After Sweetie Belle had crawled through the door, from an opened panel tile of a paneled wall—with the panel closing, she finds herself inside a large, spacious room with a lofty ceiling.
"Curiouser and curiouser," Sweetie Belle said as another door in the distance closes, with the undulating curtains covering it. She ran up to the curtains that happens to be smaller than her and she opened them, revealing the door that's also smaller than her and she turned the doorknob, which cried in pain as it came to life; causing Sweetie Belle to be taken aback with a yelp.
"Oh, I beg your pardon," Sweetie Belle apologized.
"Whew... Quite all right," said the doorknob—who is male. "But you did give me quite a turn."
"You see, I was following-"
"Rather good, what? Doorknob? Turn?" the doorknob laughably said over the pun.
"Please, sir..." Sweetie Belle urgently said.
"One good turn deserves another," the doorknob went on. "What can I do for you?" he asked Sweetie Belle.
"Well I'm looking for a white rabbit. So, um, if you don't mind..."
"Eh? Ohh!" said the doorknob as he opened his keyhole mouth wide and Sweetie Belle looks through it.
"There he is!" Sweetie Belle radiantly said. "I simply must get through-"
"Sorry, you're much too big," the doorknob said as he moved towards the side a bit, avoiding Sweetie Belle's reaching hand. "Simply impassable."
"You mean "impossible"?" Sweetie Belle questioned.
"No, impassable. Nothing's impossible," the doorknob said and Sweetie Belle frowned. "Why don't you try the bottle on the table."
"Table?" Sweetie Belle questioned and said table—which is round and made of glass—materializes out of thin air, along with the bottle that has a tag tied onto it. "Ohh!"
"Read the directions, and I directly you'll be directed in the right direction," the doorknob told Sweetie Belle.
"'Drink me'," Sweetie Belle read the tag. "Hmmm. Better look first. For if one drinks much from a bottle marked "poison"...it's almost certain to disagree with one, sooner or later."
"Beg your pardon?" the doorknob queried.
"I was just giving myself some good advice," Sweetie Belle said. "But..."
Sweetie Belle takes a sip from the bottle. "Hmmmm... Taste like, uh, cherry tart," she said and her height suddenly shortens a bit. She then took another sip from the bottle.
"Custard..." Sweetie Belle said and she continues to downsize even smaller. "Pineapple... Roast turkey—goodness!" she exclaimed as she overbalances from the weight of the bottle due to her shrunken size and she fell on the floor; with the tag concealing her.
"What did I do?" Sweetie Belle asked as she lifted the tag.
The doorknob chuckled. "You almost went out like a candle."
"But look, I'm just the right size!" Sweetie Belle happily said as she ran up to the door and just as she was about to open door, the doorknob moved slightly towards the side again.
"No use," the doorknob said, followed by a laugh. "I forgot to tell you... I'm locked."
"Oh, no!" Sweetie Belle groaned with woe as she facepalmed.
"But of course...uh, you've got the key, so-"
"What key?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Now don't tell me you left it up there," the doorknob said and the key materializes on the table.
"Ohh, dear," Sweetie Belle said with disappointment and she climbed onto one of the table's legs attempting to fetch the key, but it was no use for her as she slid back down to the floor.
"Whatever will I do?" Sweetie Belle said with depression.
"Try the box, naturally," said the doorknob and the box materializes in front of Sweetie Belle.
"Oh!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed and she opened the box, revealing some colorful cookies that are in different shapes and she took the one that says "EAT ME" on it.
"'EAT ME'. Alright. But goodness knows what THIS will do."
Sweetie Belle took a bite of the cookie and she suddenly starts to grow bigger and bigger, until her head hits the ceiling. The doorknob uttered something in a muffle due to Sweetie Belle's foot pressed up against his face.
"What did you say?" Sweetie Belle asked the doorknob as she removed her foot from him.
"I said a little of that went a long way," the doorknob said, followed by a laugh.
"Well I don't think it's so funny. Now...now I shall...never get out!" Sweetie Belle sobbed and she starts crying as a giant-sized teardrop plopped to the floor.
"Ohhh, come come now. Crying won't help," the doorknob persuaded Sweetie Belle.
"I know, but I...I...I just, uh...CAN'T SEEM TO STOP!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed and she cried uncontrollably, flooding the room with her tears.
"Oh! Hey! This won't do!" the doorknob exclaimed, being overwhelmed from the teary flood. "This won't do at all!"
The doorknob gets engulfed briefly by a teary tide and he spat out some of the tear water.
"You! You up there! Stop! Stop I say!" the doorknob told Sweetie Belle but she kept on crying nonstop. He then noticed the bottle floating by.
"Oh look, the bottle!" the doorknob shouted and then he gurgled as the teary tide engulfs him the second time.
Sweetie Belle grabs the bottle and she took a big sip and she swiftly reduces down to smaller size—in mid-air—and she precautiously fell into the bottle, which is now empty.
"Oh, dear. I do wish I hadn't cried so much," said Sweetie Belle.
The teary flood drifted the bottled Sweetie Belle out through the doorknob's keyhole mouth.
Sweetie Belle finds herself out on an ocean until she heard the sound of singing, which was coming from a dodo bird, resembling Fancy Pants, wearing a frock coat and a tricorn hat. He is smoking a pipe while sitting on the feet of a hornbill that's drifting along the sea in a headstand position with a parrot shoving him in the back with its head.
Oooooooo, a sailor's life is a life for me
How I love to sail on the bounding sea
And I never never ever do a thing about the weather
For the weather never ever does a thing for me
Oooooooo, a sailor's life is a life for me
Tiddly-um *honk* *honk* deedle dum dum dee
And I never-
The Fancy Pants dodo spotted something in the distance. "Ahoy! And other nautical expressions!" he cried and then he looked back at the parrot. "Land ho, by Jove!"
"Where away, Fancy Dodo?" the parrot asked as he saluted.
"Dodo?" Sweetie Belle questioned.
"Three points to starboard!" the Fancy Pants dodo shouted. "Pull away, me hearties! Have you in port in no time at all!"
"Oh Mister Dodo! Please! Please, help me!" Sweetie Belle called out to him but failed to get his attention.
Sweetie Belle looked and saw another parrot, an owl, and a pelican voyaging across the sea on a log as the pelican paddles. "Umm, pardon me but, uh, would you mind helping me? Please?" she asked them and she also failed to get their attention.
Sweetie Belle noticed some lobsters swimming along the sea in a single file line. "Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoooooo!" she called out to them. "Help me! Please!"
The bottle gets toppled over by a tidal wave, causing Sweetie Belle to fall into the bottle as it submerged.
"Help me!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed in a gurgly voice.
Sweetie Belle looked out from the rim of the resurfaced bottle—which is now filled with water—and saw the parrots, the owl, the pelican, the hornbill, and the lobsters, as well as some fishes and sea stars, on dry land jogging around a boulder with the Fancy Pants dodo standing on top of it who is standing next to a campfire.
(Fancy Pants Dodo/Parrots/Owl/Pelican/Hornbill) Forward, backward, inward, outward
Come and join the chase
Nothing could be drier
Than a jolly, caucus race
Backward, forward, outward, inward
Bottom to the top
Never a beginning
There can never be a stop
(Fancy Pants Dodo) Hopping, skipping, hopping, skipping
Fancy-free and gay
That's all they did tomorrow
But you'd did it yesterday
(Fancy Pants Dodo/Parrots/Owl/Pelican/Hornbill) Round and round and round we go
Until forevermore
Once we were behind
But now we find we are before
(Fancy Pants Dodo) -ward, backward, inward, outward
Come and join the chase
Nothing could be drier
Than a jolly, caucus race
Backward-
"I say! You'll never get dry that way," the Fancy Pants dodo said to Sweetie Belle, after she had been washed up onshore.
"Get dry?" Sweetie Belle questioned with confusion.
"Have to run with the others. First rule of a caucus race, you know," the Fancy Pants dodo said.
"But how can I-?"
Sweetie Belle gets swept up by the tide.
"That's better. Have you dry in no time now," said the Fancy Pants dodo and then the tide ebbed away from the shore, revealing Sweetie Belle running with the animals.
"No one can ever get dry THIS way," Sweetie Belle said and the hornbill shoved her in the back with its bill.
"Nonsense," said the Fancy Pants dodo. "I am as dry as a bone already."
"Yes, but-" said Sweetie Belle and she gets swept up by the tide again.
"Alright, chaps, let's have it now! Look lively!" the Fancy Pants dodo told the animals and then the tide ebbed away again, revealing Sweetie Belle straddling on the hornbill's bill.
"The white rabbit!" Sweetie Belle said when she saw Angel Bunny being washed up onshore while nestled in his opened umbrella. "Mister Rabbit! Mi-Mister Rabbit!"
"Oh my goodness!" Angel Bunny cried when he looked at his watch and he grabbed his umbrella and took off. "I'm late, I'm late!"
"Oh don't go away! I'll be right back!" Sweetie Belle told Angel Bunny.
"I'm late, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" Angel Bunny uttered as he's hopping his way out of the tide and then he shook some of the water off his foot and he took off into the woods. Sweetie Belle ran into the woods as well, going after Angel Bunny.