bulldogs, ho-ho!
Whoever ever meets us
- ...will be unbooted...
- ... and looted.
Then he'll again be booted
and hooted by our song!
We'll steer our schooner
without any maps,
And to the Treasure Island
we'll sail one day, perhaps.
- Perhaps...
- Perhaps...
Will sail, perhaps.
Sing you do well.
But where's the beauty?
There's no beauty.
Where's the magic carpet?
There's no magic carpet.
The suitors will look and say:
Can it be Chudo Yudo's palace?
It's a shack without
a single work of art.
Go!
- Where to?
- To the headchoppers!
And don't you dare come back
with your heads on your shoulders!
Throw the thread over this finger
and hold it with this one.
And put the needle through here.
That's exactly how I do it,
but it doesn't come out right.
Keep trying.
Help us, Princess!
Your father sent us
to the headchoppers again!
- Why did he get angry with you?
- Because of beauty!
- For your suitors...
- he demands a magic carpet.
I've got no time for this!
All right, stop bawling!
I'll help you!
How nice!
A beauty!
Let's roll it up and off we go!
Wait till Chudo Yudo sees it!
C'est si bon!
But what I want
is to learn how to knit.
Why in water d'you want it
when you know magic?
I don't want magic.
I want it for real,
to be like ordinary humans.
You need a lot of patience
for that, my child.
- Nanny!
- What is it, Barbara?
Did you have suitors?
I had one...
Was he a magician?
He was just a farmhand.
We were crazy about each other.
Vassya was his name.
I remember we were out
walking in the woods.
A wide path we walked,
but we got close to each other,
as if the path was narrow.
And there were a lot of
mushrooms around us.
But we didn't care to pick any.
- Why not?
- We were happy just walking.
Suddenly Vassya said:
"Stepanida, my darling."
See, people have everything better
than we, the magicians, do.
When our mistress found out
about our love, she got angry.
She sent Vassya to war
and locked me in a dark cellar.
You should've changed into a dove
and flied to Vassya.
It's only in your subterranean
realm that you can use magic.
On earth, magic is worse
than robbery.
You can't use magic?
Vassya was struck by a cannon-ball
in his first battle.
And he was killed?
Desperate, I went to the river
and drowned myself.
See what love does?
- Love?
- Love.
From every stinking swamp
and marsh,
from every underwater cave
they rush -
the suitors,
their own matchmakers, are here
before Chudo Yudo to appear
and ask for his daughter's hand.
First suitor!
Ali Hussein!
Spewing water like rain!
He breathes it, he drinks it!
Ten gallons, frogs and all!
- I don't wanna!
- What don't you wanna?
- Neither water, nor frogs!
- I.
- What about fishes?
- Oh, papa!
Next!
This suitor can read people's minds
at a distance of any number
of miles.
Did he drop dead?
He's coming to. Welcome back!
All right!
Read her mind!
Why did he do that?
He did read my mind!
Next!
This suitor's a wizard, and blond!
- Blond?
- Whatever. Who cares?
Greetings to you and bonjour!
So you're a foreigner.
By birth, I'm from here,
by education, I'm from there.
Where did you graduate from?
From an overseas school of
prestidigitation.
What does it mean?
They call it prestidigitation,
we call it sleight of foot
and hypnosis.
How long did you study
at that overseas school?
Two years and a month.
Two years I spent learning
to say the word "prestidigitation".
And a whole month I studied
hypnosis.
Shoot, show the thing.
Accept my Guten Morgen.
Merci.
First I'll utter the magic words
"eins, zwei, drei"
which mean, if translated,
"one, two, three, four".
Then I'll look the Princess
in the eye,
and that will be all it takes
for her to tell you
that I'm her fiance.
Slight of hand and nimble
working will amount to...
A turkey!
- Next!
- That's it!
- What d'you mean?
- We ran out of suitors.
Out of my sight, unruly daughter!
All of you, out of my