♪♪ ♪ 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
Wubbulous street
Flip, float, flop, and drop
Bottoms up down to the top
Insides, outsides
Here and gone
When you get to the end
You go on and on ♪
♪♪ Ooh!
♪♪ Yeah!
♪♪ Ha ha ha ha ha!
♪♪ Ugh!
♪♪ ♪ Scuttle on a shuttle
Waddle in a puddle
Through the middle of the muddle
And dance your feet down
Wubbulous street ♪
♪♪ Hello? Anyone out there?
♪♪ ♪ 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.
♪♪ Oh, cat! Whoo!
♪♪ Hey, cat in the hat!
♪♪ Whoo!
♪♪ Hey, we're here like you
Asked, but where are you at?
♪♪ This room's full of masks.
They look kind of scary.
♪♪ They're whiskered and
Twisted and feathered and hairy.
♪♪ I think I don't like them.
♪♪ I think I hate them.
♪♪ Where could the cat be?
♪♪ Maybe they ate him.
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ Well, it's possible.
♪♪ Oh, it's more than possible.
It's likely. The cat was
Delicious, as good as can be,
From the tip of his hat to the
Top of his knee. But you can
Still see him. He really is
Near. As a matter of fact, he
Is standing right here. Had you
Going there, didn't i?
♪♪ Wow, you sure did!
♪♪ Why did you trick us like
That?
♪♪ Because, my young friends,
I'm the cat in the hat. The
Point of my trick--and I hope
You will see--is that things
Are not always what they seem
To be. What, you don't believe
Me? Well, then look around.
♪♪ Whoa. The walls are now
Trees.
♪♪ And the floor is now ground.
♪♪ Weird, man.
♪♪ Ha ha. Here we are. Don't be
Shy. Step right up, my felines
. Take a look. Take a peek.
Tell me, what do you see?
♪♪ Get out of here!
♪♪ Well--oh, you of such
Short-sighted tunnel vision.
You are blind to your own
Blindness. When you fall apart
Without my leadership, don't
Come crying to me. Oh! Oh!
♪♪ Hey, it's yertle the turtle.
♪♪ Getting kicked out of a
Kingdom.
♪♪ Again.
♪♪ You know, you might think
You see yertle the turtle
Getting kicked out of a kingdom
Again. And you know something?
You're absolutely right. But
Keep watching very carefully,
Because you can't believe
Everything you see.
♪♪ What a week I'm having. How
Tragic that all my magnificent
Greatness should go to waste.
No matter. I shall go on to
Bigger and better things.
Like this wall of shrubbery.
Oh, watch out, you botanical
Bulkhead! Whaahh! Yaaahhh!
Whoa. Wow, what a smell! One
More step and I'd have tumbled
Right into that garbage pit!
Aah!
Waah!
Unh!
I repeat--what a week I'm
Having!
D'oh!
♪♪ I sure wish we didn't have
To do this.
♪♪ Well, you know the rules,
Thaddeus. We have reached the
Age of gloomph. It's our turn
To make the offering to the
Beast.
♪♪ Yeah. Oh, I heard it has
Huge red eyes, sharp green
Horns, and makes a horrible
Noise.
♪♪ I heard that it lives
Underground, and when it gets
Hungry, it rises up and pounces
On you.
♪♪ What would you do if you met
Up with the blag-bludder beast,
Gertrude?
♪♪ Well, what we've always been
Taught to do. I'd cover my
Eyes, bow my head, hide, and
Hope for the best.
♪♪ Yeah. I guess that's why
We're making this offering--so
We won't ever have to meet up
With it.
♪♪ Yeah, so let's get it done
And get back to the village, ok?
♪♪ Right.
♪♪ Right.
♪♪ Ready?
♪♪ Ready.
♪♪ Ok.
♪♪ With humble heart, we give
This feast...
♪♪ We who are the troomphian
Least...
♪♪ So you'll stay out to the
East, here's rotted fruit, oh
Blag-bludder beast! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph!
♪♪ Aaaaaarrrrgh!
♪♪ What was that?
♪♪ I don't know, but I'm not
Sticking around to find out.
Here!
♪♪ Oh! Oh, oh! Wait! Oh, I
Don't want to look. I don't
Want to look.
♪♪ Blah!
Yeeowww!
Aaaaagh!
♪♪ [Gasps] the red-eyed,
Green-horned blag-bludder
Beast! Ah!
♪♪ Yeow!
♪♪ I shouldn't have looked.
I--i shouldn't have looked.
Aaaaahhhh! Please don't hurt
Me! Please, please!
♪♪ Hurt you? Well, why would i?
♪♪ Thank you! Thank you!
♪♪ Easy, kid! You're scratching
The shell!
♪♪ I've just never been around
A real hero before.
♪♪ Hero? Hero?
Oh, of course. Hero, yeah. But
To which particular heroic act
Of my hero-osity do you refer?
♪♪ The way you chased away the
Monster and saved my life.
♪♪ I did? I did! And what a
Fiendish monster it was!
♪♪ Yeah, the red-eyed,
Green-horned blag-bludder
Beast! Oh, how did you do it?
♪♪ You weren't watching?
♪♪ No. When I saw it, I hid.
♪♪ You hid?
♪♪ Yes. It had fiery red eyes
And long, stringy hair.
♪♪ Red eyes, stringy hair? Hmm.
♪♪ Yeah. It made a terrible
Noise! Thank goodness you came
Along to protect me.
♪♪ Heh, heh, heh, heh. Yes,
Well, um, it was nothing,
Really. After all, I am a
Turtle of great mettle and
Bravery, and spirit and
Bravery. And let's not forget
Bravery.
♪♪ What's your name?
♪♪ They call me "yertle the
Brave."
♪♪ I'm thaddeus. Please come
Back to my village with me. I
Have to tell everyone what you
Did.
♪♪ Well, I had planned to
Battle some other fearsome
Creatures this afternoon,
But...what the hey? Lead on.
♪♪ Oh.
♪♪ So what's this monster
Called again?
♪♪ The red-eyed, green-horned
Blag-bludder beast.
♪♪ Blad-bluger blogger.
♪♪ No, no, no. Blag...
♪♪ Blag...
♪♪ Bludder...
♪♪ Bludder...
♪♪ Beast...
♪♪ Beast.
♪♪ Blag-bludder beast.
♪♪ Bleag-brudder blut.
♪♪ Come on.
♪♪ ♪ Troomph, troomph, troomph,
Troomph, troomph, troomph,
We are the people of troomph!
♪♪ We live in the jungle of
Zroomph!
♪♪ From greatest...
♪♪ To least...
♪♪ We're scared of the beast!
♪♪ The frightening people of...
♪♪ Troomph, troomph, troomph
We are the people of troomph!
♪♪ We live in the jungle of
Zroomph!
♪♪ We're peaceful and kind...
♪♪ And a little behind...
♪♪ And that's why we say-- ♪
♪♪ Help! Help! Help! Help!
♪♪ Gertrude! Gertrude, are you
All right?
♪♪ I saw the--the--the
Blag-bludder beast!
♪♪ The blag-bludder...
♪♪ Yeah. Well, we had just made
The offering at the pit when we
Heard a terrible, awful noise!
And I ran as fast as I could,
But I think it got thaddeus.
♪♪ Oh, no!
♪♪ No! It didn't!
♪♪ Oh! Thaddeus, you're all
Right!
♪♪ Yes, thanks to him.
♪♪ How did you get away from
The...
♪♪ Bug-rugger...qug-logger...
Oh, I'll never get this name
Right!
♪♪ Listen, everyone! I want to
Tell you about a very special
Turtle. Yertle saved me from
The horrible blag-bludder beast!
♪♪ The blag-bludder beast?
♪♪ How do you people say that?
♪♪ Thaddeus, you mean you
Actually saw it?
♪♪ Nobody has ever seen it
Before.
♪♪ Well, I have, and he saved
Me from it.
♪ Here is the story of
A monster ♪
♪♪ A big monster!
♪♪ ♪ Large to say the least
♪♪ It was enormous!
♪♪ ♪ A really quite enormous
Monster ♪
♪♪ Thank you.
♪♪ ♪ Called
A blag-bludder beast ♪
♪♪ That's what they call him.
♪♪ ♪ One day, this huge
And hungry monster ♪
♪♪ It was famished.
♪♪ ♪ Fancied me its feast
♪♪ Hadn't eaten for a week.
♪♪ ♪ Until a warrior
Named yertle ♪
♪♪ Hello!
♪♪ ♪ Fought the
Blag-bludder beast ♪
♪♪ You pronounce that so well.
♪♪ ♪ It was...
♪♪ Fiery-eyed, stringy-haired,
Green-horned... ♪
♪♪ And I was scared...
♪♪ Terrified.
♪♪ ♪ As it roared, its size
Increased... ♪
♪♪ Doubled at least.
♪♪ ♪ Blag-bludder beast
♪♪ I'll take it from here, son.
Sit down. Ahem.
♪ I punched it hard
Right in its big mouth...
♪♪ Ooh, yeah!
♪♪ That's when its roar ceased
It hung its head in shame
And limped off
That old bad bla blubber...
♪♪ Blag-bludder beast!
♪♪ Yes, it met its match
When I arrived
Only by my grace
The beast survived
Oh, what a b*ating
This fighter gave
Oh, yeah
Yertle the brave
♪♪ This is the story of a turtle
And the village he did save
Our grand, exalted savior yertle
Yertle the brave
Yertle the brave
Yertle the brave
Yertle the brave ♪
[All cheering]
♪♪ Quiet, everyone! Quiet!
Yertle, on behalf of all of us,
I just want to say thank you
For being so brave!
♪♪ Oh, think nothing of it. My
Only concern was your safety.
But tell me, have you all
Considered your future?
♪♪ Uh, well, what do you mean?
♪♪ Well, I may have defeated
The gall-bladder beast--
♪♪ Blag-bludder beast.
♪♪ Whatever. I may have
Defeated it once, but there's
No guarantee that it won't come
Back. To be truly safe, you
Need someone around to keep it
Away.
♪♪ He's right.
♪♪ Yeah, I know.
♪♪ But whom?
♪♪ Hmm.
♪♪ Hmm. Hmm.
♪♪ How about yertle?
♪♪ Hey, how about yertle?
♪♪ Yeah.
♪♪ Yeah, yertle.
♪♪ Me?
♪♪ Yes! Stay here and protect
Us, yertle.
♪♪ Oh, yes, please, yertle.
Please stay and protect us. You
Will, won't you? Please, please.
♪♪ Very well! Very well! I
Accept your position of lord
High protector and--
♪♪ Just a moment! Why should we
Trust him?
♪♪ And you are?
♪♪ I am elise, guardian of
Village history. And I say why
Should we be so willing to hand
Over our lives to this...turtle?
♪♪ Because he can save us from
The blag-bludder beast?
♪♪ Do you all take classes on
How to say this name?
♪♪ We already know how to
Protect ourselves--cover our
Eyes and hide.
♪♪ But with yertle here, we
Won't have to do that anymore.
♪♪ Yeah. Yeah, he's right, we
Won't have to do that anymore.
[All talking at once]
♪♪ Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!
Time out, everybody! Out of the
Pool! If you don't want me
Around, then I won't stay. I
Just hope you're not all
Gobbled up in your sleep by
That bald-buggy beast.
♪♪ Blag-bludder beast!
♪♪ Whatever. Farewell.
♪♪ Oh, I don't know...
♪♪ Obviously, another
Demonstration of my great
Courage is in order.
Courage is in order. [Snickers]
[Snickers]
The things I do for power...hmm!
The things I do for power...hmm! Yeeooow!
Yeeooow!
♪♪ We are well rid of that
Turtle.
♪♪ Listen! He would have
Protected us!
♪♪ We do not need his
Protection!
♪♪ Aaaaarrruuuuggghhhhh!
♪♪ What?
♪♪ Is it the...
♪♪ It is!
♪♪ The blag-bludder beast!
♪♪ Aaaaarrruuuuggghhhhh!
♪♪ The trees!
Look! Look there!
[All whimpering]
[All whimpering] ♪♪ [growling]
♪♪ [Growling]
♪♪ Everyone! Cover your eyes
And hide!
♪♪ Oh, if only yertle was here
To protect us!
♪♪ Aarrrrgggg! Aarrrrgggg!
[Growling]
Back, you monster!
♪♪ It's yertle!
♪♪ And stay out!
Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.
♪♪ Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
♪♪ Please! No autographs.
♪♪ Oh, yertle, that was
Magnificent!
♪♪ It was incredible!
♪♪ Yes. Stay and protect us,
From greatest to least.
♪♪ Protect us from the terrible
Blag-bludder beast.
♪♪ Yes, stay! Please
Stay! And don't go away!
♪♪ Are you certain this time?
♪♪ Yes.
♪♪ Yes.
♪♪ Well, it won't be easy...on
Any of us. In order for me to
Do this job, you are all going
To have to make some changes in
Your lives.
♪♪ Changes?
♪♪ I know this monster. I've
Looked in its eyes. It's a
Fearsome creature of gigantic
Size. And I can defeat it and
Keep it at bay, but you must
Obey every word that I say. Ok?
♪♪ Ok.
♪♪ Then I accept your offer.
♪♪ Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph...
♪♪ This is going to be so good.
Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.
♪♪ Well, yertle's in charge.
They made him head turtle. And
Things just couldn't be better
For yertle. Let's take a look,
For yertle. Let's take a look, shall we?
Shall we?
♪♪ Gather all troomphians! Each
He and each she!
♪♪ Our high protector yertle
Has some changes, yes, sirree!
♪♪ Rules and regulations to
Keep us free! Yippee!
♪♪ First, you foolish fools,
You've got it all wrong! This
Monster doesn't want rotted
Fruit. It wants jewels! Lots of
Jewels! And gold, and silver.
So you need to bring all of
Your valuables to me.
♪♪ Huh?
♪♪ So I can hide them, of
Course.
♪♪ Oh. Bring him all your
Valuables, your finest jewelry!
♪♪ Yertle's going to keep them
Under heavy lock and key!
♪♪ It's the only way that he
Can help to keep us free!
Yippee!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
♪♪ Yes! Yes!
Oh, yes! Nice bird! Next, this
Monster loves nice clothes.
Gabardines, cashmeres,
Velvet--ooh, especially
Velvet--so I'll need to wear
Your finest clothes.
♪♪ Huh?
♪♪ But, but, but...
♪♪ That way, if the monster
Goes after anybody, it'll be me.
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ Yertle needs bright clothing
That the monster likes to see.
♪♪ Ah, no one else can wear
Those clothes. No one else but
He!
♪♪ It's the only way that he
Can help to keep us free!
♪♪ Yippee!
♪♪ Nice. Very nice!
Next! I'll need a place where I
Can watch for this beast. A
Tall tower. You must stack your
Huts on top of each other. Of
Course, you'll all need to
Build yourselves new homes.
♪♪ Yertle needs the biggest
Home, as big at it can be. Psst.
♪♪ Yeah, yeah. We'll have to
Give up ours if our protector,
He will be.
♪♪ It's the only way that he
Can help to keep us free.
♪♪ A tall tower--with
Tapestries, lots of tapestries.
Bring me swatches!
♪♪ Ugh, swatches...
♪♪ [Giggling]
These guys are so easy.
Hmm. I need some amusement. A
Little entertainment for the
High protector.
Listen up, people!
♪♪ Huh? You mean there's more?
♪♪ Much more. From now on,
Every man, woman, and child must
Hop wherever they go.
♪♪ Hop?
♪♪ Go on, start hopping.
Keeping one leg off the ground
At all times...
Looking straight up at the
Sky...
Backwards!
♪♪ Backwards?
♪♪ [Snickers]
♪♪ Ok.
♪♪ While singing a beautiful
Musical tribute to beautiful me!
♪♪ What--what musical tribute?
♪♪ The one I just wrote. It's a
Lovely little ditty that goes
Something like this.
♪ Hooray for yertle the turtle
On this very, very, very
Special day...
♪♪ He is so brave and wise
Immortal in our eyes
Yertle the turtle, hooray! ♪
♪♪ Everybody!
♪♪ ♪ Hooray for yertle the--
♪♪ ♪ Hooray for yertle the-- ♪♪ [growling]
♪♪ [Growling]
♪♪ Hello? Did I tell you people
To stop singing?
♪♪ [Growling]
♪♪ It's the blag-bludder beast!
♪♪ Oh, mercy. What will we do?
♪♪ Ok, people, ok. Let's calm
Down! Ok.
♪♪ But, yertle, he's out there!
♪♪ It's probably not the
Back-scratcher beast.
♪♪ Blag-bludder beast!
♪♪ Whatever.
♪♪ [Growling]
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ You have to defeat it again.
♪♪ Well, I've defeated it
Twice. I have nothing more to
Prove.
♪♪ Yertle, you have to protect
Us!
♪♪ Well, you know, sometimes
The best defense is a good big
Fence. What do you say we start
Building one now?
♪♪ Yertle!
♪♪ You're right. Don't worry,
Everyone. I know exactly what
I've got to do.
I know what I gotta do! I
Gotta get out of here! Ungh!
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
♪♪ [Screeching]
♪♪ No!
The blag-bludder beast...got
Yertle.
♪♪ Oh, no! What are we going to
Do now?
♪♪ We must cover our eyes and
Hide!
♪♪ Yeah.
♪♪ No!
♪♪ No?
♪♪ What?
♪♪ Yertle was there for us, and
I'm going to save him. I'm not
Going to cover my eyes and hide
Anymore! Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph...
♪♪ Well, come on, everybody!
Let's go!
♪♪ Let's do it.
♪♪ Yeah!
♪♪ Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph...
♪♪ What a week I'm having!
♪♪ Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph...
♪♪ [Screeching]
♪♪ Look! The blag-bludder
Beast! Charge!
♪♪ Aaaahhhhh!
♪♪ [Screeching]
♪♪ What was that?
♪♪ It came from that way.
There are two of them!
♪♪ Look out!
♪♪ Whoa!
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ Yertle?
♪♪ Um--heh. Hi, everyone.
♪♪ What's going on?
♪♪ Yeah. Why were you dressed
Like that?
♪♪ This...this...oh, this?
Well, this is part of my
Disguise--part of my master
Plan to trap the bed and
Breakfast beast.
♪♪ [Screeching]
♪♪ Aah! Don't let him get me!
Don't let him get me!
♪♪ Oh, you're just a coward!
♪♪ How could you do this?
♪♪ [Screeching]
♪♪ Aah! Let's get out of here!
♪♪ Wait! If we run now, we'll
Never stop running.
♪♪ Sounds good to me.
♪♪ No! Thaddeus is right! Now
More than ever, it's up to us
To protect ourselves!
♪♪ No more hiding our eyes.
♪♪ This is where we make our
Stand.
Stand. ♪♪ [Screeching]
♪♪ [Screeching]
♪♪ Hey, everyone.
♪♪ Aah! It's awful! He's awful!
Help me, hide me! Hoo!
♪♪ Yertle, uncover your eyes.
♪♪ Hmm?
A bird? Ha ha ha ha! He's
A bird! Ha ha ha ha!
♪♪ Who are you?
♪♪ My name is rudellis
Valloquinox. But most people
Who don't speak latin call me
Rudy.
♪♪ What are you doing here?
♪♪ Well, I heard you guys
Singing a little while ago.
Sounded like a celebration. I
Came over to join in. Where's
The party?
♪♪ Ha ha! It's just a bird.
♪♪ Ha ha ha ha. Of all the
Ridiculous foolishness! It
Wasn't a monster after all. Ha
Ha ha ha! Oh, well, as I always
Say, all's well that ends well.
♪♪ Yertle!
♪♪ Hey, you guys, don't you
Look at me like that. I'm
Yertle the bra--aaaaaave!
What a week I'm having! Eeew!
♪♪ Now let's have a party!
♪♪ Hooray! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph!
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph! Troomph! Troomph...
Troomph! Troomph...
♪♪ Two things, I trust,
Are now crystal clear.
You need to use knowledge
To overcome fear.
And things are not always
As they appear.
♪♪ They're not?
♪♪ They're not?
♪♪ Nope. Looky here.
Heh, heh.
♪♪ How'd you do that?
♪♪ Very nicely, thank you.
Oh, and thank you. Hey, we've
Got to be getting back to the
Party. See you later. Ha ha!
Come on, cats!
Come on, cats! Troomph! Troomph! Troomph...
Troomph! Troomph! Troomph...
01x12 - The Blag-Bludder Beast
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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.