Hot Sauce Rastamouse

# Zooba zooba zooba dan

# Zooba zooba zooba day

# Rastamouse and Scratchy and Zoomer

# Also known as the Easy Crew

# Crime fighters They're very special agents

# Playing reggae when the work is through

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for the Easy Crew

# Solvin' mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad thing good. #

-Woo hoo! Man, we on fire!

-Heh heh heh! True that!

You know it! Irie, man.

If there was a roof over the food festival,

when we play, we'd tear it right off!

Ah, me love the food festival!

Me love to see everyone dressin' up and showing out!

All the food! Especially Bandulu's Secret Hot Sauce.

Me not know how he make it.

Dat's because it's a secret, boy!

-But it's satis good!

-And him only make it for the festival.

That's why me gonna be first in the queue!

RADIO CRACKLES

Rastamouse, come in! Come in!

You reading me? Message from Wensley Dale.

Come to the orphanage immediately!

Dat sounds serious! Easy Crew, to the orphanage!

Hmm. Who's that there?

-Come on, Rastamouse!

-Oh.

-Ah! Easy Crew!

-Yo, Wensley Dale.

Oh, Rastamouse.

Me glad you come, cos Bandulu tryin' to cook a batch

of his special, spicy hot sauce from his trusty old recipe book.

Terrible news, the book was thieved! This is serious!

Cos the food festival won' be de same

without Bandulu's Secret Hot Sauce.

No hot sauce?! No way! Come on, inside, quick!

-Bandulu!

-Yo, Zoomer! Come try me hot sauce. Me know you love it!

Oh, yeah!

Urgh! That is dread!

Me know. It no good.

Me can't remember the ingredients with no recipe book.

-Tell me now, this recipe book, how it look?

-Well, it, um...

-really big and it full of recipes.

-Hmm.

And when you last see this big book, Bandulu?

Me laid it there, 'pon the windowsill.

-And me go to pick it up, it gone!

-Den me crew will take a look.

No fret now, Bandulu. We'll find your recipe book.

Thanks, Rastamouse.

-Hmm.

-Me think that Bandulu's book must have been thieved

-by someone who loves to cook!

-Or...

someone who love to read!

What you found? What is it?

-A bookmark!

-Oh.

-Check this! It's a recipe.

-It dropped out the book.

-The recipe for the hot sauce. Wicked!

-Nah, it's for Bandulu's Grandma's ginger cake.

-Ah!

Look over there! Me think me spot another clue!

Let's follow the trail. This way, crew.

Rapid!

-Ah!

-Oh!

-Me found a couple of pencils.

-Oh!

-Me found some more recipes.

-And Rastamouse have a bookmark.

Hmm. This is starting to add up.

-Hmm.

-Come on, Rastamouse.

Aha! Dere's another recipe!

And Dere's the recipe book! Ha ha!

Easy, now. Hold on while I call the Pres.

PHONE RINGS

Greetings.

Ah, Rastamouse. Wagwan? Mm-hm! Great!

Me come down to the pier,

so me can get the book to Bandulu, double-quick.

Irie, Wensley Dale. Me see you in just a second.

-Oh. Wait a minute. What's that?

-Eh?

-Me found some reading glasses.

-Oh!

Look! Dere's the thief! Check it out!

HE SNORES

-Yo, wake up! Me think you might have dropped a few things!

-Oh, thanks.

No, me can't see too well with no glasses.

-And did you drop these? This bookmark?

-And these pencils?

Must be a hole in me pocket.

And me got something else you lost, these pages an' ting!

Me think they drop out of your book, there.

Yeah, that RECIPE book.

-Where did you get a book like that, boy?

-Me find it 'pon a windowsill.

Me borrow it for a lickle while. Me love to read

but me read all me own books.

-Wow! Read ALL your books?

-Oh, yeah. That's right.

Me read them loads of times. So me know them inside out.

That's why me borrow this different one.

To see what it all about.

-What your name, boy?

-Me called Booker.

Booker, it's good you love to read.

Books can teach you 'nuff stuff.

But you must ask before you borrow them, or things will get rough.

True, that. You can't walk away with somebody else's book!

Bandulu's proper stressed! Him think him lost all his recipes!

I'm sorry. Next time, me ask before me borrow.

That sounds like Wensley Dale, to collect the book.

Sound like him in 'nuff hurry!

-Uh oh!

-Him not see us and drive straight past!

-Watch out!

-Oh, no! The pages! No! Whoa! No, no, no.

-Oh, no!

Rastamouse, wagwan?

The good news is we got the book.

-The bad news is that all the pages are scattered all over.

-Huh?

Even the page with the Secret Hot Sauce?

Even the page with the Secret Hot Sauce.

Then we've got to find all of dem, and fast!

Oh, man, cool! There's another one!

Over here! Oh, is that...

Yes!

We have one, two, three...

There.

-Look, Zoomer!

-Ooh!

Yeah, thank you. There's one more.

Ugh.

-What looks like the last of the pages.

-Great! Well done!

Me know me could rely on you.

Now we just got to return the recipe book to Bandulu

so we can make him Secret Hot Sauce in time for the food festival!

Come now, there's not much time!

-Yo, Bandulu!

-Ah, Rastamouse! Da Easy Crew!

-Bandulu.

-Mr President! Wagwan?

Oh, me sorry me took your book, Mr Bandulu. Me just love to read.

What? No way! All the pages are in the wrong order!

This has serious implications for me Secret Hot Sauce.

The order of the ingredients is crucial!

-Booker, you read the recipe book right through?

-That's right.

-Can you remember how it go?

-Me think so.

Then make a bad ting good, Booker.

See if you can put all the pages back in the right order.

Me give it a go. Me do me best.

Hurry! Not much time before the festival.

And it not be the same without the hot sauce!

Me think me got it sorted, except there's still one page missing.

Oh, no! Er...

ZOOMER LAUGHS

What is it, Zoomer?

THEY ALL LAUGH

-What's so funny? Why you be laughing? This serious.

-Irie, man.

-Haha! Check out your tail!

-What?

Oh! Hahaha! Me see. Very funny.

Oh! The final page! Finally, me can make me Secret Hot Sauce.

Hahaha! Irie, man. Ha!

Yo, Bandulu. The food festival be cookin'!

Me know! And me make a whole heap of me Secret Hot Sauce

and it well popular.

True, that. Me can't wait to try it.

-But first, me have to speak to this boy, Booker.

-What's up, Rastamouse?

Me talk to the Pres and we come up with a crucial plan,

so you can get to read more books.

What is it?

Them orphans have a shelf full of books and me know what them need.

Booker, you is the ideal person to teach all them lickle ones to read.

Rastamouse, that sounds wicked! Oh, me love that!

Irie, Zoomer, are you ready to jam?

Oh! Me just about to get me sauce!

It's time Da Easy Crew get this food festival bubblin'!

-BOOKER:

-"..and them all live together,

"'pon the beach, in the sunshine,

"happily ever after."

Me love that story. It well good.

-Man, that Booker, him love to read!

-That's right!

-Him can't get enough of them books!

-Ah!

Me think me eat enough of Bandulu's Secret Hot Sauce last night.

Ooh!

But me still love it!

Hee hee hee!

RADIO CRACKLES

Easy Crew, come in! Come in! Are you reading me?

Message from President Wensley Dale. Listen up, you three.

Rastamouse, come in! Come in! That was a really hot plan.

Just like Bandulu's Secret Sauce.

Thanks! Me love that! Irie, man!

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for the Easy Crew... #

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