Il était une fois... la vie (1987–1988): Season 1, Episode 6 - Les petites plaquettes - full transcript
[lively music playing]
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
♪ Sing a song of life ♪
♪ Every heartbeat's a miracle ♪
♪ Feel the rhythm growing ♪
♪ Day by day as we go ♪
♪ Look inside, your body is humming ♪
♪ With a million drums that are drumming ♪
♪ Fill your lungs, get ready ♪
♪ Celebrating the joy
That's life ♪
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
THE TINY PLATELETS
[light music playing]
[narrator] This is the bone marrow,
where nearly half a billion
blood platelets are produced every day.
What role do these tiny platelets play
in the human body?
[laughing]
[laughing and shouting]
[grunts]
[gleeful exclaim]
-[Glum grunts]
[Spike exclaims gleefully] Oops.
-[Glum mumbling]
-[Freckles] Wow!
-Look!
-[mumbling]
Wow!
-[Freckles] Hello!
-[Hemo] Hello.
[Globine] Hi.
[silly noises]
[sweetie singing]
[sugar singing]
[narrator] The poor bewildered platelets
join the bloodstream
without the faintest idea
of what to do or where to go.
[Spike] Where are they all going?
[Eyelashes] I wonder why
they're all so busy?
Shouldn't we be like them?
[Freckles] Surely
there's some kind of work for us, huh?
[Grandpa] Ahoy, there, young platelets!
Welcome to the big wide bloodstream,
me lads.
-Aha!
-Platelets?
Oh yes, you're young platelets, all right.
You may be bigger than us, but platelets
shrink with age, you see!
Sir, perhaps you could tell us,
do we have a purpose in life?
Of course!
As platelets,
your job is just as important
as any other part of the blood.
Be it a red corpuscle, a macrophage,
or even a member of the police force.
-What's our job?
-Oh, I'm glad you asked that question.
Now, listen to me carefully.
We are responsible
for the proper circulation
of this entire bloodstream.
[Blimp] Ha! All we ever do is hang about
and wait for something to happen
[Walrus] Oh, Come on! Is that quite fair?
[Furry head] Nothing interesting
ever happens.
[Baldy] We live for only ten days,
and the first seven have been deadly dull!
[Egg] I wonder why the young policewoman
told us we were useful.
[Curly] We just have to be patient,
I suppose.
Speak of the devil. Here she is!
[Claire] Hello there, old platelets. I see
you've met up with some young friends.
Welcome to the bloodstream, you newcomers.
And I hope you'll enjoy it here.
You can rely on all the older fellows
to show you the ropes.
-[grumbling]
-Let’s go. Bye for now
-[Bye!
-[indistinct chattering]
[salt singing]
[gasps] What’s that?
That's dangerous. [gasps] Oh!
Mm.
Hm-mm.
Look! Come on!
[indistinct chattering and laughing]
Oh! Mind out!
-[Freckles] Look at that!
-[Grandpa] Yes, we patch the walls.
[laughter]
But what on earth
makes a wall go like that?
[Professor] It’s very simple, actually.
The damage is caused by
harmful fats, acid,
or even adrenalin,
when the body has had a bit of a fright.
[bright music playing]
How long do they stay there?
Forever, naturally!
[corkscrew cackling]
[Spike] Who's the little green
Jack-in-the-box? He's cute.
[cackling]
[Grandpa] He's not cute.
He's a very nasty customer: a virus.
Our antibodies will get him,
don’t you worry.
[grunting and groaning]
[screams]
[squeaks and grunts]
[murmuring]
[cop] Just look at that! Hey!
-[cop 2] Papers, please!
-[cop 1] Can you identify yourself?
[Foxy, wicked laugh] Here.
[wicked laughter]
-Hm. Seems to be in order.
-[Foxy] Thank you, officer.
That's very odd! Their papers seem to be
in perfect order, and yet...
There's something funny about that lot,
right enough. Let's keep an eye on them.
[mumbling]
[Foxy] Victim's in sight.
-Up! and at ‘em!
-[shouting]
[wicked laughing]
[munching noises]
[screaming]
[pained yelling]
Wow! We're very well protected, aren't we?
Oh! These antibodies are cute!
Cute? Let's sit down and I’ll tell you
a story about them.
-[murmuring]
-[sighs]
One day, in an earlier life,
l was with a group of platelets
just like you fellows.
We had no idea that disaster
lay in wait for us.
-[screams]
-[pained shouting]
[Grandpa] Believe it or not,
the very antibodies that were supposed to
protect us, attacked us instead.
What do you make of that, huh?
But what made them do it?
I thought their job was to attack
outsiders, not us.
Of course,
but that's when the organism is healthy.
In this case, the body was unwell,
so the antibodies attacked everyone:
friend and foe.
So, what happened in the end?
Oh! Those rogue antibodies came to
a very bad end, let me tell you.
You see, a very clever doctor worked out
what was going on in the bloodstream.
[Maestro] Hm?
Mm! So that's it! They're killing off
their own platelets!
Hm. I'll use an old trick on them:
the Trojan Horse.
He injected the bloodstream
with Trojan Horse platelets.
They were full of medicine that killed
any antibody that touched them.
-And then?
-And then the body was cured, of course.
We were all able to come out of hiding
and get on with our normal lives.
-Uh-oh.
-[Peter Jr.] Hello, all you platelets!
Having a rest, are you?
Oh, Captain! We've just heard the most
unbelievably horrifying story!
Don't you worry your head about that,
young fellow!
It doesn't happen that often.
All right, platelets, time to get moving,
if you don't mind!
-[singing]
-[panicked yelling]
-[platelet] Oh!
-[Metro] Hi there.
Oh, hello. [nervous chuckle]
[laughter]
Hm.
Mm.
[feel-good rhythmic music playing]
Hole.
[mumbling and moaning]
-Platelets!
-Coming!
Hurry up!
[platelet z] Come on, young platelets,
pile on!
[giggling]
Climb up all, you platelets,
and join in the fun!
[climber] I'm the king of the castle!
[laughing and chattering]
[muttering]
-Huh? Hang on a bit!
-[shrieking] Oh!
[Globine] Let go of me.
[Hemo] What's the meaning of this? Let go!
[Globine] What's going on?
[groans]
-[grunts]
-[Globine] Oh!
-[grunting]
-Let go!
You've got no right to lasso people
like this!
[narrator] Those enzyme cowboys
with their ropes of fibrin,
couldn't care less
about the corpuscles complaints.
Stop this behavior at once.
It's irresponsible!
[bright music playing]
[platelet x] Oh, don't be
such a rotten old spoilsport!
You'll be the one to spoil the fun
if you block this vein!
But there are plenty of veins!
The tissue surrounding this vein
is bound to die,
if we can't feed it!
[murmuring]
l don't believe you, Professor;
that's just a story you made up
to stop us having fun!
Stop it! The pile's top-heavy, it'll fall!
[indistinct chattering]
[Professor] You just don't realize
what you're doing!
You're going to kill off a most important
part of the body! Oh!
[Globine] Oh, come on, Hemo, pull harder!
-[grunts]
-You can do it! You must.
-Oh, wake up!
-[snoring]
Oh!
[alarm blaring]
Huh? What’s the matter?
If it's not one thing, it's another.
Now, what can the latest problem be?
[magical music playing]
[bright music playing]
[Maestro] Oh, no! That's all we need.
As if we didn't have
enough troubles already.
I'm calling in the prostaglandin squad,
immediately.
Captain PG, I have
an extremely urgent mission for you.
Clear that blockage!
[narrator] Captain PG leads his
specialized combat troops into action.
Only prostaglandin can remove
the blockage.
[grunting and groaning]
[captain PG] Draw your weapons,
men, and fire at will.
-[laughter]
-[Globine] Pull, Hemo! Pull!
[gasping and laughing]
-[sighs]
-Ah!
-[smack]
-[shy giggling]
Oh, Hemo, you’re my hero. You’re so brave!
[shy giggle]
[light music playing]
[Jumbo Jr.] Wow!
Oh, tough luck!
[Peter Jr.] It's your turn now.
Let's see if you can do better.
-I'd rather pack it in.
-Hey?
Anyway, I haven't got any arrows left.
So? Let's go and make some!
[Pierrette] Peter! You know
I don’t allow you to play with knives.
Oh, but Mom,
we only want to make some arrows!
I'll put it back in a minute.
I'll be very careful, I promise.
Hm-mm.
[Pierrette] You've had your minute, Peter!
Now, will you please give me that knife?
[sighs] Just a second, Mom,
I'm nearly finished.
[chuckles]
-[pained yell]
-[sister] ♪ Peter's gone and cut himself ♪
♪ Peter's gone and cut himself
Na-na-na-na-na ♪
[narrator] On the dirty knife blade,
were millions of germs,
just waiting for an opportunity like this,
when, quite by accident,
the body's defenses are slashed wide open.
[mischievous music playing]
[Stroppy] We're going to start
a wonderful infection.
Just you wait!
-[rumbling]
-[panicked shouting]
[panicked shouting]
[germs cackling]
Now that we're here in force,
they'll never know what hit them!
Prepare to advance!
Quick! March!
[Metro] Up and at 'em, antibodies!
-Forward!
-[grunting and groaning]
[grunting and groaning]
This is Lieutenant Jumbo Junior
of the Polynuclear Police.
Alert! Alert!
We've got a major emergency in our hands.
Large scale destruction of tissue
and loss of blood,
with a massive staphylococcus invasion.
We need combat troops and engineers
to repair the damage. Urgently!
[indistinct talking]
Well, you young platelets,
you've come down to my size.
I see you've grown up now.
I'm so small, I was always grown up.
Hiya! Hiya!
-[grunting]
-[Hold it! If you'd only let me decide...
[voice] Your attention, please!
This is a general emergency.
All engineers and combat troops must
report to the right thumb immediately.
Veins have been cut,
the body is losing blood,
and we have been invaded by
a powerful force of staphylococcus germs.
All specialized cells are ordered
to step up antibody manufacture,
with immediate effect.
Calling all lymphocyte units.
Calling all lymphocyte units.
Come in. Lymphocyte units, do you read me?
Well, now this is the big job
we've all been waiting for.
[muttering]
[bright music playing]
[shouting]
Oh, Hemo!
[screaming]
[screaming]
[grunting and groaning]
[relieved sigh and panting]
[Professor] What a disaster!
Only the platelets can save the day.
[indistinct chattering]
[agent growls]
[screaming and shouting]
What are they doing? Who are they?
They are Heparin agents
from the Bureau of Anticoagulation,
but they're behaving
like absolute clots this time!
Heavens, this is sheer stupidity!
But what'll become of us all
if the platelets can’t do their work?
Oh, this is mind-boggling incompetence!
Where' s the special force
that's supposed to deal with them?
[grunting and shouting]
[screams]
[shouting, grunting, groaning]
[indistinct chattering]
[lively music playing]
[germ] There are more of us.
This'll be easy.
[groans]
[buzzing]
-What?
-[shouting]
[Stroppy] Keep moving men.
We’ll win in the end.
-[groaning]
-Forward!
[bright music playing]
[grunting]
[enzyme] Why won't you come apart
as you're supposed to?
[grunting]
You're beginning to annoy me.
Don't you want to cooperate?
[grunting]
[gene] No! No. Hm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
[sobbing]
What's this?
I'd better have a word with
the foreman of the assembly line!
Your workers had me fooled for a moment.
They're loafing so hard
that I almost forgot we've got a massive
invasion of staphylococci to fight.
Mister Foreman,
do I make myself perfectly clear?
Yes, sir! Now listen here!
l want to see those antibodies
coming off the line a lot faster.
Get a move on!!
Huh?
Hm. Hm. Hm-mm.
[bright music playing]
That's more like it! [snoring]
-There we are. That's it. [laughs]
-[chuckling]
[narrator] The new genes
are twisted up in spiral form,
and soon they're part of
a swarm of fighting antibodies.
[somber music playing]
[narrator] Platelets are still rushing
to the scene of the disaster,
while Thrombin enzymes
are collecting fibrinogen:
the basic material for the fibrin ropes
used by the cowboys.
-Ah! Here we are.
-[muttering]
Lassos!
[bright music playing]
[groans]
Ah!
[happy laughter]
Come on, lads, it's our moment of glory.
[soft moans]
[groans]
[narrator] Repairs are going well,
but there's still a war on.
[loud explosions]
Left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right...
[grumbling and growling]
[grunting]
Left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right...
[grunting and groaning]
[pained shouting]
[germ] Get off of me!
[Peter Jr] T-ships, into action!
[groaning]
[narrator] The T- lymphocyte
is a heavyweight war-machine,
hated by germs.
[muttering and mumbling]
[shouting]
Lieutenant, give them
some antibody support.
[beeping]
-Metro, all systems go?
-You bet, Lieutenant!
Very well. Attack!
[buzzing]
-Show those germs no mercy, men!
-Take cover! Those things are dangerous!!
[pained yelling]
[muttering and mumbling]
[bright music playing]
Look! Good as new!
On your feet, germs.
-[groaning]
-[mischievous music playing]
[wind howling]
[Stroppy] What?
Let's get out of here!
[shouting]
[screaming]
[grunting]
[bright music playing]
Peter, let me see your thumb.
Look at all that awful yellow stuff
in my cut, Mom. What is it?
It's only pus:
the dead bodies
of all the white corpuscles.
that have been fighting germs
to keep your body healthy.
Come with me.
[laughing and shouting]
[narrator] Your body produces
nearly half a billion platelets every day.
and now you know what their job is.
-Sorry!
-Hey! Take it easy.
[lively music playing]
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
♪ Sing a song of life ♪
♪ Every heartbeat's a miracle ♪
♪ Feel the rhythm growing ♪
♪ Day by day as we go ♪
♪ Look inside, your body is humming ♪
♪ With a million drums that are drumming ♪
♪ Fill your lungs, get ready ♪
♪ Celebrating the joy
That's life ♪
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
♪ Is life, is life, that's life ♪
THE TINY PLATELETS
[light music playing]
[narrator] This is the bone marrow,
where nearly half a billion
blood platelets are produced every day.
What role do these tiny platelets play
in the human body?
[laughing]
[laughing and shouting]
[grunts]
[gleeful exclaim]
-[Glum grunts]
[Spike exclaims gleefully] Oops.
-[Glum mumbling]
-[Freckles] Wow!
-Look!
-[mumbling]
Wow!
-[Freckles] Hello!
-[Hemo] Hello.
[Globine] Hi.
[silly noises]
[sweetie singing]
[sugar singing]
[narrator] The poor bewildered platelets
join the bloodstream
without the faintest idea
of what to do or where to go.
[Spike] Where are they all going?
[Eyelashes] I wonder why
they're all so busy?
Shouldn't we be like them?
[Freckles] Surely
there's some kind of work for us, huh?
[Grandpa] Ahoy, there, young platelets!
Welcome to the big wide bloodstream,
me lads.
-Aha!
-Platelets?
Oh yes, you're young platelets, all right.
You may be bigger than us, but platelets
shrink with age, you see!
Sir, perhaps you could tell us,
do we have a purpose in life?
Of course!
As platelets,
your job is just as important
as any other part of the blood.
Be it a red corpuscle, a macrophage,
or even a member of the police force.
-What's our job?
-Oh, I'm glad you asked that question.
Now, listen to me carefully.
We are responsible
for the proper circulation
of this entire bloodstream.
[Blimp] Ha! All we ever do is hang about
and wait for something to happen
[Walrus] Oh, Come on! Is that quite fair?
[Furry head] Nothing interesting
ever happens.
[Baldy] We live for only ten days,
and the first seven have been deadly dull!
[Egg] I wonder why the young policewoman
told us we were useful.
[Curly] We just have to be patient,
I suppose.
Speak of the devil. Here she is!
[Claire] Hello there, old platelets. I see
you've met up with some young friends.
Welcome to the bloodstream, you newcomers.
And I hope you'll enjoy it here.
You can rely on all the older fellows
to show you the ropes.
-[grumbling]
-Let’s go. Bye for now
-[Bye!
-[indistinct chattering]
[salt singing]
[gasps] What’s that?
That's dangerous. [gasps] Oh!
Mm.
Hm-mm.
Look! Come on!
[indistinct chattering and laughing]
Oh! Mind out!
-[Freckles] Look at that!
-[Grandpa] Yes, we patch the walls.
[laughter]
But what on earth
makes a wall go like that?
[Professor] It’s very simple, actually.
The damage is caused by
harmful fats, acid,
or even adrenalin,
when the body has had a bit of a fright.
[bright music playing]
How long do they stay there?
Forever, naturally!
[corkscrew cackling]
[Spike] Who's the little green
Jack-in-the-box? He's cute.
[cackling]
[Grandpa] He's not cute.
He's a very nasty customer: a virus.
Our antibodies will get him,
don’t you worry.
[grunting and groaning]
[screams]
[squeaks and grunts]
[murmuring]
[cop] Just look at that! Hey!
-[cop 2] Papers, please!
-[cop 1] Can you identify yourself?
[Foxy, wicked laugh] Here.
[wicked laughter]
-Hm. Seems to be in order.
-[Foxy] Thank you, officer.
That's very odd! Their papers seem to be
in perfect order, and yet...
There's something funny about that lot,
right enough. Let's keep an eye on them.
[mumbling]
[Foxy] Victim's in sight.
-Up! and at ‘em!
-[shouting]
[wicked laughing]
[munching noises]
[screaming]
[pained yelling]
Wow! We're very well protected, aren't we?
Oh! These antibodies are cute!
Cute? Let's sit down and I’ll tell you
a story about them.
-[murmuring]
-[sighs]
One day, in an earlier life,
l was with a group of platelets
just like you fellows.
We had no idea that disaster
lay in wait for us.
-[screams]
-[pained shouting]
[Grandpa] Believe it or not,
the very antibodies that were supposed to
protect us, attacked us instead.
What do you make of that, huh?
But what made them do it?
I thought their job was to attack
outsiders, not us.
Of course,
but that's when the organism is healthy.
In this case, the body was unwell,
so the antibodies attacked everyone:
friend and foe.
So, what happened in the end?
Oh! Those rogue antibodies came to
a very bad end, let me tell you.
You see, a very clever doctor worked out
what was going on in the bloodstream.
[Maestro] Hm?
Mm! So that's it! They're killing off
their own platelets!
Hm. I'll use an old trick on them:
the Trojan Horse.
He injected the bloodstream
with Trojan Horse platelets.
They were full of medicine that killed
any antibody that touched them.
-And then?
-And then the body was cured, of course.
We were all able to come out of hiding
and get on with our normal lives.
-Uh-oh.
-[Peter Jr.] Hello, all you platelets!
Having a rest, are you?
Oh, Captain! We've just heard the most
unbelievably horrifying story!
Don't you worry your head about that,
young fellow!
It doesn't happen that often.
All right, platelets, time to get moving,
if you don't mind!
-[singing]
-[panicked yelling]
-[platelet] Oh!
-[Metro] Hi there.
Oh, hello. [nervous chuckle]
[laughter]
Hm.
Mm.
[feel-good rhythmic music playing]
Hole.
[mumbling and moaning]
-Platelets!
-Coming!
Hurry up!
[platelet z] Come on, young platelets,
pile on!
[giggling]
Climb up all, you platelets,
and join in the fun!
[climber] I'm the king of the castle!
[laughing and chattering]
[muttering]
-Huh? Hang on a bit!
-[shrieking] Oh!
[Globine] Let go of me.
[Hemo] What's the meaning of this? Let go!
[Globine] What's going on?
[groans]
-[grunts]
-[Globine] Oh!
-[grunting]
-Let go!
You've got no right to lasso people
like this!
[narrator] Those enzyme cowboys
with their ropes of fibrin,
couldn't care less
about the corpuscles complaints.
Stop this behavior at once.
It's irresponsible!
[bright music playing]
[platelet x] Oh, don't be
such a rotten old spoilsport!
You'll be the one to spoil the fun
if you block this vein!
But there are plenty of veins!
The tissue surrounding this vein
is bound to die,
if we can't feed it!
[murmuring]
l don't believe you, Professor;
that's just a story you made up
to stop us having fun!
Stop it! The pile's top-heavy, it'll fall!
[indistinct chattering]
[Professor] You just don't realize
what you're doing!
You're going to kill off a most important
part of the body! Oh!
[Globine] Oh, come on, Hemo, pull harder!
-[grunts]
-You can do it! You must.
-Oh, wake up!
-[snoring]
Oh!
[alarm blaring]
Huh? What’s the matter?
If it's not one thing, it's another.
Now, what can the latest problem be?
[magical music playing]
[bright music playing]
[Maestro] Oh, no! That's all we need.
As if we didn't have
enough troubles already.
I'm calling in the prostaglandin squad,
immediately.
Captain PG, I have
an extremely urgent mission for you.
Clear that blockage!
[narrator] Captain PG leads his
specialized combat troops into action.
Only prostaglandin can remove
the blockage.
[grunting and groaning]
[captain PG] Draw your weapons,
men, and fire at will.
-[laughter]
-[Globine] Pull, Hemo! Pull!
[gasping and laughing]
-[sighs]
-Ah!
-[smack]
-[shy giggling]
Oh, Hemo, you’re my hero. You’re so brave!
[shy giggle]
[light music playing]
[Jumbo Jr.] Wow!
Oh, tough luck!
[Peter Jr.] It's your turn now.
Let's see if you can do better.
-I'd rather pack it in.
-Hey?
Anyway, I haven't got any arrows left.
So? Let's go and make some!
[Pierrette] Peter! You know
I don’t allow you to play with knives.
Oh, but Mom,
we only want to make some arrows!
I'll put it back in a minute.
I'll be very careful, I promise.
Hm-mm.
[Pierrette] You've had your minute, Peter!
Now, will you please give me that knife?
[sighs] Just a second, Mom,
I'm nearly finished.
[chuckles]
-[pained yell]
-[sister] ♪ Peter's gone and cut himself ♪
♪ Peter's gone and cut himself
Na-na-na-na-na ♪
[narrator] On the dirty knife blade,
were millions of germs,
just waiting for an opportunity like this,
when, quite by accident,
the body's defenses are slashed wide open.
[mischievous music playing]
[Stroppy] We're going to start
a wonderful infection.
Just you wait!
-[rumbling]
-[panicked shouting]
[panicked shouting]
[germs cackling]
Now that we're here in force,
they'll never know what hit them!
Prepare to advance!
Quick! March!
[Metro] Up and at 'em, antibodies!
-Forward!
-[grunting and groaning]
[grunting and groaning]
This is Lieutenant Jumbo Junior
of the Polynuclear Police.
Alert! Alert!
We've got a major emergency in our hands.
Large scale destruction of tissue
and loss of blood,
with a massive staphylococcus invasion.
We need combat troops and engineers
to repair the damage. Urgently!
[indistinct talking]
Well, you young platelets,
you've come down to my size.
I see you've grown up now.
I'm so small, I was always grown up.
Hiya! Hiya!
-[grunting]
-[Hold it! If you'd only let me decide...
[voice] Your attention, please!
This is a general emergency.
All engineers and combat troops must
report to the right thumb immediately.
Veins have been cut,
the body is losing blood,
and we have been invaded by
a powerful force of staphylococcus germs.
All specialized cells are ordered
to step up antibody manufacture,
with immediate effect.
Calling all lymphocyte units.
Calling all lymphocyte units.
Come in. Lymphocyte units, do you read me?
Well, now this is the big job
we've all been waiting for.
[muttering]
[bright music playing]
[shouting]
Oh, Hemo!
[screaming]
[screaming]
[grunting and groaning]
[relieved sigh and panting]
[Professor] What a disaster!
Only the platelets can save the day.
[indistinct chattering]
[agent growls]
[screaming and shouting]
What are they doing? Who are they?
They are Heparin agents
from the Bureau of Anticoagulation,
but they're behaving
like absolute clots this time!
Heavens, this is sheer stupidity!
But what'll become of us all
if the platelets can’t do their work?
Oh, this is mind-boggling incompetence!
Where' s the special force
that's supposed to deal with them?
[grunting and shouting]
[screams]
[shouting, grunting, groaning]
[indistinct chattering]
[lively music playing]
[germ] There are more of us.
This'll be easy.
[groans]
[buzzing]
-What?
-[shouting]
[Stroppy] Keep moving men.
We’ll win in the end.
-[groaning]
-Forward!
[bright music playing]
[grunting]
[enzyme] Why won't you come apart
as you're supposed to?
[grunting]
You're beginning to annoy me.
Don't you want to cooperate?
[grunting]
[gene] No! No. Hm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
[sobbing]
What's this?
I'd better have a word with
the foreman of the assembly line!
Your workers had me fooled for a moment.
They're loafing so hard
that I almost forgot we've got a massive
invasion of staphylococci to fight.
Mister Foreman,
do I make myself perfectly clear?
Yes, sir! Now listen here!
l want to see those antibodies
coming off the line a lot faster.
Get a move on!!
Huh?
Hm. Hm. Hm-mm.
[bright music playing]
That's more like it! [snoring]
-There we are. That's it. [laughs]
-[chuckling]
[narrator] The new genes
are twisted up in spiral form,
and soon they're part of
a swarm of fighting antibodies.
[somber music playing]
[narrator] Platelets are still rushing
to the scene of the disaster,
while Thrombin enzymes
are collecting fibrinogen:
the basic material for the fibrin ropes
used by the cowboys.
-Ah! Here we are.
-[muttering]
Lassos!
[bright music playing]
[groans]
Ah!
[happy laughter]
Come on, lads, it's our moment of glory.
[soft moans]
[groans]
[narrator] Repairs are going well,
but there's still a war on.
[loud explosions]
Left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right...
[grumbling and growling]
[grunting]
Left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left, right...
[grunting and groaning]
[pained shouting]
[germ] Get off of me!
[Peter Jr] T-ships, into action!
[groaning]
[narrator] The T- lymphocyte
is a heavyweight war-machine,
hated by germs.
[muttering and mumbling]
[shouting]
Lieutenant, give them
some antibody support.
[beeping]
-Metro, all systems go?
-You bet, Lieutenant!
Very well. Attack!
[buzzing]
-Show those germs no mercy, men!
-Take cover! Those things are dangerous!!
[pained yelling]
[muttering and mumbling]
[bright music playing]
Look! Good as new!
On your feet, germs.
-[groaning]
-[mischievous music playing]
[wind howling]
[Stroppy] What?
Let's get out of here!
[shouting]
[screaming]
[grunting]
[bright music playing]
Peter, let me see your thumb.
Look at all that awful yellow stuff
in my cut, Mom. What is it?
It's only pus:
the dead bodies
of all the white corpuscles.
that have been fighting germs
to keep your body healthy.
Come with me.
[laughing and shouting]
[narrator] Your body produces
nearly half a billion platelets every day.
and now you know what their job is.
-Sorry!
-Hey! Take it easy.
[lively music playing]