Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainermichaelpatrickduggan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Astrid_Debate...Scene 3 Duration 07:00 Panel 4 Duration 01:00 Dialog ASTRID (CONT’D) I must have

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer

Scene

1

Duration

01:00

Panel

1

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

EXT. BUTTERBRICKLE CHARTER SCHOOL - OUTSIDE THE SCHOOLThe rotating sign says: Get Lost in Love and Find Yourself:School Dance is 1 week away!

Scene

2

Duration

02:00

Panel

1

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDThe unicorns taught me to whistle!Wanna hear?

Action Notes

INT. BUTTERBRICKLE CHARTER SCHOOL - THE PLAYGROUNDAstrid is outside playing at recess.

Scene

2

Duration

02:00

Panel

2

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CLARENCE TETHERBALLOk!

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 1/26

Scene

3

Duration

07:00

Panel

1

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

EXT. BUTTERBRICKLE CHARTER SCHOOL - PLAYGROUNDAstrid starts to whistle

Scene

3

Duration

07:00

Panel

2

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDOh no!

Action Notes

when suddenly, she realizes she has lost her retainer.

Scene

3

Duration

07:00

Panel

3

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDI’m not wearing my retainer!

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 2/26

Scene

3

Duration

07:00

Panel

4

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID (CONT’D)I must have thrown it away

Action Notes

Miss Mulva, heading for the dumpster, passes hauling bags of garbage.

Scene

3

Duration

07:00

Panel

5

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID (CONT’D)with my lunch bag!

Scene

3

Duration

07:00

Panel

6

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Astrid pulls out her unicornphone.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 3/26

Scene

3

Duration

07:00

Panel

7

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Speed dial to Unicornlind!

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

1

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

EXT. UNICORNLIND - HORNS OF STEEL GYM

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

2

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARWork it! Reach for the rainbow!

Action Notes

Cheddar and Fontina are doing a workout at Horns of Steel.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 4/26

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

3

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

The unicornphone rings.

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

4

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Cheddar sets weights down

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

5

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)Hello?

Action Notes

Cheddar answers the phone

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 5/26

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

6

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)Hi Astrid!

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

7

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)It’s not acrime to ask for help.

Scene

4

Duration

08:00

Panel

8

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)Be there in a unicorn minute!

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 6/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

1

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

EXT. BUTTERBRICKLE CHARTER SCHOOL - THE DUMPSTER

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

2

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Astrid, half-buried in trash, is going through garbage.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

3

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARNothing like spending recess in thedumpster, huh?

Action Notes

Cheddar arrives, wearing a Hazmat Suit disguise.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 7/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

4

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDHi Cheddar! My retainer’s got to be here somewhere. If I don’t find it

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

5

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDI’m in big trouble!

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

6

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARDumpster dive!

Action Notes

Cheddar stands on the rim of the dumpster

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 8/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

7

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Cheddar leaps into the air

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

8

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

and swan dives in, joining Astrid.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

9

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Cheddar rustling through the garbage while Astrid looks worried

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 9/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

10

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

finally Cheddar emerges with a scrunched bag.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

11

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)Victory!

Action Notes

CU of scrunched bag in Cheddar's hoof-hand

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

12

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDPlease be mine!

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 10/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

13

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Cheddar and Astrid eagerly open the paper bag.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

14

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARNo retainer.

Action Notes

No retainer, but there is a scrunched up piece of paper.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

15

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDCrinklesticks!

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 11/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

16

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARWhat’s this?

Action Notes

Astrid and Cheddar unfurl the paper and smooth it out.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

17

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)It’s a poem!

Action Notes

CU of paper--it a poem and a crude cartoon of a knight rescuing a maiden

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

18

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)(reading the poem)Hoist your Courage BatonWhen feasting your eyes upon

Action Notes

Cheddar reading; Astrid wide-eyed

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 12/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

19

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)The maiden so fairWith brown, puffy hair,

Action Notes

Cheddar still reading - Astrid tilting her head in suprise

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

20

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)And speak up! Reveal your love

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

21

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)To the Unicorn girl, what a dove!

Action Notes

Astrid gasping as Cheddar reads

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 13/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

22

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)With glasses so cuteAnd her scarf-poncho suit!

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

23

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)It's true, this must be true love!

Action Notes

Amazement!

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

24

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID(shocked)O-M-G. Is that me?

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 14/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

25

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR(thrilled by the drama)Who else at Butterbrickle is calledthe Unicorn girl?

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

26

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARYou have a secret admirer!

Action Notes

Cheddar grabs Astrid in a shoulder-shake of delight

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

27

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID(surprised)Weird.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 15/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

28

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDBut more importantly, I’vegot to find my retainer! It coststons of real currency! Can youbelieve no orthodontist acceptsunicoins?

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

29

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARCrazy. We’re gonna find it! Butfirst, who wrote this poem?!

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

30

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)A cobra sticker!

Action Notes

Cheddar pulls a cobra sticker out of the bag.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 16/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

31

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDAR (CONT’D)It must be Jorge Velour!

Action Notes

CU of cobra sticker

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

32

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDJorge loves cobras - he would neverthrow away a cobra sticker.

Action Notes

Still looking through trash, Astrid pictures Jorge, with his cobra-covered trapper-keeper.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

33

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDWhenhe lost his retainer last month, hehad to sell his platinum cobracollection to earn money for a newone and cried for a week!

Action Notes

FLASHBACK shot of Jorge crying

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 17/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

34

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Astrid continues looking in the trash for her retainer.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

35

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARLook at this! Clarence Tetherballloves gnomes!

Action Notes

Cheddar pulls out a small, unfinished, poorly-knitted gnomefrom the lunch sack.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

36

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARMaybe he wrote it!

Action Notes

CU of unfinished Gnome

Slugging

cu

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 18/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

37

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDClarence is the best knitter inGnome Knitting and this gnome isterrible.

Action Notes

Astrid pictures Clarence’s perfectly knit gnomes.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

38

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDThere’s no way he made it.

Action Notes

Clarence creating the perfect Gnome knit.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

39

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID (CONT’D)Arg, I can feel my teeth moving outof place already!

Action Notes

Suddenly alarmed, Astrid feels her teeth.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 19/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

40

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARI don’t see them moving

Action Notes

Cheddar peers at Astrid’s teeth like a dentist.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

41

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARbut I do see you are a flossing champion!

Action Notes

REVERSE ANGLE looking at Cheddar from inside Astrid's mouth (a la Litte Shop of Horrors dentist scene)

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

42

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID(proud)I love to floss.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 20/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

43

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARHey maybe it’s Bertram Goulash.

Action Notes

Cheddar looks at the poem again, focusing on the drawing of the knight and maiden.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

44

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARHe thinks he’s a knight.

Action Notes

CU of the knight and maiden

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

45

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID(with her mouth open)Who cares! Just help me find my retainer before the bell rings!

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 21/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

46

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Cheddar dives back into the garbage, frantically flinging trash like a dog burying a bone.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

47

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Astrid dramatically catches the trash

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

48

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

and re-flings it

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 22/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

49

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID (CONT’D)For the love of unicorns, please bemine!

Action Notes

when suddenly she catches a scrunched paper sack.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

50

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

They open the sack

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

51

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID (CONT’D)My retainer! Yay!

Action Notes

CU of Astrid's retainer and the sack, wrapped in a lavendar unicorn napkin

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 23/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

52

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

Relieved, Astrid and Cheddar hug.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

53

Duration

01:00

Action Notes

The recess bell rings.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

54

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRID (CONT’D)Just in time! Thanks Cheddar.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 24/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

55

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARNo probs, Astrid! Keep me postedon your Secret Admirer.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

56

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDWho? Oh yeah. Ok.

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

57

Duration

01:00

Dialog

CHEDDARWhoever it is, they better likeunicorns.

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 25/26

Scene

5

Duration

58:00

Panel

58

Duration

01:00

Dialog

ASTRIDYou can say that again!

Action Notes

Astrid winks at the camera.

NO PANEL NO PANEL

Astrid Strudelman - Lost Retainer Page 26/26