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Brad: Ready for adventure?

♪ Who's that kid who can travel through time? ♪

Xavier: ♪ Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum! ♪

Yadina: ♪ Which great heroes will we find? ♪

Xavier: ♪ Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum! ♪

Brad: ♪ Every single boy and girl ♪

Yadina: ♪ Has what it takes ♪

Kids: ♪ To change the world! ♪

♪ Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum! ♪

Brad: ♪ Brad! Yadina: And Yadina! ♪

Kids: ♪ And the Secret Museum! ♪

♪ Dr. Zoom and the Secret Museum! ♪

Xavier: ♪ Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum! ♪

♪ Shh! ♪

Xavier: Hi there. Welcome to the show.

Yadina: Hello!

Xavier: Today we're going to meet an amazing musician

Brad: I'm okay.

Xavier: Ahem.

An amazing musician named Johann Sebastian Bach.

Yadina: That's Bach right there.

Xavier: (whispers) That's your cue.

Play some music.

♪♪

Brad/Yadina: Oof! (laughing)

Xavier: Maybe we'll just start the show...

Xavier: Yes.

School concert time.

Can't wait to rock it like last year.

Brad: Xavier, what are you going to play?

Xavier: Glad you asked.

Check it out.

(clears throat)

(deep breath)

(off key notes) ♪

Huh!

(off key notes) ♪

Uh!

(off key "Three Blind Mice" melody) ♪

Huh! Uh!

Xavier: Where are the cheers?

Brad: Um, it was good, but-

Yadina: You did that song last year.

Xavier: And everyone loved it.

So why change it?

The high kicks are new, though.

Brad: Um, you did high kicks last year.

Xavier: Not as high as this. Bam!

("Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" melody) ♪

Yadina: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is right.

Yadina: You must practice...

a lot.

Little Girl: I play a little every day.

Xavier: Really?

Wow. You're not, uh, planning to- ?

♪

Brad: Sign up for the concert?

She just did.

Xavier: Okay, this is a problem.

Yadina: To the secret museum!

Brad: To the Secret Museum.

Yay.

Xavier: I have to figure out how to get a lot better

on my recorder- fast.

The concert's in two weeks.

Brad: But, you know time travel makes me dizzy.

Xavier: You guys ready?

Xavier: I wonder who the Secret Museum will send us to meet?

Yadina: And where we'll go.

Brad: And- (gasps)

Brad: Woo.

Guys, wait up!

Yadina: Lookout below.

Xavier: Woo-hoo!

Xavier: Hi, Berby. Yadina: Hi, Berby.

Berby: Hello. Brad: Hi, Berby.

Berby: (buzzes) Brad: Oopf!

Berby: Woo! Xavier: (humming)

Xavier: We're getting something.

Yadina: What is it?

Brad: Paper with musical notes on it?

Xavier: That's called sheet music.

Whoever we're meeting must be a musician.

Xavier: There he is.

"Johann Sebastian Bach" Nice hair.

Brad: Look. We're meeting him in Germany.

Yadina: Way back in the year 1692.

Wow.

Xavier: I hope Bach can show me how

to get better on the recorder.

Fast.

Yadina: There's only one way to find out...

Xavier: Ready to go back in time?

Yadina: You mean "Bach" in time?

Get it?

Because his name is Bach.

It's funny.

You're supposed to know this!

Bach!

(sighs) I'm ready.

Brad: Uh, I guess I'm ready?

Yes.

Berby: (computing sounds)

Yadina: Here we go!

Brad: It's happening.

Yadina: Hang on, Dr. Zoom.

Xavier: Woo-hoo. Brad: Woooah!

Brad: Like I said...

Time travel... dizzy.

Yadina: Listen... do you hear music?

Xavier: It's coming from in there.

(orchestral classical music) ♪

Dad Bach: Eins, zwei, drei, eins, zwei, drei...

Xavier: I don't know what he's saying, but it's catchy.

Yadina: We're in Germany. We need the translator.

Xavier: Right. Good call, Yadina.

Dad Bach: Eins, zwei, drei. One, two, three...

Brad: There's Johann Sebastian Bach.

That's who we're here to meet.

Yadina: Hi, there. Nice violin playing.

Xavier: Yeah.

Ever think of adding high kicks to your routine?

Bach: Um... no.

But I am writing my own song.

Would you like to hear it?

Brad: Yes please. Yadina: Would we ever.

(beautiful violin melody) ♪

Kids: (gasps)

(beautiful violin melody) ♪

Xavier: Woah. You're really good.

Bach: Thank you.

And with more work, I'll get even better.

Xavier: That's like me-

I want to get better at the recorder.

Can you please teach me how?

Right away?

Bach: Well, if you want to get better at something,

you have to work hard and practice.

I'm going to practice right now.

Want to come?

Xavier: We'd love to.

Bach: Then follow me. Quickly.

Yadina: Hey- who turned out the lights?

Xavier: There aren't any.

Amazing fact: electric lights weren't invented yet.

(loud pipe organ music) ♪♪ Brad: Ah!

Bach: Sorry- this pipe organ is loud.

Bach: (laughter) Brad: (phew)

Xavier: Whoa--that is a lot of music.

Xavier: What? You wrote all this out by hand?

That would have taken a long time.

Yadina: And made your hand really, really, really sore.

Bach: True. But you want to get better at something,

you have to work hard and practice.

(complex pipe organ melody) ♪♪

Xavier: Woah.

Your song sounds even better than last time.

(offkey note) ♪

Yadina: Well, it sounded great.

Before that happened.

Bach: I'm sure I hit the right key.

The pipes must need cleaning.

Yadina: He went in the organ.

Should we? Brad: No!

Xavier: Of course!

Xavier: Whoa. Organ insides are cool.

Bach: The sound comes from air going through the pipes.

Listen.

♪

Bach: That's it.

Yadina: This thing's like a big box of whistles.

Xavier: This was fun but,

how does it make you better at music?

I really want to rock my school concert.

Bach: Learning how an instrument works helps me play it better.

Wait. Concert? Concert!

I have to leave now or I'll miss it!

Brad: Still in here!

I'll just meet you out front.

Yadina: So, where exactly are we going?

Bach: To see some incredible musicians play.

Brad: Oh, um, cool.

How far is it?

Yadina: Can we take a bus?

Xavier: It's 1692. There are no buses.

(violin playing) ♪

Bach: It's not too far.

We are here. And we just need to go...

Bach: ...here.

(bird chirping)

Yadina: Are we there yet?

We've been walking for like a million hours.

Bach: Yes. Come over here!

(classical music) ♪

Bach: I love listening to others play

because I can learn from them.

And, it makes me want to get better.

Xavier: Like when I heard that girl playing

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

I wanted to get better, too.

Bach: The music has inspired me...

Wait-- we're leaving? Already?

Bach: I must go and work on my song!

Yadina: You're telling me we walked all this way

and we're not going IN?

Yadina: Yeah, I know, Dr. Zoom.

Xavier: The song he's writing must be really important to him.

I wonder how it will turn out?

Brad: Maybe we'll find out.

Berby wants to send us forward in time.

Yadina: Yes!

Thank you, Secret Museum.

Yadina: Hey- that sounds like Bach's song.

Brad: There he is!

So many people came to hear him play.

(complex harpsichord playing) ♪♪

Xavier: Bach is amazing!

His song sounds so much better than the first time we heard it.

Brad: Or the second--or third.

(nervous laugh)

♪♪

(applause) (cheering)

Xavier: Amazing! Yadina: Bravo! Bravo!

(cheering)

Xavier: How did Bach get so much better?

All I saw him do was write music,

learn how his organ works,

walk forever to see a concert,

practice the same song

over and over and-- (gasps)

Xavier: Double woah.

If you want to get better at something,

you have to work hard and practice.

Berby? Let's go home!

Yadina: Bye. We're heading 'Bach' home.

Berby: Yippie!

Xavier: Yadina. Brad.

I've got to get ready for the school concert.

Xavier: As Bach said, if you want to get better at something,

you have to work hard and practice.

(singing to himself) ♪

(inspirational music) ♪♪

Yadina: Xavier. Come on. The concert is starting.

("Mary Had Little Lamb" melody) ♪

(applause)

Xavier: (deep exhale)

(clears throat)

(synthesizer backbeat) ♪

(synthesizer backbeat) ♪ ("Three Blind Mice" melody)

(enthusiastic cheering)

Yadina: Woo hoo, Xavier!

That's my brother!

Xavier: Now that's the response I was hoping for.

Xavier: Wasn't Bach the best?

Yadina: I miss that little guy already.

Xavier: He never stopped trying to get better.

Yadina: And he wrote a ton of songs.

Brad: Many that are still played today.

Over 300 years later.

Xavier: Thanks for joining our awesome adventure

to meet real-life composer,

Johann Sebastian Bach.

Yadina: Who used to be a kid, just like you and me.

So, kids like you can change the world.

Brad: I'm Brad.

Yadina: I am Yadina.

Xavier: And, I'm Xavier.

And I'll never stop working hard and practicing to get better.

Just like Johann Sebastian Bach.

Berby: (electronic buzzing and whirring)

♪ Doo doo doo... ♪

(electronic buzzing and whirring)

(clank)

(clank, clank)

(ding!)

Berby: (cheering)

Yadina: Hi Berby! You ready for hide and seek?

Berby: (computer beeping sounds)

Yadina: One...

2, 3, 4,

5, 6,

7-8-9-10!

Ready or not, here I come! Berby: (beeping)

Yadina: Hiding in the Dinosaur exhibit, huh?

Berby: (computer beeping sounds)

Berby?

Nope. Just a meteor.

Are you behind the Albertasaurous?

What's that Dr. Zoom?

You think Berby must be gone?

Oh, where could Berby be?

Berby: (giggling)

I think I know Eggs-actly where Berby is.

Get it? Eggsactly!

Berby: (laughing) Yadina: Gotcha Berby!

Nice idea hiding in that giant Pterodactyl nest.

Berby: (laughing)

Yadina: I like playing with you too Berby.

Yadina: Hi, there!

Xavier: Woo hoo!

Hi there!

Brad: Woah! Oof!

Xavier: Um, Brad?

Brad: Ahem. Hello.

(laughing)

Today we're meeting someone very exciting.

Real life scientist, Marie Curie.

Yadina: That's her. She was born in the year 1867,

in a country called Poland.

Brad: There are lots of different kinds of scientists,

but Marie is known for being a chemist.

Brad: Woah! Yadina: Wow!

Brad: Wuh! Uh oh.

Eek! Ah!

Xavier: Chemists are people who figure out

what stuff is made of.

Yadina: Like why are clouds so puffy,

Pfffff!

or how does water turn into ice?

Start the show, start the show. Whaaah!

Brad: (sigh) I love butterflies.

Yadina: They're very fluttery.

Xavier: Totally.

Brad: They start out

as just fuzzy little caterpillars,

then they grow wings, and fly.

Brad: I can't wait to join the butterfly club

so I can learn all about them.

(nervous laugh)

Brad: (gasps) They're here.

Excuse me, is the butterfly club starting?

Club Leader: Yes. Just inside.

Brad: Cool. Um,

what does that "ten plus" mean?

Club Leader: Oh, you have to be at least

ten years old to join the club.

Brad: (gasps) But I'm not 10 years old yet.

Club Leader: Oh, sorry.

But, you can visit the butterfly garden when we're done.

Brad: But, I want to join the club

so I can learn more about butterflies.

What am I going to do?

Xavier: I don't know, but,

I do know how to find out.

Brad: Um...

Yes. Let's do it!

Yadina: To the Secret Museum!

Brad: Don't worry.

I'm coming back for you, butterflies.

Xavier!

Yadina! Wait up!

(playful music) ♪

Xavier: I wonder who the Secret Museum will send us to meet?

Wahooo!

Yadina: Or how far back in time we'll GOOOO...!

Brad: I'm going to find some stairs...woah!

Xavier: Woo-hoo. Yadina: Look out below.

Xavier/Yadina: Hi, Berby.

Berby: Hello. Brad: Hi, Berby!

Berby: Hi Brad.

Brad: Oof!

Xavier: (humming) Berby: Woooo!

We're getting something.

Yadina: What is it?

Brad: I think it's a test tube.

Yadina: Like for potions?

Xavier: Maybe it's a wizard's potion to make you older!

Yadina: Or turn you into a butterfly!

Brad: It says here it belonged to Marie Curie.

That's who we're meeting.

Xavier: Hm. She doesn't look like a wizard.

But, I've never met a wizard before,

so maybe she does.

Yadina: Hey, look. We're going to Poland to meet her.

In the year 1884.

Brad: That's over a hundred years ago!

I wonder how Marie Curie

can get me into the butterfly club?

Xavier: I'm still thinking wizardly magic.

But, only one way to find out.

Ready for an adventure?

Yadina: Ready.

Brad: (deep breath) ...Ready.

(zapping and beeping sounds)

Yadina: Here we go!

Brad: It's happening!

Yadina: Hang on, Dr. Zoom!

Xavier Woo-hoo. Brad: Woahhh!

Xavier: So this is Poland in the year 1884.

Brad: It's very...

wobbly...

Woah! - Oof!

Brad: Hey, I'm not dizzy anymore!

Marie Curie: Oops.

Przepraszam.

Brad: Marie Curie?

That's who we're here to meet.

Marie Curie: Tak, przepraszam.

Xavier: What did she say?

(gasps) A magic spell?

Brad: (gasp) She is a wizard!

Yadina: Xavier, we're in Poland.

Where people speak Polish?

Use the translator!

Xavier: Oh. Right.

Marie: Curie Przepraszam... Sorry, again.

I'm just excited to get to school.

We're doing math and science today - which I love.

So I want to learn all I can.

Brad: That's how I feel about butterflies.

Did you know there are over 18,000 different types?

Marie Curie: So you're a butterfly scientist?

I want to be a scientist, too.

Someday I want to discover something

no one has ever found before!

Brad: How do you do that?

Marie Curie: Follow me. I'll show you.

Marie Curie: This is a University.

A big school for older kids.

Someday, I'll go here

to learn more about science.

Marie Curie: That is the chemistry lab.

Yadina: Wow.

Brad: Think they might have a butterfly club?

Marie Curie: I don't know. Let's find out.

Marie Curie: Hello. Do you know where the

university science rooms are?

Or the butterfly club?

Older Girl: Me? No.

The university is for boys only.

Kids: (gasp!)

Boys only?

That's not fair!

Marie Curie: But, I need to go to the University

to become a scientist.

It's my dream.

Xavier: Not-so-cool fact:

things were really different in 1884.

Brad: (sighs)

I guess Marie Curie

doesn't get to follow her dream

of going to university,

just like I don't get to follow my dream

of being in the butterfly club.

Marie Curie: No! I will follow my dream

no matter what!

I just don't know how yet.

Older Girl: I know a place for girls like us.

Marie Curie: (gasps) You do?

Older Girl: Come on!

Older Girl: Welcome to The Flying University.

Yadina: Woah. Brad: A flying university?

Do they teach you how to fly?

Or maybe the whole house flies?

Or maybe...

(dreamy sigh)

it's a school for butterflies.

Older Girl: Oh, it's even better.

(giggles)

Older Girl: Since regular universities

do not allow girls,

we made our own!

Marie: (gasps) Oh!

Marie Curie: Look at all the books...

the equipment...

the math equations.

Yadina: Aw, she's so happy.

Xavier: Yeah. She sure is.

Brad: I wonder if Marie will get to follow her dream

of discovering something new?

Yadina: Looks like we're about to find out.

Berby: Yippie!

Xavier: Whoa. Brad: Phew! Where are we?

Yadina: Looks like a fan-cy science lab.

Brad: Do you think Marie Curie is here?

Xavier: Let's spread out and look.

Xavier: Marie Curie? Are you in here?

Brad: Hello? Marie?

Yadina: Oh Cuuuurie.

Yooo hoooo.

Yadina: Dr. Zoom, now isn't the time to play scientist.

(squeak)

Curie: Brad, Xavier, Yadina - over here!

Brad: Marie. This lab is great!

You really get to study science here now?

Marie Curie: Here? No.

I made my own lab.

I'll show you.

Brad: Okay. Let's go.

We'd love to see it.

Yadina: You made your own lab?

Marie Curie: After I finished school,

I wanted to keep studying science.

So...

Marie Curie: Ta-da. I built this lab myself.

Xavier: Cool. Brad: Wow.

Marie Curie: Here I can do all the science experiments I want.

And keep on learning.

It's like a science club house.

I like it!

Brad: Your very own place

where you can keep working

and learning all about the thing you love.

Xavier: Whatever that is!

What is that?

Marie Curie: That is something I've been working on

a long time.

I'm hoping to discover something brand new.

Let's look...

Let me just do this,

and that...

And pour this through.

Mhm.

Marie: Oh! Xavier/Yadina/Brad: Wow!

Curie: Oh yes, I did it! I really did it!

I discovered something no one has ever found before!

(giggles)

Brad: Marie Curie followed her dream...

No matter what.

Xavier, Yadina, I have to get back to the museum!

Yadina: You know how to get into the butterfly club now?

Brad: Nope.

Marie Curie gave me a better idea!

Xavier: We have to go, Marie.

But nice work finding that glowing green stuff.

Yadina: Keep doing science.

Brad: Bye, Marie Curie!

Thank you for following your dream!

Brad: She's in there,

and she discovered something incredible.

Xavier: Berby? Let's go home!

Berby: (computing sounds)

Brad: Xavier, Yadina.

Welcome, to the new Junior Butterfly Club.

Yadina: Wow. This is amazing.

Dr. Zoom feels like a star in this outfit.

Xavier: Yeah...great idea about making your...

own club.

Butterfly Club Leader: Hey, what's going on in here?

Brad: Oh hi, this is the, um...

Junior Butterfly club.

Butterfly Club Leader: Oh. So,

does that mean us big kids can't join?

Brad: Uh....

Uh... (nervous laugh)

You want to join?

My club? Yes!

It can be an everyone butterfly club.

C'mon in!

(excited chattering)

Xavier: (hushed) Brad.

Yadina: Look!

Brad: Awwe.

Brad: Meeting Marie Curie, and her very own lab,

was really great.

Brad: She didn't let anything stop her

from doing amazing things.

Yadina: Like winning the biggest award in all of science:

The Nobel Prize.

Xavier: Twice.

For two totally different types of science.

She was the first person ever to do that.

Yadina: Wow.

Brad: Thanks for joining our awesome adventure

to meet real life scientist

Marie Curie.

Yadina: Who used to be a kid just like you and me,

so kids like you can change the world.

Xavier: I'm Xavier.

Yadina: I am Yadina.

Brad: I am Brad,

and I will always follow my dreams,

no matter what.

Just like Marie Curie.

(show theme song) ♪

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