The Perils of Peep and Chirp ← Preceded by - Hoop Tricks - Followed by → Save It for Later |
Hoop Tricks is the eleventh episode of the first season along with the episode The Perils of Peep and Chirp which comes before it. Hoop Tricks first aired on April 26th of 2004 and is written by Diana DeCubellis with its storyboard by Greg Hill.
Title card[]
The title card depicts Quack standing in the middle of the bracelet posing by lifting first his right foot and then his left while Peep and Chirp look at him behind and to the right of him on a green patch of grass. On a light blue-colored background, "Hoop" is written in large red text on top of and more to the left of "Tricks" in a bluish-purple shade and in smaller text. Below that is "Written by Diana DeCubellis on top of and more to the left of "Storyboard by Greg Hill", both written in black text.
Condensed summary[]
Peep, Chirp, and Quack find a spinning hoop—and a flipper and a roller and Quack's standing spot, before it's stolen by the Blue Jays, that is.
Expanded summary[]
The episode opens by showing Peep and Chirp walking on a clothesline. The narrator tells the audience that Chirp has a surprise for Peep. She leads him to a clothes hanger, which she jumps on soon after. Peep follows and after a brief moment of the hanger being still, it starts to slide while Peep and Chirp yell for help. He yells to her if she knows how to stop and she yells back no. They both fall off the hanger once it is stopped by a pair of pants and so does a spinning hoop (which actually appears to be a bracelet).
Both Peep and Chirp notice the hoop on the ground. Chirp picks it up and starts to push it around. The hoop starts rolling in the opposite direction. They both start to chase after it. The scene then pans down from the sky to Quack. He notices the hoop beginning to come to a stop and thinks it's a present for him. Peep and Chirp catch up with it and Quack thanks them for the "present". He attempts to put it on and starts to choke. After Peep and Chirp get the hoop off of him, he wonders what else it could be. Chirp starts making circles in the dirt with it, and soon after Peep flips it several times. Quack guesses again: he thinks it's a place for him to stand in. The hoop gets caught around his leg and he accidentally flings it, when Chirp catches it.
She spins it around her wing several times until its force is too strong for her to control and she is unable to stop. She crashes into a tree and subsequently thanks it. The Blue Jays fly down from the tree and take the hoop, which Chirp protests. They insist the object is a bird perch and not anything else. Peep, Chirp, and Quack walk away in sadness and with no further objections.
The next scene cuts to them searching for a replacement object. The narrator tells the audience that nothing else really worked for them. Chirp finds a rubber band and tries spinning with it, while Peep and Quack find a peach pit. Quack tries to stand on it and falls off soon after. They all sit down in remorse until the Blue Jays appear again and are playing with their hoop. Chirp objects, pointing out that they had formerly said that the object was a bird perch. One of the blue jays says it's so much more and they both continue playing with it.
After Chirp gets angry at the Blue Jays, she suddenly has an idea to make a plan. Quack is confused on what a plan is, so Chirp explains it and she, Quack, and Peep make one. The Blue Jays misunderstand and jump on the three, thinking they're making a pyramid. After the group falls apart, Quack asks the Blue Jays if they can see Peep, him, and Chirp trying to talk about them, which he soon regrets. Chirp quickly adds on to this, saying that they just wanted to tell them their favorite game, "Roll It". A player plays by taking the object, referred to as "the jingly thing", and rolling it wherever Chirp tells them to.
Eventually Chirp tells the Blue Jays to roll the hoop into Quack's pond. They comply, and soon realize the object can no longer be seen. Thinking that Peep, Chirp, and Quack will be mad at them for "losing" the thing, they fly away. The main three start celebrating. Then Quack dives underwater to ask the fish to give him his "something for ducks" back, so Fish Jr. does. The scene then cuts to Quack returning to the surface with Peep and Chirp cheering that Quack got it back. The next scene cuts to Chirp throwing the hoop onto a branch and Quack saying that's it's a swing. The narrator explains that even though nobody really knows what the object is, she thinks it doesn't really matter anymore. Chirp hops onto the hoop, and Quack does soon after, which squishes Chirp. The episode ends with Peep falling backwards onto the ground laughing.
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Trivia[]
- This is the only episode to be written by Diana DeCubellis.
- Hoop Tricks marks the only time Chirp falls from a higher place than where she lands without the intention of flying or trying to fly from it.
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