Madagascar
Surprise!
Alex, do not interrupt me
when I'm daydreaming!
When a zebra's in the zone,
leave him alone.
Come on. Just wanted
to wish you a happy birthday.
Hey, man, thanks.
Hey, I got something
stuck in my teeth.
It's driving me crazy.
Can you help me? Please?
You came to the right place,
my friend.
Dr. Marty, D.D.S., is in the house.
Please hop on top of my sterilized
examination table, if you may.
- I don't see anything.
- It's on the left.
Oh, sorry.
OK, just don't talk
with your mouth full.
Right here. What the heck
is this doing in there?
Happy birthday!
Aw, hey, thanks, man.
You put it in behind the tooth.
You all right.
These aren't even on the shelf yet.
Here. Check it out.
- Look at that. Ooh! Look at that.
- Look at that. It's snowing.
Ten years old, huh? A decade.
Double digits. The big 1-0.
You don't like it?
- No, no, it's great.
- You hate it.
I should've gotten you the Alex
alarm clock. That's the big seller.
No, no, no.
The present's great, really.
It's just that
another year's come and gone
and I'm still doing
the same old thing.
"Stand over here. Trot over there.
Eat some grass. Walk back over here."
- I see your problem.
- I should go to law school.
You just need to break out
of that boring routine.
- How?
- Throw out the old act.
Who knows what you'll do.
Make it up as you go along.
Ad lib. Improvise. On the fly.
Boom, boom, boom.
- Really?
- You know, make it fresh.
Fresh, huh? OK.
I could do fresh.
Works for me.
Here come the people, Marty.
I love the people.
It's fun people fun time!
Let's go, Gloria!
Up and at 'em. We're open!
What day is it?
It's Friday. Field trip day.
Yes, it's field trip day.
Let's get up and go...
...in ten more minutes.
Come on!
Melman, Melman, Melman!
Melman, Melman, Melman!
Wake up! Rise and shine! It's another
fabulous morning in the Big Apple.
Let's go.
- Not for me. I'm calling in sick.
- What?
on my shoulder. Right here. See?
Right there. You see?
Melman, you know
it's all in your head. Hm?
Let's go! Come on!
Phil! Wake up, you filthy monkey.
Oh, I'm going to be fresh.
Straight out the ground.
Tasty fresh! Freshalicious.
Ziploc fresh.
Ladies and gentlemen,
children of all ages,
the Central Park Zoo
proudly presents:
Show them the cat. Who's the cat?
The king of New York City.
Alex the lion.
It's showtime.
Roar!
Gather around, people.
Big show about to start.
Check out the zebra
taking care of biz. That's right.
Just smile and wave, boys.
Smile and wave.
Kowalski, progress report.
We're 500 feet from the main sewer line.
- And the bad news?
- We've broken our last shovel.
Right.
Rico, you're on litter patrol.
We need shovels.
And find more Popsicle sticks.
We don't want to risk another cave-in.
And me, skipper?
I want you to look
cute and cuddly, private.
Today we're going to blow this dump.
Come here. Come here.
Come on, penguin.
Yeah! You don't
see that on Animal Planet.
Ha-ha.
Well, show's over, folks.
Thanks for coming.
I hope you thought it was fresh.
I'll be here all week.
In fact, I'll be here
for my whole life.
Three hundred
and sixty-five days a year,
including Christmas,
Hanukkah, Halloween, Kwanzaa.
Please don't forget
to never spay or neuter your pets.
And tip your cabbie,
because he's broke.
You, quadruped.
Sprechen sie Englisch?
I sprechen.
- What continent is this?
- Manhattan.
Hoover Dam!
We're still in New York.
Abort. Dive! Dive! Dive.
Hey. You in the tux. Wait a minute.
What are you guys doing?
We're digging to Antarctica.
Ant-who-tica?
Can you keep a secret,
my monochromatic friend?
Do you ever see any penguins
running free around New York City?
Of course not. We don't belong here.
It's just not natural.
This is all some kind
of whacked-out conspiracy.
We're going to the
wide-open spaces of Antarctica.
To the wild.
The wild?
That sounds great.
Hey, hold up. Where is this place?
Tell me where it is.
You didn't see anything.
Right?
Yes, sir.
I'm sorry. No, sir.
For his final appearance of the day,
the king of New York City.
Alex the lion.
Roar!
Thank you. Thank you very much.
You guys are great. You're a
great crowd. Give yourselves a hand.
Thank you. Oh. Thank you.
Oh! Well. Thank you.
Oh, that's too kind. Too kind.
Underpants!
Everybody get home safe. Hey!
Check out my Web site.
Twenty-four hour Alex Cam.
Watch me sleep.
This is the life.
That's the spot.
Oh! I'm in heaven.
- Ooh, it's Marty's birthday.
- Just rip it open.
- What is it?
- Come on. Open it up. What you got?
A thermometer.
Thanks. I love it, Melman. I love it.
I wanted to give you something personal.
That was my first rectal thermometer.
- I'll miss that bad boy.
- Get the cake. Melman, come on.
Happy birthday to you
You live in a zoo
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too
I say.
Aw, well, now, you guys
are just embarrassing me.
And yourselves.
What? We worked
on that all week.
Let's go.
Let's make a wish, babycakes.
- What'd you wish for?
- Nope. Can't tell you that.
Come on. Tell.
No siree.
I'm telling you, it's bad luck.
You want some bad luck,
I'll blab it out.
But if you want to be safe,
I'll keep my mouth shut.
Would you just tell us?
What could happen?
OK.
I wished I could go to the wild!
The wild?!
I told you it was bad luck.
The wild? Are you nuts?
That is the worst idea
I've ever heard.
It's unsanitary.
The penguins are going.
So why can't I?
The penguins are psychotic.
Come on. Just imagine
going back to nature.
Back to your roots.
Clean air, wide-open spaces!
There's wide-open spaces
in Connecticut.
- Connecticut?
- You got to go over to Grand Central.
Then you got to take
the Metro-North train... north?
So one could take the train?
Just hypothetically.
Come on. What would
Connecticut have to offer us?
- Lyme disease.
- Thank you, Melman.
No, I just want...
There's none of this in the wild.
This is a highly
refined type of food thing
that you do not find in the wild.
be more to life than steak, Alex?
He didn't mean that, baby.
No, no, no.
Doesn't it bother you guys
that you don't know anything
about life outside this zoo?
- Nuh-uh. Nope.
- Mm-mm.
Well, I mean, come on.
That's just one subject.
You got a little schmutz
right there on your...
Thanks, guys.
Thanks for the party. It was great.
Really.
What's eating him?
Maybe you should talk to him.
Go over and give him a little pep talk.
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