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01x12 - Fraidy Cats / The Tortoise and the Cat

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.

01x12 - Fraidy Cats / The Tortoise and the Cat

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was

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oh

you're my best friend

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flying out on a night not good for fat

nor

what's that just the wind sheep

go back to sleep

maybe it wasn't such a good idea to camp

out in the clubhouse tonight

um maybe we should go back down too

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i know i heard something the wind

stop hugging the blanket and stop being

such a fraidy cat

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go to sleep i i didn't say anything

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mama

they might be in the kitchen oh the poor

magistrate today

ty ty insisted they go on their

afternoon stroll

but he said it's crazy to go out on a

day like this

ty ty's hat spun in the wind and when

she let go of the magistrate

he started spinning too his imperial

robes were bitten by a dragon statue

and tai tai sleeve dogs almost became

sleeve birds

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i'm sorry i shouldn't laugh

but you tell it so well my dear it was

almost as if i was

whirling in the wind with them well

thank goodness everything was sorted out

in the end and no one was hurt

have i ever told you the legend of the

guy meow

the ghost cat it was in the time of an

ancient

dynasty during a wild and windy night

very much like tonight

everyone at the back colony said you're

nuts to go out

you won't catch any bugs in this wind i

said

oh yeah i'll have so many bugs blowing

my way

i'll have to open a bug stand in a

market

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[Applause]

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hey

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the ghost cat guy meow floats over the

village

searching ever searching for a home

the first sign that the ghost cat has

entered your house

the first sign is

when the shutters rattle

the second sign of the guy meow is

credit shadow drifts through the room

but the third and final sign that the

why meow has arrived is when

the lantern blows out

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looks like there's no ghost cat here

oh yeah yeah you almost had me there you

make it sound

so real

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you should have been asleep hours ago

it's so scary up in the attic

all the wind and the goal um

and the wind that's all right dear you

don't have to camp up there tonight

you can sleep in your own bed but i

don't want to miss our clubhouse cowboy

and i don't want donggua to think i'm

afraid

that i'm scared don't worry i'll take

her back

up maybe i'll even tell you a little

story

not a scary one then don't

grab the blanket like this that was

really rude

then he called me a free cat

being careful when you don't know about

something doesn't mean you're a fraidy

cat

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yeah yeah what would happen if the

lantern went out oh

not much for us cats we can see really

well in the dark

now humans on the other paw they go

hey who put out the lights oh where

am i i can't see the thing

what's that

stare

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now who's afraid he cat

not me you see sometimes when you're

frightened

it turns out the scary thing was just

something silly

like a stare yeah something silly like

like the guam yao what was that

nothing nothing i'll do that funny walk

again

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one on shiguan

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that's it i give up you won wind

i'll just wait for you to blow over

it's uncomfortable all upside down like

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this

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go to sleep now now

chiqua there are no ghosts here you've

just had a bad

dream and when no wind

it wasn't a dream sagua i heard yeah

yeah tell mama and bob about the ghost

cat

that's just one of yeah's old spooky

fables

and like why meow is invisible

it can be anywhere the second sign is

when you see its

shadow as the guy meow is invisible how

can it make a shadow

oh yeah how could it

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the shadow of the mio

i just told you there is no quai

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now there are two friday

cut it cats she's really scared oh come

on

i was only joking around hmm

still not comfy now if i

wrap this swing like this

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oh

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me

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yes

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it's just a lantern dongwa it's not

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well i'm sorry to be so much of a

disappointment

hi fufu good night fufu

that's what we all need a good night's

sleep oh

you were so scared i wasn't scared

just a little startled that's all it's

like

sometimes what scares you turns out to

be something silly

like a lantern or fufu

hey wait a minute i'm a bat i don't

sleep at night

and i'm not something silly

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i'm sorry for scaring you and calling

you a fraidy cat

that's okay dongwa no

yeah well maybe i'll give this weird

sleeping at night thing a whirl

but not sleepy got any good bedtime

stories

i heard a good one from yeah yeah

tonight you see

there's this glide everybody

such a pretty cat

very nice lovely

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i just love that sound

good morning

my goodness i haven't seen her since she

was a pupa

looks just like her mother

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what a delight

so much to see so little time good

morning

huh what oh good morning snail

sorry can't stop new lettuce to munch

don't worry

i've had my breakfast

youngsters always in a hurry

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this is a good place for a nap

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huh my oh my

what was that good morning

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what was that let's play

oh sagua it's you

good morning i'm not sagua

i'm a tortoise

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whatever

i really must have a nap

come on you just got up

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hmm

ancient tradition says that a cat

hopping on one leg is about to

fall over well

you know what i say to that you're it

tag you're it no i got you over there

oh you did you had

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honestly i'm trying to sleep

ouch i've got a thorn in my foot

yes i see it

stay calm now

there it's out

thank you well

that was a short nap

ow ow

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have you ever seen anything so unusual

huh it's quite remarkable the way it

moves

what i don't see anything moving

on the handrail do you see um

that caterpillar marvelous isn't it

the way it moves i can do that

see i can do anything that slowpoke

caterpillar can do

and i can do it faster

sagua you're a cat not a caterpillar

you're spending so much time trying to

be something you're not

that you're missing the beauty of the

garden look at me

cats can do anything cats can try

anything perhaps

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i slipped that's all look

sagua's getting a boat ride last one on

is a smelly fish

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you're welcome oh

let me off now i don't want to go

anywhere near

that awful rose bush the rose bush isn't

awful

or it wouldn't have such beautiful

flowers

come smell this rose with me it's quite

a

wonderful smell oh all right

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wow you're right

tortoise they do smell

beautiful

that cloud up above reminds me of

something

do you have any idea

hey

it's a cat and it looks just like me

a tiger

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wow this is amazing

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this is really amazing wow

they're so little and look at what

they're carrying

but

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look at what that

oh the ants i've watched them many times

they're very strong you know i wish i

was that strong

well if i was as strong as the ants i

could lift you

maybe you could sagua but remember it

takes a whole

team of ants to lift that dumpling

now the cloud looks like you well

how about that

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and it's moving slowly just like you

that's me all right you know i'm

beginning to like this garden a lot

i never realized there was so much to

see

that's because you never took the time

before

there's always something new to discover

here i guess so

and now we've seen everything not quite

my little sagua huh

come with me i want to show you

something else

i'm right behind you

look look at what it's just

water ah but watch this

wow

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do it again do it again

hey where'd you go

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i'll do it myself

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come and play tag with us well we can

play tag anytime

let's play follow the leader okay

i'll be the leader

okay you can lead first

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foreign

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huh

hey my foot doesn't hurt anymore hey

my foot doesn't hurt anymore stop

that's not part of the game stop that's

not part of the game

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what a beautiful smell this

garden is perfect for watching clouds

look up in the sky oh

it's a fish

it's a mouse

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no it's saguaro

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