Meeper rushes to warn the pub, and some chicks he finds pecking at the ground outside, but each of his attempts further injures the singer.

As the credits roll, Meeper and the ChubbChubbs sing a rewrite of Aretha Franklin's "Respect" in the pub.

The ChubbChubbs glare and reveal their teeth in a sense of threat, and the crowd hastily bursts into applause.

The short was "originally conceived as a pipeline test to help determine the studio's strengths and weaknesses in producing all-CGI animation within the Sony Pictures Imageworks production environment".

and its sequel The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas were released on October 9, 2007, for the first time on Blu-ray, attached as a bonus to Surf's Up.

[9][3] Dan Wilson and Dave Gilbreth were hired to write the film's screenplay,[10] but since then, there has been no further news about the projects.