[At this point, Professor Yaffle and the rest examine the strange, battered broken object, and Bagpuss settles down to hear a story based on it; sometimes he thinks hard and the story appears in a think bubble over his head, or the mice load a song roll and the animation appears on the screen of “the marvelous, mechanical mouse organ”, showing a story about the object, narrated by one of the characters. A song is sung (often with Gabriel playing his banjo) and if the song doesn’t work the magic, the mice fix whatever the object is, singing the
“we will fix it,
we will stitch it,
we will make it
new, new, new”
song in their high-pitched voices, and the mended thing is dragged to the shop window to be sold]
(and why yes! that is tikkyfare with the baseball bat, she is an engineer, using the latest in Percussive Analysis Techniques (PAT) to solve an intractable problem. Permamently ‘solve’ it even… we were out of coffee that morning)