My Sweet Halloween/Transcript

(Scene shows the garage at night. A boy appears at the door.)

(Tom, Ben, Angela and Hank are inside watching a scary movie when they hear a knock at the door. They scream.)

Tom: Who could that be?

(Tom walks over to the door. He hesitates, then opens the door.)

(The friends find a masked boy at the door. They scream.)

Ginger: (removes mask) Happy Halloween!

Tom: Ginger, you scared us! What's with the creepy knock and the costume?

(Ginger is wearing a black cape.)

Ginger: This is my uniform for the Spirit of Halloween decorating contest. I'm the official kid-judge, a role I take very seriously.

(Ginger inspects the house for decorations. He opens the oven.)

Ginger: Come on, guys, nothing is jumping out of here? You better step it up if you want to turn this place into a haunted house of horrors!

Tom: Oh, uh, we're not doing that this year.

Ginger: What?! Don't you want the first-prize orange ribbon?!

Tom: Well, don't take this the wrong way, but I've always thought that contest was... kind of lame.

Ginger: (gasps) Hmph! Well, you've made your opinion on this clear. (gasps) I guess I'll go check Roy's decorations!

Tom: Whoa, wait, Roy is in the contest?

(Ginger opens the door. The friends look at Roy's house.)

(Roy's house is decorated with many decorations such as stringed lights, gravestones, and jack-o-lanterns.)

Ginger: (giggles) Cool.

Roy: Hello, neighbours! I hope you're decorating this year. Remember, even if you can't do a great job, you're still doing your part to make the neighbourhood spooky!

Hank: Bats and graves together? Ooh, he's taking a risk and it's paying off.

Ginger: Yeah, Roy's probably going to win. He's the best at everything.

Tom: Not so fast.

(Tom arrives with a box of decorations.)

Tom: We're doin' this!

(Theme song plays.)

(Scene cuts to the completed, decorated garage.)

Tom: Welcome to... (connects plug) ...the Garage of Ghouls!

All: Whoa!

(Tom's garage is decorated with decorations similar to Roy's.)

Angela: You know, we were wrong about the contest. This was fun! Maybe it is how cool people Halloween.

Ben: Indeed! Looks like a healthy rivalry between neighbors has pushed us to be our best!

Roy: (appears suddenly) I agree.

(The friends scream.)

(Roy has a plate of ghost-shaped cookies.)

Roy: Nice work, guys! Sorry to startle you. I whipped up a batch of haunted cookies in the spirit of friendly competition.

(The friends each take a cookie.)

Tom: (takes cookie) What do you want, Roy? To concede that the orange ribbon is ours?

Roy: (laughs) (hits Tom) Tom, you're so funny.

Tom: Hey!

Roy: No, I wanted your opinion on this little thing I set up. (presses button on remote)

(A giant, bubbling cauldron decoration emerges from Roy's roof. Witch decorations circle the cauldron.)

Hank: Incredible! Oh, man, the judges are gonna love that.

Roy: Oh, I sure hope so. The cauldron is full of actual witch's brew! I'll give you the recipe after I win.

Tom: If you win. Come on, everyone, we're taking this to the next level!

(A montage is shown of Tom decorating his garage.)

(Tom hangs a small glowing ghost decoration on his roof. He uses a stepladder.)

Roy: Tom?

(Tom looks back, only to find a giant ghost decoration behind him. Tom screams and falls off the ladder. A jack-o-lantern also falls on Tom's head. Roy laughs.)

Ginger: Hmm... (writes in notepad)

(Tom places a jack-o-lantern on the driveway, only to find that Roy projected a scary-looking face into the sky using a projector. Tom screams and Ginger makes a note on his notepad.)

(Tom places a paper image of a zombie arm near a gravestone decoration. Ben points to one of Roy's decorations.)

Tom: Huh?

(Tom finds that Roy has placed a giant-inflatable mummy on his rooftop. Tom and Ben scream and Roy laughs.)

(End of montage. Tom opens his box of decorations.)

Tom: Roy is still beating us! Oh, we can't be out of decorations!

Angela: I found Valentine's hearts. (holds up paper hearts) If we hung these up, people might think they missed Valentine's Day, and then they'd be like, "Oh, no! My loved ones will be so disappointed!" That's a little scary, right?

Hank: I don't know, Angela. That love stuff is the enemy of fear.

(They get a knock at the door. The friends scream.)

(The decoration judges open the door.)

Ginger: Decorating progress check! Let's see what you got!

Ben: (to male judge) Is Ginger in charge?

Hipster: Yeah, he's very passionate about this.

Ginger: (looks around garage) Hmmm. Nice use of lawn scares. Pumpkins are spooky. No spiders in the webs, though. There's a deduction. On a scale of 1 to 10 Gingers, you're at 5 Gingers so far.

(Five Ginger faces appear onscreen.)

Autumm Summers: Five Gingers is good! Most houses couldn't get three.

Ginger: But you'll need to go bigger if you want to beat Roy. He's sitting comfortably at seven Gingers.

(The scene shows Roy's house. Seven Ginger faces appear onscreen.)

(The judges start leaving.)

Ginger: We'll be back tonight for the final score!

(The judges get in a car and leave.)

Tom: Oh... I know what you're gonna say. That it was dumb to try and beat Roy.

Ben: Not at all. I was going to suggest a change in strategy. Behold my newest invention, (holds up invention) the Real-izer!

(The invention resembles a handheld gun with glowing parts.)

Ben: It can make inanimate objects move. Observe!

(Ben places a paper bat on his desk and fires at it with the Real-izer. The bat begins to fly.)

(The bat flies by Tom and Angela, who are afraid of the bat.)

Ben: Yes! (laughs)

(The bat flies away.)

Tom: Whoa! It's brilliant! I've never seen decorations do that! If we use that, our place is gonna be way scarier than Roy's!

Ben: And Halloween glory will be ours!

(Scene cuts to the driveway. Roy visit's Tom's garage.)

Roy: Hey, Tom-o, you had something to tell me? Gosh, I really hope you're not quitting. Competitions like this make both of us better.

Tom: Oh, I'm not quitting. I giving you a chance to bow out gracefully.

Roy: Bow out? (scoffs) Why would I do that?

Tom: Ha! (snaps fingers)

(Three pumpkin monsters appear on the rooftop. Roy gasps.)

(The monsters get on the driveway and do a short dance sequence.)

Roy: Okay, that's a pretty good trick.

Tom: Oh, it's not a trick. It's science! Ben brought our decorations to life, which means that we're the only house of horrors to feature actual horrors.

(A passersby screams at the pumpkin monsters and runs away.)

Hank: (to passersby) Happy Halloween! Thank you for visiting the soon-to-be-officially scariest place in town!

Tom: So, what do you say? Do we win? Or do you have a bunch of monster-pumpkins living at your place?

Roy: No, I don't. (gets idea) I bet you even have a plan for what to do with these when Halloween is over.

Ben: That's easy! We'll make them clean up the yard, then put themselves in storage for next year!

(One of the pumpkins overhears and stops dancing.)

Roy: And those poor pumpkins will just sit in storage? All year? Aw...

Hank: Well, maybe not all of 'em. We might take a few and roast their seeds for a tasty snack!

(The pumpkins overhear, stop dancing and grunt in surprise.)

Angela: Or we could make a pumpkin pie! (stirs pumpkin-shaped bowl) Ooh, there is nothing more satisfying than biting into a big-old slice of pumpkin pie!

(The pumpkins steal Angela's pumpkin bowl. They approach the friends angrily.)

Tom: Uh, Ben? The pumpkins can't understand us, right? They're just... pumpkins, right?

Ben: Well, the Real-izer theoretically would increase the intelligence of whatever it was used on...

Roy: Okay, looks like you all have a handle on this. I-I should head home to work on my not-alive decorations.

(Roy tries to leave, but one of the pumpkins approaches him.)

(The pumpkins surround the friends and Roy.)

Tom: The pumpkins have gone rotten! Everybody run!

(The friends try to run into the garage. One of the pumpkins grabs Ben's leg.)

(The friends pull Ben out of the pumpkins' grasp. They go inside.)

All: Quick!

(A pumpkin approaches the front door. Angela strikes the pumpkin away with a baseball bat, giving Hank enough time to close the door.)

Hank: The monsters have turned on their creator! Just like in the horror classic, The Ungrateful Monster.

Roy: We need to barricade the door. I've got this!

(Tom and Roy push the couch towards the door to barricade it.)

Angela: Well, it's nice to see the two of you on the same side for once.

Tom: We're not on the same side! Roy got jealous and made the pumpkins mad at us on purpose!

Roy: How could I do that, Tom? I don't know how pumpkins think!

Tom: Oh, yes, you do!

Hank: Hold on! We can't start fighting each other. We're already fighting... for our lives. I've seen a lot of spooky movies, okay? I know that if we just-

(A pumpkin grabs Hank through the back window. Ben manages to pull Hank out of the pumpkin's grasp.)

(The pumpkin uses its vine arm to sneak under the back door and open the knob from the inside. The pumpkin enters.)

(The two other pumpkins break through the front door.)

Tom: Quick, into the storage unit!

(The friends manage to get into the storage unit safely.)

(The friends are in the dark, with only their eyes being visible.)

Angela: Where do we retreat to once they break in here?

Tom: Ben, tell me there's a go-back-to-normal button on the Real-izer.

Ben: No. An Un-Real-izer would be a completely different invention.

(The pumpkins open the storage room door.)

Hank: This is it! We're about to get carved by a bunch of pumpkins!

Roy: We'll have to find something in here to defend ourselves with. What's in these boxes?

(Inside the boxes are Valentine's hearts.)

Roy: (grunts) Valentine's stuff? This won't help.

Tom: Wait, maybe it will! What's the opposite of fear? Love! Ben, give me that Real-izer!

(Tom fires the Real-izer at the box of hearts.)

(Tom opens the storage room door.)

Angela: In the name...

Tom: ...of love.

Tom and Angela: Let's go!

(The flying Valentine's hearts fly towards the pumpkin monsters, attacking them. A cupid decoration is also seen shooting an arrow.)

Ben: It works!

Angela: (holds heart arrow) Hi-yah! Yes!

Ben: (throws paper hearts) Eat living love, you overgrown gourd!

Roy: (sneaks out through back door) (whispers) Bye.

(Hank tries to escape with Roy, but is grabbed back inside by a pumpkin.)

(Hank throws kisses at the pumpkin monsters. The monster lets go and backs away.)

(Hank attacks the other monsters by throwing kisses.)

(The pumpkins run outside, groaning. They eventually start disintegrating.)

Tom: Yeah!

All: Woo-hoo!

(The last monster is destroyed. The friends cheer.)

(Scene cuts to the friends outside the garage.)

Tom: We did it! We stopped the monster invasion... that we started...

(The judges appear.)

Ginger: Okay, let's see which house earned the coveted orange... (gasps)

(Ginger finds that the Halloween decorations had been replaced with Valentine's decorations.)

Ginger: What... have you done?

MC: (stutters) Wait, did I miss Valentine's Day? Oh, no! My loved ones will be so disappointed!

Ginger: Quiet!

Tom: Look, uh, we had a little problem with the decorations.

Ginger: Well, now you've got a bigger problem, because you're getting last place of all houses, ever!

(Tom groans.)

(Scene cuts to Roy accepting the trophy. Tom growls.)

Roy: Gosh, I won! I'd like to thank my neighbors for really pushing me to be the spookiest neighbor there is.

Ben: Well, Roy, you deserve to be loved.

Tom: Hmm...

(Tom and Ben snap their fingers, causing the flying hearts to appear.)

Roy: Huh? (screams)

(The hearts attack Roy and chase him away. The friends laugh.)

(The cupid winks at the audience.)

(Credits roll)