The Puppet Princess/Transcript

June: Art... Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.

Annie: And music...

["Funeral March of a Marionette" playing]

Leo: "Funeral March of a Marionette", by Charles Francois Gounod.

The scene starts at the Rocket Room as the Little Einsteins have their puppets on their hands.

Leo: Hi. I'm Leo. And this is my puppet Charlie. Watch, I can make him say hello. "Hello!" What about you? Do you like playing with puppets? Cool. Well, today my friends and I are going to see a puppet show. It's called The Three Silly Puppets and The Puppet Princess.

June: Ohh, a puppet princess. That sounds marvelous.

["Funeral March of a Marionette" playing as June dances like a puppet]

All: [Applauding to June]

Quincy: Wow, June, you can dance just like a puppet!

[Rocket jingling]

Annie: Rocket says it's time to go to the puppet show. Do you want to see the puppet show? Great! Come on!

Leo: Buckle your seatbelts.

All except Leo: Seatbelts buckled!

Leo: Prepare for blast off. We need to give Rocket a lot of power. Put your hands on your laps and pat with us. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.

[Rocket revving]

Leo: Faster! Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Now raise your arms as high as you can and say blast off!

All: Blast off!

Annie: Hold on tight because here we go!

All: Whoa!

Leo: Whoo-hoo!

Quincy: All right! To the puppet show!

Annie: We're off to the puppet show

We're off to the puppet show

The puppet show, the puppet show

The puppety puppety puppety show

Leo: The puppet show is that way, Rocket. In Prague, the Czech Republic.

Annie: Look, look, look! Here comes the puppet theater for the show.

[Thumping]

June: Oh-no! The puppets fell off the theater.

June: Puppets, are you alright?

[Puppets jingling]

Quincy: The puppets are a-ok.

June: Silly puppets! Hi, puppet, my name is June. And these are my friends.

[Puppets jingling]

June: Well, it's was nice meeting you, puppet, but now you'd better get back to the puppet theater. You don't want to be late for your show.

Quincy: I don't see the puppet theater anywhere.

Leo: Let's check with my binoculars. Do you see the puppet theater? Oh, yeah, there it is.

Annie: But Leo, it's roaming so far away.

Quincy: It's going to Prague without the puppets!

Leo: Oh-no! The puppet theater left the puppets behind.

[Puppets playing sad music]

Annie: Poor puppets. They sound sad.

June: Don't feel sad, puppets, I'll help you get to the show. I promise.

[Puppets jingling happily]

June: Will you help the puppets get to the puppet show? Fantastic.

Leo: We can all help the puppets, right team?

Annie: Right.

Quincy: Right.

Leo: We've got a mission!

[Baton jingling]

Leo: We're going to get the puppets to the puppet show. Let... the mission... begin! March, march, march. March, march, march. March, march, march.

June: Follow us, puppets.

[Silly music playing]

June: Silly puppets! We're going to have to teach the puppets how to march. Ready? Put your feet out in front of you so you can lift your leg. Now lift one leg at a time. March, march, march. Can you march your legs like me? March, march, march. Very good. March, march, march, march, march, march.

[Puppets jingling]

June: Look, the puppets are starting to get it. Show the puppets how to march their legs even higher. March, march, march. March, march, march. Excellent marching, puppets.

[Puppets jingling]

June: Thanks for helping me teach the silly puppets how to march.

Annie: We're off to the puppet show

We're off to the puppet show

The puppet show, the puppet show

The puppety puppety puppety show

[Rocket jingling a warning]

Quincy; What's wrong, Rocket?

Annie: Yeah, Rocket, is something the matter?

[Rocket jingles]

Leo: Oh, I see what it is. Rocket find a sign. A warning sign. It's says that the trees coming up have sticky sap on them.

Annie: Eww! Sticky sap.

June: Okay, puppets, be careful; that you don't touch any if the sticky sappy trees. Got it?

[Puppets playing affirmative music]

June: All right, everyone, follow me.

[Music playing]

June: Hooray. I made it through the sticky trees!

Quincy: So did i!

Annie: Us too!

Leo: Um, but I don't see the puppets. Did the puppets get stuck in the sticky sappy trees?

[Silly music playing]

Leo: You're right, they did!

June: Oh-no! The red puppet got his foot stuck in the sap!

Quincy: The yellow puppet got his elbow stuck in the sap!

Annie: And the orange puppet got his nose stuck in the sap!

Quincy: Silly puppets!

Leo: We have to help the puppets get unstuck so they can get to the puppet show.

June: I have a plan. We can show the puppets how to move their bodies to get unstuck. Quincy, can you play some music to help us?

Quincy: Sure I can. I can play a get unstick rhythm on my triangle.

[Playing triangle in rhythm]

June: Perfect. Now let's help the red puppet move his foot to Quincy's get unstuck rhythm. Put one foot out in front of you, now move only move your foot to the rhythm, like this. Foot, foot, foot, foot, foot. Foot, foot, foot, foot, foot.

[Pop]

[Red puppet jingling]

Annie: Yay!

Leo: We helped the red puppet get unstuck!

Annie: Look how happy he is.

June: Now let's help the yellow puppet get his elbow unstuck. Move just one elbow to the triangle rhythm. Ready?

June: Elbow, elbow, elbow, elbow, elbow. Elbow, elbow, elbow, elbow, elbow.

[Pop]

[Yellow puppet jingling]

Quincy: He's free! The yellow puppet is unstuck!

Leo: He's sure look happy.

June: Only one more puppet to get unstuck. The orange puppet.

Quincy: He got his nose stuck in the sap!

June: Can you move just your nose to the triangle rhythm like this? Nose, nose, nose, nose, nose. Do it with me. Nose, nose, nose, nose, nose. Nose, nose, nose, nose, nose.

[Pop]

[Orange puppet jingling]

Leo: Whoo-hoo!

Annie: You did it!

Quincy: Now that's a happy puppet.

June: You helped all three puppets get unstuck from the sticky sappy trees! Excellent job.

[Theater playing "Funeral March of a Marionette"]

Leo: I wonder what that sound is. Look. There's the puppet theater.

Quincy: And I hear instruments. Do you see the instruments? Yes, they're coming to the puppet show.

Leo: And it looks like they're ready for the show to start.

June: We have to hurry and get the puppet to the theater before the show start. Come on, puppets, let's march.

Quincy; Go, puppets, go.

Leo: Good marching.

Annie: Sing with me.

We're off to the puppet show

We're off to the puppet show

The puppet show, the puppet show

The puppety puppety puppety show

Annie: Look, look, look! That sign says that the puppet show is this way.

Quincy: We must be getting closer to the puppet theater.

June: This way, puppets! And remember, stay on the path.

Quincy: Hey, wait a second, the puppets aren't behind us anymore.

[Silly music playing]

Leo: Uh-oh, they took the wrong path.

Quincy: They're headed straight for that dessert factory!

June: Silly puppets! That's not the puppet show, that's a factory where they make cup cakes and cakes and cookies. Come on.

Quincy: Whoa. Cool desert factory.

Leo: I wonder where the puppet went. Do you see the puppets? Yes, there they are. They're on top of those kolaches pastries. Silly puppets!

Annie: Uh-oh! You guys, look! The puppets are headed straight for those machine!

June: Those machines squirt the desert with jelly.

Quincy: And that machine puffs the deserts with powdered sugar.

Leo: We need to warn the puppets! Or else they're going to squirted and puffed.

Annie: Oh-no, they're headed for a jelly squirter!

June: We have to show the puppets how to pick up just your feet so they don't get squirted. Come on, let's sit like a puppets with our feet in front of us. Get ready to lift up your feet. Now. Lift up your feet. Fantastic. And look, the puppets are lifting their feet just like us.

Leo: Yay, puppets!

Annie: They didn't get squirted!

Quincy: Uh-oh, but here comes the next machine! A sugar puffer!

Annie: Those puppets had better duck!

June: Let's show the puppets how to duck just their heads. Ready? Duck your head. And the puppets ducked too. They're moving exactly like us.

Leo: Look, out! Here comes another jelly squirter.

June: Get ready to pick up your feet. Pick up your feet.

Annie: A sugar puffer!

June: Get ready to duck your head. Duck your head.

Leo: That's it!

Annie: Way to go, puppets!

[Zoom]

Leo: Uh-oh. The conveyor belt is moving faster.

Annie: They jelly squirters are squirting jelly faster!

Quincy: And the sugar puffers are puffing sugar faster!

June: We have to help the puppets move faster. Do you think you can move faster? Great. Now get ready, here comes a jelly squirter. Lift your feet. There's a puffer. Duck your head. Feet. Head.

Annie: Hooray!

Quincy: All right!

June: You helped the puppets through all those machines! How wonderful.

[Thump]

Leo: Nice catch Rocket.

[Rocket jingling]

June: Good to have you back, silly puppets.

[Puppets jingling]

[Puppet theater playing orchestra]

Quincy: Uh-oh, that sounds like the puppet show.

Annie: It is the puppet show! And the curtain's starting to go up!

Leo: The puppet show is about to start! Without the puppets!

[Puppets playing panicking music]

Quincy: What are we going to do?!

June: We have to get the puppets to the puppet theater. We promised.

Leo: June is right. And there's only one way get there in time. We're going to have to fly Rocket as fast as he can go. Super fast! Will you help me fly Rocket super fast? Great. Super fast!

All except Leo: Super fast!

[Rocket revving]

Leo: To get to super fast, we have to start at adagio. pat the beat on your lap slowly.

[Beep]

Leo: Moderato, now pat the beat on your tummy a little faster.

[Beep]

Leo: Allegro, now pat the beat on your shoulder even faster!

[Beep; alarm]

Leo: Presto, now reach your arms to the sky and shake your whole body! We did it, we're flying super fast!

["Funeral March of a Marionette" playing presto]

Quincy: We made it!

Leo: We got here before the curtain went all the way up!

Annie: The puppets are just in time for the show!

June: Ok, puppets, it's time for you to put on your show. The Three Silly Puppets and The Puppet Princess.

Quincy: Um, wait a second. I see three silly puppets, but I don't see a puppet princess anywhere!

Leo: Uh-oh! The puppets forgot they need a puppet princess for their show!

Annie: Silly puppets!

[Puppets jingling]

June: What is it, little puppets? You want me to play the puppet princess?

[Puppets jingling]

Leo: That's a great idea, puppets!

Quincy: Yeah, June, you're really good at moving like a puppet.

June: Hmm. I suppose I could. But I'm going to need your help. Will you help me move like a puppet for the puppet show? Excellent!

[Puppets jingling]

June: Come on, the show is starting!

[Opening music plays]

Leo: Once upon a time, there was a puppet princess.

[Instruments exclaiming]

Annie: Then one day the puppet princess met three silly puppets who didn't know how to move their bodies.

[Silly music playing]

[Annie giggles]

[Puppets laughing melodically]

Quincy: But the puppet princess helped them.

June: Come on, let's show the puppets how to move. Stand up, like me. That's it, get up on your feet. Stand up nice and tall, like a puppet.

[Swooping sound]

June Excellent.

Leo: First, the puppet princess taught the puppets how to march.

June: March with me!

[Marching]

Annie: And then she taught them how to move their elbows.

June: Now move just your elbow with me.

[Springy sound]

Quincy: She taught the puppets how to move their noses.

June: Move just your nose.

[Wiggling sound]

Leo: She even taught the silly puppets how to duck their heads.

June: Duck your head with me.

[Ducking sound]

[June giggling]

Annie: The princess and the puppets became best friends.

Leo: And they all danced happily ever after.

[Ending music plays]

[Instruments playing happy music]

Quincy: The instruments loved the puppet show!

[Puppets jingling thank you; smooch]

June: Aw, you're welcome, puppets. And thank you for all your help. You made a great puppet.

Leo: Mission completion!

[Baton jingling] Leo: Now it's time for... the curtain call!

[Applause]

Leo: Let's give a hand and hear it for the team

[Clap, clap, clap, clap]

All: And ra-ra-ra for Rocket!

[Clap, clap, clap, clap]

Quincy: Come on, take a bow

June: It's your turn now

Annie: Let's give a big hand for you!

June: Bravo! Bravo!

Annie: You were great!

Leo: Now... Pat, clap! Pat, clap! Pat, clap!

June: Let's give a big cheer for the artist of the day

Leo: Da Vinci!

All: Da Vinci!

Quincy: The composer of the beautiful music we've played

Leo: Gounod!

All: Gounod! Hooray! Yay, Gounod!

Annie: And here comes the music of the day. Listen.

["Funeral March of a Marionette" playing]

Leo: See you on the next mission!

Annie: ♪Ahhhhh!!♪

Quincy: Something is behind the curtain.

Leo: It has really long legs.

June: And a really long neck.

Quincy: What is it?

Quincy: It's a giraffe!

Leo: That's so silly!

All: [Laughing]