- Did a word that's important to you go missing?

- And now all you can feel, do, or think, is the opposite of that word?

- Then call us, I'm Sly.

- And I'm Gabby.

We're Word Detectives and we solve- - Word mysteries.

- Together, we run the words for a online detective agency.

- We'll find your missing word, fast.

- Not to mention, briskly.

- And swiftly.

- Yeah, we're really good with words.

- [All] "Wordsville!"

- You ready?

- I hope so.

(both blowing on spoons) (light upbeat music) Whoa, this spoon trick has never worked for us before.

- Today everything we're doing is working.

Wait, do you think it's a- (phone dinging) Word mystery?

- Maybe, Scientist Cosmos is calling.

- Word Detectives, something horrid, perfect, and horrendous has happened, and I, why are there spoons on your noses?

- Because it's the best day ever.

- This stick a spoon on your nose trick never worked for us before.

- Everything we've done today has been a nonstop success.

- That's the problem, look!

- [Gabby] Hmm, success and failure.

- [Sly] Failure means lack of success in achieving a goal.

- Exactly.

I record all the outcomes of my experiments in my notes, so I know what did, or didn't work, but I can't do that anymore, see, someone took the word failure.

- And because success is the opposite of failure- - That must be why we've been so successful today, this is a word mystery.

- One that you have to solve, fast.

- Do we though?

I really like that we haven't failed at anything today.

- But learning from failure is important, it can help you figure out why something isn't working so you can do better the next time.

- Sly, we do need to solve this case.

- We do.

Scientist Cosmo, tell us what happened and I'll animate it.

Recap time!

- [Cosmos] I was working on a new steam-cleaning robot, it gives us a little steam to clean up dirt, when Firefighter Ember, and Baker Graham came by.

They both wanted me to invent something for them, but I couldn't hear or see them, my robot was failing.

It was making a lot of noise and too much steam.

Once they left, the steam cleared and the robot suddenly worked perfectly without me fixing it.

That's when I saw the word failure had been torn off my notes.

- Interesting, can you please show us the scene of the mystery?

- Of course.

This is where I left my notes.

- I'll take a screenshot for our case notes.

(camera clicking) - Please hurry.

- We'll solve this case as fast as we can and call you back.

We know what happened.

- Someone took the word, failure, from Scientist Cosmo's lab notes.

- And now we're achieving all of our goals, which feels great, but- - We can't fail so we can't learn from our mistakes.

- Yep!

We know where it happened, the lab, when it was filling up with steam.

- [Sly] Our suspects are, Firefighter Ember and Baker Graham, now to find out who did it, how, and why.

- [Gabby] We also found a pink smudge and a bucket as clues.

- [Sly] Do you think that bucket looks familiar, kind of like the one- - Firefighter Ember has at the fire station, yes!

Let's call her.

(phone dinging) - Just one second.

(buckets clunking on floor) Yes!

(panting) I've never been able to reach my goal of getting across the room without spilling any water before, but I just did it!

Wahoo!

- You seem pretty happy about that.

- I am, I get really upset when I fail.

- Hmm, is that why you left a red bucket at the lab?

- Yes, I wanted Scientist Cosmo to invent me a spill-proof bucket.

I brought that red one to show how I always spill, but he couldn't see me through the steam.

Anyway, I want to find out if I can go even further without spilling, gotta go.

- Hmm, do you think Firefighter Ember took the word failure?

- It's possible, she did want to successfully carry her water buckets without spilling.

- Let's call our next suspect to see what else we can learn.

(phone dinging) - Word Detectives, what do you think?

- Ooh, they look scrumptious.

Can we stop by and have one, or two, or three?

- Sly, let's focus.

Baker Graham, could you put away the cookies?

- They're not just cookies, they're lemon macarons, I finally reached my goal of making a perfect batch.

I made some strawberry ones this morning that were total failures.

- Is that why you went to see Scientist Cosmo today?

- I went to ask him to invent me a better oven.

- You think your bad batch was the oven's fault?

- Isn't it possible that you maybe made a mistake with the recipe?

- I don't like thinking about my failures, why dwell on the past, am I right?

- What's that on your hand?

- Oh, strawberry icing, from earlier, I'm always covered in icing.

I should get back to baking, bye.

- Let's go over what we learned.

- [Sly] Firefighter Ember gets upset when she fails.

- And Baker Graham doesn't like thinking about his failures.

- Let's look at the clues.

- [Gabby] We've got the bucket Firefighter Ember left for Scientist Cosmo, and a pink smudge.

- [Sly] Hmm, what is that smudge from?

- It's pink, just like the strawberry icing Baker Graham had on his hand from his macarons.

- The failed ones he didn't wanna think about, or learn from.

- Wait, Firefighter Ember did try to show Scientist Cosmo how she spills water.

- In case she could learn from her failure.

- Sly, we just cracked this case!

Let's show everyone what happened.

(phone dinging) - Now, presenting the word mystery animated reenactment of, The Case of the Failure Fiasco.

- [Gabby] Steam-cleaning robot, test two.

My first test was a failure, but I changed the settings, here we go.

(Gabby mimicking the steam-cleaning robot) - [Sly] Can you invent me a spill-proof bucket?

I'll show you how water spills from this one.

First, can you invent me a better oven?

My macarons are failures.

- [Gabby] Sorry, I can't hear you, my robot is failing.

- [Sly] Failure, I can't stand failure.

I don't think anyone will miss it.

- What is happening, so much steam!

It was Baker Graham who did it.

(Cosmo gasping) - It was you?

- He tore the word, failure, off of Scientist Cosmos notes.

- When everyone was distracted by the steam and noisy robot, that's how.

- Why, Baker Graham, why?

- Oh, fine, you're right.

My macaron failure was so upsetting I didn't want anyone else to feel like that.

- But failures can lead to new discoveries.

If we never do something wrong, how do we learn to do it right?

- We need to learn that these lemon macarons are already perfect- - But why are they perfect?

- I don't know.

Well, if you all miss failure so much, I'll return the word and we'll see if it's something I can learn from.

(phone dinging) - Yes, now that the word failure is back, my robot is over-steaming again and I can figure out why.

- Did everyone get my other delivery?

- I got a flat macaron, but why?

- It's from my first failed batch.

If I have to learn from failure, I want to do it together.

One, two, three, bite.

- [All] Hmm.

- It's sort of like a really flat cookie.

- That gives me an idea, the mac cookie, half macaron, half cookie, I better start baking.

Huh, failure is important, without it I never would've invented this.

- [Together] Thanks Word Detectives.

- Another word mystery solved.

So, spoon on nose round two?

- You're on.

(Gabby breathing on spoon) - Why do we keep failing (chuckling)?

- Let's figure it out.

(Gabby breathing on spoon) Together.

- That might've worked.

Let's see, oh, oh (chuckling)!

♪ It's "Wordsville" ♪ - [All] Wow!

(light upbeat music continues) - [All] Woo!

- [All] It's Gabby!

(light upbeat music continues) - [All] It's Sly!

- [All] It's "Wordsville!"