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LOG-ON: LIBRARY!
HAND ME DOWN BOOKS
Written by
John C. Millunzi, Jr.
Based on -
PRINCESS BASIA & THE REVOLUTIONARY SUPER CRITTERS 0F WILLOW GLEN by John C. Millunzi, Jr.
Created and Developed byJohn C. Millunzi, Jr., Gina C. Millunzi and Stephen Millunzi
25315 Twister Trail, Spring, TX 77373713.449.2002
LIVE ACTION INTRO (IN STUDIO)
PAINTED BROADCAST TOWER
SFX: TELETYPE
ANNOUNCERYou are looking live at the Virtual Kids Broadcasting Tower. Your virtual bus will arrive shortly.
(beat)This is U.N.N. The kids underground news network.
BOOKSHELVES
An overstuffed easy chair, a large faux flat screen. (NOTE: The flat screen is painted and slides OPEN/CLOSED.)
STEVE is seated, wearing a beret reading the newspaper.
STEVEMargi? The bus will be here soon?
FLAT SCREEN SLIDES OPEN
revealing MARGI wearing a flowered straw hat.
MARGIBus Route Twenty-seven is delayed for a squirrel crossing, Stephen?
BROADCAST TOWER
ANNOUNCERClearance to view this broadcast requires your lunch packed, homework done, and your shoes by the door.
STEVE
Folding paper.
STEVEBus Twenty-seven, are you sure, Margi?
(CONTINUED)
MARGIIt’s waiting politely?
BROADCAST TOWER
ANNOUNCERAny further viewing of today’s program, assumes your agreement.
STEVEWe’re on Margi.
FLAT SCREEN SLIDES
The flat screen slides open to reveal Margi in prison stripes.
MARGIGoing to school always felt like a jail break to me, Stephen.
Flat screen slides shut.
STEVEI want to go!
ANNOUNCERIs your homework done?
END INTRO
2.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
ACT ONE
FADE IN:
EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - BACK PORCH - DAY
(NOTE: Background border, live action horses.)
DARE opens the back door to find MOLLY wagging her tail.
DARE
It’s windy.
Molly takes off for the chicken coop, Dare chases.
INT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - KITCHEN - LATER
(NOTE: DEVICE ICONS on kitchen flat screen: MYPHONE; Seneca, swinging on porch. MYPAD; Margaret, drawing on art pad. MYPHONE; Claire, in Gift Shop. LAB COMPUTER; Timothy, in lab. CALENDAR; Cadette Daily Planner. Icons constantly wobble.)
SFX: TOUCH-SCREEN BEEPS
Dare places a full egg basket on the counter, then presses “CADETTE DAILY PLANNER” and sees FOUR (4) unchecked entries; “HOMEWORK”, “CHORES”, “READING BADGE”, and “HERMAN MELVILLE”.
INT. MARGARET’S ROOM - CONTINUOUS
MARGARET is drawing a portrait of Melville.
EXT. SENECA’S FRONT PORCH - CONTINUOUS
SENECA is on the porch swing with FOUNDER.
BACK TO KITCHEN
Dare presses “SENECA” and “MARGARET”.
DARE (CONT’D)
Is everybody ready?
3.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
SENECA
Yeah, except for the wind. Mine’s
done.
MARGARET
Me, too. The wind won’t stop us.
SENECA’S FRONT PORCH
Founder chases after a leaf.
SENECA
Grandfather says you have to always
respect the wind.
BACK TO KITCHEN
DARE
Tell him I’m crewing.
EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - GIFT SHOP - ESTABLISHING
Whistling wind and Claire’s truck.
INT. GIFT SHOP - LATER
CLAIRE is at her jewelry bench tooling a Cadette achievement pin.
BACK TO KITCHEN
Dare presses “MOM”.
DARE (CONT’D)
Everything’s set, mom.
4.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
CLAIRE
Not until after the ceremony. I
just talked to Council???
MOLLY
(barks)
DARE
Mom?
CLAIRE
No, Dare, this is a big deal.
EXT. ADVANCED UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LAB PROVING GROUNDS - ESTABLISHING
A windsock flutters briskly in the wind.
INT. TIMOTHY’S LAB - CONTINUOUS
(NOTE: TIMOTHY and ROGER’S myPads show they’re playing “SPEED RACER” online. Roger is wearing his surgical mask loosely around his neck. Both Timothy and Roger are wearing racing helmets. ALPHA is wearing a Formula One racing jumpsuit and helmet. A cereal box stands on the lab counter between Timothy and Roger and their myPads.)
Alpha is clutching the steering wheel of a holograph red Formula One McLaren, fighting the “S” curves of a race track on the dais.
SFX: FORMULA ONE RACE CAR ENGINE
ROGER’S SMILING FACE
BACK TO KITCHEN
Dare presses “TIMOTHY”.
5.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
DARE
What do you want, Timothy?
ROGER
He wants to beat me at Le Mans!
TIMOTHY
We need an algorithm for Space
Camp, please?
SFX: FORMULA ONE RACE CAR ENGINE
ROGER
But he can’t.
DARE
Did you read your story?
SFX: FORMULA ONE RACE CAR ENGINE
A DVD “TIMOTHY’S ALGORITHM”.
TIMOTHY
It’s on Roger’s myPod. I just have
to upload it.
ROGER
He made me practice last night.
ALPHA’S WINDSHIELD
Checkered flags wave.
6.
CONTINUED: (3)
(CONTINUED)
ROGER (CONT’D)
He did the tortoise one.
ALPHA IN WINNER’S CIRCLE WEARING A HORSESHOE OF FLOWERS
TIMOTHY
Big deal.
BACK TO KITCHEN
Molly is jumping around, goading Dare to play.
DARE
I’m going riding, Timothy.
EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - PASTURE - CONTINUOUS
BASIA grazes.
EXT. VIRTUAL SCHOOL BUS - DAY
(NOTE: Background border, live action school bus.)
BUS DOORS CLOSING
BUS CONTINUOUSLY JIGGLES
(NOTE: DEVICE ICONS on bus windows: MYPHONE; Seneca, at her desk. MYPAD; Margaret, at her easel. MYPHONE; Dare, feeding Basia. MYPAD; PAUL, snoogling lexis-nexis. MYPAD; Frederick, thumbing GameToy. MYPAD; Roger, wearing surgical mask. LAB COMPUTER; Timothy at his computer.
FREDERICK’S MYPAD SCREEN FLASHING
An incoming IM appears from Seneca’s Cadette Homework Tracker. “You didn’t read?”
FREDERICK
I can read!
7.
CONTINUED: (4)
(CONTINUED)
EXT. WILLOW GLEN YOGA STUDIO - LIBRARY - ESTABLISHING
It’s windy.
INT. LIBRARY - LIVE ACTION IN STUDIO
(NOTE: Steve wears a woolly bulldog costume, Margi wears a woolly poodle costume. The gift box is filled with strawberry cupcakes.)
Steve arrives behind the book counter carrying a gift box. He hangs his bicycle helmet on the coat tree.
Margi is scanning library book returns on her computer.
(NOTE: Book covers wipe across her screen.)
#1 - ”FOR WHOM THE TARDY BELL TOLLS”
#2 - “DEWEY DECIMALS? WHAT HAPPENED TO HUEY AND LOUIE?”
#3 - “TALES FROM THE GYM LOCKER”
MARGI(growls)
Steve drags his finger across the DVD rack, selecting “HERMAN MELVILLE”.
STEVEGood morning, boys and girls!
He opens the gift box revealing strawberry cupcakes.
END LIVE STUDIO
BACK TO BUS
MARGARET
Dare’s Cadette pin is a big deal,
Frederick! What’s the holdup?!
8.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
SENECA
You actually have to turn it in,
Frederick? There’s going to be a
ceremony.
PAUL
I’m covering the ceremony for the
Bugle. I’m taping the bus ride,
right now, for background.
TIMOTHY
We read Moby Dick. It’s over eight
hundred pages! Space Camp points,
too.
ROGER
Ahab’s our most critical patient!
DARE
I appreciate it, you guys.
MARGARET
You guys minus Frederick.
FREDERICK
I’ll do it! I’m earning a free
Formula One race game. Quit bugging
me!
9.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
MARGARETYou could read Frederick the Flea Fable. You’re bugging me.
ROGER
We got into bonus Formula One at
breakfast. It’s easy.
SENECA
I’m calling an emergency recess
Cadette meeting!
BUS CEASES JIGGLING, DOORS OPEN
FREDERICK
I can read.
BUS DOORS CLOSING
SFX: FIRST SCHOOL BELL
INT. LIBRARY - DAY - LIVE STUDIO
(NOTE: Steve wears a woolly bulldog costume, Margi wears a woolly poodle costume. The gift box is filled with strawberry cupcakes.)
MUSIC: CIRCUS MUSIC
MARGI’S COMPUTER
Margi’s computer shows she’s logged into a pre-school toy box web page displaying a “CIRCUS” board game.
She’s arranging the game pieces so the strawberry cupcakes are in the center ring.
10.
CONTINUED: (3)
(CONTINUED)
GIFT CARD
Steve opens the gift card.
STEVE
That’s right, Margi. It’s going to
feel just like the circus came to
town, today!
MARGI(growls)
STEVE
Dear madame library steward,
there’s a whale of a time for every
girl and boy who learns in a
library. The cupcakes are to be
dispensed at Story Hour.
STRAWBERRY CUPCAKES
MARGI
(whines)
END LIVE STUDIO
EXT. JALOPY LIMO - ESTABLISHING
The jalopy limo is backfiring its way across the Golden Gate Bridge.
INT. JALOPY LIMO - CONTINUOUS
(NOTE: The Library Channel is showing on the limo flat screen.)
11.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
BIG MIKE smiles, wearing a linen bib, as the DUMBWAITER serves a silver tray of cheese, crackers, and pâté.
DUMBWAITER
(synthesized)
Your eminence.
MORTIMER opens a peel back sealed tin can marked “WHALE BLUBBER” on Mayor Bart’s desk and uses a spatula to frost a crumpled box of saltine crackers into the shape of a bucket.
MORTIMER
What do think? Bart’s bucket of
breakfast blubber? Or we could lose
the breakfast? You can eat this
stuff anytime.
SFX: WHAM
MORTIMER SPREAD EAGLE ON FLAT SCREEN
BACK TO LIBRARY - LIVE STUDIO
BUCKET AND MOP
Steve is thrusting a mop and bucket out at Margi.
MARGI
(growls)
STEVE
I told you darling, there’s going
to be a whale of a party in the
library today! The boys are going
to love it.
12.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
Margi grabs the mop and bucket, turns around in a huff, and marches off.
MARGI
(whines)
STEVE
The Cadettes are making books for
the library’s preschool department!
I don’t suspect they’ll care to
wear white gloves until your
finished! Have a little respect.
MARGI
(sobbing)
END LIVE STUDIO
INT. JALOPY LIMO - CONTINUOUS
SFX: RATCHETING
Mayor Bart is winding Mortimer in the ropes.
The Dumbwaiter is clearing Big Mike’s breakfast dishes, it’s built-in monitor screen is revealing Mortimer’s distressed face.
DUMBWAITER
(synthesized)
Library alert, sir?
13.
CONTINUED: (3)
(CONTINUED)
RATCHETING STOPS, MORTIMER TWISTS HIS MUSTACHE
MORTIMER
Fine, boss, we’ll stop at Vladdy’s!
He was as big as a whale last time
I saw him!
BIG MIKE’S PSYCHO EYE
SFX: CRASH
Mortimer goes flying into the limo flat screen.
MORTIMER (CONT’D)
(stars circling)
Then can we go to the library?
SFX: CLANG
MORTIMER WEARING BUCKET
EXT. ADVANCED UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LAB - PROVING GROUNDS - DAY
An SS-22 rocket booster is leaving the launch pad.
INT. AURL - TIMOTHY’S LAB - CONTINUOUS
(NOTE: Paul shows on Timothy’s myPad screen.)
Timothy and Alpha are in front of the wall flat screen watching voice pattern markers scroll across the screen.
Roger rolls up on his Big Slide wearing a doctor’s lab coat and stethoscope. He hands Timothy a medical chart and listens to the flat screen.
PAUL
This is a big deal, Timothy!
14.
CONTINUED: (4)
(CONTINUED)
ROGER
That’s what I thought.
A MEDICAL CHART
shows Roger’s hand-written prescription for new glasses, made out to “AHAB”.
ROGER (CONT’D)
His audio responses are fine.
Timothy removes and polishes his glasses.
ROGER (CONT’D)
Moby was just a guppy. Ahab needs
glasses.
SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE STARTING
SPACE MOTORCYCLE
Alpha is leaning back on his motorcycle seat, wiping his Vuarnets.
TIMOTHY
We’ll need sonar samples.
PAUL
Timothy?
TIMOTHY
It’s Melville!
SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING
Roger comes running past carrying his medic bag, lunch box, and a harpoon pre-loaded with a Q-Tip.
15.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
INT. GURDEEP’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
(NOTE: Mrs. Faeber is showing on Gurdeep’s computer screen.)
GURDEEP is entering data in his computer.
SFX: WHOOSH ZOOM
The office doors slide open revealing a small lab attendant ROBOT carrying a DVD case.
EXT. FAEBER HOME - CONTINUOUS
Mrs. Faeber is holding out a mop and bucket.
BACK TO GURDEEP’S OFFICE
Gurdeep’s computer screen is flashing red as Mrs. Faeber says:
MRS. FAEBER
Gurpee!!!!! Put me on the flat
screen, now!
FAEBER HOME
A shiny new R500 robot, shaped like one small egg atop a larger egg, is grabbing the mop and bucket from Mrs. Faeber.
BACK TO GURDEEP’S OFFICE
And the flatscreen showing Mrs. Faeber.
GURDEEP’S FRANTIC LOOK
MRS. FAEBER (CONT’D)
Would you like to explain why you
didn’t close the back door,
tightly, along with the mess you’ve
made?
16.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
The lab Robot places the DVD clearly marked “EXTRAPOLATOR - ALGORITHM”, right next to an identical DVD clearly marked “TIMOTHY’S ALGORITHM”.
BACK TO TIMOTHY’S LAB
Timothy is entering data in his computer.
PAUL
Seriously, Timothy, you can’t get
us grounded, no matter what!
GURDEEP’S OFFICE
SFX: WHOOSH
SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE DOWNSHIFTING
Alpha, Roger, and the space motorcycle materialize in front of Gurdeep’s desk.
Roger jumps from the sidecar, runs to Gurdeep’s desk, carrying his medic myPad, causing Gurdeep to immediately place his lunch box in his desk.
ROGER
Hi, grandma! Hi, Dad! It’s nap time
at preschool and we’re working on a
serious extra-credit case, grandma!
ALPHA LOWERING VUARNETS
Roger approaches Gurdeep’s desk, loads the “EXTRAPOLATOR” DVD into his myPad, and runs back to the sidecar.
ROGER (CONT’D)
I needed to pick up Timothy’s
homework!
SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE ROARING
17.
CONTINUED: (3)
(CONTINUED)
Alpha and Roger trade salutes.
SFX: WHOOSH ZOOM
Alpha, Roger, and the space motorcycle dematerialize.
The Time Travel Tube monitor flashes: “SECURITY CLEARED”.
EXT. DEEP SPACE - CONTINUOUS
SFX: TIME-WARP WHOOSH
SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE ROARING
PAUL
You’ve got two minutes to recess,
Timothy!
SFX: TIME-WARP WHOOSH
EXT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - DAY
(NOTE: A placard next to the rear wheel well reads: “NOW PLAYING - THE REVOLUTIONARY SUPER CRITTERS OF WILLOW GLEN”.)
A cloud floats briskly over the fender fin.
INT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - LIVE STUDIO
(NOTE: Steve and Margi are wearing woolly mouse costumes.)
Steve jams jazz on the piano.
Margi arrives waving her memory sticks.
INT. STEVE’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
MUSIC: ALA - “MISSION IMPOSSIBLE”
Steve leads Margi through security.
SFX: BEEP BEEP
18.
CONTINUED: (4)
(CONTINUED)
STEVE
We’re clear.
Margi inserts her first memory stick into Steve’s computer: revealing her UNN footage of Roger leaving Timothy's homework in his father's office, loading the extrapolator.
STEVE (CONT’D)
Do kids even know what an
extrapolator is, Margi?
MARGI
All they need to do is come to
Story Hour!!!
Margi swaps memory sticks in Steve’s computer: revealing her UNN footage of Many Eagles in his office watching a go green commercial on TV.
STEVE
He’s a wise old bird, Margi???
MARGI
(ala - SGT. FRIDAY,
DRAGNET, JACK WEBB)
And there’s thousands of them in
every nook, cranny, neighborhood,
and tough luck locale around.
19.
CONTINUED:
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
Places where wise old birds can
make a difference in this the
twenty-first century world, and we
can only hope our actions cheer
them on, get them believing, get
them using technology to help
people!
Margi swaps her last memory stick: showing the jalopy limo pulling out of a car wash on Embarcadero Drive with exactly half the car washed, lengthwise.
STEVE
I don’t like the looks of this,
Margi?
MARGI
And they’re not going to like the
looks of what happens if they try
keeping kids from the library!!!
END LIVE STUDIO
EXT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - CONTINUOUS
A small cloud quickly floats past the fender fin.
FADE OUT.
END ACT ONE
20.
CONTINUED: (2)MARGI (CONT'D)
(CONTINUED)
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
EXT. BARN - ESTABLISHING
SFX: WIND NOISE
SFX: FIRST RECESS BELL
INT. BARN
Dare is brushing Basia.
DARE
We won’t even have to worry about
nasty flies with this wind.
FREDERICK SWITCHING HIS MYPAD ON AND OFF
FREDERICK
All right you guys, my reader’s
whack. Looks like I luck out.
MARGARET
I knew it! Why don’t you try your
luck with my knuckles?
PAUL
Guys! I’m taping this!!!
SENECA
You can’t have readers if you don’t
have e-books, Frederick!
21.
CONTINUED: (3)
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
That’s what we’re doing. Now I know
why grandfather was crying!
FREDERICK
I’m not responsible!
PAUL
You guys???!!! That’s major
multiple violations on tape! Two
fifty-two, threatening you older
brother, misdemeanor; three seventy-
four, telling on your grandfather,
misdemeanor; and four-fifteen,
responsibility. That’s a felony
ticket for your parents!!!
MOLLY(barking)
INT. GIFT SHOP - CONTINUOUS
JEWELRY BENCH
Claire is wearing a jeweler’s eyepiece and soldering a WG#37 insignia on a Cadette achievement pin.
BACK TO BARN
MARGARET
That means you’re getting a note
sent home, Frederick!
22.
CONTINUED:SENECA (CONT'D)
(CONTINUED)
FREDERICK
No way, I didn’t do anything!
MARGARET
Exactly. That’s why!!
SFX: SECOND RECESS BELL
FREDERICK SWITCHING MYPAD ON AND OFF
FREDERICK
It means I don’t have to read if my
reader won’t show it!
SENECA
I’m calling an emergency Cadette
lunch meeting!
DARE
Why won’t you read, Frederick?
INT. AURL - TIMOTHY’S LAB - DAY
(NOTE: A live feed of Alpha cruising down the Intergalactic Freeway towing a satellite shows on the lab wall flat screen. Paul is showing on Timothy’s myPad.)
Timothy is entering data in his computer. His screen shows an incoming data file from Paul.
PAUL
I could get Pulitzer with my story
for Story Hour, Timothy! Please???
23.
CONTINUED: (2)
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
Just take my tape, (whining) and do
your homework???
ROGER
Roger, Paul. This is Roger. This is
definitely homework.
EXT. DEEP SPACE - CONTINUOUS
(NOTE: Timothy and Paul are showing, split-screen, on Alpha and Roger’s monitor screens.)
A ROUND SPHERICAL SATELLITE WITH SIGNAL NODES FLASHING
TIMOTHY
Deploy the mother satellite!
ROGER
Roger, Timothy.
Roger crawls out the back of the sidecar, unhooking the satellite from the space motorcycle and crawls back in the sidecar. He opens his medic bag revealing Gurdeep’s Extrapolator Algorithm DVD.
BACK TO LAB
Timothy’s lab computer screen is showing a falling “SONAR SIGNAL” meter.
TIMOTHY
Turn the power on!!!
GURDEEP’S OFFICE
(NOTE: Mrs. Faeber is showing on the Gurdeep’s wall flat screen holding out a male extension cord plug.
24.
CONTINUED:PAUL (CONT'D)
(CONTINUED)
SFX: SONAR BEEPING
Gurdeep enters data in his computer, his screen revealing a flashing red “SONAR POWER WARNING”.
SFX: WHOOSH
The office doors slide open revealing the same small lab attendant entering, heading for Gurdeep’s desk.
MRS. FAEBER
Your R500 needs more power, Gurpy!
The robot reaches for Timothy’s homework DVD from Gurdeep’s desk.
LAB ROBOT
(synthesized)
Losing sonar power.
MRS. FAEBER
Gurpy???
EXT. DEEP SPACE - CONTINUOUS
Roger turns on his medics myPad, its screen flashes “ACTIVATE - YES/NO”
He presses “Yes”.
The satellite spins open releasing seven matching satellites.
ROGER
Roger, Timothy, this is Roger.
Powering on. Melville approaching.
Melville’s Mini Cooper is closing on the motorcycle.
25.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
BACK TO LAB
(NOTE: Paul is showing on Timothy’s myPad squeezing his eyes closed.)
Timothy sees his SONAR POWER meter bouncing on the “ZERO” peg.
PAUL
Timothy?????
SFX: FULL ALARM SEQUENCE
Timothy’s lab flat screen is revealing Alpha and Roger racing back to the lab with a bearded HERMAN MELVILLE chasing in his Mini-Cooper.
INT. LIBRARY - DAY - LIVE STUDIO
MUSIC: ALA - “THEME FROM PETTICOAT JUNCTION”
Steve’s computer screen is filling with ‘WILL ATTEND’ icons.
MARGI’S COMPUTER
Margi’s computer screen reveals the library preschool toy box open to a (ala- BARBIE DOLL HOUSE).
Margi is feather dusting everything in sight.
STEVE
Oh, Margi, I’m so very proud of
you!!!
MARGI
(growls)
26.
CONTINUED: (3)
(CONTINUED)
STEVE
Just think of the example you’re
setting for future librarian
assistants, everywhere!
MARGI
(whines)
GIFT BOX
Margi is dusting the gift box.
STEVE
Oh, my. We’ll be swamped!
MARGI
(sobbing)
END LIVE STUDIO
EXT. JALOPY LIMO - ESTABLISHING
The jalopy limo is pulling into Vladdy’s Exotic Seafood’s drive-thru lane.
INT. JALOPY LIMO - CONTINUOUS
Mortimer is hanging upsidedown, wrapped in fishing pole line above a bucket of gurgling blue whale blubber.
MORTIMER’S FORLORN FACE
MORTIMER
I don’t want to go in the blubber
bucket, boss?
27.
CONTINUED:
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
That’s yours, remember? They named
it after you, so you could have
some all day long????
SFX: WHAM BAM WHAM BAM WHAM BAM
Mayor Bart is whipping Mortimer back and forth from the flat screen to the terrarium glass.
MORTIMER (CONT’D)
(stars circling)
Can’t we ever go to the library,
boss?
SFX: KABLAM
Big Mike is flashing his psycho eye, smiling.
EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - PASTURE - ESTABLISHING
Horses are grazing.
INT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS
(NOTE: Border background live action, school cafeteria.)
(NOTE: DEVICE ICONS on kitchen flat screen: MYPAD; Seneca, with her myPad. MYPHONE; Margaret, at her easel. MYPAD; Paul, flipping through law book pages. MYPAD; Frederick, snoogling“HERMAN MELVILLE”.)
SFX: FIRST LUNCH BELL
Dare’s feeding Molly.
MARGARET
It’s a little late, now, Frederick!
SENECA’S CADETTE HOMEWORK TRACKER WEB PAGE
Frederick’s flashing “INCOMPLETE”, changes to “COMPLETE”.
28.
CONTINUED: (2)MORTIMER (CONT'D)
(CONTINUED)
FREDERICK
Ha!!! I didn’t have to do it. It
just read Moby Dick and Aesop’s for
me, take that!
MARGARET
So we’re clear for Story Hour?
SENECA
How did you do that, Frederick?
FREDERICK
I don’t know? I didn’t even have to
read any instructions??? It’s not
my fault!
MARGARET
This better count, Frederick!!
DARE
Did you read it?
CADETTE HOMEWORK TRACKER WEB PAGE
The page shows Timothy the only one “INCOMPLETE”.
SENECA
Frederick’s is coming from Timothy!
PAUL
He signed a release!
29.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
DARE
Where’s Timothy?
EXT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - DAY
(NOTE: A placard next to the rear wheel well reads: “NOW PLAYING - THE REVOLUTIONARY SUPER CRITTERS OF WILLOW GLEN”.)
A cloud floats over the fender fin.
INT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - LIVE STUDIO
Steve jams jazz on the piano.
Margi arrives waving her memory sticks.
INT. STEVE’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
MUSIC: ALA - “MISSION IMPOSSIBLE”
Steve leads Margi through security.
SFX: BEEP BEEP
STEVE
We’re clear.
Margi inserts her first memory stick into Steve’s computer: revealing her UNN footage of Claire’s handmade Cadette pin.
STEVE (CONT’D)
She’s a great mom, Margi?
MARGI
(ala - JACK WEBB - SGT.
FRIDAY, DRAGNET)
Like millions of moms around the
world everyday!
30.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
Margi swaps memory sticks in Steve’s computer: revealing her UNN footage of Roger taking the wrong DVD.
STEVE
Everybody makes mistakes, Margi???
MARGI
He may have just cost himself bonus
points!!
Margi swaps her last memory stick: showing the jalopy limo pulling into Vladdy’s Drive-Thru.
STEVE
It doesn’t look very safe to me?
MARGI
The future’s never safe without
libraries!!!
END LIVE STUDIO
EXT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - CONTINUOUS
A small cloud floats past the fender fin.
FADE OUT.
END ACT TWO
31.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
EXT. BARN - ESTABLISHING
Basia grazes.
INT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS
(NOTE: Device icon showing on kitchen flat screen: MYPHONE; Claire at gift shop.)
Dare packs her backpack and presses “MOM”.
DARE
I’m going, mom.
CLAIRE
I have your pin.
MOLLY
(barks)
DARE
Thanks, mom, but we’re just going
to work in the round pen, can’t you
give it to me at dinner? I don’t
want a big ceremony.
CLAIRE
You have to have one, it’s a big
deal.
32.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)
DARE
How’s it a big deal, mom? There’s a
big whole in my DVD?
CLAIRE
That’s a big deal to you, Dare. The
big deal to the Cadettes is it sets
an example.
DARE
Mom???
INT. GURDEEP’S OFFICE - DAY
(NOTE: Mrs. Faeber is showing on Gurdeep’s computer screen. Paul is showing om Timothy’s myPad. Melville is carrying a duffel bag.)
Timothy stands at attention in front of Gurdeep’s desk, holding his myPad.
GURDEEP’S FINGER REACHING FOR THE “GROUNDED BUTTON”.
PAUL
No!!! Sir, don’t do it???
SFX: WHOOSH
The office doors slide open revealing two lab robots escorting Alpha, Roger, and Melville to Gurdeep’s desk.
MRS. FAEBER
Gurpy???
33.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
TIMOTHY
We were just doing our homework,
dad.
ALPHA SHRUGS
MELVILLE SCRATCHES HIS BEARD
PAUL
Oh no, oh no! It’s worse than
that!!!
MRS. FAEBER
Gurpy?
Alpha is pinkie swearing with Melville.
PAUL
We were doing someone else’s
homework!
Alpha reacts in shock.
Roger approaches Gurdeep’s computer and enters data, pulling up a full screen view of Melville’s Mini-Cooper.
ROGER
It really was just a guppy, Dad. I
prescribed glasses, grandma?
TIMOTHY
We have to be at Story Hour, dad??
34.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
ROGER
The Cadettes are going to get in
trouble again, if we don’t grandma?
PAUL
Sir!!! They’re doing some preschool
reading thing and there’s no need
to trouble you. We’ll take our
sentencing, please? We always fall
for it.
Melville opens his duffel bag, removes a spinning basketball.
ROGER
Can we play basketball, grandma? It
was my fault. Will you be on my
team?
Melville hands the spinning basketball to Alpha.
SFX: WHOOSH ZOOM
The office doors slide open revealing Mrs. Faeber spinning her own basketball on her fingertip.
MRS. FAEBER
Gurdeep!!!
PAUL
Oh!!!!! We know the sound of that
one, sir???
35.
CONTINUED: (2)
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
They’re making you play with a two
hundred year old on your team,
while they take a four year old???
This is legal precedence in the
making, sir???
Alpha leaps atop Gurdeep’s desk, spinning his basketball.
TIMOTHY
We’ll come straight home from Story
Hour, dad??
GURDEEP TAPPING HIS FINGERS
Alpha tosses the basket causing Gurdeep to give chase with Melville and Mrs. Sciencefeld behind.
PAUL
It hardly seems fair, sir?
TIMOTHY
Thanks, dad! You’re the greatest.
INT. LIBRARY - LIVE STUDIO
Steve removes his bicycle helmet from the coat tree and turns off his computer.
Margi smiles, bobbing her eyebrows.
STEVE
It’s time to say good bye and thank
you, boys and girls.
36.
CONTINUED: (3)PAUL (CONT'D)
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
Thank you, Mr. Melville! Thank you
for helping us. Thanks for the
cupcakes!
Margi licks her lips, bobs her eyebrows.
STEVE (CONT’D)
I’m telling you Margi, we need more
like him in the library.
END LIVE STUDIO
EXT. JALOPY LIMO - CONTINUOUS
VLADDY, a large Russian mouse chef is rapping on the rear limo window.
VLADDY
(Russian accent)
You’re just in time for the house
special?
INT. JALOPY LIMO - CONTINUOUS
Mayor Bart and Mortimer exchange frightened looks.
Big Mike nervously quakes.
MORTIMER
Not the house special!!!!!!!!!
EXT. LIBRARY - LIVE STUDIO
Steve turns his key in the front door, Margi gets jiggy with her boom box.
37.
CONTINUED:STEVE (CONT'D)
(CONTINUED)
RADIO ANNOUNCER
That was the Revolutionary Super
Critters of Willow Glen taking us
right up to Homework Helping Time
on your favorite Library Channel.
STEVE
Is there any way possible to have
any more fun at the library, Margi?
MARGI
(barks)
STEVE
Thank you, boys and girls. See you
at school!
END LIVE STUDIO
EXT. JALOPY LIMO - CONTINUOUS
Mortimer and Mayor Bart exit the rear of the limo and go running down the middle of the street.
MORTIMER
The library, boss!
END ACT THREE
FADE OUT.
38.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
EPILOGUE
FADE IN:
INT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - TREE HOUSE - DAY
(NOTE: DEVICE ICON on tree house flat screen: MYPAD; CLAIRE, making dinner.)
Dare, Seneca, and Margaret are on the couch with their bare feet up, wore out from practice.
SENECA
It was a great ceremony, Mrs.
Butler! Grandfather cried.
MARGARET
(laughter)
It was a lot of fun!
CLAIRE
I think you were all great
Cadettes.
DARE
You are a great example, mom.
MOLLY LOOKING OUT TREE HOUSE DOOR
MOLLY
(barking)
39.
CONTINUED: (2)
(CONTINUED)