Tom and Jerry: Rock-A-Doodle/Transcripts

Opening Credits/"Once Upon a Time..."/♪ The Sun Do Shine ♪
(Tom and Jerry theme song plays)

(A Warner Bros. CARTOON)

(Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Animation PRESENT)

(Tom and Jerry)

(The camera opens up on the far reaches of outer space.) GOLDCREST PRESENTS  A SULLIVAN BLUTH STUDIOS IRELAND LTD PRODUCTION 

(The camera zooms in on the milky way ahead.) A DON BLUTH FILM (The title appears in neon purple.) TOM AND JERRY: ROCK-A-DOODLE   Screenplay By: DAVID N. WEISS & J DAVID STEM  Original Songs By: T.J. KUENSTER & ROBERT FOLK  (The camera moves past a region of star clusters to the right, where it reaches the solar system and zooms in on it.) Music Score by: ROBERT FOLK <p style="text-align:center;"> (The camera zooms in passing Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter.) <p style="text-align:center;">Based on "Tom and Jerry" created by <p style="text-align:center;">WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARABERA <p style="text-align:center;"> (The camera zooms in passing Mars and reaches Earth.) <p style="text-align:center;">Executive Producers:  <p style="text-align:center;">JOHN QUESTED  MORRIS F. SULLIVAN <p style="text-align:center;">Produced by: <p style="text-align:center;">DON BLUTH  GARY GOLDMAN  JOHN POMEROY <p style="text-align:center;">Directed by: <p style="text-align:center;">DON BLUTH (The sun rises behind the Earth as Patou's voice is heard narrating.)

Narrator: "Once upon a time... Back before I knew how to tie my shoes, the sun came up. Now, I know an everyday sunrise may not seem like such a big deal to some folks. But, imagine for a moment: If instead of rising up like this, one morning where you lived, she took a look around and decided to go back to sleep. It happened once to us. Let me tell you all about it."

( A flash of light engulfs the screen, and the sun appears above the Earth's hemisphere. One of the sun's rays rockets past the camera and rushes north, letting the camera follow the ray. It finally ducks under the atmosphere and swoops over a river, past a wind pump, passes through a field of cornstalks and an old fence gate, and arrives to a hill where Chanticleer is crowing and yodeling loudly.)

Chanticleer: (singing) "Cock-a-doooooo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Whoa-Oh-de-oh-de-lay-eeee!

Cock-a-doo, what a day!

The sun is shining brightly!

Cock-a-doo, sunny day!

Down here on the farm!"

(Chanticleer dances along the dirt path, when he sees a storm cloud about to block the sun and rain down on the farm. He zips over to the farm and orders the cloud to leave through his singing.)

"Cock-a-doo, stay away,

you big ol' wet ol' rain cloud,

or I'll cry out loud with this voice of mine!"

(Chanticleer lands in the barnyard, where he greets the chicks and leaps on another fencepost, singing with the farm's steer, donkey, and horse.)

Narrator: (overlapping the song) "This was our rooster, Chanticleer. And though it was true that he liked to horse around some; fact was that boy could sing."

Chanticleer: "Sun do shine..."

Pig father: (singing) "Sun do shine, sun do shine, sun do shine..."

Chanticleer: "Well, my daddy taught me how to sing, and that's why this voice means everything! Sun do shine..."

Narrator: "We all had our jobs on the farm, and Chanticleer's was to wake up the sun. And when he crowed, up she came!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "You'd better shine!"

Chorus: (singing) "You'd better shine!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "You'd better shine!"

Narrator: "Here's Tom and Jerry. Hey, look! Here's me tying my shoes."

(Chanticleer walks over to Patou tying his shoes at his doghouse.)

Chanticleer: "Hi, Patou, what you doin'?"

Patou: "I'm trying to tie these doggone shoes."

Chanticleer: (laughs) "Again?" (A group of chickens run up to him.) "Well, hi, ladies."

Hen 1: "Oh, he's so handsome."

Hen 2: "Sings like a dream."

Hen 3: "He's a dream."

Hen 4: "And he's single, too."

(Chanticleer walks over to the henhouse, as he continues singing.)

Narrator: "He maybe wasn't the smartest bird that ever lived. But, when he crowed, there was plenty of peace and harmony."

(Snipes the Magpie is relaxing on a pool bed float in his bathtub. Peepers the Mouse is sweeping the dust off her house, until she sweeps the dust into Snipes' face.)

Snipes: "Hey!"

Patou: "Well, plenty of harmony, anyway. And lots of sunshine."

(Chanticleer then picks up his guitar and plays along with a squirrel playing his guitar as well.)

Chanticleer: (singing) "Well, my daddy taught me how to sing, and that's why this voice means everything! Sun do shine, you'd better shine!"

Chorus: "You'd better shine"

Chanticleer: (singing) "Well, the sun do shine, you better shine!"

Chorus: "You better shine!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "You better shine, sun, you better shine!" (He slides over to the squirrel and imitates a guitar riff.) "Digidigidigidowdow!"

Farm animals: (laughing)

Narrator: "There was no doubt about it. Old Chanticleer kept us animals up and shining."

Chicks: "Good day, Mr. Chanticleer."

Chanticleer Runs Away/Storybook/Edmund, Tom and Jerry
(The scene shifts to a nighttime setting, where Chanticleer is resting on the rooftop  of the chicken coop.) 

Narrator: "But all that was about to change. One morning, before Chanticleer was even awake..."

( A rooster in biker's clothing leaps onto the seat of a horse-drawn plow and starts threatening Chanticleer.) 

Rooster: "Hey, Chanticleer! Come down here." (laughing)

Narrator: "A stranger snuck onto our farm to stop Chanticleer from crowing." (Chanticleer leaps from the rooftop to the field and fights with the rooster, who knocks him aside. Chanticleer flaps out of the way to avoid a direct hit from the rooster's spurs.) " Of course, Chanticleer wouldn't give up without a fight. But what he didn't know was that this stranger had been sent by the Grand Duke of Owls. Nasty fella."

(Chanticleer lands on the rooftop and grabs a tile as a shield, just as the rooster swoops down and busts through the tile, choking Chanticleer, until they fall in a trough. Chanticleer kicks the rooster aside, as the rooster slams his back against a barrel and loses consciousness. Chanticleer leaps out of the trough, exhausted. His farmyard friends have gathered to see their winner.)

Narrator : (continues) " The good news here was that Chanticleer had won the fight. The bad news was the Grand Duke's bully had done his dirty deed, for in all the commotion, Chanticleer had plum forgot to crow. And the sun was comin' up without him." (Chanticleer leans up and gasps in horror as the sun rises without his crowing.)

Farm Animals: (gasp)

Narrator : "When Chanticleer saw this, it broke his heart. He reckoned maybe his crow never did raise the sun."

Duck: "Look, it's comin' up without him!"

Pig: "You're a phony!"

Animal 1: "He's a fake!"

Animal 2: Indeed!

Snipes: "Hey, everybody, cock-a-doodle-doo!"

Farm Animals: (laughing)

Narrator: "The Grand Duke's evil plan had worked. He had turned us against our very best friend. And without a reason to crow, poor Chanticleer left the farm to look for work in the city." (All the Farm Animals laugh at Chanticleer, who slowly lumbers away, leaving the farm.)  " Then, came the rain, and our troubles with the Duke."

(The Farm Animals leave as soon as rainclouds gather above the farm and pour down rain. The camera pans right to a tree branch where the Grand Duke has watched the whole scene. He turns his head to face the camera, and the shot freezes in mid-action. The shot turns out to be a storybook page.)

Edmond: "Who's that, Mom?" (points his finger at the Duke's face)

Mother: "That's the Grand Duke. He's the one who's causing all the trouble. He sent that mean old rooster to Chanticleer's farm to pick a fight."

Edmond: "Hm, how come?"

Mom: "Because he didn't like Chanticleer doing all that crowing and bringing up the sun."

Edmond: "How come?"

Mom: "Well, like most owls, he likes the darkness and the rain."

Edmond: "I'm not afraid of the dark." (gasps)

Mom: "Oh, it's you. You scared me!"

(Edmond's father comes in, wearing a rain jacket.)

Dad: "Dory, we got big problems. Have you looked out there? If that rain doesn't stop, we're all gonna go floatin' down the river."

Patou: (narrating) "This is my favorite part of the story. His name is Edmond. Of course, he didn't look quite like this when I first met him. Anyhow, we weren't the only folks having our troubles. Poor Edmond's family was having their share too."

Father: "The river's widened too fast; we gotta reinforce the sandbags."

Mother: "Oh, you think that'll work?"

Father: "We'll make it work. I'll get the boys."

Edmond: "Me too!"

Mom: "You stop right there."

Edmond: "Aw, Mom, I'm one of the boys."

Mom: "He meant the big boys."

Edmond: "I'm big enough."

Mom: "Not yet you're not, darling."

"The Line is Breaking!"/"Who's Gonna Answer Him?"
(Cut to: Scott and Mark's bedroom)

Radio: "The U.S. Weather Bureau is expecting yet another-" (static) "Downpour in the areas worst hit by this week's flooding."

Scott: "Scott Mark, come on, bring the stuff around to the front."

Radio: "Governor Dale declared a state of national emergency--"

Dad: "Come on, guys, move it. I need some help, we've gotta get the animals inside."

(Scott and Mark go to grab their rain jackets and help their dad with the job.)

Patou: "So while Scott and Mark got to help protect the house against the flood, poor Edmond was left behind where he'd be safe and out of trouble."

(The camera cuts to Edmond's farm, where it is being flooded outside.)

Edmond: "It's my house too, I wanna help."

Mom: "Well then, pray for the rain to stop, and that'll help.

Father: "Dory, I can't find the flashlight!"

Mom: "Coming! Now, you stay here where it's safe, pumpkin. I'm gonna help your father, and I'll be right back."

Scott: "Come on, dad."

Father: "Great, let's go!"

Mark: "Hey, Dad, they said on the radio the National Guard might come."

Edmond: "I am too a big boy. (reading the book) "And without a reason to crow, Chanticleer left the farm. "Then came the rain...""

(Outside, a bolt of lightning flashes, as the flood has swamped the farm terribly. Mark and Frank have tied a rope to their cow's stomach to get her free from the muck. Dory sits in the truck, waiting to pull the cow away.)

Scott: "Mom, here!"

Mom: "How is she, Frank?"

Dad: "Just start the truck, she'll be okay. Dory, Hurry!"

Edmond: "I know The Answer. We need Chanticleer."

(thunder)

(water rushing)

(gasps)

Edmond: "Mom!"

Mom: "Boys, the levee's breaking!"

Edmond: (shouting) "Chanticleer! Chanticleer!"

(A lightning bolt strikes a tree branch, which crashes into Edmond's bedroom. Edmond gets knocked away by the lightning blast, as a gust of red clouds with hearts, planets, and different shapes followed by a claw-shaped tree branch emerge in Edmond's bedroom.)

Patou: "Edmond had the right idea to call for Chanticleer, but he never coulda guessed who was gonna answer."

The Grand Duke of Owls/"The Duke is Going to Eat You."/Patou to the Rescue
(The gust dies down as the screen fades to black. The screen fades open on Tom and Jerry appear.)

Edmond: A cat and the mouse.

Tom: I'm Tom.

Jerry: I'm Jerry.

Edmond: You talked!

Tom: Who are you, kid?

Edmond: Edmond.

Jerry: Edmond? Nice to meet you.

(the Duke's feet making heavy footsteps.)

Tom: (yells)

Edmond: "Chanticleer?"

Grand Duke: "No... it's not Chanticleer."

Edmond: (scared) "Who...Who are you?"

Grand Duke: "You put your finger in the Duke's face, remember?"

Jerry: Well, I put my in your face. (points his finger at the Duke's monocle, causing a crack to appear)

Grand Duke: These are expensive, little mouse!" (tosses his broken monocle at Edmond, Tom and Jerry) "But, that is not why the Duke is going to eat you."

Edmond: "Eat me?"

Tom and Jerry: Eat him?

Grand Duke: "Oh dear, now I've gone and spoiled the surprise. Oh, always doing that." (eats a mushroom) "But you see, we creatures of the night have worked very hard to make absolutely sure that that bird does not return! And you, you, with no regard for the feelings of others, have the nerve to call him back here by name! And besides, I positively loathe rock and roll." (laughing maniacally)

Edmond: (running off) "You're not gonna eat me!

Patou: (narrating) "And that's when the Duke hit the ceiling." (The Duke literally breaks through the ceiling and uses his magic breath to stop Edmond in his tracks.) "If Edmond wanted to bring Chanticleer back to raise the sun, the Duke was gonna have somethin' to say about it."

Grand Duke: "Kittens are more digestible."

Patou: (narrating) "Young Edmond was about to have the most amazing adventure he'd ever dreamed of."

Grand Duke: (cackling)

Edmund: (screaming)

Tom and Jerry: (gasp)

Grand Duke: (evil laughter)

(The Duke has brought Edmond's bedroom into the animated world. The Duke takes pleasure in watching the transformation unfold, and as Edmond pops out of his sleeve as a kitten, the Duke grabs him by the neck.)

Edmond: (pleading for help) "Mom, Dad, wake me up!"

(A barking noise is head outside, and Patou charges into Edmond's rescue.)

Patou: (narrating) "This is where I come in."

(Patou chomps the Duke's ankle. The Duke screams in pain, drops Edmond on the floor, and shakes Patou with his foot. Edmond watches the Duke then strangle Patou.)

Grand Duke: (angry) "You'll pay for this, Patou! This does not concern you."

Patou: "It does if it's about Chant-" (gets strangled by the Duke)

Edmond: "The light, the owls hate the light!"

(As the Duke strangles Patou, Edmond quickly shines a flashlight in the Duke's face.)

Grand Duke: (screams)

(He gets blown away which blows Patou next to Edmond. The camera cuts to the gaping hole inside the wall that the Duke entered.)

"I'm a CAT!"/The Mission to Find Chanticleer
Patou: (sighing) "Hey, boy. We were this close. Oh, that flashlight biz was quick thinkin' on your part. What's your name, little fella?"

Edmond: "Edmond. Is he gone?"

Patou: "Yeah, he's gone, but he'll be back, and he won't be alone, the coward. I woulda whopped him if I'd had my shoes tied. But you know something, tying shoes is harder than dry dog food."

Edmond: "Whatcha wearing shoes for?

Patou: "Bunions; I got a load of bunions, and them shoes help my feet."

Edmond: "Here, let me show you how to tie 'em." (gasps) "Jeepers, I'm all furry!"

Patou: "Well, kittens are furry."

Edmond: (resistant) "But, but, I'm a little boy!" (He looks in his bedroom mirror and meows in terror.) "Did that come outta me?" (comes to the truth) "I'm-I'm a cat! He turned me into a cat!"

Tom: You're just like me!

Edmond: (To Patou) "Help me, do something! I can't be a cat, I'm a boy! Patou, what'll I do?"

Patou: "Alright, steady boy, keep your pants on."

(Edmond gasps and covers his privates in embarrassment. He then rushes off to put some clothes on and comes back in a coonskin cap and Davy Crockett shirt.)

Edmond: (licking himself) "Yuck! What am I doing? I'm licking myself!"

Peepers: (offscreen) "Patou!" (Edmond sniffs for Peepers' scent and gets down on all fours.) "Patou!"

Patou: (calls out to Peepers) "I'm in here!"

(The camera pans right to the branch, where Peepers the mouse comes in, wearing a raincoat and holding a map.)

Peepers: (continuing) "By my calculations, this can't possibly be the City." (checks the map) "Let's see. 367 southeast...or is it 676?" (sees Edmond leaping into her path and gasps)

Patou: (laughing) "It's okay Peepers, it's Edmond. He's a nice kitty."

Edmond: (correcting Patou and Peepers) "I'm a boy! And I almost ate a mouse. I must be crazy."

Peepers: "You bet your sweet whiskers."

Edmond: (amazed) "Wow."

(The rest of Chanticleer's friends come into Edmond's room on the tree branch.)

Turkey: "There ain't no city around here."

Stuey: "Oh, sadness."

Patou: "Hey, aren't you gonna tie my shoes?"

Edmond: "I can't, I can't help anybody. I'm too little. I'm a scrawny furball runt. Mom and Dad won't even recognize me! Mom, Dad, help! (thunder) Oh, Chanticleer.

Patou: "What?"

Edmond: "If he doesn't come back and crow soon, the sun won't shine again, and the rain will keep coming down, and the water will get higher and higher 'til, 'til... We all drown."

Tom: (grabs Edmond) I'm a cat! Cats hate water!

Snipes: "Wowie, wow, wow, wow, wow! Are we close? Are we near the City? Us magpies are just made for the city. Come on already, hurry up, Peepers!

Peepers: "We are not looking for the City. We are looking for Chanticleer.

Snipes: "Well, he's in the City, isn't he?"

Edmond: "Then, he is in the City."

Snipes: "Girls, they think they know everything. Why don't you run home, be a mousewife, make cheese."

Peepers: "Snipes, you think you're so superior."

Snipes: ""Thuperior." Nice lisp."

Peepers: "My lisp isolates and elevates me and makes me a rare specimen."

Snipes: "Ah, this is flippin' garbage!"

(Peepers and Snipes start arguing.)

Patou: (pushing them aside) "Pipe down, you two."

Edmond: "The story's true! You all laughed at him and he went away."

Patou: "You're right, son. We done wrong, and that's why we're searchin' for the City. We gotta find Chanti and apologize."

Chick 1: "Then he'll forgive us."

Chick 2: "Come home."

All Chicks: "And raise the sun!"

Edmond: "Well, I know where the City is. I've been there lots of times as a boy."

Snipes: (cynically) "A boy?"

Edmond: (angrily) "Before that big owl turned me into a cat!"

Stuey: "Owl?" (snorts) "Owl?"

Peepers: (begging Edmond) "Edmond, would you take us to the City?"

Edmond: "I can't. Look at me, I'm a cat. No, a little kitty. What can I do?"

Peepers: "I can do lots of things, and I'm a lot smaller than you. And furthermore, I could forgive you for being a cat if you would take us to the City." (yanks on Edmond's whiskers) "Of course, if you're a fraidy-cat..."

Edmond: "I'm not afraid!

Snipes: "Hey, guys..."

Peepers: "Or like, a scaredy-cat..."

Edmond: "Me, scared?"

Snipes: "Hey, guys..."

Patou: "Lay off the boy."

Snipes: "Hey, hey guys..."

Jerry: What is it, Snipes?

Edmond: "Okay, okay! I'm not afraid of anything. I'll take you to the City and find Chanticleer."

Patou: (laughs)

Edmond: "And bring him home, and save Dad and Mom and the farm."

(The animals cheer.)

Snipes: "Alright, hope you can swim, guys." (He puts on his snorkel as the flood rushes into Edmond's bedroom)

Edmond: "Oh, no!"

Peepers: (gasps)

(Edmond, Patou and Peepers get washed into the flood. Peepers swims through the water, coughing.)

Snipes: (screaming)

Edmond: "We don't have to swim! (grunts) We'll go by boat." (coughs)

Peepers: "Oh, this is serious."

Patou: "Peepers, you'll need this if those owls return." (He tosses Peepers the flashlight.)

Stuey: "Owls? Owls?"

Peepers: "Here!" (She gives Stuey the flashlight instead.)

Stuey: "Owls?"

Peepers: "I'm sticking with you." (She jumps from the back end of the bed and lands aboard the toybox.)

Patou: "Well, fellas, this is it."

Edmond: (gulps)

(Edmond, Patou, and Peepers ride the toybox towards the open gap of the house, as Snipes flies above.)

Snipes: "The City! The lights, the chicks, the food!"

Tom: We're coming, Chanticleer!

Edmond: "Goodbye! Good luck with the owls!" (Edmond and his friends go on their big adventure to the city.)

Farm Animals: "Goodbye!"

Stuey: "Owls?" (whimpers)

♪ We Hate the Sun ♪/Hunch
(Cut to: the flooded countryside)

Patou: (narrating) "Yep, owls. While Edmond set our course for the City in the USS Toybox, the Duke and his owls were back in their lair stormin' up some powerful nasty weather."

(The camera pans diagonally upward left from a strange rock formation to a tall mountain belonging to the Duke and his owls, where lightning shoots from the mountaintop. But, also at the top exists a bunch of pipes blasting storm clouds into the atmosphere. The camera then cuts inside the lair to focus on a massive pipe organ with its pipes puffing purple colored-steam clouds into the air, as the camera pans down all the way to the keyboard where the Duke is playing J.S. Back's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, while his goons stand nearby.)

Grand Duke: (spoken) "So he turns on the Duke, and with what do you suppose he turns on the Duke?"

Owl Minions: (singing) What, Master?"

Grand Duke: (spoken) "A flashlight!"

Owl Minions: (singing, bouncing their way to the keyboard) "What a horrible thing to do!

What a horrible thing to do!

Thing to doooo!"

(One of his lackeys, a brown owl, frowns and itches his head.)

Grand Duke: (spoken) "But then, when my back is turned, what four-legged flea-bitten louse comes sneaking through the window and has the nerve to bite me on the leg?"

(The brown owl tries to ask his master a question, until the Duke kicks him aside, causing him to land on the floor.)

Owl Minions: (singing) "Who, who, who, who, who?"

Owl Minion 1: "Who?"

Grand Duke: (spoken) "Patou."

Owl Minions: (gasp' )

Grand Duke: (spoken) "Yes!"

Owl Minions: (singing) "Death to Patou!"

Grand Duke: (spoken) "Destroy the farm! Destroy the cat, the dog! Or do you want the chicken back?!"

Owl Minions: (singing) "No, we hate the sun!

The answer's noooo!"

Grand Duke: (spoken) "And, it'll make my leg feel so much better if that ROOSTER... NEVER... CROWS!" (laughs maniacally)

(The Owl Minions open their wings and start flying the Duke's pipe organ.)

Owl Minions: (singing) "We hate the sun,

That much we know!"

Grand Duke: (spoken) "Rain!" (He opens a valve releasing purple-colored steam and climbs up the organ pipes.)

Owl Minions: (singing) "We hate the rooster,

we'll never let him crow!"

Grand Duke: (spoken, opening his cape) "Never let him crow!"

Owl Minions: (singing) "We hate the sun,

from head to toe!"

Grand Duke: (spoken) "From head to toe!" (He raises a switch that turns on a lightning machine. It shoots electricity up the organ pipes, until the electricity bursts into a series of lightning bolts at the top of the organ.)

Owl Minions: (singing) "We hate the rooster,

we'll never let him crow!

Never let him crow!"

Grand Duke: (spoken) "Never let him crow."

Hunch: (flies in through the thorns, yelping) "Reverse engine!" (makes engine noises and lands on the Duke) "Ow!"

Grand Duke: (falling) "Aaahhh!"

(Both the Duke and Hunch land on the organ bench.)

Hunch: (climbs on the organ keyboard, sounding off a few jumbled notes) "Uncle Dukey! Uncle Dukey!" (The Grand Duke shouts at him, as he uses his breath to turn him into a duck-like creature.) "I wish you wouldn't do that."

Grand Duke: (sternly) "Hunch, I told you never to call me that."

Hunch: "Yes, sir! Uh, no, sir, sir! Guess what I just saw: Patou the dog floating in a toybox down the river, and he has this cute little white kitty with him-"

Grand Duke: (cackles and turns his nephew back into an owl) "Hunch..." (chuckles) "My little p-pygmy nephew...(Hunch chuckles) "Come to uncle."

(Hunch giggles and steps on the organ keyboard giving off a few more jumbled organ notes. Just as Hunch reaches the Duke, the Duke disgustedly raises his hands to avoid cuddling him.)

Hunch: "Ah!" (splats on the ground with some of his feathers flying off)

Fighting Owls/Down The Adequate Pipe/"The City!"
(At the same time, Edmond and his friends are steering the toy box through his flooded hometown.)

Narrator: "Meanwhile, bound for the city, Edmond steered us through the perils of the flooded river."

Peepers: Starboard ho!"

Snipes: "Starboard who? Left or right?"

Edmond: "Uh-oh." (sees a giant tree ahead) "Giant tree, a hundred feet and closing!"

Peepers: "Jumpin' Jehosaphat! We need wind power!"

Edmond: "40 feet!"

Snipes: "Well guys, I-I think I'm slowing you down. Yeah, I'll see you later, guys."

Edmond: "30 feet!"

Snipes: "Ahh!"

Peepers: "Come on, Patou, pull on this. (Patou raises the sail.) It worked!"

Edmond: "Turn now!" (The gang steers the toy box away from the tree, as it flows down some rapids and enters the rest of the river.) "This is the right way, guys!"

(However, Hunch is leading four of the Duke's henchowls to destroy the animals. Lightning strikes in the background, as he hums "Ride of the Valkyries", until he spots the toy box down below.)

Hunch: (to the owls) "Okay, guys, you heard the Duke! Total and complete, oh-ho, annihilation! Bombs away!"

Tom: (sees Hunch and the owls swooping down for the toy box) Yaah!

(Hunch knocks Edmond off his makeshift crow's nest and into the flooded river.)

Edmond: "Aah! Hey!"

Hunch: "Bombs away! Bombs away!"

(The Owls swoop down, as two of them grab Patou and Snipes, while Peepers makes a run for it.)

Patou: "Edmond, grab ahold!" (throws Edmond a rope)

Hunch: "Ooh ho ho, gotcha!" (The rope hits him.) "Oow!"

(The Owls carry the toy box and Patou in the air.)

Jerry: Do something!

Edmond: "Get my camera!"

Patou: "Huh? What does he want with a camera?

Peepers: "He said, "get his camera"."

(Edmond climbs the rope to get back in the toy box, until Hunch grabs him with his talons.)

Hunch: "Ooh, I gotcha, kitty!"

Edmond: "Put me down!"

Hunch: "Hold still!"

Owl Minions: (growling)

Peepers: "Say cheese!" (Tom presses the camera button.)

Owl Minions: "Ooow!"

Patou: "Ha-ha! We got 'em!"

Edmond: "Uh-oh!"

(The Owls and Hunch hit a sign saying "Danger: Aqueduct Pipe" on a wall of a covered bridge and land in the river.)

Tom: "Danger: Aqueduct Pipe"!

Edmond: "Oh, no!"

Patou: "Get the lid!"

Snipes: (yelps)

(Hunch tries to get in the toy box but swims away to get out of the current pulling the toy box into the pipe. Hunch wheezes as he climbs on a rock.)

Hunch: "A-ha! An adequate pipe!" (laughs maniacally)

(Inside the aqueduct pipe, the toy box zooms inside the pipe as Snipes screams in panic.)

Snipes: (pecking the toy box) "L-Let me outta here! I can't breathe! Help, I need air!"

Edmond: "What's wrong with him?"

Peepers: "He's claustrophobic. Teeny-weeny tight spaces make him very, very nervous."

Edmond: "Uh-oh. Uh-oh!"

(Thanks to Snipes, the water pours into the holes that Snipes has made.)

Patou: "Get him away from the lid!"

Snipes: "Help, we're trapped, we're trapped like rats! We're trapped, we're trapped, we're trapped! Trapped like rats..."

(Peepers grabs him by the tail feathers, but Snipes bolts away from her.)

Patou: "Come back here, you crazy bird! Now settle down, you're rockin' the boat." (Patou grabs Snipes.)

Snipes: "I can't breathe..."

Patou: "Don't make me lose my temper, Snipes."

Tom: Will you shut up, Snipes!

Snipes: (hyperventilating) "I need air, I don't wanna swim! Mommy, we're trapped! Mommy!" (He becomes tied up to a paddleball.)

Patou: "Settle down!" (sticks the paddleball on Snipes' beak)

Edmond: "Patou!"

Patou: "Oh, no."

(Patou, Edmond, and Peepers try to seal the leaks with their paws, while Snipes paddles around the water while being wrapped around the paddleball, muffling. The water eventually engulfs them all.)

Edmond: (screams)

Tom: (yells)

(The toy box zooms out of the aqueduct pipe and flows down a sewer. Edmond and the gang open the lid and cough.)

All: (coughing)

Peepers: "That was close. Mercy."

Edmond: "Oh, no!"

(A waterfalls lies straight ahead.)

Peepers: "Abandon ship! Abandon ship!"

All: (screaming)

Tom: (screaming)

(The toy box falls down the waterfall against a series of sewer pipes and splashes into the sewage below. It comes apart instantly, as Tom, Jerry and the four friends emerge from the sewage and climb onto an oil drum, wheezing.)

Edmond: (curious) "What's that smell?"

Snipes: (frustrated) "Garbage. Ah, this is pathetic. I risk my life and what do I get? Garbage! Why, I've never been so-" (He notices the bright lights of the City ahead.) "Wow!"

Edmond: "The City!"

Snipes: "Wow!"

Tom: Looks like we made it.

Peepers: "It's so beautiful."

Patou: (climbs on the drum) "Now, all we got to do is find Chanticleer..." (chuckles) "...And that's gonna be like hunting for a needle in a haystack."

The Duke's Fury/Las Vegas/Wandering the City
(The camera irises out on the group on the oil drum and returns to the shot of the Owls' lair. The camera cuts to the keyboard and lower pipes of the Duke's organ and pans down left past a gigantic boiler system with steam leaking from its pipes. The camera reaches the Duke cooking a pie in the kitchen. He yawns, as he scoops up a pie on a peel and brings it to the oven, where he presses the oven bellows. The Duke flinches from a burst of flames. Hunch swoops in, making engine noises and skids onto two cooking tables.)

Hunch: (crashing into pots and pans) "Ow!" (He lands in a cooking pot.)

Grand Duke: (with tears in his eyes) "Oh, no."

Hunch: "Uncle Dukey, Uncle Dukey! I got 'em!"

(The Duke traps him in the pot with a lid as Hunch grunts.)

Grand Duke: (asks himself) "If I kill my nephew, would that be murder or charity?" (He gets hit in the face by the pot lid.)

Hunch: "I got 'em! I really got 'em! No more kitty, sir. Mission, ho-ho, accomplished!"

Grand Duke: "And the dog?"

Hunch: "Gone! Wiped out, sir!" (The Duke snickers wickedly.) "Total and complete, ho-ho, annihilation!"

Grand Duke: (snickering) "Annihilation. How did you do it?"

Hunch: "Adequately."

Grand Duke: "Ade-" (stammers) "Wait, what's that supposed to mean?"

Hunch: "Well, Uncle, we sucked them into an adequate pipe."

Grand Duke: (suspiciously) "A what?"

Hunch: "That's what it said: "Danger, Adequate Pipe.""

Grand Duke: (forced calmness) "Oh, dear Hunch. Come to Uncle."

Hunch: (sighing)

Grand Duke: (enraged, using his magic breath to turn Hunch into a chicken-like creature) "You imbecile! That's not an adequate pipe; IT'S AN AQUEDUCT PIPE! It leads straight into the city!"

Hunch: (gulps)

Grand Duke: "The Duke gives you one last chance, Hunch! (turns Hunch back into his normal self) Them or you. (drives a cleaver into the counter surface, almost killing Hunch) "Get to the City!"

Hunch: "Oh, not the city, sir. Oh no! It's too bright! I'll go blind." (covers his eyes)

Grand Duke: "Oh, say it isn't so." (He drops his nephew a pair of sunglasses Hunch looks at the sunglasses and looks back at his uncle. Fade out.)

(The camera jump cuts back to the shot of the Owls' Lair with lightning striking from the mountaintop as the camera pans right past the flooded farm and countryside, over the hills, and then zooms in on the skyline of the City. The camera cuts to the list of a phonebook.)

Edmond: (reading the phone book) "Chalmers, Chanta, Chantilly, Chantz. He's not in here." (He leaps down from Patou's head and leads his friends into the City.) "Let's go!"

(The camera shifts to a shot of the friends looking high and low for Chanticleer, as the song "Come Back to You" plays.)

Patou: (narrating, overlapping the song) "You ever get that feeling when you're lookin' for something that it's right under your sniffer? I know it seems crazy, but it was almost like we could hear his voice calling to us. You know, like he was just waiting for us to come and ask him back. But we looked everywhere, and we talked with everyone. But, nobody had heard of Chanticleer, nobody. Funny thing was, he was right under our nose the whole time. Or should I say, we were under his."

(The camera cuts to a shot of the friends sitting outside a nightclub, as an audience cheers for a singer inside the building.)

Jerry: No, Patou, that's not how it goes.

Edmond: "Yeah. For the hundredth time, it's over, around, under, and through, that's how Patou ties his shoe. Now you say it."

Patou: (groaning)

(Meanwhile, the camera cuts to Hunch, now wearing his sunglasses and singing his theme song, as he flies into the city, just passing through a billboard that says "Dairy King" with an elephant drinking a shake. He passes through the elephant's mouth, as he pulls out a telescope.)

Hunch: (spotting the animals) "Ooh, there you are! Pilot to bombardier: Enemy target below! I'm going in for a closer look! Cover me!" (He swoops down, making airplane noises, and crash-lands in a nearby bush.)

Peepers: (gasps) "What was that?"

(Hunch sneaks out from a bush and pulls out his Swiss Army knife. It produces a corkscrew, until Hunch shakes the knife again, pulling up a dagger.)

Hunch: (giggles) "Complete atrocitation." (He hides behind a prop.)

The King/♪ Rock-A-Doodle ♪
Edmond: "Alright you guys, we've rested long enough. They're counting on us back at the farm."

Peepers: "Well, if you ask me-"

Snipes: "We didn't."

Peepers: (surprised, gasping) "Jumpin' Jehosaphat!"

Edmond: "What?"

Peepers: "It's him!" (points to something)

Snipes: "Who?"

Peepers: "No wonder we couldn't find him, he's changed his name!"

(A large, 20 ft. high, neon-lit Chanticleer prop being dubbed "The King" is shown in front of the animals. The building, Pinky's Palace, is also shown in front of the prop.)

Patou: "Chanticleer is the King?"

Edmond: "The King?"

Patou: "Ooh, your Highness!"

(The camera cuts inside Pinky's Palace, where attractive swan girls are waiting for the show to begin.)

Announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, the King!"

Patou: (narrating) "Old Chanticleer may have stopped crowin', but he hadn't stopped using that voice of his."

Chanticleer: (singing) "Let me be your rooster,

and let me roost with you."

Girls: (screaming)

Chanticleer: (singing) "Let me be your rooster,

and let me hear your sweet voice coo."

Chorus: (vocalizing)

Chanticleer: (singing) "Girl, you've thrown me for a loop.

Well, you're the number one chick in the chicken coop!"

Patou: (narrating) "Chanticleer had become a star."

Chanticleer: (singing) "I wanna, rock, rock-a-doodle to you,

I wanna rock, rock, rock 'til the day is through,

I wanna rock, rock-a-doodle-doo through the night!"

Chorus: (singing) "I wanna rock!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "Rock, rock 'til the morning light,

well it ain't right to rock alone.

It takes two, I do believe,

I'm wanna rock-a-doodle-doodle to you!"

Chorus: "To you!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "Like you rock-a-doodle-doodle to me,"

Audience Member: (faints)

Chanticleer: (singing) "I'm wanna rock-a-doodle-doodle to you,"

Chorus: "To you!"

Chanticleer: (continues singing) "Like you rock-a-doodle-doodle to me!"

Chorus: "Rock-a-doodle-doodle..."

(An attractive pheasant, Goldie, watches the King perform and sticks out her tongue, jealously.)

Patou: (narrating) "But, not everybody liked the King. Goldie here was jealous of him."

Pinky: "...less my manager's fee of 60%." (He pushes aside a stack of dollar bills.)

Goldie: "But, Pinky, I just have to know when."

Pinky: (growls, leaping onto his desk) "Goldie, will you not bother me with this right now? You've gotta go on in two minutes." (He hits his golf ball around the desk, using it as a golf hole, as the golf ball lands in Pinky's cigarette tray.)

Goldie: "But, I'm too good for the chorus!" (She huffs and walks over to Pinky.) "What's he got that I ain't got?" (She stands on a coffee table.)

Pinky: (laughs, drinking a martini) "A voice."

Chanticleer: (singing) "I wanna rock, rock-a-doodle through the night..."

Chorus: "I wanna rock!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "Rock, rock, 'til the morning light..." (He jumps on a prop record and moonwalks his way to his chorus boys.)

Patou: (narrating, overlapping the song) "Fortunately for us, Goldie was a lot smarter than she sounded and a lot nicer too. She just didn't know it yet."

Chanticleer: (singing) "...Like you rock-a-doodle-doodle to me, yeah!"

Chorus: "Rock-a-doodle, rock-a-doodle, rock-a-doodle-doo to me!"

(The camera cuts back to Pinky's office.)

Pinky: "Lookie, Goldie, when I found him, he was a nobody. Nobody wanted him, nobody cared about him." (grabs a record and spray-paints it in gold) "But, I picked him up out of the gutter and now look at him."

(The camera zooms in through the record's needle hole and focuses back on Chanticleer.)

Chanticleer: (singing) "Well, it ain't right to rock alone..."

(The camera cuts back to Pinky's office.)

Pinky: "Everybody starts in the chorus. Goldie. Of course-" (snickers) "You could give up showbiz!"

Goldie: (horrified, clutching onto a tiki statue) "Pinky!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "I wanna rock-a-doodle-doodle to you,

Chorus: "To you!"

Chanticleer: (singing) "Just like you rock-a-doodle-doodle to me!" (He runs to a prop needle, jumps on it, and spins around for a final pose.)

Chorus: "Rock-a-doodle-doo to me!"

Audience: (cheering)

Chanticleer: "Thank you, thank you very much. I love you! I love you!"

Bouncers/Back in the Farm
(Cut to: Pinky's Palace, exterior)

Edmond: "Now that we found him, how do we get in to see him?"

(Hunch stands behind the Chanticleer prop, armed with his knife and giggling. He jumps out and prepares to go in for the kill.)

Announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, the King is leaving the building."

Hunch: (The door slams into him.) "Ow!"

(A red carpet rolls out the doors, followed by the King's adoring fans and Pinky's group of security guard toads surrounding their manager and Chanticleer.)

Bouncers: (singing) "Out of the way! Move it, move it, move it!"

Edmond: "Chanticleer! King, over here!" (waves his coonskin hat)

Tom: Hey, King! Over here!

Max: "Don't touch the star!"

Bouncers: (singing) "Try, you won't get very far!

We'll bounce you once,

bounce you twice,

If you get out of line,

we're not very nice!

We'll bounce, bounce you all over the place!

Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, if we don't like your face!"

Max: "Get away from the star!"

(The Bouncers have escorted Pinky and Chanticleer to their private chopper. Pinky tips Max and climbs up the stairs following Chanticleer.)

Patou: (narrating) "Chanticleer was a star alright. But, it's hard to be happy without friends, even if you are famous." (Pinky shuts the helicopter door, and the helicopter takes off.) "I reckon he'd be awfully glad to see us, if we could just figure a way to get near him."

Audience: (chanting) "We want King! We want King!"

Hunch: (dizzily, emerging from the carpet) "Aggravation." (The blade slides off the handle.)

(Tom laughs at Hunch)

(Cut to: Pinky's helicopter)

Pinky: (chuckling) "You were fantastic tonight, really! What can I get for ya, kid? You name it, anything! You want a beach house in Maui? Ooh, I'll buy you the whole island. Cars, yachts, what? Name it, it's yours!" (Pinky hits the golf ball hard that it bounces off the wall.)

Chanticleer: "No thanks."

Pinky: "Say, what's eatin' you?"

Chanticleer: (depressed) "Well, I...Well, I just don't know. I guess I'm just a little lonely, that's all."

Pinky: "Lonely?" (laughs) "Are you crazy? There's 20,000 people out there screamin' your name, and you're lonely?" (hits another golf ball, sending it crashing through another window) "I love this guy."

Chanticleer: "Yeah, but back on the farm..."

Pinky: (hops on his golf cart) "Hey, you told me yourself what they did to ya on the farm. They don't love you." (pulls out  a walkie-talkie) Murray, give us a roll."

Murray: (walkie-talkie) Yes, sir!

(Murray tips the helicopter on the side. Pinky and Chanticleer lean outside the window to see a massive crowd of Chanticleer's adoring fans clustered together in the shape of a heart.)

Pinky: (cont., shouting above the noise) "SEE THAT?!"

Crowd: (chanting) "WE WANT KING! WE WANT KING!"

Pinky: (cont.) "THEY LOVE YOU, EH?!"

(The helicopter leans right side-up again, bringing Pinky and Chanticleer back inside, as Pinky drives Chanticleer to his private bedroom.)

Pinky: "You were incredible! Mm-mm-mm, the King!" (on the walkie-talkie) "Murray, get us outta here." (The camera cuts to the rear of the helicopter making its way to the helipad.) "Hello, Goldie? How'd you like to get out of the chorus?"