♪♪ ♪ 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.
♪♪ Welcome, my friends, to this
Wonderful place that's filled
With a strange and spectacular
Space.
You know, it's odd and bizarre
And highly irregular, and today,
It's more than a little
Bit--ahh!
Eggular.
Hello there.
Let's give you the scope.
Breathe normally.
[Inhales]
Ahh!
Yes, a fine specimen.
Artistic, sensitive.
This one has a way with words.
Gonna be a poet I know it.
[Humming]
[Egg mooing]
[Egg mooing] that's udderly ridiculous.
That's udderly ridiculous.
Ah, a duplex.
[Clears throat]
[Egg meows]
Mm-hmm.
[Egg barks]
[Eggs hissing and barking]
Sibling rivalry. Eh.
[Humming]
Ah.
[Egg roars]
I think we should move on, yeah.
Now, this is one of a kind, not
One of a dozen.
No sister or brother or
Twice-removed cousin.
It's very much different, you
Plainly can tell.
And there's something amazing
Inside this shell.
[Egg playing clarinet]
Oh, yeah.
Say, you're good.
Listen, I know some people at
The solisaloo glee club and
Symphony orchestra.
When you come out of your shell,
Let's talk about your future.
Um-hmm.
♪♪ It moved. It moved!
♪♪ Oh, no, no, megan girl.
You're always seeing what you
Want to see.
But this egg isn't going to
Hatch until tomorrow.
♪♪ I can't wait.
I can't wait.
Tomorrow's too late.
♪♪ Now, tomorrow's the day, the
Day and the date.
There's nothing to do.
♪♪ But wait, wait, wait, wait.
♪♪ Mm-hmm.
♪♪ Uh, but what if something
Happens to it?
♪♪ Now, no one's gonna get
Anywhere near this egg except
Members of the mullally family.
♪♪ And mullally means me and
Mullally means you and nobody
Else.
♪♪ No matter who.
♪♪ But just to make sure, I'll
Guard it all night.
♪♪ Oh, now, megan, you know you
Need your sleep.
♪♪ Oh, all right.
♪♪ Anyway, we've got the best
Egg protector on legs.
♪♪ Ooh.
♪♪ Mm-hmm.
♪♪ Here's horton on watch
Patrolling the grounds, guarding
The egg, making my rounds.
I promised I would and I
Wouldn't do less.
Though I'd love a cold beverage
But I digress.
♪♪ Hey, where's that egg?
♪♪ Tell me where to see the
Zubble.
Yeah.
♪♪ Yeah, yeah, can't we just
Take a peek?
♪♪ Sorry, the zubble-wump egg is
The private property of the
Mullally family.
♪♪ Aw.
♪♪ That's my least favorite part
Of the job.
♪♪ I heard that it dances.
♪♪ And rings like a bell.
♪♪ Well, I hear there's
Rubies...
♪♪ And gold in the shell.
♪♪ I heard those who touch it
Feel wonderfully warm.
♪♪ Well, I heard it's a breath
Mint.
I guess I was misinformed.
♪♪ I heard it's heavy as a stone
But floats like a bubble.
♪♪ Hey, elephant, you know
What's inside that zubble?
♪♪ Hmm, well, no, I'm not sure.
Though I'd like to assume,
[Giggling]
If you cr*ck the egg open,
Inside, you'd find ,,
Peanuts, not to mention a jar of
Raspberry jam and a cruller.
Raspberry jam and a cruller. That is, if there's room.
That is, if there's room.
♪♪ Now, it hatches just once
Every--
♪♪ Years.
♪♪ Yes, and it's well worth the
Wait for your eyes and your--
♪♪ Your ears.
♪♪ Good.
♪♪ For inside the shell's a
Miraculous thing that will
Whistle and warble and
Splendidly sing.
♪♪ A song that is fit for the
Ear of a king.
♪♪ What is it?
What is it?
What is this thing?
♪♪ Well, um, the zubble-wump is,
Um, well, it's--it's hard to,
Uh, well, well, it's mine.
That's what it is.
♪♪ It is.
♪♪ Say an elephant, such as
Myself, wanted to describe a
Zubble-wump.
What would an elephant such as
Myself say?
♪♪ Ahem, megan?
♪♪ Well, an egg such as this
From the zubbulous valley was
Given to grandpa's great-grandpa
Mullally's
Great-great-great-great-great-
Great-great grandpa mullally's
Great-grandpa's great grandpa's
Great-grandma.
♪♪ And when she was asked what a
Zubble-wump is, great-grandma
Would say...
♪♪ Why, gee-whiz.
♪I don't know
And I don't care
But I've got one and you don't ♪
♪♪ Oh, and then grandma said,
♪When it had kids,
Yeah, I'll be there
♪♪ She said that?
♪♪ I will see it and you won't ♪
Ha ha!
♪♪ Uh-huh, but what is the
Zubble-wump?
♪♪ ♪Not this and not thamel,
Not double-hump camel,
♪♪ And not zubble-wump lizard
Or zubble-wump mammal,
♪♪ Not buffalo herd,
♪♪ Or huffalo bird,
♪♪ There's only word,
♪♪ And it's zubble-wump,
Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,
♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,
Zubble-wump ♪
♪♪ Is that all grandma had to
Say?
♪♪ ♪ She didn't know,
♪♪ Didn't know,
♪♪ She didn't care,
♪♪ No, no, no,
♪♪ What anyone said or who knew
It,
♪♪ And when her zubble hatched,
♪♪ Ohh!
♪♪ Was grandma there?
♪♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah,
♪♪ Well, sort of,
♪♪ Grandma slept through it,
♪♪ She was tired of waiting
[Giggling]
♪♪ Not gnat on a cat,
Nor flea on a feline,
Not frog in a frog pond,
Nor bee in a beeline,
Not nippity-flits,
Or pick-flicking nits,
Not nee or fits
It's the zubble-wump,
Zubble-wump, zubble-wump
♪♪ I think I got it
♪♪ Not gnat on a cat,
Not flea on a feline,
Not frog in a frog pond,
Or bee in a beeline,
Not nit-picking flits,
♪♪ Or pit-flicking nits
♪♪ Not nee or fits,
It's the zubble-wump,
Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,
♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,
♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,
Zubble-wump
♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,
♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,
Zubble-wump,
♪♪ Zubble-wump
♪♪ Zubble-wump
♪♪ Zubble-wump ♪
[Horton giggling]
♪♪ That zubble-wump sure sounds
Zubble-wumptuous?
♪♪ Yes, now, the night before
The egg hatches, it has to soak
Up plenty of moonlight, hmm?
So that's why I put the cage
Here on the windowsill.
Horton.
♪♪ Hmm?
♪♪ Make sure to keep away any
Curious squirrels or birds.
♪♪ Oh, don't worry.
I'll do what I promise, and
Promise I do, to scare off bird,
Rodent, or, uh, stray kangaroos.
♪♪ Now--now nothing will quiver
Or shiver or shake it?
♪♪ This egg's like my promise:
Nothing will break it.
♪♪ Oh, good.
♪♪ I'll just sit on it.
♪♪ Oh, no! Stop!
♪♪ Horton, no! No, no.
♪♪ Oh! Ha ha.
I thought maybe you wanted me to
Help hatch it.
I've had some experience with
That, you know.
[Megan sighs]
♪♪ No, no, no, just, uh, stand
Nearby, will you?
♪♪ Oh, ok.
Right here.
♪♪ Phew.
♪♪ Hi, little egg.
I will protect you.
♪♪ ♪Inside a shell
There's a story to tell,
And just what it is
You can tell very well ♪
♪♪ I wonder what is inside that
♪♪ I wonder what is inside that egg?
Egg?
♪♪ Mm-hmm.
[Squirrel chattering]
Hmm?
[Laughing]
Oh, I don't mean to be coarse or
Unmannered or crude or uncivil
Or nasty or, least of all rude,
So I polit--i'm politely and
Nicely requesting that you--
[Laughing]
Requesting that you get off of
My trunk or I'll have to--i'll
My trunk or I'll have to--i'll have to--i'll have to--ah-ahh.
Have to--i'll have to--ah-ahh.
Ah-choo!
Ah-choo! Sorry.
Sorry.
♪♪ Ha ha ha!
♪♪ ♪ ... And evil and doom
Ugliness, lies, devilish doom
♪♪ With fearsomely fiercely
Ferociously foul
♪♪ Skiddly, scratchingly
[Indistinct]
♪♪ It's grim,
♪♪ It's dim,
♪♪ Could it be?
♪♪ Could it be?
♪♪ Could it be? ♪♪ Him? ♪
♪♪ Him? ♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, shoo.
Shoo, hey, hey, get away.
Get away.
Go find an ice-cold belfry or
Keep to flap around in.
Shoo!
Shoo! Shoo!
Shoo!
[Gasps]
This can't be good.
♪♪ What happened?
♪♪ Oh, uh, there were these
Flying things and--and then, the
Alarm, and then, the egg's
Turned green.
♪♪ No, horton.
This isn't our egg, I'm sorry to
Say.
The zubble has been stolen.
♪♪ Oh, who took it away?
♪♪ Oh, someone who's heart
Wouldn't fill up an inch.
Someone mean, someone green.
♪♪ Oh, don't tell me.
♪♪ Oh, it can't be.
♪♪ It is.
It's the grinch.
♪♪ The grinch!
♪♪ The grinch!
♪♪ Oh, I'm gonna get your egg
From that grinch.
♪♪ No, no, no, horton, please,
Please.
It's--it is dark and it's
Dangerous.
It's ok for a grinch but you
Should wait until sunrise, hmm?
♪♪ No, oh, I knew I should have
Sat on that egg.
Unh!
♪♪ Oh, sweetheart.
♪♪ Oh, grandpa.
♪♪ It's--it's all right.
♪♪ It's--it's all right. [Horton sniffing]
[Horton sniffing]
♪♪ Oh, now, how am I going to do
This?
Let's see.
Excuse me, mr. Grinch, but I
Believe you have
An egg that does not belong to
You.
Oh, that's not it.
Let me see.
Now, see here, grinch.
Give me that egg.
Oh, no, no, no.
More forceful like this.
♪♪ Ok, grinchy, jig's up.
♪♪ That's not bad.
[Megan laughing]
Megan!
What are you doing here?
♪♪ Well, it takes to handle
The grinch.
♪♪ Megan, that grinch is a scary
Character.
♪♪ I don't care.
♪♪ His mind's all mixed up and
Blistered and bent.
♪♪ I don't care.
♪♪ His heart's made of hurt and
His soul is cement.
♪♪ I don't care.
♪♪ He's mean as I say.
♪♪ And I say what I mean.
I'll get my egg from that rotten
Green bean.
♪♪ Oh, well, wait for me.
♪♪ Pardon me.
♪♪ Wide load comin' through.
♪♪ What do you suppose?
♪♪ Unless my eyes are deceiving
And my ears are all waxy, he's
Either a moose or a new kind of
Taxi.
♪♪ Come on, you guys.
You don't want to miss it.
Right this way.
Save a paw.
Hey, hey, short ones in front.
♪♪ E-excuse me.
♪♪ Oh, you'll have to wait your
Turn.
And you, big fella, you'll have
To stand at the back.
♪♪ What's going on?
♪♪ Oh, thidwick is taking us to
See the coughing volcano.
♪♪ Yeah, if it wasn't for
Thidwick, we'd never know the
Volcano was coughing.
♪♪ Yeah, it only coughs when it
Catches a cold.
♪♪ What are the odds of that?
♪♪ I don't know!
♪♪ Well, don't just stand there,
Come to the clearing.
♪♪ Let's get 'em. Great.
♪♪ Hmm.
♪♪ Wow.
♪♪ Wow. ♪♪ Ooh.
♪♪ Ooh.
♪♪ Magnifisensational.
♪♪ Isn't it lovely?
♪♪ At best, educational?
♪♪ You're a moose among moose.
♪♪ Thank you, thidwick.
♪♪ Thanks.
♪♪ Aw. See?
This looked ok with my eyes
Gazing, but with eyes upon it,
It's twice as amazing.
And with or with --
♪♪ Or --
♪♪ The pleasure is doubled again
And again.
♪♪ And again and again.
♪♪ And then some.
♪♪ Amen.
♪♪ Thanks, thidwick.
♪♪ Oh, thanks again, thidwick.
♪♪ Ok, see you guys later.
♪♪ Bye.
♪♪ You know, I'd offer you a
Ride to wherever you're going
But I promised a family of yaks
I'd help them cross a blistering
Hot desert.
I tend to get over extended.
♪♪ Well, it's a shame you can't
Come with us.
We're going to get the grinch.
♪♪ The grinch?
♪♪ The grinch.
♪♪ The grinch.
♪♪ The grinch?
♪♪ Yes, the, as in grinch.
♪♪ But nobody's ever any--no one
Would dare.
♪♪ Well, I would.
♪♪ Well, I'm startled, I dare to
Declare.
♪♪ You don't know megan.
She's a brave little meg.
♪♪ And that grinch guy has
Stolen my zubble-wump egg.
♪♪ The zubble-wump from the
Zubbulous valley?
♪♪ That's right.
♪♪ Then you must be megan
Mullally.
♪♪ That's me.
♪♪ Is it true what I've heard
From some moose dignitaries?
That the zubble egg's filled
With moose moss and moose
Berries?
♪♪ Moose moss and moose berries?
I'd probably doubt it.
Seems that everyone's heard some
Strange story about it.
♪♪ Well, good luck.
I'd love to see the zubble-wump
One day.
Or at least, give it a ride.
Yaks.
Oh, yaks.
Come on board your caboose.
♪♪ That sure is one highly
♪♪ That sure is one highly unusual moose.
Unusual moose.
♪♪ ♪ Ugliness, lies, evil and
Gloom,
Ugliness, lies, devilish doom,
Voodoo and mushrooms and
[Indistinct] are in bloom
Ugliness, lies, and people and
Ugliness, lies, and people and gloom ♪
Gloom ♪
♪♪ This place could use a little
Freshening up.
[Megan gasps]
♪♪ He's up there.
The grinch is up there and so is
My egg.
♪♪ Oh, well, I promised I'd help
♪♪ Oh, well, I promised I'd help and help I will bring.
And help I will bring.
Uh-oh.
If I could just get myself
Through this here--unh--this
Here--unh--this here thing.
[Grunting]
♪♪ [Indistinct]
♪♪ Let me try this.
[Trumpets]
Unh!
Oh, I know.
Perhaps if I go on a very fast
Diet.
♪♪ Um, that's not fast enough.
Guess I'll have to try it.
♪♪ Meg, wait.
Megan. Oh! Whoa.
I like a good rhyme, you know
That I do, but right now, I'm
Feeling a little tense, so
Excuse me while I just hum
Nervously to myself.
Nervously to myself. [Humming]
[Humming]
♪♪ So, while you've been
Watching the grinch's
Egg-snatching, our eggs here
Have been hatching and hatching
And hatching and--ah, benjamin.
Good, now, sit, sit.
Stay.
Now, speak.
♪♪ Snarl, growl, and moreover
Roar.
♪♪ Nice kitty.
Now back to our story.
Listen, we'll work on your
Diction, all right?
♪♪ ♪ Ugliness, lies, and evil
And fear,
Ugliness, lies,
A tarantula's ear,
Ugliness, lies
Evil and fear
Ugliness, lies ♪
[Megan gasps]
[Megan gasps] let's get out of here ♪
Let's get out of here ♪
Let's get out of here ♪ ♪♪ oh.
♪♪ Oh.
♪♪ Ohh.
♪♪ Ohh. [Gasps]
[Gasps]
♪♪ Ha ha ha!
♪♪ Ha ha ha! [Grinch growls]
[Grinch growls]
[Grinch growls] [megan screams]
[Megan screams]
♪♪ I, uh, actually I'm--i'm here
To get my egg back.
♪♪ Uh-uh.
♪♪ Oh, dear.
♪♪ What to do, what to do with
This unwelcome guest.
What kind of amusement would
Suit her the best?
♪♪ Actually, uh, seeing my egg
Hatch would be nice.
♪♪ It's my egg, my very own
Grumple-lump egg.
♪♪ That's zubble-wump and it's
Mine.
♪♪ Mine!
♪♪ Mine!
♪♪ ♪ Give me the egg,
It's mine,
I earned it, I own it,
It's mine all alone,
It belongs just to me,
♪♪ I don't agree,
♪♪ Doesn't matter to me,
It's mine,
♪♪ It's mine,
♪♪ It's mine,
It's mine,
♪♪ Give me the egg,
It's mine,
The reason it's famous,
My family name is mullally
And so, I'll just take it
And go,
♪♪ Oh, no, no, no,
It's mine,
♪♪ It's mine,
♪♪ It's mine,
♪♪ It's mine,
♪♪ Your green, grinchy greed
Is charming, indeed,
It grows in the heart
Like a wicked old weed,
♪♪ Greed in the heart?
Not in mine,
♪♪ Not in yours?
Ok, fine,
Ok, fine, then it's mine,
Then it's mine,
For the very last time
It's mine,
Oh, come on, let go now,
I think you should know now
I'm getting upset,
♪♪ Well, that's all you'll get,
♪♪ I regret that we met,
'Cause it's mine,
♪♪ It's mine,
♪♪ It's mine
♪♪ It's mine
♪♪ It's mine
♪♪ It's mine,
Oh, you're a sack of old sludge,
A smear and a smudge,
♪♪ Oh, you're a fine one
To be such a judge,
We're just like shriveled up
Grapes on the vine,
Saying mine, mine, mine, mine,
♪♪ Mine, mine, mine, mine
♪♪ Mine, mine, mine, mine,
♪♪ Mine,
♪♪ My grumple-lump,
♪♪ My zubble-wump,
♪♪ My grumple-lump,
♪♪ My zubble-wump,
♪♪ My zubble-wump, ♪♪ mine ♪
♪♪ Mine ♪
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ And now, it's time for me to
Watch my grumple-lump hatch.
Me, me, me, me.
And me, me means me.
It doesn't mean you or anyone
Else, no matter who.
Else, no matter who. [Laughing]
[Laughing]
[Laughing] [hands grumbling]
[Hands grumbling]
Hey!
Hey! [Struggling]
[Struggling]
♪♪ You are so selfish!
♪♪ Aah!
Keep your hands off of me.
Keep your hands off of me. [Egg cracking]
[Egg cracking]
♪♪ Ahem.
♪♪ Ahem. [Trilling]
[Trilling]
[Trilling] [whistling]
[Whistling]
[Whistling] [muffled yelling]
[Muffled yelling]
[Muffled yelling] [zubble-wump singing]
[Zubble-wump singing]
♪♪ What do you think you're
Doing?
♪♪ Something that you would
Never do.
♪♪ Oh.
Oh.
The grinch has megan.
He's got her.
Please help!
[Trumpeting]
♪♪ Hurry.
Unh!
I'll save you, megan.
Leave it to me.
[Grunting]
By the good name mullally, I'm
Setting you free.
♪♪ Don't worry.
The grinch is tangled and
Flinching.
He was caught in the claws of
His own grinchy grinching.
♪♪ Well, are you all right?
♪♪ Oh, I'm fine.
Don't worry for me.
But the zubble's another story,
You see.
By the good name mullally, I'm
Setting it free.
♪♪ Oh, that's very ni--what?
♪♪ Oh, that's very ni--what? [Zubble-wump singing]
[Zubble-wump singing]
♪♪ Oh, don't trouble yourself.
I'll let myself out.
[Crunching]
[Crunching] ♪♪ aah!
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Aah! You're fired, oh!
You're fired, oh!
Unh.
♪♪ A zubble-wump's lovely with
Just ears hearing it, but more
Ears give more of a reason for
Cheering it, and or ...
♪♪ Or ,...
♪♪ Your pleasure is doubled
Again and again.
♪♪ Mm-hmm, and twice double
That.
♪♪ And then some.
♪♪ Amen.
[All sigh]
[Groaning]
♪♪ I'm laying off eggs for a
While.
Oh!
Oh! [Zubble singing]
[Zubble singing]
[Zubble singing] [all sigh]
[All sigh]
♪♪ ♪This mysterious, magical,
Musical, miracle,
Preciously luscious
With nothing not lyrical,
♪♪ I hope it won't take our job,
♪♪ There's only word,
♪♪ Only word,
♪♪ Only word,
♪♪ And that's zubble-wump ♪
♪♪ So, what is a zubble-wump
Again?
Aah!
♪♪ What a piece of work is man.
How noble in reason,
How infinite in faculty.
In form and moving,
How express and admirable.
In action, how like an angel.
In apprehension, how like--
♪♪ Very good, very good,
Benjamin.
Keep practicing.
So, what do you know?
Megan was right.
You see, something so wonderful
Shouldn't be hidden.
It should be shared with the
World and never forbidden.
So, here now, uncovered,
Unleashed, unfurled, is
Something amazing to share with
The world.
Let her rip, boys.
Let her rip, boys. [Horn blaring]
[Horn blaring]
Ok, g*ng, start packing these up
And shipping them out.
And shipping them out. Express, of course.
Express, of course.
01x15 - The Song Of The Zubble-Wump
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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.