♪♪ Hello!
♪ Come on along, get up
And let's shout hooray now ♪
♪♪ Hooray! Here we go!
♪♪ Ha ha!
♪♪ ♪ We're gonna have
A wubbulous kind of day now ♪
♪♪ Come on, sarah.
♪♪ Ok.
♪♪ ♪ Just grab a hat
And spin around
You'll be feet
Off the ground ♪
♪♪ Great!
♪♪ ♪ Come on along,
We're waiting for you ♪
♪♪ Come on!
♪♪ ♪ This is the song
To welcome you to
"The wubbulous world
Of dr. Seuss" ♪
♪♪ Hooray! Hooray!
Hooray I say!
I'm so glad that you're here.
I like it a lot.
It's just not as much fun
To be here when you're not.
Ah-ha! Today is a very big day.
Very big indeed.
I have some exciting news for
You...
Ah ha ha ha.
My very good friend, terrence
Mcbird has the new hooble ball
Game.
There's nothing quite like it,
There's nothing the same.
Hooble ball is seussville's
Most popular game.
Let's take a look!
♪♪ Ohh boy, oh ho ho.
Uh, ah ha ha ha.
Go terrence, go!
Yes, yes, yes, ooh, good
Serve, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Oh, ah, ha ha ha!
Yeah.
♪♪ No good! No good!
Try again birdie.
♪♪ Aw, drat!
♪♪ Hello terrence.
♪♪ Oh. Hi, cat.
♪♪ This is a very lovely looking
Hooble ball set.
♪♪ Hmm, yeah, it's a tough game,
Though cat. Ah-ugh!
You have to hit it on one side,
And then cross over and hit it
Back in time.
♪♪ Ah, terrence, I think I
Know a way to play the new
Hooble ball game that will make
It even "more" fun.
Watch this, terrence. Watch.
♪♪ Time's running out!
♪♪ Cat!
♪♪ What?
♪♪ This is "my" toy that "I'm"
Playing with because it's
"Mine!"
♪♪ Ah, but terrence, terrence,
You see, if we shared
The game...
♪♪ Too late! Game over.
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
♪♪ That's great.
That's great, cat.
This is "my" toy, and "you're"
Getting in the way.
♪♪ But terrence, if we shared--
♪♪ One side, please.
♪♪ But...
♪♪ Serve!
♪♪ ♪ Well, I could talk
To myself
But I get bored that way,
I always seem to know
Just what I'm about to say,
It's so much more interesting
Talking to you,
You know some things are better
When they're done by ,
Some things are better
When they're done by ,
Can be so lonely,
After all, is only ,
No fun!
Can be a set, make a pair,
Sing a duet, play doubles,
Work together,
Be birds of a feather,
I like to pitch a nerdle ball
If someone's there to catch it,
If I got an itch
That I can't reach
I need a friend to scratch it,
To give myself a boost
Is a thing I just can't do,
Some things are better
When they're done by ,
Some things are better
When they're done by ,
Some things are better
When they're done...
When they're done... By ♪
By ♪
♪♪ Ya-ha.
♪♪ Yes, some things are better
When they're done by , bird.
♪♪ Unh! Oh. I'm sorry, cat.
I was playing hooble ball.
I didn't hear you.
What did you say?
♪♪ Oh, nothing. Nothing at all.
Oh me, oh my.
I am a sad cat.
♪♪ Serve!
[Sigh]
[Fanfare plays]
Why it's a story alert!
[Boing!]
♪♪ Let's listen!
[Laughing]
♪♪ It's the sound of friends
Laughing in the wubbulous world.
To the wubbulascope!
Here we are.
Let's crank up the
Wubbulascope and take a look at
All the friends in the wubbulous
All the friends in the wubbulous world.
World.
Friends over here,
Friends over there.
In seussville, it seems,
In seussville, it seems, friends are everywhere!
Friends are everywhere!
Friends are everywhere! [Honk!]
[Honk!]
[Boing!]
♪♪ Here is freddy zatz and
Teddy spatz.
♪♪ Hey there.
♪♪ These two just might be
The best friends in town.
They do things together.
♪♪ Like bounce up and down!
♪♪ ♪ La la la la la la...
♪♪ See them go for a ride
On their bamboozle bike.
Why these friends are so
Close...
♪♪ We think and talk alike!
♪ La la la la la la...
♪♪ They do everything together.
They work as a team.
♪♪ Let's go for a snack.
Ok? How about pre-melted blue
Bouncing bubble ice cream!
Argh.
♪♪ Ahh.
♪♪ Ahh. ♪♪ ♪ La la la la la la...
♪♪ ♪ La la la la la la...
♪♪ Oh, may I help you?
♪♪ Yes.
♪♪ Well, who's first?
♪♪ He is.
♪♪ Who?
♪♪ Him.
♪♪ You?
♪♪ Me.
♪♪ Who?
♪♪ He.
♪♪ Would you please just tell me
What you want?
♪♪ Pre-melted blue bouncing
Bubble ice cream, please!
♪♪ Oh, sure.
♪♪ Oh, sure. ♪♪ [Gasps]
♪♪ [Gasps]
♪♪ To the jungle of nool,
That's our next stop.
To see a friend who can fly,
And a friend who can hop.
♪♪ [Both laughing]
♪♪ Ha ha!
♪♪ Hey morton, look how high I
Can jump! Waha waha.
♪♪ Wow!
♪♪ Woo he ho ho!
♪♪ Yeow! Here I come, wah.
♪♪ Whoa!
Hey, I can see my house from
Here! Woo...
♪♪ Gotcha!
♪♪ Thanks man!
♪♪ No problem.
♪♪ There are friends everywhere
And those are the facts
Even here on mount crumpit
Where the grinch lives with max.
♪♪ It's just me and you, max.
♪♪ [Barking]
♪♪ Look at this.
♪♪ [Barking]
♪♪ Here ya go. Here ya go.
Go get it boy! Go!
Get it boy. Yeah? Ohh!
Good boy, good boy. Ohh.
It's not always easy to be so
Grinchy when someone loves you
As much as you love me.
♪♪ Having fun with a friend,
Is easy, a cinch.
Anyone can do it.
Even the grinch.
Yes, these two are friends
And they'll be friends forever.
Friends have fun when they
Do things together.
Ah, there's nothing like a
Friend.
Maybe my friend terrence is
Ready to play with me now.
♪♪ Welcome back hooble ball
Fans. The bird hits the ball.
He's struggling folks. I don't
Think he's gonna make it.
And he...
♪♪ Hi, terrence.
♪♪ Ohh.
♪♪ Doesn't make it.
♪♪ Are you having fun yet?
♪♪ Oh, this game is a lot of
Work, cat. Ohh...
♪♪ I was thinking that perhaps
I could help you with the hooble
Ball soon?
♪♪ Cat, this is "my" toy that I
Am playing with because it's
"Mine."
I play it "alone!"
Ah, whoo, ah, oh.
[Whoosh]
♪♪ I wonder what that could be?
I think I know who's in this
Box...
♪♪ It's fox.
♪♪ And knox.
♪♪ And we are in the box.
Ah-ha!
♪♪ Oh, hooray!
I'm so happy to see you.
Fox, knox?
♪♪ Yes, cat?
♪♪ My good friend mr. Terrence
Mcbird has the new
Hooble ball game.
♪♪ Ooh...
♪♪ It's "my" hooble ball game.
♪♪ If we had the new hooble ball
Game...
♪♪ I'd share it with you, mr.
Knox.
♪♪ I'd share it with you, mr.
Fox.
♪♪ Aw, thank you, mr. Knox.
♪♪ You're welcome, mr. Fox.
♪♪ Aww, ah, ha.
♪♪ Could you, perhaps, tell us
More about the way you share?
More about the way you share? ♪♪ Sure!
♪♪ Sure!
♪♪ ♪ I'm mr. Fox
♪♪ ♪ I'm mr. Knox
♪♪ ♪ We share our socks
♪♪ ♪ I'll get the socks
♪♪ ♪ Uh, mr. Fox?
♪♪ ♪ I'm in the box!
♪♪ ♪ Mr. Knox?
♪♪ ♪ I'm in the box!
Ha ha!
♪♪ ♪ Here we are!
♪♪ ♪ And here's our socks,
We share our socks ♪
♪♪ ♪ And clocks and blocks,
I have clocks ♪
♪♪ ♪ And I have blocks
♪♪ ♪ I'll put my clocks in
Knox's socks ♪
♪♪ ♪ I'll put my blocks in fox's
Socks ♪
Ha ha!
♪♪ ♪ Oh, we have blocks and
Clocks and socks ♪
♪♪ ♪ And we share them all
♪♪ Oh, yeah.
♪♪ ♪ Inside our box
♪♪ ♪ This box belongs to fox and
Knox!
Blocks and clocks
And also socks,
All in fox and knox's box! ♪
♪♪ Very good job, mr. Fox!
♪♪ Thank you, mr. Knox!
♪♪ This is a very intense
Moment, the bird is down.
I don't know if he's coming
Back.
♪♪ Ohh...
♪♪ So, terrence, did that
Make you want to play together?
With me?
♪♪ Cat, oh, I can handle this
By myself.
♪♪ I wouldn't be too sure about
That. This bird's gotta be
Thinking,
"Why can't I get this game
Started."
♪♪ It's my game.
Now cat, go away!
♪♪ All right, bird. Hmm.
What a stubborn bird.
I just wish he would share this
Game with me.
[Fanfare plays]
[Boing!]
♪♪ Ahh...
"What's happening to yertle?
You'll soon see, I hope.
If you go to the
Wubbulascope!"
Oh me, oh my.
Let's crank up the wubbulascope
And see what's happening to
And see what's happening to yertle the turtle.
Yertle the turtle.
And yertle the turtle lives
Right here
In the jungle of nool.
Yertle the turtle
Has a collection of nuts.
It is the world's greatest
Collection,
No if's and's or buts.
No if's and's or buts. [Boing!]
[Boing!]
♪♪ Nuts! Hmm-hmm-hmm.
I'm nuts about nuts.
Oh, hoo hoo. Hmm.
Time to count them.
.
.
, , .
♪ All these nuts just for me,
, , , ,
Gee, I must be in nut heaven,
, , Me and my nuts
Are feeling fine,
Here's nut ,
...?!
♪♪ Hi, yertle.
♪♪ How's it goin'?
♪♪ Stay back! These are my nuts.
♪♪ Wow! These are all yours?
♪♪ Yes!
♪♪ Whoa! Can I have one?
They look really tasty.
♪♪ [Gasp] no!
I'm the only one who gets to eat
Them or count them or--or--or--
Or anything.
♪♪ You mean you don't have
Anyone to share your nut
Collection with?
♪♪ Well, i...
♪♪ That's too bad.
It's really great to have
Friends to share things with,
♪♪ You said it, pal!
♪♪ "My" nut collection is the
Best in the world. And I "don't"
Need to share it with a "friend"
Or anyone else.
♪♪ Ok, yertle.
♪♪ Have it your way, pal.
♪♪ Yes. Yes, that's right.
I like to have things my way.
Now, why don't you two "friends"
Just, uh, run along and leave me
Alone?
♪♪ Sure, see ya, yertle.
♪♪ Hey, morton, I found another
Cool rock for my rock
Collection. You wanna see it?
♪♪ Sure!
♪♪ Come on.
♪♪ Cool.
♪♪ Uh... Eh...
I have the--the greatest nut
Collection in the world!
Eh...eh... That's all I need.
Uh, I certainly don't need a
Friend.
♪♪ Hey, that is one fine nut
Collection you have there.
♪♪ Who--who said that?
♪♪ You have thurple nuts.
And burple nuts.
These are great nuts you have
Here.
♪♪ I'm rather proud of them.
Ahem.
Have you ever seen one of
These?
♪♪ [Gasp] oh my!
That's the very rare nut of the
Foofula tree.
♪♪ Yes, and I have one.
♪♪ My name's earl.
♪♪ My name's yertle.
♪♪ Yertle, do you have the nut
Of the...snozberry snout tree?
♪♪ The snozberry snout tree?!
Why no, earl. That's the rarest
Nut in the world.
♪♪ I have one!
♪♪ But--i don't! Earl!
♪♪ [Sigh]
Ahh.
♪♪ [Gasp]
♪♪ Here it is.
I know where I can get you one.
♪♪ Do you really, earl?
♪♪ Follow me.
♪♪ Oh, hah hah oh ah ooh!
♪♪ It's kind of a long walk to
The snozberry snout tree,
Yertle. I hope you don't mind.
♪♪ Oh, not at all earl.
I--i don't mind.
I--i happen to enjoy taking
Long walks.
♪♪ Me too, yertle.
♪♪ Hmm.
♪♪ You ever like to stop and
Just swing on the vines?
♪♪ Why, ye--yes I do, yertle!
♪♪ Really? What do you say we go
And swing on some right now?
♪♪ That's a great idea!
♪♪ Ha ha. Come on, earl, ooh oh,
Let's swing!
♪♪ Wow! Ohh!
Ooh, wow!
♪♪ Look at me earl!
♪♪ Look at me earl! ♪♪ [Laughing, cheering]
♪♪ [Laughing, cheering]
♪♪ I'm giddy, earl! Whoa!
Whoa...
Oh, earl, that was fun!
♪♪ Sure was!
I'm getting a little hungry,
Yertle. I could use a snack.
How about you?
♪♪ You know earl, I am a little
Hungry.
♪♪ It's a good thing I brought
Along a couple of burple nut
Butter cookies with me.
♪♪ Burple nut butter cookies are
My favorite!
♪♪ Then take a look at these!
♪♪ Ahh...
[Cough] yes, well.
I--i hope you enjoy your
Cookies.
♪♪ You don't want one, yertle?
♪♪ No, of course I want one,
Earl. But those are your
Cookies. And I'm sure you
Want to keep those cookies all
To yourself.
♪♪ Not at all, yertle.
Take one, please.
♪♪ Really?! You don't mind?
♪♪ Uh-uh. Take a cookie.
♪♪ Oh-oh. Thank you, earl.
Thank you.
♪♪ You're welcome, yertle.
Are you ready to keep walking?
♪♪ Oh, yes. I don't want to
Miss the snozberry snout tree!
♪♪ Follow me!
♪♪ What a nice guy.
♪♪ [Gasp] look there, yertle.
The snozberry snout tree.
♪♪ Ooh.
♪♪ Come on, yertle. Follow me!
♪♪ Come on, yertle. Follow me! ♪♪ Yes!
♪♪ Yes!
[Breathing hard] whew. Ohh...
Earl, it's so tall.
♪♪ It's going to be hard to get.
♪♪ Ooh. What do we do now?
♪♪ It's awful high.
♪♪ Why don't you climb on my
Shoulders, earl.
Oh, that's a great idea, yertle.
Let me get my leg up here--
♪♪ You're doing great.
♪♪ I can almost reach it--
♪♪ Earl! Earl! I can't see.
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ [Groaning] ohh-kay.
Well, earl, that didn't work.
♪♪ Uh-uh.
♪♪ It's too high.
We'll have to try something
Else.
♪♪ Maybe we can climb the tree.
♪♪ Hmm. Maybe. But there's no
Branches to grab onto.
♪♪ Oww, let's try it.
♪♪ Ok, earl.
♪♪ Ah, ha!
♪♪ [Groans]
♪♪ Come on.
♪♪ Rightio.
♪♪ [Groans]
♪♪ [Giggling]
♪♪ Whoa!
♪♪ Yertle, did you hear that?
♪♪ Yes, I did.
♪♪ Hmm. Ok.
♪♪ [Giggling]
♪♪ Whoa!
♪♪ Yertle,
This tree is ticklish.
♪♪ Wha...
♪♪ [Giggling]
♪♪ Look at that.
♪♪ Maybe the nut will fall off
The tree if we can make it shake
Enough.
♪♪ Let's keep tickling.
♪♪ [Giggling]
♪♪ Earl, are you certain this
Will work?
♪♪ [Giggling continues]
♪♪ Oh, it's going to fall!
♪♪ Oh, it's going to fall! ♪♪ [Tree laughing hard]
♪♪ [Tree laughing hard]
♪♪ Oh, oh, I think it's working.
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ Hey, are you ok?
Are you ok?
♪♪ Earl, earl...
We did it! We did it!
Oh, thank you, earl. Thank you.
♪♪ Oh, oh, now we both have
One of the very rare nuts of the
Snozberry snout tree!
♪♪ Oh, earl! Oh, earl! Whoo-hoo!
Well, I can't thank you enough
Earl, it's just fantastic.
♪♪ Sure.
♪♪ Oh, it's you two--
The friends.
♪♪ Hey, yertle.
♪♪ Hey.
♪♪ I'll have the two of you know
That "i" don't need any friends.
I've got earl.
And earl and I do things
Together, and we have lots of
Fun!
♪♪ Um, yertle, um, that's what a
Friend is.
♪♪ It is?
♪♪ Sure, a friend is someone who
Likes to do the same things as
You.
♪♪ Really?
♪♪ Yup! I'm your friend, yertle.
♪♪ Well, what do you know?
Heh, heh, heh, heh, hey, hey,
I--i like this friends idea.
I--i think I'd like more
Friends.
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ Would you two like to be my
Friends, junior and morton?
♪♪ Ok.
♪♪ Hey, what do you say, we all
Go back to my place and share
Some burple nuts.
♪♪ Ooh!
♪♪ Yeah, come on!
♪♪ Yeah, come on! ♪♪ All right, let's go!
♪♪ All right, let's go!
♪♪ Well, that is certainly
Something. Yertle the turtle
Found a friend to play with.
♪♪ Haww!
♪♪ Hmm? What is it,
My birdly friend?
♪♪ Haww! That's it cat. That's
All. I can't take it any more.
♪♪ What's the matter terrence?
♪♪ Ahh. I'm through with
Hooble ball.
♪♪ But you just got the game.
♪♪ Hooble ball's a hard game,
Cat. I don't like playing it
Alone.
♪♪ That's what I was trying
To say!
♪♪ Oh, oh, I'm done, cat.
You can have my game of hooble
Ball. Oh.
♪♪ No. Terrence.
♪♪ No? No?!
But--but, cat, you kept begging
Me for it! And--and now you--
You--you don't want to play?
What are you talking about?
♪♪ Well, the game is nice.
But what I wanted was to play it
With you.
♪♪ [Gulp] oh. I...
Heh--
♪♪ See terrence, I was excited
About you and I playing hooble
Ball together.
♪♪ Together?
♪♪ Yes, terrence.
♪♪ Oh, boy, folks, it looks like
We might have a real game on our
Hands!
♪♪ Now I will hit the ball to
You.
♪♪ Wow! And I hit it back.
♪♪ Oh, this is amazing, folks!
This is hooble ball at its best.
This is hooble ball at its best. ♪♪ Oh, yeah!
♪♪ Oh, yeah!
Oh, ho, ho.
♪♪ Hmph.
♪♪ Wow.
♪♪ Ah. Ha.
♪♪ Oh, yeah.
[Ringing]
♪♪ Yes! Yes! Yes!
♪♪ This game is much more fun
When played by .
Oh, thank you cat, thank you.
♪♪ Aw, not at all, my birdly
Friend. I'm always happy to
Help out a friend.
♪♪ You're a good friend.
In fact, I think you're the best
Friend a bird could have.
♪♪ Thank you, terrence.
♪♪ Oh, that was one amazing game
Of hooble ball.
You've got talent, bird.
♪♪ My, that was fun.
I'm so glad you were here, and I
"Love" playing hooble ball.
I just don't think this day
Could get any better.
Could get any better. [Piano playing]
[Piano playing]
♪♪ ♪ Hooray for us,
Hooray I say,
Hooray for all the fun
That we have every day,
And all the new faces
And all the new places we see,
Just you and me,
So come back soon,
And when you do
I'll have some new surprises
In my hat for you,
Just one last thing
And then I'm on my way,
Let's shout hooray!
Let's shout hooray! Just shout hooray! ♪
Just shout hooray! ♪
02x13 - A Bird's Best Friend
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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.