Mrs. Toucanella Told Me

Mrs. Toucanella Told Me is a song that is sung in the 1970 cartoon, Horton Hears a Who!.

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Glasses Bird: This is highly confidential; this is just between us two, but Mrs. Toucanella told me Horton's talking to a who.

Big Hair Bird: (spoken) A who?! Who's a who?

Glasses Bird: Well, my dear, that's just the point: there isn't any who;

Horton's brain is out of joint.

Big Hair Bird: (spoken) For goodness sake -- A Who?

Blue Bird with Yellow Hair: Now, I know you won't repeat this. Strictly entre nous, of course.

But Mrs. Tessie Toucanella is an unimpeachable source.

And she says irrefutably - it's indubitably a fact...

Horton's schizo-witsa-fistic.

Baby Bird: In other words, he's cracked.

Blue Bird with Yellow Hair: (spoken) He ought to be psycho-wangwalized.

Glasses Bird: (spoken) Oh no. Psycho-o-analysis is too expensive for an elephant. I hear they charge by the pound.

(Mrs Toucanella whispers inaudibly)

Pink and Purple Bird: (spoken) Mrs. Toucanella said... (Mrs Toucanella keeps whispering, she speaks her line again) Mrs. Toucanella said...

Orange Bird with Crazy Neck: Undoubtedly, it all goes back to some heredity trait.

Nightgown Bird: I've been reading quite a bit - about heredity of late.

Green Hair Bird: And the Uncle of Horton's cousin--

Red, Round Hair Bird: --was an elephant named Nate.

Tallest Chick: Who had such grand illusions--

Second-Tallest Chick: ---and confusions,

Second-Shortest Chick: ---aberrations,

Shortest Chick: ---and contusions...

Orange Bird with Crazy Neck: And he believed he was the father in law of Catherine the Great.

Green Hair Bird: (spoken) Mrs. Toucanella told me that he's giddy as a kid.

Orange Bird with Crazy Neck: (spoken) Mrs. Toucanella told me he's knitty as a mid.

(the birds talk inaudibly to each other)

Big Hair Bird: (spoken) Horton's flipped his lid!

Glasses Bird: Mrs. Toucanella told me that he's manic and depressive,

Red, Round Hair Bird: retrogressive and recessive---

Tallest Chick: ---and progressively---

Second-Tallest Chick: ---excessively,

Second-Shortest Chick: --possessively,

Shortest Chick: ---oppressively acquessive.

Big Hair Bird: (spoken)

Well my dears, if that's the case - This neighborhood's degenerating into a most unwholesome place!

Glasses Bird: (spoken) With demented elephants, yet.

All: (spoken) We're going to get away from here as fast as we can get!

- During the Mrs. Toucanella Told Me song, many of the birds designs were reused from Scrambled Eggs Super!.
Besides Mrs. Toucanella, the nightgown bird and the glasses bird are the only ones to have a large role outside of the song.