Forky Asks a Question (2019) s01e06 Episode Script
What Is a Computer
FORKY: What's going on? Where am I? Why is it like that? How high is that? Who's that? Why do you think? Why is there jelly? Could that be better? Why are you talking to me? Who are you? (ANNOUNCER READING) I don't know.
Hey, Forky here again.
What is computer? Now, to help me answer that is someone who clicks a lot and yells at the screen: Trixie! Hi, Forky.
(CHUCKLES) And just I don't yell.
I just encourage and nudge very emotionally.
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
What is computer? Well, first of all, it's "a computer," not just "computer.
" I see.
Now, to learn it, did you have to go to university? Um, no, toys don't go to "a university.
" I just soaked up technical stuff and I learned it.
I see, I see.
When that happened, was that traumatic? Did you have to go to hospital? No! I didn't have to go - to "a hospital.
" (CHUCKLING) - Oh! - Wait a minute.
- Okay.
Have you been listening in on Bonnie's mom's British TV shows again? I don't know.
She brought a bunch of DVDs home in her boot.
- You mean trunk? - What? - I just Ugh It's not - What? No, no, what Blimey! What is computer? - Yeah.
Uh, a computer is when - You lost me.
Really? I haven't even started.
A computer has storage and a processing unit - Lost again.
- Ugh! A computer is a tool which makes calculations to So very, very lost! Computer, smart box for doing? (LAUGHS) Nope, I'm still lost.
Beyond hope of ever being found.
In the woods! Help, help! (IMITATES GUNSHOTS) There's my flare! It's up there! But no one will ever see it.
(SIGHS) Okay, Forky, you're right.
With a computer, you just click a lot and yell at the screen.
Oh! Now we're talkin'! (FORKY LAUGHS) Ya darn screen! I see you right there! (YELLS) Computers are fun! Hey, easy there, Fred Astaire.
That thing's fragile.
Whoo-hoo-hoo! (IN BRITISH ACCENT) I feel like I'm on 'oliday at the Isle of Wight! - (COMPUTER BEEPS) - (IN NORMAL VOICE) That's fun, I made a rolling beach ball of some kind.
I am on 'oliday! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! No! All your dancing just erased my hard drive! (GASPS) You destroyed my computer! Computers are everything to me! (GASPING) Okay, breathe, breathe.
Computers are everything to you? Oh! Oh, wow.
I'm really sorry.
But maybe workin' on computers isn't as meaningful as you and I actually talking and interacting Oh, shut it, Fork! You ruined my life! (YELLS IN FRUSTRATION) (IN BRITISH ACCENT) Blimey, that was a kerfuffle.
I'm not sure why she got so brassed off.
You won't catch me whingein' like that.
You're not British! MAN: (ON TV IN BRITISH ACCENT) I want everything in tip-top shape.
- (BELL DINGS ON TV) - MAN: Welcome to the Isle of Wight.
Would you care for a biscuit? (AUDIENCE LAUGHING AND APPLAUDING)
Hey, Forky here again.
What is computer? Now, to help me answer that is someone who clicks a lot and yells at the screen: Trixie! Hi, Forky.
(CHUCKLES) And just I don't yell.
I just encourage and nudge very emotionally.
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
What is computer? Well, first of all, it's "a computer," not just "computer.
" I see.
Now, to learn it, did you have to go to university? Um, no, toys don't go to "a university.
" I just soaked up technical stuff and I learned it.
I see, I see.
When that happened, was that traumatic? Did you have to go to hospital? No! I didn't have to go - to "a hospital.
" (CHUCKLING) - Oh! - Wait a minute.
- Okay.
Have you been listening in on Bonnie's mom's British TV shows again? I don't know.
She brought a bunch of DVDs home in her boot.
- You mean trunk? - What? - I just Ugh It's not - What? No, no, what Blimey! What is computer? - Yeah.
Uh, a computer is when - You lost me.
Really? I haven't even started.
A computer has storage and a processing unit - Lost again.
- Ugh! A computer is a tool which makes calculations to So very, very lost! Computer, smart box for doing? (LAUGHS) Nope, I'm still lost.
Beyond hope of ever being found.
In the woods! Help, help! (IMITATES GUNSHOTS) There's my flare! It's up there! But no one will ever see it.
(SIGHS) Okay, Forky, you're right.
With a computer, you just click a lot and yell at the screen.
Oh! Now we're talkin'! (FORKY LAUGHS) Ya darn screen! I see you right there! (YELLS) Computers are fun! Hey, easy there, Fred Astaire.
That thing's fragile.
Whoo-hoo-hoo! (IN BRITISH ACCENT) I feel like I'm on 'oliday at the Isle of Wight! - (COMPUTER BEEPS) - (IN NORMAL VOICE) That's fun, I made a rolling beach ball of some kind.
I am on 'oliday! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! No! All your dancing just erased my hard drive! (GASPS) You destroyed my computer! Computers are everything to me! (GASPING) Okay, breathe, breathe.
Computers are everything to you? Oh! Oh, wow.
I'm really sorry.
But maybe workin' on computers isn't as meaningful as you and I actually talking and interacting Oh, shut it, Fork! You ruined my life! (YELLS IN FRUSTRATION) (IN BRITISH ACCENT) Blimey, that was a kerfuffle.
I'm not sure why she got so brassed off.
You won't catch me whingein' like that.
You're not British! MAN: (ON TV IN BRITISH ACCENT) I want everything in tip-top shape.
- (BELL DINGS ON TV) - MAN: Welcome to the Isle of Wight.
Would you care for a biscuit? (AUDIENCE LAUGHING AND APPLAUDING)