Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1976)

[bunniefuu]

["20th Century Fox Fanfare"
by Alfred Newman]

[birds chirping]

Busdriver:
Bye-bye Marcella, have a nice weekend!

Marcella:
Bye, dad!

[car horn honks]
[dog barking]

Marcella's mother:
Is that you, Marcella?

Yes, it's me!

[Mother] Come on,
get cleaned up for your party!

Okay, mom, comin'!

[loud footsteps]

[stomping]

[cheerful music]

♪♪

Raggedy Ann,
you look after the playroom.

♪♪

[playful music]

♪♪

[hopeful music]

♪♪

Raggedy Ann:
Grandpa? Is Marcella gone, for sure?

♪♪

Grandpa:
Yep! The coast is clear, Annie!

Oh, what a day I've had.

I think I must have
popped half my stitches.

Maxi Fixit:
Don't you worry, Raggedy Ann.

I'll fix 'em up for you in a minute.

Maxi Fixit fixes everything.

Susie Pincushion:
Great, great, Maxi.

That's Susie Pincushion's kind of work.

[Susie humming]

There. That's much better now, isn't it?

Oh, it is.
What would I do without you?

Well, goodness.

The way you go
banging around with Marcella.

It's a wonder you didn't
lose all your stuffing years ago.

It's true.
I do get bounced around a bit.

Eh, but you also get to
see the world outside.

Socko:
Which is more than we get to see.

[upbeat music]

Twin Pennies:
♪ Where'd you go? Where'd you go? ♪

♪ What did you do, and why? ♪

♪♪

♪ Tell us what you saw, dear Raggedy ♪

♪ We're so oh-so curious we could die! ♪

♪ Woooo-oh! ♪

[chair creaking]
Yeah, what'd you see out there, Annie?

Oh, lots of different things.

Some are real for sure strange.

[overlapping voices]
Tell us, Annie. Tell us.

Okay.

[hopeful music]

♪♪

♪ Most times it's only
the simple everyday things ♪

♪ Like ribbon bows,
or puppies and boys, ♪

♪ or games to play on swings ♪

♪ But sometimes
hanging upside down ♪

♪ from Marcella's hand, ♪

♪ by myself I see a very special land! ♪

♪ I look, and what do I see? ♪

♪ Looking out with two brand-new
shoebutton eyes, here's what appears to me ♪

♪ I see lots of pretty,
and a lot of happy, ♪

♪ and a bit of everything
that's there inside of me! ♪

♪ I look, and what do I see? ♪

♪ From a head all filled
with thread and linen in a raggy jamboree ♪

♪ I see lots of smile,
and alot of singing, ♪

♪ and alot of something else
that no one else can see! ♪

♪ Lots of butterflies in the air ♪

♪ Lots of honeycomb everywhere ♪

♪ All the pretty things we could share, ♪

♪ together! ♪

♪ I look, and what do I see? ♪

♪ It's a face as smiling and as hopeful ♪

♪ as my own face has to be! ♪

♪ Sing something pretty,
all lit up and shining ♪

♪ Sing something
everyone could be if they were me! ♪

♪ When I look ♪

♪ that's what I see. ♪

You really see it that way?

Just that lovely?

♪ With the butterflies in the air ♪

Every single day?

♪ With the honeycomb everywhere ♪

Turvy-Topsy:
Really?

[all]
♪ With a happiness we could share ♪

♪ together? ♪

♪ Together! ♪

♪ I look, and what do I see? ♪

♪ It's a face as smiling and as hopeful ♪

♪ as I know a face could be! ♪

♪ Sing something pretty,
all lit up and shining ♪

♪ Sing something
everyone could be, the same as me! ♪

♪ When I look ♪

[all]
♪ when I look ♪

♪ That's what I see ♪

[music stops]

[piano rings]
[group laughing]

That's the most beautiful thing
I've ever heard. Isn't it?

[horns play]

Here's the really big news.

Our little Marcella
is seven years old today.

Barney Beanbag:
Uh, what's 'seven years old'?

It's a time to have fun!

Parties and singin',
even get presents.

See, look over there!

Now that looks like a present.

It's a funny kind of box.
It may need fixin'.

Look! It's-a sprouting feet!

Those feet look familiar.

Matter of fact,
they look just like mine!

Do you think it could be...?

[muffled grunting]

- It is Andy!
- He's wrecked!

He's under there.
Everybody, please, help me push.

[chaotic music]
[all grunting]

♪♪

[yells]

Raggedy Andy:
What a relief!

I was on the floor here doin' my pushups

When wham, bam,

everything went dark
and I was squashed by that.

That's Marcella's birthday present.

What do I care?
I spent the whole day under that thing.

[upbeat music]
♪ What's in the box? What's in the box? ♪

♪ Gotta find out what's in the box! ♪

♪ Woooo-oh! ♪

Ah, somethin' dumb, I bet.

There's something written up there!

♪♪

Could you read it, Annie?

I can't see from here.

- Boost me up.
- Yeah, here.

Here,
step on me, darling.

[Andy] Who cares what it says?
Or what's in it?

[playful music]
[grunting]

♪♪

'Happy Birthday Marcella,'

'from Paris, France!'

'Contents: One French doll.'

[Andy] Just what we need around here.

Another darn doll.

[Maxi] Imagine that.

A doll from Paris.

I'll tell you somethin'.

I'm gettin' pretty sick and tired

of all the dumb things
that go on around here!

This is no place for a strong,
tough and terrific boy like myself.

You're strong,
tough and terrific?

I could be,

if I didn't have to hang around
this nursery and be a girl's doll.

♪ Well you can... ♪

♪ push me, shove me,
turn me around, but I'm no girl's toy! ♪

♪ You can tie me, toss me,
upside or down, but I'm no girl's toy! ♪

♪ I sing my own sweet melody,
I go my own sweet way ♪

♪ I won't beg 'round tomorrow for
the kind of affection that was free today ♪

♪ Oh, you can squeeze me, tease me,
say I'm your own, but I'm no girl's toy! ♪

♪ You can charm me, chase me,
follow me home, I won't be coy! ♪

♪ You may not like it much
but I'm my own best boy ♪

♪ and not some sugar and spicy, ♪

♪ lacey and nicey,
sissy you're gonna enjoy, no! ♪

♪ I'm no girl's toy! ♪

Oh, Andrew.
You're just terrible.

A regular Huck Finn.

Wouldn't you be?
Pushed around and squashed up

- by a bunch of girls?
- You tell 'em, Sonny!

Yeah, you, uh... Tell 'em what?

Whaddya mean? Tell-a the truth!

What truth?

Too many girls!

Stop it!
You'll hurt yourself.

Hurt nothin'!
I've been hurt enough.

Packages landin'
on my head, tea parties,

dancin' lessons!

[all]
♪ You're just crazy! ♪

I'm no girl's toy!

Maybe-a lazy!

Watch it, sister.

♪♪

♪ You say I'm heaps of trouble
and I'm headin' for a fall ♪

♪ Well no rag,
no bow, no hank 'a hair ♪

♪ is gonna make me do
what I don't wanna do at all ♪

♪ So squeeze me, tease me,
say I'm your own, but I'm no girl's toy! ♪

♪ Oh, charm me, chase me,
follow me home, forget it, sweetie! ♪

♪ You may not like it much
but I'm my own best boy ♪

♪ and not some sugar and spicy, ♪

♪ lacey and nicey,
sissy you're gonna enjoy, no! ♪

♪ I'm no girl's toy! ♪

Not me!

[whistles]

Freeze!
Here comes Marcella!

[frantic music]

♪♪

[calm music]

♪♪

[paper rustling]
♪♪

♪♪

Wow.

♪♪

[doll]
Ba-bette.

[Marcella] Babette.

♪♪

This is Babette, everybody.
Isn't she beautiful?

♪♪

[Mother] Marcella!
Come and blow out your candles!

Okay.

Babette, you must be tired.
You better go to bed.

[doll] Ba-bette.

Raggedy Ann, you take
good care of Babette.

[unintelligable voices]

[music swells]

♪♪

Welcome to our playroom, Babette.

[all greeting]

Babette?

- Babette?
- [loudly] Hey, Babette!

[elegant music]

♪♪

[French accent]
Who... are you?

My name is Raggedy Ann,
and this is my brother,

Raggedy Andy.

- Where am I?
- [Andy] You're in the playroom, that's where.

You'll probably love it.

Oh, la-la-la-la-la...
What am I doing in such a terrible place?

[group mumbling]
But you're going to love it here with us!

What are you?

[giggles] We're dolls, like you!

[soft music]
♪ All of us live in the nursery, ♪

♪ all of us different as we can be ♪

♪ Some of us plump, ♪

♪ some of us thin ♪

♪ Some who are sad
and some who always grin ♪

[teeth chattering]

Captain Contagious:
Shivering timbers!

[sneezes]

Look at that. 37 years,
marooned in a feisty snowstorm!

And not a sign of spring.

[sneezes]

♪ [Ann] Everyone here to welcome you ♪

♪ and all I want to say
is really simple, ♪

♪ plain and true ♪

But... who are you?

[piano playing]
♪ I'm just a rag dolly, ♪

♪ happy and smilin' all day ♪

♪ A little rag dolly, ♪

♪ wishin' your worries away ♪

♪ I stop and say 'Golly,' ♪

♪ 'this is too good to be true' ♪

♪ 'A little rag dolly, plain as can be,' ♪

♪ 'has a friend who's as lovely as you.' ♪

- Queazy?
- Ay, captain!

- Come here!
- Ay, captain!

Oh! Something's goin' on down there.

Ay, captain!

[sneezes]

- Get me m'spyglass!
- Ay, captain!

♪ She's just a rag dolly, ♪

♪ happy and smilin' all day ♪

♪ A lovely rag dolly, ♪

♪ wishin' your worries away ♪

♪ And I get so jolly, ♪

♪ knowin' it's funny but true ♪

♪ A little rag dolly, sweet as can be, ♪

♪ could be friends with a dolly like you. ♪

[Captain stammering]

Where's that spyglass? [sneezes]

[all]
♪ She's just a rag dolly, ♪

♪ happy and smilin' all day ♪

♪ A little rag dolly, ♪

♪ wishin' your worries away ♪

♪ And we say 'Oh, golly,' ♪

♪ 'this is too good to be true' ♪

♪ 'A lovely rag dolly, sweet as can be,' ♪

♪ 'has a friend who's as lovely as you.' ♪

[suspenseful strings]

[sneezes]

[violin playing]

♪♪

[somber music]
♪ Poor Babette, poor Babette, ♪

♪ so far from Paris ♪

♪ Poor Babette, can't you see ♪

♪ how miserable she can be? ♪

♪ Like a bird in a cage, ♪

♪ with no wing to go free ♪

♪ Ah, Babette, poor Babette... ♪

- ♪ ...that's me. ♪
- Do you believe it?

♪ Always she dreams of
the life by the Seine ♪

♪ I do not think she will see Paris again ♪

Oh, brother...

[spyglass clanking]

♪ Poor Babette, now she tries ♪

♪ to be happy and g*y ♪

♪ But Babette has no way to get away ♪

♪ So Babette, poor Babette
will stay. ♪

[brass section playing]

[Captain babbling]

Queazy, Queazy! Look at that!

[triumphant music]

♪ A miracle, everything I've waited for, ♪

♪ now at last
my lonely heart has found the shore! ♪

[Queazy screeching]

[decreasing in volume]
♪ A miracle, all I've dreamed has come to be... ♪

[Captain singing in the background]
She sure is a picture.

Eh. I think she's kind of a pill.

Oh... She's probably homesick.

♪ ...ah, sweet mystery of love! ♪

♪ A miracle, sharing paradise with me, ♪

♪ now at last, my love,
the fates will intertwine! ♪

[Queazy screaming]

[Captain singing in the background]
I never saw such things...

I go to bed now.
I do not wish to be disturbed.

♪ Sweet miracle, at last you're mine! ♪

[sneezes]

[clock chimes]

[cuckoo bird calling]

[frantic music]

[springs bouncing]

♪♪

[group shouting]

[Ann] 'S. O. S.'

[gasps] Oh my goodness.
I'll do my very best, captain!

Down, please!

[descending music]

[commotion]

Oh, oh, oh!

Hey, everybody.
It's a real emergency!

The captain is in trouble.
We've got to get him out!

What are you gonna do?

Ah, shhh. I'm— I'm thinking.

[upbeat music]
♪ Raggedy Ann, oh, Raggedy Ann, ♪

♪ hey, whatcha thinkin' about? ♪

♪ How you gonna get in that thing
and get the captain out? ♪

♪ Woooo-oh! ♪

I know.

Maxi, do you have something

in your toolbox
that will get the captain out?

Heh, lemme look.

h*-h*.

This-a could do it.

Okay, Maxi, let's try.

Up, please, Mister Bird!

[Ann crying out]

[group shouting]
[Andy] Easy, Annie, you're the only sister I've got.

[scratching sounds]
[Maxi humming]

[grunting]

Oh, okay! Careful, now...

[shouting]
Look out!

[water rushing]
[all screaming]

[Captain] I have come to claim
what is rightfully mine!

[Queazy] Ay, captain! Ay, captain!

- What on earth are you doing?
- Lay back, missy!

I have come for my prize!

What prize?

My treasure, my miracle! My bride!

Queazy, douse the lights!

Douse the lights! Douse the lights!

[group shouting in bewilderment]

[Captain grunting]

[Babette screaming]

[Captain laughing]

Avast, ya lubbers!

We're off to the high seas!

High seas! High seas!

[Pirate] h*-heave-h*!

- ♪ Pullin' me hardies away! ♪
- Away!

[all]
h*-heave-h*!

- ♪ Put 'em to sea today! ♪
- Today!

[characters alternating]
♪ Hi-Yo! Hi-Yo? ♪

[Babette screaming]
♪ Hi-Yo! For the life of a pirate! ♪

Pirate!

♪ Trim the mizzen and shiver
the timbers and hoist the main! ♪

The main!

[Babette screaming]
♪ Hi-Yo! For the life of a pirate! ♪

[Queazy] Pirate!

♪ We'll be many a moon
'til soon we're seen again! ♪

[fading]
♪ Think of all the people
tremblin' to the core... ♪

What happened?

Can he do that?

Sure looks like it.

Poor Babette.
Kidnapped... by pirates.

Poor Marcella! The captain
just ran off with her birthday present.

[somber music]

Oh, it's all my fault.

Andy? We've got to save Babette.

You're— You're not
goin' out there after her.

Into the deep,
deep woods? Oh, no...

Marcella says you should never,
never, go into the deep, deep woods.

Lots of scary things out there, Annie.

[upbeat music]

♪ Really scary, really scary, ♪

♪ deep, deep woods get really scary-y! ♪

♪ Woooo-oh! ♪

♪ Woooo-oh! ♪

I don't care.

I've got to.

♪♪

For Marcella.

Alright, I'm goin' too.
Somebody's gotta protect you.

You all stay here and wait.
We'll be back before morning.

We'll bring Babette back,
and Marcella won't even know it happened.

I'll handle everything.
Who's scared, anyhow? [chuckles]

♪♪

Don't worry, now.

[Ann whispers]
Bye.

[breathes in]

♪♪

[grunts]

♪♪

Well, uh— Look out below!

Hup!

♪♪

Annie? You okay?

[stammers] I— I'm okay.

What about you, Andy?
Did you rip anything?

Don't think so.

Seems to be all there.

♪♪

Oh, oh.

[Andy mutters]
Ah, where's my foot? Oh, there it is.

Oh, thank you, Andy.

[hopeful music]

♪♪

[eerie music]
[Ann] Oh...

You scared, Andy?

- Me, scared? Why should I be scared?
- Shhh.

We've never been out at night before.

Are you scared?

- [mumbles] Yeah...
- Well, you shouldn't be. I'm not!

How come?

Well, I got this paper daisy you gave me.

The time I got washed
and starched by mistake, remember?

[giggles] Yeah.

And you couldn't move for weeks.

Yeah, well,
this flower sure cheered me up.

And I've been carrying with me
for good luck ever since.

[soft music]
♪ Times when you're real down and low ♪

♪ Every lonely place I go ♪

♪ there's a way I always know ♪

♪ we're always together ♪

♪ Paper daisies to explain
sunshine always follows rain ♪

♪ and a heart that's sweet and true
will help us weather the weather ♪

♪ That's what keeps us together! ♪

♪ Candy hearts and paper flowers, ♪

♪ sunshine days and skies of blue ♪

♪ Rhymes and songs we sing for hours, ♪

♪ words to say 'I love you true' ♪

♪ Times get bad and then I worry ♪

♪ how I'll ever see it through ♪

♪ But candy hearts and paper flowers ♪

♪ will always keep me close to you ♪

♪ Will always keep me close... ♪

- ♪ ...to you. ♪
- You mean that flower I gave you

made you feel safe
when you were all alone?

It sure did! It was the one thing
I could really depend on.

How come?

When somebody really cares for ya
and they give you somethin' real special

it makes ya feel good, all the time!

All the time?

All the time!

Even in a place like this, where
everything's so dark and scary?

You bet.

[whimsical music]

♪ If the night is gloomy
and I'd like to hide ♪

♪ or a chill goes through me
'cause I'm scared inside ♪

♪ That's when I remember
all the things you've done, ♪

♪ little things that warmed me
like a morning sun ♪

♪ And I feel so happy, don't you see? ♪

♪ 'Cause I start to thinkin'
just how much you mean to me ♪

Oh, Andrew. That's nice.

♪ So let the night get gloomy
any place I go ♪

♪ I got you beside me,
that's a fact you should know ♪

♪ It's because I love you so! ♪

Andy, I know that
we're gonna be okay, no matter what!

♪♪

[both]
♪ Candy hearts and paper flowers, ♪
♪ If the night gets gloomy and I'd like to hide, ♪

♪ sunshine days and skies of blue ♪
♪ or a chill goes through me 'cause I'm scared inside ♪

♪ Rhymes and songs we sing for hours,
♪ That's when I remember all the things you've done, ♪

♪ words to say 'I love you true' ♪
♪ little things that warmed me like a morning sun ♪

♪ Times get bad but I don't worry ♪
♪ And I feel so happy, don't you see?

♪ 'cause I know you'll see me through, and ♪
♪ 'cause I start to thinkin' just how much you mean to me, so ♪

♪ candy hearts and paper flowers ♪
♪ let the night get gloomy any place I go ♪

♪ will always keep me close to you ♪
♪ I got you beside me, that's a fact you should know ♪

♪ It's because I love you... ♪

♪ Candy hearts and paper flowers ♪
♪ ...so! ♪

♪ will always keep me... ♪

[both]
♪ ...close to you. ♪

[music fades]

[cracks]

[rustling]

What's that?

[tense music]
What?

[rustles]
That.

'That' what?

[rustling]
That!

♪♪

Don't you worry, Annie,
I'll protect you!

Oh, be careful.

[dramatic music]
Come on out, whoever you are!

♪♪

Camel with the Wrinkled Knees:
Let me go, let me go.

Andy, it's a camel!

All beat up, too.

[southern accent]
Oh, I know, I know.

I've been runnin' and-a chasin'
after my caravan 'a camels.

- What caravan?
- Where?

[mysterious music]

Up in the sky.

[unintelligble singing]

All-a dancin' and-a singin'
and-a smilin' at me.

♪♪

And now they're all gone.

'Cause you tripped me up.

Camels up in the sky?
That's crazy.

Andy, that's not nice.

Lemme get up.

[squeaking]
[grunting]

Ugh. [chuckles]

Once I get down
it's hard to get up again.

Oh, my joints.

♪♪

[squeaking]

Thank you, and thank you!

[chuckles] My legs, you know.

They're not what they used to be.

I had... real sticks in 'em once.

Then, I... I used to
have a lot of real things once.

But things are sure different now.

♪ When you ♪

♪ can't find a friend ♪

♪ and the road doesn't seem to end ♪

♪ and you're lonesome
the whole day through ♪

♪ How can you be happy? ♪

♪ How can you be smilin'? ♪

♪ How can you be anythin' but
low-down, saggy and blue? ♪

♪ When there's nothin' to share ♪

♪ and you don't have a dime to spare ♪

♪ and there's no one to comfort you ♪

♪ How can you be smilin'? ♪

♪ How can you be singin'? ♪

♪ How can you be anythin' but
low-down, saggy and blue? ♪

♪♪

♪ I look around and see
the sweet life everywhere ♪

♪ I watch the cookie bushes
shinin' in the sun ♪

♪ The smell of sweet vanilla livin'
blows in every breath of air ♪

♪ Doesn't anybody want me?
Doesn't anybody care? ♪

♪ When you're wrinkled and cold ♪

♪ and your fortune has all been told ♪

♪ and you're nobody's 'I love you' ♪

♪ How can you be happy? ♪

♪ How can you be smilin'? ♪

♪ How can you be anythin' but
low-down, saggy and blue? Sad but true! ♪

♪ How can you be happy? ♪

♪ How can you be singin'? ♪

♪ How can you be anythin' but
low-down, saggy and ragbag-baggy ♪

♪ and blue? ♪

Gee, that's terrible.

Well, I used to be
somebody's favorite toy.

Once a while, nice little kid named Sam
found me in an old junkshop

and I lived with him in a real nice house.

where he hid me under the pillow
every night, in a real nice room.

My humps got kinda flattened out,
but I didn't mind.

'cause I had somebody to love me.

One day Sam's Ma' found me.

She was a real purdy lady,
but she was also kinda mean.

When Sam wasn't lookin' she threw me away,
and I've been on my own ever since,

lookin' to find some kinda place
I could call home.

♪ When you're wrinkled and cold ♪

♪ and your fortune has all been told ♪

♪ and you're nobody's 'I love you' ♪

♪ How can you be happy? ♪

♪ How can you be smilin'? ♪

♪ How can you be anythin' but
low-down, saggy and blue? Sad but true! ♪

♪ How can you be happy? ♪

♪ How can you be singin'? ♪

♪ How can you be anythin' but
low-down, saggy and ragbag-baggy... ♪

♪ ...and blue? ♪

♪♪

But you shouldn't be sad.

- We'll be your friends.
- Uh huh.

- You will?
- For sure! And maybe things'll get better.

That's why I keep-a chasin'
them other camels.

All happy and-a dancin'.

Smilin' and singin',
calling me home.

[mysterious music]
[unintelligble singing]

♪♪

Quick! Hop on, we gotta
catch 'em before they get away.

All aboard!

I don't see anything, Andy. Do you?

This is really weird.

- [Camel] I'm-a coming!
- [Andy] But there's nothing there!

Hey! Wait for me. Wait for me!

Slow down, Mister Camel!

I've been lookin' for happiness
all my life!

I ain't-a gonna let it get away from me now!

[Ann] Please, please, you're going too fast!

[Andy] Whoa, whoa!

[Camel] I'm-a comin'!

Wait for me!

- [Ann] You don't know where you're heading!
- [Camel] I don't care!

[all shouting]

[squelching sounds]

He-Hey! This is real sticky.

Mh, it's real delicious too.

Oh, yum!

Whipped cream and cherry banana taffy.

[Andy] Look at that giant cherry!

[rumbling]

What's goin' on?

[squelching]

The Greedy:
What's- [stammering] What's that?

'Scuse me, I, uh...

I was asleep, I...

Pardon me.

Oh. Who are you?

Who are we? Who are you?!

I— I am The Greedy.

You are?

'Scuse me. [clears throat]

Welcome to the Taffy Pit.

What sorta place is this?

The— The Taffy Pit is my— my domain.

And I— [chewing]

I've gathered sweets...
Sweets of every description...

...and flavor!

Flavor from all over the world!

Wonderful, wonderful, isn't it?

I eat all the time!

And I never, never, never,
get enough... to eat.

- Oh yeah?
- That's silly.

With all this stuff around?

No, no! This is... I can't stop eating.
And I'm— I'm never satisfied, or...

...happy. Happy inside.

- No kiddin'.
- Oh, that's terrible...

Is there anything we can do to help?

If you could tell me where—
Where I could find a sweetheart...

[Camel] A what?

A sweetheart. I need a... sweetheart.

[playful music]

♪♪

♪ You can give me candy, cotton candy,
chocolate bar or lollipop ♪

♪ Fill me up on ice cream,
dripping fudge sauce, ♪

♪ butterscotch and nuts that never stop! ♪

♪ Feed me globs and gushes
of your most de-luscious stuff! ♪

♪ But without a sweetheart... ♪

♪ ...I never get enough. ♪

[sniffs] Oh, that's my sadness.
Pardon me.

♪ Oh, squash me a banana, drowned in jelly,
tutti-frutti by the score ♪

♪ Marzipan and pastry drenched in butter,
caramel and gingerbread galore! ♪

♪ I can gorge forever,
but I'm just an empty shell... ♪

♪ ...and without a sweetheart
I don't feel so well. ♪

Pardon me, please. Sorry.

[Ann] Well, we're sorry
about your predicament, Mister Greedy.

I'm Raggedy Ann, and this is my brother Andy,
and this is our friend, The Camel!

With the wrinkled knees.

How d— How do you do? 'Scuse me.

[Ann] We fell into
your Taffy Pit by accident,

so if you'll kindly let us go
we'll be on our way.

Well, why— Why do you have to leave?

- [Ann] 'Cause we gotta rescue a friend!
- [Andy] From some pirates. So if you'll just let us go...

No!

'Scuse me...

You see, you don't understand.
You must help me find a sweetheart!

I cannot go on living like this,

[drawn out]
♪ oozing! ♪

♪ Where's the sugarpop to stop this misery?
Oh, oozing! ♪

♪ Is this endless eating
all there is to be? Or not to be? ♪

♪ Melt me a tortoni, zabaoni,
glazed with soggy halivah! ♪

♪ Peanut butter custard, baked alaska,
miracles of food from near and far! ♪

♪ There's not one delight
I haven't tried, but life's too rough... ♪

♪ ...'cause without a sweetheart...
I never get enough ♪

♪ Never get enough, never get enough. ♪

[music stops]

'Scuse me.

[Ann] I'm sorry,
and I'd like to help you,

but I'm only a ragdoll

- with a little candy heart—
- What did you say?

I said, I'm sorry,

and I'd like to help you,

- [muffled] but I'm only a ragdoll.
- Pardon me. Not— Not that.

Err... Tell me the other part.

What other part?

The part about... the... candy heart!

It must be real... sweet!

[tense music]
Real, real...

...sweetheart!

Well, it's a candy heart,
so I guess it's sweet enough—

Well, I'd like to have it!

[Ann] It seems to me, Mister Greedy,
that you have had quite enough already!

♪♪

Well, I want that sweet...

candy... h— heart...

It's your heart now,
but soon it will be mine!

[Ann] Oh, come on, let's get out of here!

You can't leave me now!

- Hey, this is sure tasty.
- Oh!

Keep going!

Take that!
No one can resist vanilla!

Here, sloppo,
take some of your own medicine!

[Greedy shouting]

Alright, you wanna... play... tough?

[liquid rushing]

[Camel crying out]

Rootbeer!

[all shouting]

- [Andy] Help me! Help, come on!
- [Greedy] You won't get away!

- I'm gonna start a... taffy-lanche!
- I'll— I'll get you back!

[trio grunting]

[Greedy] I'm still hungry!

[Andy] More!

Come back, come back! Back, back...

[music crescendoing]
[all grunting]

No!

[triumphant brass section]

[all cheering]
[Andy] Got him!

[Greedy munching]

You threw good stuff.

[group grunting]

[calm music]

♪♪

[Camel grunting]

Can't we— Can't we...
sit down... and rest... a little?

- You bet.
- [Ann sighs]

Oh, thank you both for saving me.

[kisses]
[Camel laughs] Aw, shucks.

That's what friends are for.

And— and when we get out of here
we're gonna take you home with us.

[mysterious music]

[unintelligble singing]

Oh.

Oh, there it is again.

Them... camels.
Callin' me home. Home...

- [Ann] Oh, no, Mister Camel...
- [Andy] Uh... pull yourself together.

Who's that?

Oh-hoh...

- It was that dream again.
- Yeah, I guess so.

Home. I'm always dreamin' about home.

Well, we wanna go home too.

But before we can,
we've got to rescue Babette.

Who's Babette?

A beautiful French doll.

Marcella got her for a birthday present.

- [Camel] Who's Marcella?
- [Ann] Marcella's where home is.

And we can't go back there
until we find Babette!

Sir Leonard Looney:
[laughs] Oh, this is too good to be true!

The captain stole Babette away
in his pirate ship.

Stick em' up.

Bam.

[cackles] The flag says 'You need help.'

[trio]
'You need help.'

[chuckles] No, you need help.

From a helpful person who gets a big kick
out of helping people who need help.

Now, I bet you wanna know
where Babette is.

- [Ann] Yes!
- Am I right?

How did you know that?

Well, leave it to Sir Leonard Looney,

[chuckles] the looniest knight of the year!
O-h*-h*-h*, isn't that terrible...

I'll show you your little old Babette.

Fasten your eye on this super-optoscope!

Okay. Whaddya see?

I... don't see anything.

I do. You've got a black eye!

- [laughing]
- You lay off my sister, Sir Leonard!

Oh, have some gum.

[trap snaps]
Ow! Hey...

[laughs] Oh, that kills me!

Hey, what is this?

Welcome to Looney Land!

[cackles]

It's where all the practical jokes
in the world come from.

And guess what!

We're going to try them all out on you!

Come on, let's get outta here.

[Leonard laughs] I love it, I love it!

Once you're in, you're in!
And nobody ever gets out of Looney Land.

Why are you doing all this to us?

It's easy!

[chaotic music]
[Leonard shouts]

♪♪

[maniacal laughter]

♪ The reason that I [zap] is 'cause I love you! ♪

♪ The reason that I [gulp] is 'cause I care! ♪

♪ And every mad invention
I bring to your attention ♪

♪ is just to show how
how much I need you there! ♪

[expl*si*n]

♪ The fact that I go [honk] means I adore you, ♪

♪ I'll show you every crazy way I do! ♪

♪ You may be all-a tatters
but laughter's all that matters ♪

♪ and that's how I love you! ♪

[Leonard]
Oh boy!

[cackling]

♪♪

[laughter]

[piano plays]

[car honks]

[toot]

[honk]

[klaxon alarm]

[Leonard] Attention, guys, we're on
the lookout for suspicious looking characters

dressed in rags!

[ragtime piano]

♪♪

[splash]

♪♪

[airplane sounds]

♪♪

Luckily, I'm here!

♪♪

[dissonant trumpets]

- Oh... It's you again!
- Shhh!

[trumpets continue]

You're in the court of King Koo Koo.

The king of the Loonies.

[chuckles]

[fanfare starts]

[Loonies]
♪ Hail to our glorious king! ♪

♪ Hail to a glorious man! ♪

♪ Hail glorious anything! ♪

♪ But especially... ♪

♪ ...hail the king! ♪

[Loonies cheering and laughing]

♪ Hail to our glorious king! ♪

♪ Hail to a glorious man! ♪

♪ Hail glorious anything! ♪

♪ But especially... ♪

♪ ...hail the king! ♪

[Loonies laugh and shout]

King Koo Koo:
Silence! S— Silence!

You imbeciles!

[german accent]
I'm surrounded by idiots.

Now look at them, look at them!
All of them are idiots!

Your Highness, Your Highness!

Your Highness, you've got to help us!

Please! This— This, uh...

...person. He says you are the king.

[laughter, accordion playing]
[King] Silence! This is not comedy!

This is tragedy!

- For a man of my stature...
- [chuckles]

Your Highness!

You mean Lowness.

Yeah, Lowness. That's what it is.

What?

Tell it like ya see it, dollface. Lowness.

You notice it, everybody notices it.

Notices what?

I... am... short!

[commotion]

Oh, Your Majesty [chuckles],
you're the greatest king of all!

Right, shorty? [cackles]

Shhh, please! You're not so short.

Yes I am!

I'm small, I'm—
I'm teeny-tiny, I'm itty-bitty, I'm—

[Loonies howling with laughter]
[King protesting]

♪ It's not easy being king
when you're short ♪

♪ It's not easy being big
when you're small ♪

♪ It's impossible to be
lord of everything you see ♪

♪ when you're down so far
you can't see far at all! ♪

♪ But who could ever be
the boss when he's teeny? ♪

♪ No, your life's a total loss
when you're a runt ♪

♪ Oh, just think what I could do
if I was big like you ♪

[reverberant]
♪ and I didn't have to put up all this front! ♪

♪ Imagine me, an enormous king ♪

♪ How they'd bow, how they'd cheer ♪

♪ I'd be the emperor of everything ♪

but now they hardly know

[commotion]
I'm even here!

[King] Silence!

♪ I can never hope to lead,
I'm just a crumb ♪

♪ Did Napoleon succeed?
Don't be dumb ♪

♪ And if he was here, you'd see
he was tall compared to me ♪

♪ I can hardly stand myself,
do you know why? ♪

It's not easy being king when you're short!

♪ And I could die... ♪

[Loonies laughing, playing instruments]

Oh, maybe you'll grow.

[clicks tongue] The only way I can grow
is when I laugh at other people.

[cackles]

And that's why you're here.

[laughter]

You lay off my sister!

[chuckles]

Oh, that's cute. [laughs]

Hey! You see that?

Come here and fight, you big tin can!

[King and Loonies laughing]

Very amusing, I like it.

Oh, come on, fella, let's be friends!

[zap]

[laughter]

Stop that, you bully!

[guffaws]

Oh, oh, do some more to this one here.
I mean, he makes me expand real good.

[King and Loonies laughing]

Quiet! You morons!

[toot]

Oh, that's rich!

[cackles]

[stammers] King?

- You— You mean you get bigger when you laugh?
- Like a balloon?

Eheh, yeah, yeah.
But there's a real lump in my royal pudding.

You see, only a part of me gets bigger.
Just a part!

Because there's nothing funny enough
to keep all of me big enough, long enough!

[Loonies cheering]
Silence!

Silence!

Oh, if I could only achieve
total hilarity, complete hysteria,

and uncontrollable laughter,

I know all of me would expand
to the size I am destined to be!

[Loonies laughing]
[King protesting]

Silence! Silence!

What's so funny?

Get this one, sire.

[laughter]

Oh, keep it up, keep it up!
Just perfect!

You can't push us around like this.

Making fun of other people never made
anybody bigger than anybody else.

Come on, I've had just about enough of this.
[King guffaws]

Oh! Uh-oh.
No— Nobody ever gets out of here, hehe.

You gotta stay to keep me laughing!

And when I no longer find you funny

you will become one of them!

[commotion]

Yeah! It'll be such a lot 'a laughs,
it'll crack ya up!

[laughter]

Alright, you guys!
Are we gonna get outta here or not?

Well, they're not gonna help us
find Babette and the captain!

They're all too crazy!

Looks like we're
gonna have to leave them laughin'!

[continued laughter and commotion]

[King] This is wonderful, wonderful!

[comedy music]

♪♪

Okay. Come on!

Let's get outta here.

- [Ann] Yeah.
- [Camel] Yeah.

Hey!

Do you see what I see?

[Ann] Yeah! It says... 'N-Trance.'

♪♪

Wow! Just what we need.

[Camel] Uh-uh. Push that stop button.

[Ann] Yeah, that'll probably make it go!

[strange cartoon noises]

[trio] We're off!

[Ann] But... where?

[King and Loonies laugh]

[King deflating]

[King] Uh... uh... eugh.

Look at this.
I'm smaller than ever!

I am a kinglet!

Listen! [stammers]

Ouch! You just kicked a knight.

Wake up, crackpot. They're gone.

You let 'em escape! [chuckles]

Why'd you let 'em get away?

Because...

...they are going to give me
the greatest laugh of them all.

Huh?

They are going to give me the laugh
I have been waiting for

all of my whole life!

They are going to give me the laugh
that will make me bigger

than anybody ever was!

Ever!

[laughs] Really? What's that?

The last laugh.

[Loonies ooh'ing and ah'ing]

Okay, shorty. It's up to you.

Quit, idiot!

Get me the telephone.

Hello?
[louder] Hello?

[Leonard] Just speak up into it.

I— Hello?

[phone ringing]

[slow music]

♪♪

[King] Hello? Hello? Gazooks?

[water bubbling]

Gazooks:
Hello?

Gazooks...

♪♪

...Lord of the deep...

...here.

This is King Koo Koo.

Oh.

[drawn out]
I was hoping you'd call.

How are things?

Boooring.

Well, I just sent you
three terrific funny-pants peoples!

And I think you will find them
great fun to play with. [chuckles]

If you know what I mean.

Mh...

Now listen closely, Gazooks...

Here's what we're gonna do!

[King whispering]

[hopeful music]

♪♪

[Andy] Look! There's the captain's ship.

♪♪

[Camel] I think we're gainin' on 'em.

Come on, H.M.S. Koo Koo!

[Andy] Full speed ahead to the rescue!

Don't worry, Babette! We're coming!

♪♪

[brass section playing]

[pirates]
Topsail rigged!

♪♪

Mainsail jibbed!

♪♪

Many bumps and oars!

♪♪

Sails trimmed and mizzened,

Captain Babette!

That's the spirit, boys!

Soon, we will be in Paris, and I will
show you the real high life!

[all] Hooray!

♪ Hooray for me, Babette of g*y Paris! ♪

♪ Hooray for me, I'm captain now, you see! ♪

♪ Hooray for she, Babette of g*y Paris! ♪

♪ What joy, what glee!
We're headed, we're headed for Paris! ♪

Hooray!

[singing continues]

[Captain] Oh, Queazy...

[sneezes]

- ♪ Woman is fickle ♪
- ♪ Woman is fickle ♪

Just as I had my prize
in my grasp...

Just as I was about to
pluck the flower of paradise!

A rose... turned into a thorn.

And my dream... into a nightmare!

Nightmare!

- How long I waited for true love...
- Love!

And here I am!

- A man condemned by his own passion!
- Passion!

- A prisoner in his own ship.
- Ship.

- Only you, Queazy, have remained faithful,
- Faithful!

- loyal,
- Loyal!

- and true.
- True!

- ♪ You're my friend ♪
- ♪ You're my friend ♪

- ♪ I like you ♪
- ♪ I like you ♪

- ♪ 'Cause you're my friend ♪
- ♪ You're my friend ♪

- ♪ through thick and thin ♪
- ♪ Thick and thin ♪

- ♪ You're my friend ♪
- ♪ You're my friend ♪

- ♪ Lose or win ♪
- ♪ Lose or win ♪

- ♪ To the end ♪
- ♪ To the end ♪

- ♪ I'm your friend ♪
- ♪ I'm your friend ♪

- ♪ You like me ♪
- ♪ You like me ♪

- ♪ 'cause I'm your friend ♪
- ♪ 'cause I'm your friend ♪

♪ And when my voyage ends ♪

♪ and one last time I sail to sea ♪

- ♪ You'll be with me ♪
- ♪ You'll be with me ♪

- ♪ 'Cause you're my friend! ♪
- Polly want a cr*cker.

Aw...

[sneezes]

[telescope squeaks]

[trumpets playing]

[Ann] Hey, that's Babette!

[singing]

[Ann] But she doesn't seem to
be in any trouble!

Sure is dressed up funny.

Well, somebody's havin' a real good time.

Can't you make the boat
go any faster, Andy?

I don't know what else to push.

Hey! What's this thing?

[Ann] Uh...

'Don't pull me.'

Ooh... Should we try it?

Why not! What have we got to lose?

[grunts]

I can't budge it, it's stuck.

[Ann] Oh, all together now.

[trio]
One... two... three...

...pull!

[chaotic music]

♪♪

[all]
Whoa!

Oh, Babette, you're safe!

What are you doing here?

Well, we've come to rescue you
and take you home with us.

You have? [laughs]

And who is this, eh... new riffraff?

Oh, this is our friend, The Camel.

With the wrinkled knees, heh.

Now, get your things, dear,
we're going home.

Just one moment, you ribble-rabble!

I am not going anywhere except Paris!

Oh... Where's the captain?

I am the captain now!

[Andy] Well, where's the captain, captain?

[Captain Contagious]
Help! Help!

He is below in irons, where he belongs!

[sneezes]

The filthy beast.

Gesundheit, ma'am.

Seize them!

[Andy] Whaddya gonna do?

- Tie them to the highest yardarm!
- Why?

So you will be out of the way
until we reach Paris.

Hey, you can't do that!

Quiet, peasant!

[Babette] Full speed ahead for Paris!

[waves crashing]

[King whooping and laughing]

Onwards! Onwards to victory!

[drawn out]
Why is this so important to you?

Because there is no bigger laugh
than seeing the good guys get it!

[laughs] Get it?

- Got it.
- Good!

You, with all your arms!

And under my direction
you will be the world's greatest tickler!

[both laughing]

[grunting]

Hehe, good work, Queazy.

Now, let's get up there
and take our ship back!

[Queazy] Ship back, ship back!

Hey, look!

What's goin' on here?

[Ann] Help! Help, captain!

Get us down!

- Untie 'em, Queazy!
- Ay, captain!

[crash]

Get down below, you filthy brute.

[Babette sneezes]

[Captain sneezes]

Can't we let bygones be bygones?

[groans, sighs of relief]

[shouting]

[Babette] A sea monster!

Action!

[whoops] Into the breach, my friend!

[low brass instruments]

♪♪

Fire one!

Babette, be mine!

Who knows what fate awaits us?

Gotcha.

Ha-ha!

Fire two!

[Camel calling out]

Fire three!

[King laughing]

Fire four,

and fire five!

Fire six!

Seven!

Eight!

And fire him!

[maniacal cackling]

Okay, okay!

Ready... aim...

...tickle!

[all bursting with laughter]
[comedy music]

♪♪

[King] This is the funniest thing
I ever— [laughs]

I'm gettin' bigger! I'm gettin' bigger!

You see, Babette?

Marcella told us never
to leave the playroom.

I have made a mess of everything.

What a blow.

Blow! Blow!

Don't give up!

Up! Up!

[Andy laughing]

What did you say?

Blow! Up!

Blow! Up!

Blow up!

[howling]

Oh, get the little ragdoll there!

The little Raggedy Ann!

[King] Now tickle 'em!

Tickle 'em!

I've done it!
The greatest laugh in the world!

[Queazy] Blow! Up!
Blow! Up!

I've done it!
I am the biggest king in the world!

Get him!
He's full of nothin' but hot air!

[King laughing]
Blow up! Blow up! Blow up!

[continues laughing]

Raggedy Ann!

I— I got... the last laugh!

[expl*si*n]

[wind howling]

[Captain] Shiver me timbers!

[Babette] Save me, Raggedy Ann!

[Ann] Hold on, guys!

[water splashing]
[birds singing]

[Marcella] What are you doing out here?

[hopeful music]

♪♪

Captain, your ship!

What happened to it?

♪♪

Come on, in the house
before you catch a cold.

♪♪

All alone again.

Ain't I ever gonna find a home?

[mysterious music]
[unintelligble singing]

♪♪

Wait for me. Wait for me!

Don't go away! Don't go away!

♪♪

I can't stand it!

♪♪

Dear Raggedy Ann,
I'm sorry I've caused so much trouble.

Aw, that's alright, Babette.

Whaddya mean 'alright'?

Look at the mess we were in
just 'cause of her.

You are quite right, Andy.

Babette, you are one of the
most courageous persons I have ever met.

I hope you will be my friend.

I still love you, Babette.

You are a very
romantic man, captain.

♪♪

You may visit me on Sundays.

Sunday. Sunday!

♪♪

Sure is good to have you back, Annie.

It sure is good to be back!

[hopeful music]
♪ Quiet fireside, doors that open wide, ♪

♪ smiles to welcome me... ♪

♪ ...home! ♪

♪ Hands to take my hand,
hearts to understand, ♪

♪ what it means to be... ♪

♪ ...home! ♪

♪ All the wandering and the wondering
where would I find... ♪

♪ ...that little world of love
I saw so clear in my mind? ♪

♪ Now it's here at last, ♪

♪ all my troubles past, ♪

♪ never more I'll have to roam! ♪

♪ I'm home! ♪

♪ I'm home. ♪

♪♪

♪ All the happiness
with those you care for, ♪

♪ when you finally know
what you're there for, ♪

♪ and it's wonderful how suddenly
you're in the place where you belong ♪

♪ All the sharin' to make
life worth livin' ♪

♪ and the pleasure you get
'cause you're givin' ♪

♪ Ain't it wonderful how all at once you're
where you wished for all along? ♪

Andy, look!

- It's our friend, The Camel!
- Oh, whaddya know.

Come on! Lets-a open the window!

[everyone welcoming]
[Andy] Come on in!

[window creaking]

♪♪

Everybody, this is our friend, The Camel.

[group greeting]

He saved our lives
and he helped us find Babette!

Yes, and if it's alright with you,
I'd like him to live with us,

so he can have a real home
and never be alone anymore.

Why, sure! I'd-a make some
new sticks for his legs!

I would sew him up.

Well... We like him just the way he is.

Any friend 'a Raggedy Ann's
is a friend 'a ours!

And we know Marcella
will love you just as much as we do.

Y— Ya really mean it?

It's no mirage, Mister Camel.

- Ah, this is wonderful.
- Oh, I think it's just the best!

Oh, you all are just the best.

Aw, shucks.

No, Raggedy Ann, you're the best.

[music swells]

♪ Times get bad but I don't worry ♪

♪ 'cause I know you'll see me through ♪

[all]
♪ And candy hearts and paper flowers ♪

♪ will always keep me close to you ♪

[Ann and Andy]
♪ Will always keep me close... ♪

♪ ...to you. ♪

[song fades]

[playful piano to the tune of 'Rag Dolly']

♪♪