| Danny: |
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Friend,
you've been here with me when I needed you, but I feel
it's time for me to go to my second family, the Snake's.
'Cause when I got up this morning the sun was
beaming down on me and something just told me, "Danny,
it's time." So I'm gonna do it because now
not only is the zoo moving in three days, but if I donít
go talk to them, I'll never get that chance again!
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| Friend: |
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Danny, I
don't know why you think you have to go with those ugly,
not even warm-blooded creatures. You got me here!
Am I not good enough?
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| Danny: |
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Friend,
it's not that you're not good enough. But you can't
teach me things. You're just a peanut without a
shell. |
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| Friend: |
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Me?
A peanut without a shell? You don't even got no
room to talk. You only got one wing! And
thanks to your "second family" [sarcastically]
is the reason I don't have a shell! How many times
am I gonna have to tell you that story? I'll just
tell you one more time. Maybe it'll make you think
twice about the snakes this time.
It all started when I got lost in the zoo and ended
up in the snake food. And, come on, I am a delicacy,
honey roasted. You can't just get that anywhere.
And Vicious, one of the snakes there, tried to eat me,
but thank God he only got my shell and I got away and
found you. That's what I'm here for, to protect
you from the snakes. I'm just a peanut.
Imagine what they'll do to you!
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| Danny: |
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They wouldn't
do nothing like that to me!
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| Friend: |
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How
do you know? You never even talk to them! |
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| Danny: |
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Yeah,
well. Like I told you today, I fell that it's time.
I haven't had the courage, but now I do. Friend,
don't you understand why I want to go with them?
They're brave, aggressive, strong. |
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| Friend: |
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Blah, blah,
blah. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, like I haven't
heard it before
Strong, aggressive [sarcastically, in a high pitched
voice].
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| Danny: |
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OK,
Friend. If you're not gonna stand behind me a hundred
percent, then I'm goin' alone. I was going to tell
you to come with me, but forget it now. I don't
need you! |
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| Friend: |
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Danny,
You're gonna throw away our whole friendship for some
snakes? |
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| Danny: |
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No!
You know you're my best friend. You're always gonna
be my best friend, but this is something I must do. |
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| Friend: |
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Why!
You have me! It's just you and me! Like Bonnie
and Clyde! Forever. |
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| Danny: |
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But,
when have you ever heard of a peanut lashing out at a
person? That's something the snakes can teach me.
I only have one wing and I have to protect myself or someone
might step on me or eat me. A pigeon might peck
my eyes out! |
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| Friend: |
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[Sighs]
No one is going to step on you. The pigeons, those
dirty flying rats, only pay attention to themselves.
Danny, without you I have nobody! If you werenít
here every morning to scoop me up from under the old man's
hat before he tries to eat me, who would do it?
And who would I tell my love stories to? |
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| Danny: |
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You'll
find another friend. |
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| Friend: |
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No,
Danny. I want you for a friend. I feel like
because you only have one wing and I don't have a shell
that we are connected on some level. And also,
things happen for a reason. Danny, the first day
that I met you, I realized that you came to me for a reason:
for me to watch over you. You are like a little
brother to me. |
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| Danny: |
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Friend,
I know. But I have to go with or withoutyou.
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| Friend: |
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Oh,
so that's how it is, Danny. You're just gonna take
off and leave after I've been there for you since day
one. |
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| Danny: |
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You're
trying to pull me down! You're smothering me!
If things don't go your way, they don't go at all! |
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| Friend: |
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O-o-o-oh.
OK. Smothering you. Wanna be smothered?
Go with your second family and don't come crying to
me when they try to hurt you.
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| Danny: |
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Fine.
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| Friend: |
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Fine.
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| Danny
and Friend: |
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[together
agreeing]
OK, fine!
[They are back-to-back looking out of the corners of
their eyes at each other.They don't really want to leave
each other, but what's done is done.] |
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| Friend: |
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So,
what are you still doing here?
[Danny looks at him with big sad eyes and walks out.
Friend is looking at him, but he's just mad, upset and
wounded that his little friend would leave him.
So Danny goes off to see the snakes.] |
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| Danny: |
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[talking
to the snakes]
Hey, guys! How's it goin'? [in a small
voice] |
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| Vicious: |
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How's
it goin'?
[mimicking him]
I haven't heard that since 1983! |
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| Danny: |
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Uh,
OK! [nervously]
Guys, there's something I have to ask you. Since you're
moving and all. It came to my attention that, uh, maybe
I should go with you. |
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| Vicious: |
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You?!
Hey, guys, [talking to the other snakes] this little
preemie with one wing wants to come along with us. |
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| Danny: |
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Yeah,
like a family. |
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| Vicious: |
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Ha
ha ha ha.
[laughing]
OK, but this is what you have to do to be a part of our
clique, uh, you know, part of the family. |
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| Danny: |
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What,
what, what? I'll do anything. |
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| Vicious: |
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You
know those big things with wheels and smoke coming out
of the back of them? They make loud noises and people
are inside of them? |
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| Danny: |
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I'm
scared of those things, well, come to think of it, I'm
scared of everything. That's why I need you. |
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| Vicious: |
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Jump
in front of one of them and come back and tell me what
happens.
[all the snakes start laughing and encouraging him,
saying yeah, yeah. Go, go.]
[So Danny decides to go.On the way to find one of the
big things the snakes were talking about, he sees Friend.They
just mean mug each other at first.] |
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| Friend: |
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So,
where are you goin' Danny? |
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| Danny: |
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[all
happy] to find one of those big things so I
can jump in front of it. And the snakes are going to take
me. |
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| Friend
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Jump
in front of a big thing? What kind of big thing? |
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| Danny: |
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You
know, the things with wheels. |
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| Friend
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A
bus, Danny? |
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| Danny: |
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Ohhhh,
so that's what you call it. Yeah. |
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| Friend
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Danny,
you wanna see what happens when you jump in front of a
bus?
(As the next bus passes by in front of them, Friend
leaps out and lays in the street waiting for the bus to
run him over. The bus runs over him and he turns to peanut
butter] |
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| Danny: |
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(puffing
out his chest,making a fist with his one wing. All of
his feathers are standing straight up . He is crying,
breathing hard.)
Why not ME ?It should have been ME !
(His beak is flared. His eye brows are arched)
(to himself )
I AM GONNA TELL THOSE SNAKES OFF !
(He marches over to the zoo and goes to the snake cage)
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| Danny: |
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I
don't need you guys! You guys aren't nothing!
(the snakes start laughing again) |
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| Danny: |
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You
laugh at me because I'm different,but I laugh at you because
you are all the same!
(He goes back and scrapes the peanut off the cement
with his claws and put him underneath a little daisy) |
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| Danny: |
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Friend,
(sniffling) my only friend,I am placing you
here underneath this bench....where we used to talk about
love and life, and being accepted by a family.Friend,everytime
I need you, I'll come back to this special place and visit
you. I am sorry that I didn,t listen to you but like you
said, things happen for a reason... what you did for me
today was a blessing in disguise! You, friend, you, nobody
else, gave me the courage to stand up for myself! That's
something I'll keep with me forever. |
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The
End. |
