ANT LEADER: Excuse us.
Sorry, didn't see you.
Move along, folks!
CUSACK: One day, for no particular reason,
Peep decided to count stuff.
PEEP: One ant, two, three, four,
five, six ants.
And three berries.
ANT LEADER: All right, everyone, head on out.
Hup, two, three, four, hup, two, three, four...
(grunts)
CHIRP: Hi, Peep.
Want to play "Kick the Berry at the Tree"?
Excuse me.
I thought we agreed
that the game is called "duckball."
After its inventor.
Oh-- right.
Duckball.
Anyway, I just went, so now it's Quack's turn.
(straining and stretching)
(quacks)
How do you play, exactly?
(whispering): You have to kick the berry
and hit the tree.
Did that tree move?
I think it moved.
My turn.
Yay! I did it!
Step aside, please, everyone, please.
The duckball champ is on the field.
Wait-- it's Peep's turn.
Hmm.
(Quack whooping and laughing)
CUSACK: Peep liked kicking berries-- I mean, duckball--
as much as anyone,
but what he really wanted to do was count stuff.
You know what?
I'm going to count our turns.
Um, uh, don't forget the hat-- jaunty, yet sophisticated.
QUACK: That's right.
Okay, now we'll put a mark under me, because I just had a turn.
And now it's my turn.
Stand back, everyone.
Powerful duck feet in action!
Whoo-hoo! Did you see that?
Huh? Did you?
Another one for the duck-- oh, yes.
Another one for the duck.
Who's a duck? (quacks)
Two turns for Quack.
(Quack huffing and puffing)
CUSACK: And so it went until everyone--
well, Quack, mostly-- was hot and sticky.
I don't understand.
I have six marks and Chirp has six,
but Quack has... lots.
Hey, that means I win.
This isn't about winning.
Peep, are you sure you made a mark for each turn?
Sure, I'm sure.
I mean, I think I'm sure.
CUSACK: When you're feeling hot, sticky and confused,
there's only one thing to do--
roll down a hill!
QUACK: Loopy-loo! Whoo!
(laughing)
Whoa!
(grunting)
(quacks)
Whoa!
Whoa-whoa.
Dizzy. Dizzy duck.
Somebody steady the duck.
CHIRP: Ya-hoo!
(laughing)
Whee!
Ha! I went farther than you, Quack.
That's another turn for Chirp.
Oh, no, I counted wrong again.
Quack has more lines.
You know what the problem is?
Somebody is taking too many turns.
Really? Who?
You.
Yes, well, if you don't mind me saying,
nobody likes a bossy bird.
(yawning)
Yeah.
Anyways, I'm going back to my pond.
See ya. (quacks)
(Quack chewing)
QUACK: Yummy.
Hey, Quack, did you find something?
QUACK: Oh, no, just a box.
No need to wait.
I can get out by myself.
(grunting and straining)
Who made this...
so... tight?!
So tight!
(all grunting)
Well, I'll be!
Where did that come from?
Are there more crackers in the box?
No, I looked everywhere.
Here's one!
That makes one for me and one for you, Peep.
Quack's already had his share.
Ever hear of "Finders, keepers"?
Ever hear of "Share and share alike"?
All right, fine.
We'll share.
One for me...
and one for you and Peep.
Wait a second.
Stop right there.
(gulps)
(spitting)
Now what?
This time we're going to do things fairly.
So, one for Peep, one for me and...
Okay, if Quack gets this one
and Peep gets that one...
If there are two crackers and three of us, then...
CUSACK: Before Chirp could find a solution,
Quack took matters into his own mouth.
CHIRP: No!
There. Now there's one for each of us.
You're welcome.
No fair.
Why do we get the little pieces and you get the big one?
Well, because I'm bigger, okay?
There-- now all our pieces are the exact same size.
One for you, one for Peep, one for me, and...
one left over.
Now what?
(all chewing)
CUSACK: After a lot of thought and because it was getting late,
the birds decided to eat their share of the crackers.
But there was still one piece left.
I know-- let's each take a bite.
A little bite.
PEEP: Is there always going to be one piece left over?
CUSACK: Before anyone could answer that,
a wave rolled in and took the last piece away.
Now the fish will have to figure it out.
QUACK: I know.
Let's have a race home.
Since I'm the only duck, I should get a head start.
Ready, set, go-- here we go!
Come on. (quacking)
That's not fair!
Come back here!
CUSACK: Of course it's not fair.
But that's why counting was invented--
to keep ducks from hogging everything.
PEEP: One head start for Quack.