Robin Robin (2021) Movie Script
1
[gentle music rising slowly]
[thunder rumbles]
[tinkling]
[gentle orchestral music plays]
[female choir vocalizing]
- [thunder claps]
- [yelps]
[choir vocalizing continues]
[frogs croaking]
[thunder claps]
[birds chirping]
[cat purring]
[thunder claps]
[wind blowing]
[thunder rumbling]
[crunching]
[gentle music swells]
[wind blowing]
[thunder claps]
[squeaking]
- [child] It's a round hoopy thing.
- [Dad whispers] Come on.
What did you steal?
- I got a sugar cube.
- I got a biscuit crumb.
- [child hums]
- [mice pant, giggle]
- I got a toenail.
- Oops.
- Dad?
- Yes?
On the next sneak,
can we break into the house with the...
What... What's that?
- Huh?
- Hm?
[Dad] Oh, it's a...
- [Dad gasps]
- [thunder claps]
- [mice gasp]
- Inside! Now!
[purring]
[ominous music plays]
[gasps]
[suspenseful music plays]
[cracking]
- [gentle music plays]
- [all gasp]
It's a... It's...
Funny-looking. Can we eat it?
No! It's a...
- [chick chirps]
- [Dad] Well, it's a robin, I think.
Hi, Robin.
[sneezes]
[gasps] Can we keep her?
[Robin chirps]
[chuckles] Well, maybe.
[gentle music continues]
After all, she's only one little...
[chirps]
[chuckles]
...Robin.
[mice gasping]
- Wow...
- Ow! Ooh! Ow! Ooh!
- [Robin chirps]
- [mice laugh]
[gentle choral music swelling]
[music crescendos]
[horn plays]
[wind blowing]
[tense music plays]
Wait.
[mice grunting]
Wait for it.
[gentle woodwind sting]
[mice panting]
Okay, let's go slowly...
- Yes! Yes, yes!
- Hey!
[mice grunting]
- [mice laugh]
- Ow...
We're on our way to break into a house
Might be a bird
But I sneak just like a mouse
[yelps, grunts]
[Robin humming]
Da-da-da-da
Da-la-la-da-da-da-da!
[grunting, gasping]
[gentle music plays]
- So, what are you getting tonight?
- I might get a pie crumb?
- Something moldy, I think.
- Well, I'm going to sneak a whole crust.
Well, I'm going to sneak
a whole sandwich.
- Oh, really?
- Yes.
- You can't sneak a whole sandwich.
- How do you sneak a sandwich?
- Um...
- Hm.
- [laughs]
- [Robin] Like this.
- [mice gasp]
- [grunts, yells]
[laughs] Race you to the fence!
[children grunting]
[boy mouse] That's in my eye!
Don't do that.
[mice grunt, laugh]
- Pip, you're up front.
- Yes, Dad.
- Dink, don't drag your tail.
- Okay.
- Flynn, Flin, no showing off.
- All right.
And, Robin...
[Robin grunts, gasps]
Got it, Dad!
[grunts]
I didn't say anything.
Robin!
[Dad] Ro... Robin?
[bouncy music plays]
[children humming]
[people chat indistinctly]
- [children humming]
- [switch clicking]
The rules of The Sneak are simple
And thus
Follow them close
You could steal a crust
- Or a crumpet rind
- Or a pinch of pie
Or the grease from the tip
Of a soggy french fry
Crumbs and crusts and stale bread
Soggy flakes and bin dregs
Any old leftovers
We'll sneak home with us
First find a secret entrance
Keep your eyes open wide
- For a hole
- Or a crack or a window with a gap
Just enough to squeeze inside
[female choir vocalizing]
Once we're in, we creep around
Tiptoe past without a sound
Keep to the shadows
Don't get heard
Whisper every single word
Da-di-la-di-da!
[music stops]
- [whispers] What?
- Come on.
[chorus hums]
Last, the most important
Remember in the who-man place
They're choosy who's invited
So we must never leave a trace
Crumbs and crusts and stale bread
Soggy flakes and bin dregs
Any old leftovers
We'll sneak home with us
[Robin gasps]
A whole sandwich!
When we're done, we disappear
Nobody knows that we were here
- With crumbs in our hands
- Warmth in our hearts
And the sludge from the tin
Of a moldy jam tart
- Don't make a sound
- Robin!
Don't leave a trace
Keep to the shadows, take what we need
The rules of The Sneak are these
Da-da-doo-da-loo, whoop!
[loud clinking]
[man grunts]
[gasps] Who-mans!
- [footsteps thudding]
- [gasps]
- [door creaking]
- [gasping]
[all gasp]
[panting]
[gasps]
- [grunting]
- [door continues creaking]
[gasping, panting]
[gasps]
Robin!
- [woman screams]
- [music crescendos]
[Dad] Well, let's not go back there again.
[chuckles]
They'll be setting out traps or,
maybe even getting a...[gulps]
- ...kitten.
- [kids groan] Kittens!
[whispers] Don't listen to them.
[sniffles]
- [sighs] Nice one, Robin.
- What?
Well, the spoon, and the sandwich, and...
Pip, enough of that.
Come on. We've still got plenty to eat.
There's the bag of Earl Grey.
I'm sick of Earl Grey!
[Pip snorting]
[Dad clears his throat] All right.
Well, come on now. Off to bed.
- [Robin sighs]
- [sad music plays]
It's okay, Robin.
We'll figure this out together.
Yeah. I mean, next time, I'll just...
stay away from... spoons. Yeah.
[gentle whistling tune playing]
[mice snoring]
[Dink sniffs]
All that mold!
[mice snoring]
[sighs]
[footsteps]
[snoring]
S-s-sandwich. Mm...
[Dad snoring softly]
[gasps]
[whimsical music playing]
[bell chime]
[Robin humming]
[Robin] "Oh! Hi, Robin. What's all this?"
"Crumbs? For the whole family?"
"Yeah. It was easy.
Just got them from a who-man house."
"Oh, wow, Robin!
You're the most amazing sneak ever!"
[creaking]
[thud]
Huh? Hm.
Can't wait to see the look on Pip's face
when I come back
with a crumb the size of his head.
[Robin laughs]
[female choir vocalizing]
Hm.
No. No. No. No.
[Robin] Oh, uh, excuse me.
- Do you know where the...
- No! No. No...
[Robin] Oh. Okay. Thanks anyway.
- [music builds]
- [Robin gasps]
[Robin] The who-man house.
Da-dum-dum-dum
Doodloo-doodloo, ba-dum-bum
[grunts]
Doodloo-doodloo, da-dum-dum
Dum-bum-bum-bum
Da-dum-bum-ba
[grunts]
[Robin hums a crescendo]
[purring]
[Robin] Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize this was a...
[Robin yelps]
[growling]
[gasps] ...cat house!
[Robin gasping]
No. No.
[gasps]
Now, that's a yes!
[Robin] Cat! [panting]
[Cat meows]
Oh, dear.
- [yelps]
- [Cat growls]
Silly bird, fly!
What? Wait!
[birds yelping, panting]
[suspenseful music plays]
[birds gasping]
- Why aren't you flying?
- [Robin] Oof!
[gasping] I can't fly.
[birds panting, grunting]
Why aren't you flying?
- Well, I've got a broken wing!
- Oh, no. How did that happen?
[Robin yelps]
[purring]
[Robin] Magpie? Wait for me!
[intense music playing]
Phew!
- Let's get you safe indoors, hey?
- [gasps] Thanks. Is the cat still...
Poor little thing.
[grunts, gasps]
[somber music plays]
Oh, awful!
Out there all by yourself...
[gasps] Oh! Oh.
- Oh. Uh...
- [Robin gasping]
- Are we safe in here?
- Ah. Yes. We're safe.
The thorns keep unwanted visitors out.
Usually.
Oh, good.
Is this your house?
It's very...
[sound echoes]
Oh. Why, thank you.
I suppose it is rather, um...
[gasps] Perfect.
Well... [chuckles]
Oh.
- A who-man house.
- [bottle caps clink]
[Robin] Bet they've got loads
of crumbs in there.
Oh. Them. Yes.
They've got loads of everything.
[both sigh]
And all because of that
magic shiny wishing star, eh?
[Robin] Yeah.
- The magic shiny...
- Mm.
Wait. Sorry, what?
The star.
You don't...
[laughs]
Right!
Okay. It must be here somewhere.
[magpie clears throat]
Once a year, the who-mans
take the spikiest tree in the woods,
cover it in tin-soil and boo-bells,
until their tree
is all twinkling and beautiful.
Just like mine.
[creaking, snapping]
Then, they put a shiny magic star on top,
make a wish, and in the morning,
they get anything they want.
Oh.
Like crumbs.
[stammers] Crumbs?
[scoffs] Don't be absurd.
[Robin]
Well, what could be better than crumbs?
[scoffs] "What could be better than..."
Things!
[music crescendos]
Huh?
Things, they make you happy
Things won't fly away
Things will stick... Ow.
...with you till the end
Oh, yes, on things you can depend
[yelps]
See my bathtub? It's designer
Finest china! Well, kinda
Simply must have the latest bottle top
I love it so, I'll never stop
This chair? Hedgehog hair
Pamperclips? I've got the pair
This is a limited edition
Piece of string
I was a bird who couldn't fly
Felt tiny while they flew up high
[bugs gasp]
Surrounded myself
With things so gorgeous
Felt enormous!
So afraid and alone
Things turn a hovel to a home
Got no personality?
I let my lampshade speak for me
Hollow inside? You're not enough?
Just stuff that hole with lovely stuff
Things are things that make you happy
Who needs friends? I've got a shoe chair
No one there for you to care for?
Polish up your silverware for?
There's no better company
Than one penny
[magpie and bugs sustain last note]
[magpie gasps]
Look, my point is,
wish for something far better than crumbs.
[bugs gasp]
[swallows]
Oh. Right.
[church bells ring]
[Robin] Better than crumbs?
Hm.
[gentle melodic music plays]
[Robin gasps]
Like a... Like a whole sandwich!
[groans] Never mind.
Okay, then.
I'll do it.
- Do what?
- I'll go get the star.
Impossible! It's inside the who-man house.
[Robin] Tsk.
Maybe I forgot to mention?
I was raised by mice.
Explains the ears.
And if there's one thing
us mice are good at,
it's sneaking.
[music crescendos]
Sorry, what?
Oh, like, into houses.
To get stuff. Like, stealing it.
[sighs] Right.
[gasps] Right!
Show me.
[muffled grunting]
[Robin yelps, grunts]
[panting]
- [Okay. I'm in.
- grunting]
[magpie yelps, gasps]
What are you doing?
- You're supposed to wait outside.
- I thought that we were...
- Who-mans!
- [footsteps thudding]
[footsteps thunder away]
[Robin sighs]
[door creaks]
[both gasping]
[tinkling]
[ethereal music crescendos]
[Robin] Okay.
We're going to have to be
the sneakiest mice...
- [magpie scoffs]
- ...we've ever been.
- Ba-dum-bum-bum
- I'm not a mouse.
Shh!
Just do exactly what I do.
[Robin sighs]
Da-da-da-da-du-dum
Ah!
Da-da
[grunts] Da!
Da-da-da
[grunts] Doh!
[clears throat]
Da-da-da
[muffled singing]
Da-da-da-da
[grunts, gasps]
Da-da
Da-da-da-da-da
[gasps]
Hmm.
[hums cheerfully]
Ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
Bi-dah-ba-dum-bum-bum
Ba-dum-bum-bum
Ba-ba-doo-ba-da-da-da
Ba-li-bi-di-la-ba-rum
- Shh!
- [Magpie yelps]
[whispers] What are you doing?
You'll wake the who-mans!
I'm... I'm being a sneaky mouse.
That's not sneaking.
The whole point of being a mouse
is you don't draw attention to yourself.
[Robin sighs, grunts]
[electrical humming, tinkling]
[melodic music plays]
[Robin] Careful.
[Robin grunts] Care... ful.
- Ow!
- [Robin grunts]
- Got it! Oh.
- [Magpie gasps]
[clinking loudly]
- [thud]
- [gasps] Who-mans!
[suspenseful music plays]
[Magpie grunts]
Hah! Not bad for a couple
of flightless fools, eh?
- [grunts]
- [wood creaks]
Why is it you don't fly?
Oh. I just never learned.
I mean, mice don't fly!
[Robin screams]
[grunts]
Well, it's easy! You just flap!
No, thanks. I'll just...
[Robin screams, gasps]
All right!
[Robin grunts, yelps, gasps]
Oh, you're a natural!
Ahh!
- [frantic music plays]
- [Robin screams, grunts]
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
Whoa!
- [Robin screaming]
- [bells jingling]
- [Robin] Whoa!
- Woo-hoo!
[uplifting music soaring]
[Robin quavering]
[gasps] Oh!
[Robin groans]
[music stops]
Oh, dear.
[gasping, quivering]
[spitting]
[sighs]
[gasps] The star!
[suspenseful music plays]
[Robin sighs]
Per...
[cat purring]
...fect.
[ominous music plays]
[Robin quavers]
Hm.
[smacks]
- Hello.
- Ahh!
[Robin panting]
[Cat] What's this?
An unexpected visitor.
- [Robin gasps]
- Hm.
Why...
[Robin pants, grunts]
...it's the little bird who
sneaks about on the floor like a...
mouse?
[Robin panting]
And who are you trying to fool
with those... funny things?
- My family are mice, so...
- Mice? Oh.
- Oh, and the ears are...
- [Robin gasps]
- [star tinkles]
- [Cat] Oh.
[laughs] Oh, I see.
[gasps] So tragic. So sad.
Trying to fit in.
[Robin gasps]
You know you'll never be a real mouse.
Oh, no, I...
You see,
you're a misfit.
You're an oddball.
You're a freak.
No, I'm not.
Micey ears atop a birdy beak
Well, yeah.
But I've never seen a bird
So peculiar, so absurd
How about we play a game
Of hide-and-seek, if you can?
As a mouse, to me
You seem to be just terrible
Fitting in is more
Than dress-up and pretend
If it's fitting in you're desperate for
Come down, search no more
I know the perfect place
For you, my friend
For you, I've the perfect place
Not picky, stick with me
What's in a name?
A robin or a mouse?
After all, under the skin
You're all the same
It's what's inside that counts
Fitting in could be a breeze
[Robin grunts]
Just a squash and a squeeze
Brush out those ears
Come along with me
[Robin grunts]
Quick as a glug
You could be sitting snug, perfectly
You don't fit in
But you'd fit into my belly
For you, I've the perfect place
For you, I've the perfect place
- [Robin gasps]
- [Cat sighs]
You really are a terrible mouse
with nowhere left to sneak.
- [gasping]
- [wood creaking]
Robin! And the star!
- And the...
- [hissing]
This is bad.
Ge-ge... Get back!
[all gasp]
Oops.
Oh. That's made it worse.
- [birds] Ahh!
- [Cat meows]
[intense music plays]
[birds panting]
[Robin yelping]
Oh!
[music crescendos]
[birds panting]
We did it! Everlasting happiness awaits!
Told you us mice are good at... sneaking.
- [gasps] Sneaking?
- [fireworks explode]
[Magpie] You know,
I think we make very bad mice.
- Yes. Quite terrible.
- [people exclaim]
- But who cares? We got the star!
- Terrible?
[sirens wail]
I'm not a terrible mouse.
[somber music plays]
Am I?
[fireworks hissing, banging]
[emergency sirens wailing]
[Magpie grunts] Ah!
[cheery music playing]
This goes here.
Oh, oh, oh!
There we go.
[laughs]
[gasps] Isn't this wonderful?
[sighs] Suppose so.
[scoffs] Well, I hope you thought
of something better to wish for
than a soggy old sandwich.
You know, like a hubcap.
Or a shiny fork. Or a pencil sharpener.
Or... a thimble.
[yawns] Or how about a safety pin...
[yawning]
- [Magpie snores]
- Hmm. Yeah.
[delicate music playing]
[gasps]
Oh!
Well, I... I wish I wasn't a bird.
I wish I was a mouse.
A real one.
[gasps]
[sighs]
[delicate music continues]
[tinkling]
[female choir vocalizing]
[Robin] Magpie?
[Magpie speaks indistinctly]
- Robin?
- [Robin sniffles]
It...
[sniffles] It didn't work.
Did it?
No.
[Robin crying, sniffling]
[sighs] Come now.
It was always a bit of a long shot, eh?
Stars and wishes. Hmm.
A fool's dream...
[sighs] ...was what it was.
A mad...
[gentle, hopeful music builds]
[tinkling]
...fool's...
[gentle music rising]
...dream!
[whimsical music playing]
It... It... It works!
- Huh?
- Robin! The star!
It works!
Woo-hoo-hoo!
[whimsical music continues]
[gasps]
[Robin] A real one.
What's that? For me?
A lovely, shiny...
[grunting]
[gasps] Wonderful!
[grunts] What the...
[mice panting, grunting]
- Robin!
- [children] Robin!
- [Dad] Robin!
- Huh?
Uh... Dad?
Oh! We've been looking everywhere for you!
- Robin?
- Sorry, I...
I went to sneak us some crumbs, but,
it all went wrong.
Because, well,
I think I'm a
terrible mouse.
[sighs deeply]
[Magpie sighs]
Robin...
I couldn't have said it better myself.
[tense music plays]
Oh! In! In!
[purring]
A kitten!
[Cat growling]
[hissing, growling]
- [all gasp]
- It's all right.
[suspenseful music plays]
[thundering footsteps]
Don't worry.
There's no way she could fit through the...
[all scream]
...door!
[growls]
[all gasp]
[Cat] Oh, look.
It's the whole family.
[all gasping]
[tense music builds]
Oh...
[music crescendos]
[Robin vocalizing]
[Cat] What are you doing?
[continues vocalizing]
[gasps]
[singing]
Huh? [scoffs, snarls]
- [gasps] Robin!
- What is she doing?
She's being a terrible mouse.
[whimsical music plays]
[Robin grunts]
[gasps] Oh! Ooh! Ugh!
- [snarls]
- [Robin pants]
The rules of The Sneak are these
[Robin] And that! And this! And that!
[music swells]
[grunts] Hah!
[snarling]
- [creaking]
- [yowls]
- [sings]
- [metal crashing]
[grunts]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[whimpers]
[ominous music plays]
[grunting]
[metal clanging]
[panting] You
really
are a terrible,
terrible, terrible
mouse...
[whimpers]
...with nowhere left to sneak.
[Robin] Wait.
I don't... I don't need to sneak.
[chuckles]
I'm a... I'm a bir...
[Robin yelps]
...d.
[suspenseful music plays]
[crash]
Robin!
[grunting]
Robin! [gasping]
Da-da-da-da
[all gasp]
[uplifting music soars]
[gasps]
[snarls]
[grunts, yowls]
[yelps]
[all] Woo-hoo!
- Oof!
- [all] Ooh. Ouch.
Oof!
[Robin grunts]
- [gasps] Robin!
- [Robin] Dad!
- [sighs]
- [mice laugh]
[mice] Robin!
That was the most un-sneaky...
- And stupid...
- And brilliant...
Birdy-mousy thing we've ever seen!
Robin, you were marvelous.
Oh.
[chuckles] Thanks, Dad.
Robin, you're... you're not a mouse.
But of course,
you're a mouse.
[kids] Huh?
- Sorry, is that confusing?
- Yeah, what? She's a bird.
Exactly. She is a bird,
and that's wonderful.
And what I mean is,
we're the Mouse family.
All of us.
[Robin laughs]
- Is the cat one of the family?
- [Dad] No, Dink. The cat tried to eat us.
Because she loves us?
[Dad] No. Because she's a predator.
So, you fly now?
Well, yeah. I guess so.
But we're all still hungry,
and you've ruined Magpie's house.
[gasps] That's okay. They're only things.
[sniffles]
Yeah, and I'm bad at sneaking.
If anything,
I just draw attention to myself.
[melodic music crescendos]
[gasps]
[grunts]
[all grunting]
[gasps] Mm.
- [grunts]
- [Magpie chuckles]
[gentle music playing]
- [grunts]
- [banging]
[gasps]
Hey! Over here!
A song for your ear
[person mutters]
While we keep to the shadows
Don't get heard
Whisper every single word
Ba-ba-bum-bum-bum-bum
[coughs]
Look at me fly
Catching your eye
[Magpie sings gibberish]
With crumbs in our arms
And a raisin or two
And a coin from the middle
Of this sticky brown poo
Look at me
And you won't see my sneaky family
- Don't make a sound
- Do make a sound
- Don't leave a trace
- Do leave a trace
- Keep to the shadows
- And the light
- What we need
- This is more than we need.
- Magpie!
- Thank you!
The rules of The Sneak are these
[Robin grunts, yelps]
Sorry!
[music crescendos]
Dum-dum-dum
[gentle music playing]
[Magpie gasps]
- [kids] Wow!
- Well.
[chuckles] Hmm.
It's a sandwich!
[all laugh]
[whimsical music playing]
[gentle music rising slowly]
[thunder rumbles]
[tinkling]
[gentle orchestral music plays]
[female choir vocalizing]
- [thunder claps]
- [yelps]
[choir vocalizing continues]
[frogs croaking]
[thunder claps]
[birds chirping]
[cat purring]
[thunder claps]
[wind blowing]
[thunder rumbling]
[crunching]
[gentle music swells]
[wind blowing]
[thunder claps]
[squeaking]
- [child] It's a round hoopy thing.
- [Dad whispers] Come on.
What did you steal?
- I got a sugar cube.
- I got a biscuit crumb.
- [child hums]
- [mice pant, giggle]
- I got a toenail.
- Oops.
- Dad?
- Yes?
On the next sneak,
can we break into the house with the...
What... What's that?
- Huh?
- Hm?
[Dad] Oh, it's a...
- [Dad gasps]
- [thunder claps]
- [mice gasp]
- Inside! Now!
[purring]
[ominous music plays]
[gasps]
[suspenseful music plays]
[cracking]
- [gentle music plays]
- [all gasp]
It's a... It's...
Funny-looking. Can we eat it?
No! It's a...
- [chick chirps]
- [Dad] Well, it's a robin, I think.
Hi, Robin.
[sneezes]
[gasps] Can we keep her?
[Robin chirps]
[chuckles] Well, maybe.
[gentle music continues]
After all, she's only one little...
[chirps]
[chuckles]
...Robin.
[mice gasping]
- Wow...
- Ow! Ooh! Ow! Ooh!
- [Robin chirps]
- [mice laugh]
[gentle choral music swelling]
[music crescendos]
[horn plays]
[wind blowing]
[tense music plays]
Wait.
[mice grunting]
Wait for it.
[gentle woodwind sting]
[mice panting]
Okay, let's go slowly...
- Yes! Yes, yes!
- Hey!
[mice grunting]
- [mice laugh]
- Ow...
We're on our way to break into a house
Might be a bird
But I sneak just like a mouse
[yelps, grunts]
[Robin humming]
Da-da-da-da
Da-la-la-da-da-da-da!
[grunting, gasping]
[gentle music plays]
- So, what are you getting tonight?
- I might get a pie crumb?
- Something moldy, I think.
- Well, I'm going to sneak a whole crust.
Well, I'm going to sneak
a whole sandwich.
- Oh, really?
- Yes.
- You can't sneak a whole sandwich.
- How do you sneak a sandwich?
- Um...
- Hm.
- [laughs]
- [Robin] Like this.
- [mice gasp]
- [grunts, yells]
[laughs] Race you to the fence!
[children grunting]
[boy mouse] That's in my eye!
Don't do that.
[mice grunt, laugh]
- Pip, you're up front.
- Yes, Dad.
- Dink, don't drag your tail.
- Okay.
- Flynn, Flin, no showing off.
- All right.
And, Robin...
[Robin grunts, gasps]
Got it, Dad!
[grunts]
I didn't say anything.
Robin!
[Dad] Ro... Robin?
[bouncy music plays]
[children humming]
[people chat indistinctly]
- [children humming]
- [switch clicking]
The rules of The Sneak are simple
And thus
Follow them close
You could steal a crust
- Or a crumpet rind
- Or a pinch of pie
Or the grease from the tip
Of a soggy french fry
Crumbs and crusts and stale bread
Soggy flakes and bin dregs
Any old leftovers
We'll sneak home with us
First find a secret entrance
Keep your eyes open wide
- For a hole
- Or a crack or a window with a gap
Just enough to squeeze inside
[female choir vocalizing]
Once we're in, we creep around
Tiptoe past without a sound
Keep to the shadows
Don't get heard
Whisper every single word
Da-di-la-di-da!
[music stops]
- [whispers] What?
- Come on.
[chorus hums]
Last, the most important
Remember in the who-man place
They're choosy who's invited
So we must never leave a trace
Crumbs and crusts and stale bread
Soggy flakes and bin dregs
Any old leftovers
We'll sneak home with us
[Robin gasps]
A whole sandwich!
When we're done, we disappear
Nobody knows that we were here
- With crumbs in our hands
- Warmth in our hearts
And the sludge from the tin
Of a moldy jam tart
- Don't make a sound
- Robin!
Don't leave a trace
Keep to the shadows, take what we need
The rules of The Sneak are these
Da-da-doo-da-loo, whoop!
[loud clinking]
[man grunts]
[gasps] Who-mans!
- [footsteps thudding]
- [gasps]
- [door creaking]
- [gasping]
[all gasp]
[panting]
[gasps]
- [grunting]
- [door continues creaking]
[gasping, panting]
[gasps]
Robin!
- [woman screams]
- [music crescendos]
[Dad] Well, let's not go back there again.
[chuckles]
They'll be setting out traps or,
maybe even getting a...[gulps]
- ...kitten.
- [kids groan] Kittens!
[whispers] Don't listen to them.
[sniffles]
- [sighs] Nice one, Robin.
- What?
Well, the spoon, and the sandwich, and...
Pip, enough of that.
Come on. We've still got plenty to eat.
There's the bag of Earl Grey.
I'm sick of Earl Grey!
[Pip snorting]
[Dad clears his throat] All right.
Well, come on now. Off to bed.
- [Robin sighs]
- [sad music plays]
It's okay, Robin.
We'll figure this out together.
Yeah. I mean, next time, I'll just...
stay away from... spoons. Yeah.
[gentle whistling tune playing]
[mice snoring]
[Dink sniffs]
All that mold!
[mice snoring]
[sighs]
[footsteps]
[snoring]
S-s-sandwich. Mm...
[Dad snoring softly]
[gasps]
[whimsical music playing]
[bell chime]
[Robin humming]
[Robin] "Oh! Hi, Robin. What's all this?"
"Crumbs? For the whole family?"
"Yeah. It was easy.
Just got them from a who-man house."
"Oh, wow, Robin!
You're the most amazing sneak ever!"
[creaking]
[thud]
Huh? Hm.
Can't wait to see the look on Pip's face
when I come back
with a crumb the size of his head.
[Robin laughs]
[female choir vocalizing]
Hm.
No. No. No. No.
[Robin] Oh, uh, excuse me.
- Do you know where the...
- No! No. No...
[Robin] Oh. Okay. Thanks anyway.
- [music builds]
- [Robin gasps]
[Robin] The who-man house.
Da-dum-dum-dum
Doodloo-doodloo, ba-dum-bum
[grunts]
Doodloo-doodloo, da-dum-dum
Dum-bum-bum-bum
Da-dum-bum-ba
[grunts]
[Robin hums a crescendo]
[purring]
[Robin] Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize this was a...
[Robin yelps]
[growling]
[gasps] ...cat house!
[Robin gasping]
No. No.
[gasps]
Now, that's a yes!
[Robin] Cat! [panting]
[Cat meows]
Oh, dear.
- [yelps]
- [Cat growls]
Silly bird, fly!
What? Wait!
[birds yelping, panting]
[suspenseful music plays]
[birds gasping]
- Why aren't you flying?
- [Robin] Oof!
[gasping] I can't fly.
[birds panting, grunting]
Why aren't you flying?
- Well, I've got a broken wing!
- Oh, no. How did that happen?
[Robin yelps]
[purring]
[Robin] Magpie? Wait for me!
[intense music playing]
Phew!
- Let's get you safe indoors, hey?
- [gasps] Thanks. Is the cat still...
Poor little thing.
[grunts, gasps]
[somber music plays]
Oh, awful!
Out there all by yourself...
[gasps] Oh! Oh.
- Oh. Uh...
- [Robin gasping]
- Are we safe in here?
- Ah. Yes. We're safe.
The thorns keep unwanted visitors out.
Usually.
Oh, good.
Is this your house?
It's very...
[sound echoes]
Oh. Why, thank you.
I suppose it is rather, um...
[gasps] Perfect.
Well... [chuckles]
Oh.
- A who-man house.
- [bottle caps clink]
[Robin] Bet they've got loads
of crumbs in there.
Oh. Them. Yes.
They've got loads of everything.
[both sigh]
And all because of that
magic shiny wishing star, eh?
[Robin] Yeah.
- The magic shiny...
- Mm.
Wait. Sorry, what?
The star.
You don't...
[laughs]
Right!
Okay. It must be here somewhere.
[magpie clears throat]
Once a year, the who-mans
take the spikiest tree in the woods,
cover it in tin-soil and boo-bells,
until their tree
is all twinkling and beautiful.
Just like mine.
[creaking, snapping]
Then, they put a shiny magic star on top,
make a wish, and in the morning,
they get anything they want.
Oh.
Like crumbs.
[stammers] Crumbs?
[scoffs] Don't be absurd.
[Robin]
Well, what could be better than crumbs?
[scoffs] "What could be better than..."
Things!
[music crescendos]
Huh?
Things, they make you happy
Things won't fly away
Things will stick... Ow.
...with you till the end
Oh, yes, on things you can depend
[yelps]
See my bathtub? It's designer
Finest china! Well, kinda
Simply must have the latest bottle top
I love it so, I'll never stop
This chair? Hedgehog hair
Pamperclips? I've got the pair
This is a limited edition
Piece of string
I was a bird who couldn't fly
Felt tiny while they flew up high
[bugs gasp]
Surrounded myself
With things so gorgeous
Felt enormous!
So afraid and alone
Things turn a hovel to a home
Got no personality?
I let my lampshade speak for me
Hollow inside? You're not enough?
Just stuff that hole with lovely stuff
Things are things that make you happy
Who needs friends? I've got a shoe chair
No one there for you to care for?
Polish up your silverware for?
There's no better company
Than one penny
[magpie and bugs sustain last note]
[magpie gasps]
Look, my point is,
wish for something far better than crumbs.
[bugs gasp]
[swallows]
Oh. Right.
[church bells ring]
[Robin] Better than crumbs?
Hm.
[gentle melodic music plays]
[Robin gasps]
Like a... Like a whole sandwich!
[groans] Never mind.
Okay, then.
I'll do it.
- Do what?
- I'll go get the star.
Impossible! It's inside the who-man house.
[Robin] Tsk.
Maybe I forgot to mention?
I was raised by mice.
Explains the ears.
And if there's one thing
us mice are good at,
it's sneaking.
[music crescendos]
Sorry, what?
Oh, like, into houses.
To get stuff. Like, stealing it.
[sighs] Right.
[gasps] Right!
Show me.
[muffled grunting]
[Robin yelps, grunts]
[panting]
- [Okay. I'm in.
- grunting]
[magpie yelps, gasps]
What are you doing?
- You're supposed to wait outside.
- I thought that we were...
- Who-mans!
- [footsteps thudding]
[footsteps thunder away]
[Robin sighs]
[door creaks]
[both gasping]
[tinkling]
[ethereal music crescendos]
[Robin] Okay.
We're going to have to be
the sneakiest mice...
- [magpie scoffs]
- ...we've ever been.
- Ba-dum-bum-bum
- I'm not a mouse.
Shh!
Just do exactly what I do.
[Robin sighs]
Da-da-da-da-du-dum
Ah!
Da-da
[grunts] Da!
Da-da-da
[grunts] Doh!
[clears throat]
Da-da-da
[muffled singing]
Da-da-da-da
[grunts, gasps]
Da-da
Da-da-da-da-da
[gasps]
Hmm.
[hums cheerfully]
Ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
Bi-dah-ba-dum-bum-bum
Ba-dum-bum-bum
Ba-ba-doo-ba-da-da-da
Ba-li-bi-di-la-ba-rum
- Shh!
- [Magpie yelps]
[whispers] What are you doing?
You'll wake the who-mans!
I'm... I'm being a sneaky mouse.
That's not sneaking.
The whole point of being a mouse
is you don't draw attention to yourself.
[Robin sighs, grunts]
[electrical humming, tinkling]
[melodic music plays]
[Robin] Careful.
[Robin grunts] Care... ful.
- Ow!
- [Robin grunts]
- Got it! Oh.
- [Magpie gasps]
[clinking loudly]
- [thud]
- [gasps] Who-mans!
[suspenseful music plays]
[Magpie grunts]
Hah! Not bad for a couple
of flightless fools, eh?
- [grunts]
- [wood creaks]
Why is it you don't fly?
Oh. I just never learned.
I mean, mice don't fly!
[Robin screams]
[grunts]
Well, it's easy! You just flap!
No, thanks. I'll just...
[Robin screams, gasps]
All right!
[Robin grunts, yelps, gasps]
Oh, you're a natural!
Ahh!
- [frantic music plays]
- [Robin screams, grunts]
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
Whoa!
- [Robin screaming]
- [bells jingling]
- [Robin] Whoa!
- Woo-hoo!
[uplifting music soaring]
[Robin quavering]
[gasps] Oh!
[Robin groans]
[music stops]
Oh, dear.
[gasping, quivering]
[spitting]
[sighs]
[gasps] The star!
[suspenseful music plays]
[Robin sighs]
Per...
[cat purring]
...fect.
[ominous music plays]
[Robin quavers]
Hm.
[smacks]
- Hello.
- Ahh!
[Robin panting]
[Cat] What's this?
An unexpected visitor.
- [Robin gasps]
- Hm.
Why...
[Robin pants, grunts]
...it's the little bird who
sneaks about on the floor like a...
mouse?
[Robin panting]
And who are you trying to fool
with those... funny things?
- My family are mice, so...
- Mice? Oh.
- Oh, and the ears are...
- [Robin gasps]
- [star tinkles]
- [Cat] Oh.
[laughs] Oh, I see.
[gasps] So tragic. So sad.
Trying to fit in.
[Robin gasps]
You know you'll never be a real mouse.
Oh, no, I...
You see,
you're a misfit.
You're an oddball.
You're a freak.
No, I'm not.
Micey ears atop a birdy beak
Well, yeah.
But I've never seen a bird
So peculiar, so absurd
How about we play a game
Of hide-and-seek, if you can?
As a mouse, to me
You seem to be just terrible
Fitting in is more
Than dress-up and pretend
If it's fitting in you're desperate for
Come down, search no more
I know the perfect place
For you, my friend
For you, I've the perfect place
Not picky, stick with me
What's in a name?
A robin or a mouse?
After all, under the skin
You're all the same
It's what's inside that counts
Fitting in could be a breeze
[Robin grunts]
Just a squash and a squeeze
Brush out those ears
Come along with me
[Robin grunts]
Quick as a glug
You could be sitting snug, perfectly
You don't fit in
But you'd fit into my belly
For you, I've the perfect place
For you, I've the perfect place
- [Robin gasps]
- [Cat sighs]
You really are a terrible mouse
with nowhere left to sneak.
- [gasping]
- [wood creaking]
Robin! And the star!
- And the...
- [hissing]
This is bad.
Ge-ge... Get back!
[all gasp]
Oops.
Oh. That's made it worse.
- [birds] Ahh!
- [Cat meows]
[intense music plays]
[birds panting]
[Robin yelping]
Oh!
[music crescendos]
[birds panting]
We did it! Everlasting happiness awaits!
Told you us mice are good at... sneaking.
- [gasps] Sneaking?
- [fireworks explode]
[Magpie] You know,
I think we make very bad mice.
- Yes. Quite terrible.
- [people exclaim]
- But who cares? We got the star!
- Terrible?
[sirens wail]
I'm not a terrible mouse.
[somber music plays]
Am I?
[fireworks hissing, banging]
[emergency sirens wailing]
[Magpie grunts] Ah!
[cheery music playing]
This goes here.
Oh, oh, oh!
There we go.
[laughs]
[gasps] Isn't this wonderful?
[sighs] Suppose so.
[scoffs] Well, I hope you thought
of something better to wish for
than a soggy old sandwich.
You know, like a hubcap.
Or a shiny fork. Or a pencil sharpener.
Or... a thimble.
[yawns] Or how about a safety pin...
[yawning]
- [Magpie snores]
- Hmm. Yeah.
[delicate music playing]
[gasps]
Oh!
Well, I... I wish I wasn't a bird.
I wish I was a mouse.
A real one.
[gasps]
[sighs]
[delicate music continues]
[tinkling]
[female choir vocalizing]
[Robin] Magpie?
[Magpie speaks indistinctly]
- Robin?
- [Robin sniffles]
It...
[sniffles] It didn't work.
Did it?
No.
[Robin crying, sniffling]
[sighs] Come now.
It was always a bit of a long shot, eh?
Stars and wishes. Hmm.
A fool's dream...
[sighs] ...was what it was.
A mad...
[gentle, hopeful music builds]
[tinkling]
...fool's...
[gentle music rising]
...dream!
[whimsical music playing]
It... It... It works!
- Huh?
- Robin! The star!
It works!
Woo-hoo-hoo!
[whimsical music continues]
[gasps]
[Robin] A real one.
What's that? For me?
A lovely, shiny...
[grunting]
[gasps] Wonderful!
[grunts] What the...
[mice panting, grunting]
- Robin!
- [children] Robin!
- [Dad] Robin!
- Huh?
Uh... Dad?
Oh! We've been looking everywhere for you!
- Robin?
- Sorry, I...
I went to sneak us some crumbs, but,
it all went wrong.
Because, well,
I think I'm a
terrible mouse.
[sighs deeply]
[Magpie sighs]
Robin...
I couldn't have said it better myself.
[tense music plays]
Oh! In! In!
[purring]
A kitten!
[Cat growling]
[hissing, growling]
- [all gasp]
- It's all right.
[suspenseful music plays]
[thundering footsteps]
Don't worry.
There's no way she could fit through the...
[all scream]
...door!
[growls]
[all gasp]
[Cat] Oh, look.
It's the whole family.
[all gasping]
[tense music builds]
Oh...
[music crescendos]
[Robin vocalizing]
[Cat] What are you doing?
[continues vocalizing]
[gasps]
[singing]
Huh? [scoffs, snarls]
- [gasps] Robin!
- What is she doing?
She's being a terrible mouse.
[whimsical music plays]
[Robin grunts]
[gasps] Oh! Ooh! Ugh!
- [snarls]
- [Robin pants]
The rules of The Sneak are these
[Robin] And that! And this! And that!
[music swells]
[grunts] Hah!
[snarling]
- [creaking]
- [yowls]
- [sings]
- [metal crashing]
[grunts]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[whimpers]
[ominous music plays]
[grunting]
[metal clanging]
[panting] You
really
are a terrible,
terrible, terrible
mouse...
[whimpers]
...with nowhere left to sneak.
[Robin] Wait.
I don't... I don't need to sneak.
[chuckles]
I'm a... I'm a bir...
[Robin yelps]
...d.
[suspenseful music plays]
[crash]
Robin!
[grunting]
Robin! [gasping]
Da-da-da-da
[all gasp]
[uplifting music soars]
[gasps]
[snarls]
[grunts, yowls]
[yelps]
[all] Woo-hoo!
- Oof!
- [all] Ooh. Ouch.
Oof!
[Robin grunts]
- [gasps] Robin!
- [Robin] Dad!
- [sighs]
- [mice laugh]
[mice] Robin!
That was the most un-sneaky...
- And stupid...
- And brilliant...
Birdy-mousy thing we've ever seen!
Robin, you were marvelous.
Oh.
[chuckles] Thanks, Dad.
Robin, you're... you're not a mouse.
But of course,
you're a mouse.
[kids] Huh?
- Sorry, is that confusing?
- Yeah, what? She's a bird.
Exactly. She is a bird,
and that's wonderful.
And what I mean is,
we're the Mouse family.
All of us.
[Robin laughs]
- Is the cat one of the family?
- [Dad] No, Dink. The cat tried to eat us.
Because she loves us?
[Dad] No. Because she's a predator.
So, you fly now?
Well, yeah. I guess so.
But we're all still hungry,
and you've ruined Magpie's house.
[gasps] That's okay. They're only things.
[sniffles]
Yeah, and I'm bad at sneaking.
If anything,
I just draw attention to myself.
[melodic music crescendos]
[gasps]
[grunts]
[all grunting]
[gasps] Mm.
- [grunts]
- [Magpie chuckles]
[gentle music playing]
- [grunts]
- [banging]
[gasps]
Hey! Over here!
A song for your ear
[person mutters]
While we keep to the shadows
Don't get heard
Whisper every single word
Ba-ba-bum-bum-bum-bum
[coughs]
Look at me fly
Catching your eye
[Magpie sings gibberish]
With crumbs in our arms
And a raisin or two
And a coin from the middle
Of this sticky brown poo
Look at me
And you won't see my sneaky family
- Don't make a sound
- Do make a sound
- Don't leave a trace
- Do leave a trace
- Keep to the shadows
- And the light
- What we need
- This is more than we need.
- Magpie!
- Thank you!
The rules of The Sneak are these
[Robin grunts, yelps]
Sorry!
[music crescendos]
Dum-dum-dum
[gentle music playing]
[Magpie gasps]
- [kids] Wow!
- Well.
[chuckles] Hmm.
It's a sandwich!
[all laugh]
[whimsical music playing]