All right, boys.
So far, so good.
Now, what did
Dr.
Dolittle want to do with the animals
more than anything else?
Alvin?
He wanted to learn to talk to them.
And who promised to teach
him how to talk to the animals,
Simon?
Polynesia the parrot.
Okay.
Now,
Theodore, do you think you remember
the song the doctor sang?
Uh, sure,
Dave, if you help me.
Okay,
Theodore, I'll start it out for you.
I could talk to the animals
Just imagine it
Chatting with a chimp and
chimpanzee
Imagine talking to a tiger
Chatting with a cheetah
What a neat achievement it would be
If we could talk to the animals
Learn their languages
Maybe take an animal degree
I'd study elephant and eagle,
buffalo and beagle, alligator, guinea pig, and flea.
I would converse in
polar bear and python.
I could converse in fluent kangaroo.
If people asked me,
can you speak rhinoceros?
I'd say, of course -er -us.
Can't you?
If I conferred with our furry friends,
man to animal, think of the amazing repartee.
If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,
grunt and squeak and squawk with
the animals,
and they could talk to me.
If I consulted with quadrupeds,
think what fun we'd have asking over crocodiles for tea.
Or maybe lunch with two or three lions, walruses and sea lions,
what a lovely place the world would be.
If I spoke slang to orangutans,
the advantages any fool on earth can plainly see.
Discussing
Eastern art and dramas with
intellectual llamas.
That's a big step forward, you'll agree.
I'd learn to speak in antelope and turtle.
My
Pekingese would be extremely good.
If I were asked to sing in
hippopotamus,
I'd say winotumus and wood.
If I could parlay with pachyderms,
It's a fairytale worthy of
Hans
Anderson or
Grimm.
A man who walks with the animals,
talks with the animals,
grunts and squeaks and
squawks with the animals.
An d they could talk to him.
I'd study every living
creature's language
So you could speak to all of them on sight.
If friends said,
can he talk in crab or pelican?
Then I'd say, well, I can.
And I'd be right.
And if you just stop and think a bit,
there's no doubt of it,
we would win a place in history.
If I could walk with the animals,
talk with the animals,
Grunt, and squeak,
and squawk with the animals.
Animals squawk, squeak,
and squawk, and squeak, and talk
to me.
OK, fellas.
I understand.
That's enough.