02x32 - Humph! Humph! Humph!

[bunniefuu]

WOMAN: ♪ Hey, now... ♪

♪ Hey, wow... ♪

♪ Here's how ♪

♪ Come and read ♪

♪ Between the lions ♪

CHORUS: ♪ Come on ♪

♪ Come in ♪

♪ Begin ♪

♪ The world awaits ♪

WOMAN: ♪ Between the lions ♪

♪ Between the covers of a book ♪

♪ It's time to look between the lions ♪

♪ Behold the tales beyond the tails ♪

CHORUS: ♪ Behind the door ♪

♪ Become, explore ♪

♪ Come in between the lions ♪

♪ Begin between the lions ♪

♪ Be here between the lions! ♪

Scene 1

WOMAN: Whoosh! went the first bone

and whoosh! went the second one

and wham! went the third.

CLICK: As your designated reader for today

I have selected the...

HEATH: Not big, extremely diminutive

itty-bitty, teeny-tiny, very little girl

named Thumbelina.

Hiya, Heath!

Hi, Lionel!

I want you to meet my new best buddy, Gus.

( whistling )

( Gus chuckling )

Hey.

Gus, Heath the Thesaurus.

Heath, Gus.

Hey, hi, hello, greetings!

How's it going?

What's up?

You are.

HEATH: Me?

Me! Up!

( laughs )

Funny.

Gus is the captain

of the jumping team at school.

He's like the, um, Tiger Words of jumping.

Oh, you don't say.

Hey, come on.

I want you to meet everybody.

Okay.

( grunting )

( all gasping )

Hey, Gus!

Wait for me!

( grunts )

THEO: That's my funny bone.

CLEO: That is, yes.

( panting )

Mom, Dad...

meet my new buddy, Gus.

( chuckles )

Hey, Gus, pleased to meet you.

Yes, Gus, welcome to the library.

Thanks.

You said you were going to take me

to see where you and your family live.

Yeah.

( softly ): This is a library.

Well, I live here.

Mm-hmm.

You live in a library?!

Yeah, it's pretty cool, huh?

Books for miles, anytime I want to read.

Don't you just love reading?

Me? Reading?

Oh, yeah, love it.

Love books, read them all the time.

As a matter of fact, I am a speed reader.

Mm-hmm, watch this.

Wow!

Not a bad story.

( laughing )

Hey, that's very funny, Gus.

Hey, kid's got a sense of humor, huh?

CLEO: Yes, he's quite a funny bunny.

Quite a funny bunny!

Yeah, he's a riot.

( laughing )

Hey, Lionel.

Didn't you say you had a little sister?

Yeah-- Leona.

Oh-- well, let's go.

Later, Mr. and Mrs. Lion.

BOTH: Bye, Gus.

Good to meet you, son.

Whoa, man!

Hey, hey, hey, wait up!

Oh...

WOMAN: Hi, Leona.

Hi.

( Lionel panting )

Lionel!

Hey.

Gus, this is my sister.

Leona.

How did you know my name?

Lionel told me all about you

but, um... I wanted to meet you anyway.

( laughing )

It's a joke-- a joke.

Oh... ( laughing )

Oh, Lionel, Lionel!

It's Designated Reader Day today

and you're my designated reader.

Oh, yeah!

Great!

Hey, Gus-- how would you like to be

Leona's designated reader?

Oh, yeah!

M-m-m-me?

Yeah.

( stammering )

I couldn't.

I mean, I could...

I could, but I can't

because... I don't know what a designated reader is

so... so I can't.

A designated reader

is someone who gets to read to someone

who doesn't know how to read yet.

There, now you know.

So you can read to me.

Yeah, go on, go ahead.

Oh, no, no, no, it's okay.

I... i-i-it must be very special

to be a designated reader.

So, uh... I wouldn't want

to take that away from you, man.

Okay, okay.

You're positive?

No, I'm Gus.

( laughing )

( laughing )

Well, uh, maybe some other time, right, Gus?

( clears throat )

( Lionel reading )

Oh, I love this one!

Lionel:

( camel snorts )

LIONEL: Presently, the horse came to him with a saddle on his back

and said...

"Humph!" said the camel, and the horse went away.

Presently the dog came to him with a stick in his mouth

and said...

"Humph!" said the camel, and the dog went away.

Presently the ox came to him with a yoke on his neck

and said...

"Humph!" said the camel.

And the ox went away.

Now, all this made the three very angry

with the world so new-and-all.

Presently, there came along

the djinn in charge of all deserts.

What's a djinn?

Hey, you're not supposed to interrupt, kid.

Sure, you are

if you have a question.

A djinn is like a wizard who's in charge of the desert.

Right... right.

I knew that.

"So, the horse said ( whinnies )..."

LIONEL: The djinn found the camel looking at his own reflection

in a pool of water.

And the camel said "humph!" again

but no sooner had he said it

than he saw his back puffing up and puffing up

into a great, big, lolloping humph!

LIONEL: And the camel humphed himself, humph and all

and went away to join the Three

and from that day to this, the camel always wears a humph.

We call it "hump" now, not to hurt his feelings.

But he has never yet caught up

with the three days that he missed

at the beginning of the world

and he has never yet learned how to behave.

Wow.

Deep.

Very deep.

Yeah, great story, Lionel.

You really know how to read.

Aw, thanks a lot, Gus, but you know

I bet you would have read it a lot better.

Me? Nah!

Different, maybe, but not better.

Different?

LEONA: What do you mean, different?

I mean, I mean, different how?

Read it to me again.

Show me, show me!

Uh, show you? No, no, no.

You don't want to hear the same story again.

Well, it won't be the same

because you said it would be different.

Uh, yeah, yeah.

Well, you know, I-I promised your big brother

that I would show him how to jump-- yeah.

Jumping can wait.

No...

Yeah, yeah, jumping can wait.

Aw, come on, please, Gussy.

Please, please, please.

Look, I said no!

No, I am not going to read to you!

Don't you know what "no" means?

Come on, Lionel.

Mm-hmm, I know.

( grunting )

( sadly ): Okay.

Sorry about that, Leona.

Hey, I, uh...

I wonder what made Gussy all "humphy."

( sniffles )

I didn't mean to.

Cliff Hanger And The Big Flying Rug

Flying off the shelf once again

it's the continuing

daring and dangling Adventures of Cliff Hanger!

Today's adventure, number 73--

"Cliff Hanger and the Big Flying Rug."

CHORUS ( singing ):

We find Cliff Hanger where we left him last

hanging from a cliff.

( branch breaking )

Suddenly, Cliff sees a big flying rug.

Unruffled, Cliff reaches into his backpack

and takes out...

his trusty survival manual.

Using his expert decoding skills

Cliff begins to read.

( Cliff reading )

What luck!

Is plucky Cliff Hanger finally off that cliff?

Ugh!

( sighs )

♪ And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger. ♪

Vowel Boot Camp (Short U)

TROOPS ( chanting ): ♪ A, E, I, O, U ♪

♪ Sometimes Y's a vowel, too ♪

♪ Sound off-- A, E ♪

♪ Sound off-- I, O, U ♪

♪ Sound off-- A! E! I! O! U! ♪

♪ Y, too! ♪

( bugle blowing reveille )

SARGE: Move it! Move it! Move it!

Wake up!

Wake up! Wake up!

This isn't Camp Gummy-wummy-cutie-pie!

This is Vowel Boot Camp!

Vowel squad, sound off!

A!

E!

I!

O!

U!

Y!

Your head's on upside down, private!

Sorry, sir?

I'm not talking to you!

U!

( U gasps )

There are no Ns or any other consonants

in this squad!

Hit the deck and give me a "u"!

( U gasping desperately )

SARGE: Front and center, U!

( footsteps )

State your long and short sounds!

"U" is my long sound

"uh" is my short sound, sir!

Hmm, suddenly, you get surrounded

by a "c" and a "t"!

Sound?!

"Uh," sir.

And the word?

"Cut," sir.

"Cut," correct...

But say they throw a silent "e"

at the right flank.

What's the drill, soldiers?

( chanting )

Correct!

So what's your sound now, U?

"U," sir!

SARGE: And the word?

"Cute"...

sir!

Correct, Private U.

You are a cut above!

All right, Vowel Squad, let's go make some words!

Forward, march!

( singsong ): Well, you missed me!

You missed me!

Now you've got to...

TROOPS: ♪ A, E, I, O, U, sometimes Y's a vowel, too! ♪

♪ Sound off-- A, E ♪

♪ Sound off-- I, O, U ♪

♪ Sound off-- A! E! I! O! U! ♪

♪ Y, too! ♪

Scene 2

LIONEL: Okay, here we go.

( takes deep breath )

One...

two...

three...

and jump!

( Lionel yelps in pain )

Aw, Gus.

I'll never learn to jump like you.

It's just too hard, man.

Look, I know it's hard, man

but if you really want to do it

it's worth it.

You can learn to jump like me

if you work at it.

You've just got to keep practicing.

Take it one jump at a time...

♪ ♪ ♪

♪ It used to be I couldn't jump ♪

♪ It really wasn't funny ♪

♪ And now you see what I've become: ♪

♪ A super-powered bunny! ♪

♪ The minute you try jumping, man ♪

♪ You're already a winner ♪

♪ So don't go feelin' down and blue ♪

♪ If you're just a beginner! ♪

♪ C'mon and jump right in! ♪

♪ Get over the hump! ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump! ♪

♪ Right out o' the dump! ♪

♪ Hey, jump right in! ♪

♪ Get yourself pumped ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump! ♪

♪ Get off o' your rump! ♪

♪ Every dream you're dreamin' needs a place to start ♪

♪ So jump right in with all o' your heart! ♪

♪ If at first you don't succeed ♪

♪ Hey, don't get grim and grumpy ♪

THEO: ♪ 'Cuz every road worth travelin' ♪

♪ Can get a little bumpy ♪

CLEO: ♪ First you worry 'bout a slump ♪

♪ But soon enough instead ♪

GUS: ♪ You've got to worry 'bout the moon ♪

♪ 'Cuz you might bump your head! ♪

♪ C'mon and jump right in! ♪

♪ Get over the hump! ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump! ♪

♪ Right out o' the dumps! ♪

♪ Hey, jump right in! ♪

♪ Get yourself pumped ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump! ♪

♪ Get off o' your rump! ♪

♪ Every dream you're dreamin' needs a place to start ♪

♪ So jump right in with all o' your heart! ♪

♪ C'mon and jump right in! ♪

♪ Get over the hump! ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump! ♪

♪ Right out o' the dumps! ♪

♪ Hey, jump right in! ♪

♪ Get yourself pumped ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump! ♪

♪ Get off o' your rump! ♪

♪ Every dream you're dreamin' needs a place to start ♪

♪ So jump right in with all o' your heart! ♪

( song ends )

Whoa, yes!

Yes, I did it, Gus!

Gus, I was almost jumping as high as you!

You bet, buddy!

LEONA: Um... Gussy?

Gussy?

Gussy, um...

Leona, you want me

to read you that book!

The answer is still no.

No, no, no, no, no, no!

I just wanted to let you know

that I'm sorry I made you feel "humphy" before

so I wrote you

this "I'm sorry I made you 'humphy'" card.

Here.

Oh! Thanks a lot, kid.

Yeah.

Nice pictures, too.

Oh, thank you.

Aren't you going to read it?

Oh, oh... I just did!

As I told your brother, I am a speed reader.

Yeah, but... but I want you read it out loud.

No, I don't think so.

Your brother and I have to practice jumping.

No, no, no.

It's okay, Gus.

We can practice jumping later.

Read the card to her.

No, no, I don't feel like it.

It's all right, Lionel.

You're making him feel "humphy" again.

You took the time to write it;

he should take the time to read it.

Why don't you read it to her?

Because...!

I don't know how to read!

That's why!

He... he doesn't know how to read?

I guess not.

Wow!

Gawain's Word: Jump

( crowd roaring )

GAWAIN: Excellent!

Gawain here, once again at Blending Fields

where two brave knights in armor

will charge together at high speed and make a word.

Competing today we have Sir J...

And Sir Ump!

( horse whinnies )

Blend on, dudes!

BOTH: Jump!

( cheering )

♪ Cinderella, dressed in yellow... ♪

"Jump"! Excellent!

That's Gawain's word for today

and this is Gawain saying I'll be pumped up

when I see you next time on...

Barnaby B. Busterfield III Is Grumpy

ANNOUNCER: And now, Barnaby B. Busterfield III is grumpy.

BARNABY: I do not wish to be bothered.

BOTH: Very good, Buster!

Hey, Clay, that sure was, uh...

Grumpy?

Yeah!

It's a natural talent.

Skunk In His Bunk (Replaced Letter Song)

♪ ♪ ♪

MAN: ♪ Poor Gulliver Strunk in his bunk ♪

♪ Found a smelly old black-and-white skunk. ♪

♪ So his mom put "st" where "sk" used to be ♪

♪ To explain to the world why he stunk! ♪

Whew!

Barnaby B. Busterfield III Is Grumpier

ANNOUNCER: And now, Barnaby B. Busterfield III is grumpier.

BUSTERFIELD: Now look, this is really starting to bug me.

BOTH: Bravo, Buster!

Don't call me Buster!

Oh! He makes it look so, uh...

Easy?

Yeah!

BUSTERFIELD: Bah!

Tammy Lionette And Jasmine Guy: Hung Up On H

ANNOUNCER: And now Tammy Lionette and Jasmine Guy are "Hung Up on H."

♪ I am hung up on "h" ♪

♪ And the hard-to-learn "hih" sound it makes. ♪

♪ Every time I hear "hih," I lose hope ♪

♪ And my heavy heart aches. ♪

♪ I am hassled and fed up... ♪

♪ Can't hold my head up ♪

♪ 'Cause "h" makes me howl like a hound... ♪

( howling )

♪ I am hung up on "h" ♪

♪ Can't handle that "hih"-"hih"-"hih" sound! ♪

♪ "Hih"-"hih"-"hih" sound ♪

♪ Now, the sounds of most letters ♪

♪ Are found in their name. ♪

♪ "T" goes "tih" ♪

♪ "J" goes "jih" ♪

♪ "K" goes "kih" ♪

♪ But "h" doesn't play ♪

♪ By the rules of that game. ♪

♪ Why doesn't "aitch" go "ay" or "chuh"? ♪

♪ Why a letter called "h" makes a "hih" sound ♪

♪ I'm hard-pressed to see ♪

♪ Hard-pressed to see. ♪

♪ "Hih"-"hih," "hih"-"hih," "hih"-"hih" ♪

♪ "H" sounds like it's laughing at me! ♪

( sobs )

♪ I'm harassed by its cackles ♪

♪ "H" raises my hackles. ♪

♪ Its "hih-hih" has me in a huff ♪

♪ Yes, I'm hung up on "h" ♪

♪ Hih-hih-hih-hih... hih, I've had enough! ♪

♪ Yes, I'm hung up on "h" ♪

♪ Hih-hih-hih-hih... hih, I've had enough! ♪

♪ They've had enough! ♪

( hound howling )

Scene 3

Yeah, but Gus is my best buddy.

What am I going to do?

Well, you can talk to him, son

buddy to buddy.

Well, what am I going to say?

Tell him he has nothing to be ashamed of.

Nobody is born knowing how to read.

Some of us learn when we're little

and some of us learn when we're older.

For some it comes easier...

...for some it's harder.

But that's okay.

Just about all of us can learn to read

if we work at it.

I can't.

I tried.

It's just too hard.

Yes, it's hard.

I know, I know.

But... hey--

hey, remember what you said?

What I said?

Yes!

If at first you don't succeed

hey, don't get grim and grumpy...

'cuz every road worth travelin'

can get a little bumpy.

First you worry 'bout a slump

but soon enough instead

you've got to worry 'bout the moon

'cuz you might bump your head!

♪ ♪ ♪

♪ C'mon and jump right in ♪

♪ Get over the hump! ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump ♪

♪ Right out o' the dumps! ♪

♪ Hey, jump right in ♪

♪ Get yourself pumped! ♪

♪ Yeah, jump, jump, jump ♪

♪ Get off o' your rump! ♪

♪ Every dream you're dreamin' needs a place to start ♪

♪ So just jump right in with all o' your heart, yeah! ♪

( song ends )

Hey, see?

You've got to work at reading

just like I've got to work at jumping.

Hey, I know-- I'll trade you.

You helped me learn how to jump;

now I'll help you learn how to read.

Come on!

What do you say?

Okay... you got yourself a deal.

All right!

So, how do you want to start?

Be my designated reader.

Here, read the card your sister wrote to me.

No problem, man!

( clears throat )

"Dear Gus...

"I am very, very, very, very sorry I made you 'humphy'

"when I asked you to read me How the Camel Got His Hump.

Love, Leona."

Your little sister wrote all that?

Well, I'm sure she had a whole lot of help

but... yeah.

Aw, thanks, Lionel.

Hey, I'd like to read this camel story again!

Here you go...

Hey, you got it, buddy!

Great!

( sighs )

( clears throat )

LIONEL: "How... the... Camel... Got... His... Hump."

Uh... uh, uh... is that word "hump"?

LIONEL: Yeah! You see?

( sounding word out )

"Hump."

Can you think of another word

that rhymes with "hump"?

"Jump"!

Yeah, man!

Hey, hey... you try reading it.

Go on, go on.

Oh, all right.

( sounding word out )

"Hump."

Yeah!

All right, Gus!

You just read the word "hump"!

I did?!

Of course I did!

All right.

You're good, man.

Thanks, man!

LIONEL: "In the beginning of years

"when the world was so new-and-all

"and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man

there was a Camel..."

Be A Designated Reader (Featuing: Baha Men)

Hi, Baja Men.

BAJA MEN: Hi, Leona.

Can you guys be my designated readers?

BAJA MEN: Sure, Leona.

I have a book about a dog.

So do I.

So do I.

Yo, who took the dog books out?

( all laughing )

Credits

♪ ♪ ♪

CHORUS: ♪ Between the lions... ♪

♪ Between the lions... ♪

WOMAN: ♪ Come in between the lions ♪

♪ Begin between the lions ♪

♪ Be here between the lions! ♪