Editing Ash Ketchum Meets The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Transcript (section)

== Opening/"Bells of Notre Dame" ==

* '''The Announcer:''' ''And now it's for Patchy's Pick, hosted by the great adventure host of all time, Patchy the Pirate.''
* '''Patchy the Pirate:''' Ahoy, fellow fanatics! Welcome to Patchy's Pick. Why don't come on back to the galley, I got a little treat for you today. We're gonna see me favorite adventure film, "Ash Ketchum Meets The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Ta-da!
* '''Potty:''' Boring!
* '''Patchy the Pirate:''' Well, If it isn't my less-than-amusing sidekick, Potty the Parrot. Potty, say hello to the nice people.
* '''Potty:''' Bawk! I'm being held here against my will––help!
* '''Patchy the Pirate:''' Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh... Oh, Potty come back! Potty? Potty? Were'd you go? Potty, you in here, buddy?

(Then the screen reveals that Patchy is in a cannon that is pointing outside the window)

* '''Potty:''' [laughs and squawking] Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha.
* '''Patchy the Pirate:''' Get me out of here, you scurvy bird! [The cannon blasts Patchy out and Patchy screams; he lands in a neighboring house which sinks like a boat. Patchy returns, still smoking from the cannon blast] Well, roll the film.

''(The film begins a countdown and then it plays, as the Walt Disney Pictures logo fades off the screen, the chorus heard in the background mixes with the bells of Notre Dame cathedral ringing. A long zoom in through the city until we reach the Clopin singing to a group of children watching his puppet show.)''

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''Morning in Paris, the city awakes''
:: ''Through the Bells of Notre Dame''
:: ''The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes''
:: ''Through the Bells of Notre Dame''

:: ''To the big bells as loud as the thunder''
:: ''To the little bells as soft as psalm''
:: ''And some say the soul of the city's toll of the bells''
:: ''The Bells of Notre Dame''

* '''Clopin:''' Listen, they're beautiful, no? So many colors of sounds, so many changing moods. Because, you know, they don't ring all by themselves.
* '''Puppet:''' They don't?!?
* '''Clopin:''' No, silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?
* '''Puppet:''' Who?
* '''Clopin:''' What is he?
* '''Puppet:''' What?
* '''Clopin:''' How did he come to be there?
* '''Puppet:''' How?
* '''Clopin:''' Hush!
* '''Puppet:''' Ohhh...
* '''Clopin:''' And Clopin will tell you. It is a tale, a tale of a man and a monster!

''(A wipe to a dark night. A band of gypsies quietly proceeding down the'' Seine, hoping to avoid detection. A baby in the woman's arms begins to cry.)

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''Dark was the night when our tale was begun on the docks near Notre Dame''

* '''Gypsy 1:''' Shut it up, will you!
* '''Gypsy 2:''' We'll be spotted!
* '''Gypsy Mother:''' Hush, little one!

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''Four frightened gypsies slid silently under the docks near Notre Dame''

* '''Boatman:''' Four gilers for safe passage into Paris.

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''But a trap had been layed for the gypsies''
:: ''And they gazed up in fear and alarm''
:: ''At a figure who's clutches were iron as much as the bells''

* '''Gypsy 1:''' Judge Claude Frollo!

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''The Bells of Notre Dame''

: '''[Chorus]'''
:: ''Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)''

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin''

: '''[Chorus]'''
:: ''Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)''

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''And he saw corruption everywhere except within''

* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' Bring these gypsy vermin to the Palace of Justice.
* '''Guard:''' ''(To mother)'' You there! What are you hiding!?!
* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her.
* '''Clopin:''' She ran!

''(As the gypsy mother tries to escape with her baby, Judge Frollo gives chase on horseback. She reaches the doors of Notre Dame and pounds on them.)''

* '''Gypsy Mother:''' Sanctuary! Please give us sanctuary! (her last words)

''(Frollo finally catches up to her on the steps of the cathedral. He rips the still covered bundle from her arms, and kicks her in the face, sending her crashing to the cement steps, where she is knocked unconscious. The baby begins to cry.)''

* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' A baby?

''(Frollo uncovers the baby's head, seeing the deformed infant.)''

* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' A monster!

''(He looks around, searching for a way to dispose of the creature. He sees a well, and rides over to it. He is about to drop the baby down the well when a voice (a lightning flash between Clopin and the Archdeacon) shouts out.)''

* '''Archdeacon:''' Stop!
* '''Clopin:''' Cried the archdeacon.
* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' This is an unholy demon. I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs!

: '''[Archdeacon]'''
:: ''See there the innocent blood you have spilt''
:: ''On the steps of Notre Dame''

* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' I am guiltless. She ran, I pursued.

: '''[Archdeacon]'''
:: ''Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt''
:: ''On the steps of Notre Dame?''

* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' My conscience is clear

: '''[Archdeacon]'''
:: ''You can lie to yourself and your minions''
:: ''You can claim that you haven't a qualm''
:: ''But you never can run from nor hide what you've done from the eyes''
:: ''The very eyes of Notre Dame''

: '''[Chorus]'''
:: ''Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)''

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''And for one time in his life''
:: ''Of power and control''

: '''[Chorus]'''
:: ''Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)''

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''Frollo felt a twinge of fear''
:: ''For his immortal soul''

* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' What must I do?
* '''Archdeacon:''' Care for the child, and raise it as your own
* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' What? I'm to be settled with this misshapen…? Very well. Let him live with you, in your church.
* '''Archdeacon:''' Live here? Where?
* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' Anywhere.

: '''[Judge Claude Frollo]'''
:: ''Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see''

* '''Judge Claude Frollo:''' The bell tower, perhaps. And who knows? Our Lord works in mysterious ways

: '''[Judge Claude Frollo]'''
:: ''Even this foul creature may''
:: ''Yet prove one day to be''
:: ''Of use to me''

(scene changes to puppet show)

* '''Clopin:''' And Frollo gave the child a cruel name. A name that means half-formed... Quasimodo!

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''Now here is a riddle to guess if you can''
:: ''Sing the bells of Notre Dame''
:: ''Who is the monster and who is the man?''

: '''Clopin and Chorus:'''
:: ''Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells''
:: ''Bells, bells, bells, bells''

: '''[Clopin]'''
:: ''Bells of Notre Dame!''

''(We have wiped from watching Clopin's puppet show to the actual bells ringing in the tower, and the back of this mysterious Quasimodo ringing them. As we end on a beautiful shot of the bells ringing, and the word "Dame" is sung with the cymbal crash, the title "''Ash Ketchum Meets The Hunchback of Notre Dame''" appears onscreen.)''