01x09 - The Mystery Of Winna-Bango Falls

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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01x09 - The Mystery Of Winna-Bango Falls

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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.

[Whistle blows]

♪♪ Ok, guys, listen up. Here's

The plan. [Clears throat] this

Has got to be a team effort.

Remember, my little kitties,

It's all for one and one for

All. We're all in this boat

Together. And remember, there's

No "i" in the word "team."

♪♪ There's also no "i" in the

Word "wumpous."

♪♪ Or "schneedle."

♪♪ Or "mississippi." I was never

Good at geography.

♪♪ It's all about teamwork.

See, we're all links in a chain.

If any one of those links should

Break, the chain falls apart.

Are you with me, huh?

♪♪ Uh-uh.

♪♪ No.

♪♪ Take lake winna-bango for

Example.

♪♪ Hmm?

♪♪ All the folks in the lake are

Merry with reason. And once a

Year frezzle flume fruits are in

Season.

♪♪ ♪ There's something a'growin'

At lake winna-bango,

It's not quite a melon,

It's not quite a mango ♪

♪♪ ♪ It's wonderful

♪♪ ♪ It's marvelous

♪♪ ♪ Simply divine

♪♪ ♪ I can tell you this fruit

That is finer than fine ♪

♪♪ Ha ha. Boy do I love these

Things, huh?

♪♪ Ah, yeah! There's nothing

Like a sweet frezzle flume fruit

To start the day out right!

♪♪ Wee!

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin

Without it ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ This wubbulous snack

Of a frezzle flume bush,

There's peel of ripe green,

And an inside like mush ♪

♪♪ ♪ With the sweet thing

We taste, and fine nectar to

Guzzle, no food is a feast

Like the fruit of the frezzle ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin

Without it ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ But it's more than

A fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ And much more than a meal

♪♪ ♪ It's a slippery, sloppery

Ride on a peel ♪

♪♪ Whoo!

♪♪ ♪ And that peel,

Oh that feel,

Simply put it's ideal ♪

♪♪ ♪ Once you see it

♪♪ ♪ Watch us slide

♪♪ ♪ Watch us tumble

♪♪ ♪ Watch us glide

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ ♪ And the fuzzily, wuzzily,

Fruitly, smoothily peel,

Like a frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin

Without it ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ Where would we be

Without it ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit,

Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

[Cheering]

♪♪ Mm-mmm. Moose moss and

Frezzle flume fruit. You just

Can't b*at that combination.

Oh-ho. Come to papa! Mmm.

♪♪ Whee! Ugh!

Excuse me. Whoa...

There was this moose in my--

Bleh...whee!

♪♪ [Scoffs] this is most

Undignified, slipping and

Sliding on frezzle flume fruit

Peels.

♪♪ [Bah]

♪♪ Just look at this behavior.

They're all acting like animals,

I tell you.

♪♪ Like animals!

♪♪ We must lead by example,

Junior. Let us pick up these

Peels.

♪♪ Yes, mother.

♪♪ Why don't you put them in my

Pouch.

♪♪ Yes, I will, mother.

♪♪ Yes, I will, mother. ♪♪ That's good. There, yes.

♪♪ That's good. There, yes.

♪♪ Hey!

♪♪ What is she doing?!

♪♪ Oh, wonderful, junior.

Oh, there's a fine one.

♪♪ Ugh...

♪♪ Well, hello there fellow

Dwellers of beautiful lake

Winna-bango. What's going on?

♪♪ Well, jane kangaroo is

Cleaning up all the frezzle

Flume peels.

♪♪ Oh, she isn't it?!

♪♪ Take a look for yourself.

♪♪ There we go. All tidied up.

Come, junior.

♪♪ Yes, mother.

♪♪ She is!

♪♪ Friends and neighbors of lake

Winna-bango, attention!

Attention!

♪♪ Attention please!

♪♪ Thank you, junior.

♪♪ Go ahead, mother.

♪♪ From now on we will no longer

Discard our frezzle flume fruit

Peels on the ground.

♪♪ Not on the ground!

♪♪ Instead, we shall place them

Neatly in this frezzle flume

Fruit peel receptacle.

♪♪ Yeah. In the respectacle

In the spectacle--in the can!

♪♪ Thank you, junior. Like this.

Yes. And also we will no longer

Allow any slipping or sliding on

Frezzle flume fruit peels here

At lake winna-bango.

♪♪ Huh?

♪♪ We can't?

♪♪ We--huh?

What?

♪♪ I'm sure you'll agree

Maintaining your balance is so

Much more dignified. Thank you.

And please enjoy the rest of

This lovely morning.

♪♪ Morning.

♪♪ Come, junior.

♪♪ Yes, mother.

♪♪ Ahh. Ahh.

Oh, no! This is bad.

Oh my gosh. Oh my dear.

♪♪ Yes, we waited all ye-e-ear

For these fruits to appear.

♪♪ Uh-huh.

♪♪ Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

That's odd. Do you hear that?

♪♪ Hmm.

No. Don't hear nothing.

♪♪ Exactly.

Don't hear the waterfall.

♪♪ You can hear the waterfall

From this far away?

♪♪ When it's falling.

And it's not falling.

♪♪ Man, that's some set of ears

You got there.

♪♪ Thank you. We moose have keen

Hearing, a great sense of smell,

And impeccable manners too.

♪♪ [Gasp] look! He's right.

The waterfall!

♪♪ It's not falling. Oh, dear.

♪♪ I guess now that the

Waterfall isn't spilling into

Lake winna-bango the lake's

Going to dry up. No more water.

♪♪ No more water?!

♪♪ No more water?! [Screaming]

[Screaming]

♪♪ Well, uh, we've done all we

Can for our community. Time to

Pack up and move to greener

Pastures.

♪♪ [Screaming]

♪♪ Pack it up! Pack it up!

♪♪ This is where we live. It's

Our home! We can't just pack up

And leave.

♪♪ Well, we're all packed up,

And we're ready to leave.

♪♪ ♪ Please, please,

I know I can figure

This mystery out,

Just give me a chance,

Let me search,

Let me scout,

Let me hunt high and low,

And each clue I'll deduce

Till I bring back the answer,

Till I bring back the answer, yes, i, thigwick the moose ♪

Yes, i, thigwick the moose ♪

♪♪ [Whispering indistinctly]

♪♪ We decided to give you a

Chance to save us before lake

Winna-bango becomes...puddle

Winna-bango.

♪♪ Which by my calculations

Should happen in hours

Minutes and seconds.

♪♪ , ...

♪♪ You won't be sorry!

♪♪ Keep going.

♪♪ , , ...

♪♪ [Breathing heavily]

No water here. No water there.

There must be water...somewhere.

[Gulp]

♪ The waterfall has stopped,

What a puzzling puzzle ♪

♪♪ ♪ The puzzlingest puzzle

If ever there wuzzle ♪

♪♪ ♪ But watch as I can figure

This mystery out,

I'll snoop and I'll explore,

And I'll search all about,

I got to keep on climbing,

'Cause they're counting on me,

To save every bush, every leaf,

Every tree,

I won't let 'em down,

No, no, no, not me ♪

♪♪ ♪ But there's not

Much time left,

Better move your caboose ♪

♪♪ ♪ I'll solve

This great puzzle,

Yes, i, thigwick the moose ♪

[Birds chirping]

♪♪ Hours minutes.

♪♪ And seconds.

, , .

, , . ♪♪ Ugh. Ahh.

♪♪ Ugh. Ahh.

Hmm. Why I think I found

Something--an unidentifiable

Obstacle blocking my path.

♪♪ Hey! Get away from my foot,

Will ya?

♪ Da di, da da,

Da da di da di, da di ♪

♪♪ Excuse me, wh-o-o-o are you?

♪♪ Why I'm a big bottom rumpit,

That's who, that's who.

I'm sitting and soaking.

What's it to you? Huh?

♪♪ You're blocking our water.

You're stopping its flow.

Your body's so large that the

River can't go.

♪♪ Is that so? Is that so?

Well, what do you know?

♪♪ Do you think you could

Possibly, well, maybe, um, sit

Somewhere else? Somewhere

Equally comfortable?

♪♪ Nope. Nope. Don't think that

I will. I like it right here on

The side of the hill. The water

Is cool. The breeze is so balmy.

I'll talk to ya later.

Hey, I got cheese and salami.

Ahh. [Sniff]

♪ Da di da di

♪♪ It's no use. He won't move.

♪♪ Who--who said that?

♪♪ I did for gosh sakes.

Down here!

You won't get that big guy to

Budge. Only bingle bugs can do

That. I'm an expert on bingle

Bugs. I'm an expert on

Everything. [Giggles]

Did you know the principle

Source of income of the

Population of solasaloo is

Professional club dancing?

Interesting huh?

♪♪ Who are you little furry

Creature?

♪♪ I'm a sopping wet, soaking

Wet free range mczuff. I live in

My home on the side of this

Bluff. But now that fat rumpit

Has plugged up the stream. And

My home is so flooded, I'd just

Like to scream. [Inhales]

Aah!

♪♪ I'm sorry. Did you say

Something? Ha.

♪♪ There you see he won't listen

To me.

♪♪ You said only bingle bugs can

Get him to move. But how can a

Little bug make that "big"

Bottom rumpit get up?

♪♪ It takes a whole swarm to

Move the galute. They sing

And sting him, that gets him to

Scoot.

♪♪ So, the bingle should sting

The big rumpit for fun.

Which gets him to move so the

River will run.

♪♪ And it flows down mt. Crumpet

The way that it ought-a.

♪♪ And lake winna-bango gets

Filled up with "wata." Sorry.

But there's still a piece

Missing from this puzzle. What

Happened to the bingle bugs?

Where are they?

♪♪ They're still way down there

In the valley of fleck. So far

Away it's a pain in the neck.

♪♪ Looks pretty dangerous down

There. Whoa!

♪♪ Careful.

♪♪ And it's getting dark too.

♪♪ Oh, I'm not scared.

♪♪ You're not?

♪♪ Not at all.

♪♪ Not at all. You go first.

You go first.

♪♪ So, you guys following this

So far?

♪♪ Uh...

♪♪ Terrific. Thigwick travels up

Mt. Crumpet to find out why the

Waterfall has stopped.

♪♪ Ohh!

♪♪ He finds a huge hairy rumpit

Blocking the river. The rumpit

Won't move.

♪♪ Uh-oh.

♪♪ A furry little know-it-all

Explains that the rumpit won't

Budge until the bingle bugs come

To sting him.

♪♪ Ahh.

♪♪ But the bugs are far away.

And the journey to find them

Will be long and perilous.

♪♪ Ohh.

♪♪ Any questions?

♪♪ No.

♪♪ No.

♪♪ Yes. You got any donuts?

What?

♪♪ Donuts...

♪♪ Uh, yes, now where were we?

Ah, yes. Back to thigwick and

His time is quickly running out

Now.

♪♪ Hours minutes and,

Junior--

♪♪ Eeh! Yeah, yeah. Seconds,

Mother. , .

♪♪ [Distant mutterings]

♪♪ What's that screeching and

Gibbering?

♪♪ Come on, I'll show you.

♪♪ Come on, I'll show you. ♪♪ [All grunting]

♪♪ [All grunting]

♪♪ [Gasp] wow.

♪♪ [Gasp] wow. Look at that.

Look at that.

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Aah! [Grunting]

[Grunting]

♪♪ What's he saying?

♪♪ Well, I happen to be an

Expert at speaking wickasham.

Allow me to translate.

Ooka, ooka.

[Speaking native language]

[Speaking native language] ♪♪ "I am a green pencil case."

♪♪ "I am a green pencil case."

Whoops. Heh-heh. Sorry. Wrong

Dialect. He says he is bob, king

Of the wickershams. He welcomes

You.

♪♪ Oh.

♪♪ He kisses you.

Oh, he likes you.

♪♪ What are the wickershams

Doing?

Doing? ♪♪ Ook, ooka, ook, ook.

♪♪ Ook, ooka, ook, ook.

♪♪ He says, "each year at this

Time...

The wickershams hold a great

Festival...

In which they chase away the

Annoying...

Bingle bugs."

He says they do this by rattling

Their noisy beezle shell shakers

Which are supposed to be filled

With the shells of beezle nuts.

[No rattling]

[No rattling] ♪♪ I don't hear anything. Aww...

♪♪ I don't hear anything. Aww...

♪♪ He says, "precisely."

He says that "every year at this

Time, the great wind spirit

Drops hundreds of beezle nut

Shells down on them. This year

No shells have fallen."

♪♪ Hmm. Another new piece of the

Puzzle. So, the beezle nut

Nutshells should drop from the

Sky after the wind spirit blows

Them up high.

But this year the wickersham

Shakers don't shake. And we

Don't hear the racket they

Usually make.

♪♪ My bingle bug buddies have

Nothing to fear. They're having

A party. They're staying right

Here.

♪♪ And without any bingles to

Sting the rumpit...

♪♪ The river can't flow down the

Side of mt. Crumpet.

♪♪ Which means that no water

Flows over the falls.

♪♪ And lake winna-bango is no

Lake at all.

♪♪ So, what happened to the

Shells? Where are they?

♪♪ Hmm. Good question.

♪♪ [Speaking native language]

♪♪ They king says--bob says he

Knows where the wind spirit

Lives--in the far off grottoes

Of greep.

♪♪ Greep!

♪♪ Hmm. Well, it's off to the

Grottoes. Uh, that'll take a

While. Sounds pretty scary too.

♪♪ He says, he's not afraid.

♪♪ He's not?!

♪♪ He's not?! ♪♪ He says, "you go first."

♪♪ He says, "you go first."

♪♪ Hours minutes.

♪♪ And seconds.

♪♪ And seconds. , ...

, ...

♪♪ The king says...

Bob says, "this is the home of

The great wind spirit. The

Shells usually fly from this

Cave."

♪♪ It looks pretty frightening

In there.

♪♪ He says--

♪♪ I know. I know. I'll go

First.

♪♪ [Speaking native language]

♪♪ Hey! There are nutshells in

Here.

[Loud rumbling]

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Whoa!

♪♪ No, not a duck. A moose.

♪♪ Bleh. Well, that was loud,

Frightening too.

♪♪ Oh, did you see anything?

♪♪ Well, some nutshells.

And a whole lot of darkness.

♪♪ All you got to do is go in

There and get those nutshells.

♪♪ I'm not going in there.

♪♪ I'm not going in there.

♪♪ [Speaking native language]

♪♪ I'll never figure out this

Puzzle.

[Rumbling]

♪♪ What is that sound?

♪♪ Those are the sneepers,

Definitely the sneepers.

♪♪ Who are you [indistinct]

Little creatures?

♪♪ We're sneels.

♪♪ Mmm.

♪♪ Sneels! Ground dwelling

Vertebrates, strong forefeet,

Like spicy food.

♪♪ Yeah.

♪♪ Oh, sneels. Got it.

♪♪ That snoring you hear

Comes from slumbering sneepers.

They live in that cave.

♪♪ And they're very sound

Sleepers.

♪♪ And when they're awakened, oh

Boy do they shout! They yell and

They scream and they throw

Nutshells out.

♪♪ Nutshells? That's what we

Need to get their shakers

Shaking. Well, let's 'em wake

Up.

♪♪ Well, there's only one thing

That can stop them from

Dreaming.

♪♪ They only wake up when their

Babies start screaming.

♪♪ Oh, yeah. They do hate that.

♪♪ Oh, yeah.

♪♪ You bet ya.

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

♪♪ Hmm. The crying baby sneepers

Should wake up the sneepers who

Throw out their shells. Ha ha.

Then all we have to do is get

Your crying babies. Where are

Those teary little tikes?

♪♪ Well, we can't hatch our

Eggs.

♪♪ 'Cause we can't build our

Nests.

♪♪ And we really don't want you

To think that we're pests. But

Without our fruit peels...

♪♪ That's the end of us sneels.

♪♪ Ohh.

♪♪ [Sniffing] that's so sad.

The end of--

Did you say fruit peels?

♪♪ Yeah. That I did.

♪♪ Would these fruit peels be of

A certain variety?

♪♪ Yeah. Frezzle.

♪♪ Flume.

♪♪ Frezzle flume.

♪♪ Frezzle flume?

♪♪ Yeah. We collect them once a

Year to build our nests so we

Can hatch our babies.

♪♪ But this year--no frezzle

Flume peels. No peels, no

Sneels.

♪♪ Well, where do you usually

Get 'em?

♪♪ Huh? Right around the bend

Over there by lake winna-bango.

♪♪ Lake winna-bango? Just around

That bend?

♪♪ Uh-huh.

♪♪ Uh-huh. ♪♪ Excuse me.

♪♪ Excuse me.

♪♪ Ohh!

♪♪ Where'd he go?

♪♪ A strange moose. [Indistinct]

♪♪ Here ya go!

♪♪ Frezzle fruit peels! Thank

You!

♪♪ At last, the final piece of

The puzzle. And it's a piece of

Frezzle flume fruit.

Frezzle flume fruit. ♪♪ Oh! Eeh!

♪♪ Oh! Eeh!

♪♪ And now we all know that

Frezzle flume peels are used to

Make nests to hatch baby sneels.

♪♪ [All crying]

♪♪ Which takes us right back to

The grottoes of greep.

♪♪ Hey, shut up out there! We're

Trying to sleep!

♪♪ And the wickashams get all

The nutshells they need.

♪♪ To scare off those bingles

Who sing and stampede.

♪♪ Back up to mt. Crumpet.

♪♪ Indeed. Yes, indeed. Ha.

♪♪ That's our cue. This is it.

Let's sting that fat rumpit

Until he cant sit.

[Buzzing]

[Buzzing] ♪♪ ugh! Unh!

♪♪ Ugh! Unh!

♪♪ Ahh, the floodwaters are

Receeding. Whoo! I've got my

Home back. Thankfully I built

My dwelling using pine resin.

Resins are solids or semi

Solids, resistant to most

Liquids--

♪♪ Meanwhile back at lake

Winna-bango...

♪♪ What about resins?

♪♪ , , ,

, --

Huh?

♪♪ Wow! The waterfall.

♪♪ [Sigh] how lovely. Shan't be

Needing this anymore. Come,

Junior.

♪♪ Yes, mother.

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ Our day can't begin

Without it ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ ♪ Where would we be

Without it ♪

♪♪ ♪ Frezzle flume,

Frezzle flume fruit ♪

♪♪ Whee!

♪♪ Thigwick's our hero!

♪♪ Hip-hip-hip hooray!

♪♪ He saved winna-bango.

♪♪ A moose saved the day.

♪♪ Ahh.

♪♪ Ahh. ♪♪ Thank you.

♪♪ Thank you.

♪♪ Imagine a frezzle flum fruit

Peel which seemed very small

Could in fact put an end to a

Great waterfall.

♪♪ Imagine.

What?

What?

♪♪ Oh, my! This is quite

Pleasant!

♪♪ Mom!

♪♪ Ah-ha! Now this is what I

♪♪ Ah-ha! Now this is what I call teamwork. Forward, fellas.

Call teamwork. Forward, fellas.
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