[ERNIE HUMMING]
ERNIE: Oh, wow.
Look at this nice deep
hole I've been digging.
Hey Bert, isn't this
a nice hole here?
Hey, Bert?
Bert?
Bert?
Hey, what happened
to my friend Bert?
He was here just a moment ago.
Where do he go?
Here's his beach
hat, but he's gone.
Oh, no.
My old friend Bert is lost.
Gee, how am I going to find him?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Egad.
Sherlock Hemlock here, the
world's greatest detective.
What seems to be the trouble?
ERNIE: My friend Bert is lost.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Lost?
ERNIE: Yes.
He was sitting right here, see.
And I was digging a hole
in the sand like this, see.
I was digging away.
Then all of a sudden,
I looked around
and my friend Bert is gone.
And all that's left of him is
his beach hat sitting right
here on this pile of sand.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Never fear.
ERNIE: It's terrible.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK:
I, Sherlock Hemlock,
will find out what happened to
Bert by examining the clues.
ERNIE: What clues?
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Well,
first we have Bert's hat.
ERNIE: Well, that's
the only clue.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Wrong.
ERNIE: Hmm?
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: We also
have this pile of sand here.
[MUMBLING FROM SAND]
ERNIE: Yeah, but that's just
an ordinary pile of sand.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Wrong again.
It's a talking pile of sand.
ERNIE: Huh?
[MUMBLING FROM SAND]
Hey, how about that.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: A-ha!
I have it.
I have solved the mystery
of what happened to Bert.
[ANGRY MUMBLING FROM SAND]
ERNIE: Shhh, shh, shh.
What happened, Mr. Hemlock?
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Well, as
you were digging this hole,
your threw the sand
on top of your friend
Bert, who was sitting here.
And you buried him
up to his beach hat.
ERNIE: Oh, no!
That means that Bert is
in that pile of sand.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Correct.
ERNIE: Oh.
Excuse me, Mr. Hemlock.
SHERLOCK HEMLOCK: Certainly.
[BERT MUMBLES ANGRILY]
ERNIE: Bert!
It's you!
Let me dig you out of here.
[BERT SPITTING SAND]
I'll get you out,
Bert, old buddy.
BERT: Ernie!
Ernie!
Oh, why did you do this?
ERNIE: Here we go.
You all right, Bert?
BERT: Yeah.
Thanks, Ernie.
[BERT SPITTING SAND]
Thanks a lot, Ern.
ERNIE: Oh, don't thank me.
Thank Mr. Hemlock here.
BERT: Who?
ERNIE: Mr. Hemlock here.
BERT: Where?
ERNIE: Mr. Hemlock!
Oh, no!
BERT: Oh, Ernie.
Ernie, watch out where
you're throwing that sand.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
