{"id":116,"date":"2008-03-10T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/archives\/116"},"modified":"2008-03-10T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:06:26","slug":"a-screenplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/116\/a-screenplay\/","title":{"rendered":"A Screenplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE 1<\/p>\n<p>Brother Mouse:  I wonder where everything is?  Where is everybody?  Ooff!  OK, there&#8217;s the wall.  Where&#8217;s the stairs?  Bang-ouch.  Ouch bang.  My toe&#8230;oh,there&#8217;s the stairs.  OK, Little Sister, time for me to fill your bottle  Where&#8217;s the milk.  Oh, there goes the milk, spilling everywhere.  There&#8217;s the bottle.  Whoops, dropped it.  Oh dear, have to clean it all up.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sister cries.<\/p>\n<p>Father Mouse:  Take off that blindfold.  Oh dear, I overcooked that turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Mouse:  Where did I put that bow?<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sister hiccups and goos.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Mouse:  Take off that blindfold please.  Check out the prize I got at opera lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Brother:  It looks like a golden mouth.  Check out the cool trophy I got at soccer.<\/p>\n<p>CRASH!<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sister cries.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sister:  Mama!<\/p>\n<p>Brother:  She said her first word!  I didn&#8217;t expect it!<\/p>\n<p>SCENE 2<\/p>\n<p>Head of Orphanage:  I need a replacement for that little vole.  I must steal a baby mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Evil Laugh.  <\/p>\n<p>Door slams.<\/p>\n<p>Orpan:  I&#8217;m scared.  (Looks at the cellar).<\/p>\n<p>Unusual Creature (roars and scraches on door).<\/p>\n<p>Half of the door falls on the floor.  A cat paw comes out of the door.  Two cat eyes look out the door.  A bone gets tossed on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>SCENE 3<\/p>\n<p>At Brother and Sister Mouse&#8217;s House<\/p>\n<p>Head of Orphanage:  Two young mice guarded by two big brother mice.  How can I steal them now?  Hey, look, there&#8217;s a group of stupid voles trying to peek in.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Voles:  Almost did it now. <\/p>\n<p>Silly noises.  Head of voles hiccups when he puts his face in a barrel of water.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Voles:  I didn&#8217;t know they put hiccup potion in this water.  Blah!  I didn&#8217;t know that was a toilet!  I was looking in the bathroom.  Let&#8217;s look in the living room.  Hey, look, there&#8217;re all wearing top hats.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Voles:  Take off those glasses.  I drew some top hats on them.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Orphanage:  Finally made it inside.  Now, where are those twins?  There they are.  Got ya!<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sister cries.<\/p>\n<p>Little Brother barfs.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Mouse:  Found you.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Orphanage:  Hey, look inside this egg.  <\/p>\n<p>The egg cracks.  Fog goes everywhere.  Head of Orphanage disappears with the babies.<\/p>\n<p>SCENE 4<\/p>\n<p>Inside Orphanage.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Orphanage:  Two more little mice to feed to the big ferocious cat.  And they&#8217;re plump from all that milk, and cats love milk.<\/p>\n<p>Cat in cellar meows and roars.  <\/p>\n<p>Door crashes open.<\/p>\n<p>Big black cat comes out with purple fur on his cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Mouse (coming out of the wall):  I should have used the special effects!  I have a headache.  Man, my head hurts from breaking through tat wall.  (Birds surround his head.)<\/p>\n<p>Head of Orphanage:  Then try out this for size.<\/p>\n<p>Cat:  Roar!  Meow!  Chomp!<\/p>\n<p>Head of Orphanage is eaten by the cat.  Hear his muffled talking from inside the cat.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Mouse:  Yous shouldn&#8217;t have hired a big black cat because he ate you.<\/p>\n<p>Cat:  Burp!<\/p>\n<p>Baby Mice goo.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Sister snores.<\/p>\n<p>THE END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE 1 Brother Mouse: I wonder where everything is? Where is everybody? Ooff! OK, there&#8217;s the wall. Where&#8217;s the stairs? Bang-ouch. Ouch bang. My toe&#8230;oh,there&#8217;s the stairs. OK, Little Sister, time for me to fill your bottle Where&#8217;s the milk. Oh, there goes the milk, spilling everywhere. There&#8217;s the bottle. Whoops, dropped it. Oh dear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-show","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}