Birds Like Us

Nice tree.

Beautiful tree.

No other place for miles around.

Look.

Birds like us.

Oh, there you are, you naughty little bitty buzz.

I'm here. No, I'm here. Behind you. I follow.

Oh, don't... Wait for me. Wait for me, please.

I'm coming. I'm coming.

No, don't... Oh!

Come along!

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

- Time to go, go, go. - Yes, yes, yes.

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Wait for me!

It's coming!

Good job. Two more to go.

Move on.

Time to go, to go, to go, to go, to go!

I had one yesterday. Only two more to go.

I used to have four a pop.

- Now two is a bit much. - Come on, I've got eggs to lay.

I've got eggs to lay. Just... out of the way.

So pushy and my back is so sore.

I... got... you!

The Eggualibrium will take place at the scheduled time.

All birds to their positions.

Any unattendance will be punished by nest arrest

until the egg delivery is complete.

Move it on. Move it on.

Orderly fashion.

Whoa! Come along, now. Come along.

Hens in the front. Cocks in the rear.

- - You there, stay in line.

Wakey, wakey!

Wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey!

It's your due day!

Oh, no.

Not today.

Hassan, wake up. They're coming!

They'll take my egg away!

Oh, it's okay. It's okay. I'm fine.

I just don't want to lose my egg.

She is afraid.

They're all afraid.

That's it, hatching today!

I'll be fine. You go.

Come along, egg catchers!

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Shh! Shh!

Help your mommy and stay quiet for today. We have a plan.

- - Open up, Huppu.

We know you're in there.

You know the penalty for free-ranging.

No, I don't think it's coming today. I don't even feel it.

- No eggs, no food. - I'm not hungry.

Three eggs to the Eggualibrium. You keep the fourth.

Oh, my throat.

I think I might be getting the flu!

Your egg is due!

- It's still highly contagious. - Come on.

I heard about a pigeon who caught it and he sneezed his beak off.

Quit squawking, Madam. Move along. Today's the day.

All right. I'm coming.

Here we go, here we go.

One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four.

Come on, you. Stop dawdling.

- - Where's Mi?

- Mi! -

Mi, let me guess.

- It's in the air now? - It was on my beak when I woke up.

Right there.

And I tried to, you know, boo!

And then it...

Underground, up in the air, you've got this buzz on the brain.

Time for work! Positions!

Right, good. Good. Good.

I Buzz on the brain should be your name J

Oh, you'll see.

What's her name?

- Scratch me. Ask her. - All right, I'll ask her.

Go on, then. Ask her.

We haven't seen you around here before.

I'm Jula. This is Gavra.

- What's your name? Hmm? - I'm Huppu.

How many are you expecting, chickabiddy?

Just one. I only hatch one egg a year.

One a year! I never heard anything like it!

- What kind of bird are you? - A very rare bird.

But how do you manage with no eggs to trade?

My husband owns our fruit. He's an engineer.

She's the one that nests with a meat eater.

A deaf and dumb carnivore?

- It's so... - Unnatural.

Quiet!

Will you help me? You have so many chicks.

I said...

I just want to keep my egg.

...quiet!

Your Egg-cellency...

the eggs-change awaits you.

Begin.

I said, begin!

Ooh!

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Kondor protects us from the horror!

Kondor protects us from the horror!

I love you, Kondor!

Birds of Birdabad...

Under the tree, we live in safety,

but beyond its bounds,

there is nothing but the horror.

Nothing but the horror!

Protect us from the horror!

In times past,

we fled from darkness and terror.

Now we live in ease and comfort...

and it is Birdabad that protects us from the horror.

Kondor protects us from the horror.

We live in ease and comfort!

I, Kondor,

accept your plea in all humility,

and I give you safety and security.

- Thanks to you... - Thanks to you, brave Kondor!

Thanks to you, brave Kondor!

Thanks to you, brave Kondor!

- Safety and security! - Safety and security.

Safety and security.

Commence the Eggualibrium!

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And a left, and a right, and a left, and a right.

That's it, keep the formation. Thank you!

Oh... Oh, here it comes!

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Please, please help me.

Hey, you! Get back in your position!

- Let me go! - Stop right there.

No!

Fly away, mother bird. Go on. Fly.

- Why doesn't she try? - They've forgotten how to fly.

They've forgotten how to fly?

Conclude the dance. The Eggualibrium is achieved.

Your Excellency, your Excellency, let me assist you.

He stood on my back, not yours.

And now, time for the feast!

Thanks to the tree and to the masses of Birdabad

who delivered us from the horror,

a fair exchange of eggs and fruit...

Oh, no.

Wake, eat, wake, eat, back to sleep.

Is that all you want?

On your way home now, before the horror comes.

- Mi! -

Oh, oh, oh, oh! Did you see that?

Time to get home, you nitwit!

Home? Oh, but-but I need to catch the buzz!

- Come on, let's go. - Come along!

You must be along, fruit freak!

Too bad your fruit lady don't know her place.

Fancy giving it all up for this.

- You stupid bird. -

Strange little creatures.

They know nothing of the world beyond this tree.

- Just eating and sleeping. - Sleeping and eating.

Eating and sleeping.

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Oh, darling, you're so clever.

Where would I be without you?

What you don't say is worth more than all their jabbering.

Why do we live like this?

Why do we let them tell us who we are and what to do?

We shouldn't have to hide our egg.

We shouldn't live in fear.

This mother bird is waking up.

She's starting to see.