Peckity Woodpecker The Furchester Hotel

# La-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la

# Welcome to The Furchester Hotel

# Your room is ready for you

# Just need to get the bed

-# The lamp, the desk, the rug, the sink

-A pillow for your head

# The hotel's run by monsters and staff beyond compare

# We've got the kind of service you won't find anywhere

-# So welcome

-To The Furchester

# La-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la

# Welcome!

ELMO GIGGLES

# To The Furchester

# La-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la. #

-Dining style.

-Such a deal.

-Cookie come with every meal.

# La-la-la la-la-la la-la-la-la

# Here's your keys So check right in Let your furry stay begin

# Welcome to The Furchester Hotel. #

We welcome you with furry arms.

-Thank you.

-Now, Mr Woodpecker.

Oh, please, not Mr. My friends call me L Wood.

Ah, L Wood.

I've put you in the Oak Room

because I know that birds are very fond of trees.

I hope you'll feel right at home.

Ah, and Elmo will help Mr L Wood with his bags.

Follow me, please.

Absolutely.

After you, Mr L Wood.

-I'm not sure. A little that way.

-Yes, that way.

Perfect.

I was delighted to learn, Mrs Ling,

that the Ding-a-Lings are performing here tonight.

Yes, our concert will be magnificent.

As long as Mr Ding shows up.

You see, his glockenspiel, it has arrived.

Bom-bom-bom-bom, whoa.

GLOCKENSPIEL PLAYS

But I have not yet heard from him.

And he's not always reliable.

He does not always show up.

TAPPING

What was that?

TAPPING

It sounds like someone is playing with a rattle.

-Yes, I'll go and check it out.

-Indeed.

Goodness me.

-Where's the noise coming from?

-Oh, you heard it, to?

I think it's somewhere on this floor.

TAPPING

-Try over there.

-Oh, yeah.

TAPPING

KNOCK KNOCK

Mr L Wood! I am so sorry to dist...

TAPPING STOPS

TAPPING BEGINS AGAIN

What on Earth has happened to our walls?

-Yeah, look at all the holes.

-I know.

Quite fantastic, don't you think?

I'm not sure Mr L Wood should be staying in the Oak Room.

But he's a bird and birds like trees.

I know but trees are made of wood.

And Mr L Wood is a woodpecker.

Woodpeckers like to peck wood.

Yes, we do. We love it. We could peck all day.

ALL: No, no, no, no!

Oh, I mean, I'm sure it's oodles of fun

but I have to tell you that pecking holes in wood is not allowed.

It's a very strict Furchester Hotel rule.

What? But why?

Because the hotel is made of wood.

If you peck holes everywhere, it'll ruin the hotel.

I don't want to ruin the hotel,

but this is a big problem for a woodpecker.

You see...

# I need to peck, peck, peck

# It's me, it's simply who I am

# Can you take chip from the Chipmunk?

# Can you take the baa from the lamb?

# It's unheard of, it's impossible

# My pecking is unstoppable

# For a peckity bird is who I am

# A peckity bird, a peckity bird, a peckity bird, a peckity bird

# I'd rather peck than fly

# A peckity bird, a peckity bird, a peckity bird, a peckity bird

# A peckity bird

# Am I. #

Elmo understands how Mr L Wood feels.

Maybe he could peck on something else.

Oh, but there must be something in this hotel that needs to be pecked.

Ooh! I've got it. Come with us.

All right.

Now, our latest delivery of cheese doesn't have any holes.

Perhaps you could pack some holes in it.

Ooh, I'm your bird, Miss Furchester.

Right, which one? This one?

On your marks.

Get set.

Peck!

Oh, we'll help you. Grab the cheese, Elmo.

Well, that didn't work. The cheese is much too soft.

What else do we have that needs pecking?

Oh, hello, birdy. These cookies need holes. Yes.

Me forgot to put in chocolate chippies, so you put in holes

and me put in chocolate chippies.

Excellent solution.

Cookies are much harder than cheese.

But no peck too hard, because me no want them to...

TAPPING

Break.

Oh, sorry, I don't know my own strength sometimes.

Oh, well.

Yum, yum, yum.

Ah. That's OK. Me go make more but this time, me no forget chips.

Bye-bye.

Cheese is too soft and cookies are too crumbly.

This is quite a problem.

Maybe I should just leave.

ALL: Leave?

Yes, I can go and find some tree in the park where I could stay.

We are not going to let you leave L Wood. We'll think of something.

A Furchester never gives up.

DING DING DING DING

# La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la, la!

# A Furchester never gives up, never gives up, never gives up

# A Furchester never gives up, we try our furry best

# Cos we are monsters through and through

# And so we do what monsters do

# We 'ug' and 'tuff' and 'uff' some more

# We 'umpf' even harder than before.

# A Furchester never gives up, never gives up, never gives up.

# A Furchester never gives up, we try our furry best

-# A Furchester never

-Never

# Well, hardly ever

# A Furchester never gives up! #

What is hard enough for L Wood to peck?

Let's put our furry heads together and think.

Excuse me.

Sorry to interrupt, but can I borrow a couple of furry heads

because I have an enormous problem to solve myself.

Elmo and I will help you, Dad.

-And we'll carry on here.

-OK.

-Oh, dear.

This is terrible. A nightmare.

Here is me. Here is my violin.

Here is a glockenspiel.

But do you see Mr Ding who is supposed to play the glockenspiel?

No, you do not. Because he is late.

Again.

Oh, but the concert's about to start and a lot of guests are coming.

Cluck, cluck, cluck.

Can anyone here play the glockenspiel?

-No.

-No.

No, but I can try.

Go, try. You just tap, tap, tap it as fast as you can.

GLOCKENSPIEL RINGS

These metal bars are really hard.

Hey. Fazza-wabba! That gives me a monster idea.

This could solve both our problems.

Welcome to the Ding-a-Lings in concert.

Tonight, a special treat.

Put your furry hands together for Mrs Ling on violin

and Mr L Wood on glockenspiel.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Wonderful, wonderful.

A woodpecker? I thought woodpeckers pecked wood.

Yes, well this woodpecker also pecks the glockenspiel.

Sh.

VIOLIN PLAYS

GLOCKENSPIEL PLAYS

GONG CRASHES

-Tea!

-Time!

SHOUTING

Sh.

GLOCKENSPIEL PLAYS

VIOLIN PLAYS

VIOLIN AND GLOCKENSPIEL TOGETHER

Yay!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

I'd like to give a very big thank you to all the Furchesters,

especially Phoebe Furchester-Fuzz.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

Well done, Phoebe.

DING DING DING DING

# You really can't be going Oh say it isn't true

# The Furchester will never be as furry without you

# So don't check out don't check out

# Please, please, please don't go

-# Don't check out

-Don't check out

# No no no no no no Please please don't check out! #

MONSTERS SHOUTING

# Farewell from The Furchester Hotel! #