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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 13:06:58 -0800
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Subject: Two Dweebs & A Little Monster- Script Part 1

NOTE: This is written in comic not television script format. All dialogue
is in a 'balloon' or 'bubble'. 'SFX' is a sound effect. A 'splash page' is
a whole page with one drawing or including a few inset panels. A 'burst'
is dialogue in an exploding balloon. Page one is a recap of the Leap
opener: "....hoping his next leap will be the leap home."

TWO DWEEBS & A LITTLE MONSTER by Christina Mavroudis

PAGE TWO

Panel one
ACTION:	Leap effect ends with Sam Beckett nose-to-nose with a giraffe.  
His mouth has a baby pacifier in it. Both their eyes are widened. 

Panel two
ACTION:	Full shot of Sam, dressed in red shorts and suspenders, white 
t-shirt, crew socks and Buster Brown shoes.  He holds a half eaten blob 
of blue cotton candy. Residual sugar crystals cling to his upper lip, 
fingers and sections of his t-shirt. His other hand is being held by a 
young, white, brown-haired lady dressed in purple and green paisley 
ski-pants and matching mid-driff. Though she's wearing very 60's sun-
glasses, she shields her eyes and appears to be searching for something 
or someone.  Sam backs away from the straining neck of the giraffe whose
attempting to eat his blue fluff.  The continuous presence of the 
pacifier is making Sam drool, accidently, of course. 

1 MARY:	Where is your father?

2 SAM:	Ahh, hvoy!

Panel three
ACTION:	Close on Sam who realizes he has a foreign object in his mouth. 
He looks cross-eyed down on the binky.

Panel four
ACTION:	Sam spits out the binky. It's not a pretty sight.

3 SFX:	Ptooee!

Panel five
ACTION:	Sam  looks down at his clothes, his eyes furrowing in confusion.  
His cotton candy is above his head as he tries to figure out who he is. 
The giraffe takes it as a cue to eat the sugar puff. 

MARY:	I'm going to kill that bum. Where is he?

SAM:	I don't know, but this is awful. 

Panel six
ACTION:	Sam looks up surprised at the animal helping himself. 
Mary is still looking around. 

4 SAM (to giraffe):	Please. Help yourself.

Panel seven
ACTION:	Mary picks up the binky Sam spit out.  Sam gets closer to Mary 
to avoid the giraffe's chewing mouth and spies a sign next to the pen
which reads: "Do Not Feed The Animals."

5 SAM:	Oops.

6 MARY:	Oh, Honey. Don't do that.

Panel eight
ACTION:	Mary tries to stuff the binky back in Sam's mouth. Sam, like 
any self-respecting adult, tries to thwart this with an upraised elbow.

7 SAM (burst):	NO!

8 MARY:	Fine. C'mon, Punkin.

 PAGE THREE

Panel one
ACTION:	Inset panel in top left of splash page. Mary is tugging Sam 
by the hand. Sam is barely able to keep up. 

1 MARY:	Let's try finding him by the elephants.

2 SAM:	Whoaa!

Panel two
ACTION:	Inset panel in top right of splash page. Mary and Sam are 
passing by the monkey cage. Sam has suddenly clutched one of the bars.  
Mary looks behind to see why they've suddenly stopped.  This is a 
side profile shot of Sam and Mary.  (No dialogue.)

Panel three
ACTION:	Splash panel. Takes up rest of page. We see over the shoulder 
of Sam. He is looking into the monkey cage. On the opposite wall, 
through the bars, Sam sees his mirror image: Bobby Levitz, an 15 
month old wide-eyed, brown haired toddler, with diapers peeking 
through the short shorts. His jaw has dropped in surprise.  Several 
chimpanzees are looking at Sam with even wider eyes. 

3 SAM:	Oh, boy. I'm a baby!

4 LOGO:	QUANTUM LEAP 

5 TITLE:	"TWO DWEEBS AND A LITTLE MONSTER"

6 CAPTION:	AUGUST 18, 1962

7 CREDITS:	Created by DONALD P. BELLISARIO
	Written by CHRISTINA MAVROUDIS
	Illustrated by MIKE DEODATO, SR.
	Lettered by VICKIE WILLIAMS
	Colored by SCOTT ROCKWELL
	Edited by  GEORGE BRODERICK, JR.

 PAGE FOUR

Panel one
ACTION:	Sam, finally able to pry his eyes off this new persona, 
notices the chimpanzee in the cage is reaching out to him, her 
lips puckered. He reaches out , but can't touch her as he is 
being lurches away by Mary. Mary looks in the opposite direction, 
still scanning the area.

1 SAM:	Cory! Remember me? Wait. You're not--

2 MARY:	Let's go, Boo-boo.  We'll go back to the car. He's  bound 
       to show up there.

3 SAM:	Tell me it's not "Boo-boo."  I've already been a "Bo-Bo."

Panel two
ACTION:	Still in her vise-like grip, Sam suddenly pulls her to a stop. 
His nose crinkles a bit, and his hand tentatively goes to his bottom.

4 SAM:	Oh, geeze.

5 MARY:	What is it, Boo-boo?

6 SAM:	I pooped.

7 MARY:	I know you're tired, Honey, but we have to find Daddy. 

Panel three
ACTION:	Sam and Mary, hand in hand exit the zoo. Letters over the 
entrance are backwards: "OOZ SELEGNA SOL".  Beyond the gate is the 
parking lot with vintage late 1950 cars. Sam's legs are askew in a 
desperate attempt to get comfortable.

8 MARY:	C'mon, Sweetie. It's only a little bit more to the car.

Panel four
ACTION:	Sam is being strapped into the back seat of a 1960 Buick.  
He is obviously in major distress - a spreading mess beneath him 
the major problem.  Mary rambles on oblivious.

9 MARY:	Where is that dum-dum daddy of yours? And Bobby just look 
at your shirt. Sometimes I feel like I'm taking care of two babies.

10 SAM:	Aw, please lady. Can't you smell? I need a....

Panel five
ACTION:	Sam suddenly freezes when he see that Mary is looking straight 
at him.  In a profile shot, they are eyeball to eyeball.

11 MARY:	Boo-Boo?

12 SAM:	Mama?

Panel six
ACTION:	Mary shakes her head as if to clear her mind of "voices", 
finishes strapping him in - the belt and her hands uncomfortably 
close to tender areas  and bent so that her bosom is practically 
in his face. Sam looks up relieved at this near call. Al is silhouetted 
against the Imaging Chamber door, his upper torso halved through the 
car seat, and his eyes glued to the endowments present for inspection. 
He chomps on his cigar, appreciative of the sight. 

AL:	Oh, Honey. Let me  be your baby!

Panel seven
ACTION:	Mary tries to clean Sam's groady "T" as Sam gives Al that 
now familiar glare. Al gets back to business, punching a few link buttons. 

AL:	We had a hard time locating you, Sam.  Your counterpart is not a 
talkative individual.  

14 AL:	Strange seeing the image of your body in a fetal position,  
sucking your thumb.  
 
PAGE FIVE

Panel one
ACTION:	In frustration, Sam plucks his thumb to his mouth, glaring 
as if to say "get on with it." 

Panel two
ACTION:	Mary takes this indication to mean 'thirst.' She pulls Sam's 
thumb out with a "thwak" and replaces it with a juice bottle. Sam 
reflexively gags.  Al laughs.

1 MARY:	Mommy's sorry, Boo-Boo. She's just worried.  Now stay here,  
        Sweetie.

2 SFX:	Thwak!

3 SAM:	AKK!

Panel three
ACTION:	Mary steps away from the car again. Sam retracts the droolly 
nipple from his lips

4 SAM:	Not funny, Al. How is the real baby?   

5 SAM:	And why am I here?

6 AL:	The baby's okay--just sleeping it off. Let's see...

7 AL:	Well, we  don't have much. From what we could gather so far,  
your name is--

Panel four
ACTION:	Sam rattles off the list he has so far. Al holds up one finger 
to indicate how old Sam host is.

8 SAM:	Boo-Boo. Or Honey. Or Sweetie.  

9 AL:	It should be Sloppy. No, it's Bobby. Bobby Levitz. You're this many 
years old. and you can walk but your vocabulary is very limited. Mary 
Levitz, your amply-endowed mother  outside there, is looking for your 
father, Bruce Levitz,  a CPA who just got his business degree. 

10 AL:	They just bought a cute little house in the San Fernando Valley
for $13,000.  Jeeze! You can't even make a down  payment on a house 
with that amount...

Panel five
ACTION:	Sam gives him the evil eye.  Al hits the handlink. From 
outside the window we can now read the entrance gate sign: "Los 
Angles Zoo" and see Mary in the distance still searching for that 
elusive husband. 

11 AL:	Oh.  Ziggy's got something. 

12 SAM:	Finally.

13 AL:	Something about Bobby getting lost. Er..No.. Lost Angeles. Bobby's 
reported missing in Los  Angeles.  

14 AL:	Sam, you're in L.A.--

15 SAM:	Al, I know. Can we get something pertinent here? What do you mean
       'missing'?

16 AL:	It looks like it was a kidnapping. Sorry, we don't have more. 
Ziggy's accessing a slower CPU.

17 SAM:	Well, tell them to hurry. I want out of here fast. This is worse 
than being pregnant, or a chimp.

Panel six
ACTION:	Al points to the juice filled bottle in Sam's hand.

18 AL:	At least this time your bottle isn't filled with caterpillars.

19 SAM:	Don't remind me.

Panel seven
ACTION:	Close on Sam's suddenly panicked eyes. The keys have been 
left in the ignition. 

20 SAM:	Uh, oh--

 PAGE SIX

Panel one
ACTION:	Sam is working frantically at the belt. It's not opening. Al grins.

1 AL:	What's the problem, Sam?  If you have to go, just...
      right where you are.

2 SAM:	I...Bobby already has.

3 AL:	Good thing I can't smell.

4 SAM:	It's not that. Look!

Panel two
ACTION:	Sam indicates the keys. Al's eyes widen as his brain puts two 
and two together.

5 SAM:	Check with Ziggy. Maybe this is when Bobby gets kidnapped.

6 AL:	Don't panic. Let me check around.

Panel three
ACTION:	Overhead shot of parking lot.  Al's head pops up out of the car
scanning the area.  In the far left corner we see two suspicious male
characters. 
Joe is twenty-eight, gruff, tough, and angry enough to spit 
nails. Len, twenty-two, shakes nervously, still not used to a life of 
crime. Both are greasy, dirty, unkempt and headed Sam's way.  
Unfortunately, Mary is in the upper right corner, looking the other way.

7 7AL:	I've spotted some mighty suspicious characters, Sam.  And I don't 
think they're looking through car windows  for the view.

8 SAM:	What am I going to do? This belt is latched tighter than--

9 AL:	Tina's boa?

10 SAM;	Tina's boa?! What the hell are you talking about?  I can't get
this--

Panel four
ACTION:	Sam's panic turns frantic. He struggles with the seat belt, but the
angle of the belt, slick fingers, and the urgency are no help. With a bang,

Joe and Len are in the front seats, screeching off .

11 JOE:	Heeha, Len! The keys're still in here! This is almost too easy! 

12 JOE:	We may even make enough  money to send back home for Terry

13 LEN:	Big Ben says he'll pay $100 sight unseen for a moving vehicle. 
I think we can get at least $150  -- there's no damage and...

14 SFX:	Slam!

15 SFX:	WHRR-WHRR-VROOM!


Panel five
ACTION:	With a double-take, Len suddenly spots Sam in the back. Sam waves a
small 'hi'. 

16 LEN:	...and...and...

Panel six
ACTION:	Sam and Len, almost nose to nose, scream in shock at one another.  
Their eyes, and mouths are opened wide.

17 SAM & LEN (burst): AHHHHHHH!!!!

Panel seven
ACTION:	Joe turns around briefly.  In the rear-view mirror, we see "Bobby" 
- the baby, but no reflection of Al. NOTE: Vickie, the "Al" bubble is 
attached to nothing.

18 JOE:	What the--?!

19 LEN:	Joe, we're in a mess of trouble.

20 AL:	No, Sam's in mess, you're just in trouble.


Panel eight
ACTION:	The car zooms toward the zoo exit.  Balloon has three tails.

21 ALL THREE:	Oh, boy!


____| | |      Christina Mavroudis    | | |____
 ___|_| |    Integrated Systems, Inc. | |_|___
  __|_|_|        Santa Clara, CA      |_|_|__
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