[THEME SONG]
ALL: [SINGING] La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Welcome to the Furchester Hotel.
FUNELLA: [SINGING] Your room is ready for you.
FURGUS: [SINGING] Just needs to get the bed.
PHOEBE: [SINGING] The lamp, the desk, the rug, the sink.
PILLOW: [SINGING] A pillow for your head.
BOTH: [SINGING] The hotel's run by monster,
a staff beyond compare.
ALL: [SINGING] We've got the kind of service
you won't find anywhere.
So welcome to the Furchester.
La, la, la, la.
Welcome to the Furchester.
La, la, la, la.
La, la, la, la, la, la
FURGUS: [SINGING] Dine in style.
FUNELLA: [SINGING] So genteel.
COOKIE MONSTER: [SINGING] Cookie come with every meal.
ALL: [SINGING] La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
ELMO: [SINGING] Here's your keys.
PHOEBE: [SINGING] And check right in.
BOTH: [SINGING] Let your furry stay begin.
ALL: [SINGING] Welcome to the Furchester Hotel.
NARRATOR: Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
CABBIE: Taxi for room 97.
MAILMAN: OK.
OK.
Can you sign for this, please?
FUNELLA: Oh, did you hear that, Furgus?
Taxi for room 97.
FURGUS: Yeah.
I got that, dear.
MR. DULL: And I would like some tea with milk and sugar.
Oh, and two biscuits.
FURGUS: Oh, yes, Mr. Dull.
Hello.
Is that room 97?
Ah, yes, your tea is here.
MR. DULL: No, no.
I ordered the tea.
FURGUS: Hello?
Hello?
Oh, fiddlesticks.
This phone isn't working.
What a problem.
What am I going to do without a phone, Isabel?
I-- I've got it.
I can use the backup phone.
Phoebe?
Elmo?
[ON PHONE] Oh, is that you, Elmo?
ELMO: Hello.
Hello, Uncle Furgus.
This is Elmo on the backup phone.
FURGUS: Oh.
Tell Phoebe that there's a broccoli here for room 452.
ELMO: Oh.
OK.
Phoebe, there's a carrot who wants to go to the zoo.
PHOEBE: An elephant has lost his shoe?
ELMO: OK.
Uncle Furgus?
Uncle Furgus, there's an elephant on Phoebe's toe.
FURGUS: An elephant on her nose?
What?
BROCCOLI: I am not an elephant.
I an a broccoli.
Huh.
FURGUS: I-- I know.
I'm sorry.
MR. FLEECE: Oh.
Rather amusing to see you using such an old phone system.
FURGUS: Well, it's quite frustrating actually.
These cans don't really work.
MR. FLEECE: Then, why don't you yodel instead?
It will help you solve your communication problem.
FURGUS: Oh.
Are you here for the yodeling convention?
MR. FLEECE: Yes, I am.
I and 27 other yodelers.
Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
YODELERS: Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
FURGUS: [LAUGHS] They yodeled back.
MR. FLEECE: You see, where I come from,
yodeling is a way to communicate.
It's how we talk to one another.
A yodel can be heard over mountains
or throughout a hotel.
FURGUS: Oh.
Oh, right.
So I just go, oh yodel-oba-lebba-libba-libby.
MR. FLEECE: No, no, no.
Yodeling is an art.
It must be taught.
Luckily, that is my job, yodel instructor.
Professor Fleece at your service.
Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
Good morning, Furchesters.
FURCHESTERS: Good morning, Professor Fleece.
MR. FLEECE: Welcome to yodel class.
FURCHESTERS: Oh, yes.
SHEEP: Thank you.
I will now introduce you to some basic hotel yodel.
FURCHESTERS: Oh.
ELMO: That's exciting.
COOKIE MONSTER: Sorry me late.
Sorry.
FURCHESTERS: Sh.
COOKIE MONSTER: [WHISPERING] Oh.
Oh, sorry.
[LOUDLY] This me chair?
FURCHESTERS: Sh.
COOKIE MONSTER: [WHISPERING] Sorry.
MR. FLEECE: Yodel-ay-hee yodel-ay-hee yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
That means your taxi's here.
Now, you try.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
MR. FLEECE: No, no, no.
You're all yodeling at once.
Let's try practicing another way.
COOKIE MONSTER: Sure.
MR. FLEECE: Let's start at the beginning, shall we?
[CLEARS THROAT]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SINGING] It all starts with a yodel.
FURCHESTERS: [SINGING] Yodel.
MR. FLEECE: [SINGING] And then you add an "ay-hee-hoo."
FURCHESTERS: [SINGING] Ay hee hoo.
MR. FLEECE: [SINGING] Now, put it all together and that's
how you say, hello.
FURCHESTERS: [SINGING] Yodel ay hee hoo.
Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
MR. FLEECE: [SINGING] And don't forget the "hee-hoo."
FURCHESTERS: [SINGING] Yodel ay hee hoo.
Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
MR. FLEECE: [SINGING] That's how you say, hello.
FURCHESTERS: [SINGING] Yodel ay hee hoo.
Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.
MR. FLEECE: [SINGING] And don't forget the "hee-hoo."
FURCHESTERS: [SINGING] Yodel ay hee hoo.
MR. FLEECE: [SINGING] That's how you say, hello.
ELMO: Yay.
That was wonderful.
MR. FLEECE: Bravo.
I think you've got it.
[CHEERING]
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, oh, oh.
Me got question.
MR. FLEECE: Uh.
Yes, Cookie Monster?
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, yeah.
It actually more of statement.
That terrific bowtie.
MR. FLEECE: Uh.
Thank you, Cookie Monster.
Now, anyway, anything else you want to say
is in your basic hotel yodel book.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
MR. FLEECE: You are now official graduates of Professor Fleece's
basic hotel yodel class.
[CHEERING]
Yodel ay hee yodel ay hee yodel ay.
That means, congratulations.
Class dismissed.
FUNELLA: Oh, well done, everyone.
COOKIE MONSTER: Wait.
Oh.
Ah.
Oh, me remember question.
FURGUS: Ooh.
Yodel-odel-oo.
MR. DULL: Excuse me.
FURGUS: Yodel-odel-ay.
MR. DULL: Excuse me.
FURGUS: Oh.
Sorry, Mr. Dull, Harvey.
I didn't hear you.
I was yodeling.
Yodel-o-hee--
MR. DULL: Yes, yes, yes.
Have you ordered my tea?
FURGUS: Your what?
MR. DULL: My tea.
I ordered a cup of tea with milk and sugar and two biscuits.
FURGUS: Ah, yes.
I remember.
Only I don't know how to order tea in yodel.
Let's have a quick look in the book here.
CABBIE: Excuse me.
I'm sorry to bother you Mr. Fuzz,
but I am still waiting for room 97.
Apparently, somebody ordered a taxi.
FURGUS: Oh, that's right.
Let me just have a look in the book here for order a taxi.
Oh, yes.
Here we go.
Yodel-o-hoo-ha.
Oh, what did you think of that?
Pretty good, wouldn't you say?
YODELERS: Yodel-o-hoo-ha.
SHEEP 1: We heard your yodel.
Is the taxi for us?
FURGUS: Are you in room 97?
Oh, then it's not for you.
MR. DULL: Could you please order my tea?
FUNELLA: We just remembered room 24 wanted a wake-up call.
BOTH: Yodel-ay-hee-hee.
YODELERS: Yodel-ay-hee-hee.
Are you trying to wake us up?
FUNELLA: Are you in room 24?
Oh, then no.
We didn't mean you.
COOKIE MONSTER: Me forgot.
Is it yodel-odel-ee-nee.
ELMO: Uh, no.
No.
That's, me want stripey socks.
See?
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh, yeah.
ELMO: Me want cookie, is yodel-odel-om-nom-nom.
COOKIE MONSTER: Oh.
YODELERS: Yodel-odel-om-nom-nom.
SHEEP 1: Me want cookie?
SHEEP 2: We didn't order cookies.
ROOSTER: Has anyone seen a taxi?
I called for one two hours ago.
SHEEP 1: Have you tried, yodel-ay-hee-ho,
delay-hee-cha-cha-cha?
[YODELING IN BACKGROUND]
YODELERS: Yodel-ay-hee-ho, dealy-hee-cha-cha-cha.
FUNELLA: Oh, wait.
Stop, stop, stop.
Shush, shush.
Oh, Furgus, how do you yodel, please stop yodeling?
FURGUS: Oh.
Oh, here we are.
Yodel-odel-o-ho-hope.
[YODELING STOPS]
FUNELLA: Oh, thank you.
Oh, we seem to have a problem with our yodeling.
Can someone please explain why each time we
yodel everybody answers?
SHEEP 2: Because, my dear madam, we
don't know who you're yodeling to.
SHEEP 1: Your yodels are heard by everyone.
ALL: Oh.
FURGUS: So our phone's not working.
PHOEBE: And we can't use tin cans.
FUNELLA: And nobody knows who we're yodeling to.
FURGUS: Oh, this is a huge problem.
FUNELLA: This is a catastrophe.
[ISABEL DINGS]
ALL: [SINGING] It's more than just a slip-up or a mess-up
or a mishap.
A Furchester catastrophe, we need to fix it fast-rophe.
I'm [INAUDIBLE] in the past-rophe.
This simply cannot last-rophe.
A Furchester catastrophe, the problem is so bad-strophe.
We're really flabbergast-rophe.
And let's ring the bell for blast-rophe.
Catastrophe, catastrophe.
ELMO: [SINGING] What a disast-rophe.
ALL: [SINGING] Catastrophe, catastrophe, catastrophe.
What is it, a catastrophe?
It's a catastrophe, what a disaster, it's a catastrophe.
[HORN BLOWS]
FURGUS: So we have a catastrophe on our hands.
How are we going to communicate with the right guests?
FUNELLA: Let's put our furry heads together and think.
ELMO: Oh, right.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
FUNELLA: Oh, yes.
I know.
Let's learn all 923 room numbers in yodel.
FURGUS: That's a great idea.
If we work at it day and night, we'll have those numbers--
MR. DULL: Excuse me.
FURGUS: What, what?
MR. DULL: Excuse me.
Your phone's unplugged.
FURGUS: So that's what the problem was.
Oh, thank you.
MR. DULL: OK.
Problem solved.
Now, you can call any guest you like and you can order my tea.
ELMO: You mean Elmo doesn't get to yodel anymore?
PHOEBE: I really liked yodeling.
ELMO: Yeah.
FURGUS: Well, of course, you can yodel.
We can yodel over the phone.
Watch.
Right, I'll order your tea, Mr. Dull.
[CLEARS THROAT] Yodel-o-hee-hoo.
[GONG RINGS]
LULU: Ding.
BERRY: Dong.
[TEA TIME MONSTERS CHEER]
MR. DULL: I should have ordered the tea myself.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
[ISABEL DINGS]
FUNELLA: [SINGING] You really can't be going.
Oh, say, it isn't true.
BOTH: [SINGING] True, Furchester will never
be as furry without you.
BOTH: [SINGING] So--
BOTH: [SINGING] Don't check out.
BOTH: [SINGING] Please, please, please.
Please, don't go.
BOTH: [SINGING] Don't check out.
COOKIE MONSTER: [SINGING] Don't check out.
ALL: [SINGING] No, no, no, no.
Please, please, don't check out.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ALL: [SINGING] Farewell from the Furchester Hotel.