Ice Princess Family/Transcript

== Grocery Store ==
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Molly: (Excited) I can't wait for the Global Games. They enhappify the whole world all at once!
Sharon: Okay, but do we really need 26 boxes of Coconut Yim‐Yums?
Molly: It's the official snack cake of the Global Games, Mom.
Pete: Yeah, Sharon, it's what the athletes eat!
Darryl: Mm‐hmm!
Sharon: Okay. But just a couple boxes. I don't need anybody going‐-
(The customers are rioting. They're grabbing everything in reach and panicking. The McGees are bewildered.)
Sharon: ...Crazy?
(A clerk screams as a crowd of people attack her.)
Molly: What's going on...?
Pete: Everyone's panicking! Should we panic? I'm panicking! (over PA) I'm totally panicking!
(He runs to the crowd and jumps into it. The clerk crawls away.)
Sharon: Excuse me? What's going on here?
Clerk: What are you, new in town? It's the curse of the Ice Princess!
(Patty dashes in with a shopping cart, knocking over a man in the process.)
Patty: Oh, that's just a myth. But the ice storm's real, and it's a‐comin'! Every four years, like clockwork!
(She runs offscreen.)
Clerk: You'd better stock up before the storm hits. Which reminds me...
(Pete victoriously holds up a roll of toilet paper.)
Pete: Yes!
(The clerk pounces on him and yells. A can rolls towards the others and Darryl picks it up. Both Sharon and Molly are shocked and they all run offscreen in a panic.)
== McGees' House ==
(The family rushes inside, holding bags of food and Pete having a roll of toilet paper in his mouth. Scratch flies into one of the bags.)
Scratch: Canned peas? Potted meat? Where are my coconut Yim‐Yums?!
Molly: We're lucky we got anything. Everyone's freaking out over this storm!
Darryl: Not just any storm, Molly. (spookily and somewhat sarcastically) The Curse of the Ice Princess!
Sharon: You heard Patty. That's just a myth.
Scratch, mouth full: Nah, she's real.
All: What?!
Scratch: Oh. I see you haven't heard of the Ice Princess. I mean, why would you? She was just some pathetic figure skater.
Pete: "Figure skater"?
(Flashback.)
Scratch: Back before the internet, when everything was boring, people watched dumb stuff like figure skating. Sonia Davis was the Ice Princess! A local girl from Brighton made good, blah blah blah. She went all the way to the Global Games. And she was going for the gold when she fell on her last, uh... ...spinny thing.
Pete: It was a triple axel.
Scratch: That's what I said. Whatever.
(Sonia falls down and her left skate comes off and the crowd goes silent. It slices through one of the judges' hair, who angrily shows a card saying '0'. The others hold up cards, also saying '0'.)
Scratch: She lost her medal, her career, and her left skate‐‐ We're talkin' epic humiliation!
(The crowd laughs and Sonia bursts into tears. She angrily stands up and we go back to the present, where Sonia is now a ghost.)
Scratch: And now every four years during the Global Games, her ghost haunts Brighton Pond. Causes a huge storm, shuts down the entire city.
(Sonia spins and she turns into a blue, tornado-like cloud. She shrieks and shoots icicles from all directions.)
Pete: It must be hard reliving the worst moment of your life over and over again... Beating yourself up for not landing that one big jump... I mean, you're basically landing blind on the edge of a knife!
(The others stare at Pete, confused and shocked.)
Pete: (nervous chuckle) ...Is, what I imagine she's feeling right now. Right?
== Brighton Pond ==
(Sonia is skating on the pond. She spins, yells and shoots icicles, which hit Scratch, knock one of his eyes out and make holes in his ectoplasm.)
Scratch: Ow! Hey! You know, I may be dead but that still hurts!
(Sonia turns into her normal form.)
Molly: Uh, Miss Davis?
(Sonia kicks snow into Molly's face.)
Molly: Hi. My name is Molly McGee. Proud Brightonian, decorated Wilder Scout, and as you can see by my ectoplasmic BFF, a good friend to ghosts!
(Darryl helps Scratch gets his eye back in.)
Sonia: Hello, Molly. (demonically) Now off my ice! I only get it every four years and my routine needs to be perfect!
Molly: Right, about that... Um, every time you skate, you create a huge ice storm in Brighton.
Scratch: Yeah, so knock it off! You lost, lady! Get on with your afterlife already!
(Sonia turns around furiously, and she pins Scratch to a post with icicles.)
Scratch: I deserved that.
Sonia: You don't know what it's like. The Global Games were my chance to be remembered. If I can skate my routine cleanly, make it perfect, I can prove myself to the world! But it's hard. The ice is so unforgiving and I'm out here alone.
Molly: Well, what if you weren't alone? How about pairs skating? I mean, I know I always feel better when I have a friend with me.
Sonia: Oh. You have anyone in mind?
Molly: Ho‐ho‐ho! You bet I do!
Scratch: (sarcatically) Mm. I wonder who.
Molly: I've got a me in mind! Ha ha!
(She puts on skating gear.)
Molly: Okay, here we go! I'm skating and... I'm‐‐ whoa!! (She falls on her face.) ...down. (She gets back up.) Okay, don't worry! Ha! I can learn a lifetime of skating skills overnight! This will be fine. (She tries again...) I'm almost... I'm almost... I'm there. Okay. (...aaand falls down.) Ahh!
Scratch: The grace of a baby giraffe.
Sonia: Dear, I don't know what that was, but I wouldn't call it skating. (furiously) And it'll never win the gold!
(She turns into a blizzard cloud yet again and shoots more icicles. Scratch turns into a wall, trying to protect the others.)
Sonia: I need a partner who lives and breathes skating as I do!
(Scratch deflates like a balloon and lands on the ground.)
Sharon: Pete, it's time.
(Pete gulps.)
== McGees' House ==
(Pete is putting a yellow and orange glitter-covered leotard on, with red markings on the sleeves representing flames. He seems very triumphant.)
Pete: I can't believe it still fits!
(Not really. His "dad-bod" is showing.)
Sharon: ...mostly.
Scratch: Ah! It burns like a thousand suns!
Molly: Oh my cob, Dad, how did we not know you were a‐‐
Pete: ‐‐figure skater? You bet I was. One of the best. They called me "Blades"! The ice was my home. Until... (sucks teeth) '(ominously) "The Incident."
(Flashback.)
Pete, offscreen: I was fifteen. A shoo‐in to win Regionals. (Pete is showing off his moves.) I was so nervous. All my brothers and sisters were there in the front row.
Billy: Don't you go chokin' there, Silly!
(He suddenly seems worried. He attempts to do a triple axel, but fails and lands head first into an advert for plumbing. The crowd is shocked.)
Billy: Flush, why don't ya? (laughs)
(Back to the present.)
Pete: After that, Blades lost his edge. I never skated again.
Darryl: Wait, wait, wait, you had a cool nickname like "Blades" and went back to Pete?!
Molly: That's a good point, Darryl, but not the point. It's time to come out of retirement! Not just for yourself, but for Sonia, and all of Brighton!
Pete: Let's see if I remember any of my old moves...
(He trips all over the place and his left skate flies through Scratch, slicing him in half. He is NOT happy.)
== Brighton Pond ==
(Pete is gliding gracefully and proudly.)
Molly: He's graceful!
Darryl: He's powerful!
Scratch: He glides like a bird over a tranquil sea!
(The others stare at him.)
Scratch: I mean, if you're into that kinda thing... Which... maybe I am?
(Pete ends his skating routine by twirling around and striking a triumphant pose.)
Sonia: Ooh! Now you are a true skater! A worthy partner for the Ice Princess!
Pete: Well, I've never been to the Global Games, but I was a tri‐state junior skate champ, so... Same thing. Game recognizes game.
Molly: What do you say, Sonia?
Sonia: Well, tomorrow is the anniversary of my routine...
Molly: (gasps) We could have our own Global Games! Here, on Brighton Pond!
(Sonia and Pete shake hands.)
Sonia: You've got yourself a deal! Just one small caveat...
(She squeezes his hand so tightly that his hand cracks.)
Sonia: (enraged) If I put myself out there and fail again, if we are anything less than perfect, I will cover Brighton in ice, FOREVER!
Pete: "Forever"?
== McGees' House ==
(Scratch is munching on marshmallows.)
Pete: Hit me.
Sharon: I think you've had enough cocoa.
Pete: (He flails his arm up and down, then slams his fist on the table.) I said hit me!
(Sharon is concerned. She pours hot cocoa into his mug and he drinks it quickly, then slams his fist on the table again.)
Pete: (sighs) What was I thinking?! I haven't skated in years, and now the fate of the whole town is riding on these rusty old skates!
Molly: Come on, Dad! Everyone loves a comeback!
Sharon: Yeah, Blades! Reclaim that ice!
Scratch: Yeah! Show us those, uh... them whirly jumps!
Pete: Maybe I can do this. Take back the ice. Find redemption!
Darryl: Unless you fall. Then Brighton will be frozen for all eternity.
(Pete drinks more hot cocoa and collapses onto the floor. Molly glares at Darryl, annoyed.)
Darryl: Sorry, really misread the vibe here.
== Brighton Pond ==
(Molly sits at a desk next to Scratch and puts her earmuffs on.)
Molly: Welcome, everyone, to the Global Games!
Scratch: ...Of Brighton. So not very global at all. Really‐‐ really only the one town here!
Molly: That's true. One small but mighty town! Here come our first and only skaters: Sonia Davis, the hometown pride and joy, and Pete "Blades" McGee, the hot rod with the dad bod.
(Darryl presses a button on the post from earlier and a spotlight shines down on Sonia and Pete. They strike dramatic poses for the start of their performance.)
♪ Like a Phoenix From the ashes ♪
♪ Rising up Taking flight ♪
♪ On a quest for redemption ♪
♪ In a leotard too tight... (Ooh, can't unsee the tush) ♪
♪ We've got a second chance ♪
♪ At glory ♪
♪ We'll write a new act To our story ♪
♪ I know our passion Will ignite us ♪
♪ If this plantar fasciitis Doesn't flare ♪
♪ We're almost there ♪
Scratch: Look at that! A double flying flippy‐dip!? Sure I just made that up, but whatever Blades and Sonia are doing, it is beautiful! It's like they're dancing on a winter's cloud!
Molly: Here comes the moment of truth, the final jump!
♪ Second chance At glory ♪
♪ We'll write a‐‐ ♪
(Something cracks, and Pete tumbles onto Sonia.)
Pete: Ooh! Ahh! That smarts. Ahh! Oof! (Thud!)
Scratch: And Blades goes down! Ooh, this is bad news for Brighton.
(They slide onto the floor. Sonia stands up.)
Sonia: (angrily) I... had...
Pete: I'm sorry! I'm so, I'm-I'm so, so sorry!
Sonia: So much fun!! (laughs) Maybe that's what I really lost. Not a gold medal, but my love of the sport. Now I've found it again. Thank you, Pete...
(Sonia helps Pete up and holds his hand. She spins into a whirl for the last time and disappears. The sun begins to shine.)
Molly: Dad! You did it! (She runs towards him and falls.) Oof!
(She gets back up and hugs Pete. Darryl and Sharon join in.)
Sharon: Ah! I'm so proud of you, Pete!
(Scratch, who has formed legs with ice skates, glides towards Pete.)
Scratch: Hey, Blades! Think you could teach me one of those spinny moves?
Pete: Sure! Believe it or not, this one's called a scratch spin...
(He shows the others what a scratch spin looks like and Scratch joins in. Sharon, Molly, and Darryl laugh as they spin.)
Scratch: Wow!
Pete: Yeah!
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