Happy Feet Page #2

Well, Mumble, since

you seem so keen to share.

Mine's sort of a boom and a:

And another boom.

You heard that in there?

- Do you like it?

- I'm afraid that's not a tune.

- It's not?

- No, dear. A tune is like:

Oh, okay.

Who is that?

That is the offspring of Memphis

and Norma Jean.

The wee hippity-hopper.

It's not funny!

No. No, not in the least.

A penguin without a Heartsong

is hardly a penguin at all.

I think he broke my ear.

In all my years, I've never, I mean--

And you having such fine voices.

Well, it's bizarre.

Did anything happen, you know,

during early development?

No, all fine. Normal incubation.

- Right.

- Wasn't it, honey?

Yeah. Yeah, it was a tough winter,

I guess.

Right, right.

- He did hatch a little late--

- Yes, I understand. Yes.

- To think he might spend his life alone...

- Quite, quite.

...never to meet his one true love.

Oh, please, Miss Viola,

isn't there something we can do?

Well, there is always Mrs. Astrakhan.

Mrs. Astrakhan?

If anyone can, Mrs. Astrakhan can.

Can't sing?

Can't sing? Rubbish, darling.

Every little penguin has a song.

When I have finished...

...your singing will be giving everyone

the goose pimple.

Now, to begin.

First, we must find a feeling.

Happy feeling, sad feeling.

Maybe Ionely feeling.

You feel it?

Good. Now, let it out.

Be spontaneous.

That, what is that?

I'm being spontan-you-us.

Darling, you want to meet beautiful girl?

You want to make the egg?

Oh, yes.

Well, sing! And no jiggy-jog.

Do not move muscle.

No moving!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

Enough!

Okay. We go back to the top.

Forget body. Look inside soul.

Feel the feeling. Enormous feeling.

So enormous it fills whole body.

It must escape or you explode.

- Now, open your little beak.

- Come on.

Yes, yes. Lift up the head, that's it.

Now... . Now... .

Now

Disaster! Catastrophe!

I never fail before.

Never! Never!

- Well, I thought it was kind of cute.

- But it just ain't penguin, okay?

So what if he's a little different?

I always kind of liked different.

He's not different.

He's a regular emperor penguin.

Hey, you know what? I can leave school.

I can go to work. The three of us.

Whoa, little fella. You ain't going nowhere

till you got yourself an education.

You get them singing muscles

big and strong, you got that?

I'll try, Pa.

You bet you will. The word "triumph"

starts with "try," and it ends with...?

- "Umph."

- That's right. A great big "umph."

I'm going fishing.

Oh, Mumble.

That first hard summer...

... while his mom and dad

were working overtime...

... on the great commute to the sea...

... Mumble found a place

away from disapproving eyes...

... where a funky little fella

could be himself.

Hey, what you doing there, flipper bird?

Nothing. What are you doing?

Nothing. Just dropped in

for a little lunch.

There's food? Here?

Leg or wing?

Oh, no, no, wait. Not me, I'm a penguin.

Exactly. The flipper birds,

that's you, eat the fish.

The flying birds, that's me,

eat the flipper bird and the fish.

And lately, there ain't a lot of fish.

- So... .

- This time I'm getting the juicy bits.

- Me first!

- Hey, you want a piece of me?

Hey, hey, hey!

I'm trying to think about lunch.

Wait! Watch this!

Yeah, that's weird, all right. Listen.

For once, we're gonna do this civilized.

- Now, get in line--

- Hey! What's that on your leg?

- What? This little thing?

- Oh, no. Don't start him on that.

Shut up! The little flipper bird

asked me a perceptive question.

- A question like that deserves an answer.

- Here we go.

I got two words for you:

"Alien abduction."

- Oh, you had to ask.

- Have mercy.

Quiet!

Now, little buddy,

there is something out there.

Creatures. Not like us.

Bigger, fiercer, and smarter too.

- Ask me how I know.

- How?

Because I've been captured by them,

that's how.

Unbelievable.

What do you mean "unbelievable?"

It's true.

I'm sitting on a rock,

minding my own business...

...when suddenly, they're onto me.

These beings, like big ugly penguins.

Fat, flabby faces with front-ways eyes...

...no feathers, no beaks,

and these-- These appendages.

They probe me. They tie me up.

They strap me down.

They take this pointy thing

and they stick it into me.

And then, blackout.

Gosh.

I woke up and there's this--

This thing on me.

Every flying bird is dissing me,

"Hey, what's happening, yellow leg?"

It was humiliating.

And then what?

It was humiliating.

What more do you want?

They could have eated you.

Yeah. Yeah.

I guess my pitiful cries for mercy

appealed to their better nature.

Can I appeal to your better nature?

Nice try, kid, but no.

No. No. No!

What you doing down there, flipper bird?

Get up here.

Get back up here this minute.

Oh, great. You let him get away.

Didn't you?

All your screwy alien talk.

- Hey, I'm an abductee.

- Abduct this.

- Don't make me call Uncle Angie.

- Oh, fine.

Where youse going? I'm an abductee!

- I don't care what you are, I'm hungry!

- Would you like to hear our specials?

How about fish? There's no fish.

How about penguin? There's no penguin.

What are we gonna eat?!

There's a world where I can go

And tell my secrets to

In my room

Paying no mind to his dancing heart...

... the kid saw out his school days

at the back of the class...

... lost in his imaginings.

Now it's dark and I'm- -

What fabulous worlds lay out there,

far beyond the ice?

- I won't be afraid

Was there any place...

... where one small penguin

without a Heartsong...

... could ever truly belong?

In my room

And so, a thousand generations ago...

...our forefathers

forsook our wings for flippers.

You graduates going to sea

for the first time...

...are to reap the benefits

of their wise choice.

These are lean and uncertain times.

But by the power

of the ancient penguin wisdoms...

...we, my brethren, will endure.

- "Blah, blah, blah."

- Norma Jean.

Who is he to say my boy can't graduate?

He's not hurting anyone.

- True to our ways

and you will always be worthy of this...

...our brave penguin nation. Excelsior!

Ocean, here I come!

You know what? We're gonna have

a little graduation ceremony of our own.

- You mean it, Ma?

- You betcha.

- Excelsior!

- Excelsior!

Keep it down.

- Pa.

- Memphis.

- Go get them, tiger.

- Thanks, Ma.

- Make every moment count!

- Got you, Ma!

- Remember, "Stranger Danger."

- Yeah, sure, Pa.

And watch out for those leopard seals

and them killer whales.

Mark this, Noah.

That boy was always a bad egg.

I'm telling you, no good will come of this.

Guys!

Wait up!

What do you think?

- You first.

- No, you first.

No. No, no, no.

Stop pushing!

- What was that?

- I think it was the fuzzball.

See any blood?

What you waiting for?

Hey, Gloria!

Gloria, I adore-ia. I'd like to see more-ia.

Gloria.

- Mumble?

- Gloria.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... .

Fall back, coming through!

Gloria? All my life,

I've wanted to say that you're so--

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