Happy Campers Page #2

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Two buses screech up out of nowhere. The counselors jolt

their skulls toward an opening bus door.

JUMP CUT:

The viewer pulls out from a T-shirt displaying a crappy mall-

computer-photo of a Happy Kid to see the SHIRT-WEARING KID

HIMSELF, clinging to a bus door, WAILING his reddened eyes

out. Moving off, one takes in the panorama of rabidly

freaked-out CAMPERS and beleaguered COUNSELORS.

Immediately most noticeable is a warped, sparkle-haired fairy

later to be known as PIXEL, who floats throughout the scene

sticking different colored band-aids on every camper and

counselor. Oasis-of-adorability Wendy overgloriously leads

a seated circle of singing, clapping campers into song.

WENDY AND CAMPERS

(Frito Bandito tune)

"Aye-aye-aye-aye, in China they never

grow chilly, So sing me another verse

that's worse than the first and make

sure it's foolish and silly..."

SMOOTH NARRATOR (V.O.)

Rightly or wrongly, for better or

worse, the counselors defined

themselves quickly. No one more so

than Wendy. First week of camp, the

perky girl who knows all the rules

and all the songs is pretty much

Queen.

EXT. THE WOODS--FLASH FORWARD DAY ]

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Wendy looks up a wiggling rope, cheering an unseen climbing ]

camper. The Camper body SLAMS down out of frame. Wendy aims ]

a "Don't give up" cheer downward. ]

SMOOTH NARRATOR (V.O.)

Wendy's monarchy of relentlessly

daisy-fresh enthusiasm could not

possibly last. Or could it?

EXT. CENTER OF CAMP--FLASH FORWARD DUSK ]

]

Wendy is lowering a flag reading DAY 4 while booming out ]

a hymn to camp spirit. A semi-circle of other counselors ]

stare dumbfounded. ]

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COOL COUNSELOR WICHITA ]

Uh, Wendy dear, the kids are back ]

in the cabins... ]

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WENDY ]

Oh please, you silly geese, like ]

you need to be a child to do the ]

sing-a-long... ]

]

Wendy re-blasts into song. Snorting out smiling surrender, ]

the other counselors slowly warble along with her. ]

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