Doug's 1st Movie Page #4

Season #1 Episode #1

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(Monster turns his head to look at Doug and Skeeter, they scream and hide behind the bed, the monster walks over to the bookshelf as Doug and Skeeter peek over the edge of the bed. The monster takes a book off the shelf, smells it and opens it)

DOUG He must have sniffed out where you live.

SKEETER Wow, he can read! (the monster sniffs the book and licks it) Hey, this is a book you don’t eat books, that is no. (monster pats the book) That’s nice, be nice to the book.

DOUG Wow, I think you scared him man.

SKEETER I can’t believe that, he tried to eat Herman Melville (monster looks toward Doug and Skeeter and grumbles “huh?”).

DOUG Hey, he looked.

SKEETER Herman Melville? (monster smiles)

DOUG He thinks it’s his name.

SKEETER You- you like the name? Herman Melville?

(monster moans happily and smiles)

DOUG OK monster, from now on your name is…

DOUG & SKEETER Herman Melville! (they both laugh)

DOUG Put it their Herman! (holds out his hand for Herman to shake it, instead he grabs Doug and picks him up, cuddling him)

SKEETER He likes you man!

DOUG Down Herman, down.

SKEETER Herman! (Herman drops Doug and smiles)

DOUG Phew, finding Herman sure is a bigger deal than working on some dance.

SKEETER Yeah everybody thought I was crazy. Are they ever going to be surprised! (we see Herman drinking from the toilet) No, Herman, bad. No drinking out of the toilet. (back to Doug) So who do we tell first?

DOUG Skeet this is front-page headlines, we’re going to be famous, we have to go right to the top.

(we hear a toilet flush and see Herman’s tail coil up, he stops drinking from the toilet and has a dizzy look on his face. Scene changes to outside the Dink’s house)

DOUG I hope Mayor Tippy’s home (he knocks and waits but there is no response, they look at each other).

SKEETER Knock again!

DOUG (door opens) But I just knocked.

MR. BUD DINK (goofy laugh) Well, hello boys. (laughs) You’re just in time to see something absolutely fantastic (laughs, he pulls Doug and Skeeter inside. We then see them in a virtual reality space)!

DOUG But Mr. Dink, we’ve got a headline for you to put in the paper (Mr. Dink puts on the V.R. goggles).

BUD Oh just a moment Douglas, wait ‘till you get a load of this, virtual reality (goofy laugh).

(we see a shot of what Skeeter is seeing through the goggles which is just Bud’s living room)

SKEETER Cool, it’s- it’s- it’s like we’re standing right in your living room!

DOUG But- but we are standing in your living room.

BUD Exactly, everything’s right where it is on real life, down to the last detail. It’s exactly like being here, only much more expensive (he takes off his goggles and sees Doug and Skeeter in their V.R. equipment).

DOUG & SKEETER Wow!

BUD (laughs) Now, what are you boys all excited about?

SKEETER (said exactly when Doug says his line) We finally have proof Mr. Dink! The monster!

DOUG Is it too late to get something in the paper?

BUD Whoa whoa, slow down boys (laughs). I can’t understand what you’re saying.

SKEETER You’re not going to believe what happened! It all started…(words fade off, scene changes to Bud, Doug and Skeeter walking outside to the Dink’s backyard)

BUD That’s quite a tale boys.

SKEETER Don’t you believe us?

BUD Well it’s just that, well you know people have been telling tall-tales like that forever. You need concrete evidence.

DOUG Should we show him now?

BUD Show me what?

SKEETER (opens the door of Bud’s tool shed) Mr. Dink? Meet Herman Melville, the monster of Lucky Duck Lake! (Herman moans happily chewing on a screwdriver)

BUD Wh- wh- whoa! (he faints)

(back inside the house)

BUD (on the phone) Hello, Bluffington Gazette? This is Bud Dink, has tomorrow’s edition gone to print yet? I have big news!

MRS TIPPY DINK You mean to tell me that he came out of that polluted lake?

DOUG & SKEETER Yeah, you bet!

SKEETER (Herman is going to eat a vase) No! Herman, don’t -don’t eat that (Skeeter takes the vase away from him).

DOUG It’s the story of the century Mayor Tippy.

TIPPY This may be bigger news then we think (thinks for a while). Bud, hang up!

BUD Dear?

TIPPY If you want to keep Herman out of danger, hang up that phone now!

(Doug and Skeeter moan worryingly, scene changes to Bud, Tippy, Herman, Doug and Skeeter at the Dink's table eating dinner)

SKEETER Mayor Tippy, aren’t we going to tell anyone about Herman Melville?

TIPPY Now, if we call the newspaper -owned by Bluffco- and tell them we’ve got a story that Bill Bluff is a polluter, someone will kill the story and let’s just say it won’t be good for Herman either.

(scene changes to them in the kitchen, Doug and Skeeter are washing dishes)

DOUG So you’re saying we can’t tell anybody?

(Herman looks in the fridge and takes out a carton of milk and is about to put it in his mouth)

SKEETER No Herman, use this (he hands him a mug).

TIPPY No, we just have to tell them in a way that Mr. Bluff can’t stop. We have to call a citywide press conference, make a big splash!

SKEETER That’s a great idea!

TIPPY But until then we can’t tell anybody about Herman Melville, for his sake. (Herman takes a bit out of the mug Skeeter gave him) Can you boys keep him absolutely secret until tomorrow?

DOUG & SKEETER Sure! No problem!

TIPPY I’ll have the press come here tomorrow, meanwhile tonight we better keep him close by.

DOUG We can keep him next door? At my house! We just have to keep people from seeing him.

BUD I think I have just the thing.

(Skeeter and Doug come out of Mr. Dink’s backyard with Herman dressed in an old diving suit, they appear back in Doug’s kitchen from the basement door, they enter in front of the family room and Mr. and Mrs. Funnie catch Skeeter and Doug)

MRS. THEDA FUNNIE (angrily) What is going on?

DOUG (surprised) Uh, mom!

THEDA Judith Funnie! I don’t care if you want to rehearse your plays at home, but please, muddy flippers off the carpet!

DOUG Oh she’s- uh, it’s not Judy’s fault Mom, it’s mine. I’ll be right down to clean it up.

MR. PHIL FUNNIE Wow, sounds like Doug’s learning some responsibility.

THEDA Oh, our little man.

DOUG (in his room) Oh, made it. Phew (Porkchop begins to growl and bark). Quiet.

PHIL Doug, is something the matter up there?

DOUG Everything’s fine Dad.

SKEETER Shhhh, it’s nothing Porkchop, see? (he removes the head mask, Porkchop barks even more, Doug takes him outside)

DOUG The one time in your life, you decide to act like a real dog!

(Doug and Skeeter are inside cleaning up the mud from Herman’s flippers)

SKEETER Sometimes it takes a while for dogs to get used to monsters man.

(Judy enters) JUDY Somebody puked?

THEDA Judith Funnie, I don’t think that’s very nice. The least you could do is help clean up your mess!

JUDY My mess? My mess? (laughs) My mess. My mess? Oh my mess!

THEDA What’s gotten into her?

DOUG Oh you know, Judy (nervous laugh).

SKEETER Um, can I call my parents Mrs. Funnie? It’s getting’ kind of late.

DOUG Late! What time is- Oh no, Patti! I was supposed to meet her at Swirly’s. Gotta go! (he exits out the door, jumps over a fence into a pool and paddles across the pool) Oh man, Oh man, Oh man…

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