♪♪
Narrator: Somewhere
on this Earth,
most likely a ways northward
and a short distance
past the horizon,
lies the Evergreen forest.
There are trees so big that the
forest animals make
their homes in them.
There's also the people who
look after the forest,
like the chief Ranger
and his two kids,
Julie and Tommy.
Oh, and Schaeffer, of course.
Yeah, life here is pretty good.
That is, it was,
until one day,
the day before the day
before Christmas.
[phone ringing]
When a strange mystery
began to unfold.
Dan: Hello? Yes?
What?! You're sure?
That's awful!
I'll be right there! Bye.
Hmm..
Tommy: What's wrong, Dad?
Dan: Seems the forest
is disappearing.
Over half the trees
are gone! Chopped down.
Tommy: What are
you gonna do, Dad?
Dan: Right now, I'm off to
start looking for clues,
and you two are off to bed.
[loud snoring]
And you, Schaeffer!
Schaeffer: [whines]
Julie: You can save
the Evergreen forest,
can't you, daddy?
Dan: I sure hope so, honey.
Now don't you or Tommy
worry about it, okay?
Good night.
Tommy: Goodnight.
Julie: Goodnight.
♪
♪ You've
♪ You've tucked
♪ You've tucked in
♪ You've tucked in
the
♪ You've tucked in
the sleepy
♪ You've tucked in
the sleepy heads
♪ You've tucked in
the sleepy heads ♪
♪ Sent them flying off
into their dreams ♪
♪ You turn off the lights
and you kiss them goodnight ♪
♪ A million things left
unsaid, it seems ♪
♪ As you step back
from the bed ♪
Kids: [giggling]
♪ Tiptoe quietly out
of the room ♪
♪ You can think of the times
that your nursery rhymes ♪
♪ Got left in your
past so soon ♪
♪♪
♪ Lost angels, guardian angels
♪ Is there someone
looking out for me? ♪
Narrator: It's a funny thing
about dreams.
Sometimes when you're smack dab
in the middle of one,
everything seems so real,
that you'd never guess
you were dreaming.
Of course, Julie and Tommy
weren't the only ones
enjoying themselves.
A short distance away, some of
the forest creatures
were also having fun,
as they prepared for Christmas.
Ralph: How's this?
Melissa: Oh, perfect!
Mistletoe always gets me in
the proper Christmas spirit.
[giggle]
Bert: Ah, morning,
Ralph, Melissa.
Ralph: Ohh morning, Bert.
Melissa: Hi, Bert.
How did you sleep?
Bert: Um, oh, terrific!
What a mattress!
What a guest bedroom!
Very forest chic!
What a Raccoon-Dominium!
Melissa: Who wants to help me
hang the Christmas stockings?
[soft snoring]
Ralph?
Bert?
Bert: After I
gather my strength.
[soft snoring]
Ralph: It's an outrage!!
Melissa: What?
Ralph: Thousands of the forest
trees have disappeared!
Bert: Wow. Maybe, um,
they've gone on a
Christmas vacation?
Ralph: Oh, I can't believe it!
They've been cut down!
Melissa: Well, at least we
live in a safe neighborhood.
Ralph: I wonder. Look!
Melissa: Oh no!
Narrator: Ralph Raccoon was
indeed right.
No tree in the Evergreen forest
was safe anymore.
At that very moment, the forest
menace Cyril Sneer,
accompanied by his college
graduate son, Cedric Sneer,
was actually eyeing the
Raccoon's tree
with greedy glee.
Cyril: Cedric, my boy,
look at this fine specimen!
Ripe and waiting for me
to cut it down! Ha ha ha!
Cedric: Um, but Pop, don't you
think we've got enough trees?
Cyril: Enough? Enough?
There's never enough!
Cedric: But Pop, you're
already the biggest
lumber baron around.
Why not ease off?
Cyril: Not while there's
power in my chainsaw! Ha ha!
I'm Cyril Sneer,
a lumber profiteer!
Whenever I'm near,
trees disappear!
Got that, Cedric?
Cedric: Um, sure Pop, but
I've been calculating year
over year lumber quota
by 17.3 times.
You're breaking
the forest rules.
Cyril: Cedric, you take
all that accounting stuff...
...you learned at that
high-falutin' eastern college,
and use it to tackle the books!
[laughs]
Cedric: Wouldn't it be
easier to be honest?
Cyril: Honest?
Who makes big bucks
being honest?!
Now get back to work!
[chainsaw roaring]
Time is money!
Time is running out!
I will not be
running out of money!
Bert: I thought this was the
quiet part of the forest.
Melissa: It is. It was.
Bert: Sounds like a horde
of broken air conditioners!
Cyril: More trees!
All for me!!
[evil laughter]
[rumbling sound]
Ralph: Whoa, oh look out!
Ooooh!
[loud crash]
♪♪
♪ [playful music]
Kids: Weeeeeeeh!
Yeeeeee!
Oh!
[giggle]
Schaeffer: [whines]
Julie: What a perfect tree!
Tommy: I wish it was ours.
Julie: Nobody seems to want it.
Why don't we take it
home and surprise Daddy?
Tommy: Ohh yes! What
do you say, Schaeffer?
Schaeffer: [pants]
Julie: Then it's unanimous.
We got our Christmas tree.
♪♪
♪ The man in the perfect tree
♪ Oh, he's coming to
live at our house ♪
Julie: Oh, Schaeffer?!
♪ We're gonna put him up
at our house ♪
♪♪
♪ The man in the perfect tree
♪ Oh, he's coming to
stay at our house ♪
♪ We're gonna put him
up at our house ♪
♪♪
♪ Stand him up in a corner
♪♪
♪ Give him a place of his own
♪♪
♪ And he won't cry anymore
Narrator: Raccoons were stunned.
They couldn't believe
their eyes,
their home being dragged away by
two little humans
and a big dog?!
♪ Give him a place of his own
♪ And he won't cry anymore
Narrator: Ralph reckoned the
kids and the dog were the ones
who'd been destroying
the forest.
Ralph: They've taken our house!
Narrator: Bert agreed.
Bert: It's terrible!
Narrator: And Melissa was
bound and determined
to follow her broken home
Melissa: C'mon!
Don't just stand there!
Narrator: ..and rescue their
Christmas stockings.
♪♪
Schaeffer: [growls]
Tommy: There! Is that better?
Schaeffer: Woof-woof!...Woof!
Julie: Come on, Tommy,
let's go get daddy's present.
Tommy: Schaeffer, wanna
come to town with us?
Schaeffer: [yawns]
[door squeaks]
Julie: Now you guard
the house, Schaeffer!
Schaeffer: [soft snoring]
Narrator: Schaeffer
didn't know it,
but the Raccoons had been biding
their time,
waiting for the best moment
to retrieve their stockings.
And now they were sure
that moment had come.
Bert: How do we know there's
not a fire down there?
Melissa: No smoke.
Bert: It could be a small fire.
Ralph: Come on, Bert.
It's all downhill from...
heeeeeeerrrreee!
[thud!]
[thud!]
[loud crash!]
Bert: Ugh!
Wow!
Look at the bright lights
and the tinsel.
Hey, your home's gone...
Hollywood!
Melissa: Personally,
I've always preferred
the natural outdoors look.
Ralph: Too late for that now.
Honey, you go get the
Christmas stockings!
Schaeffer: [loud snoring]
Bert: Uaaaah! Ugh!
[loud snoring]
He doesn't scare me!
Ralph: [whispers]
If you wanna keep it that way,
then don't wake him up.
Melissa, the stockings!
Bert: Oh-ho, I wonder
what he's got under here?
Ralph: Bert, let
the sleeping dog lie!
Bert: Yeah, he can't
lay a paw on me!
[snoring]
Ralph: Yike!...Whoa!
[crash!]
Schaeffer: [grunts]
[growls]
[howls]
Woof-woof!
Bert: Uaaaaaah!
Schaeffer: Woof-woof!
Oh!
[loud bark]
[barking]
[growls]
[panting]
[barking]
[howls]
Melissa: Oh no! The stockings!
Ralph: Come on, Melissa.
Forget the stockings!
Schaeffer: Woof-woof!
[growls]
Bert: [heavy breathing]
Yayks!
Schaeffer: Woof-woof!
Bert: Whoa!
Schaeffer: Woof-woof!
♪♪
Bert: Ha, hi-he, oh!
Hey, he's right on my tail!
Schaeffer: [panting]
Bert: Woah, woaaaaah!
No!
Schaeffer: Woof-woof!
[barking]
[loud crash!]
♪♪
♪♪
Schaeffer: [barking, panting]
Bert: Uaaaaah!
♪♪
Schaeffer: [barking, panting]
Bert: I think my momma wants me.
♪♪
Melissa/Ralph: [gasp]
Bert: Look ouuuuut!!!
Whoaaa!
♪♪
Whoa!
♪♪
♪♪
Schaeffer: [barking, panting]
♪♪
Woof!
♪♪
♪♪
Raccoons: [panting]
♪♪
Schaeffer: [panting]
[growling]
[loud crash!]
Bert: Oh no! It's my ears!
I think they're broken.
I can't stop them from ringing!
Schaeffer: [grunts]
Mine too!
Bert: The beast talks!
Melissa: I can't believe it.
[buzzing, humming]
Cyril: Speed it up!!
This isn't a garden party!
I wanna see some sweat!
Cedric: Pop, I've been
calculating the time it takes
to turn one tree
into two-by-fours.
Our workers are working
at peak capacity.
Worker: Oh! Oooh!
Cyril: Rat! You've got to
drive 'em 'til they drop!
Faster, faster!!
Or you'll feel disaster!
Cut me more trees!
That's my decree!
[evil laughter]
Ralph: Then it wasn't you!
Schaeffer: Wasn't me what?
Ralph: Destroying the forest.
Schaeffer: Now, why would I
do a stupid thing like that?!
And why did you
break into my house?
Melissa: To get to our house!
Ralph: That tree you have,
used to be our home.
Schaeffer: I had no idea.
I never would have
chased you if I'd known.
Can you forgive me?
[sad whine]
Narrator: Ralph, Melissa,
Bert and Schaeffer
became friends on the spot
and decided that together,
they would stop the
evil Cyril Sneer.
Now all they needed was a plan.
If Cyril Sneer had known that
three Raccoons and a dog
were plotting against him,
he probably just keel
over laughing.
Never had anyone been
able to stop him
from doing what he wanted.
Never!
Melissa: Good idea!
Cyril:
Cyril: How
Cyril: How many
Cyril: How many trees
Cyril: How many trees in
Cyril: How many trees in
the
Cyril: How many trees in
the Evergreen
Cyril: How many trees in
the Evergreen forest
are still standing?
Cedric: Um, 2064?
Cyril: I want them!
All!!...Now!!!
Cedric: But Pop, you've
already chopped down 37,591.
That's over 1,218,453
two by fours!
Why not leave a few trees
so folks can remember
what they look like?
Cyril: Remember
what they look like?!
The only thing you
need to remember is
that trees equal money!!
Cedric: Aw Pop,
it's Christmas Eve!
How about a break first?
Could we dip into
the petty cash?
Buy a little eggnog?
Cyril: Petty cash?
There's only cash and
there's never enough of it!
And there's nothing
petty about that!
We're getting those trees now!
♪ [dramatic music]
[door squeaks]
All: [loud commotion]
Melissa: Take that!
[splut!]
Cyril: Uaah!
Ugh, you crazy dame!
All: [loud commotion]
Cedric: Save me, Pop, save me!!
Cyril: Save yourself! Oww!
All: [loud commotion]
Cyril: Let go of me,
you oversized shag
rug!
Cedric: What have
we done to you?
Ralph: Done?!
Why, you two are
ecological disasters!
Bert: Yeah!
Schaeffer: [growls]
Forest destroyers!
Bert: Yeah!
Melissa: Home wreckers!
Bert: Yeah!
Ralph: You're finished!
Bert: Yeah! You're finished!
Cedric: Pop, we should have
stopped after we made our quota!
I-I told you so!
Cyril: You ungrateful ingrate!
Why do you think I sl*ve to
make money all these years?
Cedric: Greed?
Cyril: Greed?!
Never! I did it all for you!
For you and your precious
college education!
Bert: [sobs]
Ralph: Are you kidding?
Cyril: I ask you, is it a crime
for a father to want to
give his son a good life?
Bert: [loud sobbing]
Cyril: And after all,
what are a few trees?
Ralph: A few trees?!
A forest is more
than a few trees!
Cyril: Who's counting?!
Cedric: Actually, Pop, the exact
number you chopped down was..
Cyril: Shut up, you fool!
Ralph: It's no good, Mr Sneer!
Your forest wrecking
days are over!
Cyril: Hey, why pick on me?
There's a lot of other
lumberers around!
Ralph: There's a lot of
responsible lumberers around.
That means they only
cut down a few trees.
and those they replace
with new baby trees.
Cedric: Hey, that's not such a
bad way of doing business, Pop.
There's money in reforesting.
I learned that in
Ecology and Economics 101!
Cyril: Money!...Money?
How much money?
Cedric: Plenty, Pop!
You can expect an
annual growth of 17.4%.
Cyril: Hmm.
You know, I could consider
doing some replanting..
Ah, but those seedlings
are gonna cost me money!
I'll do it! I'll do it!
Cedric, stop loitering
and get on the phone
with the seedling
suppliers right now!
Melissa: Hey, buster! If you
know what's good for you,
you'll get us a new home!
Pronto!
Bert: We did it!
We saved the forest!
Heh, they were push-overs!
Julie: [in distance calling]
Schaaaaaeffeer!
Oh, Schaeffer! Here, boy!
Schaeffer: Uh-oh!
Those are my kids.
I guess, it's time
to head home.
♪♪
Narrator: The animals
were happy,
they'd saved the
Evergreen forest.
And yet they were sad too,
because Melissa, Ralph and Bert
had no home for Christmas.
♪♪
Bert: Ah! Are we home yet?
Melissa: If you can
call this.. home.
Ralph: Yeah, it'll just be
a little drafty, though.
Schaeffer: It's a rotten shame!
I wish there was something
I could do to help.
Melissa: I can't
think of anything.
Schaeffer: No. Me neither.
But maybe some
inspiration will come to me.
Ralph: You're a
good friend, Schaeffer!
Merry Christmas.
Melissa: Yes,
Merry Christmas, Schaeffer.
Bert: Yeah, Merry Christmas.
Schaeffer: To you too!
Don't give up hope.
♪ [melancholy music]
♪♪
♪ Don't know why
I feel like cryin' ♪
♪♪
♪ Full moon's rising
through the trees ♪
♪♪
♪ Mountains on the
night horizon ♪
♪♪
♪ Just in case the lake
might freeze ♪
♪♪
♪ Oh, just in case the
lake might freeze ♪
♪♪
♪ Don't know why
I feel like sighin' ♪
♪♪
♪ Now I lay me down to sleep
♪♪
♪ Moonlight fires
Julie: Schaeffer? What happened?
You were supposed
to be guarding our tree.
Tommy: I've never decorated
the same Christmas tree
twice before.
Julie: Hey, where
did this come from?
It's not an ornament.
Do you know what it is,
Schaeffer?
Schaeffer: [growls]
Julie: Ohh, look!
There's three raccoons.
Tommy: They seem kind of sad.
Ohh.
Julie: Maybe...our
Christmas tree was their home?
Narrator: As soon as Julie
and Tommy realized
that the raccoons were homeless,
they decided something
must be done.
And since their dad was
the Chief Forest Ranger,
they figured he'd
be able to help.
Julie: Daddy's gonna
find them a new home.
Schaeffer: Woof!
♪♪
Bert: [cheering] Schaeffer!
Schaeffer: Woof!
Raccoons: [cheering]
Ralph: Merry Christmas!
♪♪
Julie: Schaeffer, you sweet dog!
Tommy: Hey, it's Christmas!
♪♪
Dan: Good morning, sleepy heads!
Tommy: Hey, where's
our Christmas tree?!
Dan: We haven't gotten one yet.
We'll find one today.
Julie: Then it's
not Christmas?
Tommy: I must
have been dreaming.
Julie: Me too!
About raccoons...
Tommy: ...and the tree!
Dan: What are you two
whispering about?
Julie: Ohh nothing, Daddy.
Just a dream.
Tommy: Did you ever figure
out the true mystery, Dad?
Dan: No, not really.
The funny thing is,
the trees stopped disappearing.
Just like that.
It says here that overnight,
thousands of seedlings
were planted,
but they don't know who did it.
Schaeffer: Woof!
Woof!
♪♪
♪♪
Ralph: Weeeeee!
♪♪
Hey! A new day!
Bert: Aaah!
♪♪
♪ Wake up and shake the sun
♪ Rise and shine kind of day
♪♪
♪ You know you've got
that glow ♪
♪ To chase your shadows away
♪♪
♪ Step out and shake the sun
♪ Part the clouds with a punch
♪♪
♪ Hey, Pete, it's ever neat
♪ To eat a sunbeam for lunch
♪♪
♪ You're feeling like
you should ♪
♪ A ding dong-a-day
♪♪
♪ Who would have thought
we could ♪
♪ Kick our cares away
Narrator: The mystery of
those new trees
never was solved by the Rangers.
But the young trees grew
strong and tall!
Each year a few became
Christmas trees,
but many more remain standing.
And the Evergreen forest was
never again in danger
because from that Christmas on,
it was protected by three
raccoons and a dog.
♪♪
♪ Hey, friend, we'll
shake the sun ♪
♪ Let's disappear
♪♪
♪ East and west, they're
both the best ♪
♪ But aren't you glad
you're here? ♪
♪♪
♪ You're feeling like
you should ♪
♪ Sunshine--hooray!
♪♪
♪ It makes you feel so good
♪ Toujours soleil
♪♪
♪ Lock up your hiding place
♪♪
♪ We got a smiling space
♪ Us side by side...
00x01 - The Christmas Raccoons
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Series revolves around Bert Raccoon and married couple Ralph and Melissa Raccoon, of whom Bert is a friend and roommate.
Series revolves around Bert Raccoon and married couple Ralph and Melissa Raccoon, of whom Bert is a friend and roommate.