Cliff Hanger and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear and the Big Wig

Cliff Hanger and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear and the Big Wig is a book from the The Adventures of Cliff Hanger series by Livingston Dangerously. It's the 1465th adventure that teaches both the short "I" and "u" sounds.

Plot[]

Cliff Hanger hangs from a cliff and he can't hold on much longer. Cliff looks up and sees a singing a dancing bear (named Fuzzy Wuzzy) singing his theme song.

Cliff reads a page on his trusty survival manual (the page for Fuzzy Wuzzy the bear):

"When you see a Fuzzy Wuzzy bear, ask him to let down his hair."

Then Cliff Hanger does as the manual says.

So Cliff says to Fuzzy Wuzzy the Bear that he (Fuzzy Wuzzy the Bear) should let down his hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy the Bear does so and Cliff climbs it. When neither of the two knowing that Fuzzy Wuzzy's long hair (his "hair") is a wig, Fuzzy Wuzzy the bear is then able to pull Cliff up to safety. But before Cliff reaches to safety, the "hair" turns out to be just a big wig.

This causes Cliff to say, "Oh nuts!", and gets back to the cliff. Then he remarks the last lines of the rhyme, "Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy! Was he?!" in a sad manner. To Cliff Hanger's rhyme, Fuzzy Wuzzy the bear (in response) taunts Cliff that he is a "baldy waldy". (That is, when the viewers see Fuzzy Wuzzy's bald head with no fur on it.) Then he teases Cliff that he missed the safety point (since the wig made him end up to where he started from). He calls himself that in sense that he has a bald head (a furless head). Since Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear and had no hair, he was not fuzzy.

True to that statement, this is the full poem:

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy!

Was he?

It may be unknown why he had no hair. But he possibly had no hair because he was balding.

Cliff says the final verse in the rhyme. And Fuzzy Wuzzy (to Cliff's response --with that "silly rhyme") says, "I'm just a baldy waldy!". He thinks it is funny that Cliff said that, dances away, and leaves Cliff still hanging from his root. When he does, he is gone. Finally, Cliff is once again back where he started from. Then once again, he can't hold on much longer.

Tip from Cliff Hanger's Trusty Survival Manual[]

"When you see a Fuzzy Wuzzy bear, ask him to let down his hair."

Trivia[]

The story seems to be similar to Rapunzel, but the hair turns out to be a wig instead.
Lionel was the narrator of the story in Episode 09: Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy?.