by MJ Gallagher
© 2004
Sketch: "Bugs"
Sketch: "Bugs"
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Bird:
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Sees the world the way maybe it ought to be seen. |
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Sydney,
"The Brain":
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Hands down, the smartest kid in school. |
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Cookie:
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Their pal from school. |
EXT. PARK - AFTERNOON
BIRD AND SYDNEY ("THE BRAIN") ARE DISCOVERED NEAR THE POND IN FRIENDSHIP PARK.
SYDNEY INSPECTS AN
INSECT ON A LEAF, WHILE BIRD RUNS BACK AND FORTH WAVING HANDS IN THE AIR.
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| Butterfly! Flutterby! Flying high up in the sky! |
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| Will you knock that off? I’m trying to study Coleoptera bijoux. |
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| I didn’t know you were taking that in summer school, too. I’m working on a science experiment for our nature class. |
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| Coleoptera bijoux is a jeweled beetle. Can you try to catch your butterflies more quietly? |
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| Apes. |
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| Bless you. |
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| Shouldn’t you be sitting quietly in the bushes so you can study them better? |
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| I tried that, but I got a cramp. So I decided to fly like a butterfly! (DANCES AROUND AND FLUTTERS HANDS EMULATING A BUTTERFLY) So what is a jeweled beetle, anyway? |
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| Here, look. |
BIRD CROSSES TO SYDNEY.
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| Wow... It looks just like a ruby. |
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A SMALL JAR FROM BACKPACK)
I’m going to add it to my collection. I already have four jeweled beetles and one giant spotted grasshopper. (STARTS TO PUT THE BEETLE IN THE JAR.) |
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| Maybe we should contact the National Guard before it gets loose! |
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| It’s not a real giant grasshopper. It’s just called that. It’s about two inches long. |
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| That doesn’t sound very giant, if you ask me. |
COOKIE, A SCHOOLMATE OF THE BIRD AND THE BRAIN, ENTERS.
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| Hi, Bird. Hi, Brain. What are you guys up to? |
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| Hi, Cookie. |
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| Brain is rescuing a beetle and taking it home so it won’t get lonely like it would out here in the wild. |
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| I hardly think that Friendship Park is considered "wild." |
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| It can be. Very wild. |
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| How? |
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| (LOOKING OMINOUSLY AT THE POND) You know about the ferocious ducks in the pond, don’t you? |
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| I’ve heard about them. My brother told me. |
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| I don’t see any ducks. |
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| Of course not. It’s day time. They only come out at night... |
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| Ducks are not nocturnal. They don’t come out at night! |
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| These ones do! They’re ferocious ducks... and they live here, in the wild. They roam the park, searching for victims. That’s why people can’t come here at night. |
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| (LOOKING AROUND NERVOUSLY) Are you sure that they don’t come out during the day? |
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| Oh, they would... make no mistake... but an army of butterflies keeps them away! |
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| Bird’s been learning to control the butterflies with his mental powers. |
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| You have mental powers?? |
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| I do? |
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| You do. |
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| Do you? |
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| I do. |
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| What can you do? |
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| I can control the army of butterflies, remember? (BIRD CLOSES EYES AND TOUCHES HEAD, CONCENTRATING) Ohmmmmm... |
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| Is something going to happen? |
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| You never know, with the Bird around. |
A BUTTERFLY DARTS FROM THE SKY AND "DIVE BOMBS" COOKIE.
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| Whoah!!!! That was cool! What else can you do. |
BIRD OPENS ONE EYE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED.
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| Well, I –-- |
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| He can move inanimate objects with his mind. |
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| He can? |
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| I can? |
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| You can. |
SYDNEY PULLS OUT THE JAR HOLDING THE JEWELED BEETLE
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| See this red jewel? | |||||
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| It’s a ruby. | |||||
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| Wow.... | |||||
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| No way! | |||||
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| Way. | |||||
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| Very way. |
AS BIRD GOES BACK TO THE "MENTAL CONCENTRATION" POSTURE, SYDNEY OPENS THE JAR. COOKIE INSPECTS THE CONTENTS, WHICH SUDDENLY LEAP OUT!
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| Aaaaahhh! |
COOKIE RUNS AWAY. BIRD AND THE BRAIN FALL DOWN LAUGHING.
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