03x06 - Magical Mushroom Mystery Tour/A Midsummer Day's Dream

[bunniefuu]

That's me, Fred the house cat.

When my family leaves for the day,

I don't just sit inside watching the world go by.

I become...

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Nature Cat, backyard explorer extraordinaire!

♪ Oh, go go go ♪

Tally ho!

♪ Go go go ♪

Tally ho!

♪ We're climbing up the trees now ♪

♪ We're swinging through the breeze now ♪

♪ We're getting muddy knees now ♪

♪ With Nature Cat ♪

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪

♪ So what are we waiting for? ♪

♪ We're so excited to explore ♪

♪ All that nature has in store with Nature Cat ♪

♪ Go go go Tally ho!

♪ Go go go Tally ho!

♪ He's our favourite nature guide ♪

♪ We just can't wait to get - Outside! ♪

♪ We're swinging through the trees now ♪

♪ We're jumping in the leaves now ♪

♪ We're getting muddy knees now

♪ With Nature Cat!

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat Tally ho!

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪

Tally ho!

Daisy: Magical mushroom mystery tour <span> .

Nature Cat: Today's weather forecast calls for... leaves!

Ha ha!

g*ng: Woo hoo! Daisy: Oh yeah!

Squeeks: Hey, guys, check this out. Now you see me....

(gasps)

Squeeks: Now you don't!

Hal: Ooh, ooh, I wanna try, baby!

Hal: Now you see me...

(gasps)

now you don't!

Nature Cat: Uh, Hal? I'm afraid we still see you.

Squeeks: I'll get some more leaves to cover you, big dog!

Squeeks: What in the woods?

Guys, hey, you gotta see this!

Nature Cat: Whoa! What are those things?

Tiny umbrellas for gophers?

Patio furniture for the stylish toad?

Daisy: I'm pretty sure these are mushrooms...

but I've never seen mushrooms like these before!

Squeeks: They're like something out of a fairy tale book

about gnomes. I'm obsessed.

Nature Cat: Is a mushroom a plant?

I don't see any leaves...

Hal: Yeah, and they aren't green like most plants we see.

Daisy: Careful, Squeeks.

We don't know if these are safe to touch.

Squeeks: Weeeird.

There are all these little ridges on the underside.

They almost look like pages in a book.

Daisy: I think those are called gills.

Oh, hey!

Mushrooms are neither plant or animal.

They're a type of fungus.

Nature Cat: And what, pray-tell, is fungus?

Daisy: Oh! Well it says here,

some kinds of fungus, such as mushrooms,

Help to break down dead plants.

Nature Cat: We have got to get some photos

of these strange mushrooms.

Nature Cat: Say "cheese"!

Alright now let's do a silly one...

Ooo nice!

Alright, now just go about your business

pretend the camera's not even here....

Ronald: Ahem, Nature Cat!

Nature Cat: Ronald?

Ronald: Have you all never heard of 'peace and quiet'?

All this racket just woke me up from my cat nap.

Squeeks: We're sorry, Ronald.

We were just so excited about these fairy tale

mushrooms we found.

Ronald: I see. Well, show's over.

Ronald: I don't care where you go, but you can't stay here.

Daisy: Can't we look at them a little longer?

Squeeks: Ronny Baby, come on.

How often do you stumble on mushrooms like these?

Ronald: Sorry, but I'm not budging, no matter what you say!

Bye!

Nature Cat: I would have given up a whole ball of yarn to see

those mushrooms some more.

They were so cool!

Ronald: Hmmmhmm....

Nature Cat: Ronald's Mushroom Museum?

Squeeks: Seriously? Ronald!

Ronald: Are you all enjoying my mushroom museum?

Technically it's just a soft open.

Squeeks: Those mushrooms should be for everyone to enjoy.

Ronald: They are!

For a reasonable fee.

Daisy: Ronald, do you even know what a mushroom is?

Ronald: Do I know what a mushroom is... ha ha ha!

Of course I do. A mushroom is a, uh... type of plant.

No. Rock?

Hal: It's a fungus.

That's a fun word.

Fungus. Fungy fung fungus.

Ronald: I don't need to explain myself.

Squeeks: Man, what a letdown.

Nature Cat: I have some photos

of the mushrooms if you want to see those...

Squeeks: Yeah, it's just not the same as seeing them

up close and personal. Ya know?

Hal: I know! Seeing them in nature was just so... magical.

Squeeks: It really was. Wait a sec.

What if we found our own mushrooms around the forest?

Daisy: Ooh, I like that idea!

Squeeks: We could even create a mushroom "walking tour,"

where animals could see different types of mushrooms

and learn what they're about.

And it will be free and it will be huge

and it will be mushroom-y!

Nature Cat: Now we're talkin'!

Hal: The hairs on the back of my neck

are totally standing up right now.

Squeeks: Come on, fellow Mushroom-mates!

Let's get started on...

(clears throat)

Squeeks's Magical Mushroom Mystery Tour!

g*ng: (cheers)

Daisy: So, if mushrooms help decompose dead plants,

maybe that's how they get their food?

Hal: Wait. But if mushrooms need food,

where are their mouths?

Do they ave hidden little mouths with giant scary teeth?

Eww!

Daisy: No hidden mouths with giant scary teeth, Hal.

It says here that mushrooms grow where their food

is like a fallen log.

And that they have a special process that helps them

break down their food.

Squeeks: So cool.

Hal: Cool. But not hidden-mouth -with-giant-scary-teeth cool.

Squeeks: That is so going on the walking tour.

Squeeks: (gasps) Mushrooms!

Daisy: Sweet Nature Cat: Wow

Hal: Ohh, pretty!

Daisy: These definitely look like mushrooms,

but they're different than what we saw before.

Squeeks: Yeah, these are smaller

and they're clumped closer together.

Oh, everyone on the mushroom tour

is going to be obsessed with these.

Chandler: Do I detect a fungus among us?

Nature Cat: Who are you?

Chandler: My name's Chandler, but most folks call me...

well, Chandler.

Hal: Hi, Chandler. I'm Hal,

and most folks call me Halvin or Halward

and I don't answer,

because my name's Hal and sometimes I forget.

Chandler: I couldn't help but notice

your interest in mushrooms.

I myself am a bit of an expert on mushrooms,

which are sometimes called 'toadstools'

even though we toads never really use them as stools.

Hey, what are you gonna do?

Nature Cat: Ooh, this is perfect.

We're in the middle of creating a mushroom

walking tour around the forest!

Squeeks: Not just any mushroom tour.

The best one ever.

Animals will line up to take my tour for months!

Chandler: You might have to make that weeks,

maybe even days.

Squeeks: Whaaaaaat?

Chandler: Mushrooms don't last for very long.

Kind of like how a blooming flower eventually withers away.

Daisy: Wow, Chandler, you are an expert.

Squeeks: Tell us more. Please.

Tell us everything you know.

Chandler: (laughs) You can touch these mushrooms.

You'll feel how they are different from plants.

But don't ever touch a mushroom

unless a pro like me says it's OK.

Some mushrooms can make you sick.

Squeeks: Whoa.

They're soft and spongy,

but also firm at the same time. Amazing.

Nature Cat: What's going on with these gills, Chandler?

Chandler: The gills on this mushroom

are where it keeps its spores.

Hal: Spores! Of course, spores!

I thought it was where the spores were kept.

But I just have one tiny question about spores...

What are spores?

Am I even saying it correctly?

Chandler: A spore has everything a mushroom needs

to grow a new mushroom.

It's like a seed.

Squeeks: It looks like we have our first mushroom on the tour.

Can you help us find some more?

Chandler: It'd be my pleasure.

There are actually some Lion's Mane mushrooms

growing out of a tree hole nearby.

Nature Cat: Lead the way, Chandler.

Onward and mushroom-ward!

Hal: Hey guys!

Just wanna make sure there are no lions involved

in the Lion's Mane?

Just a nickname, right guys?

No real lions? Guys?!

Chandler: I give you Lion's Mane.

All: Wooah!

Daisy: This mushroom is sweet!

Hal: Phew, okay. No lions.

Squeeks: Are you sure this is even a mushroom?

That doesn't look like the other ones we've seen.

Chandler: Not every mushroom has a stalk and a cap.

Squeeks: I knew mushrooms were cool, but I didn't realize

they were this cool.

Chandler: And we've only just scratched the surface.

Wait until I tell you guys about the rest of the mushroom.

Squeeks: Rest of the mushroom?

I feel like I'm looking at a complete mushroom right here.

Chandler: Not exactly.

This mushroom here is just the visible part of the fungus.

The real show is underneath.

You see, underneath the bark are lots of

tiny white thread-like strands.

That's called mycelium,

and it's the main part of the mushroom.

It can spread out pretty far, like roots!

What you see here is like a plant's fruit or flower.

Squeeks: Okay!

This just got interesting.

I want to hear more about this mycelium stuff!

Chandler: The mycelium of some kinds of mushrooms grow outwards

in all directions from the spore like the spokes of a wheel.

Then, when it's time to reproduce,

mushrooms will sprout above ground in a ring.

Some call it a "fairy ring,"

because they believed fairies would dance inside the circle.

People in France used to think these mysterious mushroom rings

were guarded by giant toads who would curse

anyone who stepped inside them.

Chandler: Dramatic stuff, but not true, sadly.

Ok, thanks, guys.

Nature Cat: It's fascinating how so much of the way the world

works happens out of sight, right under our noses.

Chandler: That was deep. I dig it.

Nature Cat: Why thank you!

Squeeks: Okay, I neeeeed to have a "fairy ring"

on my mushroom tour.

That would really blow Ronald's "museum" out of the water.

Chandler! Take me to your nearest fairy ring!

Chandler: I'd love to, but there's one problem:

I haven't seen one in ages.

They're pretty rare.

Chandler: But I can show you a bunch of other types

of mushrooms of all colors and shapes and sizes.

How's that sound?

Squeeks: It sounds incredible!

Let's go!

Squeeks: Sorry. Got too excited.

Realized I had no idea where I was going.

Chandler lead the way!

Chandler: (laughs) Don't sweat it.

Come on, this way!

(adventurous music) ♪

Chandler: A-ha! Found one.

Squeeks: Mushroom!

All: Whoaaaa.

Nature Cat: This mushroom is enormous.

I don't even know if I can fit it all in one pic!

Squeeks: Weird.

It has a bunch of tiny holes under its cap.

Like a kitchen sponge.

Squeeks: Mushroom number three on Squeeks's

Magical Mushroom Mystery Tour!

What else ya' got?

Squeeks: Oooh! These look like ceramic bowls.

Squeeks: Mushroom number four!

Squeeks: Mushroom number seven!

They look like jazz trumpets!

Nature Cat: Um, Squeeks?

You think maybe we could... take a break?

Daisy: Woah, yeah. This mushroom tour has

a lot of mushrooms. Whoa bessie!

Squeeks: Aw, I'm sorry, guys. It's just... gosh,

I really wanted to find a fairy ring, you know?

It'd be the tour highlight.

Hal: Too bad you couldn't use the fairy ring

in that clearing over there.

Now that would have been a good one. Haha!

Oh well, moving on.

Squeeks: F-f-f-FAIRY RIIIIIING!

All: Hurray!

(cheering)

Squeeks: ...And beneath your feet

is the main part of the mushroom.

That's called mycelium.

And what you see here above ground

is like the fruit of the fungus,

and it holds many teeny, tiny spores

and those are like seeds!

So when it releases the spores,

they float away to start new fungi.

Thank you. (animals cheering)

Vole: I'm so glad we did this, Stan.

We don't leave the burrow enough ya' now.

Daisy: Squeeks, that was wonderful.

Hal: So so so good.

Squeeks: Aw, thanks, everyone.

But I really have to give all the credit to Chandler.

Chandler: Oh, stop it. You're gonna make me blush.

Ronald: (coughs) Umm, excuse me...

Ronald: I was wondering if I could take the next

magical mushroom mystery tour?

Squeeks: Of course you can, Ronald.

Ronald: Ronald?! I don't know of any Ronald.

My name is... uh... Cloud--no, Claude.

Claude, uh... Treeman.

Claude Treeman.

Squeeks: (laughs) Oh boy. Okay, "Claude," follow me.

Daisy: A Midsummer's Daydream.

g*ng: (cheering)

Hal: The meadow looks so beautiful and so colorful

and all at the same time, baby!

Squeeks: You got that right, Hal!

So many plants and flowers!

Daisy: That's because it's the time when everything's growing!

They used to call this time of year midsummer,

so...Happy Midsummer!

All: Happy Midsummer!

Nature Cat: Let's keep on celebrating, g*ng!

Time to assemble our Midsummer floral Fedoras! Flowers ho!

Nature Cat: Behold the hat of all flower hats--Hatzilla!

Nature Cat: Woaahh! Woaah!

(ka-thunk)

Nature Cat: Oh, hello, Ronald.

Ronald: Hello, Nature Cat.

Why are you all wearing flowers?

Hal: To celebrate Midsummer!

Ronald: Midsummer?

But it's only June.

Summer just started.

Squeeks: It's a celebration that things are growing again!

It's called midsummer because it comes from a time

when the calendar wasn't like our calendar today.

Nature Cat: Right! It's a most magical time

when Nature is feeling strong!

Ronald: So, big deal.

Daisy: It is a big deal.

Daisy: Hundreds of years ago in the time of Shakespeare,

midsummer was an important celebration.

Everything was growing again, and it was a time to hope for a

good fall harvest that would last through the long winter.

The g*ng: Happy Midsummer!

Ronald: Well, I think this Midsummer stuff seems boring.

Daisy: Oh, Ronald.

I think you'll change your mind when we do our traditional

Midsummer Dance!

Hal: Come on Ronald, you're going to love it!

Ronald: Whoa!

Ronald: What is this thing?

Nature Cat: If you were a Midsummer lover like me,

you'd know that this is called a maypole.

Squeeks: Grab a ribbon and let's boogie baby!

Ronald: Thanks, but I think I'll sit this one out.

Ronald: So you just go around and around the pole?

Bo-ring!

Squeeks: That's the very least of it, Ronald.

Hal: Now here's where it gets complicated.

Ronald: Look out! Watch it now! Hey!

Hold on now! Woah! I'm stuck! I'm stuck!

Ronald: Get this Midsummer stuff offa me!

Ronald: This is a Midsummer Mess!

Someone get me down!

(thud)

Nature Cat: Alright, all!

Get ready for my favorite midsummer game of all--

The midsummer Fairy Search!

Ronald: Fairy search?

Daisy: In olden days, people believed that Midsummer

was the day when the magical world

would meet the natural world.

Squeeks: That makes it the perfect day to look for fairies.

Fairies!

Ronald: This is ridiculous.

Nature Cat: Let the Midsummer Fairy Search begin!

Ronald: What a waste of time.

Everyone knows there's no such things as fairies!

Squeeks: FAIRY! I found a fairy!

g*ng: Wow! Oooohhh! It's beautiful.

Ronald: Ooh! Ooh!

Let me see! Ronald wants to see the fairy.

Ronald: Awww! Come on!

You got me all excited, but that's just a hummingbird.

Nature Cat: Well, of course, Ronald.

Fairies aren't real,

so we look for hummingbirds and pretend they're fairies.

Hal: Come on! Let's look for more fairies.

Ronald: Forget this whole Midsummer malarkey!

I'm gonna go take a midsummer nap instead.

Toodles to the ooo...

Ronald: I don't care anything about this midsummer madness!

Maypoles, Flowers, (yawn) Fairies!

(Snore)

(mystical music) ♪

Nature Cat: Huh? Woah!

Nature Cat: What is making that terrible noise,

and interrupting our Midsummer fairy fun?

Daisy: Oh, it sounds like a beast of the forest!

Hal: Yes, perhaps an ogre or a dragon.

Nature Cat: It's worse than that.

It's Ronald.

(snoring)

Daisy: His snores are disturbing the whole forest!

Nature Cat: We'd better wake him up.

Hal: Time to wake up.

g*ng: (screams)

Daisy: Excuse us, but we really have a problem here.

Your snoring is very loud!

Nature Cat: I'll take care of this.

Nature Cat: Wake up, Ronald!

Nature Cat: Ahhhh! Let me out of here!

Hal: Oh! He's waking up!

Ronald: Huh? What was that?

Nature Cat: (splat) g*ng: Happy Midsummer!

Ronald: Ah!

Ronald: Huh? Nature Cat: Can't catch us!

Daisy: No Way! Hal: Try to catch us, Ronald!

(laughs)

Ronald: Hey! Come back here!

(wings fluttering)

Ronald: Come back here!

(wings fluttering)

Ronald: (boing!)

(thud)

Oof-oof-oof!

Ronald: Argg!

Nature Cat: Come on, fairies! Let's fly!

Ronald: Oh forget it!

It's just a bunch of hummingbirds anyway.

Nature Cat: Did he say hummingbirds?

Daisy: Oh, I believe he did.

Nature Cat: Who are you calling "hummingbirds"?

Ronald: I'm calling you hummingbird, hummingbird!

Nature Cat: Well, I'll have you know that we're not

hummingbirds, we're fairies.

Ronald: Ha ha! That's ridiculous!

Hal: Well, normally you can't see us.

So be nice.

Daisy: The only day you can see us is a day

that brings love!

A day you hope for a great big fall harvest!

A day you wish for good fortune!

Nature Cat: Midsummer Day!

g*ng: Happy Midsummer!

Ronald: Sorry! You must be hummingbirds,

because there are no such things as fairies!

Daisy: It's true!

We really are fairies!

Ronald: Oh yeah! Then prove it.

Hal: Prove it how?

Ronald: Well, Fairies are supposed to be magical.

So, if you're fairies, do something magical!

Nature Cat: Hmm... Fairy huddle!

Nature Cat: All right, it's decided!

Get ready for some Fairy magic.

Fairies: Magic powers, do magic please,

'cause this guy is the big cheese!

Ronald: So uh, where's the magic?

Daisy: Oh. It already happened.

Ronald: What was it?

Hal: A love spell!

Ronald: A love spell?

Nature Cat: Yes! The next person that sees

you will fall madly in love with you!

Hal: Don't you just love love? I mean it's just so lovable!

Nature Cat: Good luck!

Ronald: This is silly. They weren't magical at all.

But I do feel a little different.

Kind of airy.

(majestic trumpet) ♪

Herald: Make way for the queen!

Queen Squeeksania: Over Hill, Over Dale,

Over Park, Over Pale,

Over things thus growing green, I am Squeeksania,

Mousey Queen!

Queen Squeeksania: Oooo! You!

Ronald: . Me?

Queen Squeeksania: You! You!

You are the one I have searched for my whole life through!

Ronald: Really?

Queen Squeeksania: I am honest, and for true,

I think I may love you!

Ronald: Wow! She's in love with me.

The magic worked.

Those must have been real Fairies after all.

Queen Squeeksania: Now my love, you are so sweet,

so it is time for me to eat.

Ronald: Oh, you want to go out to eat?

Okay! What do you want burgers? pasta? Chimichangas?

Queen Squeeksania: No tacos, pizza or beef stew,

I'd prefer to dine on you!

Ronald: Me?

But I thought you loved me?

Queen Squeeksania: I love you more than any king,

for cheese is thus my favorite thing.

Ronald: Cheese? This is crazy talk!

Stay away from me, you cuckoo queen!

Ronald: Ahh!

Aaaahh!

(screech)

Oh no! I am cheese!

Those Fairies must have magically

changed me into cheese.

And now that queen wants to eat me!

Queen Squeeksania: You are not for me only,

I need to feed my whole family! Okay?

Ronald: Family?!

Squeeky horde: Cheese! Yummy!

Ronald: Ahhhh!

Squeeky horde: Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!

(tense music)

Ronald: Yipes! Ahhh!

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Cheese! Cheese!

Ronald: Ahh! I need to turn back into myself.

Where are those magical fairies?

Fairies!

g*ng: Happy Midsummer!

Nature Cat: Oh, it's just you!

Ronald the Cheese: Yes it's me.

Only it's not really me,

because now I'm a Cheese thanks to you.

And I need you to turn me back right now!

Nature Cat: Turn you back? Why?

Ronald: Because those mice want to eat me.

What do I do?

Nature Cat: Well, if you want to reverse the spell,

you need to think of a midsummer solution!

Ronald: Midsummer solution?!

Daisy: Yes! Think Ronald the Cheese!

How can you feed a lot of hungry mice in midsummer?

Ronald: Ummmm...

Midsummer is the time when everything is growing.

Fairies: Yes!

Ronald: And when things grow,

there is enough for everyone to eat!

g*ng: Right!

Ronald: So, the mice could eat all the wonderful things

that grow in mid summer!

g*ng: Bingo! Daisy: Ba-bam!

Queen Squeeksania: Now our dining time has come.

It's time for Cheese! Yum! Yum! Yum!

Ronald: Wait, wait, wait, your majesty!

I know of something even better to eat.

Queen Squeeksania: But it will be bliss

to eat a big, purple swiss!

Ronald: Oh no it won't! Follow me!

Queen Squeeksania: What are these wondrous things you're showing?

It seems like veggies that are growing.

Ronald: there are veggies growing!

And lots of fruits too!

Because it's midsummer and that's when everything grows!

Queen Squeeksania: You heard him mice, what he doth say,

Let's eat produce this midsummer day!

(crunching)

Queen Squeeksania: This is better than my wildest wishes,

(crunch) I declare Midsummer delicious!

Nature Cat: Toot the bugle,

sound the drummer, he knows the treasures of midsummer!

Ronald: I'm me again! I'm me!

Ronald is back! Oh!

Thank you, Midsummer!

Thanks for all that you grow!

(snoring)

g*ng: (giggling)

Ronald: Ooh, Fairies! You got big!

Nature Cat: Ronald? Fairies?

Ronald: And you no longer want to eat me!

Squeeks: I can say without a bit of hesitation,

that is absolutely true.

Ronald: Then there's only one thing to say!

Ronald: Happy Midsummer!

All: Happy Midsummer!

Ronald: Now come on, let's go look for fairies!

All: (cheers)

Narrator: Nature Cat, Squeeks, Daisy, and Hal

are cartoon characters

and not real animals.

To keep all of our animal friends safe,

check with a grown up before you bring a pet

on your next nature adventure.

Whoa!

Ha ha!

(theme song)

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