I remember a Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo, but not a rikki-tikki-tavi. :)

The one you mentioned is about the "Chinese" princes. Rikki tikki tavi was about a mongoose.

Rikki tikki tavi is one of the short stories in The Jungle Book (that never made it to the Disney movie, they only did the main Mowgli story). I never knew there was an animation of it, too.

I loved the animated version.

I watched it as a child then showed it to my childs about a year Ago. They loved it.

Did not know the Jungle Book had more than one story in it...

Rikki Tikki Tavi followed by the animated Peter and the Wolf for a 1st grade double feature in 1975. Good times

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0175122/?_encoding=UTF8

I hear he's fallen in the well ...

came here for this. dunno why this is burned into my brain from 2nd grade but it just lives rent free in my head forever i guess

Me too. The whole name. I think I’d be fine if there was an incident at the well.

It's really a story about the importance of nicknames lol

I had a 45 record with that story on it. Played it on one of those small phonograph. Aw memories.

I mean, Imagine some white dude writing a book about a Chinese guy and calling him that in 2024. Lol, he'd get castrated!

Ho li chit, I haven't thought of that since 1979

I remember a story "why the Chinese have short names" about Hari Bari Pushki Parri Pim Po that fell down a well and almost drowned because everyone was saying his name before they went to rescue him. Something like this was made into a movie?

I remember this too but nobody else seems to remember it

Is that the one where the boy swallowed the ocean?

No his name is too long to say after he fell in the well

Eddie cucha catcha cama, tosta nana tosta noka, samma camma wacky Brown What is it with kids and wells?

That’s “The Seven Chinese Brothers”. Good one too.

Thank you! I don't know why I remember that book in particular, but I do.

I remember both! We read that story about that kid when I was so young... weird wear stays.

Now, I am going to have this stuck in my head 🙃

I remember this as a stand-alone book I used to read my kids

He’s fallen into the well!

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was about a mongoose

Omg I haven’t heard that in forever! 😂

I'm so old I remember actually reading Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in class.

So old read books made from dead trees and wrote using cursive at some point!

Way more cobra deaths in the story.

So good. I always felt like I won the lottery when it came on TV and I actually got to watch it

I recall the first time I happened upon *Willy Wonka and and the Chocolate Factory* on TV. I was sent in to the house and supposed to go take a bath (really dirty playing in dirt). For some reason the TV was on and that was showing. WHAT IS THIS?? Why have I never been told about this??

Not at school I don't think but RTT used to air once a year and that was always a big night, almost like the holiday Peanuts specials, etc. I'd like to see it again, frankly. I hardly remember it.

Yes! Always a treat!

Yeah- the annual showing of RTT was a highlight of the year.

https://www.tvguide.com/movies/rikki-tikki-tavi/2030127564/ Apparently on Plex (never heard of it)

I definitely remember reading it! Rudyard Kipling.

I bought that so my kids could watch it with me.

I owned it when my kids were little so I could show them, too.

I vaguely remember RTT but I don’t remember TRB. I DO however remember watching a short film called The Lottery. If anyone else has seen that one you know how messed up the plot is, especially for elementary school students.

Wow. That looks really dark. I'll give it watch. Never have heard of it.

Last I knew it was on YT

Oh yeah. On 8 mm or something like that. Before videocassettes.

Lottery by June, corn will come soon

Ah, yes. The great Shirley Jackson. Great story.

Ohn o forgot all about Rickki Tikki Tavi. Blast from the way past. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0175122/?_encoding=UTF8

I remember being fascinated with the Red Balloon. Also the little wooden canoe that made it to the ocean. At the time, who could have known we’d be sharing these memories with people far and wide?

Lol. Back then, it was amazing just to share with kids from other classes or on the bus! "You will never believe this movie we saw today!" Usually it was jealousy that our particular class got to see a movie rather than the actual movie... Oh wow. The little wooden canoe movie. I forgot that one. Going to have to try finding it...

Paddle to the Sea!

I came here to say “paddle to the sea”. Made before I was born, but remember seeing it in grade school.

Yep, I watched RTT several times via one of those old rickety film projectors. The sound was all muffled and such.

If you move, I’ll strike…..if you don’t move, I’ll strike!

Nah and Nagaina scared the crap outta me as a kid

Facts.

This movie definitely had an impact on my loathing of snakes in general, don’t care if it’s venomous or not

If you move, I strike; If you don't move, I strike.

On a film projector, even..

Voiced by Roddy McDowal. I loved when they aired that. It usually aired with The White Seal.

RTT is one of my faves from childhood that I watched at home. I (57F) do not recall ever seeing TRB.

🎶 Who has delivered us, who?! 🎵

Well damn if that didn't unlock some memories - yep, watched both of them!

Mongoose

Yes! The Red balloon . For some reason I think about that movie quite often.

Did anyone watch at school , The Fire? We watched it in 5th grade. The ending was terrifyingly. I can't believe they used to show movies like that.

We watched Watership Down talk about a choice to show at school.

To Build a Fire by Jack London? I loathed that book; never saw the film.

My third-grade teacher read this to us. I was afraid to go out of sight of the house all that winter, lest I freeze to death and no one found me. She also read us “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. I don’t think that would be allowed nowadays.

Um… no. :)

Never heard of that one. Have a link? Googling has a lot of more recent movies. So not sure if I've seen it.

This ? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5106198/

No it was called The Fire. About an old man and his dog lost in Alaska

This was in the 60s when we watched it. I just Google it and couldn't find it. Must have been some obscure independent movie.

I've not seen the film- just read the story.

Rikki on YouTube https://youtu.be/IiP8bjijSdo?feature=shared

Blocked in my country. 🙁

Loved that movie. And wasn’t it the same cartoonist as Tom and Jerry and the real Grinch? My favorite line “if you move i will strike, if you don’t move i will still strike” said in snake voice)

Sent me down a rabbit hole! Looks like Chuck Jones was a lead animator for this one. He did a *ton* of animation work! And yes, that includes some of the *Tom & Jerry* and *Grinch*. I was not aware of that so thank you for bringing it up! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck\_Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Jones)

That was my movie I rented every single time we went to the library. So like weekly.

Oh, yes. It made me want a pet Mongoose.

Have to keep those snakes at bay somehow!

Red Balloon at school, Rikki-Tikki, Jungle Book, and White Seal on broadcast. For some reason we have those three on DVD.

The amimated story that was on TV was a staple of my childhood. I remember being scared AF at age 6 when those cobras showed up.

I LOVED Rikki-tikki-tavi as a youngster

I changed schools during 6th grade and I came right in as my English class was about half way through that movie. I had no idea what it was or WTF was going on.

Wow. Halfway through would *definitely* be awkward! Same as halfway into *The Red Balloon* which would then make zero sense. Geez.

We also watched Donald Duck in Mathametics Land, Johhny Appleseed, and Moody Science films. I loved them all.

I watched both, but on TV. I also remember Tikko and the Shark, which is another childhood favorite.

I watched it. Nag and Nagaina were the enemy cobras. It was good.

I think my phobia of snakes started here. Creepy ass cobras

RTT was one of my favorite shows as a child (of the 70s). I rewatched it recently and it really held up over the decades. I think it's the narrator that really makes it special.

Orson Welles will be a forever voice the rest of history. Just remarkable. I've worked around some in radio and video voice overs. Just no one can top him in my opinion.

Ever see the movie "In a World"?

No. And all I am finding is a comedy from 2013 so thinking not what being referenced.

Nope, that's it. It's about the world of voice overs.

Yes! On an old reel to reel projector in the cafeteria of my elementary school, rainy day, waiting for my dad to pick me up from after school care 😁

I'll see your red balloon and raise you 99 Red Balloons.

That is 99 Luft Balloons! I was in third year German class at the time. "A" side was German. "B" side was English. Gabriele Kerner. Oh. Had a bit of a crush on her.

Rickki Tikki Tavi https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0175122/?_encoding=UTF8

Love Rikki Tikki Tavi

Yes, also had "Rikki Tikki Tavi" on VHS. Great movie

I remember my 2nd or 3rd grade teacher reading "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" to us. Must have been before they made the movie.

I did.

I remember reel to reel video shown in school about a carved canoe pit in a stream making its way to ocean. Must be around somewhere to see but not sure of name. Another was about a cricket in NY causing everyone nearby to stop being busy when it sang.

Yup. I even rented it from the library

The Red Ballon for sure on a film strip, but Rikki Tikki Tavi I saw when it was on TV

Loved Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Charlotte's Web and the animated Christmas Carol, yeah I'm that old.

I don't remember much about The Red Balloon, other than being absolutely traumatized by the death of the Balloon. As for Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, I remember watching it in middle school (early/mid 2000s) but it was such a dated story (and, frankly, I wasn't interested in the idea to start with) that I had trouble following. To this day I couldn't tell you what it was about.

That shit was fantastic (8 year old me)

Yep, amazing movie.

I don’t remember watching it in school, but watched in whenever it came on broadcast TV as a school age kid

Damn, I remember that! Mongoose and Cobra - was in grade school.

I love rikki tikki tavi

We read Rikki Tikki Tavi, but never watched it. We watched The Red Balloon, too. Why?

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Both were staples in my school

I remember watching it in school.

How about that obscure Japanese movie called, Skinny and Fatty.

I remember seeing Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in 6th grade. It was a little intense.

Omg, wow. I haven't heard that in forever.

Omg I LOVED this movie in school! I would rent it from Movie Time 😂

Not in school, but I watched it at home! We rented it lol

Yes, directed and animated by Chuck Jones, director of tons of Looney Tunes cartoons and the original animated adaptation of How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi also featured the voice of Orson Welles.

Watched some clips of it on YouTube the other day! Rikki-Tikki, that is. 

I watched both.

I thought I and my classmates were the only one who saw The Red Balloon. The second one I have heard but I'm not sure if I saw it or heard about it or what. Edit: I saw someone's IMDb link. I have seen that. Wow. Memory unlocked.

I remember Rikki-Tikki-Tavi! I loved it. I also remember watching another one I think from the same studio, or at least with a similar style, with a white seal cub trying to avoid being clubbed. I remember finding the faceless hunters kind of scary.

Oh yes! We watched movies like these during our library time occasionally!!! I loved this !

Ermrgerd, every year!!!

If you’re really old-like me, maybe you saw The Ark n elementary school about a polluted world where all these people with gas masks on broke the windows of a glass greenhouse. Man that was scary.

Yes!

Yup

Remember it?? I helped wheel the projector into the auditorium to watch it in the 2nd Grade ...... 🤣 Saw *Rikki Tikki Tavi* on TV a couple years later.

Jungle Book

I loved rikki tikki tavi! I remember checking the video out from the library over & over again. Totally forgot about that until now!

Both here! I have Rikki-Tikki-Tavi on DVD

I only ever saw Red Balloon 2: Revenge of the Red Balloon

I loved that one. It was kinda dark, what with all the cobras. I'm gonna try to find it for my kids.

Stupid show made me hate snakes for a long time

Rikki tiki Tavi was my absolute favorite as a kid.

I had the album.

Never heard of a singular red balloon. I only know of 99 of them.

Yes I remember that animated film so well.

Me: Child in the 1970's, teen in the 1980's. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi wasn't in my school's film library, but The Red Balloon was, and I know we saw it each year in elementary school, so I'm pretty sure I've seen the movie either 6 or 7 times. I don't know where I saw Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, probably on television, one of those 'once a year specials' in the 70's and early 1980's. But I need to see this again as an adult - it was a Chuck Jones production, and he was pure gold as a storyteller in animation.

Yep, yep. I also had a red balloon picture book, and I believe the pictures were all black & white except for the red balloon. It was a really long time ago.

I remember 99 RED BALLOONS

Of course. That’s a classic.

“If the boy moves…I will *strike*…and if the boy doesn’t move, I will *strike!*” I always loved the delivery of that line, but even as a kid I found it confusing. Why didn’t Nagaina just strike??

Heck I remember watching it on TV when it first aired.

Heck yeah!!! And the Lorax

Yes. Or as I call it “fear of snakes: the beginning.”

I loved Rikki-Tikki-Tavi!

I loved Rikki Tikki Tavi as a child

Yep. Watched Rikki-Tikki-Tavi on the projector in elementary school. Think I saw it at home on TV as well.

I believe so yes.

I did

I loved Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. But I saw it on TV and not in school.

We must sing his Death Song

When he grabs that egg at the end,0000hh!

Yess

Tiki-tiki tembo no sarembo, chari-bari Kuchi pick berry pembo

I only remember reading the stories. Also, The Five Chinese Brothers.

Loved that cartoon. Wasn't that the one with the 2 siamees cats?

Not in school, but every year when it was on TV. I have it on DVD.

ME I DID I WATCHED *AND* READ RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI!!!

We hissed at each other for a week.

I remember picking ticking tavi on tv but not in school.

there's a movie? u just thought it was a Donovan song

I loved the red balloon! We also used to watch an old show about a clown marionette named Pirrot or something like that. Does anyone remember that?

Rikki-tikki-tavi was part of the rainy day lunchtime rotation at my elementary school.

Must have watched the 100+ times as a kid. 

YES. The Chuck Jones animated versions of Kipling's Jungle Book stories: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and Mowgli's Brothers, and my favorite, the White Seal. All narrated by Roddy McDowell, IIRC. Loved them! I remember seeing Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in school along with White Seal, and then they showed them on TV every year or so. (I think they were CBS Specials on Friday nights.)

Not in school but I did watch it as a child. I also watched Hemo The Magnificent.

Those two, yes... and for some reason a weird sorta animated Australian thing with songs I don't remember much about it, there was a creepy song in it though....

I READ it but I NEVER saw an animated version.

We reddit. Never saw a movie or show.

I think this may only apply to people in the Los Angeles Southbay area, but the film “skater dater”, was just as popular as the red balloon in the early 70s

Read it