♪♪ ♪ 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 on
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 a 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.
♪♪ ♪ You can never be
Too clean ♪
Oh, hello there. Hey, don't mind
Me. I'm just cleaning the glass
Of my big-screen tv, huh?
I squeegeed the walls. I've
Dusted the shelves, but this
Still isn't clean.
[Exhales]
I can't see myself. Ah.
Seems that you have the same
Problem I do. Hey, we both can
Learn something from jane
Learn something from jane kangaroo. Heh heh.
Kangaroo. Heh heh.
♪♪ Welcome to the "house and
Home show," where a clean home
Is a beautiful home.
♪♪ Yes. It's time for the "house
And home show," where each week,
We drop in on someone and let
You take a peek. As we go
Through their house with a
Camera and crew, you'll see how
Much cleaner they all are
Than you.
[Applause]
♪♪ The "house and home show"
Features only the best. They
Show houses and homes that
Surpass all the rest. It has
Been my life dream to see myself
Someday with my home bright and
Clean on that screen. Anyway--
Junior, time to come inside now.
Hop to it young--waah!
♪♪ Today's "house and home" is
Brought to you by the muckster.
The muckster because...
♪♪ ♪ You can never be
Too clean ♪
♪♪ Hello, mother.
♪♪ Hello, junior.
♪♪ Mother, you want to play
A game?
♪♪ There's no time, junior.
♪♪ Oh, please?
♪♪ But the place is such a mess.
I've got so much to do.
♪♪ Aww! Please?
♪♪ Oh, junior, wait. Wait.
I know a game. It's called let's
Clean up the house.
♪♪ Again?
♪♪ Well, this time, we'll make a
Race out of it.
♪♪ Mm, ok.
♪♪ That's my good little boy.
♪♪ Be sure to stay tuned. We're
Dropping by soon to surprise
Someone at home. To see who
We've chosen, just keep that
Dial frozen.
♪♪ ♪ You can never be too clean
♪♪ Clean, clean, clean
♪♪ You can never be too neat
♪♪ Neat, neat, neat
♪♪ You can never keep
Your carpet
♪♪ You never keep your carpet
♪♪ Out from under someone's feet
♪♪ Out from under someone's feet
♪♪ So vacuum and revacuum
And again as you repeat
♪♪ You can never be too clean
♪♪ You can never be too neat
♪♪ You can never be too neat ♪
[Crash]
Uh, oops.
♪♪ You can never be too clean.
Yes. That's what we say on the
"House and home show."
♪♪ Yes. I know what you mean.
I'm clean as can be. I'm cleaner
Than clean. Put me on tv.
♪♪ Today we'll be visiting one
Lucky viewer.
♪♪ Oh, yes. If they had any
Taste, they would quite plainly
See that the house and home they
Got to visit is me.
♪♪ Today we'll be visiting
Jane kangaroo.
♪♪ Wouldn't you know it? Who?
♪♪ Yes. We're visiting you,
Jane kangaroo...
♪♪ ♪ Jane kangaroo
"House and home"
Has chosen you ♪
♪♪ And we'll be there soon.
Now a word from our sponsors.
♪♪ The "house and home show"
Coming...
[Crash]
Here today?
♪♪ Ha ha ha!
♪♪ Look at this mess. Look at
This floor. Soon the "house and
Home" bodies will be at
The door.
[Door opens]
♪♪ This door?
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Not to worry. Not to care.
You've got cleaning time to
Spare. Oh, I brought you help by
Third-class freight if you'll
Let us demonstrate.
♪♪ Demonstrate? Whoa.
♪♪ Very well. If you insist.
Oh, little cats--
Are you tired of soil and soot
And mossy messes underfoot?
♪♪ Yes.
♪♪ Tired of muck?
♪♪ Tired of mold?
♪♪ Tired of tire tracks two
Years old?
♪♪ Tire tracks?
♪♪ It could happen.
♪♪ Yes, yes, yes.
Can you help me?
♪♪ Fellow felines,
A demonstration.
♪♪ Ok.
♪♪ [Jabbering]
♪♪ Uh-oh.
♪♪ What are you doing? What have
You done?
♪♪ Ha ha ha!
♪♪ Junior!
♪♪ Ha ha! It's funny, mother.
♪♪ Just letting a litter of rug
Runners run. Don't fear.
I promise, we won't disappoint.
As we say on tv, it's to prove
A point.
♪♪ To prove a point?
♪♪ Ladies and gentlemen,
Kangaroo and kid, presenting the
Muckster. Observe. A little
Smile, a turn of the dial.
♪♪ [Sputtering]
♪♪ Et voila, huh?
♪♪ ?
♪♪ Well, settings one and two
Are not nearly clean enough for
You. Ho ho!
Now tell it what to do.
♪♪ What to do?
♪♪ Mm-hmm.
♪♪ You mean that--
You mean, tell it to clean the
Floor?
♪♪ Ha ha ha! Whoa!
♪♪ Clean the floor? Clean the
Floor?
♪♪ Junior, oh...
♪♪ ♪ When dust and dirt
Have had their way
And left your home in disarray
To clean becomes
A necessary chore
But what common folk call clean
Isn't nearly as pristine
As the homes on "house and home"
That we adore, don't we? ♪
♪♪ Sure.
♪♪ ♪ It's your lucky year
I've got the answer, ha ha!
And your domicile will dazzle
For your telecast premiere
♪♪ Mama, listen to this huckster
♪♪ What you need's
A brand-new muckster
It's a wubbulous machine
If dishevelment's your trouble
It will shevel on the double
Multilevel, ranch, or bubble
There's no hovel it won't clean
The grit and grime and goo
Gobbled upster by the muckster
Will leave your home
And leave the scene, ha ha!
It's your lucky year
I've got the answer
And your domicile will dazzle
For your telecast premiere
♪♪ Mama, listen to this huckster
♪♪ What you need's
A brand-new muckster
It's a wubbulous machine
Sign right here
And own this wubbulous machine
Sign right here
And own this wubbulous machine
It's your lucky year
I've got the answer
And your domicile will dazzle
For your telecast premiere
♪♪ Mama, listen to this huckster
♪♪ What you need's
A brand-new muckster
It's a wubbulous machine
Ha ha ha! ♪
♪♪ [Sputtering]
♪♪ The rug runners,
They're gone.
♪♪ And you won't see another
From dusk till dawn.
♪♪ Excellent. Yes. Oh, no.
♪♪ What?
♪♪ Those handprints.
♪♪ Ah, yes. Setting removes
Debris from under foot and
Floor, but to clean the walls
And ceilings, turn the dial
To .
♪♪ . Wonderful.
♪♪ B-b-but the level of cleaning
The muckster will do goes up
Each time the dial clicks, but,
If you don't mind, here's a
Little advice. Never turn the
Dial to .
♪♪ Never turn the dial to .
♪♪ Never ever?
♪♪ Why not?
♪♪ Why not?
♪♪ Well, let's just say, there's
Such a thing as being too clean.
♪♪ Ah.
♪♪ Now let's see it clean the
Walls.
♪♪ Clean the walls. Clean the
Walls.
[Sputtering]
Clean the walls. Clean the
Walls.
♪♪ Hey, muckster, that was our
Game.
♪♪ Are they here yet?
♪♪ No.
♪♪ No. ♪♪ Oh...
♪♪ Oh...
♪♪ Folks, this is sally
Spinglespunglesporn on my way to
Kallaroo court, a charming,
Little community on the
Outskirts of solla sollew.
♪♪ She's only a few blocks away.
♪♪ I'm only a few blocks away
From our surprise visit winner
Today--mrs. Jane kangaroo.
Today--mrs. Jane kangaroo. ♪♪ Oo oo oo...
♪♪ Oo oo oo...
♪♪ What a gloss. What a sheen.
I've never seen my house so
Clean. Oh, but "house and home"
Will soon arrive. Better turn
The dial to .
♪♪ Turn the dial to ?
♪♪ Turn the dial to .
♪♪ Um, ma?
♪♪ Hmm?
♪♪ You got to tell it what
To do.
♪♪ What to do.
♪♪ Yeah. Yeah.
♪♪ Do...more.
♪♪ Do more. Do more.
♪♪ Do more. Do more. [Sputtering]
[Sputtering]
[Sputtering] ♪♪ ah.
♪♪ Ah.
Oh.
♪♪ Hey, stop it!
♪♪ Oh, my.
♪♪ But, ma--
♪♪ But, ma-- oh, what's it doing now?
Oh, what's it doing now?
♪♪ Do more. Do more.
[Coughs]
♪♪ Is it--
♪♪ The house is clean?
It's done?
♪♪ It's done.
The house is clean. Ha ha ha!
♪♪ What if--
♪♪ Uh, mother, it's done.
♪♪ What if the house could be
Even cleaner?
♪♪ Mother, never ever turn the
Dial to .
♪♪ Why would they put it there,
Then? As they say on the "house
And home show"...
♪ You can never be too clean
♪♪ Ah.
♪♪ Clean...everything.
[Doorbell rings]
♪♪ Mrs. Kangaroo, "house and
Home show."
♪♪ Ma, ma, doorbell.
♪♪ Nah. The silly thing is
Broken now.
♪♪ Mrs. Kangaroo, this is only a
Half-hour show.
♪♪ Quick, junior. Hide that
Somewhere until they're gone,
All right? Coming.
♪♪ Uh...go. Uh, come on.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
That's it. That's it. This way.
♪♪ And cue sally.
♪♪ Hello, jane. Ok, boys.
And here we are live at the home
Of jane kangaroo. Hello. I'm
Sally spinglespunglesporn.
♪♪ Why--ungh!--Hello. What
Brings you to my lovely--
Oh, wait. Was that supposed to
Be today?
♪♪ [Cough cough]
Clean everything.
Clean everything.
Clean everything. [Sputtering]
[Sputtering]
♪♪ If only I'd had time
To clean before you arrived.
♪♪ You mean, you do all the
Cleaning yourself?
♪♪ Oh, watch the boom. Ha ha ha!
♪♪ Jane kangaroo,
Your home is immaculate.
Really, really clean.
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ Why, thank you, miss
Spinglespunglesporn, or is that
Mrs. Spinglespunglesporn?
Ha ha ha! Perhaps I'd best call
You sally. You see, sally, the
Finer homes never resort to
These newfangled appliances to
Provide a model to the
Community. The best housework is
Handiwork, I always say. I can
See by your wide-eyed stares of
Horror that you must be admiring
My furniture.
♪♪ Mother, mother, it's cleaning
Everything, everything!
♪♪ [Gasps]
My table. My chairs.
[Crash]
My china.
♪♪ [Sputtering]
♪♪ Ohh!
♪♪ Sally!
Help!
Hey!
♪♪ Oh...ok. I think we better go
To a commercial now. Aah!
[Telephone rings]
♪♪ Hello. Muckster sales. You
Can never be too clean. How may
I help you?
♪♪ Muckster sales. How may I
Help you?
♪♪ Hello. Muckster sales.
♪♪ Folks, today is your
Lucky day.
♪♪ Are you having problems with
Grease, grime, oil stains, waxy,
Old build-up...
♪♪ Or intrusive relatives?
♪♪ Have we got a deal for you.
It's the muckster.
♪♪ It cleans, and it waxes...
♪♪ Receives all your faxes...
♪♪ And pays your taxes.
♪♪ No, it doesn't.
♪♪ Shh! We got to unload these
Things.
♪♪ Oh, yeah.
♪♪ Yes, folks. It's the
Muckster.
♪♪ It'll slice. It'll dice...
♪♪ And make everything nice.
♪♪ But you better act now...
♪♪ 'Cause we're slashing the
Price.
♪♪ Whoa! Oh!
♪♪ Someone must've turned the
Dial to .
♪♪ You better order now. Things
Are really moving.
♪♪ Ooh!
♪♪ Hang on, everyone. Hang on
Tight to your hat. There's a
Wind in the air that will take
It like that. Ha! You can guess
How it started and why, where,
And who because everything is
Flying for jane kangaroo.
♪♪ This is sally
Spinglespunglesporn live on the
Scene in the belly of jane
Kangaroo's new cleaning machine.
Well, as you can see, it's an
Awful mess down here. We're
Certainly getting the dirt on
Jane kangaroo. Just look at what
She's been hiding--gritty,
Grimy, sooty, slimy,
Oily murky, dirty...
Oily murky, dirty... ♪♪ [Sputtering]
♪♪ [Sputtering]
♪♪ Oh, and here's a happy
Surprise. It appears I'm now
Being pelted by jane kangaroo's
Dirty laundry. Hmm.
♪♪ My sheets. My towels. That
Machine is cleaning me out of
House and home. Oh!
♪♪ Whoa! Mother, do something.
Do something.
♪♪ All right. Just stay here,
Junior. Oh, no.
♪♪ Do something, mother.
Do something.
♪♪ Oh, dear. Stay here, junior,
All right? Mommy will fix the
Machine.
♪♪ Off, mother. Turn it off.
♪♪ It won't go off. It won't
Stop trying to clean up, junior.
♪♪ Clean up junior.
♪♪ Oh, no. What have I said?
What have I done? Run, junior.
Run!
♪♪ Whoa!
♪♪ Clean up junior.
♪♪ Run, junior. Hurry. Oh! Oh!
♪♪ Clean up junior. Clean up
Junior.
♪♪ Oh!
♪♪ Oh, oh, come on, junior.
Oh, please hurry. Hurry.
♪♪ Mother! Ohh!
♪♪ Oh, oh, come on.
♪♪ Clean up junior. Clean up
Junior.
♪♪ Yikes.
♪♪ Shh shh.
♪♪ [Sputtering]
♪♪ Come on, junior.
♪♪ Clean up junior. Clean up
Junior. Clean up junior.
♪♪ It's time to awake, to rise
Up and see your new turtle
King--just little, old
Me--ee--ee! Hee hee! Ooh!
Eeh! Uh! Ugh!
♪♪ Oh, and here's something that
Could use a little bleach.
♪♪ Aah! Waah! Oh! Uh...
Blblblblbl!
It's because I'm bald, isn't it?
♪♪ No, no, no, no, no.
♪♪ Donuts are funnier.
♪♪ Rubber chickens are funnier.
♪♪ Donuts are funnier.
♪♪ Look at this face, huh?
Rubber chickens are funnier.
Listen to me. I'm telling you,
Rubber chickens are funnier.
Leonard!
♪♪ How'd he do that?
♪♪ I have no idea.
♪♪ Clean up junior. Clean up
Junior.
♪♪ Listen to me. Vote for me.
Elect me. Cast your ballot for
The turtle vote. Never mind
Democracy. I've got the mike
Now. I'm in charge now.
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ It seems all of jane's
Neighbors are dropping by for
What is shaping up to be the
Social event of the year.
♪♪ Hey, look, mr. Knox.
We're on tv. Excuse me.
♪ Da da da da da da
I'm mr. Knox
♪♪ I'm mr. Knox
♪♪ The fox in socks
♪♪ You're fox in socks
♪♪ We are fox and knox ♪
♪♪ Ha! Thank you.
♪♪ No, no. Elect me. I am your
Ruler. I can save you.
♪♪ Oh, hee hee hee! Hatching
That egg was nothing. Did I ever
Tell you about the time I
Saved whoville? Hmm?
♪♪ Clean up junior.
♪♪ Next week, we're appearing at
The ha ha club in solla sollew,
Half price at the door. Sally?
♪♪ This is turning out to be a
Star-bellied event. Oh, and
Who's joining us now? Why,
It's horton the elephant.
♪♪ Elephant? Whoa!
♪♪ Oh! Uh...ooh. Sorry.
♪♪ Clean up junior. Clean up
Junior. Clean up junior.
♪♪ Come on, junior.
♪♪ Coming.
Mother...
♪♪ Oh, dear. Oh, dear. What have
I done? What have I done?
♪♪ What have you done? Why,
You've cleaned everything.
Isn't that your life's dream?
You should be very proud.
You can never be too clean.
♪♪ Yes, you can be too clean.
That horrid machine is trying to
Take away my junior.
♪♪ Take away your junior? That
Couldn't be true, not unless--
You didn't turn the dial to ,
Now, did you?
♪♪ Yes.
♪♪ Aha. Well, well. It wants
To take junior. Well, he does
Make a mess, and your home would
Be cleaner without him, I guess.
♪♪ No!
♪♪ Yes. He plays in the house.
He makes tracks on the rug.
♪♪ I don't care where he plays.
I don't care. Pull the plug.
I don't want it so clean.
I was wrong. I'm not happy.
Make is cease. Make it stop.
Make it still.
♪♪ Make it snappy. Aah!
♪♪ Junior!
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ No, no, no.
♪♪ Mother, don't let go.
♪♪ I've got you, junior.
I've got you. Got you.
It's taking junior. What do I
Do now?
♪♪ Well, the machine seems to
Clean if you tell it to.
♪♪ Yes, yes. I think we've
Established that.
♪♪ Well, maybe it will unclean
If you tell it to.
♪♪ Unclean?
♪♪ Unclean.
♪♪ Yuck.
♪♪ Clean up junior. Clean up
Junior.
♪♪ Mommy!
♪♪ Clean up junior.
♪♪ Unclean!
♪♪ Unclean. Unclean. Unclean.
[Sputtering]
♪♪ No one believed me when I
Said there were people living on
That dust speck, but I meant
What I said, and I said what
I meant.
♪♪ Pop.
♪♪ Morton.
♪♪ Hey, I didn't know you
Could fly.
♪♪ Uh, neither did i. Waah!
♪♪ Whoa!
♪♪ Well, I better go give them a
Helping hand, or wing. Whoa.
I'm much stronger than I look.
I'm much stronger than I look. [Crash]
[Crash]
♪♪ You didn't let go, mama.
You didn't let go.
♪♪ Well, and here she is once
Again, ladies and gentlemen, the
Lady of the half-hour--mrs. Jane
Kangaroo. Well, we've only got a
Few more moments before signing
Off. Mrs. Kangaroo, any closing
Thoughts for our "house and
Home" viewers?
♪♪ Oh, why, yes, sally. There's
A little saying that I think
Everyone should know. You can
Never be too--
You can never be too busy to
Play with your little boy.
♪♪ Yeah. Yeah.
♪♪ Come, junior. Let's go.
♪♪ Come, junior. Let's go. ♪♪ [Humming]
♪♪ [Humming]
♪♪ Ma, ma, look at the picture
I made you.
[Crash]
♪♪ Oh, junior.
♪♪ I'm sorry, ma. I'm sorry.
♪♪Well--wait. I have an idea.
There.
♪♪ Wow, ma. You're the best.
♪♪ I saw they would both be all
Right. I just knew. No machine
Could take junior from jane
Kangaroo. I saw in her eyes that
Could never be true, and I
Learned something from her.
Didn't you?
♪♪ Oh, yeah. I learned
Something. Absolutely. Mm-hmm.
♪♪ I learned the same thing she
Did, only better.
♪♪ Oh, yeah. I learned
Something--never ever turn the
Dial to .
♪♪ That's right. Right.
♪♪ Ok, guys. Crank her up to .
♪♪ What?
♪♪ ? Hold on! Hang on to--ooh!
♪♪ Cool.
01x13 - The Muckster
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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.