Farmer Sploshy


 * (Sploshy is reading a book about a farm)
 * Sploshy: Oh, oh! Anyone know what this is?
 * Reg: That’s a tractor. You drive around a farm on it.
 * (Reg turns the page on the farm book.)
 * Reg: See? The farm in this book has lots of lovely green fields.
 * Sploshy: Where you can drive a tractor!
 * (Sploshy pretends to drive a tractor by running around)
 * Finbar: Don’t run over those cotton balls, Sploshy! Arr, arr, arr! The Mighty Shark is going to gobble them up!
 * Reg: Stop! You can’t eat those! They’re shee-sh-shee-things that go “baa”.
 * Finbar: Sheep?
 * Reg: They’re part of Benjie and Sis’s pretend farm.
 * Finbar: They look like cotton balls to me.
 * (Sploshy runs onscreen, still pretending to drive her tractor)
 * Reg: Uh-oh. Watch out for the sh- the, the shee- the shee-things that go “baa”!
 * Sploshy: I’m riding a tractor!
 * Finbar: Mighty me, look where you’re going!
 * (Sploshy stops running)
 * Sploshy: Oh, if only I lived on a farm, I could ride around on a tractor all day long!
 * (Thought bubble transition to a farm. Sploshy is driving a tractor, and is wearing a hat and dungarees.)
 * Sploshy: I said “if only” and now I’m on a farm, driving a tractor!
 * (Sploshy drives through the gate)
 * Sploshy: ♪Here comes the farmer, splish splash splish splosh, Sploshy the farmer, splish splash splosh!♪
 * (Finbar the sheepdog appears barking and growling at her)
 * Sploshy: Oh, who are you, and why are you barking at me?
 * Finbar: I’m Finbar, the mighty sheepdog, and I’m barking because someone has left the gate open, and my sheep has got out!
 * Sploshy: Someone? Who?
 * Finbar: Someone on a tractor!
 * Sploshy: Someone else with a trac—
 * (Sploshy immediately realises who she was talking about.)
 * Sploshy:—tor. Oh, I didn’t know I was supposed to close the gate.
 * Finbar: Well, remember to close it next time!
 * Sploshy: No problem!
 * Finbar: And if you see my sheep, tell him the mighty sheepdog is looking for him.
 * Sploshy: Okay!
 * (Sploshy starts up her tractor and drives away.)
 * Sploshy: Goodbye, Finbar the sheepdog!
 * Finbar: Uh-huh, excuse me, that’s Finbar the mighty sheepdog!
 * Sploshy: ♪Here comes the farmer, splish splash splish splosh, here comes the fa—♪ (Sploshy sees the sheep and stops her tractor.) Oh! There’s the sheep! Go, tractor, go!
 * (Sploshy strains as she pulls the lever to start up her tractor again.)
 * Sploshy: Wow, yippee!
 * (Terence is afraid as the tractor heads for him.)
 * Sploshy: Stop, sheep, it’s only me, Farmer Sploshy!
 * (Sploshy goes after Terence as he runs away from her, and they go in a circle.)
 * Sploshy: Terence the sheep, stop! Please!
 * (Sploshy stops her tractor, causing Terence to stop running.)
 * Sploshy: Why did you run away? That was silly!
 * Terence: Baa, baa! Oh, sheep are silly, and I really don’t like the noise that tractor makes.
 * Sploshy: Oh, sorry. Hey, Finbar the sheepdog, I’ve found your sheep!
 * Finbar: Arr, arr, arr! Thank you!
 * (Sploshy starts up her tractor, causing Terence to be scared away. Finbar comes over to her tractor.)
 * Finbar: First, you leave the gate open, and then, you frighten away my sheep with your noisy tractor, arr-arr-arr!
 * Sploshy: Whoops, sorry! (under her breath) Silly sheep!
 * (Terence appears hiding behind bushes.)
 * Terence: I heard that!
 * (Sploshy drives away.)
 * Sploshy: ♪Here comes the farmer, faster, faster...♪
 * (Terence walks and then trips and falls.)
 * (Sploshy drives up to Reg the donkey and stops just in front of him.)
 * Reg: Hee-haw, hee-haw. You nearly knocked me over!
 * Sploshy: Sorry! I didn’t see you. Who are you, anyway?
 * Reg: I am Reg the donkey, and I haven’t got any straw for my bed, hee-haw!
 * Sploshy: Really? Why’s that?
 * Reg: Don’t ask me, you’re the farmer. You should have collect—collect—you should have gone and got the straw in your tractor!
 * (Sploshy looks behind and realises that she has a trailer.)
 * Sploshy: Oh, I see! So that’s why the tractor has a trailer, to collect things in! Hoo, splish splash splosh!
 * Reg: Hee-haw, hee-haw!
 * (Sploshy starts up her tractor.)
 * Sploshy: I’ll go and get your straw right away!
 * (Sploshy drives over to Amelia, who is clucking.)
 * Sploshy: Oh, who are you?
 * Amelia: I’m Amelia the chicken. Just look at all these eggs I’ve laid!
 * Sploshy: Well done.
 * (Sploshy gets on her tractor and starts it up.)
 * Amelia: Wait! You’re the farmer! You’re supposed to collect them!
 * Sploshy: I am? I’m sorry, Amelia the chicken, I didn’t know!
 * Amelia: Well, I’m not laying anymore eggs until you’ve cluck-cluck-cluck-put these away!
 * Sploshy: No problem!
 * (Sploshy stops her tractor, gets off it, and collects the eggs.)
 * Sploshy: I’ll just pick them up and put them in my trailer.
 * (Sploshy puts the eggs in her trailer.)
 * Sploshy: I can take them over to the farmyard on my way to get Reg the donkey’s straw.
 * (Sploshy gets back in her tractor and starts it up.)
 * Amelia: Be careful not to break them, Farmer Sploshy!
 * (Sploshy drives away and around the farm while destroying the eggs.)
 * Sploshy: ♪I’ve got a trailer, zig zag zig zag, I’ve got a trailer, bump bump bump!♪
 * (Sploshy stops her tractor.)
 * Sploshy: Driving a tractor is so much fun!
 * (Sploshy laughs, but when she turns around, she realises that she has destroyed the eggs.)
 * Sploshy: Oh, no! What a mess!
 * (Winona the piglet squeaks and oinks. Sploshy gets off her tractor and comes up to her.)
 * Sploshy: Oh, hello, Winona the piglet.
 * (Winona nudges Sploshy, asking to be fed.)
 * Sploshy: Uh, I don’t know where your food is. Oh, was I supposed to bring it to you by any chance.
 * (Winona squeaks and oinks.)
 * Sploshy: Oh, no.
 * (Sploshy gets back in her tractor and starts it up.)
 * Sploshy: I’ll get it for you right now!
 * (Sploshy drives up to Tubb the cow and splashes him with a puddle.)
 * Tubb: Ugh, yuck! Moo! What did you do that for?
 * Sploshy: Sorry! I’m in a hurry! I need to get Winona piglet’s food! What do pigs eat anyway?
 * (Tubb holds up a bucket of milk.)
 * Tubb: How should I know? I’m a cow, which reminds me, you should have come for the milk first thing this morning.
 * (Terence and Finbar arrive onscreen. Finbar is trying to get Terence in his pen.)
 * Finbar: Get in your pen, silly sheep! Do what the mighty sheepdog tells you!
 * (Terence gets in his pen, and Finbar shuts it.)
 * Finbar: There. I’ve done my job, I’ve rounded up the sheep. (to Sploshy) But you’re supposed to shear him.
 * Terence: Yes, look how long my fleece is.
 * (Reg walks up to the farm animals.)
 * Reg: Hee-haw, hee-haw, where is my stree-aw?
 * (Amelia shows up.)
 * Amelia: Cluck, cluck, cluck. My eggs, cluck, eggs. What happened to my eggs, cluck?
 * (Winona shows up and squeaks and oinks.)
 * Amelia: Yes, where is Winona’s food?
 * Tubb: And when are you going to come and fetch the milk?
 * Sploshy: Sorry! I was having so much fun on the tractor, I didn't do my job! But don’t go away!
 * (Sploshy is collecting Amelia’s eggs into a bucket.)
 * Sploshy: All done, Amelia the chicken, and I haven’t broken a single one!
 * (Sploshy is feeding Winona the piglet beads.)
 * Sploshy: There’s your food, Winona the piglet! Now you won’t be hungry anymore!
 * (Sploshy is getting hay for Reg the donkey.)
 * Sploshy: There you are, Reg the donkey! A great big pile of straw for your bed!
 * (Sploshy is about to shear Terence.)
 * Sploshy: Right, Terence the sheep, it’s time to shear your woolly coat.
 * Terence: Oh, goody! Then I’ll be nice and cool!
 * (Sploshy shears Terence.)
 * (cut to: Sploshy driving her tractor through the gate.)
 * Sploshy: ♪Sploshy the farmer, splish splash splish splosh, really good farmer, splish splash splosh!♪
 * (Finbar comes up to Sploshy.)
 * Finbar: Arr-arr-arr! Haven’t you forgotten something!
 * Sploshy: Oh, no! The gate! If only I remembered to close the gate.
 * (Thought bubble transition back to the bathroom.)
 * Finbar: Please, let me have one, Reg, arr! I only want to gobble up one!
 * Reg: No, Finbar, I’ve got to put them safely back in their pen.
 * Sploshy: I’ll help you, Reg.
 * Reg: Will you? I thought you only wanted to zoom around on a tractor.
 * Sploshy: Well, there’s more to being on a farm than driving a tractor, you know.
 * Reg: Yes, I do know. Thank you, Sploshy.
 * (Amelia appears onscreen.)
 * Amelia: Hey, Reg! Benjie and Sis are coming!
 * Reg: Rubbadubbers! Rubbadubbers! The children are coming! Bath time scramble.
 * (Tubb appears.)
 * Tubb: Places, everyone! It’s bath time!
 * (Sploshy pretends to drive a tractor and runs up to the farm book.)
 * Sploshy: Bye, tractor! See you another day!
 * (Sploshy runs off, pretending to drive.)