Terror From the Year

69(Thousand)

An original screenplay by:

David Austerlamp

Scott Mintred

©1997 SPEW Productions

Original Screenplay

Scene 1

INT: Night. Max's house with scary lighting. Rainy night. People dead on the floor. Camera pans to pool of blood on the floor. Opening credits come up with title.

--Dissolve from blood red--

Scene 2

INT: Night. Mad scientists lab. Scientist is applying circut boards to unseen creation. Assistant is standing in background.

Mad Scientist: (Crazy laugh) At last, it is finished!

Assistant: (Leaves hurriedly)

Arms reach up from unseen creation and grab scientist. Scientist screams.

--Fade out--Fade in--

Scene 3

EXT: Day. People playing frisbee on feild. One team scores, and everyone congregates by the bleachers. A rabbi walks in from off camera holding a frisbee. The Pirate is not visible until his line. Max Protagonist had scored the goal, and is with his friends.

Rabbi: Good game, guys.

Kid1: Damn Rabbi Brestary, that sure was an obnoxious sermon last night.

Rabbi: (Falls down dead)

Kid2: (Looks at rabbi) That's unfortunate.

Pirate: (Wearing eyepatch and parrot on shoulder) Aye, 'tis unfortunate.

Parrot: Aaahhh 'tis unfortunate. (x5)

Kids walk away, parrot squaking fades slowly, camera pans to woods at far side of field where toilet lurks, gugh-a-la-buhh-ing. Toilet races accross field (stop motion), and begins nibbling on the dead rabbi. Camera tilts towards sky.

--Dissolve--

Scene 4

EXT: Day. At Max's house. Camera tilts down from sky to Max in the foreground playing tennis vs a man dressed like Mr. Peanut in the background. While camera tilts, you hear the Judicator say "IN. OUT. IN. OUT." More and more passionately. Judicator with scoweling eyebrows is sitting threateningly above the court. Ball goes in on Peanut's side, and Judicator calls it. Max takes a towel from nearby, mops his head and rings towel into the basin. (Hidden water baloon filled w/green colored water bursts inside towel). Max salutes Peanut and walks to front of house. Workers are affecting construction on the house.

--Cut--

Scene 5

INT: Day. Max's foyer. Max walks in tiredly, workers are lounging about here, joking in Japanese. Housekeeper walks in from another area.

Max: Have you seen my sister around?

Housekeeper: I don't know.

Max: Did my parents call?

Housekeeper: I don't know.

Max: Do we have any orange juice? I'm famished.

Housekeeper: I don't know.

Max: (Overly patronizing, sarcastic and condecending) Ohhh, thank you. You're sooo helpful. I'm terrrribly glad we have you around. I hope we pay you sooo much money. You're the most helpful and wisest and truely, truely the most glorious person I know. (Walks up one set of stairs)

Housekeeper: (sadly) I don't know? (Stands there dumbly).

Sister: (Comes down other set of stairs) Hey, like, what's up?

Housekeeper: (sadly) I don't know...

Sister: Okay pipi, have you seen my brother?

Housekeeper: I don't know.

Sister: Did his friends come yet?

Housekeeper: I don't know.

Sister: Okay, like, bye! (Grabs bag and runs out door)

Housekeeper: I don't know! I don't know! (Throws up hands in frustration)

Mr. Peanut: (Standing in doorway sister just left; Says DOO DOO!, honks horn twice, and emits a farting sound, sarcastically).

To the left background of Peanut we see Sister skipping towards foliage where toilet is hiding. We hear gurgling noise, but it stops in midsection along with all sound and motion. Camera pans to right of Peanut where in the background Is Assistant in lab gown with violin. Camera zooms in quickly to Assistant. Dissolve to closeup from slightly different angle, camera is close. Assistant is more luminous than surroundings.

Assistant (sings):

Who has seen my toilet?

I made it in a foul burst of madness.

It has sadly mauled the rabbi.

(From backup): Wah, wah, wah..

I am concerned for the safety of the village.

The people should be afraid.

(From backup): (Same voice and meter as before) So very afraid..

(Scratches violin, sings more urgently, louder.)

Of my stanky ass toilet! (Or arse)

(Blows loudly in harmonica, throws over shoulder.)

(Goes nuts on violin, walking sadly into background.)

Mister peanut stands up in front of camera for closeup, eats harmonica, and walks away twirling cane. Camera pans to left, zooming into toilet. Sister's backpack hangs from bowl, toilet chomps, bag gets sucked in.

Toilet: Buuurrrp.

--Fade Out--Fade In--

Scene 6

INT: Day-eve. Max's foyer. Small amount of rain on windows, but no downpour. Housekeeper is mopping the floor. The workers have left.

Max: (Comes back downstairs) Have you seen my sister yet?

Housekeeper: I don't know.

Max: Okay, then did she get eaten by an evil toilet from the year 69 (Deep booming voice yells "THOUSAND")?

Housekeeper: What are you? ... Kidding me? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Toilet: (Flushes)

Mr. Peanut: (Standing in main doorway as before; Says DOO DOO!, honks horn twice, and emits a farting sound, sarcastically).

Max: (Checks watch and looks at windows.) Damn, starting to rain... (Walks to kitchen and pours orange juice.)

Max: (Singing to orange juice)

Oh, orange juice!

What has become of my sister?

If only Jesus was here to ressurect her

(Here, Jesus can be superimposed as a ghost)

(Glorious choir): Praise jesus

But alas, he’s dead

(Jesus promptly disappears)

(mumbles to self)

Hampster du Souris pops in next to Max, and Max looks surprised. They stare at each other for a few beats.

Hampster: So, how’s it goin’?

Max: Good.

Stare at each other for a while...

Max: You know, you’re in my house.

Hampster: Yes.

Wait some more...

Max: I’m gonna go and call the police now.

Hampster: No.

Stare at each other some more...

Hampster: So, watch this. (Grabs Max’s head)

Max: Ow. Was that it?

Seconds pass...

Hampster: No... It was this.

Max falls down unconcious.

--Fade Out Mysteriously--Fade In--

Scene 7

EXT: Day. In dense forest. Shows toilets in natural habitat eating foliage and caring for young. Toilets play together and are nice and cuddly. Suddenly, two masked men walk up to The Toilet. One holds the toilet down while the other drops a Tidy Bowl tablet into the toilet and the toilet falls down. The Toilet is dragged away by the masked men. They take the toilet off the set, and a flash of light occurs. It is assumed the toilet has been taken from 69,000 to the present by the Mad Scientist and Assistant.

--Fade Out Mysteriously--Fade In--

Scene 8

INT: Picks up where scene 6 ended. Max gets up from the floor, rubbing head.

Hampster: That’s all I can show you. (Hits Max over head, Max crumples down unconcious again.) Whack!

--Fade Out--Fade In--

Scene 9

INT: Day-eve. Inside of car. Shot from back right of station wagon's trunk, looking towards driver. Car is travelling down road towards Max's house. There is some rain on the windshield, but it is not raining. Senor Peabody is driving. One of the backseats is laden with cases of beer.

Kid1: Too bad about Rabbi Breasthairy. I mean Brestary. Sorry, slip him the tongue.

Peabody: No, I think not.

Kid3: Yeah, I heard he was eaten by some machine of doom and destruction from the future.

Peabody: Now, see here, you're an idiot. Why would such an advanced device be interested in eatin a dead rabbi, ay?

Silence for a few seconds, Peabody plays with the radio, turns it on and off. Also as Peabody says this, car drives by toilet hiding in bushes. Gurgling sound is heard.

Kid3: (In a bad English accent) By the by, I heard the tomato is not a vegetable, but in fact a fruit.

Kid3 now opens the car door and throws himself out upon the ground, and the car drives off. Car arrives at Max’s house, Peabody jams on brakes.

Peabody: We’re here.

Cut to Kid3 lying on ground where he bailed. He is smiling, picks up his head, looks at the camera, says "ahhhh" contentedly. His head falls back, and he maks a sarcastic farting sound. When his head falls back he views the Toilet lurking in the woods and screams. Camera jerks up to the toilet and you hear "guh-ga-la-buh-ga-lah".

--Cut to black--Cut to scene--

Scene 10

INT: Late evening. Max’s house. Rain is pelting down pretty hard. Lightning and thunder occur. A party is in full effect in Max’s half-finished living room. Beer, soda, vodka, etc are in evidence. The Pirate and Rabbi Brestary are in the background in a couple of shots, but are not agnowledged. So are a few extras. There is a kid no one likes, wearing a dunce cap in the corner and goofy nerd glasses. Peabody walks over to where Max is and trips on his body.

Peabody: (Bending down, yelling to everyone) Hey, it’s Max! (To Max) Hey man, what’s up?

Max: (Mumbles for a while) ...Hampster... (Mumbles) ...toilet... (Mumbles) ...imminent doom...

Peabody: Shut up. Drink this. (Shoves bottle of vodka in Max’s mouth, Max drinks the whole bottle, and gets up).

Max: (Groans) What happened?

Peabody: I don’t know, man. I just saw you lying on the floor.. I thought you drank too much...

Max: (Confused) No, no.. It was something else. Something terrible... (trails off)

Peabody: Well, never mind that. Let’s have some fun, eh?

Max: Yeah, you’re right. Is everyone here? (looking around) Where’s Juanita?

Peabody: (Looking around uncomfortably) I don’t know. Not here.

Max: Obviously. (Doorbell rings) There’s someone. (Ominous music occurs, or silence occurs, in order to set the mood for something potentially terrible..)

Peabody: (Stumbling towards door drunkenly, picking up a beer on the way) Come right on in, whoever you are!

Max: (Somewhat agitated) But what if it’s... (Trails off upon seeing who it is. Juanita Valdez is at the door, looking beautiful. Silence falls, and she stands there surveying the scene in an almost arrogant manner.)

--’Fuzzy screen’ dissolve to scene 11--

Scene 11

INT: Inside an Italian restuarant. The camera is set on one end of a dinnertable with a red and white checkered cloth. People are eating pasta, etc at the table, but their faces remain unseen. The people are smoking and drinking wine, the atmosphere is dim and dingy. One writer has a laptop next to him. Cell phones and papers are also on the table. The Writers are flipping through the pages while they eat.

Writer1: Then Max’s girlfriend should walk in. We’ll call her... Juanita Valdez, how about that? (Gafaws heard around the table) She’ll walk in and...

Writer2: (Interrupting) Wait, so she’s there, but isn’t she supposed to be alive in the year 69 thousand?

Writer3: Yes, yes. She IS in the year 69 thousand. The point is she’s immortal. That’s why Max is gonna have to save her from the... (Trails off)

Writer1: What’s wrong?

Writer3: (Angry) Who left the camera on? Dammit! You’re taping over the party scene!

Camera Boy: (Sarcastic) Oh, my bad... (poumpacity master)

--’Fuzzy screen’ dissolve to scene 12--

Scene 12

INT: Night. Max’s house. Still raining. House is empty of most guests, and party is over. Empty beer bottles, etc are lying about. The pirate is sleeping on a chair in the background. Max, Peabody, Kid1 and Juanita are still there. They are lounging about tiredly, as if just getting over the effects of the drinking.

Kid1: Well, that was an awesome party.

Peabody: (To Max) Too bad you were out of it for the beginning.. (Starts to giggle) The dunce got up and started trying to run your armchair through with his cap. Needless to say, it took forever to calm him down.

Max: (Tiredly) Yeah, too bad. I can’t remember what the hell happened.. (rubs head) It feels like someone hit me. Ohh, this is terrible.

Kid1: If you want, I’ll help you clean up..

Max: Thanks. Where’s Kid3? We should make his sorry ass help.

Kid1: Ahhh, he probably passed out on your bed again.

Peabody: No. I saw him here not! Hmm.. I think he fell out of the car or something.

Max: (Exasperated) Again? Yesterday, we were going down the LIE, and he just opened the door and freakin’ jumped out.. We were going like 69 miles an hour.

Peabody: Heh, yeah, that’s just like him. Maybe he got knocked out...

Juanita: Yeah, you guys go find him. I need to get some rest. (To Max) Mind if I crash in your sister’s room?

Max: Nah, I think she’s sleeping over somewhere or got eaten by a toilet or something.

Juanita: (Getting up tiredly and waling upstairs) Cool...

Max: (To all) Here, we’ll take my car.

Max walks out with everyone following him. It is not raining, but the ground and everything is wet. Lightning and thunder happen occasionally. Ominous music sounds, and the camera turns from the door to a window past the pirate. The toilet is lurking in the darkness. A flash of lightning reveals it. Max’s car doors slam, and a car is heard starting.

--Cut--

Scene 13

INT: Max’s car. The car is a four seat sedan or convertible which Max drives. Peabody is next to him, with Kid1 in the back seat. The car drives down the street travelling away from Max’s house.

Kid1: Drive carefully, you don’t wanna run over the bastard.

Max: Obviously, I mean, how do you think I drive, like your mother?

Kid1: What’s wrong with her driving, eh? Your mom’s a stupid, smelly, rat fink bastard.

Max: Hey now!

Suddenly, a thudding and squishing is heard and the car shudders - clearly something has been run over.

Peabody: (Looking over at Max, Max looks back, hitting the brakes) Ummm, I think we found old Kid3.

Max: Woops. Well, let’s go check it out. I have a couple of lights in the trunk.

Max, Peabody and Kid1 get out of the car, shutting the engine but leaving the lights on with doors open. Max walks around back of the car and fumbles with the key. The key falls. In the bushes by the headlights a russling is seen and heard. Ominous music may play, or silence. Kid1 stops in midstep, and upon looking down, sees he stepped in a pool of blood. He shudders. The russling gets closer to the car. Max, Peabody and Kid1 start retreating slowly, while speeding up. Kid1 trips on the body of Kid3, whose head is amongst the bushes, while a body with no legs stretches into the street. Kid3 is bloody, with a great pool of blood from the leg stumps almost to the car, about 10 feet away. Kid1 only stumples, but puts his hand down on a squishy organ (or bloody cloth). He is sickened, and stops, staring at the outline of the body in horror. Max and Peabody slow down, but thunder claps with lightning, and they see something coming out of the bushes. Mister Peanut steps out of the bushes.

Mr. Peanut: (Farts sarcastically while waving head. Walks off a moment later to the other side of the street into the bushes and disappears)

Peabody: (Staring in disbelief) Right. Well, where are those flashlights.

Max: (Shakes head to recover from the bizzare experiance) Of course. (Hastens over to car trunk, grabs key off the ground, opens trunk and throws a light to Peabody. Keeps the other for himself. Slams trunk, turns light on.)

Peabody also turns his light on, and all three go over to the body to investigate. Max stares at body, looks near the head. Some grass (and/or foliage) is tramped down. He leans in closer to the imprint, the camera cuts to a closeup of his face, and suddenly he has a flashback...

--Flash dissolve--

Scene 14

EXT: Same setting as Scene 7, in the dense forest. A replay of Scene 7 occurs (in closeup), starting with the tidy bowl tablet dropping in. The toilet falls, but the camera zooms in to the imprint the toilet had made in the grass. Camera rapidly zooms out and moves back to a distant view of the toilets and their young.

--Flash dissolve--

Scene 15

INT: Continuation of Scene 13. Starts with a closeup of Max’s face.

Max: Damn! We better get back to the house! (Begins running to car)

Peabody: Why? (Following Max) What’s wrong?

Max: (Stopping briefly at car door) Look, that was no footprint back there... It was... Hey, just hurry up. (Gets in car)

Everyone gets in the car; the car drives off.

--Fade to black--Fade to scene--

Scene 16

INT: Sister’s bedroom. The bedroom is pretty regular, yet large. TV, computer, phone, etc. Juanita is looking through the CDs on the dresser. She wanders around the room casually looking through the things in the room. A muffled noise is heard downstairs.

Juanita: (Startled) Hello? Max?

Toilet: (Barely audible, coming from downstairs) guh-ga-la-buh-ga-lah, guh-ga-la-buh-ga-lah

Juanita: (To camera) It sounds as though there were a walking toilet downstairs, on its way to eat me and every second I wait here I fall closer to impending doom. But that’s just rediculous, maybe I’ll just go to sleep now. Why am I talking to myself?

Juanita lies down and goes back to sleep.

Scene 17

INT: You see the back of Max’s car as it skids into his house making an obnoxious screaching sound and tire marks. Everyone gets out of the car and hurries towards the house. The camera goes back to show just half the car and it appears that the whole cast is getting out from one door, one at a time. The last out is Mr. Peanut who farts sarcastically at the camera before he leaves. You then see Max, Mr. Peabody, and Kid1 with puzzled looks on their faces. The stare at the camera for a few seconds and then continue to walk inside of the house.

Peabody: Max, (grabbing his arm) You have to tell me what all of this is about.

Max: I don’t have time to tell you now, but I know Juanita’s life is in danger. (Hampster and Peanut whisper ‘Help Me’ with feminine tone. Camera zooms out to reveal Hampster with mouth open as if saying Help Me. He quickly closes his mouth and points to his left. The camera pans and reveals Mr. Peanut who looks shocked, farts sarcastically and runs away with Hampster following him.) I’m going upstairs to go check if she’s o.k. You guys search the rest of the house for a menacing looking toilet.

Max walks upstairs to his sister’s room. The room is dark and someone is sleeping in the bed. As Max gets closer he sees that it is actually Mr. Peanut and not Juanita, whom he completely ignores.

--Cut--

Scene 18

INT: Max’s foyer.

Kid1: Max is acting funny, Peabody, let’s go to the kitchen, who knows, (sarcastically) maybe will find a giant, threatening, living toilet in there.

Peabody: Hai, toilet desu.

Peabody bows ceremoniously and then they both walk to the kitchen. Juanita is there drinking orange juice.

Juanita: Hey guys, did you see Max. I heard some strange sounds before, sort of like guh-ga-la-buh-ga-lah.

At this point two sock puppets pop out from behind the counter near Juanita. They say to each other "guh-ga-la-buhh-ga-la?" "yes, guh-ga-la-buhh-ga-la!" and disappear.

Peabody: I don’t know, Max said that your life was in danger and then he ran upstairs to his sister’s room. He wouldn’t tell us anything else.

Kid1: Yeah, except that we should be on the lookout for a threatening looking toilet, whatever that means. Has he been taking any strange drugs lately?

Juanita: Well, the toilet in Max’s bathroom looks really threatning, but it never tried to eat me before. But anyway, we better go find him to tell him I’m alright.

They begin to walk upstairs. The toilet is in the corner, but, knowing that it is outnumbered, it disguises itself as a regular toilet so that they do not notice, only being on the lookout for a menacing looking toilet. As they are walking up the stairs it says guh-ga-la-buh-ga-lah. They turn around for a second, but don’t notice anything.

---Fade to Black--Fade to Scene--

Scene 19

INT: Outhouse. The Toilet has kidnapped Max. He has taken him back to his secret lair. The outhouse is a small, low ceilinged shack with a dirt floor and small turds on the ground.

Toilet: (Threateningly) guh-ga-la-buhh-ga-la.

Max: Why have you kidnapped me, o’ foul stanky toilet?

Toilet: (Informatively) guh-ga-la-buhh-ga-la.

Max: What are you going to do to me?

Toilet: (Menacingly) guh-ga-la-buhh-ga-la.

Max: I have to go to the bathroom, can I have some privacy?

Toilet: No, I mean, guh-ga-la-buhh-ga-la.

Max sits down on toilet and attempts to utilize it. The toilet gets angry, flings him across outhouse, and then spews water and makes a foul sound such as guh-ga-la-buhh-ga-la. Max goes unconscious and enters into Hamster’s world.

---Cut to White--Fade to Scene--

Scene 20

INT: Hampster’s den. It is a bare, white, luminous room. Starch white clothing.

Max: This room is as luminous as my ass!

Hampster: No.

Hamster looks at Max’s ass and notices that it is indeed as luminous the room due to the lights that are attached to his buttox.

Hampster: So it is. I guess that’s why they call you Maximilian protaginist.

Max: No, no its not.

Hampster: Look how much I care. Look directly at my hairy Hamster and see how much I care.

Pause

Max: This is odd.

Hampster: True. True.

Stare at each other for a time again.

Max: So, who are you?

Hampster: They call me Hampster du Souris.

Max: Oh.... So, what is this place.

Hampster: This is where I live. You should be used to it (Indicates Max’s ass). It IS that luminous, after all.

Max: Well, yes. (Pause) So, are you here to aid me on my fantastic journey battling this dangerous gurrgling toilet to save my immortal girlfriend?

Hampster: You saw the movie too?

Max: What?

Hampster: Never mind. (Pause) I could tell you more, but the intermission’s about to happen.

Max: Why would there be an...

Before Max can finish his line, Hampster hits him on the head with a hidden stick.

Hampster: Whack! There... Now, the intermission.

--Fade to Intermission logo--Dissolve to scene--

Scene 21

INT: A graphic stating "The Local Mass-ass-kiss Hour" is overlaid on scenes of violence from stock footage. The loony tunes music plays. An announcer booms in the background, "Now it’s time for a demonstration from your local masacists". After a couple of more seconds of this, the scenes in the background change to one of the two masacists sitting on a couch with candles burning and disturbing crap lying about. The graphic fades away. The Loony Tunes music continues while the masacists mutilate themselves.

--Fade to black--Show "The Rabbi’s Sermon" Graphic--Dissolve to scene--

Scene 22

INT: Synagouge. Rabbi Brestary is at the right pulpit. The Cantor is at the left. Six cast members are in the chior seats, with (robes? And) books. The rest of the cast is in the congregation, books open, yalmukas on.

Rabbi: Oh my fellow Jews! You may have thought I was dead, but that was not true.

Choir: Right on! Barrechu!

Rabbi: Thank you, thank you. ... But I was not dead. I merely have a weakness, which is common among horribly obesce people such as myself.

Choir: Tell it! Horribly obesce, my man!

Rabbi: Thank you, thank you! I am plauged by low blood pressure! If I get surprised, I faint worse than a prarie ox munching on the balls of a crankcase!

Choir: The balls of a crankcase. Oh yes, I said the BALLS of the LORDS crankcase!

Promptly, Hampster pops in next to Rabbi Brestary.

Hampster: Hey.

Rabbi: (Faints)

Toilet: (Not visible, but flushes)

Hampster: Cool.

Camera pans to the Cantor at the left who sings the first line of the Barachooo. After this, Peanut pops in place of the Cantor, spits up the harmonica and plays it rapidly. He puts it in his mouth, then spits it on the unconcious Rabbi. The Pirate stands up in the congregation and says "arrrr". Peanut farts sarcastically, then the Cantor pops in in HIS place. The Cantor sings the end of the Barachoo.

Special notes:

 

Do this for intermission:

Prank calls segment?

at end, have paul in dressing room refusing to go on until someone "kisses his ass". Mr. Peanut pops into the room, makes a kissy kissy noise, farts, then leaves.