The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water/Transcript

• [first lines]
• Narrator: The ancient seas, home to so many wondrous creatures.
• [the turtles swim up]
• Narrator: Creatures both small, and very, very large. Millions and millions of years ago, these creatures swam in the warm oceans that covered most of our planet. The oceans were strange, mysterious, and very dangerous. And the world above was dangerous, too. Creatures were at risk, not only from the predators who would eat them...
• [the pterodactyl caws, then Sharptooth Swimmer appears]
• Narrator: ...but also from the ever-changing weather patterns and natural disasters that plagued their world.
• [the thunder lightens the sky, then Rainbow Face walks in the puddle, hearing a thunderclap, running away, with the tree falling down]
• Narrator: But even during this time of heavy rains and harsh natural disasters, there was a place that dinosaurs could live in peace and harmony, the Great Valley. But the Great Valley was also having some very bad weather.
• [they all hear a thunderclap, hitting the tree, putting fire on it, falling down]
• Littlefoot: [sighing] When is all this skywater gonna stop, Grandpa?
• Grandpa: I don't know, Littlefoot. Grandma and I have never seen so much of it before.
• Littlefoot: Me neither, especially all over the ground like this. [slides on a puddle] Gee, what if it never stops? [shakes the water off]
• Grandma: Oh, it will, little one. It always does. Though I'm beginning to have my doubts. [gasping] Oh, look.
• Littlefoot: Wow! The sky colors! Yes! May I go play with my friends now? Please?
• Grandpa: [laughing] Of course, Littlefoot.
• Littlefoot: Yay!
• Grandma: Just don't go too far, until we know what all this sky water has done to the valley.
• Littlefoot: I won't. See you later. [jumping over a log] Ya-hoo! [laughing]
• [Cera and Cera's Dad push a log]
• Littlefoot: Hey, Cera! Want to race me over to Ducky's and Spike's?
• Cera: I can't, Littlefoot. I've gotta help my father move this tree. It fell right on top of our sleeping place.
• Cera's Dad: Cera.
• Cera: [gasping] Sorry, Littlefoot.
• [they continue to push a log]
• Littlefoot: I could help.
• Cera's Dad: Well, thanks for the offer, Littlefoot, but my daughter and I are fully capable of doing the job ourselves.
• [they continue to push a log]
• Littlefoot: Okay, Cera. Then I'll see you later?
• Cera: Uh-huh.
• [they continue to push a log]
• Littlefoot: Okay, well, bye. [walks away to Cera and Cera's Dad, pushing a log] I'll just have to race myself over to Ducky and Spike's. Ready, set, go! [runs to Ducky and Spike, laughing] Hey, Ducky, Spike, where are you guys going?
• Ducky: Hi, Littlefoot. [gets off of Spike, falling in the mud, laughing] Mama says we have to move because the skywater has made our nesting place too squishy. [squishes on a mud] See? [laughing] Me and Spike really like it.
• [Spike laughs, splashing at Ducky, then splashing at Spike, laughing]
• Littlefoot: Well, maybe when you're done moving, we can all do something together.
• Ducky: Oh, yes, like play in all this squishy mud. [jumping around, laughing] Squishy, squishy, squishy.
• Littlefoot: Then I'll see you later?
• Ducky: Uh-huh. [laughing] Squishy, squishy, squishy. Squishy.
• [they both laugh, then they continue playing in the mud]
• Ducky: Squishy, squishy. Squishy, squishy.
• Ducky's Mom: Ducky, Spike, stop squishing in that mud and come along. We have a nest to build.
• Ducky: Uh, um, coming, Mama.
• [they both walk away by Littlefoot]
• Ducky: [laughing] Squishy, squishy, squishy.
• Littlefoot: [walks away by Ducky and Spike] Hello? Petrie? You up there?
• Petrie: [whimpering] Me up here, Littlefoot. But me no can play today. Me got sniffles from having wet feet. [sneezing, landing on a nest] Oh, me got to learn how to fall softer.
• Littlefoot: [to Petrie] Gee, do you think you'll be feeling better soon?
• Petrie: Oh, yes. Me feel much better by tomorrow. Oh. [sneezing again, falling in a nest] Or maybe not.
• [Littlefoot sighs, then "Chanson D'Ennui" begins]
• Littlefoot: [singing] It's boring, boring. Really, truly boring. When you have to be alone, when you need some friends to play Let's Pretend, but they have to stay at home. It's time for an adventure, and you want to go exploring, but it's just no fun to be the only one. No, it's really, truly very boring.
• Ducky: [singing] It's boring, boring, really awfully boring, when you have to build a nest.
• Cera: [singing] When you push and shove from below and above, and you don't have any time to rest.
• Both: [singing] When the friends you want to be with, you have to keep ignoring.
• 'Ducky: [singing] It can make you sad.
• Cera: [singing] It can make me mad.
• Both: [singing] 'Cause it's very, very, very boring.
• Littlefoot: [singing] When there's nowhere you can go, and there's nothing fun to do.
• All: [singing] Then the day goes by so slow, and you feel like your feet are stuck in goo.
• Petrie: [singing] It's boring, boring, very, very boring. When you have a cold in your beak. [sneezing, continues singing] When you have all the sniffles, and your head is full of whiffles, and you can't be flying for a week. When all you do is sneeze. [sneezing, continues singing] And lay around all day snoring, there's nothing you can say, but just for today, it's very, very...
• Both: [singing] Very, very...
• Littlefoot: [singing] Almost extraordinary.
• All: [singing] Really, truly very boring.
• [the song ends]
• Littlefoot: I'm bored. [sighs]
• [Grandma takes a tree star, then Grandpa takes a tree star, pouring rain]
• Littlefoot: [laying down] Oh, I'm bored.
• Grandpa: [laughing] Here, Littlefoot. [takes a tree star to Littlefoot] Have a tree star. All that sky water has made it deliciously most.
• Littlefoot: Thanks, Grandpa, but I don't want a tree star. I want to have some fun.
• Grandma: But, Littlefoot, you have a whole valley out there to entertain you.
• Littlefoot: Yeah, but what's the good of that if I don't have anybody to share it with? There's no one who wants to have fun. I wish my mom had given me a brother. Then I'd always have someone to have fun with.
• [the cloud reveals a turtle]
• Grandma: Now, little one, your mother would have loved to have given you a bother, Littlefoot.
• Grandpa: Yes, but because you were her only child, you were very, very special to her.
• Littlefoot: What's so special about being all alone?
• Grandpa: Ah, but that's just it, Littlefoot. None of us are ever really alone.
• Littlefoot: [sighing] But I feel alone.
• Grandpa: Yes, Littlefoot, I understand. But look around you. Our Great Valley is so full of life. It really is a special place. Filled with so many special creatures. We've got fliers, and swimmers. And land walkers of all kinds.
• [the parasaurolopus roars, then a dragonfly flies at Grandpa]
• Grandpa: Oh, we even have these annoying buzzing creatures.
• [the dragonfly flies by Littlefoot]
• Grandpa: Wondrous, isn't it?
• [Littlefoot blows the dragonfly]
• Grandpa: And just think, Littlefoot. There might be other kids of creatures out there just waiting to be discovered?
• Littlefoot: Really?
• Grandpa: That's right. So you see, Littlefoot, in a world so full of life, you're only as alone as you choose to be.
• Grandma: Do you understand, little one?
• Littlefoot: Well, no.
• Grandma: [laughing] Don't worry. You will someday.
• Littlefoot: Yeah, but what do I do for fun until then? [sighs, walking away] It's not fair. [looking at the frogs, croaking, leaping by Littlefoot] There's nobody to have any fun with. [looks at the frogs swimming in the water, sighs, then he imitates Grandma] "Oh, hey! Hello, Littlefoot. What would you like to do today?" [imitates Grandpa] "I don't know, Littlefoot. What do you want to do?" [imitates Grandma] "Hey, no fair. I asked you first." [imitates Grandpa] "Okay. Let's go have some fun."
• [the frogs leap in the water]
• Littlefoot: [normal voice] Yeah! [laughing, leaping over, then running at the dragonfly, trying not to fall from a log] Gee, the sky water has really changed the land around here. [clears throat, imitating Grandpa] "Think it's safe to go on, Littlefoot?" [imitates Grandma] "Sure, it is. Maybe we'll find some new kind of creature, like Grandpa said." [imitates Grandpa] "Okay, but we have to be careful." [imitates Grandma] "Aw, don't be such a scaredy-egg." [normal voice, gasping] Whoa! Look at that! There's so much water. [imitates Grandpa, walking backward] "I think we've gone too far from home now, Littlefoot." [imitates Grandma] "Yeah, you may be right." [runs away, in a normal voice] Over here, Grandpa. It's this way.