Don't Touch/script
The Characters
Blasting Cap Man / BCM
Striped Shirt Kid / SSK - the cautious one
Pink Shirt Kid / PSK - the reckless one
Even Dopier Kid - the tall one without many lines
The Script
- {BCM: "Well that's the way we professionals use commercial explosives"}
00:05 What is?
Competing lines. (We'll attempt to squeez the next three lines in, but if they're too tight, votes will be used to pick the cut.)
- (I.M.E. on screen)
00:23 [TALKOVER to the tune of The Beatles 'I Me Mine'] I me me mine!
- [00:25] [To the tune of Roxeanne, of course] : “Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light ….”
- (graphic: "Presents")
00:28 "Polic Squad! In color"
- {titlecard: Don't Touch}
[TALKOVER] 00:31 The Michael Jackson Story
- {BCM: "Will do"}
00:44 Who's the black dick that blows up all the ladies?
- 00:52 It's the dorkmobile!
- (sloppy drum fill)
00:54 [TALKOVER] whoa! I think the drummer fell!
- {Kid closing garage}
00:57 "We better call the Wolf"
- {Striped Shirt Kid [SSK]: "You were probably absent"}
01:19 [as SSK] "...drunk"
- (dialogue unimportant. note the background)
01:30 This kid's growing his own pot!
Competing lines
- {SSK: You want your hand blown off?}
01:33 [as Pink shirt Kid] "Maybe I do."
01:33 [as Pink shirt Kid/Sally Struthers] "Sure! We all do."
- {Even dopier kid: "Hey stop, come on."}
01:36 [Monotone, a la Willy Wonka] No. Don't. Stop.
- {Kids break into jog behind the car}
01:42 [Excitedly] "It's the blasting cap man!" "Yay!" "I want a bomb pop!" (ad lib other kids chasing ice cream man dialog?)
- (SSK: in there...)
01:54 [as SSK] ...In my mom's dresser.
- {Kid tosses key to Blasting Cap Man}
02:04 Always give strangers your house keys, kids.
- (BCM unlocking garage door)
02:10 [TALKOVER] ...Don't these kids have parents?
- (Zoom in on radio)
02:14 It's an AM radio! Don't touch!
- (dorky kid in blue rugby shirt passes by car shaking his head)
02:21 [as blue rugby kid] darn kids these days!
- (BCM: don't worry about me...)
02:33 [as BCM] ...I'm prepared to die.
- {EDK: "well I miss a lot that goes on at school"}
02:52 [as EDK] "Words make my head hurt"
- {camera briefly lingers on SSK}
03:03 [as SSK / Terry Jones] "I wet 'em!"
- (when music pauses briefly)
03:10 [TALKOVER] KABOOM!!
- (goofy music continues)
03:15 [TALKOVER] The music has no idea what's going on does it.
- {"Hey there's more here"}
3:35 [TALKOVER] "My dad gets that magazine"
- {Even dopier kid: "All set"}
03:56 Fast work.
Competing lines
- {Baseball explodes}
04:05 That's worse than Barry Bonds.
- (baseball explodes)
04:05 [as random kid] Makes me wanna blow stuff up!
- (BCM pauses while stuff blows up)
04:11 [TALKOVER] Nice music, is John Holmes in this film?
- (BCM: Now watch this...)
04:27 [as BCM] ...It's a Tool video
- (showing dummy before cap explodes)
04:30 [dummy as The Amazing Mumford] A la peanut butter sandw- *cap explodes* AAAAH!!
- {BCM: "...what a blasting cap could do to a human being."}
04:31 [as BCM] "If they were a mannequin."
- (kids in awe of the explosion)
04:34 [TALKOVER] Before Mythbusters you had to wait for this guy to come around to see stuff get blown up.
- (BCM: For different kinds of blasting)
05:00 [as BCM] Duh!
- (BCM: ...New York's solid rock...)
05:06 [TALKOVER] Is this a poem?
- (BCM: Explosives have done all sorts of fascinating jobs)
05:20 [as BCM] Why they're negotiating a peace treaty in Iraq
- (kid: Nobody's building a damn or canal around here. film skips)
05:28 [TALKOVER] building a canoe?
- {05:34 BCM drops hat}
[TALKOVER] "How does this klutz still have all his fingers?"
- {BCM: "...road jobs..."}
05:40 [as BCM, squeezed in after 'road jobs'] "...IEDs...'
{BCM: "...public service works...all that sort of thing"}
- {BCM: "...people who work with explosives"}
05:44 [TALKOVER] "...are the luckiest people in the world"
- (BCM: *repeating* Years later)
06:16 [as BCM] Clean the wax outta your ears kid!
- (PSK: Mister wait could I have a...)
06:36 [as PSK over the word 'poster'] ...hug?
- (anytime during cast credits)
[TALKOVER] They gave the characters names but never used them
- {Credits}
06:58 And Roaslind Cash as John Endahl [I know, I know, it was Emdal, but close enough
- {Credits}
07:05 Finbar? That's where Troy McClure hangs out.
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