Babar, Season 3

Babar:
I remember when we first brought baby Isabelle home.

Celeste:
Oh yes, and our three darling children wanted to know if the hospital had a return policy!

Babar:
You scared the daylights out of her, Alexander.

Alexander:
But I was trying to play with her. She almost but my trunk off!

Pom:
Flora's run away from home!

Babar:
What?

Alexander:
Just like a sister to take the easy way out, and leave us with the diaper monster!

Celeste:
Whatever could have happened to the diapers? They should've been delivered hours ago.

Flora:
I sent them away.

Babar:
You did WHAT?!

Celeste:
Flora! We need those diapers for Isabelle right now! I'll have to call them back.

Babar:
And I'll get Isabelle. [turns to Flora] I'll talk to you later, young lady!

Alexander:
Keep looking, Pom.

Pom:
It's no use. Everybody wants dogs, cats, canaries, but no babies.

Alexander:
You mean, nobody wants somebody else's trouble.

Babar:
Pom! Alexander!

Alexander:
Hide the paper. Dad's coming!

Babar:
So what are you two up to now?

Pom and Alexander:
Nothing, Father!

Flora:
Look at the pictures I took the other day, father.

Babar:
These are very good, Flora. I think you show a great deal of talent.

Flora:
Thank you, father. I've decided that's what I'm gonna be when I grow up: A newspaper-picture-taker photographer lady!

Babar:
You mean a photojournalist.

Flora:
Yeah! That sounds even better

Cornelius:
I was in the bathtub Popmadour, with my boat.... and my duckie...

Babar:
I love those royal boxer shorts you made for me, but I don't want the whole kingdom to see them.

Celeste:
Oh, Babar. I'll bet you'd look cute!

[The boys survey the wrecked kitchen]

Alexander:
Mice?

Pom:
Water buffaloes!

Babar:
You can't throw this away, Celeste. It's the Celesteville national anthem I wrote when I was first crowned king. "Oh, Celesteville, home of elephants. Tusks, trunks and gray, the place for me to stay. Hey, hey, hey!"

Celeste:
"Tusks, trunks and gray"? Oh, Babar... [chuckles]

Babar:
Well, it sounded better way back then...

Pom:
You shouldn't have given (Isabelle) your candy bar!

Alexander:
How did I know she'd end up wearing it?

[After Alexander saves the witch's cat]

Witch (Winifred):
[to Alexander] You say your sister is sick? What's wrong with her?

Alexander:
She was out there with us today and she got bitten by a snake.

Witch (Winifred):
What kind of snake was it?

Alexander:
A purple night shadow.

Witch (Winifred):
[gets shocked and horrified of this revelation; such as her cat] Come on! We haven't much time! [runs off to her house as Alexander follows her] I'll need some things from the house!

Babar:
It's not whether you win or lose...

Alexander:
...It's how you play the game. I know. I just wish we could play the game well enough to win. Just once!

Alexander:
My dad's better then your dad!

Victor:
My dad's a billion times better then your dad!

Alexander:
Yeah? Well, my dad is two hundred and seventy-three kabillion times better then your dad, and twice on Sundays!

Celeste:
It's always exciting having Arthur back in town.

Babar:
"Exciting" is an understatement, Celeste.

Rataxes:
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who's the suavest of them all?

Basil:
[off-screen] Your Rhiness.

Rataxes:
Bingo!

Basil:
Here's the hero you hollered for, your rhiness. It certainly looks heavenly.

Rataxes:
Forget it, Basil. This morsel is all mine!

Basil:
But my belly is baron, boss. I've missed breakfast and brunch. Haven't you heard the rule: "Share and share alike"?

Rataxes:
Yes I have, Basil. And I make it a rule never to share what I like.

Lady Rataxes:
[off-screen] RATAXES!

Rataxes:
Oh my gosh! It's Lady Rataxes! If she catches me snacking, I'm done for.

Basil:
Quick, in here! [opens mouth]

[Rataxes shoves morsel in Basil's mouth]

Lady Rataxes:
You've been snacking again, haven't you?

Basil:
I found it, your rhiness! A document detailing the diverse detours within those darn dark dungeon depths!

Lady Rataxes:
[to Babar and Celeste] He found the map.

Victor:
Prepare to Enter the Dungeon.

Alexander:
This is a dungeon?

Victor:
[off-screen] Mom went and had it redecorated. But there used to be a lot of pain and suffering down here.

Pom:
[off-screen] Hey. That's the Celesteville Cup. [on-screen] Father's been looking all over for that.

Victor:
Dad and Basil won that when they clobbered the cycling team of King Babar and your Uncle Arthur.

Flora, Alexander and Pom:
[in unison] That's not how we heard it.

Victor:
And this is when my dad beat your dad at the tennis finals. And this is when he out-tiddlied your dad [off-screen] in the Tiddly-Winks Tournament. Ya see this? [on-screen] This is the football my dad used to score the winning touchdown against your dad.

Flora:
This is all very nice, Victor, but your dad couldn't beat our dad in a million years.

Victor:
The Quarterback drops back, he looks deep, then unloads the long bomb to Rataxes!

Alexander:
[off-screen]The play is picked up by Babar! [on-screen] He charges for the goal line...

Pom and Flora:
Ahh! [crashes into the wall]

Alexander:
Touchdown!

Babar:
Nice working with you, Rataxes.

Rataxes:
I couldn't agree more, Babar.

Babar:
Who knows? This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Babar and Rataxes:
Nah!

Rataxes:
You know, it's a good thing you signed that peace treaty when you did. You elephants would never have survived a full-fledged rhino attack!

Babar:
I believe you. I'm barely surviving dinner.

Rataxes:
All I want is...to be king of Celesteville!

Babar:
Rataxes is going to ask for my crown, my kingdom...

Pompadour:
[about Rataxes] He's, he's... unreasonable!

Babar:
That's an understatement.

Basil:
Bow down to Rataxes. King of Rhinoland and Celesteville!

Celeste:
The king and queen are at home.

Babar:
They are now.

Babar:
Since when are you a trash collector?

Pompadour:
"Trash collector"? We are sanitation engineers!

Cornelius:
We just got promoted!

Babar:
But as much as I do, there's something else that needs doing. (sighs) Oh, if I could just wish it all away.

Gypsy Bear:
Be careful what you wish, Your Majesty. It might come true.

Alexander:
Victor's not feeling very well. I think he's seasick.

Pom:
He can't be seasick. We're on a lake!

Alexander:
Okay, okay. So he's lakesick, alright?

Babar:
Ah, there's nothing like the open sea. Right, Pom?

Pom:
Right, father. But this is a lake, not the sea.

Babar:
Oh, yes. Well, that's even better. Ah, the open lake! Doesn't sound quite the same, does it?

Pom:
[chuckles] No, it doesn't!

Pompadour:
How can we let his majesty deliver that speech? The way he's been acting, he'll probably do it in his pajamas!

Babar:
I know I've been acting crazy, but maybe our lives have become a little crazy lately.

Pompadour:
But, sire, it's simply the faster pace of progress!

Babar:
Precisely. And the faster life moves, the faster it can pass us by. I just think we should slow down once in a while, to be with family and friends.

Cornelius:
Now that's real progress, Babar. The sanest thing I've heard in a while. Why, it sounds like something the old king might have said.

Babar:
Yes, Cornelius. I can almost hear him say those exact words.

Babar:
I'd never thought I'd see the day when I'd be thanking you, Rataxes.

Rataxes:
If I always had to lose to someone, I'm glad it was you.

Babar:
Thanks, Rataxes. You were a worthy opponant; Always kept me on my toes.

Babar:
...And so, Rataxes actually saved our lives.

Arthur:
He must have been sick or something!

Zephir:
Thanks to your ingenuity, we're stuck up here until someone finds us!