02x13 - A Bird's Best Friend

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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02x13 - A Bird's Best Friend

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♪♪ Hello!

♪ Come on along, get up

And let's shout hooray now ♪

♪♪ Hooray! Here we go!

♪♪ Ha ha!

♪♪ ♪ We're gonna have

A wubbulous kind of day now ♪

♪♪ Come on, sarah.

♪♪ Ok.

♪♪ ♪ Just grab a hat

And spin around

You'll be feet

Off the ground ♪

♪♪ Great!

♪♪ ♪ Come on along,

We're waiting for you ♪

♪♪ Come on!

♪♪ ♪ This is the song

To welcome you to

"The wubbulous world

Of dr. Seuss" ♪

♪♪ Hooray! Hooray!

Hooray I say!

I'm so glad that you're here.

I like it a lot.

It's just not as much fun

To be here when you're not.

Ah-ha! Today is a very big day.

Very big indeed.

I have some exciting news for

You...

Ah ha ha ha.

My very good friend, terrence

Mcbird has the new hooble ball

Game.

There's nothing quite like it,

There's nothing the same.

Hooble ball is seussville's

Most popular game.

Let's take a look!

♪♪ Ohh boy, oh ho ho.

Uh, ah ha ha ha.

Go terrence, go!

Yes, yes, yes, ooh, good

Serve, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Oh, ah, ha ha ha!

Yeah.

♪♪ No good! No good!

Try again birdie.

♪♪ Aw, drat!

♪♪ Hello terrence.

♪♪ Oh. Hi, cat.

♪♪ This is a very lovely looking

Hooble ball set.

♪♪ Hmm, yeah, it's a tough game,

Though cat. Ah-ugh!

You have to hit it on one side,

And then cross over and hit it

Back in time.

♪♪ Ah, terrence, I think I

Know a way to play the new

Hooble ball game that will make

It even "more" fun.

Watch this, terrence. Watch.

♪♪ Time's running out!

♪♪ Cat!

♪♪ What?

♪♪ This is "my" toy that "I'm"

Playing with because it's

"Mine!"

♪♪ Ah, but terrence, terrence,

You see, if we shared

The game...

♪♪ Too late! Game over.

Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

♪♪ That's great.

That's great, cat.

This is "my" toy, and "you're"

Getting in the way.

♪♪ But terrence, if we shared--

♪♪ One side, please.

♪♪ But...

♪♪ Serve!

♪♪ ♪ Well, I could talk

To myself

But I get bored that way,

I always seem to know

Just what I'm about to say,

It's so much more interesting

Talking to you,

You know some things are better

When they're done by ,

Some things are better

When they're done by ,

Can be so lonely,

After all, is only ,

No fun!

Can be a set, make a pair,

Sing a duet, play doubles,

Work together,

Be birds of a feather,

I like to pitch a nerdle ball

If someone's there to catch it,

If I got an itch

That I can't reach

I need a friend to scratch it,

To give myself a boost

Is a thing I just can't do,

Some things are better

When they're done by ,

Some things are better

When they're done by ,

Some things are better

When they're done...

When they're done... By ♪

By ♪

♪♪ Ya-ha.

♪♪ Yes, some things are better

When they're done by , bird.

♪♪ Unh! Oh. I'm sorry, cat.

I was playing hooble ball.

I didn't hear you.

What did you say?

♪♪ Oh, nothing. Nothing at all.

Oh me, oh my.

I am a sad cat.

♪♪ Serve!

[Sigh]

[Fanfare plays]

Why it's a story alert!

[Boing!]

♪♪ Let's listen!

[Laughing]

♪♪ It's the sound of friends

Laughing in the wubbulous world.

To the wubbulascope!

Here we are.

Let's crank up the

Wubbulascope and take a look at

All the friends in the wubbulous

All the friends in the wubbulous world.

World.

Friends over here,

Friends over there.

In seussville, it seems,

In seussville, it seems, friends are everywhere!

Friends are everywhere!

Friends are everywhere! [Honk!]

[Honk!]

[Boing!]

♪♪ Here is freddy zatz and

Teddy spatz.

♪♪ Hey there.

♪♪ These two just might be

The best friends in town.

They do things together.

♪♪ Like bounce up and down!

♪♪ ♪ La la la la la la...

♪♪ See them go for a ride

On their bamboozle bike.

Why these friends are so

Close...

♪♪ We think and talk alike!

♪ La la la la la la...

♪♪ They do everything together.

They work as a team.

♪♪ Let's go for a snack.

Ok? How about pre-melted blue

Bouncing bubble ice cream!

Argh.

♪♪ Ahh.

♪♪ Ahh. ♪♪ ♪ La la la la la la...

♪♪ ♪ La la la la la la...

♪♪ Oh, may I help you?

♪♪ Yes.

♪♪ Well, who's first?

♪♪ He is.

♪♪ Who?

♪♪ Him.

♪♪ You?

♪♪ Me.

♪♪ Who?

♪♪ He.

♪♪ Would you please just tell me

What you want?

♪♪ Pre-melted blue bouncing

Bubble ice cream, please!

♪♪ Oh, sure.

♪♪ Oh, sure. ♪♪ [Gasps]

♪♪ [Gasps]

♪♪ To the jungle of nool,

That's our next stop.

To see a friend who can fly,

And a friend who can hop.

♪♪ [Both laughing]

♪♪ Ha ha!

♪♪ Hey morton, look how high I

Can jump! Waha waha.

♪♪ Wow!

♪♪ Woo he ho ho!

♪♪ Yeow! Here I come, wah.

♪♪ Whoa!

Hey, I can see my house from

Here! Woo...

♪♪ Gotcha!

♪♪ Thanks man!

♪♪ No problem.

♪♪ There are friends everywhere

And those are the facts

Even here on mount crumpit

Where the grinch lives with max.

♪♪ It's just me and you, max.

♪♪ [Barking]

♪♪ Look at this.

♪♪ [Barking]

♪♪ Here ya go. Here ya go.

Go get it boy! Go!

Get it boy. Yeah? Ohh!

Good boy, good boy. Ohh.

It's not always easy to be so

Grinchy when someone loves you

As much as you love me.

♪♪ Having fun with a friend,

Is easy, a cinch.

Anyone can do it.

Even the grinch.

Yes, these two are friends

And they'll be friends forever.

Friends have fun when they

Do things together.

Ah, there's nothing like a

Friend.

Maybe my friend terrence is

Ready to play with me now.

♪♪ Welcome back hooble ball

Fans. The bird hits the ball.

He's struggling folks. I don't

Think he's gonna make it.

And he...

♪♪ Hi, terrence.

♪♪ Ohh.

♪♪ Doesn't make it.

♪♪ Are you having fun yet?

♪♪ Oh, this game is a lot of

Work, cat. Ohh...

♪♪ I was thinking that perhaps

I could help you with the hooble

Ball soon?

♪♪ Cat, this is "my" toy that I

Am playing with because it's

"Mine."

I play it "alone!"

Ah, whoo, ah, oh.

[Whoosh]

♪♪ I wonder what that could be?

I think I know who's in this

Box...

♪♪ It's fox.

♪♪ And knox.

♪♪ And we are in the box.

Ah-ha!

♪♪ Oh, hooray!

I'm so happy to see you.

Fox, knox?

♪♪ Yes, cat?

♪♪ My good friend mr. Terrence

Mcbird has the new

Hooble ball game.

♪♪ Ooh...

♪♪ It's "my" hooble ball game.

♪♪ If we had the new hooble ball

Game...

♪♪ I'd share it with you, mr.

Knox.

♪♪ I'd share it with you, mr.

Fox.

♪♪ Aw, thank you, mr. Knox.

♪♪ You're welcome, mr. Fox.

♪♪ Aww, ah, ha.

♪♪ Could you, perhaps, tell us

More about the way you share?

More about the way you share? ♪♪ Sure!

♪♪ Sure!

♪♪ ♪ I'm mr. Fox

♪♪ ♪ I'm mr. Knox

♪♪ ♪ We share our socks

♪♪ ♪ I'll get the socks

♪♪ ♪ Uh, mr. Fox?

♪♪ ♪ I'm in the box!

♪♪ ♪ Mr. Knox?

♪♪ ♪ I'm in the box!

Ha ha!

♪♪ ♪ Here we are!

♪♪ ♪ And here's our socks,

We share our socks ♪

♪♪ ♪ And clocks and blocks,

I have clocks ♪

♪♪ ♪ And I have blocks

♪♪ ♪ I'll put my clocks in

Knox's socks ♪

♪♪ ♪ I'll put my blocks in fox's

Socks ♪

Ha ha!

♪♪ ♪ Oh, we have blocks and

Clocks and socks ♪

♪♪ ♪ And we share them all

♪♪ Oh, yeah.

♪♪ ♪ Inside our box

♪♪ ♪ This box belongs to fox and

Knox!

Blocks and clocks

And also socks,

All in fox and knox's box! ♪

♪♪ Very good job, mr. Fox!

♪♪ Thank you, mr. Knox!

♪♪ This is a very intense

Moment, the bird is down.

I don't know if he's coming

Back.

♪♪ Ohh...

♪♪ So, terrence, did that

Make you want to play together?

With me?

♪♪ Cat, oh, I can handle this

By myself.

♪♪ I wouldn't be too sure about

That. This bird's gotta be

Thinking,

"Why can't I get this game

Started."

♪♪ It's my game.

Now cat, go away!

♪♪ All right, bird. Hmm.

What a stubborn bird.

I just wish he would share this

Game with me.

[Fanfare plays]

[Boing!]

♪♪ Ahh...

"What's happening to yertle?

You'll soon see, I hope.

If you go to the

Wubbulascope!"

Oh me, oh my.

Let's crank up the wubbulascope

And see what's happening to

And see what's happening to yertle the turtle.

Yertle the turtle.

And yertle the turtle lives

Right here

In the jungle of nool.

Yertle the turtle

Has a collection of nuts.

It is the world's greatest

Collection,

No if's and's or buts.

No if's and's or buts. [Boing!]

[Boing!]

♪♪ Nuts! Hmm-hmm-hmm.

I'm nuts about nuts.

Oh, hoo hoo. Hmm.

Time to count them.

.

.

, , .

♪ All these nuts just for me,

, , , ,

Gee, I must be in nut heaven,

, , Me and my nuts

Are feeling fine,

Here's nut ,

...?!

♪♪ Hi, yertle.

♪♪ How's it goin'?

♪♪ Stay back! These are my nuts.

♪♪ Wow! These are all yours?

♪♪ Yes!

♪♪ Whoa! Can I have one?

They look really tasty.

♪♪ [Gasp] no!

I'm the only one who gets to eat

Them or count them or--or--or--

Or anything.

♪♪ You mean you don't have

Anyone to share your nut

Collection with?

♪♪ Well, i...

♪♪ That's too bad.

It's really great to have

Friends to share things with,

♪♪ You said it, pal!

♪♪ "My" nut collection is the

Best in the world. And I "don't"

Need to share it with a "friend"

Or anyone else.

♪♪ Ok, yertle.

♪♪ Have it your way, pal.

♪♪ Yes. Yes, that's right.

I like to have things my way.

Now, why don't you two "friends"

Just, uh, run along and leave me

Alone?

♪♪ Sure, see ya, yertle.

♪♪ Hey, morton, I found another

Cool rock for my rock

Collection. You wanna see it?

♪♪ Sure!

♪♪ Come on.

♪♪ Cool.

♪♪ Uh... Eh...

I have the--the greatest nut

Collection in the world!

Eh...eh... That's all I need.

Uh, I certainly don't need a

Friend.

♪♪ Hey, that is one fine nut

Collection you have there.

♪♪ Who--who said that?

♪♪ You have thurple nuts.

And burple nuts.

These are great nuts you have

Here.

♪♪ I'm rather proud of them.

Ahem.

Have you ever seen one of

These?

♪♪ [Gasp] oh my!

That's the very rare nut of the

Foofula tree.

♪♪ Yes, and I have one.

♪♪ My name's earl.

♪♪ My name's yertle.

♪♪ Yertle, do you have the nut

Of the...snozberry snout tree?

♪♪ The snozberry snout tree?!

Why no, earl. That's the rarest

Nut in the world.

♪♪ I have one!

♪♪ But--i don't! Earl!

♪♪ [Sigh]

Ahh.

♪♪ [Gasp]

♪♪ Here it is.

I know where I can get you one.

♪♪ Do you really, earl?

♪♪ Follow me.

♪♪ Oh, hah hah oh ah ooh!

♪♪ It's kind of a long walk to

The snozberry snout tree,

Yertle. I hope you don't mind.

♪♪ Oh, not at all earl.

I--i don't mind.

I--i happen to enjoy taking

Long walks.

♪♪ Me too, yertle.

♪♪ Hmm.

♪♪ You ever like to stop and

Just swing on the vines?

♪♪ Why, ye--yes I do, yertle!

♪♪ Really? What do you say we go

And swing on some right now?

♪♪ That's a great idea!

♪♪ Ha ha. Come on, earl, ooh oh,

Let's swing!

♪♪ Wow! Ohh!

Ooh, wow!

♪♪ Look at me earl!

♪♪ Look at me earl! ♪♪ [Laughing, cheering]

♪♪ [Laughing, cheering]

♪♪ I'm giddy, earl! Whoa!

Whoa...

Oh, earl, that was fun!

♪♪ Sure was!

I'm getting a little hungry,

Yertle. I could use a snack.

How about you?

♪♪ You know earl, I am a little

Hungry.

♪♪ It's a good thing I brought

Along a couple of burple nut

Butter cookies with me.

♪♪ Burple nut butter cookies are

My favorite!

♪♪ Then take a look at these!

♪♪ Ahh...

[Cough] yes, well.

I--i hope you enjoy your

Cookies.

♪♪ You don't want one, yertle?

♪♪ No, of course I want one,

Earl. But those are your

Cookies. And I'm sure you

Want to keep those cookies all

To yourself.

♪♪ Not at all, yertle.

Take one, please.

♪♪ Really?! You don't mind?

♪♪ Uh-uh. Take a cookie.

♪♪ Oh-oh. Thank you, earl.

Thank you.

♪♪ You're welcome, yertle.

Are you ready to keep walking?

♪♪ Oh, yes. I don't want to

Miss the snozberry snout tree!

♪♪ Follow me!

♪♪ What a nice guy.

♪♪ [Gasp] look there, yertle.

The snozberry snout tree.

♪♪ Ooh.

♪♪ Come on, yertle. Follow me!

♪♪ Come on, yertle. Follow me! ♪♪ Yes!

♪♪ Yes!

[Breathing hard] whew. Ohh...

Earl, it's so tall.

♪♪ It's going to be hard to get.

♪♪ Ooh. What do we do now?

♪♪ It's awful high.

♪♪ Why don't you climb on my

Shoulders, earl.

Oh, that's a great idea, yertle.

Let me get my leg up here--

♪♪ You're doing great.

♪♪ I can almost reach it--

♪♪ Earl! Earl! I can't see.

♪♪ Aah!

♪♪ [Groaning] ohh-kay.

Well, earl, that didn't work.

♪♪ Uh-uh.

♪♪ It's too high.

We'll have to try something

Else.

♪♪ Maybe we can climb the tree.

♪♪ Hmm. Maybe. But there's no

Branches to grab onto.

♪♪ Oww, let's try it.

♪♪ Ok, earl.

♪♪ Ah, ha!

♪♪ [Groans]

♪♪ Come on.

♪♪ Rightio.

♪♪ [Groans]

♪♪ [Giggling]

♪♪ Whoa!

♪♪ Yertle, did you hear that?

♪♪ Yes, I did.

♪♪ Hmm. Ok.

♪♪ [Giggling]

♪♪ Whoa!

♪♪ Yertle,

This tree is ticklish.

♪♪ Wha...

♪♪ [Giggling]

♪♪ Look at that.

♪♪ Maybe the nut will fall off

The tree if we can make it shake

Enough.

♪♪ Let's keep tickling.

♪♪ [Giggling]

♪♪ Earl, are you certain this

Will work?

♪♪ [Giggling continues]

♪♪ Oh, it's going to fall!

♪♪ Oh, it's going to fall! ♪♪ [Tree laughing hard]

♪♪ [Tree laughing hard]

♪♪ Oh, oh, I think it's working.

♪♪ Oh!

♪♪ Hey, are you ok?

Are you ok?

♪♪ Earl, earl...

We did it! We did it!

Oh, thank you, earl. Thank you.

♪♪ Oh, oh, now we both have

One of the very rare nuts of the

Snozberry snout tree!

♪♪ Oh, earl! Oh, earl! Whoo-hoo!

Well, I can't thank you enough

Earl, it's just fantastic.

♪♪ Sure.

♪♪ Oh, it's you two--

The friends.

♪♪ Hey, yertle.

♪♪ Hey.

♪♪ I'll have the two of you know

That "i" don't need any friends.

I've got earl.

And earl and I do things

Together, and we have lots of

Fun!

♪♪ Um, yertle, um, that's what a

Friend is.

♪♪ It is?

♪♪ Sure, a friend is someone who

Likes to do the same things as

You.

♪♪ Really?

♪♪ Yup! I'm your friend, yertle.

♪♪ Well, what do you know?

Heh, heh, heh, heh, hey, hey,

I--i like this friends idea.

I--i think I'd like more

Friends.

♪♪ Oh!

♪♪ Would you two like to be my

Friends, junior and morton?

♪♪ Ok.

♪♪ Hey, what do you say, we all

Go back to my place and share

Some burple nuts.

♪♪ Ooh!

♪♪ Yeah, come on!

♪♪ Yeah, come on! ♪♪ All right, let's go!

♪♪ All right, let's go!

♪♪ Well, that is certainly

Something. Yertle the turtle

Found a friend to play with.

♪♪ Haww!

♪♪ Hmm? What is it,

My birdly friend?

♪♪ Haww! That's it cat. That's

All. I can't take it any more.

♪♪ What's the matter terrence?

♪♪ Ahh. I'm through with

Hooble ball.

♪♪ But you just got the game.

♪♪ Hooble ball's a hard game,

Cat. I don't like playing it

Alone.

♪♪ That's what I was trying

To say!

♪♪ Oh, oh, I'm done, cat.

You can have my game of hooble

Ball. Oh.

♪♪ No. Terrence.

♪♪ No? No?!

But--but, cat, you kept begging

Me for it! And--and now you--

You--you don't want to play?

What are you talking about?

♪♪ Well, the game is nice.

But what I wanted was to play it

With you.

♪♪ [Gulp] oh. I...

Heh--

♪♪ See terrence, I was excited

About you and I playing hooble

Ball together.

♪♪ Together?

♪♪ Yes, terrence.

♪♪ Oh, boy, folks, it looks like

We might have a real game on our

Hands!

♪♪ Now I will hit the ball to

You.

♪♪ Wow! And I hit it back.

♪♪ Oh, this is amazing, folks!

This is hooble ball at its best.

This is hooble ball at its best. ♪♪ Oh, yeah!

♪♪ Oh, yeah!

Oh, ho, ho.

♪♪ Hmph.

♪♪ Wow.

♪♪ Ah. Ha.

♪♪ Oh, yeah.

[Ringing]

♪♪ Yes! Yes! Yes!

♪♪ This game is much more fun

When played by .

Oh, thank you cat, thank you.

♪♪ Aw, not at all, my birdly

Friend. I'm always happy to

Help out a friend.

♪♪ You're a good friend.

In fact, I think you're the best

Friend a bird could have.

♪♪ Thank you, terrence.

♪♪ Oh, that was one amazing game

Of hooble ball.

You've got talent, bird.

♪♪ My, that was fun.

I'm so glad you were here, and I

"Love" playing hooble ball.

I just don't think this day

Could get any better.

Could get any better. [Piano playing]

[Piano playing]

♪♪ ♪ Hooray for us,

Hooray I say,

Hooray for all the fun

That we have every day,

And all the new faces

And all the new places we see,

Just you and me,

So come back soon,

And when you do

I'll have some new surprises

In my hat for you,

Just one last thing

And then I'm on my way,

Let's shout hooray!

Let's shout hooray! Just shout hooray! ♪

Just shout hooray! ♪
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