Dialogue Flashcards
Hi! My name is Doug and I’m a second grader here at Michaelson Elementary School… I love school!… I love seeing my best friend in the whole entire galaxy, Harry!
HARRY
Enthusiastically) Hey Doug! Wanna see a girl scream? (HARRY freezes.
This is Harry. Harry and I are both going to be in Room 2B this year. Like I said before, he’s my best friend in the whole entire galaxy! Now Harry may look like any other second grader except for one thing. Harry loves to do horrible things.
DOUG
Yeah! But what’s in there?
HARRY
Something. I wonder if we’ll have science class today…
DOUG
I don’t know. But I’m really excited for lunch; my mom made me cookies!
HARRY
Chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin?!
DOUG
Chocolate chip!
(Victorious handshake)
DOUG
So what’s in there?
HARRY
(With a wicked grin.) Something.
SONG LEE
I do think they’re pretty, though.
IDA
Thanks Song Lee!
Girls do handshake.
HARRY
(Pointing to the group of girls.) Look at them over there! Ha! Oh boy this is gonna get them good!
DOUG
Which one are you going to scare?
Boys freeze, attn back to girls.
SONG LEE
My family just moved here this summer.
Girls freeze., attn back to boys.
HARRY
(Pointing to Song Lee.) The new girl!
Boys freeze…
IDA
Hi Doug.
IDA
… like my new sneakers?
HARRY
Like my new snake?!
DOUG
And that’s when I first saw Harry do something horrible this year.
Bell rings, all exit. On the way out, Sidney purposely trips Harry. Harry falls to the ground. Harry raises one fist in the air.
HARRY
Ugh Sidney! That kid is the worst.
DOUG
Don’t worry about him Harry. Maybe he’s in room 2A and you won’t have to deal with him this year.
HARRY
He better hope so!
DOUG
Harry what’s wrong?
HARRY
I can’t believe he’s in Room 2B! What did I do to deserve this punishment?!
SIDNEY
Well, well if it isn’t Harry and Doug. How was your summer?
HARRY
Why do you care?
MISS MACKLE
Good job, Sidney. Who would like to go next?
HARRY
(Raises hand frantically.) Can I go Ms. Mackle! Please please please!
MISS MACKLE
Alright since you said please.
Harry goes up to Miss Mackle and smiles horribly.
HARRY
I brought my terrible T-Rex!
Kids gasp.
HARRY
He is the biggest and creepiest of the dinosaurs.
All except Doug and Dexter are creeped out about the T-Rex.
HARRY
He eats up all the other little dinosaurs and stomps around like this. (HARRY acts like a T-Rex and uses his toy to show what a dinosaur acts like.) He has by far one of the biggest growls of the dinosaurs. (Lets out a big dinosaur growl.) He also likes to swoop up people named Sidney. (Maniacal laugh.)
MISS MACKLE
But Song Lee you are the last one and everyone wants to get to know you a little better since you are a new student. What’s in your box?
….. They scream and pass the box to Harry and Doug.
HARRY
A potato beetle?! (To the audience.) I think I’m in love.
MISS MACKLE
Oh no, Song Lee don’t cry. Let me get you some ice from my first aid kit. Okay class, let’s try again! (Bell rings) All right. We’ll work on this tomorrow. Let’s go to lunch.
HARRY
(To Doug with his hands in fists) I’ll get Sidney for Making Sidney cry!
MISS MACKLE
Harry will you take Song Lee’s water bottle to the nurse so she can put it in the freezer?
HARRY
Okay! (Grabs the water bottle. All the kids and Miss Mackle leave except Sidney, Harry, and Doug. HARRY looks down at the water bottle and suddenly gets a brilliant idea for revenge.) Hey Sidney! I have a present for you!
SIDNEY
What are you giving me a present for?
HARRY
That trick you pulled when we were dancing. You bumped into Song Lee!
SIDNEY
Yeah I did! She’s so clumsy. What’s my present?
HARRRY
This!
HARRY pours the ice water down Sidney’s back.
DOUG
I can’t believe you did that! Miss Mackle told you to give the water bottle to the nurse!
HARRY
She didn’t tell me to return the melted ice inside. (Doug’s jaw drops.) Sidney had it coming!
MISS MACKLE
All right class, here are the monitors for this month… and Harry is the fish monitor.
HARRY
All right! I love the fish!
MISS MACKLE
Harry, don’t forget to keep the temperature between 70-80 degrees and to feed the fish before we go to lunch.
HARRY
Okay Miss Mackle!
MISS MACKLE
Name some birds…
MARY
A robin!
IDA
A blue bird!
HARRY
I know a bird no one will know! A pterodactyl!
SIDNEY
I know a bird! A canary! Know what rhymes with canary? Harry! Harry’s a canary!
HARRY
I am not! (Raises fist)
Harry chases Sidney offstage.
DOUG
You’re probably wondering why these two are in high pursuit of each other… Well it’s because Harry HATES being called a canary. Now he’s out for revenge.
After some time, Sidney falls on his stomach. Harry stands over him.
HARRY
Say “I love girls!”
SIDNEY
Never!
HARRY flips SIDNEY onto his back and sits on him, preparing to tickle him.
HARRY
Say “I love girls! Twice!” (Preparing to tickle)
SIDNEY
Never!!!
HARRY
Yeah?
SIDNEY
Yeah.
DOUG
And then Harry decided to use his secret weapon of TICKLE TORTURE!!
HARRY tickles SIDNEY
HARRY
(Yelling over SIDNEY’S laugh.) Say it! Say it! Say it!
SIDNEY
I’ll get you back someday!
DOUG
And it was horrible!
HARRY walks over to DOUG and they do their secret handshake.
DOUG
One day Room 2B went to the aquarium. Harry and I had promised, cross our hearts, hope to die, stick a needle in our eye, that we would be partners. But boy was I wrong! When the day of the field trip came, Harry had some shocking news for me! (All unfreeze) You’re gonna be partners with Song Lee?
HARRY
Dexter is sick today with the flu.
DOUG
Great, so I get to be the one with no partner?
HARRY
You can tough it out!
MISS MACKLE
That’s right Sidney! Now students, can you name some different types of fish?
MARY
A sword fish!!!
IDA
Clown fish!!!!
HARRY
An angler fish!!
DOUG
Thank you everyone!
MISS MACKLE
Those are all wonderful examples, children.
HARRY
Psst, Doug! Do you want to be partners