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01x04 - Tung, the Singing Cricket / Sagwa's Lucky Bat

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat". Aired: September 3, 2001 – October 5, 2002.*
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Sagwa resides in a palace of a magistrate in China in what is assumed to be modern-day Fujian province, as part of a royal family of cats who have the ability to write with their tails.

01x04 - Tung, the Singing Cricket / Sagwa's Lucky Bat

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is

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friends

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concentrate

concentrate concentrate

i bet you ten grains of rice you can't

do it i'm a cat

i can do this in my sleep

not again

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[Applause]

now my dear daughters pay close

attention

when applying color to your lips be

steady of hand

and spare of color

like this

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every time i turn around the rules are

being ignored

must i see to everything myself

and another thing

oh time you sing with the voice of a

thousand angels

what a treasure you are

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[Applause]

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stop it stop it

will he never stop singing i can't nap

i can't enjoy my garden i can't even

have a peaceful

meal and all because of his is

horrible screeching

i must end this once and for all

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i wonder what's wrong

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what's going on the foolish magistrate

is sad

because tongue has cherished cricket has

passed away

but i heard tongue singing just

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yesterday

here husband it was just a cricket

i'm sure

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why

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mama why is everyone so quiet

we are mourning the passing of tongue

what is

it's a time to be quiet and remember

what tongue meant to us

perhaps a funeral is too much for sagua

to deal with

why don't you go and play by the pond

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what's everybody doing well they're

having a funeral for tongue

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i don't think so

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nope not a ghost but

if you're here who's in the cage

let me tell you my furry friend

i was doing a beautiful rendition of one

of my favorite songs

come in my little friend

we're going on a trip

my good man

will you take the cricket in this box to

a field far

far away watch out for his singing

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and the vendor dropped me into a field

that was far far away from here

no yes but what he didn't know was that

when he wasn't looking i

hopped into his cart and came right back

into town with him wow

but who's in the cage i don't know

maybe ty ty found a dead cricket in the

garden and put it in the cage for the

magistrate to find

i can't believe ty ty would be so so

mean what i don't understand is why she

kept going on about my horrible singing

i have the voice of a thousand angels

the magistrate said so

let me demonstrate uh now isn't a good

time

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uh-oh

i wonder if i did the right thing

okay she's gone

sounds like somebody's feeling a little

guilty

yeah but it doesn't look like she's

doing anything about it

well maybe she just needs someone to

give her the idea

you think so

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ah peace and quiet oh

maybe too quiet my beloved husband did

enjoy tang

singing so yeah

i must be hallucinating

[Laughter]

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laughs

yeah yeah oh

it's no use i feel so

guilty for getting rid of tongue i hear

his horrible singing everywhere i go

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the next person to anger me will be

banished

do you hear me

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what have i done my dear husband hasn't

been the same without tongue

i must find some way to make him feel

better

i'll just have to find hang and bring

him back

it's the only way who knows

maybe his singing isn't as bad as i

remember

what does she mean bad i have the voice

of a thousand angels

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what will i do

ty ty sure has been gone a long time

all that searching and no tongue

well it isn't tongue but perhaps it will

cheer my husband anyway

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hmm you're awfully quiet

perhaps you'll sing for the magistrate

later on

now to get my husband so he can see his

new cricket and be happy again

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whoa there are you trying to give me a

heart attack

i have my singing career to think about

shh

i just wanted to wish you luck why can't

you just

tell me what it is dear husband

i know that you have been sad since

tongue passed away

so i have gotten you another cricket to

lift your spirits no one will

ever take the place of my dear old

tongue

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he looks a little common but will he

sing for me

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well he's not quite tan but he does

have the voice of 500 angels

thank you dear wife

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well i guess it's time to play

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outside

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i gotta get home before the sun comes up

why does this always happen to me

always like always the last one i gotta

get myself into a tai chi class soon to

get myself into shape come on you can do

it

just keep moving just keep flapping just

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[Applause]

oh my gosh another near miss

well at least the hearing's still great

even if the sonar is shot

now what is that

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here i go again

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huh

hey that's my trick yeah i know

just thought i'd give it a try so how do

you like it

well it's kind of fun except

my tail is starting to get a little

tired oh

in fact i think i'm going

to

thank you again

anything nothing of it what else are

friends for anyway

hey this place is terrific well i didn't

even know it was here

me neither i found it this morning it

would make a great place to hang out

with shigwa and danwa

um oh and you

well i like the altitude that's for sure

it's at that level

yeah it could be our clubhouse just the

four of us

thanks for including me in the club well

you are my best friend

and you're always rescuing you from one

of your adventures

it just seems like yesterday when i

first found you in that pot of ashes

what's that

hey hey hey what's going on in here get

me out of this thing

how did you get in there anyway please

mister mister mister whoever you are

please sir can you get me out of here

and then i will be happy to discuss it

with you

whatever you say you're the boss

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yeah thank you very much sir

i think nothing of it and you don't have

to call me sir i'm not that old

fufu's the name fufu at your humble

service thank you fufu

well that was quite a predicament you

got yourself into

quite a mess and i must

say i've never seen a creature quite

like you before

i'm a cat oh hey yes of course

a cat who's gonna be in a lot of trouble

if my mama sees me like this

by the way sir i'm a little curious

myself

what are you you are young

haven't you ever seen a bat sorry i

don't get out much

so no i've never ever seen it

a bat now you have

i guess today was my lucky day yep

lucky lucky lucky bats are lucky

why i've heard stories that in some far

away lands

people are actually scared of bats can

you imagine

that but here in china we bring luck

good luck

luck luck luck luck's my name

i thought your name was floofu well

it is foofoo means luck i thought it

meant that

that too huh well

it has to mean one or the other

no not really sometimes words can sound

the same but mean different things

so in my case i am fufu lucky bat

you are

sagua my name is sagua very glad to meet

you sagua

so what happened to your glasses

huh oh

that well you see i had a little

collision with the side of a pagoda

bats don't always see so well

where are you what was that who

is more like it my mom uh oh

trouble i'm in trouble maybe not

i think we can take care of this

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wow

hey haven't you ever heard that cats

don't like to swim

[Laughter]

well bats don't exactly like to perform

the cleanup detail either

but look at yourself now

clean as a whistle i'd say

ready to head back

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well i guess i should say thank you

shisha

oh it was nothing well

even so thank you for saving me

and thank you for cleaning me up i guess

i owe you one

well you owe me an explanation that's

what you owe me

what were you doing stuck in that ash

can anyway oh that

i just wanted to see what was in there

i guess i should have known then that

you would turn out to be quite the

explorer

yep that's me always looking for

something fun

something interesting that was quite a

day

it sure was

where have you been sagua uh just

messing around

well never mind we have to hurry or your

father and i are going to be late for

our morning duties

did you wash up for breakfast

oh yes mama very well well at least you

remembered to do that

remember we hold an important place in

an important house

you must always be spotless yes mama

i understand come

we must go the magistrate is waiting

dongwa look after sagua and sheikwa we

will see you later in the day

so sagua what were you really doing what

kind of trouble did you get yourself

into today

what makes you think i was getting

myself into any kind of trouble

because that's your middle name i didn't

know your middle name was trouble

i thought it was he was only making a

joke shigura

right dongwa well not exactly

well today i made a new friend a lucky

new friend

another cat well no

um a mouse well sort of

kind of but that's not it either

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hey i got my tai chi lessons

hi gotta practice i can't hang around

here all day with you two

say hi to your imaginary friend for me

hey

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brothers oh brother huh

never mind sagua i'm glad you made a new

friend

me too me too

huh oh i was saying that i'm glad you

became my friend

my punyo how on your

best friends yup best friends

hey you're getting me wet what's wrong

with you

nothing just my seasonal allergies

hey i can't hang around here all day i

gotta get back to the cave

oh late as usual yup

late as usual jai jin jai

jin my friend gotta go

wow what a great place i can't wait

to show this to shigura a clubhouse

we need to do is put this over here

and move that

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here we go again

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some things never change

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uh

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