DRAMA: The Classics
Moby Dick - The Chase - Second Day
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Synopsis:
Yes, and there you heard it from the previous script – the first fun filled day of chasing Moby Dick. Let's recap:
• Ahab sees Moby.
• Three harpoon boats go to chase Moby.
• Ahab's boat is surrounded by white birds.
• Moby bites Ahab's harpoon boat in two and overturns the other two harpoon boats.
• Everyone has to swim back to the Pequod.
Ahab is glad he still has his lucky harpoon (although having already lost a leg you have to wonder what his definition of luck is) and then he decides to pace the deck all night instead of getting a good night's sleep.
We now move on to Moby Dick - The Chase - Second Day.
Announcer
Ahab
Everyone
Stubb
Starbuck
Moby
Ishmael
ANNOUNCER
The Kranky Kids now give you the second to the last chapter of Moby Dick, Chapter 134, The Chase, Second Day.
AHAB
D'ye see him?
EVERYONE
No, Captain Ahab.
AHAB
Criminy. It's a good thing I know how to track a whale 'cause you people are useless as scouts. Turn here and go faster.
EVERYONE
Aye, aye, Captain.
STUBB
Watch it, Moby Dick! You can't escape! The mad fiend Ahab is after you!
EVERYONE
We're gonna get you! We're gonna get you!
AHAB
Stubb?
STUBB
Yessir?
AHAB
Stop yelling over the railing. You're giving me the willies.
STUBB
Aye, aye, Captain.
EVERYONE
There she blows!
AHAB
There she breaches!
EVERYONE
Huh?
AHAB
Breaches. Leaps from the water.
EVERYONE
Oh.
AHAB
Lower the boats! Mr. Starbuck, stay on the ship and keep away from the boats, but keep near them.
STARBUCK
Aw shucks, I never get to have any fun and now I'm confused.
MOBY
Oh boy, the silly sailors want to come out and play again with me, Moby Dick.
STUBB
Oh my gosh, he's coming straight for all three of our boats!
AHAB
Fear not. I'll harpoon him head on!
ISHMAEL
We'll all throw our harpoons at once!
SFX: harpoons being thrown
MOBY
Rats! Now I am all tangled up in these ropes attached to their harpoons. Oh well, I'll just pay a merry little visit to Ahab's boat since it's the closest.
AHAB
Yikes! I'd better cut some harpoon lines or Moby Dick will tow me away!
STUBB
Oh, no! The other two boats have smashed together!
MOBY
And now I'm gonna flip Ahab's boat into the air! Yippee!
AHAB
Oh poop, I'm all wet again - just like yesterday. And my fake leg got snapped off too. The ship's carpenter is going to be really pissed at me.
MOBY
Well, I think I'll go swim away again. There's no sport in eating floating sailors and something's itching on my side.
STARBUCK
Look at the mess this time, Captain Ahab. Not only does your ship, the Pequod, have to pick up all you sailors, but we have to try and rescue all the debris. We're running out of harpoons and boats.
AHAB
Calm down, Mr. Starbuck. You sound upset. Where's Fedallah?
STUBB
Oh, he got tangled up in your lines and disappeared with the whale.
STARBUCK
Oh please, oh please stop chasing Moby Dick! He's making fools of us all, and now Fedallah's gone, and there's a million little pieces to repair, and today he even ate your fake leg the same way he ate your real leg when you first met him and -
AHAB
Starbuck?
STARBUCK
Yes, Captain?
AHAB
Go take a nap. It's getting late.
STARBUCK
Okay.
AHAB
Now, some time ago Fedallah told me that he'd die before me, but I would see him again before I died. But if he's gone to the bottom of the ocean, how will that happen?
EVERYONE
Hmmm.
SFX: boat sounds
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