Scenes with Zephir 18
ZZephir
All set to trip the light fantastic?
I certainly am. [holds up a flower] What do you think?
ZZephir
It's you! [laughs]
It's not for me, it's for Celeste. Think she'll like it?
ZZephir
If you gave her a cold, she'd love it! Cornelius: Oh! This is disastrous! Not to mention terrible and catastrophes.
What is it, Cornelius? Are the
rhinos attacking?
Worse than that. It's the seating
arrangements they're all wrong.
ZZephir
Seating arrangements?
ZZephir
Just as I suspected; Celeste is late. You're all clear to meet Princess Midge.
How'd you know she'd be late?
ZZephir
Arthur took her shoes.
What are little brothers for?
RSRoyal Spy
I have it on good authority (mostly my own) that, at this very moment, Rataxes and his rebel rhinos are planning to conquer ze moon!
Conquer ze moon? That's horrible!
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If I can just get this roof shored up, I'll be home free. [hears a rumbling] Oh my gosh! The roof's caving in. [grunts as he struggles to push the playhouse post back]
Babar, come quick! It's really urgent!
And this isn't. This job is impossible for one person to handle. I need...
ZZephir
off-screen] Help! [on-screen where Rataxes and Basil capture him] Babar, help!
Oh no! Rataxes has got Zephir!
That's what I came to tell you. He’s in big trouble.
I'm sorry, Mum. He's my best friend. [grunts as he tries to push, but runs as the playhouse roof collapses. And Babar sheds a tear after it collapses]
ABAdult Babar
At that point, I had just about another that silly moon race. And with Arthur's help, I decided to fight silly with silly.
ZZephir
You're not going back to the palace, are you?
I can't hide from them forever, Zephir.
ZZephir
But they'll be waiting for you!
A coward dies a thousand deaths; A brave man dies but one.
ZZephir
Yeah, but how does the brave man's best friend make out?
ZZephir
Sort of like a royal report card, huh? Gee, what happens to a king who gets an F?
Nothing compared to what happens to a king who loses his own crown.
ZZephir
Never fear! Zephir is here! It just so happens that I have recently graduated from the Sherlock Holmes School of Super-Sleuthing! Note the genuine diploma, and personally autographed spyglass!
Zephir, this is your signiature!
ZZephir
I know. I personally autographed it! Stand aside! I've got a case to crack.
My crown wasn't stolen. It was...
ZZephir
Exactly what the culprit wants you to think. Let's examine the clues, shall we?
ZZephir
For starters, this room has obviously been ransacked.
What am I gonna do? Everyone has a gift for Madame, except me.
ZZephir
That shouldn't be a problem for a king, Babar. Just name it, and it's yours! I mean, hers! I mean, yours to give to her! How about an electric rocking chair?
Or a bathtub full of perfume?
ZZephir
Or a four-banana toaster?
ZZephir
Well, she could use it when I came over!
Celeste, after hearing both testimonies, you leave me no choice but to find you: Guilty! [bangs gavel] I hereby sentence you to ten years in the dungeon!
I object! The sentence is much too harsh! Besides, we don't have a dungeon!
ZZephir
Just my luck, not a rhino in sight. [Looks through Telescope]
ZZephir
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?
I do believe it is Cornelius.
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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!
No 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!
ZZephir
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.
[🎵🎵🎵]
[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]
...And so, Rataxes actually saved our lives.
He must have been sick or something!
Hey! Look at this. Remember this?
ZZephir
Yeah. You put that there, Arthur.
Oh, yes, I remember. It's one of those traps you set in case someone else tried to find our treasure.
ZZephir
[laughs] All those silly traps. Ha! None of them ever worked.
BABabar, Arthur and Zephir
[scream]
ZZephir
Let me be the first to congratulate you, Arthur. Thanks to your ingenuity, we're stuck up here until somebody finds us!
BZBabar and Zephir
Just like the old days.
ZZephir
[about the rewritten speech] I'm telling you Babar, they loved it! When you told 'em that tuna fish joke, well, I thought I'd die!
I felt much the same, Zephir; I thought they were going to kill me.
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Zephir: I know this sounds crazy, But, it's good to be back.
Alexander: You're back?
Flora: To stay?
Zephir: You bet.
Pom: He's back! Zephir's back for good!
[Customers cheering]
Babar: You know when you were saying you wanted to do something that had meaning, purpose, and importance?
Zephir: Mm-hm.
Babar: Well, from the sounds of those kids out there, i'd say that's what you've got right here.
[Customers cheering]
Zephir: I guess you're right, Babar.
Alexander: Three cheers for Zephir.
Hip-hip...
[All] Hooray!
Alexander: Hip-hip...
[All] Hooray!
Alexander: Hip-hip...
[All] Hooray!
I hope you don't work Alexander as hard as you did yesterday, Zephir. He's got a big race coming up and we need him in tip-top shape.
ZZephir
He didn't work here yesterday.
But last evening he told me... [suddenly realizes that Alexander told a lie on where he was last evening] Excuse me, everyone. Zephir, would you mind joining me?
If you asked me, I'd say Arthur's adventures are ninety percent fiction and ten percent imagination!
ZZephir
True enough Pompadour. And that arithmetic does add up to Arthur!
ZZephir
What are we celebrating, Arthur?
My fabulously rich and productive gold mine!
Yes! The richest piece of real estate this side of the equator!
Yes! This gold mine's got more karats then a herd of rabbits!
ZZephir
Live from the malt shop, it's Zany Zephir, the voice of children everywhere!
"Zany Zephir"? How appropriate!
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