Home for the Holidays (Johnsonverse)

Home for the Holidays is a ShowBiz Pizza Time holiday short that was uploaded on the Chuck E. Cheese's YouTube channel on December 21, 2018.
== Transcript ==
* (The short opens on Helen's house, with snow falling all around)
* Mr. Munch (singing inside): Tis the season to eat pizza!
* (Cut to inside the cottage, where Chuck E., Crusty, Helen, Jasper, and Haven are putting up decorations and a Christmas tree. Munch enters the room)
* Mr. Munch: Hiya, guys!
* Chuck E.: Munch! You're here just in time to help decorate!
* Mr. Munch: Decorate? OH! Is it time for that Earth holiday again, Kringus? Uh, what's it called?
* Jasper: Christmas.
* Mr. Munch: Right, Christmas! I knew that.
* Helen: Oh, I love this time of year! All the lights, and food, and everybody spending time together!
* Jasper: Well, almost everybody. Harm's off hosting the Holiday Hootenanny, and Bella and Tati are with their families. But everybody else's here, so there's that.
* (Crashing is heard in the kitchen, and Pasqually sticks his head in from the kitchen)
* Pasqually; Hey, Helen! Where are your pots and pans? I'm gonna bake some Christmas-a cookies!
* Helen: Uhhh, did you look in the cabinets?
* Pasqually: Ohhh! (slaps himself) The one place I didn't look!
* (Pasqually goes back into the kitchen)
* Crusty: Hey, Munch, can you put the star up?
* Mr. Munch: It's like the Purple Comet Festival on my home planet! Once a year, the comet passes by our planet. We put zorgnak ornaments on trees...
* (As Munch rambles on about the Purple Comet Festival, Chuck E. whispers to Helen and Jasper)
* Chuck E.: (whispering) Guys, I feel bad that Munch can't go home for the holidays.
* Mr. Munch: ...broobles in our--
* Chuck E.: Munch! Maybe we can get you home in time for your festival!
* Mr. Munch: Oh, it's not a big deal. Brimbus is fun, too.
* Jasper: (offscreen, a bit annoyed) Christmas!
* Chuck E.: It'll be easy! We just need to get you to your--
* (Smash cut to outside, where Chuck E., Crusty, Helen, Jasper, and Munch find the latter's spaceship is wedged in a tree. Helen is wearing a parka that covers her entire face except her beak, and shivering)
* Chuck E.: --space...ship...
* Crusty: So...anyone here a spaceship mechanic?
* Chuck E.: I don't think even Looney Bird could figure this thing out.
* Mr. Munch: So, let's celebrate Fitness instead!
* Jasper: (now very annoyed) COME ON, MAN! YOU WEREN'T EVEN TRYING ON THAT ONE!
* Chuck E.: By all high scores, Munch, we will see you home for the holidays!
* (Transition to a hill)
* Mr. Munch: Uh, Chuck E., I'm not-I'm not so sure this is gonna--
* Chuck E.: We are high enough up here. You're sure to reach orbit!
* (Chuck E. and Jasper get into position to push Munch, while Helen continues shivering, and Crusty looks on with a look of disapproval)
* Chuck E.: Alright, Munch, are you ready? Three! Two!
* Mr. Munch: Guys, can we--
* Chuck E.: One!
* (Munch goes flying down the hill on a sled, screaming; there is a close-up of his face; a squirrel walks right in front of him, and, like a deer in headlights, watches with horror as Munch bears down.)
* (Munch hits the squirrel, and it cuts to Chuck E. and Jasper's reaction)
* Chuck E.: OOH! Right in the pepperonis!
* Crusty: I told you this wasn't gonna work.
* Chuck E.: Okay, new plan!
* Helen: C-can the next plan be s-somewhere warmer? We birds don't take cold temperatures well!
* Mr. Munch: (offscreen, shakily) I'm okay!
* (Cut back to Helen's house; Pasqually, with a tray of Christmas tree cookies, is standing next to Helen and Haven)
* Pasqually: But-a Jasper! I'm afraid we're gonna mess-a up-a Helen's kitchen!
* Haven: Jasper knows what he's doing. Don't you, Jasper?
* (Jasper pops into frame)
* Jasper: Of course I know what I'm doing! It's all a matter of steam pressure. You see, Munch is wedged up there in that chimney, and through the power of steam, there will be a build-up of pressure that will flow through these pipes, into the chimney to project our purple pal past Santa and his reindeer, through the atmosphere, into space, and delivering him safely back to his home planet among the stars! Or something like that.
* Crusty: If Bella were here, she'd have stopped all of this in five seconds flat...
* (Cut to Chuck E. at the fireplace)
* Chuck E.: Munch! Buddy!
* (Camera moves up the chimney to the top)
* Chuck E.: You okay?
* (The camera reaches the top, and we see Munch stuffed in with a bunch of airbags)
* Mr. Munch: (relaxed) Oh, yeah. This feels...great! It's really relaxing!
* (Cut back to inside)
* Chuck E.: All set, Jasper!
* (Jasper turns the the dial up on the stove, setting the wheels into motion)
* Chuck E.: You feel anything, Munch?
* (Steam transition back to Munch, who now has cucumbers in his eyes)
* Mr. Munch: Ahh, it's like a sauna in here!
* (Cut back inside to Helen's front door, where Looney Bird and Nodoka Manabe enter)
* Looney Bird: Crusty! We came as soon as you called! What's the science emergency?
* (The pair look at the scene before them)
* Looney Bird: Uh...dare I ask what kind of chicanery this is?
* Chuck E.: We're trying to send Munch back to his home planet!
* Nodoka: Okay, let me get this straight: you think a build-up of steam pressure is gonna give Munch the delta-v to make orbit AND achieve escape velocity out of the Milky Way galaxy?
* Chuck E.: I have no idea what delta-v is, but anything's worth a try!
* Nodoka: Yeah, anything's worth a try except when you have ZERO RESPECT FOR NEWTONIAN PHYSICS!
* Jasper: Hey, hey, calm down, Nodoka!
* Nodoka: NO! I AM SICK OF YOU PIZZA TIME IDIOTS AND YOUR LACK OF EDUCATION!
* Haven: Lack of education?! I'll show YOU a lack of education!
* (Haven runs over to a random chalkboard and writes on it)
* Haven: Nine plus ten equals 21!
* Nodoka: Those video games really have rotted your mind...
* Haven: At least I don't use a teleprompter when I'm talking about steampunk!
* Nodoka: T-THOSE ALLEGATIONS WERE NEVER PROVEN!
* Crusty: Alright, let's everyone just bring it down a notch--
* Nodoka: I'LL BRING IT DOWN A NOTCH WHEN I'M IN THE SWEET EMBRACE OF THE END CREDITS!!!
* (beat)
* Nodoka: When did I become the angry one? These inter-band crossovers bring out some very weird roles for me...
* (Meanwhile, back outside, some snow falls off the chimeny and onto the squirrel from earlier, who is now bandaged with a crutch. The snow hits the squirrel, who angrily climbs onto the chimney to confront Munch, slapping his cucumbers off)
* Mr. Munch: Oh, hiya little squirrel buddy!
* (The squirrel angrily chatters at Munch, but Munch just picks him up)
* Mr. Munch: Aww, you're all cold and wet.
* (Munch puts the squirrel right where he was in the chimney)
* Mr. Munch: Check this out! It's warm in here!
* (The squirrel smiles and starts relaxing, but falls through into the chimney.)
* Mr. Munch: Oopsie! Heh.
* (Cut back to inside.)
* Looney Bird: Seriously, this is NOT a good idea. Something is bound to explode and scald someone!
* Chuck E.: It's all good! Jasper knows what he's talking about!
* (The squirrel falls into the pipes, crashing through them all the way to the pot, its tail blocking the main output pipe)
* Crusty: It's gonna blow!
* Nodoka: HIT THE DECK!
* (The pot explodes right in Jasper's face. He walks up to Helen with a fluffed-up face, holding the squirrel)
* Jasper: It appears we have another house guest.
* (Nodoka stands up)
* Nodoka: Well, all things considered, that could've gone a LOT worse.
* Looney Bird: Not since that time we had Yogi Bear at ShowBiz have I seen such an exercise in futility.
* Chuck E.: We'll never get Munch home for the Purple Comet Festival now! I'm out of ideas!
* Nodoka: Hey, here's an idea: instead of trying to reenact these idiotic Looney Tunes gags, why not just bring the Purple Comet Festival here? I mean, I have absolutely no idea what customs this holiday entails, but that's what improvising is for.
* (Later, Munch comes back into the house)
* Mr. Munch: Squirrel buddy! You okay?
* (He enters the living room, and finds his friends have a surprise for him. Jasper's face is still fluffed from the steam explosion.)
* Chuck E., Crusty, Helen, Haven, Jasper, and Pasqually: Happy Purple Comet Festival!
* Haven: We just figured...maybe we can bring the festival to you.
* (A tear appears in Munch's eye)
* Mr. Munch: Aww, you did all this for me?! I'm gonna teach you guys all sorts of Purple Comet Festival stuff!
* (As Munch starts his lesson, the squirrel steals Pasqually's cookies, only for Looney Bird and Nodoka to stop it.)
* Looney Bird: Hand 'em over.
* (The squirrel hands over the cookies, and Looney Bird and Nodoka both take one. Each takes a single bite of their cookie, but they swallow slowly, and are clearly disgusted)
* Nodoka: Well, I think we learned a valuable lesson here today: pizza chefs shouldn't do what Mugi can do ten times better.
* (The short ends)
== Cast ==
* Duncan Brannan as Chuck E. Cheese
* Jaret Reddick as Crusty T. Cat
* John Bowen as Mr. Munch
* Karlisa Burleson as Helen Henny
* Jeremy Blaido as Jasper T. Jowls
* Earl Fisher as Pasqually P. Pieplate
* Caroline Richardson as Haven Henny
* Aaron Fechter as Looney Bird
* Laura Bailey as Nodoka Manabe
* Kate Bristol as Squirrel
== Trivia ==
* Harmony, Bella, and Tati are absent in this short. It's explained that Harmony is hosting the Holiday Hootenanny, while Bella and Tati are spending the holidays with their families. Mugi is also mentioned by Nodoka when she compares Pasqually's poor cookie-baking skills to Mugi's.
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