Parallel Universe/Transcript

(The episode begins with Ben talking to Tom, Angela, Ginger and Hank)

Ben: Reason number eleven that you aren’t allowed to touch my stuff while I’m gone: some of it is extremely dangerous!

Tom: Oh, Ben, just stop, OK? No one is gonna mess with your nerd equipment. And by the way, trying to scare us with talk of danger wouldn’t work anyway.

Hank: Yeah, Danger is my middle name.

Ginger: It is?

Hank: No, it’s Hank.

Angela: Wait, your name is Hank Hank?

Hank: Yeah, except in France where it’s Honk-Honk. (Imitating honking a horn)

Ben: Reason number twelve you aren’t allowed to touch my stuff while I’m gone: a little thing called respect!

Angela: (looks at her phone) Wow, I have to go, I have a thing, at the place. Gotta run. (She leaves)

Ginger: Whoa, can’t believe I almost forgot about that thing at the place. (He leaves)

Hank: I can’t think of a fake excuse, so I’m just gonna go over there. (He leaves, too)

Tom: Ben, buddy. Just go, alright? I’ve got everything under control.

Ben: But you guys stopped me right before reason thirteen, that seems like it might be a bad omen...

Tom: Oh, come on. Just trust me, now go. (He pushes Ben out of the door)

Ben: No, no, hold on a second!

Tom: Shoo, shoo! (Tom walks to Ben’s desk) He really thinks we’d mess with his stuff? Really? Huh? (Ripping off a sticky note on Ben's invention only to find more and more. Eventually, he gets to a picture of himself with a red no sign.)

Tom: What? Hey! Huh! (mocking) Oh, no! I’m close to touching something. (He touches the gadget) And if I do, who knows what terrible thing might happen. (Just then, a blue vortex appears and starts to get bigger.) Uh oh.

(Theme Song)

(The vortex continues to get bigger, when it starts sucking things in.)

Tom: No! (He grabs onto a chair, but lets go when it disappears into the vortex.) Ah! No! (Tom tries to run away, but he gets pulled into vortex. Tom screams.) This is really dark. (He sees Nerd Tom flying through the vortex. The Toms meet.)

Nerd Tom: This is really dark.

Tom: Wait, who are you?

Nerd Tom: Who am I? Who are you?

(Tom screams as he continues to get pulled through the vortex. Eventually he gets pulled out of a green vortex and lands in what appears to be his garage.)

Tom: Geez. (He watches the green vortex disappear. Suddenly, Pop Star Hank walks by, on the phone.) Hank!

Pop Star Hank: (On the phone) Oh yeah? Well, you’ll just have to tell the record company that I will only do the world tour if I start in Antarctica. My penguin fanbase is very important to me. (Cool Ben walks in)

Cool Ben: Don’t worry, Tom.

Tom:  Ben?

Cool Ben: Nobody touched your nerdy science things while you were gone.

Tom: Uh, ,y science things? (He meets Slacker Angela who’s sitting on the couch.

Slacker Angela: Hey, come chill with me, amigo.

Tom: Angela!

Slacker Angela: A new episode of McGillicuddy & Bongo is starting.

Tom: McGillicuddy & Bongo? Don’t you mean Bongo & McGillicuddy?

(In Tom’s universe, Nerd Tom looks around and sees the camera..)

Nerd Tom: Oh, a camera, great. (Turns the camera on) It seems I’ve been transported through a wormhole to a parallel universe. This looks like my normal residence, but everything is reversed. The strangeness is alarming, so I will approach the problem rationally and remain calm.

(Back in the parallel universe, Tom is running, panicking.

Tom: I am freaking out! (Runs into the bathroom, then runs out)What am I gonna do?! I’m stuck in some sort of bizaro world! You people are my friends, but you’re not my friends!

Slacker Angela: Oh, buddy, relax. I’m still Angela, TV-loving couch potato.

Pop star Hank: And I’m still Honk-Honk, the world’s next biggest pop star.

Cool Ben: And I’m still Ben, cool frontman of Ben and Tom Enterprises.

Tom: Cool? Then that means... I’m...

Cool Ben: You’re Tom, the nerd.

(Tom passes out)

Ben: Heh! Tom fainted again.

(In Tom’s Universe, Nerd Tom is talking to Hank, Angela and Ginger)

Ginger: So, wait a minute, You’re saying...

Nerd Tom: Yes.

Angela: And if you’re here, then our Tom is…

Nerd Tom: Yes.

Hank: And the opposite of no is...

Nerd Tom: Yes.

Ginger: Hmm… How do we know you’re not the real Tom?

Nerd Tom: The glasses.

Angela: This could be some kind of April Fool’s Day prank.

Nerd Tom: Aha!. But it’s not even April.

Angela: Yeah, then we’d never expect it, okay? I’m onto you.

Nerd Tom: I happen to be an expert on comedy, so I’d come up with something very funny if that was my goal. Example: Why did the keynote speaker at the science conference cross the road?

Ginger: Why?

Nerd Tom: To get to the other slide! (Laughs) Slide.

Ben: Hey! Who’s stealing my jokes?

(Back in the parallel universe.)

Cool Ben: So you’re saying, in your universe, you’re the cool one?

Tom: Exactly. (Pop Star Hank sings as he plays the guitar.)

Cool Ben: Whatever man, I don’t see it. (Tom sighs) But, who cares? Welcome to our universe, cool Tom!

Tom: Yeah, thanks!

Slacker Angela: Dude, this calls for a celebration!

Pop star Hank: Cool.

(Good Ginger arrives, holding a box of carrots.)

Good Ginger: Is everything OK, chums? (Eats a carrot. Tom laughs.)

Tom: Ginger, is that you? (Good Ginger looks all over himself.)

Slacker Angela: This is New Tom. He’s like a cool Tom from a parallel universe.

Good Ginger: Oh, welcome! Had I known we had a special guest, I’d have cooked a special dinner!

Pop star Hank: I say we order milkshakes!

Slacker Angela: No, let’s order pizza!

Pop star Hank: No way! Milkshakes!

Tom: Guys, guys, guys, there’s no need to fight. We can just order both!

Slacker Angela: Wait, what?

Pop star Hank:  Both?

Tom: Yeah, we’ll just order pizza and milkshakes.

Pop star Hank: (singing) Mind blown!

Cool Ben: Whoa, looks like we’ve got a problem solver in the house!

Good Ginger: This is gonna be amazing! I’ll go pick everything up, my treat! No, no, I insist.

(Pop Star Hank, Slacker Angela and Cool Ben cheer.)

Tom:  Hey, Ginger, you wanna grab some candy while you’re out too?

Good Ginger: Well, I don’t eat candy. But I’ll gladly get some for you! (He leaves the garage.)

Tom: This is so weird.

Cool Ben: Sure is great to have you here. But are you sure your friends won’t miss you back in your universe?

Tom: Are you kidding? It sounds like your Nerd Tom is like our Nerd Ben, so I’m sure they’re having a great time together!

(Boy, is he wrong! In Tom’s universe, the friends are at Ben’s desk. Nerd Tom and Ben are arguing.)

Ben: I’m in charge of the rescue mission!

Nerd Tom: I am trying to help!

Ben: Okay, here’s the plan: We all have to do our parts perfectly if we want this rescue mission to work, otherwise we may never get our Tom back and we’ll be stuck with this monster!

Nerd Tom: Who are you calling a monster? I’ll have you know in my universe I am a well-respected man of science.

Ben: Maybe your universe is dumb!

Nerd Tom: Don’t you dare talk about my universe like that!

Ginger: Enough! Let’s just hurry up and rescue Tom so you two will never have to see each other again!

Ben: Fine with me!

Nerd Tom: Fine with me, too!

Angela: I just hope we’re not too late.

Hank: Yeah. If things are bad here, it must be terrible over there for Tom!

(Meanwhile at Parallel universe)

All: (Having a party with pizza and milkshakes) Best day ever!!

Cool Ben: New Tom, I think I speak for everyone when I say, you’re the coolest guy we’ve ever met in any universe!

Tom: Oh, man.

Pop star Hank: He’s right, Tom. Things have been way more fun with you here!

Good Ginger: We haven’t gotten any work done, but spending quality time with your friends is also important.

(The TV shows McGillicuddy & Bongo)

Slacker Angela: Hey, you guys, McGillicuddy & Bongo is starting!

Tom: Oh, okay. (Walks with Angela to the couch)

(In Tom’s Universe, the friends prepare to save Tom. Ben snatches a phone from Ginger. Ben and Nerd Tom force Hank to do push ups. Ben tries to explain the rescue mission to his friends, but gets into an argument with Nerd Tom.)

(Ben leads the friends in running. Nerd Tom orders Hank to speed up when he slows down. On the garage rooftops, Ben makes Angela, Ginger and Hank jump off onto a bed. Nerd Tom then pushes Ben off the roof and onto the bed. The friends run inside, and Ben shuts out Nerd Tom. Ben opens the blue vortex, but everyone is exhausted.)

(Back in parallel universe, Tom and Slacker Angela are watching McGillicuddy and Bongo)

(Slacker Angela is giggling at Tom and getting closer to him, Tom puts his hand around her. Suddenly, Angela jumps out of the green vortex.)

Angela: Tom, what’s going on?

Tom: Angela! Uh, have you met you?

Slacker Angela: Dude…

(Ben, Hank, and Ginger jump out of the vortex)

Ben: Let’s move, people! Go go go! (Ben grabs Tom and tries to drag him into the vortex.)

Hank: (walks up to the TV) Wait, wait, wait, McGillicuddy can talk?!

Pop Star Hank: Of course McGillicuddy can talk! Don’t you ever watch TV?

(Good Ginger offers Ginger a carrot.)

Good Ginger: Would you care for a fresh-picked carrot? (Ginger throws the carrot away)

Ginger: I’ll skip the carrots, but you know would I would like to eat?!

(Angela argues with Slacker Angela)

Slacker Angela: So like, you’re me?!

Angela: Shh!! I don’t want to hear it! I saw what you were doing!

Ben: We’re gonna get you out of this!

Tom: I don’t wanna go! I don’t wanna go! I don’t wanna go!

Ben: This is for your own good! (Cool Ben arrives)

Cool Ben: What’s going on, New Tom?

(Ben pushes Cool Ben away)

Tom: Oh no! I have to stay here. This Angela likes me!

Ben: Angela, Hank, Ginger! Get back into the wormhole now! (to Tom) This is for your own good.

Tom: You can’t make me!

Ben: You’re. Going. Home!

(Ben pulls Tom into the vortex. Hank and Angela follow them through the vortex. Ginger is about to go too, when Good Ginger gives him a giant bag of candy.)

Ginger: Whoa! Candy! (Ginger grabs the bag.)

Good Ginger: Just promise me you’ll brush and floss every day.

Ginger: Wait! Noooooooo! (He disappears into the vortex, but the vortex’s pull doesn’t take the candy in.)

Good Ginger: Hmm.

(In Tom’s universe, Hank has just landed there.)

Hank: Woah. (Ginger flies through the vortex. He runs back to it, but Hank stops him.)

Ginger: No! No, my candy!

Hank: Let it go, Ginger! That candy wasn’t meant to be!

Ginger: (wails)

(Tom complains to Ben)

Tom: Ben, how could you?! Didn't you see me and the other Angela?!

Angela: (confronting Tom) Listen, I saw you and that fake Angela and I don’t like what I saw!

Tom: Wait a minute. Why do you care so much about me and that other Angela?

Angela: Uh, I don’t care. Who said I cared? Not me.

Tom: It seems like you care a little.

Angela: I don’t wanna talk about it. Okay? Gotta go, bye! (Leaves)

Tom: (Following Angela) I wanna talk about it.

Ben: (sighs) Everything's back to normal.

Nerd Tom: (Coming out of the bathroom) You guys, I’m ready for the big rescue mission. Well! I see you forgot about me. So typical of you, Ben! You see this is why I should’ve been in charge of this project.

Ben: Okay, that’s it! (Shoves Nerd Tom into portal) Time to close this thing for good!

(Ginger gasps and jumps towards the vortex in slow motion. Ben gets out a baseball bat and raises it to smash the vortex. Ginger is so close to the vortex. At the last second, Ben smashes the device with the bat and Ginger lands on the desk. Ginger throws his head to the ceiling.)

Ginger: NOOOOOOOO!

(Episode ends)