01x15 - The Song Of The Zubble-Wump

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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01x15 - The Song Of The Zubble-Wump

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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.

♪♪ Welcome, my friends, to this

Wonderful place that's filled

With a strange and spectacular

Space.

You know, it's odd and bizarre

And highly irregular, and today,

It's more than a little

Bit--ahh!

Eggular.

Hello there.

Let's give you the scope.

Breathe normally.

[Inhales]

Ahh!

Yes, a fine specimen.

Artistic, sensitive.

This one has a way with words.

Gonna be a poet I know it.

[Humming]

[Egg mooing]

[Egg mooing] that's udderly ridiculous.

That's udderly ridiculous.

Ah, a duplex.

[Clears throat]

[Egg meows]

Mm-hmm.

[Egg barks]

[Eggs hissing and barking]

Sibling rivalry. Eh.

[Humming]

Ah.

[Egg roars]

I think we should move on, yeah.

Now, this is one of a kind, not

One of a dozen.

No sister or brother or

Twice-removed cousin.

It's very much different, you

Plainly can tell.

And there's something amazing

Inside this shell.

[Egg playing clarinet]

Oh, yeah.

Say, you're good.

Listen, I know some people at

The solisaloo glee club and

Symphony orchestra.

When you come out of your shell,

Let's talk about your future.

Um-hmm.

♪♪ It moved. It moved!

♪♪ Oh, no, no, megan girl.

You're always seeing what you

Want to see.

But this egg isn't going to

Hatch until tomorrow.

♪♪ I can't wait.

I can't wait.

Tomorrow's too late.

♪♪ Now, tomorrow's the day, the

Day and the date.

There's nothing to do.

♪♪ But wait, wait, wait, wait.

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

♪♪ Uh, but what if something

Happens to it?

♪♪ Now, no one's gonna get

Anywhere near this egg except

Members of the mullally family.

♪♪ And mullally means me and

Mullally means you and nobody

Else.

♪♪ No matter who.

♪♪ But just to make sure, I'll

Guard it all night.

♪♪ Oh, now, megan, you know you

Need your sleep.

♪♪ Oh, all right.

♪♪ Anyway, we've got the best

Egg protector on legs.

♪♪ Ooh.

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

♪♪ Here's horton on watch

Patrolling the grounds, guarding

The egg, making my rounds.

I promised I would and I

Wouldn't do less.

Though I'd love a cold beverage

But I digress.

♪♪ Hey, where's that egg?

♪♪ Tell me where to see the

Zubble.

Yeah.

♪♪ Yeah, yeah, can't we just

Take a peek?

♪♪ Sorry, the zubble-wump egg is

The private property of the

Mullally family.

♪♪ Aw.

♪♪ That's my least favorite part

Of the job.

♪♪ I heard that it dances.

♪♪ And rings like a bell.

♪♪ Well, I hear there's

Rubies...

♪♪ And gold in the shell.

♪♪ I heard those who touch it

Feel wonderfully warm.

♪♪ Well, I heard it's a breath

Mint.

I guess I was misinformed.

♪♪ I heard it's heavy as a stone

But floats like a bubble.

♪♪ Hey, elephant, you know

What's inside that zubble?

♪♪ Hmm, well, no, I'm not sure.

Though I'd like to assume,

[Giggling]

If you cr*ck the egg open,

Inside, you'd find ,,

Peanuts, not to mention a jar of

Raspberry jam and a cruller.

Raspberry jam and a cruller. That is, if there's room.

That is, if there's room.

♪♪ Now, it hatches just once

Every--

♪♪ Years.

♪♪ Yes, and it's well worth the

Wait for your eyes and your--

♪♪ Your ears.

♪♪ Good.

♪♪ For inside the shell's a

Miraculous thing that will

Whistle and warble and

Splendidly sing.

♪♪ A song that is fit for the

Ear of a king.

♪♪ What is it?

What is it?

What is this thing?

♪♪ Well, um, the zubble-wump is,

Um, well, it's--it's hard to,

Uh, well, well, it's mine.

That's what it is.

♪♪ It is.

♪♪ Say an elephant, such as

Myself, wanted to describe a

Zubble-wump.

What would an elephant such as

Myself say?

♪♪ Ahem, megan?

♪♪ Well, an egg such as this

From the zubbulous valley was

Given to grandpa's great-grandpa

Mullally's

Great-great-great-great-great-

Great-great grandpa mullally's

Great-grandpa's great grandpa's

Great-grandma.

♪♪ And when she was asked what a

Zubble-wump is, great-grandma

Would say...

♪♪ Why, gee-whiz.

♪I don't know

And I don't care

But I've got one and you don't ♪

♪♪ Oh, and then grandma said,

♪When it had kids,

Yeah, I'll be there

♪♪ She said that?

♪♪ I will see it and you won't ♪

Ha ha!

♪♪ Uh-huh, but what is the

Zubble-wump?

♪♪ ♪Not this and not thamel,

Not double-hump camel,

♪♪ And not zubble-wump lizard

Or zubble-wump mammal,

♪♪ Not buffalo herd,

♪♪ Or huffalo bird,

♪♪ There's only word,

♪♪ And it's zubble-wump,

Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,

♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,

Zubble-wump ♪

♪♪ Is that all grandma had to

Say?

♪♪ ♪ She didn't know,

♪♪ Didn't know,

♪♪ She didn't care,

♪♪ No, no, no,

♪♪ What anyone said or who knew

It,

♪♪ And when her zubble hatched,

♪♪ Ohh!

♪♪ Was grandma there?

♪♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah,

♪♪ Well, sort of,

♪♪ Grandma slept through it,

♪♪ She was tired of waiting

[Giggling]

♪♪ Not gnat on a cat,

Nor flea on a feline,

Not frog in a frog pond,

Nor bee in a beeline,

Not nippity-flits,

Or pick-flicking nits,

Not nee or fits

It's the zubble-wump,

Zubble-wump, zubble-wump

♪♪ I think I got it

♪♪ Not gnat on a cat,

Not flea on a feline,

Not frog in a frog pond,

Or bee in a beeline,

Not nit-picking flits,

♪♪ Or pit-flicking nits

♪♪ Not nee or fits,

It's the zubble-wump,

Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,

♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,

♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,

Zubble-wump

♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,

♪♪ Zubble-wump, zubble-wump,

Zubble-wump,

♪♪ Zubble-wump

♪♪ Zubble-wump

♪♪ Zubble-wump ♪

[Horton giggling]

♪♪ That zubble-wump sure sounds

Zubble-wumptuous?

♪♪ Yes, now, the night before

The egg hatches, it has to soak

Up plenty of moonlight, hmm?

So that's why I put the cage

Here on the windowsill.

Horton.

♪♪ Hmm?

♪♪ Make sure to keep away any

Curious squirrels or birds.

♪♪ Oh, don't worry.

I'll do what I promise, and

Promise I do, to scare off bird,

Rodent, or, uh, stray kangaroos.

♪♪ Now--now nothing will quiver

Or shiver or shake it?

♪♪ This egg's like my promise:

Nothing will break it.

♪♪ Oh, good.

♪♪ I'll just sit on it.

♪♪ Oh, no! Stop!

♪♪ Horton, no! No, no.

♪♪ Oh! Ha ha.

I thought maybe you wanted me to

Help hatch it.

I've had some experience with

That, you know.

[Megan sighs]

♪♪ No, no, no, just, uh, stand

Nearby, will you?

♪♪ Oh, ok.

Right here.

♪♪ Phew.

♪♪ Hi, little egg.

I will protect you.

♪♪ ♪Inside a shell

There's a story to tell,

And just what it is

You can tell very well ♪

♪♪ I wonder what is inside that

♪♪ I wonder what is inside that egg?

Egg?

♪♪ Mm-hmm.

[Squirrel chattering]

Hmm?

[Laughing]

Oh, I don't mean to be coarse or

Unmannered or crude or uncivil

Or nasty or, least of all rude,

So I polit--i'm politely and

Nicely requesting that you--

[Laughing]

Requesting that you get off of

My trunk or I'll have to--i'll

My trunk or I'll have to--i'll have to--i'll have to--ah-ahh.

Have to--i'll have to--ah-ahh.

Ah-choo!

Ah-choo! Sorry.

Sorry.

♪♪ Ha ha ha!

♪♪ ♪ ... And evil and doom

Ugliness, lies, devilish doom

♪♪ With fearsomely fiercely

Ferociously foul

♪♪ Skiddly, scratchingly

[Indistinct]

♪♪ It's grim,

♪♪ It's dim,

♪♪ Could it be?

♪♪ Could it be?

♪♪ Could it be? ♪♪ Him? ♪

♪♪ Him? ♪

♪♪ Hey, hey, shoo.

Shoo, hey, hey, get away.

Get away.

Go find an ice-cold belfry or

Keep to flap around in.

Shoo!

Shoo! Shoo!

Shoo!

[Gasps]

This can't be good.

♪♪ What happened?

♪♪ Oh, uh, there were these

Flying things and--and then, the

Alarm, and then, the egg's

Turned green.

♪♪ No, horton.

This isn't our egg, I'm sorry to

Say.

The zubble has been stolen.

♪♪ Oh, who took it away?

♪♪ Oh, someone who's heart

Wouldn't fill up an inch.

Someone mean, someone green.

♪♪ Oh, don't tell me.

♪♪ Oh, it can't be.

♪♪ It is.

It's the grinch.

♪♪ The grinch!

♪♪ The grinch!

♪♪ Oh, I'm gonna get your egg

From that grinch.

♪♪ No, no, no, horton, please,

Please.

It's--it is dark and it's

Dangerous.

It's ok for a grinch but you

Should wait until sunrise, hmm?

♪♪ No, oh, I knew I should have

Sat on that egg.

Unh!

♪♪ Oh, sweetheart.

♪♪ Oh, grandpa.

♪♪ It's--it's all right.

♪♪ It's--it's all right. [Horton sniffing]

[Horton sniffing]

♪♪ Oh, now, how am I going to do

This?

Let's see.

Excuse me, mr. Grinch, but I

Believe you have

An egg that does not belong to

You.

Oh, that's not it.

Let me see.

Now, see here, grinch.

Give me that egg.

Oh, no, no, no.

More forceful like this.

♪♪ Ok, grinchy, jig's up.

♪♪ That's not bad.

[Megan laughing]

Megan!

What are you doing here?

♪♪ Well, it takes to handle

The grinch.

♪♪ Megan, that grinch is a scary

Character.

♪♪ I don't care.

♪♪ His mind's all mixed up and

Blistered and bent.

♪♪ I don't care.

♪♪ His heart's made of hurt and

His soul is cement.

♪♪ I don't care.

♪♪ He's mean as I say.

♪♪ And I say what I mean.

I'll get my egg from that rotten

Green bean.

♪♪ Oh, well, wait for me.

♪♪ Pardon me.

♪♪ Wide load comin' through.

♪♪ What do you suppose?

♪♪ Unless my eyes are deceiving

And my ears are all waxy, he's

Either a moose or a new kind of

Taxi.

♪♪ Come on, you guys.

You don't want to miss it.

Right this way.

Save a paw.

Hey, hey, short ones in front.

♪♪ E-excuse me.

♪♪ Oh, you'll have to wait your

Turn.

And you, big fella, you'll have

To stand at the back.

♪♪ What's going on?

♪♪ Oh, thidwick is taking us to

See the coughing volcano.

♪♪ Yeah, if it wasn't for

Thidwick, we'd never know the

Volcano was coughing.

♪♪ Yeah, it only coughs when it

Catches a cold.

♪♪ What are the odds of that?

♪♪ I don't know!

♪♪ Well, don't just stand there,

Come to the clearing.

♪♪ Let's get 'em. Great.

♪♪ Hmm.

♪♪ Wow.

♪♪ Wow. ♪♪ Ooh.

♪♪ Ooh.

♪♪ Magnifisensational.

♪♪ Isn't it lovely?

♪♪ At best, educational?

♪♪ You're a moose among moose.

♪♪ Thank you, thidwick.

♪♪ Thanks.

♪♪ Aw. See?

This looked ok with my eyes

Gazing, but with eyes upon it,

It's twice as amazing.

And with or with --

♪♪ Or --

♪♪ The pleasure is doubled again

And again.

♪♪ And again and again.

♪♪ And then some.

♪♪ Amen.

♪♪ Thanks, thidwick.

♪♪ Oh, thanks again, thidwick.

♪♪ Ok, see you guys later.

♪♪ Bye.

♪♪ You know, I'd offer you a

Ride to wherever you're going

But I promised a family of yaks

I'd help them cross a blistering

Hot desert.

I tend to get over extended.

♪♪ Well, it's a shame you can't

Come with us.

We're going to get the grinch.

♪♪ The grinch?

♪♪ The grinch.

♪♪ The grinch.

♪♪ The grinch?

♪♪ Yes, the, as in grinch.

♪♪ But nobody's ever any--no one

Would dare.

♪♪ Well, I would.

♪♪ Well, I'm startled, I dare to

Declare.

♪♪ You don't know megan.

She's a brave little meg.

♪♪ And that grinch guy has

Stolen my zubble-wump egg.

♪♪ The zubble-wump from the

Zubbulous valley?

♪♪ That's right.

♪♪ Then you must be megan

Mullally.

♪♪ That's me.

♪♪ Is it true what I've heard

From some moose dignitaries?

That the zubble egg's filled

With moose moss and moose

Berries?

♪♪ Moose moss and moose berries?

I'd probably doubt it.

Seems that everyone's heard some

Strange story about it.

♪♪ Well, good luck.

I'd love to see the zubble-wump

One day.

Or at least, give it a ride.

Yaks.

Oh, yaks.

Come on board your caboose.

♪♪ That sure is one highly

♪♪ That sure is one highly unusual moose.

Unusual moose.

♪♪ ♪ Ugliness, lies, evil and

Gloom,

Ugliness, lies, devilish doom,

Voodoo and mushrooms and

[Indistinct] are in bloom

Ugliness, lies, and people and

Ugliness, lies, and people and gloom ♪

Gloom ♪

♪♪ This place could use a little

Freshening up.

[Megan gasps]

♪♪ He's up there.

The grinch is up there and so is

My egg.

♪♪ Oh, well, I promised I'd help

♪♪ Oh, well, I promised I'd help and help I will bring.

And help I will bring.

Uh-oh.

If I could just get myself

Through this here--unh--this

Here--unh--this here thing.

[Grunting]

♪♪ [Indistinct]

♪♪ Let me try this.

[Trumpets]

Unh!

Oh, I know.

Perhaps if I go on a very fast

Diet.

♪♪ Um, that's not fast enough.

Guess I'll have to try it.

♪♪ Meg, wait.

Megan. Oh! Whoa.

I like a good rhyme, you know

That I do, but right now, I'm

Feeling a little tense, so

Excuse me while I just hum

Nervously to myself.

Nervously to myself. [Humming]

[Humming]

♪♪ So, while you've been

Watching the grinch's

Egg-snatching, our eggs here

Have been hatching and hatching

And hatching and--ah, benjamin.

Good, now, sit, sit.

Stay.

Now, speak.

♪♪ Snarl, growl, and moreover

Roar.

♪♪ Nice kitty.

Now back to our story.

Listen, we'll work on your

Diction, all right?

♪♪ ♪ Ugliness, lies, and evil

And fear,

Ugliness, lies,

A tarantula's ear,

Ugliness, lies

Evil and fear

Ugliness, lies ♪

[Megan gasps]

[Megan gasps] let's get out of here ♪

Let's get out of here ♪

Let's get out of here ♪ ♪♪ oh.

♪♪ Oh.

♪♪ Ohh.

♪♪ Ohh. [Gasps]

[Gasps]

♪♪ Ha ha ha!

♪♪ Ha ha ha! [Grinch growls]

[Grinch growls]

[Grinch growls] [megan screams]

[Megan screams]

♪♪ I, uh, actually I'm--i'm here

To get my egg back.

♪♪ Uh-uh.

♪♪ Oh, dear.

♪♪ What to do, what to do with

This unwelcome guest.

What kind of amusement would

Suit her the best?

♪♪ Actually, uh, seeing my egg

Hatch would be nice.

♪♪ It's my egg, my very own

Grumple-lump egg.

♪♪ That's zubble-wump and it's

Mine.

♪♪ Mine!

♪♪ Mine!

♪♪ ♪ Give me the egg,

It's mine,

I earned it, I own it,

It's mine all alone,

It belongs just to me,

♪♪ I don't agree,

♪♪ Doesn't matter to me,

It's mine,

♪♪ It's mine,

♪♪ It's mine,

It's mine,

♪♪ Give me the egg,

It's mine,

The reason it's famous,

My family name is mullally

And so, I'll just take it

And go,

♪♪ Oh, no, no, no,

It's mine,

♪♪ It's mine,

♪♪ It's mine,

♪♪ It's mine,

♪♪ Your green, grinchy greed

Is charming, indeed,

It grows in the heart

Like a wicked old weed,

♪♪ Greed in the heart?

Not in mine,

♪♪ Not in yours?

Ok, fine,

Ok, fine, then it's mine,

Then it's mine,

For the very last time

It's mine,

Oh, come on, let go now,

I think you should know now

I'm getting upset,

♪♪ Well, that's all you'll get,

♪♪ I regret that we met,

'Cause it's mine,

♪♪ It's mine,

♪♪ It's mine

♪♪ It's mine

♪♪ It's mine

♪♪ It's mine,

Oh, you're a sack of old sludge,

A smear and a smudge,

♪♪ Oh, you're a fine one

To be such a judge,

We're just like shriveled up

Grapes on the vine,

Saying mine, mine, mine, mine,

♪♪ Mine, mine, mine, mine

♪♪ Mine, mine, mine, mine,

♪♪ Mine,

♪♪ My grumple-lump,

♪♪ My zubble-wump,

♪♪ My grumple-lump,

♪♪ My zubble-wump,

♪♪ My zubble-wump, ♪♪ mine ♪

♪♪ Mine ♪

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ And now, it's time for me to

Watch my grumple-lump hatch.

Me, me, me, me.

And me, me means me.

It doesn't mean you or anyone

Else, no matter who.

Else, no matter who. [Laughing]

[Laughing]

[Laughing] [hands grumbling]

[Hands grumbling]

Hey!

Hey! [Struggling]

[Struggling]

♪♪ You are so selfish!

♪♪ Aah!

Keep your hands off of me.

Keep your hands off of me. [Egg cracking]

[Egg cracking]

♪♪ Ahem.

♪♪ Ahem. [Trilling]

[Trilling]

[Trilling] [whistling]

[Whistling]

[Whistling] [muffled yelling]

[Muffled yelling]

[Muffled yelling] [zubble-wump singing]

[Zubble-wump singing]

♪♪ What do you think you're

Doing?

♪♪ Something that you would

Never do.

♪♪ Oh.

Oh.

The grinch has megan.

He's got her.

Please help!

[Trumpeting]

♪♪ Hurry.

Unh!

I'll save you, megan.

Leave it to me.

[Grunting]

By the good name mullally, I'm

Setting you free.

♪♪ Don't worry.

The grinch is tangled and

Flinching.

He was caught in the claws of

His own grinchy grinching.

♪♪ Well, are you all right?

♪♪ Oh, I'm fine.

Don't worry for me.

But the zubble's another story,

You see.

By the good name mullally, I'm

Setting it free.

♪♪ Oh, that's very ni--what?

♪♪ Oh, that's very ni--what? [Zubble-wump singing]

[Zubble-wump singing]

♪♪ Oh, don't trouble yourself.

I'll let myself out.

[Crunching]

[Crunching] ♪♪ aah!

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ Aah! You're fired, oh!

You're fired, oh!

Unh.

♪♪ A zubble-wump's lovely with

Just ears hearing it, but more

Ears give more of a reason for

Cheering it, and or ...

♪♪ Or ,...

♪♪ Your pleasure is doubled

Again and again.

♪♪ Mm-hmm, and twice double

That.

♪♪ And then some.

♪♪ Amen.

[All sigh]

[Groaning]

♪♪ I'm laying off eggs for a

While.

Oh!

Oh! [Zubble singing]

[Zubble singing]

[Zubble singing] [all sigh]

[All sigh]

♪♪ ♪This mysterious, magical,

Musical, miracle,

Preciously luscious

With nothing not lyrical,

♪♪ I hope it won't take our job,

♪♪ There's only word,

♪♪ Only word,

♪♪ Only word,

♪♪ And that's zubble-wump ♪

♪♪ So, what is a zubble-wump

Again?

Aah!

♪♪ What a piece of work is man.

How noble in reason,

How infinite in faculty.

In form and moving,

How express and admirable.

In action, how like an angel.

In apprehension, how like--

♪♪ Very good, very good,

Benjamin.

Keep practicing.

So, what do you know?

Megan was right.

You see, something so wonderful

Shouldn't be hidden.

It should be shared with the

World and never forbidden.

So, here now, uncovered,

Unleashed, unfurled, is

Something amazing to share with

The world.

Let her rip, boys.

Let her rip, boys. [Horn blaring]

[Horn blaring]

Ok, g*ng, start packing these up

And shipping them out.

And shipping them out. Express, of course.

Express, of course.
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