Sticky Situation

## **Plot:**

Rabbit and Mouse get their paws stuck on a stick which is covered with sticky pine sap.

## **Transcript:**

**Mouse:** Oh, hi!

Today, Rabbit and I got stuck on a problem.

Really stuck.

And it took a lot of working together to figure things out!

It all started when we were playing our favorite game...

**Rabbit:** Meesy, Mousey, Mohver, Mouse, hop over!

**Mouse:** Ribbity, rabbity, rover, Rabbit, hop over!

**Rabbit:** Meesy, Mousey, Mohver, Mouse, hop over.

**Mouse:** Whoa!

Aw, soggy salamanders, that's my best hopping pole!

**Rabbit:** Not to worry, Mouse.

We'll find it!

**Mouse:** It's got to be here somewhere.

**Rabbit:** Hmm...

Oh... Hmm...

Whoops.

Hey, there it is!

**Mouse:** Great!

**Rabbit:** I'll thump it down for you.

**Mouse:** Thanks, Rabbit.

Uh, you can let go now.

**Rabbit:** I can't!

I'm stuck to it!

**Mouse:** Me, too!

That tree put something sticky all over my hopping pole.

**Rabbit:** Ew...

Come on, let's go wash this stuff off at the pond!

**Mouse:** Whoa! Rabbit!

He always forgets how fast he is.

Aah! Stop!

Oh no!

Now I'm stuck to a stick and my feet are wet.

**Pearl:** Hi, guys.

**Coral:** Whatcha doing?

**Amber:** Why are you washing that stick?

**Jade:** Is it dirty?

**Rabbit:** It's the pole Mouse uses to play "hop over".

That's a game we invented.

**Mouse:** It got sticky goo on it from a funny tree.

Now we're stuck to it!

**Pearl:** A funny tree?

**Coral:** Uh-oh.

**Amber:** Did it have scaly bark...

**Jade:** And big leaves?

**Mouse:** Yes!

**Rabbit:** Uh-huh.

**Mouse:** How did you know?

**Pearl:** That's the sticky, icky tree.

**Amber:** Whenever it gets scratched, it oozes super, sticky, tree resin to heal itself.

**Coral:** Jasper uses it to fix his pondi-floater, 'cause it's waterproof.

**Jade:** That means, it won't wash off.

**Mouse:** Won't wash off?!

Then how can we get unstuck?!

**Rabbit:** Time for a hop-think!

The question is... how can we get unstuck from this stick?

**Jade:** I know!

Why don't you just pull it off, really fast?

**Rabbit:** But that'll rip out some fur!

**Mouse:** That sounds ouchy.

No way!

**Pearl:** What if you break the stick?

Then you wouldn't be stuck together.

**Mouse:** But it's my perfect, hopping pole!

**Rabbit:** And we'd still be attached to the broken ends.

**Coral:** Hmm... Hey!

Maybe we can use something to scrape off the goo.

Like... this old shell!

**Pearl, Amber and Jade:** Ooh!

**Rabbit:** Aww...

Aww...

**Coral:** Oops.

I decorated your pole by accident.

**Jade:** I still think you should rip it off.

**Rabbit:** Huh?!

**Jade:** Even if you do lose some fur.

**Pearl:** Unless you want to be stuck together forever.

**Mouse:** Together... forever?

Hmm...

I wonder what that would be like?

**Rabbit:** That sounds carrotastic!

We're together most of the time anyway.

**Mouse:** Just like you Gibble Goose Girls!

You always stick together, and you have lots of fun.

Right?

**Pearl:** That's true.

**Amber:** We're never lonely.

**Coral:** Or bored.

And if I get an itch...

**Jade:** I'm always there to scratch it.

**Rabbit:** Exactly!

It'll be easy.

**Jade:** Wait.

We didn't say it was easy.

**Mouse:** Then it's settled.

Rabbit and I will stay stuck together forever!

**Rabbit:** Woo-hoo!

**Mouse:** This is gonna be great!

**Rabbit:** And I know just what I want to do first; go swimming!

Come on.

**Mouse:** But wait!

I don't like to swim!

**Rabbit:** Oh. Right.

You don't.

**Mouse:** Does this mean I have to swim, even if I hate it?

**Rabbit:** Does it mean I can never go swimming again?

**Pearl:** You know, when we can't agree on the perfect thing to do...

**Coral:** We agree goosely instead!

**Amber:** That's when we find an answer that works for everyone.

**Jade:** Even if it's not perfect.

**Rabbit:** That makes sense!

**Mouse:** Hey! I have an idea!

**Rabbit:** This is a great, goosely agreement!

I can't swim too far, but at least I can cool off.

**Mouse:** And I get to stay dry!

Agh! Brrr! Mostly dry.

**Jade:** Look. Stuff is still getting stuck to your pole!

**Rabbit:** Oh, cabbage!

**Mouse:** Oh! Excuse me.

My tummy is growly.

Is anyone else hungry?

**Rabbit and Gibble Goose Girls:** Me!

**Rabbit:** Let's go see if the corn is ripe!

**Mouse:** Higher! Higher, Rabbit!

Got it!

Good news.

It is ripe!

**Rabbit:** Great!

Two should be enough.

**Pearl:** Mmm, yummy!

**Rabbit:** Be sure to get all the outsides off.

They stick in my teeth!

Mmm!

Hey!

**Mouse:** Hey!

**Rabbit:** Hmm?

**Mouse:** Eating together is going to be harder than I thought!

**Coral:** Mouse?

Why don't you and Rabbit try taking turns.

Like we do!

**Pearl:** Mmm!

Delicious!

Your turn!

**Rabbit:** Take turns!

We can do that.

**Mouse:** What if you eat when the corn goes that way, and I'll eat when it comes back this way.

**Rabbit:** OK! You go first.

Mmm!

**Mouse:** Taking turns really does help!

**Rabbit:** That was yummy.

I'm stuffed!

**Mouse:** What should we do now?

**Pearl:** We could play that game.

**Amber:** What game?

**Pearl:** The one they made up.

**Coral:** What was it called?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Hmm...

**Jade:** "Hop over"!

**Rabbit:** Oh, yeah!

We love "hop over"!

**Amber:** But we don't know how to play.

**Rabbit:** Not to worry.

We'll show ya, come on.

We can play in the meadow!

**Mouse:** Rabbit, watch out for the...

Aah!

... cornhusks.

OK, here's how you play.

One friend crouches down like this...

**Rabbit:** And the other one hops over.

It's really fun!

Watch!

**Mouse:** Ribbity, rabbity rover, Rabbit, hop over!

Whoa!

**Rabbit:** Oh, cabbage.

That never happened before.

**Mouse:** We weren't stuck to the pole before.

**Jade:** I don't think you're going to be able to play "hop over" anymore.

**Rabbit:** But it's our favorite game!

**Mouse:** This pole is turning into one sticky problem!

**Rabbit:** Unless... maybe the pole is not the problem.

**Mouse:** What do you mean?

**Rabbit:** Maybe we need a new game.

One where it's good to be stuck to a pole!

**Mouse:** You mean, we should make up a game that needs a pole?

That just might work!

**Rabbit:** OK, let's hop-think.

What kind of game can we play with this?

**Pearl:** Well, it has a pinecone...

**Coral:** And a shell...

**Amber:** And it's swishy...

**Jade:** But sticky, so we shouldn't touch it...

**Rabbit:** Thumpeka! I've got it!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Waddle, waddle, duck, duck!

Waddle, waddle, duck, duck!

Waddle, waddle, duck, duck!

**Rabbit:** I call... Pearl!

**Pearl:** Woo-hoo! Yay!

**Mouse:** Remember, when you go under the pole, don't touch it!

**Pearl:** OK, girls.

**Coral, Jade and Amber:** Waddle, waddle, duck, duck!

Waddle, waddle...

**Pearl:** Too easy.

Make it lower!

**Rabbit:** OK.

**Mouse:** Coral. Jade. Amber...

**Coral, Jade and Amber:** Waddle, waddle...

**Rabbit:** Alright!

Way to go!

Woo-hoo!

Hoptastic!

Mouse!

**Mouse:** Yippee!

**Rabbit:** Ow, ow, ow, ow! Stop!

It's twisting my paw!

**Mouse:** Sorry!

I almost forgot we were attached.

**Rabbit:** Me, too.

It seems like no matter how good we get at being stuck together, there are still things we can't do.

Like playing "hop over", and "duck and waddle".

**Mouse:** Yeah.

Maybe it's time to get ourselves off this pole.

**Rabbit:** But how are we gonna do that?

Our fur is really stuck!

**Jade:** You know how.

I already told you.

**Mouse:** You mean...

**Jade:** You're gonna have to rip the pole off your fur.

**Rabbit:** OK.

**Mouse:** Let's do it.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Yay! Woo-hoo!

**Jade:** On the count of three!

**All:** One, two, three!

**Rabbit and Mouse:** Oof!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Hooray!

**Rabbit:** Mouse! We did it!

**Mouse:** And it hardly hurt at all!

**Rabbit and Mouse:** Yay! Yeah!

Ow! Ooh!

**Mouse:** OK.

That hurt a little.

**Rabbit:** Come on, let's soak our paws until they feel better.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Yay!

**Mouse:** Being stuck to Rabbit was harder than I thought.

We had to agree goosely, take turns, and try a few goofy ideas.

And in the end, we still had to lose some fur!

But it's good to know that Rabbit and I can solve just about any problem.

As long as we stick to it!