Magnificent Major, The

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] on [Music] nope it isn't the keyboard that checks out J did you test the verbit Renee did you hear the Bell it's 3:00 with free tomorrow's the science fair Daisy you promise me you help me with my book report tonight Daisy don't you understand how important it will be if we can get the vbu F to work nobody history ever built a evil F that work and a lot of people triy I don't want to have to read the book why should I read the wizard of O I already saw the movie did you ever think you might have a good time reading it a good time reading you've been hanging around this school too long anyway I should know I have [Music] I'm bored on waste time what am I doing here why do I have to learn all this it's not very clear what good is it to me what good is it to [Music] me tell what I need know but I'm here while Wai toow what good is it to me oh what good is it me anding chist [Music] alluc everything I have know I can learn from a TV show [Music] I wish must be fantastic in a place without what good is it to oh what is it [Music] me what to me oh what it to me and [Music] andry I don't need I don't I don't everything I have to know I canar from a TV show [Music] [Music] I wish I knew what a evil F was cuz I think Rene don't one that works [Music] oh I am sorry hardly anyone ever comes here anymore I thought you were one of the exhibits I guess these old eyes just aren't what they used to be actually they used to be knobs from an FM radio honest I told them I'd see much better with knobs from a television set but well you've got to expect a few mistakes when you're being built by humans you're a robot invented by a mad scientist like in the movie oh goodness no I wasn't always a robot actually I started out as an electric toothbrush yes uh with three speeds and a traveling case and then before I knew it I was a hot plate in a luxury hotel in Cincinnati OH it was awful I fell in love with a refrigerator way up in the penthouse wow but I knew it could never work out she was too far above me so I left and took a job as a jukebox in Atlantic City I'd love to be a jukebox do you know to this day every time I get the hiccups my chest lights up and I play a golden Odie very embarrassing for a major entrusted to guard the Palace of the past is that what this place is ever since 2157 the year 2157 wow I'm in the future where are the other kids right through that tunnel bye I W that one come on how did you all get to the future but another VOR but isn't it exciting I won't have to do my book report book report sure I'm the wizard of a what's the matter it's just a book that's what I thought it was it away don't let the grand palone see it who if the grand palone finds out that you have books who he can be anywhere who the Grand [Music] poni at your service is Imperial smus your friend and mine me ah children children children do not shrink back in fear theone loves children oh it's true I am the most powerful man in the country some people fear me and hate me others hate me and fear me but sweet little children have nothing to fear from their lovable old Pony I smell something terrible it smells like intelligence could any of you children be carrying books only me sir it's just my school books books this is a job for the pollet poet coming Chief coming Chief I'm not the chief that's the chief how did the chair get to be chief [Music] p and what may I ask is a dear little cupcake like you doing with nasty old school books my dear child we haven't had school or books in ages no school really why don't you get rid of that school book you can drop them in here it'll get all burned up in there well of course it will dear child and so it should books tample with man's basic natural ignorance now what could be worse than that but I can burn this book at school property nonsense apple sugar you just need to get into [Music] the books are not where it's act teaching you how to spell cat I know you'd rather play so why don't you throw all your books [Music] away bur is already to put an end to any 1 3 5 throw them in the fire put the books in the fire see the Flames growing higher burning books is a heart's desire 2 6 to [Music] incinerate books will not make you wise and readings bad for your eyes I am sure you agree so why don't you give all your books to [Music] me but this one here is very good about a man named Robin [Music] Hood never like Tom St I won't be a folk Destroyer [Music] books can only confuse teaching you things you can't do you should listen to me burning your books will set your mind free [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] no stop I've Ted with you long enough my young pretty p take her away don't I get a trial [Laughter] Tri ladies and gentlemen of the Court distinguished members of the jury we must decide today fairly and with an open mind no matter how guilty she looks whether the prisoner who calls herself Daisy bunson is innocent as she claims or whether she is guilty now we all know the terrible damage books can do crowd your little brains with all kinds of facts make you smart make you think books alike potato chips you try one and before you know it you want another and then another and before long you have fat brains books lead to reading weeding leads to school and schools lead to [Music] tests I rest my case is there anything else you wanted to say only a book who's afraid of paper and glue it's only a book telling stories just for you you discover a travel to a land far away when you read a book you can visit [Music] yesterday fure past and present are written in every line open up its pages and it will be your friend for all time inside every po you find things you never knew [Laughter] before each word is the key to our unlock another door it's only a book who's afraid of paper and blue it's only a book it will share secret with it's the major you do you really want to be defended by this this toaster actually I never was a toaster but I did spend some time as a bread in Cleveland once ah go ahead I can hardly wait I call as my first witness doesn't make any difference who you call no one would be brave enough to disagree with their grand palon I call the wizard of alls oh he won't be coming from there he'll be coming from here you're going to read that that's not fair I'm the only one that's allowed to be unfair Dorothy lived in the middle of the great Kansas prairies with Uncle Henry who was a farmer and Aunt mem who was the farmer's wife their house was small for the lumber to build it had to be carrying many miles quick Dorothy she screamed Run for the cellar total jumped out of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed and the girls started to get him Aunt m sadly frighten threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into a small dark hole as for the Scarecrow having no brains he walked straight ahead and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length it never hurt him out however and Dorothy would pick him up and set him on his feet again but the old crow comfort me saying if you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them brains are the only things worth having in this world no matter whether one is a crow or a man where in the world did you come from from the land of odds said Dorothy Gravely and here's Toto too and O and M I am so glad to be at home again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] who's Afra [Music] ofer only a [Music] it will share secret [Music] with get away from her come on Daisy let's make a run for it come on r no wait politic politic stop [Music] her you go ahead I'll join you [Music] get up you go this area you come with [Music] me quick onto the Chamber of Journeys let's get Daisy home up there what are those squiggly lines that's writing it says Library welcome to the joy of the written word how come the door is open reading is the key my [Music] boy wow look at all of them are they all books everyone Daisy there's your vbo feter you'd better hurry before the grand palon finds us do you know how to read of course if I didn't I'd still be an electric toothbrush would you teach us teach you why I don't see why not I've never been a teacher before Daisy quick the machine me US me US me US me us I'll tell you what I'll teach you all to read teaching pollet to read yes your palon ship your grand palon ship I hate it when they leave out the grand your grand palon ship you can't stop people from Reading anymore well I don't want to stop them I want to learn too you that's why I ran after you that was a wonderful story I had no idea that books could be more fun than being mean now I want to read everything can I come to class too of course you may Daisy the B feter it's going bye bye bye Daisy goodbye major [Music] are you all right what happened oh it's all right honey the V feta just blew a gasket that's all oh no it was awful nobody could read they wanted to burn my books and they put me on tral and she must have bumped her head or something you better take the kid home come on Daisy I'll help you with your book report thanks but I think I want to finish reading it myself but a little while ago you said you hated book yeah but since then I made a major decision I'll tell you about it sometime in theen [Music] you