I'm Rabbit, I'm Rabbit

## **Plot:**

Rabbit and the others start to hear their echoes for the first time.

## **Transcript:**

**Mouse:** Have you ever been really, really sure of something...

Woohoo! Oof!

... and then found out that things weren't the way they seemed?

That's what happened to my friend, Rabbit and me today.

We thought we were meeting some new friends, but things turned out differently.

**Rabbit:** Hoppity hop-hop! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

Hoppity?! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

Hop-hop! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

Huh?

Hello! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

I'm Rabbit! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

A new friend... named, Rabbit?!

I've gotta go tell Mouse about this!

**Thunder:** Hey!

**Mouse:** Yippee!

**Rabbit:** Mouse! Thunder! I met a new friend.

Guess what his name is?!

**Thunder:** I can do guessing.

Uh, Buttercup?

**Rabbit:** Nope.

**Mouse:** Rainbow?

**Rabbit:** No.

**Thunder:** Clover? Happy?

Sunny?

**Rabbit:** Nope. Nope. Nope.

Guess again!

**Mouse:** Rabbit!

**Rabbit:** That's it!

**Mouse:** What?

**Rabbit:** My new friend's name is Rabbit!

**Mouse:** Whistling whiskers!

That's your name.

**Thunder:** Yeah!

**Rabbit:** I know!

Isn't that carrotastic?

Come on!

You can meet him.

**Mouse:** Wow!

Look at this big valley.

**Rabbit:** I just discovered it.

My new friend lives here.

Hi, Rabbit! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

**Thunder:** Wow!

Two rabbits?

**Mouse:** Hello?!

I'm Mouse! (Mouse's voice repeating)

**Rabbit:** Great rolling rutabagas!

Another new friend and his name is, Mouse!

**Thunder:** I'm Thunder! (Thunder's voice repeating)

Ooh!

Toot my horn!

A new Thunder!

I can't wait to meet these guys!

**Mouse:** I'll say, "Hi, Mouse! I'm Mouse! Pleased to meet you... Mouse."

**Rabbit:** Ooh, one little problem.

Where are they?

**Mouse:** They must be around here somewhere.

**Rabbit:** Hmm...

**Thunder:** No.

**Mouse:** I can't find them anywhere!

**Thunder:** Me neither.

**Rabbit:** This calls for a hop-think.

Why can't we find our new friends?

**Thunder:** Maybe they're so teeny-tiny, we can't see them.

**Rabbit:** Maybe they're invisible!

**Mouse:** Maybe they're playing "hide and seek" and they're really good hiders.

**Thunder:** If only we could ask them.

**Rabbit:** Thumpeka!

That's it!

We'll ask them!

Are you invisible? (Rabbit's voice repeating)

No, we're not. (Rabbit's voice repeating)

**Thunder:** Are you hiding? (Thunder's voice repeating)

Us hiding?

We're not hiding! (Thunder's voice repeating)

**Rabbit:** We can't find you! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

**Mouse:** Wondering whiskers!

Our new friends not only have the same names as us and sound like us, they seem to say the same things as us!

**Rabbit:** And they can't find us and we can't find them.

We need, Hazel.

She's the best finder there is.

Hey, everyone!

Guess what?

We just met three new friends!

**Thunder:** And they have the same names as us!

**Mouse:** Only problem is, we can't find them.

**Hazel:** Ooh!

That's a job for me!

I'm so good at finding things.

I've found acorns, artichokes, all kinds of nuts, and Jasper's lost fishing stick.

I'm sure I can find your new friends.

**Edwina:** Let's go!

**Hazel:** Quaking acorns!

Look at this place!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** How pretty! (Gibble Goose Girls' voice repeating)

**Pearl:** I think they mean us!

**Amber:** We are pretty!

**Coral:** Lovely!

**Jade:** Very good-looking!

I'm Jade! (Jade's voice repeating)

**Amber,** **Coral** **and** **Pearl:** I'm Amber! I'm Coral! I'm Pearl! (Amber, Coral and Pearl's voice repeating)

**Edwina:** I'm Edwina! (Edwina's voice repeating)

**Hazel:** I'm Hazel. (Hazel's voice repeating)

Isn't it interesting that our new friends sound just like us!

**Mouse:** And have the same names!

**Edwina:** And say the same things!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** We want to meet them.

**Hazel:** Their voices are coming from the other side of the ravine.

Follow me!

I can see everything from up here.

**Mouse:** I wonder where they are?

**Thunder:** What will they look like?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** I'll bet they're pretty!

**Hazel:** Nope.

Sorry.

Can't see anyone.

It's a puzzle.

**Rabbit:** Where could they be?

We know they're not invisible.

**Thunder:** Or hiding.

They said so.

**Hazel:** Maybe they just don't want to come out and play.

**Amber:** Let's convince them.

**Pearl:** Great idea!

**Jade:** But how?

**Rabbit:** How can we get our new friends to come out and play?

We better hop-think on this.

I'll bet our new friend Rabbit likes games.

Like "Follow the flower", or "Mushroom in the middle", or "Stump jump"!

**Mouse:** It has to be a game everyone likes.

**Edwina:** Oh, I know!

Play them all!

**Jade:** And our new friends, Amber, Jade, Pearl and Coral can all sing with us!

**Coral:** We'll sound twice as good.

**Thunder:** Ooh!

Thunder might wanna do a thumpa thumpa dance with me.

**Hazel:** And then we can all have some nut mash.

I just know Hazel will love nut mash!

**Edwina:** Yay! Like a party!

**Rabbit:** Thumpeka!

That's it!

We'll throw a party and invite our new friends.

**Everyone:** Yeah! Great idea! Yay!

**Thunder:** It's gonna be fun!

**Hazel:** Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

**Rabbit:** Let's do it!

**Edwina:** I love parties!

**Pearl:** Come on!

**Jade:** It's a blast!

**Rabbit:** Come to our party! Over here! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

They're having a party, too, and we're invited!

They must be on the other side!

Let's go!

**Thunder:** They're not here.

**Rabbit:** Where are you? (Rabbit's voice repeating)

We're over here! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

Thumpeka!

They must've gone to our party!

Quick!

We have to get back before they leave!

**Edwina:** We're here!

**Hazel:** But they aren't!

I don't think they're anywhere!

**Edwina:** Then who are we hearing?

**Thunder:** Sounds like our own voices, but... but how?

**Mouse:** Hmmm...

Maybe our voices bounce back to us.

Do voices bounce?

**Hazel:** Well, bouncing voices or not, our new friends are harder to find than a whisker in a field of grass.

**Rabbit:** Hm, when we go to their side, they go to our side.

**Mouse:** And when we go to our side, they go to their side.

**Thunder:** Maybe we shouldn't go to anyone's side.

**Rabbit:** That's it!

We'll meet in the middle.

**All:** Yay! Yeah! Great idea!

**Rabbit:** Let's meet in the middle! (Rabbit's voice repeating)

Let's go!

**Mouse:** OK, now we're in the middle.

**Rabbit:** But, where are they?

**Jasper:** I'm right here.

**Rabbit:** Jasper!

Have you seen, Rabbit?

**Jasper:** Right in front of me.

**Rabbit:** Where? Where?

**Thunder:** Is Thunder purple?

**Jasper:** It sure looks like it.

**Pearl:** What about, Pearl?

Have you seen her?

**Amber:** Or, Amber?

**Coral:** Or, Coral?

**Jade:** Or, Jade?

**Jasper:** You mean the four cute little geese?

I'm looking at them.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Where?

**Edwina:** Is Edwina an elephant?

**Hazel:** Does Hazel's tail twitch?

**Jasper:** Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Why are you looking for yourselves?

**Rabbit:** We're not looking for ourselves.

We're looking for our new friends.

**Mouse:** They have the same names as us and they sound like us and they even say the same things we do.

**Rabbit:** But we can't find them.

**Jasper:** So they sound just like you and they say the same things?

**Mouse:** Exactly the same!

**Jasper:** I think I know something about this.

Come with me.

Watch this.

Hello! (Jasper's voice repeating)

I'm Jasper! (Jasper's voice repeating)

**Rabbit:** You see?

You have a new friend, too!

**Jasper:** No. That's my voice bouncing off the other side of the ravine.

Voices can bounce; like this.

Sounds can hit something, like the acorn hit the tree, and then bounce back.

That's what we call an echo!

It can happen in other places, too; like a cave.

**Rabbit:** So voices do bounce?

**Mouse:** Our new friends had the same names as us and sounded like us and said the same things as us because they were us!

**Rabbit:** Mouse is right. (Rabbit's voice repeating)

It was an echo. (Rabbit's voice repeating)

Echo. (Rabbit's voice repeating)

**Hazel:** Echo! (Hazel's voice repeating)

**Mouse:** We might not have found new friends, but we did find out about echoes and how much fun they are.

And we ended up having a great party with all our old friends.

Oh!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** ["Row-row-row your boat"] La, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la!