(Sketch opens with five seconds of Gilliam animation. To
gentle children's music, we see bunnies jumping up and down. Cut to
children's storyteller in studio.)
Storyteller: (sitting with large children's
book, at desk) Hello, Children, hello. Here is this morning's
story. Are you ready? Then we'll begin. (opens book; reads)
'One day Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her
tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly he gabbed
her heavy shoulders pulling her down on to the bed and ripping off
her...; (reads silently, turns over page quickly, smiles)
'Old Nick the Sea Captain was a rough tough jolly sort of fellow. He
loved the life of the sea and he loved to hang out down by the pier
where the men dressed as ladies...' (reads on silently; a stick
enters vision and pokes him; he starts and turns over page)
'Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak
tree by the wobbly dumdum bush in the shade of the magic glade down
in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and ·.. discipline?...
naked? ... (without looking up, reads a bit; then, incredulously
to himself) With a melon!?
(ANIMATION: A hippo squashes the bunnies... and other things
happen. Cut to a seaside beach. By a notice, 'Donkey Rides ', run
two men carrying a donkey.)