Chapter 1: Prologue
An aerial view of a movie studio zooms into a hallway
Man (off screen): You're killing me! I'm being murdered! I can't take this torture any more! I'm dying! You're killing me!
The scene fades to an executive's office and we see a struggling filmmaker named DUCK STONE, a caricature of Jamaal Simpson, pleading for his career.
Duck: I'm telling you JR, you're type-casting me to death! Comedy, always directing Comedy! Ha ha, Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo! Yack yack! Honest, JR – you just gotta let me direct a dramatic part.
Duck flutters his eyelashes at the executive and leans on his desk
JR (off screen): Well, I –
Duck (jumping off the desk): I just knew you'd see it my way, JR! And it just so happens that I have with me the very script that we've been looking for.
Duck pats a stack of paper almost as tall as he is
JR (off screen): Yes, but I –
Duck (mutters): Lets see, now where to begin... oh yes! Page 1 (clears throat)
We see the cover page:
Snow White and the Peanuts By: Dumas "Duck" Stone
Duck (reading): Snow White and the Peanuts by Dumas "Duck" Stone.
Duck drops the first page and picks up the next page
Duck: Chapter 1. Once upon a time – great opening, huh? –
New Scene: The office fade into a storybook where Duck continues narrating.
Duck (voice over): Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there lived a noble king and his lovely young queen...who lacked but one blessing to make their joy complete--
The page turns and reveal Snoopy.
Charlie Brown [annoyed and yanked the beagle of the page by his collar: Not you Snoopy get out of there.
Duck: People please. I'm very sorry, JR.
JR: No, no, please continue.
The page turns to a young queen sewing at her window. Duck continues his pitch.
Duck: Ahem, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted... Then one day in the middle of winter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a beautiful queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed, she looked up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful, that she thought, "If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as this frame."
Turn to the next page to see Lucy van Pelt admiring herself like a big ham but Peppermint Patty humbly dragged her off the page.
Peppermint Patty [extremely annoyed: He didn't mean you, Lucy.
Lucy van Pelt: At least my hair is black as the window frames.
Peppermint Patty: How about I give two to match those eyes of yours, get outta there.
Lucy van Pelt [being yanked off the page by Peppermint Patty: Hey wait a minute, I thought I- -. WHOA!
Peppermint Patty [to the Narrator: You may continue Mr. Narrator.
Duck: Thank you, Peppermint Patty.
The page turns and see baby Snow White and a saddened king.
Duck: Not very long after she had a daughter, with a skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony, and she was named Little Snow White And when she was born the Queen died. After a year had gone by the King took another wife, a beautiful woman, but so proud and overbearing that she could not bear to be surpassed in beauty by any one.
Page turns towards QUEEN HILDA who is glaring at her magic looking glass.
Duck: She had a magic looking-glass, and she used to stand before it, and look in it, and say,
Queen Hilda: Slave in the looking glass comes from the deepest depths of space through wind and flame I summon thee... SPEAK! Let me see thy face.
Pig-Pen as the MAN in the looking glass, appear before Queen Hilda, dress in a dirty two piece suit and confront her.
Man in the Looking Glass (Pig-Pen): What do you which to know my Queen?
Queen Hilda: Looking glass, looking glass, upon the wall, Who is fairest of us all?
Man in the Looking Glass (Pig-Pen): Queen of loveliness you re the fairest of them all by far.
The Queen laugh with contentment knowing that she's the fairest of them all.
Duck: Yes, she was contented, for she knew that the man in the looking glass spoke the truth. As long as he said she's the fairest of them all everyone is safe from her wrath for now.
The camera zoom out of the castle as Duck concludes the opening narration.
Duck: However she fails to reckoned one possible competitor for the title of the fairest of them all. Whom, even in infancy show the promise of a beauty... that would one day far outshine the queen's. And that maiden name is...
The Peanuts Gang consists of Charlie Brown, Sally Brown, Linus, Lucy van Pelt, Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, and Snoopy fighting over a roast chicken.
[ Lucy] Come back here, you.! That belongs to me. Give it to me!
[Duck] People! People! Not in front of the audience!
[Schroeder] No, ya don't.
[Duck Sighs] A thousand pardons, JR.
[Sally] Hey, wait for us!
Page turn to reveal the Peanuts Gang greeting Snow White as Duck finishes the prologue.
[Duck] And if by now... you're wondering what on earth the Peanuts gang have to do with the fairy tale of Snow White? It's very simple. It this version, we're telling the story of... Snow White and the Peanuts.
Prologue ends.