The next few days, Ezra dreamily floated through the mansion, picking petals off dead flowers he had found in the conservatory. Phineas and Gus paced nearby.
"Okay," said Phineas, "Gracey doesn't know yet."
"About what?" asked Gus.
"You know what! The whole rescue thing!"
"Oh yeah. Good times, man."
"If the others find out..." Phineas mumbled. "Oh no! What if that bird told all the critters in Chick-a-pin Hill?"
Gus shrugged. "Eh, as long as they speak in thick offensive dialect, no one's gonna understand them."
Ezra, meanwhile, was planning to himself. "I gotta do something romantic to get her attention! Woo her! WOO!"
Phineas grabbed his legs and pulled him down. "Man, you've got to take an interest to someone in here! Little Leota's not too bad looking, actually."
"She's EVIL!" yelled Ezra. "I'm just crazy! Big difference. Besides, I can't stand her."
"What about Emily?"
"Hatchet Emily? Nah."
"Uh...Bea?"
"Actually-NO! That cast member is the only one for me!"
Gus's eyes teared up. "Don't you like us anymore?"
"Of course I do! I love you guys! I love this mansion! I love the organ music...wait, that's calypso music. Is someone gonna sing?"
Phineas sprang up. "Finally!"
"Our own number!" cried Gus.
Phineas: The dust can always be grayer
In somebody else's room
You dream about going out there
But that may lead to your doom
Gus: Just look at the dark around you
Right here on this dusty floor
Such wonderful freaks surround you
What more are you looking for?
Both: Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion
Phineas: Trust me it's better
Gus: That girl, forget her
Both: Relationship's done
Out in that park they work all day
And in the sun they bake away
Sad times are rare, an'
We have fun scarin'
Haunted Mansion
Busts: Down here all the spooks are happy
Phineas: For us, scaring is an art
Busts: The spooks out there sure ain't happy
Gus: They're plush and they're on that cart
Busts: But spooks on the cart are lucky
Soon someone will come around
For some crazy kid will take them
Plush: Who knows where they'll next be found
Ballroom Ghosts: Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion
Frowning Cast Members
We all remembers
They're so much fun
Gargoyles: We're like some zombie mousketeers
Hatbox Ghost: All of us from great Imagineers
Suit of Armor: We're satisfied now
Pop-Up Ghosts: Least, we've implied now
Phineas and Gus: Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion
Since death is sweet here
We got the beat here
It's never shunned
Gus: Even Leota and her brat
Loosen up, have fun (think of that!)
We got the "spirit"
You got to hear it
All: Haunted Mansion
Soon the mansion was full of dancing ghosts. Phineas ran over to Ezra. "See?"
"As fun as this song is," admitted Ezra, "I'm not won over yet."
Gus ran over to a speaker and turned up the music. "Then we'll keep trying!"
All: Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion
When the organ
Makes sounds of morgues an'
It's music to me
In Disney World and Disneyland
We got the Phantom Five, what a band
Each singing bust there
Knows fun's a must here
Haunted Mansion
Each ghostly dog here
Howls through the fog here
Haunted Mansion
Each floating head here
Is good and dead here
We don't need fountains
Or the "Flash Mountain"
Yeah, we're in luck here
Ezra: Technically stuck here
All: Haunted Mansion
Phineas threw out his arms in a big finish. "There! Ezra? Ezra?" The ghost was gone.
"Man, he just keeps coming and going," said Gus.
A ghost from "Lonesome Ghosts" flew over. "Hey, guys! The master's looking for you!"
Gus looked nervously at Phineas. "Us? Uh-oh."
Phineas nearly fainted. "What if he found out about Ezra's room of wonders?"
"What wonders?" said a voice. Phineas whirled around to find George Gracey standing right behind him.
"Uh...as in Wonderland?" said the nervous ghost. "Man, that caterpillar with the hookah pipe cracks me up!"
Ezra was in his room, sculpting a statue of the cast member. "Man, I've outdone myself."
"You certainly have." George stood in the doorway.
Ezra grinned. "Uh...can I offer you a genuine Wonderland hookah pipe?"
"Don't blink." Letoa suddenly flew in and destroyed all of the pictures in a few seconds with her powers. Ezra gazed at what once held thousands of pictures of beautiful women.
"Just you wait!" he shrieked. "Just you wait! I'll get more pictures! More, more, more! Everything I wanted AND MORE!" Ezra flew out.
"Think I was too hard?" Gracey asked Leota.
"Like your head!" Ezra yelled from down the hall.
"No, he needed it," said Leota.
"Like you need a kick in the butt!" yelled Ezra. "Which you don't have!"
"He's waiting around the hall to insult us," grumbled Gracey.
"Sure am!" Ezra flew out of the mansion and across the park. "I gotta cool off...Blizzard Beach time."
Phineas and Gus watched. "Well, at least he's still sorta joking," said Phineas.
"Yeah, but we better follow him."
Honestly, I think a few of these scenes are rushed, but I hated the destruction of the grotto scene as a kid. I would always run away (then again, a lot of stuff scared me. I was a wimp).
