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It was on March 15th, 2012.(Schroeder is laughing as he chases a butterfly with a jar. He jumps up into the air, but it keeps on flying. The butterfly lands on a bush. Schroeder comes up from behind the bush. He's about to catch it when...)
Lucy: Come on! You know that's not the way you're supposed to do it!
(The butterfly Schroeder almost caught flies away. Lucy, Charlie Brown and Linus are seen by a shrub holding a Hand Pruner.)
Charlie Brown: Well, this way is totally faster.
Linus: Yeah, cuts the time in half.
Lucy: Well you're actually NOT cutting it well, you blockheads! (Linus drops the pruner) Oh and great, you managed to drop the puner in the process! (Schroeder walks away) Now we're gonna have to buy a new one!
(Fades to the garden where Schroeder is drawing a rose on a notebook. He's on the stem, when...)
Lucy: What are you guys doing?! (Schroeder draws a line in the wrong place) Soda?! You can't use soda!
Charlie Brown: Yeah, but the hose!
Lucy: Oh what, it's too hard to get the hose off the shed?! (Schroeder looks on as he draws) Unbelievable!
Linus: Well, at least it's diet. Nobody drinks that.
Lucy: I drink diet! (Schroeder scribbles his drawing and grunts angrily) Not only did you guys ruin the hose...
(Fade to Schroeder in his room, playing with his toy piano, as usual)
Lucy: You've GOT to be kidding me! (Schroeder lays back, making a very irritated face expression) (Cut to outside. Charlie Brown is holding wood) Give me that! What is this, SANDPAPER?! (Looks at her red wagon) You're scratching up the whole thing!
Schroeder: Lucy, (Head is seen coming out of his house) could you come see me for a moment please?
Linus: Uh oh, somebody's busted.
Lucy: Oh, grow up!
Linus: Don't worry, Charlie Brown, I'm sure Schroeder's going up on Lucy.
Charlie Brown: Oh good grief, for her.
SCENE FADES OUT AS TITLE AND OPENING CREDITS APPEAR
(Scene fades in to Schroeder's room)
Lucy: (Sighs) What is it Schroeder? I'm in the middle of something.
Schroeder: Have a seat. (Lucy sits down in her usual position, next to his piano and sighs) Do you know why I called you in here?
Lucy: Did you lose the notebook again? Try under your piano.
Schroeder: (Sees his notebook under his piano, then puts it on top) It's a problem concerning Charlie Brown and Linus.
Lucy: What else is new? Don't worry, Schroeder. I'll take care of it.
Schroeder: Then we understand each other?
Lucy: Absolutely. I've already warned them—one more foul up and they're both fired.
Schroeder: But... Lucy, I was referring to you.
Lucy: What?
Schroeder: I'd like you to stop yelling at Charlie Brown and Linus. Or even the rest of your friends.
Lucy: (Scoffs) You're kidding.
Schroeder: Quite the opposite. It's too negative and bad for morale.
Lucy: What morale? Those slackers never do anything unless you yell at them.
Schroeder: There's never a reason to yell at anyone.
Lucy: They give me a million reasons everyday. Pfft, you just want me to be nice to them?
Schroeder: You don't have to be nice—just don't yell.
Lucy: (Sighs) Listen, Schroeder, I appreciate the concern, but I know how to do my job.
Schroeder: Lucy, I think it's clear that I'm now in charge of running the whole friendship around, right?
Lucy: Yes, but--
Schroeder: And that means you must do what I say?
Lucy: Technically, but I--
Schroeder: And I am ordering you to stop yelling at Charlie Brown and Linus.
Lucy: Schroeder--
Schroeder: Understood?
Lucy: ...Understood.
(Fades to outside. Lucy walks down the stairs to Schroeder's garage)
Linus: So what did Schroeder want?
Lucy: Noth-- (Video cuts out) You guys are STILL NOT-- (Realizes she's yelling, so she talks through her teeth)—guys are still not done?!
Charlie Brown: What? You told us to take it nice and easy.
Linus: Yeah, I get it now. It takes time to do things right.
Charlie Brown: You rush, you make mistakes.
Lucy: (Facepalms) That's not the point I was trying to make.
Charlie Brown: And then we started thinking—why clean something anyways? Dirt is a natural thing. It's like part of life you know? (Lucy pants)
Linus: Yeah and like, what is a hose? Hose...
Charlie Brown: Hose...
Linus: Hose?...
Charlie Brown: Hose... (Lucy growls)
Linus: Yeah, exactly. But when you turn it on... (Accidentally sprays water on Lucy) ...Sorry.
Lucy: GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!! (Charlie Brown and Linus flip and run away)
Schroeder: Lucy, what did we just discuss?
Lucy: Yeah, but come on Schroeder. They were totally--
Schroeder: Lucy, I'm serious about this issue. Now if you yell at them again, I'm going to break up with you!
Lucy: (Gasps in horror, rubs face and growls) Okay, okay. I'll try to get it under control.
(Fade to her room. Lucy's reading a book of "Free anger management tips")
Lucy: Recite a personal mantra. Omm? What does that even mean? Next. (Fade to Lucy watching the television)
Fitch: Oh, hello friend! I'm Fitch Munderson. (A dog runs up to him) And this is Kimmy.
Lucy: Okay, where's this going?
(One minute later)
Fitch: We have a sure-fire way to help you control your anger, for only sixty dollars.
Lucy: Nope. (Tries to change the channel, then clicks several times while the screen is still on the same channel) Ugh, come on! Change! (Growls) Omm. Omm. Omm. Omm. Omm. Omm. (Sighs) Huh. I guess it works.
(Fade to her house. Charlie Brown and Linus are seen searching for something)
Charlie Brown: Hey, Lucy. Have you seen the keys to the cart?
Lucy: Omm. Omm. Omm. Omm. Omm. Omm. Omm.
Linus: We can't find them anywhere. (Breaks vase) Uh-oh.
Lucy: ARRRGGGHHH!!
Charlie Brown and Linus: Agh! (Run away)
Schroeder: Lucy! I warned you. (Writes on clipboard)
Lucy: Schroeder, you're writing me up?
Schroeder: You know what happens next, don't you? (Hands Lucy the paper)
Lucy: Of course—verbal warning, write up, broken up. But you wouldn't break up with me, Schroeder.
Schroeder: I'll do what I must.
Lucy: What?! Schroeder, you can't take break up with me! It's all I have!
Schroeder: I'm sorry, Lucy. If you yell at Charlie Brown and Linus again, I'll be forced to break up with you. (Schroeder leaves. Lucy begins to jump several times while grunting. Peppermints Patty walks in)
Peppermint Patty: Jeez Lucy, try counting to ten. (Lucy turns around and grunts) Better make it a hundred. (Leaves)
Lucy: One, two... (Cut to outside) ...seven, eight, nine... (Fades to near the shed) ...75, 76, 77... (Stops and sees Charlie Brown and Linus partly covered in pink paint)
Charlie Brown: Oh, hey Lucy! What's up? We're finally painting the shed. (Linus throws himself on the wall, followed by Charlie Brown, who accidently goes through the wall) Rats!
Lucy: (Growls) 78, 79, 80, 81...
Linus: What's she doing, Charlie Brown?
Lucy: (Continues counting) 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87....
Charlie Brown: I dunno. But what do you think she'll do when she gets to a hundred?
Charlie Brown, Linus, and Lucy: ...88, 89, 90, 91... (Lucy stops and growls)
Charlie Brown and Linus: ...92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99...
(Fade to Lucy walking into Corners bookstore. Lucy puts the Fitch & Kimmy book on the table, leaving a firey handprint. The cashier checks the book, then, Lucy walks out as the scene fades to Lucy and Linus' house, in her room. Lucy inserts the tape into the Walkman and rests)
Fitch: (Over Walkman) The key to managing your anger is control. For example: One should never yell, even if it's to pass the salt.
(Cut Lucy's eyes. She has an imagination to when she and her friends are all talking loudly at a lunch table in the park)
Lucy: Pass the salt, please.
Franklin: Quiet! Lucy has something he wants to say.
Lucy: (Embarrassed and blushing) Um, pass--
Franklin: Look here, Lucy! You're never gonna get anything in this life if you don't yell for it!
Lucy: Pass.... Pass the salt!!!
Franklin: Atta boy!
(Franklin passes the salt shaker to Lucy. Suddenly, an earthquake occurs, showing a giant angry Schroeder stomping in)
Schroeder: Lucy! We're through! (Points at Lucy)
Lucy: NO-O-O-O! (Ripple transition back into Lucy in her room. She steps on and throws the Walkman, breaking a portait. Lucy looks at herself in the mirror.) Keep it together, Lucy. (Looks at the mirror. Her eyes are very stressed) You still got a whole day of work left.
(Fade back to the park where Lucy is angrily walking and leaving fiery footprints in the ground)
Guy: Hey buddy, are you ok?
Lucy: (Knocks him out of the way) I'm fine! Fine!
(Charlie Brown carries the red wagon with Linus it. They stop as they come up to Lucy, who is already heated with rage.)
Charlie Brown: Lucy, uh look, we're sorry, Lucy--
Lucy: No...
Linus: (Worried) Oh no, here it comes.
Lucy: I'm not gonna yell.
Charlie Brown: Phew!
Linus: Sweet! Won't you?
Lucy: Must... not... yell.
(Lucy begins to turn red and shuts her eyes, as she gets more and more angry but tries not to yell)
Charlie Brown: Whoa Lucy, are you okay? (Lucy begins to growl)
(Charlie Brown and Linus back away. Peppermint Patty and Schroeder walk in)
Peppermint Patty: What happened?!
Charlie Brown: I don't know! Lucy saw us looking onto her, and instead of laying into us, she said she wasn't gonna yell!
Linus: And then she turned into that!
Peppermint Patty: She's holding all of her anger in.
Charlie Brown: Why would she do that?!
Schroeder: Because of me!
Charlie Brown, Linus, and Peppermint Patty: What?!
Schroeder: I told her that if he didn't stop yelling at you two, I would break up with her.
Peppermint Patty: Schroeder, you can't do that.
Schroeder: But she said that I am her closest friend.
Peppermint Patty: Schroeder, you can't make her bottle up her anger like that. (Turns to Charlie Brown and Linus) You gotta get her to yell at you guys.
Charlie Brown: Not a problem. Hey, Lucy! You're a sorry excuse for a manager!
Linus: Yeah, you nasal-voiced, loser-loner!
Charlie Brown: Go back to nice school and learn how to have a personality!
Linus: And guess what! We're the ones who keep sending pizzas to your house!
Charlie Brown: And we're the ones who switched the detergent with coffee. (She gets strain marks on her face as she growls louder) Linus! It's just making it worse! Schroeder, you have to tell Lucy it's okay to yell at us!
Schroeder: I can't! There's never a reason to yell at people!
Charlie Brown: Schroeder! Look at Lucy! And she's gonna explode!! (Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty and Schroeder look at the trees being blown by a gust of wind towards Lucy)
Linus: (Thinks that Lucy is controlling the wind) I think it's about to get, even worse!
Charlie Brown: Schroeder! Do something!
Schroeder: Lucy, I need you to yell at Charlie Brown and Linus!
Lucy: But if I yell, you'll break up with me.
Schroeder: Forget what I said, Lucy!! If you don't yell at Charlie Brown and Linus right now, we're through! (The word "through" echoes through a few zooming shots)
HERE IT IS: THE FURY OF LUCY VAN PELT.
Lucy: (Opens her menacing eyes as they pop wide open and unleashes a beam which strikes Charlie Brown and Linus) UGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! YOU LAZY NO-GOOD BLOCKHEADS DRIVE ME NUTS, CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME ONCE IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIVES?! 'CAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU'D SEE I'M TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOME SIMPLE RESPONSIBILITY, SOME PRIDE IN DOING A JOB WELL DONE!! (Voice breaks a little) BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW A JOB WELL DONE IF YOU PAID SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR YOU, (Tears are STREAMING and blowing off her face) AND EVEN THEN YOU'D MESS IT ALL UP ON THE ACCOUNT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW THE SIMPLEST OF INSTRUCTIONS, WORRYING MORE ABOUT LOOKING COOL THAN DOING YOUR JOBS!!!!!!!!!!
(Charlie Brown and Linus flip over at the volume of Lucy's yelling, as Schroeder and Peppermint Patty both tremble out of guilt and fear, as Lucy pants until she calms down. She closes her eyes and opens them back in a beedy way.) (Schroeder and Peppermint Patty get up. Lucy gets up, as well, limping while doing so.)
Schroeder: Lucy! Lucy, are you alright?
Lucy: Yeah, I'm fine. (Feels remorse) Sorry things got so out of control, Schroeder.
Schroeder: It was my mistake. From now on, I'll leave everything to you. (Shakes hands with Lucy) Though, I do wish you wouldn't yell at Charlie Brown and Linus so much.
Lucy: (Happy again) Let me give it a shot. (The three look down at Charlie Brown and Linus.) Hey, Charlie Brown and Linus. (Charlie brown coughs. Lucy then gets angry again) Clean this mess up, you blockheads!! (Schroeder and Peppermint Patty both gasp in fear, but Lucy smiles again. She, Schroeder and Peppermint Patty all laugh. A high pitched noise is heard, and the laughter is drowned out, due to Charlie Brown and Linus getting deafened by Lucy's yelling)
Charlie Brown: What? (Turns head to Linus) What are they laughing at?
Linus: What?! I think we've gone deaf, Charlie Brown!
Charlie Brown: Oh, good grief!
SCENE FADES OUT AS THE END CREDITS ROLL.
Peanuts by Charles Schulz
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