Babar (season 1)

Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Babar: The Movie / King of the Elephants | Main The following is a list of quotes from the first season of Babar. Dialogue Babar's First Step [1.1] Alexander: I can take an afternoon off once in a while. [kicks a soccer ball through the open doors, and it lands on the horn. A horn player blows hard to shoot out the ball] We can work on my model airplane, Father? Babar: I would love to play too, Alexander, but I have a speech to give to the people of Celesteville. Alexander: But you're the king, Father. You can take an afternoon off. Pom: Yeah, and I can get all this uniform before I choke. Babar: Because I'm king, I must do many things that I would sometimes rather not do, children. [Alexander looks disappointed] We all have responsibilities to others. I found that out the hard way. [fades to the jungle] A very long time ago, back in the day before I was king, before there was a Celesteville, back in the days of your grandmother, my mother. Babar's Mother: Everyone, round up the children! Head for cover quickly! Young Babar: Hey! What's going on here? Whoa, wait! Where are we going, Mama? Cornelius: Quickly, quickly, into the jungle! Quickly, quickly! [The hunter shoots Babar's mother with gun fires] [Babar and his mother fall] Young Babar: [coughing] Ah! [coughing as the water drags him to the land] Mama? [coughing] Mama? Where are you? [The water splashes Babar as he coughs more] Mama? Babar's Mother: [trumpeting] Young Babar: Mama? [Cornelius picks up Babar and Babar coughs] Mama? Babar's Mother: [last words before her death] Protect... the children, save the family! [The hunter looks shocked where Babar's Mother charges towards him. The hunter shoots Babar's Mother with a gun and Babar's Mother steps on the gun. She shakes her head as the hunter backs away and falls to the ground as the hunter runs out of the way] Young Babar: Mama! [The camera moves right upwards as the monkeys hide in the trees, then the scene fades to palm trees and the camera moves right downwards to where Babar calls his mother] Mama? Mama? Where are you? Mama? Cornelius, Have you seen my mother? Cornelius: Come with me, Babar. [sheds a tear] [Cornelius takes Babar to his mother who is already dead] Young Babar: NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!! [Babar runs to his dead mother and starts sobbing. The elephants gather around Babar and his dead mother and trumpet sadly] Adult Babar: And so I was alone, the family moved on away from the hunter. But before I could go with them, there was something I had to do. Pompadour: There is an unknown place the birds speak of, deep in the jungle, a place far away where even the hunter would never find us. I suggest we leave for it immediately. Young Babar: No! This is our home. We have to stay here. Elephant King: We all feel just as you do, Babar, but I'm afraid it's a question of survival. Pompadour: You have a lot to learn, Babar. We're just no match for the hunter or any like him who come from the other side. Cornelius: We all have much to learn. Perhaps in time, we may get to know the nature of our enemy and then be able to stand against him, but for now, Babar. Young Babar: I understand. Pompadour: For now our only hope is to leave before it's too late, if he finds us now, he'll hunt us down to the last! [The gunshot is heard and the elephants panic. The hunter shots an elephant, Babar gasps and the elephants run in panic. Babar backs to the tree] Young Celeste: [as two elephants carry Celeste and Arthur] Run, Babar! Run! Pompadour: He'll follow us! Hunt us down! All of us! Cornelius: Babar! Babar! [Babar hears a gun click, gasps and sees a hunter come out through the bush. Babar screams and remembers his memories of his mother's final day] Alexander: [whistles] But how did you find them, father? Where did you go? What did you do? Babar: [chuckles] That's another story, Alexander. It's enough to say for now that I made some wonderful friends and learned so very much along the way. Just as there are good people and bad people, there are good kings and bad kings, and one of the things that decides which we are is how we handle our responsibility to others. Cornelius: [clears his throat off-screen] Uh, speaking of responsibilities. Babar: Ah, Cornelius. Cornelius: Time for your speech, Your Majesty. City Ways [1.2] Celeste: Babar, are you busy? Babar: Never too busy for you, my dear. Can we spare a minute, Cornelius? Cornelius: Without question, Babar. Pompadour: Take two, if you wish! Babar Returns [1.3] Cornelius: Babar, my boy, I knew you'd come back! I kept telling everyone "That Babar's just too clever for the hunter!" Pompadour: Only about two thousand times… but even so, I must say it’s a relief and a pleasure to see you again, Babar. Young Babar: How are you, Pompadour? Pompadour: Well, taking everything that's happened into consideration, lucky to be alive. I dare say better than you. What happened? You're all green. Young Babar: Oh, this? It's a suit. [takes off his jacket and holds it] See? It comes off. Cornelius: [gasps] My tusks! You can shed your skin, like a snake! Young Arthur: Yeah, clothes are like skins you can change, and some of them itch like the Dickens. Cornelius: Hmmm, they are rather attractive. Young Celeste: And we brought back all sorts of gifts, Mother, powder and perfume. Young Arthur: And creampuffs. [Pompadour comes to Babar's car, sniffs a tire and holds a gramophone's horn. As he does so, it plays music, causing him and the other elephants to scream and trumpet] Young Babar: [laughs] That's a gramophone. Oh, I have so much to tell you and I'm so happy to have found you all safe and sound. Pompadour: That's a matter of opinion. Cornelius: We kept moving, at thinking we would find sanctuary, but now we’ve realized that no where was safe from the relentless hunter. Old King: Not even this miserable place. Young Babar: Your Highness. Old King: You left when this trouble all started, Babar. It is good that you have returned, as we are about to put an end to it. Tomorrow we’ll stand and fight just as elephants should. The Old King: [last words before his death] Can't even find something decent to eat around here, and the hunter is closing in once again! [The elephants trumpet] We will run no further. Tomorrow at dawn, we will drive him out of the jungle! I call for an elephant stampede! [The elephants trumpet]Cornelius: [to the elephants] Shh! Quietly! [Old King pulls out a mushroom and eats it]Young Babar: Your Highness, this is madness! [Old King eats another mushroom] The hunter has a gun, traps! We must out-think him! Pompadour: It's all very well for you to say, Babar. You’ve forgotten what it's like to live in the jungle. Cornelius: You have been away in the city on the.. other side a long time, Babar. Pompadour: [off-screen] The elephant stampede [on-screen] is an honorable battle tradition that goes back to the days of the Mighty Mammoths. Isn't that so, your Majesty? [The Old King growls]Pompadour: Your Majesty?[The Old King closes his eyes and falls to the ground]Cornelius: My tusks! [runs to the Old King who is now dead] Your Majesty! Young Babar: Cornelius, what happened?[A mushroom rolls out of the Old King's trunk]Cornelius: It's the mushrooms. They're poison.[Cornelius, Babar, and the elephants back away]Pompadour: Horrors! What can we do now? Cornelius: [walks to the rock] Our illustrious king has sadly departed from us. Although he has gone to a better place, his wisdom and his courage will live on in our hearts forever. We will proceed with the old king's final wishes... Tomorrow, we stampede! [elephants trumpet] We have little choice, Babar. Babar: It's madness. We don't stand a chance. [Babar has a sad expression]Celeste: I don't know about you, Babar, but I'm in the mood for a hot fudge triple-truffle sundae. Babar: Ah, the romantic desert! Let's see now, whipping cream, eggs, chocolate... Celeste: Don't forget the story. [the episode ends]The City of Elephants [1.4] Rataxes: [about his hammer] Basil! This watchamacallit you stole is defective! Basil: It's a tacky tyrant who blames his tools. Madame: How were things going, Babar? Young Babar: Too slow, I'm afraid. Madame: Rome wasn't built in a day, you know. Young Babar: Yeah, but they didn't have the monsoons to worry about. Madame: All I'm asking is that you slow down, take a break and play with your friends. [After Celeste and Arthur come along] It will do you a world of good. Young Babar: I'm sorry, Madame, but I've got no time to play. It's going to rain. Madame: Well, I'll play around of Monkey in the Middle with you. I'm afraid Babar is much too busy with his city. Cornelius: And I'm afraid, at this pace, it's not going to be much of a city after all. Not what it could have been, anyway.[The scene fades to Madame, Celeste and Arthur playing Monkey in the Middle with the ball. Celeste and Arthur laugh, giggle and catch the ball which Celeste throws high]Young Arthur: I'll get it! [he runs and looks for a ball and finds it behind the bush, but gasps when he hears a snake]Madame: Arthur, look out! [the snake bites her arm off screen] Ah! Oh! Young Arthur: Celeste! Celeste! [Celeste runs] Is she right, Celeste? Young Celeste: That was a poisonous snake, Arthur. Run and get help right away. [Arthur runs and Celeste tearfully pants and pats her trunk on Madame before the screen fades into black]Babar's Triumph [1.5] King Tuttle: Don't worry. The turtles are right behind you. Pompadour: [sarcastically] I for one will be able to sleep much easier now.[Cornelius and Pompadour are trying to get in the hunter's camp]Cornelius: [grunts] Right then, You first, Pompadour.[Pompadour accidentally grabs the rope]Pompadour: Whoa! DAAAHHH!!! Do something, Cornelius! Cornelius: [grunts] I can't. You're out to reach. Young Babar: Rataxes, listen. The hunter's up to something strange. We have to work together to stop him. Rataxes: No chance. [runs away]Young Babar: I thought rhinos were afraid of nothing.[Rataxes crashes through the entrance of the hunter's camp. Cornelius and Pompadour gasp]Rataxes: [off-screen, while one man tries to shoot him] Run, [on-screen] while you still can! [Babar exits out of the hunter's camp]Young Babar: Ahhh! [a man points his gun at Babar] Turns out rhinos are afraid of something after all. Cornelius: Yes. Well, I'm afraid that it's over for us. But at least we can take it like gentlemen. Pompadour: Can we vote on that?[Rataxes charges towards the men. Cornelius and Pompadour hit the men with their trunks]Young Babar: Good work. Cornelius: After you dear, Pompadour. Pompadour: Why thank you, Cornelius.[The hunter's men pouring some oil and King Tuttle and the turtles gasp. One turtle drums on the turtle's shell]Young Babar, Cornelius, Pompadour and Rataxes: [gasps]Young Babar: The hunter...[A turtle keeps drumming on the turtle's shell as the hunter turns on his torch]Young Babar: He's starting a... [The hunter throw the torch creating a jungle fire] Fire! We have to do something. Rataxes: Don't you know it. [runs away]Young Babar: [off-screen] Rataxes, come back! [on-screen] We need you! Let's go.[Babar, Cornelius and Pompadour went to stop a jungle fire][Celeste and Arthur found Babar]Young Celeste: Babar, you're safe! Young Arthur: [looks worried] Babar, I'm scared. Young Babar: [to Arthur] Cheer up. We'll beat this thing. Cornelius: [off-screen] Look out! [A tree (which is on fire) falls toward Babar, Celeste and Arthur. Cornelius pushes the children out of the way before the tree crashes into them]Cornelius: Believe it or not, Babar. We're holding it back. Keeping it at bay. Young Babar: How long can we keep out? Cornelius: For a while if the winds don't shift. [scratches his head] Everyone's tiring. King Marabou: Somebody... [coughs] ...do something! King Crocodile: [running through the jungle fire] Help us! Save our water ways! King Tuttle: Why don't you help us save our homes? Cornelius: Oh, no. Here come the others.[The other animals runs toward Babar and Cornelius and ask them to save their homes]Young Babar: EVERYBODY, JUST HOLD IT!! Pompadour: [off-screen] Sire, sire! [on-screen when his clothes got ruined and burned] It's no use! The wind is shifting! The fire's out of control! Young Babar: Now we can't even help ourselves. Rataxes: [off-screen] Is that so? [on-screen when he and his rhino army arrived] Well, what happened to your idea of "Working together for a better jungle"? [Everyone looked at Rataxes] What about it? Young Babar: Okay, All we all in this together? Animals: Yeah! Young Babar: Are we all gonna save this jungle? Animals: Yeah! Young Babar: Then, let's get to work! Animals: Yeah! All right![Babar, Cornelius, Pompadour and the animals went to stop a jungle fire. Rataxes and the rhino army followed them as they all hold shovels][The hunter's camp is on fire]Men: Fire! Fire! [The hunter's men run away from the hunter's camp and hopped into their jeeps]Hunter: No! Come ba-a-ack! [The hunter watches his men drive away] [last words before his death] You can't run! I won't run! I'LL DESTROY THEM A-A-ALL!!!!!!!!![The hunter yells in frustration as the fire kills him as the screen fades to white. The next morning after the hunter's death, Babar and Cornelius come to the burned camp] Young Babar: We will leave this spot as it is. A memory of what could have happened to us all.[The scene fades to the animals including Rataxes are all gathered together after they helped Babar last night] [off-screen] We worked together to [on-screen] save the jungle, can we work together to rebuild it? King Marabou: I'm with you. We should start reconstruction of our nests immediately. King Crocodile: I beg to differ. We should clean the waterways post haste. King Tuttle: What about the water hole? We should come first. Rataxes: I'm the one that got you all together. Me! And Babar, you could at least thank me by staring on my house.[The animals except Rataxes are all starting to argue off-screen]Young Babar: Some things never change. Babar's Choice [1.6] Zephir: Hey, Babar! Young Babar: Hi, Zephir. Zephir: All set to trip the light fantastic? Young Babar: I certainly am. [holds up a flower] What do you think? Zephir: It's you! [laughs]Young Babar: It's not for me, it's for Celeste. Think she'll like it? Zephir: If you gave her a cold, she'd love it! Cornelius: Oh! This is disastrous! Not to mention terrible and catastrophes. Young Babar: What is it, Cornelius? Are the rhinos attacking? Zephir: I'm innocent! Cornelius: Worse than that. It's the seating arrangements they're all wrong. Zephir: Seating arrangements? Zephir: Just as I suspected; Celeste is late. You're all clear to meet Princess Midge. Young Babar: How'd you know she'd be late? Zephir: Arthur took her shoes. Young Arthur: What are little brothers for? Race to the Moon [1.7] Royal 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! Cornelius: Conquer ze moon? That's horrible! Pompadour: That's... deplorable! Zephir: That's Rataxes. ________________________________________ Young Babar: 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]Young Arthur: Babar, come quick! It's really urgent! Young Babar: And this isn't. This job is impossible for one person to handle. I need... Zephir: off-screen] Help! [on-screen where Rataxes and Basil capture him] Babar, help! Young Babar: Oh no! Rataxes has got Zephir! Young Arthur: That's what I came to tell you. He’s in big trouble. Young Babar: 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]Adult 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.No Place Like Home [1.8] Young Babar: ...And this is the drawing room. Andre: You have an entire room just for drawing? Young Babar: Well, it's called a drawing room, but it's really a place for people to sit around and talk in. Andre: Oh, I get it: A talking room! Young Babar: No, it doesn't talk; Just the people in it! Andre: I hadda ask! An Elephant's Best Friend [1.9] Rataxes: Feathers? What do I want with feathers?! Basil: Oh, you don't want feathers, your rhighness. Rataxes: Then what do I want? Basil: You want to stall the elephants so you can get what you really want: Lady Retaxes' pet, Reginald! Rataxes: Hah! I knew that's what I thought I wanted! The Show Must Go On [1.10] Young Babar: You may be the world's greatest dancer, but you've also been the world's greatest pain! [everyone gasps]Mademoiselle Soretoza: No-one talks to me like that! Young Babar: Right, because you're always too busy talking like that to somebody else! Mademoiselle Soretoza: I don't have to stand for this abuse! Young Babar: You mean "this truth"! Mademoiselle Soretoza: You can't insult me like this! Young Babar: Actually, I can do much better, but after all, you are a lady! Mademoiselle Soretoza: Well, I never! You can go ahead and put your show on - without me! Young Babar: Thank you. I'm glad you understand! [Mademoiselle Soretoza looks shocked and leaves in disgrace]To Duet Or Not To Duet [1.11] Young Babar: I wish I could play the piano. Pompadour: But your majesty, whenever you want music, we will hire someone to play it for you. Young Babar: I'll give up all my spare time, please just teach me that song! Madame: Well... if you're that determined, Babar, I will. But only if you promise me you'll do three things. Young Babar: I'll do four'' things! Madame: Practise, practise, practise, and... practise! The Missing Crown Affair [1.12] Zephir: You're not going back to the palace, are you? Young Babar: I can't hide from them forever, Zephir. Zephir: But they'll be waiting for you! Young Babar: A coward dies a thousand deaths; A brave man dies but one. Zephir: Yeah, but how does the brave man's best friend make out? Zephir: Sort of like a royal report card, huh? Gee, what happens to a king who gets an F? Young Babar: Nothing compared to what happens to a king who loses his own crown. Zephir: 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! Young Babar: Zephir, this is your signiature! Zephir: I know. I personally autographed it! Stand aside! I've got a case to crack. Young Babar: My crown wasn't stolen. It was... Zephir: Exactly what the culprit wants you to think. Let's examine the clues, shall we? Young Babar: What clues? Zephir: For starters, this room has obviously been ransacked. Young Babar: I know. I ransacked it. The Phantom [1.13] Madame: Babar? Young Babar: I saw him! It was awful! Madame: Saw who? Young Babar: The horrible, blood-thirsty phantom of the music hall! Madame: Oh Babar, there are no such things. Young Babar: Tell him that! Madame: Your eyes must have been playing tricks on you. Young Babar: So were my ears I heard him he was playing music. Madame: Now, now, No one has played music in that old hall for years. Perhaps your imagination has gotten the better of you. Why don't you have a good night's sleep and we'll talk about it in the morning? I'll leave the light on if you like. Young Babar: Yes, please. Madame: All right then, good night, my dear. External links Babar (TV series) 1