Babysitting Maggie/Transcript

Transcript

 * [ACT ONE. Living room. Bart and Lisa are on the couch watching TV. Marge is talking to them. She has a shopping bag in her hand.]
 * Marge: I'm going shopping now. While I'm gone, I want you two to keep a close eye on Maggie.
 * [Maggie peeps from behind the couch. Marge looks down on her.]
 * Bart: Right, mom.
 * Lisa: Fine, mom.
 * [Marge leaves the living room. Cut to Maggie behind the couch. She spots a fork on the floor. She sucks on her pacifier. She crawls over to the fork. Clapping (from the TV) can be heard. Maggie then sticks the fork into an electrical socket. She gets electrocuted. After this, she takes the pacifier out of her mouth. She looks at the screen with a smile on her face]
 * Maggie: Aaah!
 * [Clapping can be heard from the TV. Screen to black.]
 * [ACT TWO. Bart and Lisa are still on the couch watching TV.]
 * Lisa: Where's Maggie?
 * [Maggie starts climbing up the stairs in the hallway.]
 * Bart: Who cares?
 * Lisa: Oh, shut up!
 * Bart: You shut up!
 * [Maggie disappears behind the arch. Cut to Maggie, who is climbing up the rest of the stairs. She disappears out of shot, and then she falls back down the stairs, on her head each step. Cut to living room, where Bart and Lisa are still sat on the couch watching TV.]
 * Lisa: You hear something?
 * [In the background, Maggie falls down the stairs.]
 * Bart: Forget it!
 * [Maggie disappears out of shot. Cut to Maggie, who lands with a THUD! on the floor. She takes out her pacifier and looks at the screen with a smile on her face.]
 * Maggie: Aaah!
 * [Screen to black.]
 * [ACT THREE. A room. There is a chair in the room in the wall against the wall. The window is open and a butterfly is flying next to it. Maggie crawls out of shot and into shot. Cut to roof of Simpson house. Maggie is up on the chair and looks out the window. The butterfly flies out of shot. Cut to roof. The butterfly is flying. Maggie chases after it. She falls down and goes out of shot. She then comes into shot, chases the butterfly, and falls down, going out of shot again. Maggie continues to chase after the butterfly. Right side of roof. The butterfly flies up from out of shot, and Maggie falls over, and catches it. She then falls off the roof and is headed towards the ground head-first. Living room. A THUD! comes from out of shot. Bart and Lisa are still on the couch watching TV.]
 * Lisa: I thought I heard a thud.
 * Bart: You'll hear another one if you don't shut your trap.
 * [Outside. The bushes are rustling. Maggie crawls out and holds the butterfly. She has the pacifier in her other hand and is looking at the screen with a smile on her face.]
 * Maggie: Heeeee!
 * [Screen to black.]
 * [ACT FOUR. Marge is standing next to the couch holding her bag, two shopping bags and a baguette. Bart and Lisa are still sitting on the couch watching TV.]
 * Marge: Did you two keep an eye on Maggie?
 * Bart: Yeah, mom.
 * Lisa: Yeah, mom.
 * [Maggie walks into shot.]
 * Marge: Then where is she?
 * [Everyone looks at Maggie, who sucks her pacifier and holds the butterfly in her hands. Close-up on Maggie. The butterfly is fluttering its wings. Maggie sucks on her pacifier a few times, then the butterfly flies out of shot. Maggie looks up, and her pacifier shoots out of frame when Maggie starts wailing. Cut to living room, everyone is still watching Maggie.]
 * Bart: Oh, she is such a baby.
 * [Maggie continues wailing. Screen to black.]