Woolly Woolly

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[Bright music plays]

A CHILD: Whee!

[Opening credits] t.v.o. kids and P.V.P. Media and Normaal Original.

[Child giggling]

[Cheerful, upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: In a world made of wool, the Woollys, five tightly knitted gnomes, walk behind a hedge. Text reads, “T.V.O.kids Presents, A France-Canada co-production Normaal and P.V.P Media. With the participation of France télévisions, Radio-Canada and Knowledge Kids.”

SINGER: Have you ever seen?

DESCRIPTION: A Woolly with a white beard wearing a red hat pops up from behind the hedge.

THE BEARDED WOOLLY: What?

SINGER: Playing in the sun?

DESCRIPTION: A white-haired Woolly wearing a red hat pops up with a small Woolly wearing a tall yellow hat.

THE WHITE-HAIRED AND SMALL WOOLLY: Who?

SINGER: Tiny woolly woollys?

DESCRIPTION: A brown-haired Woolly wearing a short red hat pops up with a Woolly wearing a pink bow on a yellow hat.

THE BROWN-HAIRED WOOLLY AND THE PINK BOW-WEARING WOOLLY: Hey!

SINGER: Out there having fun?

DESCRIPTION: A space opens up in the hedge, and all five Woollys appear.

THE FIVE WOOLLYS: Woolly Woolly!!!

[Opening credits continue] “Executive Producer/Creative Consultant Anna Hrachovec. Producers Alexis Lavillat and François Trudel.”

DESCRIPTION: In a forest, the Woollys walk past large trees.

THE SMALL WOOLLY CHEERS: Woo-hoo!

SINGER: Have you met BeeBee?

BEEBEE, THE SMALL WOOLLY: Hey there!

SINGER: ChooChoo, Pirouette?

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo, the brown-haired Woolly, and Pirouette, the Woolly wearing a pink bow, smile and wave.

CHOOCHOO: Hi!

PIROUETTE: Hey!

SINGER: Josie and Willy?

JOSIE, THE WHITE-HAIRED WOOLLY AND WILLY, THE BEARDED WOOLLY: Yoo-hoo!

SINGER: In their lovely tree, they're so full of charm!

[Opening credits continue] “Executive Producers François Trudel, Marc Dhrami and Vincent Leroux. Line Producer at Normaal, Damien Lévy.Production Director at PVP Media, Nicolas Dalpé.”

DESCRIPTION: The Woollys hike over a snowy mountain, through a desert, and over a rainbow. Willy is surrounded by candy.

WILLY: Like a sweet ball of yarn!

DESCRIPTION: The Woollys and other wool creatures, including Auntie Froggie and the Snowllys, come together in a grassy field with a yellow hill.

EVERYONE: Woolly Woolly!

[Title] “Woolly Woolly.

[Opening credits continue] Created and directed by Emmanuel Linderer.”

[Laughing]

[Gentle music plays]

[Episode title] The Rag.

[Opening credits continue] “Written by Valérie Nardi.” Storyboard by “Louise Mendoche.”

[Children laugh]

DESCRIPTION: On the playroom floor, Marco and Lila kneel in front of a cardboard theatre, with red curtains and Woollys drawn on it in crayon. On the blue wall behind the theatre is a sun, clouds, and a tree made out of clay. Marco holds up a torn crayon drawing.

MARCO: Look, Lila! My teacher asked me to trace her drawing. Oh no, it's torn! I can't give it back like this!

LILA: Here, use my tape!

MARCO: No, it won't look right...

LILA: I know, let's ask the Woollys. Maybe they can help us.

DESCRIPTION: Marco puts the Woollys on the floor. Lila drives a toy tractor to the Woollys and adds more Woollys to the pile.

MARCO: Alright! Let's ask ChooChoo and Pirouette...

LILA: Sure! And I'll add a llama, Josie, Willy and the Wowieewoo...

MARCO: To make our adventure more WOO!

DESCRIPTION: Lila takes the cardboard theatre and sets it on top of the pile of Woollys. The red curtains open, transporting the Woollys into Woollywood, an imaginary, whimsical world made entirely of wool. A knitted green landscape features a collection of knitted trees. The treehouse, Claudine, is laughing.

LILA: Haha! Our little adventure begins with lots of laughs!

[Claudine laughs]

CLAUDINE: Oh my...

[Claudine laughs]

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette and ChooChoo cartwheel in front of Claudine and look up at her.

CLAUDINE: Oh my goodness!

[Claudine laughs]

CHOOCHOO: Hello, Claudine.

PIROUETTE: Why are you laughing?

CLAUDINE: Hoho! It's Josie! Hehe! She's cleaning my basement and tickling my roots!

[Claudine laughs]

CHOOCHOO: Your basement?

PIROUETTE: Oh, can we go into your basement, too, please? Please, please, please?

[Claudine laughs]

DESCRIPTION: Claudine laughs and opens her door.

CLAUDINE: Well, sure, go ahead!

[Claudine laughs]

DESCRIPTION: Josie pops out from inside Claudine’s nose and sweeps some dust away.

JOSIE: That's it! I'm done! I hope that wasn't too ticklish, my dear Claudine.

[Claudine laughs]

CLAUDINE: It was… But it was quite amusing!

DESCRIPTION: Josie drops through Claudine’s nose and hops onto the ground. Just then, ChooChoo and Pirouette run out the door holding a large, gold coin.

[The coin reads] “10”.

PIROUETTE: Woah! Gramma Josie! What's this Wowie thingy? We found it in the basement!

JOSIE: Oh! That's a treasure that I found while I was sailing with the jolly pirates.

CHOOCHOO: A treasure? But it is all dirty!

JOSIE: You'll find everything you need to make it nice and shiny in the garden. And then, you may keep it! A gift from Gramma Josie!

PIROUETTE: Woh! Thank you, Gramma Josie! Yeah!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette hops onto the coin and rolls it down the hill.

[Pirouette groaning]

CLAUDINE: Say, Josie, maybe my basement needs a little more cleaning?

JOSIE: Oh! You just want more tickles, don't you?

[Josie laughs]

DESCRIPTION: Down in the garden, Pirouette and ChooChoo stand in front of a clothes line where three triangular garments hang. The first one is red, the second is green, orange, and pink, and the third is yellow.

PIROUETTE: So, how are we gonna clean it?

CHOOCHOO: With this rag!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo points to the second garment.

PIROUETTE: Are you sure that's actually a rag?

CHOOCHOO: Of course, look! Loose stitches, a rather simple garter stitch, a terrible combination of colors... it is obviously a rag.

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo takes the rag off the clothesline and tears it in half. ChooChoo hands one half to Pirouette and keeps the other.

[Rag tearing]

CHOOCHOO: Here! This way, we can both scrub at the same time.

DESCRIPTION: In a montage, ChooChoo and Pirouette scrub the coin.

[Friction]

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette holds up the coin, which shines brightly.

PIROUETTE: Wow! It's so beautiful!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo shakes out half of the dirt-covered rag.

CHOOCHOO: Yes, but this rag is completely finished!

DESCRIPTION: Josie walks into the garden.

JOSIE: Oh! Your treasure looks wonderful. Well done! Uh, has either of you seen my shawl?

CHOOCHOO: What does your shawl look like?

JOSIE: Well, it's a lovely triangular shape, with a simple garter stitch. It's green, orange and pink.

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette and ChooChoo hide the ripped, dirty halves of the shawl under their hats. Josie looks around the garden.

CHOOCHOO: Uh… Was this shawl special to you, Gramma Josie?

JOSIE: Indeed it is! My Willy knit it for me with soft wool taken from a wild llama who can only be found on the highest mountains of Woollywood. Well… I'll find it eventually!

PIROUETTE: Uh… This wasn't an actual rag! It was Gramma Josie's shawl!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette and ChooChoo drop the shawl halves on the ground and hide them under a bush. ChooChoo covers his eyes and hops around the garden.

CHOOCHOO: Oohlala, this is bad! This is very bad! This is really very bad!

PIROUETTE: Calm down, ChooChoo!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette puts the coin into ChooChoo’s backpack.

[ChooChoo gasps]

PIROUETTE: We just need to knit Gramma Josie a new shawl!

CHOOCHOO: But it is not possible! We do not have wild llama wool!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette hops on the clothesline and jumps out of the garden. ChooChoo follows.

PIROUETTE: Hep! Well, then we just need to get some, on the highest mountains of Woollywood…

DESCRIPTION: Later that day, ChooChoo and Pirouette are at the highest mountain in Woollywood. Pirouette and ChooChoo run up and down hills and roll in the grass.

PIROUETTE: Woohoo!

[Pirouette laughs]

PIROUETTE: Whoa, this grass is so soft! Woohoo!

[Pirouette laughs]

CHOOCHOO: Yes, yes, I am going to stop and take a nice nap on it...

[ChooChoo yawns]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo lies down on the grass and falls asleep. Pirouette runs back behind ChooChoo and pushes him across the hill.

PIROUETTE: Hang in there, lil' bro!

[Pirouette grunting]

PIROUETTE: We don't have any time for a nap.

[Pirouette grunting]

PIROUETTE: We still have a long way to go before we find a llama.

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette pushes ChooChoo up the mountain. ChooChoo looks up and is face-to-face with a llama.

CHOOCHOO: Found one!

PIROUETTE: Eee! That was fast! Woohoo!
[Pirouette laugh]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo pets and cuddles the llama. The llama chews on grass.

CHOOCHOO: Oohlala! He is really soft and fluffy. Oh… I want to live in wild llama wool…

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette pulls ChooChoo off the llama.

PIROUETTE: Oh! Later, later, little brother. First, we need to shear this llama. Is that okay with you, lil' llama buddy?

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette takes out a pair of shears and shows them to the llama. The llama turns, hops away, and continues eating grass.

CHOOCHOO: I get the impression it is not okay with him!

PIROUETTE: Maybe if we just explain! Please, cute and woolly wild llama. We really, really need some of your special wool. Thank you?

DESCRIPTION: The llama jogs away from them down the hill.

[The llama grunting]

PIROUETTE: Oh, come on! Just a little! I said "please and thank you"!

DESCRIPTION: In a montage, ChooChoo and Pirouette try to shear the llama’s wool, but the llama runs away each time. Disguised as bushes, ChooChoo and Pirouette sneak up behind the llama as it is eating from a bush. They climb up a flower that the llama is eating, before the flower breaks and launches the Woollys into the sky. The llama nibbles on a cloud but runs down the hill right as ChooChoo and Pirouette get close.

[Cowboy standoff music]

DESCRIPTION: The llama stands at one end of the field, eating grass with some sheep. ChooChoo and Pirouette stand on the other side. They stare each other down.

[Illama bleating]

[Sheep bleating]

[Cowboy standoff music ends]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo and Pirouette turn and huddle. They whisper to each other.

CHOOCHOO: I do not think he will cooperate.

PIROUETTE: But we need his soft, fluffy wool…

DESCRIPTION: Suddenly, ChooChoo is lifted into the air and pulled backwards. The llama bites ChooChoo’s backpack and walks away.

PIROUETTE: ChooChoo? Where are you going?

CHOOCHOO: I do not know! Pirouette, please help me!

DESCRIPTION: The llama brings ChooChoo over to the sheep and bites at his backpack.

[Choochoo thumps to the ground]

PIROUETTE: Hey! Don't chew ChooChoo!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette pulls ChooChoo away from the llama. The llama holds ChooChoo and Pirouette’s gold coin in his mouth.

[Pirouette grunting]

[Sheep bleating]

CHOOCHOO: Oohlala! He is chewing our treasure!

[The coin reads] “Ludwig Van Beethoven”

PIROUETTE: Yeah, and it looks like he really likes it! Now, may we please have a little bit of your wool… Please?

[Llama bleating]

DESCRIPTION: The llama nods and turns around. Pirouette takes the shears and quickly shears the llama. Pirouette picks up all the wool.

PIROUETTE: Mission accomplished! Now we just have to knit that shawl!

CHOOCHOO: What about our treasure!? Dear friend… I am just coming to take back our…

DESCRIPTION: The llama jumps onto the coin and rolls away on it.

[Llama grunting]

CHOOCHOO: Okay, okay… See you later, nice llama! And thank you!

DESCRIPTION: At the bottom of the hill, Pirouette puts the wool into ChooChoo’s backpack.

PIROUETTE: Where's the treasure?

CHOOCHOO: We can ask for it a little later. First, we need to knit that shawl!

DESCRIPTION: Over by a tree, ChooChoo sits on a mushroom and knits with the llama wool.

PIROUETTE: Is that it, ChooChoo? Are you done?

CHOOCHOO: Yes… Voilà!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo hands Pirouette a tiny, white, triangular shawl.

PIROUETTE: Oh... It's way too teenyweeny!

CHOOCHOO: Well, I only have my teenyweeny needles!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette rubs the tiny shawl on her face.

PIROUETTE: Too bad, because it's really, really soft...

CHOOCHOO: Here, I made you one as well.

PIROUETTE: Oh! Thank you, ChooChoo!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette holds the two tiny shawls together.

PIROUETTE: Hey! If we put them together… Oh! ChooChoo, I've got it! Knit more minishawls please!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo knits a tall stack of tiny shawls.

CHOOCHOO: That was the end of it...

PIROUETTE: Okay, okay! Let's spread them all out.

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette jumps from the top of the tree and knocks over all the tiny shawls.

PIROUETTE: Ha!

[Pirouette laughs]

PIROUETTE: Oops! Okay…

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette organizes all the small triangles into different shapes.

PIROUETTE: Um, no. That's a pine tree…

CHOOCHOO: Oh, what a pretty butterfly!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo hops off the mushroom and also tries to organize the triangles into different shapes.

CHOOCHOO: Oof!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo and Pirouette look down at the shape.

PIROUETTE: That's funny, it reminds me of something...

CHOOCHOA bubu-bu… A bu?

PIROUETTE: Oh! A bunny! We don't need one of those!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette organizes the triangles again. ChooChoo and Pirouette look down and see that the small triangles now make one big triangle.

PIROUETTE: Hooray! Now, this is a shawl! You're up, ChooChoo! Knit them together.

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo knits all of the triangles together to create a shawl.

PIROUETTE: Okay! It's perfect! Except for the color…

DESCRIPTION: The shawl is white and beige.

CHOOCHOO: Let us bring it to Gramma Josie and we will explain everything.

PIROUETTE: Yeah! Hop, and ding ding!

DESCRIPTION: Back at the garden, ChooChoo and Pirouette bring the shawl to Gramma Josie. Josie is sitting on a bench, wrapped in a pink, orange, and green shawl.

CHOOCHOO: Gramma Josie! Don't keep looking for your shawl, we used it as a rag to clean up our treasure, and now it is ruined!

PIROUETTE: But we made you a new one that is almost exactly like the other, wild llama wool and everything. We are so sorry, Gramma Josie.

JOSIE: Oh, that is very nice children but… I found my shawl! Willy had put it away.

CHOOCHOO: But... Then that rag we found was a…

[Willy humming]

[Willy whistles]

[Willy humming]

DESCRIPTION: Just then, Willy comes into the garden. He pushes a wheelbarrow full of pumpkins and looks around the clothesline.

WILLY: Oh! Tell me, dear Josie, have you seen your old shawl? You know, the one I put on my pumpkins to keep them nice and warm and cozy at night?

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo and Pirouette look at each other.

CHOOCHOO/ PIROUETTE: OHHH…

PIROUETTE: Here, Grampa Willy. It isn't exactly Gramma Josie's old shawl, but this one is even warmer and cozier. Your pumpkins are gonna love it!

[Everyone laughs]

DESCRIPTION: Outside the garden, the llama rolls the coin past their treehouse.

LILA: Maybe one day, Pirouette and ChooChoo will find their treasure again… but that's another story.

DESCRIPTION: The red curtains close on the cardboard theatre. In the playroom, Lila and Marco clean up all the toys.

[Lila and Marco laugh]

LILA: Marco, you should just tell your teacher the truth about her drawing.

MARCO: Right! I'll tell her that my pet llama ate it! As a joke of course.

[Marco and Lila laugh]

LILA: Good one!

[End credits] Original Music by Tim Rideout. Original Voice Director Thor Bishopric. With the voices of Sonja Ball, Josie. Lucinda Davis, BeeBee. Terrence Scammel, Willy. Jodie Resther, ChooChoo. Dalal Sabra, Pirouette. Simon Peacock, Snowllys. Gaëlle Serra, Lila. Viggo Hanvelt, Marco. Theme song performed by Gaëlle Serra, Lila. Copyright Normaal, P.V.P. Media, V.I. Incorporated, 2024.