Playtime Co's 65th Anniversary Cartoon Music Video
In celebration of Playtime Co's 65th year of running, a cartoon movie special of every toy character performs this song as thanks to the world for keeping their toy production going. This cartoon was made days before the Hour of Joy and aired a day before the event.
Inspired by Applause, Applause from Give a Girl a Break 1953.
The song was first found in The Flea Circus from 1954.
[Clapping to the beat and dancing to the song for 48 seconds.]
Poppy Playtime: Applause! Applause!
We like applause because
It means when it is striking us
The audience is liking us
Huggy Wuggy: Our work
Daddy LongLegs: Demands
Bron the Dinosaurus: You don't sit on your hands
Boxy Boo: And if the hand's tremendous
Poppy Playtime: You send us!
Kissy Missy: We live
Mommy LongLegs: We thrive
Boogie Bot and Bunzo Bunny: To keep us all alive
Candy Cat and Yarnaby: With bravo and bravissimo
Cat-Bee and PJ Pug-a-Pillar: We're dead if it's pianissimo
Huggy, Kissy, and Pianosaurus: Our quirk
Mommy, Daddy, and Baby LongLegs: Is work
Daisy, Rose, and Cosmos: Is work we never shirk
Miss Delight, Doey the Doughman, and Poppy Playtime: In a happy land of tinsel and gauze
All Playtime Toys: Because we like applause
DogDay: Whether you're a Swiss bell-ringer
Baba Chops: Or a crooner
Icky Licky: or a singer
Bobby BearHug: Or monologist,
Bubba Bubbphant: ventriloquist,
CatNap: or what!
Rabie Baby: Or a dog act
Simon Smoke: or magician
CraftyCorn: Or a musical saw musician
Poe: Or an ingenue
Hoppy Hopscotch: Or pianist who is hot
Touille: Whether you play Punchinello
Maggie Mako: Little Eva
KickinChicken: or Othello
PickyPiggy: Having heard the call
Smiling Critters: You give it all you've got
Nightmare Critters: And what better reward for a trooper
Smiling and Nightmare Critters: Than the sound we consider super
All Playtime Toys: Applause! Applause!
Vociferous applause!
From orchestra to gallery
Could mean a raise in salary
Give out! Give in!
Be noisy, make a din!
The manager he audits
Our plaudits
We won renown
When opening out-of-town
In Boston and in Rockaway
They heard applause a block away!
If we come through
Give credit where it's due
And obey the theater's unwritten laws
Because
Because
Because
We like applause!
[20 seconds of clapping and dancing.]
Huggy, Daddy, PJ, Yarnaby, Boogie Bot, Bron, Doey, Bunzo and Pianosaurus: Bravo
Bravo
Braaaaaaaavissimo
Bravo
Bravo
Braaaaaaaavissimo
Bravo (Kissy, Mommy, Candy Cat, CatBee, Daisy, Rose, Cosomos, Baby and Miss Delight: Horray!)
Bravo (Horray!)
Braaaaaaaavissimo (Hoooooooorray!)
Bravo (Horray!)
Bravo (Horray!)
Braaaaaaaavissimo (Hoooooooorray!) (Smiling and Nightmare Critters: More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Braaaaaaaavissimo (Hoooooooorray!) (More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Braaaaaaaavissimo (Hoooooooorray!) (More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Braaaaaaaavissimo (Hoooooooorray!) (More!)
Poppy Playtime: Because...Because...Because...[Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Braaaaaaaavissimo (Hoooooooorray!) (More!)]
WE LIKE APPLAUSE! [Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Bravo (Horray!) (More!)
Bravo, bravo, bravo!(Horray, Horray, Horray!) (More, More, More!)]
All Playtime Toys: MORE!