Introduction
It's not a surprise that this is another story. I'm not so sure where this came from. I just remember one idea came up and a few others joined in, leaving the first one dissolved into literally nothing, leaving a very compilcated story. But now, I started to organize this and it's finally ready. If you haven't seen Ginerva: Drum Warrior, I said somewhere there that story was one of my biggest attempts to pull off. And for folks who didn't see The Return of A Young Viking Girl, you know why the main protagonist gets help from her friends and faces a big situation. In the vacuum of the sea, there is no air. There is no sound. Living outside is impossible.
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- Simon Narrating: Long, long ago, in a land far, far away, an empire that spanned from Las Vegas to Lincoln City, an evil man set out to turn everyone into slaves. It was a time for great fear and suffering, but God had a plan, a destiny, a hero meant just for this moment. Because God had his eye on one special girl he was gonna use to turn this mess around. In the cards, a tale is told of a time not too far past when in the house of Seville, there came into the world three careless boys - Alvin, Theodore and me. But the occasion was not the joyous ode to Dave Seville had dreamed of for his horror - whether his three long-lost sons were turned to the future. Ashamed, Dave locked us away from the eyes of the outside world and sent many people to keep us. They told their subjects to Dave that his three boys were such rare beauties, that we were stolen away. Years passed, and Mr. Seville went away, taking his secret to the grave. He had the residence in the hands of an ambition regent and me, Theodore and Alvin in the grips of the people. And so things remained, until just before we were of age to ascend the thrones, we escaped and fled deep into the city of Nineveh. To seek the aid of those onlookers, this is the real reason why we meet Strawberry's loot.
- (Alvin, Simon and Theodore approach into the palace on a skateboard. Simon wore a navy blue captain's hat with a faded tic-tac-toe and over his blue sweatshirt, an old pirate captain's attire. Alvin had really long hair, wore an eye patch and a bandana over his cap. He brushed his moustache. He had a belt around his waist and had a sword and satchel. The sword, however, was in an empty gun holster. Theodore had a gold tooth, a green pokadoted bandana and sideburns.)
- Simon Narrating: A wise man once said not to be afraid of greatness, some are born great - some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. To tell the story of this, you gotta start off with a completely silly hero who bumbles with his troubles - that'd be Stewart Green. He was injured in a football game and Morty Bumble became famous after he made a big catch of the football. Stewart went to work at his father's toy train factory and he had started a family. When things don't go Stewart's way, he boards a train and goes through what his life could've been if he had caught that football.
- (Title shows up)
- Simon: Wow!
- Alvin: Believe it or not, in this palace; we're famous!
- Simon: Hello there.
- (Bags are pulled off their faces. Alvin is flipped upside down, Simon and Theodore are both tied. Alvin's cap was on the floor.)
- (People laugh)
- (Alvin, Simon and Theodore break the ropes and they meet Buccaneers Lunt (The gourd with a red bandana covered by a tricorn hat) and Larry (now with eyebrows on his pirate outfit). They brushed their moustaches. The cordless satchel that was stapled to the side of Elliot's belt was copied by Alvin's satchel.)
- Alvin: Hey, Buccaneers Lunt and Larry.
- Buccaneer Larry: How's it going?
- Buccaneer Lunt: Hey, what's up?
- Simon: What are you doing here?
- Theodore: Remember that time when you were cheese curl celebrities of all Nineveh?
- Alvin: Umm.... no. (whispers to another person) Hey, you gotta help me. I've been kidnapped by a pickle and his gourd friend.
- Simon: He is a cucumber.
- Alvin: Oh, right. I've been kidnapped by a cucumber and his gourd friend. That reminds me of a little message. (Pulls off a branch from a tree stump)
- Buccaneer Larry: Really? A tree stump? In the palace?
- (Everything turns dark)
- Alvin: I knew that they invited to play the hidden.
- Theodore: They invited to play the hidden if they ate a lot of cookies.
- Simon: But for what it's worth, is to make people leave homeless - in the woods without any food.
- Kyle: Yeah, send them to swim and let them be saved from being drowned unclaimed invite.
- Buccaneer Lunt: And once we sell when you fall asleep. Right, Elliot?
- Buccaneer Larry: Sedgewick, I eventually notice that they want to hang from a sediment.
- Simon: When you feel a taste of our eternities!
- Theodore: Perhaps we fall well if they do salad.
- Alvin: I...won't...go...to...beans.
- Buccaneer Larry: Nice. Now we'll be back.
- Alvin: Why?
- Buccaneer Lunt: We will shut this place down tomorrow at 9:30 p.m.
- (Timecard "The very next morning...")
- Simon Narrating: The Chipettes sat in a booth at the Spring Valley Recording Studio. Chog Norrius, the leader of the Barber-Barian clan had some headphones on. He sat at the controls.
- Brittney: Good morning, Eleanor. How are you, dear?
- Eleanor: Just fine and dandy. Is Elliot around here?
- Brittney: He has been away. I haven't seen him, but that is no surprise. Sedgewick's gone, too.
- Jeanette: They're out with the guys.
- Brittney: We should listen to their mothers and that is more sufficient.
- Eleanor: You live and learn.
- Brittney: That's why - they are pirates. They won't have to do anything. They do nothing wrong. They never quit, they're too legit.
- Buccaneer Larry: Hey, that's your wife, Sedgewick.
- Buccaneer Lunt: And look! That's your wife, Elliot.
- Simon Narrating: Times changed. After Stewart Green and his family passed, their descendants multiplied.
- (The camera took a shot of Mayor Jimmy and his assistant were standing on the balcony of his house. They looked down at the people.)
- Simon Narrating: That was until the mayor and the people of the town started to worry that they'd be overrun, so they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens and keep them down. (over ambitious) Will the mayor's horribleness have - no - end? They made them paint roads, build a canyon, and place rocks to make a valley.
- (You can hear a baby crying from inside. It was the mayor's great-grandson.)
- Mayor Jimmy: (hands a note from his great-grandson, pulls out a pencil and writes, in his thoughts) "Dear the famous Morty Bumble, you made a touchdown and became famous. That was a long time ago before this island came to be and was formed. My family will be moving back to the ruined Rockwell for the rest of their lives. It has been my pleasure for you to have my compensation back. Thank you for your patronage, Morty. I really appreciate that. Sincerely yours, Mayor Jimmy. P.S.: Can you and my family fill in for Stewart Green's job at the toy train factory?" Okay, read that back to me.
- Marcus the Scribe: (reads note) Hmm. Dot, dot, dot, dash, dash...
- Simon Narrating: But this - is the story of a great person. It's hard to say, whether that hero was born that way, or was just placed at the right place at the right time and decided to do the right thing. I suppose you can be the judge of that.
- (Zip pan to a stadium)
- Miss Minchin: C'mon, hurry up!
- Alvin: Headmistress Minchin!?!
- (Horse neighs)
- (Strawberry swings in)
- Simon: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your timeless angerness.
- Police Chief: Who is that guy?
- Sheriff: She was handing out berries yesterday.
- Police Chief: That sounds fishy. Think ya took 'em.
- Sheriff: I'm gonna throw up on some Skittles.
- Police Chief: We gotta keep our eyes on her.
- Chog: (with a clipboard) Strawberry, you have a big day filling in for Dave Seville and there are several functions that require your attendance tomorrow.
- Hipster Carrot: I dig efficiency. Watchin' my carbon hoofprint. (Drinks coffee)
- (Hipster Carrot's body parts fall off and he dies)
- (People lay on top of him)
- Police Chief: If that is settled, (cut to him on an iceberg) I'd rather sit on an iceberg.
- Simon: No one knows why. There is that really great songwriter that we really want to thank - you know, our good friend David Seville. Got any ideas?
- Buccaneer Larry: (He and Lunt hop in) Oh, by the way, I got some reports from the mayor. The reports said a dark shadow of a moneymaking man called "Martin Jerry Marigold" came to town.
- (Everyone gasps)
- Strawberry: We'll track him down and bring him to justice.
- Alvin: I didn't say this but... (trips over the sofa) Don't I get a phone call!...... (falls into a well)
- (SPLASH!)
- (Crowd laughs)
- Harold: Hey, Alvin! (Alvin looks up) You sure are gonna have fun down there!
- Buccaneer Lunt: Well, if he comes back as a zombie, and eats my brain, I'm totally not gonna be your friend anymore! (Pushes a boulder above the top of the well and she and the rest of the town except Alvin leaves. Wyatt hops in.)
- Wyatt: Hello? Any one there? Alvin fell in the well and people thought he was hurt. But they didn't understand what bowling was really about!
- Doctor 1: Alvin is okay.
- Doctor 2: (Pushes boulder off) No bone to be broken in his body.
- Wyatt: Have a good night. (He and the doctors left)
- (As we hear the screams of surprise spread across the windows are lit up by candlelight.)
- Alvin: We clawed, we chained, our hearts in vain. We jumped, never asking why. We kissed, I fell under your spell... A love no one could deny. Don’t you ever say I just walked away. I will always want you. I can’t live a lie, running for my life. I will always want you. I came in like a wrecking ball. I never hit so hard in love... All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me. Yeah, you wreck me.
- (Later that night...)
- Alvin: I put you high up in the sky. And now, you’re not coming down. It slowly turned, you let me burn. And now, we’re ashes on the ground. Don’t you ever say I just walked away. I will always want you. I can’t live a lie, running for my life. I will always want you. I came in like a wrecking ball. I never hit so hard in love. All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me. I came in like a wrecking ball. Yeah, I just closed my eyes and swung. Left me crouching in a blaze and fall. All you ever did was wreck me. Yeah, you wreck me. I never meant to start a war. I just wanted you to let me in... And instead of using force, I guess I should’ve let you win. I never meant to start a war. I just wanted you to let me in. I guess I should’ve let you win.
- (Two people toss and turn on a bench. They then sit up, screaming. This wakes up the mayor's assistant. He sits up on the bench, screaming. The mayor runs in the stadium from the back, screaming. Alvin acts a little nervous, like he is about to throw up...)
- (A first officer named Mr. Spork is sitting by his computer desk, eating his M&N's candies. In the far background, we see Ninaborough. We hear the rumblings of the screams down below. The mountain starts to shake. Mr. Spork looks up, then runs for safety. A beat later, a huge cluster of water fall from the mountainside, ruining and crushing his desk.)
- (Next morning...)
- Alvin: Don’t you ever say I just walked away. I will always want you. I came in like a wrecking ball. I never hit so hard in love. All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me. I came in like a wrecking ball. Yeah, I just closed my eyes and swung. Left me crouching in a blaze and fall. All you ever did was wreck me. Yeah, you, you wreck me. Yeah, you, you wreck me.
- (Pirate Impostor 1 begins to turn the crank)
- Pirate Impostor 1: This is real heavier.
- (When he turned the crank and he saw Alvin in the bucket and...)
- Pirate Impostor 1: Aah!
- Alvin: (Fell down in the bucket as Alvin's cap fell off his head and landed on the ground.) Aaah!
- Pirate Impostor 1: I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to scare you but...
- Alvin: That's okay. Could you fish me out with your lucky fishing pole?
- Pirate Impostor 1: Okay. (Fishes Alvin out) Dropped your cap. You are a tall drink of water.
- Alvin: Not that all. You should see my fellow people.
- Angel: Hail, mighty man of valor!
- Alvin: You must be looking for me.
- Angel: Yep. I'm looking for you. I'm an angel. Sent from the Lord above with a message.
- Alvin: So Mr. Angel, what's your message?
- Angel: Here's the skinny: I've been sent from the Lord above to tell you - that Mr. Marigold hates us. If he knew why David Seville was your father, Mr. Marigold would hate you too! And then, you and your two brothers could be in grave danger. You mustn't let anyone know that you are so kind to people. I don't know the future. But God does. Maybe there's a reason. I'll come visit you again.
- (Cut to an empty cliff. All the scaffolding was still there and was remained untouch. The valley below still had the tents. Alvin stood on the cliff as Pirate Impostor 1 sits on the wooden platform)
- Alvin: Hmm. Those construction workers must've gotten an early start. That paint looks dry enough. The rocks are untouched.
- Pirate Impostor 1: (hands Alvin a telescope) Take a gander.
- (Alvin holds the spyglass in his hand and looks down at the valley.)
- (The sign "Days until Next Attack" still remained in the valley. Another person took a number off.)
- Alvin: Well, it's been nice talking to you.
- (Hops off)
- (The workers arrive and get to work)
- Pirate Impostor 1: (pulls out his lucky fishing pole) Hipsters today. When will they learn?
- (Ringtone)
- Pirate Impostor 1: It's a call from some big investor whose name is Wyatt. He would play better next to the mayor. Hi, Wyatt.
- Wyatt: Hey. You think that I should send up a dozen messages about Mr. Marigold, eh? The mayor contacted me and well, there were still too many workers. He has had some issues with slavery, eugenics, population control and fear of rebellion ever since Moe and the Big Exit. I still do not know why there were too many workers here.
- Pirate Impostor 1: What!?! You can't dig the Grand Canyon, build Monument Valley and paint the Painted Desert with just a few guys. I guess I'm gonna get rid of some of the workers.
- Slave worker 3: Can we keep the construction stuff?
- Pirate Impostor 1: Yes.
- (A few slave workers went home)
- Wyatt: Break away from the Marigolds' motto "We shall NEVER deny a guest even the most ridiculous request." Alvin has come his way, by the way, as the most famous hipster boy in the world! That's special!
- Pirate Impostor 1: You're right. Oh by the way, I contacted the mayor about his good looks.
- Wyatt: That's great. He's having a little trouble with Simon's pirate captain's hat and how Theodore got a gold tooth. He'll need another week. He must have his hands full on Alvin's really long hair which is almost as tall as the tallest building. Not only that, the other day I was talking to Professor Hamlin, and he says that Ken, Dan and John thinks that Alvin got a new hairstyle.
- Pirate Impostor 1: Those guys could keep their mouths shut.
- Wyatt: Too bad about falling into the well, it's a good thing Alvin Seville's OK. I don't think Simon and Theodore Seville would both go on without their support.
- Pirate Impostor 1: Me neither. So what was he doing at the bottom of the well?
- Wyatt: I called the doctors and they thought he died because of his greed but came back out alive. Simon and Theodore would be filled with guilt when they found out Alvin was dead.
- Pirate Impostor 1: Is Alvin okay?
- Wyatt: I think so. No broken bones.
- Pirate Impostor 1: I blame myself. Dave Seville hasn't pushed Alvin, Theodore and Simon hard enough.
- Wyatt: That's nice.
- Pirate Impostor 1: Dave hasn't worked Alvin, until he was too tired to form new thoughts or properly swallow his food!
- Wyatt: He took to domestic life like butter to a biscuit.
- Pirate Impostor 1: No longer, he could hit the broad side of a barn.
- Wyatt: He is still content for his harmonica and his friends.
- Pirate Impostor 1: Alright. Goodbye.
- Buccaneer Larry: Thank you all for attending today's festivities.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for...
- Buccaneer Larry: The maestro from Strawberryland.
- (Crowd claps)
- (Strawberry hops up to the ceremony, holding a sword. A knight dances to the music playing on a boombox. Alvin starts to succumb to the beat. He gradually works up to a feverly dancing pitch. Soon, they dance up a storm. Elliot and Sedgewick smile sheepishly at them.)
- Radio Announcer: And that was "The Worst Cooks in America" by Vanna Banana with a special guest appearance from the B.I.T.S. - the Boyz in the Sink. Up next is Alvin, Simon and Theodore with their debut single "The Pirates That Don't Do Anything". They came to a school to speak, they spoke at one of Washington D.C.'s famous National Prayer Breakfasts, and their song got nominated for an Annie award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival and was Oscar-nominated for the Best Direct-to-Video Animated Release at the 2001 World Animation Celebration.
- (As the crowd applauds, Strawberry mistakenly stabs the knight in the heart and nervously turns off the boombox.)
- Strawberry: I knight thee. (Crowd gasps) By the way, you three, who are you?
- Simon: Who... us?
- Strawberry: Yeah...
- Simon: I am Simon Seville.
- Alvin: I am Alvin Seville.
- Theodore: And I am Theodore Seville.
- Alvin: You know, our good friend is David Seville. Sadly, he died.
- Strawberry: Seems like you three have moved away from living with him.
- Simon Narrating: Strawberry held a root beer bottle, which she paid a dollar for at a local gas station. She stood on the harbor along with the people. She splashed the root beer at the stern of a boat on which many people were on. She also threw a candle at the boat. The flames climbed up each part of the boat as the people jumped overboard.
- Buccaneer Larry: Nice work.
- Townsperson 1: She's the big bad wolf afraid of.
- Simon Narrating: They threw her in a barber chair.
- Buccaneer Larry: Since you're filling in for Mr. Seville, can someone come in here and work on her please?
- Barber: I can see what I can do.
- Simon Narrating: The people wrapped a towel around Strawberry's waist. They placed a cheeseburger and a stuffed manatee in her invisible hands. They placed a big sombrero on her head and placed a pencil, a yellow legal pad that read "I Love My Lips", a doctor's cap, a ten-gallon hat, a high silk hat, a hairbrush and a slide projector on. A man known as Harold places his hickory hat on top of the smooshed high silk hat, and his fake handlebar moustache above Strawberry's upper lip. The stacked hats covered her eyes. They even gave her dark red lips.
- Strawberry: I can't see with all those hats! How'dja do that without shaving cream?
- Harold: Oh, it's a fake. I bought it at the party store.
- Strawberry: I gotta remove these! (Trips over a stack of rakes, and a sack falls on her and the cheeseburger and manatee fly out of her hands)
- (CRASH!)
- Gil: DOUGH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- (Cat screeches, boom-boom-boom)
- Gil: I'm taking out the trash.
- Captain Pa: I'm goin' back to Bathroom Town tomorrow.
- (Timecard "The following day...")
- Buccaneer Larry: Okay, sir. Hire some robot-versions of the Chipettes.
- Painter Carrot: That'll take all day!
- Buccaneer Larry: Then go pack a lunch. I'm giving you this lunchbox. Here's your machinery. I'm giving you the can.
- Simon Narrating: Alvin sat on a sofa, ready to write the script with Butterbun, Netterbaum, Fleagle, Bruckheimer and Cashberger.
- Alvin: Okay, bros. I'm ready. Open the line. (Holding a scroll and quill pen) Well hello, little boy. What do you like to do in your spare time?
- Kid 1: There was a boy, and a doll said "I want to play a game."
- Townsperson 1: I made a slideshow and sang a song about the people in it.
- Townsperson 2: When I was younger, I cried when I wanted a cheeseburger but the restaurant was closed so when they gave me the cheeseburger, I threw away the cheese. So my brother wrote a song about it and I was a poor little gourd who wants a cheeseburger but gets to "Burger Bell", one of my favorite fast-food chains right after they close.
- Townsperson 3: I got out of a bear trap by myself.
- Townsperson 4: Your "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie" has been copied by someone else. This is an emergency.
- Alvin: Okay then, but who copied the movie?
- Mr. Netterbaum: I think YOU did.
- Townsperson 5: I used to sing your witch doctor song and your chipmunk Christmas song when I was very little. And I still sing your pirate song in the car and the shower, Buccaneer Alvin. You're family were immigrants from Latin America. Same with Captain Simon's aunt and uncle and Buccaneer Theodore's cousins.
- Townsperson 6: You sang Mr. Seville's last song before he died. It was about throwing up in New York City, and the days you would spend choking on cheese curls and root beer 'round the corner. But it turned out that you were thinking of someone else.
- (Montage occurs. Alvin goes overboard with creativity. Mr. Netterbaum, Mrs. Butterbun, Mrs. Cashberger, Mrs. Fleagle, and Mrs. Bruckheimer all seem to be going along with the production.)
- Alvin: Whew! The interview is finished before the final bell. I need to use the bathroom. Once I'm done, Mrs. Cashberger, Mrs. Fleagle, Mrs. Bruckheimer, and Mrs. Butterbun, can you four send the interview out to the world? And can you get me a Mountain Dew while you're at it please, Mr. Netterbaum?
- Simon: (sighs and shakes his head in disbelief) Man, that about does it for me. I'm going back to Scotland to live in my parents' basement for twelve whole years eating cheese curls and drinking root beer. Adios, David Seville.
- Buccaneer Larry: Alvin has such a way with words. He is a great motivational speaker.
- Townsperson 2: Can I get a tube for my porridge?
- (Robot puts gas tank in head)
- (PLOP!)
- Townsperson 1: Sven! You little blob of jelly, when did you get in?
- Blob of Jelly: Mom says hi!
- Lady: Ooh-la-la! I live here now.
- Simon Narrating: They knew that girl lied. The Marigolds' name meant business. They were so rich their dungeon had a swimming pool, which was their supply of drinking water so they could last during each battle.
- TV Reporter: This just in: A zucchini who went by the name of Martin Marigold has broke out of jail and is planning to make the people all slaves. What can that do? When will this crime wave end? Can anyone defeat the evil?
- Strawberry: I can give it a shot.
- TV Reporter: Good choice, then.
- Ginger Snap: We're like cool adventurers, like the kind that sail the seas.
- Angel Cake: And the kind that defeat giants.
- Orange Blossom: And the kind that search for ancient relics.
- (Elliot hits his head on a big red sensor button next to a casino and speakers beeped. Sedgewick, George and Strawberry stood next to him.)
- Martin Marigold: (From the speakers and appears from a holographic projector) Excuse me, I have an announcement. People of Ninaborough, become very afraid. Unless you be my slaves, I will terrorize Ninaborough. As my slaves, do certain things for me. Get rid of all real, rubber, mechanical, and/or plush flowers, sheep, cattle and chickens. Any pictures of them, too. Throw away all your baseball outfits and play baseball in your regular clothes. Stack pyramids of sheep all day. Every morning, sing the "I Want to Die Becoming a Slave" blues. Flush your office supplies down the toilet. Throw your shoes out the window. Put your homework on fire. Give your food to the cats. Tell the dogs that they're bad. Throw eggs at an old man's house. Tear down all the monuments of Strawberry and build statues of me. Work on cliffs, paint roads and place rocks on top of other rocks. Cut the tops of flowers and throw them in the garbage. Pick up all the cheese on the pizza and burgers and throw it away. Put lemons on an old person's eyeballs. Sweep the dirt off all the stairs. Skateboard down the aisles of a supermarket. Write a book about racoons. Make a boat out of a race car and it will sink and everyone on board will die. Every night, stand by the cruise ticket booth wearing oversized ten-gallon hats over your eyes while holding bright lights. Anyone who disobeys these rules will receive two choices: a visit from Mayor Jimmy and me and then be cast into the belly of a whale or be thrown in the Dungeon of Bitterness! Now, be scared! Hahahahahahahaha! No one messes with me. And if anyone obeys and works on all those, Dave Seville will rise from his grave and that person will leave town. (Speakers and projector turns off)
- Buccaneer Lunt: (kneels down) No!!!!! (The camera zooms into his mouth)
- Strawberry: Oh, no.
- Buccaneer Larry: Don't get upset.
- Strawberry: Upset?! "Upset" is waking up and finding out somebody forgot to give you a bellybutton. "Upset" is finding out somebody stole your nose to play foosball. This isn't "upset", boys. This is panic. I'm two squirts from being history.
- Captain Pa: Don't you know how to have courage, miss? This is where you come in.
- (Meanwhile, Alvin and his two brothers ride on the back of a royal carriage. Alvin holds a scroll.)
- Alvin: Stop right there, horse.
- Horse: Rpbbpbpbf!
- Alvin: Guards, call everyone together for a staff meeting.
- One of Mr. Marigold's guards: Yes, sir.
- (Mr. Newter, Sheldon and a multitude of people enter)
- Alvin: First item tonight - has anybody got some posters we could put up of Mr. Marigold?
- Mr. Newter: What?
- Sheldon: You can't be serious.
- Alvin: Yesterday's plastic corrosion awareness meeting was a big success.
- Simon: Yup.
- Theodore: Let's all thank Mr. Newter for putting that on for us.
- Townspeople: Thank you, Mr. Newter!
- Mr. Newter: Don't mention it. Gotta get to canyon workin' tomorrow. So I'm heading to bed early. And I should feed my violent puppy before bed.
- Sheldon: Yeah, me too.
- Carl: Me three.
- Alvin: Uh, oh, yes. One, uh, minor note here: Martin Marigold moved into this island. Uh, next we have...
- Simon: What?
- (Crowd gasps)
- Theodore: What do you mean he moved to town? He hasn't been on vacation for like days!
- Townsperson 1: What's going on in his castle? Are his guards losing their marbles?
- Simon: Well, obviously, our message will get clear of them. You shouldn't be worried. We go through this even during tough times.
- Townsperson 2: Well, what if the king finds out if the Marigolds used the Chipmunks for crocodile bait?
- Theodore and Alvin: Nobody's gonna be doing that. Let's get to work putting up these posters.
- Simon Narrating: They stapled and hammered wanted posters of Martin Marigold. Several people used their hedge trimmers and did his lawn work. Wanted posters were everywhere - on barrels, cactus, tumbleweeds and even a bull's butt. Many people placed sandbags on their doors and went inside. One of them went on a picnic by himself.
- Alvin: You should throw some food from your picnic basket at me, Mr. Netterbaum.
- Mr. Netterbaum: I'd love to, but this food is for me. I'm going on a picnic. All by myself.
- Alvin: A night picnic? Really? I'm starting to chill. Mrs. Bruckheimer, can you throw one of your blankets at me?
- Mrs. Bruckheimer: Oh, okay. (Places a blanket on Alvin's back)
- Alvin: Oh, wow, thanks.
- Mrs. Bruckheimer: You're welcome. The rest of these. I'm gonna go take a nap.
- Alvin: Okay. Mrs. Fleagle, can you show that branch trimmer to me and cut some ropes to...?
- Mrs. Fleagle: Um... I'm gonna cut some people's fruits and vegetables.
- Alvin: Oh, ah, Mrs. Cashberger. Could you show your stilts?
- Mrs. Cashberger: I'm gonna go to work at the cliffs a little early. I'm bringing my puppy dog along. (tips her builder helmet)
- Alvin: Oh... (tips his baseball cap) So you're bringing your dog to work? Must be "Bring your pet to work" day. (plays his harmonica)
- Mrs. Cashberger: Come on, Jessie. You're getting heavy. See ya later, Alvin! (left)
- Alvin: Okay, then. Good luck!
- Martin Marigold: (staring at his palace) If you find them, bring them to me. This time I'll see it to myself they get hold of our slavery.
- Mayor Jimmy: (staring at his house) We should get ahold of them tomorrow morning.
- Angel: Hail mighty man of valor!
- Alvin: Aaah! You wanted to see me again?
- Angel: I just heard the news. You put up signs to stay away from him. You always did have a mind of your own! Tomorrow, you'll be introduced to the mayor. Get some rest. The mayor's sharp. Real sharp. I think you're really gonna like him!
- (The very next day...)
- Simon Narrating: Strawberry didn't sleep a wink that night. Neither did the Pirates, Alvin, Theodore and I. Ninaborough, of course, had suddenly become a scary-looking place, at least to a happy-go-lucky fella like her, who thought wearing no socks in January was living dangerously. All six con men knew we had to do something fast if they had to protect her from the dangers of his wild life. Two of them went with her to speak with the mayor. As you can tell, taking a look at the neon lights and doing what you want to do was a very special occasion. As for the pirates, Theodore, Alvin, I and Mr. Marigold, that occasion came around every Friday morning. But this turns everything around starting with a visit with the mayor in his office.
- Townsperson 1: Look at that!
- Townsperson 2: What?
- Townspeople: Wow, whee! Who is that? I hope she doesn't get that hat dirty.
- Buccaneer Larry: Guys, the people are looking at us.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Just ignore them. We'll be fine.
- Townsperson 3: I've never seen her before.
- Townsperson 4: Isn't that the scaredy-cat guy and that labor-saving device using guy?
- (The camera cuts to the wanted poster with the picture of Mr. Marigold in it)
- Townsperson 6: I've noticed her from somewhere. She's a really great guy.
- (Zip pan to a sign on a window saying "Ask your parents for a set of Mr. Marigold's gumdrop teeth!!!!! Get them for $16.95!")
- Townsperson 7: She's not even wearing black. Did you know she is the fastest girl in the world?
- (Cut to a billboard reading "Coming Soon: Marigold Paradise Amusement Park! Open 24/7!")
- Townsperson 8: Those guys have energy to power their heat lamps. I even got a lamp like theirs!
- (Pan to a set of TVs in a store with a banner reading "Mr. Marigold's TVs." All the TV sets had stills of Mr. Marigold on them)
- Townspeople: Good heavens. Who is she?
- Townsperson 5: Look at that. She must be a stranger.
- (Cut to a townsperson locking the door to the Mr. Marigold's record store. A record slipcase read "Mr. Marigold Sings Hip-Hop" on the windowsill.)
- Townsperson 9: (To man inside) I'm closing up for summer vacation, Jerry. I'll see you around autumn! (Packs up his luggage and leaves)
- Strawberry: (hops up to the mayor's office's doorstep) What's his deal?
- Buccaneers Larry and Lunt: Listen. (They look through a window)
- (Mayor Jimmy stares at a baby in a gold basket)
- Mayor Jimmy: Great granddad loves his little cuchi-cuchi-coo...
- The Mayor's Great-Grandson: Your talking is negatively affirmative.
- Mayor Jimmy: Yes, your mama's gonna be back soon you cutie, cutesy-coo... (gasps with a smile) Who's your favorite great granddad? Who's gonna be the mayor someday? (Did the baby talk while holding and rattling a multi-colored baby rattle)
- The Mayor's Great-Grandson: Oh, shut up...
- Buccaneer Lunt: What!?!? There's no way we're gonna let those people go free with the mayor's babbling. His great grandson is too young to talk. This is madness!
- Mayor Jimmy: Well, if Dave Seville knew how his life felt, he wouldn't care about his three boys.
- Strawberry: He wouldn't?
- Mayor's Daughter: He sure loved that place. He paid for all those statues they built of that Rhubarbarian.
- Mayor Jimmy: He commissioned this place before his death.
- Townsperson 1: He sure woulda want everyone to see it. I shoulda talked with him more.
- Mayor's Daughter: I'd like to take that lumpy pickle and teach him a thing or two.
- Townsperson 1: I'd weave his basket of peonies into a kettle of beans on toast!
- Strawberry: (opens the door)
- Mayor Jimmy, Mayor's Daughter and Townsperson 1: (turned and look at Strawberry)
- Strawberry: (stutters with emotions)
- (Elliot and Sedgewick arrived behind her)
- Buccaneer Larry: I'm sorry, we had to...
- Mayor Jimmy: Yes?
- (Stawberry whispers to Buccaneer Larry)
- (Buccaneer Larry whispers to Buccaneer Lunt)
- Mayor Jimmy: Wait a minute, you're two of those lazy pirates!
- Buccaneers Larry and Lunt: Yes, indeed.
- Mayor Jimmy: Isn't that boring?
- Buccaneer Larry: Beats our laziness.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Indeed, Jimmy.
- Mayor Jimmy: Who is that kind woman my daughter adopted? Did she come with you two or did she come alone?
- Buccaneer Larry: She is, Streben... Strebeanie?
- Buccaneer Lunt: Strawberry Shortcake.
- Buccaneer Larry: Strawberry Shortcake.
- Mayor Jimmy: Ya know how to talk, young lass?
- Buccaneer Larry: She's a bit... sly.
- Buccaneer Lunt: She prefers to let us speak for him.
- Mayor Jimmy: Well?!
- Buccaneers Larry and Lunt: Well, what?
- Mayor Jimmy: You forgot to buy a new backbone with your new pair of glasses, miss? (He turn around and saw Captain George with clown makeup and on a unicycle) Well, what do you want? I don't have all day.
- Buccaneer Lunt: This is what the Lord God says "Let my people go!"
- Mayor Jimmy: What's that?
- Buccaneer Larry: Let us go. Set us free. We want to leave. No more digging and stacking and doing the lawn work. Adios, amigo!
- Mayor Jimmy: Let you go?
- Buccaneers Larry and Lunt: God said so.
- Mayor Jimmy: Nice ukelele!
- Captain Pa: Whah...!
- Strawberry: (hopped back)
- Buccaneers Lunt and Larry: (hid behind a shelf)
- Mayor's Daughter: That's a "unicycle".
- Captain Pa: Boss, you are very dinkle.
- Mayor Jimmy: More dinkle than my brother? You mean the one with the bowling alley? Oh, I am more dinkle than him. (Captain George sprays water from a flower lapel into the mayor's face) Ouch!
- Captain Pa: Look up "dinkle." (The mayor's daughter pulls out a dictionary)
- Mayor's Daughter: Dinkle - a really unassociated word that means you are more willy. George, would you mind - if I join you and go on with, uh, uh, date with you? Uh, having dinner? During sunset? Or maybe we'll go dance? Sitting under the beautiful bright moon in a romantic balcony scene?
- Captain Pa: Sure, but my act will be in a few minutes. Mr. Mayor, I wouldn't tell you that you're very dinkle - more dinkle than your brother, so I can tell you this: That girl wanted to know why she was here. I know that God must have a reason. Perhaps he put her here for such a time as this. Perhaps, this is the reason. She'll never need to be afraid to do what's right. (Hops out the door) I'll pray for you. (Door slams) We'll all pray for you. (Hamlin approaches in his car-wagon) Uh-oh. I gotta get scarce. That guy hates me. (tips his pirate captain's hat) I'm late for my act! (left)
- Mayor's Daughter: So I guess we'll do that dating, later. How's that sound?
- Captain Pa: Okay. I'll send you a text message when I'm done with my act.
- (The mayor's daughter and Townsperson 1 left as Hamlin hopped in, dragging Molly inside)
- (Trumpets blowing)
- Carl: Make way for Professor Hamlin - the King's right-hand-man!
- Mr. Newter: I thought he was at summer camp.
- Sheldon: They must've kicked him out early this year.
- Professor Hamlin: Yeah, well; we'll just see what the mayor has to say about you, MacMolly.
- Mayor Jimmy: Yes?
- Professor Hamlin: A friend of hers does lots of failed attempts.
- Molly: I know it was true. That's silly of him!
- Professor Hamlin: Mayor Jimmy, you run this place like a sleepy old bear. (Throws Molly into a trash can) Come on, MacMolly. Get in the wagon.
- Mayor Jimmy: (pounding his mallet on desk) Tell it to the judge.
- Buccaneer Larry: Sedgewick, you must talk to her. Strawberry must talk some sense into this caper.
- Strawberry: I don't know, Elliot. I think it's a little too obvious.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Well, we're nervous too. If you don't tell the truth, the people will send you to battle.
- Simon Narrating: Strawberry was left with a decision if she told the truth to the queen or let the people kill her. Her mind stirred with thoughts and predictions. Finally, she made the choice to tell the truth to the queen.
- Strawberry: I'm gonna show the queen and Mr. Marigold who's boss.
- Buccaneers Larry and Lunt: That's the spirit.
- Strawberry: See you then.
- Buccaneer Lunt: I knew you'd catch on.
- Buccaneer Larry: We need to do all those things he told us in order to make Mr. Seville rise from his grave. Hamlin's sending Molly to court.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Elliot, do we have time to grab a sandwich or a soda for that quest?
- Buccaneer Larry: Hmm, maybe. I could really go for a bratwurst.
- (They exited the mayor's office)
- (Alvin, Theodore and Simon approach the mayor's desk)
- Simon: Mr. Mayor, Dave Seville has died and I'm living in my parents' basement.
- Mayor Jimmy: Where did you get your pirate captain's hat? And did you three forget that a person sang your pirate song in both the car and the shower? Send in the Peony Sisters!
- Alvin: The most wanted girls in Ninaborough. (Holds up a mugged poster of the Peony Sisters)
- (A guard brought in two girls that struck a resemblance to Angel Cake and Orange Blossom)
- Peony Sister 1: We bought a sword to school the day we came.
- Mayor Jimmy: Aha! You broke one of the everyday school guidelines - no bringing weapons to school.
- Alvin: What should the punishment be for those two dangerous criminals who brought weapons to school? They've been commiting my homicide to St. Paul, Minnesota - and all over the world because of that. What do you think, your Highness?
- Mayor Jimmy: They were born without any pants and they like to gnaw on car keys - their moms told them to act crazy and they came home from school one day with terrible report cards and they became the peony sisters - the most wanted girls of Ninaborough.
- Alvin: You don't mean...
- Mayor Jimmy: But I'm sure that would happen. Take them away!
- Guard: (drags them)
- Peony Sisters: (struggling)
- (Suddenly, Alvin notices something)
- Alvin: Hold this. (Puts his harmonica beside a fishbowl)
- Theodore and Simon: What are you doing?
- Alvin: I'm gonna teach them a lesson they'll never forget.
- Simon: Yeah, sure. Go ahead.
- Theodore: Go pelt them with dodgeballs.
- Alvin: (Readies a dodgeball but then... a gatling gun shoots a dodgeball at his back) Oof! (Hits a shelf and hits the ground. His cap and harmonica fly onto a toy shark.)
- Mayor Jimmy's Assistant: Nobody draws a dodgeball in the mayor's office but me.
- Alvin: Hey, who's got my cap? And my harmonica?
- Random toy shark: Hey look, I'm Alvin. Alvin Seville. I love my harmonica.
- Alvin: Give me those. (Puts his cap back on)
- Mayor Jimmy: Captain, arrest them and throw them into the Dungeon of Bitterness. (Theodore and Simon helps Alvin get up) And... throw away the key.
- Simon: We couldn't possibly. We're very busy with... cargo and stuff.
- Theodore: You know, pirates have to pillage and plunder and that really takes it out of you.
- Alvin: Yeah. And Mr. Mayor, are you looking forward to our lives as comedic swashbucklers and what are your thoughts about that sweet lady?
- Mayor Jimmy: I'm excited to see a possibly more edgier life for you three. Isn't that right, my great grandson?
- The Mayor's Great-Grandson: Yup.
- Mayor Jimmy: I once lived with glass bones and paper skin. My dad was born with glass bones and paper skin. My son was born with glass bones and paper skin. My wife was born with glass bones and paper skin.
- Alvin: Holy cow!
- Mayor Jimmy: Every morning, my dad, son and wife broke their faces. Every afternoon, they broke their butts. At night, they lie awake in agony when their fart attacks put them to sleep.
- Alvin: That's crazy.
- Mayor Jimmy: I once broke my face every morning, and my butt every afternoon.
- Alvin: (Holding his harmonica) That's exactly why I'm not getting angry over the idea of our new lives like everyone else is already because I'll admit to being a little skeptical based on the vague details of those twerps. That kind girl had that piece of wood I pulled off that tree.
- Mayor Jimmy: You might say this but (pulls out a book from Alvin's satchel) let me look through that history record. (Flips through pages) Great achievement, Alvin. Shiny metal can best your everyday foes. (Flips through page) Using a tool twister can give people great haircuts. (Flips through page) Well, whatever this is...
- Alvin: I think that is an iMunk or an Alv-Pad. SevilleDroid?
- Mayor Jimmy: Well, that iMunk or Alv-Pad or SevilleDroid could win anything with your foes. (Closes book) Yup. (Places book back in satchel) Your biggest attempt truly unbeatable will bring David Seville out of the dead. That's why - if that rhubarb isn't enough, you three will have the courage to do what is right and bring that zucchini guy and his slavery plan down.
- Alvin: (Places his harmonica back in his satchel) I also know what I can know about that sweet girl, although I have a feeling a lot of people won't like it.
- Simon: What about her?
- Alvin: If the time comes for me to find out who I really am, there'd be no doubt for her to worry about it.
- Theodore: Huh?
- Alvin: If she's not vegetable enough to stop Mr. Marigold, then we will! Theodore, Simon and me. Come with me. (He, Theodore and Simon throw the peony sisters out of the mayor's office.)
- Mayor Jimmy: Wouldn't that include...?
- Alvin: (He, Simon and Theodore leave the office) It's already decided. (Door falls) Let's go.
- Mayor Jimmy: What's all this? Not-So Great-Grandson! This is all your fault. (Bookshelf falls) Bad boy. You are in a big timeout!
- The Mayor's Great-Grandson: No, Great-Grandpa. You are in a big time-out!
- Mayor Jimmy: You are not even old enough to talk.
- Simon Narrating: Needless to say, our meeting with the mayor did not go well. But as for Strawberry, Elliot and Sedgewick, they thought the meeting went well. That afternoon, I threw the twin sisters in the Dungeon of Bitterness and I threw the key away.
- Simon: (Dragging the Peony Sisters) Get in there, you two! (SPLASH!) You need a nice long stay in solitary confinement! (Slams door and throws key in trash can)
- Simon Narrating: Strawberry sat on a bench. Several people were there. Many fell asleep. The bus took a long time to arrive. Some had their brains dribbled out all over the sidewalk they slept on last night. Others stayed up too late. Many carried pets and babies under their arms. Half of them jumped into their cars and drove away. Three-quarters of them boarded boats and headed out to sea. A few took briefcases.
- Mrs. Millionaire: How long will the bus come here? We're gonna be late for the big meeting in the top floor of that shiny building! You know, the sign they put reads "Town Meeting Today!"
- Townsperson 1: I'm gonna find out why she's kind. We need to weed Mr. Marigold out.
- Strawberry: (Pulls out walkie-talkie) Hey Elliot.
- Buccaneer Larry: You'll never guess.
- Strawberry: Hamlin captured Molly and sent her to court. Captain Simon sent an order to throw two girls in a dungeon. See that building there? It's the tall, shiny one. I'm going to the top floor of the building to sign a deal.
- Buccaneer Larry: Wow, yeah. What are you doing?
- Strawberry: I'm waiting for a bus.
- (Mr. Netterbaum and the rest of the town stare at Mr. Marigold. He screams at the top of his lungs. This, in turn, causes everyone else to scream.)
- (Mr. Spork is putting the finishing touches on his makeshift desk when he heard screams coming from Ninaborough again. He runs out of frame quickly as he can. Just as he escapes, a flurry of water falls down, destroying his desk again.)
- Martin Marigold: Why would they sing such distracting message? Simon, where are you? Si-Simon!
- Captain Pa: (arrives, with a fake mustache and glasses)
- Martin Marigold: You're not Simon!
- Captain Pa: Greetings, sir. You and the mayor are very dinkle - more dinkle than the mayor's brother. I have come with a oblivious message to get you and your gang out of here. If the mayor read this back, I can convince him to get you a pet spider.
- Martin Marigold: AAAAAAAAAAH! I'm scared of spiders!
- Captain Pa: Well, I can convince the mayor to give you a bigger paycheck.
- Martin Marigold: Eh... Paychecks are okay.
- Captain Pa: I think I could convince the mayor to send you and your gang to Egypt as salespeople.
- Martin Marigold: (screams) You better not send me to Egypt as a salesperson!
- Captain Pa: Like in a trap? You've drove your polka-school teaching up the pole again.
- Simon Narrating: Everyone was too distant to hear him screaming.
- Harold: (yawns, smacks lips)
- Alvin: I am no kid. There's lots I can do if they let me. I am NOT a kid. Same with my two brothers.
- (Bus arrives)
- (Strawberry and people get on the bus)
- Strawberry: Remember, Cuke, I'm going to the top floor to sign a deal.
- Alvin: You can call me "sir". You know, we three are no longer kids. We're grown up now. Compared to me, you are such a nice girl. (Notices bus leaving) The girl. Where'd she go?
- Simon: What girl?
- Alvin: She was just here.
- Theodore: She went to the top floor of that building.
- Alvin: I need to find out more. Where is she? How can I help? (Looks through a periscope) Aha! She's at the top floor of that shiny building.
- (Cut to Elliot and Sedgewick in the lobby)
- Buccaneer Larry: (relieved) Whew... that went well.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Well, what should we do to stop this case?
- Buccaneer Larry: To the archives.
- Simon Narrating: So they went to the information center. Three secretaries sat at their computers.
- Secretary 3: Hey, look. Look at the special for Friday.
- Secretary 2: That's a, uh, grease stain.
- Secretary 3: Oh, oh it is?
- Secretary 2: Yeah...
- Secretary 3: Wow!
- Secretary 2: Yeah...
- Secretary 3: I thought it was a scratch-and-sniff menu option. It made me hungry.
- Secretary 2: No. It smelled pretty good. It still smells like shrimp.
- Secretary 1: Did you see what the special is for Friday? It's fish!
- Secretary 2: Fish?
- Secretary 1: In a seafood restaurant!
- Secretary 3: But this is a recording studio, and not a restaurant.
- Secretary 2: So then why would the special be fish?
- Secretary 1: Because it's Friday!
- Secretary 2: Is it Fish Cordon Bleu? You know that's fish with cheese injected into it.
- Secretary 1: Like a corndog?
- Secretary 3: I-I went to Woodstock just to see those guys... Corndog Bleu. Man, you remember them?
- Secretary 2: Yeah, I do.
- Secretary 3: They were crazy, man. Remember their hit single, man, "There's Cheese in My Middle and It Wants to Get Out!" Oh, that was crazy man.
- Secretary 2: Yeah, "Squish Me, I'm Cheezy!"
- Secretary 3: No, that was their next album.
- Secretary 1: I mostly listen to Lawrence Welk. He did nothing cheese-related.
- Secretary 2: Yes, but very cheesy.
- Secretary 1: I have just one question: What is a Popcorn Shrimp? I mean is it Runt Shrimp, like Pygmy shrimp? Or are they pieces of shrimp?
- Secretary 2: I actually think it's a cockroach.
- Secretary 3: HOLY MACKEREL!
- Secretary 2: If tuna was chicken of the sea, that must make shrimp the roach of the sea. You know, cause its got that exoskeleton.
- Secretary 3: Right... Right...
- Secretary 2: And it was very small.
- Secretary 1: I once had an exoskeleton. I brought it for show-and-tell and I left it in my locker and was never seen again.
- Secretary 2: I had a friend like that, and he was nuts.
- Secretary 3: You know we're not making much just sitting around here.
- Secretary 2: Well, I could get you a coupon.
- Secretary 3: Is it CU-pon or COO-pon? Cause its Grey Poupon...
- Secretary 2: Grey Poupon, Grey Pu... No, but it's a green pupa!
- Secretary 3: Well that's got nothing to do with it cause its "ou". Or is it "uo"?
- Secretary 2: "O" after "U", except after "Chu!"
- Secretary 1: I don't know what you guys are talking about but I am going for more cheddar biscuits!
- Secretary 3: You gonna finish that one? It's like half a biscuit. There. You could, you, what do you mean? You got a stomach ache? From half a biscuit, you got a stomach ache, hey there's somebody coming in. Who do you suppose that is? A little candle just lit my napkin on fire. Okay. Could you scoot over? You're touching me. The line is right there. I put the tape by the duct tape. You don't cross the duct tape, or you'll know what I'll do. Yes. It's amazing, everyone wants to hire him 'cause he's so good. But they can't. Because he works here. Man, it's the four-o-one tame, I'm telling you. You can't get him away because he's so, you know, benefits. Stalking at the stalk options. Man. If I had a studio, I'd want to hire him.
- Secretary 1: That's a good point. I never thought about it that way. What I think about it - it is the case to be made for what you just said. Yes, I find them equally appealing as you do, my friend. But I don't know. Do you remember? No, you - you remember, yes, the one to broom that? Yes.... Oh yes, that was quite a time. I lost many cheese curls with a vacuum cleaner at the pool. Okay now. Well, I gotta go - I gotta go to the bets. I can't get out. Why didn't you ask to move? 'Cause I can't go under - look at this hat. I can't go under the table, I'm sorry I'd get gum on my hat. Yes, I know I don't understand the concept of personal space. I know people have been telling me that for what like 30 years now. But, you know, theoretically if I was in the Bible, I'd predate my misunderstanding for the concept of personal space. That's all I could say, I got nothing more to say about that. Hey, who's coming in?
- Secretary 2: I don't know. Let's go back to the boat and play Chutes 'n Ladders. I sure do like not doing anything. Do I look fat? I'm beat. I could just lay - could you scoot over to the next booth? I need to sleep.
- Alvin: Hello there. Mind if we come in?
- Bucccaneer Larry: That'll be all. Now get back to work.
- Alvin: But, I don't work here.
- Buccaneer Larry: Well, I'm not hiring either.
- Professor Hamlin: (Hopping in) Secretaries, unplug your computers and get in the wagon.
- (A man ushers Gil between Alvin and Simon)
- Man: Oh... sorry.
- Professor Hamlin: What's with him?
- Man: He's only hauling 20 wheelbarrows an hour.
- Gil: But I'm only 12!
- Man: 30's the minimum!
- Gil: I can't do that! I am a teenager.
- Man: 30's the minimum!
- Gil: You try 30 at my age.
- Professor Hamlin: Enough. You heard him - the rule is 30. And that goes for the people working on the cliffs, painting roads and placing stones on top of stones. And you are gonna dig without shovels or picks to boot.
- Secretaries: How are we going to do that?
- Professor Hamlin: You three will figure it out. And you six - Alvin, Elliot, Sedgewick, Simon, Theodore and Gil can go back and tell your people you just made their lives even more miserable. Now get back to work!!!
- Alvin: I TOLD YOU, I DO NOT WORK HERE!
- Buccaneer Larry: Now, everyone. It's time to watch those slave workers continue doing all the work. And all of you in here can eat your lunch as much as you can. Alvin will do his canyon guarding.
- (At the mines...)
- Simon Narrating: People got to work on the cliffs. Just as Mr. Marigold said. Everyone was ungrateful. (Two boys push a boulder) Professor Hamlin sold everything of the secretaries'. They were thrown in jail. He doubled the workload for the people working on the cliffs, painting roads and placing stones on top of stones. Many cliff workers wore construction outfits, drove construction vehicles and used their brushes to find fossils.
- (The cliff workers paint roads and put stones on top of stones)
- Strawberry: I hate canyon guarding.
- (The camera zoomed out and it shows Strawberry, Elliot, Sedgewick, Theodore, Simon and George watching them. Then it cuts to the front of Strawberry and the gang.)
- Buccaneer Lunt: Where is that silly red-studded guy? He's a quarter hour late for his canyon guarding!
- Strawberry: There has to be some way to stop this. I'll be making it best. I don't know what I was thinking.
- Buccaneer Larry: You're right.
- Alvin: (Stood guard of the workers) I guess I kinda did have everyone on my side in there.
- Simon and Theodore: Yeah...
- Buccaneer Larry: Or it bill you can't buy the app and they invited me over again.
- (A slave worker looks for a fossil)
- Alvin: (approaches him) According to my navi-computer, the...
- Slave worker 3: Oh! Alvin! You're my favorite deputy. (Kisses him) I'm so happy you're not a thief!
- Buccaneer Larry: I guess they most like me.
- Buccaneer Lunt: I'm sending one of Mr. Marigold's guards to tell the mayor that Alvin's late!
- Alvin: Hey there.
- Slave worker: (ignores) Hmmm.
- Buccaneer Lunt: They're kind of a bit snippy, are they?
- Buccaneer Larry: Oh, they're just working too hard.
- Alvin: What is up with those workers? (Turns and sees Harold)
- Harold: (struggling while he's pushing the wheelbarrow with rocks in it)
- Alvin: Here, let me help you.
- Harold: I do not need any help. (struggling to push his wheelbarrow)
- Alvin: I was just trying...
- Harold: Well, it's too late for that, isn't it? Must be nice growing up pampered in the Persian Empire, instead of being out here breaking your back along with the rest of your kin.
- Alvin: How did you know that?
- Harold: Well, you're wives told a few friends, and they told a few friends, and they told another few friends. I reckon everyone knows about this by now.
- Alvin: They do?
- Harold: Besides, you're the spitting image of all the kings and queens of Persia themselves. Course they'd be spitting if they saw you wearing that cap and sweatshirt, traitor.
- Alvin: What? How long do you have all that hair coming outta your nose? (Shows a picture of a fat version of Harold when he was 14. A construction worker with clown makeup on drove a bulldozer and turned his back on him.)
- Harold: This is a fake mustache. I bought it from the party store.
- Professor Hamlin: (Arrives) Everything okay here, Mr. Cuke?
- Alvin: Good day, mister. (tips his baseball cap) Everything is fine even when it comes to guarding canyons.
- Harold: Sure it's fine when Dave Seville was your great-grandfather. We all know your rightful place is down there.
- Professor Hamlin: (hops out of his car-wagon) He giving you a hard time?
- Harold: Yeah, what if I am?
- Professor Hamlin: Don't you dare talk back to me. (pushes the wheelbarrow)
- (Thud!)
- Harold: Ooph... (hopped backward as the wheelbarrow pushed him)
- Pirate Impostor 1: I gotta go. (Runs off)
- Professor Hamlin: No one talks back to me. Especially a low life descendant of all the kings and queens of Persia.
- Harold: Whoah, whoah...
- Alvin: Leave him alone, sir.
- Professor Hamlin: Looks like you need a little lesson in respecting your superiors. (tosses rock in the wheelbarrow)
- Harold: (His base went backward as he looked down with his eyes and he's at the edge of the wooden platform) Whoah, whoah...
- Alvin: Leave him alone, sir.
- Professor Hamlin: (tosses another rock in the wheelbarrow)
- Harold: (Looks down as he was about to fall off the edge) Whooooooooooah!
- (Alvin hops up to Hamlin)
- Harold: Mommy, help me! I am scared of heights! I'm gonna fall on a tent if you don't do something to save me!
- Alvin: Oh, ah, Carl. Can you show me your "How to Torture a Person Who Bullies People" book?
- Carl: Me? Sure... (Hands him book and left)
- Alvin: Why, thank you! It's a book from you and your super gravity belly, Carl. (Opens book) Step 1: To capture your enemy, grab some rope, nets and other supplies. Build a box to hold all of it in.
- Buccaneers Larry and Lunt: (gasp!) STOP! It's a trap!
- Harold: Either you make me fall off the cliff or you'll make me listen to my two favorite songs for 90 minutes - the witch doctor one and your chipmunk Christmas song.
- Professor Hamlin: Wanna bet?
- Alvin: (boldly) That's enough, Hamlin.
- Professor Hamlin: (was about to toss another rock when...)
- Alvin: Stop!!!
- Professor Hamlin: (looks at Alvin) Huh?
- Alvin: (Holds up trumpet and flashlight)
- Professor Hamlin: (chuckle slightly) Yeah...right. (was about to toss the rock)
- Harold: (Gulps) I can't look...
- Professor Hamlin: Oh no...
- Alvin: (blows into trumpet and shines a flashlight in Hamlin's face)
- Professor Hamlin: (Falls off cliff) Aaaaaaah!
- Alvin: How do you like them apples? (Takes the wheelbarrow and dumps rocks onto Hamlin)
- Slave workers: Alright! Yeah! Huzzah! Hallelujah, Professor Hamlin!
- Captain Pa: My, that was an awfully brave thing for you to do, Alvin.
- Alvin: Thanks.
- Slave workers: You buried him with rocks and boulders!
- Alvin: Why, he was gonna hurt Harold! I was helping him.
- Harold: (Sighs) That cucumber wrestled that gourd like he was dead meat. I'm coming home now.
- Strawberry: Not so fast.
- Slave workers: Ahh, we obviously do not know.
- Strawberry: I'm thinking I should send a order to the founders.
- Carl: We're not sure what you said, but I think that would be great. Don't you think so? What do you think?
- Strawberry: The punishment, my friend, will be - a complementary trip to the Hunger Games. (Hops off) With Tim Tebow!
- Alvin: If the Marigolds find out, I'm dead. C'mon guys, we're courageous. Nothing could stop us. You gotta hide me.
- Slave worker 3: Or what? You gonna whack us, too?
- Simon and Theodore: Don't worry, we got your back.
- (A pea soldier approaches wearing a mask)
- Slave workers: (Frightened) It's Tim Tebow!
- Pea Soldier: What's going on here?
- Alvin: Nothing, sir. I'm just guarding the canyon. Easier said than done!
- Pea Soldier: Canyon guarding, eh? In my younger days, I did the same thing as you did - becoming a canyon guardian taking care of the canyon and keeping an eye out on the workers and the people who visit the canyons. The person I worked with swore by some kind of igenous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks that were found on his front lawn.
- Alvin: That's fantastic!
- Pea Soldier: Come with me, Harold and pray before the games. Come on now. See ya around, silly pickle.
- Slave worker 3: Um, I am dildo.
- Pea Soldier: Whatever.
- Slave worker 1: Are you naked? (They looked down)
- Carl: I think Hamlin fell into the dust and dirt.
- Sheldon: Yeah. He's as good as roadkill.
- Mr. Newter: He ain't going to play the role of evil Haman in "Esther" now.
- Carl: Think about it. He'd say "You better hire someone else to play as Haman."
- Sheldon: He's not going to murder the Jewish people now cause he was killed in the valley below.
- Slave worker 1: He'd be like "Just get another guy to play the role of the king's right-hand-man."
- Simon and Theodore: If you guards are mean to Alvin and try to kill him, we will have your heads.
- Slave worker 2: Um, I'm not sure how'd that work.
- Alvin: Well... Mr. Newter?! I knocked Hamlin over the canyon. That was very courageous. (The slave workers confront him) What are you doing? (Nervously laughs)
- Mr. Newter: Well, if Hamlin's gang wanted to play this game, then the game is on, huh? I even had my puppy. It cut the ropes to get you down.
- Slave worker 1: That's nothing! He called us fat! (He and several slaves eat celery sticks)
- Carl: This was no accident.
- Slave worker 1: Huh?
- Slave worker 3: What do you mean?
- Carl: I mean MacLarry-Norrius was pushed.
- Sheldon: No!
- Carl: By Alvin!
- Slave worker 2: What?
- Mr. Newter: What?
- Alvin: Wait a minute. You-- you don't mean to knock Hamlin over the canyon, do you? Newter?
- Mr. Newter: That's "Mr. Newter" to you, you back-stabbin' murderer.
- Alvin: Now, it was an accident, guys, come on. You gotta believe me.
- Sheldon: We believe you, Alvin. Right Carl?
- Carl: Well, ye-- n-- I don't like confrontations.
- One of Mr. Marigold's guards: Alvin, where is your honor, dirt bag? You are an absolute disgrace. You don't deserve to wear a baseball cap on your pint-sized head. Let's go right after him and-- hey!
- Mr. Newter: You couldn't handle Hamlin escaping summer camp, could you, Alvin? Didn't want to face the fact that Mr. Marigold works with Hamlin. So you got rid of him. Well, what if Mr. Marigold starts working with me more, Alvin, huh? You're gonna knock me over the canyon too?
- Slave worker 1: I don't think we should give him the chance.
- Carl: There he is!
- Sheldon: Frag him.
- Slave worker 1: Let's tie him up!
- Mr. Newter: We'll cut his long hair. With my puppy dog.
- Slave worker 3: I've got dibs on his cap!
- Slave workers: Let's tackle him!
- Alvin: Help.
- Slave workers: Aaaaaaaaaaaagh! One, two...
- Carl: Wait! Don't throw him off the cliff.
- Alvin: (relieved) Yeah...
- Carl: Throw him down the valley like you did to Hamlin!
- (Ad lib angry dialog)
- Sheldon: This happens when you babysit the mayor's stupid great-grandson.
- Mr. Newter: You're not supposed to be babysitting him.
- Carl: You are a foolishly strange babysitter, Alvin.
- Simon: Guards, didn't I tell you that if you are harsh to him...
- Theodore: ...we will have your heads?
- Buccaneer Larry: (looks at the workers who were still working. He pulls out a megaphone) Retreat!!!
- Strawberry: This changes everything. I didn't know they had to be physical. (Hops off)
- Simon: Uh, if you all don't mind, Theodore and I are gonna watch from a different view.
- Buccaneer Lunt: That's right. Run away, slaves. (Goes down the cliff and hops onto wooden platform) And leave Alvin Seville alone. (Wheeling around) And who left that wheelbarrow there? (Knocks the wheelbarrow off)
- (Cat screech)
- Buccaneer Lunt: Alvin had knocked my evil twin brother off the canyon and that was courageous of him. Now leave, him alone. You're all brave thieves and bandits and naives and... (Throws many of their construction equipment, shovels and various items down cliff) You guys are crazy. (Takes Alvin's cap off)
- Alvin: (gasps, then chokes and inhales) How dare you take a good man's hat off in an uncharted town? (Puts cap back on)
- Buccaneer Lunt: You actually think - you're the Queen Esther?! Guys, look! It's the Persian girl who became queen!
- Alvin: You're mocking me.
- (Later that evening...)
- Simon Narrating: Now, don't get me wrong. Showing up uninvited before the mayor was a very brave thing to do. But telling the guards that Mr. Marigold is a werewolf is especially difficult.
- (Strawberry locks her door)
- Townsperson 1: Evening. Strawberry, could I afford you into some cute little robo-cowboy cops?
- Strawberry: Wait a sec... is that a robot and a cowboy?
- Townsperson 1: And a cop. It's from the new movie. I could also afford you into his robo-horse-mobile.
- Townsperson 2: What about this here bag of money?
- Townsperson 3: What's the word?
- Simon Narrating: Things got tense. The stand-off distance stretched on as Strawberry sat with Larry and Mr. Lunt. Several people pulled up couches to watch. Firefighters came. Television crews arrived.
- Buccaneer Larry: If you don't stop the slavery, your life may cut off.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Those people will lose their jobs.
- Simon Narrating: You got that right. You will notice what the people are doing to that old building, too. They went bankrupt, they sold it, they shut it down and they destroyed it in a huge fire.
- TV Reporter: Attention, attention. This just in: Martin has hired pirates. This is the TV reporter, signing off. See you then tomorrow. Aloha!
- Sarah: Well, what did Strawberry do because of this?
- Simon Narrating: Well, never before; she gotten a message that she really wanted to deliver. She didn't know what to do. And just like that, someone lit a candle and placed it on the rooftop of the factory causing it to burn down and the workers inside all packed their bags, cleaned out their offices and left, frustrated and disappointed. Get lost, workers. You're fired. Go on. Scram. Get outta here.
- Worker 1: You were gonna sell.
- Worker 2: After all of our hard work. On the late nights!
- Simon: Yup. G'bye. Adios. Hasta la vista. Ciao. Sayonora. Buncha nachos.
- Worker 3: Seller.
- Worker 4: Thanks for the lies, Mr. Fairytale.
- Worker 5: Let's go waste our time somewhere else.
- Simon: If Strawberry had the courage, they'll never know.
- Strawberry: I guess that coulda been worse. That factory is destroyed. I need to find out more.
- (She scurries up the balcony of Mr. Marigold's palace)
- Simon Narrating: Strawberry looked through some coin-operated binoculars and saw all her friends. They were all clowning around. The pumpkin-headed children, the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, even the Chipettes.
- Strawberry: Gotcha! Time to do my duties.
- (Strawberry runs into a cruise sign which read "See the World - Friends and Family Cruise")
- Ticket Man: Ticket please, ma'am. There's nothing like a cruise to clean the sand outta wicket, eh?
- Strawberry: I'm goin' to Tarship.
- Ticket Man: Ha-ha! It's the other end of the world.
- Strawberry: Awesome.
- Ticket Man: If ya had all the money, no one around here will sail all the way to Tarship. Not even those girls over there.
- (Mysterious music plays as a silhouette of an elegant-sized pirate ship sails into view. The boat had lots of leisure stuff and tiki lights were strung every end. The boat sailed at high knots per hour.)
- (Transition to people jumping on board with Alvin, Simon and Theodore as the boat leaves)
- Simon Narrating: What a difference it took. Mr. Marigold saw Strawberry as we were leaving the harbor.
- Martin Marigold: That young girl is in big trouble. If I ever see your face and those Chipmunks' faces in this town again, I'll put them in the Dungeon of Bitterness. And the rest of you, too!
- (Elliot bumps into a trash can)
- Blob of Jelly: (pokes out of trash can) You're both forgetting you have the protection of a powerful wizard, here!
- Simon Narrating: So Sedgewick, Elliot and Mr. Marigold all commanded many people to row ashore.
- Townspeople: Goodbye, guys and gals! I hope it goes well for you. Say hi to the queen for me!
- Buccaneer Larry: (sadly) What happened to you, the girl of my dreams?
- Simon Narrating: Even though we never sailed before, we took it like a fish to water.
- Strawberry: It's gonna be champagne wishes and caviar dreams from now on!
- Boat Crewmen 1 and 2: Some sailors went to poop.
- Alvin: (Throws a dodgeball at the ship's cook) I hate you.
- Guy with Black Hat (Jude), Karen and Reuben: (Voice-overs) We agree with you, Mr. Cuke.
- Boat Crewman 1 and 2: Some sailors went to CiCi's Pizza, to see what they could see.
- Simon: Tell them the truth.
- Ginger Snap: Speak to the fire god.
- Alvin: Wait, if those grapes in the hold were evil, wouldn't they already know? So that meant... they're the Peaoni Brothers - the most wanted peas in Persia.
- Simon Narrating: So I went to talk with the fire god in the captain's quarters. I should convince him to bring the light of our world back at the time. Once we were finally out to sea, Strawberry went below deck to rest a bit.
- Buccaneer Lunt: I have a weird feeling that she isn't done wrecking our boat in a huge rainstorm. I'm figuratively speaking, of course.
- Buccaneer Larry: Me too.
- Painter Carrot: What?
- Woman on Voice: The police man is behind the billboard.
- Painter Carrot: Oh, that loser again?
- (Policeman holds a box. He opens it and three pirates stand in.)
- Pirate Impostor 1: This doesn't look good.
- Pirate Impostor 2: I think I'm gonna be sick!
- Pirate Impostor 3: My heart will explode!
- Police Chief: Come on, you guys. (Sings first lines of Pirates who don't do anything song)
- Painter Carrot: It's kinda weird though that a man would say he wants to stay home and lie around. I have dinner to go to.
- Simon Narrating: But just as that painter came over to someone's house for dinner, it was too late. Buccaneer Larry caught the painter carrot and the impostors.
- Buccaneer Larry: You're coming with me.
- Police Chief: (spits out coffee) What'cha doing!?! You're ruining the billboard, Miss Shortcake!!!! No!!!!! Oh, Lord; why did you let this happen!?! Get your filthy hands off of that carrot, that tomato, that gourd and that asparagus, Miss Shortcake!!!!
- Simon Narrating: Buccaneer Larry threw them into the slammer.
- Pirate Impostor 1: Like Pa, Larry and Mr. Lunt, we're not cool pirates.
- Pirate Impostor 2: Like the kind that rob and pillage.
- Pirate Impostor 3: And swordfight people, swab the poopdeck, and search for buried treasure.
- Simon Narrating: I wonder what (Cut to ship hold) Strawberry is up to...
- (Strawberry throws down a bag and sits down on a bench)
- Simon Narrating: That was a very silly surprise. The bag just talked. She threw the bag onto a barrel, and out came... peas!?!
- Jude: Allow us to introduce ourselves. I am Jude, the smartest one.
- Karen: I am Karen, the awesomst one.
- Reuben: And I am Reuben, the chubbiest.
- Strawberry: Nice to meet ya. Now, where is this ship going?
- Jude: Tarship.
- Karen: One time, our uncles were tortured by the city official.
- Reuben: That's surprising.
- Karen: I know that.
- Jude: At we yet in the lagging many modeling.
- (Strawberry groans)
- Karen: What's wrong there?
- Jude: There is a man in that palace. A beautiful young leek? He is waiting there for you.
- Karen: Would that be either Alvin, Simon or Theodore?
- Reuben: No, it had something to do with his body shaped like a dog.
- Jude: You were promised to be married, but your life is now in the way.
- Karen: The man's mother is the head of an international league of bandits.
- Jude: So, this day, you sail there and break the back of them which will break the heart of that guy.
- Reuben: Let's go help the League find someplace on this boat to sleep for the night.
- Strawberry: And can you get me a glass of strawberry juice while you're at it?
- (White limbo. Strawberry walks across. Everything is mysterious.)
- Strawberry: Yes. Which way is Tarship?
- Ticket Man: (Croaking) Right this way. You can't miss it.
- Strawberry: Thanks. (Hops off)
- Random Angel: (O.S.) Strawberry?
- Strawberry: Hmm? Who is it?
- Random Angel: (O.S.) I'm very disappointed in you.
- Strawberry: Oh, hey. I'm gonna...
- Random Angel: (O.S.) Very disappointed!
- Strawberry: I can't hear you.
- Random Angel: (O.S.) You've lost the spirit of Christmas!
- Strawberry: But Lord, you don't understand. (Notices she is in standing water) Oh boy. I'm drowning!
- Random Angel: (O.S.) STRAWBERRY!!!!!
- (Dream ends)
- Ginger Snap: Strawberry? Strawberry?
- Strawberry: I'm drowning!
- Ginger Snap: C'mon wake up! We're in a storm like I've never seen before. If we don't do something quick, we're gonna sink!
- Mr. Malab: (scoffs) Didn't I at least tell you to get off my ship, you lousy leaf-eaters!
- Karen: Yes, but you see; we're gonna break the back of those bandits. I love crimefighting.
- Mr. Malab: If it ain't for this, I'll drop a piano on your head! We're gonna be fish food if I don't get help.
- Jude: How do you feel about an indoor pool?
- Ginger Snap: Somebody up there must be really upset with somebody down here.
- Alvin: (leaning over the edge of the boat) Oh great. How am I gonna convince those workers it was an accident?
- (Then something caught his eye. Raspberry Torte and Rainbow Sherbert sit around a folding table playing a board game - something similar to Trivial Pursuit. The ship rocks violently and the two girls and their table slide up and down as they play.)
- Raspberry Torte: This is our first attempt to make that for the bowling alley. Let's do this.
- Rainbow Sherbert: Make this an easy question.
- Raspberry Torte: Okay. (reads from card) 'If you became a millionaire, what would you have?'
- Rainbow Sherbert: Oh, I think I know that one! It's... "You'd have a house, a car, and the right to own lots of land if you got a lot of money."
- Raspberry Torte: Very good.
- Rainbow Sherbert: Now, here's the tricky part. (reads from a card) 'What is your full name?'
- Raspberry Torte: I think I know that one. It's - "I'M GOING TO TICKLE YOU!"
- Rainbow Sherbert: Um, 'I'm going to tickle you.' isn't an answer. You are one cheating lady.
- Raspberry Torte: So, how am I supposed to cheat at this? My name is Raspberry Torte.
- Rainbow Sherbert: That's a relief. So your name isn't "I'm going to tickle you." It's "Raspberry Torte."
- Alvin: (he and Theodore approach) Hey, girls. What's shaking?
- Rainbow Sherbert: We're doing a little game to find out who the reason for the storm is. This will be for the bowling alley. Raspberry's teaching me that who would be the reason for this storm and that needs to be thrown into the sea. Would you like to do it?
- Alvin: Uh-huh.
- Raspberry Torte: Okay.
- Alvin: (Reads from a card) "Have you ever met a real dragon?"
- Rainbow Sherbert: Oh, I think I know. Hmm... I don't know.
- Alvin: (rips card in half)
- Theodore: Let me try. (reads from card) "Would you see what the back of your own head looks like?"
- Rainbow Sherbert: Uh, no...
- Theodore: You know the brain and spine are part of the telegraph system.
- Raspberry Torte: Back to that name thing... I thought for sure it was "I'm going to tickle you."
- Rainbow Sherbert: Uh, no.
- Alvin: (throws a card into the sea) You're going overboard. Say goodbye to the parents, friends, and teachers.
- Simon: Alright, you! Game over. Shuffle us up and deal us in. (all the crew approach) The way I see it, is the reason for this big rainstorm. Someone up there is real upset with someone down here. It ain't gonna let up 'till we know who that someone is. It could be any one of us. Get your game on! Loser takes a swim! Now you might say, things were going pretty well for me, Alvin and Theodore. After all, we saved a man's life from falling off the cliffside. But Mr. Marigold and his posse had something else up their sleeves. Or wherever. You see, nothing could be worse for him, that for me, Alvin and Theodore to be on the mayor's good side. We were making sheepish answers.
- Raspberry Torte: How old are you today?
- Theodore: Blue.
- Rainbow Sherbert: Whom do you adore?
- Simon: Four.
- Raspberry Torte: Who is the youngest person in your family?
- Simon: Your siblings.
- Strawberry: Oh boy.
- Jude: I am most desperate for this.
- Karen: Me too.
- Reuben: Count me in.
- Simon: Next.
- Alvin: Drat!
- Theodore: I hope this goes for the wedgy.
- Ginger Snap: Make this a little easy.
- Theodore: Alright. "Who was the youngest Jackson?"
- Ginger Snap: Janet.
- Angel Cake: Who do you think you become so bright.
- Orange Blossom: Billions and billions!
- Blueberry Muffin: Your great ancestors!
- Annie Oatmeal: Yo, mama!
- Lemon Meringue: Radio Stuff-Mart!
- Simon Narrating: Then Mr. Malab lost.
- Mr. Malab: So she got on here. I'm afraid the only thing left is to be thrown into the sea.
- Strawberry: Goodnight, sir. Nice knowing ya.
- Alvin: You've been mostly entitled for a refund.
- Karen: Underneath the circumstances, you know, with you dying and all.
- Ginger Snap: Not so fast. I suggest we use a Jupiter 1600 horsepower, high octave, dual-propeller pull-ignition boat motor with the optional chrome trim package. It can get you back to where you were.
- Karen: I'll explain how this works. It appears that one just pushes the black bubbly thing and pulls the cord.
- Alvin: That would be dangerous. (Everyone turns toward him angrily) Simon, Theodore and I will be watching from a safe distance.
- (Just then, the propellers catch the surface of the deck of the ship. Wood chips fly as the spinning blades propel the engine all the way across the decks - ripping a trail in the planks. Cut to shots of the propeller chasing characters through screen. They gulp as the motor follows. It then crashes through the ground rail on the bow of the ship and drops in the sea.)
- Simon Narrating: That's the final time we're ever gonna get a boat motor. The storm grew higher. The girls tied Mr. Malab up. We cried out to God: Oh, Lord; please don't let us die for this man's sin.
- Theodore: And don't hold us responsible for his death because this isn't our own fault.
- Alvin: Oh, Lord; you have sent this storm upon him for your own good reasons. Amen.
- Simon Narrating: So we took Mr. Malab, pushed him overboard and the seas were calm again. (A group faint) We tried to pull him back on board. A shark then swallowed him whole. (The group cry) Many people lost hope.
- Raspberry Torte: I hate sharks. This is gonna be the worst day of that old sour Mr. Marigold's life. (To Captain Simon) Won't it, sir? We shall keep doing today and we need to get him out of here.
- Blueberry Muffin: Somebody up there must be really upset with somebody quite down here. And that "somebody" is... the Captain Malab himself.
- Rainbow Sherbert: Do you remember that song your grandfather used to sing, Alvin?
- Alvin: Umm... You mean the one about having strength and not having to be scared? Yeah, I remember that one.
- Rainbow Sherbert: Good. Well, let's hear it.
- Alvin: If you haven't noticed, the world has come to the dark.
- Rainbow Sherbert: And - the whole thing.
- Alvin: You should have faith in your everyday lives.
- Rainbow Sherbert: It's true. Precisely.
- Alvin: In case you haven't heard, the world will be back on track, we will go with the flow and have the courage to do what's right.
- Rainbow Sherbert: And the big finish!
- Alvin: And when things get back at the right time, we will follow God's strength and his directions.
- Rainbow Sherbert: Great. Excellent. I'm gonna be singing that song myself as we...
- Lemon Meringue: Tell the shark to get off the boat! (Shot a tennis racket, a rubber mallet and a bowling ball from a cannon) And if you don't, then eat up that masked girl too.
- (When the bowling ball hits the shark, he falls back into the sea)
- (Raspberry and Rainbow return to the table.)
- Raspberry Torte: Are you sure it wasn't "I'm going to tickle you?"
- Rainbow Sherbert: No way.
- (Alvin shakes his head in disbelief)
- Simon Narrating: Even the best bloodhound in the world hits a dead end sooner or later. Another one of those wise guys once said that in the moment of truth, a great person doesn't have to think about much about what they're gonna say or do - they just speak and do what's right. Meanwhile, something entirely less noble went on in that ruckus in that little town over there. The slaves were still in grave danger.
- Chog: Ready, fellas?
- Pirates: OK, sir.
- Chog: One, two, three, one, two, three...
- Pirates: We are the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. We just stay home...
- Chog: Hold it, MacLarry. You're a little flat. Let's try it again.
- Pirates: ...And lie around. And if you ask us to do anything...
- Chog: Hold it, MacLarry.
- Buccaneer Larry: (sadly) We'll just tell you... (Smiles a bit unconsciously)
- Chog: Well!?!
- Buccaneer Larry: I'll tell you what, Dad. Let's take a break.
- Chog: Take a break!?
- Buccaneer Larry: Have... we met?
- Chog: MACLARRY! Ready, fellas?
- Buccaneer Lunt and Captain Pa: Ready whenever you are.
- Buccaneer Larry: What's up with Strawberry? What's up with her? You make think it's true.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Does anybody know why?
- Buccaneer Larry: By now, my too friends. It's very simple. (Pulls out photo wallet) Since 1984, her strategies are clear. (Photo of Strawberry as a young girl)
- Strawberry: Do you think I'm that kind?
- Buccaneer Larry: Hang on! You are not even old enough to talk.
- Strawberry: You better make me quiet.
- Buccaneer Larry: Shh!
- Strawberry: Sorry.
- Buccaneer Larry: And she dignified herself into (As the song progresses, we zoom down through pictures) becoming a true princess. (Photo of Strawberry looking at a clipboard. Alvin, Carl, Sheldon and a few people work out.) She has been working out.
- Mr. Newter: Okay - it's time. Time for the sauce.
- Carl: Um... Uh... what?
- Mr. Newter: It's time for the sauce.
- Carl: Oh. Okay. What do you do?
- Mr. Newter: I'm trying to lift the weights.
- Carl: But what kind of sauce you think it's time for? Tomato sauce? Applesauce? Mushroom sauce? Barbecue sauce?
- Mr. Newter: Not just any kind of sauce, no. A special sauce. An exercising sauce! (Tries to lift weights but his head pops out.) Huh?
- (Strawberry scribbles wildly on the clipboard, so wildly her glasses fell off her head.)
- Carl: I'd prefer that calls for a helping sauce. I think the insides of those dumbells are made of just squeezable jelly. I know it's still time for the sauce. Sheldon, would you mind? Hand me one of those ketchup bottles.
- Slave worker 1: Nope. Not gonna do it.
- Alvin: Pour the ketchup on Mr. Newter and make sure that he wouldn't laugh, Sheldon. Hmm... he'd better not laugh.
- Sheldon: He'll get ketchup on and like it. (Pours ketchup on Mr. Newter)
- (People laughing from offscreen)
- Mr. Newter: What are you doing? Aaaah! I'm going to murder you!
- Slave worker 1: (Runs out) Nooooooooooooooo! This can't be happening to me!
- Strawberry: (sighs) I'm sorry, Mr. Newter. (Hands him report card) You have failed again.
- Mr. Newter: I got another bad report card again. My parents are so ticked off so they'd give my belongings away.
- Strawberry: I think your parents would overreact a bit by doing that, but I suppose it motivated you not to come home with another bad report card again.
- Buccaneer Larry: But if you thought, people like her a lot.
- (Elliot and Sedgewick hop into the elevator as George jumps out of a window. George jogs to the gates of Ninaborough but was hit by a bus and thrown into the window of a casino.)
- Casino Owner: Aww, come on! I just put a new window there.
- Buccaneers Lunt and Larry: Because of that friendliness, you're giving me the creeps. The royal city of Ninaborough is where she'll sleep.
- Buccaneer Larry: Perhaps (A guy comes in with a royal seal) this... will clear things up.
- (He places his royal seal onto an edict with a bang.)
- Buccaneers Larry and Lunt: For that kind girl.
- (Big instrumentation continues as they run out of the lobby with the edict. They posted it on a wall.)
- Buccaneer Larry: Ha!
- Buccaneer Lunt: Because with her cordialness and niceness going around her...
- Offscreen Choir: What is up - with her, any way?
- Simon Narrating: Yes, no one could figure out what they were up to. Along with a few people, Mr. Lunt and Larry followed Strawberry all the way to the light factory palace.
- Buccaneer Larry: Sedgewick and I are gonna stop this foolish case. Have you seen that girl? (Shows people the edict showing a bunch of people who look very much like Strawberry.)
- Townsperson 1: Those Chipmunk fellas weren't in danger.
- Mayor Jimmy: We need to keep an eye on them, Mr. Marigold, and of course, my great grandson. (falls asleep on his desk)
- Buccaneer Larry: He's right.
- Captain Pa: Sail to the Light Factory palace and call the calvary.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Aye, aye... Captain Crunch!
- (Captain Pa growls)
- (Buccaneer Larry snickers as he and Lunt head to the cruise ticket booth)
- Captain Pa: Call me that one more time, and I will make you work for your great Martin Marigold!!!!!
- Kid 2: What? They're the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything!
- Buccaneer Larry: 'Cuz since we've done all the things the Marigolds suggested, I think now would at least be a good time to get the money for those operations.
- Kid 3: Why should we help three pirates get operations? We've got better work to do around here!
- Molly: I know what you mean.
- Captain Pa: (chases patrons from a dollar store. He replaces a few letters and turns it into "Polar Store")
- Patrons: (race back in)
- Turnip 1: (scares patrons from a mall away and destroys it with a gun)
- Turnip 2: (throws a cart into a window)
- Turnip 3: (rips stamps off, then laughs evilly)
- Buccaneer Lunt: (through a megaphone) Enough pillaging and plundering.
- Buccaneer Larry: (through a megaphone) Attention, ladies and gentlemen; I have an announcement. Sedgewick and I are rounding up a search party. We're keeping these lists of clues. (Mysterious oohs and ahhs are heard) Who's with me?
- (Chorus of agreement)
- Simon Narrating: Meanwhile, the captain pouted. Then angels came and comforted him through song.
- (Timecard "The next, NEXT night.")
- (Mysterious score plays as Karen, Reuben and Jude were complaining around a fire.)
- Karen: I can't believe why Hamlin's car-wagon thing was installed to a spark plug yesterday.
- Jude: Mais oui!
- Reuben: That was humiliating!
- Jude: So you're all curious about that story.
- Reuben: We were sailing.
- Karen: We fell out of a fisherman's boat and mermaids saved us before we drowned.
- Jude: We landed in Hamlin's lap and we wrestled him like we were in a dohyo.
- Karen: I know that he was really upset because he was only protecting his schemes.
- Jude: And yeah, he bullied Huckleberry since college.
- Reuben: The bullying started when Hamlin switched the gummy fish in Huck's lunches with real fish.
- Karen: What are you talking about?!
- Jude: What do spark plugs and gangsters gotta do with...hey, you don't mess with another man's spark plug!
- Reuben: Then go lick one, then!
- Karen: Go back to where you came from, pirates. Alright, if you don't want to get rammed into that boat, then you'll listen what I need to say. Reuben, better climb up to the crow's nest, get a megaphone and get the captain's attention. Alvin, reel in your message. Judah, you help me steer.
- Simon Narrating: (darkly) Well, the captain turned dead... and the Marigolds wouldn't listen. And the big sharks spread and they still wouldn't listen. And the big oceans come, and the Marigolds wouldn't hear it. And the people turned scarce, and they still didn't fear it. And the scaries came up in every dimension and the storms blew in still they wouldn't pay attention.
- Townsperson 1: Hey, Blackberry the Pirate Ship Wrecker, you dead yet? Or are you gonna wait until you free those people? (Goat maa's)
- Simon Narrating: But I, Buccaneer Alvin, and Buccaneer Theodore had something else in mind. We were fighting to keep the ship steady. Judah took Mr. Malab's seat as Karen sat beside him. Reuben climbed up the crow's nest, and grabbed a megaphone to get the captain's attention.
- Karen: Judah, let me know if you see anything in our way.
- Jude: Got it. Rocks. (Swerves to the left)
- Reuben: This is an important resolution: No one has heard of Mr. Marigold in days. No more of those mamsy-pamsy pleasantries.
- (Raspberry Torte and Rainbow Sherbert sat around the table still playing Trivial Pursuit. Rainbow Sherbert holds up a card.)
- Rainbow Sherbert: Okay, this is for the bowling alley.
- Raspberry Torte: It's for the bowling alley?
- Rainbow Sherbert: Uh-huh.
- Raspberry Torte: Make it an easy one.
- Rainbow Sherbert: Okay... (reads from card) 'Who was the youngest kaiu?'
- Raspberry Torte: Oh, I think I know that one! It's a... wasn't that ahh... Tito? Yeah, Tito!
- Rainbow Sherbert: Save the witty bloopers. I've heard them all. The youngest kaiu is...... Tito. You got that right.
- Raspberry Torte: Oh, I'd love to meet him someday. I love kaius!
- Boat Captain: Buccaneer Alvin, there's a bill saying that you need to pay for the damaged motor you bought.
- Simon Narrating: So Buccaneer Alvin nervously took the paper. He, Buccaneer Theodore and I stared in amazement at the price which was written on there.
- Theodore: Eight trillion, twelve billion, twenty-nine million, forty-eight thousand, and fifty-six hundred cents. That's more than what we paid them to install the motor on the ship.
- Boat Captain: For pirates that don't do anything, they sure do get into a lot of crazy situations. (Gets swallowed by a shark)
- (A cannonball fires past Reuben)
- Reuben: Oh, my!
- Calvin the Grumpy: Drop your sails and prepare to be boarded! This be Calvin the Grumpy, terror of the Seven Seas! And these are my men, Alfred the Dopey, Seymour the Happy, Trevor the Sleepy, Jonah the Sneezy, and Esther the Doc. I'm giving you to the count of five to drop your sails, or we'll send you to the bottom.
- Alfred the Dopey, Seymour the Happy, Trevor the Sleepy, Jonah the Sneezy, and Esther the Doc: (laugh)
- Jude: I will lock you all up in... (Yawns) Whatever nasty place they came from.
- Karen: (Rubs her eyes)
- Reuben: Is that like the regular dungeon but with a cistern and bitterness?
- Alvin: Geez, it's sad to not face your fears. I think I'm gonna be sick.
- Simon: I wouldn't teach Elliot how to be himself. He can throw up.
- Theodore: He wouldn't tell the peony girls to make their lives miserable.
- Calvin: Five....
- Reuben: Drop the sails.
- Calvin: Four....
- Jude: They're bowline knots. Break the back of them.
- Calvin: Three...
- Karen: The rabbit goes around the tree twice, then down the hole.
- Alfred the Dopey: I have a rabbit at home.
- Trevor the Sleepy: My pet rabbit went around a tree twice, it jumped into a hole and then it died.
- Seymour the Happy: Man, I used to have a rabbit which had a personality similar to Elliot's. That rabbit didn't go around a tree twice and never jumped into a hole. So my family had it sent out twelve days ago.
- Jonah the Sneezy: It's the same one Captain Malab had. Now he was swallowed by a shark.
- Esther the Doc: I love bunny rabbits!
- Trevor the Sleepy: I never did like bunny rabbits.
- Jonah the Sneezy: Me too.
- Alfred the Dopey: I think getting a puppy dog is more better.
- Karen: Get the rabbit outta the hole.
- Calvin: Two and a half...
- Reuben: What rabbit?
- Calvin: Two!
- Jude: The rabbit, the middle, the hole.
- (Reuben nibbles the ropes)
- Calvin: One!
- (The girls' boat grabs Calvin's ship with a red levitation beam)
- (Mens' choir)
- Alvin: The Islands of Great Belief, Hopes and Dreams thanks you for your generous donation of all your power. We can use a juicy engine core.
- Calvin's Shipmaster: I'm gonna be adapting shields to block it.
- Alvin: Sit tight. This along with you, your friends and families, and all of your lives will all end soon.
- Simon: If any of you sit on my pirate captain's hat, you will die.
- Theodore and Alvin: Billy has more dinner than you.
- Esther the Doc: Why does Billy have more dinner than us?
- Alfred the Dopey: I mean, we got plenty! To fill our bellies with!
- Seymour the Happy: Everything seems to go without our lives.
- Trevor the Sleepy: He's making up another fish tale. It's a myth. Forget about it.
- Calvin's Shipmaster: You got a Philip's head? Forgot my screwdriver again.
- Calvin: Well, yeah but this one's mine.
- Calvin's Shipmaster: Just need it for a quick twist.
- Calvin: You said you had your own!
- (Then, all of them felt the ship shaking. The left engine core is shaking until two doors on the top of the core open and all of the luggages, frozen yogurt machine, picnic stuff, signal flare and more stuff are levitated and sucks onto the girls' boat.)
- Jonah the Sneezy: He's taking our luggage! And the frozen yogurt machine!
- Esther the Doc: Not the Fro Yo!
- Rubber ducky: (squeaks while being taken away)
- Calvin's Shipmaster: Even my rubber ducky! Don't take my rubber duck away!
- Alfred the Dopey: They think it's treasure.
- Orange Blossom, Ginger Snap, and Angel Cake: Yo-ho-ho! We've got piles and piles of treasure!
- Seymour the Happy: I want a buzz saw!
- Trevor the Sleepy: I want ten buzz saws!
- Ginger Snap: Now that's what I call "pillaging and plundering".
- Seymour the Happy: Good heavens! Starboard engine is breaking loose.
- (SPLASH!)
- Alfred the Dopey: I'll hafta give Alvin a new name - Pirate Hermie the Stealer.
- Calvin: We should call him stupid.
- (Luggage pelts the crew on the boat Alvin is on)
- Alvin: You're right. I'm gonna paint that on the side of my ship.
- Seymour the Happy: Well... what are we gonna do now?
- Calvin: I said that none of this could've solved the problem.
- (Wave hits boat and everyone jumps ship)
- Seymour the Happy: We're in the middle of the ocean.
- Alvin: (Smirking) That's right. Run away cowards. If you ever want to see your luggage again, I'll take that engine core.
- Strawberry: Calvin and his boat was too fast for us, sir. They're out of range.
- Alvin: They'll find that out. If they want their luggage back, they're gotta be them big trouble. In the meantime, I guess we all have new luggage, eh?
- Karen: And six flavors of yogurt.
- Jude: Take a look around those girls' new luggage!
- Alvin: Mark my words, Calvin! One of these days. You're toast.
- Esther the Doc, Calvin, Trevor the Sleepy, Alfred the Dopey, Jonah the Sneezy, and Seymour the Happy: I need more dinner!
- Seymour the Happy: But then, I really wanna bake, ok? It's the best I can do.
- Ginger Snap: (holds a hat resembling Captain Crewe's hat)
- Orange Blossom: (holds an old checkered umbrella)
- Ginger Snap: Everyone knows we're kind.
- (They throw the Captain Crewe hat and umbrella into the ocean)
- Strawberry: We lost a few good friends along the way.
- (Timecard "The next, next, NEXT night...")
- Simon Narrating: Then we all knew something strange happening. The captain died inside the shark. I wonder what the slaves were up to?
- (Meanwhile, the slave workers were still working...)
- (A slave worker hangs the ruined ship Pirate Impostor 2 sat in above the cliff.)
- Pirate Impostor 2: (dangles a rope of toy monkeys with a rubber tomahawk which was now soggy and soaking wet, then winces) This is no good.
- (Chittering)
- Pirate Impostor 2: The wood is wet, the rope is too short, I dropped this rubber tomahawk in the river again, and there are no more matches. There's not even a speck of oil on this!
- Blob of Jelly: Get used to it. We're stuck here.
- Mr. Newter: We need more monkeys!
- Carl: There aren't anymore. That is the whole barrel.
- Mr. Newter: What kind of a crazy plan was this? To fish people out of the valley?
- Carl: Give me time. (Turns on a holographic projector)
- Holographic Thief: (Steals Alvin's harmonica and cap, laughing evilly)
- Holographic Alvin: Hey! Get back here with my harmonica and cap, you bandit!
- (A trumpet blows him away)
- Pirate Impostor 2: (smirking) Well, what do you suggest, Mr. Smarty-pants?
- Sheldon: We're formulating a new plan. We could use his car-wagon. (They hopped in. Pirate Impostor 2 at the steering wheel and Sheldon, Carl and Mr. Newter in the passenger seat)
- Carl: Before we do this, would any one of you help-
- Pirate Impostor 2: (drags him) No time! Get in the wagon.
- Pirate Impostor 2, Mr. Newter, Carl and Sheldon: (They arrived at the palace and clambered up the trellis that was stick to Mr. Marigold's mansion wall and they jumped to the balcony's edge. They went over the balcony edge and they roll over until they hit to the floor. They were walking down the caves and down into the Dungeon of Bitterness. They unlocked the door with the key Simon threw away and threw down a cloth rope.) C'mon guys, let's go. You must be the Peony Sisters - the most wanted girls of all Ninaborough. Simon had locked you two up and we freed you out. (They went back to the canyon and fished Hamlin out. He fell into a catapult.)
- Pirate Impostor 2: Now if you excuse me, I need to get back to repairing my ship. (Lies down on skateboard and it pulls through the underside of his boat) Your chiefs Mr. Marigold and Mayor Jim both inscribed their names on me. (Takes off his Viking helmet and reveals Mr. Marigold's and Mayor Jim's names on the inside of his helmet.)
- Slave workers: Wow! With permanent ink.
- Pirate Impostor 2: Run to a logging camp and get some wood. (Puts his helmet back on) I may need a unidirectional bonding strip too.
- Carl: Lyle needs more tape for his ship.
- Sheldon: (pulls out a strip of duct tape)
- Pirate Impostor 2: Where's that bonding strip?
- Mr. Newter: Right here, sir. (Hands him the tape)
- Many workers: (ran and grabbed some wood and they rebuilt his ship)
- The slave workers: (took the renewed ship and Pirate Impostor 2 sat in and they placed it in the water and he sailed off.)
- Simon Narrating: We sailed to a group of islands called...
- Ginger Snap: The islands of great belief, hopes and dreams!
- Jude: It looks like a giant barbecue pit with coals burning.
- Karen: I prayed to save me quick.
- Strawberry: Guys, the palace still may lie ahead.
- Simon Narrating: They sailed to a whirlpool.
- Angel Cake: What is that?
- Simon: El Romeo and Juliet, a giant whirlpool. No person must sail beyond the Islands of Great Belief, Hopes and Dreams for fear of it. We thought it was all a myth, but there it is.
- Karen: I thought we were all gonna die.
- Jude: Yeah, me too.
- Strawberry: No, we're gonna keep going.
- Orange Blossom: But didn't you hear him? That's a giant whirlpool.
- Reuben: We were really squashed, but we thought it was gonna be a few minutes.
- Angel Cake: I thought you were on our side.
- Orange Blossom and Ginger Snap: Me too.
- Strawberry: Might be a great whirlpool, might be not. Let's hold our course.
- Angel Cake, Blueberry Muffin and Raspberry Torte: On Crasher!
- Orange Blossom, Lemon Meringue and Annie Oatmeal: On Thrasher!
- Ginger Snap and Rainbow Sherbert: On Vomit and Blitzkerig!
- Simeon, Levi, Izzy, Zeb, Gad, Ash, Dan, Natty, and Karen's friends: (scream)
- Jude and Simon: We're gonna die! We're gonna die!
- Karen and Alvin: I'm going to throw up and then I'm gonna die!
- Reuben and Theodore: Mommy, tell it to stop!
- (The whirlpool disappears)
- Alvin: Almost lost our cool there.
- Strawberry: This is a sea mirage.
- (Fire engines)
- (They fall into the sand)
- Alvin: (swallowing a mouthful of sand) Welcome back.
- (WHACK!)
- (Bags were pulled off their faces. Angel Cake is flipped upside down, Ginger and Orange were both tied to the back of a sheep, and Strawberry had the ropes cut)
- Alvin: I knew we were gonna call the Peony Sisters' teachers, friends, families, Calvin's, Alfred's, Jonah's, Trevor's, Esther's, and Seymour's families to come take them back to whatever nasty place they came from.
- (The league gasps, except Strawberry)
- Angel Cake: I didn't know to say this, but this is crazy.
- Simon: I'll say.
- Orange Blossom: What? It got us here, didn't it?
- (People laugh)
- Simon Narrating: I do not like the sound of this. They demonstrated the contraption. Which you see is a giant lightbulb shooting a laser and turns you into paste. The league, except Strawberry cried as the crowd cheered.
- Jude: Hahahaha! Cry all you want!
- Reuben: You won't be crying tomorrow! Ha-ha! Eh, no wait. You will. Oh, never mind. (Throws a slushee at a man in the crowd)
- Jude: I should tell the queen that those girls are late. She'll take that out of their paychecks.
- Simon Narrating: This hurt the girls' feelings. Panic rose fast.
- Alvin: I don't like the sound of that.
- Townsperson: You never told me you were a pirate.
- Alvin: Well, I'm not robbing from anyone.
- Townsperson: You shoulda been in bed by now!
- Alvin: I'm gonna send your butt back onboard the pirate ship and maybe you can go to bed! Ya never said it was true.
- Simon Narrating: What do we have here? Masked dudes? Calvin the Grumpy held a stackful of cards in his hands.
- (Three guards stood guard at the palace gates. We hear faint humming. Calvin and his men are in a very chipper mood. They approach the guards, see them and stop.)
- Calvin: (tauntingly) Well, hello there.
- (Guards remain silent)
- Jonah the Sneezy: We guess there's not much to say, right guys?
- Seymour the Happy: Seeing how in 3 days, you'll be waking up in the belly of a whale. Ha!
- (Guards scowl)
- Trevor the Sleepy: As you know, Elliot wasn't nice to us and took our luggage.
- Alfred the Dopey: I guess he doesn't like us.
- Esther the Doc: Why don't we like him, guys?
- Guards: (Holding their tongues) Ehh.
- Calvin: You know, it wouldn't be too hard to show that cucumber that he wants to return our luggage. Sadly, our starboard and port engines fell in the sea.
- Alfred the Dopey: He needs to give a little push in his strength, that's all. I need to work something out for him - the guy with the buck tooth and red cap and sweatshirt.
- Guards: (2 Samuel 7:8-10) I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men on earth. And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed.
- (Calvin is startled)
- (The cards fly out of his hands)
- Calvin: Big deal! Make them! Big deal! Dough yeah! Well, maybe this not-so amiable man can arrange for you to take a trip to The Isle of Walking Rocks and get tortured by the rock monsters... tonight. Bring all your luggage with you. It's the same one Alvin stole using his supergrabber.
- Simon Narrating: The guards at the gate walked off in disgust. Calvin the Grumpy and his men entered. The guards went to bed. The guards - except Mr. Marigold. He was working late... again. Theodore and I were silently praying that Alvin had the strength to do what was right.
- Guard 1: Goodnight, Ken.
- Professor Hamlin: Goodnight, Dan.
- Guard 2: Better take your umbrella, John. We're supposed to catch more rainstorms tonight.
- Guard 3: C'mon, let's play Parcheesi. Goodbye!
- Seymour the Happy, Trevor the Sleepy, Jonah the Sneezy, Alfred the Dopey and Esther the Doc: Goodbye to you, sir.
- Calvin: I mean, he works late.
- Martin Marigold: Aha! So that's our little game, is it? You disobeyed our slavery.
- (They threw Esther the Doc, Jonah the Sneezy, and Alfred the Dopey into the Dungeon of Bitterness)
- (SPLASH!)
- Esther the Doc: Billy has more dinner than me.
- Jonah the Sneezy: Who's Billy?
- Alfred the Dopey: I don't know, but he has more dinner than me.
- (Calvin the Grumpy, Seymour the Happy, and Trevor the Sleepy were in the mayor's office)
- Martin Marigold: Tell me about what happened.
- Calvin: A cannonball fired past the boat. They were trying to keep the ship steady from being rammed into a Viking ship. While they were striking a deal with the captain, we told them to drop their sails, and when they did, our stuff flew into the pirates' ship, a wave crashed our boat. So we got a ride on a passing Spanish galleon.
- Seymour the Happy: I have a feeling that they're gonna throw a party with their new luggage.
- Trevor the Sleepy: And eat all six flavors of yogurt. Want some?
- Martin Marigold: Send another ship out!
- Calvin: If they threw a party with all the luggage, they'd invite everyone in the world.
- Martin Marigold: Our experiments were worthless.
- Mayor Jimmy: Should I prepare us all for evacuation?
- Martin Marigold: Yes. This is our land. Which is also in fact, our home. As we call it...
- Calvin, Seymour the Happy and Trevor the Sleepy: A land of misfit rulers.
- Mayor Jimmy: A land that will be consumed for dinner.
- Martin Marigold: I have tried my hardest to unspoil that girl.
- Mayor Jimmy: I've held my tongue for far too long. She is not spoiled. She loves everyone around her.
- Martin Marigold: That is quite enough.
- Mayor Jimmy: Why can't you see that?
- Trevor the Sleepy: There's always next year. Right, Sven?
- Blob of Jelly: You're right. Mr. Mayor Jim has gone off the edge.
- Seymour the Happy: The city council isn't that great.
- Calvin: We understand, sir. Really we do.
- Martin Marigold: This land is my land and MY problem. I'll figure it out. (The mayor goes to bed) How will I figure it out? We're doomed... (Goes home to sulk, a tear welling up in his eye)
- Simon Narrating: With that, he left. Why wouldn't he listen?! He was doomed to oblivion.
- Calvin: I'm sure he'll figure something out, Sven.
- Blob of Jelly: I agree with you, Calvin. Tell on! Alvin should be nice to us and give our luggage back to us. Will you guys show forgiveness to him?
- Trevor the Sleepy: I guess so...
- Calvin: Alvin Seville should see our luggage and give it all away to us.
- Blob of Jelly: And when he gives our luggage back, we should do something special to him. He's that funny guy with the cap and sweatshirt, right?
- Calvin: Yep.
- Blob of Jelly: Did you ever do anything to thank him for giving our luggage back?
- Calvin: Maybe. I guess we should send him a card.
- Seymour the Happy: I know that. Besides, I wish I were more creative with things like that.
- Trevor the Sleepy: Me too.
- Calvin: Me three.
- Blob of Jelly: We should do this act of kindness to him by sending him a card.
- Trevor the Sleepy: Yeah! A card would be nice to give him. I love cards!
- Calvin: Oh...no...cards are nice, but it sounds like the kind of guy who deserves a parade. I think Alvin should be dressed in royal robes and be marched through the whole city on their horses and you should let him wear one of their crowns.
- Seymour the Happy and Trevor the Sleepy: I guess he is pretty special.
- Calvin: And one of them should lead him through the streets proclaiming: "This is a really neat guy! Everyone likes him! He's brave and has rugged good looks!!!!"
- Seymour the Happy: You're the creative one around here. All those things you mentioned. Do that for Alvin Seville. One of your neighbors should be the one to go with him on that parade. I knew we could count on you. Lucky thing we dropped by. Now, what was that we wanted?
- Simon Narrating: If our team wants to play this game, the game is on.
- Seymour the Happy: The mayor's great-grandson is turning into... a jerk. Isn't that right? (stares at the gold basket)
- The Mayor's Great-Grandson: I am going to kill you.
- Calvin: Carry this rattle with you.
- The Mayor's Great-Grandson: That's no way to treat your youngest child in the family!
- Seymour the Happy: Silence!
- Calvin: That's it. I'm sending you to his room. And take that rattle with you!
- (Calvin sends him upstairs)
- Calvin: The Marigolds' have got enough oil and energy to power their heat lamps. Even the one on the mayor's desk.
- (Lamp burns out)
- Marcus the Scribe: 9:28 a.m. The mayor puts on his slippers and brushes his teeth. 9:32: The mayor cuts himself shaving.
- Calvin: Ouch! I remember that one. Thanks for doing this. You know, it really does help the mayor and his great-grandson to sleep.
- Marcus the Scribe: 1:40: The mayor talks uncontrollably to his great-grandson.
- Calvin: I like when you read those records. I guess you could say - it's the story of the mayor!
- Marcus the Scribe: 1:45: The Chipmunks approach in. 1:47: Alvin goes to do canyon guarding. 1:50: Alvin asks a worker to help him.
- Calvin: This'll be good.
- Marcus the Scribe: 1:51: The worker's life is saved by kind Alvin Seville. 1:52: The mayor brushes his cake. 2:12: The mayor wets himself laughing. (Calvin's eyes pop open) 2:20: The mayor stands up to the Marigolds in boxing.
- Calvin: You said Alvin saved that guy's life. He's got a shiny red cap!
- Seymour the Happy: Good thing the mayor has lots of oil lamps.
- Calvin: Watch this! (Throws a dodgeball and it ricochets around and a dodgeball hits his back) Umph! (Hits the floor)
- Mayor Jimmy's Assistant: I told you... nobody draws a dodgeball - in the mayor's office. But, me!
- Calvin: I'm gonna kill you for that. Go to bed. (The mayor's assistant goes to bed)
- Seymour the Happy: Yeah! (Trevor helps Calvin get up) One of the founders will kill you. While you are in bed. (Holds up cellphone) Hello, hello. Give me two pizzas and breadsticks for no money, OR YOU'RE DEAD!!!!!!!!! And can I get some marinara sauce for the breadsticks and a soda drink? Thank you. Goodbye.
- Calvin: That's a ridiculous phone call you made.
- (Trevor turns on a holographic projector)
- Ken: Harold is only hauling 20 wheelbarrows an hour.
- Calvin: Enough. You heard him - the rule is 30. It's Work! 60 Barrows an Hour. And that goes for the king's people. It was good Alvin Seville. He is really funny and kind.
- Ken: Alvin has saved Harold's life. He knocked that Hamlin dude into the valley. He...
- (Trevor stuffs Ken in a bag)
- Calvin and Seymour the Happy: (Wheeling around) He what?
- Mayor Jimmy's Assistant: (hops out of bed) A bag with two crooks. As you know, I only do all the dodgeball throwing in here. (Throws a dodgeball at the bag and the bag sends, flying into the ocean)
- (SPLASH!)
- (The toilet paper flies off him)
- Trevor the Sleepy: (The mayor's assistant goes back to bed) We'll see about that.
- Holographic Alvin: Guards, take them away until they are ready to cooperate.
- (Zip pan back to the Dungeon of Bitterness)
- Jonah the Sneezy: That was embarassing. Alvin, Theodore and Simon took our luggage.
- Esther the Doc: Even that machine we bought from that frozen yogurt place.
- Alfred the Dopey: What else are we going to do?
- (The guards drag Calvin, Seymour and Trevor into the ocean and a whale eats them up)
- (Evil cowboys surround the palace. They throw metal nets on the guards.)
- People: But, but...
- Simon: (Points his sword to them) NO BUTS ABOUT IT!
- (Silhouettes of Larry, Mr. Lunt, and a few people show up)
- Simon Narrating: Oh, the captain turned dead, and the Marigolds wouldn't listen. And the big sharks spread, and they still wouldn't listen. And the big oceans came and the Marigolds wouldn't hear it. And the people grew scarce, and they still didn't fear it. And the scaries came up in every dimension, and the storms blew in, still they wouldn't pay attention. (Breath) Strawberry could not get through... Oh, what could she do?
- Strawberry: (in her thoughts) Oh, Elliot, what happened to you?
- Simon Narrating: Theodore, Alvin, Karen, Judah, who now walked on stilts, Reuben and I barricaded the gates. We pushed furniture and dressers in front of the gates. At that very moment, Larry, Mr. Lunt, Kyle, the pirate impostors, Molly, Mr. Netterbaum, Mrs. Cashberger, Mrs. Bruckheimer, Mrs. Butterbun, Mrs. Fleagle, Geo, Milli, and Gil banged on the gates with crowbars. Huck zoomed over on his skateboard, all beaten up and bruised by gangsters. Professor Hamlin whacked him in the forehead with an old umbrella, giving him a black eye.
- Alvin: My, my, I never knew we had to invite more people to their wild and loud parties. Why would we? I will find that out.
- (Zip pan back to Ninaborough)
- (The mayor's assistant knocks on Mr. Marigold's bedroom door.)
- Mayor Jimmy's Assistant: Mister, the girls are ready to fight you.
- Martin Marigold: Then ready our ship. Power up the torpedo engines.
- Carl: I think we found Hamlin!
- Mr. Newter: Hamlin, is that you?
- (Cat yowls)
- Sheldon: Woody, would you get outta here! Sheesh!
- (The slave workers leave)
- (Zip pan back to the palace)
- Buccaneer Lunt: Thank goodness. There's this royal edict saying that...
- Buccaneer Larry: ...you gotta let those people go free.
- Strawberry: You mean this? (pulls out edict showing a bunch of people who look much like her)
- Buccaneer Lunt: Could you prove this charge? (as Alvin, Karen, Simon, Jude, Reuben and Theodore poke their heads from behind a pillar and spy on them...)
- Buccaneer Larry: She's making it up. The edict says "Let my people go." on there. (Alvin pulls out a legal pad and draws a counterweight on it.) We should give those Chipmunk fellas a raid.
- Buccaneer Lunt: I wonder what Mr. Red-Studded Dude has up his sleeve.
- Alvin: This would show them. (pins the counterweight to a person's back)
- Person in Palace: Umm, did you just... Aaah! (pin pops from his back and he was sent flying into outer space)
- Buccaneer Lunt: Imagine them poisoning other people's water supplies, burning their crops and delivering a plague onto their houses.
- Buccaneer Larry: They got us to sign this edict. And - and, they will all be set from the slavery trap.
- Simon Narrating: While everyone was working on the plan, a man in the audience sprayed shower-in-a-can to Huck. Jude, Reuben and Karen were nervous about Mr. Marigold's arrival.
- Karen: Sir, we've only like... twelve minutes left for them to arrive.
- Jude: I know! We must find those slave workers.
- Karen: Each ounce should be focused.
- Jude: (looks through periscope)
- (All the workers left and headed for the palace)
- Reuben: We're gonna find out who's gonna do all the work in Ninaborough now.
- Jude: Why is that boy so stylish?
- Karen: Look! It's Alvin. He just took off his cap.
- Jude: (looks through and Alvin takes his cap off revealing a tiara) Queen Esther?!? Round up the posse, Mr. Marigold's gotta score to settle.
- Karen: Alvin had done some canyon guarding like over the last few days or so. He kept security upon the workers. When one of Mr. Marigold's men mistreated Harold, Alvin stood up to him and did what was right. He knocked Hamlin over the canyon.
- Jude: He also - Alvin - dumped rocks onto him. What a guy.
- Reuben: I'll make us a fresh pot of coffee.
- Jude: Courage is a wonderful thing.
- Karen: (smirking) If only there was a way Alvin could take all the courage and somehow put it all together in one.
- Jude: I hear you.
- Reuben: I would love that.
- Alvin: Um... hey, guys. I have a thought...
- Jude: He would do the right thing.
- Reuben: And there are problems out there.
- Karen: A lot bigger than people with toilet paper on them to act like they're mummies. I should've sent a text message to the slave workers and built them coffins.
- (Cut to the man still spraying shower at Huck)
- Huck: Hey! That's enough now.
- Alvin: How will we catch them?
- Huckleberry: The cells of this palace are (Holds up jelly jar with Sven inside) lined with lead, 3.5 feet thick and with a mile underground, this palace is the ultimate in solitude.
- Alvin: Huck, can you spit out some blueprints of this place or a list of all the entrances and exits?
- Huckleberry: Either one would do. No one feels worse about this than Mr. Marigold. He's just in a slump, Sven.
- Blob of Jelly: What if he doesn't come out of it?
- Huckleberry: He'll find that out.
- Blob of Jelly: What do you think you're doing? (Huck shoves blob of jelly into mouth) We will bury you!
- Karen: Why would you do that?
- Alvin: (puts his harmonica in the way of Karen and she tripped)
- Jude: I know you two are the ones who rattled me, Reuben, Karen and even for... well, the mayor of Ninaborough. (to Sedgewick) You are the most bored guy in the world. (to Elliot) You - are a silly, but beautiful-looking guy.
- Alvin: (holding a newspaper) I suggest that people that were mistreated by the guards are knocked out.
- Simon Narrating: They say that pride goes before a destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Looks like nobody told that to me, Theodore and Alvin.
- Buccaneer Larry: You shoulda stuck with my lies about the raid.
- Buccaneer Lunt: Maybe you shoulda told him about that 'knocking that guard into the valley' incident!
- Buccaneer Larry: This is no time to panic.
- Buccaneer Lunt: This is the perfect time to panic.
- Buccaneer Larry: If he haven't knocked your evil twin brother into the valley...
- Buccaneer Lunt: (fumes indignant) Oh... yeah? Well, if you haven't made me fall into that rocket machine whatever you call it, and took everything that was important to me...
- Buccaneer Larry: Don't talk to me about importance! Because of you, the security jeopardy would be in jeopardy.
- Buccaneer Lunt: (facepalms) Well, the security jeopardy is in jeopardy.
- Karen: Six... five... four... three... two... one... here they come.
- (A group of men approach)
- (Dramatic drumbeat)
- Orange Blossom: It's the mayor and Mr. Marigold!
- (Seymour the Happy, Calvin and Trevor the Sleepy were spit out of the whale, covered in sap and weeds. Seymour held a half-full pizza box in his left hand and a box of breadsticks, the marinara sauce, and a drink in his right hand)
- Angel Cake: (weepy) And they've got a posse!
- (Everyone again panics)
- Mrs. Bruckheimer: Thanks a lot, Alvin! We should've never left Ninaborough!!!!!!
- Alvin: (Puts his cap back on) Perhaps I could ride out and tell them to take it easy on us. Don't let them kidnap me. Or you and Theodore will be completely broke without me, Simon.
- Simon: I agree with you, Alvin. Did anyone bring any copies of the "How to Torture a Person who Bullies People" book, and some musical instruments and flashlights?
- Crowd: (Ad lib angry dialog) I did! Count me in! I did!
- Strawberry: The plan? Time to serve them Marigolds. (Hops up to contraption they put together)
- Buccaneer Larry: Here they come. Into the gates and into the machine. (Alvin crammed them in) They're good to go, people. Fire that bad boy!
- Buccaneer Lunt: Fire!!!!
- (BOOM!)
- Simon Narrating: So Strawberry fired up the contraption the people built earlier and the Marigolds and the mayor flew into the ocean and they drowned.
- (They fall into the sea)
- (A fisherman's boat sails away)
- Martin Marigold: Oh my. This doesn't look good.
- Simon: (whisper shouting) Uh-oh. They're in trouble now.
- Mayor Jimmy, Guards, Martin Marigold and Professor Hamlin: Aahh! Ooh! Ah! Ooh! Oh, my! Ugh! Ooh! Eee! Can I get on your shoulders?
- Simon: Well, the power of courage turned out to be a great way to face them. Knocking a guard over the canyons was hard for Alvin and a difficult brave thing to do. But it was hitting two birds with one stone.
- (Two bandits are in the process of hog tying Mr. Spork and stealing his gold on an island. They hear the loud yells from the sea below, but shrug it off and continue their crime. A beat later, they look up and a cascade of water falls down from the hillside, knocking them and out of frame. Now safe, and his ropes loosened, Mr. Spork laughs unconciously.)
- Calvin: Alvin, I'm sorry you took our luggage. Will you guys forgive him?
- Seymour the Happy and Trevor the Sleepy: Okay. Oh, yeah. We'd count on you. Now, let's have him give our luggage back. You said we were gonna be them big trouble, didn't you?
- Alvin: I did. But you didn't get in trouble. Watch this. (Pulls out vaccum cleaner and sucks up all luggage he stole and it flies back into the starboard engine that was at the bottom of the ocean)
- Calvin: Now go to that parade, okay?
- Ginger Snap: Alvin is so talented. We should crown him king.
- Alvin: How about a kiss?
- Buccaneer Larry: Yes, he is pretty special and you're mom great.
- (That evening, Strawberry, Elliot and Sedgewick sat on a cliff)
- Buccaneer Larry: What are we doing?
- Strawberry: Oh, it's time to watch the fun.
- Buccaneer Lunt: And, what would that be?
- Strawberry: Well, I did what I was supposed to do. I warned them that they were gonna get in big trouble. So now that they've had their warning, now's the time to watch God wipe them off the face of the Earth. We picked a safe distance so we won't get singed.
- Simon Narrating: So Strawberry waited for God to destroy the palace.
- Buccaneer Larry: What you have done has made God, your good friends and Dave Seville very happy.
- (Fire falls onto the palace)
- (A vine grew over her)
- (Fireworks explode)
- Simon Narrating: Strawberry stood for what was right and the Lord destroyed the palace, just as requested.
- Alvin: See ya, girls! Thanks for the parade, and the kiss.
- Strawberry: (pulls out time-traveling device) Goodbye, guys.
- Captain Pa: See you soon!
- Buccaneer Lunt: Thanks a lot.
- Buccaneer Larry: Come back soon!
- Strawberry: I will!
- (POOF!)
- Simon Narrating: Man, the power of courage never felt better. Who knew it brought her together? And so she, and her friends lived happily ever after. Through her courage, our very good friend, Strawberry Shortcake has lived the lives of tens of thousands and that example reminds us that God has a special purpose for each of our lives, if only we have the courage to trust in Him. Well, Theodore, Alvin and I? We showed more courage than 10 kings. No, we weren't born for greatness. We never went to school for it. We just learned that sometimes God has plans so big only he can see them. All we had to do was believe. Yep. We were just regular kids. Just like you. The end.
Post-Credits Scene[]
- (Later that night...)
- Calvin: Okay everyone, we got a new boat, some new luggage and two new engine cores on each side of this renewed sea vessel!
- Esther the Doc, Seymour the Happy, Trevor the Sleepy, Jonah the Sneezy and Alfred the Dopey: (cheers) Yay!!!!!!!!!!
- Seymour the Happy: New luggage!
- Alvin: (sails up) More luggage to steal. Start up the Grabber, boys!
- (The pirate ship grabs the renewed Calvin's boat with a gold levitation beam)
- Calvin and Friends: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
- Simon and Theodore: (Throw bags of gold money at Calvin's feet)
- Simon: Take this money and get outta here.
- Theodore: You and I both know you don't want to be here. With this much cash, you can get back home.
- Alvin: (sucks up luggage from both engine cores)
- Calvin: Get him!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Calvin and Friends: (all holding weapons) Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!
- (Calvin and his men climb onboard the pirate ship and tackle Alvin)
- (Calvin's renewed boat crashes into iceberg and sinks)
- Alvin, Simon and Theodore: (jump into a rowboat)
- Calvin: After them! The boys are escaping!
- (They rowed to David Seville)
- Alvin: Thank goodness we found you!
- David Seville: Look, boys, I'm really sorry. I never should've left you alone. I should have listened to you and have been with you through thick and thin.
- Alvin: Thanks.
- David Seville: I am your friend, songwriter and adoptive father, guys.
- Seymour the Happy: Get them!
- Alvin: Anyways, about our clumsiness...
- David Seville: (now angry) What did you three do?!
- Alvin: I'll explain as we row for our lives.
- David Seville: What was it?!
- Alvin: (frightened) CALVIN!!!
- David Seville: ALLLLVINNN!
- (David climbed in the rowboat)
- Calvin: Stop them!
- (The pirate ship followed them and they ran into pillows, red paint and flour and it looked like they had clown makeup on.)
- Calvin: Heh!
- (A dodgeball hits Alvin in the face and his cap falls. The dodgeball sends Alvin flying into space)
- Alvin: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
- David Seville: Please...stop...being...so...silly!
S.A.G.E Alternate Ending ("The Death of Three Good Friends")[]
See the S.A.G.E. Alternate Ending for full production credits.
Outtakes[]
See the Outtakes for S.A.G.E. for full production credits.
Extended Ending - Friend or Foe?[]
See Friend or Foe? for full production credits.
And In Closing, Everyone...[]
Well, there you have it. The story of Strawberry, Alvin and the great escape. Filmed entirely on location in Las Vegas, Nevada (And parts of Lincoln City, Oregon); I hope you read this. The biggest problem with this is Alvin's, Simon's and Theodore's personalities. Part of their character was that they're kind of idiotic, but extending that persona in this was a mistake. The three lazies are bumbling fools who breaks the slavery of Mr. Marigold not out of loyalty to their faith, but because they didn't understand what was going on. So when they faced the truth to the queen, it's not so much a picture of them wanting to become fathful would-be martyrs, as it is a picture of God taking pity on these three poor special needs kids who got into this mess through no fault of their own. If you need me, just PM me. The exciting sequel - Alvin Good and His Merry Friends will be coming much later than intended, but the next project will be the long-awaited recreation of "Moe and the Big Exit". As for how many chapters it'll be, I'm not sure, but I can assure you it'll be good. And remember, you never need to be afraid to do what's right!