Hot Hot Hot Rastamouse

# Zooba dooba dooba dang

# Zooba dooba dooba deng

# Rastamouse and Scratchy and Zoomer

# Also known as da Easy Crew

# Crimefighters, they're very special agents

# Playing reggae when the work is through

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for da Easy Crew

# Solving mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad thing good. #

Zoomer, what's going on?

You skipped a beat and I lost my place in the tune.

I'm sorry, Scratchy.

I'm just not feeling it today.

Phew! It's too hot to jam.

Too hot to chill, even.

True, that.

Hey! Watch it with that! That is my best, best tune.

Easy, Scratchy. Zoomer's right. It's way too hot for this.

What are we going to do?

Quit the jam and go some place nice and cool.

-You got a place in mind, Rastamouse?

-You know that.

BOTH: Misty Falls!

SCRATCHY SIGHS

Phew!

-Rastamouse, what's going on?

-Yeah, what's this?

Why have we stopped? We were going to Misty Falls.

Scratchy, Zoomer, this IS Misty Falls.

I hardly recognised the place and skated right past.

BOTH: Man, that is dread!

-Where's all the water gone?

-I don't know.

It's a mystery, for real.

Then we rode all the way over here for nothing?

That's how it looks. What will we do?

Maybe we can find some other place to chill. Come on.

-Yo, Easy Crew.

-Yo, Missy.

-What's going on here?

-I'm waiting for ginger beer.

-You don't wait for ginger beer!

Not just any old ginger beer, Stylee's Ginger beer!

It's proper refreshing.

Wicked! I've got to get some of Stylee's Ginger Beer!

-Then wait in line, boy.

-Awww...

Oh, nearly there.

RADIO CRACKLES

Aww.

-RADIO:

-'Rastamouse, come in! Come in!

'Are you reading me?

'Message from Wensley Dale.

'Come immediately.'

Let's go, Easy Crew. Rapid!

-What about my ginger beer?

-We can come back later.

First, we've got to see President Wensley Dale.

Ah, Easy Crew. I'm so glad you've come.

Oh, I'm so hot and all in a sweat.

When I turned on the shower, I got a whole lot of nothing.

So, I went down to the kitchen and turned on the tap in the sink.

Nothing came out of there, either. I can't even fix up a drink.

TAP CLANKS AND GURGLES

You see? No water.

It's not only your water that stopped working

and I just can't understand why.

When we passed by Misty Falls,

the lagoon was all cracked up and dry.

And I got a call from the orphanage. The taps there have run dry, too.

Rastamouse, I need your help. I don't know what to do.

Don't worry yourself, Wensley Dale. Leave it to me and the Crew.

-We'll sort it out.

-Where are we going?

Can we get some ginger beer on the way?

-Ginger beer, you say?

-Trust me, you want some.

I remember the last time it was hot, hot, hot.

-There were record sales of ginger beer. They were off the scale!

-Hmm.

Easy Crew, to the orphanage.

HE SNORES

Yo, Bandulu.

Oh! I'm just having a little break.

The President said you have a problem. What happened?

Ah, Rastamouse. It's too hot to cook.

I just sit down and I fall asleep.

-I meant about the taps.

-Oh, yeah. The taps. Check this out.

TAP GURGLES

No water.

Those pipes sound bone dry!

I'm sorry about your water, Bandulu.

Me and my Crew will find out what's going on.

Hey, Rastamouse. One more thing.

I'm supposed to restock the larder for the orphans today

and I can't get any limes or sugar from the store.

No limes and no sugar? Hmm.

That's right.

If you can find out where I can get some, be sure to let me know.

-Let's shift!

-Where are we going?

Come and follow me, Scratchy, and then you'll see.

Yo, Super. I hear you have no limes and no sugar.

That's right. Some mouse came buy and bought them all up!

Hmm.

-How did he look?

-He wore a big straw hat.

-A big straw hat?

-That's right.

-Hmm.

What about the Stylee's Ginger Beer?

You got any more of that?

I sold out of Stylee's Ginger Beer, brother. It's crazy popular today.

-Aw, man. That is dread!

-Come on, Zoomer. Thank, Super. Take it easy.

Here we are. Misty River Spring, it flows down to Misty Falls.

It's flowing strong, Rastamouse. Where's all that water going?

I don't know but we can find out.

-Follow the river and see where it goes.

-That's right.

-What's that, there?

-Someone's growing a lot of ginger.

-Ginger? That's ginger?

-That's right.

You use the root of the plant to make things taste all of ginger. Hmm.

Rastamouse, check it!

Someone's stopped the river from flowing to the falls.

-The water's flowing through this pipe.

-Rastamouse, what's going on?

-Hmm.

-Yo, Rastamouse. Come here.

-Look, a crate of limes, sacks of sugar.

-Hmm.

But who would be thieving all of that water?

I think I know and I think I know just how to find him.

PHONE RINGS

Greetings. Uh-huh. Ah, a surprise party? Tonight at Misty Falls?

For who? Ah, I see. That plan sounds proper, Rastamouse.

Yo, Super. There's going to be one slamming party at Misty Falls.

Tonight. Listen up.

SHE WHISPERS

Party jam at Misty Falls. Tonight. Shh!

Yo, Fats. Party, tonight.

-Party. Coming Rubba?

-No, yes.

-Good, see you there.

-Safe.

Phew! I'm glad the evening's come and it's not so hot, hot, hot.

I hear that. Phew!

Thanks for coming, Wensley Dale. You see? The lagoon's still dried out.

I see it. I still can't understand what's behind this drought.

If my plan's as good as I think it is, then soon it will all come clear.

I'm sure the one that took the water

has been making some boom ginger beer!

Now, let's hide.

Hurry up, Zoomer, before the thief shows his face.

What's up with this? Where's the party at?

Yo, Stylee.

ALL: SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

All right. Now, who wants Stylee's Ginger Beer?

Soon, Stylee. But first, you and me have to have a little chat.

-For real, your ginger beer is proper refreshing.

-Oh, I know that!

Everybody says that.

But you take all the river water, so there's nothing down here.

I needed all of that water for making my special ginger beer.

You're welcome to take a little water

but you can't be taking it all,

because no water for Misty River means no water for Misty Falls.

True, that. You know, Stylee, that's not the worst thing.

Those little oprhans don't have any water and they get proper thirsty.

I didn't mean to leave the little ones with no water. I'm sorry.

I'll think of some way to make it up.

I have a little idea. Stylee, you go on up the river bed

and get Misty River flowing back to Misty Falls and leave the rest to me.

Easy Crew, time to make a bad thing good.

Listen up, everybody,

Misty Falls is flowing again, you can see.

Someone wants to say something about that.

So, come on now, give it up for Stylee.

CROWD CHEERS

My dears, I'm sorry for taking all the water.

I know what I did wasn't fair.

Now, I take a little water to make my ginger beer

and I'll never take any more than my share.

To say that I'm proper sorry and to make everything all nice,

for every ten crates of ginger beer I make,

I'm going to give a crate to the little orphans mice.

CROWD CHEERS AND LAUGHS

Oh, thank you. Thank you, thank you.

Now, just enjoy the rest of this beautiful evening

and please make some noise for the Easy Crew!

# I want to drink a ginger beer

# It's too hot to jam and I think I want to chill, chill, chill

# I want a Stylee Ginger Beer. #

Man, I love this ginger beer.

Trust me, it's proper refreshing!

THEY LAUGH

RADIO CRACKLES

-RADIO:

-'Easy Crew, come in. Come in.

'Are you reading me? Message from Wensley Dale.

'Listen up, you three.

'Rastamouse, come in. Come in.

'That was a proper refreshing plan.

'Just like Stylee's Ginger Beer.'

Thanks! I love that. I'm the man.

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for da Easy Crew

# Solving mysteries... #

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