Speak, Toto

Oz book eight is the one where they figure out that Toto was verbal this whole time.

One of my favorite single scenes in the whole series.




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Transcript

Dorothy: See here, sir! I've just learned, for the first time, that you can say words -- if you want to. Don't you want to, Toto?
Toto: Woof!*
* Nope

Dorothy: Just one word, Toto, to prove you're as good as any other animal in Oz?
Toto: Woof!*
*I reject your anthropocentric communication demands

Betsy: Really, Dorothy, he can talk with his bark and his tail just as well as we can. Don't you understand dog language?
Dorothy: Of course I do. I've been doing it for eight books now! But Toto's got to be more sociable!

Dorothy: One word, okay? Just one word. Then you can go.
Toto: ...
(WHIP)
Toto: Toto out.