A Chosen Cricket (1975) - full transcript
Chester C. Cricket and his friends help out Thomas Jefferson and Paul Revere.
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[music playing]
[Tucker chomping]
Mm, uncredible.
Well, well...
inbelievable.
Mm. Well, mm.
Oddities of American History
is right. Wow!
Uncredible.
Unincredible!
I didn't know that.
[clicks]
[music playing]
[boing]
Harry, guess what?
Guess who really wrote
the Declaration
of Inter-dependence?
A mouse, Harry. A mouse!
And Harry, who really got
old Paul Revere's horse going?
A cat, Harry. A cat!
And Harry, do you know
who actually wrote
Yankee Doodle Dandy?
No.
Why, a cricket, Harry,
Chester Cricket's great, great,
great, great, great,
great grandfather.
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
[Tucker] Yup, Manhattan Island
wasn't nearly as pretty
in 1775 as it is now.
Mainly trees, flowers,
and stuff.
No first-class garbage.
No beer cans
or old cheese sandwiches.
No class really.
As a matter of fact,
it wasn't the best time
in history to be a mouse.
And a lot of American colonists
were beginning to decide
that they didn't wanna be
mice neither.
As an ancestor of mine,
a church mouse by profession,
found out while trying
to take a nap one day,
just when somebody
name of Patrick Henry
was complaining
about something.
[Henry] What is it
that gentlemen wish?
Is life so dear,
or peace so sweet,
as to be purchased at the price
of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course
others may take,
but as for me,
give me liberty
or give me death!
-[sniffs]
-[crowd cheering]
You know what?
He just might have
something there.
[dramatic music playing]
[Tucker] Declaration
of Inter-dependence
between cats and mice.
We hold these twos-- Uh, truths
to be self-evident
that all cats and mice
are created evil-- Uh, equal.
That they are endowed
by mother nature
with certain unavailable rights.
That among these rights
are wife--
-Uh, no, no.
-Life, liberty,
but not the pursuit
of each other.
Signed, Tucker Randolph Mouse,
Esquire.
Fantastic.
It's better
than the Magna Carta.
Now all I need
is a cat's signature
and we'll have peace
in our time.
Wowie! Brilliant!
All cats and mice
are created equal.
All I need is Harry's signature.
[screeches]
-Don't tread on me.
-[tail rattles]
What? Wh-- what did you say?
-I said, "Don't tread on me."
-[tail rattles]
Hold it. Don't move. Freeze.
I'll be right back.
"Don't tread on me."
What a great motto for a mice.
Great for cats, too.
Somebody's always treading
on their tails.
[tail rattles]
Can't we take a break?
My neck is killing me.
I'll have tonsillitis
clear to my rattles.
[mumbling]
Just a few more scales to go.
There! The first cat
and mouse flag.
-Aren't you proud?
-[whimsical music playing]
[shudders] There's something
wrong with the eyes.
[sniffs]
Gad, I hate a cold.
[groans, sneezes]
[tail rattles]
-[pen scribbles]
-[Jefferson] A declaration
by representatives
of the United States of America
in Congress assembled.
Hmm. Now, paragraph one.
Let me make this
perfectly clear.
[sniffs]
[Jefferson] What's the matter,
Harry?
Don't you approve?
-Oh, well. All right.
-[paper crumples]
[Jefferson] Well, how about
-two chickens in every pot?
-[pen scribbles]
Two horses in every stable?
-No, no, not very inspiring.
-[paper crumples]
[Jefferson] No. Let me think.
Speak softly,
but carry a big stick.
-Yes?
-[paper crumples]
[Jefferson] No.
-The yanks are coming...
-[pen scribbles]
-...the yanks are coming.
-[purrs]
[Jefferson]
Fifty-four forty or fight?
Obviously not. Hmm.
[clears throat]
I'd better get some air, Harry.
I shall return.
[door opens, closes]
[Tucker] Psst! Psst!
Harry! Over here.
Harry, Harry, guess what?
I have here a piece of paper
that will mean peace
in our time.
Peace with honor.
And there it is,
ready for your signature.
[Harry] Oh, yes, of course.
"A Declaration
of Inter-dependence
between cats and mice.
We hold these truths
to be self-evident--"
Wait a minute!
"That all... [mumbling]
...are created equal.
That they are endowed
by... [mumbling]
...with certain rights."
Tucker, you're a genius!
I know, I know.
Now, if you will just sign
where indicated.
[Harry] Just the thing Old Tom's
been looking for.
Harry, what's gotten into you?
Where are you going
with our Declaration
of Inter-dependence?
Harry!
-Shh.
-[footsteps approaching]
[Tucker] "Shh"?
What do you mean, "shh"?
I demand my civil liber--
...ties.
-[door closes]
-[Jefferson] And let's see now.
Where was I?
Hmm.
What's this?
Where did this come from?
"A Declaration
of Inter-dependence?"
No, no, no, no.
The term is, independence.
Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths
to be self-evident.
That all men are created equal.
Right, right! Beautiful!
That they are endowed
by their creator
certain...
[Tucker] All I can say
is that in a country
that's fighting for life,
liberty, et cetera, et cetera,
some people
are very dang generous
with other
people's declarations.
I apologize, Tucker.
But you know, people never seem
to get anything going
without getting something
down on paper first.
Yeah, but I still don't think
it's right
to give them our flag, too.
[Harry] Tucker,
what's a revolution
without a flag to salute?
[sniffs] Oh, I still think
there's something wrong
with the eyes.
-[inhales, sneezes]
-[tail rattles]
Oh, these are the times
that try snakes' souls.
-[sneezes]
-[tail rattles]
To the United States of America.
United States of America.
Where'd you get that name?
Well, what else
could you call it,
for heaven's sake?
I thought up some
other pretty good names
like, uh, Italy, France,
Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark,
but they'd all been taken.
United States of America
sounds quite appropriate to me.
I wonder what old King George
will do now.
I don't know.
But I'm afraid there's going
to be some shooting around here.
Like with bullets?
Well, anyway,
it isn't any of our fight.
-We've done our share.
-I understand
there's going to be
a cheese tax.
-[boing]
-A what?
A cheese tax?
Is there no limit
to man's inhumanity to mouse?
[squeak]
My only regret
is that between us,
we only have 10 lives
to give to our country.
Nine for you and one for me.
-Leave me to them red cats.
-Redcoats.
Coats, cats,
as long as you're mad.
[violin playing]
-Who that?
-Did you hear it, too?
Wow, look at that.
[violin playing]
-[Harry and Tucker applaud]
-[birds chirping]
Chester C. Cricket.
At your service, sirs.
Harry Cat.
And T. Randolph Mouse.
At your service, sir.
Uh, do you suppose
he has something
in the line
of national anthems?
National anthems?
Hmm. Let me think.
Mm-hmm. Oh, yes!
Now, I remember one.
Play on, McBug.
["Rule Britannia" playing]
Stop the music!
Are you off of your gourd?
-That's their national anthem.
-I'm terribly sorry.
-I didn't know.
-Please excuse us.
You see, the American colonies
are declaring
their independence from England.
Really? I didn't know.
So if you're a patriotic
cricket, why, naturally.
Yes, of course.
I want to help.
Well, let's see.
Um...
something lively and patriotic.
I've got it! A doodle bug
from the Colony of Maine
taught it to me.
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-Fantrastic.
-Splendid.
[all] ♪ Yankee Doodle
Went to town ♪
♪ A-riding on a pony ♪
♪ Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step ♪
♪ And with the girls
Be handy-- ♪
Wait.
"Yankee Doodle keep a tup."
What the heck's a tup?
And what the heck's a macaroni,
eh, for that matter?
Macaroni is...
Well, it--
it's like being elegant.
You know, proud.
And it isn't keep a tup, Tucker,
It's keep it up.
Which is just
what we have to do,
keep it up.
Keep singing and playing
Yankee Doodle
until every bug, bird,
badger, rabbit,
raccoon, turtle, and frog,
everybody in the colonies
knows it by heart.
Right. Why, with our flag,
our declaration,
and now with our Yankee Doodle
to pull all us Americans
together,
we can't lose.
I think it would be best
if we split up.
Uh, Right.
I'll take New England,
uh, Chester will take the South,
and you, Harry,
can take New Jersey, Old York,
Pennsyltucky, and like that.
[all] ♪ Yankee Doodle
Keep it up ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy ♪
♪ And there they'd fife
away like fun ♪
♪ And play
On cornstalk fiddles ♪
♪ And some have ribbons
Red as roses ♪
♪ Bound around their middles ♪
-["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-[cow chomping]
[moos]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over flute]
[chirping]
[plays drum solo]
[squirrel plays "Yankee Doodle"
over xylophone]
[bear plays "Yankee Doodle"
over horn]
[rabbits vocalizing
"Yankee Doodle"]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over violin]
[bees buzzing]
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
Now, did you ever
in all your born life,
see anything as cute
and as too much
as that little old
cotton-picking grasshopper.
Fort.
[playing "Yankee Doodle"
over harp]
[boing]
Ouch! Ooh, ooh. Ouch! No!
Ooh, ooh! Ouch! Ouch! Ooh, ouch!
[continues solo]
-["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-[neighing]
-[continues playing xylophone]
-[chirping]
[continues playing horn]
[pigs snorting]
-[continue vocalizing]
-[continues drumming]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over violin]
[melodramatic music playing]
Now then, friend frog.
That is an American citizen
you are holding
in your mouth bone.
As I see it, you have a choice
in this matter.
Either you can restore
that cricket's civil liberties
or you can get yourself
opened up without anesthesia.
Why-- why thank you, Mr. Frog.
[dramatic music playing]
It appears to me,
friend Cricket,
you could stand
a little protection.
I just want you to know,
Mr. Eagle, sir,
that if they ever choose
a national bird
for the United States,
I'm going to nominate you.
[boing]
[Harry] Everybody's ready now.
When we give the signal,
first thing tomorrow morning,
everybody will start playing
and whistling.
And tootling and banging.
And singing Yankee Doodle.
I can hardly wait!
Shh. Listen.
[whispers] One if by land,
and two if by sea.
And I on the opposite shore
will be ready to ride
and spread the alarm.
Hey, I know him.
That's old Paul Revere.
I used to take care
of the cheese problems
at his house.
He's a sliversmith.
[Revere] One if by land,
and two if by sea.
Remember.
[man] You can depend on me,
old Paul-- old pal.
♪ There is a lantern
In the town-- in the town ♪
Why, he's snockered.
[man sings drunkenly]
♪ One if by night ♪
♪ And two by day...
[hiccups] Day ♪
♪ And you'll be on ♪
♪ The other side of the bay ♪
[hiccups]
♪ I am a lantern in the-- ♪
[hiccups] ♪ ...town ♪
Now listen, we've got to cover
for Mr. Revere.
I'll meet you over
on the other side.
Tucker, you go up steeple,
Chester, keep an eye out here.
[whimsical music playing]
[man hiccupping] Ha-ha-ha,
hee-hee-hee.
♪ A little brown lantern
How I love thee ♪
♪ One if by horse
And two if by mule ♪
♪ And I, on the... ♪
[hiccups]
♪ ...opposite side
Of the pool ♪
♪ Oh, there it is
A lantern in the steeple ♪
♪ For the people ♪
[hiccupping]
-[mumbles]
-[thumping and crashing]
[man groaning, mumbling]
-[boing]
-[man snoring]
Good heavens. What'll I do?
What'll I do?
John.
Marsha.
Oh, dear.
I do hope they're not loyalists.
Chester, where you going?
Chess?
I'll be back.
Keep your eye on the British.
Stop them if they try to move
before I get back.
Stop them?
With what, my whiskers?
Dear, dear me.
They just got to be Patriots.
John, Marsha,
are you loyal to King George?
-Who is it, dear?
-It's Chester, sweet,
asking us about that cruel,
despotic jerk,
King George III.
[Chester] So, you can see?
We've got to get
that light signal to Paul Revere
or we may lose the war.
You'll find my friend,
Tucker Mouse,
up there on the steeple
to tell you what to do.
One if by land
and two if by sea.
So, you guys get planted
and I'll see
what the British are doing.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Tucker] They're going by sea!
Two if by sea.
Both of you, light up!
John.
-Marsha.
-Two, two! Two if by sea!
[grunting]
John?
[whimpers] Marsha.
[water lapping]
[grunting]
John.
[whimpers] Marsha.
[water lapping]
[Marsha] John.
[John whimpering] Marsha.
-[grunts]
-Mm.
-[ting]
-Marsha!
-Marsha.
-John.
[suspenseful music playing]
Giddy-up!
Giddy-up, you stupid animal.
How are we going to ride
to spread the alarm
if you won't move?
Giddy-up!
Giddy-up, you stupid animal.
[neighs]
[Revere] The British are coming,
awake!
The Redcoats are coming!
The Redcoats are coming!
Countrymen, arise! Arise!
The British are coming!
Arise! Alarm!
The British are coming!
The British are coming!
Awake!
[Revere] The British are coming!
Awake!
The Redcoats are coming!
Countrymen, arise! Arise!
The British are coming!
Arise! Alarm!
You know, Harry,
I'll bet we'll never get
into the history books.
No.
It wouldn't sound quite right,
would it, Tuck?
Quote. "A cat, a mouse,
and a cricket
started a revolutionary war."
Unquote.
Almost as silly as a mouse
writing the declaration
of interde--
Harry, it's time.
[whistles] It's sunrise!
[dramatic music playing]
[boing]
[chiming]
A-one, a-two and a-three.
-["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-[drum playing]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over flute]
[pigs squealing, snorting]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over horns]
[croaks]
[quacks]
[neighs]
[rabbits vocalizing
"Yankee Doodle"]
[plays drum solo]
[chirping "Yankee Doodle"]
[moos]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over xylophone]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over harp]
[neighs]
[croaks]
[orchestral "Yankee Doodle"
playing]
[men] ♪ Father and I
Went down to camp ♪
♪ Along with Captain Gooding ♪
♪ Then there we saw
The men and boys ♪
♪ As thick as hasty pudding ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy ♪
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
[explosions]
[horse neighing]
[men] ♪ Yankee Doodle
Went to town ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle
Went to town ♪
♪ A-riding on a pony ♪
♪ Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪
[explosions]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over flute]
[sniffles]
Now, do you believe me?
Fin. Just for the record,
don't tread on me.
-[inhales. sneezes]
-[tail rattles]
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
[men] ♪ Yankee Doodle
went to town ♪
♪ A-riding on a pony ♪
♪ Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪
---
[music playing]
[Tucker chomping]
Mm, uncredible.
Well, well...
inbelievable.
Mm. Well, mm.
Oddities of American History
is right. Wow!
Uncredible.
Unincredible!
I didn't know that.
[clicks]
[music playing]
[boing]
Harry, guess what?
Guess who really wrote
the Declaration
of Inter-dependence?
A mouse, Harry. A mouse!
And Harry, who really got
old Paul Revere's horse going?
A cat, Harry. A cat!
And Harry, do you know
who actually wrote
Yankee Doodle Dandy?
No.
Why, a cricket, Harry,
Chester Cricket's great, great,
great, great, great,
great grandfather.
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
[Tucker] Yup, Manhattan Island
wasn't nearly as pretty
in 1775 as it is now.
Mainly trees, flowers,
and stuff.
No first-class garbage.
No beer cans
or old cheese sandwiches.
No class really.
As a matter of fact,
it wasn't the best time
in history to be a mouse.
And a lot of American colonists
were beginning to decide
that they didn't wanna be
mice neither.
As an ancestor of mine,
a church mouse by profession,
found out while trying
to take a nap one day,
just when somebody
name of Patrick Henry
was complaining
about something.
[Henry] What is it
that gentlemen wish?
Is life so dear,
or peace so sweet,
as to be purchased at the price
of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course
others may take,
but as for me,
give me liberty
or give me death!
-[sniffs]
-[crowd cheering]
You know what?
He just might have
something there.
[dramatic music playing]
[Tucker] Declaration
of Inter-dependence
between cats and mice.
We hold these twos-- Uh, truths
to be self-evident
that all cats and mice
are created evil-- Uh, equal.
That they are endowed
by mother nature
with certain unavailable rights.
That among these rights
are wife--
-Uh, no, no.
-Life, liberty,
but not the pursuit
of each other.
Signed, Tucker Randolph Mouse,
Esquire.
Fantastic.
It's better
than the Magna Carta.
Now all I need
is a cat's signature
and we'll have peace
in our time.
Wowie! Brilliant!
All cats and mice
are created equal.
All I need is Harry's signature.
[screeches]
-Don't tread on me.
-[tail rattles]
What? Wh-- what did you say?
-I said, "Don't tread on me."
-[tail rattles]
Hold it. Don't move. Freeze.
I'll be right back.
"Don't tread on me."
What a great motto for a mice.
Great for cats, too.
Somebody's always treading
on their tails.
[tail rattles]
Can't we take a break?
My neck is killing me.
I'll have tonsillitis
clear to my rattles.
[mumbling]
Just a few more scales to go.
There! The first cat
and mouse flag.
-Aren't you proud?
-[whimsical music playing]
[shudders] There's something
wrong with the eyes.
[sniffs]
Gad, I hate a cold.
[groans, sneezes]
[tail rattles]
-[pen scribbles]
-[Jefferson] A declaration
by representatives
of the United States of America
in Congress assembled.
Hmm. Now, paragraph one.
Let me make this
perfectly clear.
[sniffs]
[Jefferson] What's the matter,
Harry?
Don't you approve?
-Oh, well. All right.
-[paper crumples]
[Jefferson] Well, how about
-two chickens in every pot?
-[pen scribbles]
Two horses in every stable?
-No, no, not very inspiring.
-[paper crumples]
[Jefferson] No. Let me think.
Speak softly,
but carry a big stick.
-Yes?
-[paper crumples]
[Jefferson] No.
-The yanks are coming...
-[pen scribbles]
-...the yanks are coming.
-[purrs]
[Jefferson]
Fifty-four forty or fight?
Obviously not. Hmm.
[clears throat]
I'd better get some air, Harry.
I shall return.
[door opens, closes]
[Tucker] Psst! Psst!
Harry! Over here.
Harry, Harry, guess what?
I have here a piece of paper
that will mean peace
in our time.
Peace with honor.
And there it is,
ready for your signature.
[Harry] Oh, yes, of course.
"A Declaration
of Inter-dependence
between cats and mice.
We hold these truths
to be self-evident--"
Wait a minute!
"That all... [mumbling]
...are created equal.
That they are endowed
by... [mumbling]
...with certain rights."
Tucker, you're a genius!
I know, I know.
Now, if you will just sign
where indicated.
[Harry] Just the thing Old Tom's
been looking for.
Harry, what's gotten into you?
Where are you going
with our Declaration
of Inter-dependence?
Harry!
-Shh.
-[footsteps approaching]
[Tucker] "Shh"?
What do you mean, "shh"?
I demand my civil liber--
...ties.
-[door closes]
-[Jefferson] And let's see now.
Where was I?
Hmm.
What's this?
Where did this come from?
"A Declaration
of Inter-dependence?"
No, no, no, no.
The term is, independence.
Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths
to be self-evident.
That all men are created equal.
Right, right! Beautiful!
That they are endowed
by their creator
certain...
[Tucker] All I can say
is that in a country
that's fighting for life,
liberty, et cetera, et cetera,
some people
are very dang generous
with other
people's declarations.
I apologize, Tucker.
But you know, people never seem
to get anything going
without getting something
down on paper first.
Yeah, but I still don't think
it's right
to give them our flag, too.
[Harry] Tucker,
what's a revolution
without a flag to salute?
[sniffs] Oh, I still think
there's something wrong
with the eyes.
-[inhales, sneezes]
-[tail rattles]
Oh, these are the times
that try snakes' souls.
-[sneezes]
-[tail rattles]
To the United States of America.
United States of America.
Where'd you get that name?
Well, what else
could you call it,
for heaven's sake?
I thought up some
other pretty good names
like, uh, Italy, France,
Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark,
but they'd all been taken.
United States of America
sounds quite appropriate to me.
I wonder what old King George
will do now.
I don't know.
But I'm afraid there's going
to be some shooting around here.
Like with bullets?
Well, anyway,
it isn't any of our fight.
-We've done our share.
-I understand
there's going to be
a cheese tax.
-[boing]
-A what?
A cheese tax?
Is there no limit
to man's inhumanity to mouse?
[squeak]
My only regret
is that between us,
we only have 10 lives
to give to our country.
Nine for you and one for me.
-Leave me to them red cats.
-Redcoats.
Coats, cats,
as long as you're mad.
[violin playing]
-Who that?
-Did you hear it, too?
Wow, look at that.
[violin playing]
-[Harry and Tucker applaud]
-[birds chirping]
Chester C. Cricket.
At your service, sirs.
Harry Cat.
And T. Randolph Mouse.
At your service, sir.
Uh, do you suppose
he has something
in the line
of national anthems?
National anthems?
Hmm. Let me think.
Mm-hmm. Oh, yes!
Now, I remember one.
Play on, McBug.
["Rule Britannia" playing]
Stop the music!
Are you off of your gourd?
-That's their national anthem.
-I'm terribly sorry.
-I didn't know.
-Please excuse us.
You see, the American colonies
are declaring
their independence from England.
Really? I didn't know.
So if you're a patriotic
cricket, why, naturally.
Yes, of course.
I want to help.
Well, let's see.
Um...
something lively and patriotic.
I've got it! A doodle bug
from the Colony of Maine
taught it to me.
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-Fantrastic.
-Splendid.
[all] ♪ Yankee Doodle
Went to town ♪
♪ A-riding on a pony ♪
♪ Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step ♪
♪ And with the girls
Be handy-- ♪
Wait.
"Yankee Doodle keep a tup."
What the heck's a tup?
And what the heck's a macaroni,
eh, for that matter?
Macaroni is...
Well, it--
it's like being elegant.
You know, proud.
And it isn't keep a tup, Tucker,
It's keep it up.
Which is just
what we have to do,
keep it up.
Keep singing and playing
Yankee Doodle
until every bug, bird,
badger, rabbit,
raccoon, turtle, and frog,
everybody in the colonies
knows it by heart.
Right. Why, with our flag,
our declaration,
and now with our Yankee Doodle
to pull all us Americans
together,
we can't lose.
I think it would be best
if we split up.
Uh, Right.
I'll take New England,
uh, Chester will take the South,
and you, Harry,
can take New Jersey, Old York,
Pennsyltucky, and like that.
[all] ♪ Yankee Doodle
Keep it up ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy ♪
♪ And there they'd fife
away like fun ♪
♪ And play
On cornstalk fiddles ♪
♪ And some have ribbons
Red as roses ♪
♪ Bound around their middles ♪
-["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-[cow chomping]
[moos]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over flute]
[chirping]
[plays drum solo]
[squirrel plays "Yankee Doodle"
over xylophone]
[bear plays "Yankee Doodle"
over horn]
[rabbits vocalizing
"Yankee Doodle"]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over violin]
[bees buzzing]
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
Now, did you ever
in all your born life,
see anything as cute
and as too much
as that little old
cotton-picking grasshopper.
Fort.
[playing "Yankee Doodle"
over harp]
[boing]
Ouch! Ooh, ooh. Ouch! No!
Ooh, ooh! Ouch! Ouch! Ooh, ouch!
[continues solo]
-["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-[neighing]
-[continues playing xylophone]
-[chirping]
[continues playing horn]
[pigs snorting]
-[continue vocalizing]
-[continues drumming]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over violin]
[melodramatic music playing]
Now then, friend frog.
That is an American citizen
you are holding
in your mouth bone.
As I see it, you have a choice
in this matter.
Either you can restore
that cricket's civil liberties
or you can get yourself
opened up without anesthesia.
Why-- why thank you, Mr. Frog.
[dramatic music playing]
It appears to me,
friend Cricket,
you could stand
a little protection.
I just want you to know,
Mr. Eagle, sir,
that if they ever choose
a national bird
for the United States,
I'm going to nominate you.
[boing]
[Harry] Everybody's ready now.
When we give the signal,
first thing tomorrow morning,
everybody will start playing
and whistling.
And tootling and banging.
And singing Yankee Doodle.
I can hardly wait!
Shh. Listen.
[whispers] One if by land,
and two if by sea.
And I on the opposite shore
will be ready to ride
and spread the alarm.
Hey, I know him.
That's old Paul Revere.
I used to take care
of the cheese problems
at his house.
He's a sliversmith.
[Revere] One if by land,
and two if by sea.
Remember.
[man] You can depend on me,
old Paul-- old pal.
♪ There is a lantern
In the town-- in the town ♪
Why, he's snockered.
[man sings drunkenly]
♪ One if by night ♪
♪ And two by day...
[hiccups] Day ♪
♪ And you'll be on ♪
♪ The other side of the bay ♪
[hiccups]
♪ I am a lantern in the-- ♪
[hiccups] ♪ ...town ♪
Now listen, we've got to cover
for Mr. Revere.
I'll meet you over
on the other side.
Tucker, you go up steeple,
Chester, keep an eye out here.
[whimsical music playing]
[man hiccupping] Ha-ha-ha,
hee-hee-hee.
♪ A little brown lantern
How I love thee ♪
♪ One if by horse
And two if by mule ♪
♪ And I, on the... ♪
[hiccups]
♪ ...opposite side
Of the pool ♪
♪ Oh, there it is
A lantern in the steeple ♪
♪ For the people ♪
[hiccupping]
-[mumbles]
-[thumping and crashing]
[man groaning, mumbling]
-[boing]
-[man snoring]
Good heavens. What'll I do?
What'll I do?
John.
Marsha.
Oh, dear.
I do hope they're not loyalists.
Chester, where you going?
Chess?
I'll be back.
Keep your eye on the British.
Stop them if they try to move
before I get back.
Stop them?
With what, my whiskers?
Dear, dear me.
They just got to be Patriots.
John, Marsha,
are you loyal to King George?
-Who is it, dear?
-It's Chester, sweet,
asking us about that cruel,
despotic jerk,
King George III.
[Chester] So, you can see?
We've got to get
that light signal to Paul Revere
or we may lose the war.
You'll find my friend,
Tucker Mouse,
up there on the steeple
to tell you what to do.
One if by land
and two if by sea.
So, you guys get planted
and I'll see
what the British are doing.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Tucker] They're going by sea!
Two if by sea.
Both of you, light up!
John.
-Marsha.
-Two, two! Two if by sea!
[grunting]
John?
[whimpers] Marsha.
[water lapping]
[grunting]
John.
[whimpers] Marsha.
[water lapping]
[Marsha] John.
[John whimpering] Marsha.
-[grunts]
-Mm.
-[ting]
-Marsha!
-Marsha.
-John.
[suspenseful music playing]
Giddy-up!
Giddy-up, you stupid animal.
How are we going to ride
to spread the alarm
if you won't move?
Giddy-up!
Giddy-up, you stupid animal.
[neighs]
[Revere] The British are coming,
awake!
The Redcoats are coming!
The Redcoats are coming!
Countrymen, arise! Arise!
The British are coming!
Arise! Alarm!
The British are coming!
The British are coming!
Awake!
[Revere] The British are coming!
Awake!
The Redcoats are coming!
Countrymen, arise! Arise!
The British are coming!
Arise! Alarm!
You know, Harry,
I'll bet we'll never get
into the history books.
No.
It wouldn't sound quite right,
would it, Tuck?
Quote. "A cat, a mouse,
and a cricket
started a revolutionary war."
Unquote.
Almost as silly as a mouse
writing the declaration
of interde--
Harry, it's time.
[whistles] It's sunrise!
[dramatic music playing]
[boing]
[chiming]
A-one, a-two and a-three.
-["Yankee Doodle" playing]
-[drum playing]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over flute]
[pigs squealing, snorting]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over horns]
[croaks]
[quacks]
[neighs]
[rabbits vocalizing
"Yankee Doodle"]
[plays drum solo]
[chirping "Yankee Doodle"]
[moos]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over xylophone]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over harp]
[neighs]
[croaks]
[orchestral "Yankee Doodle"
playing]
[men] ♪ Father and I
Went down to camp ♪
♪ Along with Captain Gooding ♪
♪ Then there we saw
The men and boys ♪
♪ As thick as hasty pudding ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy ♪
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
[explosions]
[horse neighing]
[men] ♪ Yankee Doodle
Went to town ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle
Went to town ♪
♪ A-riding on a pony ♪
♪ Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪
[explosions]
["Yankee Doodle" playing
over flute]
[sniffles]
Now, do you believe me?
Fin. Just for the record,
don't tread on me.
-[inhales. sneezes]
-[tail rattles]
["Yankee Doodle" playing]
[men] ♪ Yankee Doodle
went to town ♪
♪ A-riding on a pony ♪
♪ Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni ♪
♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy ♪
♪ Mind the music and the step ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪
♪ And with the girls be handy ♪