03x09 - Hector's Hero

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♪

♪ Jakers!

♪ Jakers! It's

♪ Jakers! It's the

♪ Jakers! It's the tales

♪ Jakers! It's the tales
of

♪ Jakers! It's the tales
of our

♪ Jakers! It's the tales
of our pal

♪ Jakers! It's the tales
of our pal Piggley

♪ Ireland is the
world he loves so well

♪ He wriggles out of spots
that are downright stickley

♪ How he does that

♪ Only he can tell

♪ Piggley, Ferny,
Molly and Dannan

♪ Never miss a chance
to have too much fun

♪ In Tara or Raloo

♪ Lots of excitement
for everyone

♪ Curiosity's in a hurry

♪ Leaving no time
to stop and think

♪ The line between wild
and crazy gets blurry

♪ Jakers! The Adventures
of Piggley Winks

♪ Something in the way
his eyes start blazing

♪ Tells us he's on
to a brand new plan

♪ His lips curl up,
it's downright amazing

♪ Looking for mischief,
well he's your man

♪ Piggley, Ferny,
Molly and Dannan

♪ Never miss a chance
to have too much fun

♪ In Tara or Raloo

♪ Lots of excitement
for everyone

♪ Jakers! They go to bed
just to wake up early

♪ To get in trouble
or on the brink

♪ The line between wild
and crazy gets blurry

♪ Jakers! The Adventures
of Piggley Winks ♪

- Come on, Meg.

Just one game.

- I wanna write in my journal.

Could you please stop?

- I'll spot you eight points.

- Go away, Seamus.

- How about ten points?

- Grandpa!

- Seamus, I believe Meg
would like to have some

time to herself, right now.

Why don't we step
outside for awhile?

- Thank you, grandpa.

- Meg doesn't like
me anymore, grandpa.

She never wants to play.

- Is that right?

I thought I saw her playing
with you just yesterday.

- Yeah, but not today.

- No, not today.

Meg is spending time alone,
writing in her journal.

- Yeah well, you can't
play basketball alone.

- You know, Seamus,

sometimes you feel like playing
basketball with your sister

and sometimes you
feel like just playing

a video game all by
yourself, isn't that right?

- Yeah.

But what's that got to do
with Meg not playing with me?

- Ah, you're reminding me of
the time back in old Ireland,

when someone I knew had
difficulty understanding

the very same thing.

- Was is Uncle Ferny?

- It was Hector.

Now, Hector never thought
much about anyone but himself.

But all that changed the day
he crossed paths with Dannan.

[laughing]

- Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hector, give me back
my Buck Bravo book.

- You want it?

Come and get it then.

- I am not running
after me very own book.

Just hand it over.

[foreboding music]

- This book will go well
with a little snack.

[laughing]

Whoa!

[growling]

[yelling]

Get away!

Leave me alone!

Go away!

[yelling]

- He wants the apple.

[yelling]

Just give him the apple.

Would you give the
goat the apple, Hector?

[snorting]

Take your apple,
you crazy old goat.

[snorting]

Now you see where all your
book-stealing shenanigans

will get you?

- Dannan, you saved me.

- Sure, you're safe
all the time me mad thing.

- You did, Dannan.

You saved me life.

Thank you, Dannan! Thank you!

Thank you! Thank you!

- You're welcome Hector.

- I owe you, Dannan.

I owe you for this.

What can I do for you?

Anything you want.

Just say it and it's done.

You say it, I'll do it.

- Okay.

I'm saying, give
me back me hand.

- Okay. What else?

- Nothing, thank you.

I would really
just like to spend

the rest of the afternoon
reading Buck Bravo.

- I've got to do
something for you, Dannan.

You just saved me life.

I'll catch a frog for you.

I'll do your homework.

I'll take you to the
afternoon matinee,

Buck Bravo.

- Buck

Bravo?

- I'll even get
you some popcorn.

- Well, if you really
feel that you must.

Let's get moving!

Woo-hoo!

[sheep baaing]

- Okay, flock, I have--

- An important announcement.

Sweetie, close your mouth.

You are a leader and
leaders do no drool.

Now, go on, talk to the flock.

Just pretend I'm not here.

- Okay, flock.

- I love what you've
done with your hair.

What is this? Wool?

Of course it's wool.

Silly, silly me.

I mean, what else?

We're sheep.

[laughing]

Go on, honey. Don't mind me.

Talk.

- Okay, flock, I have--

- Oh, that looks so good.

What is it?

Clover, of course.

I love it. I love it.

Of course, I don't eat it.

It make my teeth green.

I guess you just don't
care about your looks.

Wiley, what are you waiting for?

We're all here.
We're all listening.

You are not talking.

- Okay, flock, every...

- Forgotten what you
were going to say,

haven't you, Wiley?

- Well, no.

- Woo-hoo!

Then, Buck Bravo came charging
out with a cloud of dust.

Jumped on a runaway bull
to stop the stampede

and saved the whole town.

- Dannan, are you telling
us that Hector took you

to see a Buck Bravo
movie on Saturday?

- Yes, Ferny.

I've told you that
three times already.

- Tell us again, Dannan.

We still can't believe it.

- Dannan! There you are.

Did you boys hear how
Dannan saved me life?

- Dannan saved your life?

- What'd you do
that for, Dannan?

[laughing]

- That's funny, Piggley Pinks,

but Dannan really
did save me life.

- What did you do, Hector?

- Well now, there I was,

in the apple orchard,

being att*cked by a
giant, massive goat.

Janey Mack!

- Oh, here we go.

- Dannan leaped in
front of the goat,

threw him an apple

and saved me from his
terrible, fearsome jaws.

- Oh.

- If it wasn't for Dannan,
I wouldn't be here today.

I'll be working hard to repay
her for the longest time.

- You really don't have
to do that, Hector.

- Of course I do.

- So,

Dannan saved Hector

and now he's her best friend?

- It just goes to
show you, Ferny,

no good deed goes unpunished.

- Good morning, class.

You can all take your seats now.

[growling]

Class, we'll begin
today with geography.

Geography is the science
of what makes the earth.

- Isn't this great?

Now, we can talk all day.

- If you don't mind,

I'd rather listen
to Mr. Hornsby.

- All right, Dan.

But if there's anything
you need, go ahead.

Just ask me, all right?

- I'm asking you to be quiet.

- Miss O'Mallard.

I would appreciate it if
you and Hector would pay

a bit more attention.

- Yes, Mr. Hornsby.

- Yes, Mr. Hornsby.

- As I was saying, there are
five oceans in the world.

- Don't worry, Dannan.

Whatever you need, I'm
right here behind you.

Oh and I heard a new joke.

You're gonna love this one.

Two cows are knitting a scarf--

[shushing]

- Miss O'Mallard.

Perhaps you could listen better

if you were to sit in
the front of the class,

by yourself.

- Oh yes, Mr. Hornsby, I could.

Thank you, Mr. Hornsby.

That's a great idea.

- [Mr. Hornsby] These
five bodies of water,

they are not drinkable.

All oceans are salt water.

Where as most lakes
are fresh water.

Most, not all.

[somber music]

- Everyone, gather around.

- I want to--

- No, no, no,

Short sheep in front.

My husband, your leader,
has remembered his big news.

- Listen, every--

- No, no, no, wait! Stop!

This is all wrong.

I mean, there's no symmetry
here. There's no flow.

Bernie, you go to
the back, darling.

Fluffy, up front.

You in front of Fluffy.

Am I good?

Am I good or what?

Now they're ready to listen
to your brilliant words.

What are they, honey?

- Every...

- Body go home.

He's forgotten again.

Would it be so horrible
to write this stuff down?

[laughing]

- Dannan.

- Mind yourself.

- You should slow down, Hector,

before someone gets hurt.

- Don't worry about me, Dannan.

I just wanna walk you home.

To make sure you're
safe and all that.

- That's a very nice offer,

but I've decided to help Mr.
Hornsby clean the blackboards.

Bye now.

Mr. Hornsby?

- [Mr. Hornsby]
What is it, Dannan?

- Thank you Mr. Hornsby.

- Dannan?

[yelling]

So you're done then?

- Yes, Hector, I'm done.

Right now, I would really
like to walk home alone,

if you don't mind.

- I don't mind.

- Great.

Hector, what are you doing?

- I'm walking with you.

- I just said I
wanted to walk alone.

- We are alone.

It's just the two of us.

[groaning]

- Gee, Grandpa,

why did Hector keep
bothering her like that?

- Well now,

Hector didn't think he
was bothering anyone.

In his own odd way, he was
still just trying to thank her

for saving him
from the old goat.

- But she told him she
wanted to walk alone.

It's like he wasn't even
really listening to her.

- No he wasn't.

And things got worse.

Hector continued to sit
next to Dannan in school.

And he insisted on walking
her home every day.

When she wanted to spend
time with Fernie and me,

he just wouldn't leave us alone.

- All right, Hector, I
am trying not to be rude.

But right now, I would like to
play with Ferny and Piggley.

- That's okay, I guess.

They can join us as well.

[groaning]

♪ Oooh we're pushing
the Raloo Rocket

♪ Just Piggley and me

♪ We're not doing nothing

♪ That anyone wants to see

[somber music]

♪ Oooh we're pushing the Raloo
Rocket

♪ To some place far away

♪ That's what we are doing

♪ All day

- [Grandpa] When we
finally did get the chance

to spend some time with
our dear friend, Dannan,

we had the time of our lives.

- Help!

Oh help me!

I'm a hardworking cattle rancher

who's just been
captured by rustlers.

Won't somebody please save me.

Whatever will me
heifers do without me?

- Do you hear that, Buck Bravo?

Someone needs help.

- Well I reckon it's
up to me, Buck Bravo,

to save her.

But I'm gonna need
your help, deputy.

- You can count
on me, Buck Bravo.

- Oh, save me!

Please!

Save same!

Save me! Oh!

- [Hector] Dannan! I'm coming!

- What?

Oh no.

- Do you see that Piggley?

Now Hector's trying
to be Buck Bravo

and save the captured
cattle rancher.

- I don't think so, Ferny.

I think Hector is really
trying to save Dannan.

- Are you all right, Dannan?

- Well, of course I'm all right.

We're just--

- Don't worry about a thing.

I'm here to save you.

Just like you saved me.

- I don't need to be save...

I mean, thank you.

Thank you for saving me, Hector!

- Wait now.

These ropes aren't tight at all.

Are you just playing
a game or something?

- No! No! No!

You saved me all right.

Just like I saved you.

Now, we're even.

Isn't that wonderful?

There's no need for you
to do any more favors now.

We're all paid up.

Thank you and good luck to you.

[laughing]

That's it, then!

We're even.

No more Hector following
me around like a shadow

on a steamy, hot summer's day!

- Bravo!

That was great Dannan!

- You should be in the movies.

- Thank you.

- Dannan?

I was just thinking.

- Oh dear.

- You saved my life

and I saved your life.

So, we've saved
each other's lives.

- That's true.

So now we're even.

- We're not just even, Dannan.

- Yes we are.

- We're more than even.

There's a very special
thing between us now.

We're bound together for life.

[rattling]

- Every...

- Dog has a day.

Cloud has a sliver lining.

Man is a king.

Okay, how about...

- Every...

- Body's a star.

Everybody's good at the act.

Everybody's a suspect.

What?

What? Think! What?

- Every...

- Everything's...

can have roses.

Everything's gonna be okay.

Everything's my fault?

- Yes.

- No, that's not it.

Keep thinking, Wiley.

I'm gonna go for some
oats and massage.

Sweetie, stop banging your
head on the fence post.

You know how I hate to
pluck out splinters.

[dramatic music]

- Poor Dannan.

Now that they're bound
together for life.

- I know.

How much more of it do
you think she can take?

- Not another minute,
I can tell you.

It's time for one of your
brilliant plans, Piggley.

What should I do?

- Well you know,

I've been doing a lot
of thinking about this.

- And?

- And there's no helping it.

- What?

- You're going to
have to spend the rest

of your life with Hector.

Sorry, Dannan.

- You certainly
picked a fine time

to run out of brilliant
ideas, Piggley.

Can't you see I'm
at me wits end here?

He talks to me when I need
a little bit of quiet.

He follows me everywhere.

He butts into all our games.

I've tried talking to him

but there's not getting
through to a lad like that.

How can a fellow be like that?

- Maybe Hector doesn't
know what it's like

to be around Hector.

- Of course.

You're absolutely right, Ferny.

- I am?

- He is?

- Hector needs to know
exactly what it's like

to be with Hector.

So, I'm going to give
him a little taste

of his own medicine.

Brilliant!

- [Grandpa] Thanks to Ferny,
Dannan now knew what to do.

She was going to
out-Hector Hector.

[crunching]

[groaning]

- Dannan, I'm trying to
finish me comic book.

They're gonna pull the mask
off the Masked Desperado

and show us who he is.

- He's the butler.

[croaking]

[trumpet blowing]

Hi, Hector!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

[exciting music]

[yelling]

[yelling]

- [Grandpa] Dannan was
determined to show Hector

what his own actions
had felt like to her.

[yelling]

[snarling]

- Don't worry, Hector,

I'll save you!

- No! Just go away.

- Go away?

But what about that very
special thing between us?

- You're driving
me crazy, Dannan.

- But we saved
each other's lives.

- Everywhere I
go, there you are.

- I thought we were
bound together for life.

[snorting]

Do you not like me
anymore, Hector?

- Okay, of course
I like you Dannan.

I just need some time to me self

every once in a while.

Everyone needs to be
alone now and then.

- Oh, Hector.

Hector, this is a hard,
hard thing for me to hear.

But I thank you for it.

It's something I had
to learn me self.

- Great.

I'll see you later then.

Bye!

- [Grandpa] Now,
you have to wonder

if Hector really got
the message that day.

But we suspect that he did.

Because after that, he
stopped bothering Dannan

when she wanted to be alone.

And he was much more
pleasant to be around.

Most of the time.

- So, when Meg wants to be alone

maybe it's not because
she doesn't like me.

Maybe it's just that she wants
some time to herself, huh?

- That's right.

Meg wants to be alone.

But I would like to
play some basketball.

How about you, Seamus?

- Yeah, let's play, Grandpa!

- Can I play too?

- You want to, Meg?

- Uh huh.

I'm done with my
journal for now.

- Cool! We can all play.

[playful music]

- You can spend time alone

or you can spend time together.

But you can't spend
time playing basketball

without a ball.

- Come on, Grandpa!

- Throw us the ball!

- Let's go!

[instrumental music]