The Sabotage/Transcript

Act I
(Scene shows Angela using her starting her scooter. Rock music is played.)

Tom: (speaks in microphone) We're here at the Tom and Ben Indoor Track with scooter superstar, Angela!

Ginger: (takes microphone) ...and rookie sensation Ginger! Tom, this kid is an up-and-comer who just needs a shot on that scooter.

Tom: We're talking about Angela, Ginger.

Ginger: Aw!

Tom: Can she break the course record?!

Angela: Well, Tom, I think I'll let my new scooter answer that question!

(Angela starts her scooter. She rides it around a set of cones and makes a turn on the sofa.)

Angela: Woo! Woo! Woo-hoo!

(Angela rides her scooter up the stairs.)

Angela: I can't believe I ever do things that aren't this!

(Angela reaches the end of the upstairs balcony. She screams at first, but rides off the balcony. She lands back on the first floor, and is headed for Ben's desk.)

Tom: Uh, oh, she's headed for Ben's desk. This could spell computer-breaking disaster!

Angela: (slow-motion) Whoa!

(Angela manages to stop in time, narrowly avoiding crashing into the computer. The scooter touches the desk, which knocks the top marble off a stack of marbles. The marble begins to roll to end of the desk.)

Ben: Gah! My "concentration" marble! (catches marble) Ooh! Angela, what are you doing riding that thing in here anyway?

Tom: (holds stopwatch) She's breaking the course record!

(The friends cheer.)

Angela: Yeah, she is! Woo-hoo! (starts scooter)

(Another marble begins to roll off.)

Ben: Stop! My "unexpected consequences" marble!

Tom: (catches marble) Got it. (throws marble into stack)

(The marble knocks over another marble. The marble rolls off.)

Ben: Oh! You fool! That's my "giant explosion" marble!

Hank: Uh-oh!

Ben: Duck and cover!

(Ginger, Hank and Tom leap onto the floor, anticipating an explosion. Ginger screams.)

Ben: (snickers) Just kiddin'. This is actually my "gotcha" marble. Gotcha!

(Theme song plays)

(Ben continues laughing.)

Ben: (clears throat) Where did you get this instrument of desk-destruction anyway?

Tom: Oh, I sold one of Angela's songs.

Ben: Mmm.

Tom: Yeah, I'm her manager now.

Angela: My songs are paying for my high-octane lifestyle.

(Music is heard from the television.)

Hank: Look! Angela's song is already on TV!

Angela: (gasps) My song's on TV?!

TV: (plays song)

You can yes!

We can yes!

Everybody, yes, yes!

Angela: You didn't tell me about this! (screams)

Tom: I didn't know! Wow, I'm an even better manager than I thought!

Ben: Who bought the song?

Tom: Well, you know, when you're a successful manager like me, you don't focus on every little detail.

(The music stops. The CEO appears on TV.)

CEO (on TV): Hello, I'm the CEO.

(The friends scream.)

CEO: For too long, people in this city have been struggling with something, and that something is... problems!

Hank: That is so true.

Angela: Wait, why did that just go from my song to the CEO talking?

CEO: Problems with traffic...

(The TV shows a woman next to a yellow car.)

Woman: Huh? Hmm.

CEO: ...problems with dirt...

(The TV shows the Landlord carrying two trash bags into a yard.)

CEO: ...and worst of all, ho, ho, problems with small, garage-based app companies.

(The TV shows the garage's exterior.)

Hank: Hey, you guys have a small, garage-based app company!

CEO: Someone has got to do something about all these problems, which is why I am running for mayor!

(The friends gasp.)

Tom: Oh, no!

CEO: Can we make this town problem-free? Let's ask local popstar and singer of my official campaign song, Angela!

TV: (plays We Can Yes)

You can yes!

We can yes!

Everybody...

Angela: Tom, you sold my song to the CEO?!

Tom: (backs up) Okay, that's bad, but it's gonna be fine.

(Tom trips on a wooden rack and falls backward.)

Tom: Whoa! (lands on back) It's the election for mayor, so... no big deal, right? I mean, no one'll even notice.

(Ben, Angela and Tom's phones all start ringing.)

Tom: Okay. (laughs nervously) Lesson learned. From here on in, I promise never to sell any of your songs to any of our enemies ever again.

Angela: (growls) You better get my song back from the CEO or you're fired! And that's going to make things very awkward between us. (scooters away)

(Scene cuts to the driveway. Ginger sits on the curbside sadly.)

Ginger: Aww.

Hank: Ginger, you don't seem your normal perky-yet-devious self.

Ginger: All I want is to have a turn on the scooter and endanger myself and others, but you guys won't let me!

Hank: Well, I think I have something that'll cheer you right up. (shows bike) Ta-da!

Ginger: Oh? That's just a regular bike. It doesn't even have a motor.

Hank: Huh! "No motor," he says. (spins front wheel)

(The wheel spins on its own.)

Ginger: Wha- wha- how are you doing that?!

Hank: Why don't you ask these Bongo & McGillicuddy trading cards?

(Two trading cards are clipped to the bike's spokes.)

Ginger: Wow! This'll do- for now.