text: [Themes: family friendly, humor]
  
  A Shen Brothers Production
  
  TV Show
  
  Season 1: Episode 1
  
  "Madness of Seal"
  
  written by Roy Shen and Robert Shen
  
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  It is 12:00 A.M. Macky is sleeping in the back of his house. His house, a U-Haul moving truck, is parked in Joe's driveway. Joe is Macky's friend.
  
  A rustle comes up from a small bathtub mounted on the raised part of the "trunk". Macky wakes up to the sound of a splash two minutes later.
  
  "Seth. It's midnight. Go to bed."
  
  A small seal pokes its head up from the tub. It yelps, then dives underwater to sleep. Some water leaks out of the tub and spills out on the floor. The seal flops around and more water spills out. Macky awakens again to tell the seal to stop but he is floating on his back.
  
  Seth the seal flops some more. There is hardly any water left in the tub and the water level is up to Macky's ankles.
  
  "Seth! What are you doing?" yells Macky.
  
  Seth continues to flop.
  
  Aaarrghh, Macky says to himself, I have to stop that seal.
  
  Macky slowly pushes the water away as he walks over to the bathtub. Seth continues to thrash and a collection of cold water droplets hit Macky in the face, and he falls down into the flood and floats toward the back of the truck. Macky trudges over to the seal and yells:
  
  "Seth! Why are you splashing? You're going to drown us!" Then Macky notices that the water in the tub is empty and the water in the truck is up to his knees.
  
  "Wow," says Macky, "I never thought I put this much water in..."
  
  At that moment, Macky is hit with an idea.
  
  "I know! I'll...
  
  > ...call Joe!"
  Macky grabs his cell phone out of his pocket. He dials Joe's number. The phone rings for a few moments, then a voice answers.
  
  "Joe? Joe. It's Macky. Look, I'm about to drown and my seal is out of water in his tub and the water is in the lower part of the truck and it's up to my knees and --"
  
  "Sorry," says the other end of the phone."Who's Joe? I don't know any Joe."
  
  "Great!" yells Macky. "Wrong number! I got... what, two minutes to live and I'm gonna waste 'em calling Pizza Hut!"
  
  His finger shoots out to press the phone buttons, but the phone is not there. He hears a static noise, and looks down at his phone in the bottom of the flood.
  
  "Well, this is great," Macky growls. "Seth! Get out of the tub!"
  
  The seal plops out of the tub, splashing water all over Macky's face. He begins flopping all about and then Macky notices that the water is up to his waist.
  
  "Seth! Stop it!"
  
  Macky has no choice but to...
  
  > ...open the door
  Macky swims over to the door. He pushes it open and all the water floods out. Behind him, Seth flops around again and a new wave of water rushes out, and sends Macky thrashing for life in a giant popping raindrop. Seth stops flopping as Macky, soaked from head to toe, marches over to Seth.
  
  "Now you quit flopping!" yells Macky. "Or I won't feed you!"
  
  Seth doesn't flop. A giant can of seal food crashes through the roof of the truck.
  
  Open-mouthed, Macky says, "Bad seal... hahaha! I'm hallucinating! Haha! How can you even eat it, you don't have a can opener!"
  
  A giant can opener crashes through the roof and removes the lid to the can of seal food. Fish come pouring out of the can and jump on Macky, the biggest source of water there is. Until Seth flops again.
  
  Thouroughly soaked, Macky...
  
  > ...goes to see Joe
  "Hi, Macky," says Joe. "Why do you look so down? And wet?"
  
  "Aww," says Macky. "I can't sleep. My seal's flooding my house -- err, I mean, my truck. I've tried everything -- every time he flops, like ten gallons of water flood the place. I really tried everything. Everything."
  
  "Hmm," says Joe. "Did you try seal food?"
  
  "No," says Macky. "But Seth tried it. He really got a kick out of that one."
  
  "He fed himself?"
  
  "Well," began Macky, "I just woke up half an hour ago, because Seth was flopping. So I told him to stop, and he didn't, and then he kept flopping, and soon there was so much water it was up to my ankles. Then, I opened the door to let the water out. Didn't do much, Seth flopped again, and I nearly drowned. Then I told him to stop flopping or I wouldn't feed him. So he stopped flopping. Ten seconds later he crashes this giant can of seal food through the roof of the truck. I nearly died laughing, but told myself I was hallucinating. Then I tell Seth he can't even eat it because he has no can opener. You can guess what comes crashing through the roof two seconds later. A giant can opener. So he opens the can, mind you, without touching the can opener, the can opener is doing this on its own, and so I'm attacked be fish until Seth flops again. At this point, I trudge up the stairs, and I narrate the story you just heard, and I end it right now.
  
  "Hmm," says Joe. "You need a brain therapist, not a technician."
  
  Macky decides to...
  
  > ...yell at Joe
  "I don't need a brain therapist!" yells Macky. "Anyone who says I need a brain therapist needs a brain! And you're my first customer, Joe!"
  
  Joe is surprised that Macky took his joke seriously.
  
  "Don't worry, Macky, I was just kidding," says Joe. "Calm down."
  
  "Oh," says Macky. "You were kidding? Ohh... but you're right. I do need a brain therpist. Wait! Oh no! I don't have a brain! Nooo!!! I can't feel my legs! Where are they going? Aaaaahhhhhh!!!"
  
  While Macky has a nervous breakdown and passes out, Joe makes some boiling-hot coffee. He drinks half the pot and pours the rest on Macky's head.
  
  "Yeeeeeooooooowwwwww!!!!!!"
  
  Macky wakes up screaming and jumping because half a pot of the world's hottest coffee came tumbling down on his head.
  
  "Oww!" yells Macky. "Next time, watch where you pour that stuff. It could kill a person."
  
  "You passed out because you said you need a brain therapist."
  
  Macky jumped all around in rage, kicking the walls and screaming about God's horrible mistake to create brain therapists. And Joe.
  
  "God never makes mistakes!" says Joe. "I can't believe you said that."
  
  Macky scoffs, "God never makes mistakes? Not on my watch."
  
  Joe points at Macky's wrist.
  
  "What?" says Macky, lifting his arm and looking at his wristwatch. Instead of having numbers, it says:
  
  Macky blinks. "Okay, you got me wrong on that one. I think I'll go...
  
  > ...find a counselor."
  Macky grabs Seth and brings him to an aquatic day care center. Macky gives Seth to the countergirl and leaves.
  
  Then Macky goes to a counselor.
  
  "Hi," says the counselor. "I'm Dr. Fisher. Why are you here?"
  
  Macky introduces himself and tells Dr. Fisher the whole story about Seth. Dr. Seth laughs like crazy at the part where Seth controls the seal food can and can opener with his "seal-a-riffic" mind. Macky laughs too.
  
  So Dr. Fisher tells Macky what to do. Macky expldes in anger, yelling at Dr. Fisher madly.
  
  "I do not need a brain therapist! Anyone who says I need a brain therapist needs a brain! Thank you, John Fisher, you made me waste ten dollars!"
  
  Clearly, Macky has gone crazy.
  
  Then Macky says, "Aaarrghh...
  
  > ...I'm outta here!"
  Macky leaves. Then, realizing he left someplace without taking his money back, Macky decides he does need a brain therapist.
  
  He has to wait two hours to get in the elevator, because there was a power failure that was being fixed. As soon as Macky climbs up one stair, he hears a ding sound.
  
  "D'oh!" he yells.
  
  So he gets in the elevator. But apparently the elevator isn't completely fixed because the door won't open. After ten minutes of trapping Macky inside, the door finally opens.
  
  When Macky finds Dr. Fisher, he yells, "Dr. Fisher...
  
  > ...I'll get a brain therapist! Only if I get my ten dollars back!"
  Macky goes to a brain therapist with his ten dollars back in his wallet.
  
  He tells the brain therapist everyone told him to see one, and in that case he hates everybody. The therapist made funny jokes and agreed with Macky about almost everything. Macky decided he needed a brain therapist after all.
  
  Unfortunately, after Macky tells the therapist the story, he decides he would want to see Seth. So, grudgingly, Macky...
  
  > ...agrees to go get Seth
  Macky drives over to the aquatic daycare center (ADCC). He opens the door and nearly drowns.
  
  "We're sorry," the owner says. "He's quite a flopper."
  
  "You bet," mumbles Macky.
  
  "Are you taking him?" she asks. "If you are, I can get you a tank. He can flop all he wants and you won't drown."
  
  "Yes," says Macky, "I would love that."
  
  Five minutes later, Seth is in a tank with a lid that no water could escape through. However, air could circulate, and the water drained magically after a while.
  
  Before leaving, Macky says to Seth, "Seth...
  
  > ...you can flop all you want!"
  So Seth flops around all the way to the B.T. (brain therapist).
  
  Every ten minutes, the water disappears!
  
  So then Macky enters the B.T. office. Seth continues to flop. As soon as they walk in to the office, the water empties. Macky shows the B.T. Seth.
  
  "He's pretty cute," says the B.T.
  
  "Thanks," says Macky. "By the way, what was your name again?"
  
  "Craig Tenor," says the B.T., "but you can call me Craig or Mr. T."
  
  "Okay, Mr. T, want me to take him out? He's really friendly."
  
  "Okay," says Mr. T.
  
  So, forgetting Seth's flopping problem, Macky...
  
  > ...opens the lid
  Flop.
  
  Drenched, Macky apologized, "Oops. Sorry... I forgot."
  
  "Aw, that's okay. I get insufferably hot in this office. They never turn the AC on," says Mr. T. "Why don't we swim? There's no better place than a brain therapist's office!"
  
  "Let's!" says Macky.
  
  So then Mr. T, Macky, and Seth swam around in the flooded office for about an hour. They really had a good time. Until they heard approaching footsteps.
  
  "Uh-oh," says Macky. "Uh-oh...
  
  > ...someone's coming!"
  The knob turns. The door swings open. A figure has just enough time to gasp before a huge flood of water comes flying out of the door way and completely drench him.
  
  After the water clears up, the soaked Mr. T and Macky stand before the wet figure.
  
  It is Joe.
  
  "Oh! Hi Joe!" says Macky.
  
  "Hi, Macky," says Joe. "Mr. Tenor? I have an appointment, May 24th, 3:00 P.M. here."
  
  Mr. T laughs. "Joe, it's April 12th, and it's 9:00 A.M. Wanna swim? This dump makes a great swimming pool."
  
  Joe thought it over. "Well, I'm already soaked, an I don't think I have anything now... why not? I was getting pretty sick of fixing car radios anyway."
  
  So all four of them have a good time for a few hours after Seth flooded the room to just the right height.
  
  "Whoo!" says Macky. "This is too much fun!"
  
  "You can say that again," says Joe.
  
  "Uh-oh," says Macky, "I have to fix my truck! I'll be back in an hour! Take care of Seth!"
  
  Macky opened the door and the flood of water pushed him to the exit in much less time than if he were sprinting.
  
  Later...
  
  > ...at the truck repair shop...
  "Yep," says Macky. "I want my truck fixed by midnight, and I'm busy now."
  
  "Okay," says the truck repair cashier. "That'll be $689.99."
  
  Macky reaches into his wallet and finds two bills: his ten dollars from Dr. Fisher, and a 690-dollar bill. "Wow," he says. "I didn't know I had that."
  
  So, Macky hands the cashier the bill and turns to leave.
  
  "Wait!" yells the cashier. "Where are you going?"
  
  "Swimming," says Macky. "In a brain therapist's office, if you should know where."
  
  "Can I come?" he asks.
  
  "Sure," says Macky.
  
  So, Macky and the cashier...
  
  > ...head off to Dr. T's office
  When they reach Dr. T's office door, Macky says, "prepare to get really wet." Then he yells through the door, "I'm here! And I have a visitor! A swimming visitor!"
  
  Macky opens the door and they are all drenched.
  
  "So how do you get the water?" asks the cashier as Macky closes the door.
  
  "Watch," says Macky. "Seth!"
  
  The seal flops. Suddenly, the water is four feet deep.
  
  "How does he do that?" asks the bewildered cashier.
  
  "I dunno," says Macky, "I guess it's seal magic."
  
  So the five of them swam in the office for the rest of the day. And when Macky got home, his truck was still in bits.
  
  > The End (Credits)
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