City of Frownsville/Transcript
(Opening shot: the city skyline during the day)
Narrator: The city of Townsville, the happiest town on earth.
(Cut to a pan across the park, in which a carnival has been set up. A crowd approaches eagerly.)
Narrator: But today is the happiest day of all, as young and old alike gather from far and wide, to celebrate their civic joy at the 6th annual Happiness Carnival.
(The camera passes a fellow on stilts, as well as a stage on which a man with two faces—one dour, one smiling—and a juggler have set up shop.)
Narrator: Jugglers, clowns, fire eaters, it's so totally awesome! (A roller coaster thunders by on its track) Look, ma, a rollercoaster!
(He laughs, then regains his composure as the camera passes a game booth; a customer throws a ball neatly through the mouth of a target, while the operator sleeps at the counter)
Narrator: You couldn't find more excitement anywhere else… (Dissolve to the exterior of the girls’ house as he continues.) …except perhaps in the home of three of Townsville's most excitable and happy young citizens, the Powerpuff Girls.
(Close-up of each in turn)
Bubbles: Hooray!
Blossom: We're going to...
Buttercup: ...the carnival!
(The Professor walks through the living room as they zip back and forth.)
Professor: You better hurry up, girls, or we'll be late. (Blossom pulls a pie from the oven.)
Blossom: I'm baking a pie. (Buttercup brushes the Talking Dog; a ribbon is on his collar)
Buttercup: We're entering the dog show!
(Bubbles appears, wearing a large blue hat piled with fruits and flowers. A broad sash tied under her chin holds it in place.)
Bubbles: And I entering the 6th annual happiest citizen contest! (The Professor is in the car.)
Professor: Let's go, girls!
(On the next line, the girls and heroes edive out under the closing garage door and the Talking Dog follows them.)
Heroes: Coming, Professor! (They pile into the car.)
Professor: I'm looking forward to this just as much as you are. (He shuts the door.)
Girls and Heroes: Yay! (The car pulls out; they start to sing.) La, la, la, la, la, la, we're going to the carnival! La, la, la, la, la, la, we're going to the carnival!
(The camera follows the family out the driveway and stops once they are on the way to the city proper, which stands in the distance. On the nest line, pan away from the suburbs and stop at a long shot of a castle that stands atop a tall outcropping of rock just offshore. Streams of water gush from ports cut into the vertical surfaces.)
Narrator: Ah, the sound of children laughing, how sweet it is. But all is not sweetness and light, Powerpuff Girls. If you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of crying… (Zoom in.) …from above a castle on an island.
(Dissolve to a room inside the castle as he continues. There is a plateau of rock hemmed in by water and the walls. The crying individual stands at the edge; it is a man whose tears pour down like waterfalls over the edge. A control panel sits behind him, and a large piece of glass apparatus hangs down from the ceiling. The heart of this is a huge bulb with electrodes attached. We now zoom in slowly on the man.)
Narrator: An island surrounded, by a sea of tears.
(As the zooming continues, he can be seen clearly. Chubby, bald, buck teeth, glasses, clothing very much like the Professor’s, and a small gray cloud floating over his head.)
Lou Gubrious: Listen to them, the citizens of Townsville, they all sound so, so happy...and I am so... MISERABLE!
(A fresh spate of sobbing strikes him on this last word. Lightning flashes from the overhead cloud. He crosses the room, the camera panning to follow, and stops at the control panel. He blows his nose loudly on a handkerchief and stops crying as he shakes his fist in pure anger.)
Gubrious: But I, Lou Gubrious, shall have... (Lightning flashes again) ...my revenge! I've invented a machine called the Miseray... (Tilt up to the apparatus as he continues.)...which'll take every ounce of sadness in my pink little body and turn it into pure negative energy...(Back to him)...and unleash upon those stupid happy people in Townsville… (Lighting)…making them all... MISERABLE!!!
(His voice breaks on the last word. As he continues, his eyes tear up all over again.)
Gubrious: But making me... (He continues crying.) ...HAPPY!!!
(He throws the main switch, bringing the rig to life. Vaccum tubes and electrodes starts to glow. Merely whimpering a bit, Lou Gubrious stands underneath the glass bulb. A clamp is lowered onto his head, and he jerks and twitches as the machine’s energy surges through him. Tilt up to the bulb, in which a very large gray cloud has appeared and begun to grow. Two gauges on the control panel start to rise: the IN gauge from "Happy" to "Sad", the OUT gauge from "Sad" to "Happy". The man’s insane laughter echoes throughout the chamber as the camera cuts to the castle exterior and waves of energy start to emanate from the topmost turret. Pull back slowly and pan across the suburbs toward the city proper; the waves cove the whole area)
Narrator: Uh oh, Townsville.
(Cut to a pan along a street; a happy cop is writing a parking ticket as the field reaches him.)
Narrator: Watch out! Lou Gubrious has made good on his threat and unleashed his awful ray!
(The cop’s smile disappears in a heartbeat. His mouth wobbles, and he starts to cry himself a river just like Lou Gubrious did. Cut to another street; a burly, ski-masked robber has a man at gunpoint—to be exact, a toy gun, the sort that shoots a cork from its barrel. Both are smiling when the waves first reach them.)
Narrator: It looks bad, folks. Not even the law is outside his evil grasp!
(The faces of the two men fall, and they collapse sobbing into each other’s arms.)
Robber: Buddy!
Victim: Pal! (Pan down the street; one after another, people start crying.)
Narrator: Just look at all these happy young suspecting people be plunged into sadness!
(One the end of this line, cut to the carnival grounds and continue the pan. The people here are similarly affected.)
Narrator: And what's worse is...it's headed for the carnival! (Cut to a stage; a barker calls to the cheerful crowd.)
Barker: Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and see the 8th wonder of the world! It’s stupendous! It’s colossal! (The Ray hits him.) It’s... (crying) ...it's not true! GO AWAY! The show's a total fake!
(On the next line, cut to another stage on which a ventriloquist is performing. His dummy is a small copy of himself. Gubrious’ Miseray has extended itself out to here as well. There is a glass of water on the stage at the man’s feet)
Ventriloquist: "Well, well, well, Frisbee, you're looking perky today. How’s about a little song?"
(His tears begin to flow freely as begins to bawl. Now he picks up the glass of water and drinks. The dummy, Frisbee, cries as well. Cut to a long shot an amphitheater, whose stage has a large banner strung over it; "Townsville 6th Annual Happy-Con". A crowd has gathered to watch this event; the Mayor is at center stage, while three judges sit at one end and face three individuals at the other. One of the latter group is Bubbles—this is the Happiest Citizen Contest she mentioned at the start. Zoom in slowly.)
Narrator: (crying) Oh, no! Not the happy competition!
(The Narrator goes off into wailing. Close-up of the stage; the Mayor stands on a stack of books to reach the microphone.)
Mayor: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Townsville's 6th Annual Happiest Citizen Contest! (He pulls out a sealed envelope.) And now, ladies and gentlemen, the happiest citizen of Townsville is...
(During this last sentence, cut to the following in turn. Bubbles’ two competitors, sweating bullets. Bubbles herself. Her sisters and the Professor in the audience. The Mayor, opening the envelope. All three entrants and the rest of the family have nervous grins plastered across their faces. The Mayor looks at the slip inside the envelope for a long, tense moment.)
Mayor:...Bubbles!
(Cheering erupts from the audience; the announcement catches the winner by surprise. She flies out of her seat and over to the little man, who hands her a large trophy with a smiley face emblazoned on the side. An arc is drawn within the main circle; the part it cuts off looks like a second face in profile.)
Mayor: Here you go, my dear. (She goes to the microphone.)
Bubbles: Thank you so very, very much! This is the happiest moment of my life!
(On the end of this, cut to the crowd. The Miseray washes over them and reduces them a bunch of blubbering wrecks in no time flat. Bubbles is more than a bit puzzled at this sudden change of mood. Even her sisters and the Professor are the victims of suffering by the Miseray.)
Nika Aoi: What's going on, Professor?
Professor: We're suffering from the effects from the Miseray! It’s a ray that can take one person's sadness and spread it to thousands of people at a time! (The Talking Dog, also crying, turns to Buttercup.)
Talking Dog: (sobbing) How does he know all this stuff?
Ichiro Kakitani: (sobbing) I Know, But This is Not Good At All?
Hatton: (sobbing) He's the professor! He knows everything!
Buck Beaver: (crying) I don't like it! (Pan across the crowd, including Mallow, Ms. Bellum, as she continues.) Who could be such a nasty mean old creep that he'd wanna turn Townsville into a bunch of crybabies?
(On the end of this line, the camera stops on a fat, bespectacled, jolly fellow who stands alone in the crowd. Clothing: a bright red coat too small for him, a pink flower in lapel; a blue blow tie with yellow polka dots; a small red hat parked atop his hairless pate; orange pants. He carries a walking stick topped by a large gold bulb, and there are roses in his cheeks. However, the face and body give him away as Gubrious.)
Larious: Me! Lou Gubrious! Or as I'm now known these days...Hal Larious!
(He laughs himself stupid for a moment and then approaches the stage, where Bubbles is still surveying the scene.)
Larious: Congratulate me, Sorrowpuff Girl! I've lost this contest to you for six years running! But now, thanks to the wonders of technology... I'm Townsville's happiest citizen!
(On the word "I'm", he grabs the trophy out of Bubbles’ hand. On "Townsville’s", he leans into her face. Extreme close-up of his own on the last two words, which sound more than a bit deranged. His cheeks sweep up with laughter he is trying to suppress; finally, he lets it go in an insane cackle. Back to Bubbles and zoom in slowly. Losing that prize to this nut is finally enough to ruin her cheerful outlook. She tries to keep herself from crying but loses the battle when she soon has waterfalls gushing from her blue eyes. Larious, meanwhile, laughs as he bounds through the crowd to make his getaway.)
Blossom: What'll we do now, Professor?
Professor: Girls, the only known cure for the effects of the Miseray...is something more contagious than sadness, and that's a sense of humor!
Pocoyo: You mean...
Spongebob: ...being funny?
Professor: Yes, make just one person here laugh, just one mind you, and the entire town will… (He tries to hold his tears back but he cannot.) FOLLOW!! (Wailing)
Valt Aoi: But, Professor...
Ken Midori: ...how can we make anyone laugh... (Close up of Blossom.)
Dave Skunk: …when we're so...
Buttercup: …unhappy?!?!?
(The Crowd breaks out wailing.)
Professor: Crying is easy, kids. Comedy is hard! (Pushing them both towards the stage.) Now go up there and knock them out!
(crying Girls and Heroes float to the onstage microphone. Blossom taps it, producing a squeal of feedback.)
Blossom: Is this thing on? (crying) Good evening, ladies and germs!
Buttercup: We just flew in from Las Vegas...
Bubbles: ...because we can! (sobbing)
Scaredy Squirrel: Also We just flew in from Tokyo...
Dave: (crying) Aww, Look The Crowd Sad!
(The crowd keeps up with the waterworks—perhaps now partially because that was a lousy twist on a joke that was never much good to begin with.)
Niall Horan: (crying) Rough crowd!
Professor: (holding up a calculator.) Step on it because according to my calculations, the entire town will be flooded with tears in ten minutes!
(Long shot of the skyline. Godzilla towers over the buildings but is not doing any damage. Instead, its seven eyes crank out tears at top speed as Godzilla bursts out bawling. Back to the Professor, who holds up all the fingers on one hand.)
Professor: Make that five minutes!
(The bawling crowd starts screaming and scattering at this pronouncement. Chaos in the street; Larious stands in this middle of all, next to a gushing fountain, and caresses the trophy.)
Larious: Ah, the lovely sound of other people crying. It's so refreshing! (An idea pops in his head.) You know, Townsville is such a silly name. From now on, I think I'll call it...... the city of Frownsville!
(He laughs insanely. Cut to Blossom and Buttercup in midair.)
Buttercup: Where's Bubbles? (sobs)
(The sound of their sister’s distant blubbering reaches them and they turn towards it. Cut to the lower stories of a skyscraper and tilt up along its height. A pigeon has perched on an upper ledge and is crying its beady little eyes out. Bubbles floats nearby. We zoom in on her and the bird.)
Bubbles: Listen, Mr. Pigeon. What's yellow and has lots of appeal?
(The rat with wings can only manage a few coos through its sobbing.)
Scaredy Squirrel: (crying) A banana!
(No dice. She removes one from her hat and peels it to get the joke across.)
Hoji Konda: See? "A peel". Get it?
(She cries through her smiling. Cut to the pigeon, which just keeps on crying. Pull back to frame both on the next line.)
Bullwinkle: I GIVE UP!
(She throws the peel over her shoulder. We cut to it and to follow its descent as she keeps bawling. It lands next to Larious.)
Larious: It was nice knowing you, Frownsville, I think I'll go home and polish my trophy now. (singsong) Goodbye!
(He lifts his foot to start walking away; in slow motion, it comes down squarely on that banana peel and he loses his balance. At normal speed, he goes flying and passes the peak of his pavement face first breaking several teeth upon impact, and his fat body squashes down on his head. In normal speed, he settles back into Gubrious like a kickball not fully inflated and slowly rolls forward to end up flat on his back. He stands up, revealing himself to be hurt from his free-fall encounter with the street. Clothes torn, glasses broken, face scratched, black eye. The panicking, crying and sobbing crowd stops doing both of these things and stares dumbfounded.)
Gubrious: Owwwwww!
(Now the crowd starts to laugh its collective head off at his misfortune.)
Gubrious: Stop that!
(Even the Godzilla finds it amusing and goes back to normal too by joining in on laughing.)
(She cries through her smiling. Cut to the pigeon, which just keeps on Laughing. Pull back to frame both on the next line.)
Gubrious: Stop it I say! (They pay no mind; he shakes his fist.)
(The Townspeople continue to laughing Wildly)
Gubrious: I'm the happiest citizen in Townsville!
(The camera pulls back to an overhead view as he starts screaming and wailing while all around him are throngs of formerly distraught Townsville residents who think this is an absolute gas. Cut to a slow pan across the Professor the girls and our Heroes; he has the Talking Dog under one arm. All are laughing it up, and Bubbles has got her trophy back.)
Professor: You did it, kids, you made other people laugh when you were feeling sad yourselves.
Buttercup: Thanks, Professor.
Blossom: It made us feel good again too.
Dudley Puppy: Right You Are, Blossom.
Kitty Katswell: It made all feel good as well.
Scaredy Squirrel: Sweet Acorns, It made other people laugh when you were feeling.
Dave Shunk: Thanks, Scaredy.
Hoji Konda: I Agree with Dave.
Valt Aoi: Right You Are, Hoji.
Ken Midori: ...how can we make Cool...
Rantaro Kiyama: How Long Is This
Shu Kurenai: Thanks, Rantaro.
Daigo Kurogami: I Agree with Shu
Wakiya Murasaki: Me Too.
Nika Aoi: Me Three.
Toko Aoi: Me Four.
Niall Horan: I Agree With Toko.
Liam, Harry, Louis, and Zayn: (Together.) Us Too.
Rocky The Flying Squirrel: Hey Bullwinkle Look, Bubbles Got Her Trophy Back.
Bullwinke: That's Sounds Great.
Buck Beaver: I Agree with Bullwinkle.
Hatton: Me Five.
Bubbles: And I got my trophy back. (Holding it up.) Now I really am the happiest citizen in Townsville! (She pulls her hat off and throws it up.)
Girls and Heroes: Hooray!
(On this last, cut to a view across the rooftops. The hat sails into the view near the camera and then floats away again. Behind its trailing edge, the scene wipes to a street full of happy people going about their business. Pan to follow one fellow down the block.)
Narrator: Yes, Townsville is back to its happy-go-lucky old self once more. (sniffles) I'm so happy I'm crying tears of joy.
(The camera now reaches the park, while the carnival is still in full swing, and some spectators smile and give a thumbs-up.)
Narrator: But what happened to our old friend Lou Gubrious? Well, let's just say Lou retired from the bad guy business. The Mayor found him a comfortable job at the carnival...
(That old familiar sobbing makes itself heard, and the camera stops at the bank of the "river" on a log flume ride. Gubrious sits her, chained by his ankle to a tree. He is heavily bandaged and crying fit to burst. His tears are the source of the ride’s water now. The gray cloud has reappeared over his head and he is dressed in his original clothing.)
Narrator: ...where he could spend the rest of his days spreading happiness and joy to children everywhere. (Gubrious cries for several seconds, then he stops and turns to the camera)
Gubrious: It only hurts when I laugh. (continues the waterworks)
(The background for the end shot comes up.)
Narrator: And so once again the happy day was happily saved again...
(The girls appear as they did at the end of "Silent Treatment," but with the positions of Bubbles and Buttercup reversed.)
Narrator :..by the very happy Powerpuff Girls!
(They are replaced by a partially pulled banana.)
Narrator: And a banana!
Okay, The end.
We'll see you soon!