(13 Jul 2010)
AP Television
Oberhausen, Germany, 12 July 2010
1. Wide exterior shot Sea Life centre
2. Mid of visitors in front of Sea Life centre
3. Various of Octopus Paul and visitors taking pictures
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Daniel Fey, Sea Life centre employee:
"Well, I think it's fair that Spain is the World Cup winner, because they played a very good play. How we think about Paul now? Well, he did an amazing job, he's now eight times right. So that is a hundred percent during the whole World Cup, who else (would) have thought that."
5. Close-up of Paul
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Daniel Fey, Sea Life centre employee:
"The easiest thing to try to explain it is that he has nine brains and we have one. So how can we know what he thinks."
7. Various of World Cup Trophy imitation being lowered into Paul's tank
8. Close-up of mussel on trophy
9. Various of Paul approaching trophy and getting mussel
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Tanja Munzig, Sea Life centre spokeswoman:
"After four exciting World Cup weeks, Paul finally got a trophy into his aquarium, so he wants to thank all his fans, worldwide, who followed him."
11. Mid shot of Paul, the trophy and a football
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Tanja Munzig, Sea Life centre spokeswoman:
"Paul will step back from the official oracle business. He won't give any more oracle predictions - either in football, nor in politics, lifestyle or economy. Paul will get back to his former job, namely making children laugh."
13. Close-up of Paul in tank
STORYLINE
CELEBRITY 'PSYCHIC' OCTOPUS RETIRES
Paul, the octopus who became a pop culture sensation by correctly predicting the outcome of as many World Cup matches as he has limbs - all seven of Germany's games plus the Spain-Netherlands final - is going to retire.
The intuitive invertebrate will "step back from the official oracle business," Tanja Munzig, a spokeswoman for the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, told AP Television News.
"He won't give any more oracle predictions - either in football, nor in politics, lifestyle or economy," she said. "Paul will get back to his former job, namely making children laugh."
However, Paul took one last curtain call on Monday.
Aquarium employees presented the octopus with a golden cup - similar to the official World Cup trophy.
Although the cup was garnished with three mussels, Paul ignored it for several minutes as it was lowered into his tank.
He finally picked off one mussel and devoured it in front of television cameras.
Paul won worldwide attention as he called all of Germany's games correctly - including its semifinal defeat by Spain.
He crowned his career by forecasting correctly that Spain would beat Holland in Sunday's final.
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