Exploring the Reef2003

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
[concluding] For we are as connected to the planet as the corals are to the algae living within them. And just as we...

Nemo:
Algae living inside coral? That's creepy.

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
No, it is not!

Nemo:
Yeah, it is.

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
Isn't.

Nemo:
Is.

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
Isn't!

Nemo:
Is!

Dory:
No, it's normal! See, they work together...

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
That's...

Dory:
Algae are plants that make food for the coral and the corals fertilize the algae.

Marlin:
But when there's pollution, the coral can't get enough food from the algae.

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
Look! What...?

Nemo:
Wow! You guys know a lot about the reef.

Dory:
Well, it's not hard. You just have to pay attention and listen.

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
[yelling] Then why won't you listen to me?

Dory:
Oh, hi! Who are you?

Jean-Michel Cousteau:
I am Jean-Michel Cousteau! [trumpets blare main theme] Cut, cut! [whimpering] Cut, cut, cut. [cut back to his sailboat] Upstaged by fish. This would have never happened to Papa. [looks up] Goodbye. I am... Jean-Michel Cousteau. [trumpets blare, music ends]

Nemo:
[after the film] Keep exploring the reef with Jean-Michel Cousteau at oceanfutures.org.