1 00:00:01,268 --> 00:00:04,418 (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) 2 00:00:16,618 --> 00:00:19,187 NARRATOR: In the busy life of a private eye team, 3 00:00:19,253 --> 00:00:21,956 you learn to appreciate the slow days. 4 00:00:22,023 --> 00:00:24,058 That's the time to put away the polygraph 5 00:00:24,125 --> 00:00:26,226 and break out the phonograph. 6 00:00:26,293 --> 00:00:28,061 (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) 7 00:00:28,128 --> 00:00:29,797 (MUSIC STOPS) 8 00:00:29,864 --> 00:00:34,100 NARRATOR: Everybody's a music critic. 9 00:00:34,167 --> 00:00:35,669 (MUSIC STARTS) 10 00:00:35,736 --> 00:00:36,837 (MUSIC PLAYS BACKWARDS) 11 00:00:36,904 --> 00:00:40,407 (MUSIC STARTS AND STOPS) 12 00:00:40,474 --> 00:00:42,843 (MUSIC PLAYS RAPIDLY) 13 00:00:42,910 --> 00:00:47,748 (JAZZ MUSIC CONTINUES) 14 00:00:47,815 --> 00:00:51,886 (HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING) 15 00:00:51,952 --> 00:00:53,286 (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) 16 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:54,488 (HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING) 17 00:00:54,555 --> 00:00:55,589 (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) 18 00:00:55,656 --> 00:00:59,106 (ALTERNATING CONTINUES) 19 00:01:14,541 --> 00:01:16,476 (LAUGHS) 20 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:20,014 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 21 00:01:20,081 --> 00:01:24,018 (TELEPHONE CONTINUES RINGING) 22 00:01:24,085 --> 00:01:26,487 (TELEPHONE CONTINUES RINGING) 23 00:01:26,554 --> 00:01:28,423 TOODLES: Tom! You've gotta help me. 24 00:01:28,489 --> 00:01:30,724 I'm over at my dance studio right now. 25 00:01:30,791 --> 00:01:33,294 Get over here as fast as you can. Hurry! 26 00:01:33,361 --> 00:01:35,696 NARRATOR: When a beautiful dame like Toodles 27 00:01:35,763 --> 00:01:37,365 needs a knight in shining armor, 28 00:01:37,432 --> 00:01:41,836 it's time to spring into action. 29 00:01:41,903 --> 00:01:46,574 A knight can't show up looking badly groomed, now, can he? 30 00:01:46,641 --> 00:01:49,176 Twenty minutes later, they grabbed the nearest taxi 31 00:01:49,243 --> 00:01:52,480 and sped off across town to Toodles' dance studio, 32 00:01:52,547 --> 00:01:54,682 until they realized that Toodles' dance studio 33 00:01:54,749 --> 00:01:58,853 was actually right across the hall from their office. 34 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,424 There sat Toodles looking like a ballerina made out of pure catnip. 35 00:02:03,491 --> 00:02:07,027 Enough femine charm to distract even the toughest cookie. 36 00:02:07,094 --> 00:02:09,797 Oh, Tom, what am I going to do? 37 00:02:09,863 --> 00:02:12,433 My dance partner Ramone has disappeared, 38 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:15,970 and tonight is the city couples' dance championship. 39 00:02:16,036 --> 00:02:18,072 Oh, Tom, you've gotta help me! 40 00:02:18,139 --> 00:02:20,107 I can't go on stage alone tonight. 41 00:02:20,174 --> 00:02:24,974 It's a couples-only competition. 42 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:28,047 What? 43 00:02:28,114 --> 00:02:29,116 Hey! 44 00:02:29,183 --> 00:02:32,419 Tom, that's not what I meant. 45 00:02:32,486 --> 00:02:34,588 Whoa! Ow! 46 00:02:34,655 --> 00:02:39,025 Tom. Oh! Ow! 47 00:02:39,092 --> 00:02:40,160 (GROANS) 48 00:02:40,226 --> 00:02:43,096 (LAUGHS) 49 00:02:43,163 --> 00:02:44,832 You fool! 50 00:02:44,898 --> 00:02:46,734 I would never dance on stage with you. 51 00:02:46,801 --> 00:02:51,801 You're clumsy, undignified, repulsive, and you have two left feet. 52 00:02:53,441 --> 00:02:56,377 Now, get out there and find Ramone before tonight's show, 53 00:02:56,444 --> 00:02:59,180 or I'll never, ever speak to you again. 54 00:02:59,246 --> 00:03:01,314 NARRATOR: With just a few hours to find Ramone, 55 00:03:01,381 --> 00:03:02,850 they'd have to act fast. 56 00:03:02,916 --> 00:03:04,285 To make matters worse, 57 00:03:04,352 --> 00:03:06,687 it turned out dark, mysterious forces were at large 58 00:03:06,753 --> 00:03:08,122 to keep them off the case. 59 00:03:08,189 --> 00:03:10,124 But the clues to that were so subtle, 60 00:03:10,191 --> 00:03:14,896 even our keenly trained pros were completely unaware of it. 61 00:03:14,963 --> 00:03:17,998 Their first stop was the upstairs dance studio of Spike and Lulu. 62 00:03:18,065 --> 00:03:20,134 It wasn't outside the realm of possibility 63 00:03:20,201 --> 00:03:22,669 that they had taken measures to get rid of Ramone 64 00:03:22,736 --> 00:03:25,172 to cinch first place. 65 00:03:25,239 --> 00:03:28,276 Youse got me all wrong, cat. I'd never hurt Ramone. 66 00:03:28,342 --> 00:03:30,177 He's practically a brother to me. 67 00:03:30,244 --> 00:03:33,147 We grew up together, working side by side 68 00:03:33,214 --> 00:03:35,316 at his old man's fish market. 69 00:03:35,383 --> 00:03:38,219 You can still smell the mackerel on our paws. 70 00:03:38,286 --> 00:03:41,488 Ain't that right, Lulu, honey? 71 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:43,657 No comment. 72 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:45,693 NARRATOR: With twilight coming on, 73 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,760 they headed downtown to have a word with Toodles' boyfriend, Butch. 74 00:03:50,965 --> 00:03:53,000 Butch was training Meathead, 75 00:03:53,067 --> 00:03:55,336 more of a down-and-goer than an up-and-comer. 76 00:03:55,403 --> 00:03:58,673 But as a former champ, and notoriously jealous boyfriend, 77 00:03:58,740 --> 00:04:01,909 Butch might not enjoy the thought of Ramone and Toodles 78 00:04:01,976 --> 00:04:03,645 dancing cheek to cheek. 79 00:04:03,711 --> 00:04:06,614 Youse two are scratching up the wrong post this time. 80 00:04:06,681 --> 00:04:10,918 Ramone and Toodles is strictly a professional relationship! 81 00:04:10,985 --> 00:04:13,954 He knows better than to cross me! 82 00:04:14,021 --> 00:04:17,191 Unlike some dopes I could name. 83 00:04:17,258 --> 00:04:19,293 Look, you want me to swear I ain't involved? 84 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,795 Cross my heart and hope to kiss a dog, 85 00:04:21,862 --> 00:04:23,530 I ain't involved. 86 00:04:23,597 --> 00:04:25,032 TKO, baby! 87 00:04:25,099 --> 00:04:28,702 I am the greatest! 88 00:04:28,769 --> 00:04:30,304 Fighters... 89 00:04:30,371 --> 00:04:31,872 NARRATOR: With evening coming on, 90 00:04:31,939 --> 00:04:33,441 it looked like they were out of time, 91 00:04:33,508 --> 00:04:37,678 out of clues, and maybe even out of luck. 92 00:04:37,744 --> 00:04:39,580 Suddenly, their razor-keen senses 93 00:04:39,647 --> 00:04:42,017 picked up the overwhelming smell of mackerel 94 00:04:42,083 --> 00:04:46,086 coming from the abandoned building across the street. 95 00:04:46,153 --> 00:04:47,956 SPIKE: Ramone! 96 00:04:48,023 --> 00:04:50,257 NARRATOR: Ramone explained he'd been blackjacked from behind 97 00:04:50,324 --> 00:04:52,260 while leaving dance practice a few days before. 98 00:04:52,327 --> 00:04:56,330 I cannot say for sure, but I am almost certain I know who's behind this. 99 00:04:56,397 --> 00:04:58,632 We are dealing with dark forces, amigos. 100 00:04:58,699 --> 00:05:00,034 They will stop at nothing! 101 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:02,236 You must tell Toodles not to dance tonight! 102 00:05:02,303 --> 00:05:07,303 And you too must forget you even saw me here! 103 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:12,012 Adios, amigos! 104 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:14,447 TOODLES: You had him and he got away? 105 00:05:14,514 --> 00:05:16,016 You knuckleheads! 106 00:05:16,083 --> 00:05:19,953 Oh, now I'm ruined! 107 00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:21,756 (WHISPERS) 108 00:05:21,823 --> 00:05:24,892 Hmm, it's not much of a plan but it's worth a try. 109 00:05:24,958 --> 00:05:26,960 Okay, Thomas, you're a long shot, 110 00:05:27,027 --> 00:05:28,596 but you're the only shot I've got. 111 00:05:28,663 --> 00:05:31,665 At least I can say I didn't go out as a quitter. 112 00:05:31,732 --> 00:05:33,533 Come on! 113 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:34,802 (TOM SCREAMS) 114 00:05:34,869 --> 00:05:37,037 HOST: And now, competing for first place, 115 00:05:37,104 --> 00:05:39,806 grand champions for five years in a row, 116 00:05:39,873 --> 00:05:42,609 Toodles and Ramone! 117 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:45,826 (SALSA MUSIC PLAYING) 118 00:05:54,355 --> 00:05:56,457 HOST: And the championship winners... 119 00:05:56,524 --> 00:06:00,962 -Toodles and Ramone! -(AUDIENCE CLAPPING) 120 00:06:01,029 --> 00:06:06,029 NARRATOR: Finally, the clues to this mystery were about to fall into place. 121 00:06:11,706 --> 00:06:14,674 All right, buddy. Let's see whodunit. 122 00:06:14,741 --> 00:06:17,744 (GASPS) Mother! It was you? 123 00:06:17,811 --> 00:06:19,447 That's right. It was me. 124 00:06:19,513 --> 00:06:22,450 I bushwhacked Ramone, and done my darnedest 125 00:06:22,516 --> 00:06:25,685 to keep those two nosy-parkers off my tail. 126 00:06:25,752 --> 00:06:27,321 But, why'd you do it, lady? 127 00:06:27,388 --> 00:06:30,391 It's the only way I could get through to Toodles. 128 00:06:30,458 --> 00:06:33,461 I figured if she finally lost this silly competion, 129 00:06:33,527 --> 00:06:35,463 she'd give up this dancing stuff 130 00:06:35,529 --> 00:06:37,931 and learn a sensible trade like mine. 131 00:06:37,998 --> 00:06:40,000 Oh, what's your profession, ma'am? 132 00:06:40,067 --> 00:06:43,538 I'm a spot welder for heavy construction. 133 00:06:43,604 --> 00:06:45,306 NARRATOR: Well, as impossible as it sounds, 134 00:06:45,373 --> 00:06:48,075 there turned out to be a happy compromise. 135 00:06:48,142 --> 00:06:50,211 By day, Toodles worked as a spot welder 136 00:06:50,277 --> 00:06:52,346 in heavy construction alongside her mom. 137 00:06:52,413 --> 00:06:54,081 And by night, she took to the stage 138 00:06:54,148 --> 00:06:56,350 as a sensational solo dance star. 139 00:06:56,417 --> 00:07:00,020 And as for our heroes, those two little words, 140 00:07:00,087 --> 00:07:01,255 "Case closed," 141 00:07:01,322 --> 00:07:03,290 are always music to their ears. 142 00:07:03,357 --> 00:07:05,159 (JAZZY HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING) 143 00:07:05,226 --> 00:07:07,360 (RECORD SCRATCHING RHYTHMICALLY)