Good evening, and welcome to the Nine Network special presentation, Alice in Wonderland.
Alice in Wonderland
I'm terribly sorry. I really didn't mean to knock you all over.
Hello? Hello?
Are you all right, my dear?
I think so. Oh, look at me!
My dress is a mess and I can't tell it's made.
I really don't think they can hear me.
I'll teach you a new one at once.
Hello? And they can't see me either.
My baby! My precious lily! My imperial child!
My imperial fiddle stick! I think my nose is out of whack.
That was my sacrilegious act.
My baby!
My baby! My baby!
My baby!
Mine the tornado!
What tornado?
The one that practically blew me up.
Be careful. There's really a very strong wind.
It's going to take you hours to get on that table if I don't help you.
Please don't make such faces.
You're making me laugh so hard I can only hold you.
Well, I warned you about the tornado.
It turned cold to the very end of my whiskers.
You don't have any whiskers.
The horror of what just happened to me. I shall never, never forget.
Hello again. Hello.
If they can't see me or hear me, then they certainly won't be able to tell me anything about that terrible monster.
I can tell you about your monster.
You can? I'd be ever so grateful.
And you can see me and hear me?
Of course.
What happened to that monster? Not that I'd want to meet him again.
Nothing happened to him. That monster was a thing you created in your own mind.
My mind most certainly did not create anything like that.
I was simply reading a silly book.
Your fears gave birth to it. And until you overcome those fears, little girl...
My name's Alice, Mr. House.
As long as you have those fears inside you, Alice, the Jabberwocky may come for you at any time.
Well, I suppose there are some fears inside me.
But please, I really must know how to get back through the mirror.
Well, don't worry.
Why shouldn't I worry?
Well, there's always another way back.
And there's no point in going home until you're not so afraid of not growing up.
Now, wait a minute. I've done a great deal of growing up... and growing down.
When you overcome the great fear in you, then and only then...
will you be able to stop the frightening appearances of the Jabberwocky and return to your family.
But how?
Only you know the answer to that.
I don't know. If I knew, I would tell myself.
And you don't care, or you'd tell me.
You really would.
Oh, but I do care.
And you will see that all the creatures in Looking Glass Land care.
Why should they?
Because when the fear in you creates the Jabberwocky, it is dangerous for all of us around here.
It is really to our best interest if you cure these terrible afflictions by yourself.
The best way to do it is to stay here and listen to me for a few years.
Years? I can't even stay here for another moment.
My poor mother must be in a terrible state.
Goodbye.
If you don't stay, you may never get home at all.
Well, I suppose I could stay and listen to you for a while.
In that case, I'll be on my way.
But you wanted me to stay.
Ah, but now you're in Looking Glass Land, and everything here is backward,
the reverse of everything you expected.
But we were just beginning to talk. Just beginning to talk.
Yes, yes, my dear. But here, beginnings are endings.
What's that?
It's Devondale Country. There's a cow, come and work.
Devondale Country. That's a real farmer.
Hello, dear. Would you like to taste some Devondale Colby?
Yes, please.
Mmm, this is nice. That's what everyone says.
You can taste the Devondale Country, can't you?
Wow.
Devondale Colby, the country cheese...
Can you come here again tomorrow, Mum?
...that's come to town.
Pour it in, pour it in, hear all the liquids from the same.
I'll wash so bright and fresh and clean.
Now pour it in, pour it in, pour it in, pour it in.
Hear all the liquids from the rain.
I'll wash so bright and fresh and clean.
Pour it in, pour it in, pour it in.
It's new, and it's about time, too.
Pour it in.
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Such a lovely garden.
Maybe this is the way home.
I hope.
If only the flowers could talk.
We can talk.
If there's anybody worth talking to.
Excuse me, can all the flowers talk?
As well as you can and a great deal louder.
It's just not good manners for us to speak first.
But since you did before we did, I can tell you when I first saw you,
I thought this little girl has a face with some scent in it.
So not very much.
It looks like a very clever face to me.
If only her petals curled up a little more, she might be all right.
If you don't speak more politely, I'll, I'll pick you.
Good for you.
There's only one flower worse than the tiger lily, the daisy.
When one speaks, they all speak.
It's enough to make you faith the way they go on and on and on.
Listen, you all talk.
We've been in many gardens before.
But none of the flowers could talk.
Put your hand down and feel the ground.
Then you'll know why.
It's very hard.
I don't see what that has to do with it.
In most gardens they make the beds too soft so the flowers are always asleep.
I never thought of that before.
In my opinion, you never think at all.
I never saw anybody look more stupid.
Hold your tongue.
As if you ever saw anybody.
You were a little girl.
You never saw anybody.
You hide your head under your leaves and snore away till you know no more of what's going on in the world than a bud.
Are there any more people in the garden besides me?
Oh, a few.
And here comes one of the stranger ones now.
Oh my.
This red play has grown a good deal.
It's the fresh air of the desert.
Excuse me.
I really must go and talk to her.
Goodbye.
Where did you come from?
I...I...
Look up, speak nicely and stop twiddling your fingers all the time.
I'm lost.
I lost my way.
What do you mean your way?
All the ways around here belong to me.
And curtsy why you're thinking of what to say.
It saves time.
I...I only wanted to see what the garden was like, Your Majesty.
I thought I'd try and find a way to the top of this hill.
Oh, the land.
It's all marked out like a large chess board.
Well, of course it is.
This is all one big game of chess?
One big game that's being played all over the world?
I can't believe it.
There must be pieces moving everywhere.
I wish I was one of them.
Oh, you're going to be.
How wonderful.
I wouldn't even mind being a bond.
But I'd rather be a queen.
But you're going to be a pawn.
One of the white queen's little brats is too young to play, so you'll have to take a place.
You'll be a pawn, which will start you in the second square...
...of board, naturally.
I can't play.
I really must be going home.
When you're a queen, you may go home.
But you said I was only going to be a pawn.
That's quite correct.
But when you reach the eighth square of the chess board, then you'll be a queen, and then you may go home.
Hurry! We'll miss everything.
Where?
I'll show you.
Faster! Faster!
I don't understand.
Don't try to talk. Faster! Faster!
Wow!
Whee!
Ah! Ah!
Are we nearly there?
No.
Faster! Faster!
Ah! Ah! Ah!
Ah!
You may rest a little now.
We haven't gotten any...
Where?
If you wanted to get anywhere, you'd have to run twice as fast as you did.
Now what are you doing?
I'm taking measurements.
At the end of three yards, I shall have some more rules for you.
And at the end of five yards, I shall go.
Can you stand talk a while?
Well, that does it.
I really must be going now.
If you do make it to the eighth square, then we shall all be queens together, and it will all be feasting and fun.
How am I going to get home?
Tell me.
What happened to her?
Oh, my.
I will find my way home.
Just know I will.
G'day. Where's the cheese?
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And he said at 33, I'm nearly too tired to throw a punch.
He's got to have courses speaking from his experience living in Richmond.
We remember that.
Ow!
Tell us, tell us.
He's making a frock for him too.
Tell us who's getting married.
Well, if you've got the bridal, I've got the saddle, Murray.
Well, I can give you the ball round, but you don't have to dance.
Speech therapist.
Black, red and silver arms, baby you dead.
It's like knowing all the words and knowing you're a pair.
Getting out to see the world and going who knows where.
You remember little things, for them it's just the same.
And the good time, great taste of my favorite place, McDonald's.
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Coca-Cola, bonkers, corner, relaxing with the great Coca-Cola.
Rock and roll options, jiggies like you can.
Under the top, recollect your points to choose as long.
Block number two, Mark, on his car.
13, a star, Santa, guitar.
Rather be cheap where you buy your Coke.
Block number one, John Lennon's Coke.
Your beat sheet shows you what to do.
How many pride locks?
And all the rules.
20 lights in all, that was only a fraction.
In the great Coca-Cola rock and roll auction.
Yeah.
If your dog barks, digs the yard or jumps up, Bert's backyard could change these habits.
And there's lots more, Friday, 7.30 on 9.
I want to get to the 8th square as quickly as possible.
Which way do I go?
What do I do?
Well, what have we here?
Ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, please.
Here you are.
Show your ticket.
Well, don't keep him waiting, child.
His time is worth $1,000 a minute.
I'm afraid I haven't got one.
There wasn't a ticket office where I came from.
No excuses, please, you should have bought one from the engine driver.
He means the man who drives the engine also sells the ticket.
You should have known that.
Obviously, no use in speaking to you people.
Or whatever you are.
Don't let him say nothing at all, then.
Around here, language is worth $1,000 a word.
I'll dream about $1,000 tonight.
I just know it.
Where are you going, child?
To Square Four.
Well, at least she's old enough to know where she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name.
I know my name.
She should have known her way to the ticket office, even if she doesn't know the alphabet.
I know the alphabet.
I really do.
She'll have to go back from here as luggage.
No, I won't.
I don't belong on this railway journey at all.
I was in the forest just now and I wish I could get back there.
Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
That's an old expression.
Here's another old expression.
If you're so anxious to make a joke, why don't you make one?
Well, it's the most unheard of thing I've ever heard of.
What a bunch of grouchy people you all are.
We should send her on by mail.
She's got quite a stamp on her.
No, no, no, we should send her as a message by telegraph.
Ah!
Hold on.
I think this train's out of control.
No, who cares? As long as it'll take me into the fourth square.
I really think I should pull an emergency cord.
There isn't an emergency cord.
There's not even a non-emergency cord.
There's got to be.
All trains have one.
You pull it and the train stops.
Well, there isn't.
Let us try, baby.
There's got to be one.
There isn't.
The only thing you can pull around here is your own weight.
That's what you think.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Ah!
Well, I must say.
Oh.
Who stopped the train?
She's the culprit, you tattletale.
Well, how did she do it?
She yanked on his chinny chin chin.
Almost pulled my whiskers off his head.
Oh, girl, didn't you know it's against the law to stop the train?
Unless, of course, it's an emergency.
It was.
The train was running away.
Oh?
And who was it running away from?
That's a silly question.
And you're a silly girl.
And you're a silly billy goat.
Ha ha ha!
You got your goat that time.
Got your goat. That's very good.
I'm going to write that down on paper.
Next time, stay off my train.
I will.
She almost ruined my lunch.
Hello?
What do you want?
You look like a very nice person.
A very, very nice person.
Who wouldn't hurt me even if I am an insect.
I can see that.
What kind of insect are you?
I'm a gnat.
But what kind of insects do they like where you come from?
Well, I don't usually like insects where I come from.
But could you please tell me if this is the fourth square?
You see, I'm on my way to the eighth square,
where I'll be a queen.
Why would you want to be a queen?
I guess then I'll be grown up enough to go home.
And my mother will be so glad to see me.
You'll see how grown up I am.
Invite me to sit at tea.
Is this the fourth square?
Yes, but I wouldn't go in there if I were you.
Well, as long as there aren't any monsters,
I'm sure I'll be quite fine.
I'm sorry, I really must be going.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
No, I really would never say that.
Bye.
What's that?
It's Devondale Country.
There's a cow coming by.
Devondale Country?
And a real farmer.
Hello, dear.
Can I taste some Devondale Colby?
Yes, please.
This is nice.
That's what everyone says.
You can taste the Devondale Country, can't you?
Wow.
Devondale Colby, the country cheese...
Will you come here again tomorrow, Mum?
...that's come to town.
I've got people coming for dinner in 12 and a half minutes,
and I haven't even done the dishes.
Lucky for me, my Dishlex dishwasher does it all
in exactly 12 and a half minutes.
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Get yourself set up, grab a piece of juicy fruit.
The taste will get you going, going up, going out.
The taste will get you going when you pop it in your mouth.
Juicy fruit will get you going.
It's got the taste that keeps on going.
Juicy fruit, the taste, the taste, the taste will get you going.
You can on a cannon, can do.
They're the symptoms around, they'll never let you down.
You can on a cannon, can do.
To Tweedledum's house, to the home of Tweedledee.
I suppose those two live in the same house.
Maybe they can tell me how to get to the eighth square.
If you think we're waxworks, you really ought to pay, you know.
Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing.
I didn't know you were alive.
Contrary wise, if you think we're alive, then you should speak.
Oh, yes, I'm very sorry.
I know what you're thinking about.
Well, it isn't so. No how.
Contrary wise, if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be.
But as it isn't, it ain't.
That's logic.
Well, I was thinking, which way was the best way out of the woods?
Well, you've begun wrong.
The first thing you do when you visit is you say, how do you do, and you shake hands.
How do you do? Shake hands.
Welcome to you. Shake hands.
It's really quite important to be proper.
And don't you dare be dumb or you may come back.
The weather is fine. Shake hands.
The pleasure is mine. Shake hands.
And though the meeting may be fleeting, it's so lovely, don't you see,
if you shake hands with me.
The weather is fine. Shake hands.
The pleasure is mine. Shake hands.
And though the meeting may be fleeting, it's so lovely, don't you see,
if you shake hands, don't be a fool, shake hands.
If you shake hands with me.
I hope you're not too tired.
Oh, no, how? Well, thank you very much for asking.
So much obliged. You like poetry?
Well, some poetry. But would you tell me which road leads down to the wood?
But I know so much poetry. You really must stay long enough and let me entertain you.
What marvelous poem shall I recite to her?
Why, the walrus and the carpenter. It's the longest.
If it's very long, would you please tell me first which road?
I mean, you're both so very exhausted.
I'm exhausted.
The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might.
He did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright.
And this was odd because it was the middle of the night.
The moon was shining sultily because she thought the sun
had got no business to be there after the day was done.
It's very rude of him, she said, to come and spoil the fun.
The sea was wet as wet could be. The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud because no cloud was in the sky.
No birds were flying overhead. There were no birds to fly.
Ah!
The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand.
They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand.
If this were only clear the way, my friend, it would be grand.
If seven maids with seven mops swept it for half a year,
do you suppose in that much time that they could get it clear?
I doubt it really could be done, at least by me, my dear.
Oh!
Oysters come and walk with us. We truly do beseech.
A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, along the briny beach.
We cannot do with more than four to give the hand to each.
The time has come, I'm quite convinced, to talk of many things.
Of shoes and ships and seething wax, of cabbages and cake.
And why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have lived.
But wait a bit, if you don't mind, before we have our chat.
For some of us are out of breath and all of us are back.
We do not wish to hurry you.
Thank you much for that.
A loaf of bread and butter too is what we cheaply need.
And vinegar and salt besides are very good indeed.
Now if you're ready, oyster dear, we can begin to feed.
But not unless it is all the same and strictly un-renewed.
For after such a kindness what a dismal thing to do.
Shall we have some wine?
The night is fine. Do you admire the view?
It was so kind of you to come and you are so very nice.
Talk is cheap by the briny deep. Cut us another slice.
I wish you were not quite so deaf. I've had to ask you twice.
It seems a rather dreadful shame to play them such a trick.
Say what you will, but as for me, the butter's spread too thick.
I weep for you, my little friend, I deeply sympathize.
I sob and sob and I weep some tears, all those of a larger size.
Oh, hold your pocket, anchor chief, before your blooming eyes.
Oh, oyster said the carpenter, you've had a pleasant run.
Shall we be trotting home again? But the answer came then none.
And this was scarcely odd because
they beat them every once.
They ate them all? What monsters!
G'day, where's the cheese?
Add some cheese, add a little natural sunshine.
It's all really good.
Add some cheese, try a little natural taste.
Add some cheese, add a little natural goodness.
It's all really good.
Add some cheese, try a little natural taste.
Remember, the stacks of great Australian cheeses to choose from.
Where are the cheeses to choose from?
Try a little natural taste.
Let's work together, let's start today.
Let's help each other, we can lead the way.
We need to talk, we need to share.
Share our community.
How deep inside we have our pride. Pride our community.
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Mouths are made for kissing, smiling, reminiscing.
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Oh, it's so nice, Shaw.
Bread and butter, bread and butter, bread and butter, my Shaw. Where's my bread and butter?
Oh, thank you, I've been looking for that.
And I'm very glad I happened to be in the way. Bread and butter, bread and butter, bread and butter.
Am I dressing the White Queen?
Well, yes, if you can call that a dressing. It's not my notion of the thing at all.
If Your Majesty will only tell me the right way to begin, I'll do it as well as I can.
Can I help put your shawl on straight for you?
Please.
It's out of temper, I think.
It's in a snit.
Peelish.
It's having a fit.
I pinned it here and I pinned it there. There's no pleasing it.
Well, you look better now.
But really, you should have a lady's maid.
I'll take you with pleasure. Tuppence a week and jam every other day.
I don't want you to hire me, and I don't care for jam.
Well, it's very good jam.
Well, I don't want any today at any rate.
Well, you couldn't have it if you did want it. The rule is jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never jam today.
It must come sometimes to jam today.
We can't. It's jam every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know.
Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today.
I said, jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today.
You can wish as you want, you can want as you wish.
Still, you better hear me say.
Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today.
Not ashamed of my maid.
Not a jelly, not honey, for love, not money, never ever jam today.
Oh, you can wish as you want, you can want as you wish.
Still, you better hear me say.
Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today.
It's restfully confusing.
Well, that's the effect of living backwards.
It makes everyone a little giddy at first.
But there's one great advantage. The memory works both ways.
Well, I'm sure mine only works one way.
I can't remember things before they happen.
Well, it's a poor sort of memory only works backwards.
What sort of things do you remember best?
Things that happened the week after next.
Oh, my finger's bleeding.
How'd that happen? Have you stuck your finger?
Well, I haven't stuck it yet, but I soon shall.
Ah! When do you expect to do it?
When I fasten my shawl again.
The broach will come undone directly.
Be careful, you're holding it all crooked.
See, that accounts for the bleeding.
Now you understand the way things happen here.
How old are you?
Seven and a half a duck.
I'm just one hundred and one.
I can't believe that.
You can't?
I hope your finger's better now.
Better. Much better.
Better.
What a thick black cloud that is.
I believe it's got wings.
I hope it's not...
It's only a giant bird. Since the Jabberwocky was coming back again.
I can't reach me here. It's too large to get to the trees.
I wish it wouldn't flap its wings, though. It's like a hurricane.
Fun.
Fun. Wow.
Pour it in, pour it in, you almost make much promise, eh?
I'll wash so bright and fresh and clean.
Now pour it in, pour it in.
Pour it in, pour it in.
Hear all the liquids jump away.
I'll wash so bright and scantily.
Pour it in, pour it in.
It's new, and it's about time, too.
Pour it in.
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Mom, look what Daddy's here.
Now, Jeff, remember what the doctor said.
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We're lost. We're not lost.
We should have turned off ages ago. I'm sure. Look.
Alex, put those things back.
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As Australians, we are all different.
When it comes to butter...
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We all agree.
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The taste speaks for itself.
Western Star is Australia's number one butter.
It's Humpty Dumpty.
It can't be anyone else.
And he looks exactly like a giant egg.
Young lady, it's not very nice to tell someone he looks like an egg.
Some eggs are very beautiful, you know.
Some people have no more sense than a baby.
My name's Alice, sir.
That's a stupid name.
I may be stupid, sir, but don't you think it'd be a lot safer down here on the ground?
The wall is very narrow.
Of course I don't think so.
Why, even if I did fall off, the king has promised that...
He'd send all of his horses and all of his men to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
You've been snooping at doors, or you couldn't have known that.
Oh, no. It's in a book, a very famous nursery rhyme.
What a beautiful belt you've got.
Really? What, a person doesn't know a cravat from a belt?
It's a cravat, child, and a very beautiful, what I might add.
It's a present from the white king and queen.
Really?
Yes, really. They gave it to me for an unbirthday present just this past week.
An unbirthday present? That's an unbirthday present?
It's a present given when it isn't your birthday, of course.
I like birthday presents best.
You don't know what you're talking about.
How many days are there in a year?
365.
And how many birthdays do you have?
One.
And if you take one from 365, that means you can get 364 unbirthday presents.
You see, Dum Dum?
Certainly.
And only one for birthday presents, you know.
Now, there's glory for you.
But I don't know what you mean by glory.
Of course you don't, till I tell you.
I mean there's a nice knockdown argument for you.
But glory doesn't mean a nice knockdown argument.
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.
Either more or less.
The question is, what you can make with means so many different things.
The question is, which is to be master?
That's all.
Words have a temper.
Mmm. Some words particularly.
Verbs, whew, they're the proudest.
Adjectives, you can do anything with.
But not verbs.
However, I can manage a whole lot of them.
Impenetrability, that's what I say.
Would you please tell me what that word means?
No. You talk like a reasonable child.
I meant by impenetrability that we've had enough of that subject.
And it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next.
As I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.
That's a great deal to make one word mean.
When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.
Mr. Domte, if you're going to skip and dance, don't you really think it'd be a bit safer down here on the ground?
Actually, no! If I thought that, I'd do that.
You are a rather fearful little child, aren't you?
Mr. Domte, you don't understand.
I suppose I do have a lot of fears inside me.
And Miss Jor-El, at least I think that was her name.
Mr. Domte, my fears are bringing back the Devilwocky!
The Devilwocky!
Tomorrow, the final enthralling chapter.
Hello, little girl!
Alice in Wonderland.
If you believe in me, I'll believe in you.
Fantasy and adventure.
You're my prisoner.
And the exciting search for the way home.
Welcome, Queen Alice!
Thank you.
A fabulous celebration and more.
Presents come for you, dear.
The conclusion of the story.