PROLOGUE/CARRYING THE BANNER
Soujiro! Get out there! NOW!
*Soujiro runs out, a big smile on his cute face. The screen shows a montage of different bishonen newsies.*
Soujiro Racetrack: In 2003, the streets of Northern Kentucky echoed with the voices of bishonen peddling the manga of Nobihiro Watsuki, Yoshihiro Togashi, and other giants of the manga world. Adorable and mostly unattached, the newsies were a ragged army, without a leader- until one day, all that changed.
*The camera zooms in on a statue of Kenny Ortega. Three cute little bishonen boys are asleep on the statue. The camera then zooms in on a sign that says:
BISHONEN NEWSIES LODGING HOUSE.
Okina Kloppman walks up the stairs of the lodging house and shakes his head. All of the bishonen newsies are fast asleep. Okina Kloppman walks up to Koenma Boots.*
Okina Kloppman: KOENMA BOOTS!
Koenma Boots: AUGH! You scared me! Ogre! George! Where are you? Come get this ancient human!
George: I'm not in this movie, so I'm hogging the donut table. These are THE COOLEST donuts ever! They have frosting all over, but the sprinkles are only on one side! Wow!
George, you're interrupting.
George: Oops. Sorry.
*Okina Kloppman slaps Kuwabara Skittery's giant foot, which is hanging over the side of his bunk bed.*
Okina Kloppman: Kuwabara Skittery! Kuwabara Skittery!
Kuwabara Skittery: What? I didn't do nothing!
Okina Kloppman: That's just it! Get up! Get up, you have to get up!
Kuwabara Skittery: All right, all right. Sheesh.
Okina Kloppman: Snitch Manta! Come on, everybody's sleeping! You keep sleeping, you'll sleep your life away!
*Snitch Manta, who has his thumb in his mouth, rolls over. We see that he has his foot in Itey Sasuke's mouth.*
Itey Sasuke: Gross! Get away, or I'll beat you to death!
Snitch Manta: *snore*
*Behind Itey Sasuke and Snitch Manta, we see Mush Sano and Bumlets Yoh, both still asleep. Okina Kloppman walks over to Yusuke Jack, still sound asleep.*
Okina Kloppman: Come on! What're you dreaming about? You dreaming about selling manga?
Yusuke Jack: Mmpfagaraga.
Okina Kloppman: C'mon!
Yusuke Jack: Whatsa matter with you?
Okina Kloppman: What's the matter with me? What's the matter with you?
Yusuke Jack: Get away from me! You're MAD!
Misao: (from offstage) That's what I've been saying all these years.
Okina Kloppman: Be quiet, or I'll tell everyone the cute little nickname I have for you!
Misao: You wouldn't!
Okina Kloppman: Oh, yes I would!
Misao: NOOOO!
Okina Kloppman: Princess Pooky.my pretty little Princess Pooky.
Aoshi: .
Misao: *taps Hiei on the shoulder* Hey, can I borrow your cane?
Hiei: Hn.
*Misao chases after Okina Kloppman, screaming "GAAUUUGH!" and bopping him on the head with Hiei's prop.*
You'll need that back for your scenes, Hiei.
Hiei: Hn.
*The other Bishonen boys drag themselves out of their beds. Soujiro Racetrack puts on his suspenders and then runs around frantically, searching for something.*
Insert the First Song
Soujiro Racetrack: That's my katana!
Snipeshooter Ren: You'll steal another.
Kid Blink Kenshin: Hey, buddies, we have work to do.
Specs Naruto: Since when did you become my mother? (speaking) Do I even have a mother? Does anyone in this show have a mother?
Kurama: I DO!
Just sing the song, boys.
Crutchy Yugi: Aw, stop your bawling!
Everyone, including the director: Who asked you?
Mush Sano: (speaking) How'd you sleep, Yusuke Jack?
Yusuke Jack: (speaking) On my back, Mush Sano.
Mush Sano: (speaking) Did you hear that, guys? I asked Yusuke Jack how he slept, and he said "on my back, Mush Sano"!!!
*Yusuke Jack slugs Mush Sano, who thumps to the floor. Loudly.*
Eh.Botan? First injury.
Botan: I'm on my way!
Okina Kloppman: Don't I count?
Misao: No!
BACK TO THE SONG!!
Crutchy Yugi: (speaking) Hey, Yusuke Jack, when I walk, does it look like I'm faking it?
Yusuke Jack: .
Crutchy Yugi: I mean my limp. Does it look like I'm faking my limp?
Yusuke Jack: .
Psst! Yusuke! Your line!
*Yusuke Jack pulls a script out of his pocket.*
Yusuke Jack: Nah-who-says-you're-fakin'-it?
Crutchy Yugi: I dunno. There's just so many fake crips on the streets these days, a real crip ain't got a chance. I got to find me a new selling spot where they ain't used to seeing me.
Yusuke Jack: .
Just keep singing, boys.
Mush Sano: Try Taylor Mill or the Levee.
Racetrack Soujiro: Try CCS, it's guaranteed.
Yusuke Jack: Try any banker, bum, or barber,
Skittery Kuwabara: They almost all know how to read!
Shizuru: At least they can..
Skittery Kuwabara: Hey!
Kid Blink Kenshin: I smell money!
Crutchy Yugi: You smell foul!
Mush Sano: Met this girl last night-
Megumi: Oh, really, Sanosuke?
Mush Sano: Erk.
Crutchy Yugi: Move your elbow!
Racetrack Soujiro: Pass the towel!
Skittery Kuwabara: For a buck I might.
All Bishonen Newsies: Ain't it a fine life?
Carrying the Shonen through it all
A mighty fine life
Carrying the Shonen tough and tall
Every morning
We goes where we wishes
We's as free as fishes
Sure beats washing dishes
What a fine life
Carrying the Shonen home free all!
Yusuke Jack: It takes a smile as sweet as butter!
*Keiko melts.*
Crutchy Yugi: The kind that shojo can't resist.
*Anzu rolls her eyes.*
Racetrack Soujiro: It takes an orphan with a stutter
Yusuke Jack: Who ain't afraid to use his-
Kid Blink Kenshin: SAKABATOU!!!
Kenshin, honey, that's not your line.
Kid Blink Kenshin: But I *never* use my fists.
Just sing the song.
Kid Blink Kenshin: *grumbles*
All Bishonen Newsies: Summer stinks and winter's waiting
Boy, ain't Cincy great?
Summer sure is fascinating
It's winters that we hate!
Still, it's a fine life
Carrying the Shonen with me chums
A mighty fine life
Blowing every nickel as it comes.
Crutchy Yugi: I'm no snoozer
Sitting makes me antsy
I likes living chancy *does the pump*
All Bishonen Newsies: Covington to Edgewood
What a fine life
*collective pelvic thrust*
Carrying the Shonen through the slums!
*A big wagon with the three nuns- Anna, Kaoru, and Shizuru- approaches.*
Bumlets Yoh: Anna? Is that you, Anna?
Snitch Manta: *snickers.*
Sister Anna: Don't make me hurt you.
Just go on with the song, pretty please?
Sister Anna: Blessed children *blaugh.*
Sister Kaoru: Though youuuuuuu wander loooooooost and deeeeepraaaaveeed.
*Kid Blink Kenshin covers his ears.*
Sister Kaoru: I saw that, Kenshin! *pulls out a frying pan from under her habit.*
Kid Blink Kenshin: Oro.
Erk.
Sister Shizuru: Jesus loves you (at least someone does)
All three nuns: You shall be saved!
*The nuns start handing out bread and water to the newsies. Sister Anna takes perverse delight in dangling pieces of bread over Bumlets Yoh's head and watching him jump to get it.*
That's not a very nun-like thing to do.
*Zero-Zero-Three starts wandering through the crowd, looking worried.*
Zero-Zero-Three: Joseph.
Racetrack Soujiro: Just give me half a cup.
Zero-Zero-Three: .darling.
Kid Blink Kenshin: Something to wake me up.
Zero-Zero-Three: .since you left me, I am undone.
Mush Sano: I gotta find an angle.
Zero-Zero-Three: .mother.
Bishonen Newsies: Sure hope the manga's hot
Zero-Zero-Three: .loves you.
Bishonen Newsies: God help me if it's not.
Zero-Zero-Three: .God save my son!
Kurama: *sniff* That is so sweet.
Kurama! You're not on the set yet!
Kurama: Oh, yeah.
Bishonen Newsies: If I hate the story, I'll make up a story
And I'll say anything I haveta
'Cause at one for a fiver
If I take a fiver-
Hiei: Director Keiti, that makes no sense.
Bear with me here. This is a difficult adaptation.
Bishonen Newsies: Weasel just makes me eat 'em after
Look! They're putting out the headline
You call that a headline?
I get better headlines from the copper on the street
I was gonna start with twenty
Now a dozen'll be plenty
How's a guy gonna make ends meet?
We need a good assassination
*collective pelvic thrust*
We need an earthquake or a war
Snipeshooter Ren: How 'bout a game with giant monsters?
Bishonen Newsies: Hey, baka, that ain't news no more!
Uptown to the Shell gas station
Kurama: .
Bishonen Newsies: Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walkin' till we fall!
You call that a headline?
The idiot who wrote it must be working for DC
Did you hear about the battle?
Heard they sacked old Genkai senseless-
Genkai: Shut up, you bishonen brats! I'll get you in the next scene.
Bishonen Newsies: Heard the toll was even higher
Why do I miss all the fun?
Hitched it on a trolley
Meet you Forty-fourth and Second
Don Pablos is a secret
Cincy's further than I reckoned
From the courthouse to the stables
From the corner someone beckoned
It's a-
*The Togoro Brothers, Oscar and Morris, enter.*
Soujiro Racetrack: Dear me! What is that unpleasant aroma? I fear the sewer may have backed up during the night. *giggles.*
Yusuke Jack: Well, Hiei's not on the set yet.
Hiei: *glower*
Koenma Boots: It's too rotten to be the sewer.
Crutchy Yugi: Yeah, it must be the Togoro brothers!
Robby Trunks: *giggles*
*Oscar Togoro flings Snipeshooter Ren to the ground.*
Oscar Togoro: In the back, you lousy little shrimp.
*Tao Jun races on set.*
Tao Jun: OH MY GOSH!!! YOU HURT MY POOR LITTLE BROTHER!!!! YOU WILL PAY!!!!!
*smacks Togoro across the head.*
Oscar Togoro: Ow. . .
Tao Jun: Oh, Lian, are you okay, baby? *kiss*
Snipeshooter Ren: Jun, you are embarrassing me beyond all belief.
Bumlets Yoh: WAH-HA-HA-HA-HA! *rolls on the ground laughing hysterically.*
Okay, let's just pick it up at Soujiro's line.
Soujiro Racetrack: You shouldn't do that. It's not healthy. *giggles.*
Yusuke Jack: You shouldn't be calling people lousy little shrimps, Oscar, unless you're referring to the family resemblance with your brother here.
Kuwabara Skittery: IN YOUR FACE, YOU KOORIME-STEALING LOSER!
Oscar Togoro: .
Soujiro Racetrack: Hey, five to one that Detective Boy smokes 'em! Eh? Who's betting?
Bishonen Newsies: Nah, bum odds!
Togoro Brothers: .
Yusuke Jack: That's right. That's an insult. So's this!
*Yusuke Jack grabs Oscar Togoro's sunglasses and snaps them.*
Oscar Togoro: WAUGH! *transforms into Hulk Toguro and chases Yusuke Jack. Yusuke Jack runs straight into David Kurama, who is dragging his grumpy little brother Yahiko Les by the hand.*
David Kurama: What do you think you're doing?
Yusuke Jack: *grumbles* Running! *grumbles some more.* This is so not me, Director Keiti.
Live with it, babe.
*Yusuke Jack runs around wildly some more, and vanquishes the evil Toguro brothers.*
Bishonen Newsies: It's a fine life
Carryin' the Shonen through it all
It's a fine life
Carryin' the Shonen tough and tall
See the headline
Newsies on a mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
What a fine life
Carrying the banner
Go get 'em now, boy
Carrying the banner
You got 'em now, boy
Carrying the banner
Go get 'em cowboy
Carrying the banner
It's a-
GO!
*TARK Vegeta comes out, staggering under the weight of a huge stack of manga.*
TARK Vegeta: This is for the newsies!
Yay! We made it through the first song! Good job, boys!
Disclaimer: I do not own newsies or bishonen but I do own Bishonen Newsies. Does that make sense? It's ten o'clock at night as I write this. . . And I spent too much quality time with my permanent marker today. . .
Soujiro! Get out there! NOW!
*Soujiro runs out, a big smile on his cute face. The screen shows a montage of different bishonen newsies.*
Soujiro Racetrack: In 2003, the streets of Northern Kentucky echoed with the voices of bishonen peddling the manga of Nobihiro Watsuki, Yoshihiro Togashi, and other giants of the manga world. Adorable and mostly unattached, the newsies were a ragged army, without a leader- until one day, all that changed.
*The camera zooms in on a statue of Kenny Ortega. Three cute little bishonen boys are asleep on the statue. The camera then zooms in on a sign that says:
BISHONEN NEWSIES LODGING HOUSE.
Okina Kloppman walks up the stairs of the lodging house and shakes his head. All of the bishonen newsies are fast asleep. Okina Kloppman walks up to Koenma Boots.*
Okina Kloppman: KOENMA BOOTS!
Koenma Boots: AUGH! You scared me! Ogre! George! Where are you? Come get this ancient human!
George: I'm not in this movie, so I'm hogging the donut table. These are THE COOLEST donuts ever! They have frosting all over, but the sprinkles are only on one side! Wow!
George, you're interrupting.
George: Oops. Sorry.
*Okina Kloppman slaps Kuwabara Skittery's giant foot, which is hanging over the side of his bunk bed.*
Okina Kloppman: Kuwabara Skittery! Kuwabara Skittery!
Kuwabara Skittery: What? I didn't do nothing!
Okina Kloppman: That's just it! Get up! Get up, you have to get up!
Kuwabara Skittery: All right, all right. Sheesh.
Okina Kloppman: Snitch Manta! Come on, everybody's sleeping! You keep sleeping, you'll sleep your life away!
*Snitch Manta, who has his thumb in his mouth, rolls over. We see that he has his foot in Itey Sasuke's mouth.*
Itey Sasuke: Gross! Get away, or I'll beat you to death!
Snitch Manta: *snore*
*Behind Itey Sasuke and Snitch Manta, we see Mush Sano and Bumlets Yoh, both still asleep. Okina Kloppman walks over to Yusuke Jack, still sound asleep.*
Okina Kloppman: Come on! What're you dreaming about? You dreaming about selling manga?
Yusuke Jack: Mmpfagaraga.
Okina Kloppman: C'mon!
Yusuke Jack: Whatsa matter with you?
Okina Kloppman: What's the matter with me? What's the matter with you?
Yusuke Jack: Get away from me! You're MAD!
Misao: (from offstage) That's what I've been saying all these years.
Okina Kloppman: Be quiet, or I'll tell everyone the cute little nickname I have for you!
Misao: You wouldn't!
Okina Kloppman: Oh, yes I would!
Misao: NOOOO!
Okina Kloppman: Princess Pooky.my pretty little Princess Pooky.
Aoshi: .
Misao: *taps Hiei on the shoulder* Hey, can I borrow your cane?
Hiei: Hn.
*Misao chases after Okina Kloppman, screaming "GAAUUUGH!" and bopping him on the head with Hiei's prop.*
You'll need that back for your scenes, Hiei.
Hiei: Hn.
*The other Bishonen boys drag themselves out of their beds. Soujiro Racetrack puts on his suspenders and then runs around frantically, searching for something.*
Insert the First Song
Soujiro Racetrack: That's my katana!
Snipeshooter Ren: You'll steal another.
Kid Blink Kenshin: Hey, buddies, we have work to do.
Specs Naruto: Since when did you become my mother? (speaking) Do I even have a mother? Does anyone in this show have a mother?
Kurama: I DO!
Just sing the song, boys.
Crutchy Yugi: Aw, stop your bawling!
Everyone, including the director: Who asked you?
Mush Sano: (speaking) How'd you sleep, Yusuke Jack?
Yusuke Jack: (speaking) On my back, Mush Sano.
Mush Sano: (speaking) Did you hear that, guys? I asked Yusuke Jack how he slept, and he said "on my back, Mush Sano"!!!
*Yusuke Jack slugs Mush Sano, who thumps to the floor. Loudly.*
Eh.Botan? First injury.
Botan: I'm on my way!
Okina Kloppman: Don't I count?
Misao: No!
BACK TO THE SONG!!
Crutchy Yugi: (speaking) Hey, Yusuke Jack, when I walk, does it look like I'm faking it?
Yusuke Jack: .
Crutchy Yugi: I mean my limp. Does it look like I'm faking my limp?
Yusuke Jack: .
Psst! Yusuke! Your line!
*Yusuke Jack pulls a script out of his pocket.*
Yusuke Jack: Nah-who-says-you're-fakin'-it?
Crutchy Yugi: I dunno. There's just so many fake crips on the streets these days, a real crip ain't got a chance. I got to find me a new selling spot where they ain't used to seeing me.
Yusuke Jack: .
Just keep singing, boys.
Mush Sano: Try Taylor Mill or the Levee.
Racetrack Soujiro: Try CCS, it's guaranteed.
Yusuke Jack: Try any banker, bum, or barber,
Skittery Kuwabara: They almost all know how to read!
Shizuru: At least they can..
Skittery Kuwabara: Hey!
Kid Blink Kenshin: I smell money!
Crutchy Yugi: You smell foul!
Mush Sano: Met this girl last night-
Megumi: Oh, really, Sanosuke?
Mush Sano: Erk.
Crutchy Yugi: Move your elbow!
Racetrack Soujiro: Pass the towel!
Skittery Kuwabara: For a buck I might.
All Bishonen Newsies: Ain't it a fine life?
Carrying the Shonen through it all
A mighty fine life
Carrying the Shonen tough and tall
Every morning
We goes where we wishes
We's as free as fishes
Sure beats washing dishes
What a fine life
Carrying the Shonen home free all!
Yusuke Jack: It takes a smile as sweet as butter!
*Keiko melts.*
Crutchy Yugi: The kind that shojo can't resist.
*Anzu rolls her eyes.*
Racetrack Soujiro: It takes an orphan with a stutter
Yusuke Jack: Who ain't afraid to use his-
Kid Blink Kenshin: SAKABATOU!!!
Kenshin, honey, that's not your line.
Kid Blink Kenshin: But I *never* use my fists.
Just sing the song.
Kid Blink Kenshin: *grumbles*
All Bishonen Newsies: Summer stinks and winter's waiting
Boy, ain't Cincy great?
Summer sure is fascinating
It's winters that we hate!
Still, it's a fine life
Carrying the Shonen with me chums
A mighty fine life
Blowing every nickel as it comes.
Crutchy Yugi: I'm no snoozer
Sitting makes me antsy
I likes living chancy *does the pump*
All Bishonen Newsies: Covington to Edgewood
What a fine life
*collective pelvic thrust*
Carrying the Shonen through the slums!
*A big wagon with the three nuns- Anna, Kaoru, and Shizuru- approaches.*
Bumlets Yoh: Anna? Is that you, Anna?
Snitch Manta: *snickers.*
Sister Anna: Don't make me hurt you.
Just go on with the song, pretty please?
Sister Anna: Blessed children *blaugh.*
Sister Kaoru: Though youuuuuuu wander loooooooost and deeeeepraaaaveeed.
*Kid Blink Kenshin covers his ears.*
Sister Kaoru: I saw that, Kenshin! *pulls out a frying pan from under her habit.*
Kid Blink Kenshin: Oro.
Erk.
Sister Shizuru: Jesus loves you (at least someone does)
All three nuns: You shall be saved!
*The nuns start handing out bread and water to the newsies. Sister Anna takes perverse delight in dangling pieces of bread over Bumlets Yoh's head and watching him jump to get it.*
That's not a very nun-like thing to do.
*Zero-Zero-Three starts wandering through the crowd, looking worried.*
Zero-Zero-Three: Joseph.
Racetrack Soujiro: Just give me half a cup.
Zero-Zero-Three: .darling.
Kid Blink Kenshin: Something to wake me up.
Zero-Zero-Three: .since you left me, I am undone.
Mush Sano: I gotta find an angle.
Zero-Zero-Three: .mother.
Bishonen Newsies: Sure hope the manga's hot
Zero-Zero-Three: .loves you.
Bishonen Newsies: God help me if it's not.
Zero-Zero-Three: .God save my son!
Kurama: *sniff* That is so sweet.
Kurama! You're not on the set yet!
Kurama: Oh, yeah.
Bishonen Newsies: If I hate the story, I'll make up a story
And I'll say anything I haveta
'Cause at one for a fiver
If I take a fiver-
Hiei: Director Keiti, that makes no sense.
Bear with me here. This is a difficult adaptation.
Bishonen Newsies: Weasel just makes me eat 'em after
Look! They're putting out the headline
You call that a headline?
I get better headlines from the copper on the street
I was gonna start with twenty
Now a dozen'll be plenty
How's a guy gonna make ends meet?
We need a good assassination
*collective pelvic thrust*
We need an earthquake or a war
Snipeshooter Ren: How 'bout a game with giant monsters?
Bishonen Newsies: Hey, baka, that ain't news no more!
Uptown to the Shell gas station
Kurama: .
Bishonen Newsies: Down to City Hall
We improves our circulation
Walkin' till we fall!
You call that a headline?
The idiot who wrote it must be working for DC
Did you hear about the battle?
Heard they sacked old Genkai senseless-
Genkai: Shut up, you bishonen brats! I'll get you in the next scene.
Bishonen Newsies: Heard the toll was even higher
Why do I miss all the fun?
Hitched it on a trolley
Meet you Forty-fourth and Second
Don Pablos is a secret
Cincy's further than I reckoned
From the courthouse to the stables
From the corner someone beckoned
It's a-
*The Togoro Brothers, Oscar and Morris, enter.*
Soujiro Racetrack: Dear me! What is that unpleasant aroma? I fear the sewer may have backed up during the night. *giggles.*
Yusuke Jack: Well, Hiei's not on the set yet.
Hiei: *glower*
Koenma Boots: It's too rotten to be the sewer.
Crutchy Yugi: Yeah, it must be the Togoro brothers!
Robby Trunks: *giggles*
*Oscar Togoro flings Snipeshooter Ren to the ground.*
Oscar Togoro: In the back, you lousy little shrimp.
*Tao Jun races on set.*
Tao Jun: OH MY GOSH!!! YOU HURT MY POOR LITTLE BROTHER!!!! YOU WILL PAY!!!!!
*smacks Togoro across the head.*
Oscar Togoro: Ow. . .
Tao Jun: Oh, Lian, are you okay, baby? *kiss*
Snipeshooter Ren: Jun, you are embarrassing me beyond all belief.
Bumlets Yoh: WAH-HA-HA-HA-HA! *rolls on the ground laughing hysterically.*
Okay, let's just pick it up at Soujiro's line.
Soujiro Racetrack: You shouldn't do that. It's not healthy. *giggles.*
Yusuke Jack: You shouldn't be calling people lousy little shrimps, Oscar, unless you're referring to the family resemblance with your brother here.
Kuwabara Skittery: IN YOUR FACE, YOU KOORIME-STEALING LOSER!
Oscar Togoro: .
Soujiro Racetrack: Hey, five to one that Detective Boy smokes 'em! Eh? Who's betting?
Bishonen Newsies: Nah, bum odds!
Togoro Brothers: .
Yusuke Jack: That's right. That's an insult. So's this!
*Yusuke Jack grabs Oscar Togoro's sunglasses and snaps them.*
Oscar Togoro: WAUGH! *transforms into Hulk Toguro and chases Yusuke Jack. Yusuke Jack runs straight into David Kurama, who is dragging his grumpy little brother Yahiko Les by the hand.*
David Kurama: What do you think you're doing?
Yusuke Jack: *grumbles* Running! *grumbles some more.* This is so not me, Director Keiti.
Live with it, babe.
*Yusuke Jack runs around wildly some more, and vanquishes the evil Toguro brothers.*
Bishonen Newsies: It's a fine life
Carryin' the Shonen through it all
It's a fine life
Carryin' the Shonen tough and tall
See the headline
Newsies on a mission
Kill the competition
Sell the next edition
What a fine life
Carrying the banner
Go get 'em now, boy
Carrying the banner
You got 'em now, boy
Carrying the banner
Go get 'em cowboy
Carrying the banner
It's a-
GO!
*TARK Vegeta comes out, staggering under the weight of a huge stack of manga.*
TARK Vegeta: This is for the newsies!
Yay! We made it through the first song! Good job, boys!
Disclaimer: I do not own newsies or bishonen but I do own Bishonen Newsies. Does that make sense? It's ten o'clock at night as I write this. . . And I spent too much quality time with my permanent marker today. . .