01x26 - Pretzelmania

[bunniefuu]

[upbeat music playing]

Mm. Smells like Mom's making brownies.

I love brownies.

-They're awfully good with milk.
-[meows]

How can something be awful and good
at the same time?

That's a good question, Dinah.

Hmm.

Maybe somebody else has the answer.

[mystical music playing]

[theme music playing]

♪ Hold on to your seat
Let's go for a ride ♪

♪ Now that we're here
On the other side ♪

♪ Use your imagination
And you'll understand ♪

♪ It's an adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Every day is something new ♪

♪ With music, rhyme, and a dance or two ♪

♪ It's a curious place
With a wonderful crew ♪

♪ And you're never quite sure
What they will do ♪

♪ Use your imagination
You'll understand ♪

♪ It's an adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventure in Wonderland ♪

[upbeat music playing]

Oh. Oh.

Oh. [humming]

Rabbit?

Rabbit!

Rabbit!

Uh, yes, Your Majesty.

Don't you notice anything?

Is it hot in here?

Hot? You're not even warm.

You don't see anything new?

Oh, your hair.

No, it's not my hair.

[gasps] That's a wig? It looks so real.

It is real, you dumb bunny.

You don't notice something different?

[upbeat blues music playing]

♪ There's something different
Different about me ♪

♪ If you look closely
You will clearly see ♪

♪ My hair's the same
And so are my shoes ♪

♪ But something is different
Wonderful and new ♪

♪ I haven't grown
My height is the same ♪

♪ I'm still the Red Queen
Yes, that's still my name ♪

♪ There's something different
Different about me ♪

♪ If you look closely
You will clearly see ♪

♪ I'm not a turkey
And I'm not a kangaroo ♪

♪ I haven't turned purple
And I haven't turned blue ♪

♪ Oh, there's something different
Different about me ♪

♪ There's something different
It's different about me ♪

♪ You just can't put your finger on it
Can you? ♪

[snapping]

[laughs]

-Aha!
-Well? What do you see?

You've stopped biting your nails.

No! I have a new ring.

Of course, a ring.

Why, it's as plain as the nose on my face.

Plain? You think my ring is plain?

Oh! No. No, Your Majesty.

-I think your ring is--
-Is what?

[ring ricocheting]

Is a little too big.

Oh! How could it be big and little
at the same time?

Little is the opposite of big.

Well, actually,
Your Majesty, it's an oxymoron.

Oh, that's all I need,
is another clumsy animal in the palace,

and stupid to boot.

Uh, not an unintelligent ox,
Your Majesty, an oxymoron.

[Rabbit chuckles]

If I may, Your Highness,
it's an expression:

Two words that are opposites
come together to mean something else,

like "pretty ugly" or "real fake."

Ugly? Fake?
What are you saying about my ring?

I'm saying it's too big.

[gasps]

For those teensy-weensy,
itsy-bitsy, dainty little fingers.

[all] Oh!

I thought he used his fingers.

[coughing]

So, Hatter, how do you get a pretzel
out of this thing?

Glad you asked.

Allow me to explain.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ Help me out, Hare ♪

♪ Happy to, Hatter ♪

♪ To make a tasty pretzel
Here's all that you need do ♪

♪ You put the dough in here
And soon the work is through ♪

[both] ♪ It's a complicated process
The machine is well designed ♪

♪ There's a meter for the salt
It must be properly aligned ♪

[both] ♪ Pop goes, pop goes ♪

♪ Pop goes the pretzel ♪

♪ Pop goes, pop goes ♪

♪ Pop goes the pretzel ♪

[both scatting]

♪ To chow down on a pretzel
Custom-made in Wonderland ♪

♪ It first must bake in this machine
Constructed all by hand ♪

[both] ♪ There's a unit just for shaping
That's a most important thing ♪

♪ There's a heater and a cooler
And a bell that we can ring ♪

[both] ♪ Pop goes, pop goes ♪

♪ Pop goes the pretzel ♪

♪ Pop goes, pop goes ♪

♪ Pop goes the pretzel ♪

♪ We're putting some salt
On the twisty dough-ay ♪

♪ We're making pretzels
The Hatter/Hare way ♪

[all] Ooh!

[bell rings]

Here you go, Dum.

I'll give you the honor
of tasting the first pretzel.

Okay, turn off the machine.
Well? Spectacular and wondrous?

And how!

[crowd] Oh!

-Second pretzel.
-[bell rings]

Little bonus for you.

But after this, no more free samples.

Hare, would you please
turn off the machine?

This is costing us money.

-I'm trying to. It won't shut off.
-[crowd] Oh!

Third little guy popped out, huh?

-Alice.
-Thank you.

-Hare, turn off the machine.
-Oh!

[all clamoring]

Is that the last one, Mr. Hatter?

Must be. The dough ran out.

Don't worry, Hatter.

These pretzels are so delicious
that I'll have a couple--

-Hundred?
-Bags. One for me, one for my brother.

Here you go.

-Okay.
-Thanks.

-Bye.
-Bye.

[both groan]

Oh, cheer up, you two.

You should have no trouble at all
selling pretzels that are--

[screams]

-Pretzels that are a scream?
-What's funny about them?

No, no, no.
The queen's ring, it's missing!

-[Mad Hatter & Hare gasp]
-I had it on here when I came in.

Well, it's got to be
around here somewhere.

[all] Oh, oh!

Oh, dear, what could have happened to it?

Search me.

[both] Oh!

Let's see.

I came in there,
and then I walked over there...

tasted the dough...

[gasps] That's it! The dough!

The ring must have fallen off my finger
and into the dough.

But the dough went into the machine.

And the machines made the dough into...

Oh, no. That means the ring is in...

[Rabbit gasps]

one of the pretzels.

[Mad Hatter & Hare gasp]

No problem.

We'll just cut them open till we find it.

Wait! You might hit the ring
and cut it in half.

No. No, I'm afraid we'll just have to...

[gulps] eat our way through all
of the pretzels until we find the ring.

Mr. Rabbit's right.

At least we won't be wasting food.

Now, how do you expect us
to eat all these pretzels?

Very carefully.

I know I wouldn't want to be the one
to swallow the queen's ring.

Hmm. Dig in.

-[dance music playing]
-[Caterpillar] Feel... the burn.

-[dance music playing]
-[Caterpillar] Feel... the burn.

Hello, Mr. Caterpillar.
I hope you like pretzels.

Oh, I love them.

How kind of you to think of me, Alice.

Well, to be honest, Mr. Caterpillar,

I was really thinking of poor Mr. Rabbit.

He accidentally dropped the queen's ring
into the Hatter's pretzel machine,

and now it's in one of the pretzels.

Mm--

That makes a pretty pricey pretzel.

Yes. And now we have to eat
through hundreds of pretzels

in order to find the ring.

I don't know
how we're ever going to find it.

It's hopeless.

Not necessarily.

Just listen to this story.

[Caterpillar] Once there was
a private-detective bloodhound

named Humphrey Boneguard.

-He had the world's best sense of smell.
-[sniffs]

But lately times were hard.

Humphrey could barely pay the rent.

[door opens]

Then one day
a beautiful woman came to his office.

It seemed her kitten was missing.

[wailing]

She was afraid that it was stolen,
and she wanted Humphrey to track it down.

[nose honks]

Normally, Humphrey stayed away
from missing-kitty cases,

but the woman was pretty upset.

Plus, she paid him in advance.

The trail was cold,

but Humphrey's nose
was the best in the business.

He sniffed for clues far and wide.

Finally, Humphreys nose
led him to the kitten.

And he hadn't been stolen at all.

He had just gotten lost.

And not only that,
he was no ordinary kitten.

He was Kitten Caboodle,

famous star of stage, screen
and cat-food commercials.

Kitten Caboodle's producer
was so grateful

she offered to make Humphrey
the star of his very own TV show.

-[applause]
-Thanks to his keen nose,

Humphrey became
one of Hollywood's top dogs.

And at last he knew
the sweet smell of success.

Unfortunately, Mr. Caterpillar,

we don't have any bloodhounds
to sniff out the ring.

So we're stuck eating pretzels.

It's a tough job,
but somebody's got to do it.

[Alice sighs]

Well, the ring wasn't in any
of the pretzels I gave to Mr. Caterpillar,

so that means
it has to be in one of these.

Let's keep eating.

[frantic music playing]

I don't understand.

We didn't find the ring,

and we went through every last pretzel.

Are you sure those were the last pretzels?

Of course we're sure.

Well, I just stopped by to remind you
Dee's were the last pretzels.

We know these were the last pretzels.

No, no, Dee's were the last pretzels.

Of course these were the last pretzels.

Now, shoo, Cat, shoo.

We're in no mood
for one of your silly games.

Hmm. Try to lend a helping paw
and see where it gets you? Sheesh.

Wait a minute.

Mr. Cat was trying to be helpful.

Dee's were the last pretzels.

Now, don't you start, Alice.

No, don't you remember?
You sold two bags of pretzels to Mr. Dee.

[gasps]

We've got to find Dum and Dee
before they eat those pretzels.

Dum, what is it
that makes pretzels so much fun to eat?

I don't know. I think it's the shape.

You're right.

No other snack has all these bends,
curves and twists.

Mm.

[both] Mm.

[upbeat rock music playing]

♪ There's a tricky little dance
That certainly comes to mind ♪

♪ It's a pretty sticky step
So take a quick stretch ♪

♪ Before your limbs get intertwined ♪

♪ Believe it or not
You'll get tied up in knots ♪

[both]
♪ Here comes pretzel-twistin' time ♪

♪ Come on, everybody ♪

♪ Let's do the pretzel twist ♪

-♪ Hoo! ♪
-♪ Ow! ♪

♪ It's a twistin' dance
And it goes something like this ♪

♪ Hoo! ♪

♪ You just slap your right hand
Behind your left knee ♪

♪ Oh! ♪

♪Then you slap your left hand
Behind your right knee ♪

♪ Got that, Dee? ♪

♪ Kick your left foot in the air
And turn your body to the right ♪

♪ Kick your right foot in the air
And turn your body to the left ♪

[both] ♪ And twist, twist ♪

♪ Doin' the pretzel twist, twist ♪

♪ Doin' the pretzel twist, twist ♪

♪ Doin' the pretzel twist, twist ♪

♪ Doin' the pretzel ♪

Hey, Dee, I need a little help over here.

I twisted myself into a pretzel,
and I can't untwist.

Ooh, ooh! Dee!

I need to buy back your pretzels.

Don't tell us you ate them all.

Oh, please, anything but that.

-[all gasp]
-We didn't. We ate only one bag.

[all sigh]

You didn't find anything
in the pretzels, did you?

-No. Was there supposed to be a surprise?
-There wasn't supposed to be.

What did you do
with the other bag of pretzels?

I gave the other bag to the queen.

[gasps]

-That's not a problem, is it?
-I think it is.

Ahh. There's nothing like
a comfortable chair, a yummy snack,

and my favorite soap opera,
As the Palace Turns.

[sentimental music playing on TV]

-Your Highness, darling.
-Oh, darling.

What in the world?

Hi, Your Majesty, what's up?

Up? Uh, nothing.

I just sat down
to watch As the Palace Turns.

Oh, my favorite.

You don't mind
if we watch with you, do you?

Actually, I prefer to watch--

I can't wait to find out
what happens to that greedy king.

Neither can I, especially after that
mysterious call on the princess' phone.

[Red Queen huffs]

-Oh, well.
-Oh, pretzels! Don't mind if I do.

-Anyone want a pretzel?
-[Alice] I do.

-I do.
-I just...

[Red Queen huffing]

Wait a minute.

I don't mind sharing my pretzels,
but I didn't get one.

Oh!

[all gasp]

All right, that's enough.

What's going on around here?

Rabbit, are you behind
all of these shenanigans?

[squeaks] Well, actually,
Your Majesty, I am.

You see,
I sort of accidentally dropped your ring

-into the Hatter's pretzel dough.
-What?!

It kind of accidentally
got cooked into a pretzel.

-That pretzel, Your Majesty.
-How do you know it's in this pretzel?

Because we've eaten
all the other pretzels,

and we didn't find it.

So it has to be in that pretzel.

Well, I guess I should be the one
to eat the last pretzel.

Not with those teeth.

Here, Hatter, you chew.

[screams] Hatter, my ring!
You swallowed my ring!

But the ring wasn't in that pretzel.

But if it didn't fall
into the pretzel dough,

what happened to it?

I'll get to the bottom of this.

Crystal, show me
what happened at the Hatter's today.

[Rabbit] As you can see, Your Majesty,
first I poured myself some tea,

and then I tasted the pretzel dough.

[Hare] Look there, the ring's
already missing from your finger

before you even reach the pretzel dough.

Hare's right.

Crystal, run that back.

[Alice] The ring is on your finger there

when you picked up
the Dormouse's teapot by mistake.

[Hare] There! Did you see that?

The ring slid off Rabbit's finger

and into the Dormouse's teapot.

[gasps]

By my fur and whiskers.

Then the queen's ring
must still be in the teapot!

[all gasp]

[Dormouse snoring]

Aw, hear that? The little guy's sleeping.

-We'll come back later.
-When pigs have wings, we will.

I want my ring back right now.

Before it ends up
in your next batch of pretzels.

[Dormouse] Oh! Get this out of here.

How can a mouse get any sleep
with this in his bed?

Oh, my ring! Oh.

So it never was in one of the pretzels.

[Hare] Which means...

-We ate hundreds of pretzels...
-For no good reason.

Oh.

Sorry. My mistake.

[chuckles]

Just think, all this time
it was right under our noses.

You mean it was under my nose.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ I was looking for my diary
I wanted to make another entry ♪

♪ At first I didn't worry ♪

♪ But after the discovery
Its whereabouts was a mystery ♪

♪ I started getting panicky ♪

♪ When you're looking for something
That's missing ♪

♪ Well, it's funny the way it goes ♪

♪ After you've searched
All over the place ♪

♪ It's turns up right under your nose ♪

But agony turned to irony.

Where she found it
was less than extraordinary.

♪ I took a quick inventory
Of my recent memory ♪

♪ I was really in a quandary ♪

♪ With barely any hope of recovery ♪

♪ When you're looking for something
That's missing ♪

♪ Well, it's funny the way it goes ♪

♪ After you've searched
All over the place ♪

♪ It turns up right under your nose ♪

[all chattering]

[mystical music playing]

Mm. Those brownies
still smell awfully good.

How can something be awful and good
at the same time?

It's just an oxymoron, Dinah.

[mom] Alice, do you want some brownies?

No, thanks, Mom.

I guess I'm a little full.

[theme music playing]

♪ That's all for now
But we'll see you again ♪

♪ Come back real soon
Now that we're all friends ♪

♪ Where every day is something new ♪

♪ With music, rhyme, and a dance or two ♪

♪ Use your imagination
And you'll understand ♪

♪ It's an adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventure in Wonderland ♪

♪ Adventures in Wonderland ♪