04x04 - Ruby''s Gingerbread House/Max''s Christmas Passed/Max''s New Year
Posted: 11/14/23 06:59
[Whimsical music]
Man and woman: ♪ max and ruby
♪ Ruby and max
♪ Max and ruby
♪ Ruby and max
- ♪ Max and ruby
- ♪ Ruby and her little brother, max ♪
Kids: ♪ max and ruby
- A perfect gingerbread house
Takes careful planning, louise.
- I know, ruby.
And we've got everything we need:
Button candies, sugar wafers, candy canes,
Chocolate sprinkles, and gingerbread.
- And I know just the thing
To stick everything together.
- Worms?
Both: worms?
[Laughter]
- Max, we're building
A beautiful gingerbread house for grandma.
There are no worms
In beautiful gingerbread houses.
- What's that, ruby?
- It's icing sugar.
When we mix it with water,
It'll be just like glue.
- Oh, I get it.
That's what we'll use
To stick things onto our gingerbread house.
- Right.
I'll stir while you add the water.
- Okay, ruby.
- Oh, hi, max.
Would you like to help?
Here, you can hold the bowl.
- Button candies
Make the perfect shingles for the roof.
- Perfect.
- What else do we need on our gingerbread house?
- Worms!
Both: ew!
- Oh, those are the worms you were talking about.
I don't think we want
Your gummy worms
On our beautiful gingerbread house.
Okay, louise.
It's time to build our house.
You hold the walls up
While I brush on the icing sugar glue.
Now we put the pieces together
And press tight.
- Oh, this is so exciting.
- Okay, let's try letting go.
Both: yay!
Aw.
- Maybe we need more icing sugar.
- Careful, louise.
Not too much water.
Hmm.
Not sticky enough.
I think we need more icing sugar.
- Worms.
- [Screams]
Oh, no.
- It's okay, louise.
We still have some more.
Max, louise and I are trying to make
A beautiful gingerbread house,
And your gummy worms are not beautiful.
So please take your worms back.
- [Giggles]
I think they want to stay with you, ruby.
- [Sighs]
While we're building
Our gingerbread house in the kitchen,
Why don't you build something
In the living room?
Have fun.
- Worms.
Beep!
[Engine chugging]
Worms.
- While you mix the icing sugar,
I'll make a front walk for the house
With chocolate sprinkles.
- Thanks, louise.
This batch is going to be just right.
Are you ready to try the walls again?
- Sure, ruby.
- There.
That should hold.
- It's holding.
[Gasps]
Both: aw.
- Hold them up again, quick, louise.
I think they just need more glue.
Huh?
- Worms.
- Whoa.
[Gasps]
Oh, no.
- Max, I told you.
Your worms don't belong
On our gingerbread house.
We need to find something
To keep you busy here in your room.
Aha.
I think I see a job for fireman max.
[Gorilla screeches]
You like to come to the rescue,
Don't you, max?
Oh, no.
Screaming green alien gorilla
Has been caught in an avalanche.
Who will save him?
If only fireman max were here.
He'd save him.
You know what to do, fireman max.
Beep!
[Gorilla screeches]
Both: it's working.
- Now for the roof.
Steady now.
We did it.
It's staying up.
Both: yay.
[Rumbling]
Oh, no.
- And there's only enough icing sugar left
For one last batch.
[Helicopter blades thudding]
- Worms.
Beep!
Ruby and louise: ew!
- Uh, oh.
- It's all gone.
What are we going to do now?
- You'll think of something, ruby.
- Max, please take back your worms.
These gummy worms
Won't unstick from my hand.
- Here, let me help.
They really are sticky, aren't they?
- [Gasps]
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Worms.
- Okay, grandma,
You can open your eyes now.
- Oh, my.
[Together]: surprise.
- [Gasps]
What a beautiful gingerbread house.
Now...
Oh, I see you've used chocolate sprinkles
For the walk
And candy canes for the fence,
Oh, and button candies
For the shingles on the roof.
But wha--
What did you use
To stick the walls together
So beautifully?
- Well, it's a special recipe we made up
With icing sugar and water and...
- Worms.
- [Laughs]
- Christmas.
- Well, that's the lights done.
Now for the ornaments.
- Christmas?
- [Sighs]
It was a wonderful christmas, max.
But it's over now,
And it's time to put
All the christmas decorations away.
[Laughs]
Max.
I love christmas too.
It's too bad it only comes once a year.
But that just makes it more special.
Don't you think?
Well, this box is full.
Time to start filling the next one.
Don't be sad that christmas is over.
Now we can start thinking about
Other holidays that come next,
Like valentine's day
And easter and halloween.
There.
I've got all the decorations
From this side of the tree.
Now I just have to take down the decorations
On the other side.
Oh.
Thanks, max.
This'll go a lot faster if you help.
Undecorating the tree
Is not nearly as much fun
As decorating the tree.
But when we take the ornaments down,
We can think about
How much fun christmas was.
We were lucky to get
So many nice gifts this year.
You got your build-a-world construction kit,
And I got a new tea set.
Hmm.
There.
All the decorations
Are finally off the tree.
[Gasps]
Where did all the decorations go?
- Christmas.
- Oh, max, I know how you feel.
But christmas is over,
And all the decorations have to come down.
- Christmas!
- Whoa.
Aha.
Here, max.
Why don't you play
With your remote control robot
While I finish taking down the decorations?
- [Sighs]
Christmas.
Beep!
- Oh.
[Laughs]
Well, at least this time
I know they're going in the box
And not back on the tree.
[In robotic voice] thank you, mr. Robot.
Beep!
Almost got it.
There.
Wow.
That was a high one.
[Mechanical whirring]
[Sighs]
There are the last ornaments.
Now what's next?
Ah, our christmas stockings
Have to come down.
- [Gasps]
Christmas.
- It's okay, max.
They're empty now,
So there's no reason to keep them up.
I know.
Why don't you make something
With your new build-a-world kit,
Something special that will cheer both of us up?
While you do that,
I'll take down all our pretty christmas cards.
Oh, here's the one I got from louise
With a picture of a beautifully decorated
Christmas tree on it.
[Wooden clanking]
- Christmas.
- Don't you just love
To get christmas cards, max?
[Clinking]
Max?
Oh, well, I don't blame him for leaving.
Taking down decorations isn't much fun.
This one's from grandma.
"Merry christmas
"To my two favorite grand-bunnies.
Love, grandma."
That's the last of the christmas cards.
Now, what can I tie them together with?
Aha.
Curly shirley,
You don't mind if I borrow
Your pretty christmas ribbon, do you?
You won't need it again till next year.
Thanks.
There.
Now all that's left is the garland.
[Humming]
I love a long, long christmas garland.
[Sighs]
There's no doubt about it now.
Christmas is over.
[Sighs]
I know what I can get
To cheer max and me up:
Christmas cookies
And hot chocolate with marshmallows.
Yum, yum.
And I'll use the new tea set
I got for christmas.
[Cheerful humming]
Beep!
[Mechanic cranking]
Beep!
[Engine chugging]
[Beeping]
Oops.
I forgot the marshmallows.
I want everything
To be just right for max.
[Humming cheerfully]
[Gorilla screeching]
[Gorilla screeching]
There, I have everything I need:
Christmas cookies, hot chocolate, marshmallows.
Oh, no.
I forgot the napkins.
[Laughs]
[Helicopter blades thudding]
- [Gasps]
- Max, I have a surprise for you.
Max?
Where is he?
Christmas cookies and hot chocolate
And marshmallows.
That's odd.
Marshmallows are max's favorite.
[Gasps]
The christmas garland.
Where is it going?
Max?
Max?
Are you hiding?
Hmm.
- Christmas.
- Come out, come out wherever you are.
Hmm.
[Glass clinking]
What's that sound?
Max?
You know you're not supposed
To be in my room unless you ask.
[Gasps]
[Bright music]
Oh, max.
It's the most beautiful christmas tree
I've ever seen.
It's just like having a second...
- Christmas!
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- [Laughs]
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
Max, you're not supposed
To blow the new year's eve noisemakers yet.
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
Oh!
We have to wait until the new year comes in.
No, it's not going
To come in through the door, max.
I'll explain it to you.
Just like christmas eve
Is the night before christmas,
New year's eve is the night before
The start of the new year.
When the new year starts,
You blow on the noisemakers
And say, "happy new year."
And then you celebrate
And eat all kinds of yummy goodies.
- Happy new year?
- Uh-uh.
Not yet.
The new year starts at midnight.
That's way past our bedtime.
But this year,
Grandma said we can stay up with her
To watch the new year come in.
- That's right, ruby.
We're going to have
Our very own new year's eve party.
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- It isn't time yet, max.
- Why don't you show him on the clock?
- Okay, grandma.
Come on, max.
See the two hands on the clock?
Well, when both hands
Point straight up like this,
Then it's midnight.
And that's when we say...
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- [Laughs]
But not until midnight.
That's when we get to eat
Your special happy new year cookies.
Right, grandma?
- That's right, ruby.
I made a special plateful
Just for the three of us.
- Look, max.
They're clock cookies, and the time is midnight.
- I'll put them right here by the clock
So that we can have them
On the first stroke of the new year.
[Clock chiming]
- [Gasps]
That means not until midnight, max.
So what are we going to do
For our new year's eve party, grandma?
- Well, it isn't a new year's eve party
Without party hats.
Come on.
Let's pick out our hats.
- Yes!
- Yay!
- Oh, look.
A tiara.
[Laughs]
That's perfect.
Which one are you going to wear, grandma?
- I think I like this one.
Ole!
[Bold guitar and trumpet music]
What do you think?
- [Laughs]
I love it.
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- Not yet.
Remember what I said
About the hands on the clock?
See, max?
The hands are not both at the top,
So it's not midnight yet.
Come on, max.
It's time for our new year's eve party
To get hopping.
- That's right.
And I know just what'll get it hopping:
Some fancy new year's eve drinks.
Why don't I go and get them
And you two start playing a game?
- I know.
How about what-am-i charades?
You know how to play that.
Don't you, max?
Do you want me to show you how?
Okay.
Let me think.
[Gasps]
Oh, I know.
I'm some kind of animal.
What am i?
- I'm an elephant.
See?
Now you try one.
Think of something, and then act it out.
Hmm.
You're a diver about to do a high dive?
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- Oh, now I get it.
You're grandma's clock at midnight.
It isn't time for happy new year yet.
Look, max.
Both hands aren't at the top.
- Who wants a fancy new year's eve drink?
- What's in a fancy
New year's eve drink, grandma?
- Oh, it's filled with my own special recipe
Of yummy juices
And some fizzy water to tickle our noses.
- Achoo!
- Here's to our first new year's eve party.
[All slurping]
[All belching]
[Laughter]
- What's next, grandma?
- Well, how about a snowball dance?
- I love snowball dances.
You know how that works.
Don't you, max?
You dance with your partner
Until someone says...
Ruby and grandma: snowball.
- [Laughs]
And then you switch partners.
Come on, grandma.
Let's dance.
[Sweet instrumental music]
♪
- You dance divinely, ruby.
- Oh, thank you, grandma.
So do you.
- Do you think it's time
For a snowball, ruby?
- I think so, grandma.
Together: snowball.
- Max?
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- Max.
It's still not midnight yet.
Look at the clock.
I think maybe we should think of something
We can all do together.
- I know just the thing.
- Why are we lying down?
- Just wait, ruby.
You'll see.
- Now, max, you lie down
And put your head on ruby's tummy.
[Laughs]
- Grandma, your jiggling tummy's making my head bounce.
[Laughing]
[All laughing]
[All snoring]
[Clock chiming]
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- What?
What is it?
- Oh, I must have fallen asleep.
- Max.
You're supposed to wait till--
[Gasps]
It's midnight!
That means it's time to say...
All: happy new year.
Man and woman: ♪ max and ruby
♪ Ruby and max
♪ Max and ruby
♪ Ruby and max
- ♪ Max and ruby
- ♪ Ruby and her little brother, max ♪
Kids: ♪ max and ruby
- A perfect gingerbread house
Takes careful planning, louise.
- I know, ruby.
And we've got everything we need:
Button candies, sugar wafers, candy canes,
Chocolate sprinkles, and gingerbread.
- And I know just the thing
To stick everything together.
- Worms?
Both: worms?
[Laughter]
- Max, we're building
A beautiful gingerbread house for grandma.
There are no worms
In beautiful gingerbread houses.
- What's that, ruby?
- It's icing sugar.
When we mix it with water,
It'll be just like glue.
- Oh, I get it.
That's what we'll use
To stick things onto our gingerbread house.
- Right.
I'll stir while you add the water.
- Okay, ruby.
- Oh, hi, max.
Would you like to help?
Here, you can hold the bowl.
- Button candies
Make the perfect shingles for the roof.
- Perfect.
- What else do we need on our gingerbread house?
- Worms!
Both: ew!
- Oh, those are the worms you were talking about.
I don't think we want
Your gummy worms
On our beautiful gingerbread house.
Okay, louise.
It's time to build our house.
You hold the walls up
While I brush on the icing sugar glue.
Now we put the pieces together
And press tight.
- Oh, this is so exciting.
- Okay, let's try letting go.
Both: yay!
Aw.
- Maybe we need more icing sugar.
- Careful, louise.
Not too much water.
Hmm.
Not sticky enough.
I think we need more icing sugar.
- Worms.
- [Screams]
Oh, no.
- It's okay, louise.
We still have some more.
Max, louise and I are trying to make
A beautiful gingerbread house,
And your gummy worms are not beautiful.
So please take your worms back.
- [Giggles]
I think they want to stay with you, ruby.
- [Sighs]
While we're building
Our gingerbread house in the kitchen,
Why don't you build something
In the living room?
Have fun.
- Worms.
Beep!
[Engine chugging]
Worms.
- While you mix the icing sugar,
I'll make a front walk for the house
With chocolate sprinkles.
- Thanks, louise.
This batch is going to be just right.
Are you ready to try the walls again?
- Sure, ruby.
- There.
That should hold.
- It's holding.
[Gasps]
Both: aw.
- Hold them up again, quick, louise.
I think they just need more glue.
Huh?
- Worms.
- Whoa.
[Gasps]
Oh, no.
- Max, I told you.
Your worms don't belong
On our gingerbread house.
We need to find something
To keep you busy here in your room.
Aha.
I think I see a job for fireman max.
[Gorilla screeches]
You like to come to the rescue,
Don't you, max?
Oh, no.
Screaming green alien gorilla
Has been caught in an avalanche.
Who will save him?
If only fireman max were here.
He'd save him.
You know what to do, fireman max.
Beep!
[Gorilla screeches]
Both: it's working.
- Now for the roof.
Steady now.
We did it.
It's staying up.
Both: yay.
[Rumbling]
Oh, no.
- And there's only enough icing sugar left
For one last batch.
[Helicopter blades thudding]
- Worms.
Beep!
Ruby and louise: ew!
- Uh, oh.
- It's all gone.
What are we going to do now?
- You'll think of something, ruby.
- Max, please take back your worms.
These gummy worms
Won't unstick from my hand.
- Here, let me help.
They really are sticky, aren't they?
- [Gasps]
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Worms.
- Okay, grandma,
You can open your eyes now.
- Oh, my.
[Together]: surprise.
- [Gasps]
What a beautiful gingerbread house.
Now...
Oh, I see you've used chocolate sprinkles
For the walk
And candy canes for the fence,
Oh, and button candies
For the shingles on the roof.
But wha--
What did you use
To stick the walls together
So beautifully?
- Well, it's a special recipe we made up
With icing sugar and water and...
- Worms.
- [Laughs]
- Christmas.
- Well, that's the lights done.
Now for the ornaments.
- Christmas?
- [Sighs]
It was a wonderful christmas, max.
But it's over now,
And it's time to put
All the christmas decorations away.
[Laughs]
Max.
I love christmas too.
It's too bad it only comes once a year.
But that just makes it more special.
Don't you think?
Well, this box is full.
Time to start filling the next one.
Don't be sad that christmas is over.
Now we can start thinking about
Other holidays that come next,
Like valentine's day
And easter and halloween.
There.
I've got all the decorations
From this side of the tree.
Now I just have to take down the decorations
On the other side.
Oh.
Thanks, max.
This'll go a lot faster if you help.
Undecorating the tree
Is not nearly as much fun
As decorating the tree.
But when we take the ornaments down,
We can think about
How much fun christmas was.
We were lucky to get
So many nice gifts this year.
You got your build-a-world construction kit,
And I got a new tea set.
Hmm.
There.
All the decorations
Are finally off the tree.
[Gasps]
Where did all the decorations go?
- Christmas.
- Oh, max, I know how you feel.
But christmas is over,
And all the decorations have to come down.
- Christmas!
- Whoa.
Aha.
Here, max.
Why don't you play
With your remote control robot
While I finish taking down the decorations?
- [Sighs]
Christmas.
Beep!
- Oh.
[Laughs]
Well, at least this time
I know they're going in the box
And not back on the tree.
[In robotic voice] thank you, mr. Robot.
Beep!
Almost got it.
There.
Wow.
That was a high one.
[Mechanical whirring]
[Sighs]
There are the last ornaments.
Now what's next?
Ah, our christmas stockings
Have to come down.
- [Gasps]
Christmas.
- It's okay, max.
They're empty now,
So there's no reason to keep them up.
I know.
Why don't you make something
With your new build-a-world kit,
Something special that will cheer both of us up?
While you do that,
I'll take down all our pretty christmas cards.
Oh, here's the one I got from louise
With a picture of a beautifully decorated
Christmas tree on it.
[Wooden clanking]
- Christmas.
- Don't you just love
To get christmas cards, max?
[Clinking]
Max?
Oh, well, I don't blame him for leaving.
Taking down decorations isn't much fun.
This one's from grandma.
"Merry christmas
"To my two favorite grand-bunnies.
Love, grandma."
That's the last of the christmas cards.
Now, what can I tie them together with?
Aha.
Curly shirley,
You don't mind if I borrow
Your pretty christmas ribbon, do you?
You won't need it again till next year.
Thanks.
There.
Now all that's left is the garland.
[Humming]
I love a long, long christmas garland.
[Sighs]
There's no doubt about it now.
Christmas is over.
[Sighs]
I know what I can get
To cheer max and me up:
Christmas cookies
And hot chocolate with marshmallows.
Yum, yum.
And I'll use the new tea set
I got for christmas.
[Cheerful humming]
Beep!
[Mechanic cranking]
Beep!
[Engine chugging]
[Beeping]
Oops.
I forgot the marshmallows.
I want everything
To be just right for max.
[Humming cheerfully]
[Gorilla screeching]
[Gorilla screeching]
There, I have everything I need:
Christmas cookies, hot chocolate, marshmallows.
Oh, no.
I forgot the napkins.
[Laughs]
[Helicopter blades thudding]
- [Gasps]
- Max, I have a surprise for you.
Max?
Where is he?
Christmas cookies and hot chocolate
And marshmallows.
That's odd.
Marshmallows are max's favorite.
[Gasps]
The christmas garland.
Where is it going?
Max?
Max?
Are you hiding?
Hmm.
- Christmas.
- Come out, come out wherever you are.
Hmm.
[Glass clinking]
What's that sound?
Max?
You know you're not supposed
To be in my room unless you ask.
[Gasps]
[Bright music]
Oh, max.
It's the most beautiful christmas tree
I've ever seen.
It's just like having a second...
- Christmas!
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- [Laughs]
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
Max, you're not supposed
To blow the new year's eve noisemakers yet.
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
Oh!
We have to wait until the new year comes in.
No, it's not going
To come in through the door, max.
I'll explain it to you.
Just like christmas eve
Is the night before christmas,
New year's eve is the night before
The start of the new year.
When the new year starts,
You blow on the noisemakers
And say, "happy new year."
And then you celebrate
And eat all kinds of yummy goodies.
- Happy new year?
- Uh-uh.
Not yet.
The new year starts at midnight.
That's way past our bedtime.
But this year,
Grandma said we can stay up with her
To watch the new year come in.
- That's right, ruby.
We're going to have
Our very own new year's eve party.
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- It isn't time yet, max.
- Why don't you show him on the clock?
- Okay, grandma.
Come on, max.
See the two hands on the clock?
Well, when both hands
Point straight up like this,
Then it's midnight.
And that's when we say...
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- [Laughs]
But not until midnight.
That's when we get to eat
Your special happy new year cookies.
Right, grandma?
- That's right, ruby.
I made a special plateful
Just for the three of us.
- Look, max.
They're clock cookies, and the time is midnight.
- I'll put them right here by the clock
So that we can have them
On the first stroke of the new year.
[Clock chiming]
- [Gasps]
That means not until midnight, max.
So what are we going to do
For our new year's eve party, grandma?
- Well, it isn't a new year's eve party
Without party hats.
Come on.
Let's pick out our hats.
- Yes!
- Yay!
- Oh, look.
A tiara.
[Laughs]
That's perfect.
Which one are you going to wear, grandma?
- I think I like this one.
Ole!
[Bold guitar and trumpet music]
What do you think?
- [Laughs]
I love it.
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- Not yet.
Remember what I said
About the hands on the clock?
See, max?
The hands are not both at the top,
So it's not midnight yet.
Come on, max.
It's time for our new year's eve party
To get hopping.
- That's right.
And I know just what'll get it hopping:
Some fancy new year's eve drinks.
Why don't I go and get them
And you two start playing a game?
- I know.
How about what-am-i charades?
You know how to play that.
Don't you, max?
Do you want me to show you how?
Okay.
Let me think.
[Gasps]
Oh, I know.
I'm some kind of animal.
What am i?
- I'm an elephant.
See?
Now you try one.
Think of something, and then act it out.
Hmm.
You're a diver about to do a high dive?
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- Oh, now I get it.
You're grandma's clock at midnight.
It isn't time for happy new year yet.
Look, max.
Both hands aren't at the top.
- Who wants a fancy new year's eve drink?
- What's in a fancy
New year's eve drink, grandma?
- Oh, it's filled with my own special recipe
Of yummy juices
And some fizzy water to tickle our noses.
- Achoo!
- Here's to our first new year's eve party.
[All slurping]
[All belching]
[Laughter]
- What's next, grandma?
- Well, how about a snowball dance?
- I love snowball dances.
You know how that works.
Don't you, max?
You dance with your partner
Until someone says...
Ruby and grandma: snowball.
- [Laughs]
And then you switch partners.
Come on, grandma.
Let's dance.
[Sweet instrumental music]
♪
- You dance divinely, ruby.
- Oh, thank you, grandma.
So do you.
- Do you think it's time
For a snowball, ruby?
- I think so, grandma.
Together: snowball.
- Max?
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- Happy new year.
- Max.
It's still not midnight yet.
Look at the clock.
I think maybe we should think of something
We can all do together.
- I know just the thing.
- Why are we lying down?
- Just wait, ruby.
You'll see.
- Now, max, you lie down
And put your head on ruby's tummy.
[Laughs]
- Grandma, your jiggling tummy's making my head bounce.
[Laughing]
[All laughing]
[All snoring]
[Clock chiming]
[Noisemaker trumpeting]
- What?
What is it?
- Oh, I must have fallen asleep.
- Max.
You're supposed to wait till--
[Gasps]
It's midnight!
That means it's time to say...
All: happy new year.