The SkullB Show/49

Overview

Episode 49: The Island of Broken Robots

Casey accidentally knocks SkullB out. As a result, SkullB is thrown out and taken to the Island of Broken Robots.

Transcript

{Open: the Living Room. SkullB is being used as a vacuum while Casey pushes him around.}

CASEY: Thanks for filling in for the ol' Hoover, Skully!

SKULLB: Urgh... I'm going to be hocking up hairballs for weeks after this. Why did you have to put carpeting on this damn floor?

CASEY: Hey, we can't afford hardwood.

SKULLB: On our salary, seriously?

CASEY: Skully, please. No breaking walls.

SKULLB: Alright, fine. Fine.

{Casey pushes SkullB under the coffee table to clean. Suddenly, SkullB's head hits the table.}

SKULLB: YEOWCH! Will you watch it already?

CASEY: Hey, duck your head next time. It's not my fault.

SKULLB: Yeah, right.

{Casey continues cleaning. She accidentally hits SkullB's head against the wall.}

SKULLB: AUGH FFFFF

CASEY: Okay, that one was probably my fault.

{Casey continues cleaning. She hits SkullB's head on the TV.}

SKULLB: Okay, one more bump like that and so help me-

{SkullB falls unconscious.}

CASEY: ... Uhh... Skully?

{Casey picks up SkullB and looks at him.}

CASEY: ... Skully, you alright?

{Casey shakes SkullB around a bit.}

CASEY: ... Oh dear... Sk-skully? Wake up... wake up, please!

{Jerry walks downstairs.}

JERRY: Hey, Casey. You alright?

CASEY: GH-

{Casey hides SkullB behind her back.}

CASEY: Yeah, I'm fine. Fine! Ah-hah...

JERRY: ... You're hiding something. Aren't you?

CASEY: Hah! Hahahah! No, no, no. Never. No.

JERRY: ... Alright. I might as well take your word for it.

{Jerry walks out of the room.}

CASEY: ... Oh, God, that was close...

{Casey looks around, nervously.}

CASEY: Oh, God... Oh, God! I need to do something! I need to get rid of the body... I've gotta get this thing out of here!

{Casey runs outside and tosses SkullB in the garbage can. She pushes him in to conceal everything.}

CASEY: Okay, okay. Good. Good. Jerry's gone for the day... He won't know! Haha... he won't know! He won't know... Yes, yes...

{Casey runs back inside. A garbage truck comes by and loads the trash into the back. It drives away.}

{Cut: the Living Room, hours later. Jerry walks in.}

JERRY: Hey, Casey. How was your day?

CASEY: Uhh... f-fine. Fine. Never better!

JERRY: Really? Usually you say a whole lot more. Usually about cleaning.

CASEY: C-cleaning? Hahaha, I wasn't cleaning! Of course I wasn't!

JERRY: But you were vacuuming earlier.

CASEY: NO! No. No I wasn't. You were... you were hearing things.

JERRY: I was hearing things. Vacuuming things.

CASEY: ... OKAY! Okay, okay, I was! I was... but that doesn't change anything, it doesn't!

JERRY: ... True.

{Pause.}

JERRY: Where's Skully?

CASEY: I killed him.

{Pause.}

JERRY: Wait, what?

CASEY: ... Jokes! I killed him with my jokes!

JERRY: You're getting suspicious.

CASEY: Suspicious? No. No. Never.

{Cut: inside the garbage truck. SkullB wakes up.}

SKULLB: ... Ugh. It's so... dark in here!

{SkullB turns on lights in his eyes. He sees many broken and trashed things around him.}

SKULLB: Ew. Ew. Trash. Garbage.

???: Hey! You're alive!

SKULLB: Woah! Who's that?

{A small, metallic object gets up out of the trash.}

SKULLB: Who... who are you?

ANNIE: I'm Annie. I'm one of those vacuuming robots. ... My owners threw me out after I hit the wall one too many times.

SKULLB: Psh, tell me about it...

ANNIE: So who are you?

SKULLB: Skullbuggy. All-purpose robot butler, apparently.

ANNIE: Wow... you sound like a high-end model!

SKULLB: Yeah, long story.

ANNIE: Well, the wait can't be too long...

SKULLB: Wait?

ANNIE: Yeah, we're headed to the dump...

SKULLB: Dump? What?

ANNIE: Your owners threw you out! You're being junked!

SKULLB: Now, I doubt they'd throw me out. I'm a very good robot, I'll have you know.

ANNIE: Then why are you in a garbage truck?

SKULLB: G-good point. ... I can't believe it!

ANNIE: Yeah... Sad, huh?

{The truck stops.}

ANNIE: Well, we're here, I guess.

SKULLB: I guess so...

{The two, along with the rest of the trash, are dumped onto a garbage barge. The barge sets off away from shore.}

ANNIE: Wow... what a view.

SKULLB: I know...

{Two more robots pop up through the trash. One is a computer, and another is a small action figure.}

ANNIE: Oh, hello. Who are you?

HUXTABLE: I am Huxtable. I am a home computer, junked due to my frequency to crash.

OLIVER: AND I AM OLIVER! I AM ONLY THE GREATEST ROBOT EVER MADE!

SKULLB: Nice to meet you two.

OLIVER: NOOO! THE PLEASURE IS ALL MIIIIIIINE!

HUXTABLE: I am sorry. Oliver tends to overreact like that.

ANNIE: I noticed...

SKULLB: So, you two got junked, too?

HUXTABLE: Yes. I was replaced with a laptop computeeeeeeeeeeeeee

OLIVER: SNAP OUT OF IT, HUXTY! YOU HAVE TO PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!

SKULLB: Oh, God. This is gonna be a long ride.

{The barge approaches a large metallic island.}

ANNIE: There it is... the Island of Broken Robots.

SKULLB: The what?

OLIVER: IT IS WHERE ALL ROBOTS GO WHEN THEY ARE JUNKED! HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF IT?

SKULLB: I guess I haven't. Is it... widely known?

HUXTABLE: It is very well-known with all robots.

SKULLB: Oh. I guess I haven't heard.

ANNIE: Huh. Poor guy.

{Cut: the Bedroom. Casey is on the bed, lying down. She looks worried.}

CASEY: Oh, God... What if Jerry finds out? What if he finds out I killed Skully?

JERRY: {offscreen} You killed him?

CASEY: AGH! J-Jerry!

{Jerry walks over.}

JERRY: I've been in the same room as you, you know. For like ten minutes.

CASEY: Oh... right.

JERRY: ... So what do you mean by... you "killed" him?

CASEY: I did him in! He's expired! He's gone to meet his maker! He's shuffled off this mortal coil! He's deaaaad!

{Casey starts to sob.}

JERRY: ... Casey, he's a robot. It's hard to kill a robot.

'CASEY: Wh-what?

JERRY: You... probably just knocked him out. Or something.

CASEY: ... O-oh. R-really.

JERRY: Really. Now where is he?

CASEY: I, eh... I threw him out. In the garbage.

JERRY: ... You know, the garbage truck comes today.

CASEY: Oh. Well. I guess he's... gone. I guess.

JERRY: Oh, God... do you know where the trash goes, by any chance?

CASEY: Well, I heard they use garbage barges...

JERRY: Then it's decided. We've gotta get a boat!

CASEY: From who? It's not like we know anybody with a boat...

{Cut: Number Two's House.}

NUMBER TWO: What?!

JERRY: We need to borrow that... huge... airship thingy you have.

NUMBER TWO: The Zweiblitz? No! I just got that thing platinum-coated, there's no damn way I'll let my arch-rival's neighbors use it!

JERRY: That's the thing--if we don't use this, Skully's not gonna come back. He's been junked, and we need to track down a garbage barge.

NUMBER TWO: ... So?! Does it look like I want him back?

JERRY: Without Skully around, you're out of an enemy, and thus, out of a job.

NUMBER TWO: I... guh... damnit... Fine. Fine. I'll let you use it.

CASEY: Oh, nice! Thank you!

NUMBER TWO: {mumbling} Never speak of this.

{Cut: the Island of Broken Robots. SkullB, Annie, Huxtable and Oliver are surrounding a campfire--which contains old circuitry, apparently.}

ANNIE: Thanks for starting a fire, Oliver!

OLIVER: DON'T MENTION IT!

SKULLB: Yeah... So, when do we get fixed?

ANNIE: ... F-fixed?

SKULLB: Well, if this is an island for broken robots, don't we get fixed?

ANNIE: ... Oh... oh, dear. Um, Skullbuggy... there's a problem.

SKULLB: Wh-what? What's the problem?

HUXTABLE: Skullbuggy, robots who are sent to the Island of Broken Robots do not get fixed. They are left here to rust and break dowwwwwwwwn.

SKULLB: ... Seriously?

OLIVER: YES! SERIOUSLY!

SKULLB: ... Oh... oh no...

ANNIE: Sorry, Skullbuggy. I guess we're here forever.

SKULLB: ... That sucks.

OLIVER: AGREED!

{Cut: the skies over Decentville. The Zweiblitz is flying--albeit very haphazardly.}

JERRY: {offscreen} Okay, how do we do this?

NUMBER TWO: {offscreen} Pull- pull those levers.

{The Zweiblitz wobbles wildly.}

NUMBER TWO: {offscreen} No! NO! Pull that lever!

CASEY: Geez, sorry!

{The Zweiblitz starts flying quickly.}

NUMBER TWO: {offscreen} PUSH THE- PUSH THE BUTTON RIGHT THERE.

{The Zweiblitz stops flying and starts dropping.}

NUMBER TWO: {offscreen} Let me- let me fly it.

{The Zweiblitz starts flying normally.}

JERRY: {offscreen} Alright, alright. Good. Now head toward the beach.

NUMBER TWO: {offscreen} Wait, have we always been a seaside town?

JERRY: {offscreen} Oh, go fill holes later.

{Cut: the Island.}

SKULLB: ... I'm going to die here.

OLIVER: TELL ME ABOUT IT!

SKULLB: Well, I was being used as a vacuum cleaner and I accidentally-

HUXTABLE: I believe he was being facetious.

SKULLB: Oh. Sorry, this island is making me stir-crazy...

ANNIE: Skullbuggy, please. Don't get so worked up...

SKULLB: No, no, no. I'm not getting worked up! {laughs} I'm just, I'm just... {laughs} I'm going to die here! I'm a goner!

OLIVER: DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT! WE WILL NOT RUST FOR A COUPLE YEARS, AT LEAST!

SKULLB: ... This is... this is insane. I can't believe my freakin' luck.

{Suddenly, the Zweiblitz lands on the ground in front of SkullB.}

SKULLB: ... What the-

CASEY: {offscreen} SKULLY!

{Casey, Jerry and Number Two walk out of the Zweiblitz.}

SKULLB: Casey! Jerry! ... Number Two?

NUMBER TWO: {mumbling} Don't talk to me.

JERRY: Skully, it's been a while.

SKULLB: You're telling me. It's been 20 minutes!

CASEY: That's... that's not a "while". But whatever. I'm just so glad you're safe!

{Casey hugs SkullB.}

SKULLB: Yeah... yeah.

{Pause.}

SKULLB: You can let go. Any time.

CASEY: Yeah... yeah.

{Casey stops hugging.}

CASEY: Alright, I'll stop.

JERRY: Yeah... {mumbling} You'd better.

CASEY: Oh, Skully... I thought you were dead!

SKULLB: Yeah, almost! Now can we go home?

JERRY: Sure.

{SkullB, Jerry, Casey and Number Two start heading back to the Zweiblitz.}

ANNIE: Hey, Skully?

SKULLB: Hm?

ANNIE: Is it possible you can... take us with you?

OLIVER: IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED!

HUXTABLE: Agreed. We must find homes or... we will dieeeee.

JERRY: Nope. Nothing doing.

SKULLB: Jerry! We need to take them with us!

JERRY: Why?

SKULLB: They're going to rust here! Come on, you have to!

JERRY: ... I guess. Maybe. Okay.

SKULLB: Yes! Come on, guys!

{Annie and Oliver, carrying Huxtable, get onto the Zweiblitz, followed by the rest. The Zweiblitz takes off.}

{Cut: the Living Room.}

CASEY: Well, all those robots got nice homes!

SKULLB: And all that "murder" nonsense was cleared up.

JERRY: And nothing out of the ordinary happened to me!

CASEY: What a great day!

{Pause. Suddenly, a bowling ball hits Jerry in the head.}

JERRY: GAH WHAT THE FFFFFF

{Cue end credits.}