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00:00Hi everybody, this is your Kidstuff see and read video book.
00:05Here we go with Gloom over Rainbowland.
00:10As the sun rose over Rainbowland, all the colors glowed gloriously,
00:19and the dewdrops on the grass sparkled like millions of tiny diamonds.
00:25But even as the flowers turned their eager little faces to the sun,
00:30the clouds and smog over the pits seemed to grow darker and darker.
00:36A bright new day meant nothing at all to Murky Dismal.
00:41It was always dark over the pits, which was just fine with him.
00:46Murky Dismal always did his best mean thinking when it was gloomy,
00:51and today was no exception.
00:54Lurky!
00:56Murky Dismal snarled as he blended a new nasty concoction in his laboratory.
01:01Lurky, get your hulk down to Rainbowland.
01:06Find out what those brats have cookin' for today and come right back.
01:12Yep boss, said Lurky.
01:15I mean now, growled Murky Dismal.
01:19Okay, okay, I'm going,
01:22mumbled Lurky as he slowly turned to go.
01:25Quick! screamed Murky Dismal in a tantrum.
01:28Quick, quick, quick!
01:30Lurky stumbled out of the entrance to the pits
01:33and started to gallop down the hill toward Rainbowland,
01:36picking up speed as he went.
01:38But clumsy as usual, the big galoop tripped and fell and started to roll.
01:43Down the hill he went head over heels, faster and faster,
01:47leaving his little gray gloom cloud far behind.
01:50Lurky finally came to a stop smack in the middle of the annual Rainbowland picnic at Prison Pond.
01:57He just lay there in the middle of all the potato salad and coleslaw,
02:01huffing and puffing in a hobbled heap.
02:04Suddenly, Lurky felt a tiny gentle hand patting his aching head.
02:10He heard a sweet little voice gurgling and cooing and making soothing sounds.
02:16Are you all right? Are you all right?
02:20Which was Baby Bright's way of asking,
02:23Are you all right?
02:25Just then, Puppy Bright came sniffing around,
02:29wagging his tail, Puppy yipped and yapped until
02:32the color kids and the Sprites stopped what they were doing
02:35and came over to see what all the racket was about.
02:38Red Butler, whose turn it was to look after Baby Bright,
02:42was the first to recognize Lurky.
02:45Look, it's Lurky. This could mean a lot of trouble.
02:49Indigo was worried.
02:50What are we going to do?
02:52We've got to tell Rainbow Bright, insisted Canary Yellow.
02:55You're right, Canary, Buddy Blue agreed.
02:58But Patio Green saw one problem.
03:00What should we do about Lurky?
03:02We can't just leave him here. Maybe he's hurt.
03:05Shy Violet looked around.
03:07I don't see Lurky's gloom cloud anywhere.
03:10That means we're safe from Mercutismo for a while.
03:14I say we all go to the Color Castle right now
03:17and take Lurky with us.
03:20The Color Kids and the Sprites agreed
03:22and they set off to see Rainbow Bright,
03:24with Baby Bright and Puppy Bright bringing up the rear
03:27and Lurky trotting after them like a big hairy hound dog.
03:30Rainbow Bright had been working in her garden
03:33in front of the Color Castle when her friends arrived.
03:37She wasn't at all concerned when the Color Kids
03:39told her about Lurky and she explained.
03:42He's not so bad, really.
03:44When Mercutismo isn't around, Lurky is pretty nice.
03:47Not too bright, but nice.
03:49Twink smiled and told Rainbow Bright.
03:51You always find something good to say about a person.
03:55But I'm afraid of what Mercutismo will do
03:58when he finds out that Lurky is here in Rainbow Land.
04:02You've got a point there, Twink,
04:04Rainbow Bright said to her favorite Sprite.
04:07We'll have to send Lurky back to the pits.
04:10But without the little gray gloom cloud over his head
04:13to keep him under Mercutismo's control and unhappy,
04:16Lurky had fallen under the happy spell
04:18of Rainbow Land's bright colors.
04:20The Sprites were so cheerful,
04:22Puppy Bright was so frisky and playful,
04:25and Baby Bright had truly found a special spot in Lurky's heart.
04:29Lurky dropped to his knees and cried.
04:32I don't want to go back to the pits!
04:35Please don't make me! Please! Please!
04:38Rainbow Bright was very soft-hearted,
04:40and with a sigh, she answered,
04:43Well, maybe you can stay for a little while.
04:48Then Lurky really started to feel happy,
04:51and he didn't feel happy very often.
04:53That could only happen when the gloom cloud wasn't around.
04:57To show how happy he was not to feel unhappy,
05:00Lurky decided to make himself useful.
05:04He rescued mischievous Puppy Bright from the ledge
05:07around the dome of the Color Castle.
05:09He carried a huge melon in from the melon patch for Patio Green,
05:13and he brought Baby Bright's big striped balloon
05:16down from the top of a tree.
05:18By the end of the day,
05:20everyone in Rainbow Land was glad to have Lurky around,
05:23but by the end of the day at the pits,
05:26Mercutismo wasn't glad about anything.
05:30He was angry as he grumbled.
05:32Where is that stupid Lurky?
05:35I told him to come right back from Rainbow Land.
05:39That big oaf doesn't know how to listen.
05:42He doesn't pay attention to a thing I say.
05:45As he stood at the entrance to the pits,
05:48Mercutismo looked down the hill toward Rainbow Land.
05:51Mercutismo mumbled to himself
05:53as he tried to spot his assistant coming up the hill,
05:56but there was no sign of Lurky.
05:59All Mercutismo could see was a little gray cloud
06:02hanging over the hill halfway down.
06:05There's nothing out there but a little gray cloud,
06:08said Mercutismo.
06:10A little gray cloud?
06:12He repeated, doing a double take.
06:14Lurky got away from under the little gray gloom cloud.
06:18No wonder he didn't come back.
06:20He's probably happy as a clam in Rainbow Land.
06:23I can't stand it. I can't stand it.
06:26Mercutismo was so angry
06:28that he had another honest-to-goodness tantrum.
06:31He threw himself down on the ground
06:33and pounded his fists and kicked his feet,
06:35and all the time he kept screaming,
06:37A little gray gloom cloud!
06:39Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
06:41A little gray gloom cloud!
06:43When he was all screamed out,
06:45Mercutismo stood up and shook his head clear.
06:48I'll just have to do something about that.
06:52He growled.
06:54Then he headed for his laboratory inside the pits.
06:58Once inside the laboratory,
07:00Mercutismo began to feel more like his usual mean self.
07:04Soon he was busy concocting clouds of gloom
07:07that went sailing out of the pits
07:09and down the hill toward Rainbow Land.
07:11I'll show that Lurky!
07:14Mercutismo muttered while he worked.
07:16I'll show that Rainbow Brat and her goody-two-shoes gang
07:21that Mercutismo isn't anyone to fool around with me.
07:26By the next morning,
07:28the gloom clouds were so thick over Rainbow Land
07:31that the sun couldn't shine through.
07:33It stayed almost as dark as night.
07:36It was so dark that all the bright colors seemed to fade away to gray.
07:41Rainbow Brat looked up at the sky full of clouds and cried.
07:45Oh, no! Those gloomy clouds are heading this way from the pits!
07:49Mercutismo is covering Rainbow Land with gloom!
07:52Shy Violet nodded and said,
07:55He's very clever!
07:57Clever?
07:59shouted the colored kids puzzled.
08:01Yes, clever!
08:03said Shy Violet, who was very good at figuring out things.
08:06Mercutismo knows he can't control Lurky
08:09unless there's a gloom cloud around to keep him unhappy.
08:13Mercutismo must have figured out that Lurky is here in Rainbow Land,
08:18but he doesn't know exactly where.
08:23So, to play it safe and be sure that he gets to Lurky,
08:27Mercutismo put all of Rainbow Land under a gray gloom cloud.
08:32For the first time ever, everyone in Rainbow Land was unhappy,
08:37even Canary Yellow, who was always sunny and cheerful.
08:41But the most unhappy one of all was Lurky, who moaned and groaned.
08:45Oh, it's all my fault! Oh, it's all my fault!
08:50Lurky looked at all his new-found friends and saw the gloom over Rainbow Land.
08:55He felt sad, but not only because he was back to his own gloomy self,
09:00there was another reason.
09:02My mind is made up,
09:04Lurky told Rainbow Bright and the entire Rainbow Land family.
09:07I'm going back to the pits!
09:10Oh, no!
09:13Everyone protested.
09:15Don't go!
09:17But Lurky's mind was made up.
09:19You have to go!
09:21That's the only way Mercutismo will let the sun shine on Rainbow Land again.
09:26That's the only way your colors will be bright again.
09:31Then, looking very heavy-hearted,
09:33Lurky started to walk slowly up the hill toward the pits.
09:37As he walked, the thick gray gloom clouds seemed to follow after him.
09:42Soon the sun shone brightly on Rainbow Land once again.
09:46All the colors glowed gloriously,
09:48and the dewdrops on the grass sparkled like a million tiny diamonds.
09:53I hate to see Lurky go, said Rainbow Bright with a sigh.
09:58Me too, cooed Baby Bright.
10:03Barked Puppy Bright, wagging his tail.
10:05We sort of got used to having the big lunk around, said Red Butler.
10:10And Buddy Blue agreed.
10:12Yeah, he wasn't so bad after all.
10:16I'm going to miss him, cried Indigo.
10:19He did what he had to do, said Shy Violet.
10:23And he did it for a good reason.
10:25What do you mean? asked Lala Orange.
10:30I know what Shy Violet means, said Rainbow Bright to her colorful family.
10:35Lurky showed how much he loves us
10:37by going back to the pits and letting the sun shine on Rainbow Land again.