BB nears the end of a long day, walking along dusty roads and leaf-covered trails on his journey to discover his destiny out in the world among the humans. He’s already learned and experienced so much, his head spins with excitement thinking back to all the fun he’s had. BB wonders what new surprising thing he’ll find next out in the human world.
As the golden sun sets in the distance, BB finds himself walking through the main street of an old town, just as the lamps lining the sidewalks begin to flicker on, one by one, lighting up the evening. Suddenly, BB sees a flash of colored lights appear ahead of him. Now what could that be? BB walks closer and sees a brightly lit sign hanging over the sidewalk, with shiny metal lines and rows of bright flashing bulbs jumping and chasing each other around the edge. BB then sees something written on the sign high above… “special feature tonight only!”
BB looks beneath the bright sign and sees a row of shiny metal doors, and a line of humans waiting to get inside. He thinks that whatever is in there must really be interesting to keep all these humans up after sunset! BB sees one of the doors is propped open, just wide enough for a little Bigfoot like him to fit through. He enters the shiny door and finds himself in a tall room covered in thick red carpet, big red curtains, and shiny gold paint. BB thinks to himself that this must be a very important place to the humans of this town.
Then, BB smells something delicious filling the air, a toasty, buttery smell coming from a shiny counter at one end of the tall room. He sees even more humans lined up there as well, waiting to be handed little boxes, paper bags, and big striped buckets. BB walks over to the shiny counter and peeks through the glass front, where he sees more of those little boxes, in all shapes, sizes, and colors. BB can tell that delicious smell is coming from somewhere behind the counter! He carefully creeps around the corner, but the human handing out the buckets is too busy to even notice him! BB looks up and sees a big glass box filled with little yellow puffs and the words “hot buttered popcorn” written on the front. BB knows what corn tastes like, but what about this “pop” corn?
He notices one of the big striped buckets, filled to the brim with the yellow popcorn, sitting on the edge of a countertop, JUST out of his reach. BB stands on his fuzzy toes and reaches up, stretching with his furry fingers until… the bucket tips over and on to BB’s little head. BB tries to pull it off, but the bucket is stuck on his ears! He stumbles around for a moment, bumping into walls, before finally popping the bucket free from his fuzzy head.
BB looks around, and sees he’s now at the foot of a tall, narrow staircase, with a door at the top of the stairs. BB sees flickering lights and can hear a loud clacking noise coming from under the door. He climbs the stairs, one by one, and slowly pushes open the door. He finds a small room, filled with big shiny machines making the clacking noise. BB sees the machines have big spinning wheels attached to them, and can see bright lights flickering inside. He notices they are pointed at a small hole in the wall. Where could that lead? BB sees another small hole in the wall, just above a stack of flat, metal canisters. BB climbs up carefully on top of the stack and peeks through the hole. He sees a much bigger room on the other side, and a big, bright screen at the far end, with bright moving pictures on it!
Just then, the stack of canisters shifts, sending BB tumbling to the floor with a loud clatter. Suddenly, BB sees a human that he hadn’t noticed before, suddenly sit up in an old chair as they are awakened from a nap by the noise. “Oh no!” They exclaim, “Is reel two over already!?” As the human rushes over to look out through the small hole in the wall, BB scurries hurriedly out of the small room and back down the narrow stairs.
Back downstairs, BB catches his breath as he notices a new sound, it’s music, coming from behind a pair of big padded doors. BB pushes them open carefully and sees an even bigger room, with even taller ceilings, decorated with pillars, paintings, shapes and colors. He sees the floor is filled with rows and rows of seats, filled with humans, and all facing that big glittering screen BB had seen earlier through that hole in the wall!
As he walks down the aisle between the rows of seats, BB can see that the humans are all wearing funny red and blue colored glasses. He thinks, certainly that must make it hard to see the big moving picture? BB finds his way to the front row, and climbs up into an empty seat. He looks up to see the giant screen towering in front of him.
As he leans back into the seat to get a better view, BB feels his paw touch something at the side of the cushion. He looks to find it’s one of the funny pairs of paper glasses the humans are all wearing. BB perches the colored glasses on his fuzzy nose. Suddenly the picture on the big screen jumps out toward him! Surprised, BB takes off the glasses, and the picture pops back into the screen. Now more curious than ever, BB slowly puts the glasses back, to see the humans on the shiny screen, as if they were standing in the room!
BB watches as the humans in the moving picture trek through a dense forest that reminds him very much of his home. Suddenly, BB sees a VERY familiar sight appear – it’s a Bigfoot! Bigger than life on the shining screen. BB watches the scene as one of the humans holds up a camera, ready to take a picture, when another human holds out a hand to stop them. “No, Daniel.” says the second human, “Some stories are better left untold, some creatures better left in myth…” The Bigfoot on the screen nods slowly and turns to walk back into the woods. As the music coming from the screen swells loudly, BB sees the words “THE END” appear, before everything goes dark, and the music comes to a stop.
BB hears the humans in the room applaud, and he excitedly joins with them as lights in the tall room slowly turn on. BB is still clapping his paws when he notices the humans have begun to walk out of the room. BB follows them, out through the shiny metal doors and into the cool evening air. As he walks off to find a place to build his nest for the night, BB knows he’ll be dreaming big of all the things he got to see on the shining screen.