01x22 - For Better or Verse

[bunniefuu]

[thunder crashing]

Well, Dinah, looks like I'm not gonna
be able to play softball today after all.

-[meows]
-[sighs]

I know, we could play a word game instead.

Looks like a good one, "Rhyme Time."

"How many words can you think of
that rhyme with dance?"

Hmm... Dance... France!

That's where my pen pal Yvette lives.

Pants... and chance.

And glance.

Hmm... I wonder.

[theme song playing]

♪ Hold on to your seat
Let's go for a ride ♪

♪ Now that we're here on the other side ♪

♪ Use your imagination
And you'll understand ♪

♪ It's an adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Every day is something new ♪

♪ With music, rhyme and a dance or two ♪

♪ It's a curious place
With a wonderful crew ♪

♪ And you're never quite sure
What they will do ♪

♪ Use your imagination
You'll understand ♪

♪ It's an adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventure in Wonderland ♪

Rabbit! Rabbit!

-[Rabbit] Coming, Your Majesty.
-Oh, Rabbit.

Your Majesty,
I had the strangest conversation

with the mailman just now.

The mail is here,
why didn't you tell me the mail was here?

Ooh!

You know I've been waiting to hear
from that contest I entered.

Oh, of course, Your Majesty.

The only one with Red McMahon's face
on the envelope.

Oh, not that one.

Every year the Regal Gown company
has a contest,

to see who can come up
with the best new jingle.

Jingle, Your Majesty?

Catchy phrase used in their commercials,
you know, like a slogan.

Ah, the catchy little phrase
that helped people to remember Regal Gown.

Exactly.

And today's the day I find out
if my jingle won the contest.

[Rabbit] Ooh.

Oh... here's a letter from my sister.

I haven't heard from her in years.
[chuckling]

Oh, well. What's a few more hours?
This is much more important.

Ye-- Uh, yes.

By the way, as I was saying, Your Majesty,

I had the strangest conversation
with our postman.

Every time he spoke, he spoke in rhyme,
isn't that odd?

I know this letter must be somewhere.

-Just don't stand there, help me look.
-Oh, yes, Your Majesty.

Oh, here's one from the countess
who lives in the West.

She hopes that you're well
and she sends you her best.

Oh. [chuckles]

That letter must be here somewhere.

[sniffs]

Ah. One from the duchess.

A little note
in answer to the one you wrote.

Oh, I don't care about that.

Help me find my letter
from the Regal Gown company.

Of course, Your Majesty, right away.
Please forgive the slight delay.

Why are you talking like that?
Making rhymes out of everything.

I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I haven't a clue.
I certainly don't mean to irritate you.

Well, you are irritating me, so stop it.

There's nothing I wouldn't do to please,

but I can't seem to help this,
it's like a disease. [gasps]

That's it!

I don't want to hear
another rhyme out of you.

This little joke has gone on long enough.

I assure Your Highness this isn't a jest.

I really am trying my absolute...

-best.
-Out! Out now!

And stay out until you can control
that silly rhyming of yours. Oh...

Yes, Your Majesty, right away,
I won't speak another rhyme today.

-[screams]
-[yells]

Out! Rabbit! Oh...

Oh... Oh... Oh.

Ah, here it is. And it's a big envelope.

That must mean I won the jingle contest.

Of course I have, I'm the queen.

It's a tie.

What do they mean by tie?
Who could possibly...?

Oh, no! Not the duchess!

How could I possibly be tied
with the duchess?

Oh!

Oh... I really can't wait
until I'm rid of this habit

and turned back into a normal rabbit.

[groans]

Speaking in rhymes is such a terrible pain
and yet I do it again and again--

Oh, rats. Cats.

You rang, Rabbit?

No, I did not mean to call out to you.

But I speak in rhymes.
What's a rabbit to do?

I see.

Say, I don't mean to sound catty,

but you have to admit
a rhyming rabbit is pretty silly.

[laughing]

I'm glad that up there
you think it's so funny...

but it's maddening down here on the ground
for this bunny!

Well I, for one,
am glad you're down there.

Your problem, dear Rabbit,
is very outrageous,

so I feel I should fade
just in case it's... catching.

[laughs]

There's something here that's truly amiss.

I must find out
if there's a cure for this.

Ooh...

[groans]

-Good morning, Your Majesty.
-Mm.

Oh, Alice, it's you.
Just in time to help me.

Help you what?

Help me come up with a jingle
for the Regal Gown company.

I entered this contest, see?

And would you believe,
the duchess and I tied for first place.

[laughs] I knew that first contest
was too easy.

How else could the duchess
possibly be tied with me?

-Maybe she's good at this sort of thing.
-[laughs]

There isn't anything she can do
that I can't do better.

♪ When it comes to throwing a royal bash ♪

♪ The duchess is good
But I can top that ♪

♪ She had a party
For 20 important friends ♪

♪ But I threw a party for 110 ♪

♪ When the duchess sings
The music is sweet ♪

♪ But when I sing it just can't be beat ♪

♪ She has a well-behaved dog
And a Siamese cat ♪

♪ But I tamed a lion, what about that?
Ha! ♪

♪ She'll give you good
But I'll give you better ♪

♪ I can top that ♪

♪ She serves a dinner, but I serve a feast
I can top that ♪

♪ She has an ugly old dog
And a Siamese cat ♪

♪ Ha! But I tamed a lion
I can top that ♪

♪ She'll give you good
But I can do better ♪

♪ I can top that ♪

So now I have to come up
with a really special jingle.

Here's what I have so far.

"Regal Gowns are the best."

-That's it?
-Pretty good, huh?

-Well...
-Yeah, needs something else, doesn't it?

-I'm afraid so.
-Hmm.

Oh, how about this?

[chuckles]

Regal Gowns are the best,
so buy one or else.

No, I didn't think so either.

What if you made it rhyme?

-Rhyme?
-Yeah, something that rhymes with "best."

Like:

Regal Gowns are the best
in the north, south, east and west.

Hey, that's pretty good.

But it still needs something more.

Hmm. Oh.

When you wear a Regal Gown...

When you wear a Regal Gown...

-I can't think of anything
-Oh, neither can I.

Now I wish I hadn't sent the rabbit away.

All he could do this morning
was talk in rhymes.

[sighs]

-That's it.
-What's it?

Alice, go get the rabbit
and bring him back here.

He'll know the perfect rhyme
for my jingle.

[laughs]

The duchess indeed.

Oh. This is terribly disturbing,
indeed it's quite perturbing.

What is disturbing and perturbing?

I've been sent away by the queen.

Oh, she didn't do it to be mean.

There, you see? It happens every time.
Whenever I speak, I speak in rhyme.

How terribly irritating.

It's not much fun, that's for sure.
And I don't even know if there's a cure.

Yes, I can see your dilemma.

[sniffs] Perhaps a story might help.

Oh, that's wonderful and very kind.

Your stories are perfect
for easing my mind.

Uh...

Could you not sit quite so close, please?

You wouldn't want me to catch anything,
would you?

Oh... Oh...

I certainly don't want
to give this to you.

I'll sit over here, that's what I'll do.

Once there was a caveman named Og,

who was walking along with a friend
when they both stubbed their toes.

-Ook!
-Glook!

Ook, glook. Og liked the sound of that.

He tried to think of more
sound-like sounds, but couldn't.

What Og needed were words, rhyming words.

The trouble was,
cavemen didn't know any words,

they mostly just made sounds
like "arg" and "grrr,"

but the sounds weren't words
and they didn't rhyme.

So Og decided to invent
some rhyming words.

He invented "wheel."

And "meal."

He invented "city."

And "kitty."

[growls softly]

Og put a few of his rhyming words together
and called them "poems."

[clears throat] City. Kitty.

The other cave people
grew to like Og's poems.

A few even learned to read them.

And thus Og became
the world's first poet.

I suppose rhyming can be quite nice.

As long as you can stop
after once or twice.

Precisely.

But until I can, I won't say a word.

Better for me to be seen and not heard.

Okay, that's one for me and one for you.

And two for me. One, two.

And two for you. One, two.

And three for me. One, two, three.

And three for you. One, two--

Hmm. That's odd,
we seem to have run out of cards.

That's okay,
I'm used to playing without a full deck.

Ah, well, look who's here.

Hare and I were just playing cards,
would you care to join us?

Are you sure? We'll let you cut the cards.

Hold on.

Something's very wrong with Rabbit.
He seems a little pale to me.

Of course he seems pale,
he's a white rabbit.

How true that is.

[bangs table]

I get it. He wants us to guess
what's wrong with him.

-Oh! Let's have some fun. Okay. Alrighty.
-Oh, all right.

-Two syllables. Sounds like.
-Yeah. Aha.

-Sounds like watch.
-Mm-hm.

-[Mad Hatter] No, no.
-[Hare] No.

[Mad Hatter] Sounds like clock? Clock. No?

Sounds like time? Time. Sounds like time.

Let's see, sounds like time,
sounds like time--

Hippopotamus!

You have played this game before,
haven't you?

[chuckles]

Oh, dear,
this is only making things worse.

Every time I speak, I speak in verse.

I never would have guessed that.

Certainly not in the clues
he was giving us.

Unless this rhyme I can negate,
my friends, I fear, I'll irritate.

Oh, wait a minute.

That was a ridiculous rhyme.
Let me see your poetic license.

-I'll bet it's expired.
-Mm-hm.

No matter, we'll get to the bottom of this
in no time.

♪ It may be something simple
Like nutrition ♪

♪ If that's the case then tea and crumpets
Will cure the affliction ♪

♪ If you wanna know what's the matter ♪

-♪ Just call the Hare ♪
-♪ And the Hatter ♪

♪ If we can't tell you what's wrong
Then nobody can ♪

♪ To determine the condition
Of your condition ♪

♪ Maybe we should mention
That we both without exception ♪

♪ Are among the finest
Professional diagnosticians ♪

♪ It may be some strange and rare malady ♪

♪ To make a bold analogy
I'd say you had an allergy ♪

♪ We're the best anywhere ♪

-♪ Call the Hatter ♪
-♪ And the Hare ♪

♪ If we can't tell you what's wrong
Then nobody can ♪

♪ To determine the condition
Of your condition ♪

♪ Maybe we should mention
That we both without exception ♪

♪ Are among the finest
Professional diagnosticians ♪

All right, let's have a look here.

Flashlight.

[gasps] Oh, no. This is terrible.

Is he fading fast?

No, but this flashlight is.
Must be the batteries.

Reflexes.

-[giggling]
-Yes...

Just as I thought.

What you have is just a simple case
of rhymeitus.

Completely harmless,
nothing to worry about.

Oh, my goodness gracious, are you sure?
What can I do to find the cure?

No need to worry, it will all go away.

By tonight or tomorrow
or perhaps the next day.

[laughs] How about that?
You sound just like the Rabbit.

Mr. Dee, Mr. Dum,
have you seen Mr. Hatter and Mr. Hare?

The queen needs to see them,
it's an emergency.

They both were here just a minute ago.

But where they are now,
we just don't know.

[beeping]

"Ago" and "know"?

Mr. Dee, you just made a rhyme.

Oh, no. Now they have rhymeitus.

You two must have gotten it
from the Hatter and the Hare.

Yes, we have it, can't you see?
The rhyming ones are Dum and Dee.

I'm sure they didn't mean any harm,
but this rhyming stuff is cause for alarm.

What we need now is to find a cure.
One that's lasting, that's for sure.

Oh, no. No, you can't stop rhyming,
not yet.

Oh, listen to this rabbit rant,
telling us what we can and can't.

If you talked like this,
you'd want to stop too.

It's not fun at all, let me tell you.

[both groan]

You don't understand,

the queen needs a rhyme for her jingle
to win the contest.

Yes, and because I had rhymeitus,
she sent Alice to find me,

but I'd already given it to Hatter
and Hare, who've passed it on to you.

Well, come on, then, we haven't much time.

We have to give the queen her rhyme.

Come on, Rabbit.

Regal Gowns are the best...

in the north, south, east and west.

When you wear a Regal Gown,
you'll look like a queen.

Oh... it doesn't work.

When you wear a Regal Gown,

you'll look like a million dollars.

Oh, that doesn't work either.

Oh! Thank goodness you found him.

Rabbit, give me a rhyme
that goes with this:

When you wear a Regal Gown...

I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I can't.

What? When you left
you were rhyming your brains out,

and now you can't rhyme?

Well, actually... no.

-No?
-No.

You see, I had a temporary case
of rhymeitus.

I gave it to Hatter and Hare,
who went into the--

-Well, then, where are they?
-Well...

Actually, Your Majesty,
they don't have it any more either.

Oh, well, then who does?

The Tweedles do, Your Majesty.

Okay, Tweedles,
give me a rhyme that goes with this:

Regal Gowns are the best
in the north, south, east and west.

When you wear a Regal Gown...

When you wear a Regal Gown,
you'll look great!

That doesn't rhyme!

Here, let me try.

When you wear a Regal Gown,
you'll feel fantastic.

Oh, no, it's gone,
we're not talking in rhyme anymore.

Oh, this is terrible.

Now I'll never come up with a good rhyme.

Maybe the duchess is better than I am
after all.

[gasps] Your Majesty,
don't talk like that.

A lot of people are better than you,
but certainly not the duchess.

I mean...

After all, what this jingle really needs
is a royal rhyme,

and you're just the queen to do it.

♪ So you need a royal rhyme
And you need it just in time ♪

♪ You have to find a rhyme
For the jingle ♪

♪ Say, that line was almost fine
Except it didn't rhyme ♪

♪ Well, Your Majesty, I'm not being sly ♪

♪ But don't be shy
You can do it if you try ♪

♪ You'll have a royal rhyme
In the nick of time ♪

♪ You need to give the jingle
A royal tag tingle ♪

♪ To make it really stick
To make it click ♪

♪ You'll have it down pat
Or better than that ♪

♪ Well, Your Majesty, I'm not being sly ♪

♪ But don't be shy
You can do it if you try ♪

♪ You'll have a royal rhyme
In the nick of time ♪

Thank you so much
for that very kind thought,

but I fear your efforts
have been for naught.

[gasps]

I think I just made a rhyme,
and I did it just in time.

And I don't need you, you, you or you,

because now I have rhymeitus too.

[laughing]

[clears throat]

"Regal Gowns are the best
in the north, south, east and west.

When you wear a Regal Gown,"

you'll be the prettiest queen in town.

-Nice!
-Yes!

You did it!

"Town and gown," that's a great rhyme.

I knew you could do it, Your Majesty.

-You'll win that contest for sure.
-Yes!

[thunder crashes]

I sure do like words that rhyme.
But I'd hate to say them all the time.

Oh, no, it can't be true.
Now it's happening to me too.

Oh...

[theme music playing]

♪ That's all for now
But we'll see you again ♪

♪ Come back real soon
Now that we're all friends ♪

♪ Where every day is something new ♪

♪ With music, rhyme and a dance or two ♪

♪ Use your imagination
And you'll understand ♪

♪ It's an adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventures in Wonderland ♪