In the backstage area, the actors are busy leaving the stage and such.
Danny: (grins) Nice work, guys! Almost professional standard this time! Just lose the usual violence and we might yet make it.
Jonny and Plank came to Danny, with leftover cheese on themselves.
Jonny: Oh, Danny. Oh my oh my oh my.
Jonny grabs Danny much to the halfa's alarm as he continues. We hear laughter as usual.
Jonny: Plank said they hated us. Hated us! Tell me, Danny -- as a friend -- do you think Plank and I've lost our touch?
Danny: (concerned) Honestly?
Jonny lets go of Danny as the halfa removes some cheese off himself as he continues.
Danny: Don't worry about it. I just think you two were pushing it with the cheese gag. We've got a crowd from the Cheese Manufacturer's Convention out there -- they're a sensitive bunch.
Plank: (worried) Oh, Danny! I wish it were that simple! No...Plank is convinced that our act needs to be reinvented from first principles! If our old set isn't goo denough for them, I'll just have to find another one!
Danny: (sighs) Well, I'll leave it to you, Jonny. I'm sure you and Plank know what you're doing.
Later, Jonny and Plank are in their dressing with the boy leaning on his dressing room table in concern.
Jonny: (groaning) Aaghh! I wish I knew what we were doing!
Laughter is heard as Jonny looks at a set of books nearby.
Jonny: (sighs) Plank, perhaps the old library got a clue or two. We need inspiration that works.
Jonny pulls a book called 'Wither Yorick' out and looks through it. The boy smiles as he picks up Plank.
Jonny: Ha ha ha, oh yes, yes! Plank, we may not know what we're doing -- but nobody could ever say that William Shakespeare wasn't funny! Where's my notebook? I've got a set to write!
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Act 1: In My Merry Oldsmobile
The audience applauds as we see a oldsmobile driven by a ninja named Naruto and a girl named Misaki. A song begins as Naruto sings.
Naruto: (singing) Young Naruto has an oldsmobile,
He loves a dear little girl,
She is the queen of his gas machine;
She has his heart in a whirl...
The audience laughs a bit as the car passes a graveyard that has a rocketship crashed into the ground.
Naruto; (singing) Come away with me, Misaki,
In my Merry Oldsmobile --
Down the road of life we'll fly,
Automobubbling, you and I!
To the church we'll swiftly steal,
Then our wedding bells will peal;
You can go as far as you like with me
In my merry oldsmobile.
The car goes by a well where a Bloober was trying to get out, so to speak. Misaki smiles as she sing as well.
Misaki: We love to spark
In the dark old park
As we go flying along.
I think I know
Why the motor goes;
The sparker's awfully strong.
People scream in alarm as they got out of the way due to Naruto not watching the road. Misaki lost her umbrella in the confusion.
Naruto: (singing) Each day we spoon
To the engine's tune;
Our honeymoon
Will happen soon.
I'll win Misaki
In my oldsmobile,
And then I'll softly croon!
As the oldsmobile pass again, a bull named El Toro escapes from his pen as the audience laughs some more. Naruto didn't noticed as he kept on singing.
Naruto: (singing) Come with me, Misaki,
In my merry oldsmobile.
Down the road of life we'll fly,
Automobubbling, you and I.
To the church we'll swiftly steal...
Misaki: (anger mark) Will you keep your hands on the steering wheel?!
Naruto: Then our wedding bells will peal --
Suddenly Naruto and Misaki goes off the road and landed right in a pond with a splash. Both of them are wet as Misaki spits out some water.
Naruto: (singing, embarrassed) -- In my merry oldsmobile.
Misaki: Glub.
The audience applauds as the act comes to a close.
*******
In the backstage area, Danny was writing in a book while Naruto, still holding the steering wheel, and Misaki, still wet, comes in. The halfa speaks not seeing a toon throwing a pie in another's face and two familiar figures in Jester like clothes coming to him.
Danny: Good work, you two! Moist bue endearing!
Naruto: We're available until July.
Misaki: (frowns) Then we have to drive a couple of motorcycles off the Eiffel Tower...
Laughter is heard as Danny continues to work. When he turns, the familiar two in jester clothes scared him.
Danny: Aaahh!!
Jonny: (smiles) It's all right, Danny! It's just Plank and me!
Danny: (shocked) Jonny?!
Jonny: This is our new approahc! We are going back to the basics, in other words Plank and I are reinventing our act from the ground up!
Danny: (concerned) Okay...but isn't going back five hundred years a little extreme?
More laughter is heard as Jonny spoke.
Jonny: (chuckles) You don't understand, Danny -- the comedians of the Elizabethan Era created techniques we still use today! This is the wellspring of modern comedy!
Danny: Uh, well, just try not to make it too Shakespearean you two, okay? I like his drama, but his comedies were not that funny to me at all.
Danny leaves as Jonny looks concerned.
Jonny: They what...?
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Act 2: And now...Jonny 2x4 and Plank
The usual music is heard as Jonny and Plank came onto the stage. The audience applauses a bit as we go to the balcony.
Slinkman: (grins) check this out, girl! The boy and board are in their PJs!
Lumpus: Seems about right. They always put me to sleep! Heh heh heh!
We go back to the stage as Jonny clears his throat.
Jonny: Ahem. It has been told, there was a man of England, a man of Ireland and a wretched leper, and the leper owneth a television, and i'ffath, all three desired sorely thereon to watch, full rapt, the Superbowl.
The audience laughs as Lumpus looks confused.
Lumpus: Huh?! What is he saying?!
Slinkman: (annoyed) It's Elizabethan drama, you old fool!
Lumpus: (shrugs) I'll take your word for it. So which one's Elizabeth?
Jonny: The man of England and the man of Eyre did conceive a plan so rich in guile; by exchanging wardrobe full and fair, they would unrecognised by their mothers be. I grant thee, this makes not a lot of sense...
Suddenly a twang noise is heard as a skull head on a string appears from out of nowhere, scaring Jonny.
Jonny: AAAHHHH!
Jonny runs off the scene holding Plank in terror leaving the skullhead on a string behind. We cut back to the balcony as Lumpus and Slinkman observe this.
Slinkman: Uh, shouldn't there be a death scene about now?