01x31 - Friday the Umpteenth

[bunniefuu]

[upbeat music playing]

Careful, Dinah.

[meows]

Don't you know what today is?

-It's Friday the 13th.
-[meows]

Well, some people think that
Friday the 13th is a day of bad luck.

Who knows what might happen
to you today, if you're not careful.

Oh, come on, Dinah. I was just teasing.

I said some people believe it, but not me.

Friday the 13th
is the same as any other day.

Besides, nothing bad
can happen to you here.

This room is your favorite place to be.

And speaking of favorite places...

I guess it's lucky
that I have this mirror.

[theme music 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 ♪

All right, we've got teapot cleaner,

-teapot polish, teapot scrub brushes...
-Mm-hm.

...and of course, the teapot squeegee.

Okay.
That takes care of cleaning the outside.

What's going on in the inside? Dormouse?

Oh.

There. That's much better.

Boy, you sure have a lot of stuff.

I'll say, for a Dormouse,
you're quite a pack rat.

-Hi, everybody, what's going on?
-Oh, hi, Alice.

We're helping the Dormouse
with his spring cleaning.

Boy, looks like he threw out
everything but the kitchen sink.

Actually, he threw that out too.

Uh-oh. I can't find my lucky penny.

-Oh.
-Oh.

-No.
-Gee, not here with this stuff.

Rats. What bad luck.

Yeah.

Well, it is Friday the 13th.

Oh, how true that is. What's your point?

Well, you know there's that
old superstition about Friday the 13th.

Sorry, never heard of it.

You've never heard that some people
believe Friday the 13th is a bad luck day.

No, I've never heard
the word "superstition."

Oh, well, that means
something you believe.

Even though there's no
logical real reason for believing it.

Well, I don't see what's wrong with that.

But I also don't see why
Friday the 13th would be unlucky.

Well, some people think
it's a bad luck day.

[funk music playing]

♪ Bad luck can happen on Friday the 13th ♪

♪ Your shoes might come untied ♪

♪ You trip, break your stride ♪

♪ You bend to lace them up
Your pants split and fall with a plop ♪

♪ As you pull them back on ♪

♪ Oh, what else could go wrong ♪

♪ There's a smiling Black Cat
Sitting atop your hat ♪

♪ Who jumps down cross
Right in your path ♪

♪ If you spill some salt
Bad luck will be your fault ♪

♪ And if you break your favorite mirror ♪

♪ There's bad luck for seven years ♪

♪ Bad luck can happen on Friday the 13th ♪

♪ Bad luck can happen ♪

♪ Your luck can go bad
Yes, it's sad to say on Friday ♪

♪ Bad luck can happen on Friday the 13th ♪

♪ Bad luck can happen on Friday the 13th ♪

[chuckles]

Very amusing, Alice.

But we don't believe in superstitions
or even regular-sized "stitions."

Yes.

[stammers] Just because the Dormouse
loses one little lucky penny,

doesn't mean it's because
of some so-called unlucky day.

Yeah. Now let's get on
with scrubbing the teapot.

-[dramatic sting plays]
-Oops.

Well, that was unlucky.

Here. I'll pick that up.

Uh-oh.

Bad luck there.

Well, no harm done.
Here's a towel to wipe it up.

[shatters]

Boy, three accidents in a row.

-Accidents?
-I think not.

Since it's obviously impossible
that we broke these things

because we were careless or clumsy.

Then there's only one other explanation...

Bad luck.

Alice, I'm sorry we laughed before.

I now see
that Friday the 13th is truly unlucky.

-Thank you for the warning, Alice.
-A warning? I was just kidding.

Please, Alice, you've done enough.

It's up to us now
to warn the rest of Wonderland

about the dangers of this unlucky day.

-Oh!
-Oh!

[laughing]

Yes, sir.

I can definitely feel it.

Today's my lucky day.

Rabbit!

The rackets.

-Here you are, Your Majesty.
-Hm. Mm-hm. Hm!

-[laughs weakly]
-Ah!

Get over there.
I want to practice my serve.

Oh, uh...

Is that really necessary, Your Majesty?

Uh, I mean, you're already
the best badminton player in Wonderland.

That's because I practice.

I don't win this tournament every year
by sitting around eating bonbons.

Now get over there.

Oh, uh, yes.

Now, Rabbit.

The tournament is this afternoon at 3:00.

[shuttlecock ricochets]

Three o'clock. Uh, right.

And I want the badminton net...

[shuttlecock ricochets]

...set up over there.

Championship trophy...

placed on a table...

[shuttlecock ricochets]

...over there. Hm?

Okay.

[shuttlecock ricochets]

I want to make sure...

that you have...

plenty of refreshments.

Got it?

Got it, Your Majesty.

Good. Now I'm going to try on
my badminton playing shoes.

[laughs] Carry on.

[laughs weakly, then sighs]

[laughs weakly, then sighs]

Oh.

[gasping] Rabbit.

Oh! Thank goodness we found you.

I only hope we're not too late.

No, you're not too late.

The badminton tournament
doesn't begin until 3.

How can you even think
of playing badminton on a day like this?

Don't you realize it's Friday the 13th?

Yes. And yesterday,
it was Thursday the 12th.

Then tomorrow will be Saturday the 14th.

So what?

You don't understand?

-Apparently not.
-Friday the 13th is a day of bad luck.

You shouldn't plan
anything important today

because something terrible
is bound to happen.

Oh, nonsense.

Why, today is no different
than any other day.

Oh, really?

-Well, go ask Alice.
-Right.

She's the one who told us all about it.

You believe her don't you?

[stammers] Yes, I do. It's just that...

Well, I haven't seen
any evidence of bad luck today.

-Evidence?
-Evidence?

You want evidence? [laughs]

We'll show you evidence. Crystal.

Now let's get on
with scrubbing the teapot.

Oops.

-Well, that was unlucky.
-Here. I'll pick that up.

Uh-oh.

[Hatter] Mm-hm.

And if that isn't bad enough,
the Dormouse even lost his lucky penny.

Now, what do you say to that?

I say that thinking
Friday the 13th is an unlucky day

till sounds like
a silly superstition to me.

-[groans]
-[gasps]

[pop music playing]

♪ That's a silly superstition ♪

♪ And I seriously doubt ♪

♪ That a couple of broken dishes
Mean bad luck lurks around ♪

♪ It's a silly attribution
To a chain of chance events ♪

♪ It was clumsiness that caused
All those minor accidents ♪

♪ So the Dormouse lost his penny ♪

♪ I am sure that is not a first ♪

♪ And it's not enough to convince me ♪

♪ That we're headed for the worst ♪

♪ It's a silly superstition ♪

♪ And your fear is without reason ♪

♪ And there isn't any season
For bad luck to abound ♪

♪ I have tournaments to organize
And I have trophies to arrange ♪

♪ Even if it's Friday the 13th ♪

♪ My plans I shall not change ♪

♪ It's a silly superstition
And I think your fears are wrong ♪

♪ You are being super silly ♪

♪ And I just won't go along ♪

♪ I just won't go along ♪

No, no, no.

[laughing]

Stop the nonsense.

Fine. Don't believe us.

-But what if you're wrong?
-Right.

Think of the queen.

If we're right, then she'll certainly have
bad luck in the badminton tournament.

Impossible.

She's the best badminton player
in Wonderland.

Usually.

But don't say we didn't warn you.

Ah! Caterpillar. Here you are.

-I wonder if I might ask you a question.
-The answer to your question is no.

I am not going to enter
the badminton tournament.

Basketball is my game.

Triple slam dunk, my specialty. Whoo!

Great, but I wasn't going to ask you
about badminton or basketball.

I came to ask you if you know anything
about Friday the 13th.

Of course.

Friday the 13th is the day
after Thursday the 12th and the day--

Yes. I know that.

I mean, I've heard that
Friday the 13th is a day of bad luck.

Do know if that is true?

Who told you such a thing?

The Hatter and the Hare.

Next question.

Yes. Well, the reason I ask is because
if by chance today is a day of bad luck...

Perhaps I should ask the queen to move
the badminton tournament to another day.

I think it's lucky for you
that I have a story to tell.

Once there was an inchworm named Florence

who dreamed of being
on the school track team.

But when she tried out
for the 500-inch dash...

-[panting]
-[laughing]

...she didn't quite measure up.

Florence's mother
saw her daughter was sad,

so she offered to help.

She gave Florence a gift, a magic locket.

She told Florence
that if she kept practicing

and always wore the magic locket,

she'd soon be
the fastest inchworm in school.

So Florence put on the magic locket
and began to practice.

The more she practiced,
the faster she got.

Florence knew
the magic locket was working.

Now she would be able to win the race.

But on the morning of the big race,

Florence could not
find the locket anywhere.

She searched and searched.

"I'll never win without the magic locket,"
Florence cried.

"The Magic isn't in the locket.
The magic is in you,"

said her mother, "Just believe."

So Florence decided to try.

-[whistle blows]
-[crowd cheers]

Now Florence believed she was a winner.

-Soon everyone else did too.
-[crowd cheering]

So you'll see, just as Florence's locket
wasn't really lucky,

a certain day isn't really unlucky.

Hm...

Maybe yes, maybe no.

The question is, what do I tell the queen?

Actually, if today is unlucky,

which I doubt,

the queen will have bad luck,
no matter what you will say.

That's right.

I can't stop bad luck from happening.

So, what are you going to do?

Nothing.

For once,
if something happens to the queen,

it won't be my fault.

It'll just be bad luck.
Isn't that wonderful?

[laughs]

This day of bad luck is my lucky day.

Read them and weep, my brother.

Ha.

You just lucky, but I can top that.

Hold it! Don't move.

Before you let go of that card,
there's something you need to know.

All I need to know is,
if I can put this card on here

without knocking
the rest of these down, I win.

Unless Tweedle Dum
can put another card on after that.

Wait, you don't realize what you're doing.
It's Friday the 13th.

We know. Alice told us all about that.

Then you know it's a day of bad luck.

A day of disaster,
a day when everything turns out terribly.

Oh, come on,
if today was really a day of bad luck...

could I have done that?

And would I be able to do... this.

[funk music playing]

♪ Some call it luck ♪

♪ Some call it skill ♪

♪ A great house of cards
We sure can build ♪

♪ Straight up to the sky ♪

♪ Higher than your neck ♪

♪ Telling you no lie
We're stacking the deck ♪

♪ I place a card on top
To make it taller ♪

♪ Then I add one
And hope it's up to your collar ♪

♪ We're taking it straight up ♪

♪ Higher than before ♪

♪ Don't care about bad luck
Because we're doing it for sure ♪

♪ I'm a master card house creator ♪

♪ I'm gonna build it so high
You'll need an elevator ♪

♪ I snap a cool card in my palm
And gently place it, adding it on ♪

♪ Well, I can top your renovation ♪

♪ I'm the number one
Card house star sensation ♪

♪ Straight up to the sky ♪

♪ Higher than your neck ♪

♪ Telling you no lie
We're stacking the deck ♪

♪ We're stacking the deck, yeah ♪

See, it's like I said before,

Friday the 13th being bad luck
is just a superstition.

And no superstition is gonna stop me

from building the biggest house of cards
you've ever seen.

[gasping]

Looks like our house of cards
just hit the deck.

Oh, man.
And I was hoping to save it for a while.

You know,
I hate to tell you I told you so.

So I will. He told you so.

Okay, so it was a little bit of bad luck.

But it could have happened on any day.
Not just Friday the 13th.

But it did happen on Friday the 13th.

How much more proof do you need?

Wait. It isn't all bad.

Remember, you took a picture
a few moments ago?

Hey, that's right.

At least we'll be able to see what
our super-sized house of cards looked like

just before I won.

See? That's lucky.

Or not.

What do you mean?

I forgot to put film in the camera.

Well, there you have it.

As clear a case of bad luck
as I've ever seen.

Without a doubt. So, what do we do?

I'll tell you what I'm not going to do,
enter the badminton tournament.

That's right. Why bother?
We'll just have bad luck.

Oh, wait a minute.

You can't let superstition keep you
from doing something you want to do.

What choice do we have?

Well, you can either act sensibly

and go play in the badminton tournament,
like you want to...

[muttering]

Or you can go sit around the tea table

and do nothing
until Friday the 13th is over.

[muttering]

[indistinct chatter]

-Yeah! Mm-hm.
-You're right.

I guess there's really only
one thing to do.

-Yep.
-Indeed-ee-do.

Time for tea.

-Whoa!
-Careful, Hare. Careful.

[laughing] Badminton, anyone?

Where is everybody?

We can't have a badminton tournament
if I'm the only one in it.

Look at it this way,
if you're the only one in it,

at least you can't lose.

Very funny, Cat.

But I never lose.

When it comes to badminton,
no one can stop me.

Especially if you never get started.

I don't suppose you'd like to play.

Maybe, it depends.

-On what?
-On what you want to play.

I'm not much for badminton birdies,
but I love playing cat and mouse.

-Mouse? Oh! Where? [yelling]
-Squeak! Squeak! [cackling]

Oh, that cat.

Hello, Your Majesty.

Ah! Finally another contestant
for the badminton contest.

Ah. Have you seen the others?
Are they on their way?

Uh, I don't think so.

What do you mean? Where are they?

Well, it's a long story,
but I think they're at the Hatter's.

Oh. I get it.

They're chicken, huh? [laughs]

They're afraid of my superior skills
as a badminton player.

Well, I won't have it.

[shuttlecock ricochets]

Wow, nice serve, Your Majesty.

Ha, ha! Thanks, Alice. Come on.

All right, my plan is simple.

We just sit here,
have some tea, and otherwise...

don't move a muscle.

Now at least we should be safe.

[Red Queen] A-ha!

I spoke too soon.

So this is where you're all hiding, huh?

Don't you know
there's a badminton tournament today?

Sorry, Your Majesty.

We'd love to play,
but today is Friday the 13th.

Yes. Alice told me all about it.

I cannot believe that my sensible subjects
succumbed to some silly superstition.

Nice alliteration, Your Majesty,
but it's no superstition.

I lost my lucky penny.

And the Hare and I
broke a bunch of stuff on the tea table.

And my brother knocked over
a house of cards we were making.

Rabbit, what about you?
Do you believe in this bad luck day?

Well, actually, Your Majesty,
I didn't at first.

But then after coming here
and talking with everyone,

I decided it's better
to be safe than sorry.

Your Majesty, you can see
this is just a superstition, right?

Well, if you think about it,

it was bad luck that no one came
to my badminton tournament.

Perhaps there is something to this
Friday the 13th business after all.

And if so, why was I the last to know?

If I had known about it, I could have
simply moved my tournament to tomorrow.

Oh, no, Your Majesty,
tomorrow is your shoe shopping day.

Oh, whatever. Then the next day.

Uh, but the next day,
you have a speech to give.

The day after that, you play bridge
with the Queen and King of Clubs.

Oh, this is ridiculous.

I don't wanna move the tournament anyway.
I want to play today.

Too bad today is the 13th, Your Majesty.

If it was any other day,
we'd be happy to play.

I've got it.

I'll change today's date
to Friday the 14th.

[laughs] You can't do that.

Why not? I'm the queen.
I can do whatever I want.

But tomorrow is the 14th,

even you can't have two 14ths
in one month.

Hm. I suppose you're right.

I've got it. I declare today to be...

Friday the umpteenth.

Umpteenth?
I've never heard of that number.

It's simple. Eleven, 12, umpteen, 14.

That makes today the umpteenth.

A very lucky day.

[rock music playing]

♪ Pay attention, loyal subjects ♪

♪ And dig my royal talk ♪

♪ I decree from this day forth
Bad luck is gonna stop ♪

♪ When 13th falls on Friday
To keep bad luck at bay ♪

♪ Change the date to umpteenth
And it's our lucky day ♪

♪ By order of your queen ♪

♪ Today is Friday the umpteenth ♪

♪ I'll rid our inhibitions ♪

♪ Sidestep superstitions ♪

♪ Every Friday that's taboo
We'll have the curse removed ♪

♪ I'll have my royal printer
Make calendars that say ♪

♪ Today is Friday the umpteenth
And it's our lucky day ♪

♪ By order of your queen ♪

♪ Today is the Friday the umpteenth ♪

That's great thinking, Your Majesty.

Since it's not the 13th anymore,
there's no more bad luck.

Exactly. Now come on, everyone,
it's off to the badminton tournament.

[dramatic sting plays]

[gasping]

Bad luck, Your Majesty.

Oh, no. It didn't work.

Today must still be the 13th.

Wait, everybody. Think about this.

If two people play badminton,
they can't both lose.

One of them has to win.
And that's good luck.

-[Dormouse] Help!
-[gasps] Oh!

The Dormouse's teapot fell over.

Oh. Oh, boy.

Dormouse, are you all right?

-I'm fine.
-Boy, that's lucky.

It sure is. When my teapot tumbled,
my things got jumbled,

and I found my lucky penny again.

That's lucky too.

See? Friday the 13th
isn't so unlucky after all.

Now that you mentioned it.
Even though we broke a few dishes today,

it was a lot fewer
than we broke yesterday.

And even though
I knocked over our house of cards...

It still was the biggest one
we'd ever made.

Well, one thing is obvious--

That it's just a superstition
that Friday the 13th is a bad luck day?

No. That in Wonderland,
Friday the 13th is a day of good luck.

But there is no Friday the 13th anymore.

Today is Friday the umpteenth.

-Who says?
-You says--

Uh, that is said, Your Majesty.

Well, now I un-say it.

Today is Friday the 13th,

the day I'm going to win
the badminton tournament

for the umpteenth time. Let's go!

[chattering and laughing]

-Still scared, huh, Dinah?
-[meows]

Well, don't worry.

It really is just a superstition
that Friday the 13th is unlucky.

Besides, you've got me to play with.

What could be luckier than that?

[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 ♪

♪ Adventures in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventures in Wonderland ♪