Scaredy Duck

Halloween is no different in Ducktown. Pirates, skeletons, and monsters. Everyone's having fun. Well, almost everyone.

We see Bill the Duck at the Decoy Cafe, wanting to leave immediatly. He dislkes Halloween.

"Ok, I'm leaving!" says Bill.

He tries to run out the door, but Bev gets in his way.

"Hold on. Don't you want to hear my annual scary story?" asks Bev.

"No thank you, Bev. Uhh... does it have monsters in it?" asks Bill.

"The worst of them ALL!"

"Uhh, no... Is it a true story?"
asks Bill.

"Yes."

"Ok, maybe just a little." says Bill.

They sit down.

"Every year on Halloween night, Ghost Duck descends on Ducktown, in a pirate ship, just like this. Only bigger!"

"Does his ship look like a salad?" asks Bill.

"Like I was saying, Ghost Duck swoops down and starts stealing people's souls."

"Do souls look like pickles?" asks Bill.

"As a matter of fact, they do. And he puts them where you can never get them... in his soul bag."

A shadow appears.

"I've come for your pickle!" says the shadow.

Bill screams. Bev and Fred the Penguin laugh.

"HMPH! Fred." grimaces Bill.

"Scaredy Duck gets easier to scare every year!" says Fred.

"Nothing like a good ghost story, eh? Hope you're not too scared to come to my party tonight, Bill the Scaredy Duck!" says Bev.

"Steal your soul." says Fred, fast.

Bill rus away. At his apartment, He and Jerry are carving a pumpkin from the inside.

"I don't get it, Jerry. Every Halloween, no matter how hard I try, everyone seems to scare me. Well, I'm sick of it. No more Scaredy Duck!" says Bill.

Bill looks at his carving and runs away in his closet. There's a knock on the door.

"Bill!" says the voice.

"Jerry, it's Aldo! I'm going to scare him! It's my turn!"

Bill opens the door.

"RAWR" yells Bill.

Aldo is dressed as Groucho Marx.

"Hiya, Bill!" says Aldo.

Bill screams.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"Why can't I be frightening for once? Where's my chance?!" asks Bill.

"Well, if you want to be scary, you got to need a good costume."

Bill comes out of his room wearing a big, white sheet.

"What do you think?" asks Bill.

"Great! You'll going as my trick-or-treat bag!" says Aldo.

"No, no! I'm Ghost Duck!"

"Uhh...something's missing. I know!"

Aldo runs inside Bill's closet. Wood work is done. Aldo comes out with a pair of clogs.

"Step into these babies, Hans."

Bill does so.

"Terrifying." says Aldo.

The doorbell rings.

"Come on, Bill. It's those bros! They're easy to scare!"

"Trick-or-treat!" says the bros.

"Rawr-rawr!" yells Bill.

They just laugh.

"Look, it's the haunted hill!" says Ed.

"Ok, ok, here's your damn candy." says Bill

"No, please, that was enough of a treat, thank you." says Ed.

They leave, laughing.

"I don't get it, Aldo."

"Bill, look at my new paper ghost!" says Aldo, with a paper ghost puppet on his left hand.

"That's it, Aldo!" says Bill.

"Huh?"

"What's the difference between that ghost and me?" asks Bill.

"No, no, no wait. Don't tell me. D-don't tell me. Don't tell me! Don't tell me! I can do this. Don't tell me! Don't tell me! ...Ok, tell me."

"That ghost is thin. Cut my feathers off and I'll be thin and more like a ghost!" says Bill.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" asks Aldo.

"YES!"

One minute later, Bill looks like Ghost Duck.

"What do you think?" asks Bill.

"Perfect. Now that's scary!"

Aldo puts the glasses back on.

"Let's go scare somebody."

"Oooh...I'm Ghost Duck!" says Bill.

"Oooh...I don't know who I am!" says Aldo.

A man opens the door.

"Oooh...I'm Ghost Duck!" says Bill.

"Oooh...I Ghost Duck's best friend!" says Aldo.

They run off, laughing.

"Don't you want your candy?" asks the man.

"Oh boy, that was something. Your costume really packs a punch!" says Aldo.

"Do you think?" asks Bill.

"Oh, no question! You scared the FEATHERS off that guy!" says Aldo.

"Who's next?" asks Bill.

"There's a whole party just full of people at the Ducktown Bowling Alley, and Ghost Duck is going to show up uninvited!" says Aldo.

The brothers from earlier show up.

"Rawr! Rawr! I'm Ghost Duck!" says Bill. He and Aldo run away, laughing.

"Wasn't that the Haunted Hill?" asks Oly.

"I guess he's been demoted to a haunted candy corn!" says Waddle.

The three laugh.

At the bowling alley, Cecil is boobing for apples. He cchokes on one.

"Oh, Cecil, you're embarrassing me again!" says Clair, who runs off crying.

"Hi, Raoul, oops, I mean, BATMAN." says Fred.

"What the hell are you supposed to be?" asks Raoul.

"I'm The Penguin!" says Fred.

Fred gets beat up.

Bill and Aldo are on the roof. Bill is tied up with some rope which Aldo will lower him in with. Bill opens a door on the roof.

"Are you ready, Bill?" asks Aldo.

"Ok, kill the lights!" says Bill.

Aldo does so. Bill is lowered into the party, looking like Hell.

"Wa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I am Ghost Duck! Booga, booga, booga, booga! Give me your souls!" says Aldo, with a dark tone.

A spider lands on Aldo. He drops the rope and Bill crashes on the floor.

"Hey, that's no ghost. That's Bill!" says Ed.

Everyone laughs.

"I am not Bill! Those are my street clothes!" says Aldo.

"ENOUGH!" says a voice.

A green duck appears.

"It's the real Ghost Duck!" says Bev.

"You bet ya I'm Ghost Duck. I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I'm going to steal your souls." says Ghost Duck.

Everyone screams.

"Quiet!"

He breathes out flames to burn them.

"You had it coming, you little crybabies. Every year, people dress up like me, turning Ghost Duck into a laughingstock. But that's not the reason I'm taking your souls."

He points at Bill, who is hanging upside down.

"No, this is the straw that broke the camel's back. Out of all the Ghost Duck costumes I've seen, yours is the most insulting."

"Do you mean I'm not scary?" asks Bill.

"You? SCARY?!"

He cuts Bill down.

"Let me tell you about scary, kid. There's all kinds of scary things in the world. Spiders are scary, uhh, I'm scary. You, you're not scary. Ok, let's get this over with."

He rips off Bill's costume. Ghost Duck flies away, screaming. Bill is naked.

"Hey, what do you know? I scared him!" says Bill, laughing.

Everyone runs away, screaming.

"It worked, Aldo. I scared everybody!" says Bill.

"I forgot I made you naked." says Aldo.

"You did?" asks Bill.

"Yep." says Aldo.

Aldo runs away, screaming.

"Don't worry, they grow back!" says Bill.