DODLY:
(Hums) There you go, sir and madam. Your garlic bread. Now, sir, would you like anything else with that? Hm, no? Madam, anything?
FLYNN:
Dodly! This cafe is fantastic.
DODLY:
Flynn, welcome to Cafe de Dodly.
FLYNN:
I can't wait to have something to eat. I'm starving.
DODLY:
Here, you sit at this table.
FLYNN:
Delighted! May I see the menu?
DODLY:
Oh, of course, sir. One momento. (Hums)
FLYNN:
(Gurgling) Boy, I'm hungry.
DODLY:
Here you are, sir! There. What do you think?
FLYNN:
Thanks, Dodly. Now, what will I have? Dodly, there's nothing written on the menu.
DODLY:
Yes, there is. Didn't you notice the word menu? Men-u. There. What do you think?
FLYNN:
Well, it's great Dodly. But I'm starving and you haven't put any food on the menu.
DODLY:
Well, I haven't actually decided what food to serve yet. I'd really want all my friends to come here, so I want to serve food that they like. (Sighs) Hmm, I think most of them like hot chips, but... Oh! I'm not sure.
FLYNN:
Dodly? I think you'll have to do some research.
DODLY:
Some what?
FLYNN:
Some research. You'll have to collect some information. Let's see. You could ask your friends some questions, and their answers could help you decide what food to serve.
DODLY:
So I just ask my friends questions?
FLYNN:
Yes. And you could use your notebook to record your answers.
DODLY:
OK, Flynn, I'll start with you.
FLYNN:
OK, fire away. Ask me a question.
DODLY:
OK, Flynn. What is your favourite food?
FLYNN:
Well, let me see. On cold days, I like something warm. In summer, I like fruit. And in the mornings, I...
DODLY:
Flynn! Just tell me your most favourite food!
FLYNN:
Watermelon.
DODLY:
Oh. OK, I'll draw a picture of a watermelon here under your name. Hmm... Right, now I'm off to ask some more friends. (Hums)
FLYNN:
Don't be long, Dodly! I'm starving! So I wonder what he has in mind for his MENU?!
BOY:
I've got the best recipe for sticky slime. I know it's good because one day I made some, and I noticed that it stuck to our ceiling. Really stuck. I wondered what are the chances of that happening again. I thought I should collect some information. This could be important. When the slime stuck, I put a mark under yes. And when it didn't, I put a mark under no. As my results show, most of the time - yes, it stuck. But sometimes it didn't. So that's my scientifically proven sticky slime. Sorry! The recipe's a secret!
FLYNN:
Dodly! How was the research? What did you find out?
DODLY:
I'll show you.
FLYNN:
Be quick, Dodly, 'cause I'm starving! Ow!
DODLY:
Sorry, Flynn. Look, Flynn. These are the seven different foods my friends said were their favourites. Hamburger, hot chips... I guessed that one. Ice-cream, spaghetti, apple pie, watermelon and tomato soup! Now I know what to serve!
FLYNN:
Hmm, you know what, Dodly? It might be useful to organise your food pictures so they're not scattered everywhere.
DODLY:
How could I sort them?
FLYNN:
Well, let's see. You could sort them into foods that are hot, and foods that are cold.
DODLY:
Oh, maybe these will help. There, if you could put the red dot up there for hot, and I'll put the blue one over here for cold. Now, hamburgers are hot so that goes on your side.
FLYNN:
Hot chips! Yum!
DODLY:
Now, I know that ice-cream is cold so that goes under the cold side.
FLYNN:
And watermelon's cold too.
DODLY:
Mm-hmm. Spaghetti's served hot. And tomato soup is hot, so I'll put that on the hot side. What about apple pie?
FLYNN:
Hmm, that's a bit tricky. I think apple pie can be hot but I've also had it cold.
DODLY:
Yeah, I'll serve it cold.
FLYNN:
Well, Dodly, it looks like you've got one, two, three, four hot things.
DODLY:
And one, two, three cold.
FLYNN:
Excellent. OK, I'll have tomato soup, followed by watermelon, please. (Snaps fingers)
DODLY:
Well, Flynn, I haven't actually got any food yet.
FLYNN:
What?!
DODLY:
I didn't want to buy too much of something and not enough of something else. What if most of the monsters want hot chips and I don't have many hot chips, but I have lots of watermelon and no-one wants watermelon? I might end up wasting it.
FLYNN:
Well, you could go back to the information you collected and see how many monsters said they like hamburgers or watermelon or any other kind of food. That way, you'll know what foods are the most popular, and then maybe, finally, I'll get to eat.
DODLY:
Hmm! Right. Well, I'll go and get my notebook. It has all the information I need.
FLYNN:
I think I'll just grab a bite to eat somewhere else.
DODLY:
No, don't go! I need your help, Flynn. Wait here.
FLYNN:
Will I ever get anything to eat? Hamburger! Yum, yum! Watermelon...
GIRL:
I think today I'll go for a fly. It's amazing the things you can see from the sky. Today I found a beautiful garden and I flew down to see what living creatures I could find. There's a cat, a bee, an ant, a spider, a bird, and a little baby. I wonder how many of these creatures have two legs like me? The bird has two legs, and so does the baby. Hmm, the looks like all the creatures with two legs. How many legs does a bee have? One, two, three, four, five, six. Does anything else have six legs? What about the cat? No, it has four. What about the ant? One, two, three, four, five, six. Yes, the ant has six legs. That's two things with six legs - two insects. That cat has four legs. And there's only the spider left. And it has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight legs! So that's one thing with four legs and one with eight. What other way can I sort the creatures? I think I'll see which ones can fly and which ones can't! I'll use yes for the ones that fly, and no for those that can't. Yes. No. OK, well, cats don't fly, so he goes under no. What about bees? Yes, they do. Birds definitely fly. Spiders don't fly. Ants - do they fly? Some do, but not this one. So that's another no. And last of all, what about the baby? Babies don't fly. It looks like there are more things that don't fly than things that do. The baby does fly! You fly like me. Hello, flying baby.
FLYNN:
I actually feel a lot safer holding the menu, Dodly, although I'm so hungry I can barely move.
DODLY:
OK, Flynn. I've just got the hot foods up here. Now I need to work out which are the most popular. Then I'll have an idea of how much of each food I'll need to buy.
FLYNN:
Good. Hurry!
DODLY:
Now... My information shows me that four monster friends said that hamburgers are their most favourite food.
FLYNN:
Me too.
DODLY:
Flynn, could you hold these monster for me please?
FLYNN:
Oh... Can I eat one?
DODLY:
No, Flynn. They're to be placed upon the board.
FLYNN:
OK. One, two, three, four!
DODLY:
Good. Now, I've got here that five monsters said that hot chips are their favourite food. Flynn!
FLYNN:
OK. One, two, three, four, five!
DODLY:
Flynn, unless I count, it's hard to tell which row of monsters is longer - the hamburger row or the hot chip row. If the rows weren't messy, I could see which is the most popular just by looking.
FLYNN:
Maybe if I start each row at the same place.
DODLY:
Mm-hmm.
FLYNN:
Hmm! There you go!
DODLY:
Mm. You know, it might also help if all the monsters in each row were the same space apart.
FLYNN:
Hmm, OK. I'll just neaten up the top row, and then line up second row underneath. Right. There they are - all lined up.
DODLY:
Right, now there are more monsters in that row, so it's longer! So just by looking, I can tell that hot chips are more popular than hamburgers. Cool!
FLYNN:
Right! Now what about these two? How many said spaghetti was their favourite food?
DODLY:
Two, and two monsters said soup.
FLYNN:
Right, hmm. One, two.
DODLY:
Nice and neat now, Flynn.
FLYNN:
Alright. One, two.
DODLY:
There! The rows for spaghetti and soup are the same.
FLYNN:
It looks like you were right about the hot chips being very popular.
DODLY:
Yep, and the next most popular is... Hamburger! So I'll make sure I buy lots of hot chips and hamburger ingredients. It seems likely that people will order them the most. Hm, well, OK. I'm off to do the shopping. Hand on in there, Flynn. It won't be long.
FLYNN:
Here, Dodly. Let me help you with that. I'm not going to get knocked over again! (Laughs) Oooh!
DODLY:
Actually, I don't need this now. It can stay out here. Flynn? Flynn!? Oh, no! He must have gone! (Sighs)
MAN'S VOICE:
Out of the way! Excuse me!
VOICE:
Out of the way!
ALL:
Tah-dah!
DODLY:
Here you are, Flynn! What you've been waiting for!
FLYNN:
(Laughs) Good!
DODLY:
You know, Flynn, collecting all that information really took some guess work out of running my new cafe.
FLYNN:
Dodly! Give me the food, please!
DODLY:
Sure, Flynn. I decided to mix all the main foods together, so I threw them into a blender, and... tah-dah!
FLYNN:
(Groans)
DODLY:
That's just got to be a winner, and it'll save me so much cooking! Oh, well, Flynn, enjoy your meal. The kitchen awaits.
FLYNN:
(Laughs) I think I've had enough! (Screams)
