01x35 - Hic-Hic Hooray

[bunniefuu]

[upbeat music playing]

Wake up, Dinah. We've got company.

It was my turn to take
the class mascots home for the weekend.

Or maybe I should say
the class mouse-cots.

Because they are two mouses.

Wait. That's not right.
"Mouse" isn't one of those words

you can just add an S
when you want to make it plural.

Like "house" and "houses."

That's right, Dinah.

When you mean more than one mouse,
you don't say "mouses."

You say "mice."

And speaking of mice,
I think you make them nervous.

You'd better stay out for a while.

There.

You guys must be tired
after that long trip home from school.

Well, you can rest now.

I'll be back in a little while.

[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 ♪

[suspenseful music playing]

Now, remember, brother.

The one who makes the cards fall loses.

But don't be nervous.

Nervous?
Nah, brother, I'll leave nervous to you.

It's nine stories high so far.

You wouldn't wanna spoil it now.

Don't worry,
I know how you stack the deck.

[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 am 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 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 ♪

Top that if you can.

Oh, I can.

Just keep your eyes on the card.

[hiccups]

I still got my eyes on the card.

It isn't fair.

They wouldn't have collapsed
if I hadn't hiccupped.

-[hiccups]
-[laughing]

Hi, Mr. Dee, Mr. Dum.

-Hi, Alice.
-Hi, Alice.

-Oh. Why are the cards all over the place?
-Dee there has hiccups.

-[hiccups]
-I don't get it.

We had a house of cards here

until my hiccups
made me knock them all down.

But we're gonna build another one

just as soon
as I get rid of these hiccups.

By the way, how do you get rid of hiccups?

What usually works for me
is holding my breath.

Oh! [inhales, then hiccups]

Well, that doesn't work for me.

Any other ideas?

I'm afraid not.

Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

I must find out where I left my knee pads.

Because that's probably
where I left my elbow pads. Oh!

Some days I think I'd lose my cotton tail

if it weren't attached.

-[sighs]
-[Red Queen] Rabbit!

Rabbit!
Why aren't you at the train station

picking up my package?

You see, Your Majesty,

I was just putting on my skates
when I realized I'd lost my safety pads.

Oh, well, you know you can't go
roller-skating without your safety pads.

Oh, no, of course not.

-Why, it wouldn't be, well, safe.
-And not the least bit attractive either.

So hurry up and find your pads
and get going.

I've waited weeks for this package,
and I don't want to wait a minute more.

I say, Your Majesty,
what's in this package

that's so important?

China.

You bought China?

Boy, I'm gonna need a lot of help
carrying a box that big.

Not China the country.

China dishware.

-[Dee hiccups]
-[gasps]

Uh... Oh, my goodness. Was that me?

-Uh, well, I--
-[Dee hiccups]

[chuckles] No, I...

I think, Your Majesty,
it came from out there.

[laughing]

-Hello.
-Oh, hello.

-Hello.
-Hello.

[hiccups]

I'm afraid Mr. Dee's suffering
from a bad case of the hiccups.

So I've heard.

We thought you might have a good cure
since you had them last week.

I beg your pardon? Queens don't have
anything as crude as hiccups.

-They most certainly do not.
-No.

Her Majesty merely drew in
a few royal breaths...

quite suddenly.

Resulting in some...

Some very funny sounds.

[laughing hysterically]

Oh.

Rabbit, weren't you looking for something?

Oh, yes, my safety pads.

Boy, do I need them now.

So how did you get rid of...

Well, you know what, Your Majesty.

Oh, I didn't do anything.

-They just went away on their own.
-[Rabbit yells]

Rabbit, you all right?

I just dropped one of my skates
on my foot.

And it hurts.

Oh, dear, now you can't even walk
to the train station

to pick up china for me.

You bought China?

Boy. Someone's gonna need
a lot of help to carry a box that big.

Oh, not China the country.

China dishware.

[in unison] Oh!

-[groans]
-Ah!

Dainty, delicate,
fragile dishes for my royal table.

[dance music playing]

♪ As you know my taste is impeccable ♪

♪ And the meals I eat are delectable ♪

♪ So I purchased the very finest ♪

♪ Dishware fit for a Royal Highness ♪

♪ Nothing is finer than beautiful china ♪

♪ Be it a plate, be it a platter ♪

♪ Or a gravy boat ♪

♪ It doesn't matter ♪

♪ I adore the feel and shine ♪

♪ I indeed do love china ♪

♪ How I long to sit down at my table ♪

♪ Set with china of the finest label ♪

♪ Cups and saucers perfectly designed ♪

♪ Food tastes better on fancy china ♪

♪ Nothing is finer than beautiful china ♪

♪ Be it a plate, be it a platter ♪

♪ Or a gravy boat ♪

♪ It doesn't matter ♪

♪ I adore the feel and shine ♪

♪ I indeed do love china ♪

Now that the Rabbit can't go,
who wants to go get my dishes?

For a reward.

-I'll do it.
-I'll do it.

Dum, you don't have hiccups?

No, I don't.

Very good.
Then you go get my fragile dishes,

and the reward is yours.

No reward because of the hiccups.

Of all the dumb luck.

Well, just remember,
they can't last forever.

I know.

Because they just stopped.

Well, these are all of the boxes.

Fragile? Hm.
That means it will break easily.

So I better be really careful
with the queen's new china.

[chuckles] Imagine that brother of mine
thinking the queen would let him carry

her new dishes with those hiccups of his.

Ha. One good hiccup and-- [hiccups]

[china clinking]

That would happen. [hiccups]

Oh, great. Now I've got the hiccups.

I can't carry these fragile new dishes
if I'm hiccupping.

I've got to find a cure.

Why don't you try the quick kitty cure?

It works perfectly.

-The quick kitty cure?
-It's really very simple.

First, you stand on your head...

then you drink some water.

Or in my case, cream.

Ah. Then voilà.

As you can hear, no more hiccups.

But you didn't have any to begin with.

I'm the one with the hiccups.

And that's because
you haven't tried the quick kitty cure.

Well, I'll try anything. I've gotta
rush this china to the queen's palace.

And I can't do that if I'm hiccupping.

Attaboy.

There you go.

Drink up.

Hey, I stopped hiccupping.

The kitty cure works.

Well, of course it does.

When was the last time
you saw a cat hiccupping, Dum?

[purrs]

[hiccups]

Come to think of it.

I saw a cat hiccupping just yesterday.

[hiccups]

[hiccups, then sighs]

[Dee] Hey, Dum.

You lucky dog, you.
If I had lost my hiccups a minute sooner,

I'd be the one on the way to the palace
to get a big fat reward.

[hiccupping]

-Oh! Now you have the hiccups.
-So what? So I have the hiccups.

So the queen doesn't want you
carrying her fragile dishes

if you have the hiccups, that's so what.

So tell you what I'm gonna do.

I'll carry the boxes for you.

Out of the goodness of my heart.

Not for the reward?

Oh, let's just say if I carry the boxes,

you'll split the reward
with me fifty-fifty.

Split the reward?

-No way, brother. I can carry them myself.
-Fine. Go ahead then.

-[hiccupping]
-I'm sure you'll have a smashing time.

[groans]

When the art world sees this,
the first of my miniature masterpieces,

they'll ask how anyone so big
could paint so delicately,

so beautifully, so...

tiny.

And I'll tell them
all it takes is a steady hand.

[Dum hiccups]

Oh, for heaven's sake.

-Who is making that dreadful noise?
-[hiccups]

Oh. So it was you.

Well, let me show you
what your little hiccup did for me.

My, that is very pretty.
And you said my hiccup inspired this?

Mm! Well, I'm glad
somebody got something out of it.

[muttering mockingly]

Oh, just a suggestion, I wouldn't
have put that big line down the middle.

[sobbing]

Say, you wouldn't know
how to get rid of hiccups, would you?

[sniffling and groaning]

Well, as a matter of fact I do.

Just, uh, listen to this story.

"Once there was a monster
who lived in Lake Ness.

Everyone was afraid of the monster

because he was very cranky.

The villagers named him
the Cranky Ness Monster.

They tried to make him happy

by giving him presents.

But they weren't sure
what Crankiness wanted.

The villagers tried
all kinds of different things.

But nothing seemed to help.

Until the day a little girl
gave the monster what he really wanted.

A big hug.

From then on,
the monster was no longer cranky.

In fact, he was so happy,
they renamed him the Happy Ness Monster.

And soon a rich man came to Lake Ness

to try to buy the monster for himself.

But the monster was not for sale.

Because as we all know
money can't buy happiness."

What does that story
have to do with getting rid of my hiccups?

Listen very carefully,
and tell me what you hear.

Nothing.

Precisely.

My hiccups, they've gone.

But how?

If you ignore hiccups,
they'll go away by themselves.

My story simply took your mind off them.

[hiccups]

It appears
you have a two-story case of hiccups.

[upbeat music playing]

[Dum hiccups]

-Shh!
-Hush.

[hiccups]

Dum, is that you hiccupping?

-Yeah.
-Could you keep it down?

We're trying to fish.

Oh, sorry.
I didn't mean to scare the fish away.

Wait a minute. I've never heard of fish

-in a well before.
-We're not fishing for fish.

We're fishing for compliments.

But you can't really fish for compliments.

That's just a figure of speech
that means you try to get someone

to say something nice to you.

Oh, we fish for compliments all the time.

Oh, hey, I got one. Oh!

-You got--
-It feels like a really big one.

Okay. Reel it in, reel it in.

-Get it!
-There.

Wait, wait, wait. Hold up.

Oh, here. Yep, yep, yep.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Yep, yep, yep.

-Mm-hm.
-Uh-huh.

"You are a wonderfully sensitive person."

-Boy, that's a big compliment.
-You should've seen the one that got away.

Nevertheless, we should get...

-A picture!
-A picture! Oh, yes.

-Quick.
-Come on. Here we go.

-Right around.
-Yes. Yeah.

-Over here.
-Yeah. This way.

-Yup. Here we go.
-This is my good side. Okay.

-All right.
-Let's go.

-Hold this, please.
-Would you mind?

-This side.
-Yeah? All right.

Say--

-[hiccups]
-Ow! Oh!

Sorry.

I can't seem to stop hiccupping,

and I've tried everything.

Oh!

Not so fast.
There's one thing you haven't tried.

Hare.

-The hiccup machine!
-The hiccup machine!

-Yeah.
-Yeah, up here.

-Yep.
-Turn it around.

-Take--
-Yep, turn it around.

-A-ha!
-Ta-da!

What, it--

There.

Now, step right up to my hiccup machine,

and soon you too will be saying...

bye-bye to your hiccups.

[machine sputtering]

[hiccups] Well, I'd like to believe that,
but how can a machine cure hiccups?

That's easy.

It's just another miracle of...

modern science.

[pop music playing]

♪ We got machines for everything
These days ♪

♪ Let us count the ways ♪

♪ It's just another miracle
Of modern science ♪

♪ We've got
A supersonic pencil sharpener ♪

♪ An appetite shrinker or enlarger ♪

♪ A fur fluffer, a portable barber ♪

♪ We've got a special mirror ♪

♪ If you wanna look further or nearer ♪

♪ Every type appliance ♪

♪ Oh, just another miracle
Of modern science ♪

♪ We've got the hiccup ender ♪


♪ It doubles as a roommate finder ♪

♪ And a combo rug shaker ♪

♪ It's also a full-band melody maker ♪

♪ All in one machine ♪

♪ With a money-back guarantee ♪

♪ And a perfect record of reliance ♪

♪ Just another miracle
Of modern science ♪

Okay, Dum.

First, we'll try breathing
into a paper bag.

[machine sputtering]

Okay, okay. All right, all right.

It's not working. He's still hiccupping.

But shouldn't I be the one
to breath into the bag

if I have the hiccups? [hiccups]

Why? If it doesn't work for us,
it's certainly not gonna work for you.

[hiccupping]

-[Hatter whistling]
-[Hare humming]

[yelps]

Hey. Why did you do that?

To scare you.

Everybody knows hiccups scare easily.

Except yours. Hare, it looks like
we're gonna have to really scare him.

-You'll thank us later.
-Yep.

[hiccups]

-Boo! No.
-All right.

[moaning]

How about some tea?

-What?
-[screams] Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm just so good looking,
sometimes I scare myself.

Haven't you guys cured his hiccups yet?

I wanna fish for more compliments.

They're doing the best they can, Dormouse.

-Any suggestions?
-Sorry, we don't get hiccups.

-We who?
-Dormice.

-That's odd.
-No, it's not.

It's just an irregular plural.

One dormouse, two dormice.

Hare, could I have a glass of water?

Oh, I've already tried that.

No, it's not for you. It's for me.

Thank you.

Curing hiccups is hard work.

-There you are. What took you so long?
-To be honest, Your Majesty,

as soon as I got to the station,
I developed a case of hiccups.

[gasps, then stammers]

So I had to be that much more careful
with your fragile china.

Putting it down whenever I felt

-a hiccup coming on.
-What are you talking about?

My hiccups, Your Majesty.

-I don't hear any hiccups.
-You don't?

You don't. My hiccups went away!

[pop music playing]

♪ I was hiccupping all day today ♪

♪ Much to my dismay ♪

♪ But now this curse has been reversed ♪

♪ I wanna shout hic-hic hooray ♪

♪ What a thrill I've lost my hiccups ♪

♪ This is better than a holiday ♪

♪ My epidemic's gone away ♪

♪ I wanna say hic-hic hooray ♪

♪ Well, this whole affair
Has been a nightmare ♪

♪ I'm glad my problem's gone away ♪

♪ Without that annoying hic ♪

♪ I'm feeling quite terrific ♪

♪ I want to shout hic-hic hooray ♪

♪ I want to say hic-hic hooray ♪

♪ What a thrill I've lost my hiccups ♪

♪ This is better than a holiday ♪

♪ My epidemic's gone away ♪

♪ I wanna say hic-hic hooray ♪

♪ Hooray ♪

Okay, so you had the hiccups.

You don't have to give me
some big song and dance.

-Now, I want to see my new china.
-Your Majesty.

I found my safety pads.

Now I can go
and find Tweedle Dum and your china.

[chuckles] Oh, never mind.

This isn't the china pattern I ordered.

Oh! These aren't the cute little hearts
around the rim.

These are big old ugly curlicues.
And I won't have them. Take them back.

Oh, yes, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, you did say something
about a reward for picking up the china.

-But this isn't the right china.
-That really isn't his fault.

No. You're right.

Oh, okay.

Your reward will be an invitation
to my first dinner party on my new china.

That sounds very nice. When will that be?

When I get my china,
you'll get your invitation.

Please allow six to eight weeks delivery.

Should I bring anything?

Just yourself.
And please leave the hiccups at home.

[chuckles, then hiccups]

Boy. You guys are sure happy.

I know somebody who's not happy.

Would you mind sleeping in Brian's room?

Good. That'll make Dinah happy.

And Brian would love to have houseguests.

Or should I say mouseguests.

[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 ♪