Repetitive Welcoming Injury The Furchester Hotel

BELL DINGS

# 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

-So genteel

# Cookie come with every meal

# La 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.

We welcome you with furry arms.

Poor Mum, she's been welcoming guests nonstop all morning.

She must need a rest.

But Auntie Funella loves welcoming the guests.

True, but I think Phoebe's right. You should take a break, dear.

I can't take a break. Look at all the guests waiting to be welcomed.

Mrs Fluffington, we welcome you with furry arms.

-We'll show you to your room, Mrs Fluffington.

-Yeah, right this way.

Cluckingstock Jr and Miss Cluckingstock.

We welcome you both...

with furry arms. ARMS POP

Oh, dear. Are you all right, Funella, dearest?

Oh, I'm sure it's nothing.

My arms just seem to be a bit stuck.

My hat!

Oh, dear, I'm so sorry, Mr Dull.

-Stuck?

-Don't worry, I'm fine.

Here I go. Fine, fine, fine, I'll just go in here and...

Ha-ha!

No, fine, I'll... Everything's fine. I'm fine, fine, fine.

Oh, my dear, oh, let me come round here and see if I can do something.

Oh, no. I tell you what, just to be on the safe side, I'd call a doctor.

Is there a monster doctor in the house?

-I'm a monster doctor, my name is Dr Repeat-That.

-Repeat-That?

I said, I'm a monster doctor, my name is Dr Repeat-That.

What seems to be the problem?

Well, I've been welcoming a lot of guests with my furry arms

and now my arms are stuck and won't go down.

Hmm. Was the welcome like this...?

"We welcome you with furry arms."

-Yes.

-Hmm.

I think what we have here is a repetitive welcoming injury.

Oh. A repetitive welcoming injury,

Dr Repeat-That?

I said, a repetitive welcoming injury

from welcoming too many guests.

-Oh, my poor dear.

-Mum.

-Oh, no.

Wait. What does repetitive mean?

Repetitive means when you do something again and again and again.

Yes, and Funella's been welcoming guests again and again and again.

Don't worry, Ms Furchester, I'm fully trained.

I know how to make you all better. Just warm my hands.

And I'll just need to press your nose.

Oh!

THEY CHEER

Auntie Funella's OK again. Good as new. Problem solved.

But if you don't want your arms

to get stuck like this again,

you must not welcome guests with furry arms like this

again for a whole day.

A whole day? But... I... Oh, my.

Good luck.

No welcoming anyone with furry arms for a whole day?

This is a huge problem. The guests will feel so unwelcome.

It's a catastrophe.

BELL DINGS

# It's more than just a slip-up or a mess-up or a mishap

# A Furchester catastrophe We need to fix it fast-rophe

# Put it in the past-rophe This simply can not last-rophe

# A Furchester catastrophe The problem is so bad-strophe

# We're really flabbergast-rophe Let's ding the bell for blast-trophe

-# Catastrophe, catastrophe

-What a disas-trophe

-# Catastrophe, catastrophe

-We need to fix it fast-trophe

-# Catastrophe, catastrophe

-Let's put it in the past-trophe

# It's a catastra... What a disaster It's a catastrophe! #

Well, what are we going to do?

I have to welcome our guests with furry arms.

What if Dad welcomed the guests with furry arms today?

-Oh, yeah, Uncle Fergus can do it.

-Er, no, I don't know if I can.

Yes, his arms are more fuzzy than furry, dear.

Yeah, but Elmo doesn't want Auntie Funella's arms to get stuck again.

I suppose it might work. BELL DINGS

-Oh, try welcoming this guest, dear.

-Well, if you're sure.

-Oh, here we go.

-HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

Hello, Mr Quackenstaff, we welcome you with flappy wings.

No, flappy arms. No, furry wings. Oh, no.

Oh, calm down, dear.

Take a deep breath and try to focus. It's furry arms, remember?

-Oh, yes, right, here we go.

-GONG BANGS

THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER

I can't see anything, I can't... Where are you?

Oh, no.

I'm afraid I can't welcome guests the way you can, dear.

But I can't leave a guest unwelcomed.

What Fergus meant to say is, we welcome you...

-No!

-..with furry arms. ARMS POP

Oh!

-Mom!

-Oh, dearest one.

-Auntie Funella!

Easy does it, easy does it.

Let me try pressing your nose.

Oh!

-Oh, it worked.

-Well, thank you, Phoebe, my love.

Now, Funella, remember what the doctor said.

-No welcoming guests with furry arms today.

-This is a problem.

Oh, me got idea.

When me want to stop meself from eating cookie,

-me think of something else.

-Good idea, Cookie Monster.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So me think of something

that not delicious, not juicy, not yummy.

Not like big, yummy, chewy

chocolate chip cookies. Cookies!

Om-nom-nom.

Well, it not always work.

Oh. What if I'm like Cookie Monster?

What if I can't stop myself welcoming guests?

I'll be stuck with my arms out forever.

Well, I'm sure we can solve this problem, my love.

We just need to put our furry heads together and think.

THEY CHATTER

Oh, Mum, you could try repeating to yourself,

-"I must not welcome guests with my furry arms today."

-Oh, you know?

That might keep me from welcoming.

I must not welcome guests with my furry arms today.

ALL: I must not welcome guests with my furry arms today.

BELL DINGS

Oh, here's your chance, dear. Good luck.

..guest with my furry arms today.

I must not welcome... Hello, Mr Cuddlesworth.

I'm afraid I must not welcome guests with my furry arms today

but you are very welcome at the Furchester hotel.

Oh, no problem, Ms Furchester.

When you're as cuddly as I am,

you've got enough furry arms to last a lifetime.

Oh.

-Oh, Auntie Funella did it.

-Yes! I controlled myself.

-Go, Mum!

-DING!

-Oh, here comes another guest.

-Oh, yeah.

I must not welcome guests with my furry arms today.

Hello, madam.

You must be Ms Florette.

You are very welcome to the Furchester Hotel

-but I'm afraid I must not welcome guests with my furry arms today.

-Oh?

Oh, dear, that is a shame.

You see, my great-great-grandfather,

Ebenezer Florette III,

always spoke of the marvellous Furchester welcome.

I mean, if it was any other day...

(I must not welcome guests with my furry arms today.)

-I must not welcome...

-I brought the family!

The little Florettes, they're outside now

waiting to be welcomed with furry arms.

I have to do the welcome. I can't disappoint these vegetables.

No, Auntie Funella will get her arms stuck again.

If only you could somehow welcome everyone with furry arms

-without using your furry arms.

-But how?

Fuzzawubba! That gives me a monster idea.

-Elmo and I can be your furry arms.

-What?

-We can?

-One second, Ms Florette.

-SHE WHISPERS

-Ah! Auntie Funella.

-HE WHISPERS

Oh, yes!

Ms Florette, welcome to the Furchester hotel.

We welcome you with furry arms.

Wow, great-great-grandpa Ebenezer was right, I feel so welcome.

# 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 Please don't go

-# Don't check out

-Don't check out

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

THEY CHANT

# Farewell from The Furchester Hotel! #