We now see a dirty spaceship going through space as the narrator spoke up.
Narrator: And now it's time for...FREAKS IN SPACE!
We see pictures of the cast as the announcer introducing them.
Narrator: Starring Captain Zapp Zapp Branigan, First Mate Juniper Lee and the peripatetic Dr. Scratchensniff. When we last saw the ship Freak Trek, it has crash-landed on the reeking swamp planet Dagobah! Only a heroic sacrifice by the kind-but-smelly Dagobah monsters enable the ship to break free of its muddy clutches! Now read on...
Inside the bridge, June was pressing a few buttons while Zapp was looking in his mirror, both are very dirty indeed.
June: (frowns) Bad news, guys -- the crash damaged our water tanks! We've got no running water until we get to Atlanta, Georgia.
Zapp: (shocked) N-no showers? But...but I have a date with Princess Perlipat of Canadian Minor tonight! How can I show my beautiful face?!
Laughing is heard as June frowns at Zapp in disbelief.
June: Princess Perlipat? How in blazes did you hook up with her?
Zapp: (smiles) I rescued her from the clutches of the villainous Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia last week...she was, shall we say, extremely grateful!
Dr. Scratchensniff, also dirty, looks horrified as he speaks.
Scratchensniff: Gah! Zapp, no! Cancel! Dump the moronic ninny! We can't afford to offend the Atlantans! We need water -- dating her will cause a diplomatic incident!
Zapp: (disbelief) Cancel? Are you crazy?! Why, just last month she was voted "Face Most Likely To Star A War" by Galactic Toon Quartley magazine!
June: (dryly) That's kind of the point.
More laughter is heard.
Scratchensniff: Anyway, what kind of an impression will you make when you reek like a blocked-up sewer?
Zapp: (cross arms) I rather thought I could hide the smell with my three-year supply of Acme Dedorant! I'd only need half of it...
June: (annoyed) Acme Deodorant?! But the Acme Corporation has been exploiting the inhabits of Canadian Minor for three generations since the death of Marvin Acme! One whiff of it and they may as well declare war on us!
More laughter is heard as Zapp looks worried and sheepish.
Zapp: B-but Princess Perlipat has that great marble hot tub...
Scratchensniff: (worried) Marble?! Not the Venusian Marble, I hope! They make that stuff from Puppy Dog Tails!
June: Gah! He has got a point, captain! You could have Krypto and the Dog Star Patrol come down on both planets like a ton of saint bernards!
More laughter is heard as Zapp groans and looks down.
Zapp: (sighs) I give up. Is there anything I can do that won't cause an interplanetary incident?
Zapp looks himself in a mirror as Scratchensniff looks on. The captain shrugs a bit.
Zapp: Oh well...there are worse ways to spend an evening.
The audience laughs as we go to outside the dirty ship as it flies on.
Zapp's Voice: Hmmm...do you think I'm getting bags under my eyes?
Narrator: Will Captain Zapp Branigan and Princess Perlipat ever get near the marble hot tub? Will Doctor Scratchensniff cancel his subscruiption to Galactic Toon Quarterly? Will First Mate Juniper Lee be clean enough to sit in a cake again?
June's Voice: Hey! Don't make me leave this ship, bub!
Narrator: Errr...right. Hold this episode up to a mirror so you won't need to read the next episode of...FREAKS IN SPAAACE!
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Back in the backstage area, June, Zapp (still looking at himself in a mirror) and Scratchensniff head back to their dressing rooms all clean. Danny and Timmy are talking.
Danny:...nothing wrong with me, Timmy!
Timmy: (narrows) There is too, Uncle Danny! You can fool the others, but you can't fool me!
Danny: I don't know why everyone has this kooky idea that I need help, but --
Timmy: I heard the song, Uncle Danny.
Danny: (surprised) What?
Timmy: I heard the Song "The Pond Where I was Born", wasn't it?
Danny: (concerned) You heard that?
Timmy: Duh, we all heard it.
Danny: Ah.
Timmy: The thing is, Uncle Danny...I remember how that song goes and I remember how it ends. And so far you haven't sung it all the way to the end.
Danny: What are you trying to say, Timmy?
Timmy looks determined as he continued.
Timmy: Well...I think you need to get out on that stage! I think you need to pick up that banjo and sing that song with all your heart! Because if you never sing the end of it you'll never remembered what it's really about and you'll keep on feeling sorry for yourself!
Danny looks concerned and thoughtful as the laughter happens. Timmy looks worried at this.
Danny: Ouch.
Timmy: (worried) I'm...I'm sorry Uncle Danny. I didn't mean to...
Danny: (sighs) No, no...you're right. That's exactly what I've been doing. I see that now. And your idea is so crazy...
Danny then looks determined as he held up his banjo as Timmy smiles.
Danny:...it might just work.
Laughter is heard after this.
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Act 7: Danny's song
We got to the stage as the curtains open. The audience applaud as Danny, holding a banjo, appears in front of a swamp like set.
Danny: Okay, this is a song I used to hear back in the swamp. I...I guess I'll let you make up your own minds about it. I'll still making up mine, now that I think about it.
The audience laughs a bit as Danny sat down on a trunk of a prop tree. The halfa then begins playing the banjo for a few minutes or so before he begins to sing.
Danny: (singing) In the pond where I was born
The air was clean and free.
The swamp, it seemed a paradise;
The crocodiles were very nice.
My mother gave me sound advice
From the bottom of a tree.
Danny plays his banjo for a few minutes as the song continues.
Danny: (singing) In the pond where I was born
She sat me on her knee.
She told me, be polite and kind
And friendship you will surely find.
Try always to improve your mind;
Be all that you can be.
As Danny coninutes to sing, we see a flashback of thehalfa leaving the swamp holding the stuff in a blanket on a stick. Danny in the flashback looks back sadly at the swamp as the real one kept singing.
Danny: In the pond where I was born
I felt the theater's call.
I knew that I would ahve to go
And leave the swamp that I loved so.
I packed my bags and didn't know
If I'd make it back at all.
So the theater took me in -
And I had so much to learn!
But the swamp I knew would still be there;
Its mud, its damp, its stagnant air.
I'd dream about it twice a year
And think, "I must return."
Now years
Have come and Gone
And the theater is my home.
The swamp's a distant memory,
And yet as I can see,
It'll always be a part of me.
Wherever I should roam.
Danny stops playing the banjo for a moment to stare on in hesitation. Then he turns to the side and saw Timmy, watching from the rafters, giving the halfa a thumbs up and the ok sign. Danny nod as he finishes the song up.
Danny: (singign) It'll always be a part of me.
Wherever I should roam.
Soon the song was over as Danny watch as the audience applauded for the song happily.
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Back in the backstage area, the Toonpets watch on and smiled as Danny walks up to Timmy who is feeling proud and such.
Timmy: There! You see? You see? You had to sing the last verse! I know you just had to!
Danny: (grins) Timmy, I think you deserve a ten per cent raise!
Timmy: I don't get paid, Uncle Danny!
Laughter is heard as Danny chuckles a bit.
Danny: Remind me to fix that.
Timmy: (grins) You bet I will!
Danny: And now, if you'll excuse me for a minute...
Timmy: Do what you gotta!
As the others watch, Danny got onto a box and turn to face everyhone as he spoke.
Danny: Okay, everyone! Thank you for being concerned! I admit I've been a little down lately and it's been affecting my work -- that's unprofessional, and I apologize. But a certain little fairy boy has...well, he's put things into perspective for me and I think he deserve three chears!
The Toonpets cheer happily as Timmy blush in embarrassment.
Toonpets: (singing) For he's a holly good fellow...
Timmy: (embarrassed) Wow! I...really?
The toons pick Timmy up and toss him up and down in the hair making the boy as Danny watch with a grin.
Toonpets: Hip hip...hooray! Hip hip...hooray! Hip hip...hooray!
Danny: (determined) All right, everybody. Now get back to work! We've got a show to do here!
As the group goes back to work, Strong Bad, Coach Z and the Cheat prepares to do so themselves.
Strong Bad: Well, what the frig do you know! Looks like the halfa's back...
Coach Z: Oh yeah.
The Cheat: Eh!
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Later, on the rooftop of the theater, we hear banjo playing. We now see that it's Danny playing the banjo, a little better this time. Just then Timmy walks up to him.
Timmy: Hey, Uncle Danny. Mind if I joiny you?
Danny: Mmm? (smiles) Oh, hi, Timmy. Sure, be my guest.
Timmy then sat down next to Danny as he spoke.
Timmy: I'm glad you're feeling beter. But there's still one thing I got to know.
Danny: Go ahead.
Timmy: Well...what was in that letter that made you so glum in the first place?
Danny sighs as he spoke.
Danny: It's...kind of silly, really. It was from a cousin back in the swamp. He was telling me that the house where I was born has been pulled down to make way for a new butterfly overpass. Kinda dumb, I know. And it hit me that I can never go back.
Timmy: Sure you can. The swamp is still there. All he people you know are still there.
Danny: Oh, I know, I know. That's not quite what I mean. It's more about a state of mind. Somewhere at the back of my head I kind of thought that everything would still be the same if I ever went home.
Timmy looks worried as Danny continues.
Danny: Now I know it won't. And that's a shame. I felt like I'd lost something important.
Danny sighs as he look up at the sky.
Danny: You know...I sometiems wonder if I should have stayed there. Maybe settled down with a local girl, a Goth one maybe, and started a family. Sometimes I feel like life has passed me by, know?
Timmy: Gee, Uncle Danny...isn't one family enough?
Danny: (confused) Er...what do you mean?
Timmy: (grins) Look around you! We may be confused, nutty and a litle strange, but you've got a family right here!
Danny paused to think about this, then he smiles a bit.
Danny: You know, Timmy...I do believe you're right.
We pull away from the scene as Danny and Timmy continues.
Danny: So, in this family of ours, what exactly is Fuzzy?
Timmy: Ummm...actually, I might have to get back to you on that.
We hear laughter and applauding as the story comes to an end.