Welcome, everyone, to the first Saturday Script Sneak! This week, we will focus on perhaps what turned out to be one of my favorite season one scripts. It is called Do You Like Waffles? and it is based around Wild Blue and Puka Pug being fired from the Coffee Shop. A few weeks later, they open a breakfast restaurant that competes with the Coffee Shop. What happens next? Well, you’ll have to see. Now remember, in order not to ruin everything, you only get a sneak peek. Determine for yourselves what will happen next once the peek is over!
Scene opens with Garfield sweeping the floor in the Coffee Shop in front of the ‘Staff Only’ door. He looks up at the camera.
Garfield: Shh, be very quiet. Debra is in a meeting with Wild Blue and Puka Pug inside. You wanna know something? Let’s watch.
Garfield sets the broom up against the wall and looks inside through the door window. Debra is inside talking in front of a Power Point presentation, which looks like a battle plan. Wild Blue and Puka Pug have their heads buried in their wings bored. Debra points to the building on the plan labeled, ‘Pizza Parlor.’
Debra: As you can see, the Pizza Parlor has gained another star in its repertoire. They have come dangerously close to our ranking. Worse, the restaurant has become far more popular. Perfectly unacceptable. My plan – She notices that Wild and Puka are nearly asleep. Wake up, you two!
The two snap to attention.
Puka: Sorry, sorry.
Debra: You two are the laziest bunch I’ve seen!
Wild Blue stands up scorned.
Wild: That is not true!
She slams her wing on the table. A countdown begins. Outside, Garfield jumps underneath the couch.
Garfield: Hit the deck!
The staff room explodes. Garfield peeks inside the door, which has become charred on the inside. The room is completely obliterated. Wild, Puka, and Debra stand with charred ash all over them. Debra shakes off the dust angrily.
Debra: I have had enough of your all’s laziness and explosiveness! I can’t take this any longer! You’re fired!
The two stand up indignantly.
Puka: Fine, we don’t need you, your restaurant, or your bossiness. It’s we who’ve had enough of you. Let’s blow this place, Wild.
Wild: Already done.
The two walk out. Debra stands with her wings crossed. Garfield walks in a little concerned.
Garfield: Do you think that this is a good idea, Debra? Don’t you think that they may retaliate?
Debra: Not likely. They’ll be coming back on their wings and knees begging for their jobs back. I’ll stand here laughing all the while. She begins laughing. Garfield, unconvinced, sweeps the remains of the staff room. The scene changes to Puka Pug’s igloo where she and Wild barge in.
Wild: Can you believe this? We were great employees –
Puka: Let’s not go there.
Wild: Well, we were average employees.
Puka: Still wrong.
Wild: We were employees and we’ve been fired! The indignity of it all!
Puka: Doesn’t matter now. We need to find jobs or else we’ll be broke.
Wild: Don’t doubt me, Puka. We’ll be back in the business world soon.
Wild Blue sits down and rests her chin in her wing, thinking. Puka Pug walks off. Time passes and Wild Blue is still sitting in the same position. Puka comes in with waffles.
Puka: Do you have any ideas, yet? It’s been two weeks and we’re broke!
Wild: I’ve got nothing. We aren’t good at any job and we certainly can’t go back to the Coffee Shop.
Puka: Doesn’t look like we’ll have much choice soon…
They begin to eat their waffles. Wild Blue focuses in and out on the waffles. Then she comes up with an idea.
Wild: Waffles!
Puka: Yea, these are waffles.
Wild: No, we’ll sell waffles!
Puka: That’s ridiculous. We’ll need more than the waffles.
Wild Blue jumps out of the couch. Her waffles land easily on the table.
Wild: What a brilliant idea, we’ll open a breakfast nook!
Puka: Are you serious?
Wild: Of course I’m serious. She puts her wing across Puka Pug’s shoulders and points into the distance as if showing something. Imagine it if you will. Hot, fresh waffles being delivered to table three. Blueberry pancakes as far as the eye can see. Bacon stretching out for miles!
Puka: I’m seeing it. I’m seeing it.
Wild: We’ll become the greatest restaurant on the entire island.
Puka: Yes, let’s do it!
They pick up their glasses of milk in toast.
Both: To the Breakfast Nook!
The glasses clink together. The scene changes back to the Coffee Shop. Garfield is still cleaning up the mess from two weeks ago. Barista is watching TV. In the background, Debra is silently laughing.
Barista: Garfield, come look! Wild and Puka have opened their own restaurant!
Garfield: No way, let me see.
They look at the television together. A commercial comes on for the new ‘Breakfast Nook.’
Wild: Have you a craving for toast all day? Does your stomach cry out for sausage gravy?
Random Penguin: (bursting out miserably) Yes, how did you know?
Wild: Well, don’t be any longer! Now you can eat breakfast all day, any day!
Puka bumps Wild off screen.
Puka: This hip, new restaurant provides breakfast foods for you 24/7!
Wild: Except when we’re closed.
Puka: Right! We’re open now and we’re ready to be serving you!
The TV shows the restaurant’s label.
Both: The Breakfast Nook. Because if breakfast is the most important meal of the day, why not have it all day?
Barista and Garfield look at each other.
Garfield: Never thought my sis would actually accomplish something. Hey Debra!
Debra comes in laughing.
Debra: Yes?
Garfield: Guess what? Wild and Puka have opened their own restaurant!
Debra stops laughing. A record makes a scratching sound.
Debra: What!?
Barista: Yea, they’ve opened a breakfast nook close by here.
Debra: This simply cannot be. How could those two have opened up a restaurant within a few weeks?
Garfield: You can never tell with a sister and her friend.
Debra relaxes.
Debra: No matter, they’ll never come anywhere close to being as successful as the Coffee Shop. They’ll fail and have to come back anyhow.
TV: And remember to try out the Breakfast Nook, now the official sponsor of the Ice Rink!
Debra: What? We were the official sponsors of the Ice Rink! I’ll figure this out.
TV: This just in! The Breakfast Nook has donated over fifty thousand coins to the “Protect the Blue Whales” Foundation!
Debra: Fifty thousand coins!? That’s more than we make in a year!
Garfield: What is this about them going to become a total flop?
Debra: I know what I said, OK? Soon, the rest of Club Penguin will get over this fad and things will return to normal.
Three weeks later. Garfield and Barista are sitting in chairs at a meeting in the staff room. Debra is making battle plans for the Breakfast Nook.
Garfield: Another prediction gone badly wrong.
Barista: Third time’s a charm.
Debra: And now I have made a plan to remove the Breakfast Nook forever off of the face of the planet!
Garfield: Fourth time it gets annoying.
Debra: I need you two to go over to the Breakfast Nook. I know that since you two are friends with Wild and Puka that you’ll get to see what happens behind the scenes. Find anything bad that happens in the Breakfast Nook. Dig up dirt that we can use against the traitors!
Barista: Well, let’s go…
Garfield and Barista get up and walk to the Breakfast Nook. Inside, the restaurant is packed and there are many penguins waiting to eat. Wild and Puka spot Garfield and Barista and run on over.
Wild: Garfield, bro, what’s up over at the past hot spot of Club Penguin?
Garfield: Not much since you all came about. How about yourself?
Puka: We’re about to outdo ourselves. We’re making a hundred times more money here than we ever made back at the Coffee Shop.
The customers become restless.
Puka: Uh oh, I’ll be back!
Puka runs off. Wild Blue stays behind.
Wild: What brings you all here?
Barista: Well, umm, we’re here to, uh, ask for a look around?
Wild: Aha, Debra sent you all here, didn’t she?
Garfield: Yeah, she wanted us to find some dirt on the place to use against you all.
Wild: Well, I’ll tell you that we are spotless. I’ll give you a tour of the place so you can go back and tell Debra that she can’t do anything to stop us from becoming the lead competitor. Come, come.
They walk around. Wild brings them to the kitchen. It is absolutely spotless.
Wild: As you can see, we have an absolutely clean kitchen. There is nothing in here that’ll come close to breaking any sort of violation.
Barista and Garfield peek at the floor with a microscope. They see that the floor is totally clean and without any dirt or germ.
Garfield: This is one hundred percent clean!
Barista: (slows down throughout the sentence) Yeah, compare that to our cluttered counter…
Wild: Our food is all organic and hand-made.
Garfield: How is that possible and yet you all are able to make food on time?
Wild: That’s the great thing, watch!
She takes a cold platter of waffles and sticks it in an oven. She waits for a second and then opens the oven again, revealing perfectly cooked waffles.
Garfield: Amazing!
Barista: How is your coffee, though?
Wild: Try it.
She hands them two cups of coffee.
Garfield: How’d you make these cups so quickly?
Wild: Oh, my machine just finished as Barista was speaking.
Garfield and Barista drink the coffee and stop amazed. They begin to spread angel wings.
Garfield: This coffee is the greatest!
Barista: Fast service, clean floors, and amazing coffee. How in the name of penguin did you do it?
Wild: Look at this.
Wild reveals underneath a false wall a fusion reactor.
Wild: Puka and I’s explosions create the power necessary for this cold fusion reactor whatchamacallit. Watch.
She touches the fusion reactor. An explosion she makes is absorbed by the machine and makes the machine go faster, causing everything to go quicker.
Garfield: There is nothing like this at the Coffee Shop.
Barista: No way Debra could create something this amazing.
Wild: So, what are you all going to report back?
Garfield and Barista look at each other. They run back to the Coffee Shop.
Debra: And your reports?
Garfield and Barista: We quit!
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