Wishbone (1995) s01e17 Episode Script

What's the story, Wishbone?
What's this your dreaming of?
Such big imagination
on such a little part.
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.
Sniffing out adventure with
Wishphone on the trail.
Come on Wish Phone,
Watch the story Wish Phone.
Watch the story, Wish Phone.
Watch the story, Wish Phone.
Watch the story, Wish Phone.
Watch the story, Wish phone.
Hello and welcome to Science Dog.
On today's show, we'll
be conducting important
scientific research for
my friend Joe Talbot.
And we'll be using a time
- honored method of investigation.
As long as we don't get caught,
and that method is digging!
Oh!
How?
How's it going?
I can't find the right jawbone.
Oh, this is starting
to look like something.
I guess.
It's kind of a drag right
now because I can't
Oh, no!
Oh, Joe, I'm so sorry.
This glue won't hold!
Hold on, let me see who that is.
And so, science dog returns
from a successful excavation.
The project has been saved.
Oh, good boy, wish one. This
won't be perfect for the job.
Thank you.
He's back here working on
his science fair project.
Uh, that's your science fair project?
Uh, yeah. Are you doing one?
Yeah, but my
Mine's kind of a secret.
Oh, great.
If you're entering, why
should I even bother?
You'll win.
You don't enter to win.
You enter to
Enter to
Why is yours such a big secret?
It's not that.
It's just that
Well, mine's a little different.
And I don't want anybody
to see it until I'm ready.
Hmm.
A secret scientific experiment.
Boy, that'd be a great story for a book.
Wait a minute!
It already is!
Let me see, where did I find that
Yes!
Frankenstein!
Written by Mary Shelley in 1816.
Victor Frankenstein, a
young student of science,
conducted his own secret
scientific experiment.
It's one of the greatest
monster books ever,
and the scariest, the spyingst,
the flat-out spookiest
I'm rambling, sorry.
Victor Frankenstein grew up in
Geneva, that's in Switzerland,
in the late 18th century.
He studied to be a doctor
at a great Swiss university.
Gentlemen, the ancient
teachers of this science
promised impossibilities
and produced nothing.
The modern scientist promises little
and has produced miracles.
But what of the problem of death?
Could we not find a way to over?
Come death!
That would be a dangerous course
of experimentation, my friend.
But Victor Frankenstein did not
listen to his teacher's warning.
He was driven to find a way to
bring back to life what was once
death.
You may remove your goggles now.
So,
As you work on your
science fair projects,
remember the importance
of experimentation.
The history of science is the
history of experimentation.
Cures for crippling diseases
have been discovered
by scientists who were looking for
something completely different.
David.
Is it all right if our
science project moves?
Moves?
Well, sort of.
What is it?
Well, I'd rather not say.
I mean, it's a secret.
Well, actually, it's
about the secret of life.
How to make something come
to life that isn't alive.
Well, you may be setting your
sights too high, but who knows?
In your experimentation to
find the secret of life,
you might stumble across
something a little more practical.
Now, our modern-day science of chemistry
comes from the ancient study of alchemy.
Now, the alchemists were looking
for a way to turn metal into gold.
They never found it.
But their experiments
gave birth to a science
that has affected our
everyday lives in many ways.
This glue is a lot better
than what I was using.
Where'd you get it?
I invented it myself.
Wow.
It must be great to invent something.
Oh, it is. Are you
kidding? It's so exciting.
I'd like to invent something sometime.
What do you think you're doing right now?
Well, I mean something important.
Well, you know what they say, Joe?
Necessibility.
is the mother of invention.
Oh, we didn't like this glue.
Now, I invented this
glue because I got fed up
with all those toxic store-bought brands.
They melted the macaroni
right off of my artwork.
I needed a glue that wouldn't do that.
I needed a glue to hold
these bones together.
Am I late for dinner?
Oh!
Hi, Wanda.
Hey, you guys.
Look what I found at the library.
Great!
Yeah, I thought it might help out.
Wow!
This is really coming along.
Thanks so much for helping out,
Wanda.
Oh, sure.
It was fun.
Oh, and I found this.
I thought it might help
smooth out some of the edges.
Thanks.
This is turning into quite a project.
Well, we like to keep the wheels of
progress rolling around here, don't we?
Science marches on.
Hey, Mom, can I go see what
David's doing for the Science Fair?
Um, okay.
As long as you're home by eight.
Bye.
See ya.
Be careful.
All this talk about progress makes me really
curious about what David's working on.
All right.
I think I'll tag along.
Uh, what's up?
Let me see it.
See what?
Uh, your science fair project.
No way.
Oh, come on.
Tonight on Science Dog, I'll take you
inside the secret lab of David Barnes.
Fourth-right young
scientist or evil genius?
That it over there?
Uh, no. Let's go inside the house.
Oh, come on, David.
Well, nobody looks
until the science fair.
You got to see mine.
I saw a pile of bones.
Oh, it's going better.
Great.
You want me to go home, don't you?
Yeah.
All right.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Okay.
This is the moment
we've been waiting for.
What is it?
How does it work?
And is it edible?
Yes.
Hey, that looks great!
Another exclusive brought
to you by Science Dog.
You saw it here first?
Dad said you have to let me see it.
Oh, okay. Well, just one quick look.
Just because you won't put it.
there at the fair. Now don't touch
anything and don't tell anyone.
Now when I push these
buttons, he'll walk up to
Miss Walker and tell her
that I have discovered
the secret of life.
Now, natural energy is the
secret of life. You get it?
No.
Just wait until you're in
the sixth grade. Don't touch.
David, that thing won't walk.
This guy is going to
surprise a lot of people.
Science can be full of surprises.
As Victor Frankenstein would soon learn.
After months of exhaustive
research and intense preparation,
Frankenstein was ready
to test his creation.
This is it, the moment
I've worked so hard for.
Will I be able to infuse a spark
of being into this lifeless thing?
Is this the first step toward
mankind's victory over mortality?
Here goes everything.
More power. I need more power.
Is it working?
be my finest moment.
Come on.
Yes!
I've done it!
I've done it!
What?
What is this?
All of my work, all of my
research for this, this thing!
Stay away from me!
I said stay away from me!
I reject you! You're a monster!
Be gone when I return!
When I return!
I don't know.
Time Frankenstein returned to his
laboratory, his creation had escaped.
Well, that's over with.
The monster is gone from my life.
And no one ever has to
know that I created him.
These science fair projects
make me a little nervous.
Better check up on David's.
I'm not to meet you.
I have to turn to you
about the scooter level.
The scooter is natural energy.
Help this water. Nice to meet you.
Actually, it's Wishbone, and I just
Excuse me. Did you just say something?
This bucket of vaults can talk!
I'd like to tell you
about the secret of life.
Um, yeah.
The secret life is natural energy.
Hey, wait!
Was it something I said?
Attention, everyone!
One science fair project!
On the Lose!
I'm in a little trouble!
Where have you been?
Everybody's looking for you!
I think my science fair
project walked away.
What?
Walked away?
Yeah, or somebody.
stole it, but I think it walked away.
That's gotta be some
science fair project.
Where do you think it went?
I don't know, but we
gotta go find it. Come on.
I'd like to tell you
about the secret of life.
I'd like to tell you
about the secret of life.
That's nice, really. But
you need to turn around.
You're gonna be late for the science fair
and you're going the wrong way.
Natural energy allowance.
I'm not getting through to you, am I?
Hello?
Hello.
Hello.
I'm getting a little
impatient with that line!
Now, you turn right around and get
Hey, hey, robot, robot!
You're going the wrong way!
Somehow I don't think this
is what David had in mind.
Rejected by his creator, and
with no place to call home,
Frankenstein's monster
went on a rampage of
terror and destruction
throughout Central Europe.
No!
Help!
Ah!
Frankenstein ultimately had to accept
responsibility for his creation.
This isn't at all what I had to accept
responsibility for his creation.
This isn't at all what I had in mind.
I wanted to find a way to conquer death.
Instead, I've created a monster
that even I'm afraid to face.
Come and get me, Frankenstein!
Why did I have to make him so powerful?
Oh, careful!
Oh, careful!
I really do enjoy our little nature.
Oh, I really do enjoy our little nature.
Yes, it's marvelous to
get away from the books,
and the grading all those papers,
and just take a full breath of fresh air.
I want to hear
Oh my goodness.
Okay, let's review.
We've got one robot running amuck,
one dog in pursuit of that robot,
and two dumbstruck nature lovers!
Hey, let's continue.
Let's continue.
Hello, good to meet you.
I have to know you.
I'd like to know you all
this, good a lot of life.
I'd like to tell you
all this, so good a lot.
Aha! There you are!
Face to face at last!
Whoa!
You fiend!
Frankenstein!
You made me live!
I did.
You must wonder
what I, your creation, have been doing
since you brought me to life.
I know what you've been doing.
You've left nothing but death
and destruction in your wake!
I have wandered the earth.
in search of love and friendship.
Since you abandoned me,
I have had to make my
own way in the world,
and it has been difficult.
You are an inhuman monster!
You made me this way!
Yes, I admit it!
I've made a horrible mistake!
Make me a friend.
The way that you made me me.
If I had a friend,
if I had a friend,
to love and care for.
I would kill no more.
I would take my friend and go away.
You would never hear from me again.
Make another monster who could
cause destruction the way you do.
Never! I will not!
If you do not do as I ask!
I will continue to wreak havoc
everywhere I go, Frankenstein.
You will have no peace.
While I am lonely
How can I stop him?
Hello, Miss Walker.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
All those gadgets and no off button?
I can't believe it.
David, talk about cool.
It moves.
Yeah, it was almost a disaster.
Emily must have turned it on.
Oh boy, she's gonna get it.
We better hurry to get it to the fair.
It's already six o'clock.
Yeah, it wasn't easy bringing him down,
but you can trust old Wishbone,
and, well, you can thank me later.
Oh, Miss Walker, we found it.
That's great, David.
I'm glad you made it.
But it's after six o'clock.
I have to run home
before open house starts.
Okay, we're gonna set up over there.
Okay, good.
Frankenstein was determined to
stop the monster at any cost.
He pursued his creation
all the way to the Arctic.
This is all my fault, but
I'll make it right somehow.
I know I'm close to finding
my creature, but I'm so tired.
Maybe I'll just rest for a while.
Frankenstein was rescued from
the cold by Sir Robert Walton,
the leader of a scientific expedition.
He told Walton all about the monster.
and the destruction he had caused.
But it's all too
Too utterly fantastic.
I know. But true. Every word.
Unfortunately, I
I cannot help you.
We must return to England at once.
Of course, you are perfectly
welcome to join us.
No. You can let me off
anywhere along here.
But you can't survive in this place.
I won't go back until
I've found the monster!
But I've traveled so far,
and I'm so very, very tired.
Anyone can see that you are exhausted.
Just a few minutes rest.
He's so close. I can feel it. So
close. I'm becoming delirious.
You're becoming delirious.
Yes.
No.
No.
No.
Please.
He can't hear me.
He's delirious.
Tell him that I will go away,
and that he will hear from me no more.
I will cause no trouble.
Tell him I am sorry.
I brought only misery to my maker.
You mean that?
After all that has happened, you
You love him?
He gave me life.
Tonight, science dog comes to you from
the Sequoia Elementary Science Fair.
Later, we'll visit the kitchen for a
practical application on chemistry in cooking.
You are way too modest. This is awesome.
Yeah, but mine doesn't
walk and talk and talk.
Maybe that's for the best.
So, what are some of you
bones gonna be doing later?
Hello, Silver. Nice to meet you. I want
to tell you. I got this to go away.
Didn't we just do this?
No.
Pell, no, nice to meet.
I don't we just do this?
Pellonswocker. Nice to meet you.
Pellonswocker.
Pellons wucker.
Pellonswocker.
Pellonswocker.
Pellonswocker.
Pellonswocker.
Sorry, guys.
That wasn't supposed to happen.
Hmm.
Extention comes early for one dinosaur.
What happened?
Well, I made C.
X-12 was so sensitive to nature
that lightning brought him to life.
Wow, that proves that
nature really is powerful.
And that concludes this
edition of Science Dog.
I'm Wishbone. Thanks for watching.
Boy, he brings something
to life, and you really
have to take responsibility
for what it does.
And maybe you can start taking that
responsibility by helping clean up.
This one's mine!
Look at all these bones.
I'll never get them all up.
Well, I can think of one bone
you won't have to worry about.
Excuse me, please.
Wanda, you home?
Oh, good.
Ah, fresh soil.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You gotta get just the right depth.
Ooh.
Ooh, that tickles.
And.
And quit covering up job.
There we go.
Ah, perfect.
And no one's the wiser.
Hey, Flamingo, what are you looking at?
Read my lips, pal.
You didn't see anything.
He understands.
I had gazed on him while and finished.
He was ugly then, but when those muscles
and joints were rendered
capable of motion,
it became a thing such as even
Dante could not have conceived.
What a writer!
Mary Shelley creates a chilling
yet sympathetic character.
Her rich power of description allows
her readers and our makeup artist
to unleash their imaginations.
We were thinking, do we
do we do a space age,
kind of a robotic type of monster?
But then we decided that we wanted
to keep the Frankenstein monster
very human.
to create a sense of
pity for this character,
but still with the horror involved
in piecing together this creation.
Here's the actor who plays
Frankenstein's creature.
As you'll see, makeup is
going to do wonders for him.
The first thing is to create the scars,
a little bit jagged so that
they would look rather rough.
The whole process will take
a while, but that's okay.
It'll get the
actor time to envision the
character he's about to become.
I was this contact lens that totally
blotted out the color of his eye.
But how was I terrified when I
viewed myself in a transparent pool?
His watery eyes seemed
almost of the same color
as the dumb white sockets
in which they were set.
I am sorry.
A great book, a little makeup,
and a lot of imagination.
That's the recipe for Frankenstein's Bone
chilling and sympathetic creature.