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♪ ♪ Ask Ruff First.

♪ Hi!

Our question today is from Kendry and Nico, who ask... Hey, Ruff!

It's Kendry.

I'm here with my friend Nico, and we really love watching birds.

We love to see more birds in the backyard.

Birds need water for drinking and cleaning themselves.

So, we have a birdbath for them.

So, the problem is that the birdbath keeps tipping over.

RUFF: Oh, man, look at that thing go.

Do you have any ideas on how we can make it more stable?

An excellent question!

Luckily, I was once a bird in the all-cat-and-dog musical extravaganza, Hello Birdie.

I played a bird full of derring-do named Chirpo.

(cooing) But one day, in rehearsal... Now for a relaxing bath!

...a crucial scene was ruined when the birdbath toppled over!

(screaming) DIRECTOR: Cut!

RUFF: We ran the scene again... (Ruff screams) DIRECTOR: Cut!

And again...

But with the same results.

Boy, was the director mad.

DIRECTOR: Say, what kind of actor are you?

If you can't make your birdbath landing tomorrow, you're fired, you see?

Fired!

RUFF: But that night, one of the dancers in the chorus approached me.

Her name was Bloom.

No, what was it?

Uh, Bis... uh, anyway, she said maybe it wasn't my acting that was ruining the scene.

I liked her right away.

What?

You think the design of the birdbath is the problem?

She told me how, after the big dance number the other day, one hat rack tipped over and the other didn't.

And the only difference was the size of the base.

The hat rack with the smaller base tipped over.

So maybe, a larger base makes a hat rack more stable.

She explained that just maybe the same thing was going on with the birdbath.

Maybe a birdbath with a wider base would make the birdbath more stable so it wouldn't tip over.

So Bosco-- or whatever her name was, I don't know-- worked with me through the night making a birdbath with a wider base.

And the next day...

Success!

The birdbath was now stable enough to hold me!

But the show was still a flop.

And that's the end of the story.

So a wider base makes a structure, like a birdbath, more stable.

We'll take your advice.

So here's the stand that the birdbath was standing on, but look how skinny it is.

I think we have to make this thicker and more stable.

KENDRY: Me too.

NICO: Because the bottom part is why it's falling over.

RUFF: Yeah, even with those two extra legs on the bottom, the base is still really small.

I'm thinking that we should make another base because, look-- this base is just so narrow.

I think we should make the base bigger, like make it slant outward like the Egyptian pyramids did.

RUFF: Oh, right... the pyramids are wide on the bottom!

That's a good idea.

So I got a whole bunch of flower pots here.

RUFF: That is a lot of flower pots.

KENDRY: Like, if we stack the flower pots, and then maybe like this...

But I think that's a little bit too small.

RUFF: Looking pretty shaky too.

NICO: Let's try using the blue flower pot.

I think the blue one is better because it starts out with a much, much, much wider base.

NICO: And look, it balances very well.

KENDRY: It's perfect!

RUFF: It is perfect!

KENDRY: I think we should put the glue on the rim of this so it's super sturdy.

RUFF: Yes, glue!

NICO: Yeah, I think this is the right amount of glue.

RUFF: Boy, that's a lot of glue.

NICO: Should we add some duct tape too?

KENDRY: Yeah.

NICO: All right, let's get to work.

RUFF: But with glue and duct tape, that thing's going nowhere.

NICO: Yeah, that's good.

RUFF: Perfect!

And stylish... more glue?

And now, the birdbath.

Boy, this thing's going to be super stable!

NICO: I think that's pretty good.

KENDRY: I think no squirrels, no dogs, no wind, no birds could knock this guy down.

RUFF: All right, guys, careful...

It's cold and slippery out.

NICO: Yeah... pretty sturdy.

KENDRY: Yeah!

NICO: Pretty good, right?

KENDRY: Yeah!

BOTH: Thanks, Ruff!

RUFF: That's great!

Glad to help.

You know, the only sad thing is, I'll never know the name of that brave dancer who helped me all those years ago.

I think it was Possum or Bison...

Uh... Gary?

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