28:20You didn't have to tell him about that!
28:24Real sisters don't treat their brothers like that!
28:28And your cartoon's not funny at all!
28:31Nolik, don't go!
28:33It's OK, he just needs to sulk for a while.
28:36While he's gone, there's something I want to show you.
28:38Do you have a cartoon you can put on the TV?
28:41I have plenty!
28:47What should I do?
28:49Let's watch it again.
28:50But now I want to show you the same cartoon a frame at a time.
28:54Here, take a look.
28:57This is a frame.
28:59And here's another.
29:01And another!
29:03Isn't that cool?
29:04Uh-huh!
29:06So cool!
29:06And then back at regular speed there's twenty-five frames every second!
29:10What should I do?
29:11It's magical!
29:13Simka, you know…
29:17I feel awful for Nolik.
29:20Yeah, I feel awful too.
29:23There are many different ways of making animation.
29:25Hand-drawn animation is of course drawn by hand,
29:29and stop-motion is made like this.
29:31The animators pose the model and take a picture of it.
29:34Then they move the model a little bit and take another picture.
29:37And they do it again and again and again,
29:40until there are enough frames to make the characters look like they're moving
29:43very smoothly across the screen.
29:45Another popular style of animation is clay animation.
29:50In these films everything is built and rebuilt out of modeling clay.
29:55But today most of the cartoons are made on a computer.
29:58At first they make a computer model of a character,
30:01a sort of digital puppet.
30:03After the models are built, they are colored and animated to move.
30:07This is the kind of animation that's used in the Fixie cartoons.
30:16Tom-Tom, I'm so excited!
30:19Tom Thomas, what are you doing?
30:21Are you drawing a new cartoon?
30:22Nah, I started fixing the old one.
30:25So Nolik will stop being angry.
30:27Good. Keep drawing.
30:29And I'll go and get him.
30:31Nolik!
30:33I'm not here!
30:34Nolik, forgive me!
30:37Please don't be so mad!
30:39There's a cartoon to watch!
30:40I've already seen your stupid cartoon!
30:43So what did you do now? Put a huge bump on my head?
30:45Not a chance!
30:46I did it all over again!
30:48I'm sure you'll love it!
30:50You're sure of that?
30:52Alright, go ahead! Show me your cartoon!
30:55Quiet on the set and action!
31:05There you go!
31:06Now that cartoon I really liked!
31:08Good. Because I'm all out of paper.
31:11Well, I think the first cartoon was funnier.
31:14Whoa!
31:15But this one's much better, of course!
31:17Yeah!
31:22The Thermos
31:30Where should I put it?
31:33Put what, Tom Thomas?
31:34Oh, it's you!
31:36My ice cream.
31:37Are you joking?
31:39Eat it!
31:41I can't.
31:42Tom Thomas, are you alright?
31:46I'm fine.
31:47It's just that it's a present for my mom.
31:49Today is Mother's Day.
31:51Then you need to go give it to her!
31:53I can't. Dad and I are going to congratulate her together.
31:58What's your dad gonna give her?
32:00I don't know.
32:01But when he gets back home, the ice cream will have melted.
32:05Then put it in the freezer!
32:06And what if Mom looks in there and finds it?
32:09The surprise will be ruined!
32:12So where won't she find it?
32:15I'll tell you where!
32:16Inside of your dad's office!
32:19I don't see any place to hide it here.
32:21There's no freezer or anything.
32:23Why don't you take a look inside the box?
32:29Here's a thermos.
32:30But what good is it to me?
32:32Thermoses are for keeping things hot.
32:34The ice cream will melt in there!
32:36It will not!
32:42is made by putting one bottle inside of another.
32:45Between the bottles is an empty space.
32:47And that's the secret of a thermos.
32:49That space stops heat from getting out or in.
32:53So if there's hot tea inside,
32:55the empty space doesn't let the heat from the tea get out.
32:58And if there's ice cream in the thermos,
33:00the space stops the heat that's outside from getting in.
33:04And that's how a thermos keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.
33:12That's it. I'll go and play for a little while.
33:15He didn't even say thank you, did he, Nolik?
33:18Where are you? Nolik?
33:20I'm here!
33:21Where?
33:22In the thermos!
33:23What are you doing in there?
33:26I wanted to see that vacuum you talked about.
33:30Just don't touch anything!
33:33And don't even think of licking it!
33:35I'm not going to touch anything!
33:37I'm not going to touch anything!
33:39I'm not going to touch anything!
33:41And don't even think of licking the foil!
33:43The ice cream's so cold, your tongue will stick to the metal.
33:46It's already stuck!
33:48What did you say?
33:49It's already stuck!
33:51Already stuck?
33:52Uh-huh!
33:53Try to unstick it!
33:56Well, is it working?
33:58Nuh-uh!
33:59And what if you breathe onto the foil?
34:05Nuh-uh!
34:06Hang on, Nolik. I'll go and get Tom Thomas.
34:12Winter is a wonderful time of year!
34:16Holidays, presents, snowballs, skates, sleds!
34:20But the cold is also something serious that you shouldn't fool around with.
34:24The most important thing is to dress warmly.
34:27Cover your head with a hat and your throat with a scarf.
34:30Then there's less chance you'll catch a cold or get a sore throat.
34:33And to keep your hands from getting chapped, don't forget to wear gloves.
34:37And never walk around in wet shoes in the winter.
34:40That's a sure way to get yourself sick!
34:42And there's one more thing I want to tell you.
34:44It's great to have fun in the cold, but use your head!
34:48Don't eat snow or stick your tongue on metal fences, poles, or doorknobs.
34:52Your tongue can get stuck so strongly to the metal that it will be very hard to get off.
34:57I wish you all a glorious winter!
35:05Tom Thomas!
35:06Nolik's tongue got stuck!
35:08Where?
35:09In the thermos, hurry!
35:11I'll explain everything later!
35:15Dad, you're already home?
35:18Dad, why are you taking my present?
35:20What do you mean your present?
35:22I mean this one.
35:23Since when did it become yours?
35:25Oh, hi there!
35:26What's the fuss all about?
35:28Oh, it's nothing at all.
35:29I have a surprise for you.
35:31I want to wish you a happy Mother's Day.
35:35A thermos!
35:36How wonderful!
35:38Thanks so much!
35:40Is there something in here?
35:45I don't think so.
35:46Inside there's a present from me.
35:52Vanilla ice cream!
35:54My favorite!
35:56And how did that end up in there?
35:58Thank you so much, my sweeties!
36:10Nolik, you got me so scared!
36:14Thank goodness you thought of turning into a screw inside of there!
36:17Uh-huh!
36:18Does your tongue hurt?
36:20Uh-huh!
36:21Do you think you can talk again?
36:23I can talk!
36:25Oh, that's good!
36:26We'd better hurry!
36:27We still need to go and wish our mother a happy Mother's Day!
36:31And you should too!
36:40Oh, Tom Thomas!
36:42How did you get here?
36:43It was a piece of cake!
36:44I just got this cool magic wand as a gift, see?
36:48Wow!
36:49There's no such thing as a magic wand!
36:52I don't believe you!
36:53You just wait!
36:55Any wish is the wand's command!
36:57Check it out!
36:58Today I want my school to be closed!
37:01Golden wish! Tideesh!
37:03Tom Thomas?
37:05Your teacher from school just gave me a call.
37:08She said your school has totally disappeared.
37:11How odd!
37:12So I'm not going to school?
37:14Well, how?
37:15Instead of school we'll go to the park!
37:17Hooray!
37:20Real magic!
37:21It's so great!
37:23No, there's no magic.
37:25There are only illusions.
37:26I don't know what illusions are.
37:28It's when what we think we're seeing is not what is actually happening.
37:36Have you ever seen a magic wand?
37:38Have you ever seen a magician pull a rabbit out of an empty hat?
37:41Do you think it's magic?
37:43No.
37:43It is only an illusion.
37:46In reality, the rabbit's hidden inside the table that the magician puts his hat on.
37:51The lid of the hat is made with a secret hatch.
37:54And when the magician puts his arm inside the hat,
37:56he grabs the rabbit from the table below and…
37:59Ta-da!
38:00How every magic trick works may be a secret,
38:02but every illusion does have an explanation.
38:09I'm telling you, this wand is totally magical!
38:11Right now I can make a rabbit appear out of this trash can for you.
38:16Golden wish-tideesh!
38:22Oh, that wasn't the idea.
38:24Looks like a dog to me.
38:26Wait.
38:26One more time.
38:28Golden wish-tideesh!
38:33Golden wish-tideesh!
38:36Tom Thomas, will you cut it out?
38:39One Chewsocka was already enough for us, and now there's three!
38:55Hey, Tom Thomas!
38:56Please tell your rabbits that they can stop barking so loudly!
39:01A-a-ah!
39:05Shame on you for attacking helpless little kids!
39:08Wait, I'll make you bigger now!
39:11Golden wish-tideesh!
39:28What? You scared?
39:29So you're only brave enough to chase little kids around?
39:33Wow, I'm huge!
39:34I'm as huge as Tom Thomas!
39:37I'm huge!
39:39Nolik, be careful!
39:46How can you live being this tall? It's so inconvenient!
39:50And I thought it was tough when you were so tiny.
39:53Tom Thomas, are you ready?
39:55Hey, why do we have three dogs all of a sudden?
39:58Oh my word!
40:06No!
40:09Why are you screaming?
40:11I was dreaming that someone had given me a magic wand.
40:15And then I had to make it big, see?
40:17And my mom saw you!
40:20That's awful!
40:21That would have made me scream.
40:23I wish I had a magic wand of my very own.
40:28We Fixies aren't ones to believe in magic,
40:32but we do believe in what humans can do.
40:35Because humans often work wonders.
40:38For ages flying in the sky seemed to be an impossible dream.
40:42But today anyone can take off to the sky in an airplane.
40:47It used to be that humans thought that only magic could take them to the Moon.
40:52But now astronauts have already walked on its surface.
40:55In fairy tales people were able to see and talk to each other through a magic mirror.
41:01But today we have the Internet and telephones we can use.
41:04Refrigerators, televisions, automobiles, computers –
41:08there are so many things that humans have created.
41:11Wondrous things that they used to only be able to dream about.
41:15Like a miracle from a fairy tale!
41:20A magic wand? Why do you need it?
41:23First I'd skip school today.
41:25Tom Thomas, are you ready?
41:28I told you, we're going to the park.
41:30And what about school? I'll skip it.
41:33Good joke.
41:35Could this be a dream too?
41:38No, it's just that today is Sunday!
41:41And that's the magic of it!
41:47The alarm clock.
41:51It didn't ring again.
41:54Nolik, let's go fix the alarm clock.
41:57Simka, wake Tom Thomas up!
42:01Tom Thomas, get up!
42:04Tom Thomas!
42:07Hey, you'll be late for school!
42:09Tom Thomas, get up already!
42:16This is really something!
42:19And where's the battery in here?
42:21No, this is an old mechanical alarm clock.
42:23It doesn't work with a battery.
42:25It uses a spring.
42:27How's that work?
42:28People wind up the spring tightly,
42:30and then as it slowly unwinds,
42:32it turns the gears which turn the hands of the clock.
42:41What?
42:42The alarm clock broke!
42:43Let's hurry and get you washed up!
42:46Tom Thomas, are you just getting up?
42:48Dad, the alarm clock didn't go off. It's broken!
42:52Here's the problem.
42:53It won't turn because the feather's stuck in the gears.
42:56Nolik, help me!
43:04Papus, what's going on?
43:06It looks like it's an earthquake!
43:11It really is broken.
43:13Huh, it really is broken.
43:15About time to throw out this old piece of junk.
43:21Tom Thomas, I'm off to work.
43:22Don't be late for school.
43:23I won't.
43:28Where are we?
43:33In the trash can!
43:35And what's going to happen to us?
43:37Well, you see, Nolik…
43:42People throw out broken things without a second thought.
43:47Even appliances that can still be fixed end up in the trash all the time.
43:52And the trash is taken to a horrible, deadly place called the dump.
43:58If a fixie happens to be inside a broken appliance,
44:01he will come face to face with great danger.
44:04Once, my uncle got thrown into the dump buried inside an old TV.
44:08He barely managed to jump out of the bulldozer's path,
44:11and it was a miracle he didn't end up in the incinerator.
44:15After that, he just roamed around the huge dump trying to fix anything.
44:21He became totally crazed.
44:25Good thing the Fixie Rescue Squad managed to find him and bring him back home.
44:34I don't want to scare you, but we might be taken to the dump, my boy.
44:38Papus, I'm scared.
44:42Where is the alarm clock?
44:43Maybe my dad took it to get fixed.
44:46But Nolik and Papus are in there!
44:49Now just a little bit further…
44:53I don't want to go to the dump!
44:55No tears. There's only one way out of here.
44:58We need to fix the clock and make it ring!
45:00But how?
45:06Inside the clock there is the main spring and there's also a second spring.
45:10The second spring is held still by a brake and so it waits.
45:15When the little hand reaches the time the alarm was set to go off,
45:18the spring jumps off the brake and the gears are free to start turning.
45:23That makes a little hammer beat the cup of a bell very, very quickly.
45:30And that's how an alarm clock rings.
45:32Hmm. So this feather is stopping the gears and not letting the hammer strike the bell.
45:37Exactly! I'll start rocking the gear back and forth and you tug it.
45:41And one!
45:43And two!
45:45And three!
45:48Tideesh!
45:55Simka, I think I can hear my alarm clock.
45:59Simka, I think I can hear my alarm ringing.
46:02Run to the sound! Quickly!
46:07Uh-huh! Someone turned the alarm off!
46:11Whoa! And here comes that earthquake again!
46:17Nolik! Nolik!
46:19I'm here!
46:21Nolik!
46:22We fixed the alarm clock!
46:23So what was wrong with it?
46:25A feather got jammed in the gears.
46:27And how could a feather get in a clock?
46:30Oh, it's probably from when I put the alarm clock under my pillow,
46:34so it wouldn't wake me up.
46:36So you mean because somebody doesn't like to get up in the morning,
46:40we almost ended up at the dump?
46:44By the way, if that somebody doesn't hurry off to his school soon, he'll be late!
46:48Oh, you're right!