Johnny Lee credited as playing...
Br'er Rabbit
- [Br'er Rabbit had tricked Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear into taking him to his Laughing Place, which is actually a tree full of bees]
- Br'er Bear: You said this was a Laughing Place. And I ain't laughing.
- Brer Rabbit: I didn't say it was your Laughing Place, I said it was *my* Laughing Place, Br'er Bear.
- Uncle Remus: [singing] The weather's good; the fishin's fine / Now what do you do with all your time?
- Brer Rabbit: [singing] Ohhh, I zigs and I zags, I tos and I fros / That's what you ask me, and that's what you know.
- Brer Rabbit: [to the Tar Baby] What's the matter with you? I said, "Howdy!" Is you hard of hearing?
- [yelling]
- Brer Rabbit: I said, "HOWDY!"
- Brer Rabbit: I m-m-m-m-mean w-w-w-whatever you do B-B-B-Br'er Fox, whatever you do, but please, please Br'er Fox, pleeeaaase don't fling me into that briar patch!
- [Points to the briar patch]
- Br'er Fox: Uhh... Briar patch?
- [Camera zooms into the briar patch]
- Br'er Fox: Briar patch!
- [Brer Rabbit has been trying repeatedly to get the Tar Baby to greet him back, but it doesn't. So Brer Rabbit threatens it]
- Brer Rabbit: Look! If you don't say "howdy" time I counts three, I'm might bust you wide open!
- Uncle Remus: [narrating] But the Tar Baby, he don't say nothin'.
- [Brer Fox and Brer Bear watch from the brush on the other side of the road]
- Uncle Remus: [narrating] And Brer Fox, he lay low.
- [Back to Brer Rabbit]
- Uncle Remus: So, Brer Rabbit, he start countin'.
- Brer Rabbit: One!
- Uncle Remus: [narrating] But the Tar Baby, he don't say nothin'.
- [Brer Fox watches eagerly]
- Uncle Remus: [narrating] And Brer Fox, he lay low with a chuckle in his stomach.
- Brer Rabbit: Two.
- Uncle Remus: [narrating] But still the Tar Baby don't say nothin'.
- [Brer Fox watches eagerly]
- Uncle Remus: Brer Fox, he lay low with the fidgets.
- [Brer Fox watches ever more eagerly]
- Brer Rabbit: Two and a half.
- [Brer Fox slaps himself]
- Brer Rabbit: Three!
- [Brer Rabbit punches the Tar Baby, only to get his fist caught in it]
- [while singing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", Uncle Remus is interrupted by the sound of a hammer pounding nails. He goes to investigate; he sees Brer Rabbit nailing boards to the door to his Briar Patch home]
- Brer Rabbit: Doggone ol' Briar Patch! Doggone place like this. Doggone...
- Uncle Remus: Hmm. Uh, howdy, Brer Rabbit.
- Brer Rabbit: [stops hammering; stammering] Who's that callin' my name?
- [He sees Remus]
- Brer Rabbit: Oh, uh, uh, hello, Uncle Remus.
- Uncle Remus: Appears to me that you's in a powerful bad mood to go to the party.
- Brer Rabbit: [trying to board up his door] But I ain't goin' to no party, 'cause I ain't gonna be here. I'm gonna leave this ol' place.
- Uncle Remus: You mean you's leavin' your old Briar Patch?
- Brer Rabbit: [nailing board] That I is.
- Uncle Remus: The place where you was born and raised?
- Brer Rabbit: [nailing another board] That I is.
- Uncle Remus: You mean you's leavin' for good?
- Brer Rabbit: [nailing a third board] That I...
- [He accidentally hits his thumb with his hammer and drops it]
- Brer Rabbit: Ow! Now see there? That ol' Briar Patch ain't brought me nothin' but trouble...
- [He kicks the hammer, only to hurt his foot]
- Brer Rabbit: Ow! And more trouble. This is where my trouble is and this is the place I belongs away from.
- Uncle Remus: Don't you know you can't run away from trouble?
- Brer Rabbit: [chuckling; picks up knapsack] Where I'm goin', there ain't gonna be no trouble.
- Uncle Remus: There ain't no place that far.
- Brer Rabbit: Well... just the same I done made up my mind. And I never comin' back again.
- [sadly; holds out hand]
- Brer Rabbit: Well, so long, Uncle Remus.
- Uncle Remus: [shaking Brer Rabbit's hand] I sure hope you knows what you's doin'.
- Brer Rabbit: [chuckling] Don't worry 'bout me. I can take care of myself.
- [Brer Rabbit hops away, whistling "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"]