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- Ickis: Oh, this is going to be great!
- Hair: Herb? Do we have a carrot? Aw, there's a pretty little bunny.
- Ickis: Yuck!
- [???]
- Ickis: Oh, did I get a third eye? No. Or big giant fangs and a thousand tiny legs? No. I get floppy ears! Why can't I look like Glog or Borl or Spoop or Urbab? Oh, forget it. Forget it! I'm not anybody scary. I'm...
- [???]
- Ickis: Hello? Excuse me. Stop it!
- Person: I'm, I'm sorry, kid. Nice scare.
- Ickis: Oh... [Chuckles] You think so? I'm so glad. One question... Why weren't you scared?!
- Person: I'm sorry, kid. If you're looking for a human to scare, you're out of luck.
- Ickis: [Gulps] You're--
- Person: Just like you, kid.
- Ickis: Well, why aren't you underground?
- Person: You don't want to know.
- Ickis: Yes, I do.
- Person: You want to know why I left the monster world? It's because I look... Like this.
- [???]
- Gromble: Despite the unexcused absence of master Ickis We're just going to have to begin. Bappy, if you will.
- Person: Kid, you all right?
- Ickis: You, you look... Your face! Your face, it looks.. Human!
- Person: And you got ears like the easter bunny.
- Ickis: I bet... Who cares if I have big ears?! It does not mean I am not a monster.
- Person: Who cares if I got a human face?
- Ickis: Oh, that is different! I mean, it's... You're right. I'm sorry.
- Plastoog: The name's Plastoog, kid. What's yours?
- Ickis: Mud.
- Plastoog: What?
- Ickis: I just remembered Even if I make it to class I did not get my scare. I'm sunk.
- Plastoog: Maybe not. Come on.
- [???]
- Plastoog: Well, kid. There it is.
- Gromble: Excellent, Zooeuh. Well done. Well, that's everybody.
- Ickis: Well, I don't know About that. Oh, I'm so sorry I was a tad late Old man. But, you know, an exceptional scare Is like fine slime. It must age, mature. One must wait for just the right moment.
- [???]
- Krumm: He walked into a mall.
- Dizzle: Too many people-- he'll never pull it off.
- Oblina: They'll see him.
- Krumm: They're going to catch him.
- Dizzle: I can't watch.
- [??]
- Gromble: That was you?
- Ickis: That was me. This stinking weed of scaring has finally blossomed. I have realized my potential.
- Gromble: Ickis That was magnificent!
- Ickis: I know.
- [Cheering and applause]
- Ickis: they loved it! Oh, it was great! You're amazing! I'm amazing. You know, I get around you And I think, who cares what we look like? We are scary. Ah, you must have been great in school.
- Plastoog: Head of my class.
- Ickis: Oh! If you can scare like that Oh, you should come back.
- Plastoog: Ahh, not a chance, kid. I'm never going back. Nobody cares how you scare. All they care about is what you look like.
- Ickis: That is not true! Look at me, I don't care that you look like...
- Plastoog: Like a game show host.
- Ickis: Right!
- Plastoog: What's a game show host? It's the worst thing you can imagine. Ickis, when I was a student Everyone laughed at me. I didn't have a friend in the world. I-i take that back. One quiet little guy, he stuck by me. But that wasn't enough. Even with a friend I knew I could never have a normal monster life. So I left.
- Ickis: But it's not like that anymore-- Not where I go to school.
- Plastoog: Why would it change? No... I'm not going back And don't you dare tell anyone I'm here. They'd be up here in a second Laughing and pointing. I couldn't bear it. Promise me. Ickis, promise me You won't tell anyone you've seen me.
- Ickis: I promise.
- Plastoog: Good. Now let's go scaring.
- [???]
- Plastoog: Is this the place?
- Ickis: This is it.
- Hair: Goodness, have I won something?
- Plastoog: Why, yes, indeed. It's a brand-new improved state-of-the-art...
- Ickis: Rabbit!
- Plastoog: Nice!
- Ickis: Thank you.
- Man: Excuse me. Is this the home of marge miller?
- Plastoog: Say, aren't you...
- [???]
- Ickis: This is great! I've never ridden Inside a car before. So where we going?
- [???]
- Gromble: It has been years-- Goodness, probably 300 years-- since I've seen such innovation... Such originality. I don't know what's happened to you, Ickis. But I like it. Excuse me, Ickis? Ickis!
- Ickis: Do you think a monster Would be any less of a monster If he, say, looked like... A game show host?
- Gromble: Game show what?
- Ickis: I can't. I-it's just that... Oh, never mind.
- Gromble: Scaring, Ickis Is all that matters to me. And it should be all that matters to you... All of you. Anyone who feels differently does not belong in this school. Understood?
- Ickis: May I be excused?
- Gromble: Now? No.
- Ickis: Thanks.
- Gromble: ICKIS!
- Ickis: Plastoog! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
- Plastoog: Yeah?
- Ickis: You, you can come back! It's all right. Nobody will make fun of you.
- Plastoog: I'm fine right here.
- Ickis: I cannot believe You don't miss living underground.
- Plastoog: I belong in the monster world. The truth is, they just won't have me. So I live here now.
- Ickis: Yeah, but-but-but-but-but, I-I asked, it's okay.
- Plastoog: You told them about me?
- Ickis: No, no, no, no, no. See, I just wanted To see how they'd react if you were... Well, you know If someone like you came back underground.
- Plastoog: There's no way You're going to get me down there.
- Ickis: We'll see.
- [???]
- Oblina: Oh, and why, exactly Are we gathering everyone together?
- Ickis: There's this, well... I-I-I-I can't tell you. Please, with maggots and slime?
- Both: all right.
- Ickis: Thanks, I got to go.
- [???]
- Ickis: Ahh! Perfect.
- Oblina: Oh, I am sure You must be wondering why we got you out of bed. And so now, I shall tell you. It's because, uh... Krumm has something to say.
- Krumm: Uh, there isn't really anything...
- Oblina: [Menacing]: Krumm.
- Krumm: ...more exciting and romantic than being a mold farmer. And I know because I've been there.
- {lastoog: Now, what was it you wanted to show me?
- Ickis: Oh, you can't see it from there. You have to stand over here... Here. No, no, no, no, over here, over here. No, no, no Here, here, here. Yeep!
- Plastoog: Ickis?
- Ickis: Plastoog!
- Krumm: So, it looked like We'd never get the mold harvest in. But then...
- [Thud]
- Kurmm: But then we did.
- Plastoog: Ickis, what did you do? How could you?
- Ickis: Listen, everybody, come here. I want to introduce someone. He is a monster-- Come here-- except, well... Hey, wait a minute. We all look different. And we are all still monsters Right? Would any of us Be any less of a monster If he looked... Human?
- Krumm: Hi! I'm Krumm.
- Gromble: There'd better be a really good reason Why none of you are in bed! [gasps] Plastoog?
- Plastoog: Gromble?
- Gromble: I can't believe it. Where have you been all these years?
- Plastoog: I've been living in the human world.
- Gromble: Oh, how awful! You poor monster.
- Plastoog; Th-th... They're not scared of me, are they?
- Gromble: They'd better not be. If I've taught my class anything It's that the way you look doesn't matter. It's the way you scare that counts. Class, this is Plastoog. A schoolmate of mine.
- Ickis: You went to school with the Gromble?
- Plastoog: He's that quiet little kid I told you about.
- Ickis: The Gromble, quiet?
- Gromble: My oldest friend! And one of the greatest scarers I've ever known! Plastoog, will you come back and live with us? There have been a lot of changes in the monster world these past 300 years.
- Plastoog: And I want to see them all. I'm going to hit the sewers Travel the monster world, Grombie. Let them know Plastoog is back! But this place, it'll always be my home.
- Gromble: Just one question, old friend.
- Plastoog: Anything.
- Gromble: What's... A game show host?
- Plastoog: Oh, Grombie It's too terrible to describe.