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Adventures in Wonderland is a live-action children's television series based on Walt Disney's animated classic Alice in Wonderland. In the series, Alice (played by Elisabeth Harnois), is portrayed as a girl who can go to and from Wonderland simply by walking through her mirror (most likely a reference to Wonderland's source material Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass).
Usually the format consisted of Alice coming home from school and talking to Dina (her cat) about a problem facing her that day, then going into Wonderland and finding the residents of that world facing a similar crisis. At the end of each episode she would return to the real world with a solution to her problem. In some cases, Alice would have a problem with her little brother, her older sister, a friend, or some other dilemma, and by the show's end, she would know how to deal with it. In "To Tear Is Human," Alice learns a lesson in humility when she splits her pants in the middle of a charades game, making her not so quick to laugh at other people's misfortune. (Earlier in the episode, she had laughed at another student for dropping his lunch tray.)
The show ran from 1991 to 1995 on the Disney Channel and on stations across the country. Like many Disney Channel original shows, Adventures in Wonderland was taped at Disney-MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, but on a single giant set for all scenes in "wonderland", used exclusively for the show.
d Queen: Maybe the Duchess is better than I am after all. ite Rabit: Your majesty, don't say that! A lot of people are better than you but certinly not the duchess.
d Queen: Now you know what it's like to be treated unfairly. The way you treated the Walrus! ice: You really should just talk to him. He's very nice. d Queen: I'll say, and he spoke up for all of you, even though you wanted to exclude him. eedle Dum: Well... I guess we were being really unfair. ite Rabit: Uh... Can you ever forgive us, Mr. Walrus? lrus: Well, of course. Of course! No hard feelings! And I don't think you've ever heard this about walrus', but we never hold a grudge! rch Hare: That's okay, now that we're friends we'll hold it for you.
d Hatter: Really Hare! Do you have to make so much noise while I'm reading? You know I like it quiet enough to hear a feather fall. rch Hare: I do now. What is that your reading, anyway? d Hatter: The Search For The Mummy's Treasure. rch Hare: When it comes to MY mummy, I'm her one and only treasure! d Hatter: Not that kind of mummy! Not mother! The kind of mummy I'm reading about is all wrappped up in cloth and walks like this. [imitates a mummy's walk and frightens the Hare] rch Hare: He probably walks like that because his pants are wrapped too tight! d Hatter: No. He walks like that to scare archeologists away from the treasure.
d Queen: You know, sometimes old things are better than new ones, flaws and all. d Hatter: Exactly. Why, we'd rather have our old Queen than a young one any day!
d Hatter: [re-enacting the scene of the crime] And then I slipped... and fell against the pedestal. [his hat falls off revealing the missing crown. Everyone gasps] d Hatter: It's alright. I'm fine! d Queen: Hatter! My crown! d Hatter: Yes, I know you want your crown! But don't worry, Your Majesty, with me on the case the crown-snatcher won't be able to keep this dastardly deed under his hat forever! d Queen: I mean, just give me my crown! [takes it from his head. He gasps at the realization] d Hatter: It was under my hat the whole time? rch Hare: Boy, I sure hope this doesn't get into the private eye newsletter! d Hatter: Your Majesty, I had no idea the crown fell on my head. You believe me, don't you? d Queen: What's not to believe? ice: Right. It's not that you and the Hare are bad detectives. You were just looking for crowns in all the wrong places.
rch Hare: How could I have been so conceited! ice: Don't feel bad. You just got carried away. d Hatter: You are still the smartest hare in my book. rch Hare: Really? d Hatter: Sure. [opens up his own dictionary] See, under S for smart, that's your picture. rch Hare: Well, it sure wasn't very smart of me to think I didn't need my books. d Queen: That's the smartest thing you've said lately, Hare. So smart in fact, I have a question for you. rch Hare: Sorry, I'm out of the question answering business. d Queen: I don't care. My question is, do you want your Smarty-Pants Medal back? rch Hare: No way! I don't deserve it! I'm just a know nothing! ite Rabit: No, you're not a know nothing. You're just a not know everything. d Queen: Listen to the Rabbit. He knows these things. rch Hare: Okay, so if I'm not a know-nothing I'm at least a know very little. d Hatter: No way are you a know very little! ice: You're at least a know a lot! ite Rabit: Yes, and a know a lot still deserves a Smarty-Pants Medal.
d Queen: [on learning how different Christmas in Wonderland is] Well, this is terrible! Poor Alice doesn't have any Christmas traditions! ice: Oh, but I do! Like, decorating the Christmas tree in the living room. rch Hare: You have a tree in your living room? d Hatter: Well, I have enough trouble with the vacuming, I sure wouldn't want to rake the carpet!
d Hatter: [on finding out the Hatter has won a castle in another land] Hare, you almost don't sound happy for me. rch Hare: Oh no, I'm happy as a clown! d Hatter: Clowns are happy! rch Hare: When they're around their best friends they are.
ice: [On learning about the Hatter's leaving Wonderland] Mr. Hare, are you sure you're not the saddest one of all? rch Hare: Oh no, I'm happy as a clown! eedle Dee: Clowns are happy! rch Hare: Not unless one of their best friends moves to another side of the world, leaving them cooped up in their shell, wondering when they'll ever see them again.
d Queen: What kind of tree is it? rch Hare: It's a weeping willow. d Queen: A weeping willow! I don't want to wake up in the morning and hear a willow weeping outside in my garden, that's depressing! ite Rabit: No, Your Majesty, the tree's branches droop so that it appears to be weeping. The tree doesn't really cry. d Hatter: This one does! And not only does it water itself, it also waters all your other plants!
rch Hare: [looking for a spare key] It's got to be in here somewhere! I don't know where to start! Why did I keep all this junk? I should have dumped this stuff long ago, but I did not have the heart!






