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01x16 - The Artifact Collection/Mothership Day

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Carl the Collector". Aired: November 14, 2024 – present.*
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Set in the fictional and peaceful Fuzzytown, Carl the Collector centers on the life of Carl, an autistic child anthropomorphic raccoon with a special interest in creating collections of various items, and his friends.

01x16 - The Artifact Collection/Mothership Day

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[♪ Drumbeat ]

[♪]

Singers: ♪ YES!

Singers: ♪ It's Carl!

Singers: ♪ The Collector!

♪ Clap, clap

Singers: ♪ It's Carl, it's Carl ♪

Singers: ♪ ABSO-LUTE-LY!

♪ Clap, clap

Singers: ♪ Carl!

Singers: ♪ It's Carl

Singers: ♪ The Collector!

♪ Clap, clap

Singers: ♪ It's Carl, it's Carl ♪

Singers: ♪ The Collector!

Singers: [chanting] ♪ Carl! Carl! Carl! Carl! Carl! ♪

Singers: ♪ The Collector!

CARL: The Artifact Collection

[♪]

[♪]

MS. HUFFMAN: Thank you, Mr. Kelly, for having me in your

MS. HUFFMAN: class today!

MS. HUFFMAN: I am Ms. Huffman, and I'm here from the

MS. HUFFMAN: Fuzzytown Historical Museum!

CARL/FORREST/ARUGULA/NICO: Hi, Ms. Huffman!

CARL: And Ms. Huffman is also a librarian!

MS. HUFFMAN: [gentle laugh] Yes, I am a librarian too.

MS. HUFFMAN: Thanks, Carl!

MS. HUFFMAN: Good morning, class! First, can anyone tell

MS. HUFFMAN: me what an archaeologist is?

MS. HUFFMAN: Arugula.

ARUGULA: Archeologists are scientists who study life in

ARUGULA: the past by digging for things left behind. Like

ARUGULA: old tools or pottery. Also, when I grow up, I'm

ARUGULA: going to be an archaeologist!

MS. HUFFMAN: Great answer, Arugula! And that's a very

MS. HUFFMAN: impressive goal. Archaeologists are smart,

MS. HUFFMAN: patient, and brave scientists!

ARUGULA: Brave?

MS. HUFFMAN: Indeed! Now, can anyone tell me what an

MS. HUFFMAN: artifact is?

MS. HUFFMAN: Carl?

CARL: An artifact is an object, like a tool, that was

CARL: used by someone who lived in the past.

MS. HUFFMAN: That's right, Carl! All of the objects I

MS. HUFFMAN: brought with me today are artifacts from

MS. HUFFMAN: Fuzzytown's past! Come take a closer look.

SHELDON: Whoa! What is that thing?!

CARL: It's an old telephone.

ARUGULA: A phone? It's huge!

SHELDON: And it has a curly tail! [Laughs]

CARL: Mama would LOVE these clay pots.

ARUGULA: Ooh. They're pretty.

ARUGULA: Wow! Isn't this old map of Fuzzytown the most

ARUGULA: beautiful thing you've ever seen?

NICO: Not really. I don't even think our house is on there.

NICO: Is it lunchtime yet?

[School bell ring]

NICO: Saved by the bell! Let's go eat!

[♪]

ARUGULA: Hmm.

[♪]

ARUGULA: Do you want to play archeologist with me today?

NICO: Digging for old stuff sounds kind of boring to me.

NICO: Besides, I'm going to the skate park with Forrest.

NICO: Do you want to come with us?

ARUGULA: No, thanks. I don't like going to the skate park.

ARUGULA: It's always crowded and I'm afraid of getting

ARUGULA: knocked over by the other skaters.

ARUGULA: Hey, Nico? Ms. Huffman said archeologists

ARUGULA: need to be brave. What do you think she meant?

NICO: Hmm...I don't know. Don't they have to run through

NICO: jungles and cross deserts to find old stuff? Who

NICO: KNOWS what else they might find. Snakes, spiders,

NICO: angry rabbits...

FORREST: Hi, Arugula! Hi, Nico!

[♪]

NICO: Have fun playing archeologist today, Ru-Ru!

FORREST: Are you ready to go?

NICO: Ready, Freddy!

FORREST: I'm Forrest.

NICO/FORREST: [laughing]

CARL: Hi, Arugula.

CARL: What's that you're looking at?

ARUGULA: Carl! Hi! It's a copy of the old map we saw

ARUGULA: yesterday in school. Do you want to play

ARUGULA: archeologist with me?

CARL: Sure. Is Archeologist a board game or a video game?

ARUGULA: [giggle] Neither. We're going to pretend to be

ARUGULA: archeologists! [excited squee]

ARUGULA: We're going to dig for artifacts. I marked an X

ARUGULA: on the map where I think we should search.

CARL: That sounds like an adventure. Maybe I can find an

CARL: artifact to add to one of my collections!

ARUGULA: We better hurry! I think a terrible dust storm is

ARUGULA: coming!

CARL: I don't see a dust storm...

ARUGULA: We're pretending, Carl. Remember?

CARL: Oh, yeah!

CARL: One dust storm coming up!

[Fan blowing air]

ARUGULA: [giggle]

[♪ archeologists jam ]

[♪]

[Bee buzzing]

CARL: Watch out for the pretend Giant Robot Bee!

ARUGULA: Carl. Do NOT move. That is a real bee! I repeat. A

ARUGULA: real bee!

CARL: It's okay. It doesn't want to hurt you!

ARUGULA: But I'm afraid of bees. One stung me once when I

ARUGULA: tried to pick it up.

CARL: Don't try to pick it up or make it feel scared, and it

CARL: won't bother you. It's busy collecting pollen.

ARUGULA: [big deep breaths]

ARUGULA: I will be brave. I will be brave. I will be

ARUGULA: brave. I WILL...be brave - [gasp]

ARUGULA: [panicky breaths]

CARL: You did it!

ARUGULA: I guess...but I don't think I was very brave.

CARL: My dad says you can be afraid AND brave at the same

CARL: time!

ARUGULA: Hmm. Really? Well, we better get back on the trail.

ARUGULA: The creek is just beyond this huge snow-capped

ARUGULA: mountain!

CARL: Yes, we have to climb that huge mountain...that is

CARL: not really huge, because we are pretending.

ARUGULA: Follow me!

[♪]

ARUGULA: [climbing effort sounds]

[♪]

ARUGULA: [sigh]

[♪]

CARL/ARUGULA: Yay!/We did it!

ARUGULA: Yes!

ARUGULA: Wait a minute! [gasp] Is that a crayfish? Look at

ARUGULA: those pincers!

CARL: Yes, but they won't bother you.

ARUGULA: But what if I slip on a rock and fall in?

ARUGULA: [scared moan]

CARL: You'll get wet.

CARL: The rocks are no more than inches apart. I'll go

CARL: first and you can follow my path.

CARL: You can do this! On behalf of archeologists

CARL: everywhere!

ARUGULA: [big brave breaths]

ARUGULA: I will be brave. I will be brave. I will

ARUGULA: be...whoa! Aah!

ARUGULA: [giggles]

CARL: Are you okay? You were very brave, Arugula!

ARUGULA: Yes, I guess I was! Even though I was a little

ARUGULA: scared.

ARUGULA: Hey, look! We made it! Let's start digging.

[♪]

CARL: It is really hot out here. And all we're finding

CARL: are rocks and worms. Let's dig faster!

ARUGULA: Archeologists have to be patient, Carl. If we dig

ARUGULA: too fast or too hard, we might destroy a valuable

ARUGULA: object.

ARUGULA: [gasp] I found something!

CARL: Uh...What is that?

ARUGULA: I'm not sure. It sort of looks like a coin...

CARL: I've seen coins with pyramids ON them before, but

CARL: I've never seen one that's shaped like a pyramid

CARL: too. Have a look.

ARUGULA: [excited squawk] It must be extremely rare!

ARUGULA: [excited squeaks]

CARL: I wonder who left it behind. Maybe it belonged to

CARL: an Egyptian pharaoh. They had pyramids in ancient

CARL: Egypt. But why would an Egyptian pharaoh visit

CARL: Fuzzytown?

ARUGULA: I don't know, but this is the best day of my life! We

ARUGULA: actually dug up a real artifact!

CARL: I know! Let's go to the library. They have plenty of

CARL: books on old coins there!

ARUGULA: Good idea! Let's leave this

ARUGULA: area like we found it.

[♪]

CARL: Aaah!

CARL: Arugula! That is definitely not a pretend

CARL: spider.

ARUGULA: It's okay, Carl. It's just a wolf spider. It won't

ARUGULA: hurt you.

CARL: I know it won't hurt me but, it creeps me out! Is it

CARL: still there? I can't look down.

ARUGULA: It's still there. But you can jump over it. Remember

ARUGULA: what your dad says, you can be afraid AND brave at

ARUGULA: the same time.

CARL: [whispering to himself] I will be brave.

ARUGULA: You did it!

CARL: We did it! Come on, Arugula. Let's get to the

CARL: library before it closes.

CARL: We've gone through every one of these books, but there

CARL: isn't a single triangle-shaped coin in any of

CARL: them.

ARUGULA: Maybe it's not a coin after all. Maybe it's a key.

ARUGULA: [gasp] Or jewelry!

CARL: Possibly. Why don't we ask Ms. Huffman if she has any

CARL: ideas?

ARUGULA: Excuse me, Ms. Huffman? Earlier today, Carl

ARUGULA: and I were playing archeologists and we dug up

ARUGULA: this strange artifact.

MS. HUFFMAN: What in the world? I haven't seen one of

MS. HUFFMAN: these in years!

CARL: You know what it is?

MS. HUFFMAN: You bet I do! This is an extremely rare and

MS. HUFFMAN: very old Pizza Pyramid coin. They were used

MS. HUFFMAN: to raise money to build this library years ago!

MS. HUFFMAN: I had several coins just like this one when

MS. HUFFMAN: I was little.

ARUGULA/CARL: Cool!

CARL: Do you think the coin is worth any money?

MS. HUFFMAN: I don't know about that, but I have a

MS. HUFFMAN: feeling it might be worth something to the

MS. HUFFMAN: Fuzzytown Historical Museum. You two

MS. HUFFMAN: have uncovered an important piece of Fuzzytown's

MS. HUFFMAN: history!

MS. HUFFMAN: The museum will be open on Monday. I can meet

MS. HUFFMAN: you there then!

ARUGULA: Thanks, Ms. Huffman!

MS. HUFFMAN: You're welcome, kids! Thank YOU for the fun

MS. HUFFMAN: memory!

[♪]

ARUGULA: Look what we found!

CARL: We were archeologists today, but only pretend

CARL: archeologists because Arugula's not a grown-up

CARL: archaeologist yet - but guess what? She still dug up a

CARL: REAL artifact!

SHELDON: Cool! What is that thing?

ARUGULA: It's a very old Pizza Pyramid coin. Ms. Huffman

ARUGULA: thinks the Fuzzytown Historical Museum will add it

ARUGULA: to their collection! Woohoo!

ARUGULA: Oh, no! My coin!

NICO: I'll get it!

ARUGULA: No, wait! I want to get it. Can I borrow your

ARUGULA: skateboard and helmet, Nico?

NICO: But it's crowded out there! Aren't you worried

NICO: you'll get knocked over?

ARUGULA: I am worried about being knocked over, but I can

ARUGULA: be afraid AND be brave at the same time. Right,

ARUGULA: Carl?

CARL: Right, Arugula!

ARUGULA: I'm doing this on behalf of archeologists

ARUGULA: everywhere!

ARUGULA: [big deep breath]

[♪ For archeologists everywhere!

[♪]

FORREST: I can't look.

[♪]

ARUGULA: [gasp]

[♪]

ARUGULA: Yes!

ARUGULA: I did it!

ALL TOGETHER: Yay! Woohoo!

[vehicle honks]

[♪]

CARL: Mothership Day

[♪]

[♪ theremin tune with Carl hummi along ♪]

CARL: Hmm...

[♪ theremin tune with Carl hummi along ♪]

CARL: Ooh...I definitely need to work on this part so I can

CARL: play it for Mama later.

CARL: But right now I need a break.

[♪]

MAUDE: Hey there, Carl!

CARL: Hi, Mama!

MAUDE: So, I'm VERY excited for this big Mother's

MAUDE: Day performance you've promised me.

CARL: I'm not ready yet. But I will be by dinnertime.

MAUDE: Gotcha. I'll call you when it's time for dinner.

CARL: Thanks.

[♪]

CARL: [♪ humming theremin tune

CARL: [♪ humming theremin ]

[speed zip]

CARL: Hey, Forrest. What are you doing?

FORREST: I'm making my mom the longest friendship bracelet

FORREST: ever. For Mother's Day!

CARL: Wow. That's a good idea!

FORREST: I'm going to call it a MOMship bracelet.

FORREST: But I gotta keep going. I have a LOT of

FORREST: beads to go!

CARL: Okay. See ya!

CARL: [♪ humming theremin tune

[♪]

CARL: Nice hearts, Sheldon!

SHELDON: Thanks! I'm going to fill the whole driveway with

SHELDON: chalk drawings for Mother's Day! What are you

SHELDON: doing for your mom?

CARL: I'm going to play her a song on the theremin.

SHELDON: What's a theremin?

CARL: The theremin is the oldest electronic instrument.

CARL: The only instrument you can play without touching!

CARL: You wave your hands over antennas like this, and it

CARL: makes music! I've been working on my song for three

CARL: weeks, two days, and minutes, but I need more time

CARL: to work on the last part.

CARL: Oh! That means I should go! Bye, Sheldon.

SHELDON: Bye!

[♪]

NICO: Look, Carl! We're picking Mother's Day flowers

NICO: for our mom! She loves the smell of these.

CARL: Those are very pretty.

CARL: I need to go work on MY Mother's Day gift too! See you

CARL: later!

CARL: [♪ humming theremin tune

[UFO Sound]

CARL: Huh?

[UFO Sound]

CARL: What was that?!

CARL: [Gasp]

[UFO Sound]

CARL: Whoa! I think that could be an Unidentified Object!

CARL: [gasp] A UFO!

CARL: I really gotta practice my song so I can play it for

CARL: Mama later...

[UFO Sound]

CARL: But I want to know what that unidentified flying

CARL: object is NOW!

CARL: It couldn't have gone very far...

[♪]

NICO: Carl! We NEED your opinion.

CARL: Did you see the UFO? I saw an orange unidentified

CARL: flying object whizzing across the sky!

NICO: No flying objects here. But we need your help.

NICO: I want to use this yellow ribbon...

ARUGULA: But I want to use this orange ribbon!

CARL: You could use them both.

ARUGULA: Ohhh...

ARUGULA: Ta-da!

NICO: Mom's going to love this!

CARL: Mom?

CARL: [gasp] My song! I have to go!

NICO: Oh wow! Look at that!

CARL: There it is!

CARL: Let's go find it.

ARUGULA: We need to finish this, Carl. Plus, it might

ARUGULA: just be a bird.

CARL: But what if it's not?

ARUGULA: Don't you need to work on your song?

CARL: I can do that after I find the UFO.

CARL: UFO, where are you?

CARL: Come out, come out, UFO!

SHELDON: Watch out, Carl!

SHELDON: What are you doing?

CARL: I think I saw an Unidentified Flying Object in

CARL: the sky.

SHELDON: A UFO? What did it look like?

CARL: It was orange and went really fast!

SHELDON: Really? Where?

[UFO sound]

SHELDON: I think I saw something! It went that way!

[♪]

CARL: There it goes again!

SHELDON: Oh boy! A UFO!

[♪]

SHELDON: I don't see it anymore!

CARL: It's gotta be up there somewhere!

SHELDON: Oh! Mother's Day! I have to get back home and

SHELDON: finish my drawing, and the UFO is probably long gone

SHELDON: now anyway.

CARL: I should go home too... I need to work on my song.

[♪]

[UFO sound]

CARL: There it is again! Let's go!

SHELDON: But...didn't you just say you need to work on your

SHELDON: song?

CARL: I can find the UFO AND THEN work on Mama's song!

[♪]

FORREST: Carl! Carl!

FORREST: I think I just saw a UFO!

CARL: You saw it too? Which way did it go?

FORREST: It went that way!

CARL: Come on, let's find it!

[♪]

[UFO sound]

CARL: There it goes! Hurry!

[♪]

[UFO sound]

FORREST: Whoa! It's so fast!

[♪]

CARL: Hurry, Forrest!

[♪]

CARL: It's going that way.

[♪]

[UFO sound]

[♪]

FORREST: Ha! Got it now!

[♪]

CARL/FORREST: Aaah!

[♪]

[UFO sound]

[♪]

CARL: There it goes again!

FORREST: Make up your mind, UFO!

[♪]

[UFO sound]

[♪]

FORREST: It's going this way now!

[UFO sound]

[♪]

CARL: And now, that way!

[♪]

FORREST: This is a strange UFO, Carl. Why is it just

FORREST: going back and forth in the sky?

CARL: I dunno, but I want to find out!

[UFO sound]

[♪]

CARL: There it goes!

[UFO sound]

[♪]

FORREST: There it goes again!

[UFO sound]

[♪]

[♪]

CARL: Keep going!

[♪]

FORREST: I reeeeeally want to look with you, Carl, but I

FORREST: can't. It's getting late and I still have a lot of

FORREST: beads to put on my Momship bracelet, so I have to

FORREST: get back to it.

CARL: I should go practice too...

[UFO sound]

CARL: But I really want to see that UFO - or whatever

CARL: it is.

[♪]

[UFO Sounds]

[♪]

CARL: Ahh...Lost it.

[UFO Sound]

[UFO Sound]

CARL: [excited gasp]

CARL: I've got you this time!

CARL: Huh? THAT'S the UFO?!

CARL: That's YOURS?!

PUNK TURTLE #: Yeah! We got a disc-throwing contest

PUNK TURTLE #: tomorrow, so we're practicing.

CARL: So...that's not a UFO?

PUNK TURTLE #: Ha! Now that would be totally punk!

PUNK TURTLE #: ...But no. It's just a disc.

CARL: Wow. You guys are really good at throwing that.

PUNK TURTLE #: We've been practicing all day, and we're

PUNK TURTLE #: finally getting the hang of it!

CARL: Practicing!

CARL: I haven't finished my song!

[Walkie talkie beep]

MAUDE: CARL! DINNERTIME!

CARL: Oh no! It's dinnertime, and I'm not ready to perform!

PUNK TURTLE #: Sorry, little dude. Good luck!

CARL: Thanks.

[♪]

MAUDE: Hey, there you are!

MAUDE: I am SO excited to hear this song you made for me!

CARL: Um...uh...can we eat dinner first?

MAUDE: Oh. Okay!

[♪]

CARL: [Phew]

[♪]

MAUDE: Mmm, mmm mmm. Oh yummy! Well! I'm done with my

MAUDE: sandwich. So...are you ready to play?

CARL: [nervous gulp] Um...I guess so?

CARL: Here we go.

[♪ theremin tune ]

[♪ off note ]

CARL: Ooh, that's not right!

[♪ theremin tune, wobbly and inconsistently played ♪]

CARL: Ugh! I can't do this.

MAUDE: Hey, what's going on, Carl?

CARL: I knew I needed to work on my song because there was

CARL: this one part that I didn't know yet, but then I

CARL: saw a UFO and chased it all over the neighborhood.

MAUDE: A UFO? Wow!

CARL: But it was just a flying disc, and now my song sounds

CARL: awful. I'm sorry, Mama. It was just too hard not to

CARL: look for a UFO.

MAUDE: It's okay. I have moments like that too, Carl!

CARL: You do?

MAUDE: Mmm, maybe not chasing UFOs. But sometimes, something

MAUDE: I really want to do now gets in the way of something

MAUDE: more important I need to do later.

CARL: So what do you do?

MAUDE: Well, I think about how I'll feel later if I'm not

MAUDE: able to do the more important thing.

CARL: I think I'd feel better now if I had practiced before.

MAUDE: Mmm. Well then, what should we do?

CARL: I'm going to work on my song until it's just the way I

CARL: want it to be. Then I'll play it for you.

MAUDE: Now that sounds like a good plan.

[♪ theremin tune ]

MAUDE: It's...getting there, Carl! Keep practicing.

CARL: Just one second.

CARL: Here you go, Mama! The quietest headphones from my

CARL: headphone collection.

CARL: Happy Mother's Day, Mama!

MAUDE: Thank you, Carl.

[♪ theremin tune ]

[UFO sound]

[♪ Drumbeat ]

[♪]

Singers: ♪ YES!

Singers: ♪ It's Carl,

Singers: ♪ The Collector!

♪ Clap, clap

Singers: ♪ It's Carl, it's Carl ♪

Singers: ♪ ABSO-LUTE-LY!

♪ Clap, clap, clap

Singers: ♪ Carl!

Singers: ♪ It's Carl

Singers: ♪ The Collector!

♪ Clap, clap

Singers: ♪ It's Carl, it's Carl ♪

Singers: ♪ The Collector!

Singers: [chanting] ♪ Carl! Carl! Carl! Carl! Carl! ♪

Singers: ♪ The Collector!