♪ Theme song! ♪
♪ Cupcake and Dino Cupcake and Dino-o-oh ♪
♪ General Services that's what we do, we do ♪
♪ Cupcake and Dino Cupcake and Dino-o-oh ♪
♪ General Services and here's my bro ♪
-♪ We'll groom your pets! ♪ -♪ We'll mop your floor! ♪
♪ We'll deliver ninjas to your door ♪
♪ Cupcake and Dino Cupcake and Dino-o-oh ♪
♪ General Services ♪
And it is with great pleasure that Big City Council donates
this slightly used refrigerator to our town community centre!
-[light applause] -Huh? Huh?
And now, everybody eats!
Et voilà! Dinner à la Cupcake and Dino.
-[clanging] -It is our pleasure
to generally service you.
It feels great being so appreciated for our cooking skills, huh, Cup?
-[Cupcake] Sure does, Dino. -[slurping]
-[gurgling] -[air hissing]
Uh... oh, check it out!
[Dino] Oh! That is a nice pen.
[Cupcake] Yeah. But also, look at this.
The community centre is having a talent contest. Anyone can enter!
Oh! We could dazzle everyone with more of our cooking skills!
-[hissing] -It's the food! Don't touch the food!
Or maybe not.
I've got an even better idea! Let's sign Vicky up!
She's the best singer and ukulele player we know.
♪ Ketchup, mustard, salsa and relish ♪
♪ These are the toppings that I cherish ♪
♪ Olives, capers, mayonnaise ♪
♪ Slap on the flavour and eat for days ♪
♪ Round the bases, one, two, three ♪
♪ Take a sec, look at Cup's knee ♪
-[squealing] -Ah!
[ukulele continues]
♪ This mountain range is pretty extreme ♪
♪ The tops look like bowls of ice cream ♪
[both] Too true.
-Great observation. -Too true.
Oh, yeah, Vicky's like a rock star!
But she's never played in front of anyone but us.
Exactly! If we sign her up,
people will finally get to see how talented she is.
It'll make her feel great!
-Excellent idea, Cup. Let's do it! -Let's do it!
You did what?! I can't sing in front of that many people!
Sure you can, Vicky! You make speeches and stuff all the time.
It'll be a breeze.
A cool breeze to stardom. Top down, shades on.
That breeze. Stardom.
[imitating guitar twang]
We know how talented you are, Vicky.
-And we want the world to know it too. -Aw, that's sweet,
but what if they don't dig my style?
You know, I'm raw, undisciplined, like tonally, I'm tonally free range--
Vicky! Vicky! Vickers! Look at me. Look in my eyes.
-Look at him, Vicky. -That's what makes you special!
And with your talent at performing and our talent at general servicing,
we'll have you ready to rock that contest in no time!
We are wise masters in the ways of the rock.
Really?
Well, not really until now, no, but... [imitating guitar twang]
Nice. What do you say, Vicks?
I say... do chickens have lips?
-No. -I don't think so.
Well, they've got beaks, and I'm in.
Alright, let's see what you got.
[sighing]
♪ Whether you're in a pie or in a jam ♪
♪ Rhubarb I'm your biggest fan ♪
♪ You look like celery for a start ♪
♪ But with some sugar you're sweet and tart ♪
Okay, so what do you think, Hugo?
You were magnificent! Bravo! Bravo!
Oh, thanks! How about you guys?
Hmm. Not bad. But not great either.
Pretty great, but not excelente.
-But I want to be... excelente. -Then are you ready to work?
-Be the best you can be?! -Then maybe have a light lunch?
Yes! Oh, yes! I love lunch. People know that about me. Lunch!
-Let's get rockin'. -[rock music]
[rock music continues]
[classical music]
[rock music]
[musical flourish]
♪ Rhubarb Rhubarb, baby ♪
-Yeahhh! -[cheering]
-Alright! -I want rhubarb!
[man] Suddenly I am so hungry for rhubarb.
Thanks for your help, guys! It was a lot of work,
but I'm feeling pretty excelente.
Great! Now let's do more work.
-What? But I'm ready for the show. -Do you want to be ready,
or do you want to be the biggest star in the world?
-The sun! -Just ready. I... just want to be ready.
Just think. Multi-platinum record deals,
zillions of dollars in merchandise--
[Dino] A pizza palace in the Big City hills,
hot tubs full of only the best gravy!
But I don't want a palace! I mean, I... I actually want the gravy.
But this is about the Talent Show, remember?
[both] The Talent Show is only the beginning!
[both] Wow!
-[Dino] What the heck? -[Cupcake] Wow!
-Did you know I was gonna say that? -No idea!
-Huh. Sorry, we're-- -No, it's okay.
Did you know we were gonna say that? And you didn't say anything?
[forced laugh]
Whew. Keep your cool, Vicks.
Try not to think about how the audience is full of citizens who'll judge you
on your performance and may never take you seriously as mayor ever again.
Oh! No worrys, girl! You got this. Just channel your inner rhubarb.
Barb, barb... [laughing hysterically]
[hyperventilating]
Excuse me? Aren't you the mayor?
-Yes, sir! -How lovely. What is your talent?
I'll be singing a song about rhubarb!
That's sweet.
I'll be juggling fire and swallowing a sword.
-[rock music] -[grunting]
[Vicky] It's gonna be okay. Cup and Dino believe in your talent.
[Dino whistles] Stiff competish, eh, Vicky?
Good thing we brought all this stuff to help you win!
-What's all this? -Oh, just the basics.
Fog machines, strobe lights, laser array.
And... T-shirt cannons! Check it out.
Makes you think, doesn't it? And your tour dates are on the back.
But it only says "Community Centre Talent Show."
Not for long!
Guys, I don't see how any of this is gonna help me sing my rhubarb song.
[both laughing]
[both] Aaah...! [Dino] Good one, Vicks!
You won't be singing that song!
But I like that song. And I thought you did too.
Oh, we do, but you need something a little more rock-star appropriate.
I don't know, guys. I'm a uke girl. Look at my tattoo.
Okay, I don't have a tattoo. But if I did... uke.
We are wise masters in the way of the rock.
"Rage Goat"?! I'm not sure this song is really me.
Of course it isn't! It's universal. There's a rage goat inside us all.
-[Cupcake] Wow. -[Dino] It's true.
Happy practicing! Ha-ha! Rage goat!
[singing tentatively] ♪ Rage goat, rage goat ♪
♪ You've got tiny horns of fury ♪
♪ Rage goat ♪
♪ You live on a rockin' farm ♪
[forced laughter, sighing]
-[buzzing] -[Dino] Hmm.
A little understated, but it'll have to do.
How's it going over there, Cup? Cup?
Fog machine's workin'!
I'm so excited for Vicky. She's gonna blow everyone away with her talent.
And they'll finally appreciate her for the rock star she is,
instead of just being the youngest mayor in the entire history of Big City. Boring!
Uh, guys? This wire's getting a little chummy with my butt.
You ready to rock? Rock-style?
Actually I'm not really feeling--
Vicky, I hate to cut you off, but the show is about to start.
Rock on!!
[Cupcake] Introducing
the queen of pure hard rock and nothing else!
Vicky!!!
[audience cheering]
[cheering and whistling fading out]
-[Dino whispering] What's she doing? -[Cupcake] Building suspense maybe?
Vicky, you should start singing now.
-[drumming] -[out of tune] ♪ Rage goat, rage goat ♪
♪ With tiny horns of fury ♪
-Alright! -This is awesome!
-Alright! Yeah! -Yeah!
Time to bring out the supporting act.
Whoa!
♪ Rage goat, rage goat ♪
-Hey, this song isn't about rhubarb. -♪ ...ate my favourite hat ♪
Laser! [making firing sounds]
Laser!
Ke-bang! Ke-bang!
Oh!
Aw... women's medium.
-♪ Rage goat, rage goat ♪ -What?! This isn't like her!
-It's so angry! -It makes me angry!
-This is going to give me nightmares! -And offensive to goats.
[whispering] Guys! This isn't working!
She's right. We need to amp up the juice!
10-4! I'm on it! Juice it up!
[firing sounds]
-[Cupcake] Ha! Ha! -Ba-boom!!
Ba-boom!
[screaming]
You! You! Ba-boom!
♪ Rage goat What made your eyes so red ♪
♪ Rage goat You fill me with so much dread ♪
-[crowd screaming] -Help us!
Please make it stop!
Huh. I think we may have turned a bad corner here.
Yeah. Let's shut 'er down!
[grunting] Ah!
Uh-oh.
[grunting] Ah! Gah!
Oh... no...
[screaming]
Ah! Ah!!
[crowd shouting]
♪ Rage goat, rage goat You freaked out all the turkeys ♪
Awesome. So terrifyingly awesome.
Ah! Aaah!
[metal clanging]
Ah!! Not awesome! Not awesome!
I'll handle the fire, Dino! You take out the lasers.
Take... that, laser... array!
Even. Though. You. Were. Just. Doing. Your. Job!
♪ Rage goaaat ♪
I've gotcha, Vicky! I've gotcha!
I do not have you!
-[metal creaking] -Whoa!
[crashing]
[all coughing]
[groaning]
[coughing] Are you guys okay?
Us? No, we're not, Vicky.
We just blew up your show and almost burnt down a community centre.
We didn't mean for things to get so out of hand-- Hey!
No! Come on, laser array!
We're in the middle of something here! Wow!
Vicky, you were already a star without us.
Yeah. We're sorry we tried to change you.
It's alright. I'm still the same Vicky underneath.
Hey, yeah, you are. That's right!
Why don't you show 'em what real talent looks like?
♪ Whether you're in a pie or in a jam ♪
♪ Rhubarb I'm your biggest fan ♪
♪ Rhubarbs are people too ♪
♪ They have feelings like me they have feelings like you ♪
-She really is the best, isn't she, Dino? -Sure is, Cup.
I'm glad we could sorta kinda help her but not really at all.
Me too, Dino. Let's head home.
[grunting] Come on, old girl, I'll fix ya up.
-[Cupcake] Dino... -What?
I'd like to add some lasers to our sleeping experience.
So sorry!
Peetree, you put out an entire forest fire by yourself,
saving dozens of adorable deer. How did you do it?
Two words, Barb: Courage, confidence, athleticism, pluck,
and a little something called guts. Ha!
Well, that was at least eight words, but these deer don't mind.
They're just happy to have their home back.
Oh! Stop! Stop it, you guys. Come on! [giggling]
-Ooh, not there! Ooh, ooh! -[Cupcake] Look at him, Dino.
Just once I wish a pack of deer would lick my face.
Boy, I am right there with you.
But we're stuck here stocking boring old shelves
with boring old books at the boring old library.
We'll never get showered with praise doing General Services gigs like this.
I don't know. Sometimes, helping someone reach a book on a high shelf is enough
to earn some pretty hearty praise. There you go, my good sir.
Maybe you're right. Oh, my goodness, Cup!
Look! It's Celebrity Boat!
Oh, remember? You used to read it to me when we were little!
Oh, read it to me now, Cup.
Read to me about the little boat that wanted to be a Celebrity Boat!
Not now, Dino. Look!
[cart squeaking]
I think I know a way that we can make something big out of this library gig.
-Knock-knock. -Boys. How's it going out there?
Perfect! Had a brief and unsettling interaction with an armadillo,
-but otherwise, perfect. -Yeah, yeah, everything's great.
But don't you think our services could be better used elsewhere?
In what way?
You got Mr. Grumbles retrieving all the overdue books.
With all due respect, he can barely move.
No...
...eating in...
[snoring]
-Your point? -Let us retrieve the overdue books.
We'll get 'em all back. We'll be the heroes this library needs.
There are a lot of overdue books out there and Mr. Grumbles has been pretty slow.
And then there's the Chameleon.
-Who? -The Chameleon.
The biggest book non-returner in the history of Big City.
He has dozens of identities and over 100 overdue books.
Anytime we've gone after him in the past, he's retaliated.
Catching him will require stealth and tact.
Can you be stealthy and tactful?
-[thump] -[both] I think we can handle that.
-[crashing] -Oh! Ow!
Oh!!!
Oh, I think we can handle that.
Okay, Dino... you go around back, I'll take the front.
If he goes fugitive, you holler.
Roger that, good buddy. 10-4 and whatnot.
Nice lingo.
[humming]
-[ding-dong!] -Excuse me, Mr. Palm?
We're here about your overdue library books.
-Maybe he's not home. -[fast-paced music]
We got a runner! I got a visual!
He's at 12 o'clock! Now he's at 12:05! Now he's at 11! He's swerving!
-I'm right beside you, I can see him! -[operatic chant]
Ah!
Alright, Mr. Palm, it is time to pay... your fine.
$2.50, $2.75, $3. Thank you very much.
That was exhilarating!
Oh, I feel just like Celebrity Boat must've felt
when he walked his first red carpet.
Or I guess he wouldn't have walked, he's a... he's a boat.
Did he have legs? Oh, my goodness, I cannot wait to revisit that book.
I don't think Mr. Palm was the Chameleon.
So we start with the small fry and work our way up. Who's next?
Whoever it is, they're about to get... booked.
['80s pop music]
[music continues]
Oh, Cupcake, yesterday was so fun!
Busting book-crooks and shaking down book-crooks
and coining cool new terms like "book-crook".
But you know what's gonna make today even better?
-Me reading you Celebrity Boat? -You reading me Celebrity Boat!
Right, well, first, we need to find this Chameleon. Check this out.
People of Big City, there's a book thief in our midst.
He calls himself The Chameleon
and he's responsible for over 100 unreturned books.
Fortunately, Cupcake and Dino General Services are going to bring him to...
justice.
Hear me now, Chameleon: we're gonna catch you and when we do,
we'll hopefully get our faces licked by some deer!
Cool. Wow, that last line out of context is probably a bit...
-Yeah... -...weird.
But when did you release this?
Last night. It's already gone viral!
Now, when we catch him, everyone will know.
Yes, right, but the librarian told us to be stealthy and tactful.
She said the Chameleon retaliates when he knows you're going after him.
-Oh, what's the worst that could happen? -[dramatic music]
Where's all the books? [gasping]
[panting and gasping] No. No! No!
Celebrity Boat...!!!
[sobbing]
Oh, now I'll never know.
Can I... help you with something?
How could this happen? Every book in Big City is gone.
He even ransacked the Maritime Law section.
I judge this situation... unfair.
I told you to be stealthy and tactful when dealing with the Chameleon!
But what did you do? You made a video that called him out.
Mr. Grumbles may have been slow, but at least he was reliable.
Aw, this is the worst day of my life. [sniffling]
Oh, Celebrity Boat.
Ah!
Don't you worry, buddy, we'll get the books back.
You'd better. And in the meantime, maybe steer clear of crowds.
-[crowd crying and protesting] -...those books!
-You'll pay for this! -I have a torch!
And we're sure they're mad at us and not the Chameleon?
-You. We're mad at you! -This is clearly your fault!
-I have a torch!! -[door closing]
Gotcha. Yep, okay. Let's go out the back.
Okay, we've got to figure this out.
Who cares?
-Come on, Dino. It was just a book. -Just a book?!
Cup, it was the book you read me whenever I was sick or hurt or blue.
Every year on my birthday, you'd pull me to the library in my wagon
and take out Celebrity Boat.
We'd sit on the floor and you'd read it to me.
"And as the four strong sailors dragged Celebrity Boat across the red carpet,
he looked so beautiful."
[Dino] Other kids would even gather around,
including that off-putting Armadillo boy.
I wonder what happened to him.
Anyway, those are some of my happiest memories.
It was never just about the book.
I'm really sorry, Dino. My hunger for fame made me hard and uncaring.
I didn't realize it meant so much to you.
-Oh, it did. -Well then, let's get it back.
Let's get all the books back.
-But how? -By being stealthy and...
-[both] ...tactful. -You guessed it!
[both] Nice!
We're all hoping for the safe return... of our books.
And in other book news, one of the world's oldest volumes
will be on display at Big City Museum this weekend.
The Book of Oysters - an ancient story about a pair of oysters
that fall in love, fall out of love and then fall in love again -
is said to be 10,000 years old and priceless.
Security has promised that they will be on high alert
and there is no way the so-called Chameleon will be able to steal this book.
-[metal banging] -[wire whirring]
-So, uh, everything secure in here? -Oh, yeah, yeah. Everything's secure.
-Everything secure outside? -Very secure. Very secure.
-Nice. Nice. -You said it.
-So you know who I ran into the other day? -Tell me.
[clicking]
[coughing, moaning]
[action-movie music]
-[music stops abruptly] -Surprise!
This... is a pop-up book.
[dramatic musical flourish]
[Officer Bees] Hold it right there, Chameleon.
I bet you're wondering how we did this, aren't you?
Let's just say we used a little something called... I actually can't remember. Cup?
-A... a fake news report. -We used a fake news report.
Now let's see who this Chameleon really is.
[Dino gasping] Mr. Grumbles?!
The library-book retriever. But why? And how?
And what the heck? I thought you were a slow old man!
I'm not saying another word without my lawyer.
-Oh, please, please tell us. -[all] Please. Please!
-We're saying please. -Please tell us why you did it!
Okay, fine! Fine! Nobody cares about books anymore!
People bend the spines and rub food into the pages without a second thought!
So I started a new library. Underground.
Away from the prying hands of the grubby masses.
A perfect library with only one patron: me.
So more of a private collection?
Yeah, in a sense, yeah.
Cool. Well, d'you get all that? Great.
Okay, you weirdly athletic old creep, time to go to jail.
I'm here outside Big City Museum where the Chameleon has just been apprehended
thanks to a sting operation that this humble news reporter took part in,
despite the clear breach in journalistic ethics.
Excuse me, could someone tell me how you managed to bring down
the most notorious book thief in Big City history?
-You wanna take this? -You take it, Officer Bees.
I'm going home to read my brother a little book called Celebrity Boat.
Because all this attention... aaah... is not important to me.
Anymore. It's not important at all.
Weird.
"So the Celebrity Boat traded his award statuette
for a one-way ticket back to the coast, where his friends were waiting for him.
He was done being a celebrity.
It was time to go back to being... a boat."
Oh, that was so beautiful.
I'm glad you liked it, buddy. Now bring it in.
-Ah! -There we go.
So... he's a boat... that becomes a movie star?
-It's best not to overthink it. -Right.
No, you're right. Lots of things are weird.
But, like, how are two boats hugging?
They don't have arms or emotions, I... I mean...
Is there cranes involved?
[Hugo sighing]