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Jim Henson's The Storyteller S01E02 Fearnot
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00:00When people told themselves their past with stories,
00:12explained their present with stories,
00:15foretold the future with stories,
00:18the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.
00:30THE END
01:00PROGRAM
01:03KILLED
01:03What are you going on about?
01:05You don't mean this little spider.
01:08Okay, come back.
01:12Have you killed it?
01:14Yes.
01:16Promise?
01:17Promise.
01:18I popped it between my fingers.
01:21Come and see.
01:22It's quite a mess.
01:23good yuck they're foul they don't even know the meaning of the word bone what a noodle you are
01:32frightened of a little thing you're frightened of rats everyone's frightened of rats they're
01:40rattish it's normal why you seen the rat you're shuddering so you
01:49now it's getting dark don't like the dark either come here and bark a bit
01:57what should we do until morning well i could tell you the story of the boy who set forth to learn
02:12what fear was you mean he didn't know no he wasn't frightened of rats or bats or cats or
02:19things beginning with this no a rare boy the second son of the second cousin of my second wife's second
02:27niece who died and left her husband a tailor two sons the one good the other good for nothing
02:36and he was called fear not
02:39what time do you call this don't know dad what time do you call it lord give me
03:09patience well have you got the buttons what buttons the buttons i sent you out for
03:15do you know dad i completely forgot them buttons tell the truth i stood and played under my sweetheart's
03:23window oh she's a lovely did you hear that he forgot never fear i'll go back and forget again
03:31no you go son i'll go in the morning the morning's no use go now i would but the dark comes and i don't like the forest
03:41it's all shadows there's trolls in there and dragons let me go i don't mind shadows i never saw a dragon
03:48be off with you then what are you going for
03:51uh don't tell me to see dragons no uh ogres
03:54buttons
03:55so off goes fear not to fetch buttons but the village bull is watching his skip and his gormless grin
04:06he's right for ragging oh yes they'll fetch him a fearful fright
04:11fright
04:25hello are you a troll i am a wordle only twice as bad never mind i want your bag of buttons sorry
04:40they're for my dad give them to me or i'll mutton you mutton me i'll give you a right flummox
04:48that doesn't sound very nice give me the buttons
04:52and back he goes our boy to his dad's house
05:02full of tales of a wordle only twice as bad i'm sorry about the buttons and did you know a wordle has three
05:08voices and the father sets him outside with 40 shillings in a purse and tells him to go off and
05:14learn something phil considers this he's always wanted to know how to shudder
05:22the knack of it's eluded him he'll set forth to learn what fear is with nothing to guide him but
05:30it's the only way of shillings a fiddle and a fool's errand
05:34good day old man
05:36now isn't this a lucky meeting good day sir i can tell by the gleam in your eye you have a sweetheart
05:42i do sir and what's your name
05:44i don't know
05:46ah well what's your name mine's mackay but i don't mind it mine's fair not
05:50and there you go as me poor mother would say have you got a mother i'm afraid i don't
05:54ah well we all had one once and that's the main thing now your sweetheart is she dark or fair
06:02oh dark sir like arabia like a arabia oh happy day and a happy day it is for you young man for in
06:10this bag i have a scarf of silk direct from the shores of arabi here i insist you take it and may
06:18you learn a name with it thank you mister and it's because you're such a fine fellow i'm
06:24only going to ask you to pay me what i paid for it a double persian how much is that how much you
06:30got 40 shillings nothing like that barely half less than two turns i'd like the scarf because i've
06:38set forth to learn things you see and to learn a name is something but i'll give you all i have
06:44if you could learn me what fear is you will give me 40 shillings if i can frighten you gladly i see said
06:53the blind man let me think shut your eyes is something the matter no no just give me a minute
07:10what do you reckon that is at your throat i don't know sir a knife and a sharp knife
07:16slit a hair clean and do that's marvelous slit a throat without touching this out that's a good
07:22knife then certainly is and will do for you young man unless you part with your bag of shillings
07:29i can't do that for i must learn what fear is and i'm not frightened of you mr mackay you're a friend
07:36oh no no no no we're friends goodness i'm sure we are let me take you down the lane where i think i
07:47can arrange a little case of the shoulders for you follow me where do we go to a pond by a hedge
07:55by a field by a mill by a town and in that pond is a fearful sight so fearful think what fearful is
08:03is an anti and shall i shudder no question if you survive and off they went to most fanciful
08:15peregrination until they came to a pond by a hedge by a field by mill by a town and as they arrived
08:23the day ending they saw folk rushing from the mill still dusted with flour and would not stop to swap
08:31words and shouted be clear before dark falls beware the pond and other such unwelcomes
08:45here is this where i learned to shudder mr mackay the trick is you must plunge into the pond and fear
08:53we'll swim up to greet you splendid ah it's a treat will you join me no thanks i must retire and get us
09:04beds for the night you must sleep after a good fright good luck thank you now this green pond is not all
09:14welcome cool and water lilies deep in its green deep is a terrible thing and it peers up through the
09:22green and sees a pair of feet it's a man oh dear oh dear
09:34so there he is our man fear not dangling his feet in the pond waiting to shudder wondering how when all of
09:41a sudden and who would believe it the water begins to gather and froth and swirl and blow me if a ring
09:48of sad beauties don't appear eyes closed and melancholy these are the sisters of the deep and their dance
09:58is a welcome to drowning come in come in they seem to say and fear not looks on enchanted by their
10:07loveliness then he does what he always does when this moon takes him
10:18now why do the village folk avoid this pretty scene why do men tremble as night falls and the moon
10:24gleams its silver on the pool because my dearie owes my darlings these are the daughters of the terrible
10:33thing water in their veins water in their eyes they have but two tasks to drown men and to drown women
10:44come in come in they seem to say come in and sip our bitter beer come in and meet our master
10:53do you know who i am i don't think so you're not a wordle some sort of terrible thing exactly
11:11these are my british they attempt to a man like you and i drown them why
11:21because but first give me your bird it saw me so beautiful i can't do that i have to make it look
11:41where does the singing come from it's home let me try
11:59hurry you must learn to play that's your bird where does its song come from the song oh far away
12:14ireland which direction over there many lefts and many rights ireland i'll go there
12:23that way that way you say that's it make it sing some more and then i'll go
12:36and our boy plays some more until the creature leaves his daughters and his green pool and his
12:42endless drowning and heads off in search of ireland and the bird that sings and he lives there still for all i know
12:50what a hero what a hero not one feast but twenty seventy eight gifts four offers of marriage
13:02and much playing the fiddle by morning mr mckay self-appointed manager of heroes and historian of
13:10fear not exploits has noted details of the whereabouts of trolls and terrors and dragons and demons and
13:16untold untold unsolved mysteries thus commissioned the two companions set off and it isn't till late
13:23the following afternoon head still muddled by cider that fear not remembers to clap the tinker's ears
13:30retrieve his 40 shillings and ask him where they're heading next well i have the route to a fine terror
13:37but i must have reward i have promised you my shillings when i shudder but give me only a fist which i
13:43like not one little misunderstanding and i'm trash for me pains compare us you are blessed with great
13:51courage i am cursed with a little cunning i cheat for trifles while you can move mountains
14:00is that fair i ask you i'm sorry take my money i've offended you no no i shall struggle on for nothing
14:09we go to yonder castle where none survive a night so i will learn to shudder at last
14:18now this castle they approach is a graveyard of hopes the king driven out the rooms abandoned only fools
14:26seek shelter there for this is a troubled land and bad holds caught look there it is on the horizon
14:36a place brooding
14:42wait here i should take things with me take a sword take two these three things are enough
14:51or not as the case may be and they leave 75 of my gifts should i not return do not leave them here for
14:59you know how it is with me i'll be forced to steal them and desert you have a little courage mr mackay
15:08godspeed fear not
15:10a little courage mr mackay
15:21a little courage mr mackay
15:40hello there's only half here where's the rest of me
15:51that's more like it now how about a game
16:08why not i have all night
16:10can you play skittles
16:24i'll try you try
16:28you better have
16:31definitely not my legs too short by half
16:35you better win precious or you'll find yourself half the bad you were
16:44what size legs are those i don't know no gout
16:50calls blisters foot rot oh good i can do with those
16:56me first i reckon
17:11eight not bad on borrowed legs
17:17bone well precious
17:19yes
17:22careful
17:23don't want their pegs damaged
17:25you won't mind sir
17:29but your ball's not smooth enough for me
17:41night
17:41night
17:42you
17:43cheated
17:45no sir i swapped a little courage for a little cunning that's all
17:50oh look at me
17:54oh very well my friend
17:56it doesn't help me with the shuddering
18:03lovely
18:07ah
18:08lovely
18:11fear not for lack of a fright settles down for the night
18:20but what's this mr mackay
18:24oh mister
18:26is it all up with you
18:30so cold
18:33you were my first and only friend
18:37my friend and now so cold
18:39let me warm you a little
18:46that's better
18:47see
18:49have i not warmed you
18:54ah
18:55fear not
19:07fear not
19:14fear not
19:14come nearer demon and i'll cut off your head and then there'll be three parts to marry
19:21what
19:21i know it's not you
19:23it is me
19:24dead again are you
19:26no
19:26come closer
19:28please i'm terrified i came with my little courage to find you and it's quite used up
19:34how many gifts did i leave well i only counted 74 to begin with and i ate two well two and a half but there's still plenty
19:43what's the name of my true love
19:46how can i know if you don't
19:49then it is you
19:50but of course it's me
19:52and you came in to find me
19:54it's my lot i try to break the mold and be decent and i get a knife with
19:59shut up and come here and hug me
20:00no
20:01no
20:02ah
20:03but hug him he did and full of glee they searched the castle from top to toe
20:08and behind the farthest door of the highest floor they found a room
20:12and in that room was gold
20:15such golden as they might have thrown it out of the window for a week and still be swamped
20:20and they shared it half and half and a bit for luck and never have two men dance more nor merrier
20:26and from a distance you would have seen the castle shake off its gray drab and sunbathe
20:36so he never learned to shudder
20:40well the fact of the matter is that fear not are such questions of the tinker all the way home
20:47why haven't i learned to shudder what can i tell my father and so on and the tinker pointed to their
20:53gold and said are there not sufficient riches that you must be frightened as well
20:58and so they went on fear not complaining of fearing not him muttering until they arrived at
21:05last at the gate of fear not's house we must say goodbye then you must meet my family no families
21:13don't like me of course they will you're my friend you must come in as me dear old mother
21:18used to say leave them while they want you to stay no thank you
21:26who's this for you must give that to your father
21:30that's right i have not learned to shudder goodbye mr mckay
21:36it's you at last come quick come quick she swoons she heard you've gone nothing will revive her
21:53i don't know her name lydia lydia lydia
22:09look would you look at that my sweetheart
22:27what's happened
22:36you've done it
22:37you taught me
22:39I've been so far so long
22:42and all it needed was the thought of
22:44who's in you to teach me what fear was
22:46I shuddered
22:49I shuddered
22:50I shuddered
22:53and so the boy
22:56who set forth to learn what fear was
22:58learned it at home
23:00and he married his sweetheart with a name and all
23:02and never left again
23:04Mr Mackay told me that story
23:06a long time ago when I was very young
23:08and I didn't know the half of it
23:26I'll see you in the next week
23:30I'm there
23:32to be very young
23:33and I'm there
23:34I'm there
23:34and I'm there
23:36and really
23:36and really
23:37and really
23:37and really
23:38and really
23:39and really
23:40and really
23:40it's not very
23:41and really
23:41and really