FABLES of the GREEN FOREST
Today's episode: "Buster the hero"
Oh, little birds, good morning! Always in good spirits, I see!
Well, squirrel, good morning to you too!
Mr. Brown's son, young Tom,
often goes trout fishing in the Laughing Brook of the Green Forest.
Today somehow, he has no luck with his fishing.
Funny, someone must've caught all the fishes already,
or they've been scared off... I wonder which it is?
Oh!
Oh! This hasn't been cut with a knife, it's been bitten off!
Who's the one that did this?!
Who's the one that's been bothering my fishing?
Could it have been a hawk?
Or...
B-b-b-bear tracks...!
Wow!
Joe... Tom was scared!
That young Tom, running scared just at the sight of your tracks!
Buster, you are something!
After an incident like that, Joe the Otter just couldn't keep quiet.
So that's why he came here, to the Smiling Pool,
where everyone always gathers.
Joe, big incident, big news, what's it all about?
It is just... Well, in any case, Buster's quite a guy...!
Ah, well, about that I just wonder!
I haven't tangled with him yet in a fight till the end!
Reddy the braggart, Reddy the braggart!
That's just enough out of you, Peter, you wanna get hurt?
Reddy, Reddy, Reddy! Smart he is, but evilly only smart!
A tricky one like you couldn't catch even one fly!
Just you keep on talking, Peter, and you're finished!
Peter, let's listen to Joe's story!
Now, Joe, tell us, just what did Buster do?
That's right, Joe. Now you quit beating around the bush and hurry and tell us.
That's right, that's right. Now, tell me, what is it that Buster did?
You see, Mr. Brown's son, Tom, is really terribly afraid of our Buster!
I just can't believe such a story.
Take the group at the Green Forest, for example,
and the bunch from the Smiling Pool.
Tom is hardly afraid of them.
Although we are all afraid of him, as everybody knows.
I don't care what you say, because Tom really did run away from Buster.
Yeah, Tom was scared!
Without a doubt, that Tom did run away!
Buster taught Tom a lesson!
That Tom could've retaliated!
Buster is great! Buster is a hero! The hero of the Green Forest!
I want to see with my very own eyes!
- Whether is true or not, before I decide! - That's right!
With the exception of Reddy the Fox and Blackie the Crow,
all of the forest animals are very happy,
because, just at the sight of Buster's track,
everybody says that young Tom fled.
So that's why Buster's popularity is so tremendous in the Green Forest.
Now, Tom won't come in the forest anymore! We won't have to guard against him!
He won't be trying to trap us either!
All of this is because of Buster!
Now why don't we all go and try to give our thanks to Buster?
That's a good idea! Right, let's go!
Huh?!
Oh...
What's the matter, Blackie? Move out of the way.
Now, wait just a moment!
Let's check first and see if it's true!
Hey, Blackie, are you saying that what I said was a lie?
No, no, I'm not doubting you.
Is just that you said Tom saw Buster's tracks,
and not Buster himself, right?
Well...
That's the problem...
I-I have a really good plan to see whether Tom is really afraid of Buster,
or whether Buster is stronger than Tom!
And this plan, please, Blackie, tell me, what is it?
Alright.
Now, assemble as many of your friends at the walnut tree by the Laughing Brook,
I'll explain there.
- OK! - Leave that job to me...!
- We'll go too, alright, Polly? - Yes...
Blackie is overjoyed,
because almost everyone in the Green Forest,
has come here, to the Laughing Brook,
just to listen to him tell them about the plan that he is arranged.
Ladies and gentlemen, now I shall speak to you about the plan that I have in mind.
Joe the Otter has said that Tom fled upon seeing Buster's tracks,
but whether he was really frightened and fled,
or whether he remembered some other business and left, we do not know.
You, ladies and gentlemen, have made Buster the forest hero.
I'd like to think so too.
And if Tom really did see Buster's tracks and fled,
then we have the right to make him a hero.
I would like to verify that. You too. So my plan is...
Tomorrow morning, at the edge of the forest,
Sammy, that talkative jay, and I, will create a big ruckus.
Tom will certainly come to see what is happening.
Then, Sammy and I, the two of us, will entice him into the forest.
We will lure him to where Buster is going to be.
And if Tom runs when he sees Buster,
then I and all of you too, we'll crown Buster king of the forest.
Please, come on! Let's all hide and watch!
And learn the truth! Once and for all!
OK, that should make everything clear...
Mr. Crow, why are you making so much noise?
I'd like to know why... but after feeding the cows,
then I have to milk the cows.
Huh...?!
- It looks like they succeeded luring Tom towards Buster. - Yes, indeed.
Excellent, excellent, lure him to Buster's house just as skillfully!
It's working, it's working!
Oh...!
Oh...
Buster!
Huh?!
Well, how about it?
It's true, isn't it, what I said about Tom being afraid of Buster?
I guess it's true, Joe, just like you said,
really sorry to have doubted you. Look!
He's running!
- Oh! - Oh!
Ah...
- A-ha...?! - Huh...?!
- Oh...! - Oh...!
- Buster! - Buster...!
- Hey...! - What...?!
- Wow...! - Ah...!
Boy, if that's a king, well, even I could be one!
Oh, the king has fallen!
It seems that Buster too was scared.
He's big in size only!
But to me, he's just a cowardly weakling!
Is that so...?!
I just can't believe that to be so!
The forest people have forgotten already
all the nice things that Buster has done for them.
And they're noisily saying all kinds of bad things about him.
But Buster...
...already he's forgotten about his meeting with Tom.
Well... what in the world was I planning on doing now, hmm?
Ah... hmm...
Ah... That's it, I wanted to lick on some honey!
Ah...
My, my...! My favorite food!
The fat bear has long claws, sharp teeth and is strong!
He crouches somewhere in the forest!
He's hiding from morning till night, yay-yay!
- Yay-yay, fat Buster, fat Buster, fat Buster! - Fat Buster, fat Buster, fat Buster!
- Weakling Buster, yay-yay! - Weakling!
Huh...?!
Ah... shut up...!
One...
...two...
- One, two! One, two! One, two! - One, two! One, two! One, two!
- Ah... come on, you guys, that's enough! - One, two! One, two! One...
...two! One, two! One, two!
The fat bear has long claws, sharp teeth and is strong!
He crouches like that, and hides from morning till night!
Yay-yay-yay, the fat bear has long claws,
sharp teeth and is strong, yay-yay!
Even our good-natured Buster can't stand all the bad things
the forest people are saying about him any longer.
Blackie the Crow and Sammy, the talkative jay, flee into the sky.
So Buster can't do a thing, except stamp with rage.
When even Chatterer, the friendly squirrel,
began to repeat all of those bad things...
poor Buster could stand the strain no longer.
The fat bear has long claws, sharp teeth and he's strong!
He's fled somewhere in the forest!
And he's hiding from morning till night!
Hey, you, weak coward Buster!
Oh...?!
If I knew I was gonna get into such a fix, I'd never would've said those bad things!
Now... I'll teach you what happens when you try to make a fool of me!
You just wait there, and I'll eat you up whole!
Chatterer was too scared...
...to notice that Buster couldn't climb-out on the slender portion of the limb.
Oh!
Well... I'll let him escape this time,
but I'll get him!
Well... that's what he said...
...but Buster wasn't... really angry...
The fat bear is a coward! The fat bear is a coward!
Mr. Brown, there's something I have to tell you. Buster's out at your field, and he's eating your berries!
Your berries, your be....
Hey! You, Sammy! Shut up...!
Thief...! Thief...!
Thief...!
Buster's stealing Mr. Brown's bucket! Thief!
Oh, shut up, Sammy!
I don't know why everything has to be as bad like this!
Today I just did terrible!
Nothing I do seems to be right,
I just can't do it, there's no other way...!
What...?! Buster committed a robbery...?!
I didn't steal anything!
Oh, boy, this is funny!
Oh...!
I'm sure, this will destroy the Green Forest!
Better do something quickly, or my resting trees are goner...!
He chased me out on a tree limb, and I was so scared that I had to jump down to the ground!
I think Buster ought to leave the forest!
That's mean! In reality, you all are a little bit at fault, understand me?
Oh!
- Uh? - Oh?!
Johnny, where are you going?
Oh, stop it! Johnny, it's dangerous!
Johnny...!
Hmm... are you still mad?
I'll try to take the bucket off. Now lower your head.
Now... Buster, lower your head to me, quickly!
Johnny's gonna help him now!
Thank you, Johnny...!
Thank you, Johnny, you really saved me!
Yeah, yeah...! Here's the bucket!
Buster, wasn't it swell that you weren't a thief after all?
Hey...! Buster is laughing, he's really laughing!
Hey-hey-hey-hey, hey-hey-hey!
How nice! How nice!
Subtitle: South Wind Subs