act 1 scene 4 Flashcards
Alf: If it ain’t the three little piggies! Got yer sea-legs?
Prentiss/Ted: Oh thank you! Get us out of here! Hungry! Please! Help!
Prentiss: I’m the leader.
No, you’re not.
Alf: I’m the oldest and I say pipe down.
But I’m hungry!
Alf: It’s yer lucky day then, ain’t it?
FINALLY!!
Prentiss: Any good?
IT”S ALIVE!
Prentiss: It’s worms!
He fed me worms!
Prentiss: Don’t hog it all. Gimme!
You said you wouldn’t eat it!
Prentiss: What’re you doing!
You’ll get us a beating!
Alf: That’s two
I got a sick feeling about this.
Molly: In my experience, boys are sadly slow thinkers.
Molly: In my experience, boys are sadly slow thinkers.
Prentiss: No way.
We saw a girl once
Prentiss: –headmaster’s daughter.
It was nothing like you. It was all- “arrrgghhh, rowrrr, gonna getcha.”
Prentiss: We have important things to do.
No, we don’t.
Molly: which would make me the leader
Proper food? Really?
Molly: Only that… if you have names, they serve you meat.
TED! I’m TED!
Prentiss: But I call him Tubby, ‘cuz he’s food-obsessed.
I am not food ob-
Prentiss: D’you write poems about pie?
To pass time-
Prentiss: Hide beans in your blanket?
It’s a blood sugar thing
Prentiss: - sticky pudding!
Sticky pudding, it’s so good…
Molly: -the more you claim leadership, the more it eludes you?
Oh snap!
Molly: Sorry
Don’t take it personally.
Prentiss: He’s rude to everybody.
It’s why he gets beatings
Prentiss: And why he’s got no friends.
Go on. Tell her your name, why don’t you?
Boy: Thanks, Ted.
He doesn’t have a name
Prentiss: Been orphaned too long to remember.
Grempkin calls him - MULE!
Molly: Doesn’t cost any more to be nice, charmless.
What about the food?
Molly: Right. Follow me.
Right. Follow mother
Boy: Molly
That’s what I said. Follow Molly.
