(Or "This story's the Baum!")

"WELL THE LAST TIME YOU REMEMBER, ROCKY HAD FOUND BULLWINKLE AS THE SCARECROW AND DUDLEY DO-RIGHT AS THE TIN MAN. NOW, ALL THREE OF THEM INCLUDING MR. PEABODY WERE WALKING INTO THE DARKEST PART OF THE OZIAN FOREST…"

"Y'know, I once heard a guy say he saw a lion here." Bullwinkle spoke. "Some other dude said it was a tiger, but I believe him."

"That's ridiculous, lions are native to Africa and tigers are native to parts of Asia!" The Tin Man replied. "I'd say that speaking from a biologically-accurate sense that bears are native to this place."

"Yeah…" Rocky and the scarecrow Bullwinkle replied, smiling at each other. "Lions, and tigers, and bears—"

"Oh my…" the Tin man spoke, getting more nervous now.

"Lions, and tigers, and bears—"

"Oh my.."

"LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS!"

"Oh my!"

"LIONSANDTIGERSANDBEARS!" Rocky and Bullwinkle chanted faster now.

"OH MY!"

"LIONSANDTIGERSANDBEARS!"

"OH MY!"

"LIONSANDTIGERSANDBEARS!"

"OH MY!"

"AN ENORMOUS LION LEAPT FROM WITHIN THE BUSHES ALL OF A SUDDEN, ITS TEETH BARRED AND READY TO KILL!"

"Grrrrrrrrghhhh…" the lion gave a low growl as he circled our heroes.

"No one move…" Rocky spoke, speaking through his teeth.

"SUDDENLY, A SMALL MOUSE WANDERED ACROSS THE FIELD, AND LOOKED UP AT THE LION."

"AAAAAAAAGH!" The lion exclaimed and dashed off into a bush.

"COWARD!" Scarecrow-Bullwinkle shouted.

"THIS WAS NO ORDINARY COWARDLY LION, BUT RATHER FRED FROM THE SUPER CHICKEN CARTOONS!"

"Yeah thath right…" the lion spoke with a rather lispy voice. "I'm a coward…I've alwayth wanted to be brave, but no diceth."

"Well you could come with us, we're going to see the wizard!" Rocky replied.

"OH JEEPERTH I'VE ALWAYTH WANTED TO THEE TH' WIZARD!" The lion picked up Rocky, giving him an extremely tight hug. "MAYBE, maybe he'll GIVE me courage!"

"That's ridiculous, courage is a feeling, a learned concept, you can't just have him give a feeling to you." The Tin man replied.

"Says the guy who wants a heart." Rocky retorted.

"Well that's different!" The Tin Man replied.

"AND WITH THAT, ROCKY, SCARECROW-BULLWINKLE, TIN MAN DUDLEY DO RIGHT AND COWARDLY LION FRED WENT DOWN THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD! MAKE SURE TO BE WITH US NEXT TIME FOR "The joke's gotten Emer-OLD!" OR "Not easy being multiple shades of green!"!"