The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies by Stan and Jan Berenstain READ ALOUD — Transcript

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1. 0:08the Berenstain Bears Get the gimmies by
2. 0:11Stan and Jan Berenstein
3. 0:16when a Cub's Behavior takes a turn for
4. 0:18the worst it's hard for parents to know
5. 0:20what to do first
6. 0:25the Berenstain Bears Get the gimmies
7. 0:29of course the members of the bear family
8. 0:32who lived in the big tree house down a
9. 0:34sunny Dirt Road in Bear Country loved
10. 0:36each other they loved each other very
11. 0:38much brother and sister bear loved their
12. 0:40mama and papa naturally mama and papa
13. 0:43bear loved their cubs and of course they
14. 0:45were nice to them as nice as they could
15. 0:48be but sometimes sometimes they were a
16. 0:52little too nice
17. 0:54sometimes the Cubs got too many treats
18. 0:57too many toys and too many rides on the
19. 1:01Bucking duck at the mall
20. 1:07maybe that's why brother and sister bear
21. 1:09got the gimmies or maybe it was because
22. 1:12there were treats toys and fun things to
23. 1:15do wherever they looked at the
24. 1:17supermarket at the mall on TV and just
25. 1:21about every witchware
26. 1:23maybe that was why they began making a
27. 1:26fuss to get what they wanted especially
28. 1:28at the supermarket checkout where there
29. 1:30were always Stacks and stacks of candy
30. 1:32and other goodies now Cubs mama bear
31. 1:35said as the family got in to the
32. 1:37checkout line and she saw that old gimme
33. 1:40gleam in their eyes we can't have a big
34. 1:43fuss every time we pass Candy I simply
35. 1:46won't stand for it
36. 1:51but Mama wine sister they have gummy
37. 1:54gumballs my favorite and chewy Chompers
38. 1:58my favorite wine brother now hush said
39. 2:01Mama I simply won't listen to another
40. 2:05word
41. 2:06that's when Papa Bear smiled and said
42. 2:09now Mama you're only young once and
43. 2:12handed the Cubs their favorite treats
44. 2:15it's only too true said Mama as they
45. 2:18were leaving the supermarket that you're
46. 2:20only young once but that's all the more
47. 2:22reason to learn proper behavior while
48. 2:24you're still young and I certainly think
49. 2:26look look Shadow sister a new ride hey a
50. 2:30bucking frog shouted brother that looks
51. 2:33even better than the Bucking duck may we
52. 2:35ride it please may we maybe please
53. 2:39foreign
54. 2:41had just bought them treats and he
55. 2:44thought that was enough for one day but
56. 2:46the Cubs made such a fuss that he sighed
57. 2:48and dug into his pocket and put some
58. 2:50money in the slot
59. 2:52Papa looked at Mama and Shrugged Cubs
60. 2:55will be Cubs he said
61. 3:00it may be true that Cubs will be Cubs
62. 3:02said Mama as they walked across the
63. 3:04parking lot to their car but that's no
64. 3:06excuse for jumping up and down and
65. 3:08making a scene every time they say
66. 3:10something they want look look shouted
67. 3:13the Cubs once again little rubber cats
68. 3:15that stick out their tongues when you
69. 3:17squeeze them Cub said Mama that will be
70. 3:20quite enough I don't want to hear
71. 3:22another word
72. 3:26oh please they shouted may we have them
73. 3:29please please please Papa decided it was
74. 3:32time to put a stop to all the fussing
75. 3:35stop that fussing he said in his loudest
76. 3:38Papa Bear voice but they were making
77. 3:40such a commotion they didn't even hear
78. 3:43him sister was jumping up and down so
79. 3:46hard that she fell over backward and
80. 3:48started kicking her feet in the air
81. 3:50please please shouted the Cubs so loudly
82. 3:53that the whole parking lot took notice
83. 3:56ER said embarrass Papa to the toy seller
84. 3:58two of those rubber Pussycats please
85. 4:04the rubber Pussycats not only stuck out
86. 4:07their tongues when you squeeze them they
87. 4:09went squeak squeak as well and they
88. 4:11squeak squeaked all the way home
89. 4:15mama was quite annoyed by the time they
90. 4:17got back to the tree house but Papa was
91. 4:19so angry he could hardly speak it wasn't
92. 4:22until the Cubs had gone about their
93. 4:24business and Mama had made a pot of tea
94. 4:27that Papa's voice came back loud and
95. 4:29clear oh well they outrageous
96. 4:32disgraceful embarrassing Behavior I have
97. 4:35ever seen he roared that selfish greedy
98. 4:38performance by our Cubs was the worst
99. 4:41brother and sister have the worst case
100. 4:44of the Galloping greeting gimmies I have
101. 4:47ever seen
102. 4:51yes and Mama calmly sipping her tea but
103. 4:54have you ever stopped to think about why
104. 4:56they have the gimmies perhaps their
105. 4:58greedy behavior isn't all their fault
106. 5:00perhaps it's partly our fault for giving
107. 5:03in every time they make a fuss Papa
108. 5:05listened quietly
109. 5:06perhaps so he said it's up to us she
110. 5:10continued to explain things to them to
111. 5:12help them understand why it's important
112. 5:14not to be greedy then Papa called the
113. 5:17Cubs in for a talking to he told them
114. 5:19why it wasn't a good idea to be selfish
115. 5:21and greedy and want everything in sight
116. 5:24selfish greedy Cubs he explained can
117. 5:27never be happy because you just can't
118. 5:29have everything you want all the time
119. 5:31life isn't like that do you understand
120. 5:34oh yes papa we understand they said
121. 5:42he talked to them about counting Their
122. 5:44Blessings which meant enjoying the
123. 5:46things they had instead of forever
124. 5:48wanting more and more and more does that
125. 5:51make sense to you he asked oh yes papa
126. 5:53they said it makes a lot of sense that's
127. 5:56when the Cubs heard the sound of a
128. 5:58familiar car door it was Grizzly Gramps
129. 6:00and Grand come to call
130. 6:02brother and sister ran to open the front
131. 6:04door and as Gramps and Grand came up the
132. 6:06steps they made the biggest fuss yet
133. 6:10would you bring me this cream would you
134. 6:12bring me would you bring me that did it
135. 6:19up to your room roared Papa up to your
136. 6:24room and no TV or treats for a week for
137. 6:27a month for a year the Cubs knew this
138. 6:30wasn't the time to argue they scurried
139. 6:32up the stairs and into their room
140. 6:34we seem to have come at a bad time Sid
141. 6:36Gran what about these things we brought
142. 6:38with us as gribs a puzzle for brother
143. 6:40and a top for sister your presence will
144. 6:43have to wait Gramps answered Mama I'm
145. 6:45afraid brother and sister have a bad
146. 6:46case of the guineas The Galloping greedy
147. 6:49gimmies added Papa the worst case I've
148. 6:51ever seen the Cubs opened their door a
149. 6:55crack to listen
150. 6:58the worst case yesterday said Gramps
151. 7:01looking pop in the eye
152. 7:02seems to me you are quite a gimme Cub
153. 7:05yourself when you were little brother
154. 7:07and sister sneaked to the top of the
155. 7:08stairs so they could hear better I was
156. 7:11said Papa of course we didn't have malls
157. 7:14or supermarkets back then but there was
158. 7:16old roof Grizzlies General Store
159. 7:18wonderful place so just about everything
160. 7:21honey cake licorice sticks molasses
161. 7:24apples and all sorts of toys and
162. 7:25novelties and did you ever have the
163. 7:28gimmies did you ever you wanted
164. 7:30everything in sight down right in
165. 7:33Barrison why it got so bad we couldn't
166. 7:36go there anymore
167. 7:41so we worked out a deal said Gran when
168. 7:43it came time for a trip to the General
169. 7:45Store we had you decide on a treat ahead
170. 7:47of time it could be a sweet a toy or a
171. 7:50book and that was it for the day right
172. 7:53said Gramps and if you came down with
173. 7:55the gimmies we went right home and you
174. 7:57got nothing
175. 7:59that sounds like a pretty good plan to
176. 8:01me said Mama me too said Papa the Cubs
177. 8:03tiptoed back to the room and sounded
178. 8:06okay to them too
179. 8:11the next time the bear family went to
180. 8:13the supermarket they tried the Gramps
181. 8:15and grand plan and it worked
182. 8:18brother decided he would get a book
183. 8:20about dinosaurs and sister wanted a new
184. 8:23box of crayons mama and papa were very
185. 8:25proud when the Cubs passed the candy
186. 8:27rack without so much as a peep brother
187. 8:30and sister were pretty proud of
188. 8:31themselves too
189. 8:37but then they heard it the familiar
190. 8:39sound of a cub with a bad case of the
191. 8:41gimmies the kicking screaming Cub was
192. 8:44just behind them in the checkout line
193. 8:46you never heard such a fuss
194. 8:49what outrageous disgraceful embarrassing
195. 8:52Behavior said sister may we leave yeah I
196. 8:56said brother let's get out of here
197. 9:01and that's how brother and sister bear
198. 9:04got rid of a pretty bad case of the
199. 9:06Galloping greedy gimmies
200. 9:11thank you
201. 9:13foreign
202. 9:18[Music]