Santa's Phone/Transcript

(Scene shows a decorated holiday village.)

Angela: Wow!

Ginger: Yay!

(Ginger looks at a wood carving of an elf.)

Ginger: Wow!

Tom: Merry Christmas Eve, Jeremy!

Jeremy: Right back at ya! (takes out candy cane) Have a soupy cane!

(The "soupy cane' is covered in green ooze.)

Tom: Oh, uh, I'll stick with gingerbread.

Jeremy: Eh. (puts away cane)

Tom: Besides, we're in a hurry to tell Santa what we want for Christmas.

Ginger: Come on, people!

(The friends run away.)

Jeremy: I'm sure you'll get what you want! You deserve it more than anyone!

(The friends cheer.)

Angela: I see Santa's throne! Get ready to hear some ho, ho- oh, no!

(Angela finds that Santa's throne is empty and roped off.)

Ben: He's already gone off to get ready for his big night!

Ginger: Come back, Santa! We have presents to discuss!

(Ginger gets past the rope and heads for the throne. He notices a spark of light moving towards a small mound of snow.)

Ginger: Oh?

(Ginger examines the mound of snow to find a cellphone underneath. The cellphone is decorated with a Santa hat and white beard. He picks up the phone and swipes away the snow. The phone turns on, and the friends gasp in amazement.)

Ginger: Is this Santa's phone?

Angela: It must've fallen out of his pocket when he was sitting!

Santa's phone: (automated voice) Ho-ho-ho!

Hank: Ginger, put that phone down! Santa might have secret gift information on it. It would be wrong of us to look.

Ben, Tom and Angela: Yeah, no, maybe? Yeah, yeah totally.

Tom: But... maybe one quick peek wouldn't hurt?

Angela: Yeah, if anything, it might help, right?

Hank: Uh, I don't know, I-

Angela: (starts using phone) Come on, just do it! Come on, let's open it really fast!

(A hologram projection appears, depicting a list of people. Next to each person is a thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon.)

All: Ooooooh!

Ben: It's the Naughty and Nice List, with real-time updates on everyone's gifts! Nice tech there, Santa.

Tom: Let's find us on this thing, (scrolls through list) then we can be sure we're all getting... (finds friends) nothing? We're on the Naughty List?!

(The phone shows each member of the friends being placed on the Naughty List, each getting a thumbs-down icon.)

(The friends scream.)

(Theme song plays)

Angela: How can I be on the Naughty List? Everyone I know says I'm nice. Don't you think I'm nice?!

(The friends shudder.)

Hank: I don't like this, we shouldn't have this information!

Tom: We can't panic. Santa's phone is probably just broken. Right, Ben?

Ben: I don't know. Let me see if I can access the Merry Mainframe.

(Ben plugs a keyboard into the phone, then types onto the keyboard.)

Ben: Oh, dear. It seems Santa has video evidence of all our bad behaviour.

(Hank gulps.)

Tom: But we don't do bad behaviour! This must be made up.

(Ben touches a button on his keyboard.)

Ben: Uh, oh.

(The hologram projection shows a list of videos.)

Angela: What is all this?!

Ben: Our most poorly-behaved moments, all together in one awful lump! We have to do something.

Angela: But what? We can't change the videos on Santa's phone!

Ben: Hmm...

Angela: Wait, can we change the videos on Santa's phone?

Ginger: Ah!

Ben: Well...

(Scene cuts to the garage. Ben sets up several electrical devices, including a monitor, microphone and mixer. He plugs a cable into the phone. The videos appear on the monitors.)

Hank: Oh, boy.

Angela: I can't believe we're gonna change the videos on Santa's phone!

Tom: Yeah, but that's only because they're giving Santa the wrong idea about us. Everybody believes videos, so, we'll fix our videos so they show us being nice!

Hank: Are you sure this isn't breaking some Christmas rule?

Ben: Well, we're helping Santa make a more informed decision. Let's start with the time I was a supervillain. (plays video)

(A video is shown from Superhero Picnic. The friends are dressed up as superheroes in the garage.)

Ginger (on video): Vanishing villains! When did Ben go?

Ben (on video): (offscreen) I'm right here!

(Ben appears on the stairs.)

Ben (on video): I stopped time so I could change into this bad-guy costume.

(Tom laughs.)

Ben (on video): How dare you all distract me from my wor-

(Ben stops the video.)

Ben: (moves sliders on mixer) Now, with a few audio adjustments... (plays video)

(The edited video is shown.)

Ben (on video): How dare- (smiley mouth appears) We are playing a fun game together!

(The edited video is temporarily stopped, then resumed.)

Angela (on video) : Get the Time Slower!

(The friends charge towards Ben in the video. Ginger throws a piece of putty at Ben. The video is paused for editing.)

Ben: Okay, Ginger. Your turn.

Ginger: (records on microphone) That's one game point!

Hank: (records) I would like to play this game too! Boop-boop-boop. This is great!

(On video, Hank shines a flashlight at Ben.)

Ben (on video): Ha-ha-hey, everything's fine.

(The video stops playing. The thumbs-down icon is replaced by a thumbs-up. The friends cheer.)

Ginger: That's awesome!

Ben: Alright, alright.

Hank: I feel dirty. I just lied to Santa.

Angela: I know, but Hank, think about how sad we'll all be if we don't get presents in a few hours.

(Ginger cheers.)

Angela: Isn't it a nice thing to try to prevent that sadness?

Hank: I... I... I... I don't know! I'm so confused!

(Ben opens another video.)

Ben: Here's some more badness: the time Angela thought she was a Zapper and wanted to zap everyone into cubes.

(Angela giggles nervously.)

Ben: Let's... nice it up.

(A video shows from The Digital Queen.)

Tom (on video): (holds Angela's hands) You belong in the real world. You have to remember!

Angela (on video): I... wait, I do remember something.

Tom (on video): You do?!

Angela (on video): I remember... I remember... (edited portion) that I love giving ice cream to all my friends!

(On video, images of ice cream are edited onto Angela's hands.)

Angela (on video): Have some ice cream, Tom!

Tom (on video): Thank you, but I have already had dessert.

Angela: Yay! (gasps)

(A portion of the video is shown of Angela summoning her Zapper guards.)

(Tom and Angela think fast.)

Angela (on video): (edited portion) Ice cream for everybody!

(A thumbs-up icon appears onscreen.)

Hank: Whoa!

(The friends cheer.)

Ginger: Do the time I pranked everyone!

Ben: Oh, that's tricky... it might require extra fixing to make it clear we're the good guys.

(Ginger groans.)

Ben: Lucky I'm a genius!

(The friends cheer.)

(A video is played from Prank Attack!. Hank runs into a bathroom and closes himself in, only for the toilet to overflow.)

Hank (on video): No, no, no, no, no!

[laughing]

A-ha! "Hank, you've been pranked by the Mad Pranker,

and certainly not Ginger!"

[screaming]

[groans]

[screaming]

[crashing]

-[Ginger laughing] -[all screaming]

It's even better than I hoped it would be!

[laughing]

-Awesome! -Wow!

Hank, what are you doing?

-Nothing. Just-- -Nothing?

-Huh. -I mean, I'm writing a Christmas carol.

-[humming] -What is this?

This is a letter to Santa, telling him what we're doing!

How could you?

What you're doing is extra naughty!

Don't you get it? Extra naughty!

[bells jinging]

[groans]

No!

Listen, Hank. You're a part of this whether you like it or not.

Now, we're gonna fix one of your bad deeds.

Remember when you turned into a bad businessman?

I bet that cost you a ton of toys!

We are doing the right thing.

Making ourselves look nice. Because we are.

[laughing]

Hank, enough is enough. You're coming home!

[sighs] All right, Tom. But first...

could you take three steps to the right?

-You got it. -[indistinct chatter]

Oh, that's perfect.

[grunts]

[Hank laughing]

[Angela] Nice joke, Hank.

We're always playing drop-the-cage with each other.

That's right. If Santa were watching this, he'd be, like, this is fine.

Don't you agree, Hank?

Me? What--

Hey!

Don't believe the videos, Santa! None of it is true! They're lying to you!

Hank, no! We trusted you!

[both grunting]

The plan is ruined!

Every present-getter for himself!

[panting]

I only lied to help people, Santa.

Once I pushed Tom to teach him a lesson.

-Sometimes it wasn't actually me! -Ginger, give the phone back!

-[grunts] -[laughing]

We're practicing ninja moves!

There's nothing not-nice about that!

[groans]

Angela!

[screaming]

[Angela] I'm totally innocent!

I was trying to sweetly feed my boyfriend--

-[Tom] You're the perfect couple! -This never happened!

I never raised my voice at a friend in my life!

[all clamoring]

Wait, that-- Huh?

[all gasping]

Angela: Oh, no. It's Christmas morning.

Happy Kid 1: Wow, look at all these toys!

Jenny: How did Santa carry all this loot?

It looks like there really won't be any gifts for us this year.

[vocalizing]

Hello, friends! Happy Santa morning!

-Oh. Maybe not so happy. -[Tom sighing]

What's goin' on?

We're all on Santa's naughty list.

And I think we deserve to be.

Except for Hank.

Huh?

He's the only good apple in this whole rotten barrel.

Nope, I'm on the list too.

Probably because I don't support my pals.

-Oh, Hank! -Oh, Hank!

Take it from somebody who's been on the Naughty List.

Let me tell ya--

you can't dwell on past mistakes.

If you want things to get better, you have to just start acting better.

And trust that the presents will follow.

[sobbing]

You... you think?

I guess we could try to be better people.

And say we're sorry for what we did.

-Sorry, Santa. -Sorry, Santa.

From now on, I'll be so nice,

it'll make you sick!

And then I'll get quadruple presents next year!

We'll all be nice!

And I know one nice thing we can do right now.

Hank, would you like to help me do the honors?

Oh.

We're sorry, Santa.

[all exclaiming]

What just happened?

Did our video tricking work after all?

Ho, ho... no.

-Santa! -Santa!

You were all on the Naughty List

because you were digging around on my phone.

That's an invasion of privacy.

[all sighing]

I've got some pretty embarrassing selfies on this thing.

But now that you've returned my phone,

all is forgiven!

Really? What about all those videos you had of us being bad?

Ben, you don't have to be perfect to get presents.

Everybody makes mistakes.

But it is important to say sorry.

So, Santa, since you're here...

can we still get this year's presents?

Nope! It's too late for that.

Ho, ho, ho! Just kidding!

That's a little bit of holiday humor. [chuckles]

[Hank] Presents!

Wow, a true Christmas miracle.

You know who deserves these presents more than us?

Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!

[vocalizing]

Oh!

Wow!

Thanks, Santa!

[theme music playing]