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Ocean Predator: A Parable by William C. Smithsonian II and Jackson B. Linsky
Ocean Predator: A Parable by William C. Smithsonian II and Jackson B. Linsky
Ocean Predator: A Parable by William C. Smithsonian II and Jackson B. Linsky
[grunts]
- [Jaws theme]
- [gulps]
[muffled shriek]
- [muffled speech]
Oh, little buddy, did I scare you?
I'm sorry.
- Yo, Lenny.
Now escape.
[shrieks]
I was just...
[yelps]
Don't.
[Lenny] Don't.
# Don't worry
# About a thing
# About a thing
Tuna Turner.
Mussel Crowe.
Jessica Shrimpson.
Cod Stewart.
[seal barks]
[garbled yelling]
# About a thing
[silence]
[groans]
[rap music]
Welcome to my crib. The good life,
Check it out,
Hey, Oscar.
Yo, doo.
- [shrieks]
- [Shorties] Gotcha.
- See ya.
That's my point.
- Hey, Oscar.
Huh?
Angie.
Good morning. Can I help you?
- Hot wax?
- Please.
oh, my gosh.
Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
- Hey, Ang.
Thanks.
- Oscar.
- Come on.
[gasps]
[groans]
Listen, tell me
all right.
- Bottled water.
- Oh, no.
Oscar.
Oh.
I almost forgot.
- I brought you some breakfast.
Your favorite.
Oh, my gosh!
[winces]
Truer words have never been spoken.
- You know...
- Right?
...to prepare them...
- Sorry.
- [sighs]
- [record scratches]
- [sighs]
- [record scratches]
Luca.
Oi vey!
Long story short, from now on
- Capiche?
- [Sykes laughs]
- What "what"?
I said "What?"
No, I said "what what", like what what?
Huh?
That's it! That's it! You are out!
What?
- You're fired.
- [Sykes screams]
So nothing happens
[dance music]
[laughs]
Y'all funny.
- Thanks, Oscar.
All right.
right now.
- Right now.
- Ernie. Bernie.
My jellyfish brothers. Boo-ya-ka.
[shrieks]
Sykes, my brother from another mother.
Show me dat.
- Oscar.
Hey, don't sweat it.
- Thank you.
- G's, okay?
- That's me.
- No.
- What?
- Oscar.
Sorry.
- Happy place.
There is no happy place with him here.
Okay, please.
All right.
'Cause I like you,
All of it?
- Or else what?
- [sizzling]
- [Oscar] Unpleasant.
[Angie] clams?
The ocean.
I'm a nobody.
- What?
Remember my dad?
[Oscar]
I want to be a somebody.
[grunts]
Wait here.
What's this?
- A pink pearl?
- Mm-hm.
- Take it.
- He's beautiful.
Look at me.
[sighs]
[splutters]
- [whimpers]
A lot.
It's true.
True story.
- [sobs]
- [sighs]
- Pop, please...
- Eat!
- No eat.
Son, eat the shrimp!
No, please.
- Don't! Pop!
- Thank you.
[bell rings]
[cheering]
- You sure?
- Lucky Day.
- Rich!
Bet it all!
[commentator] And Lucky Day wins.
[rap music]
That's to one.
Nice bet.
[chuckles]
- [chuckles]
- [chuckles]
[yelps]
- Hold up.
- Gimme that!
and Salmonella.
- What?
Go fast.
to Fish Fingers.
- # We're movin' on up
# To the eastside...
[thud]
What happened?
Lucky Day is down.
No.
[wails]
# About a thing
- Yeah.
Sykes, he like you, mon.
- True.
- [zap]
- [screams]
[laughs]
Ernie, you made a joke.
Bloodfire.
[Lenny]
Bingo.
- Yeah.
- Ernie.
- Blow out.
[muffled shouts]
[screams]
Oh, no. Wait. I'm sorry.
- What?
[Lenny groans]
Just get it over with.
Wait a minute.
Listen to me.
Don't move until I tell you.
- [growls]
Dig in.
Mmm. Mmm.
Oh, no.
- Just go.
[snarls]
- Oh, no.
- Hurry, swim.
- No, Frankie, wait.
- [clang]
- [thudding]
[distant rumbling]
[gasps] Frankie.
- [thud]
- [Frankie] Lenny?
[coughs]
- Come closer.
I'm so cold.
That's just because we're cold-blooded.
- Ow!
- Moron.
Frankie, no...
[wails] No!
This is all my fault.
How am I ever
- [Oscar squeaks]
[shrieks]
Back up. I'm crazy. I be trippin'.
- Whoa!
What the...
- [shrieks]
- [both shriek]
Don't hurt us. We're sorry.
Uh... yeah.
What happened?
You wanna know what happened?
Go on, man.
- [crowd gasp]
- Razors.
Oh, right.
- [laughs]
- [crowd cheer]
- Oh. Sorry.
- Of course.
[roaring]
Oscar.
- My manager?
- Kid, you're a superstar.
- That's generous.
- You're the I'm .
- Talk to me.
- You get .
- .
- .
- .
- You happy?
- No. You?
- No.
- Deal.
Whoa! A sharkslayer.
et Spiritus Sancti.
[coughs]
- [All] To Frankie.
It's a terrible thing, Don Lino.
Giuseppe.
Oh, and may Lenny be found safe
Oh, Lenny...
[clears throat]
- [bubbling]
Thank you.
- Any requests?
- Luca.
- [Don Feinberg] That Titanic song?
Get Sykes.
where he lives,
where he sleeps.
He pops a gill? I wanna know about it.
- # Uh-huh
- # To be real
# Oooh
# And my love
[scratching]
There he is, the big O.
- Sykes.
- Uh, yeah...
Cabbage patch.
Cabbage patch.
A lava lamp?
- Like you...
- I'm back.
- You're back.
You know what, Ang?
Well, I never
could've done it without you.
Ang. Here.
Oh! Oscar!
I know. I know.
That's okay.
Bam! Huh?
My grandmother's pearl.
With interest.
- Oh!
[both chuckle]
Ang, I...
- No.
- [clears throat]
- Oh.
You, er, you gotta come best
Oh...
I mean...
- [cheering]
I'm gonna go
[laughs, growls]
- [growls]
- [whistling]
Don't panic.
[muffled scream]
Quiet. We're safe.
- Yeah.
- Who?
Shh! The Sharkslayer.
the, uh...
Don't cry.
[cries in anguish]
No, no, it's not all that. Just relax.
- You think?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Wait.
- What, man?
- Oscar.
- I'm Lenny. Hi.
- Hi.
- Sorry.
- Go home.
There is no home for me now.
- Gotcha.
- Oscar.
It is now, bro-bro.
Yeah, bro-bro.
- Sharkslayer?
- Yeah.
- Bye, Oscar.
Lenny.
I know. [laughing]
As if. [cackles]
I don't appreciate
your funky tone, actually.
and I certainly
I am the Sharkslayer.
- Yeah.
myself to you.
- You're on your own.
- No problem.
on my way back...
- You wouldn't.
- I would.
Uh... [tuts, sighs] Tssk!
Come here.
- Dig. Dog.
Echo. [echoes]
Now batting
- [smacking]
- [smacking]
Good Foot]
[siren]
- Ooh-ee
- Shh!
- [thud]
- [Lenny yelps]
Ow!
- [shrieks]
- [crashing]
My show's on.
All right.
Ahh.
Hey, a bed.
Oh, yeah, that's good.
Stop it.
OK, you wanna be friends? Fine.
No snuggly, buggly...
- Define "different".
- You'll laugh.
- So that's it?
And my dad,
Really?
blame me.
If I hadn't been there in the first
- Yeah.
- [gulps]
[screams]
- [laughs]
- [bleeping]
- Man. I told ya.
- Respect.
- Sykes.
- Hey, Oscar.
- [gently] Hello.
- [beeping on line]
- Hello?
Anchovies, meatballs...
- Luca.
- Hi, Boss.
- [sighs]
- Sykes.
Sykes, man!
- Come on.
sometimes, places.
[laughs nervously]
makin'-the-lights-go-off
music-playing-in-the-dark thing.
- I don't?
You have worked your way to the top.
do you?
No.
No.
No way.
You just show 'em who's boss
[aside] Lenny.
Psst!
Lenny? Where are you?
Hello, Oscar.
Hi.
Uh... Shark!
Go on without me.
told me everything.
Dang, Lenny, why would you do that?
Uh... yeah.
[both laugh]
A mess, right?
Then you gonna swim out and
Exactly. What?
[chuckles]
[bellows]
Da-da-da-da!
[snarls]
Holy mackerel.
Show me that.
Okay. [purrs]
[clears throat]
[roars]
- Like that?
[everyone gasps]
- Oscar?
- I'm sorry.
[Oscar strains]
[cheering]
[# Elvis Vs JXL:
- [Oscar yells]
- [cheering]
[wailing]
- [thud]
- [cheering]
- Sorry.
- Thank you.
[screams]
[Lenny wails]
[wails]
[quietens wails]
- Yay!
Look at Oscar.
Hey, Angie,
can you hand me the blue one?
Thank you.
[laughs] Yeah!
I was like...
I was crazy.
That's private.
Private?
- Knock it off.
- Me?
Problem? No problem.
- I don't.
- You don't.
- No.
- No what?
- I don't know.
- You wanna...
[both] No!
I did.
A sham. A con.
You're a joke.
- Angie...
Including me.
- [Lenny] Angie?
It'll be OK.
# Kept it inside
- # Get it together
- # Get it together
- # You have to heal your heart
# Whatsoever...
It slays hemorrhoids
[tuts]
Hey, Sharkslayer.
Why are you out here?
She's a nobody.
[thudding]
- Ha! Young love.
- [partygoers laugh]
# Sugar-pie, honey-bunch
# You know that I love you
- Hey, Oscar!
- Gimme it.
- Gimme it.
- Where you get a whale of a wash...
It's "gosh."
- [telephone]
- Whale Wash?
- [telephone]
Whale Wash,
Hello?
- Who is it?
- Shh!
if you understand.
I nodded.
[dialling tone]
Classic move.
- Lenny?
[both gulp]
[hyperventilates]
[shark coughs]
- [snarls]
- [all shriek]
individually.
by one of those.
Now which one of you sardines
- [door slams]
to meeting you.
I feel like we're practically family.
Guess what?
[muffled screams]
- [sharks swoon]
[Oscar laughs]
[Lenny and Sykes laugh]
- Ow.
OK.
without my OK.
- OK?
- [shark whimpers]
We gotta go.
- Oscar.
- [gags] Oscar.
- What?
[retches]
He ate me...
Lenny?
Is that you?
You're alive?
What is that?
[gasps of astonishment]
so we do recognize him.
- Hi, Pop.
- But nothing.
- [buzzing]
[wails]
- Try it again.
- Whale Wash,
you get a whale of a wash
Oh, my gosh.
- Blow out.
- Shark!
Come on, Lino,
- Sorry.
Where's Lino?
Whoa!
- [music on headphones]
[muttering]
- [pop]
- Angie...
- Angie.
- It's a misunderstanding.
Sharkslayer. Over here.
Stop!
[everyone gasps]
- I lied.
- What?
to be like Frankie.
So what?
Pop.
[whirring]
[Angie] Oscar?
Angie?
Angie, I wish I knew now
what I knew,
[bells jingle]
Come here,
Sorry, man.
Don't fret.
Forget it. The moment's gone.
We cool, right?
- Yo, dog.
- Sykes.
[# Car Wash]
Yo, E, B.
- # Ooh, yeah
Hey, Angie,
Wow.
- Yo?
- Up with what?
- All right.
# Car wash
# Sharks in the water
- # Sharkslayer
# Bow down player...
# to
# Hey yeah
Sing it
- # At the car wash
- # Hey yeah
Sing it
# Ooh, hey
Hello? Hello.
Good Foot]
Taxi.
Hey, taxi.
Hello.
Hey, a nacho.
[siren]
Stinky.