Sterling Holloway credited as playing...
Kaa the Snake
- [Kaa tries to hypnotize Shere Khan just as he did to Mowgli]
- Kaa: [singing] Trust in me...
- [Shere Khan bats him away with his free paw]
- Shere Khan: I can't be bothered with that, I have no time for that nonsense.
- Kaa: Ssssssssome other time, perhaps?
- Shere Khan: [Scratches Kaa's nostril with his claw] Perhaps. But at the moment I'm searching for a man-cub.
- Kaa: Man-cub? What man-cub?
- Shere Khan: The one who's lost. Now where do you suppose he could be?
- Kaa: Search me?
- [Kaa covers his mouth to stifle his gasp]
- Shere Khan: That's an excellent idea. I'm sure you wouldn't mind showing me your coils, would you, Kaa?
- Kaa: Ccccccertainly not.
- [Shows his tail]
- Kaa: Nothing here, and nothing in here.
- [Points into his mouth]
- Kaa: [Mowgli snores up in the treetop and Shere Khan's ears prick up at the sound; Kaa snores noisly]
- Kaa: It'ssssssss my ssssinuses.
- Shere Khan: Hm.
- [looks up at the treetop]
- Shere Khan: Indeed. And now, how about the middle?
- Kaa: The middle? Oh, the middle.
- [Kaa unfurls part of his midsection, twirling Mowgli around in his sleep, and brings it down for Shere Khan to inspect, which he does]
- Kaa: [laughs] I-I-I assure you there's nothing in the middle.
- Shere Khan: Hmm, barely. Well, if you do so happen to see the man-cub, you will inform me first.
- [Scratches Kaa's chin]
- Shere Khan: Understand?
- Kaa: [gulps] I get the point. Cross my heart, hope to die.
- Shere Khan: In good show. And now I must continue my search for the helpless little lad.
- [Shere Khan wanders off, Kaa frowns]
- Kaa: Oh, who does he think he's fooling. The helpless little lad... woooo he gives me the shhhhhhivers.
- [Kaa's shivering wakes up Mowgli]
- Kaa: Picking on that poor, little, helpless boy. Oh yes... poor, little, helpless boy.
- [Mowgli pushes the rest of Kaa's coils off the branch he is on and sends him falling to the ground]
- [as Kaa is about to eat Mowgli, Shere Khan pulls on his tail, which makes a doorbell sound]
- Kaa: Ooh! Oh, now what? I'll be right down. Yes, yes, who is it?
- Shere Khan: It's me. Shere Khan. I'd like a word with you, if you don't mind.
- Kaa: Shere Khan, what a surprise.
- Shere Khan: Yes, isn't it. I just dropped by. Now forgive me if I've interrupted anything.
- Kaa: Oh no, no, nothing at all.
- Shere Khan: [brandishing his claws] I thought perhaps that you were entertaining someone up there in your coils.
- Kaa: Coils? Someone? Oh no, I was just curling up for my siesta.
- Shere Khan: But you were singing to someone. Who is it, Kaa?
- [Shere Khan grabs Kaa's throat with his paw]
- Kaa: Ah, um, oh no, I was just singing, uh, to myself.
- Shere Khan: Indeed.
- Kaa: Yes... yes, you see I have... trouble with my sinuses.
- Shere Khan: What a pity!
- Kaa: Oh, you have no idea. It's simply terrible. I can't eat, I can't sleep, so I ssssssing myself to sleep. You know, self-hypnosis. Let me show you how it works.
- [Kaa prepares to look in Shere Khan's eyes and try to hypnotize him]
- Mowgli: [mentioning Kaa] Bagheera, he's got a knot in his tail!
- Kaa: [mocking Mowgli] Ha-ha-he, he's got a knot in his tail!
- [Kaa keeps pulling his knotted tail from between the small trees, only to make him recoil like a off-key accordian]
- Kaa: [slinking awkwardly with a knot still in his tail] Oooh, this is going to slow down my ssslithering...
- Kaa: [after being hit by Bagheera] Ooh, my s-s-sinus. You have just made a s-s-s-serious mistake, my friend. A very s-s-s-stupid...
- Bagheera: N-n-now, Kaa, I was...
- Kaa: ...mis-s-stake. Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you.
- Bagheera: [has one eye closed to avoid being hypnotized] No, please, Kaa...
- Kaa: Both eyes, if you please.
- [Bagheera is fully hypnotized]
- Kaa: You have just s-s-sealed your doom.
- [just as Kaa is about to eat Bagheera, Mowgli pushes Kaa's body off the tree; he falls in a pile on the ground]
- [after Mowgli pushes Kaa's coils off him the second and last time]
- Mowgli: [angry to confront Kaa] You told me a lie, Kaa. You said I could trust you.
- Kaa: It's like you said. You can't trust anyone!
- [Kaa threatened to lunges at Mowgli, but suddenly a knot on his tail stops him. Mowgli leaves and runs away Kaa angrily grumbles]
- Kaa: If I never see that skinny little shrimp again, it will be too soon.
- [Slithering away]
- Kaa: Oh, my s-ss-s-sacroiliac.
- Kaa: [hypnotizing Mowgli and coiling him up with his tail] Please, go to sleep. Sleep, little man-cub, rest in peace... sleep... sleep...
- Mowgli: Ba... Bagheera?
- [chokes]
- Bagheera: [half-asleep] Now, it's no use arguing anymore. No more talk until morning.
- Kaa: [laughs] He won't be here in the morning.
- Bagheera: [almost fell asleep] Huh? Oh yes, he will, I...
- Bagheera: [notices Kaa about to voraciously devour Mowgli] KAA! HOLD IT, KAA!
- [Bagheera smacks Kaa in the face]
- Kaa: [after being slapped by Bagheera and hit his head in the tree branch from the reaction] Ooh... My sinus-s-s... You have just made a s-s-serious mistake, my friend. A very s-s-stupid...
- Bagheera: [stammering] Now, now-now-now, Kaa, I was...
- Kaa: ... mis-s-stake.
- [Mowgli frees himself from the hypnosis and Kaa's wrapping coils]
- Kaa: [hypnotizing Bagheera] Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you.
- Bagheera: [one eye open] Please, Kaa...
- Kaa: Both eyes, if you please.
- [Bagheera is in a trance while Mowgli tries to move a section of Kaa's heavy body off the tree]
- Kaa: You have just s-s-s-s-sealed your doom... Ooh...
- [Kaa begins to fall through a few sections and branches of the tree, unraveling himself, as he went down hard with a splat]
- Kaa: Yow! Ohh...