Back in the backstage area, Nartuo and Misaski are seen drinking tea while in warm clothes. Jonny holding Plank looks embarrassed while both are followed by Danny.
Jonny: Aaaughh! That was terrible! Plank can't believe how badly that went!
Danny: Come on, Jonny, your technique was great...it's just hard to relate to your material! Bring it up to date a little and you and Plank will turn out fine!
Jonny: (sniffs) You think so?
Danny: Sure! All you need is a few minutes to update the set, then we'll put you back on again, okay?
Jonny: (smiles) Thanks, Danny. You're a true friend and pal!
Jonny left as Delete walks up to the concernhed Danny.
Danny: Man, that was terrible. I can't believe how badly that went.
Delete: No kidding.
Laughter is heard as we cut back to Jonny and Plank's dressing room, the two looks through some books though the human is the only one doing the reading obviously.
Jonny: Okay, okay...maybe Danny is right, Plank. Time for us to re-think this a little...
Jonny looks through a book titled 'Dan Leno: How I Earn Four Shillings A Year By Mocking The Working Classes'.
Jonny: Ahum...ahum...yup...(smiles) A-ha!
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Act 3: Toonpet Labs: Where The Future Is Being Made Today!
On the set of Toonpet Labs, we see Jumba speaking as Pleakley is cleaning some cheese nearby.
Jumbaa: Greetings and welcome to Toonpet Labs, where the future is being made today! I am Doctor Jumba Jookiba, and this quivering cheese-wrangler is my assistant, Pleakiley. It gives be great pleasure to introduce to you today my latest invetion -- Humorous Cheese!
The audience luahgs as Pleakley brings the cheese to the counter as Jumba, wearing gloves, hold up two wires with sparks on each end.
Jumba: It is simple! This cheese came from cows from a greater than average sense of humor! The cheese has then been aged to get it to a point where it's ready to walk out the door by itself...now, all that is needed is a jolt to wake up its higher synapatic processes -- and Bob, as they say, is your uncle! (to Pleakley) Now Pleakley, if you please...?
Pleakley: (worried) You want me to do it?
Jumba: Of course! Don't be baby, okay?
Pleakley, worried, takes the wires as Jumba continues.
Jumbaa: If the theory is correct, this cheese will emerge from our procedure with speech, higher brain functions as well as excellent career prospects.
Pleakley then zaps the cheese with a 'zzzaappp', getting electrocuted in the progress as the audience laughs at this.
Pleakley: GAH! Shocking, very shocking! GAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Soon the electrocution stops as Pleakley groans in a daze. Soon the cheese cam to life with two legs, two arms and hands, eyes and a mouth. We shall call him Cheese.
Cheesew: (grins) Hey everyone! Hey there! What has eight wheels and flies? Two pickup trucks full of limburgera! Hah! I got a lot of them!
Pleakley: (groaning) Pain, I am in lots and lots of pain.
The audience laughs as Jumba grins.
Jumba: Success!
Cheese suddenly grabs Jumba and wraps around his neck as he speaks again.
Cheese: Hey, where are you from, four-eyes?! Where the heck are you from?!
Jumba: Erk!
Pleakley: Gah! You made him a bit too humorous and bad matters!
Cheese lets go of Jumba as he glares at Pleakley.
Cheese: Hey one eye! Yeah, you! Whaddaya do for a living?
Pleakley: (worried) M-me?
Jumba: Pleakley! Plan "B"! Hurry!
Pleakley screams like a girl as he runs away with Cheese, in annoyance, chasing him.
Pleakley: Get away from me, you humorous living cheese!
Cheese: Geez, tough crowd!
Pleakley is cornered by the speaking cheese with the shadows looking like bars.
Cheese: Anyway, before I bid you a fondue farewell, let's shake hands and brie friends! Nyuk! Geddit??
Pleakley: (scared) Jumba...
Suddenly Jumbaa closes a door, revealing that Cheese and Pleakley are inside a cage as the audience laughs.
Jumba: Hah! Got you, you little scamp!
Cheese: (alarmed) What the--?
Pleakley: Jumba! Let me out!
Jumba: Sorry, Pleakley, but the cheese might escape if I open the cage. I think it's best not to feed you for a few days so you can squeeze out between the bars!
Cheese: So this is my dressing room? I've played some dives in my time, but this takes the cheddar!
The audience laughs as much, much later, Cheese is telling a joke to the groaning Pleakley.
Cheese: ...Geddit? "Captive" Audience? Haha! Oh I say me! Anyway, this panda salesman asks the fortune teller if she has any dog biscuits...
Pleakley: (sighs) Oh crud...
The audience laughs and applauds as the act come to an end. Back at the balcony, Slinkman is seen coming back to his seat as he speaks.
Slinkman: Anything I miss, sir?
Lumpus: (shrugs) Well, there was a talking cheese who did comedy...
Slinkman: Any good?
Lumpus: Funnier than the boy and his board.
Slinkman: (frowns) Not what I ask for.
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In the backstage area, Julayla grins at the skull on a string.
Julayla: Oh, Yorick...I know you're not the fine figure you used to be, but somehow I just don't care. You can still turn heads, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise!
Suddenly the skull is lifted up by the string, leaving the scene much to Julayla's shock.
Julayla: Hey! Was it something I said?
Fuzzy: (appearing) Eh, I betcha the skull gotta play or something.
We see Danny looking at his pad as a familiar angry voice spoke up.
June's Voice: Hey! Ghost Boy!!
Danny: (worried) Oh crud.
June appears wearing a nice dress and hat, looking angrier at the halfa.
June: Did you went and cancelled my "Suffragette, Crepe Suzette" number?! I thought you'd gone off hospital food!
Danny: (yelping) I did it for Jonny, June...he, and Plank apparently, needs to do an extra bit tonight! He claims he and the board has lost their touch!
June: (scoffs) The board I understand but fuzz bouy can't lose what he never had. Where is he, anyhow? I think my powers of persuasion are up to the challenge...
Danny: (looking) May as well not bother, he and Plank are going onstage right now! Jonny's been rewriting his material in a 1913 music-hall style...
June: (smirks) Perfect! He'll be able to pass off his bruises as chimney sootA!
The audience laughs as a worried Danny watch his love leaving.
Danny: (to the audience) I should probably do something about that...but sometimes the kids just need to work things out for themselves.
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Act 4: And now...Jonny 2x4 and Plank
The usual music is heard as Jonny and Plank, now in 1913 type clothes, came onto the stage. The audience applauses as the boy spoke.
Jonny: (English accent) I say I say I say. Here's a little number you might like, ladies and gentlemen -- It's called "The Fatal Can of Beans". A-One! A Two! Aaaaannd....
Music begins to play as Jonny begins to dance and sing.
Jonny: (singing) There was a man
Called Lucky Ted;
He had a giving heart.
He'd hand out beans
From high up on his cart.
Suddenly a can came out of nowhere and hits Jonny right on the head, knocking his head, causing the audience to laugh at that. We see an angry June holding another can while standing near a stack of more nearby.
June: (angrily) And there's more where that came from, Judas!!
Jonny: (worried) Ahem. (singing) So Lucky Ted
Would feed the boys.
And when it made them
Very ill, he'd leave them
When they fell.
The audience laughs as June threw another can at Jonny, making him yelp. The boy tried to keep on with the song.
Jonny: (singing) Now Ted have beans
To break the bank,
Inherited from mother.
He had to spread
Those beans around--
Once again, another can hits Jonny making him yelp in pain.
Jonny: (singing)--Thus came his
Practice most
Profound--
Suddenly a lot of cans are thrown at Jonny causing him to yell in alarm. A while later, only the boy's hand is seen as he is buried in a lot of cans, with the audience laughing a bit. We cut to the balcony as Slinkman looks at Lumpus.
Slinkman: Hey--didn't you inherit a whole lot of beans?
The audience laughs a bit as Lumpus looks worried.
Lumpus: Ehh, no! I....I won them here as a door prize! (mumbling) It's my darkest secret...