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( tapping )
Ho! Ho!
How beautiful!
Beautiful.
The trees are putting out new leaves and blossoms.
After that long winter
the whole world's quite awake again.
Well, almost.
( snoring )
Can I wake Buttons up?
Rusty, you know how important
hibernation is to a bear.
Be patient.
Something will wake him up by accident.
( sneezes: ) AAAH-CHOO!
( snoring )
Buttons, you finally woke up!
Now we can go out and play.
Ok.
Sure.
Bridgette, you're awake.
And you have lost weight.
Have you been on a crash diet all winter?
( chuckles: ) Well
we'll soon fix that.
Breakfast is almost ready.
Hold it!
Where do you think you're going
without eating?
Oh, Mom.
As soon as your father wakes up
we're going to eat.
Pa, wake up!
It's springtime!
( snoring )
( clanging )
What's all that noise!?
It's no good.
Nothing ever wakes, Pa.
( murmuring )
This smells awful good.
Why didn't somebody wake me.
Come on kids! Breakfast!
TOGETHER: Thanks, Mom.
Bye!
RUSTY: Let's take the secret shortcut.
Yeah.
What's this?
I don't remember any fork in the tunnel.
I made some improvement when you are hibernating.
Come on!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
( laughter )
WHOA!!!
WHOA!!!
Oops!
Your new shortcut's a lot of fun.
OUCH!
Last time I tried it
there was a mound of snow here.
Look! Skipper and Bluebell.
Huh?
Buttons and Rusty. Hi!
Hi, there.
What's with all the flowers.
We grind them up and use them for coloring.
Yes. Yellow.
Really? What for?
It's kind of a surprise.
Don't tell anybody.
Don't tell anybody, what?
SHH!!
It's suppose to be a surprise.
We have to go.
See you around.
Never try to figure out a rabbit.
There's Ranger Jones.
Let's go!
There. That should do it.
BUTTONS: Hi, Ranger Jones.
If it isn't my favorite cubs
in all of Chucklewood Park.
Have enough hibernation, Buttons?
Yes, sir!
You picked a good time to wake up.
The day after tomorrow.
You're both invited to the Chucklewood Easter Picnic.
What's Easter?
Easter means a lot of things to different people.
Hop in. I'll tell you about it.
BUTTONS: I love Jeep Rides.
All around the world at this time
folks celebrate the new life bursting out everywhere.
The one who spreads the joy of Easter
is the Easter Bunny.
The Easter Bunny?
JONESY: There few folks have seen the Easter Bunny.
He's the one who leaves presents for all the youngers.
Presents? - Gee.
JONSEY: Baskets of painted eggs
candy, all kinds of goodies.
Easter sounds like fun!
JONESY ( chuckles: ) That's why were having a picnic.
There will be an Easter Egg Hunt
and an Egg decorating contest.
RUSTY: Oh, boy! I can't wait!
I got a lot of posters to put up.
I will see you at the picnic.
Bye, Jonesy.
Thanks for the ride.
Why not we start decorating eggs right away?
Great idea.
We don't have any eggs.
Not yet.
There's got to be a ton of eggs around here.
Fancier view good on a body.
Do you most feel like coming out of your shell?
We'll just borrow one.
We'll take it home and paint it
and bring it back before she notices it's gone.
We're going to need more than one egg
If we're going to become experts.
Hi, Mom.
We're going to decorate eggs
for the Critters Picnic.
That's nice.
Help yourself to some berry juice.
BUTTONS: Thanks, Mom.
2, 3, 4
OH, NO!
RANGER JONES!!
RANGER JONES!!
HELP! HELP!
OH, RANGER JONES!
Edwina, what's wrong?
IT'S GONE!
All I did was take a little paddle
when I came back-- you have to find it!
Calm yourself, Edwina.
Find what?
One of my precious eggs is gone!
Are you sure?
Maybe one of them rolled out of the nests.
Or maybe a miscount?
GERTRUBE: It's a crime.
Gertrube, you too?
There's an egg burglar on the loose!
He took one of my eggs.
Me too! Me too!
WHO TOOK MY EGG!?
Who's the culprit?
OWL: Who! Who!
Is this how the Easter Bunny paints his eggs?
I don't know.
There's something missing.
Yeah, yellow!
We need some yellow.
Remember what Skipper and Bluebell we're using for yellow?
Buttercups.
What are we waiting for?
Let's leave these near the stove
so that the color would dry.
OWL: This egg burglar
must be brought to justice, Ranger Jones.
( mothers chatter at once )
There must be a reason someone took those eggs.
Maybe this has something to do with it.
The egg decorating contest.
We weren't going to use your eggs.
Maybe I'll stop putting up these posters.
Don't worry
we'll find your eggs.
See? Yellow.
BUTTONS: That's great!
We better get home.
So that we will have time to put the eggs back.
I guess.
Look!
Skipper and Bluebell.
Tell us all about the Easter Bunny.
That that who the flowers are for?
- In a way. - Sure they are.
You know the Easter Bunny?
- Does it ever-- - SHH!
Where does he live?
Sorry, Buttons
that's the secret only rabbits would know.
That's right.
If ever found out that the Easter Bunny lives--
SHH!
Come on, Bluebell.
The sun's going down.
You know what that means!
I wish we could see the Easter Bunny once.
Skipper's right-- the sun's getting low.
- If we don't get home soon-- - Hmm. Okay.
I guess we got enough buttercups.
You were right, Buttons.
It's too late to get the eggs back.
What are we going to do?
We'll get up real early tomorrow
before any of the other critters wake up
and put the eggs back in their nests.
Who knows?
Maybe we'll bump into the Easter Bunny.
Don't look now, Rusty.
RUSTY: YIKES!
It's the Easter Bunny!
A whole bunch of Easter Bunnies.
- BUTTONS: It's Skipper. - RUSTY: And Bluebell.
I wonder where their going?
You don't suppose.
( giggles )
There going faster.
They must have spotted us.
RUSTY: Buttons
I can't see where we are going!?
BUTTONS: OHH! RUSTY: Buttons, are you okay?
BUTTONS: HELP!
RUSTY: BUTTONS!
BUTTONS!?
HELP!!
( grunting )
I'm loosing my grip.
I'll be right back, Buttons.
Hang in there!
I'm trying!
This will get you out of there.
Grab it!
YIKES!
WHOA!!!
YEEEEEP!
WHOA!!!
( catching breath )
You okay, Buttons?
( catching breath )
I think so.
( coughs )
I feel better
If we knew where we were.
I guess there's nobody around to ask.
Except rabbits.
Hundreds of rabbits.
Buttons, we're back on the trail.
SHH!
BUTTONS: Wow!
Is that we're the Easter Bunny lives?
Let's go find out.
They won't let us in there.
We're not rabbits.
Not yet.
Watch this.
Twitch your nose.
Like this?
Good.
My turn.
Let's go!
Hi. Nice evening, isn't it?
It worked!
He thought we were rabbits.
Gee what is this place?
BUTTONS: I don't know.
It sure looks like fun.
♪ Hooray for the Easter Bunny
♪ He's a real fine boss
♪ and of course he likes to make the world quite sunny
♪ for the kids every Easter Day.
♪ We're the bunnies who packed eggs for you
♪ Really not a tasket
♪ A lot of fun when we are done
♪ we helped deliver baskets
♪ And we're proud to say that we work away
♪ For the very, very, special day
♪ So, hooray for the Easter Bunny
- ♪ He's a guy who cares - ♪ And he wears a smile on his face
♪ And he looks as quite a place...
Where do you two rabbits waiting for?
Pitch in.
Sorry, Ranger Jones
Buttons and Rusty aren't home.
They must have gone out early to play.
Tell them to be sure and let me know
and they hear anything about the missing eggs.
Bye, now.
Bye!
EGGS!?
What about 'em?
The cubs did say something
about decorating some eggs.
We better take a look around the cave.
The important thing about eggs
is that they stay warm.
BRIDGETTE: And then
we have to get them back to their nests.
We don't have to worry about the first part.
These are warm.
How do we tell each of them came from?
Let's see.
This big one is a duck egg.
Isn't that a turtle egg, Abner?
Nope.
Trust me, Bridgette
I know what I'm talking about.
There isn't much time folks.
Why don't we divide up between us.
( all chatter at once )
There's something funny about you two fellas?
Us?
We can't get our pal Skipper waiting?
Hi, Skipper!
How's everything coming?
Huh?
You know these new guys, Skipper?
You can say that.
BLUEBELL: Sure we do.
Okay.
There are favorite fox and bear cub
in all of Chucklewood Park.
Fox cub? Bear cub?
You invited them in the Easter Bunny Borrow?
We didn't exactly invite them.
Do you know what will happen
if everyone found out there's a bear and fox cub in there?
- Did he say a fox? - And bear?
BEAR!!
- Let's get out of here! - ( all yelling )
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I knew there's something funny about these two.
We'll take care of them.
RUN!!
After them!
WHOA!
WHOA!!!
Up there!
Let's go!
In here.
Look out!
What's all the commotion?
Let's all get back to--
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
EASTER BUNNY!
( all chattering at once )
Quick!
Use the dipper to fish him out!
Easter Bunny can you hear us?
BUNNY: LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EASTER BUNNY!
That looks like the turtle nest.
How do we get to it?
Easy.
Use those stepping stones.
BLAH!
Here's your missing egg, Mrs. Turtle.
And about time, too.
Winnie, here you are.
Don't worry, your eggs are still warm.
Gee.
It looks different than the others.
You think this will hold me, George?
( Owl hoots )
What was that?
So, YOUR'E the egg napper!
Come back for more!?
Well, take this!
Wait, you don't understand!
There. That's the last of them.
Oh, my friends.
I can't thank you enough!
ROSY: You're welcome.
CAPTAIN: And so my fellow rabbits
we must consider the seriousness
of what these intruders have done.
Not only they have been PRETENDING to be rabbits...
Let me explain, your Rabbit-ness.
...they have interfered with Easter basket production--
BUTTONS: We didn't mean too!
Look what they done
to our wonderful Easter Bunny.
We don't mean any harm!
That's right.
They didn't mean any harm.
Anyone can say they're sorry.
Fellow rabbits, let's confer.
( whispering )
YOU ARE HEARBY BANISHED!
YOU WILL BE TAKEN AWAY
TO THE WILDERNESS!!
Wilderness?
What's the wilderness?
A place where you can do no harm if you try.
A place where no rabbits run
no birds fly!
No birds?
Rusty, the eggs!
THE EGGS!!
We can't be banished to the Wilderness yet.
We got to put the eggs back.
WHAT!?
Come on, Buttons. Run!
CAPTAIN: Stop them!
WHOA!
( crash )
( cracking )
OH!
WHEW!
I'm free again!
Now what is to be done with you two.
Here she comes.
Finally!
Two shells?
I've never seen an duckling with two shells.
How about these berries.
WHAT!?
There's got to be something.
I want all of these eggs wrapped by tonight.
Easter Bunny, wait!
( whispers )
Really?
This changes everything.
What's happening?
Ahem!
Currently, there is more pressing problem
back in the park.
You two have to undo what you did
when you took those eggs from their nests.
What do we have to do?
You know what to do when you see what is happened?
You mean we can go?
Yes.
Skipper
make sure you blindfold them first
so they won't know their way back here.
You folks look real elegant I might say.
Oh, Ranger Jones.
When do we eat?
As soon as the others arrive.
Here's the Duck family.
I think.
Huh?
Come on, you can do it!
NO!
( hooting )
I don't know what's wrong with the youngan.
I might sleep all day.
GEORGE: Well, that was quite a day.
BUTTONS: You can say that again.
Where did you cubs get through all this time?
We went to see the Easter Bunny.
ABNER ( chuckles: ) Oh. Sure you did.
It's true.
My goodness! Look!
There's a note.
"Dear Buttons and Rusty:
I hope you've learned now, to keep your noses
out of other citters nests....Good!
Cause, it would be right if you were the only cubs
in Chucklewood Park to come home to an empty basket.
Happy Easter!
Signed, The Easter Bunny."
JONESY: That's the way I like to see things wind up.
Everyone deserves a Chucklewood kind of Easter.
Captioned by The Caption Center WGBH Educational Foundation