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ANNOUNCER: We take you now to Kermit the Frog for another
fast breaking news story.
KERMIT: Anybody have the time?
Oh, hi ho, there, clock lovers.
This is Kermit the Frog here for Sesame Street News, and
today we're about to witness that amazing feat made famous
in the old nursery rhyme, "Hickory, Dickory Dock." If
you recall that nursery rhyme which went, "Hickory dickory
dock, the mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one, the mouse ran down.
Hickory, dickory, dock." You remember that thing?
OK, well standing next to me, you will notice that we have
here a clock, and according to the clock, it
is nearly one o'clock.
Now, what will happen next is that a mouse will enter, and
he will run up the clock, and the clock will strike one, and
the mouse will run down.
You got that?
OK, send in the mouse.
[COW MOOING]
KERMIT: Wait a minute.
You're not a mouse.
You're a cow.
COW: Well, that's right.
I am a cow, and I'm much too big to climb up that clock.
KERMIT: No one asked you to climb up that clock.
COW: Yes.
Well, I just came around to see what time it was.
KERMIT: It's nearly one o'clock.
COW: Yes, it's nearly one o'clock.
KERMIT: Yes, it's time for the mouse.
COW: Well, it's time for me to give milk.
KERMIT: I see.
COW: Well, must be getting back to the barn.
KERMIT: Sure.
COW: Ta.
KERMIT: Ta.
Right, of course.
Pardon that interruption there, folks, but as soon as
the mouse arrives--
DUCK: [QUACKING]
KERMIT: Just a second.
This is a duck.
DUCK: Hello, Frog.
KERMIT: Hello there.
DUCK: Just show me the clock and tell me what to do.
KERMIT: Well, what you can do is get out of here because I'm
waiting for the mouse to come and run up the clock here.
DUCK: Are you sure you wouldn't like a hickory
dickory duck?
[LAUGHS AND QUACKS]
KERMIT: Oh boy.
Well hang in there, timepiece fans, because in just a
moment, the mouse will indeed come in and--
what is this?
HORSE: Out of my way, Frog.
I'm going to run that clock of yours.
KERMIT: You can run up the clock.
You're a horse.
HORSE: I know I'm a horse.
The mouse couldn't make it.
KERMIT: Yeah, but you can't do that.
HORSE: Stand back.
Gung ho!
[HOOVES CLATTERING]
KERMIT: Oh no.
[CLOCK RINGING AND CRASHING]
DUCK: Wow.
I've heard of killing time, but this is ridiculous.
KERMIT: There you have it, folks.
The horse has just run up-- make that through.
The horse has just run through the clock, and the clock has
struck about 17.
This is Kermit the Frog signing off.
How come I always get these nursery rhyme things?
A guy could get killed this way.
I'm getting out of here.