K'nuckles: Flapjack. Hey, Flapjack.
Come with me! We'll go and see
a place called Candied Island!
Bubbie: ♪ Who needs candied island? ♪
♪ It's safer at the docks ♪
K'nuckles: ♪ But there ain't no streams of sodie pop ♪
♪ To go drippin' down the rocks ♪
Bubbie: ♪ It's dangerous and risky ♪
K'nuckles: ♪ But adventurous and free ♪
Flapjack: ♪ Adventure, that's the life for me ♪
K'nuckles: ♪ There's lollipop trees and a lemonade sea! ♪
Bubbie: Doesn't sound very good to me.
♪ The misadventures of... ♪
Flapjack: ♪ Flapjack ♪
[ SPLASH ]
K'nuckles: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Put this away.
I don't need it anymore.
Flapjack: Okay.
Bubbie: Oh. Oh.
K'nuckles: Now get my paints.
Flapjack: Okay.
Bubbie: Ugh. Oh.
K'nuckles: Now, stay there and await orders.
Flapjack: Aye, aye.
- Bubbie: K'nuckles! - K'nuckles: What?
Bubbie: Why are you always ordering my baby around?
Flapjack: Because he's the captain, Bubbie.
And captains give orders.
K'nuckles: You tell her, Flap.
Bubbie: How do we even know you are a captain?
K'nuckles: Because I have captain's papers.
Bubbie: Ohh. Well, where are they?
K'nuckles: On a ship at the bottom of the ocean.
Bubbie: Uh-huh.
Well, let's go find them.
K'nuckles: I'm a little busy right now.
Bubbie: Hah! I knew it.
He's lying, baby.
K'nuckles: You want to go searching for 'em?!
Fine!
Bubbie: Fine.
K'nuckles: Fine!
Bubbie: Fine!
Flapjack: Adventu-u-re!
Bubbie: Ooh, it's dark down here.
Flapjack: I'm on it, Bubbie!
Bubbie: Thanks, baby.
Flapjack: You're welcome.
Cap'n, why are your papers down here, anyway?
If I had captain's papers,
I'd keep them somewhere safe.
K'nuckles: Well, that's what I did.
You passed, K'nuckles.
Here's your captain's papers.
K'nuckles: Thanks!
Now, put 'em in the safe.
I'm gonna party-y-y!
Whoo-hoo!
Flapjack: Whoo-hoo!
Then what happened?
K'nuckles: Oh, uh, the ship sank.
I guess it's not really much of a story.
Bubbie: Mm-hmm.
K'nuckles: What?
I'm telling the truth!
In fact, there's the ship!
Oh, look at her!
She's gorgeous!
Happiest day of my life was on that ship.
Come on, Bubbie!
Open up so we can go on board!
Flapjack: Yeah, and find Cap'n's papers.
Bubbie: Now, you just settle down there, dumpling.
Bubbie's got to go in first and check for air pockets.
You wait here.
Both: [ GRUNTING ]
Bubbie: Okay, it looks safe.
Both: [ GRUNTING CONTINUES ]
Bubbie: Now, you boys have fun
and Bubbie will be back in an hour.
Flapjack: You're not gonna stay?
Bubbie: No, baby. Seawater's bad for Bubbie's complexion.
K'nuckles: This place sure brings back memories.
This is where I used to sleep.
And I used to sleep over there.
And I used to sleep there, too.
Ahh, so many memories.
Flapjack: Well, what are your other memories?
K'nuckles: I remember this place as big,
so if we're gonna find my captain's papers, we, uh --
Flapjack: I found them!
K'nuckles: Bring 'em here, Flap!
Yeah, this is the way I remember them.
Now, uh, read them to me.
Flapjack: [ CLEARS THROAT ]
"The board of seas trustees
hereby certifies that cabin boy K'nuckles" --
that's you --
"In regards to his captain's license has failed."
K'nuckles: Failed?! Oh, yeah.
I guess it was such a painful experience,
I've been blocking it out all these years.
You failed, K'nuckles.
Here's your failing papers.
K'nuckles: Thanks!
Now, put 'em in the safe. I'm gonna party!
Oh, K'nuckles.
K'nuckles: It was that stupid captain!
[ CRYING ]
What am I gonna do?
My entire adult life's been a lie!
Flapjack: It's okay, cap.
Cap -- cap?
It's not okay!
What do I call you?!
Captain?
Flapjack: What is that?
What happened to the rest of the crew before the ship went down?
K'nuckles: I guess I was blocking that out, too.
Hide!!
What is it, captain?
I don't know, Captain.
I thought I heard something, Captain.
Did you hear something, Captain?
- No, Captain. - Did you, Captain?
- No, Captain. - Captain?
Both: Yes, Captain?
Not you, Captain, and not you, Captain.
but which captain, Captain?
Captain, Captain.
Captain, Captain?
I don't think the captain understands, Captain.
- Captain! - Captain?
Flapjack: what is going on here?!
Oh.
Stowaways.
You know what we do with stowaways?
K'nuckles: We're not stowaways!
Flapjack: It's true. We're from Stormalong Harbor.
So, you're guests?
Well, then...
All: Welcome!
We thought you were stowaways.
As captain of this ship...
All: As captain of this ship...
As captain of this ship...
As captain...
Flapjack: I think they think they're all captains.
K'nuckles: Excuse me, uh.
The captains' graduation cruise of '42?
How did you know?
Worst night of my life.
Terrible night.
He-e-y.
You look strangely familiar, stranger.
Have I seen you somewhere before?
That's it!
Hey, fellas!
Look!
It's cabin boy "Klucky."
[ LAUGHTER ]
All: The kid who failed!
[ LAUGHTER RESUMES ]
K'nuckles: Enough!
The only reason I didn't pass
was because the captain was a jerk!
And he hated me.
K'nuckles, but captain loved you.
Oh.
You were his favorite.
We were all so jealous.
Wwe were very jealous.
K'nuckles: Really?!
You wanted to see me, sir?
Yes, Cabin Boy K'nuckles.
I'm worried about you, son.
K'nuckles: You're not my dad.
No, but I know a lot about you...
How you grew up, the hardships you faced.
I know you're not like the other boys.
You're different.
You're a lot slower.
K'nuckles: Huh?
You're slow.
K'nuckles: Huh?
it takes longer for you to learn things.
K'nuckles: Huh?
You failed five times.
K'nuckles: Huh?
Holy poseidon, boy.
The only thing you know how to do is drop anchor!
K'nuckles: But I love drop anchor!
K'nuckles, please.
K'nuckles: I'm really good at drop anchor!
I must have yelled "drop anchor" 20 times today.
Cabin boy.
K'nuckles: Nobody drops anchor
like K'nuckles!
Dropping anchor won't save a ship!
K'nuckles: I don't understand.
It's because you're slow, like I was saying before.
But i'm willing to work on it if you are.
K'nuckles: For the first time in my life, I felt loved.
I reacted the only way I knew how.
K'nuckles: I know what you're up to!
You're just jealous because I'm so handsome!
[ CRYING ]
I took out my anger on the ship.
Ugh, ugh, ugh!
Drop anchor! Drop anchor! Ughh!
Drop anchor, drop anchor,
Drop anchor!
Ughh!
[ SPLASH! ]
In the end, I guess I didn't know my own strength.
It was me who sunk the ship.
It was me.
You sunk our ship?
How'd you sleep at night?
K'nuckles: Sometimes in a barrel,
sometimes in a whale.
The whale!
Flap, she's gonna laugh at me
when she finds out I sunk the ship!
And that I'm not a captain.
Flapjack: But you're still a cabin boy.
K'nuckles: Huh?
Flapjack: What do you say, fellas?
How about a retest?
Both: Retest?
Yes, I think a retest would be most interesting.
[ LAUGHTER ]
Okay, captain's test, part one.
Sometimes when you're out at sea in a storm,
cabin boy, things hit you in the face!
K'nuckles: Ouch! Ooh!
Ooh! Ooh!
Flapjack: You're doing good, K'nuckles!
K'nuckles: Drop anchor! Drop anchor!
And sometimes when you're out at sea...
All: [ GIGGLING ]
...you'll get seawater in your face!
K'nuckles: Ohh!
Drop anchor!
And sometimes when you're at sea, you...
you...get hit in the face with things again!
[ LAUGHTER ]
K'nuckles: Ooh! Ugh!
[ LAUGHTER RESUMES ]
K'nuckles: Ughh!
[ LAUGHTER RESUMES ]
Why are you looking at me like that?
I don't know.
We've never seen anyone willing to do
so many embarrassing things before.
It's kind of embarrassing.
K'nuckles: So, does this mean I get my captain's papers?
[ LAUGHTER ]
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I want to milk this moment.
Did you think the test was real?
K'nuckles: Yes.
[ LAUGHTER RESUMES ]
That wasn't a real test.
We just wanted a good laugh.
We'd never give you captain's papers,
cabin boy.
Cabin boy...
cabin boy...
K'nuckles: I know what's going on here.
You guys are just jealous 'cause I'm so handsome!
[ CRYING ]
Ughhh!
Drop anchor, drop anchor, drop anchor!
[ SHIP CREAKING AND CLANKING ]
What happened?
Captain: You saved the ship!
All: Sir!
K'nuckles, here's your captain's papers.
It took a while, but you finally learned to do something
other than drop anchor.
K'nuckles: I did?
You raised anchor.
K'nuckles: Oh, that. That was nothing.
[ DING! ]
You always were slow.
Flapjack: Bubbie!
Bubbie: Hi, butter biscuit.
Did you find your papers?
K'nuckles: Yep!
Flapjack: You want me to put them
somewhere safe, Cap'n?
K'nuckles: Nah! Put them in Bubbie's face!
I'm gonna party-y-y!
K'nuckles: No, seriously.
I bet I can eat this whole jar of candy
in one bite.
[ laughs evilly ]
Prove it.
Flapjack: Yeah, prove it.
K'nuckles: Okay, okay.
But if I do, you will fill this
baby on the house.
And if you fail?
K'nuckles: I'll never set foot in the candy barrel again.
Deal!
K'nuckles: [ GULP! ]
Send the jar to my usual booth.
Ahh, nothing better than proving people wrong, Flap.
Flapjack: Every day is just
another adventure with you, Cap'n.
Well, I'm a man of my word, boys.
- Enjoy! - K'nuckles: Ha ha!
The spoils of gluttony!
Flapjack: Adventu-u-re!
K'nuckles: Adventure.
Flapjack: [ GULPS ]
Adventure.
K'nuckles: Adventure.
Flapjack: Adventure!
K'nuckles: Adventure.
Flapjack: Adventu-u-u-re!!
K'nuckles: Adventure.
Flapjack: Adventure! Adventure!
K'nuckles: Adventure.
Flapjack: Adventu-u-u-re!!
- Advent-- - Shut u-u-up!
Be quiet!
Hey, man. Come on.
I'm sick of hearing this little pip-squeak scream
"Adventure" every time I come in here.
You're okay, K'nuckles,
but this kid -- he's no adventurer.
Flapjack: [ WHIMPERING ]
Cap'n?
K'nuckles: Hey, this is between you guys.
Flapjack: Um, I am too an adventurer!
I've recently overcome cuddling.
I've recently got stuck in a candy jar.
I, uh...learned to wash my undies!
Wow!
Okay, I apologize.
Boy, those sure are some adventures.
Am I right, fellas?
[ LAUGHTER ]
Flapjack: Oh, I am an adventurer, then?
No! I'm talking about real adventure
where you work hard and sweat
and you risk your life --
not some tiddlywinks.
[ LAUGHTER ]
K'nuckles: Don't look at me.
ah, nothing better than proving people wrong...
Flapjack: Oh, yeah? Want to bet?
I'll prove I'm a real adventurer!
Prove it, then.
Flapjack: Um...
Come on, Flap. Think!
I'm gonna...
Cap...
"Chore"...
"Ate"...
Arm...
[ DING ]
...Willy.
I'm gonna capture eight-arm Willy!
All: [ MURMURING ]
K'nuckles: Now, wait a minute, Flappie.
Flapjack: Eight-arm Willy will be in town square
two mornings from now tied up and singing songs!
And if you fail?
Flapjack: I'll never utter the word "Adventure" again.
Ah ha ha!
You hear that, fellas?
Either he fails or he...
[ SLIDE WHISTLE DOWN ]
Flapjack: But if I do it?
Hey, if you do this, kid,
I'll get a big tattoo saying,
"Flapjack -- he's the greatest adventurer of all time."
Flapjack: Deal.
What am I gonna do, Cap'n?
"Adventure's" my favorite word.
K'nuckles: Don't worry, Flapjack.
No one is gonna remember, anyway.
But let's just stay away
from the Candy Barrel for a while.
"Small sailor searches for sinister cephalopod."
Flapjack: Huh?
A little birdy told me
you're the boy who's serious
about catching Eight-arm Willy.
Is it true?
Flapjack: Maybe.
Well, maybe I can help you,
and maybe you can help me.
K'nuckles: I don't know about this place, Flap.
Candy for you, sir?
K'nuckles: Hey, this place is great.
[ MUNCHING ]
I thank you for coming here
to meet with me.
As you may know,
I am Samuel Cooper Pennington,
reporter for The Stormalong Scuttlebutt.
K'nuckles: Never heard of it.
Heh heh, uh...
surely you must read The Scuttlebutt.
We're Stormalong's only newspaper.
K'nuckles: Read?
Intriguing.
Raucous roughneck refuses to read.
Flapjack: I know who you are, Scoops.
Ha ha. Thank goodness.
Then allow me to introduce my associates.
Choir: [ OMINOUSLY ]
♪ Ohh, ahh ♪
K'nuckles: [ STUTTERING ]
Jameson, the bookkeeper.
Franklin, the adventure writer.
Blah!
and Yomas, the poet.
Like the raven, I cry to be in thy company,
but my hopes will not die.
For now, they belong to thee.
Thank you.
K'nuckles: Ohh, boy.
Together we form the
Stormalong Secret Society of Scribes,
And if you are indeed serious
about capturing Eight-armed Willy,
then our ship is yours to command,
and we your humble crew.
Flapjack: But why?
We, too, know what it's like
to be ridiculed...
to be laughed at for being different.
And we're out of ink.
Yes, there's that, too.
We're going through a major ink shortage in Stormalong,
and our livelihoods are at risk.
Oh, please.
Money is but a fool's grasp
at felicity's apparition.
Flapjack: What?
We need ink to write. We got no ink.
Willy's full of ink.
We'll help you capture Willy
if we can keep his ink.
Flapjack: Well, okay, then!
K'nuckles: Ugh, on a ship
with a bunch of writers?!
[ FOOTSTEPS THUD ]
Uh, I'll steer.
[ SLIDE WHISTLE WARBLES ]
[ THUNDER CRASHES ]
[ THUNDER CRASHES LOUDLY ]
Hey, kid. Your watch is over.
[ WIND HOWLING ]
Flapjack! Hot off the presses!
Reporter receives rigorous rebirth!
Whoo-hoo!
Ha ha ha ha!
Flapjack: Wha-aah! Ugh!
Whoa, there, youngster.
You best get your footing.
Hey, you're doing a noble thing here, kid.
- Flapjack: Huh? - You know.
[ SLIDE WHISTLE UP ]
So words may live on.
[ SLIDE WHISTLE UP ]
You face willy, you...
[ SLIDE WHISTLE UP ]
anyone ever face willy, he...
[ SLIDE WHISTLE UP ]
Flapjack: I'm gonna...
[ SLIDE WHISTLE UP ]
I'm gonna...
[ SLIDE WHISTLE UP ]
Cap'n! M-maybe we should turn back.
K'nuckles: Too late. We're in the thick of it now, boy.
Whoa!
Flapjack: Whoa-oh!
A little shaken up are we?
Flapjack: Yeah.
Do you know what helps me calm my nerves?
Flapjack: Uh, poetry?
Poetry is the human soul
grasping to find meaning
in this harsh world we live in.
Observe. Drifting along in the vast, open sea,
one can only think how small we may be.
Be us victorious in our quest,
we shall see, but at least it
was quite the adventure.
Flapjack: That last one didn't rhyme.
- Hmm? - Flapjack: "Adventure."
Ooh! I'm gonna miss that word.
Poetry isn't about rhyming.
Flapjack: But that's the fun part --
you and me, cup of tea,
out to sea?
Hey, there's my knee.
Ughh.
Well, at least you got your nerves back.
Flapjack: Yeah.
I guess the rhyming helped!
Willy! Willy!
Willy-y-y!
Willy: [ SNORING ]
Ugh!
Willy: [ ROARING ]
[ WIND HOWLING ]
[ SHIP CREAKING ]
[ SNAP! ]
[ WIND HOWLING CONTINUES ]
Flapjack: [ CHATTERING ]
Willy-y-y!
Willy: [ ROARING ]
Flapjack: Aah!
K'nuckles: Aah!
- He's too tough! - Watch out!
Grab the rope!
I can't reach!
Ohh!
K'nuckles: I can't help it! I can't help!
Flapjack: I can't do it!
K'nuckles: Come on, boy!
Flapjack: Aah!
K'nuckles: Watch out!!
Willy: Ugh! My eye!
Flapjack: Adventu-u-u-re!
[ HORSE WHINNIES ]
[ CART WHEELS RATTLING ]
Oh, can you believe it?
It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen!
Wow!
Willy!
[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]
Huh?
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
Stop it! Stop!
The bet was that you would have Willy singing.
The kid say he'd have Willy singing
and he's not singing.
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?!
Flapjack: I didn't forget the bet,
and i'm a boy of my word.
I'll never say "Adventure" again.
Willy: Hmm?
[ GROWLS ]
All: [ GASPING ]
Ohh!
Ah ha ha!
Willy: Ah ha ha ha!
Why don't you make him sing?
Willy: What's he talking about?
Flapjack: I thought you could sing,
but he bet you wouldn't,
and I said you would,
but maybe you wouldn't.
And now if you don't...
then maybe I shouldn't...
♪ Be allowed to say... ♪
My favorite word anymore.
Willy: Favorite word?!
[ DING! ]
[ PING! ]
[ SLOW-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS ]
♪ This boy's not to blame ♪
♪ We're really ashamed ♪
♪ We needed your ink to write our own names ♪
♪ We hope you're not mad if it's all just the sa-a-me ♪
Please don't kill us.
We're just a bunch of writers.
Willy: ♪ You tried stealing my ink, but here's the thing ♪
♪ If you just would have asked, you just could have seen ♪
♪ That i'd give you the ink, if you'd let me sing ♪
♪ Because the thing is that I just love to sing ♪
[ MUSICAL NOTES OFF-KEY ]
All: [ MURMURING ]
It's okay. Songs don't have to rhyme.
Willy: Ha ha! Hit it, fellas!
[ THUD! ]
♪ Adventure, adventure, adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
All: ♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure, adventure, adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure, adventure, adventure, adventure ♪
All: ♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure, adventure adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure ♪
♪ Adventu-u-re! ♪
Flapjack: Adventure.
Both: ♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
All: ♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
♪ Adventure, adventure ♪
- ♪ Adventu-u-re! ♪ - Flapjack: yeah, ye-e-ah.