Tom the Brave/Transcript

(The friends are at a playground, running towards three slides, each ranging in height. They cheer.)

Ginger: This new triple-layer slide is the best thing that's ever been in this town!

Angela: This makes the town three times better, even if only two of the slides are usable. No one's crazy enough to try the ultra-high one.

(The scene briefly shows the highest slide. A lightning bolt and thunderclap is shown.)

Hank: What are we waiting for?

(Hank is on the medium slide.)

Hank: Last one down is a Can't-Slide Cathy! (slides down)

Ben: Let's see, if I lean back and cross my arms, I should be able to overcome wind resistance and-

(Ginger pushes Ben down.)

Ben: Whee!

(Angela gets on. Ginger pushes her down, before sliding down himself. Tom does not slide, and is holding his cheek.)

Angela: Uh, Tom, why aren't you sliding? Don't tell me you're a Can't-Slide Cathy.

Tom: It's my tooth. It really hurts. (opens mouth wide) Aah.

Angela: (looks inside) Eugh, you should go to the dentist.

Tom: No, no dentists! You know what, you're right. I should slide! It'll help take my mind off the pain.

(Tom reaches the top of the slide.)

Tom: Yep, already feeling be- owwww...

(Tom gets dizzy from the pain and falls down the slide. He rolls on the floor and strikes a couple proposing. The woman is heard screaming.)

Ginger: (laughs) Nice technique! I want to try!

Ben: (takes pot off Tom's head) Are you okay, Tom?

Tom: I had a toothache. Now I have a buttache, too.

Angela: Okay, that's it. I am taking you to the dentist.

(Ginger slides down and rolls the same way Tom did. A man is heard screaming.)

Ginger: Worth it!

(Theme song plays)

(Scene cuts to the dentist's office in the waiting room.)

Angela: Tom!

Tom: (makes excuses) Did we forget to turn off the oven? Should we check? Let's check.

Angela: (closes door) No, no, no, don't be afraid of the dentist. Look, Ronnie from your scoutboy troop is here.

Ronnie: Hi, Scoutmaster Tom! Today's the day my dentist pulls out my last baby tooth. (pulls on tooth) Little fella just won't quit on his own!

Tom: Uh-huh? Tha-that's great, Ronnie.

Ronnie: Say, you're not scared, are you?

Tom: (laughs) I'm not afraid of the dentist. Dentists call me Brave Tom, the king of Courage Castle. Impressed?

Angela: (sighs) This was a change from the nervous wreck you were on the way over.

Tom: (laughs) Nervous? (laughs) I was playing you, girl. I was just letting you see my vulnerable side. I am as cool as a... bag of frozen... stuff.

Ronnie: Ha, yeah!

(The waiting room door opens.)

Nurse: Tom?

Tom: (screams and hides behind Angela) Ronnie was here first! He should go before me!

Nurse: No, he just likes to get here a few hours early to be safe.

Tom: Okay, fine. Good, because I am also ready for him. (walks into hall) I will walk through the office and I will...

(The sound of several dental machines are heard.)

Tom: I can't do it! (screams and runs out)

Ronnie: Where's Brave Tom going?

(Angela sighs.)

Ronnie: He's probably going to be brave somewhere.

(Scene cuts to garage. Tom is hiding behind a pillow. He moans.)

Hank: Tom, sounds like your real problem is fear. What if I hypotized you into not being afraid of dentists?

Ben: Hank, that would only work if you were a hypnotist, and you are not.

Hank: Uh-uh, Hank is not, but the one you know as Hank once traveled the world as the Great Hankarino, master hypnotist!

Angela: Whoa, that's a whole "master" above regular hynotist! (pulls away pillow) Tom, maybe Hank really can help you!

Tom: Uh...

(Scene cuts to a hypnosis session led by Hank.)

Hank: The mood is in the air, the hypno-hat is on the head, and the Great Hankarino is in the house!

Tom: Great. Just to warn you, though, I am pretty strong-willed, so I may be a little tough to hypnotize.

Hank: Sleep!

Tom: (starts feeling drowsy) Yeah, gotta be honest, I am not feeling it.

Hank: Ooh, sleeeeeep!

Tom: Like I said, I... (falls asleep)

(Tom appears in a forest.)

Hank: Hear my words! You are no longer afraid!

Tom: I am no longer afraid...

Hank: You can go to the dentist because you are fearless!

Tom: I can go to the dentist because I am... fearless.

(Tom reappears in the garage.)

Tom: Woo-hoo!

Hank: Hankarino's still got it! What do you think about that, guys? Guys? Huh?

Angela: (in trance) Tom is fearless.

Ben: (in trance) Tom can go to the dentist, no problem, because he is fearless.

Hank: Woo, I gotta dial down the ol' hypnotic power.

(Scene cuts to the dentist's office. Tom appears.)

Tom: Dentist's office, take two! Let's get this tooth pain fixed! (laughs) (refers to poster) Look at that scaredy-cat.

Angela: Wow, you really aren't afraid.

Tom: Nope, this is gonna be cake, which I will be able to eat after this!

Nurse: Ronnie Bergstedt, the dentist is ready to see you.

Tom: Can you take me first?

Nurse: Okay, come in.

Tom: (dances) Yes!

Nurse: Ronnie, we'll try again tomorrow.

Ronnie: I guess that's fair. Good luck, Tom!

Tom: Don't need it, buddy, 'cause this is gonna be awesome!

(Scene cuts to the waiting room after the appointment.)

Tom: (moans in pain) Oh.

Angela: Oh, no.

Tom: Just kidding. Ha, that was great! You know, the dentist could have finished an hour ago, but I figured, why not check all my other teeth, too, you know, since I'm here? (laughs and picks up Angela) Would the lovely lady like a lollipop?

Angela: Aww, where'd you get this?

Tom: They have a secret drawer that's only for their bravest patients. Wait, we should celebrate my fixed mouth! Do you wanna go see that movie, Fright Blood Knife 7?

Angela: Uh, not really. That's, like, the scariest movie ever made.

Tom: Well, then, I've got to see it! (drops Angela) Woo! (laughs)

(Scene cuts to Tom skateboarding on the garage roof.)

Tom: Woo! Here I am up on the roof! It's just like a floor, but it's a lot more fun! (laughs)

(Ben and Angela call Tom from the driveway below.)

Ben: Tom, that's very dangerous! You should not do that!

Tom: More like I should do this! Today and every day after! (laughs)

(Tom skateboards near the edge of the roof. Angela gasps.)

Ben: Tom, no!

(Tom does a handstand before skateboarding away from Ben.)

Angela: This is bad. Tom's been like this all day. He even rode on the bus.

Ben: Well, there's nothing wrong with that. City buses are a cost-effective way to travel, plus, they reduce traffic.

Angela: No, he climbed on top of a bus and rode it!

(Hank is on the roof, trying to stop Tom. Tom skateboards off the roof, but lands safely on the taxi.)

Tom: Woo! Tell me you guys saw that!

Ben: Yes! It was terrifying! You're gonna hurt yourself if you don't stop acting like this!

Tom: Stop? No way, I'm just getting started! Now step aside, amigos, I have some thrills to seek.

(Scene cuts to Tom talking to the camera on a park slide.)

Tom: (to camera) Alright, guys, I'm about to head down this new park slide. Not the little one. Not the medium one. (screams) The double-black-diamond ridiculously big one, y'all! (laughs)

Ben: (in megaphone) Don't do this, Tom. The big slide is just for show!

Tom: (laughs) (to camera) I'm glad you're here to watch me go down this... on a skateboard!

(The friends gasp.)

Tom: (puts on blindfold) ...blindfolded...

(The friends gasp.)

Tom: ...while wearing a helmet...

(The friends sigh in relief.)

Tom: ...on my butt!

(The friends gasp.)

Angela: Oh, no. Hank, you have got to do something.

Hank: Yes. The Great Hankarino began this, and the Great Hankarino must end this. (climbs ladder)

(Tom prepares to slide down. Hank frantically climbs up the slide to try and stop him.)

Tom: One...

Hank: Huh? (climbs faster)

Tom: Two... three!

(Tom starts sliding down, but Hank catches Tom's hand.)

Tom: (removes blindfold) Huh? Hank!

Hank: Alright, Tom, it's time for me to de-hypnotize you.

Tom: Uh, Hank...

Hank: Sleep, sleep! Fear is not always bad! Sleep! A little dollop of fear can keep you from doing really stupid stuff!

Tom: Fear can... fear can... fear can get out of here, man!

Hank: Oh, no! Tom's not letting me form a hypno-nection!

Tom: I'm gonna be brave for the rest of my life!

Hank: Curse these hypno-fingers!

Angela: (in megaphone) Tom, you're not gonna have a rest of your life if you don't stop this!

(Tom frees himself from Hank's grasp and puts his blindfold back on.)

Hank: Tom, no!

(Tom slides down.)

Hank: Noooooo!

(Angela screams.)

Tom: Oh, yeaaaaah!

(A crashing sound is heard. Tom is knocked out.)

(Tom wakes up briefly and sees a doctor before falling back asleep.)

(Tom is in a hospital. The heart rate monitor flatlines, showing that Tom had passed away. The friends are wearing black.)

Angela: Aw, I'm going to miss him so much.

Hank: Poor Tom. He was my best friend.

Ginger: But, Tom is coming back soon, right? And we'll all laugh about this when he does, right?

Ben: No, Ginger. I'm afraid it's just Ben Enterprises now, because Tom is, uh, Tom is dead.

(Tom wakes up.)

Tom: (gasps) Dead? No, no, no, I-I-I- I can't be dead!

Ben: All that was left of him was his helmet.

Tom: What? Guys, I'm right here. Look at me! Look at me!

Angela: He was too fearless for this world, and now he's gone! (sobs)

Hank: It's all because I hypnotized the fear out of him! I blame myself!

Angela: I blame you too, Hank. You and- and the toothache!

(The friends sob.)

Tom: This can't be happening! I should have listened to my friends. How could I have been so stupid? I don't want to be brave anymore. I want to be afraid. I want to be afraid! I want to be afraid! I want to be afraid!

Angela: Okay, Ben, that should do it.

(Ben controls the heart rate monitor on his tablet.)

Tom: Huh?

(Ginger laughs.)

Ben: Well, did someone finally learn his lesson?

Tom: (laughs) You can see me!

Ginger: We can all see you. You're not really dead. Look! (wipes paint off Tom on his finger and laughs)

Tom: Oh, I'm alive! I got a second chance! I'm alive!

(The friends laugh.)

Hank: We hypnotists have a saying. Sometimes, the patient has to unhypnotize themselves.

Tom: Ugh, you saved me from me, and I won't forget it! From now on, I'm going to be the biggest coward you know. No more risks, no more stunts, and definitely no more dentists!

(One of Tom's teeth fall off.)

(Credits roll)