Nature Cat
Smelly Hal!
Clip: Season 2 Episode 8 | 3m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Daisy wants to take a photo for Granny Bunny, but Hal's very dirty and refuses to bathe.
Daisy wants to take a perfect portrait of the group to send to Granny Bunny for her birthday. Everyone looks their spiffiest as they pose for the camera. But wait, what's that smell? Whoa Bessie! It’s coming from Hal, who was in the woods rolling around in something very dirty and smelly. They can’t take a photo for Granny with Hal looking (and smelling) like that. He needs to take a bath!
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Nature Cat
Smelly Hal!
Clip: Season 2 Episode 8 | 3m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Daisy wants to take a perfect portrait of the group to send to Granny Bunny for her birthday. Everyone looks their spiffiest as they pose for the camera. But wait, what's that smell? Whoa Bessie! It’s coming from Hal, who was in the woods rolling around in something very dirty and smelly. They can’t take a photo for Granny with Hal looking (and smelling) like that. He needs to take a bath!
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A bath!
Nope.
Nope.
I will not do it.
Nope not gonna happen.
Anything but that!
Daisy: Oh, Hal.
A photograph captures a moment in time for all eternity, don't you want to look your best for all eternity?
Hal: Not if it means me getting in a bath!
(sound effect) Ewe!
Squeeks: But you need to get clean, man!
You stink!
Hal: These are my natural musks!
Hal: Ooh boy!
Musky!
Nature Cat: Come on, friend, you need a bath!
Hal: Oh no!
I do not do baths!
Let go of me!
Daisy: Come on, Hal!
Squeeks: Wrong way, Hal!
Squeeks: The bath is this way!
Hal: I'm going that way!
Hal: Phew.
Nature Cat: When you do a roll, you gotta pay the toll, Hal!
You need to get clean!
Nature Cat: Hrr!
Hrr!
Woaah!
Nature Cat: Aww!
Now I'm wet!
With water!
Drat!
Squeeks: Hal.
You gotta get in the bath.
Oh I can't breathe.
Please, you have to fix this.
If not for me, then do it for yourself!
Hal: I'm sorry!
I can't do it!
Not even for Granny Bunny!
I'll never take a bath!
Daisy: Halbert Alexander the Dog!
You come back here this instant!
Nature Cat: Onward and...
Nature Cat: ...Halward!
Daisy: Whaaaaat?!
Nature Cat: Hal, come on!
You have to take a bath!
Hal: Bawk-bawk!
I don't know this Hal: you speak of.
I mean there's no one here but us chickens, bawk-bawk!
Hal: And everyone knows chickens do not take baths, bawk-bawk-bawk, See we chickens don't take baths bawk-bawk-bawk, we make ourselves dirtier by covering ourselves in dust, bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!
I'm a chicken!
Daisy: I don't think the chickens are just making themselves dirty.
Hal: Bawk, oh yeah, that's what we chickens do, bawk-bawk-bawk!
Love this dirt!
Nature Cat: What are these chickens doing?
Squeeks: Yeah!
Why are they covering themselves in dust?
Chickens.
Daisy: Hmm.
Don't know.
Let's observe and maybe we can figure it out.
Nature Cat: Woaah!!
Chicken: bawk-bawk!
Nature Cat: They're digging in the earth and sitting in it.
Squeeks: Okay now they're twitching and squirming in the dirt.
I can't makes heads or tails of this.
Hal: We love to be dirty, bawk-bawk!
Daisy: Now they're kicking dust on themselves!
Whaaat?
Hal: We love to be dusty too!
Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!
Nature Cat: Ha!
And now they're shaking the dust off.
Squeeks: Maybe Hal is right, maybe they do like to get dirty!
Chickens... Hal: Of course I'm right!
I'm a chicken!
Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawka!
Daisy: Wait a minute you guys, the chickens aren't using the dust to get dirty, they're using it to get clean!
Hal: Say what now, bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!?
Daisy: The chickens use the dust to clean their feathers, absorb moisture and get rid of tiny bugs called mites.
It's called a dust bath!
Hal: A dust bath?!
Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!
Squeeks: Dust bath?
I don't know...those two words don't go together.
Daisy: Yes!
And lots of animals take dust baths.
Look!
Daisy: Elephants, bison, and other birds all take dust baths!
Hal: That's too many baths!
I'm out of here!
Bawk-bawk-bawka!
Nature Cat: Hal, come back!
You need a bath so we can take the picture!
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