♪♪ ♪ Skiddly ahh bop bow
Get upple on a wubble
Buzz into a bubble
Wubble on the double
And take your face
To a wubbulous place
Scuttle on a shuttle
Waddle in a puddle ♪
♪♪ Ow!
♪♪ ♪ Through the middle
Of a muddle
And dance your feet down
To wubbulous street
Flip, float, flop, and drop
Bottoms up down to the top
Insides, outsides
Here and on
When you get to the end
When you get to the end you go on and on ♪
You go on and on ♪
♪♪ Ooh!
♪♪ Yeah!
♪♪ Ha ha ha ha ha!
♪♪ Ew!
♪♪ ♪ Scuttle on a shuttle
Waddle in a puddle
Through the middle
Of a muddle
And dance your feet down
To wubbulous street ♪
♪♪ Hello.
♪♪ ♪ Get upple on a wubble
Buzz into a bubble ♪
♪♪ Yeah!
♪♪ Tighten up, get loose.
♪♪ ♪ In the wubbulous world
In the wubbulous world
Of dr. Seuss ♪
♪♪ Yeah.
[Whistle blows]
♪♪ Ok, guys, listen up. Here's
The plan. [Clears throat] this
Has got to be a team effort.
Remember, my little kitties,
It's all for one and one for
All. We're all in this boat
Together. And remember, there's
No "i" in the word "team."
♪♪ There's also no "i" in the
Word "wumpous."
♪♪ Or "schneedle."
♪♪ Or "mississippi." I was never
Good at geography.
♪♪ It's all about teamwork.
See, we're all links in a chain.
If any one of those links should
Break, the chain falls apart.
Are you with me, huh?
♪♪ Uh-uh.
♪♪ No.
♪♪ Take lake winna-bango for
Example.
♪♪ Hmm?
♪♪ All the folks in the lake are
Merry with reason. And once a
Year frezzle flume fruits are in
Season.
♪♪ ♪ There's something a'growin'
At lake winna-bango,
It's not quite a melon,
It's not quite a mango ♪
♪♪ ♪ It's wonderful
♪♪ ♪ It's marvelous
♪♪ ♪ Simply divine
♪♪ ♪ I can tell you this fruit
That is finer than fine ♪
♪♪ Ha ha. Boy do I love these
Things, huh?
♪♪ Ah, yeah! There's nothing
Like a sweet frezzle flume fruit
To start the day out right!
♪♪ Wee!
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin
Without it ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ This wubbulous snack
Of a frezzle flume bush,
There's peel of ripe green,
And an inside like mush ♪
♪♪ ♪ With the sweet thing
We taste, and fine nectar to
Guzzle, no food is a feast
Like the fruit of the frezzle ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin
Without it ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ But it's more than
A fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ And much more than a meal
♪♪ ♪ It's a slippery, sloppery
Ride on a peel ♪
♪♪ Whoo!
♪♪ ♪ And that peel,
Oh that feel,
Simply put it's ideal ♪
♪♪ ♪ Once you see it
♪♪ ♪ Watch us slide
♪♪ ♪ Watch us tumble
♪♪ ♪ Watch us glide
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ ♪ And the fuzzily, wuzzily,
Fruitly, smoothily peel,
Like a frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin
Without it ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ Where would we be
Without it ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit,
Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
[Cheering]
♪♪ Mm-mmm. Moose moss and
Frezzle flume fruit. You just
Can't b*at that combination.
Oh-ho. Come to papa! Mmm.
♪♪ Whee! Ugh!
Excuse me. Whoa...
There was this moose in my--
Bleh...whee!
♪♪ [Scoffs] this is most
Undignified, slipping and
Sliding on frezzle flume fruit
Peels.
♪♪ [Bah]
♪♪ Just look at this behavior.
They're all acting like animals,
I tell you.
♪♪ Like animals!
♪♪ We must lead by example,
Junior. Let us pick up these
Peels.
♪♪ Yes, mother.
♪♪ Why don't you put them in my
Pouch.
♪♪ Yes, I will, mother.
♪♪ Yes, I will, mother. ♪♪ That's good. There, yes.
♪♪ That's good. There, yes.
♪♪ Hey!
♪♪ What is she doing?!
♪♪ Oh, wonderful, junior.
Oh, there's a fine one.
♪♪ Ugh...
♪♪ Well, hello there fellow
Dwellers of beautiful lake
Winna-bango. What's going on?
♪♪ Well, jane kangaroo is
Cleaning up all the frezzle
Flume peels.
♪♪ Oh, she isn't it?!
♪♪ Take a look for yourself.
♪♪ There we go. All tidied up.
Come, junior.
♪♪ Yes, mother.
♪♪ She is!
♪♪ Friends and neighbors of lake
Winna-bango, attention!
Attention!
♪♪ Attention please!
♪♪ Thank you, junior.
♪♪ Go ahead, mother.
♪♪ From now on we will no longer
Discard our frezzle flume fruit
Peels on the ground.
♪♪ Not on the ground!
♪♪ Instead, we shall place them
Neatly in this frezzle flume
Fruit peel receptacle.
♪♪ Yeah. In the respectacle
In the spectacle--in the can!
♪♪ Thank you, junior. Like this.
Yes. And also we will no longer
Allow any slipping or sliding on
Frezzle flume fruit peels here
At lake winna-bango.
♪♪ Huh?
♪♪ We can't?
♪♪ We--huh?
What?
♪♪ I'm sure you'll agree
Maintaining your balance is so
Much more dignified. Thank you.
And please enjoy the rest of
This lovely morning.
♪♪ Morning.
♪♪ Come, junior.
♪♪ Yes, mother.
♪♪ Ahh. Ahh.
Oh, no! This is bad.
Oh my gosh. Oh my dear.
♪♪ Yes, we waited all ye-e-ear
For these fruits to appear.
♪♪ Uh-huh.
♪♪ Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
That's odd. Do you hear that?
♪♪ Hmm.
No. Don't hear nothing.
♪♪ Exactly.
Don't hear the waterfall.
♪♪ You can hear the waterfall
From this far away?
♪♪ When it's falling.
And it's not falling.
♪♪ Man, that's some set of ears
You got there.
♪♪ Thank you. We moose have keen
Hearing, a great sense of smell,
And impeccable manners too.
♪♪ [Gasp] look! He's right.
The waterfall!
♪♪ It's not falling. Oh, dear.
♪♪ I guess now that the
Waterfall isn't spilling into
Lake winna-bango the lake's
Going to dry up. No more water.
♪♪ No more water?!
♪♪ No more water?! [Screaming]
[Screaming]
♪♪ Well, uh, we've done all we
Can for our community. Time to
Pack up and move to greener
Pastures.
♪♪ [Screaming]
♪♪ Pack it up! Pack it up!
♪♪ This is where we live. It's
Our home! We can't just pack up
And leave.
♪♪ Well, we're all packed up,
And we're ready to leave.
♪♪ ♪ Please, please,
I know I can figure
This mystery out,
Just give me a chance,
Let me search,
Let me scout,
Let me hunt high and low,
And each clue I'll deduce
Till I bring back the answer,
Till I bring back the answer, yes, i, thigwick the moose ♪
Yes, i, thigwick the moose ♪
♪♪ [Whispering indistinctly]
♪♪ We decided to give you a
Chance to save us before lake
Winna-bango becomes...puddle
Winna-bango.
♪♪ Which by my calculations
Should happen in hours
Minutes and seconds.
♪♪ , ...
♪♪ You won't be sorry!
♪♪ Keep going.
♪♪ , , ...
♪♪ [Breathing heavily]
No water here. No water there.
There must be water...somewhere.
[Gulp]
♪ The waterfall has stopped,
What a puzzling puzzle ♪
♪♪ ♪ The puzzlingest puzzle
If ever there wuzzle ♪
♪♪ ♪ But watch as I can figure
This mystery out,
I'll snoop and I'll explore,
And I'll search all about,
I got to keep on climbing,
'Cause they're counting on me,
To save every bush, every leaf,
Every tree,
I won't let 'em down,
No, no, no, not me ♪
♪♪ ♪ But there's not
Much time left,
Better move your caboose ♪
♪♪ ♪ I'll solve
This great puzzle,
Yes, i, thigwick the moose ♪
[Birds chirping]
♪♪ Hours minutes.
♪♪ And seconds.
, , .
, , . ♪♪ Ugh. Ahh.
♪♪ Ugh. Ahh.
Hmm. Why I think I found
Something--an unidentifiable
Obstacle blocking my path.
♪♪ Hey! Get away from my foot,
Will ya?
♪ Da di, da da,
Da da di da di, da di ♪
♪♪ Excuse me, wh-o-o-o are you?
♪♪ Why I'm a big bottom rumpit,
That's who, that's who.
I'm sitting and soaking.
What's it to you? Huh?
♪♪ You're blocking our water.
You're stopping its flow.
Your body's so large that the
River can't go.
♪♪ Is that so? Is that so?
Well, what do you know?
♪♪ Do you think you could
Possibly, well, maybe, um, sit
Somewhere else? Somewhere
Equally comfortable?
♪♪ Nope. Nope. Don't think that
I will. I like it right here on
The side of the hill. The water
Is cool. The breeze is so balmy.
I'll talk to ya later.
Hey, I got cheese and salami.
Ahh. [Sniff]
♪ Da di da di
♪♪ It's no use. He won't move.
♪♪ Who--who said that?
♪♪ I did for gosh sakes.
Down here!
You won't get that big guy to
Budge. Only bingle bugs can do
That. I'm an expert on bingle
Bugs. I'm an expert on
Everything. [Giggles]
Did you know the principle
Source of income of the
Population of solasaloo is
Professional club dancing?
Interesting huh?
♪♪ Who are you little furry
Creature?
♪♪ I'm a sopping wet, soaking
Wet free range mczuff. I live in
My home on the side of this
Bluff. But now that fat rumpit
Has plugged up the stream. And
My home is so flooded, I'd just
Like to scream. [Inhales]
Aah!
♪♪ I'm sorry. Did you say
Something? Ha.
♪♪ There you see he won't listen
To me.
♪♪ You said only bingle bugs can
Get him to move. But how can a
Little bug make that "big"
Bottom rumpit get up?
♪♪ It takes a whole swarm to
Move the galute. They sing
And sting him, that gets him to
Scoot.
♪♪ So, the bingle should sting
The big rumpit for fun.
Which gets him to move so the
River will run.
♪♪ And it flows down mt. Crumpet
The way that it ought-a.
♪♪ And lake winna-bango gets
Filled up with "wata." Sorry.
But there's still a piece
Missing from this puzzle. What
Happened to the bingle bugs?
Where are they?
♪♪ They're still way down there
In the valley of fleck. So far
Away it's a pain in the neck.
♪♪ Looks pretty dangerous down
There. Whoa!
♪♪ Careful.
♪♪ And it's getting dark too.
♪♪ Oh, I'm not scared.
♪♪ You're not?
♪♪ Not at all.
♪♪ Not at all. You go first.
You go first.
♪♪ So, you guys following this
So far?
♪♪ Uh...
♪♪ Terrific. Thigwick travels up
Mt. Crumpet to find out why the
Waterfall has stopped.
♪♪ Ohh!
♪♪ He finds a huge hairy rumpit
Blocking the river. The rumpit
Won't move.
♪♪ Uh-oh.
♪♪ A furry little know-it-all
Explains that the rumpit won't
Budge until the bingle bugs come
To sting him.
♪♪ Ahh.
♪♪ But the bugs are far away.
And the journey to find them
Will be long and perilous.
♪♪ Ohh.
♪♪ Any questions?
♪♪ No.
♪♪ No.
♪♪ Yes. You got any donuts?
What?
♪♪ Donuts...
♪♪ Uh, yes, now where were we?
Ah, yes. Back to thigwick and
His time is quickly running out
Now.
♪♪ Hours minutes and,
Junior--
♪♪ Eeh! Yeah, yeah. Seconds,
Mother. , .
♪♪ [Distant mutterings]
♪♪ What's that screeching and
Gibbering?
♪♪ Come on, I'll show you.
♪♪ Come on, I'll show you. ♪♪ [All grunting]
♪♪ [All grunting]
♪♪ [Gasp] wow.
♪♪ [Gasp] wow. Look at that.
Look at that.
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Aah! [Grunting]
[Grunting]
♪♪ What's he saying?
♪♪ Well, I happen to be an
Expert at speaking wickasham.
Allow me to translate.
Ooka, ooka.
[Speaking native language]
[Speaking native language] ♪♪ "I am a green pencil case."
♪♪ "I am a green pencil case."
Whoops. Heh-heh. Sorry. Wrong
Dialect. He says he is bob, king
Of the wickershams. He welcomes
You.
♪♪ Oh.
♪♪ He kisses you.
Oh, he likes you.
♪♪ What are the wickershams
Doing?
Doing? ♪♪ Ook, ooka, ook, ook.
♪♪ Ook, ooka, ook, ook.
♪♪ He says, "each year at this
Time...
The wickershams hold a great
Festival...
In which they chase away the
Annoying...
Bingle bugs."
He says they do this by rattling
Their noisy beezle shell shakers
Which are supposed to be filled
With the shells of beezle nuts.
[No rattling]
[No rattling] ♪♪ I don't hear anything. Aww...
♪♪ I don't hear anything. Aww...
♪♪ He says, "precisely."
He says that "every year at this
Time, the great wind spirit
Drops hundreds of beezle nut
Shells down on them. This year
No shells have fallen."
♪♪ Hmm. Another new piece of the
Puzzle. So, the beezle nut
Nutshells should drop from the
Sky after the wind spirit blows
Them up high.
But this year the wickersham
Shakers don't shake. And we
Don't hear the racket they
Usually make.
♪♪ My bingle bug buddies have
Nothing to fear. They're having
A party. They're staying right
Here.
♪♪ And without any bingles to
Sting the rumpit...
♪♪ The river can't flow down the
Side of mt. Crumpet.
♪♪ Which means that no water
Flows over the falls.
♪♪ And lake winna-bango is no
Lake at all.
♪♪ So, what happened to the
Shells? Where are they?
♪♪ Hmm. Good question.
♪♪ [Speaking native language]
♪♪ They king says--bob says he
Knows where the wind spirit
Lives--in the far off grottoes
Of greep.
♪♪ Greep!
♪♪ Hmm. Well, it's off to the
Grottoes. Uh, that'll take a
While. Sounds pretty scary too.
♪♪ He says, he's not afraid.
♪♪ He's not?!
♪♪ He's not?! ♪♪ He says, "you go first."
♪♪ He says, "you go first."
♪♪ Hours minutes.
♪♪ And seconds.
♪♪ And seconds. , ...
, ...
♪♪ The king says...
Bob says, "this is the home of
The great wind spirit. The
Shells usually fly from this
Cave."
♪♪ It looks pretty frightening
In there.
♪♪ He says--
♪♪ I know. I know. I'll go
First.
♪♪ [Speaking native language]
♪♪ Hey! There are nutshells in
Here.
[Loud rumbling]
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Whoa!
♪♪ No, not a duck. A moose.
♪♪ Bleh. Well, that was loud,
Frightening too.
♪♪ Oh, did you see anything?
♪♪ Well, some nutshells.
And a whole lot of darkness.
♪♪ All you got to do is go in
There and get those nutshells.
♪♪ I'm not going in there.
♪♪ I'm not going in there.
♪♪ [Speaking native language]
♪♪ I'll never figure out this
Puzzle.
[Rumbling]
♪♪ What is that sound?
♪♪ Those are the sneepers,
Definitely the sneepers.
♪♪ Who are you [indistinct]
Little creatures?
♪♪ We're sneels.
♪♪ Mmm.
♪♪ Sneels! Ground dwelling
Vertebrates, strong forefeet,
Like spicy food.
♪♪ Yeah.
♪♪ Oh, sneels. Got it.
♪♪ That snoring you hear
Comes from slumbering sneepers.
They live in that cave.
♪♪ And they're very sound
Sleepers.
♪♪ And when they're awakened, oh
Boy do they shout! They yell and
They scream and they throw
Nutshells out.
♪♪ Nutshells? That's what we
Need to get their shakers
Shaking. Well, let's 'em wake
Up.
♪♪ Well, there's only one thing
That can stop them from
Dreaming.
♪♪ They only wake up when their
Babies start screaming.
♪♪ Oh, yeah. They do hate that.
♪♪ Oh, yeah.
♪♪ You bet ya.
♪♪ Mm-hmm.
♪♪ Hmm. The crying baby sneepers
Should wake up the sneepers who
Throw out their shells. Ha ha.
Then all we have to do is get
Your crying babies. Where are
Those teary little tikes?
♪♪ Well, we can't hatch our
Eggs.
♪♪ 'Cause we can't build our
Nests.
♪♪ And we really don't want you
To think that we're pests. But
Without our fruit peels...
♪♪ That's the end of us sneels.
♪♪ Ohh.
♪♪ [Sniffing] that's so sad.
The end of--
Did you say fruit peels?
♪♪ Yeah. That I did.
♪♪ Would these fruit peels be of
A certain variety?
♪♪ Yeah. Frezzle.
♪♪ Flume.
♪♪ Frezzle flume.
♪♪ Frezzle flume?
♪♪ Yeah. We collect them once a
Year to build our nests so we
Can hatch our babies.
♪♪ But this year--no frezzle
Flume peels. No peels, no
Sneels.
♪♪ Well, where do you usually
Get 'em?
♪♪ Huh? Right around the bend
Over there by lake winna-bango.
♪♪ Lake winna-bango? Just around
That bend?
♪♪ Uh-huh.
♪♪ Uh-huh. ♪♪ Excuse me.
♪♪ Excuse me.
♪♪ Ohh!
♪♪ Where'd he go?
♪♪ A strange moose. [Indistinct]
♪♪ Here ya go!
♪♪ Frezzle fruit peels! Thank
You!
♪♪ At last, the final piece of
The puzzle. And it's a piece of
Frezzle flume fruit.
Frezzle flume fruit. ♪♪ Oh! Eeh!
♪♪ Oh! Eeh!
♪♪ And now we all know that
Frezzle flume peels are used to
Make nests to hatch baby sneels.
♪♪ [All crying]
♪♪ Which takes us right back to
The grottoes of greep.
♪♪ Hey, shut up out there! We're
Trying to sleep!
♪♪ And the wickashams get all
The nutshells they need.
♪♪ To scare off those bingles
Who sing and stampede.
♪♪ Back up to mt. Crumpet.
♪♪ Indeed. Yes, indeed. Ha.
♪♪ That's our cue. This is it.
Let's sting that fat rumpit
Until he cant sit.
[Buzzing]
[Buzzing] ♪♪ ugh! Unh!
♪♪ Ugh! Unh!
♪♪ Ahh, the floodwaters are
Receeding. Whoo! I've got my
Home back. Thankfully I built
My dwelling using pine resin.
Resins are solids or semi
Solids, resistant to most
Liquids--
♪♪ Meanwhile back at lake
Winna-bango...
♪♪ What about resins?
♪♪ , , ,
, --
Huh?
♪♪ Wow! The waterfall.
♪♪ [Sigh] how lovely. Shan't be
Needing this anymore. Come,
Junior.
♪♪ Yes, mother.
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin
Without it ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ ♪ Where would we be
Without it ♪
♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,
Frezzle flume fruit ♪
♪♪ Whee!
♪♪ Thigwick's our hero!
♪♪ Hip-hip-hip hooray!
♪♪ He saved winna-bango.
♪♪ A moose saved the day.
♪♪ Ahh.
♪♪ Ahh. ♪♪ Thank you.
♪♪ Thank you.
♪♪ Imagine a frezzle flum fruit
Peel which seemed very small
Could in fact put an end to a
Great waterfall.
♪♪ Imagine.
What?
What?
♪♪ Oh, my! This is quite
Pleasant!
♪♪ Mom!
♪♪ Ah-ha! Now this is what I
♪♪ Ah-ha! Now this is what I call teamwork. Forward, fellas.
Call teamwork. Forward, fellas.
01x09 - The Mystery Of Winna-Bango Falls
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Combines live puppets with digitally animated backgrounds, and in its first season, refashioning characters and themes from the original Dr. Seuss books into new stories that often retained much of the flavor of Dr. Seuss' own works.
Combines live puppets with digitally animated backgrounds, and in its first season, refashioning characters and themes from the original Dr. Seuss books into new stories that often retained much of the flavor of Dr. Seuss' own works.