The Amazing Digital Circus (2023) s01e02 Episode Script

1
[peppy electronic music plays]
[Caine] Welcome to the
Amazing Digital Circus!
-[voices echoing throughout]
-[Jax] Pomni.
-[Caine] Pomni.
-[Ragatha] Pomni.
-[Jax] Pomni.
-[Ragatha] Pomni
-[Caine] Pomni!
-[Ragatha] Pomni!
-[Jax] Pomni.
-[Caine] Pomni!
[Ragatha] Pomni!
Hello?
[heartbeat thudding]
[dark, ugly music plays]
[screams]
No! No! No!
[stammers] Caine!
Somebody, help me!
Please!
[dark music continues]
[shrieks]
-No! No!
-[Caine laughs]
Looks like our new friend's
already abstracted.
[chuckles] Well, I guess
we're not all cut out for it.
I don't even remember her name, honestly.
[tense music]
[music crescendos]
-[doorbell rings]
-[yelps] [wailing]
[groans] Huh?
Hey, Pomni.
How'd you sleep?
Are you still sleeping?
I'll let you get back to it,
if you are.
There she is.
Hope you're doin' all right.
I know yesterday was a bit of a doozy.
"A doozy."
Oh, and don't worry about the whole
"abandoning me for the exit" thing.
It's perfectly understandable
what you were going through at the time,
and there's no hard feelings.
[laughs]
Yer all good.
Huh?
Uh, well, let's forget about all that.
Caine's got a new adventure today,
and judging by what he's been teasing,
it seems like it's gonna be a fun one.
Today's adventure is
That's right!
The Candy Canyon Kingdom's been robbed
of their most valuable resource,
maple syrup!
It's up to you to bring
the rotten bandits who stole it
to sweet, buttery justice!
An entire kingdom of candy?
Sounds sticky.
Very sticky, indeed.
Sounds[beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep].
Bubble, you can't say that.
[Zooble]
Mmmmmmmmmmm, nope.
Zooble, wait!
I'm testing out a new AI in this one!
It should be 57 times more immersive!
Ooh, a new AI.
You don't want to mess
with the new AI, Zoobie?
[Zooble] Uh, yeah, no.
Whoa, sounds fun.
What do you think, Pomni?
So, our entire existence here
is just LARPing?
-W Well, uh
-Why are you all just standing there?!
The The Canyon
C-Canyon Candy Kingdom needs you now!
-Hmm?
-Nah, thanks. I'm trying to quit.
[majestic music plays]
[cheers and applause]
[majestic music continues]
[fireworks explode]
[crowd cheer]
Wow, Kinger, check out this castle.
It's amazing!
[Kinger] They've even got
little candy bugs here.
-It's so beautiful.
-Yeah, this place is great!
-Look! It's the princess!!
-[whimpers]
[trumpet fanfare plays]
-Ah, you must be the brave knights
sent to us by God
to help us with our recent catastrophe.
-That's us, ma'am.
Your kingdom's awesome, by the way.
-Love the vibe.
-[giggles]
-I like you already.
-Look, Pomni.
We're already friends with the princess.
-I'm not a child.
You don't have to hype me up.
I assume you've been informed of
your mission.
The bandits that robbed us
used a modded syrup tanker,
so we figured the best way
to go head-to-head with them
is to give you a war rig of your own.
[truck engine rumbling]
Aagh!
Ooh, violence.
What time period is this supposed to
be, again?
Here's the key back into the kingdom
for when you've secured the goods.
I trust you not to let it fall into
the wrong hands?
You can count on me, Your Highness.
Oh, please, call me Loo.
[chuckles] Will do, Loo.
I call shotgun.
[goofy, distorted warble]
Oh, God, is that the horn?
[groans] That sucks.
Gangle, you drive.
Farewell, good knights.
I have every faith in you!
[truck engine revs]
[majestic music plays]
[truck horn warbles]
[insects chirping]
[all with Australian accents]
D'you think your mum's gonna pull through
if we get all this back to the village?
I'm sure she will.
This much syrup would save hundreds
of people.
We won't know for sure
until we get back to the village.
She's a fighter, though.
She taught me everything I know.
Oy! Don't get too comfy, lads.
Looks like they've sent someone after us.
All right, Gangle,
when we catch up to 'em,
I'll jump over, crawl inside,
and shoot 'em repeatedly
until they're unrecognizable.
I feel like that violates
some kind of convention.
You're violating my ears with your
clap-back.
Get driving, driver!
So, Pomni, I'm sure there's some way
you could help out here.
Maybe when we catch up to them, we could
We could be assertive. Like this!
-Hey!
-[screams]
Jax!
[groaning]
Ah, that's perfect! Just hold that pose.
I gotta get something.
-Jax, you [boink]
You know, I swear there was some kind
of bazooka back here, but
[scoffs]
I'm having such trouble finding it.
-[Kinger] Pomni, take this!
-Ooh
Here it is.
All right, Pomni, you just stay like that,
and I'll cross over you.
Are you kidding me?!
Ow!
Nice going, Pomni. Now I have no bridge.
Ah-hah! Gotcha!
-[bang] [air whistling]
-Me arms aren't long enou Whoa!
[dramatic music plays]
[brass hit!]
This lot's trouble.
Let's see how their rig does
on those rocks around there.
Me arms aren't short enough to shift the
gear.
[rapid brass hits]
Ooh, now we're cookin'!
Hey! Ribbons! Up and at 'em!
I don't think we
Aren't you supposed to be
submissive and agreeable?
Move it!
[wailing]
Oh, these fellas just don't know
when to quit, do they?
[rapid brass hits]
Hey! Quit muckin' about
and get back up here!
Oh, yeah. Right.
[groans] Everyone all right?
[Kinger] Can you repeat the question?
I couldn't hear you over the knives.
Hey, Gangle.
-You should ram into 'em.
-What?
You should NOT ram them!
-Pomni's still on board!
-[crash]
Do it. It'll be epic.
[Ragatha] Why are there so many
knives back here?!
Do it, or I'll tell Ragatha
about the figurine thing.
Guh!
[laughs nervously]
[tires screech]
Are you guys trying to [boink] kill me?!
These guys are whack jobs!
Let's give them some of this.
Aww, no more ramming?
Guess I HAVE to tell Ragatha
about the thing now.
[Gangle] What?!
Oh. You're still up here.
Guys?
[Kinger] Pomni, take this!
Uh, hey, Kinger,
is that rope attached to anything?
Uhhhh.
I don't know.
Let me check.
[clang]
[grunts]
[dramatic music]
W w what? Wha?
I blame YOU for this.
[splorch]
[tires squealing]
-[screams]
-[grunts]
[screams]
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
-Oog! Ack!
-[grunts]
[wailing] Oh No!
[hollering]
[grunts]
[groans]
[grunts softly]
[voice echoing]
Lads?
[mutters softly]
Hello?
[eerie ambient music plays]
Anyone?
[breathing shakily throughout]
[eerie music]
[gasps]
[pants]
[dissonant music]
Huh?
[dissonant music continues]
Uh
[gasps]
[breathing heavily]
[eerie music swells]
-Guh! [wails]
-[grunts]
-[gasps]
[groans]
Huh?
Where are we?
W What's all this?
I don't know.
W We're somewhere under the map, I
think.
"Map"?
Why aren't you
or any of your crew up here?
I, I'm not sure.
Be Because we're not, uh, NPCs?
"NPCs"?
What are you on about?
What are you people?
[haunting metallic music plays]
What am I?
Where's Mum?
YYou have a mom?
Shouldn't she be here with everyone else?
[shakily]
I can't even remember her face.
Did she ever have a face?
-Was anything ever real?
-Okay, w-w-wait.
Don't Don't think about that.
I I I think there
must be a way to launch ourselves back up.
-Right?
-[hyperventilating]
[low humming]
I want you to tell me exactly what I am.
[ambient music playing
[fudge splorching]
[whimsical music plays]
[groans] Is everybody okay?
No
Oh, man.
Poor Pomni.
I hope she's all right.
"Poor Pomni"?
How about "poor us"?
We're one tanker away
from being Augustus Glooped!
[groaning]
Oh, what's that?
Do my eyes deceive me?
A delicious gift from within
the kingdom gates?
Don't mind if I do.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy!
We're not food! We're not candy!
We're none of that!
You don't want to eat us!
Wh You're not candy?
How am I expected to eat something
that's not made of candy?
I'm sorry.
[Kinger] Pomni always seems
to miss the big, gloopy monsters.
Who are you, anyway?
I am The Fudge.
I used to live within the kingdom walls,
but I was banished by that rotten princess
after I ate too many of the delicious
townsfolk.
Oh, they were so delicious.
Sometimes I can hear them
calling to me.
[townsfolk screaming]
Oh, God.
That just sounds like murder.
Is it really murder if it's delicious?
Answer me that.
-You make a great point.
-Uh, no, bad point!
Why don't you leave this to me
before I start thinking
your hair looks like licorice?
Jax!
-[Kinger] Oh, wow, it kind of does.
-Stop!
Well, Mr. Fudge, you seem like
an upstanding guy with real noble goals.
Oh, I'm not.
If you knew what I did in my free time
Oh, you'd be SICKENED!
[clears throat]
As I was saying.
I happen to know a way into
the kingdom walls
if you'd be willing to help us out
in return.
-Hey, when did you
-Shut up, licorice hair.
[Kinger] Here, hide it with this.
Oh, you must be some kind of master
of unlocking things,
come to free me from my outdoor prison.
That's me.
All we need you to do is help us
bring some dirty bandits to justice.
-[air rushing]
-AUGH
I saw the reaper wink at me
Wait, w w what just happened?
[lollipop stick creaking]
Uhh
y you wanna try helping out at all?
[laughs nervously]
Or are you still
Hey.
You okay?
No.
You wanna talk about it?
What is there to talk about?
I don't just want to leave you here.
Why not?
I don't matter in the slightest.
I'm nothing.
My life, my memories
my friends
It's all fake.
This may seem weird, but
I think I know the feeling.
Well, m maybe not
the exact feeling, but
Feeling like you're nothing is
kind of normal.
I mean, people even feel like that
in the world I came from.
But
Y-you still care about your buddies
up there, don't you?
I'm sure they still care about you.
What does it matter?
What do we have when you people leave?
We're just obstacles
created to be defeated and forgotten.
Well
You don't have to be.
The The circus
th the place I'm from?
Well, I
I'm originally from somewhere else.
But
If it has to be my home
Maybe it can be yours, too.
The people there are interesting
at the very least.
Maybe you
[sighs]
Could be somebody real there.
Why are you trying to cheer me up?
How does this benefit you at all?
I guess I just don't want you
to feel like you're nothing.
I don't want anybody to feel like that.
But I'm not even a real person.
Would I even belong?
I'm sure you wouldn't belong any less
than me.
[chuckles] And
I could use a friend.
"A friend."
You're a strange little character.
Suppose I could give it a try.
All I ask is that we don't tell the lads
about this.
They're a couple of bright-eyed yobbos,
and I don't want to drag 'em down with me.
[chuckles]
Yeah, that makes sense.
What's your name, by the way?
Gummigoo.
Wow, that's
just about as dumb as my name.
What'd you have in mind
in terms of getting us out of here?
[stammers] I don't know.
Maybe some kind of glitch
with the truck's collisions?
I'm not really sure how we could
All right, I'm just throwing stuff
at the wall here.
If this doesn't work,
we could try something else.
You're the expert here.
[laughs nervously]
I'm really not.
But let's see how it goes.
[engine turns over]
[blocks thudding]
I just realized,
this might be a little vio
[explosion]
[trippy music plays]
[trippy music continues]
[trippy music fades]
Gotta say, this is a lot more
anti-climactic than I was hoping it'd be.
What were you hoping for?
You know, like, one big, final battle.
Bloodshed. Death. Chaos!
Whatever.
Are you sure they disappeared?
It wasn't that they fell off,
or something?
[stammers]
I can't say for sure, but, uh
Yes, definitely.
It's not like the boss to vanish with a
clown.
Very unusual.
Well, that's concerning.
[Kinger] [muffled]
Well, if worst comes to worst,
we could always ask Caine to find her.
I'm more worried she's having
another horrible experience.
She still seems really upset
about what happened yesterday.
I don't think she really likes me
that much.
[Kinger] It's a lot
for anybody to go through.
Don't take it too personally.
I remember how long it took for
you to adjust.
Oh. Yeah.
I'm surprised you remember that.
[Kinger] [normal voice]
Remember what?
[muffled explosion]
Do you guys have a second truck that
flies?
Yeah. Oh, wait, no, we don't.
No, not at all.
[air rushing]
[groans] Down I go.
[laughs]
Couldn't keep it in, could
[rattles lips]
Uh, what's all this stuff?
Pomni! Are you okay?
What happened?
Yeah, I'm fine.
I, uh I made a new friend.
Boss! Where have you been?
We got fudged.
You don't wanna know.
Good to see you, lads.
[light music playing]
Why are there two bad-guy trucks?
[tap squeaks]
[Kinger] This one's full of syrup, too.
Oh, yeah. Suppose it is.
Well, uh, you don't suppose
my mates here could, uh,
take this one back
to the village, could they?
I guess.
Since there's two of them,
there'd be no real harm.
I'm so unbelievably disappointed right
now.
Well, maybe there'll be blood, death,
and violence in the next adventure.
Ha-ha-ha-ha. How wholesome.
O-O-Oh, yeah.
Uh, this is Gummigoo.
He's gonna come back to
the circus with us.
Oh! Uh, is that allowed?
His reality was kind of
completely shattered?
I feel like it was the least I could
offer him.
Opposed to just leaving him behind.
[chuckles] Hey.
-That's good of you, Pomni.
-UGH!
Let's take this DUMB truck
to the DUMB kingdom, I guess!
[cheers and applause]
Thanks to you brave knights,
our kingdom will once again thrive.
I'm sure it was no easy task.
You have no idea.
Farewell, brave knights.
Have fun executing that bandit fella!
Yes.
That is what we're doing.
[distant explosion booms]
Oh, hey!
Maybe I didn't leave the gate unlocked
for nothing after all.
-[approaching rumbling]
-Uh, what? I thought he was dead!
-You still did that?!
-Okay, wait.
-[The Fudge chuckling]
-Y You did what, now?
Well, love to help you again sometime!
Bye!
[The Fudge laughing]
[distant townsfolk screaming]
Welcome back,
my little hard-shelled hamburgers!
So, this is the circus, huh?
-I could get used to this.
-Oop!
Looks like one of these guys
made it through.
Wait, wha Blagh!
Wait, wha?
I know you guys love your NPCs,
but if I start losing track
of who's a human and who's an NPC,
who knows
what could happen
[laughing manically]
Welp, I'm gonna go drink water!
It's been a while since I've done that.
[swoosh]
[Zooble] Sheesh,
I thought he'd never leave.
I'm really sorry about that, Pomni.
At least you tried.
You know, he might be back in a future
adventure.
I know Caine sometimes likes to
reuse NPCs.
[Zooble] Got everything ready.
Hey
You at least wanna join us
for Kaufmo's funeral?
We like to have a little funeral service
to remember the people who abstract.
This one just got pushed around a bit
with your arrival and everything.
[Kinger] It's the least we can do
to honor their memory.
[pensive, melancholy music plays]
Oh, man.
I always think I'm prepared for
these things,
but then you set up the picture
and, well
I'm already breaking.
[melancholic music plays]
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[melancholic music swells]
[music fades]
[upbeat, jazzy music plays]