Germinator 2: Zombies/Transcript

(Scene shows the garage. Ginger is hitting a piñata with a stick.

Ginger: Let me at it! Let me at it! Let me a-

Angela: Woah, woah, Ginger, stop. We’re grownups. We don’t hit piñatas with sticks. We set them to explode with a timer!

Ginger: Explode!? Oh, that’s way cooler!

Tom: That’s right! And this guy is now set to shower us with candy at 6 PM, the exact time we officially founded Tom and Ben Enterprises.

(A small shrine has been constructed on the desk showing a picture of young Tom and Ben.)

Tom: And Ben should be here with the candy right about... now. (points at door)

(Ben comes out of the bathroom, exclaiming in horror.)

Ben: (gasps) Tom, the bathroom is disgusting! (places biohazard sticker on door) Why didn’t you clean it?!

Tom: Let’s focus on what’s important here, okay? Did you or did you not get the candy for the piñata?

Ben: No, I did not!

Tom: Really? What are you doing that's more important than getting candy?

Ginger: Yeah, Ben, what?

Ben: Well, let’s see. I was dusting the ceiling fan, mopping the floor...

(Tom and Ginger stare at Ben.)

Ben: Don’t look at me like that! Now, please clean the bathroom! (sprays, hands cleaning supplies to Tom)

Tom: Relax. So the bathroom’s not clean. What’s the worst that could happen?

(Scene pans over to inside the bathroom.)

Voice: Yeah, what’s the worst that could happen?

(Jeremy emerges from the toilet.)

Jeremy: Guess who’s back, baby. That’s right! It’s me, Jeremy the germ! (chuckles evilly)

(Theme song plays)

(Scene cuts to Jeremy exiting the bathroom. Ben lectures the friends.)

Ben: Parties are no fun if the surroundings aren’t tidy.

Jeremy: (opens door) Hey, everyone!

Ben: (screams) Jeremy!

Jeremy: (chuckles) Surprised to see your old pal?

Ben: Well, yeah!

(Scene cuts to Hank speaking to the audience.)

Hank: Previously, on Talking Tom and Friends... (giggles) I’ve always wanted to say that!

(Drawings of the events of “The Germinator” are seen.)

Hank: (narrates) The first time Jeremy showed up, we all thought he was friendly, but Ben didn’t trust him. Turned out Ben was right. Pretty soon, Jeremy got everyone sick. That’s what germs do! Luckily, Ben flushed him down the toilet and Jeremy was gone for good, until just now, when he came back. And I updated you on who Jeremy is.

(Scene shows Hank.)

Hank: And now, back to Talking Hank and Friends- oops, Talking Tom and Friends!

(Scene cuts back to Ben putting on cleaning gear.)

Ben: Do you see what you’ve done, Tom? You see what happens when you don’t clean the bathroom like you’re supposed to?

(Ben drags Jeremy by his hand.)

Ben: Alright, Jeremy! You're going back to when you belong: (lifts Jeremy over toilet) the sewer.

Jeremy: Wait, wait! I’m a changed germ! While I was down in the sewer, I had a lot of time to work on myself.

(Artwork depicting Jeremy is shown. Jeremy is seen giving soup to a homeless man, helping an elderly woman cross the street, and helping a cat get down from a tree.)

Jeremy: I even meditate now!

(Scene shows Jeremy meditating.)

Ben: You can’t fool me! (clips end) Germs like you don’t change!

Jeremy: Oh, but I have changed! I know it’s gonna take time for you to see it, Ben. Maybe we’ll even work on some projects together... real soon!

(Jeremy pulls down Ben's mask and licks his mouth.)

Ben: (screams) So disgusting, ew, ew, ew!

(Ben runs to the kitchen, opens the sink faucet, and opens the oven.)

Ben: Vitamin C, Vitamin C! (opens fridge) Yes, lemons!

(Ben drinks a carton of orange juice, throws away the carton, and places lemons on his eyes.)

Ben: Oh, good, I can already feel it- (screams) Burning! My eyes! (falls on knees) I can’t believe I was tricked by a single-celled organism!

(Ben’s hearing is distorted.)

Jeremy: I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to best pay you back, and I came up with a perfect plan, a plan that you’re gonna help me carry out, friendo!

Ben: Ha! That’s never gonna happen! (coughs) Oh, no!

Tom: Get outta here, Jeremy. Tonight’s our anniversary party.

Angela: And you’re not invited!

Jeremy: Fine, I’ll go! (jumps off counter) I was planning to leave anyway. (stomach rumbles) What’s that, tummy? You ain’t had nothing to eat in a real long time? Could one of you kindly point me in the direction of a hot meal? Preferably in a well-populated restaurant?

Hank: Lucky you! The diner is just around the corner.

All: Hank!

Hank: What?

Jeremy: Say, thanks, pal! See ya later, incubator! (leaves)

Ben: Aw!

(Scene cuts to Ben lying on the couch, sneezing.)

Angela: (holds out bowl) Here, have some of my aunt’s famous soup!

Ben: Your aunt, the chili pepper farmer? (sniffs) No, thank you.

Angela: Oh, no, you guys, my grandmother was the chilli pepper farmer. This is my aunt’s soup recipe. It cures everything! (sips soup, winks)

Ben: (sneezes) Ah, I am so sick of sneezing! (sneezes, sighs) At least I have a super-soft, triple-layer tissue with a calming lavender scent.

(Tom lies down on the floor next to Ben.)

Tom: Ben, I admire you. You always find something positive in a bad situation.

Ben: Positive?! This is all your fault. I’m only sick because you didn’t clean the bathroom.

Tom: I didn’t clean the bathroom. You didn’t get the piñata candy. We’re even, so let’s stop playing the blame game.

(Ben rises from the couch. He has a very different appearance, having a green complexion and yellow eyes.)

Ben: (groans) You’re right, Tom! Now I have something I need to say to you! Come closer!

Tom: What is it, pal?

(Ben sneezes on Tom.)

Tom: Eugh! What did you do that for?!

(Ben begins transforming into a zombie-like state.)

Ben: I... don’t... know! That's something... something Jeremy would do!

(Tom begins backing away.)

Tom: Yeah, you know, that is exactly what Jeremy would d- (gasps) That's exactly what Jeremy would do!

Ben: I didn’t want to... but it- it was like I had no control over myself!

Hank: Tom, get some rope. We have to tie Ben to that couch!

Tom: You tie him to the couch. He just sneezed on me, on purpose! I’m not going near him!

Hank: There’s a reason he did that! Jeremy didn’t just get Ben sick. He reprogrammed Ben to spread his germs! This is exactly what happened in my favourite pandemic thriller, Outbreak Biohazard: Code Deadly. First, people get sick. Then, a change begins. They lose control of their own minds... and bodies!

(The Landlord appears with a sockpuppet.)

Landlord: Alright, who steal my tube sock? Just the left one. The right one’s right here. (chuckles)

(In the background, Ben is trying to attack The Landlord.)

Hank: Once the germs take hold, the people are consumed with the overwhelming drive to infect everyone they see, until there’s no one healthy left!

Landlord: Hey, get away! (pushes Ben away)

Tom: That sounds horrible. We have to make sure that nothing like that ever happens. Not on our watch!

(Ben sneezes into a Landlord. The Landlord turns into a zombie.)

Hank: Right, so basically, it’s super important that we keep an eye on Ben and never let him out of our sight, not even for a second!

Tom: We won’t let that happen! I’ll go get the rope, and you help the Landlord with whatever he was-

(Tom and Hank gasp. Ben and the Landlord have disappeared.)

Tom: Uh, Hank, what was the next thing that happened in that movie?

Hank: You don’t even wanna know.

(Several citizens are seen in a zombie-like state, walking towards the garage.)

(Tom, Hank, Angela and Ginger look outside.)

Tom: Uh...

(The Landlord sneezes on the mailman. The mailman turns into a zombie.)

(The friends start moving. Hank stops by the mailbox.)

Hank: The mailman, he was here!

Ginger: Good job, Sherlock. We just saw him drop that, like, two seconds ago.

(Hank opens the mailbox and he sees the mailman’s zombie hand. Hank yelps. A zombie slowly approaches Tom behind him.)

Tom: Question, why didn’t I get sick when Ben sneezed on me?

Angela: We must be immune! Maybe when Jeremy got us sick last time, it gave our bodies the power to fight off his germs!

Tom: If that’s true, then we are the only ones who can save Ben and the entire town from infection! Let’s go!

(Tom leaves just as the zombie leaps at him. The friends leave.)

(Scene cuts to the street. Hank finds a tissue on the ground.)

Hank: Hm, super-soft, triple-layer, made-from-more-than-50%-recycled-materials tissues! (sniffs tissue) Lavender-scented! (to Angela) Ben’s been here.

Angela: Ew! Hank, put that down!

Ginger: And there’s more! (points to a trail of tissues)

Tom: They’re leading to the diner!

(The friends run to the diner, avoiding the zombies.)

Ginger: Oh, Rhonda? Can I get a chocolate shake while we fight the zombies?

(Rhonda sneezes on Ginger. Ginger screams.)

Angela: Yuck! Even Rhonda’s not that rude. (gasps) She must be a zombie!

Hank: (looks outside) Uh, oh. We’re surrounded, just like in Outbreak Biohazard! (barricades door with jukebox)

Tom: If you knew this would happen, why didn’t you warn us?

Hank: Well, no one was warned in the movie!

(Ben and Jeremy are inside the diner.)

Angela: (gasps) There’s Ben!

Tom: Hank, fill us in. What’s our next move?

Hank: (narrator voice) Now, a worried planet waits for a ragtag group of friends to find a cure!

Angela: My aunt’s soup!

Hank: Well, in the movie, the cure involved looking into microscopes and putting liquids in test tubes in a high-tech laboratory. 'Bout a 20-second montage.

Tom: This kitchen is all we got. Angela?

Angela: (holds toy gun) I'm on it!

Tom: Okay, I'll go distract Ben.

(Scene cuts to Hank and Ginger struggling to hold the door closed. Rhonda is banging his head in the wall and Jeremy is spitting in Ben’s cup.)

Tom: Jeremy! Ben!

Jeremy: Heya, chump. You better hit the road. This party’s invitation-only!

Tom: Your party's over, Jeremy. I’m takin' Ben home... for our party, the Tom and Ben's Anniversary Party... with a piñata.

Jeremy: Sorry, pal. Ben belongs to me now! Tell ‘em, Ben!

Ben: (groans) Jeremy and Ben Enterprises.

Tom: I can’t believe this. If only someone had cleaned the bathroom.

(Ben groans.)

Ginger: Tom, help!

Jeremy: You know, Tom, you and I ain’t so different. We both need a guy like Ben to get what we want in this world.

Tom: There’s a big difference. I don’t need to control Ben’s mind to keep him working with me.

Jeremy: Hm, maybe, maybe not, but we’ll never know, because I’m moving into your place, and you’re moving into mine! (to Ben) Hey, partner, whaddya say we flush 'em into the sewer?

Ben: (goes to Tom) Flush... sewer... ding-dong.

Tom: What? No, Ben, it’s me, Tom!

(Ben starts attacking Tom.)

Tom: Ew, gross! Knock it off!

(Ben is about to grab Tom. In the kitchen, Angela prepares soup and loads it into her water gun.)

(Hank and Ginger struggle to hold the door. Angela aims the gun at Ben.)

Tom: Angela, now!

Angela: (shoots her soup at Ben) In your face, germs!

(Ben drinks the soup fired at him.)

Jeremy: Hey, what do you think you’re doing?

Ben: (coughs, gasps) I’m not sick anymore!

(Angela cheers.)

Ben: What just happened?

Tom: Angela happened!

Angela: Actually, my aunt’s soup recipe happened! Really does cure everything.

Ben: It’s all coming back to me. Jeremy turned me into a zombie!

Tom: And I rescued you.

Ben: Because you didn’t clean the bathroom!

Tom: And I rescued you!

Ben: (screams) This was all your fault!

(Hank screams as he continues struggling to hold the door.)

Tom: Okay, you’re right. I admit it, but now, I’m ready to clean this place up. Whaddya say, partner?

(Tom and Ben walk towards Jeremy. Tom holds a bucket and Ben holds a sponge.)

Ben: Uh-huh!

Jeremy: Easy now, I was just having a little fun, is all. Being a little germ, havin' a little fun-

(Tom and Ben drag Jeremy to the kitchen and attack him with soap.)

Ben: Oh, no, it’s your turn! Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay! No, no, no, hold still, you germ!

Jeremy: No, not the soap! No!

(Hank continues struggling to hold the door.)

(Tom puts Jeremy on the counter with a pacifier in his mouth.)

Tom: Look who’s all cleaned-up.

Jeremy: No! It isn’t fair, it isn’t fair!

Ben: Now that’s how you get rid of germs!

Hank: Too many zombies! I can’t hold them off much longer!

Tom: But can we cure everybody?

Ginger: I know just the thing. (shows piñata)

(The scene cuts to Tom and Ben walking out the garage, putting sunglasses on.)

Tom: Happy anniversary, Ben.

Ben: Happy anniversary, Tom.

(A beeping noise is heard. The piñata explodes inside Jerry’s with all the zombies in it, covering the place with soup.)

(Credits roll)