Woolly Woolly: WoolFoot

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[Bright music plays]

CHILD: Whee!

[Logos] t.v.o. kids. P.V.P. Media. Normaal Original.

[Child giggling]

[Cheerful, upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: In a world made of wool, the Woollys, five 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.

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.

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.

BROWN-HAIRED AND BOW-WEARING WOOLLY: Hey!

SINGER: Out there having fun?

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

ALL WOOLLYS: Woolly Woolly!!!

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

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

SMALL WOOLLY: Woo-Hoo!

SINGER: Have you met BeeBee?

BEEBEE: Hey there!

SINGER: ChooChoo, Pirouette?

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

CHOOCHOO AND PIROUETTE: Hey!

SINGER: Josie and Willy?

JOSIE AND WILLY: Woo-Hoo

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

DESCRIPTION: The Woollys hike over a snowy mountain, through a desert and over a rainbow.

[Credits continue] “Executive Producers François Trudel, Marc Dhrami and Vincent Leroux.”

WILLY: Like a sweet ball of yarn!

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

EVERYONE: Woolly Woolly!

[Title] Woolly Woolly. Created and directed by Emmanuel Linderer.

[Laughing]

[Gentle music plays]

[Episode Title] WoolFoot. Written by Taylor Annisette. Storyboard by Perrine Marais.
[Gentle music plays]

DESCRIPTION: On the playroom floor, Lila and Marco play in front of their cardboard theatre with a striped box, a board book over a stack of blocks and a wooden train track. Lila places a toy dog on a skateboard on the slope of the book next to a toy car.

LILA: Let's see which one goes the furthest. One, two...

[Weird noise]

MARCO WHISPERING: Lila, shhh! There's a strange noise in the room. Listen.

[Weird noise]

LILA: I don't hear anything. Come on, let's do this! One... two...

MARCO: What if it was a monster hidden in our room?!

LILA: A what? Pfft. Come on, there wasn't even a noise! You know what? Let's play with the Woollys, to get your mind off this monster stuff!

DESCRIPTION: Lila clears away the toys, including the blocks, board book, train track and striped box.

MARCO: Okay. But I wanna choose ChooChoo. I'm sure he would believe me.

LILA: I'll choose… everyone else! Plus a WowieWoo, to make our adventure more...

DESCRIPTION: Lila drops a pile of Woolly Woollys next to ChooChoo, then adds a brown paper bag as the WowieWoo.

LILA, LIKE A GHOST: WOO...

MARCO: Hey!

[Lila giggling]

DESCRIPTION: Lila and Marco place the cardboard theatre over the Woollys. The theatre features drawings of the Woollys and red cardboard curtains.

LILA NARRATING: It was snack time in WoollyWood!

[Magical music briefly plays]

DESCRIPTION: In a forest, ChooChoo sits on a picnic blanket with muffins.

[ChooChoo sighing happily]

CHOOCHOO: These muffins smell delicious, BeeBee!

DESCRIPTION: BeeBee joins ChooChoo and eats a muffin.

[Munching]

[Rustling]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo looks around.

CHOOCHOO: Huh? Was that you?

DESCRIPTION: BeeBee shakes his head.

[Rustling]

DESCRIPTION: A nearby bush shakes. ChooChoo hides behind BeeBee.

CHOOCHOO: Mmm-mmm-monster!

DESCRIPTION: In the distance, a fluffy animal covered with leaves and sticks in its white wool walks in the shadows between the trees.

[Suspenseful music plays briefly]

CHOOCHOO: Ah!

DESCRIPTION: The animal steps away. BeeBee finishes his muffin.

[Munching]

CHOOCHOO: What was that? It must have been at least... two Woollys tall!

DESCRIPTION: BeeBee eats another muffin.

BEEBEE: Mmm! Let's ask my Gramma, she knows everything!

[Rustling]

[ChooChoo and BeeBee screaming]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo and BeeBee abandon their picnic and run away.

[BeeBee laughing]

DESCRIPTION: BeeBee returns. He eats another muffin, then runs through the forest with ChooChoo. ChooChoo looks back with a frown.

CHOOCHOO: I hope that thing is not following us.

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo runs straight into the brown paper bag, the WowieWoo.

[ChooChoo grunting]

DESCRIPTION: BeeBee slows to a stop.

CHOOCHOO: Ooh-lala! I have been eaten by the monster! Ah!

BEEBEE: It's not a monster!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo steps out of the WowieWoo and looks around.

BEEBEE: What is this strange Wowie thingy?

CHOOCHOO: Well, as long as it is not the mouth of a monster, it is fine with me!

[Rustling]

CHOOCHOO: Ooh-lala!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo throws the WowieWoo paper bag over himself and BeeBee.

BEEBEE UNDER THE BAG: Come on, ChooChoo. Let's go see Gramma Josie!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo and BeeBee continue through the forest under the WowieWoo paper bag.

[Exciting music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Outside Claudine, the treehouse, wool hills drop to the ground. Wool paths unroll, and mountains rise in the distance.

[Soothing music plays]

[Claudine sighing in relaxation]

CLAUDINE: What a nice, quiet day.

DESCRIPTION: Claudine rests her eyes.

[Intense music plays briefly]

DESCRIPTION: In the WowieWoo bag, ChooChoo and BeeBee race up to Claudine.

CHOOCHOO UNDER THE BAG: Good morning, Claudine! Open the door, please and thank you! We saw a monster! Hurry, please now!

CLAUDINE: ChooChoo, is that you?

CHOOCHOO: Yes, Claudine, I am with BeeBee. Please open the door!

CLAUDINE: What are you doing under that...

DESCRIPTION: Willy walks up and looks at the WowieWoo bag.

WILLY: Hello, Claudine! Why are you talking to this...

[ChooChoo and BeeBee frantically speaking over each other]

WILLY: Sweet ball of yarn! Who's in there?

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo lifts the WowieWoo bag, and BeeBee steps out.

CHOOCHOO: It is us!

BEEBEE: Hello, Grampa!

CHOOCHOO: We have to talk to Gramma Josie about the monster we saw!

DESCRIPTION: Josie dangles upside down from one of Claudine’s big red earrings.

JOSIE: A monster! What kind of monster?

CHOOCHOO: It was big!

BEEBEE: And round!

CHOOCHOO: And fluffy!

BEEBEE: Very fluffy!

CHOOCHOO: And it was two, no, three Woollys tall!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo stacks Willy on top of BeeBee, then BeeBee on top of Willy, and Willy and BeeBee fall.

JOSIE: Oh! Big, round, fluffy and tall? Why, that sounds just like... the legendary WoolFoot!

[Dramatic music plays briefly]

[Willy chuckling]

WILLY: WoolFoot's just a legend.

DESCRIPTION: Josie climbs down from Claudine.

JOSIE: I've met some legends, you know. And we've all met Yannick the Yeti! I have a section on monsters in my big book of tips and tricks!

DESCRIPTION: Josie pulls a book from inside her hat.

JOSIE: It says right here, you see, that WoolFoot could drink an entire ocean! And it would roar a great big... BARGH!

[Josie roaring like a monster]

[ChooChoo screaming]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo runs under the WowieWoo paper bag.

[ChooChoo breathing heavily]

DESCRIPTION: Willy walks over to the bag.

WILLY: There's no such thing as WoolFoot. There must be another explanation!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo lifts the WowieWoo bag.

CHOOCHOO: WoolFoot is real! I think we should stay in here and hide. Please, come in!

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo drops the WowieWoo bag over himself.

BEEBEE: Or... We could catch WoolFoot! Then, we won't have to worry anymore!

JOSIE: What a fine idea, BeeBee! Alright, everyone! Let's go get it! Hup, hup, hup!

DESCRIPTION: Josie and BeeBee start to walk away.

CHOOCHOO UNDER THE BAG: Ooh-lala.

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo follows Josie and BeeBee.

[Willy grunting]

[Willy sighing]

WILLY: Well, I suppose the walk won't hurt.

DESCRIPTION: Willy follows ChooChoo.

[Claudine sighing in relaxation]

CLAUDINE: As I was saying, what a nice, quiet day.

[Funky music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Claudine rests her eyes. Day turns to evening as the forest takes her place. In a small clearing, ChooChoo, BeeBee, Josie and Willy gather around a campfire.

JOSIE: Oh, this is perfect! A cozy place to sleep, a campfire to tell stories, and a trap for our WoolFoot!

DESCRIPTION: Next to the campsite, a line of muffins leads to the WowieWoo bag propped up against a stick.

WILLY: There's no such thing as a WoolFoot...

[Thump]

[Dramatic music plays briefly]

DESCRIPTION: The group of Woollys jumps.

CHOOCHOO: Ooh-lala!

DESCRIPTION: The WowieWoo bag shakes.

[Rustling]

BEEBEE: WoolFoot! It's in the trap!

DESCRIPTION: The group of Woollys runs over to the trap.

[Rustling]

BEEBEE: Go on, ChooChoo. Check that we caught the right monster.

[Suspenseful music plays]

[ChooChoo gulping]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo walks toward the trap with a stick. Pirouette lifts the WowieWoo bag, and ChooChoo jumps.

[ChooChoo yelping]

DESCRIPTION: ChooChoo drops the sticks and runs away.

CHOOCHOO: Pirouette?! What are you doing in our monster trap?

[Pirouette munching]

PIROUETTE: A monster trap? I just followed the scent of these muffins and... Ha ha! Here I am!

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette steps out from under the WowieWoo bag.

JOSIE: Well, at least we know the trap works!

WILLY: Oh yes, I'm sure you'll catch plenty more Woollys... I mean WoolFoot, next time.

[Willy chuckling]

DESCRIPTION: Later in the evening, Josie knits by the campfire. Pirouette eats a muffin. BeeBee adds wood to the fire.

CHOOCHOO: I put some new muffins in the trap.

[Grunting]

[Dramatic music briefly plays]

DESCRIPTION: Everyone jumps. They look toward the clearing with the trap. ChooChoo looks at Josie, Pirouette, himself and BeeBee.

CHOOCHOO: One, two, three, four...

[Dramatic music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Everyone looks back toward Willy.

CHOOCHOO: …five Woollys! Ah! It is definitely WoolFoot this time!

DESCRIPTION: Everyone runs to the clearing with the trap and gathers around the WowieWoo paper bag. From underneath, Yeti Yannick lifts the WowieWoo bag, and the others jump back.

[Others yelping]

BEEBEE: It's Yeti Yannick!

DESCRIPTION: BeeBee runs up to Yeti Yannick, and they share a hug.

[Josie laughing]

Josie: Hello, Yannick!

YANNICK: Oh, hello! I followed a trail of delicious muffins. Um, do you know where I can find some more?

[Everyone sighing]

DESCRIPTION: BeeBee hugs Yannick, and they return to the campsite with the BeeBee and Pirouette. Josie resets the trap with a line of muffins. Willy joins her.

WILLY: Looks like no WoolFoot "yeti".

[Willy chuckling]

WILLY: Get it?

[Willy chuckling]

DESCRIPTION: Josie and Willy return to the campsite as day turns to night. Everyone sits around the campfire.

YANNICK: So you're all trying to catch WoolFoot? I thought it was just a legend.

BEEBEE: You're a legend, Yeti Yannick!

CHOOCHOO: We saw it! It was three, no, four Woollys tall!

WILLY: Oh! Nonsense! It's just a silly story! Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have some very real sleep to catch.

DESCRIPTION: Willy lies down and rolls up into his blanket. At the edge of the trees, he closes his eyes.

[ChooChoo whimpering]

CHOOCHOO: I heard that WoolFoot eats whole trees in one gulp!

BEEBEE: Well, I heard that WoolFoot's so big, it sleeps on a herd of sheep!

JOSIE: Well, I heard that it snores louder than a waterfall!

DESCRIPTION: With his eyes open, Willy snuggles deeper into his blanket.

[Yannick laughing]

YANNICK: And I heard that it burps out bats!

PIROUETTE: I haven't heard anything.

DESCRIPTION: Pirouette looks around at the others, who look around at each other. BeeBee shrugs.

BEEBEE: BARGH!

[BeeBee giggling]

PIROUETTE: BARGH!

[Pirouette laughing]

PIROUETE: We're WoollyFoots!

[Laughing]

DESCRIPTION: Willy lies asleep wrapped up in his blanket.

WILLY: There's no reason to be afraid. It's just a silly story. A very silly...

[Rumbling]

WILLY: Huh?

DESCRIPTION: Willy jumps up.

WILLY: Oh! It's WoolFoot!

[Willy screaming]

DESCRIPTION: Willy runs away, still wrapped up in his blanket.

[Yannick chuckling]

YANNICK: Excuse me, Willy, it was me.

WILLY: No! I heard it, it was WoolFoot!

DESCRIPTION: Willy stumbles into the WowieWoo bag trap and knocks it over.

[Willy screaming]

WILLY: WoolFoot caught me!

DESCRIPTION: Everyone rushes into the WowieWoo bag trap clearing.

JOSIE: Oh, don't worry, my dear Willy, there is no WoolFoot here.

DESCRIPTION: Willy lifts the WowieWoo bag.

WILLY: But I heard it! A big and loud...

[Grunting]

[Willy and ChooChoo screaming]

DESCRIPTION: Willy and ChooChoo hide under the WowieWoo bag.

WILLY AND CHOOCHOO UNDER THE BAG: WoolFoot!

JOSIE: I won't let anyone scare my Willy! Yannick, let's catch that WoolFoot!

DESCRIPTION: Yannick grabs the WowieWoo bag and leaves with Josie. Willy and ChooChoo hug each other and shiver.

BEEBEE: Be careful, Gramma!

PIROUETTE: Be careful, Yannick!

YANNICK FROM AFAR: Josie! Here!

JOSIE FROM AFAR: Ha-ha! Got you!

[Dramatic music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Willy, ChooChoo, BeeBee and Pirouette run back to the campsite. Josie and Yannick follow with a creature in the WowieWoo bag.

JOSIE: Ho-ho! Let's see what this WoolFoot looks like.

[Drum roll]

DESCRIPTION: Yannick removes the WowieWoo bag and uncovers the fluffy animal with sticks and leaves in its white wool.

[Sheep bleating]

PIROUETTE: This is your monster? An unsheared sheep?

DESCRIPTION: Willy looks at the sheep.

WILLY: Uh…

[Willy laughing nervously]

WILLY: That's exactly what I told you! There's no such thing as a WoolFoot!

[Willy yawning]

WILLY: Good night!

DESCRIPTION: Willy lays down his blanket. He rolls himself up in the blanket and covers his eyes.

JOSIE: Oh, Willy's right, it's time to sleep.

DESCRIPTION: Josie walks over to the sheep.

JOSIE: And you, my friend, why not spend the night with us, and we'll shear you in the morning?

[Sheep bleating]

MARCO NARRATING: And the fake WoolFoot made a perfect pillow for the Woollys!

DESCRIPTION: Josie, Yannick, BeeBee, ChooChoo and Pirouette lie against the sheep.

[Everyone sighing]

DESCRIPTION: Everyone pulls out their blankets.

[Everyone laughing]

[Dramatic music plays]

DESCRIPTION: The cardboard theatre curtains close.

[Gentle, cheerful music plays]

DESCRIPTION: In the playroom, Lila and Marco lift the cardboard theatre off the Woollys and set it against the wall. Next to the Woollys and the brown paper bag on the floor, the striped box shakes.

[Weird noise]

LILA: Marco! Now I hear the noise! Look! It was just your robot under this box.

DESCRIPTION: Lila lifts the striped box off a toy robot.

LILA: You forgot to turn it off!

MARCO: Got you!

DESCRIPTION: Marco traps the robot with the brown paper bag.

[Marco giggling]

[Upbeat music plays]

[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.