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Alice’s Birthday Bummer | Alice in Wonderland Adventure | Stories for Kids Playlist · Dorktales Storytime | Stories for Kids Who Love Big Adventures

• 1:10
  Jonathan: Hello, Dork Squad.
• 1:11
  Jonathan: I'm Jonathan Cormur, and you're listening to Dorktales the podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grown-ups.
• 1:23
  Theme Song: It's a beautiful day for a story, adventure, and glory, new friends and old ones, too.
• 1:30
  Theme Song: It's an excellent day to get swept away in a tale, so let us you.
• 1:43
  Redge: Come along, Jonathan.
• 1:44
  Redge: I believe it's this way.
• 1:46
  Jonathan: Right behind you, Redge.
• 1:48
  Redge: It's absolutely splendid to be back in Wonderland.
• 1:52
  Jonathan: As long as we don't see any scary creatures like last time.
• 1:56
  Redge: Not a chance.
• 1:57
  Redge: We're here for fun and frivolity only.
• 2:00
  Redge: Jonathan, watch your step!
• 2:02
  Jonathan: Uh what?
• 2:03
  Jonathan: What where?
• 2:05
  Redge: Well, the flowers will not be pleased if you step on them.
• 2:08
  Rose: And we aren't afraid to let you know it.
• 2:11
  Jonathan: Oh wow.
• 2:11
  Jonathan: Hello.
• 2:13
  Rose: Hiya.
• 2:14
  Bougainvillea: Hello.
• 2:15
  Daisy: Greetings.
• 2:17
  Jonathan: I don't remember talking flowers on our last visit.
• 2:20
  Rose: We sing too.
• 2:25
  Jonathan: Oh, and they sound as lovely as they look.
• 2:28
  Daisy: Oh, how sweet.
• 2:30
  Bougainvillea: Ooh, I like him.
• 2:32
  Rose: He can stay.
• 2:33
  Redge: Well, we can't stay long, unfortunately.
• 2:35
  Redge: We have somewhere we need to be.
• 2:38
  Jonathan: Yes, and we don't want to be late.
• 2:41
  Redge: For our very important date.
• 2:42
  Redge: Uh let's see.
• 2:44
  Redge: Is it down the path to the left with the large oaks and strange birds?
• 2:49
  Jonathan: Or the path to the right with the rainbow-colored mushrooms uh oversized insects?
• 2:54
  Redge: These directions aren't exactly clear.
• 2:57
  Jonathan: Someone must have been in a rush when they wrote them.
• 3:00
  Redge: Hmm, well it's always so easy to get lost in Wonderland.
• 3:04
  Jonathan: Should we ask the flowers which way to go?
• 3:07
  Rose: Sorry.
• 3:09
  Bougainvillea: We can't help you.
• 3:12
  Rose: spot.
• 3:13
  White Rabbit: Help me, oh my, help me, oh my!
• 3:16
  Redge: The White Rabbit! What's he doing here?
• 3:19
  Alice: White Rabbit, White Rabbit! Wait, wait!
• 3:22
  Jonathan: Oh, and there's Alice too.
• 3:23
  Jonathan: I'm late, I'm late.
• 3:26
  Alice: Uh White Rabbit!
• 3:27
  White Rabbit: No time to wait.
• 3:28
  White Rabbit: I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.
• 3:31
  Alice: But it's my White Rabbit! You promised!
• 3:35
  Redge: Oh White Rabbit, wait!
• 3:37
  White Rabbit: Oh, Redge uh Jonathan! Oh, I'm sorry.
• 3:40
  White Rabbit: I'm late.
• 3:41
  White Rabbit: You understand?
• 3:42
  White Rabbit: I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.
• 3:48
  Alice: White Rabbit!
• 3:50
  Redge: Alice!
• 3:52
  Jonathan: Hello!
• 3:53
  Alice: Oh, hi, Redge.
• 3:53
  Alice: Hi, Jonathan.
• 3:55
  Redge: Are you alright, Alice?
• 3:57
  Alice: It's just well, the White Rabbit is always in a rush, but he promised to slow down and spend the day with me.
• 4:04
  Alice: He was going to show me the new renovations to his house.
• 4:08
  Alice: It's finally completed.
• 4:10
  Jonathan: Oh, how nice.
• 4:12
  Alice: But he keeps running away and won't bring me to the house.
• 4:14
  Alice: I don't know which way to go.
• 4:16
  Alice: It's also terribly disappointing because it's a very
• 4:22
  Jonathan: Oh, is it?
• 4:23
  Redge: Yes.
• 4:23
  Redge: Is it?
• 4:26
  Alice: Yes, it's my birthday.
• 4:28
  Redge: Oh! Happy birthday!
• 4:31
  Jonathan: Yes, happy birthday, Alice.
• 4:33
  Alice: What are you doing in Wonderland?
• 4:36
  Jonathan: Uh, we just came for a visit.
• 4:39
  Redge: Yes, uh just a visit.
• 4:41
  Jonathan: It's very confusing getting around here.
• 4:44
  Alice: Don't I know it?
• 4:45
  Alice: Now which way did the white rabbit go?
• 4:48
  Redge: Uh to the left, through the oaks.
• 4:50
  Jonathan: Uh no no, I believe it was to the right, near the mushrooms.
• 4:54
  Daisy: It was through the trees.
• 4:56
  Bougainvillea: No, no, by the mushrooms.
• 4:59
  Rose: Don't listen to them.
• 5:00
  Rose: They can't see a thing past my thorns.
• 5:04
  Jonathan: What about you, Rose?
• 5:05
  Jonathan: Did you see which way the white rabbit went?
• 5:09
  Rose: Me?
• 5:09
  Rose: No, the sun was in my eyes.
• 5:17
  Jonathan: Did you hear that?
• 5:19
  Alice: That must be the Mad Hatter.
• 5:20
  Alice: Maybe he's hosting another tea party.
• 5:24
  Jonathan: I think the sound is coming from down this way, through trees.
• 5:28
  Alice: You know what?
• 5:28
  Alice: If anyone knows how to celebrate, it's the Mad Hatter.
• 5:32
  Alice: And if the white rabbit won't be with me on my birthday, then I'll make my own fun.
• 5:37
  Alice: Will you come with me?
• 5:39
  Redge: Of course.
• 5:40
  Jonathan: Happy to.
• 5:42
  Alice: Oh, thank you.
• 5:43
  Alice: The day has been such a bummer so far.
• 5:46
  Alice: But this might save my birthday after all.
• 5:48
  Alice: Let's go!
• 6:00
  Mad Hatter: One lump, two lump, three lump, four.
• 6:02
  Mad Hatter: Oh, certainly, certainly you can have more.
• 6:05
  Mad Hatter: Just open your mouth and I'll give you a pour.
• 6:08
  Mad Hatter: Swirl it around and spit it on the floor.
• 6:14
  Redge: Hello there.
• 6:15
  Mad Hatter: Stir it, stir it, stir it around.
• 6:18
  Mad Hatter: Stir with your foot and drink it off the ground.
• 6:21
  Mad Hatter: Lick it and lap it slurp it up right now.
• 6:24
  Mad Hatter: Spin, spin, spin, then take a bow.
• 6:27
  Mad Hatter: Oh uh where did you come from?
• 6:35
  Jonathan: Uh just down the path through the trees.
• 6:37
  Mad Hatter: My goodness! You gave me such a shock.
• 6:40
  Mad Hatter: Such a fright!
• 6:42
  Redge: Oh, uh, we're sorry.
• 6:43
  Redge: But now that you're here, tea?
• 6:45
  Redge: Tea?
• 6:46
  Redge: Anyone?
• 6:47
  Mad Hatter: Tea?
• 6:48
  Alice: Oh yes, please!
• 6:50
  Jonathan: Uh cup for each of us, I think.
• 6:52
  Jonathan: Thank you.
• 6:53
  Redge: Jonathan, is there time?
• 6:55
  Jonathan: Uh I think we still have time.
• 6:58
  Mad Hatter: There's always time for tea.
• 7:01
  Alice: Are you in a hurry?
• 7:03
  Redge: Oh no no.
• 7:04
  Jonathan: Of course not, no.
• 7:06
  Alice: Great! Then there's time for cake too.
• 7:08
  Alice: Do you have any?
• 7:10
  Mad Hatter: Cake?
• 7:10
  Mad Hatter: Cake?
• 7:14
  Alice: Yes?
• 7:15
  Mad Hatter: I always have cake.
• 7:17
  Mad Hatter: Always, always, always.
• 7:19
  Mad Hatter: Now, where did I put it?
• 7:21
  Mad Hatter: Uh cake! Where are you?
• 7:24
  Mad Hatter: Hmm Cake?
• 7:26
  Mad Hatter: Cake Oh this hat?
• 7:30
  Mad Hatter: I can't think with it on.
• 7:33
  Jonathan: Oh!
• 7:34
  Redge: The cake!
• 7:35
  Mad Hatter: The cake?
• 7:35
  Mad Hatter: Where?
• 7:38
  Alice: It's on your head!
• 7:40
  Redge: It was under your hat.
• 7:42
  Mad Hatter: Oh! I should have known! I'd do all my best thinking with cake on my head.
• 7:49
  Mad Hatter: Here you are!
• 7:51
  Jonathan: Good thing there wasn't a candle.
• 7:53
  Redge: A candle! Great idea, Jonathan! Then it'd be a proper celebration.
• 7:58
  Mad Hatter: Celebration?
• 7:58
  Mad Hatter: Did you say celebration?
• 8:01
  Mad Hatter: Oh we must blow up balloons!
• 8:05
  Alice: Oh yes!
• 8:06
  Redge: What fun!
• 8:22
  Mad Hatter: And we must have games, games, games!
• 8:29
  Alice: cat! Just like my cat Dinah!
• 8:33
  Mad Hatter: Don't say cat! Don't say cat!
• 8:36
  Mouse: Did somebody say?
• 8:38
  Mad Hatter: Uh no, no, uh, Mr.
• 8:39
  Mad Hatter: Dormouse.
• 8:40
  Mad Hatter: Uh, no, not at all.
• 8:41
  Mad Hatter: Uh uh go back to sleep.
• 8:44
  Mouse: Oh, okay.
• 8:48
  Alice: This is wonderful! You've all saved the day! Thank you for turning it around.
• 8:52
  Alice: Everything's so much better now!
• 8:58
  Redge: course.
• 8:59
  Alice: Maybe it'll be the best birthday yet.
• 9:02
  Mad Hatter: Wait.
• 9:02
  Mad Hatter: Birthday?
• 9:03
  Mad Hatter: A birthday?
• 9:06
  Alice: Yes, today's my birthday!
• 9:09
  Mad Hatter: Oh no, no, no, no, no! No cake for you.
• 9:13
  Alice: What?
• 9:14
  Mad Hatter: Give me that!
• 9:15
  Alice: Why?
• 9:20
  Mad Hatter: And no balloons, no no, pop the balloons, pop up.
• 9:23
  Mad Hatter: Uh, no balloons, not on the birthday.
• 9:25
  Mad Hatter: No, no, it's all wrong.
• 9:34
  Jonathan: What are you doing?
• 9:35
  Mad Hatter: I never celebrate birthdays, only un birthdays! Then you can celebrate 364 days every year, you know?
• 9:46
  Jonathan: But what about the 365th day?
• 9:50
  Alice: Yes, what about your actual birthday?
• 9:53
  Mad Hatter: Your actual birthday?
• 9:54
  Mad Hatter: That's reserved only for birthday bummers.
• 10:00
  Alice: Birthday bummers?
• 10:02
  Mad Hatter: Yes, yes, the day when everything goes wrong.
• 10:05
  Mad Hatter: Will go wrong, must go wrong, has to go wrong.
• 10:12
  Alice: I don't understand.
• 10:14
  Mad Hatter: You can't appreciate the other 364 unbirthdays if you didn't have a birthday bummer, or two, or three, or twelve on your actual birthday.
• 10:27
  Alice: I think I've had enough bummers, thank you.
• 10:30
  Alice: The white rabbit won't celebrate with me, and now this! There's nothing to do now but wait.
• 10:38
  Jonathan: Wait?
• 10:39
  Redge: Wait for what?
• 10:41
  Alice: Just wait for this day to be over.
• 10:43
  Jonathan: Yes, uh, bye-bye.
• 10:44
  Jonathan: Go be a bummer somewhere else.
• 10:46
  Jonathan: Come back on your unbirthday.
• 10:48
  Jonathan: I'm happy to celebrate with you then.
• 10:51
  Jonathan: Uh goodbye, goodbye! Huh.
• 10:53
  Jonathan: Now where was I?
• 10:56
  Jonathan: Oh yes, uh, one lump, two lump, three lump, four.
• 11:00
  Jonathan: I'm sorry, Alice.
• 11:03
  Alice: Me too.
• 11:03
  Alice: I thought that was shaping up to be the best birthday party ever.
• 11:09
  Alice: lost again.
• 11:10
  Redge: I just wish we could find the white rabbit's house.
• 11:14
  Cheshire Cat: If you don't know where you're going, any path will you there.
• 11:18
  Cheshire Cat: Even this one.
• 11:23
  Alice: The Cheshire Cat!
• 11:25
  Jonathan: Was that path there before?
• 11:27
  Redge: Uh, definitely not.
• 11:29
  Alice: Maybe the Cheshire can help.
• 11:31
  Alice: Is this the way to go?
• 11:33
  Cheshire Cat: You'll know when you get there.
• 11:36
  Alice: Uh-huh.
• 11:36
  Alice: But which way do we go?
• 11:40
  Redge: I guess we might as well try this new path.
• 11:43
  Jonathan: Might as well.
• 11:44
  Jonathan: Uh Aren't you coming, Alice?
• 11:46
  Alice: No, I think I'll just wait here until my birthday is over.
• 11:49
  Alice: I don't want any more bummers today.
• 11:53
  Redge: Oh, but Alice, please.
• 11:54
  Redge: Even a bummer on your birthday with friends can't be all
• 12:00
  Jonathan: Just one more try, Alice.
• 12:02
  Cheshire Cat: Good or bad, the road always leads you forward, never
• 12:10
  Alice: Thanks, Redge.
• 12:10
  Alice: Thanks, Jonathan.
• 12:11
  Alice: I guess we can give it one more try.
• 12:15
  Alice: Just one.
• 12:16
  Alice: It is nice being with you, even if everything's been going
• 12:22
  Redge: That's the spirit.
• 12:22
  Redge: One more try.
• 12:24
  Alice: One more try.
• 12:26
  Jonathan: Let's do it.
• 12:28
  Redge: This way.
• 12:30
  Cheshire Cat: See you soon.
• 12:33
  Alice: I'll never understand that cat.
• 12:38
  Jonathan: Lots of riveting frogs.
• 12:39
  Jonathan: I can hear them, but I can't see them.
• 12:43
  Alice: Hmm, I've never been down this path before.
• 12:45
  Alice: I think I would remember all the riveting frogs.
• 12:49
  Redge: There's so much overgrown moss.
• 12:51
  Redge: The frogs must be hiding in there.
• 12:54
  Alice: Wonderland is full of surprises.
• 13:00
  Alice: it's the White Rabbit's house!
• 13:02
  Jonathan: The froggy road led us straight here.
• 13:05
  Redge: Oh, it looks so nice! They did a wonderful job with the renovations.
• 13:09
  Redge: The house is in tip-top shape.
• 13:13
  Jonathan: Cozy yet modern.
• 13:15
  Alice: I can't believe we found it!
• 13:18
  Redge: I just love what they've done with the garden.
• 13:21
  Jonathan: Is that a koi pond?
• 13:23
  Redge: Yes, but instead of fish in the pond, I believe those are little jingle bells.
• 13:28
  Redge: How cute! Isn't it cute, Alice?
• 13:35
  Alice: Yeah, it's cute.
• 13:38
  Jonathan: Come on, let's head in.
• 13:40
  Alice: I don't know.
• 13:41
  Alice: Does White Rabbit really even want me here?
• 13:44
  Alice: He ran away from me all day.
• 13:46
  Redge: Well, let's at least knock on the door.
• 13:49
  Alice: Alright.
• 13:50
  Jonathan: Knock knock.
• 13:54
  Crowd: Surprise! Surprise! It's a me!
• 13:59
  White Rabbit: Happy birthday, Alice!
• 14:01
  Alice: White Rabbit! And all my friends in Wonderland?
• 14:03
  Alice: What are you doing here?
• 14:06
  White Rabbit: Thank you, Redge and Jonathan, for stalling her.
• 14:09
  White Rabbit: I was late for the very party I was meant to be
• 14:13
  Alice: Party?
• 14:14
  White Rabbit: Happy birthday, Alice! Surprise!
• 14:18
  Alice: For me?
• 14:18
  Alice: You didn't forget after all?
• 14:21
  White Rabbit: Of course not! I just need to put the finishing touches on the decor for your birthday tea party.
• 14:28
  Redge: Happy birthday, Alice!
• 14:30
  Jonathan: Happy birthday!
• 14:32
  Alice: Redge, Jonathan! Did you know?
• 14:35
  Jonathan: Well that's why we were here in Wonderland.
• 14:37
  Redge: For the party! We RSVP'd weeks ago.
• 14:41
  Jonathan: When we saw the white rabbit frantically dashing about, we he must need more time.
• 14:47
  Redge: And the Cheshire Cat gave us a hint that everything must be ready to go.
• 14:51
  Cheshire Cat: I love dipping my tail in everywhere I can.
• 14:56
  Alice: I can't thank you enough.
• 14:57
  Alice: How very special!
• 15:00
  White Rabbit: Now come.
• 15:00
  White Rabbit: Anyone want some tea and cake?
• 15:03
  Alice: Oh yes, please!
• 15:05
  Jonathan: Sure, thank you.
• 15:06
  Redge: Certainly.
• 15:07
  White Rabbit: Oh wait! Oh no! Oh no no no no no!
• 15:12
  Jonathan: Oh is everything okay?
• 15:14
  White Rabbit: I forgot to boil the water for the tea.
• 15:16
  White Rabbit: Ah, what a bummer.
• 15:19
  Redge: A birthday bummer?
• 15:21
  Alice: A birthday bummer?
• 15:22
  Alice: How perfect!
• 15:24
  White Rabbit: Perfect! Did she say perfect?
• 15:27
  Jonathan: We'll explain later.
• 15:29
  Redge: Let's get inside.
• 15:30
  Redge: Happy birthday, Alice.
• 15:36
  Jonathan: This has been a Jon in Character production.
• 15:38
  Jonathan: This story was written by Monique Hafen Adams and edited and produced by Molly Murphy.
• 15:44
  Jonathan: Special thanks to Sabrina Glow from Glow Girls Kid and Teen who performed Alice and Rose.
• 15:51
  Jonathan: All other characters were performed by Jonathan Cormur.
• 15:54
  Jonathan: Sound recording in production by Jermaine Hamilton at Grove Soundworks.
• 15:59
  Jonathan: We love hearing from you.
• 16:01
  Jonathan: Contact us at DorkTalesstorytime at gmail.com or text feature as a safe way to reach out.
• 16:09
  Jonathan: You can find even more ways to reach us in the show notes.
• 16:13
  Jonathan: Now, go be the hero of your own story, and we'll see you once upon a time.
• 16:25
  Theme Song: So gather your squad...