- "The plot thickens."
- —Hello Mother Goose
Hello Mother Goose is an episode of the television series Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater that is based on various nursery rhymes.
Story[]
Grinder Piper has misplaced his pickled peppers, and Little Catnip Muffet hasn't seen her tuffet all morning! Can Hello Mother Goose solve the mystery and help everyone live happily ever after?
Plot[]
Once upon a meow, in the magical land of Mother Goose, the day started out just like any other day. But today, strange things began to happen. When Sam Be Nimble, Sam Be Quick, went to jump over his candlestick, he discovered that the candle was missing. Then, Little Catnip Muffet went to sit on her tuffet, but it wasn't there. And that was just the beginning.
At the Mother Goose shoe house, Hello Mother Goose was responding to many calls needing her to figure out what happened, but it was far too many for her to solve. She finds it hard being Hello Mother Goose, but there's a job to be done, and heads off in her goose tri-bike.
Mother Goose meets up with Little Catnip Muffet about her missing tuffet problem.
Hello Mother Goose: Let me get this straight. Little Catnip Muffet, sat on the tuffet, eating her curds and whey.
Little Catnip Muffet: No. That's what I was supposed to do.
Hello Mother Goose: Let me get this down.
Little Catnip Muffet: No whey. No curds either. Someone stole my tuffet and I fell and spilled it.
Hello Mother Goose: Then along came a spider, and sat down beside her…
Spider: BOO! (laughs) …and frightened Little Catnip Muffet away.
Little Catnip Muffet: Get out of my curds and get out of my whey! (laughs maniacally) Get it?
The two begin arguing to each other as Mother Goose begins to check the case further. She tells her to sit tight as she begins to look for clues, much to Little Catnip Muffet's suspicion.
Mother Goose meets up with Sam Be Nimble about his missing candle problem.
Hello Mother Goose: Sam Be Nimble, Sam Be Quick…
Sam Be Nimble: …but Sam didn't jump over the candlestick.
Hello Mother Goose: And why? Because the candle is missing.
Sam Be Nimble: So I put it on top of a tuffet to make it taller.
She hands him a feather from her bike and tells him to stay nimble and jump over the feather on the candlestick for a while. She takes Little Catnip Muffet's tuffet, to which he replies that it's not his anyway. She begins to realize that these incidents may be related.
Mother Goose meets up with Old Grandma Kitty Hubbard about her missing bone problem.
Hello Mother Goose: Old Grandma Kitty Hubbard, you went to the cupboard to get your poor dog a bone?
Old Grandma Kitty Hubbard: But when I got there, the cupboard was bare, and so my poor dog had none.
She takes Sam Be Nimble's candle and asks her if she can borrow it, to which she replies to go ahead because she doesn't need it anymore. The pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place.
Mother Goose meets up with Grinder Piper about his missing pickled pepper problem.
Hello Mother Goose: Grinder Piper, I thought you would be picking a peck of pickled peppers.
Grinder Piper: Oh. How can Grinder Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers when there are no pickled peppers to pick?
She sees the empty patch and goes to investigate, as he tells them that his basket was taken too. Just earlier, Grinder Piper was there proudly picking pickled peppers from his pickled pepper patch, until a huge white fuzz went through and POOF! The piper was devastated. Mother Goose spots a piece of wool on the ground and feels bad about the poor pooch, but he tells her that he's okay since he found a bone to pick. It turns out to be Old Grandma Kitty Hubbard's bone for her dog, and the mystery begins to unravel.
Mother Goose meets up with Little Melody-Peep and wonders why she's sad.
Little Melody-Peep: (sobbing) I… I Little Melody-Peep, have lost my sheep, and don't know where to find them.
Hello Mother Goose: Leave them alone, and they'll come home wagging their tails behind them.
Little Melody-Peep explains to her that it's not what happened; they already came back with smoke coming out of their mouth, and drank all of the water and ran away. Melody-Peep tells her that all they left was none other than Grinder Piper's basket. Mother Goose asks her where they went, and Melody-Peep tells her that they went to the castle. Mother Goose tells her not to worry as she is hot on their trail, and heads off as poor Melody-Peep continues to cry of how she misses her sheep.
At the castle, Mother Goose meets up with Diddle Diddle Chip and the Fiddle and asks him if he has anything to tell him. He does indeed.
Diddle Diddle Chip: Last night, I was fiddling around in the moonlight, as usual, the cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laughed to see such sport.
Hello Mother Goose: And the dish ran away with the spoon?
Diddle Diddle Chip: No! That's what I'm trying to tell you. They never showed up!
Hello Mother Goose: Who?
Diddle Diddle Chip: The dish and the spoon!
She asks him where the king is, as he tells him that he's probably playing with his bubble pipe, listening to his fiddlers three in the throne room. She tells him not to give up hope as she's close to figuring this whole thing out.
At the castle's throne room, Grandpa Kitty Cole was blowing his bubble pipe, as he struggles to scoop up bubble mix from a dish and into the pipe. Mother Goose meets him.
Hello Mother Goose: Old Grandpa Kitty Cole, you're a merry old soul, and a merry old soul are thee.
Grandpa Kitty Cole: I used to be. Then I called for my pipe, and I called for my bowl.
Hello Mother Goose: But this isn't your bowl, your merryness.
Grandpa Kitty Cole: You got it Mother Goose.
Hello Mother Goose: So now you can't call for your fiddlers three.
Grandpa Kitty Cole: Right. That's why I'm not a merry old soul anymore. I want my bowl! I want it now!
Diddle Diddle Chip's dish and spoon walk to Mother Goose as she tells the king if she can keep them for evidence, to which the king lets her.
Mother Goose finally meets up with Queen Fangora of Hearts.
Hello Mother Goose: Queen Fangora of Hearts, you made some tarts, all on a summer's day?
Queen Fangora of Hearts: …and the Knave of Hearts who stole the tarts and took them away is on vacation.
Hello Mother Goose: Therefore, your prime suspect has an alibi.
Queen Fangora of Hearts: Right, it wasn't him, this time.
Hello Mother Goose: And where's your heart-shaped tart dough bowl, your heartness?
Queen Fangora of Hearts: The thief who stole the tarts broke the bowl. It's enough to break a poor queen's heart.
Mother Goose inspects the broken bowl, then sees a piece of wool on the window, belonging to one of Little Melody-Peep's wayward sheep. The plot thickens.
Mother Goose gathers everybody and explains to them that she has solved the mysterious thefts. However, these thefts turned out to be a series of borrowing without permission.
Here's how it went; while Little Catnip Muffet was on her way to get her curds and whey, Sam Be Nimble borrowed her tuffet without asking. Why? He needed the extra height to practice his jumping. The candle was missing from the candlestick. Old Grandma Kitty Hubbard had borrowed it without asking. She needed it to look for a bone for her dog at night. Of course, the bone was gone because Grinder Piper ate it after his pickled peppers were eaten without permission by a white, flurry monster, which was in fact none other than Little Melody-Peep's wayward flock of sheep. They needed something to wash down the taste of the pickled peppers, and what better sweet than Queen Fangora of Hearts' famous tarts. When the sheep accidentally broke the queen's bowl, the queen was forced to borrow another bowl, from none other than Old Grandpa Kitty Cole. Old Grandpa Kitty Cole was thus forced to borrow a poor substitute, Chip and the Fiddle's dish and spoon.
Mother Goose has gathered everything that she could give back, and everyone cheered. However, Little Melody-Peep asks about where her wayward sheep are, until a cry for help is heard. Papa Kitty Pumpkin Eater rushes to Mother Goose.
Hello Mother Goose: Try me Papa Kitty Pumpkin Eater, who had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Papa Kitty Pumpkin Eater: Well, for sure I can't keep her now. This white blur came by and ate up my pumpkin!
The sheep come by again and knock Humpty Dumpty off the wall and he had a great fall!
Hello Mother Goose: Oh no! Humpty Dumpty was sitting on the wall, and the sheep ran by and he had a great fall.
Grandpa Kitty Cole: I'll call the king's horses and all the king's men, to put Humpty Dumpty together again!
Hello Mother Goose tells Little Melody-Peep to not worry as the rest of them will go and round up her sheep, as she takes her on her goose tri-bike and sets off. The story ends.
Characters[]
- Hello Kitty as Hello Mother Goose
- My Melody as Little Melody-Peep
- Tuxedo Sam as Sam Be Nimble
- Catnip as Little Catnip Muffet
- Fangora as Queen Fangora of Hearts
- Grinder as Grinder Piper
- Grandma as Old Grandma Kitty Hubbard
- Chip as Diddle Diddle Chip and the Fiddle
- Grandpa as Grandpa Kitty Cole
- Papa as Papa Kitty Pumpkin Eater
Story Location(s)[]
- The Magical Land of Mother Goose
- Mother Goose's Shoe House
- Sam Be Nimble's House
- Old Grandma Kitty Hubbard's House
- Grinder Piper's Pickled Pepper Patch
- Little Melody-Peep's Sheep Farm
- Castle
- Grandpa Kitty Cole's Throne Room
- Queen Fangora of Hearts' Cooking Room
Trivia[]
- The music played when Chip played the violin was from the Care Bears Episode "The Night the Stars Went Out."
- Running Gag:
- Most of the situations were caused by Little Melody-Peep's wayward sheep.