Mighty Hoax: Part 1: The Cardboard/Transcript

The separate transcript page for Mighty Hoax: Part 1: The Cardboard:

## The Grand Heist!

(The episode begins in a similar fashion to The King Pig, but the scene is flipped.)

(The next morning, Red wakes up.)

Red: Aha!! Good morning, world! (He leaps out of his sleeping bag in attacks the air.)

(He stops to realize that there's no Pigs in sight.)

Red: Oh. I must've had another dream where the Pigs were stealing The Eggs at night.

(Cut to a flashback to the beginning scene of The King Pig.)

Red: Wait, no. That was in The King Pig. Episode 2.

(The other Birds, who were also sleeping outside the house, wake up.)

Chuck: (Yawns.) I could've sworn the Eggs are still there. (He walks over to the "Eggs".) Huh, these look similar to the Eggs we own. (He accidentally knocks over the "Eggs" from behind & the Birds see brown cardboard backsides.)

Red: Wait, what?! These are fake cardboard eggs as a imposter to fool us!

(Everyone shrieks & Matilda screams & everyone stares at her.)

Matilda: (Stops shrieking.) Sorry.

(Red hears a super fast "Whizz whizz whizz" sound.)

Red: What?

(Red looks up to see that the noise is coming from a helicopter.)

Red: A no pilot helicopter?! This day gets freakier!!!

(A laugh is heard.)

Red: Huh? Wait a sec. (Seriously.) I know that laugh. It's King Pig! Show yourself, fiend!

(King Pig sticks his head out of the helicopter.)

King Pig: (Laughs.) It seems you were tricked by the cardboard eggs that my crew planned overnight!...

Red: Midnight.

King Pig: ...Midnight. Right.

(They stay silent.)

King Pig: Well, you can try to get the (Pulls out a sack with the real Eggs.) real deal! (Laughs evilly & flies off.)

(As the helicopter flies off, a cardboard King Pig is seen on the side.)

Red: Wait! Hold on! (He grabs a pair of binoculars. Through the binoculars, Red sees a cardboard cutout of King Pig. He gasps & the King Pig cutout falls off the helipcopter & lands on his head.) Of course!

(Red turns around, immediately seeing the other Birds looking through the binoculars.)

Red: (Angrily) Have you freaks been hiding behind my back?!

Jay, Jake & Jim: We only wanted a peek.

Red: Well, when I saw the helipcopter leave, I caught (Holds up the King Pig cardboard cutout.) THIS!

(Everyone freaks out again & Matilda faints.)

Red: Alright, everyone! This is our 1st 2-part episode & it's time we must give chase! **NOW!!!!!!!!**

Bomb: Wait!

Red: What?

Bomb: We can't go yet! (He ties a rope to Matilda & Chuck.)

Chuck: (Sarcastically) Did you really have to do this to me?

Bomb: Yes.

(The Birds rush off to give chase.)

## Woodland at Large

(The Birds continue to walk through the forest. but they come to a dead end & see 3 paths.)

Red: What the?

Chuck: 3 paths.

Bomb: This must be the work the Minion Pigs.

Red: So, which path should we choose?

(The Birds take a look at the tunnels.)

Bomb: So, we should probably go--

Jay, Jake & Jim: (Point at the tunnels.) That way! No! That way! You can't just choose your own path! That path! (Jay) OKAY!!! STOP!!!!!!! I choose the 1st tunnel.

(The Birds go down the path that has a painted black semicircle.)

Red: Hah! I'm not falling for your old tricks again, cartoon physics.

Chuck: (He grabs Red.) (They head into the tunnel.) Oh no you don't! (A train whistle is heard & the Birds all scream as they are whacked out of the tunnel. Matilda slams her backhead on a rock.)

Red: (The Birds groan & get up; angrily at Chuck) I told you I wasn't gonna fall for this trick again!

Chuck: I'm sorry! I can't contain myself when it comes to cartoons!

Jake: Well, since that went all cartoon-y, I chose the next tunnel.

(The Birds go to the next tunnel, but they see a hideous creature growling & Jake makes a horrified face.)

(A traumatized Jake walks back.)

Jake: I suggest you don't go in that tunnel.

Jim: Uh, I choose the 3rd path.

Chuck: How did you know that was the right path?!

Jim: Because (From his vision, he sees a path with a shadow resembling that of King Pig. But just you wait, folks! It's gonna be a shocking plot twist!) I see a shadow looking a lot like King Pig.

Red: Well, why didn't you tell us that before, genius?!

Jim: Uh... lucky guess?

Red: (Sighs.) Just go.

(The Birds go through the tunnel & when they're out, they lunge towards King Pig & attack him, until they see that he is indestructable.)

Red: Wait, it was just that useless cardboard faker!

Bomb: But if the cardboard cutout zipped off when it came alive,--

Red: Hold on! Did you just say (Melds his head into Bomb & repeats what he just said.)

Bomb: Yes. Before we left, I saw the cardboard cutout run off.

(Cut to a flashback from earlier, showing Bomb seeing the cardboard cutout moving & running off.)

Past Bomb: (Gasps.) Hey!

(Cut back to the present.)

Red: Well, now that the real deal is still with The Eggs, I guess we'll need to make a part 2.

(Chuck gets furious & is starts raining as he looks at the sky & closes his eyes.)

Chuck: (Shouting.) **NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!** (Cries on the floor.)

(Lightning flashes, causing a "To be continued sign to appear. End of episode. This continues in part 2.)