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Kaa: [after Mowgli learns he has been deceived by the snake] If I never see that skinny little shrimp again, it will be too soon. [slithering away] Oh, my sacroiliac. Shere Khan: [while Baloo holds his tail] Let go, you big oaf! Mowgli: [angrily hitting Shere Khan's face with a stick] Take that, ya big bully!

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Bagheera: [first lines; narrates] Many strange legends are told of these jungles of India, but none so strange as the story of the small boy named Mowgli. It all began when the silence of the jungle was broken by the unfamiliar sound. [at the sound of a baby's cries, Bagheera stops at Baby Mowgli's boat] It was the sound that had never been heard before in this part of the jungle. [Bagheera looks at this boat with Baby Mowgli] It was a Man-Cub! If I had known how deeply I was to be involved, I would have obeyed my first impulse and walked away. [Bagheera turns back on this branch, but hears Baby Mowgli crying again, making him return. He looks down and sees Baby Mowgli, who looks at him playfully] This Man-Cub would have to have nourishment, and soon. It was many days' travel to the nearest Man Village, and without a mother's care, he would soon perish. Then, it occurred to me. The family of wolves I knew had been blessed with a litter of cubs. [the wolf pups play around their mother R

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Mowgli: :[rides on Bagheera's back in the night] Bagheera, I’m getting a little sleepy. Shouldn't we start back home? Bagheera: Mowgli, this time, we're not going back. I'm taking you to a Man Village. Mowgli: But why? Bagheera: Because Shere Khan has returned to this part of the jungle, and he has sworn to kill you. Mowgli: Kill me? But why would he wanna do that? Bagheera: He hates man, and Shere Khan is not going to allow you to grow up to become a man; just another hunter with a gun. Mowgli: Aw, we'll just explain to him that I'd never do a thing like that. Bagheera: Nonsense. No one explains anything to Shere Khan. Mowgli: Well, maybe so, but I'm not afraid. And besides, I- Bagheera: [interrupts] Now, that's enough. We'll spend the night here. Things will look better in the morning. Man-Cub? Man-Cub! Now, come on. Up this tree. You'll be safer up there. Mowgli: Uh, I don't wanna go back to the man-village. Bagheera: Go on. Up you go. Mowgli: That limb way up there? Bagheera: That'

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Mowgli: [waking up, sees the elephants] A parade! Bagheera: Oh no. The Dawn Patrol again. The Elephants: Hup, two, three, four/Keep it up, two, three, four/Hup, two, three, four/Keep it up, two, three, four/Hup, two, three, four. [Mowgli climbs down the tree] Colonel Hathi: Company, sound off! The Elephants: Oh, the aim of our patrol/ Elephant: Is a question rather droll/ The Elephants: For to march and drill over field and hill. [they trumpet with their trunks] Colonel Hathi: [tapping his trunk with the bamboo stick] Is a military goal! The Elephants: Is a military goal! [Mowgli comes out of the bushes as Colonel Hathi and the other elephants march by] Hup, two, three, four/Dress it up, two, three, four/By the ranks or single file/Over every jungle mile [Mowgli sees Hathi, Jr. pass by]/Oh, we stamp and crush through the underbrush/ [Hathi, Jr. trumpets] Hathi, Jr.: In the "miritaly" style! The Elephants: In the military style! Mowgli: [to Hathi, Jr.] Hello, what are you doing? Hathi,

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Colonel Hathi: Company, left face! [elephants turn around in a military fashion] Winifred: March, march, march. My feet are killing me. Elephant #1: [whispers] I'm putting in for a transfer to another herd. Colonel Hathi: Silence in the ranks! [walks around the rank] Dress up that line. [The elephants raise their rears, as he hits Winifred's rear with his bamboo stick, she raises her rear and yelps] Pull it in, Winifred. [walks back to front] Inspection, arms! Hathi, Jr.: [to Mowgli] Stick your nose out. Mowgli: [lifts his head up] Like this? Hathi, Jr.: That's right. Colonel Hathi: [looking closely at a recruit’s trunk] Tsk, tsk, tsk. A dusty muzzle. [to the elephant in question] Soldier, remember, in battle, that trunk can save your life. [taps trunk with stick] Take good care of it, my man. Elephant #2: Yes, sir! Colonel Hathi: Very good. Carry on. [the next recruit has dirty tusks and is lazily chewing on some vegetation until Colonel Hathi clears his throat in serious annoyance. T

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Baloo: [scat-singing] ♪ Doo-bee doo-bee doo-bee dee-doo. Well, it's a doo-bah-dee-do, yes, it's a doo-bah-dee-do, I mean a doo-be doo-bee doo-be, doo-be doo-bee doo. And with- ♪ [stops singing; sees Mowgli] Well, now. [chuckles] What have we here? [sniffs Mowgli's hair and gets Mowgli really annoyed with his head down] Hmm. Hey! What a funny little bit of a- Oh! Mowgli: [angrily slaps Baloo in his nose] Go away! Baloo: Oh, boy! I've seen everything in these woods. Ooh, what have I run on? What a pretty thing this is! Mowgli: Leave me alone. Baloo: [pats on Mowgli's back] Well, now. That's pretty big talk, Little Britches. Mowgli: I'm big enough. [starts hitting Baloo in the belly repeatedly] Baloo: [unimpressed] Ha-ha...tsk-tsk-tsk. Pitiful. Hey, kid, you need help, and old Baloo's gonna learn you to fight like a bear. Now, come on, I'm gonna show you. Grrr! [starts to dance around and Mowgli too, mimicking Baloo's move] Ha-ha! Yeah. All right now kid, loosen up, get real loose, then s

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Baloo: Hey, Mowgli, how about you flickin' that old mean fly off of your papa bear's nose? [The monkey hits Baloo with a stick] OUCH! [chuckling] Boy, when you flick a fly, you really- [finally, he opens his eyes wide, shocked, when he mistakes a monkey to be Mowgli and angrily swipes a paw at the monkey] Why, you, flat-nosed, little eyed, flaky creep! Mowgli: [angrily held in the branches above] HEY! LET GO OF ME!! Baloo: Take your flea-picking hands off of my Man-Cub! Monkey #1: Come on and get him, champ! Monkey #2: He ain't no champ, he's a chump! Mowgli: [swinging by monkey] Baloo! Monkey #3: Yeah! Ha-ha! A big hothead! Baloo: [tries to get out of water] Okay, you guys asked for it, I'll-- Oof! [falls into water] Monkey #4: That'll cool him off! [laughs crazily] Baloo: [gets out of water, attempting to chase the monkeys] Give me back my Man-Cub! Monkey #2: There he is! Come and get him! Monkey #3: [points at Baloo] That's how a bear can rest at ease! Monkey #5: Here's some bare ne

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King Louie: [scat-singing] ♪ Ding ding lo-la diddly-o zing boing. Sca-be-do, hoo-be-do, zee-bo do-zeb. Diddly-doo dee-hoy. [shoots the banana, and then he put the peel on his head] I wanna be a man-man one or-rang-a-tang tang jango. ♪ Monkey 1: Ha-ha! We got him, King Louie! Monkey 5: Man, we got him, we got him! King Louie: Ha-ha-ha! So, you're the Man-Cub? Crazy. [rolls his eyes] Mowgli: I'm not as crazy as you are. [to the monkeys angrily] Put me down! [when the monkey lets go of his ankles, he lands flat on his face, angrily shaking a fist at the monkey] You cut that out! King Louie: [picks up Mowgli by his loincloth] Cool it, boy, and unwind yourself. [scat-sings to himself; Mowgli furiously punches the air] Now, c'mon, let's shake, cousin. [grabs Mowgli's hand and shakes it] Mowgli: What do ya want me for?! King Louie: Word has grabbed my royal ear that you wanna stay in the jungle. [opens Mowgli's mouth] Have a banana. [shoots the banana into Mowgli's mouth] Mowgli: [mouth full;

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Bagheera: And furthermore, Baloo, Mowgli seems to have man's ability to get into trouble, and your influence hasn't been exactly-- Baloo: Shh! Keep it down. You're gonna wake Little Buddy. Bagheera: Ohh! Baloo: Well, he's had a big day. It was a real sockaroo. You know, it ain't easy learning to be like me. Bagheera: Puh! A disgraceful performance; Associating with those undesirable, scatterbrained apes. Huh. I hope Mowgli learned something from that experience. Mowgli: [sighs, talks in his sleep] Scooby-dooby-dooby-doo. Baloo: Ha-ha. That's my boy. Bagheera: Oh, nonsense. [Baloo puts leaves under Mowgli's head] Baloo? Over here. I'd like to have a word with you. Baloo: A word? You gonna talk some more? [yawns] All right, what's up, Bagheera? Bagheera: Baloo, the Man-Cub must go back to the Man Village. The jungle is not the place for him. Baloo: [eats some grapes from a tree] I grew up in the jungle. Take a look at me. [eats some more grapes] Bagheera: Yes, just look at yourself. Look

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The Elephants: [marching and singing] ♪ Hup, two, three, four! Hup, two, three, four! Keep it up, two, three! ♪ Shere Khan: [annoyed] What beastly luck. Confound that ridiculous Colonel Hathi. Colonel Hathi: Company, sound off! Jungle Patrol: [singing] Oh, we march from here to there Slob Elephant: [singing] And it doesn't matter where Jungle Patrol: [singing] You can hear us push through the deepest bush, hup, two, three, four! Colonel Hathi: [singing] With a military air! Jungle Patrol: [singing] With a military air! [they trumpet again, catching Bagheera's attention] Bagheera: The Jungle Patrol! [rushes off to ask for their help in finding Mowgli] Jungle Patrol: [singing] We're a crackerjack brigade on a pachyderm parade, but we'd rather stroll through a water hole Hathi Jr.: Hup, two, three, four! For a furlough in the shade! Jungle Patrol: For a furlough in the shade! Bagheera: Stop! Wait a minute. [bellows] HALT!!! Colonel Hathi: [The other elephants bump into the back of him] Oh

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Mowgli: :[walks aimlessly alone in the jungle. Kaa picks Mowgli with his tail from the ground and raises to the branch he is on; surprised] Kaa, it's you! Kaa: Yes, Man-Cub, so nice to see you again. [laughs evilly] Mowgli: [angrily pushing Kaa away again] Oh, go away. Leave me alone. Kaa: [trying to hypnotize Mowgli by getting him to look into his eyes] Let me look at you. [Mowgli turns away from Kaa's eyes] You don't want me to look at you? [turns Mowgli's head] Then you look at me. [hypnotizes Mowgli with his eyes, and looks away] Mowgli: No, sir. [Kaa wrap his tail to him] I know what you're trying to do, Kaa! Kaa: [incredulously] You do? Uh, I mean, you don't trust me? Mowgli: No. Kaa: Then there's nothing I can do to help. Mowgli: [untied Kaa's tail with his leg] You want to help me? Kaa: [sneaks behind Mowgli, and now waving agreement] Certainly. I can see to it that you never have to leave this jungle. Mowgli: How could you do that? Kaa: Hmm? Oh, I have my own subtle little way

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Buzzy: [yawns] Hey, Flaps. What we gonna do? Flaps: I don't know. What'cha wanna do? Ziggy: I've got it! Let's flap over to the east side of the jungle. They've always got a bit of action, a bit of a swingin' scene, all right! Buzzy: Aw, come off it. Things are right dead all over. Ziggy: You mean that you wish they were! Dizzy: [seriously] Very funny. Buzzy: Okay. So, what we gonna do? Flaps: I don't know. What'cha wanna do? Buzzy: Look, Flaps. First, I say, "What we gonna do?" Then you say, "I don't know. What'cha wanna do?" Then I say, "What we gonna do?" Then you say, "What'cha wanna do?" "What we gonna do? What you want..." Let's do something! Flaps: Okay. What'cha wanna do? Buzzy: [annoyed] Oh, blimey. There you go again, the same notes again! Ziggy: I've got it! This time, I've really got it! Buzzy: So, you got it. So, what we gonna do? Dizzy: [spots Mowgli approaching] Hold it, lads. Look. Look what's coming our way. Flaps: Hey, what in the world is that? Ziggy: What a crazy-lo

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Baloo: Hey, Baggy, too bad you missed the action. You should have seen how I made a sucker out Old Stripes with that left up in his face. [fists Bagheera's face] "Boom, boom," I was giving him wham! [to Mowgli] You wanna know something? We're good sparring partners. Mowgli: [imitating Baloo's sentence] You better believe it! Baloo: Yes, sir! [hugging Mowgli] Nothing that nobody is ever gonna come between us again. Shanti: ♪ My own home. My own home. My own home. My own home. ♪ Mowgli: [sees Shanti from the Man Village for the first time] Look. What's that? Bagheera: Oh, it's the Man Village. Mowgli: No, no. [about Shanti] I mean that. Baloo: Forget about those. They ain't nothing but trouble. Mowgli: [moving closer] Just a minute. I've never seen one before. Baloo: So you've seen one. So let's go. Mowgli: [begins climbing the tree] I'll be right back. I want a better look. Baloo: Mowgli, wait a minute! Bagheera: Ah, Baloo. Let him have a better look. Shanti: [singing] ♪ Father's huntin