You Can Be My Friend Charlie and Lola

CHARLIE AND LOLA LAUGH

Charlie!

Lola?

Charlie.

Ooh, ooh!

Charlie and Lola!

I have this little sister, Lola.

She's small and very funny.

Oh, I need my tea set.

Today, Lola is quite excited.

Because Marv is coming over, and Marv is bringing Morten.

Morten is Marv's little brother.

And Morten is nearly the same age as me.

He can be my friend who lives down the stairs.

Because, Charlie, you will have Marv, and I will have Morten.

LOLA LAUGHS

Marv's dad is taking me and Marv to the insect house.

Lola and Morten will stay at home with Mum.

Yes! We're going to play lots of games,

and do lots of things together.

Like...

Have a tea party. I love having tea parties.

Would you like another cup of tea?

Mmm, it's delicious.

Oh, I know, I know! Dressing up.

Everyone loves dressing up.

Ah ah ah!

Ha ha ha!

Pa pa pa pa! Pa pa pa paa!

And then, when we've done dressing up, we can do building.

With two of us, we could build something really, really big.

This way, Morten.

Thank you.

Sounds like you've got plenty to do.

Oh yes, Charlie, because all of these games are really good ones.

If you run out of things to do,

Morten's loves playing Round and Round.

Oh no! I really don't like Round and Round.

Because, you see, all you do is go round and round.

And then nothing happens.

LOLA YAWNS

It's just round and round, and then more round.

DOORBELL

They're here! Morten's here, Marv's here!

Mum! Morten's here.

Hello, Morten. I have thought of some really good games that we can play.

Oh, Morten.

Come on, Morten.

Do you want to know what they are?

Morten's not really a big talker. Are you, Morten?

Come on, Marv, we'd better go.

We're off to see the insects.

-And fur beetles.

-And millipedes, centipedes.

LOLA SIGHS AND POPS HER CHEEKS

Ooh, do you want to come and see my room?

This is my tea set, it's got a little jug and a teapot and a teacup,

and it even actually pours.

And the cups balance on the saucers.

And how many cups are there?

There are one, two, three, four - all with little handles.

Would you like a cup of tea?

Hmm.

Come on, Morten, you sit there and I'll pour you a cup of tea.

Ah, there you go. Would you like a biscuit?

Would you like another cup of tea?

Oh.

Well, what we'll do now is...

We can do dressing up!

Look at me, I'm a grand lady!

Clip clop, clip clop.

Now I'm a mermaid.

Miaow.

Miaow.

And you, Morten, you could be a pirate!

Oh.

I know, I know what we can do.

Building!

This, this is a good one.

This goes like this... oh no.

This bit here, there'll be one here, one there.

I know, you have these.

I'm building a tower. What are you building?

Oh, we could put that one here, on top of this one.

(SIGHS). Er, Morten, I'm just going to go to the kitchen and see Mum.

You can keep building.

Mum thinks it would be fun if we play something pretend.

Make something up. Let's pretend we live upside down!

Yes! You know, where everything is upside down.

And in upside down, absolutely everything is completely upside down!

Would you like a tea of cup?

That's upside down for "cup of tea"!

We can finish our tower upside down.

And I can bounce upside down, and my hat doesn't fall off!

Look! Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.

Morten! Don't you want to play?

Oh.

Oh. Oh! Tee hee hee!

< I wasn't scared - YOU were.

No I wasn't, I went right up to the glass.

And the spider was that far from my nose.

-More like this far!

-No it wasn't!

Have you had fun, Lola?

Um, not really.

I think I might go and get some pink milk.

-Oh.

-Oh.

What have you both been doing?

Not much.

Morten didn't like any of my games, Charlie.

Why do you say that?

Because he didn't like playing with my tea set,

or dressing up, or building, or playing upside down.

He didn't even talk to me.

Marv told you - Morten isn't really a big talker.

But he didn't say one single word, even!

He doesn't like me.

LOLA SIGHS AND BLOWS BUBBLES IN HER PINK MILK

MORTEN LAUGHS

LOLA BLOWS MORE BUBBLES AND MORTEN LAUGHS EVEN MORE

YOU do it!

LOLA LAUGHS

Now YOU do it!

I know, I know, we can do bubbles.

-Shall we go and ask Mum if we can play bubbles outside?

-Yes!

Ooh!

LOLA: What do you think it would be like to be inside a bubble?

MORTEN: Bubbly.

Ooh, ooh, I love being in a bubble!

I love being in a bubble too.

Hello.

CHARLIE: Lola, Morten. Lola.

Mum wants us home for tea.

MORTEN WHISPERS TO LOLA

Morten says he'd like to stay here, please.

-You could come too, if you want, Lola.

-OK!

Can I have half of your sausage?

Can I have half of YOUR sausage?

-There you are.

-Thank you.

Would you like to play a game?

-I would.

-It's a really good game.

What is it?

-It's really, really good.

-What is it?

Round and Round! And what you have to do is go round and round.

OK, I'll start.

Go on, Lola, it's really fun.

< Four!

OK, but only because he's my new, special friend from downstairs.

Your turn, Lola.

-What you do is...

-I know, you go round and round.

-And round!

-And round.