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A DOOR, FAR AWAY FROM THE CAMERA JUST SITS THERE AS WE GET
CLOSER. THE DOOR OPENS TO SEE

YELLOW GUY, Yellow Guy can be described as a yellow humanoid


with a short, spiky, mullet and an orange nose. He wears
grayish blue overalls with black shoes. He also has a "D" on
his shirt, The "D" is the first letter of his name, But no
one knows it.

EXT. PORCH - CLAYHILL - MORNING

YELLOW GUY (SINGING)


Wakey Wakey! To the new day! And
today is my birthday! The yellow
balloons up in the sky! Which means
its time to go outside! Its my
birthday!

Yellow Guy walks outside.

YELLOW GUY (SINGING) (cont'd)


Hello! Yay!

DUCK GUY APPEARS FROM THE DOOR, Duck is a dark green duck
with a yellow beak and legs. He wears a brown blazer with a
red handkerchief.

DUCK GUY (SINGING)


Now I'm here! And I'm another one!
And I live with him in this funny
house!

CLOSE ON THE FUNNY HOUSE, THE HOUSE HAS A FACE. EYES AND A
MOUTH.

DUCK GUY (SINGING) (cont'd)


And every day when the sun comes out!
We go outside and walk about in our
town!

We see a gate saying; "A PLACE CALLED CLAYHILL"

Duck Guy walks to Yellow.

DUCK GUY
Ho, Ho, Ho, I've lived here my whole
life! Why, It feels as if were only
a-

RED GUY CUTS IN, Red Guy is a red humanoid with red hair all
over his head.
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2.

RED GUY (BARELY SINGING)


It's me now, And I'm another one. I
also live with them in the funny
house too. And every morning we sing
this song-- (shrugs) Every morning.

DUCK GUY
Yes we do!

YELLOW GUY
Ha! And it's my birthday! Yay!

DUCK GUY
Not really part of this song--

THE WHOLE TOWN STARTS SINGING

CLAYHILL TOWN CHORUS


Oh, we just can't wait to see whats
going to happen to us three! Every
day's an opportunity for a- (cut off)

YELLOW GUY
BIRTHDAY CAKE!

DUCK GUY (SICK OF IT)


WILL YOU STOP IT!!

EXT. BIG IAN'S HOUSE - CLAYHILL - MORNING

THE TRIO ARRIVE AT THEIR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE

YELLOW GUY
Wakey Wakey! Big Ian!

DUCK GUY
Who lives next door to our funny
house!

RED GUY
And every day when we wake you up,
You come outside and say "hello, I'm
Big Ian."

BIG IAN opens the door, Big Ian's body is completely flat.
He wears a yellow and red striped shirt and blue jeans.

BIG IAN
hello, I'm Big Ian.

DUCK GUY
Look! There he is.
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3.

EXT. MRS. GRENALD'S HOUSE - CLAYHILL - MORNING

THE TRIO ARRIVE AT MRS. GRENALD'S HOUSE

YELLOW GUY
Wakey Wakey! Mrs. Grenald!

DUCK GUY
Who lives next door to Big Ian!

MRS. GRENALD COMES OUT, Mrs. Grenald is a blue faced


neighbor.

MRS. GRENALD
And ev'ry day I come outside! And
give you lots of cakes and pies! Good
morning!

Mrs. Grenald held out some cake.

YELLOW GUY
Ooh! Birthday Cake!

Yellow Guy runs to it-- Red Guy knocks him over.

RED GUY
No. Don't eat it.

It gets revealed that the cake was guts.

CLAYHILL TOWN CHORUS


Oh, we just can't wait to see whats
going to happen, to us three! We'd
like to be a family! But your the
main ones!

Red, Yellow and Duck all get into a group hug.

DUCK GUY
Oh, yes, we are!

YELLOW GUY
And it's my birthday...

DUCK GUY
Now onto the mayor's house!

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EXT. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE - CLAYHILL - MORNING

The Town is at the Mayor's house.


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4.

CLAYHILL TOWN CHORUS


Wakey Wakey! Mayor Pigface! We love
you, your our mayor! And every day
you come outside, And tell us
everything's alright in our town!

DUCK GUY
Looks like someone's being a bit of a
sleepy head!

YELLOW GUY
Mayor Pigface?!

RED GUY
What's going on? Where's the mayor?

YELLOW GUY
Mayor Pigface?

DUCK GUY
Wakey Wakey!

YELLOW GUY
Wakey!

Duck creaks open the door, an alarm clock beeps.

INT. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE - CLAYHILL - MORNING

DUCK GUY
Wakey Wakey?

We see that the mayor's office is trashed, Picture crooked,


Phone hanging from the desk. Duck Guy just wanders around
the office looking.

He looks down to see a key.

THE KEY TO THE CITY

TITLE CARD: DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED

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INT. TRIO'S HOUSE - CLAYHILL - MORNING

The Trio are sitting in the living room. Yellow is sitting


with Duck on a couch with a balloon in his hand. Red is
sitting on a chair reading a newspaper with a headline of;
"MAYOR MISSING?"
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POLICE OFFICER ON TV
Oh, It's very very bad. The Mayor is
gone-- He's not in his house-- And he
normally is in his house!

YELLOW GUY
Does this mean that I can't have my
birthday party?

RED GUY
I don't know. (closing his newspaper)
Everyone seems very upset about the
mayor's disappearance-- Look even our
funny house has gone sad.

OUTSIDE

The funny house has a frown and a tear.

INSIDE

YELLOW GUY
Awh.. But I'm already wearing my
special birthday buckles on my shoes!
(pointing) see!

Yellow has buckles on his shoes.

DUCK GUY
Sad house? Birthday buckles? Who
cares about all that rubbish! The
town has no mayor! What are we going
to do?

YELLOW GUY
Who's gonna sing his bit of the song?

RED GUY
(holding up a missing mayor poster)
Who's gonna find him?

DUCK GUY
Who's gonna look after the town while
he's gone!?

YELLOW GUY
No, but- Who's gonna sing his bit of
the song?

RED GUY
(still holding it up) No, Who's gonna
find him?
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DUCK GUY
No, Who's gonna look after the town
while he's gone?!

They just kept going on, and on, and on.

DUCK GUY (cont'd)


But who's gonna get his prized
bowling ball..

Duck Guy has a thought bubble of him rubbing the Mayor's


Bowling Ball in the dark.

RED GUY
What?

VOICE
The town needs to be secure! That's
for sure!

Duck pulls the key out of his suit.

KEY
Because security! That's the key.

DUCK GUY
Hey! It's that little metal stick
from earlier! He's turned into a boy!

KEY
I'm a key! The Key to the City!

YELLOW CARD: The Key to the City

RED GUY
Right, so do you know what happened
to the mayor?

KEY
No, but let me ask you a question. Do
you love your town?

RED GUY
What? Is he- talking to me?

DUCK GUY
I love my town! I've lived here my
whole life!

KEY
Oh, but you don't want to protect it?
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DUCK GUY
How dare you!

YELLOW GUY
Protect it from what?

KEY
Well, listen.

MUSIC STARTS TO PLAY.

LISTEN

YELLOW GUY
Hmm. Sounds like-

THE KEY'S TEETH GO SHARP

KEY
LISTEN!!!!!

THE SCREEN GOES ANIMATED

KEY (SUNG)
They're creepin' 'round the corner...
Fiddlin' with your door..

DUCK GUY
Who is?

KEY
Hiding in your garden... Sleeping on
the roof!

DUCK GUY
No!

KEY
RENTING YOU A FUNCTION ROOM!

DUCK GUY
That's nice.

KEY
Stepping on your toe! (Stepping on
your toe)

Key steps on Yellow's toe.

YELLOW GUY
Hey!
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KEY
And now you need the toilet! They're
messing with our town! Well if I
brought you a precious gem! You
wouldn't leave it laying around!
Well, you'd put it in a box! And
cover it with locks! And bury it deep
under the ground!

RED GUY
But we're looking for the mayor

YELLOW GUY
I would like a gem!

DUCK GUY
Quiet!

RED GUY
He wasn't in his house, And he's no
where to be found.

KEY
But you said that you loved your
town! But look at all the danger, any
ol' stranger! Could walk right in and
pinch you on the legs! Look inside
your lunchbox, Take out all your
front teeth! Look at this! What a
silly mess! It's not secure at all!
An uninvited guest could sneak right
in! Fiddle with the bin lids! Ruin
all our stuff!

BIG IAN
But that belongs to us!

POLICE OFFICER
Who's takin' all our stuff?

KEY
I think you need the toilet.

WE GO BACK TO LIVE ACTION

RED GUY
Wait look guys. Footsteps leading up
to the gate-- (clears throat) Uh-- I
know it's a song and stuff, But isn't
that the mayor?
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RED GUY (cont'd)
Maybe we should just, look outside
here. Get a search party going.

KEY (SUNG)
But I thought you loved your town..
Don't you want to stop it, From
rotting down?

RED GUY
Yeah, but what about the mayor?

KEY (SUNG)
Yes you do, I'm sure..

RED GUY
Those are definitely his footprints.

THE FOOTPRINTS SAY "MAYOR"

KEY (SUNG)
And if we work together...

DUCK GUY (SUNG)


THEN WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER!

RED GUY
Well- I'm gonna go.

Red Guy opens the gate.

KEY (SUNG)
And we'll get this place secure...

RED GUY
(leaving) Alright, see ya.

LADDER
Wow! You and your key friend really
know what your talking about when it
comes to making Clayhill safe!

MRS. GRENALD
Yeah! Maybe you could be our new
mayor!

DUCK GUY
What? Me? The Mayor? Yes. Me. The
mayor!

A BLACK TOP HAT WITH A GREEN RIBBON STRAPPED AROUND IT WITH


A "D" ON IT FOR DUCK GUY FLOATS DOWN.
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DUCK GUY (SINGING)


I am your new MAYOORR!

WE SEE A CLOCK TOWER WITH A FACE.

INT. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE - CLAYHILL - DAY

Duck Guy sits in the mayor's seat.

DUCK GUY
There, Now everyone in town is all
locked up! All being safe! All of our
problems are over! I really am
brilliant at being the mayor!

We see Yellow Guy with him.

Duck guy thinks of the bowling ball again. Yellow Guy is


holding a present,

DUCK GUY (IN MIND)


And now I can play with the mayor's
prized bowling ball...

YELLOW GUY
Well, the old mayor is still missing.

DUCK GUY
Hm..

YELLOW GUY
But! Now that the town is fixed! That
means we can FINALLY have my birthday
party! Yay!

KEY
Oh.. Yay! Birthdays are my favorite!

YELLOW GUY
Yeah!

KEY
Lucky you-- But wait! What's this?

Key pulls out a scope. He then KNOCKS THE PRESENT INTO A


BUCKET OF ACID.

KEY (cont'd)
Oh Phew! Look! It's melting in the
acid...

Yellow Guy's present melts in the acid.


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YELLOW GUY
MY PRESENT! I HATE OUR NEW MELTING
BROTHER!

Yellow Guy runs off crying.

KEY
I'm supposed to be a key! -- See I
told you Mr. Mayor! Danger is hiding
everywhere...

DUCK GUY
Really? I think that was a puppy--

WE SEE A PUPPY BURNING IN THE ACID. BLOOD ON THE BUCKET.

KEY
Exactly! That's what they want you to
think. But we know the truth.. Don't
we?

DUCK GUY
Do we--

KEY
Stranger's are hiding everywhere.. Ya
see! Who's that!

Key walks to the window, Duck follows.

DUCK GUY
What? Oh that's Paula the Postbox!
She's lived here her whole life.

KEY
But is it?

He gives him the scope. It's still Paula.

DUCK GUY
Yes.

Key takes the scope and takes a marker and writes something
on it.

KEY
But is it?

We see the scope and it has a angry face on Paula and a


bubble saying "ME BAD!"
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DUCK GUY
Oh my goodness! Not little Pauly the
Postbox!

KEY
Ya see? Nothing is what it seems..

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EXT. FOREST - OUTSIDE OF CLAYHILL - DAY

RED GUY IS WANDERING THROUGH THE FOREST LOOKING FOR MAYOR


PIGFACE.

RED GUY
Mayor? Mayor Pigface?! Mayo-

He spots a black leather glove on a mud puddle.

RED GUY (cont'd)


Hey-- This is the Mayor's glove!

He spots a mud puddle with a face.

MUD PUDDLE
Hello there! I'm the owner of this
forest! As you can see! I am a tree!
(singing) I am a tree! I love nature!
I stand in places--

RED GUY
(interrupting) Yeah I see that your
uh- A tree. Have you seen a mayor?

MUD PUDDLE
Of course I have! Right down there!

Red Guy walks off.

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EXT. ALLEY - CLAYHILL - AFTERNOON

Yellow Guy is crying in an alley. He spots a mayor poster


with Duck on it.
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13.

YELLOW GUY
Blah! Bad mayor! And his little metal
stick should be called-- Melted my
present.

FIZZY MILK (O.S.)


Y'know, They can't control us
forever.

Yellow Guy turns to see a bottle of Fizzy Milk with


sunglasses.

HA!

YELLOW GUY
Whoa! Who are you?

FIZZY MILK
Who me? I guess I'm nobody, Like you.
Which makes us one of the crazy
outcasts! This new mayor, with all
these rules! Y'know what I say to
him?

YELLOW GUY
No, What do you say to him?

FIZZY MILK
I say to him "Hey, Mr. Mayor! Take
all your rules and put them over
there! Behind Clayhill!"

YELLOW GUY
Whoa! Please teach me how to be cool!
Like you!

FIZZY MILK
No.. I don't think you have what it
takes to be as cool as me.

YELLOW GUY
No! I promise! I wanna smash the
system! Please I promise!

FIZZY MILK
Well- If you wanna be a bad boy punk.
You have to drink... FIZZY MILK!

He pulls out a drink "FIZZY MILK" "BOILED BEEF FLAVORED!"

Yellow drinks it and turns into A BAD BOY! Purple Mohawk,


Leather jacket.
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EXT. FOREST - OUTSIDE OF CLAYHILL - AFTERNOON

Red Guy looks through binoculars and sees little logs with
faces.

RED GUY
Oh no, There really are strangers
sneaking around. Maybe that rude
metal child was right.

He thinks about the key

RED GUY (cont'd)


Hang on a minute-- Mayor Pigface?

He sees MAYOR PIGFACE IN THE DISTANCE

MAYOR PIGFACE (SINGING)


Mud is brown, A rock is round. I used
to be the mayor of the town. But now
I live here with my new friends! And
sleep underneath the logs and leaves!

RED GUY
Mayor Pig-

MAYOR PIGFACE
The outside world is Kind and
Peaceful! There are no troubles to
worry me.

MAYOR PIGFACE KNOCKS A BIRDS HEAD OFF WITH A STICK.

RED GUY
I'm sorry, Mayor?

MAYOR PIGFACE
When I'm sleeping, My new friends
pinch me! They cut my legs and remove
my teeth!

We see that Mayor Pigface has cuts and no teeth.

RED GUY
Mayor Pigface-

MAYOR PIGFACE
They bite my lips off! And bite my
eyelids! And bite my eyelids! And bit
my fingers and my legs!
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RED GUY
What are you doing?

MAYOR PIGFACE
Oh, its you! Hello. Look, twig
people! We have a new friend. You
must be tired, traveler. Would you
like to eat some of our soup?

Pigface rubs his hand in some "soup". The soup was just mud.

RED GUY
Mayor, You have to come back to
Clayhill!

MAYOR PIGFACE
I am no longer mayor of Clayhill. I
live here!

RED GUY
Mayor! None of this is even real
(real real real)

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EXT. REAL FOREST - NIGHT

Red Guy is standing in a real dark forest.

RED GUY
Hello? (Hello?)

We see a Styrofoam head of Yellow Guy.

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EXT. FOREST - OUTSIDE OF CLAYHILL - AFTERNOON

Red is back in the outside world of Clayhill.

MAYOR PIGFACE
Eh. I don't feel like going back to
Clayhill. I love it here then I did
there!

RED GUY
Mayor. My friend found the key to the
city. And they are doing BAD stuff to
Clayhill.
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MAYOR PIGFACE
What? That's not the key to the city!
(pulls out a golden key) This is!

RED GUY
We gotta go!

Red Guy and Mayor Pigface rush to Clayhill.

EXT. GATE - CLAYHILL - NIGHT

Red and Pigface arrive at the gate of Clayhill. The sign is


crooked, it has a angry looking lock on it. And behind it is
a television with Duck Guy on it.

MAYOR PIGFACE
Well, friend. Look's like we're too
late.

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INT. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE - CLAYHILL - NIGHT

Yellow Guy enters the Mayor's office, which is packed with


surveillance and equipment/computers/miscellaneous
technology

YELLOW GUY
Oh my goodness!

He sees DUCK GUY GETTING BRAINWASHED BY A BIG KEY! Yellow


runs to Duck but Fizzy Milk stops him.

FIZZY MILK
No no! Don't do any-

Yellow pushes the milk bottle onto some of the machines,


Making him spill and ruin Duck's brainwashing.

KEY
NO!

Duck Guy goes to normal!

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EXT. GATE - CLAYHILL - NIGHT

Mayor and Red open the gates and run to Duck and Yellow.
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DUCK GUY
Mayor Pigface! I am so Sorry what I
did when I was a mayor! The Key to
The City is in your office!

BLOOM! THE OFFICE EXPLODES! THE KEY LANDS RIGHT AT MAYOR


PIGFACE'S FEET.

REAL KEY TO THE CITY


That's Mean Steve! He's very rude!

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