Frankenstump Endangered Species

# Let's go on an adventure

# That isn't a very wise

# Ha-ha-ha, I love you guys...#

Whaa!

Ah!

# This is getting crazier

# Feels like we're endangered

# Specie-e-s. #

What is this?

She is not straight?

Adios, rebel of the rose bush.

There, now she's perfecto.

Ah, the garden, so straight, so organised.

Just as nature, she intended.

Uh-huh, looks natural to me.

HE WHISTLES A TUNE

Uno segundo.

A weed. Not on my watch.

Ah! No, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no!

Oh, what is this you do, Gull?,

Uh, me?

Well, I'm just helping these cute,

little, itty-bitty, fuzzy flowers grow.

Achoo!

They are the weeds.

Uh, weeds?

Well, listen. I may not know those fancy flower names like that,

but I sure can grow them.

See, watch.

My garden! She is covered with the weeds and the wildness.

Isn't it beautiful?

This super fertiliser, where did you get this, yes?

Oh, Pickle made it, with her special manure factory.

BELL RINGING

-SCREAMING

-Eh? Eeee!

Don't get your fur in a frizzle, Merl.

That fertiliser's an old family recipe. Perfectly safe.

Safe?

But it comes from the poo-poo.

Carrots, that's the main ingredient.

Rabbits eat carrots and then process this into manure,

which goes into the garden to grow more carrots.

Pretty potent stuff, right?

Yes, but the power, it must be used for the good, not for the weeds.

Shh. Merl, that's all Gull knows how to grow.

So please don't hurt his feelings,

He loves his "flowers".

# Lum-de-dum-de-dum

# I love my flowers

# Lum-a-de-dum-de-dum

# I love my flowers... #

OK, do not do the worry.

I am the Senor Sensitivity, yes?

Gull, your weeds, they are so...

pretty?

And...invasive?

Oh, thanks Merl. I picked you a bunch.

Yes, that is a lot of the weeds.

Do you think I may have some of the amazing fertiliser too?

Gracias.

I must stop the weeds.

And to do this I must hide el fertiliser supremo from the Gull.

To the el weeds gigante I say...

adios.

Ah-ha!

Hya! Hya!

Hya!

Hya! Hya!

Ah, finito.

Nature, she is straight and all natural again.

Oh.

Ah, the kitchen.

So clean, so organised.

Untouched by...

the nature.

I cannot even look at another weed.

HE YAWNS

Hmmm. Maple walnut pancakes

and cappuccino.

Ah, Si, syrup, gracias.

Ah! The weeds, in the kitchen!

Ah!

Ah-aa-aa!

-Ah!

-Oh-oo-oo!

You know, I always thought gardening was sort of boring,

but this jungle room is totally wild!

The outside, she has come in the inside!

Yeah, now we don't have to go outside to play outside.

Woo-hoo!

No, I will not stand for this.

The outside plants on the inside, they must go.

Mmm, cookies.

Oh, and milk too, yes? Gracias.

Now, the branches, here, there and everywhere.

They are good for nothing, yes?

But we didn't plant them, Merl. You took all my fertiliser yesterday.

Yeah, do you know how long it takes to make a barrel of that stuff?

How many carrots I got to eat?

Oh, fuel for the factory.

Do not worry, mi amigo de la manure.

Your precious work is safely stored in the garden shed.

You mean the shed that's part of our stump?

Oh, you dropped the droppings, Merl.

The fertiliser, it did this?

Yuppers, and these ain't weeds.

It's our stump, it's growing!

Woo-hoo. Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!

Up high, down low, too slow. Whoo!

Oh, I'm going to grow a bigger bedroom.

You could grow a whole new floor!

And here it comes now.

Hmm, we may need a little bit more fertiliser.

No, this stump, she does not need to grow.

Already she is out of control. Whoa!

-What is this?

-I think our stump's hungry.

But we're all out of your special poopiliser, Pickle.

PARP

Sorry.

Bueno, as long as there's no more fertiliser, this dump,

she cannot grow larger.

Ha-ha, my garden, she is safe.

Uh, Merl, now your garden...

What is this that is happening?

It's the stump.

Got a taste of the old super-poop,

and now it wants to grow, grow, grow!

It's taking nutrients from wherever can to keep growing.

The monster weed, it will eat everything in sight.

I must stop her now.

Hold on there, Merl. Now that the stump's living again,

it's not just our home, it's part of our family.

Oh, I love our new monster weed family stump of a home.

Yeah, look at this.

She loves us too.

You can't just snip her down, Merl.

Hmm, perhaps you are right. I cannot snip her.

I saw her instead.

BOTH: Ah!

-Ah!

-Too late, Merl.

We chained ourselves to our tree.

Yeah, so you can't cut it down.

RUMBLING

-There's not much we can do chained up to this tree.

-Hmm,

maybe we should have thought this whole chain thing through.

BOTH: Merl!

This tree may be a monster, Merl, but please don't cut it down.

Yeah, you made it come to alive, Merl.

It's like...like you're it's...

...it's mummy.

I am not the mummy of the monster weed gigante.

It must be stopped.

It's eating everything in sight!

Whoa!

Enough, super weed of the stump.

I destroy you now, before you destroy the world.

Ah!

Come on already, not again.

IT WHISTLES

Fine, you try.

Why, thank you, again.

It's not just our home, it's part of our family.

-ECHOES:

-Family. Family.

HE LAUGHS

Maybe you are not the monster,

maybe you are...you are my home.

What is this?

You...

You, my home?

You love me, and I...

I...

I love you too.

Oh, live free, mi amigo.

What is this that is happening? RUMBLING

Why the shaking, yes? I will not do the cutting down of you.

Superstump can't survive without more to eat.

The whole thing's coming down.

Help, Merl!

But the stump, she saved our lives.

Well, of course she did.

That's what fambilies do.

Now give me a hug, you big old monster-home tree.

Come on, kids, we're moving in.

Hey, you, get off my lawn.

Hmm, I didn't know you liked growing vegetables, Merl.

I thought you're more of a flower kind of fella.

If we ever want to live in this stump again, we will need manure.

Lots and lots of manure.

Oh, I think my favourite show's on TV.

No, that's just my eyelids blinking.

Oh, a rerun! I love this episode.

Pickle, I have the carrots for you.

Super fertiliser, yes? Knocky-knocky.

Hey, a little privacy, please.

The factory's working overtime here!