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P L A N T E R S

By Ryan and Russell Smith

Episode 1 – The Pilot

Created by

Ryan and Russell Smith

CHARACTERS

JAKE BISHOP

LUKE MADDOX

DEWEY KLARK

BETHANY DAVID

BUGSY

- MORE CHARACTERS TO COME –

NEXT INSTALLMENT SOON TO COME

FADE IN

INT – LUKE’S Bedroom

This is the main character LUKE’S room, there are many band posters on the wall, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Nirvana, The Beatles, The Doors, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pink Floyd etc. There is a small television set on a crate and a guitar on a leaning on a futon where LUKE is sleeping. The room is very slovenly. The door busts open it is JAKE BISHOP, this is LUKE’S best friend and roommate. JAKE owns the apartment and is the more responsible one.

JAKE

WAKE UP!

JAKE slaps LUKE on his face

JAKE

GET UP!

LUKE rolls over and looks at JAKE

LUKE

I am so tired.

JAKE

Well get up we got our

Job interview today.

LUKE

Another job, we failed

At all our other, Jake.

CUT TO:

A montage of them getting fired several time.

INT – Office Cubicle

There is an office cubicle where LUKE and JAKE have their desks, there is a piece of cardboard on the floor and they are playing dice. A BOSS walks in.

BOSS

Your fired.

CUT TO:

INT – office mailroom

They are sitting in the mail room of an office, wit their bare feet on the tables relaxing reading other people’s mail.

LUKE is holding up a letter

LUKE

That chick Terry from

Accounting is getting a raise.

JAKE

Good for her. She’s a nice

Lady.

A man walks in this is there boss, Mr. Evans.

MR. EVANS

What the hell is going

On here? This is highly

illegal, what your doing.

Your FIRED!

LUKE begins to laugh.

MR. EVANS

What’s so funny?

LUKE picks up a letter .

LUKE

According to this letter

So are you.

CUT TO:

EXT – A Carwash

Outside of a car wash JAKE and LUKE are in the back of a carwash having a break dance competition with a little Mexican guy named “PERFECTO” it says it on his shirt. “Perfecto” does a great break dance.

PERFECTO

(heavy Spanish accent)

Beat that.

LUKE pulls a gas can from behind a chair where he is sitting. He begins to pour gas all around the piece of cardboard where they are dancing.

JAKE

What are you doing?

LUKE

Simple. I am going light

It on fire and dance in the

flaming circle. So what?

JAKE

Why.

LUKE

For America, that’s why.

CU – Perfecto

LUKE now takes out a Zippo and ignites it and throws it towards the spot before it hits:

FREEZE FRAME

CUT TO:

The police talking to LUKE the carwash is on fire behind them.

POLICEMAN

What the hell happened.

LUKE

Apparently a guy was unhappy

With the job our little Latino

Friend Perfecto did on his

Nova.

POLICEMAN

So?

LUKE

So he was like

“I’m gonna burn this mother down”

because of their crappy service.”

He was disgruntled and psychotic.

CUT TO:

INT – Backroom of DELI

A manager of a deli walks into the backroom (storage) of his family delicatessen. At the lunch table JAKE and LUKE have egg shells and parts of hard boiled eggs all over the table and on the shirts and on their mouths they were having a contest (like in “Cool Hand Luke”) of who can eat more.

CUT TO:

INT – APARTMENT LIVINGROOM

It is the living room of LUKE and JAKE’S apartment. They are sitting on a couch both dressed up as clowns.

LUKE

I just wanted to give the

Kids a present, I was just

Trying to be a fun clown.

JAKE

Yeah Luke, but M-80s.

CUT TO:

INT – LUKE’S ROOM (where we left them before the sequence)

LUKE

We failed at those jobs

What’ll make this one any

Different?

JAKE

Because we are destined...

LUKE

To be great.

JAKE

No, you didn’t let me

Finish, we are destined

To be evicted.

LUKE

Ha, ha , ha, ha...

JAKE

O.k. let’s go.

LUKE

No, I’m not finished

Ha, ha, ha , ha, ha

(FADE OUT)

FADE INTO:

INT – Office waiting room

This is a boring waiting room, LUKE and JAKE are waiting to be called in for their interview, They are wearing nice suits. There is a RECEPTIONIST at a desk.

RECEPTIONIST

Jake Bishop and Luke Maddox.

They jump up and walk up to the desk.

JAKE

That’s us.

RECEPTIONIST

O.K great you guys can go

Right in.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT – DEWEY KLARK’S OFFICE

This is DEWEY KLARK’S office he is the supervisor of the Snack Division of Planter’s peanuts and snacks. He is a heavy set man and is chomping on some sort of nut.

DEWEY

So...why do you think

You boys are cut to work

At Planter’s.

JAKE

Well sir we’ve chomped

On your nuts.

They laugh but try to cover it up.

JAKE (cont’d)

Since we we’re old

To eat nuts, sir.

LUKE

Yeah Mr. They’re our all

Time favorite.

JAKE

Yeah we especially like the

Oven roasted almonds.

LUKE

Yeah and this one time at this

Party in the snack bowl there were

Peanuts, and I asked if they

Were Planter’s they said no

So I refused to eat them.

True story, scouts honor.

DEWEY

Well I like you guys you

Have promise in the salted

Snack industry. Your hired.

LUKE

Where will we be working, sir?

DEWEY

Oh, in the snack division.

They look distraught.

LUKE

Isn’t it all a snack division.

JAKE

Luke, show Dewey some respect.

DEWEY

No, he’s about right it’s all

A snack division.

JAKE

Oh, so when shall we start.

DEWEY looks at his watch.

DEWEY

Well it is about ten minutes

Until the crews break is over,

So that gives you about ten minutes

To get suited up.

JAKE

Suited up?

CUT TO:

INT – The factory floor

They are standing on the factory floor with their working jumpsuits on, DEWEY walks over with another worker a really elderly man named SULLIVAN O’ DOYLE he is about seventy-eight years old.

DEWEY

Boys, I want to introduce

You to the hardest worker.

In the factory, he is the glue

That holds this institution

Together this is Sullivan

O’ Doyle.

SULLIVAN

Just call me Sully.

DEWEY

Sullivan will be teaching

You guys the ropes.

SULLIVAN

Come on guys follow me.

They follow him through the factory.

SULLIVAN

There is the shelling station.

He points to it.

SULLIVAN

Those are the ovens, there.

He points to those as well.

SULLIVAN

Those there are the forklifts

They transport the bags of nuts.

LUKE looks excited.

LUKE

I’m guessing I’ll work on transporting

The nuts through and into the factory.

With the forklifts. Don’t worry sir, I

Won’t let you down.

SULLIVAN

Not so fast son. We got an extra special

Job for you.

CUT TO:

LUKE is standing in the front of a conveyer belt checking each and every nut for defects. He is throwing the bad nuts into a huge metal bin that says “THE JUNK TRUNK” there is a pretty looking girl about twenty-five or twenty-six years old that is working right beside him. Her name is BETHANY DAVID. She does not look like a girl that would be working in a factory like this.

BETHANY

Having fun, newbie.

LUKE

Far from it. And It’s not

Newbie.

BETHANY

Excuse, me?

LUKE

My name it’s Luke.

BETHANY

Mine’s Bethany but my

Friend call me Beth.

LUKE

Well hey Beth.

BETHANY

Your not a friend.

LUKE

Oh, sorry.

BETHANY

I’m joking you can call me Beth.

LUKE

So why is a girl like you

Working in a place like this?

BETHANY

Working through

School.

LUKE

Bummer.

BETHANY

Yeah well it was either this

Or one of those clubs by the

Airport.

LUKE

Hey I like those clubs.

Great atmosphere.

She laughs.

BETHANY

Uh-oh.

LUKE

What?

A big guy named BUGSY walks up to them.

BUGSY

Talking to me girl, dork.

BETHANY

Girl, I’ve worked here a week

And talked to you once I’m

Not your girl.

LUKE

Dork, you’re a roid-raged

Baboon, get lost.

BUGSY

I’ll say it once again

Get away from her.

LUKE

That’s gonna be hard we

Both work at this station.

BUGSY

Well you better find another

Work station.

LUKE

Well you better get off

The juice.

BUGSY

That’s it little man. I’m

Going to see you outside in

The parking lot after work.

LUKE

See you there, Jabba.

(awkward pause)

LUKE

You know from star wars.

Man I loved Star Wars.

CUT TO:

INT – LUKE’S childhood backyard

LUKE and JAKE are playing with sticks and using them as light sabers. Making the sounds and everything. They are little kids.

LUKE

We will never surrender the republic

Vader.

JAKE

Vader I’m not Vader I’m

Indiana Jones.

LUKE

Then I get to be Michael J. Fox

From Back to the Future.

JAKE

Fine.

LUKE

Fine.

They both storm away angry.

CUT TO:

INT – Factory floor (back to real time)

LUKE

Man Back to the Future Rocked.

(pause)

BETHANY stares at him blankly.

BETHANY

Well Sorry I got you into

This. On your first

Day and all.

LUKE

Well it’s o.k., I’ll kick his

Ass like George McFly got Biff.

CUT TO:

EXT – Factory parking lot

LUKE meets JAKE out in the parking lot.

JAKE

How was your first day?

LUKE

Well I supposed to be at a

Fight in two minutes. And I

Think I’m in love with my

Work station partner.

JAKE

Well I salted and sugared cashews.

LUKE

Not bad, not bad at all.

JAKE

You can’t fight remember

That time in 3rd grade?

CUT TO:

EXT – Schoolyard

ON TITLE CARD: MAY 18,1986

A group is around a fight in the schoolyard. It is LUKE who is a scrawny little kid and he is wearing an OINGO BOINGO shirt, he is fighting a big kid with a DEVO shirt.

LUKE’S POV

A fist comes at his face and when it hits

CUT TO BLACK

Light comes back when he opens his eyes to reveal he is staring at JAKE.

LUKE

Did I beat him Jake?

JAKE

No, he’s peeing on your backpack.

CUT TO:

We can see from the back the kid is peeing on his backpack.

CUT TO:

EXT – parking lot ( present time)

BUGSY is standing in front of LUKE there eyes are locked, BUGSY suddenly swings for LUKE. LUKE ducks and knocks him out with an uppercut.

JAKE

That was... AWESOME!

BETHANY

That was the craziest thing

I have ever seen.

LUKE

I’ll see you tomorrow.

JAKE

Are we leaving.

LUKE

We’re leaving but first.

CUT TO:

INT – DEWEY’S OFFICE

LUKE is sitting in DEWY’S office looking about to cry.

LUKE

Mr. Dewey I would like

To file a sexual harassment

Report.

DEWEY

For whom.

LUKE

I’M JUST SO SCARED.

He fake cries while his hands cover his face.

DEWEY

(more concerned)

Just tell me, it’s confidential.

He rises up and smiles

LUKE

Well confidentially he

Calls himself Bugsy.

FREEZE FRAME ON HIS FACE

THE END

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