01x07 - The Snoozer

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss". Aired: October 13, 1996 – May 15, 1998.*
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Combines live puppets with digitally animated backgrounds, and in its first season, refashioning characters and themes from the original Dr. Seuss books into new stories that often retained much of the flavor of Dr. Seuss' own works.
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01x07 - The Snoozer

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♪♪ ♪ Skiddly ahh bop bow

Get upple on a wubble

Buzz into a bubble

Wubble on the double

And take your face

To a wubbulous place

Scuttle on a shuttle

Waddle in a puddle ♪

♪♪ Ow!

♪♪ ♪ Through the middle

Of a muddle

And dance your feet down

To wubbulous street

Flip, float, flop, and drop

Bottoms up down to the top

Insides, outsides

Here and on

When you get to the end

When you get to the end you go on and on ♪

You go on and on ♪

♪♪ Ooh!

♪♪ Yeah!

♪♪ Ha ha ha ha ha!

♪♪ Ew!

♪♪ ♪ Scuttle on a shuttle

Waddle in a puddle

Through the middle

Of a muddle

And dance your feet down

To wubbulous street ♪

♪♪ Hello.

♪♪ ♪ Get upple on a wubble

Buzz into a bubble ♪

♪♪ Yeah!

♪♪ Tighten up, get loose.

♪♪ ♪ In the wubbulous world

In the wubbulous world

Of dr. Seuss ♪

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ Ahh! Step right this way.

It's time for our tour.

♪♪ Where does it start?!

♪♪ Just outside this door.

♪♪ Uhh...what door?

♪♪ Well, uh, there it is. Excuse

Me.

[Beep]

[Train whistle]

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Close, please.

Whoops. Let's try again, shall

We?

♪♪ Ok.

[Beep]

♪♪ Ahh, there we go! Everybody

In. No waiting. Watch your

Toes. There we go.

Close, please.

Ahh, this is my favorite stop on

The tour.

♪♪ What makes it so special?

♪♪ What makes it so special?!

This statue--it's the place to

Gather to sing or to play. Or if

You're sleepy, just snooze

Through the day. Hit it!

Through the day. Hit it! [Island music plays]

[Island music plays]

♪ Everybody ready,

Everybody set now ♪

♪♪ ♪ Everybody ready,

Everybody set now ♪

♪♪ ♪ Everybody go,

Everybody get now ♪

♪♪ ♪ Everybody go,

Everybody get now ♪

♪♪ ♪ If you're feeling sorry,

If you're feeling sore,

If you're sick and tired,

We have got the cure ♪

♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down

To the snoozer,

Everybody cruise around

The snoozer,

Everybody come down

To the snoozer!

♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue

♪♪ ♪ I was once so lonely,

Didn't have a friend then ♪

♪♪ ♪ Didn't have a buddy,

Didn't have a friend then ♪

♪♪ ♪ Didn't have a clue,

When the cloudy days

Would end then ♪

♪♪ ♪ [Indistinct]

♪♪ ♪ You'd never know it now,

He really was a loser ♪

♪♪ ♪ Then sun came out

When I snoozed around the

Snoozer ♪

♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down

To the snoozer,

Everybody cruise

Around the snoozer,

Everybody come down

To the snoozer ♪

♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue

♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down

To the snoozer,

Everybody cruise

Around the snoozer,

Everybody come down

To the snoozer ♪

To the snoozer ♪ ♪♪ ♪ catch you at the statue

♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue

♪♪ ♪ Shabada daba

Hey, you feel that? Hmm.

Something's in the air. Yes!

It's a story unfolding. On, my

Little cats, forward. The tour

Will continue later.

♪♪ Ok!

♪♪ [Snoring]

I meant what I said...

♪♪ Ugh. The time's been coming.

The time's very near.

It's getting much closer.

[Alarm ringing]

♪♪ Ah-ha! Now it's here!

♪♪ Aah! What was that?

What--what--what was that?

♪♪ It's time to awake, to rise

Up and see your new turtle king!

Just little old me.

♪♪ A king? Well, harrumph to

That, I say. Ha! Not around

Here.

♪♪ And my I add bahh!

♪♪ It's because I'm turtled,

Isn't it? It's because I have

Shell, isn't it? It's because I

Can live on land and water,

Isn't it?

♪♪ It's because you're a jerk!

♪♪ Oh, you of such tiny

Smallness. Perhaps you will

Better feel my majesty when you

Are standing in the shadow of a

-Story granite likeness of me.

♪♪ What?

♪♪ Behold! Beautiful isn't it?

Now then, my ace construction

Crew can begin working on my

Beautiful statue of beautiful me

Just as soon as we get rid of

"That" sleepy thing.

♪♪ Why doesn't he just crawl

Back into the swamp he came out

Of?!

♪♪ Now, morton, just because we

Don't like what he says,

Doesn't mean he doesn't

Have a right to say it.

♪♪ Oh, well does that mean I can

Say--[whispering]

♪♪ [Gasp] no!

♪♪ Ohh! What a double standard?!

♪♪ So, are you with me?!

♪♪ [Grunting]

♪♪ I'm sorry. Is that a "yes"?

♪♪ [Grunting]

♪♪ I hope he can take ook for an

Answer.

♪♪ Yeah, right.

♪♪ ♪ Mm-mmm mm-mmm,

Gonna build myself a statue,

Mm-mmm mm-mmm,

A great big statue,

Mm-mmm mm-mmm,

Gonna build myself a great big,

Huge statue,

For me-e-e-e-e ♪

♪♪ If you're always early, you

Get the best spot. And there's

No better spot than the spot

That you've got, is there?

♪♪ There is not.

♪♪ Yes. Now go enjoy a safe and

Satisfying session of play.

♪♪ Ok, mom.

♪♪ Yes. Run ahead, dear.

Ahh, lovely. Yes.

♪♪ Ma! Ma! Ma! Ma! Ma! The

Snoozer! The snoozer! The

Snoozer!

♪♪ [Muttering]

♪♪ [Gasp] the snoozer is gone!

♪♪ Hey, buddy.

♪♪ Hmm?

♪♪ You ever carved a -story

Statue of a turtle?

♪♪ -Story eel.

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ -Story garden slug.

♪♪ Uh-huh.

♪♪ Nope. No turtle.

♪♪ Well, there's a first time

For everything.

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

♪♪ [Groaning]

♪♪ Hey, franny, hold up on that

Huge block of granite. Can't

Move a thing nowadays with all

These regulations.

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

♪♪ Uh-huh. Come on.

♪♪ Well, it is very clear to me

What's going on here.

♪♪ Very clear!

What's going on?

♪♪ That yertle has stolen our

Snoozer!

♪♪ Ahh, bad turtle!

♪♪ Yes. And just as he said,

He's commissioned a statue of

Himself to be built!

♪♪ Yep yep.

♪♪ If I'm not mistaken--and

Surely I'm not--

♪♪ You're not!

♪♪ That yertle is guilty!

♪♪ Guilty a lot!

♪♪ Why jane is right!

♪♪ The turtle is guilty!

♪♪ The turtle must be stopped!

♪♪ [Crosstalk]

♪♪ That turtle took our statue!

♪♪ Morton, we shouldn't jump to

Conclusions. We should--

♪♪ Walk slowly and cautiously to

Conclusions. I know. I know.

♪♪ Yertle must be captured and

Banished to the desert of

The--ugh--screaming greebles.

♪♪ The desert of the screaming

Greebles? Aah!

Greebles? Aah! ♪♪ [All chanting "guilty"]

♪♪ [All chanting "guilty"]

♪♪ Wait! Wait! Wait a minute or

Or maybe a third. Now I mean

What I say. I mean every word.

Maybe it's yertle. But what if

It's not?

♪♪ Not yertle?

♪♪ Not yertle?

♪♪ Not yertle?

♪♪ What?

♪♪ We shouldn't jump to

Conclusions. We should walk--

♪♪ Slowly and cautiously to

Conclusions. We know.

♪♪ Anyone who would defend that

Terrible turtle is probably

Involved with his nasty schemes

And deserves the same fate.

Isn't that right?

♪♪ That is right!

♪♪ As soon as we find the

Turtle, we'll send you both to

The desert of the screaming--

Ugh--greebles.

♪♪ Ahh!

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Huh? Huh?

Ahh.

♪♪ What?

♪♪ Hmm.

♪♪ Hey pop

♪♪ Hmm?

♪♪ Are we going to have to move

To another neighborhood again?

♪♪ Ohh.

♪♪ Now, all those in favor of

Banishing yertle and the

Elephant say "i".

♪♪ [All chanting "i"]

♪♪ Well, then that's it. We're

Hunting for turtles. And guard

Those elephants till we get

Back. [Indistinct]

♪♪ [Grunting]

♪♪ Boo!

♪♪ [Screaming]

♪♪ Ohh...

♪♪ Ah, come on, morton. It's not

That bad.

♪♪ Uhh...

Yes it is.

♪♪ Hey, hey! How about a nice

Game of "peanut, peanut, who's

Got the peanut?" Huh? Just like

The old days? Hmm.

Peanut, peanut, who's got the

Peanut?

♪♪ You do.

♪♪ That didn't take long.

[Crunch]

♪♪ [Muffled screaming]

♪♪ Ohh! I'm sorry!

♪♪ I confess! I confess! I did

It. Please don't sit on me

Anymore!

♪♪ I told you he stole the

Statue.

♪♪ That's right. I stole

The--the statue?

Wait a minute.

[Sigh] I didn't steal a statue.

Oddly enough, I'm totally

Innocent.

♪♪ You are? Yeah, right.

♪♪ Would this face lie?

Never mind.

♪♪ Ohh! No matter what you say,

Jane kangaroo thinks you stole

The statue. And she thinks we

Helped you.

♪♪ Why?

♪♪ Why? Because my pop here

Stood up for you.

♪♪ Oh, you--you--you--you

Pachyderm you. So you'll help

Me?

♪♪ Help you what?

♪♪ Find out who really took the

Statue and prove that I'm

Innocent. Because if I'm

Innocent then you're innocent.

And if I'm guilty--[gasp]

♪♪ Will you please stop

Following us!

♪♪ [Groaning]

♪♪ Oh, we'll be back for you

Elephants later. You've got a

Date in the desert of the--ugh--

Screaming greebles.

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Uh--uh--uh. So you see the

Wisdom in helping me.

♪♪ You'd better hope for your

Sake we find the snoozer and

Prove that you're innocent.

And for our sake.

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ You're doing the right thing.

♪♪ Well, I meant what I said and

I said what I meant.

♪♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

♪♪ Yeah.

Pop, we got to talk about the

"Said what I meant, meant what I

Said" stuff.

♪♪ Hey, honest elephant, slow

Down.

♪♪ Huh? What? Huh?

♪♪ Oh, the frustration of being

So quick of mind and slow of

Flipper!

♪♪ Oh. Any sign of the statue?

♪♪ No. Can't see a thing up

Ahead.

♪♪ That's bad.

♪♪ That's not so bad. Jane

Kangaroo knows what [indistinct]

Are right behind us!

♪♪ [Grunting]

♪♪ Oh, that's bad!

♪♪ Real bad!

♪♪ Hmm.

♪♪ Hmm.

♪♪ Harrumph!

♪♪ Harrumph!

♪♪ It's time to awake, to rise

Up and see your new turtle

King. Just little old me.

♪♪ What are you doing?

♪♪ These ants are just crying

Out for leadership. I am

Answering their cry.

♪♪ Ohh...

♪♪ Ohh... ♪♪ Ugh! I shall return!

♪♪ Ugh! I shall return!

♪♪ Yeah. Where's the button?

♪♪ Oh, I can't reach it.

♪♪ Hit it with your hat.

♪♪ Oh, yeah.

Aah!

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Close, please.

♪♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey. What's

Going on here?

♪♪ We wanted to see what was

Going on with horton!

♪♪ And morton!

♪♪ And yertle!

♪♪ Why didn't you ask? See, the

Thing about doors that I know

All about--how to go in and how

To get out. Excuse me, kid.

[Beep]

[Beep] ♪♪ there you go. Let's watch.

♪♪ There you go. Let's watch.

♪♪ Harrumph!

♪♪ What do you see there,

Junior?

♪♪ Your big feet, mother.

♪♪ Ooh.

♪♪ No! No, dear. In front of my

Feet.

♪♪ Ah. Footprints.

♪♪ Not just footprints--

Turtle prints and elephant

Prints. Horton and yertle are

b*ating a hasty retreat from

Justice.

♪♪ I did not "steal" the statue.

I did not steal "the" statue.

I did not steal the "statue."

What more can I say?!

♪♪ Say that no matter what from

Now on you'll always do what's

Right.

♪♪ No matter what from now on, I

Will always do what's

[Mumbles]

I can't say it. It makes my

Tongue hurt.

♪♪ Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

[Stammering]

Calm down! Calm down!

♪♪ [Deep breath]

They're gaining on us!

♪♪ Let's hide in this cave.

♪♪ Oh, yeah. Maybe there are

Some bats in here who need a

Leader.

♪♪ Come on.

♪♪ No wonder no one can trust

You.

♪♪ Oh, and why is that,

O' knower of all knowable

Knowledge?

♪♪ Because you'll stop at

Nothing and step on anyone to

Get into power.

♪♪ Oh, that.

Is it my fault I was hatched to

Rule? To climb to the top of the

Turtle heap? [Sigh]

This is a sad story.

♪♪ Oh, brother.

[Blues music plays]

♪♪ ♪ I'm at home

Under the water,

I'm at home

Up on the sand,

Still I feel

I'm welcomed nowhere,

Will somebody understand?

Doesn't matter

If your hair is straight,

Or if you wear it curly,

Come on now help me out,

Oh, nobody likes you

Oh, nobody likes you when you wanna rule the world ♪

When you wanna rule the world ♪

♪ I'm a turtle with a vision,

Turtle with a dream,

But it takes two to tango,

[Indistinct] baseball team ♪

♪♪ ♪ A baseball team

♪♪ ♪ If you keep your

♪♪ ♪ If you keep your [indistinct]

[Indistinct]

Oh, nobody likes you

When you wanna rule the world ♪

♪♪ ♪ When you wanna

Rule the world ♪

♪♪ ♪ Now some folks like to add,

Some folks like to subtract,

Well I divide and conquer

If [indistinct]

Whether you like

Your vanilla and chocolate syrup

Or you like

Your ice cream swirled,

Yeah,

Nobody likes you

When you wanna rule the world ♪

♪♪ ♪ When you wanna

Rule the world ♪

♪♪ ♪ Don't mock

This turtle now,

Nobody likes you

When you want--when you want--

I said,

When you wanna rule the world,

Yeah,

Yeah ♪

Does anybody have a lozenge?!

I complain and complain. No one

Listens.

♪♪ Pop! Pop! Pop!

[Stammering]

♪♪ Morton, calm down.

Breathe with me, ok? In--

Out. In--out.

One more time in--out.

Feeling better?

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ Can you speak?

♪♪ Oh, absolutely.

♪♪ Now, what do you want to say?

♪♪ Well, [stammering]

This way!

♪♪ Ok.

♪♪ Breathe in, breathe out...

♪♪ There he is, pop! There he

Is! There he is!

♪♪ That's it. That's our

Snoozer. Now, all we have to do

Is find the real thief.

♪♪ Ha, yeah. And hope it's not

Yertle.

♪♪ [Grunting]

♪♪ Here's trouble.

♪♪ Ohh, stuff like this doesn't

Happen to the other kids.

♪♪ Ah-ha. And oh-ho.

Now what have we here?

The answer I think is ever so

Clear.

♪♪ Very clear.

♪♪ A statue. A thief and of

His friends. This is, I think,

Where their thievery ends.

♪♪ [All chanting "guilty"]

♪♪ Wait! Wait!

This is a mistake. I'm not

Yertle the turtle. I'm yortois

The tortoise, who's charity work

And kindness to kangaroos is

Renowned on continents.

♪♪ I don't think so.

♪♪ We don't think so.

♪♪ Right you are. I'm actually

Yizard the lizard with a shell.

♪♪ Take them away.

♪♪ Yeah, far away!

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ I'd rather live with those

Screaming you-know-whats than

In a place where one person

Decides who's innocent and who's

Guilty.

♪♪ [Gasp]

♪♪ My pop is right!

♪♪ I am?

♪♪ Yes. Yes you are. Well, I was

Scared of doing the right thing.

But I'm not anymore. I mean,

Just because yertle's a no-good

Louse doesn't mean he stole the

Statue.

♪♪ Oh, thank you.

♪♪ You couldn't possibly mean

That.

♪♪ I meant what I said, and I

Said what I meant. I believe in

My dad %.

♪♪ Aww.

♪♪ That's very moving, young

Fellow.

♪♪ Oh, thank you.

♪♪ Get them!

♪♪ [Screaming]

♪♪ Stop now!

♪♪ Excuse me?

♪♪ Who is that?

♪♪ The turtle didn't steal any

♪♪ The turtle didn't steal any statue!

Statue!

♪♪ [Cowering]

♪♪ [Yelling]

♪♪ Yertle is innocent.

And so are the elephants.

♪♪ A statue that talks? This

Must be a trick. I'd expect this

From someone so slimy and slick.

♪♪ This is no trick.

♪♪ Well, who would have thunk

It?

♪♪ I'm not a statue. In fact,

I'm a plunket.

♪♪ A plunket?

♪♪ What's that?

♪♪ Since you want to know. A

Plunket's a creature

Whose heart beats so

Slow it plunks itself down for

A nap that extends years.

♪♪ And then the nap ends?

♪♪ Like clockwork.

♪♪ And your years was over

Last night?

♪♪ Right. So I woke up and

Wandered. And I plunked myself

Right down here for another

[Yawn] years.

♪♪ See! See! See! The statue

Stole itself!

♪♪ Oh.

♪♪ The sweet air of innocence.

So this is what it smells like.

♪♪ You know, I can put up with a

Lot. But the one thing I don't

Lot. But the one thing I don't like is waking early!

Like is waking early!

♪♪ Case closed. Job done.

Everyone go home. I think we

Could all use a nap.

♪♪ I like nap.

♪♪ Yes, come now.

♪♪ Mr. Plunket, if it's all the

Same to you, would you consider

Taking your snooze in the same

Spot as before?

♪♪ Hmm. A plunket replunking in

The same spot?

♪♪ Let the statue sleep where he

Wants to sleep.

♪♪ You mean a lot to us.

♪♪ Yeah. Our favorite spot

Wouldn't be the same without

You.

♪♪ Ok then. As you wish.

[Yawn] it's time for the nap.

[Rumbling]

♪♪ [Clears throat]

You know, with my brains and

Your big rocky scariness we

Could rule. And I'll take care

Of all the busy work--you know,

The lawmaking, the

Throne-sitting, the being

Worshipped. All you have to do

Is sleep.

♪♪ Nah!

♪♪ It's like talking to a

♪♪ It's like talking to a statue.

Statue.

♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down

To the snoozer...♪

♪♪ Oh, just minutes more, mom.

♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue

I, uh, ah!

Ok, everybody in.

♪♪ [Gasp] what's next on the

Tour?

♪♪ Why, the future of course.

Come on. Come on.

♪♪ Aah!

Aah!

[Sigh]

Whew!
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