[taranchula]

This is a scene from a fan script that I have been working on, The premise behind my story is that Goo has come down with a nasty case of Laryngitis, right before Adopt-A-Thought Saturday, which if this happened to a normal person that would mean staying home in bed, but Goo is of course far from normal and in her warped little mind she believes that she can still run everything the way she wants to, even though she cannot speak, a lot of the humor of this premise is devised from all of the alternative ways Goo uses to communicate with the other characters, like for example in this scene in which Goo tries to ask Wilt, Eduardo, Coco and later Bloo for a notebook, via a game of charades. (She want's the notebook in order to write down all her dialogue/request's via a series of hand written memos.)

INT. THE FOYER

Coco Eduardo and Wilt are standing aorund minding their own business, when almost instantaneously, Goo appears seemingly out of nowhere and non verbally greets the trio.

EDUARDO
Hola Goo

WILT
Hey Goo

COCO
Coco coco (Hello Goo)

Goo tries to communicate with the three via a series of complicated hand gestures that shows she wants some kind of item. But no one seems to understand what she is trying to say.

WILT
Sorry Goo, I don?t seem to follow. You obviously want something but you?re just not going to tell us what it is. Is that it?

EDUARDO
Wait, maybe she?s doing it this way, so she can get in a quick game of charades before we go to work.

Goo nods her head in agreement

WILT
Sure, that sounds like fun.

Goo begins her charade. She does the sign of an open book to signify what she is gesturing.

EDUARDO
It?s a person.

WILT
It?s a movie.

Bloo happens across the scene and sees what is going and he offers his own opinion on the matter.

BLOO
No you guys are way off, she?s obviously talking about someone finally buying me a race car bed.

Everyone one stares at Bloo.

WILT
Bloo you?ve got it all wrong, we are trying to guess what Goo wants. Not what you want.

BLOO
What?, She wants a race car bed too, well good luck, I?ve been trying for months to get one and they are hard to find around here.

COCO
Cooc coco cooc coco coco co cococo coco coco co coco. (You Guys are crazy she is talking about a book.)

Goo nod?s her head in agreement, she then does the two fingered gesture for two words, and the gesture for ?first word?, followed by the gesture for ?sounds like? she starts gesturing that she is stroking an invisible beard.

EDUARDO
You want a book about beards?

Goo does the ?sound like? gesture again.

WILT
Oh, sounds like beard, anyone know a word that sounds like beard?

BLOO
There?s weird, well that really narrows things down, a lot books are weird.

Goo shakes her head no, and once again does the ?sounds like? gesture, she then gets down on all fours does the beard stroking gesture again and then starts to head butt Eduardo.

EDUARDO
Hey what are you doing?, ack senorita Goo has gone loco.

BLOO
Geez, she wants a book about something that walks on all fours, has a beard and head-butts people, if that?s not weird, I don?t know what is.

WILT
Something that walks on all fours, has a beard and head-butts. Wait, that sounds like a goat, you want a book about goats don?t you?

Goo does the ?sounds like? gesture once more.

WILT (CONT'D)
Oh you want a book about something that sounds like goat.

BLOO
Maybe she wants a book about boats. That has to be it, there is no other possible explanation so therefore I win.

Bloo runs off, while not seeing Goo shaking her head no.

EDUARDO
Arg, what else rhymes with boat?

COCO
Coco, coco, coco, coco. (Tote, oat, emote, note)

Goo shakes her head yes at the last the thing Coco says.

WILT
That?s it, you want a notebook.

Goo jumps up and down, they?ve finally gotten it right. Wilt reaches over and grabs one for her, she then takes out a pencil that was in her pocket and furiously starts writing something down on the paper and with the blink of an eye she is out the front door. Soon after Wilt and Coco take after her, Eduardo doesn?t notice that everyone is gone.