Can you believe that Fixies are Such itty-bitty creatures?
Even when they’re magnified It’s hard to see their features.
They’re tiny, infinitesimal, So small it makes you doubt.
But if you meet a Fixie, please, Don’t let their secret out!
The Lie Detector
Simka!
Quiet!
I’m on a stake out here.
Who are you staking out?
Tom Thomas.
We've got a bet that he won’t be able to survive three days without any TV.
Really?
Can I be on the stake out with you?
Simka!
Uh-huh!
I got you!
What?
Who?
You lost the bet, Tom Thomas! Just tell me you didn't!
I didn't!
Why didn't you?
It's because I...
I’m not Tom Thomas!
What?!
I’m Tom's brother!
That's totally not true!
We know Tom Thomas doesn't have a brother!
I meant his first cousin.
Then how come you two look so much alike?
It’s because our mothers... are twins!
So what should we call you?
Who, me?
John Johnson.
And who are you, by the way?
As if you don't know who we are!
This room is beautiful.
Sure is bigger than mine.
I don’t believe you!
- You’re telling a lie! - And what is your proof?
Maybe he’s not lying?
There's a way to check it!
How?
Yeah, how?
With a lie detector! You'll see!
A lie detector is a device that is used to help figure out
if someone is telling the truth or if they are lying.
You see, when someone is lying they always get a little bit nervous.
Even though we might not see it,
we know that a liar’s heart beats a little faster,
his breathing changes, and he sweats.
A lie detector can pick up on all of these little things.
And that's how a lie detector can be used to help find the truth!
But you don’t have a lie detector!
But we know how a lie detector works, don't we?!
Or are you scared, Tom Thomas?
What's that for?
To listen to your pulse.
How come?
So I'll be able to check how fast your heart is beating.
And Nolik?
He’s going to keep an eye on how often you blink.
And what are you doing with the egg?
The egg is an old African method.
If you’re not telling the truth,
your hand will automatically squeeze the egg.
And so, the egg will crack!
Well my egg won’t crack.
We’ll see about that.
Humans have tried to come up with all sorts of ways to find out the truth!
For instance, in Ancient China
they would put some dry rice in a person's mouth
when they told him the crime they believed he committed.
Then they'd check the rice.
If the rice stayed dry,
they believed he had committed the crime.
In Ancient India, a person had to bang on a gong while answering a judge’s questions.
If he started banging the gong louder,
then it was believed that he was trying to hide the truth.
And in Europe if one knight accused another of lying,
then they would just take part in a duel.
Whoever won that one was said to be on the side of truth.
No, it’s not easy to hide the truth,
but sometimes it can be even harder to find it.
Answer yes or no. You got that?
Do you have two ears?
Don’t you have eyes?
Just yes or no?
Yes.
Answer, are you a girl?
Hey, come on!
Yes or no?
No!
Where do you find such dumb questions!
We just have to check what happens to your heart when you tell the truth to us.
Alright, now answer this:
Do you know the Fixies?
Yes or no?
Yes.
No!
I forgot.
His pulse is speeding up.
Are you TomThomas?
No.
Oh! His pulse is racing!
And his eyes have started blinking!
And the Fixies, tell us where you learned about them?
From Tom Thomas!
He couldn’t have told you about us.
It’s a secret!
He could!
- Not true! - It's true!
- It's not true! - Yes it is!
Hey! Look, the egg cracked!
Just give up, John Johnson.
All right. I'm Tom Thomas, guys.
Tideesh!
Is it really possible to know if you lied
just by measuring your pulse?
With pulse you really can.
But you probably couldn't with the egg.
You tricked me then.
That wasn't nice.
You weren't tricked, John Johnson was.
You know what?
I think you've got to get checked out on this lie detector!
I don't think so!
You need to get ready to give me my wish.
Because you're the one that lost the bet!
Fixies go to Fixie schools And study to be masters.
There's so much they need to learn To save us from disasters!
There isn't one appliance That they don't know about,
But if you meet a Fixie, please, Don't let their secret out!
Tubes
Today's lesson will be on pipes and tubing.
Right here inside of this laboratory you can see them all over.
Look!
Over there!
And there.
Some more over there.
And there's another one.
So, who can tell me some different uses for tubes?
Digit.
They're used in plumbing!
To carry the water!
Nolik, in school we don't give an answer without being called on.
Digit.
- You can… - And for carrying waste!
I am talking to Digit now!
Gas goes through pipes too!
Stop interrupting us!
And don't forget about smoke in a smokestack!
Nolik, that's just rude behavior!
Out! Right now!
Alright.
And a shower hose, that's also a tube, right?
- I told you to get out! - Yikes!
And a vacuum cleaner's got one too!
And those spyglasses that pirates use when they're sailing!
Hey, what do you say we all go and sneak out of here?
Great idea.
Let him call out to himself.
And a trumpet is a tube you blow through!
Nolik is my younger brother.
There's a lot he still doesn't know,
but that doesn’t stop him from getting involved in things he probably shouldn't.
Unfortunately that can get him into trouble,
so every once and a while me or my parents have to rescue him.
No, I wouldn't call Nolik a pest,
he's just a bit curious.
That's why he broke the number one fixie rule – hide from humans!
Nolik's the one who first became friends with Tom Thomas.
Well, I was there too,
but Nolik started it!
Actually…
First it was Grandpus!
Many years ago he befriended Professor Eugenius.
And after that the professor let us have our school in his laboratory.
So, it turns out that Nolik is just like his grandfather!
Digit, go on then.
Tubes are…
Wow!
Just look at all the tubes in here!
There's rubber ones and glass ones that are curvy!
Oh yeah! Pens!
Parts of them are tubes too!
He stopped talking.
He ran out if ideas.
And those tube slides at the waterpark!
The barrel of a rifle and the shell of a bullet -
those are tubes.
Oh! There's a tube with a serious crack!
And it's also dripping.
And hissing!
It's dripping?
Where?!
How can I show you when you kicked me out of class?!
What’s going on?
Take a look! The tube up there's leaking.
That's acid dripping out!
Is that dangerous?
It's awful!
Any second now, it will... explode!
Where did Professor Eugenius go?
He went to eat his sandwich.
So what do we do? It's a disaster.
Don't panic!
Fire, Verda,
go to that hose and shut off that valve.
Simka, go get a pack-o-mat!
We’ll fix this pipe ourselves.
It’s very important to be sure that a pipe won’t leak!
But making pipes that won't leak isn't so easy.
Pipes can be made by rolling up a sheet of metal and sealing it up.
Unfortunately the seam can break,
and that’s why people have figured out how to make pipes without seams.
They do it by stretching out hot metal on special machines.
And PVC pipes are squeezed out of hot plastic like pasta.
When the plastic is cooled down, it hardens into a pipe.
We fixed it just in time.
Nolik, way to go there!
Hey, Simka!
Where is he?
Don't know.
Heh, he finally left.
Here I am!
Nolik,
I want to thank you for being alert!
And I'd like you to join our class.
Tideesh!
Only don't forget:
In my class, students can not answer unless they're called on.
Now then, pipes and tubing.
Digit,
please continue.
Well?
But Nolik said all of 'em already.
Nolik!
Not all!
A straw for drinking a shake is a tube!
And some noodles are tubes made out of dough!
And what's it called, that thing…
a hole in a mountain.
Wait a second, I'll get it. A volcano!
That's not it.
They go this way. I mean the kind that go like that.
They're tunnels.
You got it! Well done there!
Yeah.