The Audition/Transcript

This is the transcript for The Audition.
 * Tom: [to the viewers] Are you ready? I hope you're ready, because I am definitely ready. What am I ready for? I'll tell you what I'm ready for. I'm ready for you TV producers to give me my own show! [the camera falls a little] Ah, Ginger! Pay attention! 
 * Ginger: [holding the camera] Sorry, Tom, not sorry.
 * Tom: Okay, here it is. The Talking Tom Reality TV show audition video.
 * Tom: [to the viewers] Now, I'm gonna come here and be like, "Oh, producers, please, please, please give me a reality show." No, because when you see my cool life, you're gonna be like, oh Tom, please, please, let us give you a reality show.
 * Tom: Hey, I'm probably just being paranoid, but I just wanted you to know that I was just kidding when I was pretending you were going to be begging me for a reality show. Okay? Okay.
 * CUT! Thanks Ginger.

01:05

Tom! Hey Angela!

01:08

I got here as quickly as I could. Your message said it was urgent.

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Is everything OK?

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Yes, I am finally filming my Reality Show Audition Tape.

01:16

Oh, not really interested…

01:18

Uhu. Now Angela, I need you to check the acoustics for our new

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reality TV confession booth.

01:24

Tom it’s a bathroom.

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Well, yeah! People sound great in the bathroom.

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That’s why they sing in the shower.

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There is no shower in here! There’s just a toilet.

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Shower, toilet, use your imagination.

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What? Use my imagination? Are you kidding me right now?

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That’s our Angela. She’s not only my good friend, but she is also…

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kind of a pop star. You might even know some of her songs.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh baby, baby...

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“Yeah, yeah, baby, baby?”

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Why don’t you sing one of your songs?

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I love Tom. But my manager thought

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it might hurt my career to sing one of my real songs

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on his crazy audition tape.

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As you can see, this is no

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ordinary neighborhood garage; It’s what we call “The studio”!

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And it’s where I produce games and songs and apps with my

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best friend and business partner, Ben. Hey Ben!

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Tom! Please tell me that camera isn’t recording.

02:25

Are you kidding me? That was reality TV gold!

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Ben here is the owner of all this high tech expensive equipment.

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Correct, Tom. So don’t you dare touch it.

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Ben’s mom won’t let him keep the stuff at his house because a few

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too many -- shall we say --ahem -- “power surges” caused a few too many -- shall

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we say -- “the house fires.”

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Not really my fault. Our electricity grid badly needs an upgrade.

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So Ben, can you tell us what kind of mind-blowing,

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life-changing, high-tech invention you’re working on?

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I can, but I don’t see the reason why I would.

03:09

Oh, come on Ben, tell us what it does.

03:11

Well, if you must know, this is a squirting flower joke app.

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Uuh! What’s that button?

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No no no no! Don’t push it!

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It doesn’t even work.

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Well it should.

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Haha now, that is the funniest thing I have ever seen you do.

03:31

What do you mean, I’m often very funny.

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Ahhh... not really. I Am so?

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No. Ah...Nope.

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You, reality show producers,

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You should know the following: Yes, I’m a tech genius, but I also

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possess a well-rounded personality. For example, I can be whimsical.

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I’m often spontaneous.

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I’m organized…

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In a fun way.

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And most of all, I’m humorous.

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You’re humorous?

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What? You don’t think I’m funny?

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You know what? Forget I said anything. Oh, nononono, you’re not leaving

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until I have shown everyone that I am more than just the brains of

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this operation. Please don’t.

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Hello viewer, prepare to laugh at the following standup comedy

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humour presentation.

04:23

Joke number one:

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So yesterday I flew in from the west coast, and boy are my arms tired?

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So you see, Tom, the word “flew” has two different meanings...

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Ben! If a joke is funny you don’t need to explain why it’s funny!

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Stop it, Tom, you’re embarrassing yourself. I have studied a lot more

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comedy than you have...Good day!

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Oh of course, the best comedy comes from a spread sheet!

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What are those two bickering about?

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Do they think that’s gonna impress the Producers?

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And why am I talking to you instead of talking directly to them?

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Huh ? ... Take over.

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Ehm…Hi. I’m Tom’s roommate Hank.

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Ehm.. I’ve seen every sitcom made from 1986 to 1994...

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And… in France I’m called Honk.

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Ginger? Oh Ginger?

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Ginger it’s your turn to talk!

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In a minute, I’m almost done...

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Hey, that’s my phone!

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I told you if you don’t behave, I’m gonna send you home...

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I’m sorry, Hank. Give me another chance, I’ll be good.

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Well...Okay.

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Hi, everybody. My name is Ginger, and I’m seven years old.

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And when I grow up I wanna be just like my role model: Hank.

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Aww, I’m the only one who disciplines the kid...

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That’s why he looks up to me -- Hey! Give me that!

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Ginger, Ginger, get back here with my phone!

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Have a seat on the couch and tell the producers about yourself.

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Tom, you start. I’m what people call a visionary...

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Some days I wake up and think, “Let’s see, today I’m gonna

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design a hot air balloon that can land on a passing asteroid.”

06:23

Except a hot air balloon can’t fly in space…

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That’s a minor detail. Comments like that prove that

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you’re just not a visionary. And you’re not a scientist.

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You two are a great team. Tell us about some of the apps you’ve created.

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Oh! Tell her about the “Ray Ray”.

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Oh why did you bring that up? The “Ray Ray” was an app

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that used bursts of microwaves to locate people nearby named Ray.

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Wow! Nobody needs that. Well, maybe we should talk about

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“Cook My Salmon” –- the app that makes your phone so hot

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it can cook salmon. Which totally worked,

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it just drained your battery. Ben it set your pants on fire…

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Really guys? So, tell us how you first met.

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Well, it was like a million years ago...

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No it was eight point three years ago.

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Cool!

07:17

Eight point three?

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You are talking nonsense.

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Nonsense? You’re the king of nonsense.

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I am literally a hologram of positivity.

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No, the vibe I’m going for here is... “everyone’s got their own whatchamacallit.”

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So Tom, is there anything about Ben

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that gets on your nerves? Hmmm...

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Don’t touch that. Don’t touch my computer screen.

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Now you’re touching me!

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Now, who wouldn’t wanna watch that on TV?

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That’s it, I am never going

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to work with you again!

08:01

Hey Tom. How’s it going?

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Not so good. I don’t think my video is good enough

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to convince the TV producers to give me a reality show.

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Then just turn it into a very special Christmas audition video.

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Would that work? Do you know that show

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“The Hermit Housewives of the Aran Islands”? Sure, everyone does.

Excuse Me!

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They were almost cancelled. And then they turned every episode

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into a very special Christmas special. Would that work for us?

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Don’t ask me. Ask this guy!

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Somebody called Santa?

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HOHOHO! Where did he come from?

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Okay Ginger. Cue ‘The snow’! And… Action!

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This season children all over the world are going to be asking me for

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the same thing. Santa, they’re saying, all I want is to see a reality show

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starring Talking Tom and his friends. Hey, what is this?

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It’s a public service announcement... for children who want me to

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get my own reality show. Kids watch enough TV!

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No, my show will be good! It will be like a Christmas miracle.

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But I’m not sure the TV producers will like it.

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What do you need a TV producer for? To make all my dreams come true?

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HO HO HO! Good one, Tom! You don’t need some out-dated

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washed-up TV producer to make your own reality TV show.

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I don’t?

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No, all you need is a video camera, a computer and a bunch of crazy goof-ball friends…

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Which you definitely have… I do?

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HoHoHo, Yes, you do! So just make the show yourself.

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I can do that. Thanks, Santa! This may be the best Christmas ever.

10:01

Angela! come sing with us!

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Anybody has seen Angela?

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Until that awful singing stops, I’m staying right in here with you,

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“Confession Camera.” You’re welcome.

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Santa, Santa!

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Santa wait! You forgot my Christmas list.

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Hoho! Email me!
 * Okay.
 * As the pilot ends.
 * As the pilot ends.