Dino Egg Prank Patrol Down Under

Today, Darcy joins the Prank Patrol.

His mission - set his friend Lachlan up

with one mother of a discovery.

Lachlan's going back in time

when he steps into a real-life dinosaur dig.

But what will happen when this Jurassic prank comes alive?

# Here we go

# Here they come, they're on a roll

# Where they'll strike, nobody knows

# If you have a point to prove

# They'll make a plan And see it through

# They'll sign you up To join the crew

# Scotty and the Ninjas, too

# Here we go, come on Join the Prank Patrol

# Here we go #

Can I have that, Mum?

-Whoa!

-What are you seeing?

-The Brisbane River.

-Really?

Can I have a look?

Ah, wow! That's so clear!

CLUNK!

Whoo! Hoo!

-HE GRUNTS

-Sorry about that, guys.

-Hang on a sec. Are you Darcy?

-Yes.

-Did you apply for Prank Patrol's help?

-Yes.

Dude, congratulations. You're the newest member.

You'll need that, which is your pass to prank.

-ENGINE WHIRRS

-You'll also need...this.

That's your Prank jacket. Pop that on.

-Mum, is it cool if we go pranking?

-Yes, course!

One little job for you, sorry, it's a nasty one,

can you just put that in there?

-Darcy, let's get pranking. See you later, Mum!

-See you!

This is Darcy, an all-round rocker,

who loves fixing cars and bikes, as well as an odd spot of gardening.

Hey, Prank Patrol. Can you help me prank my friend Lachlan?

He's the most ungullible person at school

and I'm wondering if you can help me prank him.

I reckon it'd be really funny. Thanks!

The target of Darcy's prank is his mate Lachlan.

Lachlan loves carving up the pavement on his skateboard,

playing rugby with Darcy and playing with his pet guinea pig.

Darcy, welcome to the Prank Patrol Spy Van. Good to have you on board.

-Tell me, who are we pranking?

-My man, Lachie.

Now, have you guys pranked each other before?

Like, why have you picked him to prank?

I just want to have a go at him because he's always tricking me.

With Prank Patrol on your side,

we'll get him bigger and better than he'll ever get you!

Let's have a look in our top-secret files. We've got heaps of pranks.

This prank is called Dino Egg.

What happens is, we send you along to a paleontological dig site.

-Ever been to one of those?

-No.

-You dig around for dinosaur fossils,

including teeth and bones and that sort of stuff.

-Except, the two of you will stumble across a dinosaur egg.

-Awesome.

And then, all of a sudden, the egg will start vibrating.

-Will that scare Lachie?

-Awesome. Yes.

Then, all of a sudden, a real-life dinosaur will jump out of the egg.

-Is it seriously a real-life dinosaur?

-Well, no. It's a fake one.

Still, we'll have a baby dinosaur jump out of an egg at Lachie,

-and, fingers crossed, scare him.

-Yes!

Fantastic. Well, Darce, we've got a lot to do. Strap yourself in.

Ninjas, take us to Natureworks.

To really get the dirt flying,

we'll need to know exactly what real dinosaur eggs look like.

To do that, we'll need to talk to a real-life palaeontologist.

DINOSAURS ROAR

OK, Darce, we're going to meet our palaeontologist.

He's around here somewhere. But you know what,

-I can smell him. Can you smell that?

-No, I can't smell him.

He's definitely round here. I think he's over this way.

Yeah, see? Let's go!

Darcy, we're getting very close!

There he is! Scotty, palaeontologist, how are you, mate?

-All right.

-Darcy, this is Scotty. Scotty, Darcy.

-How you going?

-I must say, Scotty, fantastic name.

-It's a pretty awesome name.

But we're not here for names. What can I do for you, Darcy?

I'm hoping to convince my friend that dinosaurs are real.

-Do you have any dinosaur fossils?

-We sure do. I've brought some along.

I've brought you along real, 100-million-year-old chunks of bone.

Hold those for the first time. That's pretty amazing.

They don't look like bones. Here we have a model of a long bone

from a long-necked dinosaur.

In front, we've got the teeth from a Tyrannosaurus rex.

They're pretty cool, too. But one thing that people always ask

is how you tell the difference between their bone and stone.

One way of doing it is to actually lick it.

If you lick it and your tongue sticks to the specimen, it's bone.

If it doesn't, then it's stone.

-Do you want to have a crack at it?

-OK.

-Give it a lick.

-It's not a dinosaur bone.

-It's not actually rock, either.

What you've just done is licked a five-million-year-old crocodile poo!

Now, dinosaur eggs - have you got anything we could look at?

We don't have any fossils because they're very rare,

but here's some photos of some dinosaur eggs.

Grapefruit-sized eggs, actually bigger than grapefruits,

massive eggs.

-You can probably make those work.

-Could we borrow them?

-Sure.

Fantastic. That's all we needed from you. Thank you so much.

And I must say, once again, awesome name!

Latest Prank member Darcy is out to hoodwink his best friend Lachlan

into thinking some dinosaur eggs are really alive.

With his expert dino egg advice,

he's about to get this prank's bones and eggs cracking.

Darcy, I'd like to introduce you to our special effects eggs-pert!

Egg!

-Brian, this is Darcy. Darcy, this is Brian.

-G'day, Darcy.

-Do you have any bones or eggs like these?

-We can probably do something.

They're from the palaeontologist, Scotty.

He's got an eggcellent name!

-Where do you want to find them?

-Maybe an excavation site?

Eggs-cavation! Love it!

OK, we need to make an excavation site,

with some tools and some fossils and bone fragments.

Exactly. Also, what's the chance of you making a real-life dinosaur?

Really small chance of that. What we can do is,

we can make a plaster egg, like so,

and we can make another one without a bottom

and with a breakaway top here,

so that we've got a dinosaur popping his head out here.

Could we have some, like, slime from the newborn?

You can have as much goop as you like.

And this egg we can make vibrate, like "Nuuuuhhh!"

We'll put a little machine in the centre of that,

which we can remote control.

-Fantastic. What do you think?

-It's awesome.

-Brian, what's the first thing we need to do?

-Make an egg mould.

Let's get to it.

What we're doing is mixing some plaster.

'It's time to mix, mould and make our dinosaur eggs

'to make them look like they've been underground for millions of years.'

Nice and sloppy. Then we pour this in the mould.

-OK.

-Ah, yes, look at that!

-Brush it around.

-How many layers do we have to put on?

-Six.

Right up.

-We've got both sides stuck together. Take it off the mould.

-Ohh!

And, voila, one dinosaur egg!

One giant dinosaur egg. But, Brian, were all dinosaur eggs white?

They're different colours. We're going to paint it.

-It all makes sense.

-Can we fill it with slime?

So when the dinosaur busts out at Lachie, there'll be ooze everywhere.

-Absolutely.

-All right, boys, let's get making some slime.

The technical name for this is goop.

'With our secret Prank goop mixture and a dash of food colouring,

'our slime will have Lachlan completely fooled

'for this egg-treme prehistoric prank.'

A present for me?! What's this?

"Jurassic Hair Gel. Extra T-REX texture".

-Where have you been all my life?

-LID SQUEAKS

Let's get some of you in there!

I'm going to look so good with this in!

-GEL SQUELCHES

-Ah, man!

You've got to be looking good now, Scotty. Let's get a photo.

What?! My hair!

-NINJAS GIGGLE

-Ninjas!

PLAYFUL MUSIC

'Hello!'

'Get off my bananas!'

'Leave it!'

'Oi! That's it, I'm 'aving yer!'

SCREAMING

'Oi, give me that back!'

'Agghh!'

'Oi! Yeah, you'd better run!'

'What's your game?' NINJAS GIGGLE

'Leave it!' SHE SCREAMS

'Oi, give me that back!' SHE SCREAMS

LAUGHTER

The latest Prank Patrol member Darcy

is out to prank his best friend Lachlan with a dino dig surprise.

But will some cool dino eggs and some ancient bones

be enough to catch Lachlan,

or will Darcy end up with egg on his face?

OK, Darce, we are just about sorted for your prank,

-except for one very important thing. Do you know what that is?

-Yes.

-What?

-Lachlan.

-Of course! We need to get him involved in the prank.

Give him a call, make sure he's cool to come along.

-Do you know what to say?

-Kind of.

-Are you nervous?

-Yes.

Don't be, mate. This is going to be too easy.

Here you go. Best of luck. I'll talk to you at the other side.

-PHONE RINGS

-"Hello?"

Hello, Lachlan. It's Darcy.

-"Hey!"

-My Aunty Megan's phoned down from Perth,

and she's running this dinosaur dig

and I was wondering if you'd like to come.

"OK, just, uh, call me later on tonight, OK?"

-OK.

-"OK. See you."

-See you.

Darcy, well done! How did that go, man?

-That went awesome.

-Do you reckon he's suspicious?

-No.

-There is one more thing to do. Do you know what that is?

-No.

It's time to...release the Ninjas!

The blueprint for Darcy's prank is -

one paleontological dig, some fake bones,

fake dinosaur poo, one vibrating egg

and one fake dinosaur about to burst out of its shell.

Have a great prank. I know Lachie's going to fall for it.

Prank hard, mate! Go for it!

Hi, Darcy, Molly here. Good luck on the prank!

Darcy, check out how cool your dig site is looking.

-What do you think?

-I reckon it's awesome!

It's time to meet your Aunty Megan.

-Hey, Darcy. Can you hold this for me?

-Sure.

Darcy, now's your chance

to ask your Aunty Megan anything you want for Christmas.

I like racing cars and video games,

-a horse...

-Darcy, Darcy. This isn't really your Aunty Megan.

This is Liz, our Prank Patrol actor, who'll play Aunty Megan.

-Liz, this is Darcy.

-BOTH: Hey.

-Good to meet you.

How do you want her to play your aunty?

-Be cool and like a palaeontologist.

-No worries. I can do that.

And, Darcy, check this out.

-EGG VIBRATES

-Pretty cool, isn't it?

-Yes!

-What's Lachie going to do when it starts vibrating?

-Freak out.

Brian's done a fantastic job making it look prehistoric.

-Liz, best of luck.

-Thank you.

-Darcy, you good to go?

-Yes.

Everyone into position.

It's prank time!

Lachie, the target of our prank,

is being brought out to our dino dig site to meet prankster Darcy.

-Lachlan, this is Megan, my sister.

-Nice to meet you.

'Time for Megan, our Prank Patrol actor, to introduce the boys

to the wonderful world of digging up dinosaurs.'

I'll just show you guys some of these.

These are pieces that we've found in this dig site particularly.

As you can see, they're all bone fragments.

When they fossilise like that, the colour's...

-they're darker, so they look like they're charred.

-'Very interesting!'

-You might think something looks like...

-A piece of bark.

It might be something.

-Do you think we'll find anything?

-That's what my job is every day,

wondering whether I'll find anything!

I mean, I think it's awesome to keep digging around and see what I find.

OK, come down here and I'll tell you about this site.

We've been digging in this area for a couple of days.

I'll get you guys to start on that far side where, as you can see,

we haven't been doing quite so much digging.

We like to work in sections so that we know where we've dug.

If you do find something, just call me straight away,

even if you're not sure if it's something.

If it's something you've already found, can we keep it?

-'This kid's sharp!'

-I can't let you keep stuff.

What we're doing here is, we're digging for the museum.

We're trying to research what dinosaurs lived in this area.

-We know dinosaurs lived in Queensland. Did you?

-Yes.

-Are you ready to dig?

-BOTH: Yes.

All right!

It's a lot to take in, but this is serious business,

because when we find something, it's potentially newsworthy.

-Can we go in?

-Yes, come on in. Just start in this half here.

And you can just start digging now. And if you need anything at all,

I'll just be over there doing some work.

-Hey, what's this yellow thing?

-It's clay.

-'Hilarious!'

Ignore the clay. I hate the clay.

'It looks like these boys might have a lot of digging to do.'

-It's a wing off the Raptor!

-THEY LAUGH

'It looks like Lachie isn't taking this very seriously.

'But I have a feeling that's about to change.'

-What's this?

-'Oh, yes!'

What's this? I think we've found something.

'Looks like our prankee has taken the bait. So far, so good.'

-What's this?

-I found it.

-It's not clay.

-It's a fossil.

-OK!

-'Good find, boys.'

-'Did she just taste it?'

-I'm pretty sure I know what this is.

One way of testing whether something is fossilised or petrified

-is to touch your tongue to it.

-'Really?'

-Put your tongue on there...

-'That's not going to taste very nice!'

-It didn't stick to your tongue, right?

-What is it?

-Do you know what that means?

-It's a fossil.

-Do you know what it is?

-It's a hamburger!

-'No!'

-It's not a hamburger.

-A bun.

-'No!'

-This is dinosaur poo.

-Oh, my gosh!

DARCY LAUGHS

-I just licked it!

-'You did!'

That's what that is. That's your first one, Lachlan.

-'What a natural.'

-That's awesome.

It does have to go to the museum, because we can date it

and find some information about what kind of animal this came from

and what their diet was.

-Do you want another lick?

-Yes, OK.

-No!

-Can't have enough dinosaur poo!

-Good job!

-'I think he took that pretty well.'

I found that fossil.

'One dinosaur poo down,

and now time for the boys to uncover their next big find.'

I think I've found another, like, poo.

Megan, we've found something. Well, Darcy found it.

-Are you sure?

-Yes, we're definite.

-It's like another poo or something.

'These kids sure like digging up dinosaur poo!'

-This is it.

-OK, just dig around it.

-Gently.

-Darcy, I'll help you.

That looks like some of the stuff we found yesterday.

-'A bone!'

-Gently around the edges.

-Be really careful.

Just go round the edge, not over the top.

Take a brush.

SHE LAUGHS

Brilliant. OK, up on this end, towards me.

Yes, see that end there?

-That's amazing. This is the biggest one we've found.

-'Biggest what?'

-What do you think that is starting to look like?

-Like a leg bone.

It's pretty long.

Keep working away at that end. That's it. Can you grab it there?

-I'll get it.

-Can you pass it up to me? Really gently.

SHE GASPS Look at that!

'That's huge!'

That's huge. Can you feel the weight of that?

-Oh, my goodness. Do you know what I think this is?

-What?

If this is what I think it is,

this could be worth over a million dollars.

-'No way!'

-Oh, my gosh, Darcy.

I'm going to go and put this back over on the table.

Can we dig something else?

I'm going to get you to dig in this corner. OK?

'Lachie has now completely fallen for the prank

'and is keen to put in a serious day of digging.'

Some people are lucky with this stuff and some people aren't.

You guys have already found two specimens.

But that bone was a significant find.

You're doing some great digging, Lachie. Keep it up.

What's that? Hey, we've found something again!

-Have you?

-'I think they might've hit the jackpot.'

Please just clear around the edges.

Around the edges.

'I wonder what they've uncovered this time.'

-It looks like an egg.

-'An egg?!'

Lachlan, I think you're right.

That's it. Good work.

This is a giant egg.

'A giant egg of what?'

If this is an egg, the exciting thing is...

-We are famous.

-..we might find others.

'Look at the size of that thing!'

-Imagine if it was still alive.

-'Alive?'

'Are you crazy? It'll never happen.'

You can see it. Just stay close.

'Here she comes!'

It's completely intact!

Look at that!

That's unbelievable!

The amazing thing about this,

I really think, because this is intact,

there are definitely going to be more eggs in here.

-Are you happy to keep digging?

-Yes.

-Yep.

This is amazing, guys. Great job.

-Not again.

-What?

-OK, we've found something AGAIN!

-'Again?'

'This is almost too good to be true.'

-I told you!

-And there's probably another one right there.

-I'll just move this out of the way.

-It looks small.

Hang on, hang on. Just wait. Very, very gently.

-Lachie.

-Yes?

-You guys hop up, I'll take it and pass it to you.

-OK.

But I've got something in my shoe that's annoying me.

It's completely intact!

-This is exciting.

-Look at that. That is beautiful.

-Lachie.

-I'm so excited.

-Lachie.

-What?

-This is so exciting.

-OK.

-Imagine if we took this to school. Oh, my gosh!

We'd be famous!

'I have a feeling you guys are going to be "famous" at school

'for something completely different.'

-Don't move it.

-I'll just pass that to you.

-How about I take it half -

-Two hands underneath.

'Time to get this egg moving. Literally.'

..hands right out. OK, just hold it tight.

I'm going to ring my boss. We're going to have to extend this dig.

It's Megan. EGG VIBRATES

-'Here we go!'

-It just moved!

-'It what?'

-It's moving!

-'No way!'

-It's moving! It's vibrating and moving.

-What is it?

-It was!

'Hold it together, Darcy.'

-Look!

-What?

-EGG VIBRATES

It'll go again. Hold on. Wait.

-I can't feel anything.

-Ready, you'll hear it.

It should go again.

I don't know, about a foot.

-They're alive.

-'Now he's just making it up!'

-EGG VIBRATES

-Look!

-Megan!

OK. All right, I'll see you soon.

It vibrated... It vibrated and everything!

-What do you mean?

-It went "Nnnnnn!"

It was... Like, it actually, it was like a roar. It was like, "Eee!"

And then it like was, like, shaking. Like... It was.

-Darcy, you felt it, didn't you?

-Yes, it was.

-'Back him up, Darcy!'

-He heard it.

Let me get this clear. You felt it vibrate?

It was like, "Nnnnnn!" And then made the sound like, "Grrrr!"

Like, "Uggh."

-And I'm not joking.

-OK.

-Do you want me to take it?

-You'll probably feel it.

-If you stand still, it probably goes again.

-OK.

-It went, like, three times.

-Three times.

-But it didn't crack?

-No, it didn't crack. Not at all.

-OK.

-Ew, what's that?

-My boss is on his way, his name's Professor Wally.

-OK.

He's just up at the next farm on another dig.

I'm just going to put this on here.

-Like, it felt like a telephone, kind of.

-'A telephone?'

The only thing I can think of is, it's cracking inside

because it's had pressure around it for millions of years...

-It was like...

-..and we've just brought it out.

I need you to be my bodyguards for these babies. Can you stand here?

'Time to set the boys up for our last prank.

'It's important that we put Lachie in front of the right egg.'

I'm going to meet him at the front gate.

-I'll bring Wally back -

-I don't think it was crackling.

EGG VIBRATES

Megan, it's doing it again!

Gosh!

THEY GIGGLE NERVOUSLY

-Megan! That was so freaky.

-I know.

-It was like, "Grrrr!"

'Lachie is completely buying into this.

'If he believes this,

'I wonder how he's going to feel about this!'

DINOSAUR ROARS

THEY GIGGLE

Megan! Dude!

-There's a...

-What's going on?

-..dinosaur.

-What?

-There's a...thing.

Dinosaur there? Hang on, who broke the egg?

No-one! It broke open itself!

-What's your name?

-Darcy.

-Tell me what's going on.

Well, Lachlan, you've just been pranked by the Prank Patrol.

You've just been pranked by the Prank Patrol!

THEY LAUGH

-No.

-How are you, buddy? High-five!

-This whole thing has been a massive prank. How was it, dude?

-Good.

You were like, "Agh!"

-Was it the best thing ever?

-Yes.

-How do you reckon it went?

It was good!

-What was the weirdest bit for you?

-That jumped out of nowhere!

-Did you think the egg really was alive?

-Yes.

I kept asking her and she said, "Yes, it's real."

Well done. Round of applause, everyone, for Lachie.

CHEERING

When it popped out, I thought it was going to jump out and chase us.

-We're still going to be mates after this.

-Best mates!

Yes, but I'll get you back some time!

-Excuse me, sir.

-What are you doing here?

-Where do you think you're going?

-To operate the digger!

My meter detects extremely large levels of product from your hair.

-And?

-That product and heavy machinery, that's a death wish.

What are you saying?

-Happy?

-Very.

-Empty it!

-Where do you want it?

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