The Lullaby Monster/Transcript

(Tom and Angela are walking to the driveway, seeing Hank and Ginger building a tent.)

Ginger: Ok, right here. (grunts) Yeah.

Hank: Heh. He-he!

Angela: (holding a bag of chips) Hey guys! We brought you goodies for your stay-at-home camping trip.

Ginger: Woo-hoo!

Hank: Oh, boy!

Ginger: We're going to be up all night camping our guts out!

Ginger/Hank: (chants) Camp, Hank and Ginger, the best camp around!

Ginger: Yeah! *laughs*

(Ben comes out of the garage.)

Ben: Will you please keep it down? I'm trying to work!

Angela: Wow, Ben. You look terrible. No offense.

Ben: I haven't slept in weeks. I'm competing in the Techie Contest for Best Inventor. But I don't have an invention yet and I can't think of one because my brain is fried!

Angela: Well, If your brain is fried, you should un-fry it with a nap.

Ben: I'm too stressed! I couldn't take a nap even if I wanted to!

Angela: Well, when I was a little girl, I would always fall asleep to an old lullaby my grandma would sing. I could try singing to you?

Ben: Angela, I'm not a baby. A lullaby isn't going to work on me.

Angela: Oh, it works on everyone! I'll just show you.

(sings)

♪ Sleepy eyes, Sleepy town, Everybody just lay down ♪

Ben: Seriously, I can assure you this will never... (falls asleep)

Tom/Hank/Ginger: Wow!

Angela: *chuckles*

(theme song)

(The scene cuts to the sky changing from night [crickets are heard] to day [a rooster crows]. Ginger and Hank are asleep.)

Hank: (snoring)

Ginger: (sucking thumb then wakes up) Oh, rats! (Hank wakes up) We passed out! We didn't make it all night, Hank.

Hank: It's not my fault if your scary storytelling voice is calm and soothing!

(Ben falls from a tree with a broom.)

Ben: Good morning! It's a beautiful day and I feel great!

Angela: I told you the song would work! Now maybe your not-tired brain will come up for an invention for the Techies!

Ben: Oh, it already has! My invention will be... your lullaby! (runs to garage)

Angela: Huh?

(The garage door opens, revealing a large machine.)

Ben: Ta-da!

Angela: Uh, what is this? My lullaby is an old song, not a science thing!

Ben: But what if it was a science thing? It could cure insomnia! In fact, I shall call it... the InsomniApp.

Angela: Oh, I don't know...

Ben: Did I mention the app would feature you singing and would be seen in potentially millions of homes? (Angela grabs microphone)

Angela: Let's do this!

(A montage plays of Angela singing.)

Ben: I think we got it!

Angela: Finally! A hundred takes is a lot.

Ben: It had to be perfect! We're making groundbreaking sleep-nology here!

Angela: Well, if we help one person have sweet dreams, it'll all be worth- (coughs)

Tom: You need a break.I'm taking you to the movies. Nothing soothes a silky voice like buttery popcorn.

Angela: Yay! (coughs)

Ben: Have fun! I'll finish coding this right after I try on my tuxedo for the Techie Awards! The InsomniApp is a guaranteed win! (leaves)

Ginger: (sneaks in) Ha! (Hank follows.)

Hank: Ginger, what are we doing in here? It's the great outdoors, not the great in-the-garage doors!

Ginger: Last night was a disgrace! That can't happen again! But I have a plan. We'll use Ben's new lullaby machine to put us into a power nap now. Then, when we wake up, we'll be rested and ready for an all-night camp-stravaganza!

Hank: I like it! Do you think the machine's ready yet?

Ginger: Of course it is! (turns on machine)

(The machine whirs. A hologram of Angela appears.)

Hologram: Hello, sleepyheads!

Ginger and Hank: Whoa!

Hologram: Security protocols are not yet finished. Shall I lullaby anyway?

Ginger: Yes! At maximum power!

Hologram: Very well. Maximum power.

Ginger: If we don't sleep now, our all-nighter is doomed!

Hologram: (sings)

Sleepy eyes, sleepy town,

Everybody just lay down,

Hank: (yawns) Wow, that's really amazing.

Hologram: (continues sleeping)

Close your eyes, breathe in deep,

Till the whole world's asleep.

(starts glitching)

Hank: (yawns) You think it's supposed to do that? (falls asleep with Ginger)

Hologram: (continues glitching) Whole... world... sleep.

Ben: (returns, holding a blender) I'd like to thank my biggest inspiration, my mentor, my guide, and my truest friend, my own brain! (laughs) (looks at machine and gasps) (stutters) How did this happen? She's not ready for a real user experience! Especially not at... maximum power?!

Hologram: (appears) Whole... world... sleep.

Ben: No, no, no, no, no,

Hologram: (sings lullaby)

Sleepy eyes, sleepy town,

Everybody just lay down...

(Ben falls asleep.)

(The hologram smiles and leaves.)

(The scene cuts to Tom and Angela leaving the movies.)

Angela: Why didn't the superheroes all attack the bad guys at the same time?

Tom: Because then it would have been a really short movie and we wouldn't have gotten so much popcorn. (looks at streets) Huh?

(The streets are all empty.)

Tom: Weird. The Donuts After Dark cart is empty. It's never empty after dark. That's their whole thing.

Angela: Where did everyone- (looks at cafe and gasps)

(The cafe is filled with people sleeping.)

Tom: Anyone, wha- What is going on? (Tom hears the hologram in the distance.)

Hologram: (sings)

Sleepy eyes, sleepy town,

Everybody just lay down,

Close your eyes, breathe in deep,

Till the whole world's asleep.

Tom: It's the InsomniApp! We have to wake everyone up!

Angela: (to a man sleeping in the streets) Sir?

Man: Five more minutes...

Tom: (to another man) Hey, wake up, wake up!

Tom and Angela: Hello! Good morning! Hey, sir!

Tom: Your lullaby is too relaxing! How do we stop it?

Angela: I don't know, unless, yes! When I was little and didn't want to go to sleep, I would make up a song to keep me awake!