![]() Baby Bear sees the accident and runs to get his father. Looking over her shoulder to make sure she is not being chased by the mob, she trips on an unseen log, and knocks herself cold. Papa Bear continues attempting to calm the crowd down and allow them to see through the Bobcat's unfounded fears, but Goldilocks sees the melee, worries that their next move will be to chase, capture and hurt her, and tries to run away. ![]() The Bobcat is seen blowing a raspberry to his friend and tells him they will not be mollified so easily. But this forest does NOT need protecting from a little girl who came to our house because she was lost and tired and hungry. I'll be the first to protect it when it needs it. Of course Papa Bear holds his ground, telling the crowd sternly `Now I love this forest just as much as anybody. ![]() Subsequently, the Bobcat leads an angry mob of forest animals over to the Bears house and demands that Papa Bear himself turn Goldilocks over to them. The easily swayed animals agree to assist Bobcat. He runs back to a clearing where he gathers all manner of other forest animals and proceeds to convince them, by his decidedly skewered viewpoint, that Goldilocks does not belong in the forest. The Bobcat however has been eavesdropping at the Bears' window and is about ready to throw up at all the sappiness – not to mention the fact that Goldilocks – cub or not – is still a human and therefore not to be trusted in the forest. Papa Bear's best friend the Bobcat (named for the swing band headed up by his younger brother in the 1930s and 1940s and who was supposed to play the part, but couldn't due to other commitments) is a loudmouthed and bigoted braggart who has no trouble telling his decidedly unpopular opinions to anyone who would listen.Īfter relaying to the Bears the fact that she was wandering alone in the forest and got lost, Goldilocks – in an homage to MGM's The Wizard of Oz moves in until such time as everybody can figure out how to get her back home. Papa Bear is incensed that such an intruder would enter his home, finds Goldilocks in Baby Bear's bed and is about to raise his golf club to seriously injure the intruder when Baby Bear hangs onto the business end thereof shouting `No Papa! Don't! It's only a people cub!' Well after the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Bears share their meal with her and set about trying to find out more about her. The Bears return from their jaunt to find the porridge, chairs and beds all disturbed. After sampling the food and furniture, Goldilocks lays down in Baby Bear's bed, as she sings the third musical number Don't Settle For Less (Than The Best). Unaware of all this, Goldilocks gets lost, becomes tired and hungry, and spots the Bears' house, the door ajar. The story proceeds pretty much in the traditional fashion, including when the Bears go out for a walk in the woods to let their porridge cool, Papa Bear (who is drawn and animated to resemble Bing) sings a song about The Human Race in which he derides the workaday world and people who don't take time to stop and smell the flowers, telling his youngest son, he'll understand when he's older. Following it deep into the animated forest, she becomes Goldilocks and remains the only live-action figure. One of the verses mentions a butterfly going by, and suddenly Mary Frances can see the animated creature alighting right on the tip of her nose. This leads into the first song, Take a Longer Look where Bing encourages the children to read between the lines. Their father reminds them however that since it has been such a long time since they heard it last, there might be a little more to the story than they remember. Nathanial pipes up that he's bored, to which his father reminds him that before modern conveniences, people used to entertain one another by storytelling, volunteering the first example.Īfter choosing Goldilocks, Nathaniel complains that it is just a kid's fairytale. After a fashion, Mary tells her father that, apart from the tall tales – this is the only part about fishing she doesn't like. So Bing and the kids return to the lake, pull up a comfortable log upon which to sit and begin the chore. Upon showing their prizes to Kathryn, she recoils in disgust, saying `Them's that does the catch, does the cleanin'. Bing and the children have returned to camp from the lake with their day's catch. One summer day, Bing Crosby, his wife Kathryn and their two youngest children Mary Frances and Nathaniel are camping out on a fishing trip.
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