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This is the transcript for the Nick's Shorts Showcase segment "Unboxing".

[Title card. The Middlemost Post Office is shown in stop-motion form. Cut to the interior of the ship, where Russell and Angus are stacking boxes from a conveyor belt.]

Angus: Ah, the sooner we get these packages ready for tomorrow's delivery, the sooner we can get some chow. How are we looking, Parker?

Parker: (steps out of Russell's mouth) Only one package left, and it's addressed to... (gasp) Me!

Angus: No kiddin'?

Parker: Says 'Parker J. Cloud'!

Angus: Sure does, kiddo. Why don't you open the box?

Parker: Woo-hoo! (flies away with box)

Angus: (confused) ...or not.

[Stop-motion transition from night to day. Angus is eating cereal as Parker places the box on the table.]

Parker: Morning, Angus.

Angus: Parker, you haven't opened that yet! Boxes are meant to be unboxed. If you get a box, you unbox the box, it's how it works!

Parker: But no one has ever sent me a package before...what if I never get one again?

Angus: Okay, but don't wait too long, all right? What's inside the box is what matters most.

Parker: Thanks, Angus. Come on, box, time for some fun!

[He flies away with the box. We see him running down a hill and splashing into mud with his box.]

Parker: You can't catch me! You can't catch me! (laughing as he splashes in the mud)

[Parker is eating spaghetti on toast at the Middlemost Toast with the box next to him. They kiss like that scene from Lady and the Tramp, and Parker embarrassedly giggles. Then, the two are shown in a movie theater. Parker bursts out laughing at the screen and scattering popcorn everywhere. Then, he's in a shower singing with it, futilely playing Marco Polo in a pond with it.]

Parker: Marco!...Marco!...Marco!

[Then they are shown pushing it on a swing. By this point it is incredibly grody and disgusting. We then see them in bed together. Parker pulls the sheets up on it.]

Parker: Goodnight, box. I love you. (kisses it)

[He goes to sleep. Angus and Russell are watching him, and look at each other in worry.]

[Cut to the main trio the next day, standing at a table with the now-dirtied and disgusting package put on it.]

Angus: Okay, Parker, this has gone on long enough. Boxes need to be opened, and it is time to open this box. So I'll just lean forward, and grab the box...

[Parker becomes visibly horrified through that sentence, before suddenly turning into a huge angry stormcloud with lightning everywhere.]

Parker: THAT'S MY BOX!!!

[Parker realises what he's done and returns to normal.]

Parker: I'm sorry, you guys. I think it's time to open the box, because boxes are meant to be unboxed. I'm gonna open the very first package I, Parker J. Cloud, have ever received in my whole entire life!

[He grabs the peeling tape on the package and begins pulling very slowly. Angus and Russell are frustrated with the slowness of the process.]

Parker: Let's just, uh... peel off this packing tape...very careful...

Angus: (hushed) Hurry up...

[More peeling.]

Angus: (hushed) Just open it...!

[More peeling.]

Parker: ...It's really sticky.

Angus: Just open it already!

Parker: Okay!

[He opens the box and they look inside, only to literally be knocked to the floor by an awful stench from inside the box.]

Angus: What's that terrible smell?

Parker: Here's a note. "Dear resident, please enjoy your 30-day trial of the Ice Cream of the Month Club." (gasps) Ice cream!

[It's revealed the ice cream is now green, rotted and horrifically smelly.]

Angus: Parker, this is exactly why you unbox a box as soon as you get the box. The ice cream has all melted! It's gone bad. Whew, pee-yoo!

Parker: Oh, Angus, ice cream never goes bad!

[He picks up the box and piles the contents into his mouth.]

Angus: (sickened) Oh, I think I'm gonna ralph.

[Parker spins around and oozes the ice cream out of his teeth into cones, and gives them to Angus and Russell, before making one for himself.]

Angus: Parker, don't!

[Parker eats the ice cream, and for a moment it looks as if he's going to vomit. But he loves it!]

Parker: It's delicious!

Angus: Huh. Well, I guess it doesn't look that bad, huh, Russell?

[Russell shrugs, and they both eat the ice creams, chewing on them loudly.]

Parker: See? Told ya.

[Angus and Russell's stomachs rumble and they suddenly retch in their own mouths.]

Angus: (sick) Oh, I think I'm gonna barf...

[The pair run off, leaving Parker, who smiles to reveal his now-green teeth.]

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