LOG-ON: LIBRARY!

GOBBLEDYGOOKE

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)

BOOKSHELVES

An overstuffed easy chair, a large faux flat screen. (NOTE: The flat screen is painted and slides OPEN behind wall.)

STEVE is seated, wearing a beret, reading the newspaper.

SFX: ALARM CLOCK RINGING

STEVE

No possible way, is it time? Margi,

are you telling me the boys are

actually up and dressed?

FLAT SCREEN SLIDES OPEN

The flat screen slides open revealing MARGI wearing a chef’s hat and waving a wooden spoon.

MARGI

Of course, darling. Plus they’ve

been out back chopping today’s

wood, they help me iron your

shirts, and polish your shoes.

STEVE

Uh-um, very good. Is their homework

packed complete with an apple for

the teacher?

(CONTINUED)

MARGI

Yes, darling, and they were begging

to do extra-credit homework during

breakfast.

FLAT SCREEN SLIDES

The flat screen slides open to reveal a painting of an empty school bus.

Steve is now wearing a bus driver’s hat and over-sized glasses.

STEVE

Throw in a snack for the driver for

when the bus gets here, Margi!

2.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

ACT ONE

FADE IN:

EXT. STABLES - BACK PORCH - DAY

DARE opens the back door to a gust of wind and MOLLY wagging her tail.

DARE

Tell it not to rain?!

Molly takes off for the chicken coop; Dare chases.

INT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - KITCHEN - LATER

(NOTE: Background border, live action horses.)

(NOTE: DEVICE ICONS on kitchen flat screen: MYPHONE; Seneca, swinging on porch. MYPAD; Margaret, drawing on art pad. MYPHONE; Claire, loading pickup truck with water irrigation hose. LAB COMPUTER; Timothy, entering data. CALENDAR; Cadette Daily Planner.)

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”, “PRACTICE” and “GUGLIELMO MARCONI”.

INT. MARGARET’S ROOM - CONTINUOUS

MARGARET is sketching MARCONI’S portrait on her art pad.

EXT. SENECA’S FRONT PORCH - CONTINUOUS

SFX: WIND GUSTS

SENECA is swinging on the porch with FOUNDER on her lap.

BACK TO KITCHEN

Dare presses “SENECA” AND “MARGARET”.

3.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

DARE (CONT’D)

Good morning?

SENECA

Are we still practicing? I can get

rain ponchos from grandfather?

MARGARET

What does eleven minus three equal?

DARE / SENECA / MARGARET

(laughter)

DARE / SENECA / MARGARET (CONT’D)

Kid’s eleven mile in three days!

SENECA

I want to crew this time!

SFX: RADIO DIAL TUNING

MUSIC: ALA - HEADBANGER PUNK/ROCK

MARGARET

Get ready to hear Frederick’s radio

homework. Turn it down!

SENECA

I can’t even spell Marconi’s first

name.

4.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

DARE

G - u - g - l - i - e - l - m - o!

EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - GIFT SHOP - CONTINUOUS

CLAIRE is loading her pickup with irrigation hose.

BACK TO KITCHEN

Dare presses “MOM”.

DARE (CONT’D)

We’re still practicing after

school, mom. It’s not raining that

bad?

CLAIRE

Let’s see what its like after

school?

MOLLY

(barks)

DARE

Mom???

EXT. ADVANCED UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LAB - ESTABLISHING

A busy windsock atop a flagpole.

INT. AURL - TIMOTHY’S LAB - CONTINUOUS

(NOTE: Timothy’s computer and ROGER’S myPad display circular sonar sweeping screens.)

5.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

Timothy and Roger are wearing headphones and eating cereal at Timothy’s lab counter.

SFX: HEARTBEAT

TIMOTHY

Did you hear that?

ROGER

Self-induction system sustaining

energy levels. Vitals showing

distress.

BACK TO KITCHEN

Dare presses “TIMOTHY”.

TIMOTHY

We need you to go to the lake. For

Space Camp, real fast please?

ROGER

Something’s out there?

MOLLY

(barks)

DARE

What do you want, Timothy?

TIMOTHY

By the lake! It’s energy system is

self-sustaining.

6.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

ROGER

I heard it.

DARE

We’re practicing for eleven-mile,

Timothy!

TIMOTHY

It’s really important??

EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - PASTURE

BASIA grazes.

EXT. VIRTUAL SCHOOL BUS - DAY

(NOTE: Background border, live action school bus.)

(NOTE: DEVICE ICONS on bus windows: MYPHONE; Seneca, at her desk. MYPAD; Margaret, at her easel. MYPHONE; Dare, checking Basia’s feet. MYPAD; Paul, snoogling lexis-nexis. GAMETOY; Frederick, thumbing GameToy. MYPAD; Roger, sonar screen.

VIDEO BUBBLE STEVE

STEVE

Margi! The bus driver?

END VIDEO BUBBLE

FREDERICK

Dudes! I get to be on the radio

today!

SENECA

You have to. It’s your homework!

7.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

FREDERICK

It’s the Frederick radio show,

today, live at Story Hour! How’s my

voice?

ROGER

There’s something out there. We

heard it.

FREDERICK

No noises, Chemosabi. Frederick,

your sixth grade counterpart, is

taking over the air waves!

SENECA

Dare told us. It was probably the

rain storm last night?

ROGER

No! Today?

FREDERICK

Roger? It’s not raining on the

radio?

MARGARET

It probably was just the storm. I

think Frederick was hit by

lightning.

8.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

(NOTE: BUS CEASES JIGGLING)

ROGER

Something’s out there!

BUS DOORS OPEN

DARE

How does it get you space camp

points?

TIMOTHY

It’s a double-blind study and both

are showing audio disturbances.

Something’s out there!

FREDERICK

Oooo, something’s out there???

SENECA

I’m calling an emergency recess

Cadette meeting!

EXT. LIBRARY - ESTABLISHING

Patrons walking on the sidewalk, cars passing on street.

INT. LIBRARY - CONTINUOUS

BACK TO LIVE ACTION (IN STUDIO)

(NOTE: Stage background has added a counter in front of the flat screen. Steve is dressed in a woolly bulldog costume. Margi is dressed in a woolly poodle costume.)

STEVE sets a gift box on the book counter and hangs his bicycle helmet on a coat tree.

9.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

FLAT SCREEN SLIDE OPEN

Revealing Margi placing three library books on the counter, one at a time.

MARGI

Monkey Bar Physics.

ANOTHER BOOK

MARGI (CONT’D)

Moments In Gym Class, Seconds Of

Glory.

ANOTHER BOOK

MARGI (CONT’D)

And Canine Confessions: We Do Eat

Homework.

(NOTE: Book covers wipe across screen.)

#1 - “MONKEY BAR PHYSICS: UNDERSTANDING GRAVITY”

#2 - “MOMENTS IN GYM CLASS - SECONDS OF GLORY”

#3 - “CANINE CONFESSIONS: THEY DO EAT HOMEWORK!”

MARGI (CONT’D)

(growls)

Steve drags his finger across his DVD rack, selects “GUGLIELMO MARCONI”.

STEVE

Good morning, boys and girls!

He opens the gift box, revealing chocolate-covered turtles.

10.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

STEVE (CONT’D)

Oh, Margi??? Look what we have for

the kids, today???

MARGI

(whines)

Margi is wearing a Halloween turtle mask (ALA - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), holding a sabre to the gift box. Steve opens the gift card.

MARGI (CONT’D)

(growls)

STEVE

Turtles don’t eat turtles, Margi!

Steve reads the gift card.

STEVE (CONT’D)

(feigning deep Italian

male voice)

Hey, my respect to the library, and

turtles just for the kids.

MARGI

(growling)

STEVE

(same voice - winking

privacy)

11.

CONTINUED:

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

Margi?? You’re my assistant.

Everyone knows you’re still a kid.

MARGI

(whining)

Steve is posting alarm clock icons on student profile pages, wiping past his screen.

Margi is holding a fishing net pole, staring at the turtles through her scuba diving mask; licking her lips, bobbing her eyebrows.

DREAM SEQUENCE

Margi is a swimming the poodle backstroke at the beach.

A beach umbrella covers a chocolate turtle and a hungry Steve on a beach blanket.

BACK TO SCENE

STEVE

I think she wants her own turtle,

boys and girls? What do you think?

Margi snaps out of it. Her fishing net pole is on her head.

MARGI

(growling)

STEVE

Margi Poodle! You’re a librarian

assistant! You know the rules!!!

END LIVE ACTION

12.

CONTINUED:STEVE (CONT'D)

INT. AURL - TIMOTHY’S LAB - CONTINUOUS

Timothy and Roger are in front of circulating sonar computer screens.

ROGER

See? It’s sustaining. It’s alive?

Roger’s myPad screen reveals a signature line below a NASA KIDS SPACE CAMP DAILY CHALLENGE insignia.

TIMOTHY

Sign your screen.

SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE STARTING

PAUL

What’s alive?

ROGER

Heart rate and breathing are

elevated.

PAUL

What did he just sign?

SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING

Alpha pulls his space motorcycle sidecar next to Roger.

TIMOTHY

We’ll try to reconstruct when you

reach holographic vortex.

Timothy, Roger, and Alpha trade salutes.

13.

(CONTINUED)

SIDECAR

GURDEEP shows on the sidecar control console monitor.

INT. AURL - GURDEEP’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

(NOTE: Gurdeep’s computer screen shows Alpha backing the space motorcycle and sidecar into the Time Travel Tube, with MRS. FAEBER showing in the bottom right corner of his screen.)

Gurdeep is at his desk buried in paperwork.

MRS. FAEBER

You better start thinking ahead,

Gurpy, those boys are going to be

in college any day at this rate!!

Plus they’ll need toys!

SFX: WHOOSH

The office doors slide open revealing a lab Robot delivering a bound computer printout, titled “COST ANALYSIS”, a small tea cup, and a chocolate turtle to Gurdeep’s desk.

Gurdeep’s eyes smile.

MRS. FAEBER (CONT’D)

I made those myself for the

library. I saved you one.

BACK TO TIMOTHY’S LAB

SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE ROARING

SFX: WHOOSH ZOOM

Alpha, Roger, and the space motorcycle dematerialize. The Time Travel Tube control panel reads “TARGET DATE: 1924” and “HOLDING FOR SECURITY TEST”.

14.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

PAUL

Timothy? What’s taking them so

long? They’re still passing

security???

TIMOTHY

My dad’s in trouble over something,

I think?

BACK TO GURDEEP’S OFFICE

SFX: WHOOSH

The office doors slide open revealing Roger escorted to Gurdeep’s desk by a lab robot.

ROGER

It’s almost time for the bus, dad.

MRS. FAEBER

Not doing so is almost like taking

food from your children!

Roger approaches the desk and puts Gurdeep’s chocolate turtle in his own lunch box.

ROGER

Timothy and I are working on extra-

credit homework, Grandma?

Gurdeep’s eyes are distressed.

15.

CONTINUED:

EXT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - DAY

A ‘57 Chevy on blocks with a placard next to the rear wheel well reading: “NOW PLAYING - THE REVOLUTIONARY SUPER CRITTERS OF WILLOW GLEN”.

INT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - CONTINUOUS

BACK TO LIVE ACTION

(NOTE: Steve and Margi are each wearing woolly mice costumes.)

Steve jams jazz on the piano.

Margi arrives waving her memory sticks.

INT. STEVE’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

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 truck splashing through water past a “WILLOW GLEN LAKE” road sign.

STEVE (CONT’D)

It did rain a lot, Margi?

MARGI

Cadettes don’t have to be afraid of

the rain! It’s in their manual!!!

Margi swaps memory sticks in Steve’s computer: revealing her UNN footage of Roger placing Gurdeep’s chocolate turtle in his lunch box.

16.

(CONTINUED)

STEVE

Into the lunch boxes of babes,

Margi. That could be trouble???

MARGI

He was only thinking ahead to snack

time!!

Margi swaps her last memory stick: showing a jalopy limo pulling into Izzy’s Ice Cream and Car Repair.

STEVE

I don’t think they should try Rocky

Road, Margi?

MARGI

They’re stuck on a rocky road

because they never learned to go to

the library when they were in

school!!!

END LIVE ACTION

EXT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - CONTINUOUS

SFX: THUNDER LIGHTNING

FADE OUT.

END ACT ONE

17.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

ACT TWO

FADE IN:

EXT. BARN - ESTABLISHING

Gusty weather.

INT. BARN - CONTINUOUS

(NOTE: Background border, live action playground.)

(NOTE: DEVICE ICONS on barn flat screen: MYPHONE; Seneca, at her desk. MYPAD; Margaret, at her easel. MYPAD; Paul, snoogling “MARCONI”. GAMETOY; Frederick, thumbing GameToy. LAB COMPUTER; Timothy, entering data, MYPAD; Roger entering data.)

SFX: FIRST RECESS BELL

Dare is cleaning Basia’s feet.

PAUL

I think you guys need to check on

the weather. The radio says it’s

going to rain?

FREDERICK

I think you need to check yourself.

My radio homework is on at Story

Hour! You’ll stay nice and dry.

SENECA

Cadettes aren’t afraid of the rain!

DARE

We’re going riding.

SFX: RADIO DIAL TUNING AND LOUD MUSIC

18.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

MARGARET

We’re trying to hear it, Frederick.

Turn it down!

INT. FREDERICK’S ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Frederick is speaking to live video of himself on his computer screen.

FREDERICK

This is Frederick’s radio network,

saying today’s Willow Glen Weather,

Earthquake, Volcano Watch forecast

is it’s going to rain as far as you

can hear my voice?

BACK TO BARN

ROGER

We’re still getting audio signal

from the lake!

FREDERICK

Did you guys dig my radio voice?

I’m calling him the Boogie Man

because the Wolf Man has left the

building!

MARGARET

It’s probably just noise from the

storm, Roger? It’s still windy?

19.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

DARE

It’s hard to tell sometimes? If you

knew what it was, we’d know where

to look.

TIMOTHY

Roger’s right. I ran double-blind

refractions. It’ll count for extra

credit?

FREDERICKExtra credit’s gobbledygook!

ROGER

And we get Space Camp. Grandma

heard it. We have to find it. No

music, please?

BACK IN FREDERICK’S ROOM

FREDERICK

(whining)

It’s my radio show!!!???

SFX: SECOND RECESS BELL

BACK TO BARN

SENECA

I know grandfather heard it! I’m

calling an emergency Cadette lunch

meeting.

20.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

ROGER

I’m getting all it’s vitals! It’s

alive!!!

EXT. ADVANCED UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LAB - LATER

Steady rain falls.

INT. AURL - TIMOTHY’S LAB - CONTINUOUS

(NOTE: Paul is shown on Timothy’s myPad screen.)

SFX: BEEPING

Timothy is entering data in his computer with Roger at his side, watching the screen.

ROGER

We are getting Space Camp points,

right, Timothy?

Alpha is on the space motorcycle putting his mirrored sunglasses on his face. His tape-on handlebar mustache comes loose. He sticks it back on.

TIMOTHY

Try it backwards! Try it backwards!

Try it backwards!

ROGER

Space Camp points are going to get

us?

SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE STARTING

21.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

TIMOTHY

No! If there’s water everywhere

reverse the signal!

SFX: MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING

Alpha pulls his motorcycle and side car up to the Time Travel Tube.

TIMOTHY (CONT’D)

Get the signal scrambler up there

immediately and get back here by

lunch!

Roger runs past wearing large unfastened rain boots and a yellow rain slicker and cap.

Alpha and Roger exchange salutes with each other and Timothy.

Roger hops in the sidecar, Alpha backs into the Time Travel Tube.

Roger opens his lunch box and sees Gurdeep’s chocolate turtle.

TIMOTHY (CONT’D)

You better save that in case dad

gets in trouble?

PAUL

You can use it for plea bargain

points when you get grounded!

TIMOTHY

Tell the Cadettes to meet at the

lake in case we’re right!

22.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

SFX: WHOOSH ZOOM

Alpha, Roger, and the space motorcycle dematerialize.

PAUL

Timothy!!!??? What case might that

be? The Cadettes versus Timothy for

knowingly sending them out in the

pouring rain???

EXT. LIBRARY - ESTABLISHING

Cars splashing water puddles in pouring rain.

BACK TO LIVE ACTION (IN STUDIO)

INT. LIBRARY - CONTINUOUS

Steve is wearing a woolly bulldog costume posting umbrella icons on student profile pages.

Margi is wearing a woolly poodle costume and a mariner’s hat, standing in front of a painting of herself cruising through the stacks returning books in a tug boat library cart.

MARGI

(growling)

STEVE

Aye, aye, Captain Margi??? Turtles

aren’t afraid of the rain, silly

girl!

MARGI

(whining)

23.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

STEVE

(feigning privacy)

Apparently Margi is afraid of not

getting a turtle, boys and girls.

A wave of water splashes over Margi. (NOTE: Bucket of confetti.)

MARGI

(sobbing)

STEVE

Somebody IM that girl before she

gets all wet!

SFX: OCEAN LINER HORN BEEPING

Margi is in front of a large painting of a huge ocean liner showing herself on the bridge.

Steve is feather-dusting the DVD rack.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Margi Princess??? I see you’ve done

your homework, again?

MARGI

(growls)

STEVE

What do say, boys and girls, can

Margi have her own turtle?

24.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

MARGI

(whining)

Steve dusts his computer screen as it fills with student thumbs up icons.

STEVE

As soon as we get home.

MARGI

(growling)

Margi is sniffing gingerly at the gift box.

MARGI (CONT’D)

(whining)

GIFT BOX SLOWLY MOVING

Steve bobs his eyebrows while surreptitiously moving the gift box.

MARGI (CONT’D)

(yelp)

Margi jumps back.

MARGI (CONT’D)

(barking)

STEVE

Will Margi get a turtle, boys and

girls???

25.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

MARGI

(growling)

STEVE

Find out at Story Hour???

END LIVE ACTION

EXT. LIBRARY - CONTINUOUS

Pouring rain.

EXT. STABLES - ESTABLISHING

Pouring rain.

INT. KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS

(NOTE: Border background live action, school cafeteria.)

(NOTE: DEVICE ICONS on kitchen flat screen: MYPAD; Seneca, sitting at kitchen table. MYPHONE; Margaret, straightening her Cadette beret. MYPAD; Paul, wearing oversized rain boots. MYPAD; Frederick, snoogling himself. MYPAD; Roger, with his lunch box.)

SFX: FIRST LUNCH BELL

Dare’s feeding Molly.

DARE

Mom’s all ready down at the lake.

Are you guys ready? We have to get

back?

SENECA

We’re all set. Grandfather gave us

ponchos.

26.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

FREDERICK

No way, you guys?

MARGARET

More than ready.

DARE

Where is Timothy?

INT. AURL - TIMOTHY’S LAB - CONTINUOUS

Timothy enters data in his computer, his screen revealing Willow Glen Lake, with reeds, choppy water, and a baby duck caught in a bush by the foot, struggling to stay above water.

BACK TO KITCHEN

PAUL

He’s found a baby duck! Trapped!

MOLLY

(whines)

DARE

Let’s go!

MOLLY

(barks)

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”.)

SFX: THUNDER LIGHTNING

27.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

INT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - CONTINUOUS

BACK TO LIVE ACTION (IN STUDIO)

Steve and Margi are dressed in woolly mice costumes.

Steve jams jazz on the piano.

Margi arrives in a rain slicker and boots, waving her memory sticks, and stomping her feet.

INT. STEVE’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

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 Dare cleaning Basia’s feet.

STEVE (CONT’D)

She has to when it’s raining,

Margi?

MARGI

That makes it even more extra-

credit!!

Margi swaps memory sticks: revealing Alpha’s space motorcycle and sidecar landing at the lab, followed by Marconi in horse and buggy.

STEVE

(angst)

Margi? They did their

homework!!!???

28.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

MARGI

(ALA - JACK WEBB)

It’s a beautiful thing. Kids come

home, have a snack, do their

homework, and look to you and I to

keep them safe!

Margi swaps her final memory stick: revealing a robot (ALA - MR. FREEZE) banging on the jalopy limo’s rear window, with the rain turning to snow.

STEVE

It’s looking awfully cold out

there???

MARGI

They thought they could freeze

Willow Glen kids out of the

library!!!

MUSIC: SUPER CRITTER THEME

Steve’s computer screen flashes to a jpeg of Alpha, Margi, Steve, and Many Eagles in action poses, wearing capes in front of a yellow sunburst b.g.

EXT. STEVE’S DRIVE-IN - CONTINUOUS

A turn signal flashes on the fender fin. It’s drizzling.

END LIVE ACTION

FADE OUT.

END ACT TWO

29.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

ACT THREE

FADE IN:

EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - BARN - CONTINUOUS

(NOTE: No rain).

Molly is leading Basia, Amazing, Bandit, and the Cadettes down a wet trail to the lake.

EXT. WILLOW GLEN STABLES - IRRIGATION CHANNEL - LATER

Claire is turning a water irrigation gate.

EXT. WILLOW GLEN LAKE - CONTINUOUS

Dare is kneeling in front of Molly and a dry, fluffy, grateful baby duck with a feeding bottle. She stands and places a small radio device atop a fence post. Seneca and Margaret stand holding the horses.

SFX: BABY DUCK QUACKS

DARE

They’ll find her.

SENECA

We have to get back!

Dare presses “MOM” on her myPhone.

DARE

We’re going, mom?

CLAIRE

You better get your homework done!

30.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

SENECA

It’s done! Marconi! Frederick’s

radio show? This was all extra-

credit homework Frederick called

gobbledygooke!

MARGARET

Maybe he can interview Roger?

DARE

We want to still go riding after

school, mom?

EXT. ADVANCED UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LAB - ESTABLISHING

Light breeze and scattered white clouds.

INT. AURL - GURDEEP’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

(NOTE: Mrs. Faeber is shown on Gurdeep’s computer screen. Paul is shown on Timothy’s myPad. Marconi is wearing a “NEW YORK RADIO CITY” basketball jersey and walkman.

Gurdeep is frowning, tapping his fingers in front of the “GROUNDED” button on his desk.

SFX: WHOOSH

The office doors open to reveal two lab robots escorting Alpha, Roger, and Marconi to Gurdeep’s desk.

PAUL

Don’t do it, sir???

A Robot hands Gurdeep a spreadsheet marked FIFTY-TWO TRILLION DOLLARS for future toys.

31.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

PAUL (CONT’D)

Ohhh!!! Sir???? We thought, you,

were in trouble?

Alpha smirks. Roger places the turtle back in Gurdeep’s lunch box.

TIMOTHY

We did our homework, dad??

MRS. FAEBER

Gurpy?

Marconi approaches Gurdeep and places a walkman on him before stepping back and smiling.

PAUL

No, sir, we did? It can be all so

confusing, sir???

ROGER

Hi, grandma? I’m hungry?

GURDEEP

(whines)

TIMOTHY

We had to save a lost duck,

grandma?

Marconi glares at Gurdeep.

32.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

MRS. FAEBER

Gurpy? Why don’t you just play

Roger for the turtle? How sweet of

you to save it?

Alpha bobs his eyebrows.

PAUL

No, sir??? I’m an officer of the

court??? We wanted Space Camp bonus

points so we could trade them for

an algorithm! We’re troubling you

for extra-credit, sir???!!!!

Alpha dashes to Gurdeep’s side, placing his arm around him and spinning a basketball on his fingertip.

TIMOTHY

The Cadettes need us at Story Hour,

dad?

SFX: WHOOSH

The office doors open to reveal Mrs. Faeber snarling at Gurdeep, spinning a basketball on her fingertip.

PAUL

We’ve troubled you enough, sir.

Alpha hugs Gurdeep, feigning tears.

MRS. FAEBER

Gurpy???

33.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

TIMOTHY

We have all our homework done, dad,

and the Cadettes had to go riding

in the rain??

Alpha leaps on Gurdeep’s desk, spinning his basketball.

PAUL

Oh, sir, please??? You can’t stop

Cadettes??? Rain, snow, big

brothers???? Nothing, sir!!!

Alpha tosses the ball to the dais court, causing Gurdeep to chase after with Mrs. Faeber, Marconi, Alpha, Roger and the robot following.

PAUL (CONT’D)

(muted to Timothy)

You better have your homework done.

Roger returns to Gurdeep’s desk for the chocolate turtle and dashes back.

TIMOTHY

Thanks, dad, we’ll be right home.

BACK TO LIVE ACTION (IN STUDIO)

INT. LIBRARY - DAY

Steve removes his bicycle safety helmet from the coat tree and turns off his computer.

Margi smiles.

34.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

STEVE

It’s time to say good bye and thank

you, boys and girls. Thank you Mr.

Marconi! Thank you for helping us.

Thanks for the turtles!

Margi bobs her eyebrows.

STEVE (CONT’D)

I’m telling you Margi, we need more

like him in the library.

Steve turns his key in the front door, Margi gets jiggy with her boom box.

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 tomorrow!

35.

CONTINUED:

(CONTINUED)

END LIVE ACTION

END ACT THREE

FADE OUT.

36.

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 gathered in a circle around Molly, drying her off, brushing her coat and attaching a ribbon.

Molly wags her tail.

DARE

Wait ‘til you see your next

mission!

CLAIRE

That would be homework.

SENECA

She’s so den mother!

Margaret straightening her Cadette beret.

MOLLY

(barks)

FADE TO BLACK.

THE END

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