♪♪ ♪ 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.
♪♪ Ahh! Step right this way.
It's time for our tour.
♪♪ Where does it start?!
♪♪ Just outside this door.
♪♪ Uhh...what door?
♪♪ Well, uh, there it is. Excuse
Me.
[Beep]
[Train whistle]
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Close, please.
Whoops. Let's try again, shall
We?
♪♪ Ok.
[Beep]
♪♪ Ahh, there we go! Everybody
In. No waiting. Watch your
Toes. There we go.
Close, please.
Ahh, this is my favorite stop on
The tour.
♪♪ What makes it so special?
♪♪ What makes it so special?!
This statue--it's the place to
Gather to sing or to play. Or if
You're sleepy, just snooze
Through the day. Hit it!
Through the day. Hit it! [Island music plays]
[Island music plays]
♪ Everybody ready,
Everybody set now ♪
♪♪ ♪ Everybody ready,
Everybody set now ♪
♪♪ ♪ Everybody go,
Everybody get now ♪
♪♪ ♪ Everybody go,
Everybody get now ♪
♪♪ ♪ If you're feeling sorry,
If you're feeling sore,
If you're sick and tired,
We have got the cure ♪
♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down
To the snoozer,
Everybody cruise around
The snoozer,
Everybody come down
To the snoozer!
♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue
♪♪ ♪ I was once so lonely,
Didn't have a friend then ♪
♪♪ ♪ Didn't have a buddy,
Didn't have a friend then ♪
♪♪ ♪ Didn't have a clue,
When the cloudy days
Would end then ♪
♪♪ ♪ [Indistinct]
♪♪ ♪ You'd never know it now,
He really was a loser ♪
♪♪ ♪ Then sun came out
When I snoozed around the
Snoozer ♪
♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down
To the snoozer,
Everybody cruise
Around the snoozer,
Everybody come down
To the snoozer ♪
♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue
♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down
To the snoozer,
Everybody cruise
Around the snoozer,
Everybody come down
To the snoozer ♪
To the snoozer ♪ ♪♪ ♪ catch you at the statue
♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue
♪♪ ♪ Shabada daba
Hey, you feel that? Hmm.
Something's in the air. Yes!
It's a story unfolding. On, my
Little cats, forward. The tour
Will continue later.
♪♪ Ok!
♪♪ [Snoring]
I meant what I said...
♪♪ Ugh. The time's been coming.
The time's very near.
It's getting much closer.
[Alarm ringing]
♪♪ Ah-ha! Now it's here!
♪♪ Aah! What was that?
What--what--what was that?
♪♪ It's time to awake, to rise
Up and see your new turtle king!
Just little old me.
♪♪ A king? Well, harrumph to
That, I say. Ha! Not around
Here.
♪♪ And my I add bahh!
♪♪ It's because I'm turtled,
Isn't it? It's because I have
Shell, isn't it? It's because I
Can live on land and water,
Isn't it?
♪♪ It's because you're a jerk!
♪♪ Oh, you of such tiny
Smallness. Perhaps you will
Better feel my majesty when you
Are standing in the shadow of a
-Story granite likeness of me.
♪♪ What?
♪♪ Behold! Beautiful isn't it?
Now then, my ace construction
Crew can begin working on my
Beautiful statue of beautiful me
Just as soon as we get rid of
"That" sleepy thing.
♪♪ Why doesn't he just crawl
Back into the swamp he came out
Of?!
♪♪ Now, morton, just because we
Don't like what he says,
Doesn't mean he doesn't
Have a right to say it.
♪♪ Oh, well does that mean I can
Say--[whispering]
♪♪ [Gasp] no!
♪♪ Ohh! What a double standard?!
♪♪ So, are you with me?!
♪♪ [Grunting]
♪♪ I'm sorry. Is that a "yes"?
♪♪ [Grunting]
♪♪ I hope he can take ook for an
Answer.
♪♪ Yeah, right.
♪♪ ♪ Mm-mmm mm-mmm,
Gonna build myself a statue,
Mm-mmm mm-mmm,
A great big statue,
Mm-mmm mm-mmm,
Gonna build myself a great big,
Huge statue,
For me-e-e-e-e ♪
♪♪ If you're always early, you
Get the best spot. And there's
No better spot than the spot
That you've got, is there?
♪♪ There is not.
♪♪ Yes. Now go enjoy a safe and
Satisfying session of play.
♪♪ Ok, mom.
♪♪ Yes. Run ahead, dear.
Ahh, lovely. Yes.
♪♪ Ma! Ma! Ma! Ma! Ma! The
Snoozer! The snoozer! The
Snoozer!
♪♪ [Muttering]
♪♪ [Gasp] the snoozer is gone!
♪♪ Hey, buddy.
♪♪ Hmm?
♪♪ You ever carved a -story
Statue of a turtle?
♪♪ -Story eel.
♪♪ Yeah.
♪♪ -Story garden slug.
♪♪ Uh-huh.
♪♪ Nope. No turtle.
♪♪ Well, there's a first time
For everything.
♪♪ Mm-hmm.
♪♪ [Groaning]
♪♪ Hey, franny, hold up on that
Huge block of granite. Can't
Move a thing nowadays with all
These regulations.
♪♪ Mm-hmm.
♪♪ Uh-huh. Come on.
♪♪ Well, it is very clear to me
What's going on here.
♪♪ Very clear!
What's going on?
♪♪ That yertle has stolen our
Snoozer!
♪♪ Ahh, bad turtle!
♪♪ Yes. And just as he said,
He's commissioned a statue of
Himself to be built!
♪♪ Yep yep.
♪♪ If I'm not mistaken--and
Surely I'm not--
♪♪ You're not!
♪♪ That yertle is guilty!
♪♪ Guilty a lot!
♪♪ Why jane is right!
♪♪ The turtle is guilty!
♪♪ The turtle must be stopped!
♪♪ [Crosstalk]
♪♪ That turtle took our statue!
♪♪ Morton, we shouldn't jump to
Conclusions. We should--
♪♪ Walk slowly and cautiously to
Conclusions. I know. I know.
♪♪ Yertle must be captured and
Banished to the desert of
The--ugh--screaming greebles.
♪♪ The desert of the screaming
Greebles? Aah!
Greebles? Aah! ♪♪ [All chanting "guilty"]
♪♪ [All chanting "guilty"]
♪♪ Wait! Wait! Wait a minute or
Or maybe a third. Now I mean
What I say. I mean every word.
Maybe it's yertle. But what if
It's not?
♪♪ Not yertle?
♪♪ Not yertle?
♪♪ Not yertle?
♪♪ What?
♪♪ We shouldn't jump to
Conclusions. We should walk--
♪♪ Slowly and cautiously to
Conclusions. We know.
♪♪ Anyone who would defend that
Terrible turtle is probably
Involved with his nasty schemes
And deserves the same fate.
Isn't that right?
♪♪ That is right!
♪♪ As soon as we find the
Turtle, we'll send you both to
The desert of the screaming--
Ugh--greebles.
♪♪ Ahh!
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Huh? Huh?
Ahh.
♪♪ What?
♪♪ Hmm.
♪♪ Hey pop
♪♪ Hmm?
♪♪ Are we going to have to move
To another neighborhood again?
♪♪ Ohh.
♪♪ Now, all those in favor of
Banishing yertle and the
Elephant say "i".
♪♪ [All chanting "i"]
♪♪ Well, then that's it. We're
Hunting for turtles. And guard
Those elephants till we get
Back. [Indistinct]
♪♪ [Grunting]
♪♪ Boo!
♪♪ [Screaming]
♪♪ Ohh...
♪♪ Ah, come on, morton. It's not
That bad.
♪♪ Uhh...
Yes it is.
♪♪ Hey, hey! How about a nice
Game of "peanut, peanut, who's
Got the peanut?" Huh? Just like
The old days? Hmm.
Peanut, peanut, who's got the
Peanut?
♪♪ You do.
♪♪ That didn't take long.
[Crunch]
♪♪ [Muffled screaming]
♪♪ Ohh! I'm sorry!
♪♪ I confess! I confess! I did
It. Please don't sit on me
Anymore!
♪♪ I told you he stole the
Statue.
♪♪ That's right. I stole
The--the statue?
Wait a minute.
[Sigh] I didn't steal a statue.
Oddly enough, I'm totally
Innocent.
♪♪ You are? Yeah, right.
♪♪ Would this face lie?
Never mind.
♪♪ Ohh! No matter what you say,
Jane kangaroo thinks you stole
The statue. And she thinks we
Helped you.
♪♪ Why?
♪♪ Why? Because my pop here
Stood up for you.
♪♪ Oh, you--you--you--you
Pachyderm you. So you'll help
Me?
♪♪ Help you what?
♪♪ Find out who really took the
Statue and prove that I'm
Innocent. Because if I'm
Innocent then you're innocent.
And if I'm guilty--[gasp]
♪♪ Will you please stop
Following us!
♪♪ [Groaning]
♪♪ Oh, we'll be back for you
Elephants later. You've got a
Date in the desert of the--ugh--
Screaming greebles.
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Uh--uh--uh. So you see the
Wisdom in helping me.
♪♪ You'd better hope for your
Sake we find the snoozer and
Prove that you're innocent.
And for our sake.
♪♪ Yeah.
♪♪ You're doing the right thing.
♪♪ Well, I meant what I said and
I said what I meant.
♪♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
♪♪ Yeah.
Pop, we got to talk about the
"Said what I meant, meant what I
Said" stuff.
♪♪ Hey, honest elephant, slow
Down.
♪♪ Huh? What? Huh?
♪♪ Oh, the frustration of being
So quick of mind and slow of
Flipper!
♪♪ Oh. Any sign of the statue?
♪♪ No. Can't see a thing up
Ahead.
♪♪ That's bad.
♪♪ That's not so bad. Jane
Kangaroo knows what [indistinct]
Are right behind us!
♪♪ [Grunting]
♪♪ Oh, that's bad!
♪♪ Real bad!
♪♪ Hmm.
♪♪ Hmm.
♪♪ Harrumph!
♪♪ Harrumph!
♪♪ It's time to awake, to rise
Up and see your new turtle
King. Just little old me.
♪♪ What are you doing?
♪♪ These ants are just crying
Out for leadership. I am
Answering their cry.
♪♪ Ohh...
♪♪ Ohh... ♪♪ Ugh! I shall return!
♪♪ Ugh! I shall return!
♪♪ Yeah. Where's the button?
♪♪ Oh, I can't reach it.
♪♪ Hit it with your hat.
♪♪ Oh, yeah.
Aah!
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ Close, please.
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey. What's
Going on here?
♪♪ We wanted to see what was
Going on with horton!
♪♪ And morton!
♪♪ And yertle!
♪♪ Why didn't you ask? See, the
Thing about doors that I know
All about--how to go in and how
To get out. Excuse me, kid.
[Beep]
[Beep] ♪♪ there you go. Let's watch.
♪♪ There you go. Let's watch.
♪♪ Harrumph!
♪♪ What do you see there,
Junior?
♪♪ Your big feet, mother.
♪♪ Ooh.
♪♪ No! No, dear. In front of my
Feet.
♪♪ Ah. Footprints.
♪♪ Not just footprints--
Turtle prints and elephant
Prints. Horton and yertle are
b*ating a hasty retreat from
Justice.
♪♪ I did not "steal" the statue.
I did not steal "the" statue.
I did not steal the "statue."
What more can I say?!
♪♪ Say that no matter what from
Now on you'll always do what's
Right.
♪♪ No matter what from now on, I
Will always do what's
[Mumbles]
I can't say it. It makes my
Tongue hurt.
♪♪ Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!
[Stammering]
Calm down! Calm down!
♪♪ [Deep breath]
They're gaining on us!
♪♪ Let's hide in this cave.
♪♪ Oh, yeah. Maybe there are
Some bats in here who need a
Leader.
♪♪ Come on.
♪♪ No wonder no one can trust
You.
♪♪ Oh, and why is that,
O' knower of all knowable
Knowledge?
♪♪ Because you'll stop at
Nothing and step on anyone to
Get into power.
♪♪ Oh, that.
Is it my fault I was hatched to
Rule? To climb to the top of the
Turtle heap? [Sigh]
This is a sad story.
♪♪ Oh, brother.
[Blues music plays]
♪♪ ♪ I'm at home
Under the water,
I'm at home
Up on the sand,
Still I feel
I'm welcomed nowhere,
Will somebody understand?
Doesn't matter
If your hair is straight,
Or if you wear it curly,
Come on now help me out,
Oh, nobody likes you
Oh, nobody likes you when you wanna rule the world ♪
When you wanna rule the world ♪
♪ I'm a turtle with a vision,
Turtle with a dream,
But it takes two to tango,
[Indistinct] baseball team ♪
♪♪ ♪ A baseball team
♪♪ ♪ If you keep your
♪♪ ♪ If you keep your [indistinct]
[Indistinct]
Oh, nobody likes you
When you wanna rule the world ♪
♪♪ ♪ When you wanna
Rule the world ♪
♪♪ ♪ Now some folks like to add,
Some folks like to subtract,
Well I divide and conquer
If [indistinct]
Whether you like
Your vanilla and chocolate syrup
Or you like
Your ice cream swirled,
Yeah,
Nobody likes you
When you wanna rule the world ♪
♪♪ ♪ When you wanna
Rule the world ♪
♪♪ ♪ Don't mock
This turtle now,
Nobody likes you
When you want--when you want--
I said,
When you wanna rule the world,
Yeah,
Yeah ♪
Does anybody have a lozenge?!
I complain and complain. No one
Listens.
♪♪ Pop! Pop! Pop!
[Stammering]
♪♪ Morton, calm down.
Breathe with me, ok? In--
Out. In--out.
One more time in--out.
Feeling better?
♪♪ Yeah.
♪♪ Can you speak?
♪♪ Oh, absolutely.
♪♪ Now, what do you want to say?
♪♪ Well, [stammering]
This way!
♪♪ Ok.
♪♪ Breathe in, breathe out...
♪♪ There he is, pop! There he
Is! There he is!
♪♪ That's it. That's our
Snoozer. Now, all we have to do
Is find the real thief.
♪♪ Ha, yeah. And hope it's not
Yertle.
♪♪ [Grunting]
♪♪ Here's trouble.
♪♪ Ohh, stuff like this doesn't
Happen to the other kids.
♪♪ Ah-ha. And oh-ho.
Now what have we here?
The answer I think is ever so
Clear.
♪♪ Very clear.
♪♪ A statue. A thief and of
His friends. This is, I think,
Where their thievery ends.
♪♪ [All chanting "guilty"]
♪♪ Wait! Wait!
This is a mistake. I'm not
Yertle the turtle. I'm yortois
The tortoise, who's charity work
And kindness to kangaroos is
Renowned on continents.
♪♪ I don't think so.
♪♪ We don't think so.
♪♪ Right you are. I'm actually
Yizard the lizard with a shell.
♪♪ Take them away.
♪♪ Yeah, far away!
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪ I'd rather live with those
Screaming you-know-whats than
In a place where one person
Decides who's innocent and who's
Guilty.
♪♪ [Gasp]
♪♪ My pop is right!
♪♪ I am?
♪♪ Yes. Yes you are. Well, I was
Scared of doing the right thing.
But I'm not anymore. I mean,
Just because yertle's a no-good
Louse doesn't mean he stole the
Statue.
♪♪ Oh, thank you.
♪♪ You couldn't possibly mean
That.
♪♪ I meant what I said, and I
Said what I meant. I believe in
My dad %.
♪♪ Aww.
♪♪ That's very moving, young
Fellow.
♪♪ Oh, thank you.
♪♪ Get them!
♪♪ [Screaming]
♪♪ Stop now!
♪♪ Excuse me?
♪♪ Who is that?
♪♪ The turtle didn't steal any
♪♪ The turtle didn't steal any statue!
Statue!
♪♪ [Cowering]
♪♪ [Yelling]
♪♪ Yertle is innocent.
And so are the elephants.
♪♪ A statue that talks? This
Must be a trick. I'd expect this
From someone so slimy and slick.
♪♪ This is no trick.
♪♪ Well, who would have thunk
It?
♪♪ I'm not a statue. In fact,
I'm a plunket.
♪♪ A plunket?
♪♪ What's that?
♪♪ Since you want to know. A
Plunket's a creature
Whose heart beats so
Slow it plunks itself down for
A nap that extends years.
♪♪ And then the nap ends?
♪♪ Like clockwork.
♪♪ And your years was over
Last night?
♪♪ Right. So I woke up and
Wandered. And I plunked myself
Right down here for another
[Yawn] years.
♪♪ See! See! See! The statue
Stole itself!
♪♪ Oh.
♪♪ The sweet air of innocence.
So this is what it smells like.
♪♪ You know, I can put up with a
Lot. But the one thing I don't
Lot. But the one thing I don't like is waking early!
Like is waking early!
♪♪ Case closed. Job done.
Everyone go home. I think we
Could all use a nap.
♪♪ I like nap.
♪♪ Yes, come now.
♪♪ Mr. Plunket, if it's all the
Same to you, would you consider
Taking your snooze in the same
Spot as before?
♪♪ Hmm. A plunket replunking in
The same spot?
♪♪ Let the statue sleep where he
Wants to sleep.
♪♪ You mean a lot to us.
♪♪ Yeah. Our favorite spot
Wouldn't be the same without
You.
♪♪ Ok then. As you wish.
[Yawn] it's time for the nap.
[Rumbling]
♪♪ [Clears throat]
You know, with my brains and
Your big rocky scariness we
Could rule. And I'll take care
Of all the busy work--you know,
The lawmaking, the
Throne-sitting, the being
Worshipped. All you have to do
Is sleep.
♪♪ Nah!
♪♪ It's like talking to a
♪♪ It's like talking to a statue.
Statue.
♪♪ ♪ Everybody come down
To the snoozer...♪
♪♪ Oh, just minutes more, mom.
♪♪ ♪ Catch you at the statue
I, uh, ah!
Ok, everybody in.
♪♪ [Gasp] what's next on the
Tour?
♪♪ Why, the future of course.
Come on. Come on.
♪♪ Aah!
Aah!
[Sigh]
Whew!
01x07 - The Snoozer
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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.
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.