Frankenbear

OPENING SCENE:

INT SHOT OF A POST OFFICE

CLERK: Where to?

WOMAN: The city of Townsville.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT SHOT OF THE UTONIUM LIVING ROOM AND THE UTONIUMS

[The PROFESSOR hands BUBBLES a package.]

BUBBLES: What is it?

PROFESSOR: It's a package from my sister Ursula. Open it!

BUBBLES: Oh my! It's a teddy bear... isn't it?

PROFESSOR: Yes, it's a teddy bear. Ursula makes a lot of patchwork quilts, so I guess when she decided to make a bear, she made it out of the pieces of a lot of different bears.

BUTTERCUP: Creepy!

PROFESSOR: Buttercup.

BLOSSOM: I think it's... oh, what's the word I'm looking for...?

BUTTERCUP: Creepy.

PROFESSOR: Buttercup!

BUBBLES": That's okay, Professor. I'm sure it was made with a lot of love, and that's what counts, right?

PROFESSOR: Yes, Bubbles, that's what counts.

FADE TO BLACK

CUT TO:

DEEP BLUE NIGHTTIME SHOT OF PPG IN BED

PROFESSOR'S VOICE: Goodnight, Girls.

PPG: Goodnight, Professor.

[BUBBLES' eyes drift towards the bear, which is on a bedroom table.]

CUT TO:

A CLOSEUP OF BUBBLES

BUBBLES(thinking): It was made with love... it was made with love... it was made with love...

CUT TO:

A CLOSEUP OF THE BEAR

WHIP PAN TO:

INT SHOT OF URSULA SITTING ON A SOFA

[HIM stands beside her.]

HIM(feminine voice): Very well done, Ursula. You made the bear exactly to my specifications.

URSULA: I hated every minute of it.

HIM(f.v.):Oh, don't worry. No real harm will befall the Girls. I just want to play with them.

URSULA: Pervert!

HIM(f.v.): Why, thank you. It isn't all that often I get a compliment. (grins fiercely)

WHIP PAN TO:

CLOSEUP OF BEAR

[The BEAR starts to shake and wobble and jump. Finally a glowing red heart leaps out of its chest and lands on the floor. The PPG gather around it.]

BLOSSOM: This looks like one of Him's tricks.

BUTTERCUP: Whatever that thing is, it sure is full of energy. What should we do with it?

BUBBLES: Put it in the car's gas tank?

BLOSSOM AND BUTTERCUP: Cool!

CUT TO:

A SHOT OF THE PPG IN THE GARAGE

[They put the heart in the gas tank.]

CUT TO:

INT SHOT OF PPG BEDROOM

[The PPG drift into bed.]

BLOSSOM: Girls, I think this has been a good night's work well done.

CUT TO:

EXT MORNING SHOT OF UTONIUM HOUSE AND ROAD

[The PROFESSOR drives onto the road and leaves.]

CUT TO:

A SHOT OF THE PROFESSOR IN THE CAR

CAR: I want you to place me on the floor.

PROFESSOR: ...Okay...(He floors the gas pedal.)

CAR: I want you to guess my name. If you guess right, I'll give you a surprise!

PROFESSOR: Um... Betty?

CUT TO:

AN EXT SHOT OF THE CAR DRIVING UP THE SIDE OF A SKYSCRAPER

PROFESSOR'S VOICE: Auggghhhhhh...!

WHIP PAN TO:

INT SHOT OF THE PPG IN THE LIVING ROOM

[BUBBLES is holding the bear. HIM appears.]

HIM(f.v.): Oo - hoo - hoo - hoo! Well, I bet you girls have had a wild morning!

BLOSSOM: Huh? Oh, yeah, the heart.

HIM(f.v.): You found it?

BUTTERCUP: Hours ago. That is so over with.

BUBBLES: He's a good bear now.

HIM(evil voice): Well - where's the heart?

[A wild-eyed PROFESSOR staggers ON SCREEN and up to HIM. He licks HIM'S face.]

PROFESSOR: Blaugh! Demon sweat! Ptui! Ptui!. Him - get the heck out of my house! You're not Betty!

[A hurt HIM vanishes.]

BLOSSOM: Professor, are you okay?

PROFESSOR: It's just nerves... it'll pass.

BLOSSOM(to CAMERA): You'd better cut to the ending.

CUT TO:

HEARTS AND STARS

NARRATOR: And so the day, and the bear, are saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls.

[The PPG appear.]

The End