05x12 - Rupert and the Dragon Festival

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Whee!

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When I can't find anything to do at home, I like to come here.

There's always something going on at the Professor's.

(Sheep bleating)

Come along now. Mustn't dawdle.

(Giggling)

What did I tell you?

A little cooperation, please.

We've got a lot of work to do-ooh!

(Crashing)

(Gasping)

(Groaning)

Professor, are you all right?

Oh, nothing broken.

(Groaning)

Merely misaligned.

You'd better lie down for a while.

Oh, I'm afraid I haven't time to get comfortable.

I have too much to do.

(Metal clattering) (Gasping)

(Bleating)

That fiendish ram demolished my Herd-a-cycle .

I'm sure you can fix it, Professor.

I think.

Yes, yes.

I'll just add it to the top of my list of things to do.

(Sighing)

It's a well-known scientific fact that the amount of work

one has to do will increase

as the time available to do it in decreases.

You weren't kidding when you said you have a lot to do.

It all started when Mrs. Pug happened to mention

she couldn't find the time to get her knitting done.

Being in a helpful frame of mind,

I promised to invent her a machine

that would knit two socks at once.

This is a knitting machine?

Oh, no.

You see, when I asked Granny Goat to spin a supply of yarn

for the knitting machine,

I discovered she was behind with her spinning.

So I promised her

a new high-speed automatic spinning wheel.

Oh, it spins wool?

Not exactly, but you're getting warmer, so to speak.

This is the prototype

for a steam-powered automatic sheep shearer!

Let me guess:

Farmer Brown was a little behind with his wool shearing?

Right you are, Rupert. Most insightful.

But I'm afraid all of my plans are at a standstill

until I can gain the cooperation

of this stubborn flock of sheep.

I've wasted my entire morning chasing

those uncooperative ungulates around the meadow.

Hmm, I have an idea, Professor.

Let's try pulling the wool over their eyes.

(Giggling)

An amusing metaphor given the circumstances.

Go on, my boy.

(Bleating)

(Rupert chuckling)

It's a professor in sheep's clothing.

(Giggling) Right you are, my boy.

Quite literally.

Your suggestion to take advantage

of the sheeps' natural instinct to follow the leader

is nothing short of brilliant.

(Bleating)

(Bleating) (Bleating)

(Bleating)

It's working!

(Bleating)

(Snorting)

(Professor bleating)

(Snorting)

(Bleating)

(Gasping)

(Sheep thudding into Professor)

Whoa!

(Professor groaning)

How do I stop it?

Quickly, I hope! Quickly!

(Professor moaning)

(Professor moaning)

Professor, are you all right?

Not exactly.

However, I do feel lucky to be in one piece.

I wish I could say the same for your machine.

Sorry, Professor.

Not to worry, Rupert.

Your quick thinking quite literally saved my skin.

Although I can't say the same for my best trousers.

Ah, it appears I'll have to miss supper again today.

I'm sure Farmer Brown and the others

will give you more time, Professor.

More time? Hmm.


Yes, more time.

Now, why didn't I think of it before?

That's it! Ha-ha!

A brilliant suggestion, Rupert.

Think of the possibilities!

What did I say?

Hmm.

I see everyone is still wearing their woollens.

Nothing's been touched.

Perhaps the Professor is still in bed.

Good morning, Rupert! Huh?

(Sheep bleating)

What's happening?

Sorry, my boy. No time to chat.

While I was making repairs, I came upon a grand idea,

but I have to slip into the village for a few parts.

(Giggling)

Got all the way there and I realized I forgot my wallet.

Back in a flash, so to speak.

You see?

Instead of bringing the sheep to the shearing machine,

why not take the shearing machine to the sheep?

(Laughing) Professor!

You were here and then you went to the village and back twice?

Indeed!

And all in two shakes of a lamb's tail,

to coin an appropriate phrase.

But how?

(Laughing)

It's all thanks to my latest invention.

I call it the whiz watch.

Now I can get any job done in a fraction of the time.

Think of the possibilities!

With a whiz watch in every pocket,

people will get their entire week's work

done by Monday morning

and have the rest of the week to relax.

How does it work?

Marvellously, my boy.

Quite marvellously if I do say so myself.

Let's test it on the mobile sheep-shearing machine.

Just attach it near the engine.

(Whiz watch whirring)

How should I-- Whoa!

(Chuckling)

There's quite a strong magnet inside.

I'll say.

(Engine starting)

Press the start button, Rupert!

Put the kettle on to boil, my boy.

I'll have the entire flock clipped before tea time.

Woo!

Oh, dear, this is too fast.

(Gasping)

(Screaming)

Oh, no!

Hang on, Professor!

(Clucking)

Keep together now.

(Shearing machine approaching)

Sakes alive! What's that racket?

(Screaming)

(Coughing)

Thunderation.

Whoa!

(Gasping)

Great Scott!

PROFESSORSorry!

Professor!

(Shrieking)

Whoa!

Oh, no.

(Professor groaning)

We'd better get him onto dry land, Rupert.

I'm terribly sorry, Constable.

It was most foolhardy to put my whiz watch to such a use.

Whiz what?

Whiz watch, my latest time-saving invention.

This thing is a watch?

And you drive it like a motor car?

No, Constable Growler, this is an automatic sheep-shearer.

The whiz watch is attached to it.

You shear sheep with this, then?

Actually, I haven't managed to catch one yet.

Ahem.

However, it is rather handy

for chopping vegetables or plucking chickens.

I'm afraid I'll have some apologies to deliver.

There'll be plenty of time for that later, Professor.

I think the important thing to do right now

is to get this mess cleaned up.

Most definitely. I'll start straight away.

And I suggest in the future,

you keep your inventions off the public thoroughfares.

I'll help you clean up, Professor.

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(Bells clanging)

Six o'clock already?

Where did the day go?

You can say that again.


I haven't even had lunch yet.

Well, I don't want you missing supper as well, Rupert.

I'll finish up here.

Goodbye, Professor.

(Sighing)

(Bird trilling)

(Owl hooting)

It's awfully dark for suppertime.

Sorry I'm late for supper.

I must have lost track of the time.

You're not the only one. This is lunch.

It usually doesn't take up the whole day.

Oh, I didn't even get a chance to hang out the washing.

And I don't know what I did with my time today.

I didn't even have a chance to do the gardening.

(Bells clanging)

My word, is that the midnight bell?

It is. Where does the time go?

(Gasping) Rupert, it's past your bedtime.

Good night, dear.

Um, good night.

MR. BEARDon't forget to set your alarm, son.

The days are too short for sleeping in.

Funny, it's the middle of the night,

but I don't feel tired at all.

(Rooster crowing)

Morning already?

Good morning, Mum.

Morning? Goodness.

Do you mind getting your own toast and juice, dear?

Oh, I've been up all night

trying to finish last night's dishes.

(Bells clanging)

Noon already?

Where did the morning go? Oh, dear.

The milk's been sitting out since lunch yesterday,

and I've got biscuits to make.

Rupert, will you please run to the store

and buy a fresh bottle? Thank you, dear.

RUPERTEveryone seems in such a hurry today.

(Bells clanging) (Gasping)

The milk!

Closed?

No wonder everyone is in such a hurry.

There just isn't enough time in a day to get things done.

(Clatter)

Back again to finish up, Professor?

Actually, I haven't been home yet.

I can't find the whiz watch,

and I've been looking for the past day and a half.

(Bells clanging)

Midnight already?

Honestly, Rupert, the time seems to have flown by like--

The clock!

Actually, I was about to say, like a--

(Gasping) My word!

I think we've found your whiz watch, Professor.

It's set Nutwood's clock into ultra-high speed.

No wonder the days are passing so quickly.

A most unexpected phenomenon indeed

and one we had better deal with straight away.

(Sighing) The start of another abbreviated day,

thanks to my ill-conceived invention.

Don't worry, Professor. We'll soon have things set right.

But be careful.

No problem, my boy.

I was captain of my college cricket team.

I'll bat that troublesome whiz watch into the adjacent county!

Oh, my. That result was most unexpected.

RUPERTDo you think this will damage the works, Professor?

Circumstances being what they are,

we really have no other option.

Stand clear, Rupert!

(Gasping)

Pfff! Quite a substantial mechanism we have here.

How long will it take for it to wind down on its own?

Too long by my calculations.

I'm afraid by then I'd be too old to climb the ladder.

Professor, perhaps Father Time could help us.

He could stop time long enough

for you to retrieve the whiz watch.

Brilliant, my boy!

Take the gyrocopter. It will get you there the fastest.

I'll stand by to remove the whiz watch

the very instant those hands stop spinning.

Oh, my, this won't do.

If the clock hand stops on the ,

I won't be able to reach the whiz watch.

I had better manoeuvre myself

into a more advantageous position. Oof!

(Gasping)

Oh, no!

(Sighing) At least when the time comes,

I'll be ready to seize the moment

or the whiz watch, as the case may be.

I hope I find Father Time's tower soon.

The sands of time seem to go on forever.

There it is.

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(Clocks ticking)


Hello? Father Time?

What if he's not home?

Wow!

(Wood creaking)

Whoa!

Argh, not this one either.

Father Time?

Huh? What? Oh, Rupert.

I'm afraid I haven't time to chat right now.

I realize you're very busy.

Shh! Maybe it's this one.

It's about the Nutwood Tower clock.

It's-- Gone crazy?

Yes.

Well, of course it has.

They've all gone haywire.

One of these infernal clocks is throwing off all the others.

But which one is it?

That's what I'm trying to-- Hey.

(Clock ringing)

(Gasping)

Phew, just in the nick of time.

So once we remove the Professor's whiz watch,

it will put things right again.

Why must people tamper with things they don't understand?

Whiz watch. Ha!

The things I have to put up with.

How interestingeven in spite of the whiz watch,

when you're waiting for someone,

time still passes insufferably slowly.

(Whirring)

FATHER TIMEStand back, everyone.

Father Time is here!

(Gasping)

This is what comes of being in such a rush.

Father Time, I presume?

Yes, and you must be the Professor.

Uh, yes.

(Giggling)

I suspect Rupert has told you all about my whiz--

Watch out!

(Both screaming)

It worked. I've stopped time.

Now to get the whiz watch.

I hope that shoelace holds.

There, that takes care of the whiz watch.

Now to take care of the Professor and Father Time.

(Gasping) Uh-oh, I'd better hurry.

(Both screaming)

No!

Eh, what?

Huh?

Whoa. Whoa.

Oh, I say, Rupert, well done.

No problem, Professor.

Thanks to the whiz watch, I had some extra time on my hands.

Well, I must say, it was time well spent.

(Laughing)

Ahem, yes.

(Shears clipping)

That ought to do it, Rupert.

Every last one is clipped and accounted for.

That didn't take very long.

Right you are, my boy.

Of course, it helps when you've got time on your side.

Or should I say, Father Time?

(Both laughing)

(Clock ticking, sheep bleating)

(Bleating)

I've got a castle full of clocks that need winding,

and the longer I stand here,

the longer it will take to wind them all.

Goodbye, Father Time. Thank you again.

You're welcome, Professor.

And from now on, if you need more time, just ask.

You do that kind of thing?

Not as a rule, but if it'll keep you from coming up

with any more time-saving ideas,

I'm willing to do anything.

I'll give you an extra day or two.

Weeks, years even!

Oh, I say.

Think of the possibilities.

Shall we get back to work, Professor?

Hmm? Work?

Actually, I was thinking about the possibility

of a nice, long lunch.

What do you think?

Well, Professor, I think it's about time.

(Laughing)

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