Wibble's Acrobatics

**"Wibble's Acrobatics"** is the 70th episode of Gusterlapin's *Weebles 80's* series, and is the last episode of Season 6.

## Transcript

**Tooey:** Hello! It's me "Tooey". I am so excited your here.

(*Tooey hears Wibble laughing in the living room*)

**Wibble:** Ha ha ha ha hee hee hee.

**Tooey:** Oh, It sounds like Wibble laughing in the living room! Hmmm, I wonder what so funny! Well, I better check.

(*Tooey walks to the living room*)

**Wibble:** Ha ha ha ha ha!

**Tooey:** Hey Wibble, What's so funny?

**Wibble:** Oh, Hi Tooey! It's just something, That I just saw! Ha ha hee hee!

**Tooey:** Really, Well, What did you just see that's funny.

**Wibble:** Well, I just don't what it is Tooey, but I think I just wanna show you!

**Tooey:** OK Wibble, Let's see.

**Wibble:** Alright Tooey Look!

(*Wibble and Tooey turn to the screen, to find out what it is, and Wibble giggles.*)

(*The film fades to a Chinese Acrobats live-action film with a boy on a bungle-board*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** This is my school in Beijing China, where I'm learning how to be an acrobat.

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** My name is Bо̄ywong. My father and my grandfather were also acrobats.

(*Film cuts to the boy stacking pipes to the bungle-board, and puts a wood board on top of the pipes, and gets on it*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** When I first started, I can only stand on one pipe, but now I stacked them up!

(*The boy stacked up three pipes on the bungle-board, which has one pipe facing forward, between two pipes standing straight*)

(*Film cuts to a girl riding a tall unicycle, with a big red ball in front of it*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** My classmate Līnglīng, Is learning a trick on a very tall unicycle.

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** First, She rides it onto a huge ball. That's Amazing!

(*The girl on the unicycle put plastic bowls onto her foot*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** But then, She balances bowls on her foot, and throws them onto her head.

(*The bowls leap on top of the girls head, and stack up*)

(*More of the films cut, to other tricks, like jumping through hoops, balancing a big pot on a head, spinning circle shaped handkerchiefs on feet, stacking up, spinning chinese yo-yos, and spinning plates on thin sticks.*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** There are thirty kids in my school, They come from all over China to learn how to be acrobats.

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** There are girls and boys between eight and fifteen years old.

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** It's very hard to get into my school! It takes a long time and a lot of practice to learn these tricks.

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** We practiced for eight hours each day!

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** Acrobats are a Chinese tradition, that has been going on for many many years.

(*A girl does a Chinese Yo-Yo trick, and does a back-flip, and catches it*)

(*The film cuts to another boy that spins plates like coins*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** My friend Tsо̄-Tao, can make 14 plates spin at the same time.

(*The boy keeps spinning the plates, and uses a stick to spin them faster*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** Just when he has them all spinning, He has to run and start all over again. He's very funny!

(*The boy runs back to the first plate, and spins them again*)

(*The film cuts to a dressing room where the acrobats put on special clothes*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** After we learn how to do our acts really well, We have shows for an audience.

(*The film cuts to a girl who is fully dressed up*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** We put on fancy clothes and make-up.

(*The film cuts to the boy with his hair closely shaved off*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** How do you like my new haircut?

(*The film cuts to the stage where the acrobats show their acts and talents they just did*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** Many people come to see us.

(*The film cuts to the stage where the walks, and wears a sleeveless outfit, with a dark blue top, and gold bottoms that are all designed in glitter*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** It's very exciting to be here in stage for all of us, and to show how much we learned!

(*The film cuts to the stage where the boy is standing on a table with a bungle-board with a tall stack of pipes with a wood board on top*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** Tonight is the first time I will climb on five pipes for an audience.

(*The boy gets on the bungle-board as he does a handstand, and another boy holds on to it to keep it still from knocking down. First his legs spit, and then rotates his legs up straight, and the other boy lets go, and show the audience as he raised a hand, After the boy got on the pipes begin to wibble and wobble, then cuts to the boy's face as he begins to smile, and then cuts to the bungle-board with three pipes again, and backflip out of the bungle-board as the stack fell over, and land to the ground, and takes a bow, and the audience cheer*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** All my friends came and see me perform, And they like the show a lot!

(*The film finally cuts to the stage with a line of acrobats, who all clapped with joy*)

**Bо̄ywong (Voiceover):** It's fun to be an acrobat!

(*Finally the curtains closed*)