Gerstein: An Off-Color Story

[David A Gerstein]

Dear Folks,

Here's my own Tiny Toon Adventure: (TARAA TARAAA!) Plucky
Duck and Hamton J. Pig in "An Off-Color Story," (C) 1991 David A.
Gerstein. I hope you guys will side with me in my hopes to get this
eventually produced, either as a regular show (should they make more
of them at some undisclosed time) or as a 'special' of the type they
mention.

You'll notice the thing may seem a little longer than
necessary. I had to do this: I don't know exactly how long their
scripts are or how long mine would be, produced.

I hope you'll be able to tell the stage directions from the
dialogue. I'm hampered in this system by a lack of different fonts
and/or styles. You'll also notice that my Plucky acts a lot like
Daffy. Well, we must face it: Plucky DOES act a lot like Daffy, so
I've basically written as if I was writing for Acme Loo mentor just as
much as student. (You've noticed how little we see of Daffy in TTA,
of course because the parallel to Plucky would immediately be too
obvious)

Anyway, here goes. Forgive tabs in weird places, odd spaces,
etc. but this was genuinely hard to convert.

TINY TOON ADVENTURES Presents
Plucky Duck in "An Off-Color Story"
(C) 1991 David A. Gerstein
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ACT SCENE ACTION AND SPEECH

1 1 Camera zooms in on Acme Looniversity, theme in
background.
Pete Puma pushing cleaning wagon lazily past door.
1 2 Gogo Dodo out of bell tower, ringing bell.
Camera arcs down to:
1 3 Bird's eye view of students running out of
front door, trampling Pete.
1 4 Closeup: Pete Puma, battered and ravaged:
PETE: Aaagh, only lunchtime and I've got a
headache already!
Camera spins around to follow students. We see
Buster, Babs, Hamton and Plucky.
1 5 Shot of Buster, Babs, Hamton and Plucky
walking to cafeteria.
HAMTON: Oh, goody! Tuesday is brussel sprout
day at the cafeteria! That's always fun!
PLUCKY: Fun my foot! (Looks knowingly at
Buster) Can you believe Hambrain eats vegetables 'cause he likes 'em?
BABS: Cool it, Plucky! Hamton can like
whatever he wants to!
1 6 Medium shot of Plucky strutting along quickly.
PLUCKY (pompously): So what if he does?! I'm
just saying that some people have better (cough! cough!) taste than
others.
Pan left to Buster.
BUSTER: Taste, Plucky? Is this the same guy
who stays uplate watching Eddie Cougar horror flicks every weekend?
1 7 Close up, Plucky.
PLUCKY: Hmmph! You're just jealous!

2 1 Shot of cafeteria, everyone getting food. We
see Hamton straining under huge plate of goodies, Little Beeper
pecking at Calamity's food, Shirley the Loon h
overing in the air taking food from salad bar, Furball chasing
Sweetie with knife and fork and crashing into others among the crowd.
2 2 Buster, Babs, Plucky and Hamton at table
eating. Camera in to Buster.
BUSTER (to Hamton): You doing all right there,
Hamton?
2 3 Quick pan to Hamton, chewing with mouth full
of food.
HAMTON: Nomph, mmph grlzmph fwmb fwmb glbd--
(Swallows) uh, just fine, Buster! (Takes big forkful of brussels
sprouts) The more the merrier, I always say.
I'm looking forward to today's Toon History class! Aren't you,
Buster?
2 4 Medium shot of Plucky.
PLUCKY: You'd find a class on putting up
wallpaper interesting, Fat Boy! (Buster squeezes Plucky's beak shut)
Mmmph! Mmph!
2 5 Long shot of Hamton looking dreamy.
HAMTON: Porky Pig is giving a lecture today
about how he first became a star! I can't wait to hear about it.
PLUCKY: Don't let him fool you. He probably
started out washing windows. Every celebrity started out washing
windows. They...
2 6 Plucky is interrupted by the end-of-lunch
bell. Close up of ringing bell.
2 7 Hamton leaps up from table, tossing tray
towards rack and running to door.
HAMTON: Oh, joy! I mustn't be late! I mustn't
be late!
Plucky follows him, imitating him with insipid
expression. Plucky waves his wrist in front of him like he's using a
yo-yo.
PLUCKY: Oh, joy! I mustn't be late! I mustn't
be late! (Back to normal, slowing down) Oh, brother.

3 1 School auditorium. We slowly move in over the
heads of the squirming students (some seated, some taking seats) to
podium, directly over heads of Buster, Ba
bs, Hamton and Plucky. Plucky (on right of group) is leaning over the
back of his chair talking with Shirley the Loon, in chair behind him.
Buster and Babs are
talking to each other. Hamton is inert, staring ahead at the podium.
Foghorn Leghorn walks out onto stage, in his teacher's outfit.
3 2 Medium shot of Foghorn Leghorn. Paper airplane
flies overhead, which he catches and tosses into garbage can near
podium.\
FOGHORN: Ah say, ladies and gentlemen, fo'
your listenin' pleasure here this afternoon, we bring you Professor
Porky... Porky, that is, Pig. He's been worki
n' for Warner Bros. fer nigh onto fifty-five years, and Ah'm sure
you'll all want to hear his interestin' story. Lights... ah say,
LIGHTS please! Everybody keep
yo' eye on the pig. Eye! Pig! Pig's eye! Ha, ha, ha! That's a
joke! (Walks away from podium as lights go out, camera follows him)
Dum dum dum de-de dee dee d
um, oh, doo-dah day! (Humming "TheCamptown Races")
3 3 Extreme close-up of Hamton's face. In the
reflections of his eyes, we see Porky Pig coming on to the
podium.
3 4 PORKY: Good eve-uh, good eve-uh, good eve-uh,
hiya, folks! I think I'll start from the beginning. My c-c-career
began back in 1935 when I was a school kid
, just like you out there. I was doing an act for a t-t-talent show at
our school. I was a n-n-nervous kid, and my teacher wanted me to
recite "The Midnight Ri
de of Paul R- Revere."
3 5 Shot of Buster and Plucky in audience, lights
dim.
PLUCKY: Ya mean, he didn't start out washing
windows?
BUSTER: Quiet!
3 6 Close up of Porky.
PORKY: T-t-turned out that an a-a-agent from
Warner Brothers was there. He wanted to make a cartoon outta my act,
and he did!
3 7 PLUCKY (in audience): Will wonders never
cease?
HAMTON: Quiet, Plucky. I'm reflecting.
3 8 PORKY: After that it was nowhere to go but up!
Th-th-th-they had me act in lots of cartoons! And I became famous.
3 9 PLUCKY (muttered): Also modest.
BABS: Plucky!!
3 10 PORKY (close-up): When I was working for those
guys in the early days, all the cartoons we made were in black and
white. That's 'cause color was uneconom-
econom-econom... uh, it cost too much money! Here are a few scenes
from some of them.
3 11 The room blacks out, and to the title music
from early Warners Looney Tunes, we see black-and-white animation of
Porky in some scenes from early cartoons.
3 12 As the music continues, we see Porky standing
(in shadow) next to the podium. Suddenly we hear:
PLUCKY'S VOICE: Stop! Fraud! I demand an
explanation!
The music slows down and stops. A spotlight
whisks past Porky's face. It pans over to Plucky in audience. Audience
lets out a collective "ahh" of wonderment.
PLUCKY: Wait just a minute, fat boy! You just
ran that cartoon in black and white, and just last weekend I saw it in
color on television! Hah! You can't fool
me!
3 13 Medium shot of Porky at podium. Just after we
first see him, spotlight shoots over, illuminating some of his face
and leaving the back in shadow.
PORKY (embarrassed, tugging at his tie, sweat
on his cheek): Well, I thought everybody knew. When we released those
cartoons to telev-tele-TV about ten years
ago, we thought you kids wouldn't like to watch them in black and
white. So....
3 14 PLUCKY: So you went back and acted in 'em
again, huh, fat stuff? Yeah, I'll bet my grandma's false teeth! Ya
couldn't have acted in them again! You've gro
wn up since you made them pictures, and when I saw one of 'em in
color, you was knee-high to a grass hopper and fat as a doorjamb, and
ya didn't look a bit like
ya do now!
3 15 Audience lets out a gasp. (long shot)
3 16 Foghorn Leghorn from side of stage. (medium
shot)
FOGHORN: Quiet, ah say! QUII-ET!! (He waits
for a moment, then turns) All right, Porky. Go on.
3 17 PORKY (disgusted): Of course I didn't act in
'em again! Why, they just re-drew 'em... the anim-an-ah-artists traced
the pictures!
3 18 PLUCKY: Traced 'em, hah, you're so smart!
That'd mean they created new Toons! Now if you know yer oats so well,
where are those Toons?
3 19 PORKY: They... uh... (Porky looks around
nervously. He tugs at his tie, and a huge jet of steam squirts out of
his collar, accompanied by the sound of a b
oat whistle) ...a'bdee, a'bdee, ah... I don't know. No one ever told
me!
3 20 Long shot of audience, very unsettled. They
are starting to get restless and looking around anxiously. Plucky is
still intently staring at Porky, while Ba
bs and Buster just stare at Plucky and Hamton holds his head in his
hands disgustedly. Furball is leaping over the seats to catch Sweetie,
and Mary Melody reach
es up to grab him by the tail and yank him back to his seat. Gogo Dodo
is letting his head turn in 360-degree circles as everybody around him
watches intently.
3 21 As crowd noise continues, we see a close-up of
the bell ringing again. We see various Toons in silhouette (some
chasing each other) past the bell as it ri
ngs on their way out. As they swish past, some carry dust, smoke or
even leaves in their wake.
3 22 A medium shot of Buster, Babs, Plucky and
Hamton getting up and walking down the aisle.
BABS: Ya know, Plucky, I don't think you
should've done that.
PLUCKY: You're just jealous.
BUSTER: No, really, Pluckster! It doesn't make
your fellow students proud to see you argue with your teachers...
except Professor Fudd, maybe.
3 23 Plucky (in medium shot) marching ahead of them
to the auditorium lobby determinedly. As he says the following, he
gets gum briefly stuck to his foot, pull
s up, it snaps and he continues stomping along.
PLUCKY: It's not like I don't have rights,
goodness knows! And it's not like I don't have a veritabobble
argument, goodness knows it's not that! It's only th
at I... ERK!
Plucky walks right into Porky Pig, who is
waiting for him, breathing hard and looking very angry. Plucky gets a
very embarrassed look on his face. As he says
the following, he's trying to make amends, wiping off Porky's tie and
straightening his hat, etc.
PLUCKY: Gee, I'm s-sorry, Professor Pig! I
didn't mean to cause such trouble, it's just that my voice just kind
of runs away with me sometimes. You know... "
inquiring minds want to know," don't you... or don't you? I'll make it
up to ya, I promise! I'll scrub your erasers, I'll beat your desks
together... why, I'll
even find out for you what happened to the new Toons who acted in
those colorized pictures!
Porky leans over right into Plucky's face.
PORKY: You b'dee-b'dee-better believe you
will, or else...
Porky whirls around.
3 24 We see Porky pointing forwards (from his point
of view) to the Superintendent of Schools' building. A dark cloud
hangs over it and indeed, the building lo
oks somewhat like a huge tombstone. We zoom in on it in a split second
and a funeral march plays on the sound track, rung out by
grim-sounding bells.
3 25 We see Plucky sitting dazed on the ground
trying to collect himself. Buster, Babs and Hamton walk
up to him and crouch down to get at eye level to him.
Plucky turns up and looks at Babs.
3 26 Close up of Babs.
BABS: Plucky, you're in over your head!
3 27 Close up of Buster.
BUSTER: You'll never find those missing Toons!
Why, no one has seen 'em in years!
3 28 Medium shot of Plucky. He starts up with a
jerk and stares disgustedly at Buster.
PLUCKY: Au contraire, bub! You fail to reckon
with my superior senses! Why, I'm the greatest detective that ever
found a clue! A random joe on the street may
not know his odds from his bodkins, but the great Plucky Duck is sure
to solve this case! I'll be the greatetht detecative in the world!
3 29 Medium shot of Buster, Babs and Hamton looking
on at Plucky. Buster looks wittily at Babs, nudges her with his elbow.
BUSTER (to Babs): Also the most modest.
Plucky butts his head into the scene.
PLUCKY: I heard that, carrot breath! I'll find
those missing Toons! Just see if I don't! Come on, hambrain! We have
work to do!
Plucky grabs Hamton by the arm and strides off
pompously. For a moment, Hamton loses his balance (without an
unnecessary side effect) but gropes briefly and
then walks along behind Plucky, looking back vaguely at Buster and
Babs (and the camera). Fade out.

4 1 Zoom shot. Plucky's house on the swamp. We
zoom in on a window as we hear
HAMTON'S VOICE: Don't you think there's such a
thing as overdoing it, Plucky?
4 2 Inside Plucky's house, we see Plucky in a
Sherlock Holmes-like outfit. He's wearing the traditional jacket, hat,
meerschaum pipe etc. with none of it fitti
ng him. He is struggling in an attempt to pull his belt as tight as it
will go, without his deerstalker's hat falling down over his eyes. He
is stumbling around
in circles.
PLUCKY: Elementary, Hamton! To a good
detective, appearance is (COUGH!) everything!
(medium shot) Both things give way at once:
Plucky's hat falls down over his eyes and at the same time, his belt
breaks. Spinning out of control, Plucky care
ens around the room, crashes into Hamton and is enveloped in a pile of
wreckage.
4 3 Hamton emerges from the wreckage (medium shot)
HAMTON: If appearance is everything, Plucky...
you haven't got it. Plucky emerges from under him. Comic Tableau Shot:
Plucky's hat is down around his neck,
with a huge hole ripped on top through which his head emerges. His hat
is in his lap, and his meerschaum pipe is inverted with its huge bowl
on his head much l
ike a baseball cap. Plucky's beak is on sideways (as so often happens
to him).
PLUCKY (disgusted): Thanks for the sour
persimmons, cousin.
As he talks, Plucky jerks his beak into the
right position just as he says the second syllable of "persimmons."
HAMTON: Well, what do we do now?
PLUCKY: What do we do now, he says! Look at
this guy! "What do we do now?" Sidekicks are supposed to do all the
dirty work... it says so in his contract, and
he asks me what we do now! (His expression changes to wonder.) Good
question! What do we do now?
4 4 HAMTON: I have an idea, Plucky! If we're ever
gonna find Porky's doubles, there's nothing to do but go out there and
look for them! Maybe they've been arou
nd here for years... and we've just been not noticing them!
PLUCKY: You're right, loyal sidekick! Nowhere
to start but the beginning! (He slaps Hamton on the back jovially,
then turns sheepishly at the camera) I wish
I'd thought of that.
4 5 A black diagonal line "wipes" to Plucky and
Hamton walking through Acme Acres in the center of town. The "Tiny
Toon Adventures" theme song plays in an unus
ual, harpsichord tone meant to suggest elegance, while we see Plucky
in his detective outfit trying very hard to look elegant, but failing.
He is staring with o
ne eye through a huge magnifying glass, and his other eye is shut, and
as a result he's stumbling over objects on the ground which he can't
see clearly. He's al
so weaving back and forth on the sidewalk and bumping into telephone
poles and passersby. Hamton sees Porky walking along the street on the
other side. Porky's
in his normal outfit and carrying his fancy clothes (which he gave the
lecture in) under his right arm. He's going in the opposite direction.
HAMTON (waving at Porky as Plucky keeps
walking, ignoring this): Hi, Porky!
PORKY: Hi, Hamton! I s-see Plucky's keeping up
on his promise to me!
HAMTON: You betcha!
Porky exits to right as this long shot
continues. Hamton is now feeling pleased with himself and is striding
along with his hands in his pockets now. He is w
histling along to the "Tiny Toons" song on the soundtrack. Plucky is
still not saying a word as he bumbles into things. Suddenly, a
duplicate of Porky walks by.
Hamton freezes, with one foot in the air. Plucky is almost off screen
to left when Hamton shrugs and begins walking forward again. He
doesn't make any attempt
to catch up with Plucky, but walks on slightly nervous now. After
about ten seconds, another duplicate of Porky (this one a bit fatter)
walks by. Hamton again
freezes. He looks at the camera with a goofy and slightly insane look
on his face.
HAMTON: Heeheeheeheehee! (sounding insane and
nervous)
Hamton grins in a bizarre way towards the
camera. Plucky is now gone off screen. The theme song is now in a
minor key. Now extremely insecure, Hamton walks n
ervously on, looking ahead and behind him. Another duplicate of Porky
walks by across the street. This one is plumper, but it's still pretty
obvious as to who i
t is.
HAMTON: Waah! Haa! Haa! Haa! (He flubs his
lower lip a few times) Blub! Blub! Blub! Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaaa-haa ha!
He rolls around on the sidewalk in a fit.
Another (very fat) Porky walks on from left,
this time from the same side of the street as Hamton.
EARLY PORKY: Y-y-y-you look b-b-b-bad, little
b-b-boy! W-w-want a handkerchief? (Remember, the earlier Porky
stuttered more!)
Hamton goes into a double take and lets out a
huge scream. He runs around in circles wildly with smoke and flames
behind him, splitting into several duplicat
es of himself which continue to run, crashing into each other several
times and then fusing back into one. He finally gets himself collected
and runs off to the
left at about light speed.
4 6 We see a frontal view of Plucky walking along
looking through his magnifying glass, with the street (in perspective)
going back behind him. He's shifting h
is meerschaum pipe (which has bubbles coming from it) from one side of
his beak to the other. From behind, the extremely frightened Hamton
comes running into hi
m.
HAMTON: Pluccckkk-eeee!!!!
PLUCKY: Gljyunk! (swallows hard)
When Hamton runs into Plucky, a spew of pink
bubble liquid spurts from Plucky's pipe, which he then promptly
swallows whole. A moment later (as the full forc
e of Hamton's weight hits him) Plucky slams against the ground face
first.
HAMTON: Help me! I've gone gooney!
Looney-tuney! Touched in the head! Waah, hah hah haaa!
Plucky comes up with beak sideways again.
PLUCKY: This is getting to be a habit.
Plucky turns his beak right-side up again with
a clunk sound. Then he turns around to face Hamton.
4 7 Close up of Plucky's and Hamton's faces.
Hamton's teeth are chattering and sweat is rolling down his face in
large, unhealthy-looking drops.
PLUCKY: Okay, hambrain! What's with you? Or
are you suffering from low calorie content?
Plucky's hat falls down over his eyes again.
He pushes it back up.
4 8 Different view of Hamton and Plucky, medium
long shot. We see the sky, which is now cloudy with thunder cracking
down from it as the characters talk.
HAMTON: I saw it! I saw it, I tell you!
Millions of Porky Pigs! Millions of 'em!
PLUCKY (looking straight at Hamton): How many?
HAMTON: Four. They looked just like he did
when he was a kid! And each one was fatter than the last one!! Waaaah,
haahaah ha!
4 9 Extreme Close-up of Plucky's face, shrouded in
darkness. As he talks, lightning cracks behind him and his face is
briefly lit-up in nightmarish fashion.
PLUCKY: DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THIS MEANS? DO YOU
REALIZE WHAT THIS M-M-MEANS?
HAMTON'S VOICE: W-what?
4 10 Long shot. Suddenly, the sky is sunny, birds
are singing, the music is happy again.
PLUCKY: We've found the missing pigs, Fat Boy!
Those are none other than the Toons Warner Bros. created to act in
those re-colored cartoons! I've done it! I'
ve found them! I've done it! And I'm not gonna get expelled!
Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo! (Laughs like Daffy Duck)
Plucky springs around on his hands in joy,
grabbing the slightly confused Hamton and beginning to dance happily
in a circle with the poor pig who still isn't
sure what's going on.
4 11 The background a blur behind them, Plucky runs
quickly back in the way he came to find the other Porkies. He is
holding Hamton's hand and running so fast
that Hamton is dragged behind him like the tail of a kite.
4 12 Suddenly the two characters stop. Even the
music slows for a moment as Plucky looks around and blinks twice, each
blink accompanied by an off-key xylophon
e-like noise (like when Wile E. Coyote blinks).
4 13 Close-up, Plucky looking at Hamton.
PLUCKY: Well, where are they? Hic!
Plucky hiccups and bubbles come out of his
mouth.
HAMTON: They-- they were just here a minute
ago! Honest they were! I saw them all go by right about here!
4 14 Close-up, Hamton's hand points to place on
street. There is a puddle of water there. From the puddle on one side,
we see the footprints of several pigs...
apparently, the Porky clones stepped in the puddle and tracked it
with them.
PLUCKY: Perfect!
4 15 Plucky and Hamton follow the footprints.
PLUCKY: All we've got to do now is follow
those footprints and we'll have our man! Or pigs, as the case
might....
4 16 Long shot. The duo see the footprints break
off next to a picket fence. Hanging on the fence is a scrap of a
rope net.
PLUCKY: ...be? Sufferin' succotash! The
footprints all stop... right here! Something's rotten in Denmark!
HAMTON: You'd better believe something's
rotten! Look! Those guys were kidnapped by someone! Look at this...
it's a piece of a net! Maybe they were captured
by someone who wants to ransom them for a lot of money!
PLUCKY: A lot of money, huh? The logithtics
point to one person! Person in the loosest sense of the term, of
course.

5 1 Montana Max's home. The first shot we see on
this location is Plucky's hand ringing Monty's doorbel (extreme
close-up). MONTANA'S
DOORBELL: Monn-e
ee!! (ringing)
MONTANA'S VOICE: Hold yer horses! I'm comin'! I'm comin'!
5 2 We see Plucky and Hamton standing in front of
the door from back view. Plucky is standing in such a way tha when
the door opens, it will flatten him.
PLUCKY: And come quietly! Anything you say
will be used....
5 3 Montana Max opens the door very quickly,
smashing Plucky against the outer wall of the house. Hamton jumps back
apace when he sees the door coming. A momen
t later, Monty having heard the noise, he pulls back the door to
reveal a beaten Plucky with his beak again sideways.
5 4 Close up of Plucky
PLUCKY (finishing previous sentence):
...against you! Sheesh!
Plucky turns his beak rightside up. Then with
a thud, he falls to the ground.
5 5 Medium shot; Montana looks down at Plucky as
Hamton looks on.
MONTANA (angry, to Plucky): Be more careful,
Poirot! You almost dented my door! Doors cost money, ya know! (Pause
as he looks around impatiently) Well, whad
daya want?
5 6 Shot of Plucky rising up again as seen from
behind, looking at Montana Max.
PLUCKY (in a beaten voice): Don't try to deny
it! Hic! (He hiccups and bubbles shoot up.) You're too cheap to hire
employees, so now you've started stealing
them! Hic! (Bubbles shoot up again.)
Montana sticks his face against Plucky's.
MONTANA: Stealing them? Whaddaya mean,
stealing them! I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking
about!
5 7 Close up of Plucky.
PLUCKY: Don't play innocent with me! Hic!
(Bubbles shoot up) Just five minutes ago, there were five Porky Pigs
walking the streets around here, and now ther
e's only one! Pretty sneaky! But you're no match for me!
5 8 Medium shot of Montana Max. As he names the
following attributes, he counts on his fingers.
MONTANA: There never was more than one of that
stuttering slob! And if there were more, I didn't swipe any of 'em!
I may greedy, cheap, stingy, amoral and
unscrupulous, but I am NOT a crook! Well, not in THIS episode.
5 9 A medium shot of Hamton. As he looks on,
bewildered and blinking occasionally, we see Plucky and Montana in
silhouette leaning in and out of the scene into
each other's faces.
5 10 PLUCKY: You're wrong!
MONTANA: I'm right!
PLUCKY: Wrong!
MONTANA: Right!
PLUCKY: Wrong!
MONTANA: Right!
PLUCKY: Wrong!
MONTANA: Right!
PLUCKY: Wrong... uh, Right!
5 11 Close up of Plucky looking confidently at the
camera.
PLUCKY (quietly): Pretty suave of the little
green duck, hmmm? Now by cartoon
law, he'll have to say...
MONTANA: Wrong!
PLUCKY: Right!
MONTANA: Wrong!
Plucky wiggles his eyebrows at the audience as
the argument continues.
PLUCKY: Right!
MONTANA: Wrong!
PLUCKY: I'm right! You're not a crook, just
like you said!
5 12 Close up of Montana Max.
MONTANA: Fine! Have it your way, duck!
5 13 Extreme close up. We see Montana Max's hand
pushing a button on the side of the door.
5 14 Medium shot, Plucky and Hamton standing on
doormat. Suddenly,
doormat opens into square hole in pavement. Plucky and Hamton linger
for a moment in t
hin air.
PLUCKY: Could it be I went wrong somewhere?
After hanging in air for a minute, they shoot
downwards.
5 15 A shot from in the tunnel they've fallen into,
seen from below as they hurtle towards the camera. Hamton yells as
Plucky looks up in the direction from wh
ich they fell.
PLUCKY: You'll hear from my lawyer!
5 16 A complete view of the tunnel, which is shaped
like a "V". Plucky and Hamton descend down the left side painfully.
They hit a trampoline at the bottom, th
en roll up the other side.
5 17 Scene of a manhole out on the road somewhere.
On the sidewalk next to it is a garbage can. Suddenly, the manhole
bursts open, Plucky and Hamton shoot out,
and they land in the garbage can, Plucky first, Hamton on top of him.
5 18 Close up, Hamton coming from can. Plucky is
not visible.
HAMTON: It seems we're not wanted there.
Plucky emerges from the can underneath Hamton.
His beak, like before, is sideways.
PLUCKY (dazed): What was your first clue?
5 19 Long shot of trash can. Plucky leaps out, and
pulls Hamton out after him. Then they begin to walk along again.
PLUCKY: Well, every good detective has
something else up his sleeve! So what if Monty didn't steal them?
Somebody did! And I aim to find out!
HAMTON: How about the Big Bad Wolf?
PLUCKY: He's licensed to Disney! He might get
sued if he even tried it!
HAMTON: That's a relief.
5 20 Plucky strides along, followed by Hamton in a
more timid fashion.
PLUCKY: There's only one thing to do! If we're
gonna find out where those pigs are, we've gotta ask guys who might
know!
HAMTON: Plucky, one small question... what do
you mean?
5 21 Plucky stumbles in circles, grasping at the
air and looking disgusted.
PLUCKY: What do you think I mean? I mean
retired stars of those old Looney Tunes! Anybody else whose
appearances got colorized! Where their doppelgangers are
, so are Porky's!
5 22 Close up of Hamton. Camera zooms in on him
slowly as we hear
PLUCKY'S VOICE: Every senior citizen cat, dog
and chicken in Acme Acres!
HAMTON: And where are they?
5 23 Medium shot of Plucky.
PLUCKY: The Acme Acres Retirement Home, where
else? Come along, hambrain! We have work to do!

6 1 The Acme Acres Retirement Home, a big,
mansion-looking building. Off to the left, we see just the
edge of a fenced-in swimming pool. There is a big gate a
t the entrance, where Plucky and Hamton stand. This first shot is just
a brief establishing shot, pulling slightly back from a close-up.
6 2 Hamton and Plucky at the gate. Brick columns
flank either side of this gate. On the right one, we see a doorbell,
which Plucky rings. The doorbell rings ou
t the first few notes of "Merrily we Roll Along" (the Merrie Melodies
theme song).
PLUCKY (wasting no time): Well, where is
somebody? They've gotta have somebody to open the gates, goodness
knows! With time, goodness knows, they'll have no
visitors!
HAMTON: Uh... Plucky...
6 3 We see Hamton's view of the gate (neither
Hamton or Plucky are visible.) We see a walkway which trails back a
few feet, then goes up over a slight incline;
beyond that, nothing is visible. A large, foreboding shadow slowly
grows over the hill as the camera zooms in on it.
HAMTON'S VOICE: Plucky, someone's coming!
PLUCKY'S VOICE: Well, it's about time! I'm not
about to wait all day, goodness knows I won't do that!
HAMTON'S VOICE: Be c-c-careful what you say,
Plucky! He may not be friendly! He...
6 4 Slightly different shot of the incline. From
nowhere comes Egghead, early Warner Bros. character. He's a short,
odd little fellow with a red "parp" nose,
a high starched collar, flat feet, a red toupee, and carrying a large
violin case. He has big white eyeballs with blue-rimmed pie-cut pupils
inside. [Note: "Egg
head" appeared in "Egghead Rides Again" (1937), "A Lad in Baghdad"
(1938), "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (1938) and "Count Me Out" (1938)
among other cartoons.] He h
as the distinctly strange mannerisms of Joe Penner, a 1930s radio
comedian, and a slurred manner of high-pitched, drawling
speech.
EGGHEAD (singing): Oh, the merry go round
broke down! And it made the darndest sound! Dum dum dum dum, duh-dum
dum dum, duh-dum diddle dum dum dum. Hai-LO! A
nybody here? (squeaking) Huh, huh, huh. Every day, the same thing!
Everybody rings this bell 'xpectin' me t' come, and when I do, they
just head out! It drives
me CA-RAZY!
6 5 Medium shot of Egghead approaching gate. Not
sure what to make of him, Plucky and Hamton have edged away a few
feet. When Egghead reaches the gate, he does
n't see them at first.
EGGHEAD: Ain't nobody here? Huh, huh, huh!
Doggone it! I've been suh-windled! Thar ain't nobody here again!
Nobody here but...
He sees Plucky, who has returned to the gate,
and stops short.
6 6 Close-up of one section of gate. Egghead
pushes it open somewhat and looks out at Plucky, who is staring at
him, eye to eye. They both blink several times
at once. Then they both look at each other from different angles at
once, sort of like Egghead is Plucky's "reflection" in a mirror.
Plucky turns his head upsi
de down, so does Egghead. Finally (accompanied by a trombone "wahhh"
from the orchestra) Plucky's hand comes forth very slowly and suddenly
honks Egghead's nose
.
6 7 Medium shot of the gate area. Plucky and
Hamton are both visible, Hamton toward extreme right of frame.
In response to having his nose honked, Egghead is
running around in circles wildly as Plucky stumbles back.
Egghead is spouting an unintelligible stream of gibberish, which stops
as he hides behind one of the
brick columns.
6 8 A closeup of the brick column. Egghead's face
very slowly comes from behind the post. He blinks twice, accompanied
by xylophone plunks. Then he very slowly
walks up to Plucky as the camera pulls back, revealing both of them.
Plucky is just looking very strangely at him, trying to size him
up. Suddenly, Egghead st
icks his face far into Plucky's. While he says the following, he
sticks his face slowly but much farther into Plucky's, as Plucky moves
backwards into a rather
uncomfortable position.
EGGHEAD: Don't ever DOOO-OO that!
Plucky turns to audience.
PLUCKY: One of your intellectual types, here.
6 9 Medium shot of Egghead.
EGGHEAD: Hai-llo, folks! My name's Egghead!
Egghead acts as if he's going to tip his hat,
but his entire head and neck come off with a "Coo-coo" sound,
and he tips that instead, putting it back in after.
PLUCKY'S VOICE: I believe it.
EGGHEAD: Anythaing I can help ya with? I'm the
watchman here! I'm also the janitor, cook, office boy, you name it, I
do it!
6 10 Medium shot of Plucky and Hamton
Well, I'm here to find Porky Pig's old
co-stars! Are they here? You know... the guys who got...
6 11 Plucky leans into Egghead's face as he slowly
says:
PLUCKY: colorized!
EGGHEAD: Woo! Woo! Woo! (excited, Egghead's
feet "skitter" back and forth) Now let's see, they're here somewhere!
Huh, huh, huh. Walk this way!
Egghead shuffles away from the camera in his
usual fashion, followed by Plucky, walking the same way, and Hamton,
also walking the same way. Plucky turns bac
k briefly to the camera.
PLUCKY: I bet you didn't think I'd do it.
6 12 Egghead lets go of the gate, which slams back
into Plucky just before he's gotten out of its reach. He is thrown to
the ground.
6 13 Medium shot. Egghead and Hamton run to
Plucky's aid.
HAMTON: Plucky! Plucky! Are you all right?
6 14 Close-up. Plucky arises with his beak on
correctly. Birds, stars and comets swirl around him, His eyes are
large and rolling in a daze.
PLUCKY (in imitation of Jerry Collona):
Greetings, Gate! Let's hallucinate!
Thinking his beak is on wrong, Plucky reaches
up and turns it sideways. After waiting a moment, he falls over, out
cold.
6 15 Long rear shot of Plucky, Hamton and Egghead
walking towards the building. Plucky is stumbling slightly.
6 16 Just as they approach the large (castle-like)
door to the building, two identical twin dogs scoot in from the right
at incredibly fast speed. They are Ham
and Ex from "I Haven't Got a Hat" (1935), which was also the first
appearance of Porky.They stop, hold, and sing:
HAM AND EX (singing in unison): I'd tip my hat
for you, I'd do just that / I'd tip my hat for you / But I haven't got
a hat. / I'm just a college boy / Even
at that / I'd tip my hat for you / But I haven't got a hat. / I'd like
to wear a cap / As you can plainly see. / But if I did try that, /
They wouldn't let me b
ack in the university. / I think you're swell, I do / I'm standing
pat. / I'd tip my hat for you / But I haven't got a hat!
As Ham and Ex sing this, Plucky, Hamton and
Egghead watch them. After the first verse alone, Plucky is restless.
He waves his hand in front of Ham and Ex's e
yes, but they do nothing... they don't even blink. As they keep
singing, Plucky jumps up and down, claps his hands together, shouts,
but nothing seems to faze t
hem. Finally, a chicken with a wheelbarrow (she's drawn in the 1930s
style) walks past Plucky. She picks up the still-singing Ham and Ex
and tosses them, like c
hunks of bric-a-brac, into the wheelbarrow, then pushes it offstage.
6 17 As the music from "I Haven't Got a Hat"
continues (without singing) from offstage, we zoom in on Egghead,
who offers a key to the door's lock. The lock o
pens its "mouth" and bites down on the key, at which point the music
gets richer and the door opens, revealing many, pie-eyed cartoon
characters from early Warn
ers' cartoons. There's Owl Jolson from "I Love to Singa", (1936) W. C.
Squeals from "At Your Service, Madame" (1936), many pigs, dogs, goats,
and chickens, some
in "black-and-white" and others in color, running around the huge
lobby, some playing instruments (or each other), all really whooping
it up in true 1930s sty
le. Egghead is gone and not seen again until further mention.
6 18 After about eight seconds of this chaos, we
suddenly cut to a close-up of Plucky in his Holmesian outfit. He is
holding out a vast, silver Warner Bros. lo
go and looking very fierce. Immediately without a segue we hear the
music from "Dragnet."
6 19 With a collective gasp, we see all the cartoon
characters from shot #17 (on same background) immediately growing
still. Silence is immediate (no music).
6 20 Suddenly, Plucky takes the logo, pitches it
away (with a tinkling sound) and gets a sheepish look on his face.

PLUCKY: Let's just say I like to make a big
entrance, okay?
6 21 A little black-and-white mouse , from "Porky's
Poor Fish" (1940) runs out of the crowd toward Plucky in a medium
shot. His feet make xylophone-like sound
s on the pavement, like Marvin Martian's. He is almost nauseatingly
cute.
6 22 Close-up of Plucky looking down at mouse.
MOUSE: Oh, golly gee! You're a big F. B. I.
man, on a big exciting case, I beeettttcha! Can I help you Mr. F. B.
I. man Sir, can I help you, can I help you?
I'm sure I'd be a lot of help to you, you're so big and powerful and
strong that if a big bad crook saw you, I think he'd just run
for the hills, I beeetttcha!
Can I be your helper, can I? Can I? Can I? Can I?
Plucky reaches forward and with a flick of his
wrist and an outstretched pointer finger, sends the mouse flying
through the air to get lost somewhere in th
e crowd.
PLUCKY: You can't help me here, kid! In this
business, it's... (assumes grimmer tone) ...every man for himself to
solve mysteries like this! Tell me now! W
hat do you know about... colorizing?
6 23 Long shot of the crowd again. All the
black-and-white Toons leap into the arms of the color Toons,
shivering.
6 24 Medium shot of Plucky. He looks back and forth
and waves his hands around as he talks. The camera zooms in on him
slowly.
PLUCKY (disgusted): Come on, now! Hic!
(Bubbles shoot out) I'm not out to do that to you! I just want to talk
to the guys whose cartoons got colorized... the
ones who were in those original black-and-white cartoons with Porky!
6 25 Long shot of the crowd again. With a
collective sigh, the black-and-white characters get out of the color
characters' arms. Some of the characters walk aw
ay, leaving a few standing in the room. One of these, a goat who is
the size and general shape of Porky in black-and-white, comes to the
front of the room. This
is Gabby the Goat, who appeared in "Porky and Gabby" (1937), "Porky's
Badtime Story" (1937), and "Get Rich Quick, Porky" (1937) among
others. He talks in a sna
ppy, low and nasal voice. In the background we hear a song from some
early Porky cartoon (you choose).
6 26 Gabby Goat walks up to Plucky, medium shot.
PLUCKY: Well, who are you?
6 27 Close up of Gabby.
GABBY: I'm Gabby Goat. I was in some o'
Porky's cartoons... not that it mattered.
6 28 Medium shot of Plucky.
PLUCKY: Go on, go on! Did your appearances get
colored?
GABBY'S VOICE: Yeah, yeah, some of 'em did.
6 29 Long shot of Plucky, Gabby and Hamton in the
lobby. A few other cartoon characters walk by in the background.
PLUCKY: And what happened? Did they draw a new
Toon to act in your role?
GABBY: Naah, I was one o' the lucky ones. They
didn't need to do that to me. Why, I had a cousin, Gerald, who already
looked a lot like me. What's more, he w
as born after they started making color cartoons, so he was already in
color.
6 30 Medium shot, Gabby, Plucky and Hamton, as seen
from Hamton's point of view. Plucky is starting to get excited.
PLUCKY: Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Now we're starting
to get somewhere! What happened to your cousin after he acted in those
remakes?
6 31 Close up, Gabby.
GABBY (starting to look sad): Well, he called
me from where those pictures were being made and then... and then I
didn't see him agin! Not fer ten years!
Gabby pulls out a spotted handkerchief and
"honks" loudly on it. Plucky comes in on edge of scene, patting Gabby
on the back.
PLUCKY (sympathetically): Aw, don't take it so
hard! That's where I come in... I want to find where all those actors
went after they acted in those pictures!
Gabby brightens up when he hears Plucky say
this.
6 32 Close up of Gabby.
GABBY: Well, why didn't ya say so? You can
come and ask my cousin right now! He came here when he found his way
back! Whattaya think?
6 33 Close up of Plucky.
PLUCKY: Thwell! Hic! (Bubbles shoot out.)
Let's go!
6 34 We see the characters begin to walk through a
hall with room doors on either side. This is a back view. Suddenly, a
door on the right emerges. Egghead ent
ers, whistling "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" and carrying his violin
case, walks through the scene in front of Plucky, Hamton and Gabby.
Without once looking
at anybody, he just walks through the scene, opens the left hand door
and exits.
6 35 The music from "The Merry-Go-Round" continues
subtly in the background as the characters continue to walk through
the hall, now seen from a frontal view.
6 36 Long shot. We see the retirement home's
fenced-in swimming pool with a path leading back to the pool. Around
the pool we see many cartoon characters. Ham
and Ex are swimming in the pool. Tommy Tortoise (from "I Haven't Got
a Hat") is lying on his back in the water, with a sailboat-type sail
strapped to his belly
which he is blowing with an electric fan. The tall, dumb gorilla
Dopey (from "Porky's Moving Day" (1936)) is jumping up and down on the
diving board, which bre
aks causing the poor sap to fall into the water. The mouse boxer from
"The Country Mouse" (1935) is punching a punching bag near poolside,
while Beans the Cat (
from "A Cartoonist's Nightmare" (1935), "I Haven't Got a Hat," "Boom
Boom" (1936), etc.) is watching him and playing his harmonica. A wolf
in Shakespearean dres
s (from "Hamateur Night," (1939)) is standing by the side of the pool,
holding a script, as tomatoes hit him. After lingering on this
peaceful scene for about t
en seconds, we see Hamton, Plucky and Gabby walk in on the path. They
approach the Wolf.
6 37 Medium shot, mainly Plucky, Gabby, Hamton and
the Wolf, although we also see other cartoon characters run by
in the background occasionally. Remember, Ga
bby is black-and-white!
WOLF: To be, or not to be, that is the...
A tomato hits the Wolf.
GABBY: Hiya, Shakespeare! Have you seen my
cousin?
WOLF (in an educated, British voice): Why,
come to think of it, I have. He was swimming here before and he left
to go back to his room. Pardon me, my good fe
llow. To be, or not to be. That is...
A tomato hits the Wolf.
PLUCKY: This is getting to be a habit.
A tomato hits Plucky.
PLUCKY (angrily looking in the direction the
tomato came from): Very sloppy, Roscoe! You could at least aim your
shots, goodness knows! It's not like...
Egghead walks through the scene, whistling to
himself and carrying his violin case. Hamton, Plucky, Gabby and the
Wolf all stop to look at him. The noise aro
und the pool grows silent. He exits to the right, and everybody
immediately goes on with what they were doing.
WOLF: To be, or not to be, that is...
A tomato whistles toward him. He ducks, and it
hits Gabby, who being in black and white looks unusual with the color
tomato dripping off of him. Gabby explod
es with disgust.
GABBY: Whattaya mean, hitting me with a
tomato, yuh big sap? I get paid twenty dollars a day on retirement
pension, but it doesn't include the tomatoes, stup
id!
Another tomato hits Gabby. He continues
yelling unintelligible gibberish, when Plucky and Hamton drag him off
yelling and kicking. The camera pulls back agai
n revealing more of the scene
PLUCKY: Ahem! Come, now! Let's go see your
cousin!
Gabby comes down somewhat and willingly walks
along with Plucky and Hamton, although he's still muttering
unintelligibly. In the distance another tomato hits
the Wolf, just before this scene ends.
WOLF: Raw-thuh! That's the fortieth one today.
I say, it's not proper.
6 38 To the tune of "Lulu's Back In Town," we see
Gabby, Hamton and Plucky walking up to one door in the hall, which
Gabby knocks on. A moment later, Gerald, G
abby's cousin, comes out of the door. He looks almost exactly like
Gabby except he's in color and just a tad bit taller. He has a
green shirt and he's yellow a
ll over.
GABBY: Gerald, I'd like you to meet...
Plucky elbows past Gabby.
6 39 Rear medium shot from Plucky's point of view.
Gabby is visible on left of scene, but Plucky (from back) and Gerald
occupy the middle of the scene.
PLUCKY: Hiya, Gerald! Plucky Duck's the name.
I'm here to ask you a few questions about those remade cartoons ya
acted in a few years back.
GERALD (whose voice is very close to Gabby's):
Sure!
6 40 Close up of Plucky.
PLUCKY: Okay then. What happened to you after
the filming was over?
6 41 Close up of Gerald. As he talks, he turns away
from the camera, opens the door all the way, walks into his room and
sits down in a chair inside. The camer
a follows him. By the end of the shot, he's again looking at the
camera.
GERALD: Well, I was the only Toon in those
films who really was a relative of the original actor.
6 42 Close up of Plucky and Hamton. Plucky leaps
forward in excitement.
PLUCKY: Don't thtop now, we're just starting!
Hic! (Bubbles shoot out of his mouth.) Who were the others in those
films?
6 43 Close-up of Gerald.
GERALD: They were Toons drawn specially for
the occasion! Of course, after the films were made, they wanted to
come back to Acme Acres and live here with us.
But that ain't what happened.
PLUCKY'S VOICE: Oh joy, oh joy! Now we're
getting somewhere! Hoo, hoohoo!
6 44 Back view of Gerald, almost from his vantage
point, looking at Plucky, Hamton and Gabby.
GERALD: We were all getting a bus to Acme
Acres when what do you know, the thing was hi-jacked!
HAMTON: Gee, who did it? A crook?
PLUCKY (nudging Hamton): Hmmm, could be!
6 45 Side view of Gerald, looking wistfully up as
he talks.
GERALD: Some black-and-white Toons drove us to
a big, abandoned building.
6 46 Close up of Plucky.
PLUCKY (happily excited): Holy Canoli! This is
right out of Batman!
GERALD'S VOICE: They kept us there for ten
years.
The camera pans over to Hamton.
HAMTON: Well, what did they want you to do for
them?
6 47 Long shot, all characters visible as well as a
poster on the wall of the room showing some goat in boxing gloves.
GERALD: Funny thing! They wanted us to invent
some color paint that would stick to them! They wanted to be in color
like we were, and remake their old carto
ons in color!
6 48 Close up of Plucky with big, empty eyes
looking excitedly at Gerald.
GERALD'S VOICE: I guess they must have been in
some of the old Looney Tunes that didn't get colored!
In a split-second, the camera yanks back to
show the characters around Plucky as well. Plucky suddenly leaps into
the air with excitement. Then he dances aro
und Gerald's room, knocking things over.
PLUCKY: I have it, I have it!
6 49 Close-up of Gerald, who stops Plucky
mid-sentence.
GERALD: It ain't over 'til it's over! One
day, I was mixing paint with the other Toons when I made some remark
about not having been created just for these
new color cartoons.
Camera pulls gradually back.
GERALD: When the boss heard that, he sure was
suprisised! He said that he had nothing against me... and then he
threw me out so hard that I was out cold for
a day!
6 50 Close-up of Plucky, looking with sympathy at
Gerald.
PLUCKY: Nothin' against you? Yeah, I bet! Oh,
my achin' head!
6 51 Medium shot of Plucky, Hamton and Gerald.
GERALD: When I woke up, I couldn't remember
where the building was, no matter how hard I tried.
PLUCKY (turning wryly to the camera): Oh, of
course there's a wrinkle like that in the plot!
6 50 A view of all four Toons sitting in Gerald's
room.
GERALD: And this morning, the strangest thing
happened. The pigs who played Porky in those remakes called me up to
say they'd escaped and were coming to meet
me. But they never showed up.
6 51 An exaggerated shot of Plucky standing amid
beams of light like Duck Dodgers in the 24th Century.
PLUCKY: Aaaah, HAAAAAH! It all comes together
now!
Plucky is hanging in midair as he says this.
Suddenly, Egghead walks through whistling with his violin case, still
oblivious to everyone around him. Plucky l
ingers in midair until Egghead is gone, when he drops down and lands
on his fanny.
6 52 Medium shot of Plucky sitting on the floor
with the others looking at him.
PLUCKY: Do all the old characters from your
old black and white cartoons still live here?
6 53 Close-up of Gabby looking thoughtfully at
nothing.
GABBY: Oh, no! Not all of them.
6 54 Long shot of all the characters. Suddenly,
Plucky leaps off and runs out the door with such speed that the others
are spun in circles. As he runs he says,
PLUCKY: Then oh, buh-RUTHER! Have I got a
hunch?!
6 55 Medium shot of Gabby, Gerald and Hamton
looking at each other.
GABBY (to Hamton): How long has he been
feeling this way?
HAMTON: He's always like that. And you know
what? I think he has an idea.
The three run after Plucky, but not as fast as
he ran. Suddenly, they stop at the doorway to Gerald's room; Egghead
crosses in the path in front of them, and
when he's gone, they run again.

7 1 New locale. We see a huge, moth-eaten old
brick building somewhere in Acme Acres. It is night in Acme Acres,
and therefore now dark. Plucky arrives ther
e and screeches to a halt. A moment later, Hamton, Gabby and Gerald
all come in behind him, and crash right into him. Plucky is knocked to
the ground. A moment
later, he comes up with beak sideways.
7 2 Medium shot, Plucky and Hamton.
HAMTON: I'm sorry, Plucky! Are you hurt?
PLUCKY (fixing beak): Not so you'd notice.
7 3 Medium shot of all four characters standing in
front of building.
PLUCKY: Every day on my way to Acme Loo, I
pass this place! It's always been boarded up, but there's always been
smoke coming out of the chimney.
HAMTON: So why haven't you knocked on the
door?
PLUCKY: Call it a phobia, okay?
GERALD: So why are we here?
PLUCKY: Well, let it thuffice to say that I
think I know what's going on in there.
7 4 Close up of bewildered Hamton.
HAMTON: So what do you mean?
Plucky intrudes on the close-up, shoving
against Hamton.
PLUCKY: So what do you think I mean, hambrain?
The colorizing! That's where
all those Porkys escaped from, and that's where somebody took them
back, and
I think I know who.
7 5 Cut to Plucky's hand knocking on the door.
Quick zoom out to show Plucky very clearly in the way of the door if
it opens. Out of the door's way are Gabby a
nd Gerald, standing together. Hamton stands behind them.
PLUCKY: Open the door, bub, and I do mean...
The door is suddenly opened by a figure
shrouded in shadow. Plucky is whacked against the wall of the
building. He emerges from behind the door dazed, with h
is beak sideways.
PLUCKY: ...you.
Plucky faints, out cold. The camera pulls in
on the door with Gabby and Gerald standing in front of it.
Accompanied by organ chords, a tall man in formal co
ncert dress... The Mad Musician from "Buddy the Detective" (1934) in
black and white steps out of the door. He stands there for a moment.
Looking down at Gabby
and Gerald, his eyes grow huge with an "ah-OOO-gah!" sound.
Immediately he races back inside and slams the door.
7 6 Close-up. Plucky reviving.
PLUCKY: Would anybody care to tell me what
happened?
7 7 Close-up of Hamton from Plucky's point of
view, looking up.
HAMTON: Well, the guy inside that building
wouldn't let us in... and he was black and white!
7 8 Medium shot of all characters.
PLUCKY: Then I'm on the right track. But if he
won't let us in, we'll have to go down the chimney.
GABBY (muttering to himself as always): I knew
this was impossible. All the time people think things are
great, but when you get right down to it, nothing w
orks out. Erk!
Plucky yanks Gabby back by his shirt collar.
7 9 PLUCKY: All's not lost yet! Hic! Bubbles shoot
out. Going down the chimney will be easy. All we need to do is form a
human ladder.
7 10 Medium shot. The characters climb on each
other's shoulders, swaying around dangerously near the edge of the
wall. We have Plucky on top, then Gabby and G
erald, then Hamton on the bottom.

HAMTON: I don't know about this, Plucky.
GABBY: It's not gonna work, it's not gonna
work, its not gonna work, it's...
7 11 Medium shot. Gerald points upward toward
rooftop.
GERALD: Look! The top of the building is
twenty feet over our heads. How'll we ever reach it? On top of each
other, we still aren't anywhere near tall enough
.
The camera pans up to Plucky, on Gerald's
shoulders.
PLUCKY: There's only one thing to do. You know
how logic works in these cartoons, right? Well, Hamton, get out from
under Gabby, and climb up onto my shoulde
rs. And nobody look down!
7 12 Long shot of the "human ladder." As Gabby,
Gerald and Plucky all look up, whistling and sweating with worry,
Hamton very gingerly climbs above them. Gabby
lingers in midair, solely because he refuses to look down.
7 13 Close-up of Hamton on top of "ladder".
HAMTON: Whew! I did it! Okay, Gabby, your
turn!
7 14 Long shot of all the characters climbing up
onto each other's shoulders and not falling, even though there's only
thin air under them. Finally, they have
succeeded. Plucky, on top of the stack, has his hands on the edge of
the roof.
7 15 Close-up of Plucky.
PLUCKY: I did it! Okay, hambrain, climb over
me!
7 16 Close-up of Hamton hanging in midair. Gabby is
on his shoulders.
HAMTON: Okay, Plucky! Nice view from here,
isn't it?
Hamton looks down.
HAMTON: Say, Plucky, what did you say about
looking down?
"AAAOOOGAH!" Hamton's eyes grow huge in the
best Avery manner.
7 17 View of the twenty-foot drop down to the
ground below. The view starts to get blurry and out of focus.
7 18 Medium shot of the four characters. Hamton is
now under the force of gravity and is exerting quite a pull on Gabby,
who's just holding on.
HAMTON: Gabby! Do something! Do something!
GABBY: Okay, Hamton, I...
Gabby looks down. A moment later, he too is
heavy. Gerald looks down after him and now weighs his normal wait.
While Plucky restrains from looking down, the
others struggle to hang on. They are all yelling and causing chaos.
Finally, they all struggle to the top.
7 19 Medium shot of Plucky looking at Hamton.
PLUCKY (sarcastically): And you got an "A" in
Toon Science.
HAMTON: Well, we all make mistakes!
7 20 Close-up, Gabby (remember, still
black-and-white).
GABBY: Well, what do we do now?
7 21 Medium shot, Plucky waving his fists about.
PLUCKY (disgusted): What do you think? Hic!
Bubbles come out of Plucky's mouth. He falls
to the ground.
PLUCKY: We go down the chimney! What else?
Plucky spends a moment looking impatiently
around as if he's waiting for somebody to say something.
PLUCKY: Well, who's going to go first?
Plucky again starts waiting. No cut to other
characters! He begins to look nervous. The camera pulls very slowly
back to reveal the others standing around hi
m.
PLUCKY: Well, say something!
Again a pause. Everybody else looks rather
menacingly at Plucky.
PLUCKY (disgusted): All right, all right
already! I thought of it, so I'll go first! Any stupid idiot who had
half the IQ points of a doorhandle would know t
his was the thing to do anyway, goodness knows, and anybody with half
the bravery of a tailor would step in and try it! All it takes is a
little get up and... g
ooOOO!
Disgusted with Plucky's bragging, everyone
else picks him up and heaves him unceremoniously into the chimney.
HAMTON: His get up and go got up and went, all
right.
7 23 We see a darkened dining-room like area,
apparently inside the mysterious building. The edge of a table with a
white tablecloth is visible to stage right,
and one elegant-looking chair. To the left is an elegant brick
fireplace. The entire room is enshrouded in shadow with no color
except black and gray. Suddenly
, Plucky falls down the chimney and lands in the fireplace with a dull
thud, causing a huge cloud of dust to materialize briefly around him.
The moment it dissi
pates enough to see, Hamton falls down the chimney on top of him.
Camera zooms in on Hamton and Plucky, who is getting out from under
him looking rather bedragg
led.
PLUCKY: Don't you think this is getting to be
a habit? Mmmph!
Hamton puts his hand over Plucky's mouth.
HAMTON (whispering): Keep quiet, Plucky! The
people who live here might not want to see us!
PLUCKY (quiet, but not quiet enough): Oh,
whatever gave you that impression? The way they slammed the door?
7 24 Close-up of Hamton sitting in fireplace.
HAMTON: If you forget, that guy who answered
the door seemed to know something about Gabby and Gerald!
7 25 Back view of Hamton, talking to front view of
Plucky.
HAMTON: Whether they like us or not, I think
here's where we get the answers to a lot of questions!
PLUCKY (leaning forward): That's just why I
brought us here! Regardez...
7 26 Plucky gets right under the gap in the chimney
through which he fell. He cocks his head up and opens his mouth very
wide. Cupping his hand around the edge
of his mouth, he says:
PLUCKY: Yoo-hoo, Gerald! Come dow-own!
With a funny "honk" sound, Gerald drops down
the chimney rear-end first to land in Plucky's open beak.
GERALD (looking down): That you, Plucky?
PLUCKY (muffled, what with Gerald's fanny in
his mouth): Who elthe?
7 27 Long shot of the fireplace. We see Plucky
climb out, followed by Hamton. As they talk, Gerald comes partially
out, then leans back in, reaching out to cat
ch Gabby as he falls.
PLUCKY: Come on! We haven't a moment to lose.
GABBY: I'm comin'! I'm comin'! (muttered)
Everybody takes forever to climb down this chimney, but when I come
down it's "Gabby, come on," and "Gabby, hurry u
p!" That's gratitude for yuh!
HAMTON: Shhh!
They scurry to the right of the scene, as the
camera begins to follow them towards a hall with a bit of light coming
from it. Just as they approach the hall,
they stop, Egghead walks out and past them, lifting his head like a
hat as before, and carrying his violin case. After staring at him for
a moment, they contin
ue on and enter the tunnel, then walk out of view.
7 28 We see a back view of the four sneaking down a
dark hall. After about five seconds in silence, accompanied by spooky
music, we see Hamton lean over toward
s Plucky.
HAMTON: Why do the bad guys' hideouts always
have such long hallways?
7 29 Close-up, Plucky sneaking along and looking
towards camera (presumably at Hamton.)
PLUCKY: It's just a script-writer's hangup,
Hamton. Goodness knows they use up less animation just showing us
walking in the same positions all the time! So
the more time that the audience sees us walking through this hall, the
less money it costs them to animate us and the more goes into my
paycheck.
HAMTON'S VOICE: Does somebody pay you to say
that?
PLUCKY: Well, I've got an option coming up.
ERK!
7 30 Medium shot. Plucky falls through a trap door
(or, rather, a large and very obvious gap in the floor). Hamton leaps
down to try to grab him, but misses an
d ends up leaning over the trap door for a minute. A second later, he
leaps up, hitting Gabby behind him and making a funny "honk" sound.
Then he spins around.
HAMTON: Plucky's gone!
GABBY (sarcastically): Brilliant observation,
Sherlock. Let's go find him!

8 1 We see a long shot of what looks like an
artist's studio with many Toons all mixing paints. None of the Toons
are in black and white, but all have been in
colorized Porkys. Each one is manacled with a ball and chain to his
artist's stand. The camera very slowly pulls in on two Toons in
particular. We see Kansas Ci
ty Kitty, from "We, the Animals Squeak," (1940) as she looked in the
colorized print, and also the Rochester-voiced mouse from "Pied Piper
Porky." (1938) Kitty
talks in a Scottish voice, the mouse with a deep Southern accent. We
hear music from an old Warner cartoon: like that accompanying Bugs'
last line of dialogue
in "A Wild Hare," (1940)
KITTY: Begorrah! Another day, another bucket!
MOUSE: You ain't kiddin', woman! It's enough
to make a guy sick!
8 2 Close-up of Kitty.
KITTY: I ask you, do we really deserve this?
One meal a day, and it's just bread and gruel! Oh, my kilt for a good
haggis! And not a single mouse anywhere!
MOUSE'S VOICE: Watch your language, lady! It
ain't sanitary!
KITTY (embarrassed): Oops, pardon me.
Kitty gets a sad look on her face.
KITTY: Years and years, we've been here! We've
been mixing paints for so long, and begorrah! Not one combination
worked! None satisfied the boy-y-y-ys on to
p! (When she says "boys" it's drawn out in an exaggerated Scottish
"rumble.")
8 3 Back shot of both characters.
MOUSE: I'm disgusted, pers'nally. Every day,
th' same thing!
KITTY: Begorrah, I guess they just weren't
painted the same way.
8 4 Close-up of the Mouse.
MOUSE: If 'at ain't the truth, I hope
somethin' awful falls on me!
8 5 Shot suddenly pulls back, as Plucky falls
WHAM! right on top of the Mouse, upsetting the table and pots of
paint. Kitty leaps back in amazement.
MOUSE: Well, wot's the matter with HIM?
8 6 Medium shot: Plucky straightens up, somewhat
dazed, but trying to seem excited. As he splutters out the following,
we zoom in, very slowly.
PLUCKY: Woo hoo, boy! You don't know it, but
you're gonna be free! Woo, hoo
hoo hoo!
KITTY: Is this duck okay?
MOUSE: He's twenty-three skiddoo, if you ask
me!
PLUCKY: You don't realize it! But I'm gonna
get you guys out of here! And nobody's gonna be the wiser!
Camera pulls very slowly back to reveal many,
many black-and-white cartoon villains standing around Plucky in a
huddle.
PLUCKY: I could be wrong, you know!
9 1 We see another view of Hamton, Gerald and
Gabby, who have tied a rope to a nearby bannister and are eginning to
lower themselves down it through the ap in
the floor, through which Plucky fell.
HAMTON: Every smart pig brings rope with him
at all times! You never know when it'll become handy.
GERALD: For what?
9 2 Close-up of Hamton.
HAMTON: Lassoing cakes on high shelves!
Stopping cattle stampedes! Bridging dangerous gaps in the
plot! You name it.
9 3 Medium shot of Gerald.
GERALD: But what are we gonna use it for now?
9 4 Back view of Hamton, looking toward smaller
frontal views of Gabby and Gerald.
HAMTON: We aren't just gonna fall through that
hole the way Plucky did!
9 5 Close-up of Hamton gesturing as he speaks.
HAMTON: We're gonna be careful about it! We'll
climb down and see what Plucky's gotten himself into, and then we'll
do something!
GABBY'S AND GERALD'S VOICES: Right!
9 6 Long shot of the characters jumping on the
rope, one after another, and briskly sliding down it through
the gap (which has light coming from it) and out o
f sight. First Gabby, then Gerald, then Hamton.
9 7 Shot of the ceiling of the paint room; we see
the three "rescuers" coming through the gap.
GABBY: Well, will yuh look at that!
9 8 Bird's-eye-view w/ Gabby, Gerald and Hamton
looking down at the many paint-mixing colorized Toons. The scene
slowly turns and zooms in as they watch them.
HAMTON: Millions of Toons! And what are they
doing? It looks likethey're all mixing paints!
9 9 Close-up of Gabby (clinging to rope).
GABBY (whispering): Not because they want to.
They're all bolted there with balls and chains!
Hamton's pointing hand sticks in front of
Gabby's nose with a "honk" sound. The scene immediately pans over to
Hamton, right behind Gabby (not a very long pa
n).
HAMTON: And look! Those are the doubles of
Porky I saw before!
9 10 Slightly bird's-eye view (camera looking from
upward angle) of four pigs (in color) all who look like early versions
of Porky: one c. 1935 (small, round p
ig), one c. 1936 (bigger, very fat pig) and c. 1938 (Frank Tashlin
Porky as in "Wholly Smoke"). Also a close-to-modern Porky (but just a
little less refined) c.
1940. The camera zooms in on 1935 Porky as he talks, then slowly pans
over to the others as they answer.
1935 PORKY: And I-I-I thought we h-h-had a way
outta here for good!!
1936 PORKY (lower voice): S-s-so did I!
P-P-Phooey!
TASHLIN PORKY (higher voice): D-D-Double
phooey! And nuh-nuh-nuh-(he struggles to say "nuts") Rats!
9 11 We see Hamton (and just a slice of Gerald)
hanging from the rope.
HAMTON: So I wasn't crazy! They were going to
find Porky, and somebody captured them again!
GERALD: Look! There's Plucky!
9 12 In a startling blur, the camera whips down to
Plucky, who is balled-and-chained next to Kansas City Kitty and the
Mouse, both of whom are busy mixing pa
int on the side of the frame. Plucky does not see his saviors coming
down on the rope above.
HAMTON'S VOICE: Somebody tied him up!
GERALD'S VOICE: You mean bolted him up! That
chain won't rot and fall off!
Camera moves in on Plucky.
PLUCKY (disgusted): Another fine mess I've
gotten myself into! I thought I was smart! Well, don't I take the
cake, finding where the bad guys are and then ge
tting caught by 'em! Yeah, I'm really smart! It just ain't fair!
Plucky is mixing paint as he talks. Some of it
keeps spilling, and he does misc. goofy stuff to keep it from getting
it all over the floor but ends up with m
ost of it on his hands. When he says, "It just ain't fair," he pounds
his fist on the desk with a thump, at which one of the paint cans
flies up in the air and
lands on his head.
PLUCKY: Wah, hah hah hah! Waaah! (He cries in
an idiotic way.)
Plucky takes off the paint can, takes out a
handkerchief, and dries himself off with it. Then he blows his nose in
it, at which point he lifts it up and wrin
gs it out into the paint can. About a gallon of paint comes out of it
into the can. Suddenly, the Mouse leans over to talk with Plucky.
MOUSE: Watch yo' step, bud! Here come th'
bosses!
9 13 We see a medium-shot side view of Plucky's
desk (the edge of Kitty's desk visible in front of it). Plucky turns
his head away from the camera, down a long
aisle; and a big double swinging door opens. First thing that comes
out of the door is a big blast of bright light, from which a group of
large sillhouetted ca
rtoon characters appear, stomping toward the hall. They are
accompanied by a minor-key version of "The Teddy-Bear's Picnic" played
about as ominously as it can
be played.
PLUCKY: Do these guys know how to make an
entrance, or what?
9 14 We see a medium shot of the villains (all in
black-and-white) marching down the aisle, with desks on either side.
Colorized BW characters sit at the desks
(any character in one of those Korean-remade cartoons can be found at
the desks). The villains themselves are the Mad Musician from
"Buddy the Detective," (19
34), the very small bird gangster from "One More Time" (1932), the
peg-legged villain of "Big Man from the North" (1930), the convict
from "Buddy's Beer Garden
," (1933), the pirate captain from "Shanghaied Shipmates" (1935), one
of the cavemen from "Buddy's Lost World" (1935), the mean farmer from
"Gopher Goofy" (1942
), the bull from "Porky's Last Stand" (1940) and the Black Knight from
"Bosko's Knight-Mare" (1933), all marching straight at the camera and
led by Spike the Sp
ider, a huge, grotesque and evil insect from "Red-Headed Baby" (1931).
Spike is grinding his teeth together (see that cartoon for exact way
that this looks). Th
ey march in time to "Teddy-Bear's Picnic." After about five seconds
of marching, they turn to a desk at the left.
9 15 Still in time to the music, we see (colorized)
Rudolf, the house-cat from "Puss 'n' Booty" (1943) sitting at a table.
When Spike the Spider lumbers up, he
takes the arachnid's hand like a manicurist and applies a blob of
yellow paint. After a moment, it drips off. We see Spike push Rudolf's
face into the can of p
aint and walk away.
9 16 Virtual repetition of scene 14, except this
time, the villains veer off to a table on the left.
9 17 Still in time to the music! We see that this
desk is occupied by Dippy the Goose from "It's an Ill Wind" (1939),
who tries applying his paint to Spike's h
and, but it too drops off. Disgusted, Spike picks up the can of paint
and dumps it on Dippy's head, to his chagrin: then, he marches off.
9 16 With the music continuing in the background,
we see a view of Plucky leaning over and talking with Kitty and the
mouse. The villains aren't visible in thi
s shot.
PLUCKY: May I ask what they're doing?
MOUSE: Ainnit obvious? Their old cartoons
wasn't in color!
9 17 Close-up of Kitty.
KITTY: When they found out that the cartoons
that were being colorized weren't the ones which they'd acted in, they
got angry!
9 18 Medium shot of an excited Plucky.
PLUCKY: Oh ho, I get it! And those stupid
lunkheads want you color actors to paint some color on them!
9 19 Long shot of the art studio (villains
offscreen)
MOUSE: Dat's it, all right! But they is made
an awful mistook!
KITTY: They didn't know that we were hired
specially for the new color cartoons. They thought we were the
original black-and-white actors, painted in color!
MOUSE: They didn't know 'at color paint didn't
stick to black-and- white Toons.
9 20 Close-up of Kitty, Plucky and Mouse. They are
near the bottom of the frame, though, with lots of room above.
PLUCKY (distressed): They still don't know it,
goodness knows! MOUSE: That's
th' ticket, brother! You ain't just whistlin' Dixie!
The rope lowers into the top part of the
frame. As Hamton says his line (below) he moves down to Plucky.
HAMTON: Hi, Plucky! We're gonna help you get
outta here!
PLUCKY: Gee, hambrain, it's good to see ya
again! Now how are you gonna -- uh oh!
Plucky suddenly looks offscreen. Then he looks
back at Hamton.
9 21 Close-up of a nervous Plucky, waving his hands
as he speaks.
PLUCKY: Look out! Here come those villains!
And they're gonna inspect my paint, oh, me, oh, my!
9 22 Close-up of Hamton on the rope.
HAMTON: Don't worry! Here's something that'll
make that paint stick to them!
He pulls a bottle of "Acme Glue" out of his
pocket, and tosses it to Hamton.
9 23 Hamton climbs quickly back up the rope again
as Plucky grabs the glue bottle mischievously.
PLUCKY: Oh, buh-ruther! It's gonna stick to
them all right! Hoo, hoo, hoo!
9 24 Close-up of Plucky's hands, hitting the glue
bottle so that big globs of glue go into his cans of paint with a
funny "glorp!" sound.
9 25 Virtual repetition of scene 14, villains
marching along to "Teddy-Bear's Picnic."
9 26 We see quick dissolves to many different
scenes of Toons getting their paint "tested" and then getting punished
in some silly way (like the "seasonal" fad
es in front of Babs' theatre in "Fields of Honey"). During this
progression, the music gets louder and louder and louder, the shots
get closer and closer and cl
oser to the camera.
9 27 Suddenly, in a clear, solid medium shot, we
see the villains lurch to a stop in front of Plucky's table.
PLUCKY: Gulp! (swallows hard)
9 28 Close-up of several villains leaning over
towards Plucky. All
the villains are in black and white!
SPIKE THE SPIDER: Okay, let's see what you'se
got!
PEG-LEG VILLAIN: Yeah! Haw haaah!
BULL: Snort! Snort!
9 29 Putting his left hand, trembling, over his
eyes, Plucky dips his paintbrush into a can of red paint (with glue in
it) and gingerly reaches forward to dab
a little bit on the peg-legged villain's arm. As he puts it there, he
opens the fingers on his left hand just a little bit so he can peep
through them.
9 30 Close-up: peg-legged villain and Spike the
Spider.
SPIKE: Well?
Peg-legged villain shakes his arm up and down,
expecting the paint to drop off. But it doesn't. He looks at his arm
very carefully.
PEG-LEG VILLAIN: Well, I'll be durned! HE DONE
IT! OUR CAREERS IS SAVED!
9 31 Long shot of the many villains screaming and
cheering, turning somersaults and the like. The theme, "Teddy-Bear's
Picnic" suddenly turns major with happi
ness.
9 32 Brief shot of Hamton, Gabby and Gerald on the
rope up near the ceiling, looking down excitedly as we continue to
hear the villains whooping it up.
9 33 As the music continues, we see a melange of
shots as Plucky, Kitty and the Mouse paint the various villains with
the glue-paint mixture: some close-up, so
me long shots (like scene 26). Also a few shots of Hamton, Gabby and
Gerald on the rope and other Toons at desks, their work stopped,
looking on and growing inc
reasingly more excited.
9 34 We fade to a clock. As the music (and noise of
painting) continues, we see the hands turn slowly, revealing
that the painting job takes two hours. Somew
here in the middle of a shot, one can of paint flies up in a graceful
arc through the scene, to land with a clatter.
9 35 The music dies down. We see Plucky, Kitty and
the mouse sitting at their desks, exhausted and panting.
MOUSE: We dood it!
KITTY: Begorrah, we did!
PLUCKY: And wait 'til they get what's coming
to 'em, oh, buhruther!
9 36 The cartoon villains are standing, painted in
(rather gaudy) colors and looking excited. Then suddenly, the pirate
captain gets angry (hearing Plucky's l
ast comment) and lurches toward the front of the frame.
PIRATE: What does ye mean, "what's comin' to
us"? If ye have somethin' up your sleeve, tell it or ye'll walk the
plank, matey!
9 37 Close-up of Plucky with an "innocent" look on
his face and a halo over his head.
PLUCKY: Oh, nothing! Nothing but... this!
9 38 Back view of Plucky. He lurches forward and
pushes the pirate into the others, who all fall down in a pile.
PEG-LEG VILLAIN: Why, you little rat!
BIRD GANGSTER: I'll moider da bum!
CAVEMAN (talking jungle jibberish): Oogah!
Glug! Glug! Whup, whup! Dug!
BULL: Snort! Snort! MOOOO! Wheeze!
The Bull attempts to charge at Plucky. But the
glue has stuck him to the other villains, and they all collapse back
into a pile.
9 39 Close-up of the villains, who find that they
are all stuck to one another and completely helpless.
9 40 We hear triumphant music. Medium shot of
Plucky waving clasped hands over his head as everyone cheers for
him. Suddenly Kitty and the Mouse lurch forwar
d in surprise.
9 41 We see Spike the Spider (now a bright red,
having been painted), glued to the farmer and the pirate captain.
Suddenly, he reaches into his pocket with hi
s one free hand and takes out an aerosol can.
9 42 Close-up of the can. It reads: "Paint
Remover."
9 43 Long shot, many Toons at the desks lurching
back in fear, letting out a collective gasp of amazement.
9 44 Medium shot of Hamton, Gabby and Gerald
hanging on the rope.
HAMTON: I can't look!
Hamton puts his hand over his eyes as Gabby
and Gerald look down, worried. Gabby is still in black-and-white.
9 45 Medium shot of Spike. He sprays the areas of
himself which are stuck to the farmer and the pirate, which turn
black, but come loose. He marches over to Pl
ucky, followed by the camera, and slowly draws his fist back for a
massive sock.
9 46 Close-up of Spike's face. Suddenly, he looks
worriedly to the left.
9 47 PAN SHOT.Wall on the far end of the room.
Suddenly, a large rectangular section of it opens like a door, and in
comes Egghead, still whistling and carryin
g his violin case. He slowly walks past other Toons, continuing to
whistle and finally stops right in front of Spike, who lets down his
fist to look, stupefied,
at Egghead.
SPIKE: All right, bub, who are you?
Egghead lifts his head like a hat, as he did
before. Then he puts it back.
EGGHEAD: Huh, huh, huh! I'm the hero in this
picture!
Accompanied by triumphant music, he opens his
violin case, takes out an enormous mallet, and clobbers Spike with it.
Spike sinks groggily to the ground.
9 48 Long shot, everyone in the room cheering.
Hamton, Gabby and Gerald leap down to where Plucky and Egghead both
stand triumphant.
9 49 Close-up of Hamton and Plucky.
HAMTON: You did it, Plucky, old pal!
He slaps Plucky on the back. With a cough,
Plucky spits out his bubble pipe (which he swallowed earlier).
PLUCKY: Thanks, hambrain! It was nuthin'!
He turns and gives Hamton an enormous sock (in
childlike "retribution" for the slap) landing Hamton's snout in
a bucket of paint. When Hamton takes off the
bucket, his snout is blue.

10 1 Long shot of the building in which the
paint-mixing was done. We see it is early morning. Accompanied by
exuberant music, millions of Toons come streaming
out. After they have cleared away, we see the crooks, still stuck
together (with the rope tied around them) marching out in unison.
Behind them we see Plucky,
Hamton, Gerald, Gabby (still black and white), Egghead, and the four
Porky doubles.
PLUCKY: Well, that's that! All in a night's
work!
GABBY: Aw, phooey! Did I do anything to help
solve the case? I only supplied the evidence everyone else needed. But
aw, don't mind me, nobody ever notices me
anyway.
10 2 Fade to the grass in front of Acme
Looniversity, where Plucky and the four Porky doubles are standing
with Hamton, the two goats, and the genuine Porky. B
uster and Babs, both pretty amazed, are off on the edges of the crowd
with Mary Melody and Furrball.
PLUCKY: Well, I told you I'd find those
colorized Toons! Now that I saved them, they'll lead normal liveth
again here in Acme Acres! And, heh, heh, I'm sorr
y I interrupted your speech yesterday, Porky.
PORKY: That's o-o-okay, Plucky. I'm sorry I
got so m-m-m-angry at ya. B-b-but one thing for sure, y-y-you're true
to your word, all right!
10 3 Close-up of Plucky.
PLUCKY: I sure am! Goodness knows, with the
world the way it is, someone has to tell the truth now and then!
10 4 Back view of Porky, talking to the four
colorized Porkies.
PORKY: Well, what are you guys gonna do now?
TASHLIN PORKY: Well, we were hoping to stay at
your place.
1936 PORKY: At least until we could buy a home
ourselves.
10 5 Close-up of modern Porky.
PORKY: Well, I g-g-guess so, guys. After all,
you're f-f-family, aren't you?
10 6 Medium shot, Plucky and Hamton turning to
Egghead.
HAMTON: And what about you, Egghead?
EGGHEAD: Huh, huh, huh. Ah guess it's just
back to the retirement home fer me.
10 7 Close-up of Egghead.
EGGHEAD: I seen my duty and done it! Why, huh,
huh, I might even get promoted for this! That'd be peachy!
Egghead turns around.
EGGHEAD: Orchestra, please!
10 8 Long shot of a huge orchestra rising up out of
the ground, playing a grandiose version of "Merrily we Roll Along."
Immediately, tons of Toons gather to he
ar it, including all the Tiny Toons players (except Montana Max).
Dizzy Devil immediately sets to work eating things.
10 9 Close-up of Plucky and Egghead.
PLUCKY (as orchestra plays): I've always
wondered how old cartoon characters did that. Oh, well, it must be a
gift!
He leans over and "honks" Egghead's nose.
EGGHEAD: WoooOOOOooo! Wow! Yeow!
Wattlawattlawattla!
Egghead's feet jitter around in a bizarre,
tap-dancing kind of way. 10 10
Suddenly, the camera yanks back and all is silent. The orchestra,
everyone, all
are looking at Egghead, who has stopped tapping and is standing in
utter silence (music is stopped). Very slowly, the camera moves in to
a close-up on Egghead.
EGGHEAD: Don't ever DOOO that!
The orchestra moves into the last bit of
"Merrily," as Egghead shrugs, embarrassed at his wild reaction, and
looks at Plucky sheepishly. Iris starts closing.
Just as it does, Gogo Dodo sticks his head in from the corner of the
screen. He holds the iris open to stick his head through.
GOGO: Baaayyyoooooooowhoop!

IRIS OUT! THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!

(C) 1991 David A. Gerstein
(David.A....@Williams.edu)

[L J Constantine]

why TARAA! TARAA!?

Just curious. Hey, all my off colour toon fanfic has stayed
in my computer and off the net thus far....

Assuming I finish it, mebbe that will change..

LJC
--
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Lady Johanna Constantine * taken."
or just plain Tara *
I live on Usenet. Really. * - Murphy's Law of Dating

[George Mhyre]

Boy, that things LONG. took me over 45 minutes to read it. I think that
if it were made, you'd have about 2-3 HOURS of animation... WAY too much.

BTW, if it's impossible to paint B&W Toons, how did Porky become
color when he started out as a B&W Toon?

Just curious.

(This is the kind of musings I like to see. Fits TTA stylings at least to
some extent.)

--George Mhyre (Toonatic)
grib...@u.washington.edu

[R. 'Mongoose' Armstrong]

Sorry to be another voice of doom and gloom, but---

In article <1s72og...@bigbird.cc.williams.edu> David A Gerstein,

96...@williams.edu writes:
> You'll notice the thing may seem a little longer than
>necessary. I had to do this: I don't know exactly how long their
>scripts are or how long mine would be, produced.

Looks fairly long to me. Definintely not in the 22-minute span-
probably as long as, if not longer than, HISMV.

>
> I hope you'll be able to tell the stage directions from the
>dialogue. I'm hampered in this system by a lack of different fonts
>and/or styles. You'll also notice that my Plucky acts a lot like
>Daffy. Well, we must face it: Plucky DOES act a lot like Daffy, so
>I've basically written as if I was writing for Acme Loo mentor just as
>much as student. (You've noticed how little we see of Daffy in TTA,
>of course because the parallel to Plucky would immediately be too
>obvious)

Well, we don't see all that much of Porky, either- Although
the faculty is seen a decent amount. Still, though Plucky *does*
act a good deal like the Jones-era Daffy, his lines are completely
different. Some of your lines, while decent for Daffy, just fall flat
when Plucky says them-- The Jerry Conolla reference, for one.
No offense, but this is the 90s- and we're dating these cartoons
as such. FIfty years from now, our kids will look at Arnold and
Babs impressions from now, and not *quite* get the jokes- but
right now, we do. Not to say that the old WB shorts aren't great,
but they are dated. The humor shines through in spite of it.

> Anyway, here goes. Forgive tabs in weird places, odd spaces,
>etc. but this was genuinely hard to convert.

Well, fix it up before you stash it in the FTP site. We forgive you.

Aside from this--my own personal criticism, probably wrong as
usual, but hear me out.

Premise: Weak. I personally think that Porky is Porky, whether in
Color, B&W, or colorized. This goes for pretty much all characters-
if you accept the premise that different drawing make different
characters, then why aren't there different Bugs Bunnys: one from
the A_Wild_Hare days, one from McKimison's mid-late 40s, one from
Chuck Jones's era, and one from Box_Office_Bunny and the network
specials? Maybe it's just me, but...

Length: Major choppage needed. Only give lines to a few of the more
important characters- feature more of them in group scenes. The
Dialogue:Action ratio is in need of rebalancing. If you can get this into
about 1/4 to 1/3 of the length, It might be much better.

Actual story: Pretty good. Aside from the aforementioned problems,
we have a potentionally filmable script. But try and keep the focus
on funny rather than "let's go back and reminisce (sp?)". Remember:
this cartoon's primary audience is 3-10 year olds, even though we still
watch and love it.

Sorry to be such a downer- You obviously have great command of the
era and have put lots of work into this. But I gotta call 'em like I
see 'em.
The Mystic Mongoose, aka Robert W. Armstrong

A .sig?
Well, um.. Gee, Officer, I must have left it in my other jacket!

[Steve Miller]

In <1s72og...@bigbird.cc.williams.edu> 96...@williams.edu (David A Gerstein) writes:

> Dear Folks,

> Here's my own Tiny Toon Adventure: (TARAA TARAAA!) Plucky
>Duck and Hamton J. Pig in "An Off-Color Story," (C) 1991 David A.
>Gerstein.

Wow! Overwhelming, in a number of ways! The most obvious of which is the
research that must've gone into that!

>I hope you guys will side with me in my hopes to get this
>eventually produced, either as a regular show (should they make more
>of them at some undisclosed time) or as a 'special' of the type they
>mention.

Hmmmm. I rather bloody doubt it. The thing is, it would probably be as
long or longer than HISMV and definitely cost lots more (emulating all
those animation styles as directed). But it *would* be rather cool.

>You'll also notice that my Plucky acts a lot like
>Daffy. Well, we must face it: Plucky DOES act a lot like Daffy, so
>I've basically written as if I was writing for Acme Loo mentor just as
>much as student.

Yeah, I definitely noticed that. Right down to the "Roscoe" line. But he
doesn't act *all* that much like Daffy (in the real show, I mean). At
least no more than the other Tiny Toons do their own respective mentors.

>(You've noticed how little we see of Daffy in TTA,
>of course because the parallel to Plucky would immediately be too
>obvious)

Sort of. I don't think hiding the parallels is what they're after.

>TINY TOON ADVENTURES Presents
>Plucky Duck in "An Off-Color Story"
>(C) 1991 David A. Gerstein
>_____________________________

Wow, it really does put the reference-ometer to work!

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