Nightmare Tales/Transcript

This is the transcript for Nightmare Tales, an episode from the fourth season of The Angry Birds Show.

## Prolog: Opening sequence

(Open to show the logo carved on a pumpkin along with the credits on the back. On the streets of Bird City, the birds are all out trick-or-treating)

Teal Birds: Trick or treat!

(We pass on through the streets. More Birds are celebrating Halloween. All except for The Angry Birds, who are staying indoors.)

## Halloween Indoors

Chuck: (Groans) Red, why do we have to stay indoors for Halloween! I’m 10 and I really want to go crazy for that candy!

Red: I’m sorry, pal, but it’s not gonna be that way! After that PhanHog incident last year, (flashbacks to The Nightmare of the Final Battle: Part 2: Scare Him with Nightmares! plays) no-one’s not going out there for Halloween. I keep finding some of his ghost minions roaming the house.

(A flashback plays, showing Red finding Ghost Pigs throughout the house, even in the oven; as we return to the present, a Ghost Pig appears out of thin air)

Ghost Pig: BOO!!

(Red simply sucks it up with the vacuum cleaner nozzle. The Ghost Pig screams as he is sucked in.)

Red: And that’s the second reason why some of us are too old to go trick-or-treating. (The Blues, Silver and Bubbles give him an unamused look; Red groans) Ugh. I forgot we have babies on our side! Anyway, if you wanna celebrate Halloween, then try to tell a story.

Chuck: Perfect! And this year, we’ll see if we can finally scare you!

Red: Well, that’s too bad. My body is stone hard and impossible to scare. So you can kiss your chances goodbye because you can’t scare me like this!

(Everyone else leaves and huddles up.)

Chuck: (Whispering) Okay. If we want to scare Red so bad, we need to give him all of our guts and pull out the best scary story ever!

Silver: (mutters while writing in notebook)

Matilda: Silver, what’re you doing?

Silver: (whispering) What does it look like I’m doing?! I’m writing down notes! Now I need to spill my guts… (tries to regurgitate her guts as the others wince)

Bomb: Okay, okay stop! One, that’s horrific to see. Two, don’t do that ever again. And three, I have the perfect plan. (whispers it to everyone)

Matilda: I see.

Hal: Good idea, mate!

Silver: I think mine’s better.

Bubbles: No, your’s is worse.

(Everyone returns to Red.)

Jake: Okay, we’re ready!

Red: Alright. Show me what you got!

Chuck: Wait! (rushes away into the closet; crashing noises can be heard as he goes to get marshmallows and Red’s laptop) Can’t be a scary tale night without camping gear.

Red: (Confused) Okay…?

Bomb: I’ll go first.

## Pac-Bird (Bomb/Matilda’s Story)

(Bomb’s story begins. However, it’s weirdly based on Pac-Man.)

Bomb: Once upon a time, there was this pellet eating circle named Pac… uh, Bird! Yeah, Pac-Bird! And he was chasing ghosts and, eating dots, and, and–

(Stella, as Pinky drops down and kills Pac-Bird/Bomb)

Stella: No, blackbird! That’s not scary! (returns to reality) You’re literally stealing ideas from arcade games from the 80s’!

Bomb: Hey! I have no ideas for a good scary story so don’t judge me!

(Back to the story.)

Bomb: So Pac-Bird was eating pellets when he stumbled upon a rare pellet. It was large and it was, uh, changing colors…?

(Red gives him an unamused look)

Bomb: GUH! C’mon, Bomb! Think of something scary! Uh, there were four ghosts Stinky, Thinky, Winky and… Clyde.

(A green, blue, yellow and orange ghost appear one at a time)

Bubbles: (as Clyde) See?! You’re just copyrighting arcade games!

Bomb: No I’m not!

Stella: Can you get on with it!

Bomb: No! This is too hard for me! I can’t do it! (weeps)

Chuck: (unamused) You wanna take over, Matilda?... Matilda?

(Matilda is cowering under some covers)

Chuck: Aren’t those Bomb’s bedsheets?

(Matilda embarrassingly throws the bedsheets away.)

Matilda: Forget you saw that! (sighs) Here’s the rest of the story, but here’s a drawing of how it goes… (holds up a notebook to show a demon Pac-Bird destroying the arcade machine in the real world.) The end…?

Red: Really? That’s the best you got? You know it’s gonna take more than that to scare me!

## Grave Doom (Chuck/Stella’s Story)

Chuck: Well, since the black-and-white duo failed to scare Red’s nonexistent pants off, me and Stella will take over for the next story.

Stella: Wait, what?!--

Chuck: It’s a story I call… (deep, scary voice) Grave Doom!!

(Stella shows up on the “Grave Doom” title card.)

Stella: (shouting frantically) I DIDN’T SIGN UP FOR THI–

Chuck: It was a dark and stormy night, and… wait, where did I put my journal?!

Bomb: You left it at King Pig’s castle again, did you?

Chuck: D’oh! That’s right! I kept it as my diary!

Bubbles: You what?!

(Everyone stares at Chuck. Chuck nervously chuckles and sweats.)

Chuck: I had my name on it and had a lock on it!

(An annoyed Stella kicks Stella away and steps on the stool.)

Stella: Okay, that’s it, I’m taking over!

(3 minutes of scary-story telling later…)

Stella: …And they all lived happily never after. The end! (Sighs heavily)

Red: Wow. There was barely any nonsense to it!

Stella: Fine! You wanna continue, Orange and Green Team?!

Bubbles: Nah.

Hal: Not really.

Stella: Ugh! We need to get a good story for this!

Silver: How ‘bout us?

Stella: Fine. Go ahead, idiots.

## The Demon (Silver’s Story)

(Silver simply opens her mouth and the Embodiment of Nightmares flies out of her mouth in a horrific manner. Red is utterly horrified and falls to the floor.)

Chuck: YES!! We did it! We scared him! (dances the night away)

Jim: Seriously… (in unison with Jake and Jay) WHAT WAS THAT?!?!?

Silver: I dunno. It’s that monster Matilda told me about last month. The Embodiment of Nightmares.

Red: The what?!

Silver: The Embodiment of Nightmares. Y’know, an interdimensional creature that feeds on people’s nightmares to steal their souls and become all powerful?

Matilda: You let that out by accident?!

Silver: (winces; nervously) Yes…? Please don’t hurt me, I’ve done nothing wrong!

Red: You did do something wrong! And now that Embodiment of Nightmares is gonna attack our town!

Chuck: Puh-lease! How bad can things possibly get when that creature goes out and– (opens the blinds and watches in shock as nightmares come to life and the Embodiment of Nightmares starts stealing cheeple’s souls.) Okay, that’s absolutely bad.

Bubbles: We gotta get out there! (rushes for the door, but is stopped by Hal.)

Hal: Hang on, dingo! We can’t go out there yet! We need a plan!

Stella: Right! And who’s the type of bird who always has a plan?

Everyone else sans Red and Stella: Red.

Stella: No! Dahlia! We speak to her, we think of a plan, and then we win!

Jay: Okay, that makes sense.

(At Golden Island, Stella knocks on the door and Dahlia opens up.)

Dahlia: Greetings and Happy Halloween!--

Stella: No time for that! We need something to destroy the Embodiment of Nightmares!

Willow: THE EMBODIMENT  OF NIGHTMARES?! Hang on! I’ll call the others. (whistles loudly and Luca leaps through the window and Poppy crashes into the wall and falls off of the treehouse.) Glad you guys are here!

Luca: So what’s about the nightmare man?

Red: He’s loose in the city.

Willow: So we need something that can put a halt to it’s reign of chaos!

Matilda: Well, what are you waiting for, Wilt?!

Willow: Wil*low*!

Matilda: Right. Haven’t seen you for so long that I’ve nearly forgotten your name.

Dahlia: Don’t worry. I’ve got the perfect plan to stop it! We have to get to my lab and– (Poppy is heard screaming and crashes through the roof of her room.) What the?! Poppy! I just fixed that wall last week.

Poppy: It wasn’t me! It was a trap spring in the sand!

Luca: Since when did we have a trap spring?

Poppy: Guh! You caught me! By the way, nice to see ya again since Valentine’s Day, Fred.

Red: It’s Red.

Dahlia: Enough! Follow me!

(Everyone follows Dahlia to her lab as Dahlia begins to form a serum to conquer nightmares.)

Red: So, what is this Embodiment of Nightmares?

Dahlia: He’s an evil spirit slowly forming throughout the centuries since the dawn of time, feeding on cheeple’s nightmares.

Chuck: And just, how, does this guy feed on nightmares?

Dahlia: If he tries to form, don’t think of anything scary! Think happy thoughts. That’s how he’ll get you.

Bomb: How do the nightmares come to life?

Dahlia: He’s a true puppet master. Truly can bring your nightmares to life as soon as he captures them.

Matilda: What can stop him?!

Dahlia: With this! (Dahlia holds up the serum.) It’s a special serum that vanquishes nightmares from your head. (sinisterly) But beware. Some nightmares can’t leave your head.

(Everyone looks scared.)

Dahlia: Too scary?

Willow: We’ll take what we can get.

(The Angry Birds begin to leave.)

Red: Thanks for the serum!

Poppy: Wait! (Poppy uses her powers to bring everyone off the treehouse) We’re coming with ya!

Jay: Perfect! He’s gonna be outnumbered!

(Back at Bird City, the Angry Birds and Golden Island Birds have encountered the Embodiment of Nightmares.)

Embodiment of Nightmares: Ah. You pesky Birds. Can’t you see? This world is already mine! This is my ultimate paradise!

Poppy: Paradise? (scoffs) This feels like the eternal fever dream caused by a dog on anesthetics.

Embodiment of Nightmares: Don’t you **DARE** insult my new world!!

## The Battle to End Nightmares

Hal: Well that’s too bad! We’ve gotten some friends to help!

Embodiment of Nightmares: Hah! I've got some pets I wanna show you! (his “pets” arrive.) And some friends of mine! (Gale, King Pig, Terence, and Foreman Pig are seen, soulless and engulfed in darkness.)

Bubbles: Ugh. You’re just as bad as Terra. Almost looks like her, too.

Embodiment of Nightmares: That’s IT! Pets, do your things!

(The pets begin to turn Gale, Terence, King Pig, and Foreman Pig into nightmares.)

Embodiment of Nightmares: Attack.

(The Nightmares attack the Birds as the Birds fight back against them. Afterwards, Dahlia passes the serum to Stella.)

Dahlia: Stella! Take the shot!

(Stella throws the serum and it spills all over the Embodiment of Nightmares.)

Embodiment of Nightmares: Gah! What is that stuff!

Luca: The serum meant to defeat you!

Embodiment of Nightmares: No! I hate that stuff! It’s the thing that tried to disintegrate my arm as a child!!

(Stella and Hal exchange confused expressions. The Embodiment of Nightmares screams and the serum seeps into his soul and completely destroys him.)

(Everyone cheers as the nightmares fade away and people are freed.)

Chuck: Looks like the dreams outnumber nightmares!

Gale: (dazed) Ugh. Why do I feel so sticky? Was that cloud made of cotton candy or something.

Foreman Pig: I feel like a donut without a hole!

Terence: …. . …. …….. (Ugh. I hate monsters.)

(Red hugs his brother to Terence’s uncomfort.)

Red: Say, I think we better get inside. Sure don’t want people having Silver framed for letting an inter-dimensional monster loose into our world.

Willow: Alright. See ya later!

(The Golden Island Birds leave back to Golden Island and the Angry Birds return home. Suddenly, a large glob of a nightmare cloud drops. Evident by the crown, it’s obviously King Pig, who wasn’t freed.)

King Pig: (muffled) Can someone let me out? Please? I’ll give you some money!... Ugh. Guess I’ll have to wait till someone lets me out.

(Pan out from Pig City, and the special ends. For more info, click here.)