Season 1 Episode 3: Cane Crazy.

Sprig:Wow, Marcy, look at all your cool stuff! What's this? Ah, I get it. Torture device.

Marcy: That's a toenail clipper.

Sprig: Oh, okay, okay, sure. Oh! How about this?[holds up a bike pump]What does this do? [pumps air into his mouth; muffled] It's painful. [air hisses as it comes out] Oh, and this. [He clicks a pen] Oh, I love this. This is amazing.

Marcy: You know what? You can keep it if you want.

[bell clanging]

Hop Pop: Kids! Chow time!

Kids: Time to eat! Time to eat!

Hop Pop: Hold on, you kids. Hold on.

Kids: Time to eat!

[Hop Pop hands out everyone's food, and Marcy is immediately put off by it.]

Marcy: Uh, you know what? I think I'm gonna pass this one.

Hop Pop: Why? Is my food not good enough for the princess?

Marcy: Well, if I'm the princess, then you're the king of bad cooking. [chuckles]

Sprig: Ohhh!

Polly: Oh oh oh!

Hop Pop: Oh, yeah? Well, you... I...

Marcy: What's the matter, Hop Pop? Frog in your throat?

Polly: Ohhh!

Sprig: Oh, she got you again!

Hop Pop: Oh, dang it! You know what? I'm gonna take a nap. I don't believe this. I feed you, I house you, and this is how you repay me? If you don't shape up soon, Marcy, I'm throwin' you out!

Marcy: Yeesh. What's his problem? [She grabs a cane and hunches over speaking like an old man] I'm Hop Pop, and I cook bad and have a temper problem!

[laughing]

Sprig: That's so Hop Pop!

Marcy: Eat up your aphids, don't play with them. Elbows off the table!

[both laughing]

Marcy: Sometimes I wonder why I even bother putting up with you at all!

[She breaks the cane; Sprig and Polly gasp.]

Marcy: Whoops. Guess I don't know my own strength, i didnt even think i have strenght, right guys? You guys okay? What's the big deal? It's just one cane.

Sprig: That wasn't just any cane. It was Hop Pop's special cane, passed down from his father, Hop Poppity Pop, all the way from his father, Hop-and-Lock-Drop Soppity Pop.

Marcy: Oh! You guys gotta help me. He's gonna kick me out the second he finds out about this. I cannot go back to living in a cave!

[A flashback begins with a thunderclap. Marcy is curled up on the cave floor with her jackets hood on as dozens of bugs surround her. Water falls on her face.]

Marcy: Uhhh! The nights were the hardest.

Sprig:Don't worry, Marcy. We'll do whatever it takes to help you.

Polly: Eh, count me out.

Sprig: Polly!

Polly: What? I hardly know her.

Marcy: Would you help me for one of these? [pulls a candy bar out of her pocket]

Polly: [gasps] Candy from another world? Lady, you've got yourself a deal.

Marcy: Glad to hear it. Now, let's try to save my skin.

All:Yeah!

Marcy: Okay, maybe we can't fix it, but someone else can? Someone good with...uuhhhh wood?

Sprig: Marcy, you're a genius! We'll just take it to Leopold Loggle, the woodsmith. He loves wood. Almost a little too much.

Loggle: Uh-huh. Oh, oh, yes. Well, aren't you fascinating? Yes, you are.

Marcy: Can you fix it?

Loggle: As a matter of fact, I can... not.

Sprig: Huh. Can you make a new one?

Loggle: Absolutely... no way.

Polly: Do you have one we could buy?

Loggle: Of course I do... n't. I don't.

Marcy: Why do you keep doing that? Please stop that.

Loggle: Old smithing accident. You don't want to know.

Marcy: Uh, okay, so--

Loggle: Tripped on an anvil. Landed neck-first on a metal pipe. Pierced my voice box clean through!

Polly: Blegh!

Marcy: oh, come on!

Sprig: Cool.

Loggle: Switched over to wood after that. Anyhow, I'm afraid I can't do much for you. That cane was made with wood from the incredibly rare, extremely dangerous Doom Tree!

[all gasp]

Loggle: Few have made it to the Doom Tree alive, fewer yet returned. It holds many secrets that mortals dare not--

Marcy: but, it's a tree. Just tell us where it is.

Sprig: Yeah, Loggle, cut the chitchat!

Polly: You're bald!

Loggle:Okay, okay. I got a map to the Doom Tree right here, but it'll cost ya.

Marcy: Click. [takes a picture with her phone; shows it to Loggle] done.

Loggle:Or you could do that for free.

Marcy: Come on, guys. We gotta go. Hop Pop could wake up at any second!

Both: Right!

Loggle:Be careful, you kids. It's cursed, I tell ya. Cursed!

Marcy: To the Doom Tree everyone.[Walks a step and imediatlly falls.] Woop, im okay. :).

Polly: Whoo-hoo!

Sprig: Yeah! Whoa, Loggle. We gotta talk about this, man. We're comin' back. We're gonna talk about this. All right, good-bye.

[beeping]

[tires screech]

[beeping continues]

[bird screeches]

Marcy: [grunting] Hold up. We're here. Now, that tree is uhh something else.

Sprig:Just one of Mother Nature's horrible mistakes.

Polly: [chuckles] Frogs died here.

Marcy: Look. That branch is perfeeect. [grunting].

Polly: You people and your legs.

Marcy: [grunting]

Sprig: [spitting]

Marcy: Careful. The tree is cursed. [laughs] its probably Goofy.

Sprig: [laughs]

Marcy: Okay, seriously though, on three. One, two...[Struggles ALOT.]

[shrieking]

Marcy: Uh guyss, did the tree just scream at us?

[Doom Tree roars]

Sprig: Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[grunts]

[roars]

[roaring]

Sprig:Oh, hey, it's maple.

Anne:Run!

[all screaming]

[shrieking]

Marcy: That thing is deffienetly not a tree. It's a kind of grody big bug!

Sprig: A bug that wants to kill us!

Polly: Less talky-talky, more runny-runny!

[roaring]

Sprig:[grunting] Whoa! [grunts] Waaah!

[shrieking]

[groaning]

Marcy:[screaming]

[grunting, panting]

[shrieking]

Loggle: [sighs] Well, Loggle, another day, another step closer to bankrupt-- Eh?

[Marcy shouts]

[roaring]

Loggle: What the-- What's going on?

Marcy: Don't ask questions please!

[all scream]

[Doom Tree roars]

[all screaming]

Marcy: What's it gonna take to get rid of this thing? [grunts]

[shrieking]

Marcy:[grunting]

[bell rings]

Marcy: Oh, this is nice. [grunts]

Leopold Loggle:That took 20 years to carve.

[shrieks]

[puzzled shriek]

Polly:Yah! Yah yah yah yah yah! And that! And that! Hi-yah!

Marcy: [grunts] Charge!

Sprig: Charge!

[squealing]

Sprig:I'm gonna sand your face!

Polly:Phew.

Marcy: Termites! Why would a woodsmith have termites? Whyy??!!

Loggle: I'm a complicated man!

Marcy: Incoming! Oop[Falls down.]

[squeals]

[grunts]

Polly: Uh...

Sprig:Cool.

Marcy: This world is messed up but cool.

[whimpering]

Marcy: Up top!

Sprig: We did it!

Polly: That was awesome, you guys!

Marcy: Now, let's get this cane back to Hop Pop and go home.

Loggle:Give me that!

Marcy: Hey! Give that back.

Polly: What gives, Loggle?

Loggle:I'll tell you what gives. This doesn't even begin to cover the damages you've caused to my shop. You're gonna have to give me something else. Come on. Pony up.

Sprig: [sigh] Will this work?

Loggle:What? What is this, uh...

[clicking]

Loggle:Oh. [clicking] Oh! I like this. You can go.

Sprig: Sorry, Marcy. After all we worked for too.

Marcy: It's okay. We'd better head home. Hop Pop's probably already awake and furious.

Polly: Probably a bad time to bring this up, but I still get the candy, right?

Hop Pop: [yawns] Whoa, boy. I needed that. Hope nothing happened while I was asleep to make me mad again. Oh, no. What did you do?

Sprig: What's up with canes? Who even needs them these days, am I right? Ow.

[sighs]

Marcy: I'm really sorry, Hop Pop. I was goofing around, and I broke your favorite cane.

Hop Pop: You what?

Marcy: I know, I know. I'll show myself out.

Sprig: We'll come visit you, Marcy. We promise.

Polly: [crying] And just when I was starting to like you!

Marcy: Don't make this harder than it already is.

[kids bawling]

Hop Pop:What the-- What's going on?

Marcy: You're throwing me out. You know, like you said you would.

Hop Pop:[sighs] Mmm. Marcy, truth be told, I was never gonna throw you out. I was just talking tough so that you'd show me a little bit more respect.

Marcy: Oh, Really?.

Hop Pop:Heh heh heh. [inhales] Yeah. I probably was a little bit too harsh. But I only did it because you remind me of myself when I was your age. Rough around the edges. Now, put that bag down, young lady. You're not going anywhere.

Sprig:Whoo! Yeah! I like that.

Polly:Yeah! I wasn't worried.

Marcy: Thanks, Hop Pop. So you're not mad about the cane?

Hop Pop:Oh, I'm furious about the cane. You're on dish duty for a month!

Marcy: Uh. Yes, sir!

Hop Pop: Now that that's settled, I wrote a long list of comebacks to get you back for this morning. [clears throat] "Hey, Marcy, is that your hair, or is it a dandelion?" Ha. [sniffles] Uh-- Oh. Are those long, lanky limbs, Marc, or are those, uh, twigs? Ah! [chuckles] Eh...

Sprig: [coughs]

Hop Pop:The moment has passed, hasn't it?