Quotes

Lamb Chop's Play-Along

Lamb Chop: Our next song is going to be...
[starts singing]
Lamb Chop: Yankee Doodle went to town on a horse named Maxi, but Lamb Chop always got there first because she took a taxi!

[upon discovering that Lamb Chop has the hiccups]
Shari Lewis: How do you get rid of the hiccups?
Lamb Chop: Oh! When I get the hiccups, I can ne - *hic* - ever get rid of them!
Charlie Horse: Lamb Chop...
[Charlie Horse screams at Lamb Chop, and Lamb Chop screams in shock]
Lamb Chop: Whatever were you doing?
Charlie Horse: I was trying to scare the hiccups out of you.
Lamb Chop: You scared the daylights out of me! My hiccups are still fine, thank you. *Hic*
Shari Lewis: Lamb Chop...
Lamb Chop: Don't fool around!
Shari Lewis: I'm not going to touch you! Oh, I know what to do!
[to Lamb Chop]
Shari Lewis: Look the other way. Now, don't listen.
[Lamb Chop looks the other way]
Shari Lewis: Now, Charlie Horse, what you have to do is...
[Lamb Chop looks back at Shari]
Shari Lewis: Don't listen!
[Lamb Chop looks away again]
Shari Lewis: What you have to do is look at her, and make a horrible face, and you'll scare the hiccups out of her.
Charlie Horse: Okay, I'll do it. Lamb Chop?
[Lamb Chop screams]
Charlie Horse: I didn't make a horrible face yet!
Lamb Chop: Oh! I couldn't tell!

[Charlie Horse is training Hush Puppy to fight against a bully. Hush Puppy is lifting weights]
Charlie Horse: C'mon higher! Higher! Higher!
[Hush Puppy falls forward and drops the weights]
Hush Puppy: Are you sure that Arnold Schwarzenegger started like this?

Charlie Horse: [singing before the Joke segments] If ever you're at bat and you can feel yourself begin to choke...
[spoken]
Charlie Horse: just step out of the box, *straighten* your socks, and tell yourself a *joke*!

Shari Lewis: [singing before Funny Poems segments] I love to dance, I love to sing/But laughing is my favorite thing/You are not the first to hear/A funny poem can make my year.
[spoken]
Shari Lewis: Come on, Charlie Horse, make my year!

Charlie Horse, Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy: [singing after Joke segments] It's a funny, funny, funny, funny, funny... it's a funny joke!
[all laugh indistinctly]

Shari Lewis: [singing before Funny Poems segments] I love to dance, I love to sing/But laughing is my favorite thing/And don't forget, before you speak,/A funny poem can make my week.
[spoken]
Shari Lewis: Come on, Hush Puppy, make my week!

Lamb Chop: [chuckling, then singing before Joke segments] If ever you're so angry you can feel you ears begin to smoke...
[smoke emits from her ears as a bell rings or a train whistles in the background]
Lamb Chop: You can put out the flame, playing the game of "Tell Yourself a Joke"!

Shari Lewis: [singing before Joke segments] If ever you wake up so sad that/You could use a friendly stroke/Just climb into your chair,/And the moment you're there/Tell yourself a joke!

Charlie Horse: [singing after Knock-Knock Joke segments] That was a knock-knock joke/I love a knock-knock joke/They can be *awful*, it's true!/Still, I'm telling you, I love a knock-knock joke!

Shari Lewis: [singing before Knock-Knock Joke segments] Give me a knock-knock joke/Don't knock, knock-knock joke/They're always dumb, so tell me how come?/After one, I laugh a bubble up, after four, I always double up!/Don't be an old slowpoke, give me a knock-knock joke, please?

Charlie Horse: [singing before Riddle segments] I got a riddle, you bet!/I got a riddle, get set!/It is a little mystery./Can you solve the riddle?
[spoken]
Charlie Horse: We'll see!

Shari Lewis: [singing after Riddle segments] Riddle are great fun, you know./We got a million, also!/But look at the time now; it's late/So I'm afraid they'll have to wait...
[spoken]
Shari Lewis: till next time!

Shari Lewis: [singing before Funny Poems segments] I love to dance, I love to sing/ But laughing is my favorite thing/And that is why I'm known to say/A funny poem can make my day.
[spoken]
Shari Lewis: Come on, Lamb Chop, make my day!

Shari Lewis: [singing after Funny Poem segments] The happy smile you see on me/Did not happen magically/It's all because of, take my word/A funny little poem that I just heard!

Shari Lewis: [singing before Betcha segments] It's betcha time, it's betcha time/And though I've never met 'cha/I know something you can't do, I betcha, betcha, betcha/I'll teach you how to do what I propose.
[spoken]
Shari Lewis: Ready, set, here it goes!

Shari Lewis: [singing after Betcha segments] You'll get a lotta laughter, I will doubt/I betcha if you'll only try it out!

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