Santa's Phone/Transcript

(Scene shows a decorated holiday village.)

Angela: Wow!

Ginger: Yay!

(Ginger looks at a wood carving of an elf.)

Ginger: Wow!

Tom: Merry Christmas Eve, Jeremy!

Jeremy: Right back at ya! (takes out candy cane) Have a soupy cane!

(The "soupy cane' is covered in green ooze.)

Tom: Oh, uh, I'll stick with gingerbread.

Jeremy: Eh. (puts away cane)

Tom: Besides, we're in a hurry to tell Santa what we want for Christmas.

Ginger: Come on, people!

(The friends run away.)

Jeremy: I'm sure you'll get what you want! You deserve it more than anyone!

(The friends cheer.)

Angela: I see Santa's throne! Get ready to hear some ho, ho- oh, no!

(Angela finds that Santa's throne is empty and roped off.)

Ben: He's already gone off to get ready for his big night!

Ginger: Come back, Santa! We have presents to discuss!

(Ginger gets past the rope and heads for the throne. He notices a spark of light moving towards a small mound of snow.)

Ginger: Oh?

(Ginger examines the mound of snow to find a cellphone underneath. The cellphone is decorated with a Santa hat and white beard. He picks up the phone and swipes away the snow. The phone turns on, and the friends gasp in amazement.)

Ginger: Is this Santa's phone?

Angela: It must've fallen out of his pocket when he was sitting!

Santa's phone: (automated voice) Ho-ho-ho!

Hank: Ginger, put that phone down! Santa might have secret gift information on it. It would be wrong of us to look.

Ben, Tom and Angela: Yeah, no, maybe? Yeah, yeah totally.

Tom: But... maybe one quick peek wouldn't hurt?

Angela: Yeah, if anything, it might help, right?

Hank: Uh, I don't know, I-

Angela: (starts using phone) Come on, just do it! Come on, let's open it really fast!

(A hologram projection appears, depicting a list of people. Next to each person is a thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon.)

All: Ooooooh!

Ben: It's the Naughty and Nice List, with real-time updates on everyone's gifts! Nice tech there, Santa.

Tom: Let's find us on this thing, (scrolls through list) then we can be sure we're all getting... (finds friends) nothing? We're on the Naughty List?!

(The phone shows each member of the friends being placed on the Naughty List, each getting a thumbs-down icon.)

(The friends scream.)

(Theme song plays)

Angela: How can I be on the Naughty List? Everyone I know says I'm nice. Don't you think I'm nice?!

(The friends shudder.)

Hank: I don't like this, we shouldn't have this information!

Tom: We can't panic. Santa's phone is probably just broken. Right, Ben?

Ben: I don't know. Let me see if I can access the Merry Mainframe.

(Ben plugs a keyboard into the phone, then types onto the keyboard.)

Ben: Oh, dear. It seems Santa has video evidence of all our bad behaviour.

(Hank gulps.)

Tom: But we don't do bad behaviour! This must be made up.

(Ben touches a button on his keyboard.)

Ben: Uh, oh.

(The hologram projection shows a list of videos.)

Angela: What is all this?!

Ben: Our most poorly-behaved moments, all together in one awful lump! We have to do something.

Angela: But what? We can't change the videos on Santa's phone!

Ben: Hmm...

Angela: Wait, can we change the videos on Santa's phone?

Ginger: Ah!

Ben: Well...

(Scene cuts to the garage. Ben sets up several electrical devices, including a monitor, microphone and mixer. He plugs a cable into the phone. The videos appear on the monitors.)

Hank: Oh, boy.

Angela: I can't believe we're gonna change the videos on Santa's phone!

Tom: Yeah, but that's only because they're giving Santa the wrong idea about us. Everybody believes videos, so, we'll fix our videos so they show us being nice!

Hank: Are you sure this isn't breaking some Christmas rule?

Ben: Well, we're helping Santa make a more informed decision. Let's start with the time I was a supervillain. (plays video)

(A video is shown from Superhero Picnic. The friends are dressed up as superheroes in the garage.)

Ginger (on video): Vanishing villains! When did Ben go?

Ben (on video): (offscreen) I'm right here!

(Ben appears on the stairs.)

Ben (on video): I stopped time so I could change into this bad-guy costume.

(Tom laughs.)

Ben (on video): How dare you all distract me from my wor-

(Ben stops the video.)

Ben: (moves sliders on mixer) Now, with a few audio adjustments... (plays video)

(The edited video is shown.)

Ben (on video): How dare- (smiley mouth appears) We are playing a fun game together!

(The edited video is temporarily stopped, then resumed.)

Angela (on video) : Get the Time Slower!

(The friends charge towards Ben in the video. Ginger throws a piece of putty at Ben. The video is paused for editing.)

Ben: Okay, Ginger. Your turn.

Ginger: (records on microphone) That's one game point!

Hank: (records) I would like to play this game too! Boop-boop-boop. This is great!