Yodel-ay-hee-hoo! The Furchester Hotel

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# 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

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# 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. #

One at a time, please. I can't deal with this.

-Taxi for room 97.

-OK, OK.

-Would you sign for this, please?

Oh, did you hear that, Furgus? Taxi for room 97.

Yeah, I got that, dear.

And I would like some tea, with milk and sugar.

Oh, and two biscuits.

Yes, Mr Dull.

Hello, is that room 97? Er, yes, your tea is here.

No, no. I ordered the tea.

Hello? Hello? Oh, fiddlesticks, this phone isn't working.

Oh, what a problem!

Oh, what am I going to do without a phone, Isabel?

I've got it! Hah! I can use the backup phone.

Phoebe! Elmo!

-Is that you, Elmo?

-Hello, Uncle Furgus.

This is Elmo on the backup phone.

Oh, tell Phoebe that there's a broccoli here for room 452.

Oh, OK. Phoebe, there's a carrot who wants to go to the zoo.

An elephant...has lost his shoe?

OK. Uncle Fergus, Uncle Fergus, there's an elephant on Phoebe's toe.

An elephant on her nose? What?

I am not an elephant! I am a broccoli!

I know, I'm sorry!

HE LAUGHS

Rather amusing to see you using such an old phone system.

Well, it's quite frustrating, actually.

-These cans don't really work.

-Then why don't you yodel instead?

It will help you solve your communication problem.

Ooh! Are you here for the yodelling convention?

Yes, I am. I and 27 other yodellers.

Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.

-ALL:

-Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.

-He-he! They yodelled back.

You see, where I come from, yodelling is a way to communicate.

It's how we talk to one another.

A yodel can be heard over mountains, or throughout a hotel.

Oh, right. So I just go yodel-lobal-lebby-lebby-libby?

No, no. Yodelling is an art. It must be taught.

Luckily, that is my job - yodel instructor.

Professor Fleece at your service.

Yodel-ay-hee-hoo.

-Good morning, Furchesters.

-ALL: Good morning, Professor Fleece.

-Welcome to yodel class.

-THEY ALL CHEER

Thank you. I will now introduce you to some basic hotel yodel.

-ALL: Ooh!

-That's exciting.

-HE SHOUTS:

-Sorry me late. Sorry.

-ALL: Sshhh!

-QUIETLY:

-Sorry.

-HE SHOUTS:

-Oh, is this me chair?

-Sshhh!

-Sorry, sshhh. Sshhh.

Yodel-ay-yodel-ay, yodel-hoo-hoo-hoo.

That means your taxi's here. Now, you try.

THEY ALL YODEL BADLY

No, no. You're all yodelling at once.

Let's try practising another way.

-Sure.

-Let's start at the beginning, shall we?

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

TRUMPET FANFARE

-# It all starts with a yodel

-ALL: Yodel

-# And then you add an ay-hee-hoo

-Ay-he-hoo

# Now put it all together and that's how you say hello

-# Yodel-ay-hee-hoo, yodel-ay-hee-hoo

-# And don't forget the hee-hoo

# Yodel-ay-hee-hoo, yodel-ay-hee-hoo That's how you say hello

-# Yodel-ay-hee-hoo, yodel-ay-hee-hoo

-And don't forget the hee-hoo

# Yodel-ay-hee-hoo, yodel-ay-hee-hoo That's how you say hello. #

-Yay!

-Oh, that was wonderful.

-Bravo! I think you've got it.

-Whoo-hoo!

Oh-oh-oh, me got question, me got question.

Er, yes, Cookie Monster?

Oh, yeah, it actually more a statement. That terrific bow tie!

Er, thank you, Cookie Monster. Look, anyway, anything else

-you want to say is in your basic hotel yodel book.

-Oh, wonderful.

You are now official graduates of Professor Fleece's

Basic Hotel Yodel Class.

-Yay!

-Oh, that's wonderful.

-Yodel-ay-yodel-ay-yodel-ayyy.

-That means congratulations.

-Yay!

-Well done, everyone.

Oh, me remember question.

-Ooh. yodel-yodel-ooh.

-Excuse me, excuse me.

Oh, sorry, Mr Dull... Harvey. I didn't hear you, I was yodelling.

-Yodel-oh-hee...

-Yes, yes, have you ordered my tea?

-Your what?

-My tea!

I ordered a cup of tea with milk and sugar, and two biscuits.

Ah, yes, I remember. Only I don't know how to order tea in yodel.

-Let's have a quick look in the book.

-Excuse me.

I'm sorry to bother you, Mr Fuzz, but I am still waiting for room 97.

-Apparently somebody ordered a taxi.

-Oh, that's right. Let me just look

in the book here for ordering a taxi... Er, yes, here we go.

Yodel-lo-hoo-haa.

What did you think of that? Pretty good, wouldn't you say?

ALL: Yodel-lo-hoo-haa.

-We heard your yodel.

-Is the taxi for us?

Are you in room 97?

Oh, then it's not for you.

-Could you please order my tea?

-We just remembered room 24

-wanted a wake-up call. BOTH:

-Yodel-ay-hee-hee.

-ALL:

-Yodel-ay-hee-hee.

-Are you trying to wake us up?

-Are you in room 24?

Oh, then, no.

We didn't mean you.

-Me forgot, is it yodel-odel-inny?

-No, that's me want stripy socks.

See? Me want cookie is yodel-lodel-num-num-num.

-Ooh.

-ALL: Yodel-num-num-num.

-Me want cookie?

-We didn't order cookies.

Has anyone seen a taxi? I called for one two hours ago.

Have you tried yodel-ay-he-ho de-lay-he-cha-cha-cha?

ALL: Yodel-ay-he-ho de-lay-he-cha-cha-cha.

Oh, wait, stop, stop, stop! Sh, sh.

Oh, Furgus, how do you yodel please stop yodelling?

Er, here we are, yodel-lodel-oh-hoo-haw.

Thank you! We seem to have a problem with our yodelling.

Can someone please explain why each time we yodel everybody answers?

Because, my dear madam, we don't know who you're yodelling to.

Your yodels are heard by everyone.

-Oh, so our phone's not working.

-And we can't use tin cans.

-And nobody knows who we're yodelling to.

-This is a huge problem.

This is a catastophe.

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 Furchster 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! #

So, we have a catastophe on our hands.

How are we going to communicate with the right guests?

Let's put our furry heads together and think.

CHATTER

Ooh! Yes, I know, let's learn

all 923 room numbers in yodel!

That's a great idea. If we work at it day and night,

-we'll have those numbers...

-Excuse me, excuse me...

your phone's unplugged.

So that's what the problem was. Thank you.

Problem solved. Now you can call any guest you like

AND you can order my tea!

You mean Elmo doesn't get to yodel anymore?

-I really liked yodelling.

-Of course you can yodel.

We can yodel over the phone. Watch. I'll order your tea, Mr Dull.

Yodel-oh-he-hoo.

GONG CRASHES

-DING!

-DONG!

-ALL CHEER AND SHOUT

I should have ordered the tea myself.

EXCITED CHATTER AND LAUGHING

BELL DINGS

# 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! #

ALL: Ugga-wugga tea time, ugga-wugga clink!

ALL: Ugga-wugga tea time, ugga-wugga drink!

# Farewell from The Furchester Hotel! #