03x11 - The Clan of the Cavebunny

[bunniefuu]

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Dinah.
I used to think history was interesting,

but that was before I picked up
this great book on prehistoric times.

See, "pre" is a prefix, meaning "before."

So "prehistoric" means "before history"
or "before people wrote things down."

I especially like the chapter
on prehistoric animals.

See? Here's a giant sloth...

a woolly mammoth...

and here's a relative of yours,
the saber-toothed cat.

Boy. Look at those sharp teeth.

Something tells me
they didn't make good prehistoric pets.

Still...

it's a shame
there aren't any of them anymore...

because seeing one
would be quite an adventure.

I know a place to go
whenever I want an adventure.

[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 ♪

Didn't the Hatter and Hare said
they'd meet us at the cave at 12?

Yes. They said they'd be here
precisely, punctually, promptly at 12.

Sorry. When it comes to synonyms,
different words that mean the same thing,

sometimes I get excited,
elated, exhilarated...

Okay, I get the idea.

-Hey, guys.
-[both] Hey, Cat.

What's up?

Dee and I are about to go into the cave
for spelunking.

Wouldn't you rather do it
out in the open, in the fresh air?

Cat...

you can't be a spelunker out in the open

-because spelunking means exploring caves.
-Exploring caves.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ We're two subterranean gentlemen ♪

♪ If there's a cave to be explored
We'll guide you in ♪

♪ Watching our step with the lights on top
Of miner's helmets that we just bought ♪

♪ Stalactites, stalagmites ♪

♪ Tiny little creatures
That have never seen the daylight ♪

♪ Are doing the funky spelunking ♪

♪ Moving to a spell, like a funky groove ♪

♪ Doing the funky spelunking ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪ You could be spelunking too ♪

♪ The newest, coolest Wonderland rave
Has all the local folks exploring a cave ♪

♪ As long there's a guide
To show you around ♪

♪ It's real hip because it's underground ♪

♪ Doing the funky spelunking ♪

♪ Moving to a spell, like a funky groove ♪

♪ Doing the funky spelunking ♪

♪ Well, well, well ♪

♪ You could be spelunking too ♪

So now I know what spelunking is.

It sounds kind of dangerous.

It can be
if you don't know what you're doing.

But Dum and I are experts.

Hatter and Hare asked us to guide them.

Well, no doubt about it.

Hatter and Hare need
all the guidance they can get.

[laughs]

[indistinct chatter]

Sorry we're late,
but we wanted to pick up things.

You can't believe how long
the checkout lines were

at Spelunkers "R" Us.

What did you bring?

The spelunker's map, the spelunker's rope,
the spelunker's canteen...

What's this?

Spelunker's submarine sandwich.

You're the ones with all the experience

and you told us
you haven't found a cave yet

where you can get a decent hoagie.

Oh, well, it's on.

[indistinct chatter]

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Boy. I don't think we've ever gone
this deep into a cave before.

I'm looking at the map
and I can't tell where we are.

Maybe this ancient cave writing
will tell us.

"You are here."

How true that is.

Ow! I bumped my head on a stalagmite.

Not unless you were walking on your hands.

You see, in caves,
stalactites hang from a ceiling.

Stalagmites rise up from the ground.

Don't feel bad, Dum.
There's just things you mix up.

Like dolphin and porpoise,
starboard and port, jelly and jam.

Right shoe and left shoe.

Ooh! It's cold in this part of the cave.

Hey, look!

This block of ice must be seven feet high.

-You know what that means, don't you?
-I sure do. Somewhere in this cave

is a really huge ice tray
that needs filling.

Look! There's something inside.

Let's get it out in the light
so we can get a better look at it.

[indistinct chatter]

This will do it here.

Wow! That's a big block of ice.

Ooh, what's inside?

We're not sure, Alice.
Looks like some sort of creature.

I've read about something like this once.
They found a woolly mammoth frozen in ice.

They said it was nearly 40,000 years old.

Whoa!

If this 40,000 years old,
it's the oldest thing in Wonderland.

Older than the meat loaf
in the back of your refrigerator?

Gee. Uncovering a prehistoric creature.

Whichever one of you found it
is going to be very, very famous.

-[all] I am.
-Sure.

If you make a great scientific discovery,
you'll go down in history.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ Think of the possibility ♪

♪ You could go down in history ♪

♪ You could be carved into a mountain ♪

♪ They'll put your statue in a fountain ♪

♪ You'll go down in history ♪

♪ Take a listen and you'll see ♪

♪ Your name could be
In the history books ♪

♪ You could be the one
Getting all the looks ♪

♪ Like Newton or like van Gogh ♪

♪ You'll be above the status quo ♪

♪ Bigger than big, a part of it all ♪

♪ With your face on a stamp
Or your name on a mall ♪

♪ You'll go down in history ♪

♪ Take a listen and you'll see ♪

♪ Think of the possibility ♪

By my fur and whiskers,
where did this come from?

Water.

When water freezes, it becomes ice.

I know how ice is formed.

I meant, where on earth did you find
a block of ice this size?

What in the name of Wonderland
is inside of it?

[all whistling]

Come now. You're hiding something.

Oh, please. What would we be hiding?

It's not like we discovered

a 40,000-year-old
prehistoric creature in a cave,

which would be
the most important scientific discovery

in the history of Wonderland.

What?

Right. I'm afraid this block of ice

must be turned over
to the queen immediately.

But they found it, Mr. Rabbit.

-She means I found it.
-No, I did.

-I did.
-Wait a minute!

I think you're all forgetting
one of Wonderland's strictest laws.

Let's see.

Yes. "All subjects who find

in blocks of ice while spelunking

must turn them over to the queen."

So it's entirely out of...

It's out of my... Entirely out my hands.

-[all groaning]
-Sorry.

But I'm afraid Her Majesty
will really want this.

I don't want this! Look!

It's dripping all over
and I just had my no-wax floors waxed.

Oh... But, Your Majesty,
I was just following the constitution.

The law clearly states that, uh...

-"All subjects who find 40,000--"
-Oh, I know what the law says,

but you're forgetting the amendments
to the constitution.

-Amendments?
-Yes.

Changes that improve the laws.

Especially this one saying,

"The above laws shall be null, void
and chucked out to boot

if any them causes the throne room
to be a mess."

[ice cracking]

-[gasps]
-Oh, my gosh. Part of it cracked off.

-Must be from moving it around so much.
-Look, rabbit ears.

Why, it's a Stone Age bunny.

[gasps]

Thaw him out somewhere else.

If there's one thing I can't stand,

it's the smell
of 40,000-year-old wet bunny fur.

Isn't he sort of a relative
of Mr. Rabbit's?

More reason for him to go.

The last time
the Rabbit's relatives stayed here,

my lettuce bill went through the roof.

-[Dee] The ears, they moved!
-It's alive!

Wait. If something has been frozen in ice,
it can't still be alive.

Maybe not where you come from, Alice,
but this is Wonderland.

Alive? After being frozen
in a block of ice for 40,000 years?

Do you know what this means?

He won't be a big fan of ice hockey?

I don't care what it means.
Get it out of here.

The last thing I need is some
Stone Age bunny running around,

breaking my dishes.

But it's only proper
that once the Stone Age bunny awakens,

you be the first person he sees.

-Oh, yes. Uh-huh.
-Mr. Rabbit's right.

You should be the one that welcomes him
from the Stone Age to the Wonderland Age.

So I should prepare
one my famous speeches?

Why? Once the ice melts,
he won't need any more hot air.

All right. I want to see that cavebunny
the minute his eyes open.

Rabbit, fetch my pen and writing paper.

I feel a speech coming on.

[clearing throat]

Fourscore and 40,000 years ago...

Where are you going
with those sledgehammers?

Haven't you heard?

A prehistoric bunny was discovered
in a block of ice, and it's alive.

So we got these to break it free.

Indeed.

And what are you planning
with this cave-dwelling cottontail

once he's out?

First on the list is a wash, dry
and fluffing.

You make him sound like a towel.

Well, we want him presentable
when he speaks with the queen.

You're expecting Her Majesty
to have a heart-to-heart talk

with a cavebunny?

-[both] Uh-huh.
-I think you should listen to this story.

"There was a caveman named Og,

who was walking along with a friend
when they both stubbed their toes."

-Ook!
-Glook!

[Caterpillar] "'Ook! Glook!'
Og liked the sound of that.

He tried to think of more
soundalike sounds, but couldn't.

What Og needed were words, rhyming words.

The trouble was cavemen
didn't know any words.

They mostly just made sounds
like 'arg' and 'grr.'

But the sounds weren't words
and they didn't rhyme.

So Og decided to invent
some rhyming words.

He invented 'wheel.'

And 'meal.'

He invented 'city.'

And 'kitty.'

Og confuses rhyming words together
and called them poems."

[clearing throat] City, kitty.

[Caterpillar] "Other cave people
grew to like Og's poems.

A few even learned to read them.

And thus Og became
the world's first poet."

So the queen should be ready
with a few good rhymes

just in case the cavebunny's a poet?

What I'm saying is

since most prehistoric people
didn't know any words,

the queen maybe expecting
talky-talky with the bunny...

and wind up instead
with a little grunty-grunty.

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[announcer] And now more
of Disney's Adventures in Wonderland.

Okay, old man,

and I do mean old,
let me know if this hurts.

Didn't even wiggle an ear.

What a brave bunny.

Just relax and we'll have you out of there
faster than Hare can say Gigantopithecus.

Right. Gigantopithe...

Gigantopi... Gigan...

We can't get him out any faster?

I wish you would. With that ice around,
I'm turning into a micicle.

We got the hammers.

So stand back.

Wait! You can't use hammers that big.

You might hurt the bunny.
What were you thinking?

I should really call my sister May.
We don't talk nearly often enough.

-[clearing throat]
-Sorry.

These were the smallest
that we could find.

Oh. Well, in that case, why don't you try
tapping gently with these teaspoons?

Just think. We have in front of us
a prehistoric bunny.

It's like having a window
on the Stone Age.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ Back in the Stone Age
Before there was a clock ♪

♪ They lived in a cold caves
And they couldn't talk ♪

♪ When this guy wakes up
He's in for a shock ♪

♪ Let's do the rock, rock, rock
The Stone Age rock ♪

♪ Come on and rock, rock, rock
The Stone Age rock ♪

♪ Way back at the dawn of man
They were rocking out in Wonderland ♪

♪ They didn't have television
Or video tapes ♪

♪ They didn't know what they were missing
They were busy hanging out with apes ♪

♪ We'll know more about it
When this ice evaporates ♪

♪ Let's do the rock, rock, rock
The Stone Age rock ♪

♪ Come on and rock, rock, rock
The Stone Age rock ♪

♪ Way back at the dawn of man
They were rocking out in Wonderland ♪

♪ Way back at the dawn of man
They were rocking out in Wonderland ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

-♪ Yeah?
-Yeah ♪

I wish we could speed this up.

Wait a minute. We can.

I'm such a harebrain, I completely forgot.

I brought my hare dryer.

With four settings,
cold, warm, hot and defrost.

-[dryer whirring]
-It won't be long now.

Gosh, it will remarkable
having a Stone Age bunny

running around Wonderland.

Imagine the first time the queen sees him.

Why, I can see it now.

Well, after eating all those nuts, berries
and dinosaur eggs,

I'll bet you can't wait
for your first palace-cooked meal.

[grunting]

Chicken a la Queen.

It's polite to take
a little piece for yourself.

And then pass it on.

You take a little piece.

Really, Mr. Cavebunny?

You've got the manners of a missing link.

Oh, this is hopeless.
Oh, harrumph. Goodness' sakes.

Just pass me the butter.

Not the bread, the butter.

Not the potatoes, the butter!

Finally.

Now let me have it.

Boy! The queen is going to have
a lot of fun with the bunny.

And think, at one time,
she didn't even want him around.

Whoa. This bunny looks good
for 40,000 years old.

-Especially his teeth.
-He must have flossed.

He's waking up.

Quick! We've gotta get him back
to the palace.

Just wait.

Your Majesty.

The cavebunny's about to awaken.

Oh! Where's my speech?
My first words to him

are just as important
as his first words to us.

Oh, I'm afraid a Stone Age bunny
won't speak our language.

So when you greet him,
you have to speak his language.

You know, grunt.

-Grunt?
-[all grunt]

[speaking indistinctly]

If you expect me to understand
what you're saying,

you have stop making those noises.

Why, he speaks English.

Of course. Why shouldn't I?

Is it chilly in here or is it just me?

What's all the commotion I'm hearing?

It's the cavebunny.

That's no cavebunny!
That's my uncle Hassenpfeffer!

[all] Uncle Hassenpfeffer?

Oh, hello there, nephew.

Uncle!

Oh!

Uncle, you've been gone such a long time.

I was worried. I reported you
to the Bureau of Missing Bunnies.

But I say, Uncle, how did you get stuck
in this block of ice?

I don't know.
The last thing I remember was spelunking.

-It was freezing in that cave.
-Yes. Well...

I hate to be the one
to break this to you, but...

you've been frozen in this ice
for over a year.

Really?

I should be getting home.
Just imagine how my mail is piling up.

Uh, no offense, Mr. Hassenpfeffer,

but I'm disappointed
you're not a 40,000-year-old cavebunny.

That's enough, Hare.

After what he's been through,
he doesn't need that talk.

What he needs is...

a warm welcome.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ He's one cold bunny
Frozen as can be ♪

♪ Inside a giant ice cube
We had to set him free ♪

♪ We gave him a blast
Of really hot, hot air ♪

♪ We thought he was a cavebunny
Prehistoric hare ♪

♪ One warm welcome
Or maybe two ♪

♪ Uncle Hassenpfeffer, I missed you ♪

♪ Now you're home
Things will be grand ♪

♪ Here's an extra warm welcome
Back to Wonderland ♪

♪ I've missed you so much
This long, long year ♪

♪ Welcome back, welcome home
We're so happy you're here ♪

♪ He was one cold bunny
Frozen as can be ♪

♪ Inside a giant ice cube
We had to set him free ♪

♪ One warm welcome or maybe two ♪

♪ Uncle Hassenpfeffer, we missed you ♪

♪ But now you're home
And things will be grand ♪

♪ Here's an extra warm welcome
Back to Wonderland ♪

[announcer] Disney's Adventures
in Wonderland will be back after this.

Looking at your prehistoric relative?

Take a good look
because a picture in the book

is probably the only way
you'll ever see a saber-toothed cat.

Prehistoric relatives don't turn up
in blocks of ice every day.

As a friend of mine found out.

[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 ♪