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References:
+ Runaway
- An early 60's rock song by Dion.
+ Space Ghost and Dino Boy
- Space Ghost's action-adventure show from 1966.
+ Space Ghost: Coast 2 Coast
- Space Ghost's talk show.
Dad: Darling, look at my knee knees. What do you think?
Mom: I think I've already seen your knees, dear.
Dad: Well, you need to look again, and look very closely this time. One of them is shaved. Do you like the shiny, smooth one, or the hairy, jungle one?
Mom: I don't know. Honey, what is all that money doing on the table?
Dad: Oh, I took out a $30,000 loan to buy a new stereo for my den.
Mom: $30,000 for a stereo? Are you out of your mind?
Dad: With joy I am. This baby is the latest in slamming digital surround sound, sound.
Mom: Well, this is not going to happen. You're taking that money back.
Dad (under his breath): How 'bout if I take you back to your parents in a box?
Mom: What did you say?
Dad: I said let's sleep on it.
(Brak zooms in.)
Brak: Hey, fellas, how's it hangin'... whoa! Hold the phone, Jackson. Dad, what's with the knees? They're freaking me out, with the short pants and the knees...
Dad: What's wrong with them?
Brak: Oh, nothing. It just looks like I walked into the knobby knee circus!
Dad: What?
Brak:(singing) Step right up please / and behold the knobby knees / of the king of the knee bone. Better stand back 20 feet / or these knobby knees will eat you up!
Dad: That's enough!
Brak (still singing): One is bald and one is hairy / hide your children, it's so scary!
Dad: Brak!
Brak: (stopped singing): What?
Dad: I've heard quite enough from your opinions. How dare you walk into this kitchen and ridicule the knees of your father! It hurt me and my feelings!
Brak: Oh, I was just funning you, Dad. I actually think your knees are pretty cool.
Dad: Too late! You've made the knees cry. I can feel their tears rolling down my shins and filling my shoes.
Mom: Your knees are not crying, dear.
Brak: No, they probably are, Mom. I was pretty hard on the ol' boy's knobbers.
Dad: Too late for remorse! Go to your room... for 1 year!
Brak: What?
Dad: Did you say what? I guess you want to make it 2 years!
Brak: But what about school?
Dad: Did you just say what again? 3 years!
(Cut to Brak in his room.)
Brak: All right, I'm in my room! Can I come out now?
Dad: No!
Brak: Can I have something to eat? Like a sandwich? Want a bologna sandwich?
(Cut to Mom & Dad in the kitchen.)
Dad: Oh, of course... In 3 years!
(Cut back to Brak in his room.)
Brak: Aw man! You're killing me, man!
(Cut to the kitchen with Mom and Dad.)
Mom: Honey, I think you really overreacted there.
Dad: In what way? What did I do?
Mom: Well, let's see: You just sent Brak to his room for 3 years!
Dad: (sigh) I know. Not even the most famous doctors of military science can explain it.
Mom: Uh...right. Do you want to let him come back down?
Dad: No, let him spend the night up there. That's where he usually sleeps. Then, tomorrow morning, if he hasn't done something foolish like stolen my stereo money to buy materials to build a rocket ship to run away from home, We'll let him out of his room and roll him in pancakes.
(Cut to night. We see the house.)
Announcer: Later that night, when everyone else was asleep, the following sounds were heard.
(Clanking and sawing sounds. Cut to morning in the kitchen.)
Dad: Ah, mother, of all the nights I have slept, last night was the best of them all.
(A rocket takes off.)
Dad: Aah! My son has run away in a rocket ship! Didn't see that coming.
(The doorbell rings.)
Mom: Come in!
(Space Ghost enters.)
Space Ghost: Greetings! I am Space Ghost, a heroic warrior of justice.
Dad: OK, that's fine with me.
Space Ghost: I've come to arrest your son, Brak.
Dad: Well, you just missed him. He ran away from home in a rocket ship.
Space Ghost: Hmm. That's disappointing. My plan was to arrest him and then go run some errands. Can I have some of your food?
Mom: Wait a minute. Why were you going to arrest Brak?
Space Ghost: Because he is a criminal. He has committed many crimes in the future, where I come from, even though the show took place in 1966.
Dad: What show?
Space Ghost: My action-adventure show. It was wildly popular in the past, where it took place, even though it was set in the future. Of course, in 1994 I also had a talk show in the future, and Brak was my friend. Well, not really my friend, more of an associate, unlike 1966, where he was a criminal in the past. Do you understand the words that I have said to you now?
Dad: Yes, but mostly no.
Mom: I still don't understand why you want to arrest our son.
Space Ghost: I'll tell you what. I'll go get my tapes. They're in the Phantom Cruiser. That's what I ride around in.
Dad: I believe you.
Space Ghost: Thank you. I'll go get the tapes.
(Cut to Brak in his rocket ship.)
Brak: I bet that little man didn't think I could build a rocket and survive in outer space! Well I did and I have! For 3 glorious minutes! (sings) Outer space, space, space, I'm not afraid of space, space, space, even though it's in my face, face, face, I think I love you, space! (ends singing) Hey, there's Zorak!
(He lands in front of Zorak.)
Brak: Hey, Zorak, you like my rocketship? Wanna go for a ride?
Zorak: No.
Brak: C'mon, I'll let you ride.
Zorak: That's right, you will.
(Back in space in the rocket.)
Zorak: Let's see what this pig'll do.
(He presses some buttons and it zooms off. Zorak laughs and Brak screams. Back with Mom, Dad and Space Ghost in the den watching the tapes.)
Space Ghost: You see, what you're watching now occured in the distant past.
Dad: 1994?
Space Ghost: No, that was the talk show, which is also in the future.
Dad: So it hasn't happened yet.
Space Ghost: No, it happened. But after what you're seeing here.
(A clip of "Space Ghost and Dino Boy" is airing. Voice overs:)
Space Ghost: This is my action adventure show.
Mom: Oh, look, there's Brak.
Space Ghost: Yes, that is your criminal son.
Brak (in 1966 with a much different voice): She must disappear without a trace, so that Space Ghost will never find her!
(Now to the present.)
Mom: Oh dear, what's wrong with his voice? Does he have a cold?
Space Ghost: No, ma'am. That's his criminal voice. Plus, remember, even though this is in the past, it's set in the future. All colds have been eliminated.
Mom: Listen, Mr. Space Ghost: The way I've seen it, from what you've told us, Brak is not actually a criminal.
Space Ghost: Of course he is.
Mom: But what you've shown us here is just a television show, right?
Space Ghost: And a very successful one, I might add.
Dad: In the past.
Space Ghost: Exactly, but set in the future. Colds have been eliminated.
Mom: But if it's a television show, isn't Brak just an actor playing a part?
Space Ghost: The part of a devious criminal.
Mom: Yes, but it's still acting, isn't it? It's not real.
(pause)
Space Ghost: Impossible. Madam, I am an heroic warrior.
(pause)
Space Ghost: I think perhaps if we watch several episodes of the talk show...
Mom: Why? What's the point? It's just more make believe.
Space Ghost: Yes, but it's set in the future.
Mom: Oh, that doesn't matter!
Space Ghost: If it didn't matter, would I be able to do this?
(He invisos out.)
Dad: Mother, look what you've done. You've chased away the best friend I ever had.
(He invisos back in again.)
Dad: Oh, look, he's coming back. Welcome back, Space Ghost. I was just telling my wife you're the best friend I ever had in my entire life.
Space Ghost: Really? That's funny. i was just in the future telling my associate Moltar the same thing.
Dad: Really?
Space Ghost: Yep. Then I fired him.
(They laugh.)
Space Ghost: I said get out!
(They laugh some more. Back to the rocket with Brak and Zorak.)
Zorak: Hey, look at that bucket head down there. Let's pick him up and rob him!
Brak: I don't wanna rob him. What if he's nice?
Zorak: Right. We'll just beat him up then. You got a hammer in this tub?
(They land on a moon-like planet with Moltar standing on it.)
Zorak: Get in!
Moltar: OK.
(Back in the rocket.)
Brak: Welcome aboard, stranger. What's your name?
Moltar: Moltar.
Zorak: What kind of name is that?
Moltar: I dunno. I never thought of it.
Zorak: Well, we're gonna call you Kelvin. Waddya think of that, Kelvin?
Brak: I wanna call him Buddy. Hey, Buddy!
Moltar: Who are you guys?
Zorak: I'm Melvin and that's Shackleford.
Brak: We're famous ice skaters. Maybe you've heard of us?
Moltar: Yeah, I heard of ya.
Brak: You did?
Zorak: Enough of this BS. We're gonna beat you up! Right now!
Moltar: You could do that, or we can go down there to the Statue Planet. There's statues everywhere, man.
Zorak: Yeah, let's go tip 'em all over.
Brak: Hey, that's a great idea. Aah! I can't believe what I just said! We can't do that! It would be a crime!
Zorak: Hear that, Kelvin? It would be a crime!
Moltar: Yeah, right. To crime!
Moltar and Zorak: Crime rocks!
Brak: Oh no.
(Moltar and Zorak laugh evilly. Cut to Dad, Mom and Space Ghost in the kitchen.)
Space Ghost: So I said "I don't care what you presume, sir, these teeth are brushed!
Dad: Had you brushed them?
Space Ghost: Of course not!
(Dad and Space Ghost laugh.)
Dad: Speaking of teeth, let me tell you a story about a fish I once caught in a 37,000 degree lake.
Mom: You?ve never been fishing!
Space Ghost: Sure he has.
Mom: How would you know?
Space Ghost: I went with him. It was in the future. Your husband and I caught several fish.
Dad: I?m sure we did, or should I say, I?m sure we will.
Space Ghost: It was one of the best times I?ve ever had, until somebody suggested we go swimming.
Dad: Oh that sounds like fun!
Space Ghost: Yes, great fun. Jumping into a 37,000 degree lake armed with nothing but tiny, futuristic, underwater fish grenades. It was my idea.
Dad: Well, what happens?
Space Ghost: Luckily, the extreme heat causes the lake to evaporate and we fall onto a
soft cushion of beautiful mermaids who kiss us very, very much. End of story.
Mom: That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in my entire life! (to Space Ghost) I want you to leave, (to Dad) And I want you to find our son.
Space Ghost: Yes, I have to go. I can see that you're good parents, and will do a fine job raising Brak. Just remember: It won't work. He still becomes a criminal. (His pager thing on his costume goes off.) Hold on, I have a call. Space Ghost here. (pause) What? (pause) Ice skaters on the Statue Planet? Oh no. (he ends the call.) Uh, look, I have to go.
Mom: Yes, you do.
Dad: Will I ever see you again?
Space Ghost: No.
Dad: What about the fishing?
Space Ghost: Oh, right. I'll see you then. (whispers) In the future. (he leaves.)
Dad: Shoo! I thought he would never leave! Why did you let him in? That man was insane.
Mom: Well, then why did you keep laughing at his stupid jokes? For G*** sake, you even invited him to live here!
Dad: I thought he was going to kill us! Did you see his eyes, the emptiness? Those were the empty eyes of death, Mother. I was trying to save your life, thank you for not noticing!
(Brak zooms in.)
Brak: Man, you guys are not going to believe what just happened. I was on the Statue Planet with Marvin and Kelvin and this man in a yellow cape shows up and says "Hey, you criminals! Stop or I'll shoot!" right? So he stopped and he started shootin' and blowin' statues up and saying stuff like "Hey! This is fun! This is great!" until the statue police came and took him away.
Mom: Well, we're both just happy to have you back, honey.
Dad: Ah, yes we are. Now go to your room!
(The credits roll.)
Space Ghost: Do you understand the words I have said to you so far? Do you understand the words that I have said to you? That's disappointing. Do you understand the words I have said to you so far? Do you understand the words that I have said to you? Hmm. That's disappointing.