03x35 - Tula's Choice

Episode transcripts for the TV series, "The Hoobs". Aired: 15 January 2001 – 3 January 2003.*
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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.
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03x35 - Tula's Choice

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- Hoobledook, 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 Hoobopaedia.

Here they come!

(upbeat music)

♪ You know who the Hoobs are ♪

♪ Iver, Groove and Tula ♪

♪ We're Hoobs ♪

♪ And they're ready to go ♪

♪ Wa-Hey ♪

♪ Now the wheels are turning ♪

♪ We can all get learning ♪

♪ All the things

we want to know ♪

♪ Ya-Hey ♪

♪ Hubba Hubba's ♪

♪ in Hoobland ♪

♪ And Roma's

somewhere far away ♪

♪ Oh-Oh-Oh ♪

♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪

♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪

♪ Hoob Hoob Hooray ♪

♪ The Hoobmobile is

coming your way ♪

♪ Oh here we come ♪

♪ Wa-Hey ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ The Hoobs are here ♪

- Yeah!

♪ so what do you say ♪

♪ Hoobs ♪

- Nearly finished. The

hoobybuns are the hills,

the hoobynuts are the sea, the

hoobaberries are the beach,

and the hoobnips are the trees.

- Hoobnips (laughs)

Oh, making a picture out of food

has to be the

hoobygrooviest idea

you have ever had, Tula Hoob.

(both laugh)

- Well, I couldn't have done

it without your help, Groove.

Iver hasn't helped at all.

He's been too busy looking

after the Motorettes.

- Tula! Tula! Tula! An email

has just arrived for you.

- For me?

(Iver laughs)

- [Groove] Who's it from?

- What does it say?

- Read it read it!

- Hurry up, come on.

- Shush, it's from a Tiddlypeep.

Dear Tula, my friends

and I are going on a trip

to the seaside in a coach.

We are going to have a picnic

and have races along the beach.

There are two spare

seats on the coach.

Would you like to come?

And bring a friend!

- [Iver and Groove] Oh!

- Love, Gemma.

- Hoob Hoob Hooray!

- How Hoobacious!

- Oh yeah! The picnic bit

sounds especially hoobygroovy.

- And the races. I can't

wait for the races!

- Yeah! (laughs) Oh,

do you know what?

- Huh?

- I know just what

we need, Iver.

My collection of things

you take to the seaside.

(laughs)

- Oh!

- Oh dear!

(rubber squeaking)

(Groove chuckles)

- Oh yes, Groove. Hoobacious.

- Just a minute! Wait!

It says, "would you like to

come and bring a friend."

Just the one friend.

(sad music)

Oh. Oh yes. Oh I see.

One friend. Right.

- WelL.

Well choose then Tula.

Is it gonna be Iver,

or is it gonna be me?

- Hooby galooby.

How can you choose which friend

to take with you to the seaside?

- [Disembodied Echo]

Hubba, Hubba, Hubba, Hubba.

- Tula, that's the question

for Hoob News. Come on!

- How can you

choose which friend

to take with you to the seaside?

Now that is what I call a

very tricky question, Hoobs.

- So do I, Hubba Hubba.

Oh. Where do we begin?

- Well I'll email Roma and

see if she can come up with

a clever ruse as

to how to choose.

But first let me see what

I can find on HoobNet.

Choosing. Hm, choosing. Ah-ha!

Here we go.

Now these are pictures of

Peeps making choices, Hoobs.

Choosing material for clothes.

But when they choose, you see,

they choose the thing

that they like the best.

So they look at everything

and then they choose.

Do you see Hoobs?

Isn't that hoobacious? (laughs)

I see. So I have to decide which

one of you I like the best.

Okay. Well Groove, I like

you because you're so funny.

(Groove and Tula laugh)

Uh-uh-uh-uh.

But then I like Iver

because you're so kind and

hoobaly groobaly.

- Oh (laughs awkwardly) yes.

- Oh, yes. Oh, but I love

Groove's squidgy tummy.

- Ah, no no. Stop

it, stop it, stop it!

STOP IT.

- And then again I

love the way Iver says,

"hoobacious."

- Oh (laughs)

hoobacious (laughs)

- Yes! Just like that.

But I like Groove because he

gives the best hooblediggers.

Oh I don't know! It's

impossible to choose.

(sighs)

I like you both the same.

- Oh.

- Perhaps there's

another way of choosing.

- Well yes, but how?

♪ How How How ♪

♪ How How How How ♪

♪ HOW HOW HOW ♪

- [Disembodied Echo]

Hubba Hubba Hubba Hubba

- Maybe Hubba Hubba knows how.

- I'm afraid I don't

know how, Tula.

But if you could find

a Tiddlypeep to ask,

then I'm sure you'd

get some ideas.

- You're right. I'll go

and find a Tiddlypeep.

- And I'll drive you there.

Seat belt?

- Seat belt. We're off

to see the Tiddlypeeps.

(windchime chiming)

(instruments honking

and squeaking)

♪ Yee-haw ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ On the road we go ♪

♪ We're off to see

the Tiddylypeeps ♪

♪ They're smart,

they're fun, they know ♪

♪ The Tiddlypeeps,

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ If we need to know ♪

♪ Who, what, where,

why, when and how ♪

♪ We'll ask them, off we go ♪

♪ Yoo-Hoo ♪

♪ 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 ♪

- Hoobledip Tiddlypeep.

- Oh, hoobledeep Tula.

- Oh, what are all

these things for?

- It's the tray game.

I'm getting it ready to

play with my friends.

- The tray game? How

do you play that?

- Well you have to look

at all these things

for a very short time,

then I cover up the tray

and you have to see how many

things you can remember.

- Hoobaly groobaly.

Can I try it?

- Of course!

- Okay, so you give

me five hoobaboobas

while I look at all

the things, right?

- Right.

One hoobabooba, two

hoobaboobas, three hoobaboobas,

four hoobaboobas,

FIVE hoobaboobas.

(Tula laughs)

That's it.

Now I cover up the tray.

Now you try to remember.

- Oh dear.

- A toy, a little book...

a lolly, a sponge...

- Something you can draw with.

- A crayon! Oh yes,

a crayon. And a peg!

There was definitely a peg.

Well that's all I can remember.

- Look, you did really well.

You got nearly all of them.

- [Iver] Well done, Tula!

- Yes! Do you know, this has

given me a really good idea.

Iver, Groove.

- [Both] Yes?

- We're going to

play the tray game.

- [Iver] Oh good.

- I must get back to

the Hoobmobile now.

Hoobletoodledoo!

- Hoobletoodledoo!

(bright piano music)

- Excuse me. Excuse me.

- Oh!

- Whoever remembers the

most things on the tray

is the one I choose, right?

- [Both] Right.

- Go. One hoobabooba, two

hoobaboobas, three hoobaboobas,

four hoobaboobas,

five hoobaboobas.

Right, that's it that's it.

- [Iver] Yes yes yes.

- [Groove] No no no no no.

- You first Groove.

What can you remember?

- A hoobnip.

- Iver?

- A pencil.

- Groove?

- A hoobnip.

- A ball, a hoobycup...

a paintbrush, yes a paintbrush.

- A hoobnip.

- A hoobledangler,

the hooby scissors,

a picture of Hubba Hubba.

- A hoobnip.

- A hooby CD, a bit

of rag, a cuddly toy.

- A hoobnip, a

hoobnip, a hoobnip.

- Stop! Oh Iver, you

remembered them all!

- Hoobacious!

- Oh, I'm sorry Groove but you

only remembered the hoobnip.

- Yeah, well if you put a

hoobnip on the tray, Tula,

of course I'm only

gonna remember that.

Once I see a hoobnip, I

can't get it out of my head.

I can't get it out of my head.

(crying softly)

(sad piano music)

Here you are, Iver.

You'll be needing this.

- Oh dear.

- Groove! Groove!

Groove!

I am so sorry!

- I'm just no good

at the tray game.

If we'd played a different game,

like how many hoobnips can

you eat in five hoobaboobas,

then I'd be the one going

on the coach to the seaside.

- You're right. Perhaps it

wasn't a very fair test.

- It doesn't matter, Tula.

It's best that Iver goes.

In any case, I was

once sick on a coach.

(sad trumpet music)

- It's no good Groove. I can't

have you upset like this.

You're my friend.

- Oh.

This is impossible.

- [Disembodied Echo]

Roma, Roma, Roma, Roma

- Here's Roma.

Maybe she's found a better

way of choosing, Tula.

- Hoobledoop Hoobs.

- Hoobledoop Roma.

- Now, I've had a

hoobledoobleduper day on a farm

with a lot of Tiddlypeeps.

We've been helping

the boys on the farm

to clean up the

farmer's big tractor.

- What's that got to

do with choosing, Roma?

- Well we were told that

whoever was the most helpful

would get a ride on the tractor.

And guess what?

I've been chosen.

- Oh, well done Roma!

- But now I have to

do some choosing.

I have to choose which

one of these lovely boys

is going to drive the tractor.

Oh dear.

This is going to be

impossible. This is Roma Hoob,

about to take a

ride on a tractor,

with...

with you.

No.

With you.

No no no, you!

No.

Maybe you!

Hoobletoodledoo!

- [Iver, Groove And

Tula] Hoobletoodledoo!

- That does it!

Whichever one of you

has helped me most today

gets to come to the seaside.

- Well that'll be Groove then,

because he's been

helping you all day

with your food picture.

- Yeah! (laughs)

- Yes, you're

right Iver. He has.

- (laughs) Hoobygroovy.

Thanks Iver. (laughs)

- I would've helped you, Tula,

but I was giving the

Motorettes a drink.

(sad piano music)

Still, nevermind. I'll

stay and do Hoob News.

Yes. I can manage.

No, it's fine! Really!

It's fine.

- Iver!

Iver.

Wait.

Of course you'd've helped me.

You were just being really

useful somewhere else.

(Groove laughs)

- It isn't fair, is it?

- No.

- I didn't think so.

- I am never going

to be able to choose.

- [Disembodied Echo]

Hubba Hubba Hubba Hubba

- Don't despair, Tula.

I've found a story that

might give you the answer.

Take a look at this.

- [Narrator] Melissa,

the big fat Queen Bee,

sat on her throne

in the beehive.

She never went anywhere.

She just sat getting fat.

And rather bad tempered.

All the drones worked away

night and day for her.

They would drone and moan.

All except for Dicky Drone,

who liked telling stories.

"You should stop being a

busybody bee," said Jimmy Drone.

"Why can't you just drone and

moan like the rest of us,"

Timmy Drone added.

(trumpets blaring)

(Queen Melissa moaning)

Now one day,

Queen Melissa summoned

her drones to her throne.

"I'm going to send one

of you out into the world

to find out all about it.

I'll choose the drone who

will be the best for the job.

You must each put

your case to me."

One-by-one the drones stood up,

and told her why they

should be picked.

Soon, it was Jimmy Drone's turn.

"I think I should

go, Your Majesty,

because I'm the

best at droning."

"Next!"

And Timmy Drone stood up.

"I think I should

go, Your Majesty,

because I'm the

best at moaning."

"Next!"

- [Tula] "Next!"

- [Narrator] So Dicky

Drone stood up and said,

"I think I should

go, Your Majesty,

because I'm the best

at telling stories.

And I'll come back

with all the gossip."

"Perfect!"

So off he went.

And when he returned, he

sat at her fat, hairy knee

for hours on end and

told her stories.

She didn't get any thinner,

but she was much happier.

- Now I know what we'll do.

I'll be like that Queen Bee,

and you both have to tell me

why you think you

should be chosen.

Iver Hoob (spring bouncing)

please give me three reasons

why you should come

with me to the seaside.

- Yes, Your Majesty.

Well, I think I should be chosen

because I'll be able to find

out lots about the seaside.

And I'll be good at

running races on the sand.

And I'll be good at organizing

everything. (laughs)

And I've never been

sick on a coach either.

- Hey, that's four reasons!

- Next! (spring

bouncing) Groove Hoob.

Why should I pick you?

- Well Your Majesty,

I should come

because I'll be best

at eating the picnic.

And I give the Tiddlypeeps

the best hooblediggers.

Yes and I could collect all

sorts of things at the seaside

that will be very

very useful. (laughs)

And I was only sick on the coach

because a Tiddlypeep

made me eat an ice cream.

- [Both] Well?

- I don't know! I

still don't know!

You both deserve to go. (sighs)

It's impossible.

(lighthearted piano music)

♪ On the one hand ♪

♪ Iver would be grand ♪

♪ At playing games ♪

♪ And building

castles in the sand ♪

♪ But a different

point of view ♪

♪ Makes me think

it should be you ♪

♪ This choosing thing's

so hard to understand ♪

♪ It's impossible to choose ♪

♪ Which friend

should stay behind ♪

♪ Impossible to choose ♪

♪ I can't make up my mind ♪

♪ Who should stay

and who should go ♪

♪ I cannot say, I do not know ♪

♪ But I have to pick

just one of them ♪

♪ I'll try again ♪

♪ Yes, try again ♪

♪ On the one hand ♪

♪ Groove would be just grand ♪

♪ At giving hooblediggers,having

picnics on the sand ♪

♪ But a different

point of view ♪

♪ Makes me think

it should be you ♪

♪ This choosing thing's

so hard to understand ♪

♪ Oh, look at his little smile ♪

♪ So sweet and so appealing ♪

♪ I feel so sad to leave him ♪

♪ I can't cope

with this feeling ♪

♪ But look at his little face ♪

♪ It's tearing me apart ♪

♪ How could I leave

him here alone ♪

♪ I'd break his hoobyheart ♪

♪ It's impossible to say ♪

♪ Which friend

should stay behind ♪

♪ Impossible to say ♪

♪ This choice is so unkind ♪

♪ One will win and

one will lose ♪

♪ Depending on

which one I choose ♪

♪ I need to know

before Hoob News ♪

♪ But I can't make up

my little hoobymind ♪

♪ No, I can't make up

my little hoobymind ♪

There's only one thing for it.

You both go and I'll stay.

- No, Tula. That's not right.

- It's a thought though. No

no no, I didn't mean that.

- I give up, I just give up.

- [Disembodied Echo]

Hubba Hubba Hubba Hubba

- Never give up, Tula.

If anyone knows a really

fair way of sorting this out,

then it'll be the Tiddlypeeps.

- You're absohoobylootly

right, Hubba Hubba.

(laughs) I'll go and ask them.

Come on, Groove. Get

those little Motorettes

singing for me.

(windchime chiming)

(instruments honking

and squeaking)

♪ Yee-haw ♪

♪ 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 Tiddlypeeps,

the Tiddlypeeps ♪

♪ If we need to know ♪

♪ Who, what, where,

why, when and how ♪

♪ We'll ask them, off we go ♪

♪ Yoo-Hoo ♪

♪ 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 ♪

- Hoobledook, Tiddlypeeps.

- Hoobledoop, Iver!

- Well, we've got a big problem.

Tula has to choose

either me or Groove to go

to the seaside with her.

And she can't find a

fair way of choosing.

- Oh dear. Have you tried

eeny meeny macka racka?

- Eeny meeny what?

- Eeny meeny macka racka.

It's a really fair way

of choosing someone.

- Can you show me how it works?

- Of course. It goes like this.

Eeny meeny macka racka,

Rare-rye dominacker,

Chickapoker lollipopper,

Om pom push!

And that means, Iver,

that you would be chosen

because Phoebe got the push.

- Hooby galooby, so

it's just luck then.

It doesn't mean that anyone's

better than anyone else.

- No, it's just luck.

- Tula, Groove. We've got to

do eeny meeny macka racka.

- Macka racka

Thank you so much, Tiddlypeeps.

At last, Tula will have a

fair way of choosing me.

Or Groove. (laughs)

I must get back now.

Hoobletoodledoo.

- Hoobletoodledoo!

(Iver laughs)

(bright piano music)

- Right.

Are we all happy that

eeny meeny macka racka

is the fairest way

to sort this out?

- [Both] Yes.

- And the one who

gets the om pom push

will be just fine about it?

- [Both] Yes.

- Okay. Here we go.

Eeny meeny macka racka,

Rare-rye dominacker,

Chickapoker lollipopper,

Om pom

Push

(Iver laughs giddily)

(sad piano music)

- Yeah, it's Iver.

You're off to the

seaside with Tula.

- Groove, I'm sorry.

- No, it's fine. It's fair

and it's really hoobygroovy.

- Thank you Groove. You

are a Hoob in a million.

(Iver and Groove laugh)

Let's go and do Hoob News.

(upbeat music)

♪ Eeny meeny macka racka ♪

♪ Rare-rye dominacker ♪

♪ Chickapoker lollipopper ♪

♪ Om pom push ♪

♪ You're out Tootle ♪

♪ Let's do it again ♪

♪ Eeny meeny macka racka ♪

♪ Rare-rye dominacker ♪

♪ Chickapoker lollipopper ♪

♪ Om pom push ♪

♪ You're out Timp ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ I win, I win ♪

♪ First you're in ♪

♪ And then you're out ♪

♪ And then you dance ♪

♪ And then you shout ♪

♪ The fairest way of

choosing is the om pom push ♪

♪ So eeny meeny macka racka ♪

♪ Rare-rye dominacker ♪

♪ Chickapoker lollipopper ♪

♪ Om pom push ♪

- [Disembodied Echo]

Hubba Hubba Hubba Hubba

- Well now Hoobs, are you

ready with your Hoob News

for my great Hoobopaedia?

- We're ready, Hubba Hubba.

- Then take it away!

(upbeat music)

- Hoobledookwoop to all

you Hoobs out there.

Welcome to Hoob News.

The new show for

Hoobs everywhere.

I'm Iver.

- I'm Tula.

- And I'm Groove.

- And today we've been

asking the question,

- "how do you

choose which friend

to take with you

to the seaside"?

- First, Hubba Hubba

showed us some pictures

of Peeps choosing the

things they liked best.

- But I like Iver and

Groove as much as eachother.

So that didn't work.

- So next Tula went

to see a Tiddlypeep

who showed her how to

play the tray game.

- Iver won our tray game,

but it wasn't a fair

way of choosing,

because Groove would

have won an eating game.

- Roma gave Tula the idea

that she should choose the one

who had helped her the most.

- And that was Groove.

But Iver would have helped me

if he hadn't been looking

after the Motorettes.

So it wasn't fair.

- Hubba Hubba showed us a story,

and that gave Tula the idea

that we should both give

her reasons for choosing us.

- But they both gave

really good reasons.

So I still couldn't choose.

- Then the Tiddlypeeps taught

me eeny meeny macka racka.

It's a fair way of choosing,

because it's all down to luck.

- And Iver was the lucky one.

- So Iver gets to

go to the seaside.

- Well done Groove.

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, wherever you are,

have a nice day and

hoobletoodledoo!

- Hoobletoodledoo!

(spring bouncing)

- Oops.

(Iver, Tula and Groove laugh)

- Right. Go on. Off you both go.

- Oh, I can't.

It's no good Groove. I

can't leave you here.

- No, you must.

You've been chosen.

(phone ringing)

- It's the hoobophone.

I'll get it.

- Groove, let me give

you a hoobledigger.

- Hooble Hooble Digger

Digger Digger Digger Digger.

- Thanks, Tula.

- Disaster! The Tiddlypeep

coach has broken down.

They can't go to the seaside.

- Oh no!

- Nobody can go to the seaside.

- Wait a minute, everybody

can go to the seaside.

We can take the

Tiddlypeeps to the seaside

in the hoobmobile. (laughs)

Which means we can

all go. (laughs)

- Hoob Hoob

- [All] Hooray!

- Come on!

- Yes, yes.

- Go go go.

- I can't see where I'm--

(upbeat music)

♪ Hubba Hubba's ♪

♪ in Hoobland ♪

♪ And Roma's

somewhere far away ♪

♪ Oh-Oh-Oh ♪

♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪

♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪

♪ Hoob Hoob Hooray ♪

♪ The Hoobmobile is

coming your way ♪

♪ Oh here we come ♪

♪ Wa-Hey ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ The Hoobs are here

so what do you say ♪

♪ Hoobs ♪
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