Wishbone (1995) s02e04 Episode Script

What's the story, Wishbone?
What's this your dream of such big
imagination on such a little part?
What's the story, Wishbone?
Do you think it's worth a look?
Kind of seems familiar
like a story from our book.
Shake a leg now.
Wishbone, let's wag another day.
Slipping out adventure
with Wishbone on the trip.
Come on, Wishbone.
What's the story?
Wishbone?
What's the story? Wishbone?
What's the story?
Wishbone?
What's the story?
Wishbone?
It's okay, Joe. Why should I be nervous?
There's nothing to be nervous about.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think
today is a day that would
make Oakdale's founder, Moses
Johnstone, a very proud man.
Almost 150 years ago, Moses
was rescued from drive.
in the great flood of 1848
by his faithful dog Jackson,
the dog for whom Jackson Park is named.
I think all parks should
be named after dogs.
To commemorate Jackson's heroic spirit,
we are dedicating an area of Jackson
Park to the dogs of our community.
And we are honored to have
with us a world-class artist
who will create a new dog
sculpture to be placed on the site.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Miss Renee Lassiter.
Thank you.
When my dear, dear, dear President Wanda,
asked me to come to Glendale.
Oakdale.
Oakdale.
peace. How could I refuse?
So, I'm very, very happy that my busy,
busy schedule has allowed me to be here
to fulfill Wanda's dream.
Thank you, Miss Lassen.
Thank you.
And now the moment we've
all been waiting for.
The dog selected by the
Committee for the Arts
to be the model for Ms.
Lassinger's sculpture.
Pick me, pick me, pick me.
The winner is?
Please say Wishbone.
Whistbone!
Woohoo!
I won!
I'm Wishbone!
Today or Dale!
Tomorrow!
Paris.
So join us on the 21st in Jackson Park
for the unveiling of Ms.
Lassiter's latest masterpiece!
Thank you.
Thank you, darling.
Miss Lasseter, this is such an honor.
I'm a great admirer of your work.
Thank you, darling.
Oh, Renee.
This is my first.
Ellen Talbot.
Nice to meet you.
And this is Samantha Kepler.
Hi.
And David Barnes.
Nice to meet you.
Oh, and this is Ellen's son, Joe Talbot.
Wishbone's my dog.
Hi.
So this is the dog, eh?
Uh-huh.
I'd hoped he'd be taller.
Hey.
I suppose he'll just have to do.
Oh, you'll have to do.
You'll have to do.
Excuse me, darling. The press is calling.
Boy, these sculptors should know how
to chip away at a guy's confidence.
Now, let me get us out of
Oakdale's newest landmark.
Ooh! Photo Opportunity!
Is she really your cousin, Miss Gilmore?
Well, uh, first cousin
once removed, actually.
Oh, so artistic talent
runs in the family.
Oh, Renee, isn't a
different lead than I am?
Oh, come on, Wanda!
You have to think big!
I may have started small, but
once this statue goes up, I'm
I'm expecting great things.
You know, my high hopes remind me of a
character in a book
called Great Expectations.
Great Expectations was written by
Charles Dickens and published in 1861.
It's the story of a poor
orphan boy named Pip
who wished for greater
things in his life.
But was he in for a surprise
when his wish came true?
One evening while visiting
his parents' grave,
Pip met a man who would
change his life forever.
Yeah.
Hello, Mom. Hello, Dad.
It's you
Oh, you noise!
Tell me your name. Quick!
Pip, sir!
Where do you live, boy?
Supposing I'll let you live.
Over there, sir. With Joe
Garter with the blacksmith, sir.
Blacksmith, eh?
You look at here.
You know what a file is?
You know what a vile is?
Vittles is?
Vittles?
That's food, sir.
I'm an expert on Vettles.
You give me a file.
You get me some Vettles.
Bring them here tomorrow morning.
Or I'll have that tail
of yours for supper.
Okay, sir.
Don't worry, sir.
I'll fetch you some proper, Viddles.
Good night.
Ooh.
It was in a file.
Vittle's in a file.
Vittles in a file.
Oh, this joke.
I'll get a file later.
That poor man needs some food.
Let's see.
Oh, well it's not much,
but I suppose it'll do.
Now to get that file.
I'm back, sir.
Aye.
It's the young pup.
You don't look well,
sir. You're shivering.
Oh, we made this breakfast.
That'll beat the shivers.
Wow, you eat even faster than I do.
I'm glad you enjoy it.
I thank you, boy.
Damn.
Would you like a toothbrush?
I don't get it.
All that work and it's still a bush.
Wow.
Awesome car.
You know how much one
of these things cost?
Yeah, I know.
She must have a ton of money.
Of course she does.
She's famous.
My mom says she travels all over
the world, Europe and everywhere.
Man, that'd be great.
I wish I could do that.
I've hardly been out of Oakdale.
Oh, did you see this
computer stuff she's got?
It's amazing.
I think she's got a CAD system.
I'd like to try with those.
Young man.
Let's see what else an artist
carries around in her car.
Do you know about computers, young man?
Oh, Renee, David's our resident
expert on everything technical.
Hey, there's no toys in here.
Mabs and a thingy.
Fine.
Then you'll be my
assistant on this project.
You can start by bringing
my things into the house.
Wow, this is going to be great.
I get to work with a famous artist.
Come on, man.
Sorry, Miss Gilmore.
Wanda. For the record?
I didn't do it, okay?
Hey, guys, wait up!
Hey, let
Guys?
Hey, guys!
What do I need to get
in here? An invitation?
Soon after his strange
meeting in the graveyard,
Hip received a very odd invitation.
He was asked to come and play
with a rich old lady named Miss Havisham
who lived in the biggest house in town.
Go on in boy.
What?
Oh.
Ah, what a truly sort of place this is.
Hurry up, boy!
Who is?
Who is it, Estella?
Uh, Pip, ma'am. Come to play.
You are not afraid of a woman
who hasn't stepped outside
since you were born?
No, ma'am?
Then walk with me, boy.
But I thought we were gonna play.
Hmm.
Seems a pity to let
good food go to waste.
Do you know what I touch here?
Uh, your heart?
Broken.
When my fiancé left me on my wedding day.
I'm tired, Pip, but I
want to see some play.
No problem.
That's what I do best. Watch me!
Come on, Estella!
Oh no, you common laboring boy.
That's not how young gentlemen play.
People with manners
play at cards or chess.
Now sit and stay.
Pair?
You think of Estella?
I think she's very pretty.
Anything else?
And very insulting.
I think I shall like to go home now.
And never see her again.
Though she is so pretty.
Well, I didn't say I never
wanted to see her again.
You shall go soon.
Now play the game out.
I'm a
This one.
Oops.
You stupid, clumsy, common boy!
Uh-oh
Sorry.
The years rolled by,
and every month Pip was
sent to visit Miss Havisham.
Each time, Pip fell more in
love with the beautiful Estella
and became more ashamed
of his poor, humble life.
I've had enough of this.
Oh, that's it.
Oh, that's it.
Ah.
Here, Pip!
Old chap, what's the matter?
I'm not all happy, Joe.
And I never shall be.
Unless I can need a
very different sort of
of life from the one I lead now.
I ought to be a gentleman, Joe.
I am looking for a blacksmith apprentice,
commonly known as Pip.
That would be me, sir.
My name is Jaggons.
Hello?
I'm instructed to tell you, Mr. Pip,
that you will come into a large fortune,
that you are to be immediately
removed from this place
and brought up as a gentleman.
In a word, you are a young
man of great expectations.
I don't believe it.
I'm a gentleman, Joe!
I'm a gentleman, thank you, Mr. Jaggers!
I tell you at once this wasn't my doing.
I only represent your benefactor.
The only rich person I
know is Miss Havisham.
She must be the one who's
given me this fortune.
So I will be a gentleman.
Fitter Mary Estella!
It's my dream come true!
Now, now, Mr. Pip, the name
of your benefactor must
to remain a profound secret until
they decide to reveal themselves,
and you are prohibited from making
any inquiry into this matter.
This is the condition of your fortune.
Do you have any objections
to this arrangement?
No, sir.
I should think not.
Then, Mr. Pip, I suggest you leave
for London as soon as possible.
I'm going to London!
Well, I surely.
We will miss you, Pip.
But, uh, ever the best of friends, eh?
Let me.
Make sure we have enough lateral
rotation on the head position.
I got it, Ms. Lasseter.
Good.
This system is awesome.
It is.
It was so nice of you to
let all of us be here.
I hope we're not too distracting.
Oh, no.
I love my public around
me when the pieces
of my creative puzzle
are falling into place.
Oh, Renee, I've got an idea.
Well, yes.
I've done a little canine
sculpting of my own,
and I've always found
that dogs are at their
most expressive when
they're about to be fed,
so maybe you could try
giving Wishbone a snack.
Sounds logical to me. I look
great on a full stomach.
A snake!
Oh, Wanda!
That's so funny!
You always were the one in the
family with a sense of humor.
Well, it was just a suggestion.
It was a great suggestion. Wanda!
Wanda!
Wanda!
Oh, I've got an itch.
Oh, stay still, boy!
Nope, I'm gonna have to scratch.
Oh, ah.
Disgusting.
For the last time, will you
please try and stay still?
I'd like to see her stay
still with an itchy collar.
I picked up all the supplies
you asked for Miss Lester.
I've got the bills right
here for this stuff,
the equipment you rented, and
all the food you had delivered.
Food?
Bills. I don't have time
to worry about these bills.
Don't these people realize I'm an artist?
Tell them, tell them someone
will take care of them late.
Joe, is that you? You
gotta break me out of here.
I don't like being with an artist. Joe!
Hey.
Hey, how's it going in there?
Joe, help!
See how Wishbone was doing.
We're dying to get a look at the
sculpture. Can you sneak us in?
No way!
You can't disturb an artist.
One one gets in except for
Ms. Lassad and her team.
Wishbone's fine.
It's kind of in there.
I don't know.
You know, David, you really shouldn't
forget who your friends are.
Pip left his friend Joe Gargery and
arrived at London to start his new life.
Now that he was a gentleman, surely
all his troubles were behind him.
Ah, Barnetton, my new home.
London. What a city!
Ah, you must be Mr.
Pipp. I'm Herbert Pocket.
Hello, Herbert.
Mr. Jaggers tells me we are
to be sharing these lodgings.
I'm sure we're going to become fast
friends. Allow me to show you in.
Thank you very much.
With his new fortune, Pip had a job.
generous allowance,
which he was more than
willing to spend, and
spend, and spend, and spend.
Oh, Erbert, how can
it be that we've spent
so much and have so
little to shout for it?
I, for one, and perfectly miserable.
Our debts are mounting
up, Pip, to be sure.
Being a gentleman is not as
easy as I dreamed it would be.
But you look tired, Herbert.
Go to bed and I'll finish up with you.
Good night.
Good night, Pip.
How in the world are we ever
going to pay for all of this?
Who can that be at this hour?
Who can that be at this hour?
No bull, Pip!
Ha!
Pip?
Wait a minute.
Aren't you the man I met in
the graveyard when I was a boy?
I am.
I am.
You acted nobly that day, me boy.
And I have never forgot it.
Well, that was a very long time ago.
Our ways are different now.
I mean, I'm a gentleman.
Indeed you are.
And it was me what made
you a gentleman, Mr. Pip?
You? You and no one else?
Then it wasn't Miss Havisher?
It weren't easy, Pip.
It weren't easy, Pip.
for me to get here.
No, where it's safe.
The law is still after
me around these parts.
I was determined.
I was determined to
see the young gentleman
what I made.
Oh no.
Not only if I've been living
off a convict's fortune,
but now I'll never win a star.
Stella's heart.
Soon after Magwage arrived,
Pip went to visit Miss
Havisham for the last time.
Miss Havisham, I've found
out who my true patron is,
and since this discovery, I've
decided to give up my fortune.
Well, what affair is that of mine?
You knew that I believed
you were my patron,
and that Estella was intended for me.
Yes.
My left.
Let you go on.
Was that kind?
Who am I that I should be kind?
Very well.
But before I take my leave,
there's something I have to say.
Estella.
I know that I have no hope that I
shall ever call you mine, Estella.
I may soon be a poor man with
nowhere to go, but I still love you.
I am to be married, Pip.
The preparations are underway.
Farewell.
Miss Havisham, just because
your heart was broken long ago,
you've turned Estella's
heart into a block of ice.
I meant her no harm.
I meant her no harm.
I meant to save her from misery.
like my own.
Miss Havisham?
Oh no!
Miss Havisham!
I'll take you! I'm coming!
Dear Pip, forgive me.
I forgive me.
I forgive you, Miss Havisham.
You may dismiss me from
your mind and conscience.
This life is not for me.
me.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, don't take that away.
It's not finished.
Hey, what are you doing?
Where's Miss Lasseter?
Didn't you hear?
She left town this morning.
Didn't pay for anything either.
That's why I'm taking my stuff away.
One of the Gilmore's
been going all over town
trying to pay off that artist's debts.
Man, I can't believe this.
Okay, Steve, take away.
You don't, Steve.
You shouldn't.
It's my status.
I can't believe she'd
just leave like that.
She didn't even say goodbye.
I'm really sorry about
Renee running off like that.
All I know is she left a note
saying the Smithsonian had called
and she had to go to
Washington right away.
I guess she thought
that was more important.
So what you're saying is I'm not
going to be immortalized in stone.
Okay, I'll just have a cookie.
This is very disappointing.
I know you worked hard, David.
And she really let you down.
I'm crushed, devastated, distraught.
But you know, Nate, a
cookie would make it better.
I guess I'll listen people down, too.
I'm sorry if I was a jerk, guys.
That's okay, David.
Yeah, we understand.
I understand, too.
Now, does anyone here understand cookie?
Cookie.
Listen, Renee means well.
It's just that, I guess
when you're famous
and you travel around.
all the time. You might not have a
place like Oakdale to come home to.
Hmm. Thank you, Nathan.
I just don't know how we're going
to explain this whole thing.
The town is expecting a statue.
There's going to be a lot
of disappointed people.
Well, I don't know if this would help.
But I do have a piece of my
own I've been working on.
All right. I can still be a landmark.
Pip tried to repair it.
Magwitch's generosity by hiding him
from the authorities, but it was no use.
Magwicz was caught and taken to New Gay
Prison, where he fell seriously ill.
Pip went to see him
every day without fail.
God bless you, dear boy.
You never deserted me.
Dear Magwitch, I will be as true
to you as you've been to me.
I'm quite content.
I'll see me, boy.
We.
And he is a gentleman.
Have you come home?
Have you come home?
After all the kindness
you showed me as a boy,
I repaid you by forgetting you
and running off to chase my dream.
But now that dream is all gone by, Joe.
The truth is, I was never as happy being
a gentleman as I was here with you.
Ever the best of friends.
Right, Pip?
Ever the best of friends, Joe.
Finally, the moment I've been
dreaming of, I'm going to look tall!
One, two, three.
Oh, Wanda.
That's wonderful!
Oh!
Wait a minute, that's not me!
That's an imposter!
Congratulations!
Oh, Wanda, you really
captured the canine spirit!
It's really great, Miss Gowmore.
Yeah, but I've got a feeling Wishbone
was expecting your
sculpture to look like him.
Oh, you are in the sculpture, Wishbone.
There's a little bit of
every good dog in there.
Yeah.
Okay, but which bit is me?
You know, which, which bit is wishbone?
Wanda?
I mean, look at it.
Wanda, come on!
Wanda, pay attention, please.
Wanda?
Pay attention to me.
Wanda.
Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda,
Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda.
Wanda, Wanda, Wanda.
I saw her shrieking with a whirl
of fire blazing all about them.
That's how she was.
How the writer Charles Dickens described
the fire on Miss Havisham's dress?
But how does a film crew
recreate such a frightening scene
without putting anyone in danger?
We called on our special
effects department.
The big fire scene from Great
Expectations was actually shot
in a bunch of little pieces.
We never actually lit someone on fire.
Sometimes we put a fire bar between
the camera lens and the actor.
Sometimes we used a small piece of cloth.
For instance, the piece where
the dress runs through the fire.
It was just a small
rig with a piece of her
dress cloth on it that
had been fireproof.
It's a well-thought-out plane.
Before we shoot the scene, the
special effects coordinator
plans the shot with the director
and the assistant director.
With a lot of safety precautions,
we filmed the flaming dress.
And the actor didn't even
have to be in the scene.
Hey, what about the dog?
He's kind of like a
child, and you have to
take care that he won't
get into certain things
and that he isn't exposed to
things that could hurt him.
Believe me, I really appreciate that.
Fire up your imagination
with a good book.
It's what I do.
I don't know.