03x02 - Upside Down

Episode transcripts for the TV series, "The Hoobs". Aired: 15 January 2001 – 3 January 2003.*
Watch/Buy Amazon


It stars five creatures called Hoobs (Hubba Hubba, Iver, Groove, Tula, and Roma) from the fictional Hoobland, and their interactions with Earth and the human race.
Post Reply

03x02 - Upside Down

Post by bunniefuu »

(laser sh**ting)

- Hooble-doop Tiddlypeeps.

I'm Hubba Hubba, talking

to you from Hoobland,

and I'm about to send

four of my favorite Hoobs

down to Earth to find

out all about you

for my great Hoobapedia.

Here they come.

(laser sh**ting)

(machine beeping)

(upbeat music)

♪ You know who the Hoobs are ♪

- Iver!

- Groove

- And Tula!

- [All] We're Hoobs

♪ And they're ready to go ♪

♪ Now the wheels are turning ♪

♪ We can all get learning ♪

♪ All the things

we want to know ♪

- Yah!

♪ Hubba Hubba's in Hoobland ♪

♪ And Roma's

somewhere far away ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪

♪ We keep the engines spinning ♪

♪ Hoob Hoob Hoorah ♪

♪ The Hoobmobile is

coming your way ♪

(laughs)

Oh!

- Whoa, hey!

♪ The Hoobs are here

so what do you say ♪

♪ Hoobs ♪

(upbeat instrumental music)

- Hmm, I think

Hubba Hubba's right.

That is the best

picture I have ever done

on the hooba computer.

I can't wait to print it out.

(machine boings)

(machine whirring)

Ivar, Groove, come quickly!

- [Iver] Coming Tula!

- What's the matter?

(printer boings)

(head bangs)

(printer crashes)

(printer boings)

- Oh dear.

- Oh, Groove, you've

broken the hooby printer.

- Oh I'm sorry Tula.

Are you all right Tula?

- Yes, I just wanted

to show you my picture

that Hubba Hubba's going to

put on display on HoobNet.

The best picture I've ever done.

The picture I was

about to print out.

- Oh Tula, I was an accident.

I'll mend it, today, I promise.

- Let's see your picture.

Come on.

- I don't want to

show it to you now.

- Ah, please Tula I bet

it's really hoovy groovy.

Well actually, it is

quite hoovy groovy.

- Ah, go on show it.

Go on show it, show it, show it.

Oh, all right then.

(light guitar music)

(printer clicks)

Ta da!

So, what do you think?

Hoobily-groobily or what?

- [All] Uh, yes!

- It's um.

- Yes, it's very um.

- What do you mean, very um?

It's the most hoobacious

picture I've ever done!

- Oh yes of course it is, Tula!

It's just that um.

- [Tula] It's just that what?

- Well...

- What?

- What's it suppose to be?

I mean, it must be a

picture of something

because it's so,

well, hooby groovy.

- But what?

♪ What ♪

♪ What, what, what ♪

♪ What ♪

♪ What, what, what ♪

- It's a vase of Hooby flowers.

That's what.

- Oh, no it isn't.

It's Auntie Hattie Hoob

from where I'm standing.

I mean look, look.

There's a yello twissle

toft, and that's her nose.

- No, no, no, no it's not.

Look, look it's a bonfire.

With great big leaping

flames, well from down here.

- Let's have a look, Groove.

Oh, you're right it does

look like a bonfire.

- Oh, hooby bother!

I thought I'd done

the best picture ever

of a vase of flowers!

Obviously, I was wrong.

- Huh? Ooh, oh!

- Aw, Tula.

Oh, come one, cheer up Tula!

Look, look it's the most

hooby groovy picture ever

because it can be so

many different things.

- Depending on which

way you look at it.

- Yeah, exactly.

The question is,

what's the best way to

look at Tula's picture.

- [Machine] Hubba, Hubba

- Groove, you're right!

That is the question.

The question for Hoob News!

- What is the best way to

look at Tula's picture?

- That's a hooble-dooble

duper question

for today's Hoob News Hoobs!

(laughs)

After all, once the

picture's on HoobNet,

Hoobs everywhere are going

to want to look at it

in the best possible way.

- [Groove] Yeah.

- Yes, you're right Hubba Hubba.

Now, perhaps the peeps

have different ways

of looking at pictures.

Let's see what we

can find on HoobNet.

(machine whirring)

- Um, ha!

How about this?

(machine whirs)

(upbeat music)

- [Narrator] Oh, look!

They're all sitting down

looking up at that picture.

Ooh, she's gone to the

side to look at that one!

Looking at pictures

from different angles

seems to be very important.

Somebody looking at a

picture from a long way away.

They're very close

there, you see?

Oh, and that peeps

painting at an odd angle.

(machine whirs)

- Hooby-galooby, there

are a lot of ways

of looking at

pictures aren't there.

- I say this was

a pretty good way.

You can really see how much

work you've put into this, Tula.

- It's pretty amazing

from here too.

- Nah, I still like it best

from underneath myself.

- Hmm, I wonder if

there are any other ways

of looking at it.

- [Machine] Hubba, Hubba!

- Ah, here's Hubba Hubba.

Maybe he's got the answer.

- I haven't got the answer,

but I have found a story that

might give you another angle.

Take a look.

(machine whirs)

(dramatic music)

(owl hoots)

- [Narrator] Once, there was

a little bat called Cecile

who hated being upside down.

Whenever he even thought

about being upside down,

his legs went all wibbly-wobbly.

(laughing)

This is bad news for a bat

because bats need to be

able to hang upside down

in order to go asleep.

There is no way I am hanging

upside down, Cecile said.

I'm a right way up bat,

not an upside down bat.

I'm going to find

somewhere else to sleep.

(rhythmic orchestral music)

First of all,

he found a little

whole under a hedge.

But suddenly a fox

appeared and said,

This is my whole, you'd

better move out quick.

Or else.

Cecile scurried away

and found another hole

under the root of the tree.

But a badger came

snuffling along.

This is my hole, he shouted.

You'd better move

out quick, or else.

Poor Cecile.

I'm going to have to be an

upside down bat after all.

Cecile flew onto the branch.

His friends all

gathered round him.

You can do it, Cecile!

It's easy, watch!

They all turned

themselves upside down.

Eventually, Cecile

took a deep breathe

(gasping breath)

and let himself

hang upside down.

Open your eyes Cecile,

squeaked the others.

I can't, said Cecile.

Don't be silly,

squeaked his friends.

The view's beautiful!

(soft harmonic music)

Slowly, Cecile opened one

eye and then the other.

(gasps)

Wow, This is the best view ever!

And from that day on, Cecile

became an upside down bat

just like all his friends.

(lighthearted music)

(machine whirs)

(sighing)

- Perhaps we should be looking

at Tula's picture upside down.

- Exactly!

After all, Cecile said

that hanging upside down

gave him the best view ever!

- Hmm, but Cecile

is a bat, Iver.

Bats hang upside

down, Hoobs don't.

- Hmm, true.

- I mean, how could a

Hoob be upside down?

We can't bring a

branch in here, can we?

Oh, this question is

proving really difficult.

(lighthearted music)

♪ Looking at the world

in different ways ♪

♪ You never know

what you might find ♪

♪ First you see something

that's as clear as day ♪

♪ Then suddenly you find

you've changed your mind ♪

♪ We're looking at the world,

it's very clear to me ♪

♪ If you look from

above or from below ♪

♪ Things aren't always

what they seem to be ♪

♪ Things can change

and things can grow ♪

♪ But how could we look

at something upside down ♪

♪ Should we hang from

a tree like a bat ♪

♪ If we want to look at life

from a topsy-turvy angle ♪

♪ Then we might need a branch

from which we can dangle ♪

♪ I don't think a Hoob

would be happy like that ♪

♪ 'cause a Hoob might

fall down, splat ♪

♪ We're looking at the

world in different ways ♪

♪ We never know what

this might inspire ♪

♪ At first you think

you're looking ♪

♪ at a vase of Hooby flowers ♪

♪ Then suddenly you

see a leaping fire ♪

♪ But looking at the world

when you're upside down ♪

♪ Is the only thing we

haven't tested out ♪

♪ So how can a Hoob

be the wrong way up ♪

♪ And what will we see ♪

♪ A train ♪

♪ A plane ♪

♪ A buttercup ♪

♪ Oh, how can a Hoob

be the wrong way up ♪

♪ Tell me, what's this

upside down thing all about ♪

(Orchestral music)

- [Machine] Hubba,

Hubba, Hubba, Hubba

Hubba, Hubba, Hubba, Hubba

- Ah, it's Hubba Hubba.

- Hooble-doop, Hoobs.

- Hooble-doop, Hubba Hubba!

- Do you know anything about

being upside down, Hubba Hubba?

- Yeah well, Auntie Hattie

Hoob often hangs upside down

from her hooby hanger

but you haven't got a hooby

hanger there, have you?

- No.

- No, I tell you what.

I'll email Roma if you like

and ask her what

she can find out

about being upside down

on the peep planet.

Hooby-galooby, I'm sure Roma

would love to turn upside down.

- Yeah.

- Quite, but in the meantime,

why don't you go and

visit the Tiddlypeeps?

Well, there awfully good

at looking at things

in different ways.

- Right, who's coming with me?

- Oh, I will Tula?

- Aren't you suppose

to be mending

the Hooby printer, Groove?

Da, uh yes yes, you're right.

- Come on Tula, I'll drive.

Let's get those

Motorettes singing!

(laughs)

- Yeah, yeah.

(forlorn music)

- Seatbelt?

- Seatbelt.

- We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps.

- Yeah.

(engine chimes)

(upbeat orchestral music)

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ On the road we go ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ They're smart ♪

♪ They're fun ♪

They know

♪ The Tiddly-peeps,

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ Help us find things out ♪

♪ They give us clues ♪

♪ They tell us news ♪

♪ That's what

they're all about ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ On the road we go ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ They're smart ♪

♪ They're fun ♪

♪ They know ♪

(Tula pops)

Hooby-galooby, that's amazing

- Hooble-doop, Tula!

- Would you like to

do a hooby hello?

- Yes!

- Hooble-doop, hooble-doop,

whoop, whoop, whoop!

- What's your names?

- I'm Claire.

- And I'm Rebecca.

Well Claire and Rebecca,

what you were just doing

was hoobily groobily.

I was going to ask

about being upside down.

How would you do it.

- It's easy, watch.

(upbeat music)

- So, you bend over.

You kick your legs in the air

and another Tiddlypeep

grabs your feet.

Yes, and they're

upside down, mm-hmm.

- And look Tula, I

can do it on my own.

(upbeat music)

What do you think?

- That is the most hoobily

groobily thing I have ever seen!

And it's just what

we're looking for.

Thank you so much!

- That's okay, Tula.

- I better get back

to the Hoobmobile now,

and turn some Hoobs upside down.

Hooble toodle-doo!

- Hooble toodle-doo!

(upbeat music)

- Yep, there we are.

As good as new.

Tula will be really pleased.

(laughs)

(heads bang)

- Oh, I'm sorry Groove!

(printer boing)

- Oh no, not again!

(spring twangs)

- Did you see that?

Did you see that?

- No, not really Tula.

I was too busy mending

the hooby printer.

I can't do two things

at once, you know.

Well, I'm going to have

a go at the handstand.

Come on.

(upbeat bluesy music)

Right, we'll see what it looks

like upside down, here goes.

Whoo!

(laughs)

Whoa, You've just

got to try this!

- Huh, Tula that's hoobacious!

- Yeah.

- Let me try.

(clears throat)

There we go.

(laughs)

- Actually, it's not

as easy as it looks.

- Careful Iver, oh!

- Ow!

Oh, ooh!

(laughs)

- It's all right, is it?

- Yeah, oh sorry.

- Hey, maybe it's a girl thing.

- Groove, I've got an idea.

- Yeah?

- Copy me.

- Copying you.

- [Tula] Yeah, come on Groove,

get you're legs in the air.

(grunts)

- [Iver] Ah ha, I'm up!

(grunts)

- [Groove] Oh, so am I!

- [Tula] Right,

what can you see?

- The wall

(grunts)

- Oh, hooby bother!

We managed to turn

ourselves upside down

but we can't see the picture

from that angle at all.

- There must be a way

we can see the picture

upside down, but how?

♪ How, how, how, ♪

♪ How, how ♪

♪ How, how, how ♪

♪ How, how, how, how, how ♪

♪ How ♪

- [Machine] Roma, Roma, Roma

- Oh, that's Roma!

Maybe she'll have the answer.

- Hooble-doop, Hoobs!

- Hooble-doop, Roma!

- Now, Hubba Hubba's asked me

to find out all about upside

so I've come here

to this bainebridge.

- But how's a bridge going to

help us go upside down, Roma?

- Well Hoobs, it's

not the bridge itself.

It's what's happening

underneath it.

- Underneath it?

- That's right, Iver.

Just over there, some peeps

are about to go bungee jumping.

- Bungee Jumping?

That sounds hooby groovy.

It certainly is, Groove.

The peeps start the right way up

but then they tie an elastic

rope to their leges you see

and then when they bungee

jump, they end up upside down.

- But what is bungee

jumping, Roma?

- Wait a minute, Tula!

One of the peeps is about

to bungee jump right now!

Watch this!

- Whee!

(laughs)

- Oh, can you imagine

a more exciting way

of getting upside down Hoobs?

I certainly can't so I'm

off to have a go right now.

- Be careful Roma!

- Yeah.

- Don't worry Iver.

I've got my elastic

rope firmly tied on.

This is Roma Hoob, off to get

upside down under a bridge.

Hooble toodle-doo!

- Hooble toodle-doo!

- That was the most

extraordinary thing

I've ever seen.

- Yeah, hooby groovy.

- Yeah, it looks to me like

being on the end

of a bungee rope

is a very good way

of being upside down.

- Yes, but don't you

think that bouncing

would get in the way

of seeing the picture?

- Well let's try it, without

the upside down bit first.

- Boing, boing, boing

Boing, boing, boing, boing

- No it's no good,

it's not good!

It's impossible to see

the picture properly

with all this bouncing.

- Yeah, just think about

how much worse it would be

if we were upside doing and

going boing, boing, boing.

- What are we going to do?

We're running out to time!

- [Machine] Hubba

- Oh, it's Hubba Hubba.

He's bound to help us.

- Cheer up Hoobs.

I still think the

Tiddlypeeps hold the answer.

After all, they came

up with the handstands.

- Right, I'll go.

- Oh, I thought you were mending

the hooby printer, Groove.

- Oh, yeah right, yeah.

- I'll drive you Tula.

- All right.

- Ya, I'll step right

over there, have a...

(energetic music)

Boing, boing, boing, boing

(engine chimes)

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ On the road we go ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ Their smart ♪

♪ Their fun ♪

They know

♪ The Tiddlypeeps,

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ Help us find things out ♪

♪ They give us clues ♪

♪ They tell us news ♪

♪ That's what

they're all about ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ On the road we go ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ It's smart ♪

♪ They're fun ♪

♪ They know ♪

(Tula pops)

- Hooble-doop Tiddlypeep.

Hooble-doop, Tula.

- Have you been painting?

- Would you like to see?

- This is beautiful.

- Thanks, Tula.

- I've just painted a picture.

I think it might be

my best picture ever.

- What's it of?

- I thought I knew what it was

but then Groovy and Iver looked

at it from a different angel

and they thought it

was something else.

- Yes.

- Oh, so what are

you going to do?

- Well, we think it might

be best if we look at it

when we're upside down.

- You don't need

to be upside down.

- What do you mean?

- Well, you can turn your

picture upside down instead.

- What?

- That's a hoobily goobily idea.

Oh, but the thing is my

picture's on the screen

on the hooby computer

not in the Hoobmobile.

- Well, is there any way

you could turn the hobby

computer upside down?

- I'm not sure, but

it's a good idea.

It can't be any harder than

turning a Hoob upside down.

(chuckles)

- Yeah.

- Thanks so much, Tiddlypeep.

Hooble toodle-doo!

- Hooble toodle-doo!

(energetic music)

- There we are.

All mended, again.

- Oh well, well done Groove.

- Thank you.

- Come on, Groove.

We have to turn the hooby

computer upside down.

Oh, yes.

Oh, but how?

♪ How, ♪

♪ how, how, how ♪

♪ How, ♪

♪ How, how, how ♪

♪ How, how ♪

- [Machine] Hubba,

Hubba, Hubba, Hubba

- Hubba Hubba might know.

- What's up Hoobs?

Weren't those clever

Tiddlypeeps able to help you?

- Oh well, they

helped all right.

We were just trying to work out

how to turn the hooby

computer upside down

- Yeah.

- instead of ourselves.

- Oh, there's no need

to turn the computer

upside down, Tula.

Technology's a wonderful thing.

Now, let me see.

If I press this.

(machine beeping)

And then this.

(machine beeping)

And now you watch this.

(upbeat music)

- Aha, hoob, hoob, hooray!

- Hey, how hooby groovy is that?

- Hooby go hooby!

It's not a vase of Hooby

flowers, now is it?

It's an octopus!

- With long dangly legs!

- Yeah.

- Hoobacious!

- And I'll tell you something

that's even more hoobacious,

I've mended the hooby

printer, which means...

- Yes, I can print it out.

- Yeah, actually you could

have printed it out all along

and just turned it upside down.

- I could have done Groove,

but you broke the

hooby printer twice.

- No, actually

- Eh, eh, eh, never mind

that now.

- If you hold it, you'll have

Now now, print it

out twice, Tula.

Then we can hang it upside down,

and the right way

up for Hoob News.

Come on.

(mouse clicks)

(printer whirring)

♪ Upside down, upside down ♪

♪ Think of what the world

would look like upside down ♪

♪ Hanging from your ankles,

dangling from a tree ♪

♪ Being upside down is

such a funny way to be ♪

♪ Upside down, upside down ♪

♪ Think of what the world

would look like upside down ♪

♪ Being topsy-turvy, it

makes me want to frown ♪

♪ We'd rather be the right

way up than upside down ♪

♪ Yes, we'd rather be the right

way up than upside down. ♪

[Machine] Hubba,

Hubba, Hubba, Hubba

- Well now, Hoobs.

Are you ready to give

me your Hoob News

for my great Hoobapedia?

- We're ready Hubba Hubba!

Then, take it away.

- Hoobledoop whoop to

all you Hoobs out there.

Welcome to Hoob News.

The news show for

Hoobs everywhere.

- I'm Iver.

- I'm Tula.

- I'm Groove.

- And today we've been

asking the question.

- What's the best way to

look at Tula's picture?

- I thought I'd done a picture

of a vase of Hooby flowers.

But when I looked

at it from the side,

I thought it looked

like Autie Hattie Hoob.

- [Groove] And when I looked

at it from underneath,

it looked like a bonfire.

- Then Hubba Hubba

came to our rescue.

And we saw how many

different ways peeps

have of looking at pictures.

- [Iver] So we tried

lots of different ways

of looking at Tula's picture

but we still couldn't decide

what the best way was.

- [Groove] Then Hubba

Hubba found us the story

of Cecile the bat.

- [Iver] And that

gave us the idea

of looking at the

picture upside down.

- [Groove] But we didn't

know how to get upside down

without a branch to hang from.

- [Iver] So Tula went

to see the Tiddlypeeps

who showed her how

to do handstands.

- [Groove] But we

couldn't see the picture

when we were upside down.

- [Iver] We could only see

the wall straight ahead of us.

- [Tula] Then Roma told

us about bungee jumping.

We thought we'd test out

the bouncy part of it

before we worried about

the upside down part bit.

- [Groove] But bouncing

didn't work because,

well the picture

went all wobbly.

- [Tula] So, we went

to see the Tiddlypeeps

and they came up

with the answer.

- [Iver] Instead of turning

ourselves upside down

Hubba Hubba turned the

picture upside down.

And then, it was the most

hooby groovy octopus.

- Ta-da!

- Hooble dooble-doopa.

I shall display it both

ways on HoobNet Tula,

so Hoobs everywhere will

see how clever you've been.

- Thanks Hubba Hubba.

- And now, for my next trick.

- What?

- Watch!

(machine beeps)

(laughs)

So it's thanks once again to

Iver, Tula, Groove and Roma

for giving Hoobs everywhere

a little peep into

the world of peeps

and remember, whichever way

up you are, have a nice day

and hooble toodle-doo!

Hooble toodle-doo!

- Right, right, right,

right, ready and aha!

- Oh no!

- Not again!

♪ Hubba Hubba's ♪

♪ In Hoobland ♪

♪ And Roma's

somewhere far away ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪

♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪

♪ Hoob hoob hooray ♪

♪ The Hoobmobile is

coming your way ♪

- Hey, hey!

♪ The Hoobs are here

so what do you say ♪

♪ Hoobs ♪
Post Reply