SEASON THREE, EPISODE FOUR.
BUNNY-NAPPED
(Anastasia’s room. Anastasia, the Easter Bunny, Pommel and Pummel.)
ANASTASIA: You have failed me once too often, Stab-Stabs. From now on the task of removing O’Bunbun and Rabbo shall be passed on to Roberto.
POMMEL: But Princess--
ANASTASIA: And stop calling me Princess!
PUMMEL: As you wish, Princess.
ANASTASIA: Ng!
POMMEL: Please don’t sack us, Prin-- uh, Duchess. We won’t mess up again.
ANASTASIA: I don’t recall threatening to entirely dispense of your services. I have another job for you.
POMMEL: Oh, goody! What is it?
PUMMEL: Yeah, what is it?
ANASTASIA: I have business to attend to elsewhere. Roberto will fill you in. Roberto.
(Anastasia leaves.)
EASTER BUNNY: Listen up, you ninja punks. Duchess Sarossy-Mammalworth wants you to get out there and ... kidnap Sasha Uulamets.
POMMEL: She wants us to kidnap her sister?
PUMMEL: Yeah ... her sister!
EASTER BUNNY: Are you completely brainless? Princess Sasha is not Anastasia’s sister. She--
(There’s a knock at the door. The Easter Bunny motions for the Stab-Stabs to he silent. We hear Rabbo say:)
RABBO’S VOICE: Hey, Anastasia! You in there?
(After a few moments, Rabbo enters. The Stab-Stabs leap into the air and seemingly vanish. The Easter Bunny falls onto the bed and pretends to be asleep.)
RABBO: Oops. Sorry, Easter Bunny. Didn’t mean to wake you up.
(Still pretending to be asleep, the Easter Bunny says:)
EASTER BUNNY: You didn’t. Go away.
RABBO: Hmmm. He must be a pretty sound sleeper.
(Rabbo leaves and the Easter Bunny gets off the bed.)
EASTER BUNNY: Right. You can come out now, you spineless buffoons.
(Pommel and Pummel drop from the ceiling. Pommel lands on his feet, but Pummel goofs up the drop and ends up in a heap on the floor. The Easter Bunny glares at him, and he jumps to his feet quickly.)
PUMMEL: Ahem. What a slippery floor.
EASTER BUNNY: Slippery? The carpet’s made of velcro, you loser!
PUMMEL: You don’t have to be rude.
EASTER BUNNY: It’s all right. I want to.
(Cut to the Malt Shoppe. Sasha, Uulamets, Bunniquette, Gumman. Anastasia enters.)
UULAMETS: Ah, Anna. I trust you are well.
ANASTASIA: Yes ... “father”.
SASHA: It is so nice to know that you are my twin sister, Anna.
ANASTASIA: Isn’t it, though? In fact, I just came to ask you if you’d care to take a walk with me.
SASHA: Certainly.
(Cut to the Easter Bunny and the Stab-Stabs in Anastasia’s room again.)
EASTER BUNNY: And the password is “Now would be nice”.
POMMEL: The passwords, you mean.
PUMMEL: What?
POMMEL: Passwords.
(Pummel passes Pommel a big sack with “words” written on the side.)
EASTER BUNNY: I’m surrounded by imbeciles!
(Cut to a long, empty corridor. Sasha and Anastasia come walking down it. One solitary door is set into one wall of the corridor. It has “broom closet” written on it.)
ANASTASIA: ... and I do so miss Mother. But at least I have you and father now.
SASHA: Yes. We’ll take care of you.
ANASTASIA: Heavens, I couldn’t allow that. I intend to take care of you and father. Oh, look. A broom closet. I might just pop in and see if they have any nice mops. You wait here.
SASHA: Certainly.
(Anastasia walks into the broom closet and closes the door behind her, before saying:)
ANASTASIA’S VOICE: “Now would be nice”.
(Sasha says to herself:)
SASHA: Now what did she mean by that?
(Suddenly Pommel is standing behind her, with a knife to her throat.)
POMMEL: Don’t scream or struggle.
(Pummel lands in front of her.)
PUMMEL: You heard him. You’re ours, Gracie.
(They tie her up securely and zoom away. Anastasia cautiously sticks her head out from inside the broom closet and looks up and down the corridor.)
ANASTASIA: Perfect. They didn’t foul up for once. “Oh, Sasha, where are you?” Ha. Ha, ha. Ha.
(Cut to the Bridge. Hoppy, Laff, Abbie, Westminster. Fuzzy enters.)
FUZZY: Hi, guys. Anyone seen Sash?
ABBIE: No.
HOPPY: Sorry. She hasn’t been in here.
FUZZY: I’ll go see if she’s playing tennis.
(Fuzzy exits. Cut to the Malt Shoppe. Uulamets, Bunniquette, Gumman.)
UULAMETS: Hmmm ... Sasha and Anastasia have been gone for a long time.
BUNNIQUETTE: Yes. You better hope Anastasia hasn’t--
GUMMAN: Shut up, Bunniquette.
(Anastasia enters.)
UULAMETS: Ah, Anastasia. Where is Sasha?
ANASTASIA: What? I thought she was here. I popped into the broom closet to do some exploring, and when I came out, Sasha was gone.
GUMMAN: If you’ll excuse me, there’s something I must do.
(Gumman leaves, passing Fuzzy, who is on his way in.)
FUZZY: See you later, Doctor Gumman. Hey, Uulamets, do you know where Sasha is?
(Cut to Gumman’s surgery. He is sitting at his desk, upon which rests his large suitcase.)
GUMMAN: What’s the problem?
(An indistinct female voice from inside the suitcase says:)
VOICE: I’m stuck! I can’t get out!
GUMMAN: Well, I’ve, uh, lost the key.
VOICE: Get out of here and find Sasha!
(Cut to Anastasia’s room. It appears to be empty. Until Gumman kicks open the door and bursts in with a gun.)
GUMMAN: Okay, ninja scum! I know you’re in there.
(He rips the covers off the bed, looking for Sasha and the Stab-Stabs. He looks under the bed, and behind the curtains, and then approaches the en suite. Cut to Anastasia’s en suite bathroom. Sasha is sitting on a stool in the bath, bound, gagged, and blindfolded. Gumman storms in.)
GUMMAN: There you are. Don’t worry, Princess. It’s me - Gumman. I’ll just get you out of here and then I’ll untie you.
(He reaches over to pick up Sasha, but the Stab-Stabs leap out of nowhere and block his path.)
POMMEL: Your puny weapons are no match for our finely-honed martial arts skills.
GUMMAN: Yeah? Well your dopey karate-buggering-around-rubbish is no match for my gun!
POMMEL: Brave words, surgeon!
(Pommel lunges at Gumman. Gumman shoots him and he drops to the floor, stunned. Pummel looks rather uncomfortable.)
GUMMAN: As for you, you samurai moron, get out of my way or I’ll amputate your empty head. And I’m all out of anaesthetic.
(Pummel gulps, bows to Gumman, grabs his unconscious brother, and bolts. Cut to the Malt Shoppe. Fuzzy, Uulamets, Bunniquette, Anastasia. They all look rather gloomy.)
FUZZY: Where could Sasha be? We’ve looked everywhere.
ANASTASIA: This is all my fault. I should never have left her alone --
UULAMETS: Don’t blame yourself, Anna dear.
ANASTASIA: She must have been kidnapped. You’ll probably get an anonymous ransom not any minute now.
(Gumman enters, carrying the still bound Sasha. He sets her down on a stool by the counter and unties her, removing the gag and blindfold. Everyone looks happy except Anastasia, who looks rather shocked for a second.)
FUZZY: Gumman, what happened?
GUMMAN: Sasha ... tripped over.
UULAMETS: Tripped over?
GUMMAN: Yes. She fell... into... the hands of a pair of diabolical ninja assassins!
THE OTHERS: What?!
ANASTASIA: Goodness, how did you ever manage to rescue her? Where did they have her?
GUMMAN: Oh, she was just tied up in one of the bedrooms.
BUNNIQUETTE: Yeah? Like which one?
GUMMAN: Oh, one of the vacant ones, I think.
(He glares at Anastasia, who scowls.)
FUZZY: So Chris was right when he told us that two ninja bunnies were here with us!
GUMMAN: They’re gone now. I locked them in the escape pod and fired them into space.
BUNNIQUETTE: Good. I hate diabolical ninja assassins.
(Cut to Anastasia’s room. The Easter Bunny and the Stab-Stabs. Anastasia rushes in.)
ANASTASIA: Roberto! What on earth has happened? And ... the Stab-Stabs! Grr! Gumman said he shot you into space!
EASTER BUNNY: He was obviously just trying to force them to lie low for a while.
ANASTASIA: Wonderful. Now the mad doctor is onto me as well. You stupid, bumbling, stupid, bumbling ... stupid bumblers!
POMMEL: But he had a gun, Princess!
ANASTASIA: Don’t call me Princess!
PUMMEL: But--
ANASTASIA: I am not a princess! You will address me as Duchess, or the Easter Bunny will tear out your spleens and urinate in them! Am I understood?
THE STAB-STABS: Yes, Princess.
(The credits roll.)

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