[doors opening]
[narrator] Ah. Another fine day on the island.
[birds chirping]
On mornings like this, Circle, Square and Triangle meet near the beach
to enjoy doughnuts and hot chocolate.
[grunting, struggling]
I am tired of doughnuts!
[bird twitters]
Triangle, how could you get tired of doughnuts?
It's all this dunking. Dunk, dunk, dunk.
It's tedious. It's boring.
Who wants to spend their whole life dunking?
So don't dunk.
But dunking makes the doughnut taste good.
So dunk.
Are you even listening? I want my doughnut dunked.
I just don't wanna do it myself.
[gasps] I have an idea.
I'll build something to do the dunking for me.
A simple doughnut-dunking machine. That's it! It's brilliant.
I'll never have to dunk another doughnut again.
I'll spend every morning relaxing in style thanks to my little doughnut dunker.
Gotta go.
Well, okay.
But don't get carried away.
What do you mean "carried away"?
[narrator] Circle was too nice to say so,
but with Triangle, little ideas tended to get way too big.
Little feelings grew out of control.
Things would snowball, mushroom, balloon.
Simply put, sometimes Triangle got carried away.
I do not get carried away.
[grunts]
[narrator] "Triangle Gets Carried Away."
-[banging] -[Triangle grunting]
-[Circle] Triangle! -[gasps]
[Triangle] Hold on, hold on, hold on!
Hold on! Hold on! [stutters] Hold on!
[panting, grunting]
We came to check on your little doughnut dunker.
Oh! Right. Uh, yes. It's, uh-- It's not finished yet.
What's that?
-What is what? -That.
Ah! That! Nothing.
Mm-hmm.
It's, uh, uh, something else. A thing.
It's a-- It's a neat thing
that is definitely not a giant doughnut dunker.
-Thanks for coming. See you later. -But, um-- Well, okay.
Whew. [chuckles]
[sighs]
Sorry to interrupt. I forgot my favorite-- [gasps]
It's a-- It's a--
[narrator] It was a giant doughnut dunker.
We should probably tell Circle about this.
Why? She'll just say I got… [mocking] …carried away.
And I do not get carried away!
Okay, okay, but just in case anything goes wrong, Circle could fix it.
Circle thinks she knows how to do everything.
Yeah. She's amazing.
This thing is perfectly safe.
[rumbles]
As long as I've got this controller helmet, it copies my every move.
[electricity hums]
[buzzer sounds]
Nothing can go wrong.
Watch.
[wood creaking]
Well, at least the light bulb works.
[humming fades]
[both shriek]
[grunting, panting]
Anyway, like I said, perfectly safe.
Just need to work out a few kinks.
I'm probably gonna have to make it a little bigger.
[electricity humming]
[buzzer sounds]
[sighs]
Yes!
Okay, just follow my lead.
Like so.
Oh… [chuckles] …you missed there, big guy. Like so.
Like so.
Like so! Like so! So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so!
[mechanical creaking]
[exclaims]
Hey, that was my mug!
Go get it.
Stop copying me.
That's not funny!
[shouts]
[grunting]
[pants]
[beeping]
[whimpers]
[panting]
[struggles]
[electricity crackles]
[shatters]
Whew. [chuckles]
[buzzer sounds]
[Triangle] It-- It's out of my control!
[grunting]
[shouts]
[narrator] Oh, no.
[gasps]
Uh…
[shouts]
[footsteps departing]
[whimpers]
[narrator] Well, this isn't good.
[relaxing violin music playing]
[ground rumbles]
[record scratches]
[footsteps approaching]
[panting]
-[screams] -[Square] What's wrong?
[Triangle] Nothing's wrong. [chuckles]
-[stomping] -Can't you turn it off?
We should probably tell Circle about this.
No! She'll just say I got carried away.
But Circle can fix this.
No! We can fix this. You and me, Square.
Just the two of us working together as a pair. A duo.
Sure, it won't be easy.
We'll need courage and smarts and a whole lot of teamwork.
A team of two!
Two minds, two hearts, two friends.
The kind of friends who always work together to solve problems
and who would never say that I get carried away,
-because I do not get carried away! -[footsteps approaching]
[yelps]
Yeah, I should definitely tell Circle about this.
[Circle humming]
[Square panting]
Triangle got carried away!
[sighs] I tried to warn him.
I told him, "Triangle, you get a little idea, but then it gets bigger.
And soon, everything goes wrong."
No, no. I mean, yes, but no.
Triangle built a giant doughnut dunker,
and then it went nuts, and it picked him up and carried him away.
-[doughnut dunker stomping] -[Triangle] Help, please!
[sighs]
[Square panting]
What are you gonna do?
[stomping]
[Circle] I'm gonna turn that switch off.
Find somewhere safe.
Circle.
Hello, Triangle.
You were right. I did get carried away.
It's kind of funny because it is what you said was gonna happen
-but in kind of a different way. -I get it. Hold on.
[humming]
[Square] I love it when she does stuff like this.
-[Circle grunting] -[Triangle] The switch is in the back.
Would you mind turning it off for me, please?
That's what I'm trying to do. [grunts]
Yes! Yes, yes, yes!
[Triangle] Whoa!
[struggling]
Easy, now. Watch out for Triangle.
[Triangle screams]
Come on, Circle. You can do it!
Yeah! Yeah! [chuckles]
Yeah! Yeah.
Oh, just be careful with my-- Oh, boy.
Oh.
[wood creaking]
[Triangle coughs]
[gasps, laughs]
You're dunking!
You're dunk-- [gurgles, gasps]
Give me that switch!
[Circle grunts]
Look out! I'm right behind you!
[powering down]
[Triangle shrieks]
[breathing heavily, chuckling]
Oh, nice. My mug!
It didn't break.
So, anyone feel like doughnuts?
[narrator] And so,
Triangle's giant doughnut dunker became a nice little island.
An excellent spot for three good friends to gather in the mornings
and enjoy a doughnut,
which is always more delicious when dunked in hot chocolate.
[Triangle] Dunk, dunk, dunk.
[sighs]
[birds chirping]
[alarm ringing]
[narrator] Every morning, when Square wakes up,
he knows just what to do.
He makes his bed.
He brushes his teeth.
He leaves his house at the same exact time…
and takes the same exact path…
to the same exact place.
[mechanisms whirring]
[narrator] Square goes down, down, down to the very bottom of a cave.
[water dripping]
[metal screeching]
[narrator] And once he is there, he does the same exact thing.
He chooses a block from the pile below the ground.
[straining]
[narrator] He pushes the block up and out of the cave.
He brings the block to the pile at the top of the hill.
[straining]
[grunts]
[narrator] This is his work.
And then the next morning, he does it again.
[alarm rings]
[panting]
[alarm rings]
[panting]
[narrator] Square does the same exact thing
day after day.
And that's exactly how he likes it.
"Square's Different Day."
One morning, while Square was on his way up the hill,
Circle was on her way down.
[Circle humming]
[gasps] Square, you are a genius.
I didn't know you were a sculptor.
[chuckling] Yes, yes, yes.
Um… [clears throat] …what is a sculptor?
A sculptor shapes blocks into art.
Oh, yes. I see what you mean. [chuckles]
[narrator] But he did not really see what she meant.
This is a wonderful sculpture.
It looks just like you.
Yes. I suppose it is wonderful.
No! It's better than wonderful. It's perfect.
[giggles]
Now you must make a sculpture of me.
What? But-- But I--
A perfect circle.
-Um-- -I'll come back for it tomorrow afternoon.
Bye, genius.
I was just pushing it up the hill.
Circle, I think I should tell you something!
[narrator] But she was already gone.
Oh, crumbs!
[yelping]
[straining]
[sighs]
Okay, I have to make this block look like Circle.
Oh, and Circle is perfect.
So, I must make this perfect.
Okay. I can do this.
[grunts]
[whimpers]
[groaning]
[whimpering]
[breathing heavily]
Okay. Okay.
And then if I… [mumbles]
[narrator] Careful.
[gasps]
I can fix this. I just have to smooth this out a little.
[stone cracks]
[shrieks]
[sighs] Okay, just shake it off. [shudders]
I'm a sculptor now. [laughs]
I can do this. For Circle.
[stone crumbles]
Oh, mud! [grunts]
[gasps] No, no, no, no, no, no!
-[thunder rumbles] -[Square straining]
[panting]
This is not perfect.
This is not perfect. [sighs]
[narrator] Square worked
and worked
and worked.
-[thunderclap] -No!
[narrator] Square had carved the whole block away.
There was nothing left.
He was surrounded by rubble.
[sighs]
Whatever's the opposite of perfect, that is what this is. [sighs]
[thunder rumbles]
I will stay up all night and figure this out.
[narrator] Square fell asleep.
[birds chirping]
[narrator] That morning, when Square woke up…
he didn't know what to do.
[sighs] Oh, who am I kidding?
I push blocks. I don't shape them.
I'm not a genius.
What will Circle think when she comes back and sees this mess?
She'll know I'm not a genius.
How will I face her? What can I tell her? What do I do?
I know.
I will go and hide in my cave.
I will stay there all day! All week! Forever!
I will live underground with the blocks, with the worms!
Every day will be exactly the same!
-There is still time to get away. [pants] -[Circle] Hello, genius. I'm early.
[Square yelps, whimpers]
Are you finished?
Oh, yes. I am finished. [whimpers]
Oh, my. It's…
[whimpers]
[narrator] It was beautiful.
It was beguiling.
It's me.
It's perfect.
It is?
Yes.
You are a genius.
Thank you.
[bird chirps]