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01x07 - Miss Jessop Tidies Up

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Herbs". Aired: 12 February – 6 May 1968.*
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The Herbs consisted of a fantasy mix of human and animal characters inhabiting the magical walled garden of an English country estate.

01x07 - Miss Jessop Tidies Up

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hello things look very untidy this morning just look at those weeds there's hardly room for

parsley I wonder why perhaps bay leaf has been too busy doing other

things it's rather a lot for one person lady Rosemary does give him a hand sometimes cutting off the Dead

flowers but s Basil's usually out sh**ting and Sage is usually asleep in his nest I don't suppose it worries Dill

much either a weed is just something that grows as far as he's concerned no

different from a flower as for parsley what's this Miss Jessup she must have

come to stay with sir basil and Lady Rosemary now there'll be trouble I don't think you've met Miss Jessup she's very

nice really but she does like things to be neat and tidy not just ordinary tidy

but clean tidy she won't like the herb garden if it looks untidy like this one we'd better go in and see what's

happening happening I'll say the magic word

heraus there you are what did I tell you she's dusting the

flowers I'm a very neat herb and my name is Miss Jessup I like everything tidy

and all just in place but all of the other herbs make such a mess up the

state of the god a dreadful disgrace dear oh dear oh dear I'm sure these flowers haven't been dusted for days and

days and days what has everyone been doing here comes

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parsley I'm a very friendly lion called parsley with a tale for doing jobs of

every kind but I mustn't treat it roughly or too harshly for it's such a useful thing to

have

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behind parsley parsley come here at once parsley have you seen yourself

lately just look at you your man hasn't had a brush for I don't know how long it looks like a doormat

goodness knows when you last licked behind the ears your Tail's a disgrace I thought it

was a flower go back into your Den at once and don't come out again until you've put all those things

right here comes Dill watch out Dill I'm D the dog I'm a dog called Dill

though my tail I'd love to get I have never caught it yet and as for you Dill you're almost as

bad as parsley just look at your pores you've been digging up the garden I expect looking for bones well if I catch

you doing it again there'll be trouble go away at once and wash those

pores Here Comes Mr onion and all his chives I expect they're going on a nature ramble LIF right LIF right LIF

right LIF right left because there are so many ches or looking like each other it makes it even

hard to tell a sister from a

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brother Mr onion Mr onion CH h stand it

ease stand easy morning Miss Jessup good morning Mr

onion Mr onion I have a complaint to make I'm Sorry Miss Jessup all complaints must be made at : in the

morning after breakfast and before school starts I'm afraid this really cannot wait until tomorrow Mr Anan you

see I cannot have all your children tramping about the countryside like this they're making a terrible dust and I've only just this minute finished doing the

flowers making a dust my child's making a dust splutter I'm sorry ma'am that's

the only word for it splutter splutter splutter Mr onion no ma'am I'm sorry but I'm very

upset chives H son left left left right

left oh dear now Mr Anan is upset

it sounds as if all the noise has woken Sage as well a rather fat feathery I'll call

Sage I'm not at all happy in fact in a rage Miss Jessup wants everything tidy and clean but the noise is upsetting my

sleeping

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routine that's parsley Dill Mr onion and all the chives and now Sage that Miss Jessup has

upset there can't be many left now I'm bilea I'm the gardener I work

from early Dawn you'll find me sweeping up the leaves and tidy in the lawn ah ah

bay leaf there you are morning Miss Jessup we didn't see you there bay leaf I'm sorry to have to say this but

there's altogether too much singing going on in the Garden today too much s in while people stand around singing

they're not working this Garden's getting much too untidy my garden untiy well I've been working my fingers

to the bone from morning to night Dar to dusk bay leaf don't argue just look at

this flower covered in dust oh you ain't going to stand for this or you be going to see s Basel and Lady Rosemary about

this now she's upset Bailey it's a bity really because she means well I'm a very

neat herb and my name is Miss Jessup I like everything tidy and shining and

clean but all of the other herbs make such a mess up that sometimes the

gardens not fit to be seen ah here she be gone I really don't know what we're

going to do Bessel we can't ask her to leave she is our guest well if she don't

leave or else change our ways o be going instead I say steady on baa you can't

leave us who's going to carry me things when I'm out sh**ting oh you won't need that g*n sir Basel nor your fishing rod

she don't hold with them what's that won't need them hear that Rosemary of course what she needs his husband a

husband ah husband someone she can Grumble at all the time

she' be lonely that be her trouble what she needs is someone used to Gardens and keeping things

tidy here what you be looking at what a splendid idea baby congratulations I hope you'll both be

very happy yeah I ain't be going to marry her I ain't going to be the one or you want to be grumbled at for the rest

of my life you mean you wouldn't do it not for the rest of us no I wouldn't Baya I'm very much afraid I must order

you to I won't have everyone in the herb garden upset like this I'll give you until : to make up your mind or to

find someone else if not I ain't be getting married I be happy as I am let

well alone I say what's that unfair to lions

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especially lions called parsley hands off are

Paws swap ruo FN oh I see it's hands off our Paws

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backwards to it to woo well you can't say any clearer than that oh dear I can see there's going to

be trouble po poor old bay leaf he won't be very popular if he doesn't find a husband for Miss Jessup soon Bill

foil no he'd be too short he would Devil's

bit that serve her right that would Too Tall though pity fur

Bush oh he'd be too common by far he doesn't seem to be having much

luck ah oh ah good King Henry why didn't I think of him before she couldn't want

much better than that ah you may well look or you've got a plan I have