ALARM BELL RINGS
# Here come the Numtums
# They're furry and they're fun
# Here come the Numtums
# Let's start with number one
# Bendy Go! Dar Dar!
# Champer! Gladdy!
# Little Sandy!
# Flinders! Humpty Do!
# Coogee! Hobart! Nimbin!
# One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten!
# The Numtums! #
Come on, everyone. Super Numtum's started.
# Super Numtum, Super Numtum... #
Oh, get off! Your tail's in the way!
# Super Numtum, Super Numtum...
# He's dynamite
# Super Numtum! #
Hey, Not-So-Super Numtum. Notice anything different about me?
- Have you changed your shampoo? - I have.
It makes my fur smooth and fluffy.
But that's not it! Do you like my troublemaking travelator?
I just pull the lever like this...
..and away I go! I can be ten times as naughty in half the time!
- You won't get away with it. - Oh, really? Try pulling the lever!
The lever is ten times harder to push than the average lever.
You'd need ten Not-So-Super Numtums to push that!
Try and catch the koala! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
And ha-ha-ha-ha-ha some more!
Hmm, a locked lever, the strength of ten Super Numtums.
That means me plus nine more Super Numtums.
Time to use my super-fast Super Numtum copying machine!
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine.
Nine plus me, that's ten.
To the lever!
One Not-So-Super Numtum is bad enough.
But ten Not-So-Super Numtums...
And...pull!
- Zero! - Cock-a-doodles! - 'Unexpected item in the baddy area.'
Wow! That was awesome!
- Ten Super Numtums in one show! - The best ever!
- Let's be like Super Numtum and look for bad guys in Gumnut Gorge! - Yeah!
YODELLING
CONTINUES YODELLING
- What is that dreadful racket? Is someone gargling? - Eh? I'm yodelling.
It's a type of singing. I've written a yodelling musical.
Do you want to hear it? It's only seven hours long.
I'd love to, but, erm, cousin Kakadoo's invited me over
- for a get-together. - A day of fur-dos and tail pampering.
Oh-ho-ho, what fun!
Oh, we won't have time for fur-dos and tail pampering.
We're going crocodile wrestling!
Which means YOU are in charge of the Tasty Termite.
So while I'm away, just remember to switch on the conveyor belt...
The key to the Tasty Termite kitchen. GLADDY CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND
Oh, Hobart, this is your finest role!
HOBART YODELS
With me in charge,
the Tasty Termite will be the hottest hangout in Gumnut Gorge.
- Got it? - Yes.
Bye! And, remember - I'm leaving the Tasty Termite in your paws!
The music, the tablecloths, the food... Food?
Oh, how am I going to serve everyone their food on my own? Oh!
HE YODELS IN A PANIC
Oh, ho-ho-ho-ho!
This is the very rare scaredy caterpillar.
I must be very still as it's very, very scaredy.
- And did I mention, it's very rare? - Little Sandy? Little Sandy?
HE YODELS
Hobart! That was the very rare scaredy caterpillar.
Oh, and I'm a scaredy Hobart.
Gladdy has left me in charge of the Tasty Termite!
- Feel free to cheer, or maybe just a "wow"? - Hmm...
Oh, but I have no idea how to serve Tasty Termite treats
to all you hungry Numtums on my own.
I need help! Please? Oh!
HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
OK, OK. I'll help. But only if you stop making that noise!
Oh! How are we going to feed everyone? Oh, no!
- How are we going to make it work? Yodel, oh, no! - Hmm...
First, you pull the lever to one and the conveyor belt starts moving.
- Then put the plates of tasty treats on it. - Oh, thanks, Little Sandy.
- ANNOUNCEMENT: - 'Come and get your termite treats -
'tasty snacks that nothing beats.'
Quick! I can hear the rest of the Numtums coming!
- And they are sounding really hungry. - We're here!
One plate of your finest termite treats, please.
- Can you make the belt go faster? Humpty Do is hungry! - Ah, of course!
Humpty Do, that's it - if the conveyor belt goes faster,
the plates go faster.
Which means you could feed all the Numtums faster.
Well, let's crank the lever to make it go faster,
while I start dishing up the termite treats. Are you ready?
I was born ready!
Two!
- Faster! - Three!
- Can we start eating? - Ah, soon.
- Faster! - Four!
- Faster! - Five! - Faster!
- Six! - Faster! - Seven!
- Oh! Faster! - Eight! Hobart, are you sure? - Faster!
- Nine! - That's it! No more! - More? Are you sure?
- Yes! No more. - OK. More it is, then. Ten!
- Come to Humpty, little termite treat. - Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
TELEPHONE RINGS
- Hello, Gladdy. - Oh, hi, Hobart. How are things at the Tasty Termite?
Great. Yes, fast. The food's going really fast.
Perhaps a little too fast. See you soon. Bye!
- Oh, we need to slow it down, Little Sandy. - OK! Leave it to me. Oh, no!
The lever is stuck at ten.
RUMBLING
Oh, no. That rumble means trouble!
Actually, that rumble means my hungry tummy's in trouble.
Oh, my. That's a distress rumble from Humpty Do's tummy.
He should have been fed by now. I'm needed back at Gumnut Gorge!
Oh, no! How can we get the conveyor belt to stop?
The lever is stuck at number ten. And it needs to go down to zero.
'Use the numbers, Dar Dar.'
- Wait a minute, remember today's Super Numtum show? - Ah, it was great!
- But this is no time to talk about TV. - That's right.
The Tasty Termite can't take much more.
But, remember, the troublemaking travelator lever
needed ten Super Numtums to move it.
- Yeah! He defeated it. - With the strength of ten Super Numtums! - Huh?
While the lever is stuck at ten.
- So we need ten numtums to stop it. - Come one, it's worth a try.
Oh, where are we going to get ten Numtums? We're doomed!
- We are Numtums and there are ten of us. - Oh, we're saved!
Numtums to the rescue!
- ALL: - Da-da-da! Numtums to the rescue!
- Come on, Numtums. Let's all grab the lever. One. - Two. - Three. - Four.
- Five. - Six. - Seven. - Eight. - Nine. And... - Uh-oh. We're only nine Numtums.
And we need to add one more Numtum to make ten.
Well, goodbye, Tasty Termite. It was nice knowing you-oo-oou!
RUMBLING CONTINUES
- Galloping guinea pigs. What's happening? - Oh, Gladdy! We need you.
There are only nine of us
and we need the strength of ten Numtums to move the lever.
9 + 1 = 10!
THEY COUNT DOWN FROM TEN
ALL: Yay!
Is somebody going to tell me what happened?
- Look at the state of the Tasty Termite! - I'm sorry.
I wanted to serve everyone their termite treats
and asked Little Sandy for help.
And we pushed the lever up to ten and it got stuck
and there were only nine Numtums and we couldn't pull it down again.
- We needed one more Numtum. - The conveyor belt went faster and faster.
And the whole Tasty Termite started shaking, it wouldn't end.
- It went faster and faster and faster! - Did we mention, it went faster?
Well, I hope you've learnt a lesson.
If you'd listened to my instructions,
you'd have known - never to mess with my lever.
But we all solved it by working together.
- And in my book, that means termite treats all round! - ALL: Yeah!
Yeah!