Weird Animation Script

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Kory Getman

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INTRO

INT. DINING ROOM - DAY

CORA
Say, what are we going to do today,
Aaron?
AARON
The same thing we do everyday,
Cora. Nothing, because the whole
world is on lockdown, so we can't
do anything. Thanks to...
BOTH
CORONAVIRUS!
THEME MUSIC - THEN ABRUPTLY CUT OFF!
AARON
Wait, actually, I do have one
idea...
CORA
Is it get into a stupid fight over
absolutely nothing-
AARON
No, we did that yesterday-
CORA
That I actually thing IS something,
but you refuse to-
AARON
Still no, it's-
CORA
Listen to me, even though we both
know I'm right and-
AARON
NO, IT'S SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW-
CORA
I just want to be heard.
AARON
Oh. Right. Yes. I hear you. Now my
idea!
CORA
About time! Wait it isn't...
 2.

AARON
The shrink ray!
CORA
...The shrink ray. You know it
doesn't work!
AARON
Well, we can't go anywhere or do
anything outside the apartment, and
this would make the whole world
like an amusement park, and I don't
hear any better ideas coming from
you!
CORA
Okay. Let's say you could build a
shrink ray. That works.
(really fast)
How small would it make us? How
would we get big again? Have you
thought about the fact that we have
CATS?! Do you know how scary CATS
would be when we're tiny??
AARON
(sighs)
Just like you to point out all the
things that could go wrong. Have
you thought about how cool it would
be? A marshmallow would be a
mountain! -A Cheez-It would be a
whole day's worth of food!- The
sink would become a water park, and
WE COULD RIDE THE CATS!
CORA
...if they don't eat us.
AARON
The cats love us. We feed them.
CORA
Yes. It would be cool. But. You
can't build a shrink ray.
AARON
Sounds like a challenge to me!
CORA
(sighs)
I'll get the fire extinguisher.
FULL THEME MUSIC!
 3.

ACT ONE

INT. AARON'S HOME OFFICE - DAY

Aaron's home office is littered with random gadgets, most, if
not all, are useless. Actually, all. All are useless. Aaron
works on assembling a shrink ray that probably won't work. As
he puts random screws in even more random places, he spouts
off total nonsense. Cora watches idly from the doorway.
AARON
There we go... One final
adjustment... Just need to.. use
the... atomizer... Photon beams
aligning... Flux pivoter...
pivoting... Aaand entropy morpher
installed!
CORA
Those aren't things we have, or
even words that make sense. But
good job reading them off a...
She squints to see his computer.
CORA (CONT'D)
"Scientific device name generator."
Damn. Why didn't you go with
"Magnetic Fiddler"? Or... "Nano
Cleaver"? That sounds scientific.
AARON
Why you gotta ruin my fun?
Aaron holds up a big red button, and prepares to press it.
AARON (CONT'D)
One press of this big red button,
and we'll both be...
He presses it. Nothing. He presses it again. Nothing. Cora
bursts out laughing.
CORA
(still laughing)
You always do this! It's still
funny. Every time.
Aaron looks sad.
 4.

CORA (CONT'D)
Aww it's okay. How about we go eat
some spaghetti? I'll make it from
tofu shreds, just the way you-
Both SCREAM as their atoms atomize and they instantly become
smaller versions of themselves. Cora looks at her tiny hands,
and the rest of the big world around them.
AARON
(smugly)
You were saying?
CORA
Aaron. Make me big again.
AARON
What? I don't how to do that.
CORA
Now. Right now. I have a Zoom
meeting. I need to do my hair. My
normal sized human, big-regular
person hair. And makeup.
AARON
Geez, Cora, can't you ever just
appreciate the moment we're in
right now? I'm gonna go get some
Cheez-its! Or, like, one Cheez-It!
Because that's my food for the day!

INT. KITCHEN - DAY

Aaron stares up the pantry from the floor. Now a tenth the
size of the baseboards, he sees the problem.
AARON
I see the problem.
CORA
You can't reach the cabinet.
AARON
Nope.
CORA
Probably should have set up some
kind of ladder system before
shrinking.
AARON
Yep.
 5.

CORA
Or just put the food on the floor.
AARON
Right again. Oh well, can't live in
retrospect. What can we do now?
Hmm...
CORA
Well, if we're starving, there are
always crumbs on the floor.
AARON
Thank god we never clean this place
too thoroughly.
CORA
My thoughts exactly.
AARON
Wait. I have an idea!
CORA
Not another one. Look where your
first one got us!
AARON
You were totally behind it before
you knew it would work!
CORA
Nope. I argued it every step of the
way.
AARON
You just need to believe in me,
then, like you did before!
CORA
Also doubted it every step of the
way.
AARON
Then trust me now! Okay... Cupcake!
Cinna!
CORA
THE CATS??? Are you CRAZY??
AARON
Clearly, but maybe they can help
us!
 6.

CORA
We'll be food to them!
AARON
Cupcake!!! Cinna!!!
CORA
Plus, do you know what we must
sound like to them?
Aaron keeps yelling, and we hear it extremely high pitched,
like an animal much larger than he might.
AARON
Okay, that's probably not gonna
work.
CORA
How about the water park idea, Mr.
Genius? Except, oh wait, we can't
do anything above ground level!
AARON
Okay, I get it! It was a dumb idea!
CORA
I mean, it's super cool that it
worked...
AARON
Right...
CORA
You just didn't put enough
forethought into it! You know, set
things up BEFORE shrinking us down!
Oh, and possibly build an un-shrink
ray BEFORE GETTING STARTED!
AARON
Okay, fine. Next time, I'll--
CORA
NEXT TIME? NEXT TIME???
AARON
Well yeah - and besides, unshrink
rays are impossible.
CORA
IMPOSSIBLE!!? If I were an emoji,
it would be angry devil with horns,
and also a knife because I'M GOING
TO KILL YOU!!!
 7.

She strangles him. He gags.

AARON
Wait! That doesn't mean I can't fix
this...
CORA
Don't go not on.
AARON
Huh?
CORA
Double negatives. Nevermind! How??
AARON
Unshrink rays may be impossible,
but...
CORA
Yes...
AARON
There's something that might not be
so impossible...
CORA
Jesus Christ, please stop dragging
this out.
AARON
And that thing is...
CORA
TELL ME!
AARON
Time machine. It's a time machine.
CORA
...you can't build a time machine.
AARON
Doubt me once!
CORA
Okay, maybe you can build a time
machine... What do you need me to
do?
AARON
I just need to get back to my
office.
 8.

CORA
It took, like, three hours to get
to the kitchen.
AARON
Going places takes longer when
you're small, huh.
CORA
Yep, thank you, Captain Obvious.
How you ever managed to build a
functioning shrink ray is beyond
me.
AARON
Your faith in me could move neither
mountains nor molehills. So thanks
for that. Let's get going!
END OF ACT ONE
 9.

ACT TWO

INT. CORA AND AARON'S APARTMENT - DAY

We hear the sound of running footsteps, lasers, flapping
wings, and screeches. They slowly normalize as Aaron and Cora
running comes into view...
AARON
Watch out! Pew, pew, pew SCREECH!!!
CORA
What are you doing?
AARON
It's more dramatic like this, okay?
Sci-fi and... just... okay?
CORA
Okay...
She makes a lame attempt at joining in.
CORA (CONT'D)
Pew... pew... angry alien sound...
Cora sees a squeaky mouse fly into their path.
CORA (CONT'D)
Look out!
Aaron runs right into the mouse.
AARON
A squeaky mouse? But wait... that
means... oh no.
He looks up to see his beautiful kitty, Cupcake, now 50 times
bigger than him, about to bat at the mouse.
AARON (CONT'D)
Cupcake, no!!!
We again hear him at a high pitched whine. Her paw comes down
in a swipe at the mouse. Aaron SCREAMS. THUD as the mouse is
hit, and the Cupcake scampers after it.
AARON (CONT'D)
That was a close one... Go ahead.
CORA
(coyly)
What?
 10.

AARON
Say it.
CORA
Say what?
AARON
You know what.
CORA
(bursts out of her)
Fine! You're so dumb, and I told
you so!! See what I mean about the
cats?? She could have killed you!
AARON
But she's my Cupcake. Anything
else?
CORA
Yes. I. Told. You. So.
AARON
There, feel better now?
CORA
I'll feel better when I'm big and
doing my makeup and we're out of
this mess.
AARON
Don't you think there's anything we
can learn from all this?
CORA
Probably. But I don't have time for
your little Disney connecting
moment here, Aaron.
AARON
Oh, you will. It'll come. And
you're gonna love it.
CORA
If you can actually undo this, yes.
Yes I will. Otherwise... Come on,
let's just go.
They start running again, and are breathing heavily.
AARON
I don't know why you doubt me!
 11.

CORA
Uh, how about all the other failed
inventions?
AARON
What other failed inventions?
CORA
Oh please. The teleporter?
AARON
Work in progress.
CORA
Freeze Ray.
AARON
Not done yet.
CORA
Mind control beam.
AARON
You don't know that that's not
working.
CORA
Really? How about the memory
eraser?
AARON
Maybe you just forgot how well that
one worked!
Cora freezes.
CORA
Aaron.
AARON
I'm just sayin', maybe I'm not this
complete failure you-
CORA
AARON!
AARON
Oh sh... Another squeaky mouse.
CORA
That's not a squeaky mouse.
Aaron completely freezes for a few seconds, as a live mouse
turns toward him.
 12.

MOUSE
SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!
AARON
You mean... Oh God. CUPCAKES!!!
CINNAMON!!! KITTIEEEESSS!
CORA
The cats can't save us this time,
Aaron.
Aaron sobs loudly.
AARON
It's too soon!! I'm too young to
die!!! I'm not cheese!!! I don't
even eat cheese!!! Hold me.
He grabs onto Cora.
CORA
Get off me. Come on, run!
They run opposite directions, Cora heroically, and Aaron
completely cowardly, sobbing hysterically.
AARON
We're gonna die, we're gonna die,
we're gonna die!!!
CORA
Ha, okay. Let's go, mousey. I can
take you, bring it!
MOUSE
SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!
ZOOM! Cinna comes rushing it. THUD. RIP. SQUEEEAK! As Cinna
catches the mouse.
Cora and Aaron come back together on the other side and
embrace.
CORA
Mice?? We have MICE??
AARON
If we make it out of this...
CORA
We're calling an exterminator?
 13.

AARON
Well, yes. Obviously. But, what I
was going to say was that I'm going
to listen to you when you tell me
my ideas are dumb. We can just sit
on the couch and watch HuFlix, for
all I care.
CORA
(sighs)
Aaron, you're not dumb. If I had
taken your idea in, and spent more
time working with you than putting
you down, this would have actually
been a pretty cool thing.
AARON
So you're saying... My ideas are
good, but the execution is dumb?
CORA
Yes. Obviously. This is why you
need me.
AARON
Aww okay, I'll take it. Come here.
The two hug for a moment as the music swells.
CORA
Now come on! We can still make it
back and find a way-
AARON
To turn back time?
CORA
Exactly.
AARON
(sings annoyingly)
♫ If I could turn back time...♫
CORA
Oh, please don't.
AARON
♫ If I could find a way! ♫ Don't
worry, that's all I know.
CORA
Oh thank God.
END OF ACT TWO
 14.

ACT THREE

INT. AARON'S HOME OFFICE - LATER AFTERNOON

Aaron and Cora get back to the office, and to Aaron's
gadgets. We hear whirring electronics.
AARON
Okay, we made it. All of my stuff
is... normal sized though. Not sure
what I can do when we're...
CORA
Tiny?
AARON
Right. Okay, let's see... If I take
the scraps that I through on the
floor...
CORA
It can't be that simple.
AARON
And take the junk I discarded over
here...
CORA
Nope. No way this is gonna work.
He screws something in to something else...
AARON
And use the Refraction Splicer I
had in my pocket when we were
shrunk...
He fires up a circular saw, then shoots a laser into his
handiwork.
CORA
Whoa. Remind me again to stop
doubting you.
AARON
Eh, it's in your nature. I know I
can do it. That's all that counts.
(beat)
Okay, now stop doubting me.
He finishes assembling his new device.
 15.

AARON (CONT'D)
Ready? This will take us back to
right before I pressed the big red
button.
CORA
Will we remember everything?
AARON
Of course.
CORA
Is this method of time travel
paradox-free?
AARON
100%! I think. Let's do it anyway!
CORA
Okay!
AARON
Do the honors?
CORA
Three...
AARON
Two...
CORA
One.
She presses the button. The device initiates, and sends them
back in a whirl to the moment before pressing the shrink ray
button.
Aaron holds up a big red button, and prepares to press it.
AARON
One press of this big red button,
and we'll both be...
He presses it. Nothing. He goes to press it again.
CORA
Wait! For some reason, I feel like
we really shouldn't press it...
AARON
Oh come on. You don't even think
it'll work. What's the worst that
could happen?
 16.

He presses it again. Both SCREAM as their atoms atomize...

THE END