Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (A Rubbadubbers Crossover)

This will have plenty of sex scenes, including anal & oral. 🍑🍆💦 This will even have drug usage, including crack & LSD. 🍻

## Cast

* Tubb as Flint Lockwood
* Sploshy as Samantha Sparks
* Finbar as Officer Earl Devereaux
* Terence as Manny
* Winona as Fran Lockwood
* Reg as Brent McHale
* Benjie as Billy
* Sis as Regina Devereaux
* Bathsville City as Swallow Falls
* Benjie and Sis' house as Tim's Tackle Shop
* Ratkitties as Ratbirds
* Theodore (from Theodore Tugboat) as Steve
* Banjo (Banjo-Kazooie) as Tim Lockwood

## Transcript

**Tubb:** (V.O.) Have you ever felt like you were a little bit different? Like you had something unique to offer the world, if you could just get people to see it? Then you know exactly how it felt... to be me.

**Teacher:** Go ahead, Tubb.

*[Young Dexter steps to the front and addresses the class.]*

**Dexter:** (NERVOUSLY) What is the number one problem facing our community today? Untied shoelaces.

*[The children, all with untied shoelaces, stare at him.]*

**Young Dexter:** Which is why I’ve invented a laceless alternative foot covering, Spray-On Shoes.

*[He sprays the can on his feet. The other high schoolers look impressed.]*

**High School Students:** Wow! / Whoa!

**Dexter:** Voila!

**Young Eddy:** How you gonna get ‘em off, idiot?

*[The kids LAUGH as young Dexter tugs and strains to take off the shoes, but they won’t come off.]*

**Young Ed:** (CONT’D) What a geek! He wants to be smart, but that’s lame!

[On Dexter, flailing, upset. EXT. RETROVILLE - STREET - LATER Dexterruns down the empty street, crying in the rain.]

**Dexter:** (V.O.)I wanted to run away that day... but you can’t run away from your own feet.

]INT. DEXTER'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS Dexter, SNIFFLING, tries to BITE his shoes off, but it does nothing. Then he pulls out a SCREWDRIVER. It breaks in half. SCISSORS bend around his foot. A CINDER BLOCK cracks in half. These things are indestructible. INTERCUT: INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS Dexter's Dad, Dexter's gruff blue-collar dad, and Winona, his warm mother, approach the door. Winona gestures for Dexter's Dad to speak.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Uh... Not every sardine jumps in the net, son.

**Young Dexter** I don’t understand fishing metaphors!

[Dexterflops on the bed.]

**Dexter's Dad:** (O.S.) What did I say?

**Winona:** (O.S.) Don’t worry.

[Winona opens the door.]

**Winona:** (CONT’D) Honey, I think your shoes are wonderful.

[She enters and sits on the bed as Dexter hides his face in his pillow.]

**Young Dexter:** Everyone just thinks I’m a weirdo.

[Winona gestures to Dexter's wall of posters of great inventors: Tesla, Farnsworth, Edison, etc.]

**Winona:** So? People probably thought that these guys were weirdos too! But that never stopped them. (THEN) I was saving this for your fuck day, but, here...

[With a sly smile she holds up an adult-size LAB COAT.]

**Yound Dexter:** (GASPS) An old professional-grade lab coat. Just like the real guys wear!

[He puts it on. It’s way too big for him.]

**Young Dexter:** (CONT’D) It fits perfect.

**Winona:** The world needs your originality, Dexter. You just have to grow into it. And I know that you’re gonna do big things someday.

[Dexter gives her a smile and hugs her, inspired.]

**CUT TO**: Dexter draws a poster of himself in the lab coat with the words “BEST INVENTOR EVER.” He slaps it on the wall. Then he runs out of the house and up into his tree house lab where he starts on a new project.

**Young Dexter:** (V.O.) From that moment on, I was determined to invent something great.

**VIDEO DIARIES**: We see Dexter and some of his many inventions through the years... CHYRON: REMOTE CONTROL TV

**Young Dexter:** Remote Control Television!

[He pushes a button. The TV gets up and walks over to Dexter's Dad on the couch, who clicks it on...]

**Dexter:** (V.O.) Eventually.

[Then the TV quickly KICKS down the door and runs away amid frightened pedestrians. CHYRON: HAIR UN-BALDER]

**1960s Dexter:** Hair unbalder!

[Dexter pours a hair tonic on His father's head. Hair POOFS out suddenly, completely covering his face like a wolfman. Dexter's Dad and Dexter SCREAM. CHYRON: FLYING CAR]

**Dexter**: Flying car!

[A car with rockets attached shoots off from the docks, but dives straight down into the water. CHYRON: COURAGE THE DOG TRANSLATOR]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Courage the Dog Translator.

In his father’s tackle Store, Dexter shows off Courage, a vervet monkey with a device strapped to his chest and head.

**Courage:** Hungry! Hungryhungryhungryhungry!

**Dexter:** How wise-- No, Courage! No, no, no, no--

[Courage goes on a rampage, knocking over shelves, scaring customers, and pulling a chunk of Dexter's Dad’s moustache off. CHYRON: RAT-BIRDS]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Flying Batss. (TO Bats) Hey, what’s going on, little guys--

[Bats, half-rat, half-parrot, all-disturbing, escape from a cage and terrorize the kids, including Numbuh 1, the 1960s leader.]

**Dexter:** (V.O.) My dream was to help my home town, a tiny island hidden right above the ‘P’ in Pacific..called Retroville. We were famous for sardines. Until the day the Baby Ed Sardine Cannery closed for good, right after everyone in the world realized that sardines are super gross. Soon, all of us were stuck eating the sardines that no one else wanted Late 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and Early-Mid 2000s. Life became the past, gray, retro, and flavorless. But when all seemed lost, I stared at defeat...and found hope.

**TITLE CARD**: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF CARTOON MEATBALLS. INT. DEXTER’S 1960s LAB - DAY We see a shadowy figure walking through an awesome, futuristic lab full of glowing lights and machinery. This is Teen Dexter, still in his lab coat, still wearing those spray-on shoes. He stops to look at the posters of great inventors on a wall just like in his old bedroom 15 years ago.

**Dexter** (V.O.) My name is Dexter, and I was about to invent a machine that turns water... into food.

[He turns into the light, dramatically]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Courage, my best friend and trusted colleague! [Reveal a Courage the MONKEY. His thought translator contraption says:]

**Courage**: Courage.

**Dexter**: Can I count on your help?

[Courage holds up a sardine can, offering. ]

**Courage**: Can.

**Dexter:** I knew I could! This initiates an AWESOME BUILDING MONTAGE! Exciting MUSIC! [Dexter pushes a button.]

**Dexter:** (V.O.) (CONT’D)

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Button on.

[He starts a reel to reel recorder.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Memory activate.

[He draws blueprints.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Blueprints... awesome!

[He creates a contained NUCLEAR EXPLOSION.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Begin nano-mutation.

[He lowers a disco ball into a microwave.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Radiation matrix secure.

[He uses a computer mouse.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Computer, boot!

[He draws sci-fi lines on the machine.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Coolness enhancement complete!

[EXCITING MUSIC STOPS.]

[Dexter and Courage SIP COFFEE on a break.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Engage coffee break. Long beat, then... MUSIC’S BACK!

[Dexter plugs in two cords.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Networking power grid!

[He then plugs many cords into many surge protectors and plugs the last one into the finished machine, clearly made out of a colander, microwave, blender and other spare parts. But it also looks kind of cool.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Beginning conversion of water into food.

[Dexter pours water into the top.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Hydrating protein matrix.

[He flips switches and turns knobs on the machine.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Calibrating flavor panel.

[He tightens a screw on the bottom of the machine.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Priming Chow Plopper.

[He types into his computer.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Uploading cool machine voice.

**Food Machine 2000:** Cheeseburger.

[He flips on a switch and...]

**Dexter:**Everyone is going to love this. F[Dexter aits hopefully as the Chow Plopper bulges bigger and bigger... A cheeseburger-shaped CLOUD forms slowly above a plate at the bottom, becoming more and more like a real cheeseburger. It’s at 60%... 70%... 80%... 90%... A HUGE SPARK shocks Dexter!]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Aaaaaaaah!

[Almost instantly, a power surge goes up through the cables and out the lab. Power goes out.]

[INT. DAD'S LIVING ROOM - MORNING Dexter's Dad sits on the couch, reading the paper. All the appliances EXPLODE at once. Black.]

**Dexter:** Sorry, Dad!

[INT. DEXTER'S LAB - CONTINUOUS On his way out, Dexter passes Courage, who bangs a pipe against a metal bucket.]

**Dexter:** Courage, keep working.

[HUMMING AN IMAGINARY SOUNDTRACK (the Dee Deee as the full orchestra one playing in the previous scene), Dexterruns up to a vault-like door and puts his hand up to a fake looking scanner.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Scanning hand. [Making his own sound effects, he presses a button and the door opens into a large empty hallway. Approaching the doorway at the other end, Dexter inputs the code on his Simon.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) (BEEPING NOISES) [After a few more of his own sound effects he opens the door to the elevator and heads down. EXT. DEXTER'S LAB - CONTINUOUS DEXTER makes ELEVATOR NOISES as he heads down the pneumatic tube elevator from the top of his lab to the ground. The tube goes under the ground and then pops up inside a Port-APotty. Dexter exits and runs over to the house while still humming the imaginary soundtrack. Neighbor kids watch and laugh, including Edd, 8.]

**Edd:** That’s a really weird dude.

[INT. DEXTER'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS Dexter enters through the back door.]

**Dexter:** Reenergizing power unit. (SOUND EFFECTS) [Dexter opens the FUSE BOX. Twiddles... Lights go ON. Dad is behind him, arms crossed. Dexter turns and is surprised.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Yah! Jeez.

[He backs into the fuse box and FALLS DOWN. He pops back up and starts to leave, nervously.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) See you, dad.

[EXT. DAD'S BACKYARD - CONTINUOUS Dexter goes back out towards his lab. Dexter's Dad follows outside, where Courage bangs on stuff.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Dexter, um... er... don’t you think it’s Dexter's Dade to give up this inventing thing and get a real job?

[Dexter stops.[

**Dexter:** No, why?

**Dexter's Dad:** Well, all your technology stuff, it just ends in disaster.

**Dexter:** The bats, yes, they escaped and bred at a surprising rate, but I took care of that problem and disposed of them.

[Behind Dexter, three Bats descend, pick up eddy, and fly away with him, SCREAMING.]

**Edd:** Eddy, just play dead!

**Dexter's Dad:** Dexter, you don’t keep throwing your net where there aren’t any fish.

**Dexter:** What?

**Dexter's Dad:** I want you to work full Dexter's Dade at the thrift store.

**Dexter:** The Thrift Store?! Aww, Dad, no!

**Dexter's Dad:** Thrift is a good store.

[As Dexter pleads with his dad, Courage climbs up on Dad's shoulder and reaches for his moustache. Dexter's Dad's uncomfortable.]

**Dexter:** Please, I’m so close with this one. I just have to hook it up to the power station and give it more power and it’ll work, and then you can sell food in the Store, and then everyone won’t have to eat sardines anymore. It is going to be so awesome. [Dexter's Dad removes Courage and DROPS him.] Dexter's Dade to lay down the law. Dexter's Dad I’m sorry, son. Courage Ouch. Dexter's Dad No more inventing. Dexter's Dad turns to go inside.

**Dexter:** Dad. I know I can do this. (THEN) And Winona did too.

[Dexter's Dad freezes but doesn’t turn. Dexter looks at him guiltily. He knows he crossed the line.]

**Dexter:** (V.O.) It had been almost ten years since Winona died, and Dad still didn’t understand me like she did.

[Dexter tries to take back what he said.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Dad, I--

**Dexter's Dad:** Come on, let’s open the store.

[And he walks off. EXT. THRIFT STORE - DAY Dexter's dad excitedly unveils an “AND SON” sign added to “BOOKS, TAPES, & GAMES STORE”.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Dad and Son Books, Games, and Tapes store. You feelin’ it?

**Dexter:** (TRYING) Mmm-hmm.

[Dexter's Dad walks in, happy, as he enters the store and Dexter MOPES and he follows him inside. EXT. RETROVILLE - DAY TV COMMERCIAL: A cartoon baby tips over a wagon of sardines.]

**KID VOICES**: (V.O.) Look out, Baby Ed!

**Baby Ed:** Uh-oh!

**TV ANNOUNCER #1:** (V.O.) Baby Ed Sardines.

**TV ANNOUNCER #2:** (V.O.) Hand-packed in Retroville.

[The crude animation of the commercial freezes and the MAYOR walks in front of the frozen image.]

**MAYOR:** As your mayor, I know it's Dexter's Dade to put our sardine canning past behind us. And look to the future: Sardine Tourism!

[A cheesy graphic: “TOURISM!” over four different crappy shots of town.]

**MAYOR:** (CONT’D) That’s why without consulting anyone, I spent the entire town budget on the thing that is under this tarp. Which I will be unveiling today at nooon! Featuring a live appearance by Baby Eddy himself!

[Another cheesy graphic spins at camera: “NOON!” INT. THRIFT STORE- DAY Reveal we are watching the Mayor’s commercial on a TV in the Store as Dexter stacks Baby Ed Sardine cans listlessly. He is not wearing his labcoat. There are a couple old-Dexter's Daders (Lazlo, Raj and Clam) in the Store eating sardines, also watching the TV. Dexter sighs. “BABY” ED enters. Dexter's longDexter's Dade bully, and the town’s only celebrity, Eddy has let himself go. He’s overweight, lazy, and wears a baby blue track suit with “BB” embroidered on it. He has a lady on each arm.]

**Ed:** What is up, everybody?

**Lazlo** / **Raj** / **Clam:** Hey! / Hey, it’s Baby Ed!

**Ed:** (TO DEXTER) Whatcha doin’? Stacking cans with me on ‘em as a baby? Uhoh! [He does the Baby Ed pose, knocking over some of the cans Dexter just stacked. The old Dexter's Daders love it, LAUGHING.]

**Dexter:** (ANNOYED) Hi Baby Ed.

**Ed:** (LAUGHS) Anyways, who wants to watch me cut the ribbon at the Mayor’s unveiling thing? I’ll be using these bad boys to help save the town.

[He shows off a pair of huge golden scissors.]

**Lazlo, Raj, and Clam;** OOH.

**Ed:** (CONT’D) Boy-yo! (AS HE EXITS) Alright you guys! Sardines! Yeah! Swallow Falls Forever!

**Lazlo:** Oh, what a rascal.

[Dexter frowns as he watches Edand his posse exit past the window. Dexter's Dad approaches Dexter from the back room as the Old-Dexter's Daders leave.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Listen, you, uh... Maybe you wanna go to that unveiling?

[Dexter thinks for a beat.]

**Then:** **Dexter:** (CASUAL) You know, Dad, why don’t you go ahead. I’ll hold down the fort here.

**Dexter's Dad:** (PLEASANTLY SURPRISED) Really? You sure you can handle it?

**Dexter:** Yeah, Dad, I’m pretty sure I’ll be fine.

**Dexter's Dad** Huh. Alright, then. I’ll be back in half an hour, skipper.

**Dexter:** Okay, byeeee.

[Dexter's Dad leaves. Dexter looks around sneakily then runs away HUMMING HIS SOUNDTRACK again. He grabs his lab coat on the way out. EXT. RETRO CIRCLE - MOMENTS LATER Backstage, the Mayor grabs the chain link fence, tense. Ed sits behind him, eating sardines out of a tin.]

**MAYOR:** This hell hole’s too small for me, Ed. I want to be big. (MORE) I want people to look at me and say, “That is one big mayor.” That’s why this has to work. It has to work! Otherwise, I’m just a tiny mayor of a tiny town full of tiny sardine-sucking knucklescrapers.

[Eddy’s knuckles are scraping the ground, mouth full of fish.]

**Ed:** But not me, right?

**MAYOR:** Oh, not you, Ed, no. You’ve always been like a son to me.

[The Mayor rolls his eyes. ON STAGE: The Mayor bounds on stage and up to the microphone.]

**MAYOR:** (CONT’D) (POSITIVE) Hey, hey everybody! [REVEAL there are like 20 students there.]

**MAYOR:** (CONT’D) Under this tarp is the greatest tourist attraction ever built by humans!

[REVEAL Dexter and Couragetiptoeing towards the power station, carrying his machine.]

**Dexter:** It just needs seventeen thousand more gigajoules. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

[Dexter makes a break for it but is STOPPED immediately by 1960s Numbuh 1, an overzealous leader who plays by the rules. He hides the machine behind his back.]

**Numbuh 1:** What are you doing, Dexter?

**Dexter:** Just holding my hands behind my back respectfully, sir.

**MAYOR (CONT'D) Numbuh 1:** You know what you are, Dexter?

**Dexter:** No.

**Numbuh 1:** A shenaniganizer! A tomfool! You see my beautiful angel friends, Numbuh 2, 3, 4, & 5?

[Numbuh 2, 3, 4, & 5 are there. And they brought their attitude.]

**All:** What's up?

**Numbuh 1:** I love them so much. These are my only friends. I want them to have a bright future. A future in which you don’t ruin our town’s day with one of your crazy science doodleybopper thingies.

**Dexter:** Well, you know, that’s all behind me--

**Numbuh 1:** You see this contact lens, Dexter?

[He holds a contact lens.]

**Dexter:** Mm-hmm.

**Numbuh 1:** This contact lens represent you.

**Dexter:** Alright.

**Numbuh 1:** And my eye represents my eye.

**Dexter:** Okay. [He very deliberately puts the contact on his eye.]

**Numbuh 1:** I got my eye... on... you.

**Dexter:** Oh, my gosh, a jaywalker.

**Numbuh 1:** Hey! [Numbuh 1 RUNS down the street and bullies the jaywalker. OOF! ON THE MAYOR MAYOR And I’ve arranged for live coverage from a major network and their most experienced professional reporter! EXT. NEW YORK CITY CHYRON: Yesterday PRODUCTION COORDINATOR (V.O.) Oh, just send the intern. INT. WEATHER NEWS NETWORK SET - YESTERDAY A cute young Cheerleader, Dee Dee, delivers coffee to the crew members on set. The PRODUCER and PRODUCTION COORDINATOR stand in the foreground.

**PRODUCTION COORDINATOR:** She’s cute and she’s super perky.

**Grim:** Well, those are the only things we look for in a TV weather person. Intern! How would you like to do a weather report from a rinky-dink island in the middle of the ocean as a favor to my cousin? [Dee Dee, excited, drops her tray of coffees on the ground.]

**Dee Dee:** Oh, Really?!

[EXT. NEW YORK - DAY Dee Dee drives the weathervan, with her silent but adept cameraman BILLY and MANDY in the passenger seat.]

**Dee Dee:** Can you believe it, Billy & Mandy? Temporary professional meteorologist. Woo!

[Mandy holds the wheel as billy and dee dee gestures. EXT. OCEAN - DAY Dee Dee, Billy and Manny are sitting in their van as it travels on a ferry across the ocean.]

**Dee Dee:** Okay, Guys what about this? (PRACTICING) Welcome, America, I’m Dee Dee. Hello, America, Dee Dee here. America, hi, I didn’t see you there. It’s me, Dee Dee. (THEN, EXCITED) On my way! Across the ocean!

[EXT. RETROVILLE CIRCLE - TODAY AT THE POWER STATION, Dexter creeps past DANGER! ELECTRICITY! signs. The Mayor DRONES ON in the background.]

**MAYOR:** (O.S.) Now, when she gets here, I want to see a lot of smiling faces...

[Dexter looks up at the huge, scary electrical tower.]

**Dexter:** This is a great idea.

[EXT. SARDINE CIRCLE - MOMENTS LATER ON TV: The WNN logo.]

**Grim** (V.O.)**:** Weather news network. Weather news happens... or not.

[The well-coiffed WNN ANCHOR speaks to camera. INSET is Dee Dee, in front of the growing crowd at Retroville’s town center.]

**Grim:** Now we’re over to Retroville where our cheerleader is on her first day on the job. Or should I say first gray on the job, looks pretty cloudy there, intern?

[Dee Dee (WHISPERING UNDER ANCHOR) Hello, America, I’m Dee Dee. Hello, America, I’m Dee Dee. Beat. Dee Dee is extremely nervous.

**Dee Dee:** Hello, Dee Dee, I’m America. It’s Retroville degrees... and, uh, let’s just go to the mayor.

[She gestures to the mayor, who addresses the excited crowd.]

**MAYOR:** Thank you and welcome national television audience!

[AT THE POWER STATION, we sees QUICK CUTS of Dexter connecting lots of jumper cables together on the electrical tower. We PAN UP to the top of the electrical tower over scary zapping coils to find Dexter at the very top STRUGGLING to connect one last cable -- and he’s ELECTROCUTED and falls to the ground.]

**Dexter:** YAHHH!!! ON THE MAYOR. MAYOR And now, here to cut the ceremonial ribbon, Swallow Falls’ favorite son, Baby Eddy! Eddy walks on stage from behind a curtain and RIPS OFF his tracksuit, revealing a DIAPER.

**MAYOR:** (CONT’D) He’s still got it, folks!

**Ed:** Yeah! Hahaha! I’m the best person in the whole town! [The students APPLAUDS. He makes his SIGNATURE POSE, knocking over a wagon of sardines, and the crowd goes nuts.]

**Ed:** (CONT’D) Uh-oh! [BACK AT THE POWER STATION, we see run back to his machine. He raises the jumper cables high, about to attach them...

**Dexter:** Food synthesis go!

[ON Numbuh 1 in the students with Lizzie and friends. Suddenly he jolts to attention. He looks down.]

**Numbuh 1:** My chest hairs are tingling. Something’s wrong. [Numbuh 1 acrobatically flips away toward the power station. ON THE MAYOR.]

**MAYOR:** So here it is, the attraction the whole world has been waiting for-- RetroLand!

[Ed cuts the ribbon with the giant scissors and the tarp falls, revealing a small Sea World-like THEME PARK. Applause. ON THE ATTRACTIONS as each tarp falls.]

**MAYOR:** (CONT’D) With rides! And exhibits! And featuring Shamo! The world’s largest sardine, and his flaming hoop of glory!

[Amid a few rides and booths is SHAMO, a TINY FISH in a VERY LARGE BOWL, with a ring of fire to jump through. Shamo does not look excited about the ring of fire. MAYOR (CONT’D) Those of you in the Splash Zone, look out! ON JOE TOWNE in the front row of the bleachers, where ONE SEAT is marked “SPLASH ZONE.”]

**Lazlo:** Yeah!

[ON NUMBUH 1, doing OVERZEALOUS NUMBUH 1 POSES. He sees Dexter and GASPS. ON DEXTER, who finally connects the cables to the machine.

**Food Machine 2000:** Cheeseburger.

[It starts to power up and Dexter looks excited.]

**Numbuh 1:** Dexter!

[Dexter turns and sees Numbuh 1 running.]

**Dexter:** Uh, just a second! I’m in the middle of a yaaaaah!

[A SPARK sends the machine SHOOTING off horizontally like a missile, with Dexter dragged behind it, hanging on to jumper cables for dear life.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaghgh!

[ON BILLY MANDY AND DEE DEE, broadcasting, unaware of the danger.]

**Dee Dee:** (ON TV) Well, looks like things in Retroville are old Dexter's Dades to get better. For-- WHAM!

[The machine knocks Manny’s camera into Dee Dee, Dexter flies over. The lens smooshes right up against her face. She looks ridiculous.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) <\*SMOOSHED FACE NOISES\*> [INT. WNN STUDIO - CONTINUOUS The Anchor looks at Dee Dee’s smooshed face in shock. WNN ANCHOR Aah! EXT. SARDINE CIRCLE - DAY Dexter looks back as the machine rockets him away from Dee Dee.]

**Dexter:** Aah, sorry!

[The machine (and Dexter) whips into RetroLand, knocks around out Shamo’s fish bowl scaffolding, and ricochets back. And Dexter's Dade SLOWS DOWN as the machine and Dexter pass by his Dad. Dexter's Dad SCOWLS. Oops. Dexter STRUGGLES to stop the machine by planting his feet, waterskiing on his spray-on shoes, tearing up the sidewalk, and is finally stopped by a STOP sign. The machine breaks away from the jumper cables and shoots up, disappearing into the sky. Dexter looks up at the machine he lost...]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) No... OOF! [And he’s tackled by Numbuh 1.]

**Numbuh 1**: You’re in big trouble, Dexter. Thank goodness you only caused minimal damage to RetroLand.

[But behind them, there’s a noise. They both look at Shamo’s bowl scaffolding... KRAAAAAAK! The scaffolding breaks, the fish bowl topples over and SPLASHES its water everywhere but the Splash Zone.]

**Lazlo:** Oh, come on!

[The bowl starts to roll around the town like a giant wheel of destruction. ON THE SARDINE MUSEUM, which is SMASHED by the bowl. ON THE VIRTUAL SARDINE EXPERIENCE. People lie down in it like sardines as the lid is rolled up over them. The bowl SMASHES into it. ON THE MAYOR, as the bowl smashes into the stage and sends him FLYING.]

**MAYOR:** Aaaaggh! [ON SHAMO, screaming inside the bowl. ON THE STUDENTS, fleeing. ON Eddy, running with the giant ceremonial scissors.]

**Edd:** I really shouldn’t be running with these! [Dexter and Courage RUN as the bowl bears down on them, but they aren’t fast enough and give up -- only to be saved when the lip of the bowl rolls over them, leaving them unharmed.]

**Mac and Bloo:** (CONT’D) Run, run, run, jump, jump, run, run, jump!

[ON THE BOWL, as it continues on its path of destruction through Retro Circle and citizens run SCREAMING. THE BOWL bounces through a parking lot, exploding a car which propels the bowl up in the air and throws Shamo through the flaming hoop and towards the ocean and freedom.]

**SHAMO**: (GURGLY) Yippee!

[Then he’s immediately SNATCHED UP by a flying bat. Then the bowl falls back to the ground, landing upside-down on top of Dexter and Courage, trapping them inside. THROUGH THE GLASS BOWL, Dexter sees all the destruction he caused.]

**Dexter:** (DEFEATED) Ay papi. [Everyone stares at Dexter, The Mayor, Dee Dee, Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Ed, Edd, Eddy, Numbuh 1, 2 3 4 & 5, Billy, Mandy, Mac, Bloo, Ami, Yumi, Lazlo, Raj, Clam, and the Other Students. All incredibly angry at Dexter. Then Dexter sees a disappointed Dad. He looks at his dad, full of regret. Everyone turns their back on Dexter, last of all, his Dad. Dexter hits his head against the glass in despair. Then... CRAAAACK! It sends a crack up to the top of the bowl and the whole thing shatters. Everyone turns and GASPS. Dexter and Courage stare at the citizens, then quickly run away. EXT. DOCKS - DAY We find Dexter, with Courage, hanging on the ladder at the end of the docks, hiding underneath. He SIGHS. He hears footsteps, and hides... It’s Dee Dee, who walks to the end of the dock and SIGHS. She tosses her microphone ANGRILY into the water. Then she PLOPS down, and her heels kicks Dexter in the eyes.]

**Dee Dee:** Oh my gosh! I am so sorry. Are you okay? I didn’t get a chance to--

**Dexter:** It’s okay. It’s just pain.

**Dee Dee:** Sorry, I am not myself today. My whole career was ruined by some crazy jerk riding a homemade rocket. [Dexter looks away suspiciously.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) Wait a minute. (THEN) What is going on with your feet?

**Dexter:** Spray-on shoes.

[They don’t come off. She grabs his foot and yanks it toward her until he’s hanging upside down.]

**Dee Dee:** Cool!

[This could solve the untied shoes epidemic. What are they made of, some kind of elastic biopolymer adhesive? Music plays as Dexter gets all dreamy.]

**Dexter:** (SMITTEN) Yeah, exactly...

**Dee Dee:** (SUDDENLY NERVOUS) I mean... (GIGGLES) Wow, they’re shiny. (THEN) I’m Dee Dee.

[She lets go of his foot and his head slams into the ladder again, causing him to YELP.]

**Dexter:** (IN LOVE) Dexter.

**Courage:** Courage!

**Dee Dee** (EXCITED AGAIN) Is that Courage the dog translator?

**Courage:** [howling].

**Dee Dee:** Ha! Incredible!

[Dexter is just staring at her enchanted, .We can barely make out Dee Dee putting it all together.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) Did you make all of this stuff? (THEN, REALIZING) You hit me with the rocket!

**Dexter:** You kicked me in the face!

**Dee Dee:** I said I was sorry!...

[SPLAT. Some yellow goop lands on the ladder. Courage licks it. Dexter SNIFFS it and is about to taste when ZING! A PICKLE SLICE lands in the water. Dre Dee notices none of this.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) Oh! Do you know how hard it is to break into the weather game? I spent my entire life building up to that moment. You get one shot at the show... ZING!

[Behind Dexter, something lands in a garbage can on the docks, causing it to rattle. Dexter gets up and walks to it.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) (REALIZING SOMETHING’S AMISS) ...And if you don’t make it, it’s back to cleaning the barometers... [Dexter looks into the garbage can.] There’s a SLICE OF CHEESE inside.

[He reaches for it].

**Dexter:** Cheese?

[Suddenly a ratbird appears from the shadows of the can, startling Dexter. It snatches the cheese and flies away.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Aaaah!

[Dexter starts to piece it together.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) But that could only mean...

[ROLLING THUNDER causes Dexter to turn and look up at the sky. Dee Dee turns and reacts in the Dee Deee way. Courage does the Dee Deee. All over town, students turn to the sky and react. Raj takes off his hat, Clam takes off her glasses, Lazlo takes off his hat. Back on the dock: We finally reveal beautiful burger-shaped clouds dropping perfectly-prepared cheeseburgers into the ocean and along the dock. It’s RAINING CHEESEBURGERS!!!!]

**Courage:** Excited! Excited!

[Dexter stares to the heavens and LAUGHS as beautiful burgers float down all around them. A burger lands in his hand. He takes a delicious bite.]

**Dexter:** My machine works... It really works!

[Dee Dee overhears and approaches.]

**Dee Dee:** Your machine? Is that what that rocket was?

**Dexter:** (MOUTH FULL) Uh... Do you like it?

**Dee Dee:** (MOUTH FULL) I love it! (LAUGHS) This is just amazing! Look at this. This is the greatest weather phenomenon in history!

[Dexter is happy. Then, he realizes:]

**Dexter:** (MOUTH FULL) Hey, aren’t you a weather girl?

[EXT. RETROVILLE - Dee Dee Dexter's Dad Sweeping shot over the town as burgers rain down.]

**Dee Dee:** (O.S.) Billy, Mandy, get your camera!

[Citizens slowly come out of hiding and start to enjoy the delicious burgers. All except -- Dexter's Dad, who stands inside the doorway of his Store and just stares at the sky in disbelief. Back in town, people CHEER!

[INT. WNN NEWS DESK - MOMENTS LATER Grim Anchor touches his earpiece, getting a message from his producer.]

**Grim:** This just in, our humiliated weather intern is apparently back for more.

EXT. RETRO CIRCLE - CONTINUOUS IN CAMERA: Burgers rain behind an excited Dee Dee.

**Dee Dee:** Thanks, Grim. Okay, everybody. You are not gonna believe this one, but I am standing in the middle of a burger rain. You may have seen a meteor shower, but you’ve never seen a shower meatier than this.

[On Dexter, surveying the scene, as Dee Dee continues behind him. The town is going crazy with the burgers.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) For a town stuck eating sardines, this is totally manna from heaven.

**Lazlo:** This tastes significantly better than sardines!

[Lizzie shoves one into his mouth and ENJOYS IT. We see the mayor steal burgers from citizens as he walks.]

**Mayor:** This is gonna be big!

[The mayor shoves three burgers into his mouth. The Citizens gathers to watch Dee Dee's report as they eat.]

**Dee Dee:** (ON TV) This food-weather was created intentionally by meekish backyard tinkerer, Dexter.

[Numbuh 1 and everyone around him STOPS.]

**Numbuh 1:** Dexter?

[Everyone turns and looks at Dexter.]

**Dexter:** Hi.

[Numbuh 1 jumps over to Dexter and tackles him again. OOF! The burgers STOP RAINING.]

**Numbuh 1:** You’re in big trouble for ruining RetroLand.

[But before he can cuff him... Dee Dee runs up.]

**Dee Dee** Dexter, those burgers were awesome! The producer called and he was all like (DEEP VOICE) “Everybody loves that food weather.”

[The Mayor approaches, excited.]

**Mayor:** Food weather.

**Numbuh 1:** What?

**Mayor:** This could be even bigger than Retro Land.

**Dee Dee:** Can you make it rain food again? Please?

**Numbuh 1:** No--

**Dexter:** Well, I don’t really know if I--

[Numbuh 2, 3, 4, & 5 run up.]

**Numbuh 4:** You’re gonna do it again?

**Numbuh 1:** Oh, you gotta be kidding.

**Dee Dee:** Please please please please please...

[Dexter looks at her. God, she’s adorable.]

**Dexter:** Yes.

SMASH CUT TO: INT. DAD'S LIVING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER Dexter's Dad blocks the way to the port-a-potty.

**Dexter's Dad:** No.

**Dexter:** Dad, just give me one more chance.

**Dexter's Dad:** We both know this was an accident.

**Dexter:** I know, but--

**Dexter's Dad:** Cheeseburgers from the sky, that’s not natural.

**Dexter:** My invention could save the whole town. You would be so proud of me, Dad. Plus, (WHISPERS) there’s a cheerleader and the gang here.

**Dexter's Dad:** (SIGHS) Can you look me in the eye and tell me you’ve got this under control, and it’s not gonna end up in a disaster?

[Dexter's Dad raises his unibrow so that his eyes are visible.]

**Dexter:** (LOOKING AWAY) Yes? Not good enough.

[Dexter strains to look him in the eye, but his eyeballs wander and twitch. Finally he gets his eyes on his dad.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) (SUPER-FAST) I've got this under control and it's not going to end up in disaster. (WHEW) Unibrow back down.

**Dexter's Dad:** Alright.

**Dexter:** Thanks, Dad!

**Dexter's Dad:** Oh, sure.

[Dexter calls over to 1960s cheerleader named Dee Dee.]

**Dexter:** Okay. So, Dee Dee. (OPENS THE PORT-APOTTY DOOR) This is where the magic happens. Dee Dee Billy and Mandy exchange a look.

INT. ELEVATOR - DAY Dee Dee and Dexter and Courage Billy and Manny are there. Mandy has his camera pointed at an uncomfortable Dexter. Courage licks Dee Dee's microphone.

**Courage:** Lick... lick... lick... lick...

[This happens for a while.]

INT. DEXTER'S LAB - MOMENTS LATER The curtain opens and they step into the MAIN CHAMBER. Dee Dee is a little weirded out.

**LAB VOICE:** Welcome, Dexter.

**Dee Dee:** Wow. You seriously spend a lot of Dexter's Dade alone.

**Dexter:** What?

[Dexter shows his older sister Dee Dee a diagram of the machine.]

**Dexter:** So here’s how it works: Water goes in the top and food comes out the bottom.

**Dee Dee:** So when you shot it up into the stratosphere, you figured it would induce a molecular phase change of the vapor from the cumulonimbus layer

**Dexter:** That’s actually a really smart observation.

**Dee Dee:** (SUDDENLY NERVOUS) I mean, the clouds probably have water in them, which I guess is why you shot it up there in the first place.

**Dexter:** (SUDDENLY NERVOUS) Right, right. That’s why I did that...on purpose.

**Dee Dee:** Right, yeah.

**Dexter:** Right.

[Both LAUGH AWKWARDLY and Dexter backs out of frame. He points to a diagram of water molecules forming into hexagons from radiation waves.]

**Dexter:** The machine uses a principal of hydro-genetic mutation. Water molecules are bombarded with microwave radiation, which mutates their genetic recipe into any kind of food you want.

**Dee Dee:** So, pizza?

**Dexter:** Yes.

**Dee Dee:** Mashed potatoes?

**Dexter:** Yes.

**Dee Dee:** Peas?

**Dexter:** Yes, that’s also a food.

**Dee Dee:** Steak?

**Dexter:** Yes.

**Dee Dee:** Apples?

**Dexter:** Mmm-hmm

**Dee Dee:**Applesauce?

**Dexter:** Yes.

**Dee Dee:** Can it do a B.L.T.?! .

**Dexter:** (KINDLY) I’m pretty sure I said any kind of food.

**Dee Dee:** Chicken wings?!

**Dexter:** Okay, well, just think about what you’re saying and if it’s a food, then yes it can.

**Dee Dee:** Baloney?

**Dexter:** That is a food.

[Dee Dee gets a dreamy look in her eyes.]

**Dee Dee:** Ooh... How about Jell-O?

**Dexter:**(FLIRTS BADLY) Do you like Jell-O?

**Dee Dee:** I love Jell-O.

**Dexter:** I love Jell-O too! And peanut butter, right?

**Dee Dee:** Oh, no, no. I am severely allergic to peanuts.

**Dexter:** (LYING) Yeah, me too!

**Dee Dee:** So what’s it called?

**Dexter:** Peanut allergy.

**Dee Dee:** No, the machine.

**Dexter:** Of course. It’s called the Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator 2000. .Or, for short, (DRAMATIC TURN) the Food Machine 2000.

**Dee Dee:** Foot Machine 2000?

**Dexter:** (DRAMATIC TURN) Food Machine 2000.

**Dee Dee:** Foot Milkshake 2000?

**Dexter:** (POINTING AT THE LETTERS) Food. Machine. 2000.

**Dee Dee:** Oh. (THEN) Billy, Mandy, make sure you get this, he’s going to make the food now.

**Dexter:** Uh, now? (CAUGHT) Well, the thing is, I can’t... (GETS IDEA) wait to show you this hilarious internet video!

[Dexterclicks his mouse and distracts Dee Dee with a YouTube video -- A CUTE CAT DJ playing “Fight the Power.”]

**Dee Dee:** What? What is this...? (LAUGHING) It’s so cute...

[As Dee Deewatches, laughing, Dexter- rigs a remote control system using a SATELLITE DISH and a bunch of wires.]

**Dexter:** (WHISPERING) Pushing. Folding. Connecting. Taping. Turning. Painting. Switching. Staring. Motivating. Placing button.

[He sets up a RED “SEND” BUTTON, and re-boots the computer. Dee Dee's still laughing.]

**Dee Dee:** I can’t believe I’ve been watching this for three hours!

**Dexter:** I know!

**Dexter:** (CONT'D) [types at his computer. Dee Dee comes over, still laughing. then finishes his typing and the central screen now reads] “ENTER FOOD CODE:”

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) (SOTTO) It’s working. (THEN) What do you guys want for breakfast?

[Couragepops into frame.]

**Billy:** Gummi Bears.

**Dexter:** Whoa, Billy, no! We both know how you get around Gummi Bears.

**Dee Dee:** How about... eggs?

**Dexter:** And toast?

**Dee Dee:** Orange juice.

**Dexter, Billy & Dee Dee:** And bacon!

[Dee Dee very subtly leans in and closes his eyes, thinking he might get a kiss.]

**Dee Dee:** What are you doing?

**Dexter:** Nothing. (THEN) To the computer!

[Dexter types the food code into the computer.]

**Dee Dee:** So, you’re sure this is safe?

**Dexter:** Don’t worry. I have a Dangeometer that lets us know if the food is going to over-mutate.

[REVEAL a “DANGEOMETER” GAUGE with a needle safely in the green. Pay no attention to the yellow or red. That won’t come back later.]

**Dee Dee:** Ooh, what happens if the food overmutates?

**Dexter:** I dunno, but that’ll never happen. All right. This probably won’t explode.

**Dee Dee:** What?

[Dexter pushes the RED SEND BUTTON. WE TRAVEL past the button to the Dangeometer, along wires to the satellite dish and up into the-- EXT. STRATOSPHERE - CONTINUOUS Where the machine floats peacefully. An 8-bit graphic of an bacon strip pops onto the VIEW SCREEN.]

**Food Machine 2000:** Bacon.

[We ZOOM inside the machine to see the molecules re-forming into little molecular bacon strips. INT. WEATHERMAP - DAY Dee Dee stands in front of a map with food-weather symbols.]

**Dee Dee:** (ON TV) Well, those cheeseburgers were only the beginning, because a breakfast system is on its way to Retroville. My forecast: sunny... side up.

**MONTAGE MUSIC CUE**: SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS by Lesley Gore. EXT. SWALLOW FALLS - DAY CLOUD’S EYE VIEW of Breakfast raining on Retroville. QUICK CUTS: Lazlo and his friends leave the thrift store to catch SUNNY SIDE UP EGGS. A woman catches PANCAKES on a plate while she drives to work. . A little girl tilts orange juice caught in an upside-down umbrella into the mouth of a gurgling little boy. The Mayor rips open a storm drain on the side of a building and bacon pours into his mouth. Bats snack on breakfast foods on a powerline. Dexter watches happy breakfast eaters. The mayor walks up, covered in bacon.

**MAYOR:** Dexter, my boy, can you do lunch?

[EXT. CITY HALL - LUNCHDexter's DadE It’s raining sandwiches. The Mayor is eating and pacing. Eds holds up flashcards to illustrate the Mayor’s points, kind of like Bob Dylan, but not really.]

**MAYOR:** Alright, here’s the skinny. You keep making it rain the snackadoos, weather girl provides free advertising, I have taken out a very high interest loan to convert this po-dunk town into a tourist foodtopia. All you have to do is make it rain food three meals a day, every day, for the forseeable future, and in thirty days, we hold a grand reopening of the island as a must-see cruise destination, and everyone everywhere is going to love your invention.

[He has a flashcard of people hugging a stick-figure Dexter who has a big smile and hearts all around him.]

**Dexter:** You think so?

[The Mayor takes this opportunity to eat the sandwich out of Dexter's hands.]

**MAYOR:** (MOUTH FULL) I know so.

[INT. DEXTER'S LAB - DAY Dexter types the menu into his computer and SLAPS the button.EXT. RETROVILLE - VARIOUS Dee Dee does another weather forecast. A woman catches a turkey leg on her way to work.]

**Dee Dee:** Now that’s what I call poultry in motion.

[QUICK SHOTS The Mayor munches on a ham hock as he points offscreen. The “Ville” in the “Retroville” sign on the cannery is detonated and replaced so that it now reads “EATATRETRO.” The buildings get facelifts: “Elder Beerman” becomes “Altitude Trampoline Park.” Stores become “Nothing but Floss,” “Bibs.” EXT. RETROVILLE - DAY In JUMP CUTS, to camera:]

**Students #1:** Mr. Dexter, may I please have waffles?

**Bubbles:** Falafels.

**Numbuh 3:** Jelly beans.

**Eddy:** Avocado!

[Dexter writes down their requests.]

**Dexter:** Coming right up!

EXT. RETROVILLE - DAY Dee Dee reports in front of piles of food on the ground.

**Dee Dee:** Leftovers? Not a problem with Dexter Lockwood’s latest invention, the Outtasighter. So named because it catapults uneaten food out of sight, and therefore, out of mind.

[Dexter and Courage are inside a fantastical contraption. Its huge fork and spoon arms SCRAPE leftovers onto the giant plate, which drops it into the bowl in the back. He pulls the lever and the bowl CATAPULTS the food way into the distance. QUICK SHOTS The Baby Ed Sardines billboard is replaced with one for “Dexter's Brand Napkins.” Eddy GASPS in horror. People eat from mouth funnels, and we see the mouth funnels store in the background. A RAINBOW OF JELLYBEANS rains into the open mouths of waiting kids.]

**Kids &** **Numbuh 3:** Jellybeans! Awesome!

[Throughout, people keep ordering more food and the music gets faster and faster.]

**Mac:** Pizza!

**Bloo:** Donuts!

[We follow a DONUT that falls from the sky and into Numbuh 2'a mouth.]

**Numbuh 5:** Pie!

**Courage:** Gummi bears!

[Dexter gives him a stern look.]

**Ami:** Fish!

BAT <\*SQUAWK\*.

**Students:** (DEMANDING FOOD WALLA) Pizza / bologna / I want/ gimme/ more/ come on! / etc...

[Suddenly the MUSIC completely CUTS OUT. ON THE MAYOR, who is now really FAT.]

**MAYOR:** A pizza, stuffed inside a turkey, the whole thing deep fried and dipped in chocolate. (BEAT) It’s me, the Mayor.

**Dexter:** Oh... uh, you look different. Did you get a new... haircut?

**MAYOR:** Yes, I did. Thank you for noticing.

[The music comes back in. ON DEXTER TYPING. ON MORE FOOD FALLING. The Foodster RATTLES and SHAKES with overuse. MACHINE VOICE (FOOD WALLA) EXT. THRIFT STORE - DAY Across the street from his dad’s Store, Dexter looks on. Everybody walk past the Store window, laughing and eating the falling food. Inside, the Store is completely quiet and empty. Dexter's Dad stands at the counter, alone.]

[INT. THRIFT STORE - DAY Dexter's Dad changes a sign from “SARDINES 10% OFF” to “SARDINES 100% OFF.” Dexter enters.]

**Dexter:** Hey Dad. I’m headed back to the lab. If you wanna come I could show you how I make the food...

[Dexter's Dad hides the sign.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Eh, no thanks. That techno-food. It’s too complicated for an old fisherman.

**Dexter:** Got it.

[Dexter turns to leave.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Could still use your help around here, though, you know.

**Dexter:** I’m working with the mayor now, Dad. I mean, the town’s grand reopening is in, like, a week.

**Dexter's Dad:** Right. Got it.

[Dexter leaves]

[INT. DEXTER'S LAB - MOMENTS LATER Dexter adjusts the angle of the satellite. SFX: DOORBELL. It’s Numbuh 1.]

**Numbuh 1:** (OVER INTERCOM) Dexter?!

EXT. DAD'S BACKYARD - NIGHT Numbuh 1 stands outside the PORT-A-POTTY, hat in hand. A hatch opens on the side of the lab, and Dexter sticks his head out.

**Dexter:** Yeah?

**Numbuh 1:** Uh, it’s Numbuh 3's fuck day tomorrow and I was just wondering if you could make it rain something special.

**Dexter:** Well, I’m pretty backed up on requests. And also, you’re always mean to me.

**Numbuh 1:** It’d be just one time. For her special day.

**Dexter:** Uh, I don’t know. You know, I don’t want to overwork the machine, so...

**Numbuh 1:** Okay. I knew it was a long shot... I just wanted Numbuh 2, 3, 4, and 5 to see how much his leader loves him. I thought you would understand. You know how leaders are always trying to express their love and appreciation for their friends.

[This hits Dexter hard.]

**Dexter:** Numbuh 1, wait.

[Dexter closes the hatch, runs over to the Dangeometer and sees it’s almost into the yellow. Uh oh! Wait-- he taps it and the needle moves barely back into the green.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Phew.

[Then Dexter runs off.]

**Dexter:** I’ve got an idea.

EXT. RETROVILLE - FIRST LIGHT A bat perched on a wire COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOS.

INT. KND 1960s-2000s BEDROOM - MORNING Numbuh 2, 3, 4, and 5 wakes up and rushes to the window. It’s snowing... beautiful, colored snowflakes. Could it be?

**All:** Whoa!

REVEAL Numbuh 1 and his girlfriend, Lizzie, watching proudly from the door.

**Numbuh 1:** Happy Fuck Day, Numbuh 3.

**Numbuh 2, 3, 4, & 5:** Numbuh 1...?

**Numbuh 1:** This is your day. Go have fun.

[The Kids Next Door rush down the hallway...]

**Numbuh 2:** We love you guys! You’re awesome!

**Numbuh 1:** We love you, too, guys!

**Lizzie Devine:** Have a good Dexter's Dade, friends!

[Numbuh 3 opens the door and out into--]

EXT. RETROVILLE, SUBURBS - CONTINUOUS A GLORIOUS LANDSCAPE covered with 31 different flavors of ICE CREAM. Every kid in town burst out of their houses.

**Kids:** ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Numbuh 4 leaps headfirst into the snow and makes a face-down snowangel, MUNCHING ice cream.]

**Numbuh 2:** Yeah! Cool!

[ON A NEAPOLITAN ICE CREAM FIELD, where chocolate and vanilla are covered with kids. One WEIRD KID runs into the strawberry.]

**Weird Kid:** Strawberry’s my favorite!

[ON KIDS finishing a SNOWMAN, DEVOURING IT, then repeating. ON THE BOWL OF THE OUTTASIGHTER, where kids have climbed in. The plate drops scooped-up ice cream into their mouths and then catapults both ice cream and kids into the distance.]

**Kids:** Yeaaaahh!

[ON Numbuh 1 and the Gang, on their roof, getting on a sled.]

**Numbuh 4:** C’mon, Numbuh 1.

**Numbuh 1:** I don’t know, Numbuh 4. This doesn’t look saaaaaffffe!!!!!

[Too late. Numbuh 4 pushes off and they swoosh down into an open DUMPSTER full of ice cream. They LAUGH.]

**Numbuh 1:** (CONT’D) I love you, Numbuh 4.

**Numbuh 4:** I know, Numbuh 1. You tell me every day.

[ON DEXTER, watching them with envy. He SIGHS. Dee Dee approaches.]

**Dee Dee:** Dexter this is amazing! And designing the ice cream to accumulate into scoops? I don’t know how you’re gonna top this!

**Dexter:** Maybe with hot fudge?

[He LAUGHS awkwardly. She doesn’t. Then, Numbuh 2 and a bunch of kids call from afar.]

**Numbuh 2:** Hey Dexter, you wanna be in a snowball fight with us?

[Dextersteps back, afraid.]

**Dee Dee:** Dexter, what’s the problem?

**Dexter:** I’ve never actually been in a snowball fight.

**Dee Dee:** Really?

**Dexter:** I don’t even know the rules. Is there like a point system, or is it... to the death?

**Dee Dee:** No-- You’ve never-- I mean look, even Courage is throwing chocolate snowballs.

[Courage THROWS what look like chocolate snowballs. A beat as Dexter and Dee Dee look on uncomfortably.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) Oh.

**Dexter:** Hmm.

**Dee Dee:** Yech.

**Dexter:** (PICKS UP SNOW) So, like this?

[He throws a snowball, weakly.]

**Dee Dee:** No, harder than that.

**Dexter:** (REALIZING) Oh

[He starts throwing snowballs as hard as he can.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Snowball! Snowball! Snowball!

[He pelts Numbuh 2, an old man, and a child, knocking them over.]

**Dee Dee:** Well, there’s something to be said for enthusiasm.

[Dee Dee watches, happy for Dexter, as he joyfully wails on different members of the town.]

**Dexter:** Snowball! Snowball! Snowball!

[INT. HOUSE - CONTINUOUS Dexter runs into a house and nails a dad reading the paper...]

**Dexter:**Snowball!

[...a little girl and boy in a bedroom...]

**Dexter:**(CONT’D) Snowball, and snowball!

**Mom:** (O.S.) Kids? What’s going on? .

[..and their mom in the hall.]

**Dexter:** Snowball!

[Dexter runs back out into the street, chased by the kids.]

**Kids:** Snowball! Snowball!

EXT. RETROVILLE - DAY Still at snow day, Dee Dee reports.

**Dee Dee:** I scream, you scream, we all scream for Dexter’s latest tasty town-wide treat, with flurries of frozen fun on what the mayor declared to be an ice cream snow day.

[EXT. NEW YORK CITY, Dexter's DadES SQUARE - CONTINUOUS On the JUMBOTRON, Dee Dee continues her report.]

**Dee Dee:** He’d also like invite everyone in the world to catch a cruise liner and come on down this Saturday for the grand opening of EATATRETRO, a town that is truly a la mode...

**Paris:** People watch Dee Dee on a TV at the Eiffel Tower.

**French Voice:** (DUBBED FRENCH) ...a town that is truly... a la mode...

**Egypt**: People watch Dee Dee in front of the PYRAMIDS.

**Egyptian Voice** (DUBBED ARABIC) ...a town that is truly... a la mode...

**London**: Crowds watch Dee Dee in front of BIG BEN.

**British Voice:** (DUBBED BRITISH ACCENT) ...a town that is truly... topped with ice cream.

[EXT. RETROVILLE - DAY Dee Dee continues to report, as everyone has fun.]

**Dee Dee:** ...with today's scoop for the Weather News Network, I'm Dee Dee Sparks! We can hear Cal in the distance.

**Numbuh 2:** Dexter, this is the best breakfast ever!

[INT. DEXTER'S LAB - NIGHT Dexter is sitting on his bed, tapping his foot, thinking HARD. Then he looks up with an innocent smile and SNAPS with both hands! Eureka!]

**Dexter:** (GASP) That’s it!

[QUICK CUTS: Dexter on his computer “HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS”; Dexter in a romantic scene with Courage in a blonde wig making the monkey “oo oo” mouth; Standing by the button-pusher which pushes a button; holding the phone nervously, staring at a notepad. Lots of crumpled pieces of paper are around.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Researching! Role-playing! Dialing! Waiting!

[INTECUT WITH: INT. WEATHERVAN - CONTINUOUS Dee Dee answers her phone.]

**Dee Dee:** CHeerleader.

**Dexter:** Hanging up!

[Dexter slams the phone down. MORE QUICK CUTS:]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Regretting! Re-Psyching! Saying what I’m doing!

**Dee Dee:** (ANSWERS PHONE) Dexter?

**Dexter:** (READING, INTO PHONE) Hi Dee Dee how are you that’s nice I was wondering if you would like to go on a d... activity with me tomorrow?

**Dee Dee:** (INTO PHONE) Um, okay.

**Dexter:** Great bye meet me in the forest! (HANGS UP) Nailed it.

[He walks out of the lab excitedly.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Gotta go, Courage. Keep an eye on the lab for me!

[Unseen by Dexter, Courage sits by the Dangeometer, which is in the yellow. He smashes an ice cream cone on his head.]

**Courage:** Ooh.

[EXT. BETREED GRASSY MOUND - DAY Dexter, Ami and Yumi walk along a grassy hill. Behind them, unnoticed, the WALKING TV runs by.]

**Ami:** Where are we going?

**Dexter:** Oh, nowhere, I just thought it’d be nice for the two of us to... go on a walk together. Like you do... as friends. (FAKE) Oh my, what’s that?

[Ami and Yumi stop in their tracks.]

**Ami:** Wow...

[REVEAL an enormous yellow/orange JELL-O MOLD, refracting the setting sun like a stained-glass castle. It’s breathtaking.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) Oh, Jell-O’s my favorite.

**Dexter:** You never made a request, so, I made one for you.

[Dexter disappears into the Jell-O. Yumi looks confused.]

**Ami:** Dexter?

**Yumi:** Dexter!

**Dexter:** (O.S.) Join me.

[His arm pokes out of the Jell-O. He PULLS them inside.]

**Ami and Yumi:** Whoa!

[INT. JELL-O MOLD, BALLROOM - CONTINUOUS Once inside, they try to gain her balance on the squishy Jell-O floor, then realizes she’s in a beautiful JellO cathedral.]

**Ami:** (AMAZED) Who-oooa. But, how did you...?

**Dexter:** Oh, I just made it rain Jell-0 in the middle of the night, then I gathered it all up with the Outtasighter before everyone woke up and then I brought it here and pressed it into a gigantic customcarved plastic tupperware mold I made. No big deal.

[Dexter is playing a Jell-O piano.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Everything’s made of Jell-O. This piano, those sconces, that ghetto blaster, that Jell-O, that aquarium, that Venus de Milo with your face on it next to a Michelangelo’s David that also has your face.

[Ami and Yumigives a weirded-out look. Dexter does several high vertical bounces.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Come on, what are you waiting for?

[Theylooks at the EXIT sign. What will she do?]

**Both:** Nothing!

[They suddenly does a bunch of fast little manic jumps.]

**Ami and Yumi:** (CONT’D) Woooo! Yeahhhhhhhh!!!

MUSIC PLAYS AS -- Dexter Ami and Yumi bounce around the room like crazy.

Yumi pushes Dexter down the Jell-O stairs and he laughs and bounces. ON MICHELANGELO’S DAVID. They both fly in and take bites out of it. Both jump in and out of frame making goofy poses. Ami and Yumi jump off the balcony onto a diving board, then lands in a Jell-O SWIMMING POOL.

**Ami:** Cannonball!!!

**Dexter:** (RIGHT BEHIND THEM) Bellyflop!

[He smacks on the surface.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Why did I do that?

[INT. JELL-O MOLD, CUPOLA ATTIC - LATER Ami Yumi and Dexter watch the sun set through the refracted light of the Jell-O wall. Long beat as Dexter is nervous.]

**Ami:** So, Jell-O.

**Dexter:** Right, right, right.

**Ami:** It’s a solid, it’s a liquid, it’s a visco-elastic polymer made of polypeptide chains but you eat it-- (CATCHES HERSELF) I mean... it tastes good. (GIGGLES)

**Dexter:** (CONFUSED) Why do you do that?

**Yumi:** Do what?

**Dexter:** Say something super smart, and then bail from it?

**Yumi:** Can you keep a secret?

**Dexter:** No. (OFF LOOK) But this Dexter's Dade, sure. Yeah.

**Ami:** Okay, well, it was a really long Dexter's Dade ago, but I too was... a nerd.

**Dexter:** Too?

**START FLASHBACKS**: Young Dee Dee (glasses, ponytail) in her bedroom staring at a poster of a Doppler.

**Ami**: When I was a little girl, I wore a ponytail, I had glasses, and I was totally obsessed with the science of weather. Other girls wanted a Barbie, I wanted a Doppler Weather Radar 2000 Turbo. But all the kids used to taunt me with this lame song. It wasn’t even clever!

[Dexter tries not to laugh at “glasses to see.”]

**Dexter:**(STIFLES LAUGH, THEN, OFF HER LOOK) Go on.

[Ami Onuki looks annoyed. Then she continues.]

**Ami:** So I got a new look, gave up the sciency smart stuff, and I was never made fun of again. And I still need these glasses, but I never wear them.

**Dexter:** I’ll bet you look great with glasses on.

**Ami:** Oh, I’m really not--

[He grabs her glasses and starts to put them on her.]

**Dexter:** And on they go.

AMI'S P.O.V. -- as her glasses go on, a blurry handsome guy becomes a sharply in-focus, nerdy Dexter.

**Yumi:** Whoa

**Dexter:** What?

**Ami:** Nothing.

**Dexter:** Wait.

[He quickly carves something out of Jell-O and turns to her.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) It’s a Jell-O scrunchie.

[He puts her hair up in a ponytail.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) And now, the reveal.

[Her MAKE-UNDER complete, he gazes at the new nerdy Ami.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Wow. I mean, you were okay before, but now... you’re beautiful.

**Ami:** No, I’m not. I can’t go on out in public like this.

**Dexter:** Well, why not? I mean, this is the real you, right? Smart, bespectacled... who wouldn’t want to see that?

**Yumi:** (CHARMED) You know, I’ve never met anyone like you, Dexter.

**Dexter:** (CHARMED) Me either. But about you.

[Ami closes her eyes and leans in for a kiss. Yumi stares at Dexter nervously. He closes his eyes, puckers, then puffs his cheeks out in an I’ve-never-kissed-a-girl way. They’re mere inches away when-- Dexter cell PHONE RINGS -- it’s his voice singing:]

**Yumi:** Is your phone ringing?

**Dexter:** That’s weird. Someone must have changed my ring. (LOOKS AT PHONE) Oh, it’s the mayor. Do you mind if I take this?

**Ami:** No, no, no. Go ahead, take it. That’s fine, really. I should be going too, it’s getting late.

**Dexter:** (COVERS PHONE) I’m so sorry. It’s just really important. I’m just going to step outside real quick.

[He walks through the wall and FALLS. Ami and Yumi cringes as he lands with an OOF]

[EXT./INT. ROOFLESS RESTAURANT - NIGHT OMINOUS LOOKING CLOUDS. CRANE DOWN to reveal the facade of the Bibs store. Dad waits there for Dexter, wearing a TIE, clearly uncomfortable. Dexter runs in, excited as hell.]

**Dexter:** Dad, you came! I had the best day I have so much to tell you!

**Detxer's Dad:** Do I look alright?

**Dexter:**You look great, come on let’s go! Dexter drags him off.

[EXT. THE ROOFLESS RESTAURANT - MOMENTS LATER The Roofless, a fancy restaurant with a crowd WAITING. Eddy is in line at the velvet rope.]

**Dexter:** Oh, it was so cool, I almost kissed a girl-- (GREETING PEOPLE) Hey. How’s it going?

Ed argues with the BOUNCER.

**Ed:** It’s Baby Ed. You know? “Uh oh!” I should be on the list!

[Dexter and Dad go straight to the front.]

**Dexter:** Hey, Brian.

[The Bouncer lets them ENTER. Eddy watches, horrified.]

**Eddy:** (NEAR TEARS) WHAAAT?!?! You’re letting that guy in? That guy’s an idiot!!

[The door closes in Eddy's face.]

[INT. THE ROOFLESS RESTAURANT - CONTINUOUS It is raining steaks. There is no ceiling.]

**Student:** Hey, Dexter!

**Dexter:** Oh, thank you. Thanks so much.

**Lazlo:** A toast! To Dexter and his delicious steaks.

**Dexter:** Oh, thanks. Thank you. Oh, wow.

**Dexter's Dad** (UNCOMFORTABLE) Very nice place.

**Waiter:** Salt, pepper. Pepper, salt.

**Numbuh 1:** Dexter!

[Numbuh 1 puts out a fist for Dexter to hit, and he slaps it 5.]

**Dexter:** Guys!

[As Dexter and his Dad sit down at their table,]

[Dexter's Dad notices the absence of any ceiling.]

**Dexter's Dad:** So, no roof?

**Dexter:** Yup. You just hold out your plate. And I even made it rain your favorite: meat.

Dexter's Dad looks around the room as -- large steaks hit the tables all around them, rattling silverware. Everyone else enjoys it, but Dexter's Dad is a bit freaked out.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Okay. So, you know how the grand reopening of the town is tomorrow? Well, the mayor has asked me to cut the ribbon. He said my invention saved the town! Aren’t you proud of me?"

Dexter's Dad looks torn. Then-- SLAM! A large steak lands Dexter's Dad’s plate, STARTLING him. He looks down at it. He looks at Dexter, who’s still celebrating, arms in the air, and doesn’t want to have to burst Dexter’s balloon.

Dexter's Dad Well... Doesn’t this steak look a little big to you?

**Dexter:** Yeah, it’s a big steak. Every steak is not exactly the Dee Deee size. Did you even hear what I just said?

WHAM! Another big steak lands between them, knocking their glassware off the table.

Dexter's Dad Son, look around. I’m not sure this is good for people. Maybe you should think about turning this thing off.

**Dexter:** It’s making everybody happy. Everybody except you. When are you going to accept that this is who I am instead of trying to get me to work in some boring tackle Store?

Dexter gets HIT by a steak.

Dexter's Dad Well, you seem like you know what you’re doing, then. I guess I’ll just get out of your way.

Dexter's Dad heads off. The steak falls off Dexter’s head.

EXT. Dexter's Dad’S TACKLEStore - LATER CLOSE ON a fish being ground up into chum. REVEAL Dexter's Dad, alone, working the chum grinder. He pauses to SIGH, then continues grinding.

EXT. Dexter's Dad’S TACKLEStore - Dee DeeE Hot dogs rain down. One hits the “And Son” Dexter's Dad tacked onto the tackle Store sign and knocks it to the ground.

EXT. STREET - EVENING Dexter walks down the street, muttering.

**Dexter:**There’s no pleasing that guy. He just wants to take anything good I do and just smoosh it-- Aaaah!

A THREE-FOOT LONG HOT DOG plops down in front of Dexter. He looks around to see several other large hot dogs around his neighborhood, including his dad’s yard, which is full of hotdogs.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) These are big hot dogs.

He looks up to the clouds, grave.

INT. Dexter’S LAB - MOMENTS LATER Dexter looks at a scanner with a huge HOT DOG in it.

**Dexter:** Oh, man. (DEEP BREATH) I mean, this isn’t that bad, is it, Courage?

Courage has smeared mustard on his face and hands.

Courage Yellow.

Dexter goes over to the Dangometer which is in the yellow.

**Dexter:** You’re right, Courage. The Dangometer is in the yellow. I don’t know what to do.

He hears a WHIRRING SOUND and turns to see...

MAYOR I do... declare these hot dogs to be delicious!

The Mayor, now GROTESQUELY FAT, riding in from the shadows on a RASCAL SCOOTER and munching on a HOT DOG piled with FOOD.

**Dexter:** Waahh!!! Oh no!

Courage Whoa.

(Courage runs away.)

**Dexter:** How did you get in here?

MAYOR Tomorrow’s the big day, Dexter. The entire town’s fate is resting on your food-weather! I’m thinking pasta. Some light apps. I know you won’t let us down.

He wheels back into the shadows, still staring at him.

**Dexter:** Well, Mr. Mayor, I think there’s something you should see.

The mayor returns.

MAYOR What?

Dexter leads the mayor over to the scanner, and pulls up a display on the computer monitor.

**Dexter:**This is the molecular structure of a hot dog that fell last week. And this is the molecular structure of a hot dog that fell today.

He pushes a button, revealing a very scary looking rapidly moving group of molecules.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) The machine uses microwave radiation to mutate the genetic recipe of the food. The more we ask it to make, the more clouds it takes in, the more radiation it emits, the more these food molecules could over-mutate. I think that’s why the food is getting bigger.

MAYOR Here’s what I heard: blah blah blah, science science science bigger. And bigger is better. Everyone’s gonna love these new portion sizes.

He shoves the entire hot dog in his mouth and swallows it.

MAYOR (CONT’D) (MOUTH FULL) I know I do. Dexter looks over to the button, unsure.

**Dexter:** My dad thinks I should turn it off...

MAYOR Geniuses like us are never understood by their fathers, Dexter.

**Dexter:** But what if things go--

The Mayor starts circling Dexter.

MAYOR Who needs the approval of one family member when you can have it from millions of acquaintances? Not to mention that little cutlet Dee Dee Sparks... and me? I’ve always felt you were like a son to me, Dexter. And I’m going to be so proud of you tomorrow when you cut that ribbon, save the town, and prove to everybody what a great inventor you are. So here’s the cheese: You can keep it going, get everything you’ve ever wanted, and be the great man I know you can be. Or, you can turn it off, ruin everything, and no one will ever like you. It’s your choice...

Tight on Dexter’s eyes thinks about this. The word ‘choice’ echoes in his mind -- except not really.

MAYOR (CONT’D) (WHISPERING) Choice, choice, choice...

**Dexter:** (DEEP BREATH) Okay...

[IN THE REFLECTION OF THE MONITOR: Dexter approaches, and the Mayor looks over Dexter’s shoulder creepily.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) I mean, bigger is better, right?

MAYOR Oh yeah.

[Dexter SLAPS the BUTTON. BOOM! We go from the SATELLITE DISH up to the--]

[EXT. STRATOSPHERE - NIGHT The machine, with some food caked-on itself, rattles as the monitor cycles through the food.. EXT. EATATRETRO CROWDS get off the cruise ships and head into town. A sign reads “WELCOME TOURISTS!” Oversized appetizers rain.]

CROWDSPERSON #1 Looks safe to me!

CROWDSPERSON #2 And sanitary too!

INT. NEWSVAN - DAY Dee Dee’s alone in the back studying herself in the mirror. She takes her glasses on and off, on and off... Dee Dee’S POV: as she puts her glasses on, the shot gets FOCUSED, and we can see what’s behind her. With her newfound vision, she sees an old-fashioned SUITCASE LAPTOP in the corner. She blows off dust to see it reads “Doppler Weather Radar 2000 Turbo.”Dee Dee flops it on the table, opens it with awe, and pushes START. It begins to boot up and she smiles. She can see her reflection there in the screen, and she finally likes what she sees. Then a weather image loads up. On Dee Dee, who adjusts some knobs and we see a red spinning glow on her face as she GASPS.

EXT. EATATRETRO - DAY The mayor rolls up to the stage.

MAYOR Who’s hungry?! Welcome, tourists, to EATATRETRO!

TOURIST That is one big mayor.

MAYOR Delight in our Nacho Cheese Hotsprings! Allow your kids to eat all the junk food they want in our completely unsupervised Kidz Zone!

[Cal is among the kids playing in piles of junkfood.]

CAL I have jelly beans for teeth!

MAYOR And when the fun is done, gaze upon the sunset cresting over Mount Leftovers! From which we’re protected by a presumably indestructible dam!

Outtasighters launch leftovers onto an ever-growing mound behind the dam.

MAYOR (CONT’D) We’ve got people here today from all around the world. From as far as China to West Virginia. Also, I think there’s some Canadians here...

BACKSTAGE ON Dexter, looking around through the enormous curtain of himself. Dexter nervously slicks down his hair. He wears a tuxedo t-shirt. Dee Dee approaches.

Dee Dee Dexter you need to look at this.

**Dexter:** Why aren’t you on TV? You’re supposed to be broadcasting this.

Dee Dee There’s a problem. I think the food’s getting bigger--

**Dexter:** I know, it’s great. Bigger portion sizes. Everyone loves it.

He gestures to passersby catching a jumbo jumbo prawn.

Dee Dee Dexter, I’m not sure we’re doing the right thing here.

**Dexter:**(HEATED) Dee Dee, listen--

Dee Dee What if we’ve bitten off more than we can chew?

**Dexter:**Ugh. For the first Dexter's Dade in my life, everybody loves something that I’ve done. Why can’t you just be happy for me and go say the weather or something? Jeez.

Dexter turns away from her. Dee Dee is shocked.

MAYOR (O.S.) And without further ado, our town’s hero, and my metaphorical son, Dexter Lockwood!

Dexter runs out to grand APPLAUSE. He soaks it in.

**Dexter:** Thank you! Thank you everyone! Yeah! Woo!

**Kids:** Yeah! Dexter! / Sign my shrimp! / Dexter Lockwood! / I admire your quirkiness!

MAYOR Eddy, we’re gonna need you to hand over the ceremonial scissors.

ON EDS, who can’t believe it.

**Eddy:** But...

The scissors are taken and handed to Dexter.

**Eddy:** (CONT’D) No! You can’t--! You can’t take them! No! He's Baby Ed!

Desperate, he pulls off his clothes, down to his diaper.

**Ed:** (CONT’D) (PATHETICALLY) Uh-oh!

CROWD / JOE TOWNE Boo! / Put your clothes back on!

**Edd:** Who are we?!

[Ed, Edd and Eddy run away, crying. Dexter gets the scissors. He feels how beautiful they are.]

MAYOR (WHISPERS) Go ahead, Dexter. Everybody loves you.

The crowd ROARS! The Nacho Cheese Hotsprings shoot Bellagiostyle cheese fountains! Behind him, the Mayor slips away.

CUT TO: INT. TACKLE Store - Dee DeeE Dexter's Dad still grinds chum, alone. The celebratory chanting of “Lockwood” can be heard faintly in the distance. Dexter's Dad SIGHS.

EXT. EATATRETRO - Dee DeeE Dexter closes his eyes as he cuts the ribbon. Suddenly, a flock of ratbirds take off. Courage senses something and starts screaming.

Courage Danger! Danger! Danger!

Courage runs off. The wind picks up. Dexter TASTES THE AIR.

**Dexter:**Salt and pepper wind...?

SMACK! Dexter is HIT by a giant DRY LEAF. He SNIFFS it.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) (OH NO) Oregano.

A look of horror in his eyes. ZOOM out to see... a massive SPAGHETTI TORNADO, ten blocks away, heading toward them.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Mamma Mia!

He turns back to Dee Dee, who gives him an angry glare then runs off towards her van, determined.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Dee Dee, wait, no! I can turn it off!

Dexter looks up at the twister...then past it at his lab.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) (DETERMINED) I can turn it off...

He gives a primal SCREAM and runs towards his lab, with the twister in between! We follow him as huge MEATBALLS smash down around him as everyone else runs away in the opposite direction.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Hey, kids, it’s all gonna be okay--

Oh, no. And he gets sucked into the pasta twister. Inside it’s calm. Dexter runs in the air past a MAN IN A TUB...

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Pardon me...

MAN IN TUB Pardon me!

[...then reaches Lazlo and the scouts, sitting in the 1960s car as it floats through the eye of the storm. Dexter opens the back passenger door, climbs through, and exits the other side of the car, still flying.]

**Dexter:**Excuse me.

**Lazlo:** Aw, no problem.

[He flies out of the twister and LOSES HIS LAB COAT...]

**Dexter:** No!

..but keeps air-running over pieces of debris (garlic bread, stop signs, mailboxes, a stepladder) as though they were stairs until he’s back on the ground, in front of the lab. Courage’s there waiting for him outside of the Port-A-Potty.

Courage Gummi Bears.

**Dexter:** Not now, Courage.

Courage hops onto his shoulder and they enter the Port-a-Potty.

EXT. EATATRETRO - DAY The twister is headed for Sardine Circle. The cruise ships back up and peel out of town as fast as possible.

INT. ROOFLESS RESTAURANT - DAY In the restaurant, everyone holds out their plates expectantly. A WAITER walks by with condiments.

**Waiter:** Condiments? Pepper?

[Giant spaghetti and sauce buries them.]

[EXT. EATATRETRO - DAY ON DEXTER'S DAD, in the Tackle Store, watching people outside panic.]

**Dexter's Dad:** (WORRIED) Dexter...

Just then an enormous meatball nearly demolishes his Store.

ON Dee Dee, through Manny’s handheld camera, as she gives a report. She’s still in her glasses and ponytail.

Dee Dee This is Dee Dee Sparks live from EATATRETRO, where a spaghetti twister--

She is inset by the ANCHOR.

WNN ANCHOR Whoa, whoa, Dee Dee, hey! We love a good storm over here, but you look like a nerd!

Dee Dee (IGNORING HIM) Patrick, several children are stranded in the path of this tomato tornado.

IN THE KIDZONE, Numbuh 4 and the other kids look up from gorging themselves and try to run...only they are slow and fat and crippled by STOMACH ACHES. Most crawl their way out but Numbuh 4-

**Numbuh 4:** My tummy hurts...

[ON KIDS NEXT DOOR, who saw Numbuh 4 on the TV monitors in the TV repair Store...]

**Numbuh 1, 2, 3, & 5:** Numbuh 4! .

[..and they make a break for him.]

Dee Dee It’s becoming a spinning semolina nightmare, twirling a path of--

**Grim:** Yikes. What is that, a scrunchie? I haven’t seen one of those since 1965!

Dee Dee What? We have an actual weather emergency-

Then she gets smashed by a garlic bread. The feed goes out.

**Grim:** (LAUGHING THROUGH TEARS) Well, we’ll get right back to that storm, and hopefully Dee Dee will look a little more appealing. (PRESSING BUTTON) Boop!

They switch over to footage of a puppy in a field with different local temperatures CHYRONED over it.

INT. Dexter’S LAB - DAY Dexter bursts in. Courage is clinging to Dexter’s head.

**Dexter:** (PANTING) Courage, we just have to upload the kill code and it will shutdown the --

REVEAL the Mayor, furiously typing at Dexter’s computer.

**Dexter:** OAAAAAAAH no, what are you doing here?!

MAYOR I’ve been up here ordering up dinner for the last ten minutes. Why? Is something going on?

**Dexter:** I’ve gotta stop the machine. Everyone’s in danger because of me.

[Dexter rushes for the machine in an attempt to turn it off but is bounced away by the mayor’s large belly.]

MAYOR Oh, it can’t be that bad. .

The Mayor hits the big red “SEND” button.Foods start to cycle on the computer screen, which creates a SCARY STROBE LIGHTING EFFECT.

MAYOR Well, I’m outta here.

**Dexter:** (DETERMINED) I can still stop the order with the kill code!

Dexter makes it to the computer and types. He’s about to hit the SEND button and stop the machine...

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Sending kill code...

MAYOR I’m back!

...but the Mayor chokes him with a jumbo JUMBO PRAWN, dragging him away.

**Dexter:** (CHOKING) Got to get the button!

[Dexter grabs a huge HOT PEPPER and shoves it in the Mayor’s eye. Dexter races back... Courage rolls around, having a great Dexter's Dade tossing food.]

Courage Play, fun, fun, play, fun!

MAYOR Hey, Dexter! It’s been nice to beet you!

The Mayor tosses a big RADISH at Dexter.

**Dexter:** That’s a radish!

Dexter in midair dodges the beet/radish and it flies on, and smashes into the satellite dish, blowing it up. BOOM! The satellite is in a million pieces. Dexter finally pushes the button. Nothing happens. ON THE SCREEN: “ERROR: CONNECTION LOST. KILL CODE NOT SENT”

**Dexter:** That was the only way to communicate with the machine... (GRAVE) What exactly did you order?

MAYOR A Vegas-style all-you-can-eat buffet?

They all stare up at the monitor. Oh no.

EXT. STRATOSPHERE - CONTINUOUS Now almost completely covered in food, the Food Machine 2000 monitor glows an ominous RED.

EXT. SARDINE CIRCLE - DAY Overhead: the clouds part. The twister is gone. But it has created a path of mess and destruction in its wake. People start coming out of the mess, stunned. Two of them are Dee Dee AND MANNY. Dee Dee coughs.

**Lazlo:** Everyone okay?

**All:** Yeah. / Yep. / I’m good.

Dee Dee opens up the Doppler. The Kids Next Door run up with Numbuh 4 in their arms.

**Numbuh 5:** Help, somebody! Help us please! It’s Numbuh 4.

**Dee Dee:** We need a doctor! Is anyone here a doctor? Anyone?!

**Mandy:** (STEPPING UP) I am a doctor.

**Dee Dee:** You are?

**Mandy:** I was, back in Endsville Elementary School. I came here for a better life. Pretty great decision, eh?

[Mandy pulls out a STETHOSCOPE and listens to Numbuh 4's heart.]

**Numbuh 1:** How is he, doc?

**Mandy:** (SERIOUS) He’s in a food coma.

**REALLY CONCERNED BOY:** Oh no!

[Everyone GASPS, especially the Kids Next Door (minus Numbuh 4).]

**Mandy:** Too much junk food. I need a celery. Stat!

[Billy hands him a stalk of celery.]

**Billy:** Here you go.

[Mandy snaps it in half under Numbuh 4's nose. Numbuh 4 COUGHS and wakes up.]

**Numbuh 4:** Numbuh 1?

**Numbuh 2:** Oh, Numbuh 4... Yeah!

**Numbuh 3:** We love you, Wally.

**Numbuh 4:** <\*BARF!\*>

[Numbuh 3 kisses Numbuh 4 on the lips and smiles.]

**Numbuh 1:** Looks like everything turned out okay.

**Dee Dee:** Not yet it hasn’t. That spaghetti twister was just an amuse bouche compared to what’s on the way.

**All:** (WHISPERS) What’s an amuse bouche?

**Dee Dee:** Billy, Mandy, patch us through.

[Billy and Mandy prepare for a broadcast. The satellite goes up. He plugs in some cables.]

**Dee Dee:** (CONT’D) Go.

[INT. WNN STUDIOS Inset is an attractive woman with the headline “OTTERS GET WET!”]

**Grim:** Cute report, Billy's dad!

[Static started to appear]

**Grim:** (CONT’D) Hey! Cheerleader?!

[Dee Dee has pirated in from EATATRETRO! As she speaks, we cut around the world to see kids' horrified reactions.]

**Dee Dee:** Can it, Mister! We are about to be in the epicenter of a perfect foodstorm. It’s going to spread across the globe. I’ve calculated the Coriolis acceleration of the storm system. First it’ll hit New York, then Paris, then the Jianguang Pass in Eastern China. And in four hours, the entire Northern Hemisphere will be one big potluck.

[ON DEXTER'S DAD, walking out of the Thrift Store to survey the mess. He looks over at the power line and sees Dexter’s dirty LAB COAT. He picks it up and looks at it. Clouds form.]

[EXT. JUNKYARD - DAY Dad enters and hears a low moan.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Son?

[He follows the sound and finds Dexter in a rusty barrel, curled up under some junk.]

**Dexter's Dad:** (CONT’D) Dexter?

**Dexter:** Hey, Dad.

**Dexter's Dad:** What are you doing?

**Dexter:** Well, I tried to help everybody, but instead I ruined everything. I’m just a piece of junk. So I threw myself away. Along with all these dumb inventions. (RE: SPRAYON SHOES, ETC) This is junk. This is junk. (RE: SELF) This is junk.

**Dexter's Dad:** Look, son, you... Listen, when your boat is... When it’s listing, if it’s not running... You know, uh--

**Dexter:** Don’t worry, Dad, I get it. Winona was wrong about me. I’m not an inventor. I should’ve just quit when you said.

[Dexter's Dad looks at his son in a trashcan, as low as can be.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Well, when it rains, you put on a coat.

[He holds up Dexter's lab coat.]

**Dexter:** Dad, you know I don’t understand fishing meta--

[Dexter looks up to see the 1960s lab coat.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) What...?

[Dexter stands up in the barrel, junk falling off him, and takes the coat.]

**Dexter:**(CONT’D) My coat.

[Dexter looks at it for a beat, then realizes what his dad means, looks back for Dad, but he’s gone into the house. Dexter looks back to his coat and gets a determined look.]

**Tubb:** (CONT’D) Come on, Finbar, we’ve got diem to carpe.

[Courage pops up out of the trashcan next to Dexter.]

[INT. ELEVATOR/DEXTER'S LAB Dexter and Courage up to the lab in heroi-comic fashion. SUPER FAST MONTAGE: He downloads the termination recipe onto a USB flash drive. Dexter draws up plans. Pushes buttons. Calculates something. Measures something. Welds something.]

**Dexter:** Kill code downloading. Redesigning. Virtualizing. Cutting. Welding. Forging. Wiring.

[Courage hits a bucket with a spoon.]

**Courage:** Helping.

[Dexter presses a button and jet engines shoot above him.]

**Dexter:** Testing. Yes!

[EXT. JUNKYARD - DAY The doors of a secret garage open. Then headlights turn on and a CRAZY CAR drives towards us with Dexter and Courage inside looking determined.]

**Dexter:** Flying Car 2... Now with wings.

[EXT. EATATRETRO - CONTINUOUS A giant WATERMELON smashes into the cannery sending goop and huge seeds flying all over town. A dozen enormous CHOCOLATE DONUTS roll down the street, chasing Lazlo and others.]

**Lazlo:** I had a weird dream like this once!

[A Boy with a giant MACARONI over his head runs around blindly, trying to get it off.]

**Macaroni Guy:** I have a macaroni on my head!

[An enormous pancake covers the school. Kids outside watch, excited.]

**Kids:** No school!

[A CHERRY breaks a Store window and a man steals a TV. The walking TV breaks the window next to it and steals a boy. Amid the chaos and panic: SCREECH! Dexter rolls up, steps out of the car, faces the crowd, and a still-mad Dee Dee.]

**Dexter:** Everyone! I want to apologize. Especially to you, Dee Dee. But I have a plan. This flash drive contains a kill code. I will fly up into that foodstorm, plug it into the machine and shut it down forever, while you guys evacuate the island using--

**Mayor:** This is all his fault! Get him!

**Students** **& Lazlo:** There he is! / Get him! / Let’s rock his car back and forth!

[Dexter JUMPS back into his car and Courage locks the door. Students start rocking the car. Numbuh 1 enters.]

**Numbuh 1:** HEY!!!

[Everyone stops in their tracks. Numbuh 1 flips onto the hood.]

**Numbuh 1:** (CONT’D) This mess we’re in, it’s all our faults. Me, I didn’t even protect Numbuh 4.

[On the crowd, NODDING in agreement. Dee Dee, others.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Look, I’m as mad at Dexter as you are. In fact, when he gets out of that car, I’m going to slap him in the face. I know Dexter made the food, but it was made to order. And now it’s Dexter's Dade for all of us to pay the bill.

[The crowd CLAPS. Courage licks the windshield. Dexter gets out and gets on the hood.]

**Dexter:** Thank you, Numbuh 1.

[Numbuh 1 slaps Dexter.]

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Ow.

**Numbuh 1:** Sorry.

**Dexter:** It’s okay.

**Numbuh 1:** (TO CLASSMATES) Let’s go build some boats!

[The crowd CHEERS. Numbuh 1 exits. Dee Dee steps onto the hood.]

**Dee Dee:** I’m coming with you. You’re gonna need someone to navigate you through that storm. (SOFTENS) I can’t let you do this alone.

**Dexter:** Oh, Dee Dee, I’m so sorry-

-He goes in for a kiss and gets denied. Again.

Dee Dee Are you kidding?

**Dexter:** Well, I just thought that--

Dee Dee No.

**Dexter:** Okay.

[Billy and Mandy steps onto the car.]

**Mandy:** You are going to need a copilot.

Dee Dee You’re a pilot too?

**Mandy:** Yes. I am also a particle physicist.

Dee Dee Really?

**Mandy:** No, that was a joke. I am also a comedian.

[All LAUGH.]

Courage Ha! Ha! Ha!

**Dexter:** Let’s do this!

**Ed:** (O.S.) We're coming, too.

[Ed, Edd and Eddy step onto the hood. He’s heavy.]

**Dexter:** (POLITE) Guys! Uh, that’s okay.

**Eddy:** No, it’s not okay.

**Edd:** I've been coasting on my fame since We were babies..but it was all just an illusion.

**Eddy:** Maybe up there, I’ll find out who I really am.

**Dexter:** Uh, car’s pretty full, so...

[But Dexter can’t turn down Eds and his puppydog expression.]

EXT.RETROVILLE - DAY Everybody is jammed in the car. Dexter drives, Billy and Mandy sits on the console, Dee Dee is in passenger seat, and Ed Edd Eddy and Courage are in the back.

**Ed:** (LAUGHS) Yeah!

**Dexter:** Okay.

[Dexter, with new resolve, takes off in the car-plane. They pass a flock of ratbirds who seem to nod solemnly as Dexter gives them a thumbs up. They fly by Dad outside the thrift store.]

**Dexter:** Good luck, son.

[EXT. EATATRETRO, STREET - DAY TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYS as the weird, rickety car-plane takes off!]

INT./EXT. CAR-PLANE - CONTINUOUS Dexter steers through clouds as G-force makes the plane shake like crazy

**Courage:** (SHAKY)

The Doppler goes off. A GREEN MIST covers the windshield

. Dee Dee Pea soup fog!

They’re flying blind. Something hits them.

Dexter Manny, hit the wipers!

Manny pushes twelve buttons...

Dee Dee (RE: DOPPLER) Dexter, there’s massive gastro-precipitation accumulated around the machine. It’s almost as if it’s-- .

..Manny finishes his button pushing sequence and the wipers finally come on.

Dexter (GRAVE) Inside a giant meatball.

Everyone looks out the window. As they emerge from the fog, REVEAL a FOOD ASTEROID -- a huge mass of congealed food with food-blasting blowholes. The Food Machine 2000 in the center. Dee Dee looks out the window, seeing white clouds sucked in through the top; black food clouds shoot out the bottom.

Dee Dee Water goes in the top, a food hurricane comes out the bottom.

Eddy I’m glad I’m wearing a diaper.

They continue their approach to the monstrous meatball. A PIZZA PIE breaks apart into slices that follow them. Dee Dee looks in the side view mirror and sees them as they shoot pepperonis like bullets.

Dee Dee Anybody order pizza?

Dexter:Hold on!

Ed The pizza’s chasing us?

Dexter Sentient food? That’s impossible.

Dee Dee Unless its molecular structure’s mutated into superfood-

- Dexter / Dee Dee --that’s been genetically engineered to protect the Food Machine 2000.

Courage Pizza!

Dexter / Dee Dee / Eddy AAAAAAAAAHH!

Courage Pizza, pizza, pizza!

They REACT as a topping hits the plane. A cool PIZZA SLICE DOGFIGHT ensues! Dexter is a bad pilot, and in the ruckus almost drops the flash drive.

Dexter Whew! That was close. I mean, can you imagine if we lost this kill code?

TONG! A MUSHROOM SLICE breaks a window and knocks the flash drive out of Dexter’s hand and out the window. Long beat.

Eddy Uh-oh!

EXT. EATATRETRO - DAY Huge food SMASHES the buildings on all sides of Dexter's Dad’s Tackle Store. RING, RING. Dexter's Dad answers his old land-line phone.

Dexter's Dad: Dexter's Dad’s Thrift Store.

. INTERCUT WITH: INT. CAR-PLANE - CONTINUOUS Dexter is on his phone mid-pizza dogfight.

Dexter Dad, you’re okay, great! Um, I need a favor, the fate of the world depends on it.

Dexter's Dad Okay, then, skipper, what do you need?

Dexter I just need you to go into my lab, get on a computer and e-mail a file to my cell phone.

Beat of Dexter's Dad wide-eyed with the notion of using a computer.

Dexter's Dad: Ummmm-uhhh... Alright.

(Dexter's Dad hangs up. The dogfight continues. Dexter is still a bad pilot.)

MANNY Want me to drive?

Dexter Yeah, okay.

(Manny is an awesome pilot, outflanking the pizzas with ease.)

Dexter (CONT’D) Wow. You’re a lot better than me.

Dee Dee Uh-huh.

They come upon the huge INTAKE HOLE that is sucking clouds into the top of meateroid. Dexter turns the Doppler map and points.

Dexter Okay, here’s the plan. Dee Dee and I will enter the meateroid through the intake here, which should lead us straight to the Food Machine 2000. Manny, you and Courage will stay on the plane. (GRABS CAN OF SPRAY-ON SHOES FROM Courage) Don’t spray that in your mouth. Once my dad emails me the kill code, we’ll destroy the machine, and rendezvous here at the Western blowhole in... how long until the world’s destroyed?

Dee Dee About twenty minutes.

Dexter Just before then.

Eddy What about us, Edd, what do we do?

Dexter Uh, you can be president of the backseat.

Eddy (EXCITED, THEN) Oh.

Dexter Deploy hatch!

The hatch pops off like on an F-16.

Dexter (CONT’D) Car upside down... go!

Manny does a barrel roll and Dexter and Dee Dee fall onto the carplane ceiling. They stare out the hatch to the long drop.

Dexter (CONT’D) Ladies first? No? Alright.

Dexter, then Dee Dee (still clutching the Doppler) LEAP out into the huge, meaty hole. Eddy JUMPS OUT after them...

Edd Wait for us!

...except that he gets stuck in the hatch.

Edd (CONT’D) (STRUGGLING) I’m good.

Finally he pops free and falls after them. Dee Dee and Dexter free fall down the hole, unaware of Eddy.

Dee Dee (YELLING) As long as we stay on course, it should be a straight shot to the--

Eddy SLAMS into them and takes them off course.

BOTH:AAHHH!

Ed Yeah!

INT. FOOD ASTEROID, FOOD TUNNEL - CONTINUOUS Dexter, Dee Dee and Eddy tumble into a pitch black tunnel.

Eddy We’re a team!!!

INT. FOOD ASTEROID, FOOD TUNNEL - DAY Dexter creates a TORCH from a marshmallow and a shrimp skewer, and lights it on a flaming cherries jubilee. It illuminates the scary walls of a tunnel made of giant congealed food.

Dexter Whoa.

Dee Dee (POINTS TO DOPPLER MAP) We’ve landed here in some kind of exhaust vent. But if we go this way, the FLDSMDNSFDR should be right down this air shaft.

Edd: (THEN) Eddy, get out of that pie.

(Ed & Eddy is eating a pie in the wall.)

Ed (MOUTH FULL) What’s up?

EXT. Dexter's Dad’s BACKYARD - MOMENTS LATER Dexter's Dad faces the PORT-A-POTTY elevator...and pauses, reluctant. Then he gets in and flushes. INT. ELEVATOR TUBE - MOMENTS LATER Dexter's Dad shoots up the tube, SCREAMING. INT. Dexter’S LAB - MOMENTS LATER Dexter's Dad enters with awe and faces the computer, showdown style.

LAB COMPUTER Welcome, Dexter.

INT. SCARY FOOD CAVE - MOMENTS LATER Dexter, Dee Dee and Eddy face a huge cavern which has a river of boiling hot oil running through it. And they have to get to the other side!

Dexter That’s fry oil.

They carefully begin to cross it, using french fries and chicken nuggets as floating platforms. As they cross--

PHONE: “Dexter you have a call, Dexter you have a call.”

Dexter (CONT’D) (INTO PHONE) Dad! Uh, okay, great. On the screen there’s a file marked “kill code.”

INTERCUT WITH: INT. Dexter’S LAB - CONTINUOUS Dexter's Dad stares at the computer as if it were a spaceship.

Dexter's Dad Wha...? Huh?

Dexter Move that into my e-mail window, type in my name and press “send.”

Dexter's Dad looks around the lab for a window.

Dexter's Dad Window?

Dexter Okay, Dad. You see the thing that looks like a little piece of paper?

Dexter's Dad What?

Dexter Use the mouse to drag it.

Dexter's Dad Drag it?

Dexter Drag it.

Dexter's Dad Drag it?

Dexter Drag it.

Dexter's Dad puts the mouse on the screen and tries to move the arrow.

Dexter Great. Okay, great. Okay, great.

Dexter's Dad It’s not dragging.

Dexter Drag it across the desktop.

Dexter's Dad literally drags the keyboard across the top of the desk. Papers, equipment and the keyboard CRASH onto the floor.

Dexter's Dad That didn’t do anything.

Dexter Of course it didn’t! You know what? Aaaaarghh!

INT CHEW AND SWALLOW Townspeople build boats out of giant sandwiches and swiss cheese sails with pretzel stick masts as Earl instructs them.

EARL Go! Go! Go! Hoist those sails! Toast that bread! We’re running out of Dexter's Dade!

Earl stops and looks up as the Dam starts to rumble ominously. Earls chest hairs tingle.

EARL (CONT’D) Let’s move out! Go! Go! Go! We can do it! Come on, move it, move it, good job, that’s what I’m talking about! Everybody head to the docks!

Everyone runs out of the pancake, holding the boats over their heads. They dodge enormous food. As the first boat arrives at the docks, the Mayor arrives from out of nowhere and PLOWS through the crowd.

MAYOR Wait, wait! I have an important announcement. (BEAT) See ya, suckers!

He steals the first bread boat and shoves off.

MAYOR (O.S.) (CONT’D) Bon voyage... and bon appetit!

He chows down on his own bread boat as he sails away. Everyone on the docks is mad, knowing it was the mayor's fault. Meanwhile, Earl, Regina and Cal run with their boat, but Cal loses his grip and falls.

EARL Cal?!

REGINA Calvin!

Cal looks up at the dam. A cherry lands on top of the food mound... and the Dam breaks open! A massive AVALANCHE OF FOOD sweeps into town, destroying buildings.

EARL Cal, get back here!

CAL (STUNNED) Foodalanche.

EARL Cal! I’m not gonna lose you again!

Earl picks Cal up and starts running.

REGINA Baby!

Earl TOSSES CAL to Regina. Then he picks up their boat and carries it -- with his family on it -- towards the water as the foodalanche rolls towards them, right on his heels.

REGINA (CONT’D) Hold on tight, Calvin! A

GIANT CHERRY flies at them and Regina bats it away with a candy cane. Earl leaps into the air with his wife, child and boat, through a huge falling nacho chip and they all LAND SAFELY on the water, pushed out to sea by the foodalanche.

EARL Everybody head south! We’ve got to stay ahead of that storm!

INTERCUT: INT. Dexter’S LAB / MEATEROID - CONTINUOUS The foodalanche is headed for Dexter’s lab. Dexter's Dad is still trying to send that email.

Dexter's Dad Now what?

Dexter Just click send!

Dee Dee Dexter, the Food Machine 2000 is right down there!

Dexter Dad, hurry!

Dexter's Dad Send? Send...? Oh, wait--

BAM! The foodalanche crashes in. Before he can hit the button, Dexter's Dad is knocked over. Dexter hears cacophony on the line.

Dexter Dad? Dad?! Can you hear me? Dad?!

. Eddy turns and looks around, SCARED. But Dexter is still focused on his phone

. Eddy Hey guys?

Dee Dee and Dexter turn to see giant ROAST CHICKENS covering the ceiling a la the Aliens in Aliens.

Dexter (SOTTO) Holy crapballs.

They try to run..

. Dexter (CONT’D) Go, go, go, go, go, go, go! ..

.but the roast chickens drop down and surround them!

Dexter / Dee Dee / Eddy AAAAAH!

The lead chicken approaches Eddy.

Eddy Aw, I don’t know, I think they’re kind of cute. I mean, this one just walked up to me and-

- In one horrifying move, the biggest roast chicken SWALLOWS Eddy down his gullet.

Eddy (CONT’D) (MUFFLED) Aaaaaahhh!

Dexter / Dee Dee They ate Eddy!!

The chickens totally surround Dexter and Dee Dee and there’s no escape.

Dexter (TERRIFIED) Dad, I’m surrounded by man-eating chickens right now. ,So if this is goodbye, thanks for trying to set me straight. Figured it out a a little late I guess. (THEN) Okay bye.

At this, Dexter's Dad’s arm emerges from the rubble! Then he DRAGS his whole body out of the food, reaches for the mouse and pushes the button. SEND! Dexter looks at his phone and sees “Email Received. Subject: Kill Code. 1 attachment”

Dexter (CONT’D) Dad!

A chicken swallows the phone out of Dexter’s hand.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Hey, give me that phone back!

He reaches for the phone, but suddenly another chicken falls over, SCREAMING and CONVULSING. The other chickens lean in to see what’s happening. Eddy shoves his head through the neck of the chicken and assumes control of its arms and legs.

**Dexter:** Baby Ed?

Eddy I’m not Baby Eddy anymore. I’m Chicken Eddy!

He pulls out his diaper and drops it on the floor.

Eddy (CONT’D) And I’m finally contributing to society! Crotch kick!

He PUNCHES and KICKS the other chickens with a vengeance. Dexter’s Cell phone pops out of one of them. He picks up Dexter and Dee Dee and gets them out of harms way for the moment.

Eddy (CONT’D) Now go, you crazy kids, and save the world.

**Dexter:** You did it, Chicken Eddy! You really did it.

Eddy Go, go, go, go!

Dexter and Dee Dee escape while Chicken Eddy stays behind and holds off the chickens.

Dee Dee It should be right down this... hole.

They skid to a stop as we REVEAL a deep, nasty looking pit lined with stalactites.

Dee Dee (CONT’D) That’s peanut brittle. If either one of us touches it, we’ll go into anaphylactic shock.

[Dexter looks guilty.]

**Dexter:** Actually, I’m not entirely allergic to peanuts. I might have just said that to get you to like me.

Dee Dee So you really thought having allergies would make you more attractive?

**Dexter:** Ehhhhhhhh.

EXT. SKY/INT. CAR-PLANE - DAY Manny adeptly steers around various oncoming foods. Courage tries to grab Manny’s pencil thin moustache.

Courage Moustache... moust--!

Manny GRUNTS at him and he recoils. Wide, we see the black clouds spreading

. EXT. NEW YORK CITY, Dexter's DadES SQUARE - DAY Black clouds roll in. Everyone looks up. On the jumbotron a sign reads “TRY BAGELS - SURPRISINGLY HIGH IN CALORIES!” CRASH! A huge bagel takes out the sign!

NEW YORK WOMAN SeDee Deee bagel!

NEW YORK CITIZENS:Taxi! Taxi!

A CUSTOMER holds his hot dog up to a VENDOR.

CUSTOMER I asked for extra mustard.

And EXTRA MUSTARD drenches him from above. Two HOMELESS PROPHETS stand next to each other wearing sandwich boards. One reads “The World Ends Tomorrow.” The other reads “The World Ends Today.” Prophet #1 is crushed by a PRETZEL.

PROPHET #2 Haha! I was right!

EXT. AROUND THE WORLD - DAY A CLUB SANDWICH uses the Eiffel Tower as a toothpick.

FRECHMAN Sacre bleu!

TOURISTS enjoy the manmade beauty of Mt. Rushmore -- until the presidents are smashed with CREAM PIES!!

TOURISTS Aaaaaaaaaahhhh!

HOT TEA rains down on Big Ben...and Londoners.

LONDONERS Hot tea! / It’s scalding!

At the GREAT WALL OF CHINA, a giant fortune cookie lands and breaks open. A tourist reads the fortune:

TOURIST You are about to be crushed by a giant corn.

Just then, a giant cob of corn rolls down the wall towards the tourists.

INT. WNN NEWSROOM - Dee DeeE The WNN Anchor reports from the newsdesk.

WNN ANCHOR It looks like the foodstorm is following an unusual pattern of hitting the world’s most famous landmarks first and is now spreading to the rest of the--

A GIANT PRETZEL crashes into the newsroom.

WNN ANCHOR (CONT’D) What the what?

INT. FOOD ASTEROID, SPIKY PIT - MOMENTS LATER Eddy is STRUGGLING to hold off the chickens.

Eddy Hurry up, guys!

Using a LICORICE ROPE, Dee Dee lowers Dexter down the shaft. Dee Dee STRUGGLES with Dexter’s weight.

**Dexter:** After I plug my phone into the Food Machine 2000 and destroy it, I’ll tug on the licorice twice and you’ll pull me back up, okay?

Dee Dee (STRUGGLING) Sounds great.

RUMBLE! Dexter SCREAMS as Dee Dee loses her grip on the licorice rope and he falls. Dee Dee regains control of the rope, but slips down the shaft in the midst of a bunch of peanut brittle shards.

Dee Dee (CONT’D) Agh.

Dee Dee looks down at her arm. It’s been cut!

**Dexter:** You got cut, didn’t you.

Dee Dee’s arm and face swell up like a balloon.

Dee Dee (SUPER STUFFED) Ah....It’s just a scratch.

**Dexter:** Eddy, you need to take Dee Dee back to the plane to get her an allergy shot!

Eddy is kicked and punched by a group of angry chickens.

Eddy Just a second...

Dee Dee What? No!

**Dexter:** Let go, Dee Dee.

Dee Dee I’m not gonna let you go. Dexter, you’ll be stuck down there.

[Dexter looks down into the dark pit, then back up at Dee Dee.]

**Dexter:** It’s not ideal, no.

Dee Dee (DESPERATE) Come with us. We’ll start over. We’ll live underground. Use bacon for clothes.

**Dexter:** Dee Dee, that’s not a very good plan.

Dee Dee It is if it means I don’t have to lose you! (BEAT) Look, I like you, okay.

**Dexter:** Like-- Like, as a friend?

[Her head still is swollen and pink.]

Dee Dee No. Like, like you like you.

**Dexter:** Me too. But about you.

He BITES the licorice rope, falling into the blackness.

**Dexter:**(CONT’D) Goodbye, Dee Dee.

Dee Dee Dexter! No!

Dee Dee stumbles backwards and falls. Chickens swarm her, until Eddy arrives! He tosses her onto his back and races out through the tunnel, bowling over the other chickens.

Eddy Hang on, Dee Dee! Dr. Manny’s got the medicine for your face!

INT. FOOD ASTEROID, FOOD CAVE - DAY

**Dexter:** Aaaaahhh!

[Dexter LANDS, pulls himself up and discovers he’s in an enormous food cavern. At the center is the Food Machine 2000, in a uvula-like column of gelatin, above an undulating pit. The machine “inhales” a bunch of clouds and releases a mass of black smoke down the pit.]

INT. FOOD ASTEROID, FOOD TUNNEL - DAY The Eds PANT as he gallops down the food tunnel with Dee Dee on his back, chased by chickens.

Dee Dee (GROGGY) Manny, we’re on our way, hurry...

MANNY (V.O.) Hang on, Dee Dee, I’m circling the blowhole.

EXT. SKY/INT. CAR-PLANE - DAY Manny adeptly steers. THUNK, THUNK -- something hits the underside of the wings.

MANNY Was is das?

Courage jumps up onto Manny’s face, then hides under the seat.

Courage Scared

On the wing, large GUMMI BEARS pull themselves up and tear the wing apart. The plane plummets. Terrified, Courage slowly raises his head and looks out the window. His eyes open wide in shocked glee.

Courage HUNGRY!!!

Courage leaps out onto the wing, DEVOURING the gummi bears and RIPPING APART their cute Gummi bodies. Heads and limbs fly.

Courage Courage. HUNGRY! HUNGRY! GUMMI BEARS!

But the plane is still in a tailspin!

INT. FOOD ASTEROID, FOOD TUNNEL - DAY Eddy reaches the end of the tunnel and pauses. There’s no sign of Manny.

**Ed:** Ohhhh, Manny where are you?!

ON Courage, who rips out the heart of the last Gummi Bear and eats it. ON Eddy, looking back FEARFULLY as the chickens close in. With no choice, he leaps out of the blowhole into mid-air, SCREAMING as he plummets... But Manny flies in at the last second and Eddy SLAMS into the windshield.

INT. CAR-PLANE/EXT. SKY - CONTINUOUS Ed lowers Dee Dee into the plane..

**Edd:** She touched a peanut or something!

[INT. FOOD ASTEROID, FOOD CAVE - DAY Dexter makes his way toward the machine, HUMMING HIS SOUNDACK and moving like a kid pretending to be an action hero. He accidentally steps on a tortilla chip, CRUNCH, alerting the machine to his presence. Immediately the top half of the uvula lifts the Food Machine 2000 up and it fires a GIANT CORN at Dexter.]

**Machine Voice:** Corn.

[The corn rips into the ground in front of him, digging a huge crater in the spot where Dexter was just standing. The machine noses forward, still attached to the uvula, and uses a beam of light to scan the room for Dexter -- he’s nowhere to be found. The light beam passes over a row of food embedded in one of the walls -- strawberries, hot dogs, pickles -- nothing. Except -- that’s not a hot dog, it’s Dexter in a bun! But the machine doesn’t see him, and the uvula returns it to the gelatinous column to continue pumping food around the world. Dexter slips out of the bun and inside a cocktail olive and runs over to a corner. He grabs items as he goes -- a strand of spaghetti, a shrimp -- and ties them tightly together...]

**Dexter:** Grabbing. Tying. Throwing. .

..then tosses the end with the shrimp through the hole of a donut hanging from the ceiling and the tail of the shrimp hooks in.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Waiting... Dexter Dexter's Dades it so the machine has just “exhaled,” then swings out on the spaghetti strand...

**Dexter:** Swinging!

...wrapping it around the uvula like a tetherball so that the machine can’t suck in any clouds. Dexter lands right next to the machine and immediately pulls out his cell phone with the kill code.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Sorry old friend. The kitchen’s closed!

He jams the phone into the machine’s port. But instead of the kill code, it turns out Dexter's Dad sent him the CAT DJ VIDEO.

**Dexter:** (CONT’D) Dad, no...

[Suddenly the uvula rears up, snapping the spaghetti, lifting the Food Machine 2000, and Dexter has to hang on for dear life as the machine becomes a bucking bronco, flailing wildly and shooting food in all directions. Dexter slips, barely holding onto one of the legs of the machine as he dangles above the huge pit. The Food Machine 2000 sucks in clouds until the uvula looks like a giant balloon filling the most of the cave, and prepares to unload on Dexter. He looks down at the hole and notices his feet, still covered -- at always -- in the indestructible Spray-On Shoes. His eyes go WIDE. Dexter pulls out his can of SPRAY-ON SHOES...]

**Dexter:**When it rains, you put on a coat. Of spray-on shoes!!! Yeah! ..

[and SPRAYS the Chow Plopper, SEALING IT SHUT FOREVER. The machine bursts at the seams. Dexter looks up at the machine and steels himself...then LETS GO and falls down through the food hole, out the column of black smoke as the machine explodes... BOOM! The explosion expands outward, following Dexter down the hole. It gets closer and closer until it overtakes him.

INT. CAR-PLANE - DAY]

Dee Dee (O.S.) (GROGGY) What’s happening... Chickens...

Manny grabs an EPI PEN and jams it into Dee Dee’s leg and she wakes up with a start! Her swelling instantly goes down.

Dee Dee (CONT’D) Where’s Dexter?

As they streak towards us, the meateroid EXPLODES!

Dee Dee (CONT’D) NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Eddy consoles Dee Dee with a sticky, chickeny hug.

**Edd:** I know, girl. I know.

[EXT. AROUND THE WORLD - DAY Paris, London, New York -- a RIPPLE of explosive energy clears the skies. Everyone CHEERS!]

[EXT. OCEAN - DAY Everyone on the boats watches the explosion clear the sky. Dexter's Dad climbs out unharmed from the Port-A-Potty. He looks up at the sky and watches, hopeful, as the car-plane approaches.]

[EXT. EATATRETRO- LATER The breadboats return to shore as the car-plane lands. The island is covered with giant food. Manny, Courage, Chicken Eddy and Dee Dee emerge to CHEERS. Then Dee Dee closes the door to the plane. Dexter's Dad approaches Dee Dee.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Dexter?

**Dee Dee:** (HANGS HEAD) I’m sorry.

**Dexter's Dad:** Oh...

[Dad's glasses falls. He starts to tear up. Dee Dee puts her hand on Dad's shoulder.]

**Dee Dee:** Your son was a great man.

[Behind them, a FLOCK OF BATS flies down from the sky. The crowd points and GASPS. Dee Dee and Dad turn to see ratbirds gently place a smoking, woozy Dexter on the ground. Dexter gives the bats a thumbs up. They SQUAWK their approval. Everyone runs over to HUG our hero.]

**Dexter:** Courage!

**Courage:** Dexter!

**Ed, Edd & Eddy** Dexter!

**Dexter:** Eds!

**Courage:** Ow.

**Ami and Yumi:** Dexter!

**Dexter:** Girls!

**Courage:** Yee!

**Numbuh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & Lizzie:** Dexter!

**Dexter:** Guys!!

**Macaroni Boy:** (MUFFLED) Dexter!

**Dexter:** You... guy!

**Courage:** Ahh. [Then Dee Dee approaches.]

**Dexter:** Dee Dee.

**Dee Dee:** Dexter.

**Dexter:** Dee Dee.

**Dee Dee:** Dexter.

[They look into each other’s eyes. Dexter's Dad approaches.]

**Dexter's Dad:** Dexter.

**Dexter:**Dad.

**Courage:**SAaaaah

**Dexter's Dad:** (AWKWARD) Son... oh. When you... when you cast your line... if it’s not straight... you, umm...

[Father and son stand there awkwardly. Beat.]

**Dee Dee:** Oh, for crying out loud.

[Der Dee tears off Courage's THOUGHT TRANSLATOR and puts it on her Dad. Suddenly the box allows him to gush his true feelings.]

**Dexter's Dad**: (THROUGH TRANSLATOR) I’m proud of you, Dexter. I’m amazed that someone as ordinary as me could be the father of someone as extraordinary as you. You’re talented, you’re a total original and your lab is breathtaking. Winona, she always knew you were going to be special and if she were alive today, she’d tell us both, “I told you so.” Now, look, when I take this thing off and you hear me make a fishing metaphor, just know that fishing metaphor means... (SPOKEN) I love my son.

**Dexter:** I love you too, dad.

[Dexter hugs his dad. He’s never been happier. The class CHEERS.]

[Dexter's dad nudges Dexter over to Dee Dee. Dexter turns to her.]

**Dexter:** So where were we...?

**Dee Dee: You** were about to kiss me.

**Dexter:** Were you going to kiss me back?

**Dee Dee:** Why don’t you find out?

**Dexter:** Because I don’t want to go for it and then get shut down again.

**Dee Dee:** Just kiss me!

(She closes her eyes and leans in, puffing her cheeks out in the Dee Dee never-kissed-anyone face Dexter made earlier. Dexter makes the Dee Dee face and goes for it. It’s the most awkward, nerdiest, and somehow still immensely satisfying on-screen kiss ever.)

As we begin a huge cinematic PULL OUT, we hear...

**Dexter's Dad**: That’s my son.

**Eddy:** Yeah! I’m a chicken!

**Numnbuh 3:** Yay!

**Bubbles:** Whoo-hoo!

[We pull back through the Dee Dee clouds that led us into the movie, and bats fly by, WIPING to]

**THE END**

EXT. OCEAN - DAY

[The Mayor bobs on what’s left of his mostly-eaten boat, completely alone in the open ocean...]

**MAYOR: This** was not well thought out.