01x20 - The Grinch Meets His Max / Halfway Home To Malamaroo

[bunniefuu]

♪♪ ♪ 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 the muddle,

And dance your feet down

To wubbulous street,

Flip, float, flop, and drop,

Bottoms up down to the top,

Insides, outsides,

Here and gone,

When you get to the end,

You go on and on ♪

♪♪ Ooh!

♪♪ Yeah!

♪♪ Ha ha ha ha ha!

♪♪ [Slurp] yecch!

♪♪ ♪ Scuttle on a shuttle,

Waddle in a puddle,

Through the middle

Of the muddle,

And dance your feet down

To wubbulous street ♪

♪♪ Hello. Anyone out there?

♪♪ ♪ 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 ♪

Of dr. Seuss ♪ ♪♪ yeah.

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ May I have your attention?

I think you'll enjoy--heh heh

My brand new invention.

♪♪ Ooh, what is this

Contraption?

♪♪ It's big.

♪♪ And it's green.

♪♪ Hey, I'm glad you asked.

It's my new story machine.

Huh? You know, every object

Has a story behind it,

No matter how weird, or silly,

Or strange. There's a story

To tell about everything.

♪♪ Ooh.

♪♪ Ahh.

♪♪ So how does it work?

♪♪ Well, you pick anything.

Anything at all. You pop it in,

And the machine finds the story

Inside the object

And tells it to you.

All: wow!

♪♪ Enjoy, fellas. Heh heh.

♪♪ Hey, hey. Let's put in

This old back scratcher.

♪♪ Are you crazy?

♪♪ Yeah, what kind of a story

Could that tell?

♪♪ There's only one way

To find out.

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[Machine hums]

♪♪ The grinch was the greatest

Of the meanest, by far.

His soul full of prickles,

His heart full of tar.

Except for an itch,

He lived all alone.

And that's how he liked it.

No friends, fax, or phone.

[Scratching]

[Knocking on door]

♪♪ Mm. Mm-hmm.

♪♪ Uh--uh, hi there. I'm selling

Subscriptions to the happy

Neighbor gazette.

♪♪ Mm. What a lovely

Publication. Ha ha ha ha ha.

I'm happier already.

♪♪ B-b-but--

♪♪ Ha ha ha!

♪♪ He kept to himself. He hated

The sound of anyone else,

Man or beast, lurking around.

[Knocking on door]

♪♪ Mm.

♪♪ Would you like to buy

A raffle ticket

For a good cause?

♪♪ No. Would you like

To get lost?

♪♪ [Sobbing]

♪♪ He hated well-wishers,

All kinds and all sizes.

Especially those bringing him

Valuable prizes.

[Knocking on door]

[Knocking on door] ♪♪ huh? Oh.

♪♪ Huh? Oh.

All: congratulations!

We're here to say you've won

Quadrillion dollars to--

[Slamming door]

All: day.

♪♪ The grinch scared them off,

And they all stayed away.

So the grinch was alone

Each night and each day.

Companions? Not one.

Not goldfish or leech.

Just that pesky old itch

That he couldn't quite reach.

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Alone's what he wanted

To gristle and glower.

Alone's what he was

All alone in his tower.

Then, one day--

[Barking]

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♪♪ Woof!

♪♪ Aah! Unh!

♪♪ That would scare anyone

Naturally. But it didn't scare

This pup. No, no, not he.

For some unknown reason,

This dog liked the grinch.

Where others would shudder,

This dog wouldn't flinch.

[Thumping]

[Thumping] ♪♪ hmm? [Grumbles]

♪♪ Hmm? [Grumbles]

Oh!

♪♪ Woof!

♪♪ You flea-bitten mongrel,

I don't want to play.

Haven't you heard?

I'm the grinch. Go away.

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Unh.

♪♪ And although the grinch

Tried to send him away,

It was clear that this puppy

Just wanted to stay.

[Thumping]

♪♪ Hmm? Uh!

♪♪ Yes, the dog came right back,

The stick all taped up.

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Was there no way to get rid

Of this pup?

The grinch slammed the door

With a shuddering shock.

But then--

[Knocking]

♪♪ What's that noise?

Could it be a knock?

[Grumbling]

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♪♪ Aah!

I don't want to play fetch,

I don't want to play ball.

I don't want to play anything.

Nothing at all.

Uhh! [Sighs]

[Knocking]

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[Whimpering]

♪♪ Oh, very well.

We'll play ball, my dog friend.

My canine nightmare is going

To end. I'm sending this off

Far away from my home,

To a cold, distant place

Just a stone's throw from nome.

This is one lesson

You may understand.

Go fetch this one, mutt.

It may never land.

[f*ring cannon]

♪♪ What the grinch said

Was true. Far away

That ball flew.

♪♪ This itch is the worst itch

That I've ever had.

I just can't quite reach it.

It's driving me mad.

[Knocking]

♪♪ Hmm. I wonder who that

Could be?

♪♪ Well, who do you know?

That pup came on back

Through the ice and the snow.

♪♪ [Whimpers]

♪♪ [Grumbling]

When I throw in a stick,

He will jump in this hole

And drop yards

Through rough anthracite coal.

He'll fall and he'll tumble

Through muck and through mire.

He'll be covered with dirt.

He'll sweat and perspire.

He'll drop into a cave

Near the end of this trip

Where the snappers will snap

And the snippers will snip.

They'll drag him nine miles

As they tromp and they stomp

Through the foul-smelling slime

Of old swimpering swamp.

Then this trip finally ends

At the great grondy pier

Which is miles from here.

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♪♪ After digging and digging

A day and an hour,

The grinch climbed back up

To his grinchy green tower

And waited for--

[Knocking]

♪♪ Yes, a knock at the door

And a chance to play fetch

Through the hole in his floor.

♪♪ Fetch? Why of course.

My, that game is so clever.

[Laughing] let's hope that

My pitching is better than ever.

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♪♪ Oops!

♪♪ Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!

♪♪ Ha ha ha ha.

♪♪ [Howling]

♪♪ Good doggy. Ha ha ha ha!

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Ah! Ah! Mm! Ahh!

[Knocking]

♪♪ It couldn't be him.

No! It just couldn't be.

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♪♪ [Whimpers]

♪♪ [Spluttering]

♪♪ [Spits] woof!

♪♪ I don't want you here.

Do you hear what I'm saying?

I want to be alone.

I have no time for playing.

Now get out of my house.

You're not welcome here.

Stay away, mangy mutt,

And never come near.

♪♪ Woof woof? [Whimpers]

♪♪ No matter how much

I'm scratching and scritching,

Mm, I just can't seem

To get rid of this itching.

♪♪ Woof?

[Scratching]

♪♪ Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

When are you leaving, dog?

Might I inquire?

Ooh, just a little--

Mm, just a little bit higher.

Ooh.

Oh, you have such a way with

Backs. Why don't you stay?

♪♪ Ooh!

♪♪ And I'll call you rover.

♪♪ Um, mm-mm.

♪♪ Spot. Stinky.

♪♪ Mm-mm.

♪♪ Felix? Rotgut?

♪♪ Bleh.

♪♪ Sludgy?

♪♪ Mm-mm.

♪♪ Then how about, um...max?

♪♪ Woof! Woof! Ow-oo!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

♪♪ And from that moment on,

They were never apart.

For max scratched his way

Into the grinch's small heart.

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♪♪ Aww, that was great.

Wasn't that a good story?

♪♪ Wonderful.

♪♪ Yeah. Uh, so.

What are we gonna do now?

♪♪ Well, uh, let's find

Something else and hear

Another story.

♪♪ Ok.

♪♪ Great idea. Let's go.

♪♪ Boy, oh boy.

♪♪ Hey. I found some lint.

♪♪ And I found a thing.

♪♪ Here's a half-finished cake.

♪♪ Great! Put it in.

♪♪ Hey, hey, wait. That was

Gonna be my lunch.

[Machine humming]

♪♪ There it goes.

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ Aww.

♪♪ Oh, boy.

♪♪ Days such as this

Are the regular rule

In the glorious, florious

Jungle of nool.

The wind is a whisper,

The sky a bright blue.

And the animals do

What the animals do.

Yes, things in nool are

The way things in nool are.

There's nothing unusual,

Odd, or bizarre.

Hmm.

As I was saying, things in nool

Are the way things in nool are.

Like jane kangaroo,

The socialite star.

[Bouncing]

♪♪ Oh, what a party

I'm planning to throw. Regina

The queen will be honored,

And so let everyone hear,

Let everyone know--

♪♪ But only those who are

Invited should show.

♪♪ And those who are not

Will wish they could go.

♪♪ Uh, pardon. Uh, one question.

Am I invited?

♪♪ Oh, by regina herself.

♪♪ Oh, boy. I'm excited.

♪♪ So you'll come?

♪♪ Yes, I will.

♪♪ Was thidwick's response.

♪♪ Good. The queen always gets

What the queen always wants.

If I have anything to say

About it.

♪♪ And you do.

♪♪ Mm.

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ So things in nool are

The way things in nool are.

Jane being jane, that socialite

Star. Now, nothing unusual, odd,

Or bizarre--hmm.

[Rocket landing]

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All: [gasping]

♪♪ My goodness! My gracious!

♪♪ My--my--

♪♪ My word!

♪♪ Could that be a featherless

Firefly bird?

♪♪ I think it's something

Even more rare.

♪♪ From around here?

♪♪ No, from way out up there.

♪♪ And they watched, and they

Stared, and they worried

And wondered as something

Inside the thing thrumbled

And thundered.

♪♪ Mother, I'm scared.

♪♪ Said junior, who hid.

Then the thing from out there

Then the thing from out there started flipping its lid.

Started flipping its lid.

[Hinges squeaking]

♪♪ And up from within

Something came into view.

A mysterious figure.

It grew and it grew.

[Grunting]

♪♪ Was it a what? Was it a who?

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♪♪ My name's alvin.

How do you do?

♪♪ Why, he's not so scary.

♪♪ Not scary one bit.

♪♪ I'll tell you my story

If you'll permit.

♪♪ And he's polite, too.

♪♪ ♪ I come from a planet

Called malamaroo

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I'm the only member

Of my one-member crew

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I'm a long way from home

Home's a long way from me

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And if I were back home

Home is where I'd be

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Oh, malamaroo, malamaroo

Where the sky's always pink

And the sun's always blue

A beautiful world

You'd love it there too

Oh! Malamaroo, malamaroo

Malama-- ♪

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♪♪ Hey, anybody know

Where there's a party?

♪♪ Well, actually I was just

Planning a big party

In honor of regina--

♪♪ Oh, let me help you.

♪♪ Let you help?

♪♪ Let me throw the party

For you.

♪♪ Why should I do that?

♪♪ We malamaroons are

The partiest people on any

Planet. [Giggles]

Our parties go on

For light-years.

All: hmm.

♪♪ Oh, let me make the party.

I'll do it the malamaroo way.

Please, please, please, please,

Please? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm?

♪♪ If alvin likes throwing

Parties so much,

Let's let him throw ours

With an outer space touch.

It'll make us the stars

Of the socialite scene.

♪♪ And score royal points

With regina the queen.

♪♪ I can see that you see

What I'm meaning to mean.

Alvin!

If it will make you happy,

You may throw my party.

♪♪ Great! Oh, just leave it

To me. I'll make punch.

I'll make mix the malamaroon

Way. Just be there by .

♪♪ Ooh.

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♪♪ I'm making a party.

[Licks fingers]

A party I'm making.

The partiest party,

The cakiest caking.

Oh, what a party this party--

[Bouncing]

♪♪ Oh. Want to play a game?

♪♪ Eh, a game? I mean, now?

♪♪ Yes, yes, yes, yes.

♪♪ Oh, well, don't you have

To finish preparing

For mother's party?

♪♪ I know a jumping game.

It's a blast-a-roo!

♪♪ No, no, I don't think so.

♪♪ Oh, come on.

♪♪ Mother will not be happy.

♪♪ Hey, put this on.

♪♪ Oh--oh, whoa!

Whoa, wait--

♪♪ So alvin from malamaroo

Took a break--

♪♪ Oh! Whoa.

♪♪ From hanging the banners

And icing the cake.

And he taught young junior

His jumping-up game.

♪♪ Now, this is part one.

Bounce higher. Take aim

For the tree's highest branch.

♪♪ Whoa! I caught on.

Alvin. Hey, alvin.

♪♪ But alvin was gone.

♪♪ Oh. Hey, alvin.

What about part two?

Where you get me down?

Whoa! Alvin!

♪♪ So alvin left junior

Out on a limb.

But not to be nasty.

Not alvin. Not him.

♪♪ Ugh.

♪♪ Then he ran into thidwick

On east moose moss road

And offered to help the moose

Lighten his load.

♪♪ Well, thanks, alvin.

I've been harvesting moose moss

For most of the day.

I carry each bundle

Far, far away.

♪♪ Then you return?

♪♪ For stack after stack.

Back and forth, back and forth,

Back and forth, forth and back.

♪♪ You store your moss

So far from here?

♪♪ It's a good thing I do this

Just once a year.

♪♪ Thidwick, we malamaroons

Are great at stacking stuff.

♪♪ Do tell.

♪♪ I can help you get this done

In one trip. Oh, please let me

Help. I love to help.

Oh, please, please, please,

Please, please.

♪♪ Well, help away, friendly

Visitor from another planet.

♪♪ Great.

I have a two-part plan.

♪♪ A two-part plan.

♪♪ Part one, I stack the moose

Moss on your mighty head.

♪♪ So alvin from malamaroo

Started stacking. And he didn't

Stop, no snoozing or snacking.

Yes, on thidwick's antlers

He stacked that moss high.

A great mound of moose moss

That reached to the sky.

♪♪ Uh, alvin, uh, I can't see

Very well, or--or walk very--

Ooh! Pardon me. Alvin? Alvin?

What about part two of your

Pla-aa-aan?

♪♪ At her home down the way

Jane turned to say--

♪♪ Oh, regina my queen.

This party will be

Intergalactic. In fact,

It's fan-tactic. Ha ha!

Ha! Yes!

Aah! Aah! Oh, my.

Nothing is finished. Eh--

Pardon me, your highness.

[Screaming]

♪♪ Hmm!

♪♪ No, no! Queen regina, please.

Don't--

♪♪ Well, I'm here for the party.

♪♪ There is no party.

Alvin didn't finish setting up.

Everything is half-done.

♪♪ Well, I must say I'm not

Surprised. He left me halfway

Through also.

♪♪ I--i--

[Monkeys chattering]

♪♪ What?

♪♪ Whoa!

♪♪ What's going on here?

♪♪ Oh! Ee!

♪♪ [Gasps] junior! You come down

From there at once.

♪♪ I can't. Alvin left me

Halfway through a game

And I don't know how

To turn this thing off!

Whoa!

♪♪ Hey there.

♪♪ Hmm?

♪♪ Am I late for the party?

Hee hee hee!

♪♪ Party?

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

♪♪ Party? You ruined my party.

Why didn't you finish setting

Everything up?

♪♪ Oh, well, uh--

♪♪ Yeah. Why did you leave me

Covered with moose moss?

♪♪ Oh, that. Well, you see--

♪♪ And why did you leave me

Up here like a--whoa!

Hey, hey, hey!

[Monkeys chattering]

♪♪ Well, uh--i didn't mean to--

Well, the thing is, i--

Both: yes?

♪♪ This isn't easy

For me to say.

♪♪ Say it.

♪♪ I have a little trouble

Finishing what I start.

♪♪ Uh. No kidding.

♪♪ Big surprise.

♪♪ That's why I'm here,

Halfway home.

My fellow malamaroons can't

Stand me. I'm an embarrassment.

Not to mention a lousy friend

And neighbor.

I'm never going back.

♪♪ [Gasp] I feel faint.

♪♪ You mean you ran away

From home?

♪♪ Actually, I ran away

From planet. I'm an outcast.

A misfit! A halfway guy.

♪♪ Poor, sad, lonely creature

From another world.

♪♪ I'll get used to it here.

Let's watch television.

♪♪ [Spluttering]

I want him gone.

♪♪ Hmm. I have an idea that just

Might help alvin feel better

About going home.

♪♪ Hmm?

♪♪ Hey! Hey! Get me down!

Whoa!

♪♪ Thidwick's idea was to show

Their new friend how good it

Feels seeing things through

To the end.

♪♪ And that's how you play

Swooshball. Ready?

♪♪ Ready.

♪♪ All right then. Pull!

♪♪ All right then. Pull! [Foomp]

[Foomp]

[Foomp]

♪♪ Unh.

♪♪ Unh. [Foomp]

[Foomp]

[Foomp]

♪♪ Unh. Well, that was fun.

[Bonk]

♪♪ Ouch. Uhh!

♪♪ Um, the game's not finished

Yet. You have to keep hitting

The ball.

♪♪ I do?

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

♪♪ Well--

[Shakes head] ok.

♪♪ All right, ready? Pull!

♪♪ All right, ready? Pull! [Foomp]

[Foomp]

[Foomp]

♪♪ Mm--uh!

♪♪ Uh!

♪♪ Ooh!

♪♪ Oh-ho!

[Foomp]

♪♪ Uhh!

Uh, no--

[Panting]

♪♪ Ohh, oh!

♪♪ Game, alvin.

♪♪ What happened?

♪♪ [Panting] you won.

♪♪ I did?

♪♪ Mm.

♪♪ What an odd sensation.

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♪♪ "And they all lived happily

Ever after."

Monkeys: aww.

♪♪ [Sniffling] that's beautiful.

Wow. I didn't know anyone

In books ever lived

Happily ever after.

♪♪ Well, that's because that

Usually happens at the end

Of the book.

♪♪ Ah, you have to finish

The book.

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[Cheering]

All: alvin! Alvin!

♪♪ Oh! Whoa!

♪♪ Ooh! Oh!

What happened?

♪♪ You finished the race.

You won!

All: you won! Hooray!

♪♪ I won? I won?

I like to finish.

I like this finishing feeling.

All: yay!

♪♪ Hey, alvin!

♪♪ I thought for sure we'd have

Gotten through to alvin.

♪♪ Maybe he's wandered off

Somewhere to drive someone else

Crazy.

♪♪ Hello.

♪♪ Oh, good-bye.

♪♪ My friends, my companions,

I've come here to say

You've shown me the light,

You've taught me the way

To finish the things

That I have begun.

There are games to be played

And races to run.

♪♪ And books to read.

♪♪ And journeys back home.

♪♪ So much to complete.

♪♪ And journeys back home.

♪♪ And I've decided

To do just that.

To go back to malamaroo

To face my friends and finish up

Everything I left half done.

♪♪ You're going home?

Well, it was so nice having you.

Toodle-oo, ta-ta,

Good-bye forever.

♪♪ But I can't.

♪♪ What?

♪♪ What?

♪♪ I'm out of fuel.

I left malamaroo with only

Half a t*nk.

♪♪ Uh, anything I can do?

♪♪ Well, I need to find some

Substance that has tremendous

Energy. Something we can make

Fuel out of.

♪♪ Uh, tremendous energy.

♪♪ Cookies?

♪♪ Something with tremendous

Energy.

♪♪ Ehh--

♪♪ Moose moss!

All: moose moss?

♪♪ Moose moss is what makes me

So mighty. That, and plenty of

Rest, a balanced diet,

And clean living.

♪♪ Hmm. It could work.

But we need plenty of the stuff.

♪♪ And I know where to get it.

♪♪ Come along.

♪♪ Alvin assembled a mushing

Machine, a moose-mossy threshing

And crunching machine.

It squeezed and it squashed

And it squuzzled the moss

Into a pulp, then into a sauce.

Then it boiled the sauce.

For miles you could smell it.

It boiled and boiled it

Down to a pellet.

♪♪ We only need , more

Pellets to fill the t*nk.

♪♪ Yet, we've been stirring

For hours.

♪♪ Even I'm getting tired.

♪♪ Come on, g*ng. Let's not

Leave this job halfway done.

♪♪ So they stirred and they

Stirred a week and a day,

For alvin would have it

No other way.

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Then they finally, finally

Found themselves done.

Much, much more done

Than when they begun.

♪♪ It was nice meeting you.

♪♪ Come back soon.

♪♪ Uh, with a round-trip ticket.

♪♪ You, my new friends

Have taught me so much.

It makes me want to sing!

♪♪ You did that already.

♪♪ But I didn't finish.

Hit it!

[Music begins]

♪ Such a beautiful world

You'd love it there too

Oh! Malamaroo

Malamaroo

Mal-a-ma-roo ♪

♪♪ What a lovely little song.

♪♪ That was beautiful.

♪♪ Very nice.

♪♪ Big finish!

♪ Malamaroo, malamaroo

Malamaroo-ooh

Ooh-ooh-oh! ♪

♪♪ Uh-oh

♪♪ ♪ Malamaroo

All: ♪ malamaroo

♪♪ ♪ Malamaroo

All: ♪ malamaroo

♪♪ ♪ Malamaroo-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh!

Ooh!

Ooh!

Ooh!

Ooh! ♪

♪♪ All right, yes. Very well

Sung, little alvin.

♪♪ Bigger finish!

♪♪ Huh? Oh.

♪♪ ♪ Malamaroo

I'm halfway home

To my

Malama--

Malama-malama-malama-malama

Malama-malama-malama-malamaroo

Roo!

Roo!

Roo!

Roo-ooh-ooh-ooh-oh!

Malamaroo-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪

♪♪ Uh, wrap it up, alvin.

♪♪ Everybody!

All: ♪ malamaroo

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♪♪ So things in nool are

The way things in nool were

Before a strange visitor

Caused such a stir. And way out

In space, alvin yelled--

♪♪ Stop!

[Breaks squealing]

♪♪ And then alvin said--

♪♪ Once more from the top.

[Music begins]

♪♪ ♪ I come from a planet

Called malamaroo

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I'm the only member

Of my one-member crew ♪

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♪♪ Author! Author!

♪♪ Wonderful.

♪♪ Yay!

♪♪ Let's have another.

♪♪ Oh, yeah.

Mm. And, go!

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♪♪ Blech.

♪♪ Oh!

♪♪ It stopped working.

♪♪ Oh, brother.

♪♪ Huh?

♪♪ Hey, your machine is broken.

♪♪ There must be some trouble.

♪♪ I think I can fix this thing

On the double.

♪♪ That's great, yeah.

[Door squeaking open]

♪♪ Whoa.

♪♪ Hey! Hey!

He's got our back scratcher.

♪♪ He's got our cake.

♪♪ We want more stories.

♪♪ Hey. I'm on my break.

[Spluttering]

♪♪ See you next time.