03x34 - The Sound and The Furry

[bunniefuu]

[mellow music playing]

Boy, Dinah,
I never thought I'd see the day

I'd get in trouble
for finishing my schoolwork early.

But that's what happened today.

Kim and I were in study hall,

and we both finished
our assignments ten minutes early,

so we started planning
what to do at lunch.

And Mrs. Alfin nailed us for talking.

When we tried to tell her we'd finished
our work, you know what she said?

She said, "You can talk all you want
as long as you don't disturb anyone."

Now, how are Kim and I supposed
to communicate with each other

without somebody hearing us?

That would be as impossible
as walking through a mirror.

Well, almost.

[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 ♪

[indistinct chatter]

-What's he saying?
-Come on.

[clearing throat]

Her Most Royal Majesty,
the Queen of Hearts.

[playing fanfare]

[playing jazz tune]

Uh, would you believe I was just
warming up the audience for your speech?

No, I wouldn't believe it.

The audience doesn't need
to be warmed up for my speeches.

When I speak, people listen.

[clearing throat]

Friends, royal subjects,

loyal Wonderlandians,

lend me your ears.

[indistinct chatter]

Hey!

Hey! Why are you all talking
during my speech?

Well, if we don't talk
during your speeches,

what are we gonna do?

You're going to listen,
that's what you're going to do.

-Oh, that's what we should do.
-Yeah, yeah.

[clearing throat]

Friends, royal subjects,

loyal Wonderlandians,

lend me your ears.

[indistinct chatter]

That does it!

I'm not going to say another word
until you all stop talking.

-Alrighty.
-Wha--?

-Yes, pretty. They're all pretty.
-I remember.

-Dum! Dum!
-Yeah?

If you have so much to say,
you go up there and give a speech.

Okay, but I don't have anything planned.

Sit down! I'm the only one that's
gonna give a speech around here.

[indistinct chatter]

All right! That tears it!
I'm not gonna give my speech.

All your gibble-gabble,
bibble-babble, chitter-chatter

has ruined my concentration.

Well, I guess we can all leave now.

Back up!

You're not getting off that easy.

I'm ordering all of you
to come back here this afternoon

and sit through my speech again.

And this time without talking.

Come on!

Ah, quit your bellyaching!

It won't be as hard as it sounds

because, by then,
you'll have lots of practice being quiet.

I'm ordering all of you

not to say a single solitary word
for the rest of the day.

But, Your Majesty,
how will we talk to one another?

[gasps] Alice, weren't you listening?

I just said, you couldn't speak.

Uh, actually, Your Majesty,
you said "not a single solitary word."

And Alice just said ten.
"But, Your Majesty..."

All right, I'll simplify it for you.

No one speaks.

Not one word.

Not ten words.

I want silence!

Because you know what they say,

silence is golden.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ When the first thing you hear
As you start the day ♪

♪ Is an alarm clock shouting to wake up ♪

♪ A dog is barking ♪

♪ A car horn is honking ♪

♪ It seems your ears
Are gonna have it rough ♪

♪ When the noises of the day
Start unfolding ♪

♪ Think silence is golden ♪

♪ When you hear the awful racket ♪

♪ And it's causing you to come unglued ♪

♪ It sounds like a riot ♪

♪ You wish they'd be quiet ♪

♪ Let me tell you what I'd do ♪

♪ When the noises of the day
Start unfolding ♪

♪ Think silence is golden ♪

♪ Silence is golden ♪

You're probably all wondering
why I called you here.

I was, but I didn't dare ask

since the queen ordered us
not to say a single solitary word.

I can't be quiet all afternoon.

I hear you. That's the problem.

For the rest of today,
we're to be seen and not heard.

Why, we'd be in trouble
if the queen even saw us talking.

-About not talking.
-That's right.

Only if she recognized us.

Much better.

Even with these disguises,
we'd better be as quiet as mice.

Quieter than that, Alice.

When we mice get together,
we really whoop it up.

If only there was some way for us to talk
to each other without speaking aloud.

Oh, there is.

I have a cousin who communicates
by speaking with her hands.

-How does she do that?
-Like this:

[in squeaky voice] Hi there.
May I borrow some hand cream?

I have chapped lips. Get it? [laughing]

Not that cousin.

I was thinking of my cousin April Hare.

She can speak a whole language
just using her hands.

Think she'd come here and teach it to us?

Oh, sure.

That is, as long as we don't
make her wear goofy glasses.

Oh, right.

[all] Oh!

Everyone, this is my cousin April.

Hi, April.

-April, say hi to my friends.
-Hi.

Wow, you really can talk with your hands.

Could you show us how to do that?

H-I. Hi.

-Hi. Hi.
-[all] H-I. Hi.

Hi. Hi.

April?

Could you show me how to sign "mouse"?

Sure.

M-O-U-S-E. Mouse.

I like that.
A whole new way to say "mouse."

That's great, April. How did you ever
come up with such a neat language?

Sorry, Alice. I forgot to tell you.

April can't hear you
unless she can see you.

-Your cousin hears with her eyes?
-In a way.

You see, April is hearing-impaired.

Hearing-impaired?

What does that mean?

It means she can't hear the way we can.

In a word, I'm deaf.

Then how do you know what we're saying?

She has a hearing aid.
I'll bet that's how.

It helps, but mostly I read lips.

Read lips?
What if there's nothing printed on them?

She means she watches
your mouth and face when you speak

so she can see what you're saying.

Can you tell every word I'm saying
just by reading my lips?

Can you tell every word by reading lips?

Oh, no.

Even if you're good at it,
you miss a lot of words by lip-reading.

That's why sign language is
the best way to talk to April.

I wanna learn sign language
'cause sign language is definitely cool.

Right. You can sign us up.

[hip-hop music playing]

♪ Hold your tongue ♪

♪ There's a quiet way
To convey information ♪

♪ It may seem strange, even absurd ♪

♪ Without saying a word
You can be heard ♪

♪ Contrariwise, try to understand ♪

♪ You can hear with eyes
Speak with hands ♪

♪ Win a spelling bee
Without uttering a sound ♪

♪ Now we're going to show you how ♪

♪ M-O-U-S-E ♪

♪ Let your fingers do the talking ♪

♪ M-O-U-S-E ♪

♪ Sign us up ♪

-♪ Ever had a hush-hush chitchat? ♪
-♪ No way ♪

-♪ A peaceful powwow ♪
-♪ No, how? ♪

♪ Conduct a lecture
With a flick of the wrist ♪

♪ With just a gesture
You'll be getting the gist ♪

♪ Maybe each of us can teach the art
Of speechless speeches to the queen ♪

♪ Are you seeing what we're saying?
Let us show you what we mean ♪

♪ M-O-U-S-E ♪

♪ Let your fingers do the talking ♪

♪ M-O-U-S-E ♪

♪ Sign us up ♪

[mellow music playing]

[clearing throat]

Her Most Royal Majesty,
the Queen of Hearts.

[playing fanfare]

[groans]

All right, everyone,
time for me to give my speech again.

And this time without so much
as a whispery peep from any of you.

[clearing throat]

Friends, royal subjects,

loyal Wonderlandians,

lend me your ears.

Rabbit, what are they doing out there?

I'm not sure, Your Majesty.

But I think it's charades.

You know, acting out words
without saying anything.

No, they're not doing charades.
They're doing something else.

-Wait, I know what they're doing.
-Oh?

They're making me crabby,
that's what they're doing!

All right, everybody, cut!

Okay, Dum, now tell me
what you chuckleheads were doing.

Don't you wiggle your fingers at me,
young man.

But, Your Majesty, you ordered him
not to speak for the rest of the day.

Oh, right.

All right, you can all speak.

But just until I find out
what you're up to.

[clearing throat] Since you ordered us
not to make a sound, Your Majesty,

we all were communicating
with sign language.

You can communicate entire words
or phrases just by using your hands.

Isn't it great?

No, it's not great.
I don't know how to do it.

We didn't know how to sign either
until April taught us.

April? Who's April?

My cousin.
She's waiting for us back at Hatter's.

Rabbit, get Hare's cousin
and bring her back to the palace.

She will be happy
to teach me sign language, won't she?

Uh, of course she will.

-Especially since she'll have no choice.
-How true that is.

Good. Rabbit, go and invite
Hare's cousin to the palace.

And as for the rest of you,
back to the "no talking" rule.

-No.
-Wait a minute.

And I'm ordering all of you
to come back here

and sit through my speech again.

And this time without talking or signing.

Help yourself to tea, April.

Thank you, Dormouse.

Sorry I can't stay longer,
but I'm playing tennis today

in the American Cheese Open. Bye now.

Bye-bye.

Oh!

Excuse me. You must be the Hare's cousin.

Uh, uh...

Yes, well, Her Most Royal Majesty,
the Queen of Hearts,

has sent me here
to invite you to the palace.

Oh!

Uh, uh...

Yes, well, perhaps you don't understand

what a great honor it is

to receive an official invitation

to visit the queen.

And perhaps you don't realize that it's--

It's terribly rude not to turn around
when someone's talking to you.

Ooh!

Well, if you won't even speak to me,

then I suppose I'll just have
to go back to the queen

and tell her you're turning down
her royal invitation.

So then "no" is your final answer?

Well, then "no" it is.

But I should warn you.

I'm sure the queen will have
something to say about this.

What?!

She said no to the queen?

Worse than that, Your Majesty.

She made me say it for her.

You see, she did not even dignify
your royal invitation with a response.

Oh, of all the nerve!

This April Hare insulted me?

-Well...
-Not to mention

insulting your, uh, right-hand Rabbit.

Why, you would never allow anyone

to say an unkind word to me,

your loyal, faithful,
steadfast, true blue--

Save it, Rabbit.
You're getting on my nerves.

So Hare's cousin feels

she doesn't have to accept
an invitation from the queen, huh?

Well, then maybe she doesn't need
to be in Wonderland at all.

[comical music playing]

[coughing]

April Hare, I-- I--

April Hare!

I bring you an official proclamation.

From the queen. [clearing throat]

"Whereas the Queen of Hearts is
the most royal of royals, and whereas..."

I think we can skip that part.

"And whereas--" And that part.

"Whereas--"

Sheesh. I wish Her Majesty
would lighten up on the official language.

Well, I believe
we can just skip to the end.

Oh, yes, here it is.

"Therefore, by proclamation
of Her Most Royal Majesty,

you are hereby banished...

uh, from Wonderland."

But why?

I think it's perfectly clear why.

After all, nobody says no to the queen.

[jaunty music playing]

♪ You crossed the line
You've reached the end ♪

♪ Because our queen you did offend
You've committed a grievous mistake ♪

♪ She's had about all she can take
The number-one rule of the land ♪

♪ Do not ignore her royal command
No one says no to the queen ♪

♪ From the dawning days of Wonderland ♪

♪ This is an issue
On which we take stand ♪

♪ No one says no to the queen
No one says no to the queen ♪

♪ We're sorry if you think us rude
You broke the law, we must conclude ♪

♪ Nobody ever dismisses her order
Not a subject, not a guest ♪

♪ Not even a boarder ♪

♪ The number-one rule of the land
Is do not ignore her royal command ♪

♪ No one says no to the queen
From the dawning days of Wonderland ♪

♪ This is an issue on which we take stand
No one says no to the queen ♪

♪ No, no, no ♪

♪ No one says no to the queen ♪

[somber music playing]

Hello.

Uh, I hope you didn't mind
the tap on the shoulder.

I've been told it's a good way
to get the attention

of someone who's hearing-impaired.

It is.

How did you know?

Oh, well, you know, you hear things.

Uh, sorry. Not really.

I noticed you're wearing a hearing aid.

You're very observant, Caterpillar.

Well, thank you.

So tell me,

why were you walking around
with such a long face?

For some reason,

the queen banished me from Wonderland.

The queen banished you from Wonderland?

Well, Her Majesty does have
her crabby days.

Come to think of it,
they're all crabby days.

It seems to me like the queen just acted

before she had all the information.

Perhaps I'd better tell you this story.

"Once there was a kangaroo named Keith
who jumped a lot.

Now, of course, all kangaroos jump a lot,

but Keith had a tendency
to jump to conclusions.

In other words,
no matter what he saw going on,

he always thought the worst
without finding out the whole story.

When he saw
a collection of koalas consuming,

he jumped to the conclusion

that it was a party
where he was not welcome.

And when he saw
a clique of kookaburras cackling,

he jumped to the conclusion

that they were having a laugh
at his expense.

Finally, Keith jumped to the conclusion
that he didn't have any friends.

But Keith did have friends
and one of them finally put his foot down.

Keith's friend scolded him
for always jumping to conclusions.

'If you just stick around long enough
to see what's really going on,'

his friend said, 'you'll realize that
things aren't always what they seem.'

Keith decided his friend was right.

Jumping to conclusions was
a good way to get his feelings hurt.

So from that day on,
Keith never jumped to conclusions

and this put a bounce back in his step."

So it looks to me
like the queen just heard something

and jumped to the wrong conclusions.

Maybe she'll realize she made a mistake.

Until then, I'm out on my ear,
so to "speak."

Uh, Her Most Royal Majesty,
the Queen of Hearts.

All right.

I'm going to try one last time
to give my speech.

[clearing throat]

Friends, royal subjects,

loyal Wonderlandians,

lend me your ears.

Wait a minute, where's the Hare?

-Here I am.
-You're late, and you're talking.

Sorry, but I have to have a word with you.

My cousin's leaving on the 5:00 train.

Her note says
you banished her from Wonderland.

-[all gasping]
-Yes. Because she said no to the queen.

She didn't have the courtesy
to turn around and look at me

when I invited her to the palace.

[all coughing]

See? Even they're shocked.

Uh, that's not why we're shocked.

We're shocked because you jumped
to the wrong conclusion.

Hatter! Who said you could speak?

Sorry, Your Majesty,
but it's time we all spoke up.

Alice, you are speaking too?

[groans] And you used to be
such a nice girl.

Hare's cousin didn't turn down
your invitation out of disrespect.

No. She didn't even hear it.

Now, how can that be?

Why, when I spoke to her,
I was standing directly behind her.

You have to stand in front of her
so she can see you're talking.

My cousin's deaf.

Oh!

Oh.

So then she never even heard
the invitation.

So I banished the poor woman
from Wonderland for no good reason?

Don't just stand there. We gotta stop her
before she gets on that train.

[indistinct chatter]

I'm sorry
you're already leaving Wonderland.

I was kind of hoping
you'd teach me that sign language.

Come with me, I'll teach you.

Great. You'll be hearing from me.

-[brakes squeaking]
-[bell dinging]

Stop! Don't get on that train.

She can't hear you.

Remember?
That's how you got into this mess.

Yes, yes, yes.

[clearing throat]

April, I owe you a big apology.

I'm afraid I made a mistake.

Oh! She says she made a mistake.

And I'm queen enough to admit it. Rabbit!

[clearing throat]

"Whereas the Queen of Hearts
is the most royal of royals,

and whereas the sovereign
of Wonderland is always fair,

and whereas--"

Slow down.

Gee, I've got to lighten up
on the official language.

Rabbit, skip to the good part.

-Oh, yes, there is it.
-Yeah.

"Therefore, by proclamation
of Her Royal Majesty,

you are hereby unbanished
from Wonderland."

[all cheering]

And now, I'd be honored
if you'd be my guest at the palace

and teach me
some of that nifty sign language.

Oh, I would love to.

Oh, good.

After all, a queen can always
use another language

for bossing people around.

Well, the important thing is,
we're all friends now.

In other words,
we speak the same language.

[Red Queen] Yes. Exactly.

[playing upbeat tune]

♪ Success, we have succeeded ♪

♪ Success where it was needed ♪

♪ Everybody has a way to say hi ♪

♪ And not confuse it with goodbye ♪

♪ Words look different, alphabets too ♪

♪ Are written on paper or signed by hand ♪

♪ We speak the same language
'Cause we all understand ♪

♪ Friends can communicate ♪

♪ In so many ways ♪

♪ They can hear or see what others say ♪

♪ Everybody's different
And it's all okay ♪

♪ Words look different, alphabets too ♪

♪ Are written on paper or signed by hand ♪

♪ We speak the same language
'Cause we all understand ♪

♪ Scoobididoo, waddidilidoo
We all understand ♪

Well...

Hi, Dinah. Or should I say...?

That means "hi."
I found out there's a whole other language

that I didn't know about
called sign language.

And once I learn it,
it's one more way I can communicate

with someone who is hearing-impaired.
Isn't that great?

Come to think of it,
if Kim also learns how to sign,

then we can communicate in study hall
without disturbing anybody.

Now let me show you how to do this.

See, H, this is H.

[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 ♪