Ask the Storybots

Aah!

Netflix.

- -Come on, guys, let's go!

-Yeah! Whoo-hoo! -Yeah, dude!

Boop.

Boop.

Marzipan. Trapezoid. Piccolo.

- -

- -Huh?

I said I needed two folders...

not boulders.

Boulders.

Get them out of here. No time for nonsense.

- -Huh?

I need an Answer Team ASAP.

Wait. Not them.

Oh!

- -

I love bubbles.

Boop.

Oh, Bang, could you pop Boop?

Boop.

Uh, hey, guys.

It's an Answer Department, not a playground.

You better get your act together,

'cause you StoryBots are skating on thin ice. Huh?

Answer Team 341B reporting for duty, sir.

Good, because I got a kid with a question. And he needs an answer, pronto.

Capiche?

Hi, StoryBots.

-Hey! How's it going? -Good to see you.

-What's your name? - My name is EJ.

-EJ! -EJ, all right!

-Nice to meet you. -Pleasure to meet you, young man.

What are you doing in there?

We're playing with bubbles. What are you doing?

I have a question for you.

-Well, what is it, EJ? - How does a computer work?

Uh...

We live in computers, but I don't really know how they work.

Yeah, I mean, does a crumb know why a cookie is delicious?

Does a word know why Shakespeare is so beautiful?

Does a grain of sand, like,

understand the immense vastness of the universe, man?

Uh... I think what Bang is trying to say, EJ,

is that the parts of the computer we live in

are so super-duper, duper, duper, duper, duper, duper tiny

that we don't really know how it all works.

Uh, yeah, what she said.

Hey, I got it. I know where to find the answer.

StoryBots, prepare for transport.

Let's find out how computers work.

Outer world, here we come!

Huh. Hate to burst your bubble, kid. You might be waiting a while.

Ah! My eye!

Here we are, guys. We have a perfect view.

A view of what, dude?

Look. It's a computer.

Bing, this computer looks so old.

-Does it even work? -I don't know. Let's find out.

Nothing's happening.

-Ooh! -Whoa. What's that guy doing?

Whoa.

Oh, look.

The keyboard thingy.

Uh...

Yeah. When the guy presses the button, the computer works.

-Looks like we got our answer, guys. -Yeah.

-That was a quick one, man. -Guys, wait a second.

What's actually happening when the buttons get pressed?

Um...

I think we better climb inside and take a look around.

-Oh, yeah. -That's a good idea.

-I'm in. -I want to know more.

- - Hmm?

Ah.

Whoa!

-We gotta get out of here. -Cool.

-Help! -The signals, they're going that way.

-Come on, Bo. -

In here.

- -

We made it.

All right. We gotta keep following that signal.

This way.

I got it. I got the signal.

-Wait. What is this? -Where are we?

Man.

Hello?

[rooster crowing, horns blowing, metal clanging]

Oh, snap, StoryBots.

- -Welcome to the Central Processing Unit.

-Ooh. -Wow.

Who are you?

I'm the Operating System. But y'all can call me OS.

I got all the instructions to tell this computer to do what I tell it to do.

I'll take that, nephew.

So, you have the instructions...

That means you can tell us how computers work.

Yeah. We need an answer for a boy named EJ.

Sorry, StoryBots, I can't right now.

This input just came in from a person.

What's input, man?

Input is just a signal that tells the computer to do something.

- -Voilà.

Oh! The input came from that guy at the keyboard thingy.

What did he want?

- -Let's see.

Oh, come on, man, not this again.

This fool wants the same CAT file I sent him earlier.

Man, this machine can send a man to the moon,

and all y'all wanna ask about is CATs?

Can we at least ask about one dog?

This CAT business gets on my nerves.

You know what? Would y'all run down to storage for me, get this CAT file?

There's a cat in here?

I love kitty cats.

You got it, OS. We won't let you down.

Um... How exactly do we find storage?

It's the hard drive. Just take the bus.

Be quick, now.

We don't want to keep that person waiting too long.

We'll find the kitty cat for you.

How many boxes do you think there are in storage?

Uh...

Four?

More like 400 million.

Ugh! Come on, you hunk of junk.

Wheels on the bus.

Yeah, yeah!

This is awesome!

Are we there yet?

Everybody, get ready!

- -

Everybody OK?

Headcount.

-Here. -Boop.

Here.

Don't be scared, Bo. It'll be fine.

That's a really long way down.

Whoa.

Anybody see the cat?

We might never find it in here.

Yeah, this place is humongous.