Book Marks the Sprite Family/Transcript

== Book Marks the Spot ==
(jazzy music playing)
MOLLY: There she is! But what's... Oh, no!
Worm Woman's surrounded! (gasps)
Dr. Featherbrain! Aw, so whatcha gonna do?
SCRATCH: Turn the page already, come on!
I need to know how Worm Woman wiggles her way out of this one!
MOLLY: Hey, don't rush me!
SCRATCH: Worm Woman makes it to the Big Apple.
Wow, what an ending!
Wha... Scratch! Spoilers!
Ooh, and what are we reading here?
Uh, writing, not reading.
My journal contains my hopes, my fears, my very essence!
Eh, pass. Not really a autobiography kinda guy.
Turtledove, I've got a honey-do list
as long as your arm, but no honey to do the doing.
Think you can handle watching the store alone?
Of course you can. You're a capable young woman!
You've got this! Love you! Bye!
(doorbell jingles)
Me? Watch the store?
Without supervision?
"Dear Journal, will I rise to the occasion
of this awesome responsibility?"
- I really hope so! - (ghost slurping in distance)
Does anyone hear... slurping?
No food or drink in the store on my watch!
(ghost slurping continues)
Aw! It's a cute wittle ghost! It must love reading!
What's your poison, little ghoul?
Romantic fiction? Romantic nonfiction?
(slurping)
Okay. It is devouring books. Literally.
Hey! You gotta buy before you try!
(belches, giggles)
Oh, no, no, no, no, no! This is bad!
Don't worry, Libby! We have the leader of the Ghost World on our side.
Yep! That's me, ah... Okay, let me get in here.
I just gotta identify this ghost type we're dealin' with.
I'd say what we got here is a, uh...
LIBBY: Uh, looks like a Story Sprite to me.
I mean, yeah, yeah, that's what the laypeople call it.
- (clears throat) - Uh, okay, uh...
"It's a ghost that consumes knowledge.
They're said to have caused the Dark Ages
- by destroying the world's books!" - SCRATCH: "...world's books." Yes, yes!
Good. That's exactly what they do, and I know that's true,
because I've experienced them many times.
Yeah, but I can't let the store get destroyed
on the one day I'm in charge!
Mom's counting on me!
We have got to get rid of this Story Sprite!
- At least we don't have... - (bell jingles)
(gasps) A customer!
(sonar beeping)
ALL: Ollie?
- (Molly grunts) - Huh?
We cannot deal with a rogue ghost and a ghost hunter at the same time!
Well, we don't know that he's here in a ghost-hunting capacity.
He might be here because he loves literature.
- Wow! Mm-hmm. - Mmm...
Well, he's a good person!
With his sense of civic duty and his cute little laugh,
- and... - Oh, boy.
The way his hair does that...
just that adorable swoopy thing, and...
- (powers down) - What, you brought it up!
- No, we didn't. - We did not.
- (crashes) - Well, you did!
I heard you said... Look, never mind!
You two worry about the Story Sprite, and I'll deal with Ollie.
(theme song remix playing)
MOLLY: ♪ Ghost, ghost ♪
♪ And Molly McGee ♪
Oh, Ollie! Hey! Hi! Great to see ya!
Wait... Whoa! (grunts)
But now's not a great time.
We're closed for, uh... bookworm fumigation?
Bookworms are the least of your worries.
My ecto-detector's telling me there's a ghost in this store!
- (beeps) - (gasps)
- (blaring) - What? That can't be right.
Don't worry, Molly, I won't stand by and let innocent book lovers be haunted!
I'll rid you of this phantom.
And, if I happen to prove with hard, indisputable evidence ghosts exist,
- hey, bonus, right? - Right.
- (slurping) - Okay, uh...
It says here, the first thing to know about Story Sprites is, uh...
Libby! You think some human book is gonna tell me how to do my job?
Get outta here! Shoo!
(ominous music)
Scratch! It says here the Story Sprite's defense mechanism
is they can become the words they eat!
(slurping)
(roars)
Just taking a stab in the dark here,
but I'm guessing that book was the story of a minotaur?
(roaring)
My ghoul goggles will show me anything supernatural in this shop!
And they help me keep my swoopy bangs back.
(nervous chuckle) So I noticed.
- (both screaming) - (roars)
- (crashing) - What was that?
Wa... Wait! I've got a signal!
Beep, boop-boop-boop-boop. Beep. B-Bup, bup.
It's pointing outside!
- Let's go! - Wha...
(slurping)
If you want these books, you'll have to go through me!
- (roars) - Yipe!
(roars)
(eerie music stings)
(hisses)
Libby! Turning it into a vampire isn't really helping.
Please, let the expert handle this.
- (hisses) - Okay, buddy.
Gloves are coming off!
I didn't want to have to do this,
but I'm putting on my spooky Chairman robe!
- (thunder rumbles) - (demonic voice) As Chairman,
- I command you to... - (chirping)
(hisses)
And that's helping, how?
I'm just wearin' him down.
MOLLY: Beep, boop-boop-boop, beep, boo-bop-bop.
- Beep, boo-bop-bop. - (sighs)
We've lost the ghost.
I feel like I've let Brighton, and you, down.
You know, what if maybe, stick with me here,
ghosts can be good?
Like, what if a kindly ghost and her pet bear
were helping maintain the town, for a random example I just made up?
Or what if the ghosts of mayors past
could keep an eye out for our Brighton's future?
That wouldn't be so bad, right?
And what if we became ghosts?
Would we be bad?
Because I would be the friendliest ghost ever,
en-happifying wherever I went!
Molly, I love your optimism. But ghosts aren't like us.
They live to scare! They're mean, horrible creatures
who prey on helpless kids!
No one deserves to live in fear! No one!
Uh-oh, litter! Better recycle this!
♪ Look at him go ♪
♪ Look at that passion ♪
♪ That can is full ♪
♪ But he keeps jammin' trash in ♪
♪ How can it be ♪
♪ Someone so kind has hate in his heart ♪
♪ For a dear friend of mine ♪
♪ He'll help a stranger ♪
♪ Loading her car ♪
♪ He'll give a wounded raccoon CPR ♪
Don't you die on me!
♪ Why can't he see ghosts aren't the enemy? ♪
♪ He volunteers At the Brighton Retirement Castle ♪
♪ One night a week at least ♪
♪ How can you be so giving and warm to the living ♪
♪ But so cruel toward the deceased ♪
♪ They're just like you ♪
♪ They're just like me ♪
♪ And yet he hunts them mercilessly ♪
♪ Why can't he see ghosts aren't the enemy? ♪
♪ Let the dead live in peace ♪
♪ Ghosts aren't the enemy ♪
Mmm! My favorite. Vanilla fudge.
No, I don't want it. It's too black and white.
The world isn't black and white, Ollie!
Uh... you want to add sprinkles?
Oh, well, if sprinkles are on the table, we should obviously add sprinkles.
Look, I just don't understand why you're so sure that ghosts are bad.
What did they do to you?
They didn't do anything to me. But my Dad?
Maybe I should just show you what they did to him.
(eerie music playing)
DOLL: Mama.
(child laughing creepily)
- (glass breaking) - (thunder rumbles)
My name is Ruben Chen.
My experience happened one dark and stormy night,
when I was a boy.
I had just finished blowing the dust out of my video game cartridge collection...
- (screams) -...when I was attacked
by a vicious ghost!
- (roars) - Since that day,
I vowed to prove ghosts exist.
And then rid the world of them!
We're going to do it together!
We are...
ALL: The Ghost Chaser Chens!
Smash that like button and subscribe!
(powering up)
Most Unbelievers think we're a joke.
But not you, Molly. I feel like you really get me.
We both want to en-goodify the world!
By getting rid of ghosts?
- (sprinkles shaking) - Right! Uh, Molly?
Maybe ease back on the sprinkles?
Oh! (laughs nervously, sighs)
"Dear Journal, this is my final entry."
- (screaming, grunting) -"All hope is lost."
Unless... Scratch, did you figure out a way to save us?
Nope! We're doomed! (groans)
(grunts)
- (Story Sprite roars) - (both gasp)
(roaring)
- Oh, no, no, no! - Oh! Please don't eat me!
Wait a minute. That's it!
Story Sprites are what they eat!
(shouts, groans)
(chomps)
(wind blows)
Whoa. That journal really is you.
What have I done? This place is a disaster!
Right? What's Mom gonna say when she gets back?
She's gonna be so disappointed!
Yeah, she trusted you, and you didn't rise to the occasion!
Oh, the shame!
This feels worse than the time at Andrea's sleepover
in third grade when I...
Uh-uh-uh! No need to bring that up.
Stick to the abridged version.
Oh, yeah. Sorry, Libby. I'm sorry, Mom!
I would do anything to make this right!
You could put all the words back in the books?
Consider it done! (retching)
- (bell jingles) - (belches, giggles)
- Scratch, you were right. - (bell jingles)
Ollie may be dreamy, but he's dangerous.
Hmph. The dreamy ones always are, kid.
I thought I could change his mind about ghosts,
but even though we're so alike, maybe we're still too different.
Ugh! I hate this!
I know deep, deep, deep down,
he's just afraid of what he doesn't understand.
Well, this bookstore was completely ruined
before the Story Sprite came to understand me, so...
So... maybe there's still hope?
- (humming) - Huh?
(gasps)
(suspenseful music)
(bell jingles)
- Phew! - MS. STEIN-TORRES: Whoa-ho-ho!
This place is looking cleaner than I left it!
Great job, kiddo.
Yes! I nailed it!
(clears throat) You just put a cookbook
- in the True Crime section. - Close enough.
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