A character in Babar
Played by Stephen Ouimette
Babar · 162 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Babar: in 43 of its 162 quotes
Most scenes with: Cornelius (31), Babar (27), Rataxes (7)
[clears throat] You sent for us, Babar?
Hi! I...
PompadourBefore you say anything sire, I have a signed note from Doctor Cabaloose, excusing me from any further ride-testing duties; Some kind of inner-ear thing.
I don't believe it! [whispers] Where I can get one?
Lunch? That was the extra urgent, top secret business I had to attend to?
Proper nutrition is always a top priority, Babar.
PompadourAnd top secret because we wouldn't want it known that the king of Celesteville still prefers his crusts cut off.
Good point.
I think I'm hungry. Let's get something to eat. My Treat. [Scene Transitions to the Pizza Parlor] Hello. Can we have some service, please?
What can I get you?
Nothing [Walks towards Celeste] Come on Celeste.
Babar! I thought you were hungry.
Look. What a cute baby.
Yes, he is cute. Hello there baby.
[Baby turns around, only to be revealed as Troubadour in disguise, he then closes the crib]
Cute. And Clever, too.
PompadourHe's a gifted child.
Let's go Celeste.
Wait a minute. I think I know that woman. [They trip over a bowl of fruit]
My Tusks, this is unfortunate.
Ah-ha! I thought so. All right, What's going on?
PompadourWe aren't at liberty to explain!
We have strict orders from King Babar to remain out of sight.
Babar, I thought you told them to leave us alone
I did... at first, then they kinda insisted on coming along. You see, there was this poster of me with the...
I don't care! Obviously you don't think we can have fun without them tagging along! I'm going home.
No, Celeste, wait! Wait, let me apologize!
[Cornelius, Pompadour and Troubadour follow]
[turns to Cornelius, Pompadour and Troubadour] Where do you think you're going?
We're going with you.
Oh, no you're not. Celeste is mad enough already! I've gotta straighten this out with her. Alone.
PompadourBut, sire! Your life is in danger.
Somebody is out to get you!
[sighs] Oh look! A flock of turtles!
Where?
[Young Babar zips out]
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[Door slams]
Young Babar: Why are you guys doing this to me? If i don't patch things up with Celeste soon, she'll never forgive me.
Cornelius: We have to keep an eye on you or this king-napper fellow might--
Young Babar: What King-Napper Fellow?
Has anyone actually seen this guy?
Cornelius: Not as yet.
Pompadour: In any case, we've set numerous traps around the palace.
Cornelius: Nothing can get in nor out of the palace without our knowing it.
[Young Babar sighs]
[Alarm rings]
[Young Babar screams] Ahh!
Pompadour: The alarm! We've caught the King-Napper!
Zephir: I give, i give!
Young Arthur: Gee, Babar, if this is the way you greet your friends, i'd hate to be your enemy.
Young Babar: This is all their fault.
Let me cut you down and i'll explain.
So you can see my problem.
If i don't get away from here soon, Celeste will never speak to me again.
Young Arthur: Don't give up, Babar.
Zephir: Let's see if we have all the facts.
Babar has to smooth things over with Celeste or they'll be kaput, right?
[Young Babar and Arthur] Right.
Zephir: Babar can't un-glue himself from Cornelius and Pompadour because they think someone is out to King-Nap him, right?
[Young Babar and Arthur] Right.
Zephir: Then the answer is simple.
We'll King-Nap Babar ourselves.
[Young Babar and Arthur] Right.
Young Babar: What?!
Zephir: It will be easy. Here's the plan.
[Whispers]
Just my luck, not a rhino in sight. [Looks through Telescope]
Rampage!
Ah, The Rhinos are attacking! [recorded battle charge sounds mid-dialogue] The Rhinos are really here!
[Young Babar roars]
[Zephir Screams]
[Scene cuts to inside the palace where Cornelius and Pompadour are reading newspaper]
[while battle charge sounds continue] I say Pompadour, isn't that the Peanut Patch alarm again?
PompadourI do believe it is Cornelius.
Trade Sections?
PompadourYes, thank you.
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Zephir: You've got to believe me!
There really is a rampage this time!
Honest!
Cornelius: Oh, yes, of course there is.
Pompadour: Just like all the others.
Zephir: This is for real.
Babar is out there alone.
Cornelius: In a rhino costume?
Zephir: Don't you understand?
Babar needs our help!
Young Arthur: Boy, he sure sounded convincing.
Cornelius: The Mark of a true prankster.
Well, Babar has-- My tusks! The royal peanut patch, ruined!
PompadourNo more peanut butter nouveau! [sobs] It's all because of that callous prankster!
No, Pompadour. It was my fault. It was the wrong way to teach Zephir a lesson. I should have clobbered him!
Hey, wait! [runs off]
[gives chase] Stand still!
Zephir: Yikes! Yaaaaa! Babar, look. You did it, Babar. You saved a plant. [laughs] [Adult Babar]: But what a plant it turned out to be. It was healthy and strong and with all the extra attention that plant got, it yielded a whole jar of peanut butter, and that was the most delicious jar of peanut butter nouveau we have ever tasted.
Babar: Mmmm!
Pom: It must have been good.
Babar: Huh? Oh, yes, it--
[Latch clicks]
Pom, Flora and Alexander: The peanut butter poacher.
Pom: Hide.
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[Alarm blaring]
Pom, Flora and Alexander: Get 'im! Yeah! Ahh!
[All gasping] Uncle Arthur?
[Babar clears throat]
Uncle Arthur: I was just doing Zephir a favour. He put me up to this. Ask him.
Zephir: Oops.
What can i say? I love the stuff.
Mmmm! Ah...
[Kids laughing]
[The children go into the basement]
Isabelle: Monster!
[Flora and Alexander] Shh!
Flora: Do we really have to go down there?
Can't we just call him from here?
Pom: What if he can't answer?
Alexander: Yeah, the monster could have eaten his mouth off.
Flora: Eww!
Pom: Pompadour! Oh, Pompadour?
Flora: You don't think there are any big bugs down here, do you?
Nah! If there were, the monster would have eaten 'em already.
Monster don't eat everything, you know.
Everything but broccoli; You've gotta respect them for that!
Okay, I want that stamp, And I want it now.
[clear his throat]
The stamp? [the stamp shows us a picture of Rataxes wearing a lady's hat] The stamp!
PompadourIf I've told you once, I've told you thrice. We have no idea as to the whereabouts of your silly stamp.
Perhaps we should get while the getting's good, sir.
[Pompadour, Flora and Alexander smile]
[hands Basil the desk lamp] Not until I get that stamp. It makes me look like a fool, [off-screen] the laughing stock of the entire forest!
PompadourI should think you're used to that!
[Basil giggling]
Rataxes: Don't push me, Pachyderm.
I'm one desperate rhino.
Now I'm going to give you to the count of three to hand it over.
One... two...
Isabelle: Three!
Rataxes: What?
Pompadour: Oh, dear.
Pom: Isabelle, no!
Conga!
[roars as he pounds his chest, causing everyone to scream. Conga continues to roar and the camera cuts to the full moon until it fades to black with Conga's roaring echo. The scene fates to Cornelius sleeping while standing on guard in the morning]
PompadourCornelius, wake up!
[wakes up] Huh? I- is that you, Rataxes? What's going on?
PompadourYou fell asleep and Conga crushed the camp, that's what's going on!
What?! You let Conga slip through my fingers? I could have caught him!
So that's what you're up to.
[gasps] That's right, elephant, And there's nothing you can do to stop me.
Just don't expect a ride home in my ship.
Huh? What's going on, Basil?
Forget it, Rataxes. Although it's too bad your trap didn't work.
Because of the incredible cash potential?
No. Because it could have bought us time to fix the ship and escape. Now Conga is bound to come back.
Well, we've got only one person to blame for that. Cornelius!
PompadourI'm sorry, Cornelius, but I'm inclined to agree with Rataxes. You're simply too old to be--
I am not too old! And it's high time I proved that to you.
Nice going, you guys. This wasn't Cornelius' fault at all. It was Rataxes'.
Mine?!
You should have relieved him on guard duty. He was up all night.
Oh, uh, yeah, well, I guess I fell asleep. It was a simple mistake, it could happen to anyone.
Even Cornelius? Tonight had nothing to do with Cornelius' age. Nobody could stay awake that long.
PompadourI feel terrible about this, sire.
Yeah, me too. What can I do to make it up to the poor guy?
You can patch this ship up as fast as you can.
[The kids and Celeste get into the balloon]
You're next, Pompadour.
PompadourSire, I must protest! Proper protocol demands that...
Move it, Pompadour!
PompadourMoving it, sire!
I know you're not feeling well, Isabelle, dear, But you must have something to eat.
Hmph! No! [Throws a bowl of porridge and lands on Celeste's head, Isabelle cries]
A New look for Queen Celeste?
Dear citizens of Celesteville...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No? Well, how about... "Dearest citizens of Celesteville"? Uh, no, that doesn't see enough.
No, no, no. This will never do. [pulls down Babar's pants] Never, never, never. [takes Babar's pants]
King Babar takes a short break.
Ahh... Ohh, there's nothing like a warm bath to make you feel like a brand new pachyderm. [humming] [Pompadour screams]
Pompadour, what's wrong?
PompadourThis!
"Celesteville Enquirer: The Inside Story on Palace Life"? [chuckling] Isn't that cute? But isn't that... but how... who, what, when, where, why? Why, why?!
YOUR MAJESTY!!!
Babar would never allow Flora to publish those pictures. It would be deadly for the king's public image. I mean, uh... I was in the bathtub, Popmadour, with my toy boats.... and my... my duckie...
PompadourMy sentiments exactly, Cornelius. It would be very dangerous to undermine the people's confidence in their king. But at least you weren't made to look silly as I was. The people will think I have no... no... table manners!
PompadourBut Rataxes? He's not, he's not... reasonable!
That's an understatement.
I'll take it! [takes away Isabelle's doll. Isabelle gasps and cries]
[takes back Isabelle's doll] I'll, uh, put it on the list, your Rhiness.
[Basil puts the doll back to Isabelle, pats her head and leaves. Isabelle screams and cries]
Father, father, Rataxes came into the music room and said he wanted to take the room and the piano--
Dad, dad, Rataxes said he wanted to take the banquet hall!
He said he was going to take my bedroom too. What does he want my for?
King Babar, those two maniacs, they ruined my bread dough, they ate my jam tarts, and they tried to steal my cooking utensil. Not only that, they flattened my cake!
PompadourEveryone, please settle down. His majesty can't concern himself with every little thing...[Rataxes laughing] Your majesty! [Rataxes and Basil wear Pompadour's wigs]
These wigs are ridiculous, Basil.
[giggling] They are indeed ridiculous. [laughing]
[laughing] Put them down anyway, you never know when you might want to look [laughing] ridiculous!
PompadourSire, he's taken my wigs!
[they all yell] Father! Father! My spatula!
Babar, Isabelle is very upset. [Isabelle cries]
PompadourDo you mind?! [dressed as a sanitation engineer, picking up litter]
Huh? Oh, excuse me... Pompadour! Oh, Pompadour, am I glad to see you?
PompadourThat's what all the litterbugs say after the fact.
No, you don't understand. Something's going on around here, and... Pompadour, what, happened to you?
PompadourMy job!
Your job?! Since when are you a... a trash collector?
Pompadour"Trash collector"? I'll have you know we are... sanitation engineers!
We've just been promoted!
Cornelius? Don't you remember? This is Celesteville. I'm Babar!
Babar... hmmm... Babar...
That's right! Babar!
There was a young lad by that name, but he ran away from the herd years ago.
But-
I heard he ended up in a foreign city... [Pompadour gasps] in the zoo.
PompadourGood heavens!
You don't know me. But I'm the king! My crown, it's gone!
PompadourYes, well, it... it certainly was nice chatting with you, er, um... Berber. Er, come along, Cornelius.
It seemed like a nice enough young fellow.
PompadourWell, I must say he has a nice suit... for a lunatic.
I know I've been acting crazy, but maybe our lives have become a little crazy lately.
PompadourBut, sire, it's simply the faster pace of progress!
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.
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.
Yes, Cornelius. I can almost hear him say those exact words.
Where's the fire?
There's no fire. it's much more serious then that.
PompadourIt's the children!
[gasps] The children are on fire?!
PompadourThe children have been swept away on an errant airplane!
You have to save them!
So... there's no fire?
NOOOO! And there's no time to argue! The plane's getting away!
Oh, I don't know, airplane rescues just aren't in our job description. Do they have a cat with them? We can save cats!
CorneliusChris Wiggins · 47 quotes
RataxesCorrine Koslo · 33 quotes
PPom29 quotes
AAlexander28 quotes
CCelesteTara Charendoff · 28 quotes
BasilJohn Stocker · 22 quotes
FFlora21 quotes
ZZephirJeff Pustil · 18 quotes
ArthurStuart Stone · 17 quotes
IsabelleLisa Yamanaka · 4 quotes
KTKing Tuttle3 quotes
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