A character in Corduroy
Played by Diane Fabian
Corduroy · 72 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Corduroy: in 11 of its 72 quotes
Most scenes with: Lisa (9), Corduroy (9), Buckaroo (4)
[After the incident, Rosetta gets back on the art table and looks at her ruined painting after she --with her jealousy-- ruined her painting and broke Corduroy's sculpture.]
[finds her painting ruined by herself] Look! I ruined my painting!
Why did Kit not chase after Rosetta?
Uh-oh.
[Rosetta --about the lie-- realizes she was tricked and blamed.]
And what is this?! (None of this was Kit and I!) That cat, he NEVER chases me!
[Corduroy was lying when he said that Kit and Rosetta made the mess in the linen room even though it was him and Buckaroo. He and Buckaroo were playing in it, then he fibbed about it. Therefore, Rosetta is telling the truth; really it was not her. Lisa --on the other hand-- believes Rosetta when Rosetta says it was not her and Kit who made the mess. But she becomes concerned about Corduroy's lie.]
[confused] I don't get it. Corduroy told me. And...!
[Lisa looks at Corduroy. She knows that he was lying even though it was him and Buckaroo who made that mess in the linen room.]
[turns to Corduroy] Corduroy...?!
[buries his face in his paws] I lied, Lisa! I did it. I messed up the closet!
I was there too.
But it was my idea to lie, not Buckaroo's.
[It turns out that the only person who was telling the truth was Rosetta.]
[to Lisa when she told her she was not in the linen room with Corduroy and Buckaroo] Well, I was not there (in the first place)! And I did not make any mess!
[Rosetta turns to Corduroy and Buckaroo after Corduroy lied about her making the mess and after she was tricked and blamed.]
[to Corduroy] Shame on you!
[Rosetta wheels herself away. She was telling the truth. But she gets away with it because it wasn't her who made the mess. Corduroy buries his face in his paws again. Lisa walks to Corduroy who is feeling quite guilty.]
[takes Corduroy's paws off his eyes then has a word with Corduroy when he didn't tell the truth in the first place] Why didn't you tell me the truth when I asked?
[Soon Lisa comforts Corduroy.]
[sadly] I was scared you'd get mad at me.
But you made me think it was all Kit's fault, and that wasn't right. Things get worse if you don't tell the truth.
[apologizing to Lisa about the lie he told] I'm sorry, Lisa.
You must be saying sorry to Kit, not me.
[In Corduroy's imagination, Corduroy and Rosetta ride on Buckaroo while delivering the mail. Corduroy throws letters to the neighborhood and one letter lands on the sidewalk and Kit looks at the letter. Corduroy throws a letter to the ice cream lady and she catches it]
Everyone looks happy.
[Corduroy throws more letters]
It means someone is thinking about you.
[Corduroy as a mailman throws one of the letters and a women picks it up and opens it. Corduroy, Rosetta, and Buckaroo as mail carriers arrive at Lisa's school and Lisa is doing math inside.]
I can't wait to give Lisa her special delivery.
[Rosetta has tagged along with Corduroy, Lisa, and Moppy. That is, since the beginning of the episode. It has even been seen onscreen too. Scene first cuts to the ducks. As for Rosetta, as the viewers see her, she is in the shirt section of Corduroy's overalls and --possibly-- tickling in Corduroy's overalls. She did this to Corduroy when he --Corduroy-- put her --Rosetta-- in his overalls. That is, as she was in Corduroy's overalls --which he uses as a "pocket area" for Rosetta while at the public.]
The poor ducklings, they are stranded out there.
[Cut to Corduroy]
[thinking] Why are they not swimming Lisa?
[Lisa approaches to Corduroy.]
They want to swim. But they can't because the water is so dirty.
[thinking --and from Corduroy's overalls] It is not only because the water is dirty. It's also because people have been putting dirt into the water.
[Rosetta smiles with a white toothed smile and with lipstick on her lips.]
Wouldn't it be great, Cordy, if we got the pond so clean, even we could swim in it?
[Rosetta pops out of Corduroy's overalls shirt section and reminds him to take her out of his overalls top section before swimming. And she says...!]
[to Corduroy] Just remember to take me out of your pocket before you do any swimming.
[Rosetta goes back into Corduroy's overalls]
I will, Rosetta.
And we'll have to make sure you're wearing your water wings, Cordy. [sighs] I could just see it. The pond will look the best ever.
[In Lisa and Corduroy's imagination, the pond looks shiny clean and the animals like ducks, lizards, turtles, frogs, salamanders, and bugs --like dragonflies-- are enjoying their clean home. The camera zooms over to Lisa and Corduroy who were swimming in the pond]
[laughing]
[A mallard and his ducklings swim past Lisa and Corduroy]
I must be swimming. I've always wanted to swim. [to a duckling] Just like you! Quack, quack.
[A duckling swims around Lisa]
[laughs] Quack, quack, cheep, cheep.
[A duckling swims back to Corduroy]
[laughs] They have water wings just like us!
[They both begin to laugh as the duckling flaps his wings]
[Corduroy and Rosetta gets the radio out of Lisa's bed]
Voila! I told you there was a radio under there.
Was it hiding, Rosetta?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Lisa must have forgotten it. But now we have found it, alors. [turns her back and then tries to turn on the radio] Oh. Oh! [shakes her head] Ahem. Corduroy? A winding, if you please.
[Corduroy picks up Rosetta and winds her up turning her wind up key. He puts Rosetta down --after winding up her key-- and Rosetta pushes a button on the radio and the orchestra music plays. Now Corduroy and Rosetta are dancing to the music. They are acting like dancers]
[while dancing to the music] This must be a concert. I've always wanted to go to a concert.
[In Corduroy's imagination, Corduroy imagines that he and Rosetta are the music conductors. And Corduroy gives the orchestra band some wonderful music. A lady plays a tuba, Seven men plays the bass, A women and her husband plays the flute and a brown man plays the trumpet. Corduroy keeps playing some wonderful music. Back in reality, Lisa comes home and turns off the radio causing Corduroy and Rosetta to stop dancing]
[finds out why Lisa turns off the music] Why has the music stopped?
Lisa, you turned off the radio.
There's much better music to listen to.
[points to the radio that played the song which he and Rosetta were dancing to and says to Lisa that he and Rosetta like that music] But I like that music!
No, this music is much better, Corduroy. Trust me. [turns on her other radio but makes jazzy music] Ew! [changes the radio channel but makes country music this time] Ew, yuck! [one radio channel has piano music] Uh-uh. [founds a radio channel that has dance music] There, that's more like it. [shakes her head]
But why do we have to like only one kind of music?
[about the same music Lisa likes] You mean: "Why do we have to likes only the same music Lisa likes?".
That's not true. [to Corduroy and Rosetta] Oh, go ahead. [gives Corduroy and Rosetta the radio] Listen to what you want.
[Lisa went to her bedroom until she realizes Corduroy is having his own sleepover]
[thinks Corduroy, Buckaroo, and Rosetta are in her room --though they had gone out to Lisa's tent] On second thought, maybe Cordy did want to have his own sleepover. Then maybe I shouldn't bother him. [yawns]
[Lisa turns her back to the bedroom door and went to the living room until she finds Corduroy, Rosetta, and Buckaroo in her tent]
[off-screen; to Corduroy, Buckaroo, and Rosetta] What are you (three) doing here?
[about why he, Buckaroo, and Rosetta could not sleep even though he wanted to have his own sleepover] We missed you!
[also about why he couldn't sleep] We couldn't get to sleep!
[adds her reason about not being able to get to sleep] Je ne comprends pas! I do not understand!
[Rosetta notes that she tried singing Corduroy a lullaby to help him go to sleep but that didn't work.]
Even my singing (on a lullaby) did not help!
[tells them that they may not be ready to have their sleepovers yet] Maybe you're not ready to sleep on your own yet.
Mmm-hmm.
[Corduroy, Buckaroo, and Rosetta nod as they are now part of Lisa's sleepover. Later, the scene cuts to the living room --shown where Lisa and her toys Corduroy, Rosetta, and Buckaroo are in the tent. Lisa and her toys play with Lisa's make believe planetarium pretend to look at the stars and constellations. Lisa shows her toys the star constellations with her make-believe planetarium. This is shown on the black sheet that she had showed Moppy. They are having a short time playing or "short use" with the planetarium to see the stars before bedtime.]
[showing Rosetta a constellation] Do you see that group of stars, Rosetta? [off-screen] That's Cassiopeia. But I think she looks more like a mouse.
[Cassiopeia's nose twinkles. Rosetta --when she sees the mouse constellation-- reacts to it.]
Did you hear that? I look just like a queen!
[showing Buckaroo a constellation] Do you see that group of stars over there, Buckaroo? That's Pegasus the Horse.
[Pegasus's right eye twinkles. Pegasus the horse does look like Buckaroo the rocking horse. Buckaroo --when he sees the Pegasus the Horse constellation-- mimics a real horse neighing.]
I like that one!
Is there a bear anywhere?
[shows Corduroy two constellations] Actually, there are two bears. [off-screen] There's Ursa Minor --he's the little bear. And that one over there, that's Ursa Major --he's the big bear.
[Lisa shows out the final two constellations before everyone goes to bed.]
[to Lisa about the bear constellations --Ursa Minor and Ursa Major] Someday, I'm going to be a big bear. Right, Lisa?
[After the last constellation, Lisa puts the flashlight down, turns off the flashlight and takes down the black sheet planetarium so everyone stops playing and are led to go to bed. Corduroy is now in bed has told himself he is going to be a big bear like Ursa Minor and Ursa Major]
[tucks Corduroy into bed] You're already a big bear, Cordy.
Good night, Lisa.
Sleep tight, Cordy.
[Lisa, Corduroy, Rosetta, and Buckaroo are fallen fast asleep. Then the curtains closed the tent as the episode ends]
[At the art gallery --Lisa's mom's art gallery-- with Lisa, Corduroy, and Rosetta, Corduroy is playing with the art as he jumps up and down when he's trying to climb on the statue until Lisa picks him up. At this, Corduroy thinks that he and Rosetta can do anything they want in the art gallery just because no one else is in it nor using it. So when Corduroy asks Lisa to "help him climb the statue", Lisa picks him up thinking she might do so. Corduroy, he says...!]
[laughing] Help me up, please!
[As Corduroy says this, he is trying to get Lisa to help him climb on the statue as he jokingly wants to climb it. But Lisa, she says...!]
[knows the truth about the "HANDS OFF" signs --meaning "look but don't touch"] Sorry, Cordy. No can do.
[Lisa calls to Rosetta who is also playing on the art. Rosetta is swinging on the red ropes.]
[turns to Rosetta] Come on down (from the red ropes), Rosetta.
[believing the art gallery is closed for today] But the art gallery is closed today. No?
[Rosetta also thinks that she and Corduroy can do anything they want in the art gallery.]
That means we have the whole place to ourselves!
[to Rosetta] (Not quite, Rosetta.) It's great that Mom is letting us wander around while she's working.
[Lisa continues to Corduroy and Rosetta about the art gallery and its rules. She says it is for everyone and talks to them about the ropes in the gallery.]
[to Rosetta about the ropes] But those ropes aren't for playing. [then to Corduroy about the art sculptures] And neither is this art.
I'm not supposed to play here?
Uh-uh. These red ropes are for keeping people from getting too close to the art. It means look but don't touch.
[Lisa sees Corduroy is covered with clay while building his own sculpture.]
[playfully laughs] Careful, Corduroy!
[Lisa cleans the wet clay off Corduroy's head with a wet rag.]
[in between laughs] If you don't you might become Clay-duroy!
[Lisa resumes laughing. Lisa, she --funnily warns Corduroy-- and gives him a nickname to be a parody of his name. She --after she says this "If you don't, you may become 'Clay-duroy'!"-- replaces the first syllable --or "prefix"-- "Cor" in his name --which is "Corduroy"-- with "Clay". And --with the new syllable "Clay"-- she repronounces it as "Clay-duroy" for a new name on him. That is, if he is not careful and is seen covered with clay. So he --Corduroy-- is going to be "Clayduroy" forever. That is, if he is covered in clay and the clay doesn't wash off. Then she notes about the sculpture that Corduroy made.]
Your sculpture's really taking shape.
What about my painting, Lisa?
It's really good.
It's nice.
[about her painting and Corduroy's sculpture; and thinks that Lisa likes Corduroy's sculpture better than her painting] Good? Nice? Mais non, it's more than good or nice. It's...! It's a...!
[To be a parody of the word "masterpiece", Rosetta replaces the first syllable --prefix-- "mas" in the word "masterpiece" with "mouse". Then she repronounces it as "mouse-terpiece". Again, see nickname in next quote.]
A Mouse-terpiece!
[The red paint from the paintbrush lands on Rosetta's face.]
That is not fair! Lisa can't love both my painting and Corduroy's sculpture at the same time. If only I was in a place where people could truly appreciate my art.
[In Rosetta's imagination, the people who are in the art gallery are looking at Rosetta's paintings]
[off-screen] Oh, Rosetta's colours!
[off-screen] Her shapes!
[on-screen] Very, very nice!
[off-screen] Rosetta's a very good artiste.
[off-screen] Yes. But have you seen the bear's sculpture?
[Rosetta is shocked]
No! Corduroy's work is better than mine?! (Oh-no!)
[Rosetta watches the people leave as they to see Corduroy's sculpture. She drives all the way to the top of the art work sees Corduroy's sculpture]
Ah!
Notice the fine lines, the perfect shape. A magnificent piece of work. Outstanding.
[The people cheered and clapped for Corduroy as he yawns]
Indeed, this sculpture by the artist Corduroy is this art gallery's greatest, most important masterpiece.
[Rosetta looks very shocked of Corduroy's sculpture]
Don't you just love it?
[Rosetta has an unhappy expression]
[When Lisa enters her room, she finds Corduroy snooping through her private stuff from her treasure chest. Corduroy had gotten Rosetta and Buckaroo to go in it so he could play pirates with them and use Lisa's treasure chest of private things as a treasure chest. But he was the one to go in it first without permission]
[gasps] Corduroy! [off-screen] What are you doing in my chest?
[sees Lisa] Uh-oh!
[The closet door closes as Lisa is going to have a word to Corduroy about her private treasure chest. But Lisa only scolds Corduroy for it then has a word with him about her "treasure chest"]
What did I do?
You snooped through my stuff, my private stuff, without asking! [off-screen] You must know better (in the first place).
[sadly; to Lisa cause he know he should ask her next time] I'm sorry, Lisa. I guess I should have asked you first.
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