Chico Bon Bon is a super cool monkey with a tool belt. He loves to fix things and help his friends. Today, Chico is going to have an exciting adventure with his friends!
Chico is helping Mr. McFluster with a lemonade problem. He uses a special machine to turn old plastic into new things, like a bendy ice cube tray. This helps keep the lemonade nice and cool. Mr. McFluster is very happy!
Today is a special day called the Flapjack Fliptacular! It’s a fun race where two friends, Rainbow Thunder and Storm Cloud Lightning, will flip pancakes. The winner gets a shiny Golden Pancake trophy!
Rainbow Thunder wants to do a super amazing triple pancake flip, but it’s really hard. She asks Chico for help. Chico and his friends go to the Spatulab to make a special spatula that can bend but not break.
Chico tries different materials to make the spatula. They try metal, cardboard, and even cheese! But nothing works until Chico remembers the bendy ice cube tray. They decide to use plastic because it’s bendy and strong, just like the tray!
With the new plastic spatula, Rainbow is ready to flip pancakes. She practices and learns to flip with style. It’s not just about the tool; it’s how you use it!
The race begins! Storm Cloud Lightning does a triple flip, and so does Rainbow Thunder. The judges say it’s a tie, so they have one more round called the Thunder and Lightning round!
There’s only one pancake left. Rainbow and Storm Cloud decide to work together. They use both their spatulas to try a quadruple flip, which means flipping the pancake four times!
They count together: one, two, three, four! They do it! Everyone cheers because it’s the first time anyone has done a quadruple flip. Rainbow and Storm Cloud both win!
Chico helps by using his tool belt to make two trophies from one. Now both Rainbow and Storm Cloud have a trophy. They all celebrate by eating yummy pancakes together!
Chico and his friends learned that working together and using tools with style can help solve any problem. And of course, having fun is the best part!
Build Your Own Tool Belt: Just like Chico Bon Bon, you can create your own tool belt! Gather some simple materials like paper, tape, and crayons. Design and decorate your tool belt with pockets for your favorite tools. Think about what tools you might need to help your friends or fix things around the house. Share your tool belt with the class and explain what each tool is for.
Pancake Flip Challenge: Practice your pancake flipping skills using a paper plate as a pretend pancake and a spatula. See how many times you can flip the “pancake” without it falling. Try different techniques and see which one works best. Discuss with your friends how teamwork and practice can help you improve your skills, just like Rainbow Thunder and Storm Cloud Lightning did.
Observe and Create: Go on a mini adventure around your home or classroom to find objects that are bendy and strong, like the plastic Chico used for the spatula. Collect a few items and bring them back to class. Discuss why these materials are useful and how they can be used to solve problems. Can you think of a new invention using these materials?
Sure! Here’s a sanitized version of the transcript:
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[horn blares]
-♪ Chico ♪
-♪ Bon Bon ♪
-♪ Chico, Chico, Chico Bon Bon ♪
-♪ Chico Bon Bon, Chico, Chico Bon Bon ♪
♪ Chico, Chico, Chico Bon Bon ♪
♪ Chico Bon Bon, Chico, Chico Bon Bon ♪
♪ Monkey, monkey
A monkey with a tool belt ♪
♪ Monkey, monkey
A monkey with a tool belt ♪
♪ Monkey, monkey
A monkey with a tool belt ♪
I saw a monkey! Tool belt!
♪ Chico, Chico, Chico Bon Bon ♪
♪ Chico Bon Bon, Chico, Chico Bon Bon ♪
♪ Chico, Chico, Chico Bon Bon ♪
Chico, Chico Bon Bon!
Monkey with a tool belt.
[child]
Chico Bon Bon and the Spatula Showdown.
[energetic music playing]
[grunts]
-[dings]
-Yes!
Tiny passes more plastic…
Chico dribbles… he shoots… He scores!
-And the crowd goes wild!
-[music stops]
Are you done fixing my lemonade problem yet, Chico?
Almost, Mr. McFluster. Check it out.
The fantastic plastic printer.
Made by Chico Bon Bon.
This baby lets us reuse old plastic to make something new.
-[whistle blows]
-Like this plastic ice cube tray.
It even makes its own ice cubes.
Oh, just what I need to keep my lemonade cool.
Just twist this super bendy plastic tray and ice cubes away!
Ooh. It is super bendy!
Oh, thanks, Chico.
Stay cool, Mr. McFluster. Stay… cool.
[Neil]
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
That’s today.
It’s time for the Flapjack Fliptacular.
Two fearless daredevils will rocket-skate down a track to a sizzling griddle to see who is the ultimate pancake flipper.
It’s Storm Cloud Lightning versus Rainbow Thunder.
That’s our Rainbow Thunder.
[Neil]
One of them will win the Golden Pancake trophy!
Whoa!
[Neil]
Tune in to see Storm Cloud Lightning and Rainbow Thunder go spatula to spatula.
-Whoo-hoo-hoo! Rainbow!
-Go, Rainbow Thunder, go!
Wait, where is Rainbow Thunder?
-Hmm. [gasps]
-[alarm blares]
Chico, the banana phone.
[action music playing]
Chico Bon Bon!
You got a problem? We can solve ‘em!
Chico, I need your help.
Rainbow, where are you?
Um… [chuckles] Uh… didn’t see you there.
Chico, Storm Cloud Lightning’s one of the best flippers around.
To beat him, I’ll need to do something amazing: a triple pancake flip!
A triple flip? But that’s never ever been done.
That’s why I need your help.
We’ve gotta engineer a brand new spatula that can flip the flap out of a pancake.
Rainbow, that problem’s no problem.
Fix-It Force, to the Spatulab!
[kids]
Chico Bon Bon!
Rainbow Thunder!
Clark!
Tiny!
Whoa.
Whoa.
[robot]
Tool Force One activated.
Mmm… wait a second.
Isn’t the Spatulab just upstairs?
Oh, right. To the Spatulab!
To do the triple flip, I’m going to need a spatula that’s made of something flexible.
That’s when something bends, but doesn’t break.
Flexible.
Clark, any ideas?
How about a bendy metal spatula?
No. Not bendy enough.
Cardboard!
Too bendy.
What else we got?
[Clark]
Stone?
Cheese?
Sand?
Agh! None of the spatulas have the right amount of flexibility.
Maybe you need a banana break.
Good idea.
[ding]
[Chico]
Okay, Rainbow’s spatula’s gotta bend but not break.
-[buzzer]
-Not bendy.
-[buzzer]
-Too bendy.
-[buzzer]
-Broken.
All this thinking is making me thirsty.
I wish I had an ice cold drink.
Wait a minute. Ice cold.
Ice cube tray!
[ding]
Super bendy!
Blazing bananas, that’s it!
We need to make Rainbow’s spatula out of plastic.
Of course!
Plastic can be really bendy, but doesn’t break.
Just like Mr. McFluster’s bendy ice cube tray.
It’ll be perfect for doing a triple flip!
Clark, my fantastic plastic printer, please.
[grunts]
[Chico]
Old plastic goes in, and…
-[whistle blows]
-…bendy plastic spatula comes out!
[Rainbow]
It’s beautiful.
Give it a try, Rainbow.
[all in slow motion]
One, two, three…
Triple flip!
Mmm. And triple delicious.
Thanks, guys.
Now nothing can stop me from winning that Golden Pancake trophy.
Nothing, you say?
Storm Cloud Lightning, what can we expect to see from you tonight?
Well, Neil, Rainbow’s gonna be tough to beat out there, but I’ve got a secret weapon.
My flexible plastic spatula.
It’s so bendy I can do this.
One, two, three.
Triple flip.
Mmm. Triple delicious!
[all gasp]
Storm Cloud can do the triple flip, too?
Oh, man.
If Storm Cloud’s got a plastic spatula like mine, there’s no way I can win.
Don’t give up, Rainbow.
This competition’s about flipping your flapjack with style.
So it’s not just the tool, it’s how you use it.
Yeah.
You’ve gotta learn to use it with style.
Come on!
[action music playing]
-Whoo hoo! Awesome!
-All right! Yeah!
[Neil]
Hello, Blunderburg!
Hold on to your forks, ’cause the Flapjack Fliptacular is about to begin.
[crowd cheering]
Okay, champ, are you ready?
Yeah!
Nothing can stop me now… because it’s not just the tool…
It’s how you use it!
Time to flip some pancakes.
[Neil]
The first flipper is Storm Cloud Lightning!
-Good luck, Storm Cloud.
-You too.
See you on the flip side.
[Neil]
There he goes.
Here comes the flip.
[crowd]
One, two, three!
[Neil]
Oh, my! Unbelievable!
A triple flip!
[all]
Yeah! Whoo hoo!
Judges?
[squawks]
A perfect score!
That’ll be tough to beat.
But let’s see if Rainbow Thunder can do it.
Pow pow meow!
[both gasp]
[crowd]
One, two, three!
[cheering]
Unbelievable, another triple flip!
But will it be enough to impress the judges?
[squawks]
[Neil]
Oh, looks like we have a tie!
That means it’s time for…
[thunder rumbles]
…the Thunder and Lightning round!
The one who dazzles the crowd with the most amazing moves will win the Golden Pancake trophy!
Flippers to the starting line.
On your marks… get set… flip!
[action music playing]
-Come on, Rainbow!
-You can do it!
[Neil]
Oh, there’s only one pancake left.
Who will flip it?
[both gasp]
[both grunting]
Hold up!
Storm Cloud, what if we use the flexible flipping power of both our spatulas on this last pancake?
You mean, you and I team up?
If we work together, I bet we can flip it four times.
A quadruple flip!
But that’s never been done.
You really think we can do it?
I know we can, ’cause it’s not just the tool…
[both]
It’s how we use it!
Come on, follow my lead.
[all gasp]
Pow pow meow!
[crowd]
One, two, three… four!
[cheering]
[Neil]
They’ve done it!
They’ve joined forces and pulled off the first quadruple flip in history!
The winners are Storm Cloud Lightning and Rainbow Thunder.
[cheering]
-Yeah!
-You did it!
Nice moves out there, Rainbow.
Aw. I couldn’t have done it without the Fix-It Force.
-[all]
Yeah!
-[Chico laughs]
But wait, there’s two winners, but only one trophy.
I can fix that.
Time to do your thing, trophy saw.
Awesome!
Yeah!
Now there’s only one thing left to do: eat all these pancakes.
[all]
Mmm. Yummy.
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