Wishbone (1995) s01e01 Episode Script

What's the story, Wishbone?
What's this your dreaming of such
big imagination on such a little pub?
What's the story, Wishbone?
Do you think it's worth a look?
It kind of seems familiar
like a story from a book.
Shake a leg now, Wishbone,
let's wag another take.
Sniffin' out adventure
with Wishbone on the trail.
Come on Wishphone.
Watch the story, Wishbone.
Watch the story, Wishbone.
Watch the story, Wishbone.
What's the story?
Watch the story, Wishbone.
Watch the story, Wishbone.
This is my house.
Ah!
And this is my chair.
And this is me. Talking.
And aren't you lucky? You can hear me.
Well, what were you expecting? A cat?
Ha ha! Please.
These are my people.
My boy, Joe, and his mother, Ellen.
Hi, Mom.
Hi, too.
What are you doing?
Well, you know, the
neighborhood picnic is tomorrow,
and this year it's my turn to say
something about life in our neighborhood.
So I'm writing about you in Wishbone.
Oh! Where's the part about me?
Am I the hero of the story?
So what are you up to?
I don't know.
I want to do something.
You want to play basketball?
No.
Go swimming?
No.
You want to clean up your room?
I'm just kidding.
So, you don't want to do anything,
but you do want to do something.
How about feeding the dog?
That's always a thrill.
Mom, it's my last weekend of
freedom before school starts.
I want to do something.
something exciting, something different.
Well, the picnic tomorrow will be fun.
And if I play my cards right, the
whole neighborhood will feed me.
But that happens every year.
Oh, I see. You're not
looking for ordinary fun.
You've kind of got an
inch for something big.
And I've kind of got an itch
just behind this left ear, buddy.
Oh, thank you.
So you want an adventure.
Yeah, but I don't think I'm
going to find it in Oakdale.
Whoa, Joe, where you going?
If it's an adventure you want,
Joe, I'll sniff it out for you.
It's buried right here on this shelf.
It's the adventures of Tom
Sawyer, written in a
in 1876 by the American
author Mark Twain.
It's the story of a boy who
doesn't have to go very far
to dig up adventure.
He finds it in his own small
town on the Mississippi River.
Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly.
Tom!
You! Tom!
You! Tom! You've got chores!
Man Sakes, that boy
I just can't let her catch me.
There's too much to do
today, Sides' chores.
Adventure waits on the
other side of this fence.
And I am out of here!
Hello!
Hello, Huckleberry Finn!
Come out if you're not afraid
to face Tom Sawyer, the pirate!
I ain't afraid of nobody or nothing.
Then, come be a pirate with me.
What does pirates have to do?
Well, pirates take ships and
burn them and get the money.
And bury it in scary places on their
island where there's ghosts to guard it.
And sometimes,
they sneak up on people
and take them prisoner!
And then they make them walk the plank.
I reckon I can do all that.
How do we get started?
First, you gotta have a pirate name.
Well, I don't know how
pirates are called.
Well, I'm called Tom Sawyer, the
Black Avenger of the Spanish Maine.
And you'll be, let me think
Huck Finn the Red-Handed!
Huck Finn the Red-Handed!
I like it!
So, how'd the one this
pirate business anyway?
Read it in books?
Well, I might learn me to read now I know
that there's books that
tell about pirates.
We sail to Jets'Anson Island at midnight!
Wow!
Wow.
Somebody get that, please?
Hi, Sam. Hey, Joe.
Hi, Wishbone.
Samantha! Love me! Pet me! Feed me!
Hi, Sam.
Hi, Mrs. Talbot.
Joe, do you want to go to
Jackson Park with David and me?
Sure. Is it okay, Ma?
Of course. Have fun. Have an adventure.
Maybe.
Uh, wait a minute.
I just need to put this in
the same place before we go.
Okay.
Okay, see here.
That and that and that and that!
All of you, stay.
All right.
Just make sure your
adventure's over before dark.
I need you home for dinner.
Don't worry, Ellen. I always plan my
adventure so I can be back before dinner.
Bye, Mom. Bye, Mrs. Talbot.
Bye-bye.
Yo-hoo! Joe!
Joe!
Joe!
Just one minute.
It's about your dog.
Oh, hello, Samantha.
Hi.
Joe, I have just unearthed something
that I know I didn't plant.
That's my squeaky book!
You put that right back
where you found it.
Wishbone cannot just
leave things in my yard.
I'm sorry, Miss Gilmore.
I wasn't going to leave it there.
I was coming back for it. It
was all very carefully planned.
I will trust you to return this to its
owner and see that it doesn't happen again.
No problem.
Thank you.
Thank you, Joe.
Hey, I'll see you guys
at the picnic tomorrow.
I'm bringing my famous
Mississippi mud pie,
so you better save some room for dessert.
Bye.
I'll hold on to this for now, Wishbone.
Yeah, but I, but you
If Wanda can't keep her
hands off my things,
I'll have to look elsewhere
for temporary storage.
I made it.
I did it. I made it to the 10th level.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
Hey, David.
Hi, David.
Can't talk.
Okay.
Hmm.
Can this thing be programmed
for snack delivery.
So, are you guys ready to go?
Yeah.
I want to go to a place in the
park where we haven't gone before.
Where?
Let's go to the no-name grave.
Ooh, scary.
You know, there's all kinds
of stories about that grave.
It's supposed to be haunted.
but nobody knows who's buried there.
Well, I heard it was
someone who was murdered,
and the murderer buried the body there.
And now, the ghost can find no peace,
because nobody knows who he was.
So sometimes he comes out of the grave
and tries to tell his story.
But he is so horrible-looking
that whoever sees him
drops dead immediately.
And gets sucked down into the grave.
Wow.
But nobody believes that, right?
Right. Right.
Of course not.
So have you ever been to it?
No.
No.
Well, let's go see it for ourselves.
Hey, wait for me!
It's an adventure, just like
Tom and Huck on Jackson Island.
Tom and Huck hit out on
Jackson Island to be pirates.
It was only three miles from home,
but it seemed like another world.
All right, new game.
I'm the captain, and I say it's
time to roll in the leaves.
I'll tell you, Huck, this
is just the life for me.
Pirates don't have to get up mornings and
wash and all of that blame foolishness.
I've never done any of that,
anyhow, even before I turned pirate.
Tom, how long you reckon
we've been pirates?
A day and a night.
Think anybody misses us?
You missing anybody, Huck?
Of course not.
Don't got nobody to miss.
What's that?
Ain't thunder.
Let's find out what it is.
I know now.
I know now.
Somebody's drowning.
That's it.
They done that last summer
when Bill Turner got dried it.
Shot a cannon over the water,
make them come up to the top.
Huck, I know who's drowned it. It's us.
Us?
They think we're dead and drowned
it. We're heroes, Huck. We're famous.
But we're dead.
Only temporarily, Huckleberry fiends.
Best kind of death is a temporary
one. It's a dream come true.
We are gathered.
We are gathered here today.
To mourn to mourn the
law to mourn the law.
of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
We come with heavy hearts.
For these boys, we're
destined for greatness.
Their goodness, their nobility,
their promise is gone.
Lost to us forever.
And we ask ourselves if
they were with us today,
how could we treat them better?
That's our cue, Huck.
We ask ourselves, how could we have made
their precious little
lives a little easier?
We ask ourselves, we
It's a miracle.
The angels have returned.
I'm back here, Polly. Did
you miss me? When do we eat?
Play something. Put your heart into it.
You see what?
See what I mean, Huck? There's nothing
like being alive at your own funeral.
Okay, here we are. Let's go.
Hope this ghost is a dog person.
Whoa, that's deep.
I say we go back home and have a snack.
I think it's on the other side of this.
How do we get across?
We swing.
We swing.
First.
One, two, three.
I can't look!
It's easy, come on!
Did he make it?
Did he make it?
Uh, Sam?
Two, three!
We're supposed to be the practical one?
Here we go.
Hello, people!
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh. We forgot Wishbone.
Looks like I'll have to
find my own way across.
Huh. I could go across
the lawn. I'll just
Who?
Oh, no.
I was born close to the ground,
and I'll stay close to the ground.
Thank you very much.
See? Going across. No problem.
Ew! Water! Okay, I'm
up. I'm out. It's cool.
Maybe we're at the wrong place.
No, just keep looking.
Yeah, maybe we should
just forget about it.
No, we can't quit now.
We can't quit now.
That's right, Joe. The hero never rests.
Tom had returned from the
island, but grew restless
again for something
beyond the front porch.
Wow, shiver me timbers,
it's been the red-handed.
Tom, I got me a plan
to get rid of my warts.
Hmm. What's the plan?
Well, gotta go to the graveyard.
It's got to be midnight. It's got
to be midnight. It's got to be.
I've got to be a fresh grave.
And they just buried Haas Williams
that's the time it's my chance.
Ooh.
What do you gotta do?
Well, got to go to the graveyard.
And I gotta say,
ghost in the graveyard, take my worst.
I'm done with them.
Well, I'd get rid of any wart.
Well, that sounds right.
I want to come along?
I'll be there.
It's awful solemn.
It'll be midnight soon.
I'll get rid of my warts
and we'll be done with it.
What's that?
You reckon it's ghosts?
You reckon it's ghosts?
Why, it's Muth Potter, for sure.
And Crazy Joe.
And Doc Robinson.
And, Doc Robinson.
Hurry up, Joe.
The moon might come out at any moment.
Pay me some more, and then
I'll see if I can hurry.
What do you mean by that?
Five years ago, you drove
me out of your kitchen.
Five years ago, you drove
me out of your kitchen.
when I come to ask for something to eat.
He said I wasn't there for no good.
I swore then I'd get even with you.
Even if it took me a hundred years.
Now I've got you.
And you've gotta settle, you know.
Now, don't you hit my partner?
Well, what happened, Joe?
What'd you do it for?
I'd.
I never done it done it.
Well, if you can't take it back now.
Tell me, Joe, now.
Honest now, did I do it?
Mm-hmm.
I never meant to.
Tell me how it was, Joe. Tell me.
Two of you were scuffling, and, uh, he
fetched your one with the headboard.
And you fell flat.
And then up you come, you, you snatched
the knife and jammed it into him.
Oh, and then you, you
both fell to the ground.
Oh, oh, I did.
I didn't know what I was doing.
It was all on the count of that whiskey.
I never used a weapon
in my life before, Joe.
Well, what's done is done.
Joe.
Don't tell.
Say you won't tell.
You won't tell when you don't.
I'll stop you blubbering.
This ain't no time.
You go off yonder, and
I'll go the other way.
Move now.
You can live with that war, Huck, Finn.
Let's get out of here.
Hoo-hoo.
Huckleberry, what do you
think will come of this?
I reckon it ain't gonna come of it.
The fool was to squeak about this.
Crazy Joe didn't hang for it.
He'd come after us.
Tom, we gotta swear to
each other to keep Mom.
All right.
Repeat after me.
I swear to keep Mom about this night.
I swear to keep Mom about this night.
And may I drop down dead in my
tracks if I ever tell, and rot.
And may I drop down dead in my
tracks if I ever tell and rot.
Okay.
Um, now we gotta shake on it.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, now we gotta turn around
in a circle three times to seal it.
One. Oh, yeah, uh, two. One.
Pushbone. Look.
Someone's been digging here.
Who'd only dig up a grave?
Well, whoever it is
like salamia and right.
Wishbone, no.
I think whoever's been
digging's coming back.
Let's wait.
What?
Do you think they'll mind that
I finished their sandwich?
I don't know. It's getting kind of late.
Yeah, and what if they
don't want company?
We'll hide. They don't
have to know we're here.
Come on. Don't you guys want
to know what's going on?
Okay.
Okay. Where do we hide?
Over there.
We should be able to see from here.
I hope we don't see anything we
don't want to see, like Tom and Huck.
At the trial of Muff Potter,
only Tom, Huck and Crazy
Joe knew what had really
happened in the graveyard.
Do you solemnly swear to
tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?
Yes, sir, I do.
Joe, you were at the graveyard
on the 17th of June at midnight?
Yes.
So you saw the defense.
The defendant stabbed the young
Dr. Robinson with this knife?
Yes, sir. Sad to say I did.
The defendant has admitted that this
knife, the murder weapon, belonged to him.
Is this the knife that you saw him use?
Sir, as I'm sitting here,
that is the very knife.
No further questions, Your Honor.
Court will declare a recess
and will resume after lunch.
Look, I can't stand it. It's not right.
We've got to let the cat out of the bag.
But Tom, he swore.
What about crazy Joe?
Think what he'd do to us?
Your Honor, in our remarks
at the opening of this trial,
we said that it was our purpose
to prove that our client did this.
this fearful deed while
under influence a drink.
We have changed our mind.
We will not enter this plea.
I call Thomas Sawyer to the stand.
Do you solemnly?
Do you solemnly swear to the stand?
Uh, I do you solemnly
swear to tell the truth,
and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?
Uh, I do.
Thomas Sawyer.
Where were you on the 17th of
June, about the hour of midnight?
I was in the graveyard.
A little bit louder, please.
Don't be afraid.
In the graveyard?
You happy now?
Were you anywhere near
Haas Williams' grave?
Yes, sir.
Anyone with you?
Yes, sir.
Well, we will produce your
companion at the proper time.
Why were you there in the
graveyard at midnight?
Do I have to say?
Speak up, my boy.
Never be ashamed of the truth.
Um, to cure warts.
Now, tell us what you saw that night.
I saw.
I saw the murder, but it
wasn't Mump Potter, did it?
Then who, my boy?
It
It was crazy Joe!
He jumped in with that knife, and he
and he
Uh-oh. I'm a dead dog.
What's that?
What's that?
If I can just get a just get a
Closer look.
I mean, hey, Curiosity
killed the cat, not the dog.
Whoops! Uh-oh.
Hi there! I'm a ghost dog!
Just checking up on this grave!
Get away from here!
Don't hurt my dog!
I don't know.
I don't know.
You know.
You know.
I'm
I'm