The Size Matters, Yes? Endangered Species

# Let's go on an adventure

# That isn't very wise

# I love you guys

Whoa!

Aargh!

-Whoa!

-# This is getting crazier

# Feels like we're endangered

# Species. #

Huh. Oh!

Ha! Uh.

Huh. Oh.

Yah!

PICKLE GIGGLES

Pickle, the stepladder, she is where?

On top of the kitchen cabinet.

OK, but why is it I need the stepladder to reach the stepladder?

Sorry, Merl.

Oh, hey. Let me get that for you, Merl.

MERL GROANS

Merl, you OK?

I was just trying to help you get this ladder down from up there.

Those cabinets are tall.

You could get hurt.

Here you go, little fella.

I am not the little fella.

-Whoops.

-I am big, big, big.

MERL MUTTERS

Oh, Merl, don't worry your furry little head about being so small.

You're almost tall enough to reach most of the bottom shelf.

Yeah, and this rug. Well, you just step right over it like it's nothing.

Big guy.

It doesn't matter how big or small or tiny or minuscule

-or little itty-bitty...

-Yes, I get it.

-..shrimpy,

-eensy-weensy, microscopic...

-Enough.

..knee-high, small fry, pee-wee, half pint...

-Stop it already with the shortsy-short names!

-Whoo.

What I'm trying to say is, size doesn't matter, squirt.

You're as big as you feel, little buddy.

-So just think big, Shorty.

-Er, yes.

You send a very mixed message, but I understand.

So, I will do this.

I will think big.

I am big.

I am big.

And they are

bigger.

Not today, they are not.

I am Merl

and I am big!

Hey, Merl. Whoo, you look different.

I am different. I am bigger!

Whoa. That's amazing, Merl.

How'd you grow so much?

Get this. It was simple.

I just do like the bunny say -

I think big and then I grow.

That's the spirit, Merl.

Reach for the sky, or at least the second shelf of the bookcase.

Ha! The secondo shelf, she is nothing.

I am the squirrel of the top shelf.

Ooh, you really are big.

Hey, can you make yourself even bigger, Merl?

-Well, I...

-Come on, Merl.

-Grow, grow, grow.

-Grow, grow, grow.

Well, if you insist.

MERL GRUNTS

What is this?

The ceiling?

Official measurement in progress.

-Oh, you're even bigger than I thought.

-Yes!

The measuring tape, she does not lie.

I am the giant!

Fee-fi-fo-fum, yes?

-Fee-fi-fo-fum, yes?

-Amazing, Merl.

Put a little more echo on it.

Fee!

Fi!

Fo!

Fum!

Yes?

Oh, please. Do not step on me, giant Merl.

Whoa, Merl.

You're so big, you're going to bang your head on the ceiling.

Ay, ay, ay!

My giant body, she barely does the squeezing inside the stump, yes?

Maybe I exit now.

Whoa. Regular Merl never wants to leave the stump.

He usually says, "It is too dangerous and dirty out there, yes?"

Or, you know, something like that.

Nothing bothers that which is me when I am the giant.

Uh-oh. Merl, not worried about dirt and danger?

I think we'd better keep a close eye on him out there.

Well, he's so big, I'll have to use all my eyes to see him,

even the ones in my pocket.

Merl's not a really big, Gull,

he only thinks he.

Nuh-uh. He's a giant.

My eyes do not tell lies.

PICKLE SIGHS

Let's just get out there before this giant does anything crazy.

I am big, big, big!

Nothing can stop me.

Whoa. He's so huge, the Earth is shaking from his giant footsteps.

Whoa!

Ha! I push you away.

Use your giant flame breath on those wires, giant Merl.

-Yes?

-Higher.

Ha. Yes, of course.

A little big goes a long way with that little guy.

You are the little ones.

You are insects.

Insects? Ooh, yes!

I've always wanted to be a little bug crawling around on Merl's fur.

-Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay!

-Look at me.

I'm your lice. Wee!

Yes, the lice, she is very heavy.

Really? Oh, it must be all the dead skin and body secretions

we lice eat. You know, it goes straight to the hips.

OK. The giant, he will squish you now, evil bug.

GULL GIGGLES

-Hey, that tickles.

-I flatten you.

And you, too.

-Uh? Ow.

-Ha! Yell all you want, little bugs.

The shrieks of pain do not reach the mighty ears of the giant.

Ha-ha-ha.

I am big. Big. Big!

That's it! Time to bring this giant down to size.

Huh, the little insects, they return.

I stomp them again, yes?

What is this? No!

The guys of the bigness, they always rule.

No, they don't. Who told you that?

You did. You said, "Think big."

Yeah, but thinking big ain't about ruling everybody

or being some crazy giant who pushes everyone around.

Why not?

-This, it is fun.

-No, this is fun.

Nose bath!

Enough! The giant, he does his big giant thing again, yes?

SCREAMS

MERL GROWLS

OK, OK. But if you are so BIG, Merl-zilla,

why ain't you grabbed that acorn yet?

Yes, this is the muy bueno part of being big.

The acorn...

She is mine!

Que?

I am big but I am not big enough!

Bigger!

More bigger!

I sigh sadly for I am still not...

..big enough.

Aw, look at how sad Merl is.

No matter the bigness of me, the acorn, she elude me.

How big must I get?

How high must I grow?

Huh? The acorn, she comes to me?

Yeah. With a little help from your little friend.

See, when I told you to think big,

what I really meant was, why don't you just ask your friends for help?

-These two things, they sound nothing alike.

-OK. How about this?

Being big is not about having a big body,

it's about having a big heart.

No, I still do not understand.

That's cos it's just a simplistic moral message

to conclude your emotional arc.

Everyone will forget about it as soon as Gull does this.

GULL BREAKS WIND

THEY LAUGH

GULL BREAKS WIND

PICKLE LAUGHS

MERL AND GULL LAUGH