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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Hello, I’m the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don’t have to.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(The title screen for “Theodore Rex” is shown)
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NC: (laughs) Where do I even begin with this? Whoopi Goldberg and a dinosaur go solving crimes—nope! Can’t even begin with that. That’s the premise. The premise is so stupid I can’t even begin with it. So let’s begin with how they came up with the premise: some jackass executives are in an office saying “Hey! We’ve gotta make some money real quick while putting absolutely no effort into it. Hmm. Why don’t we take an A-minus-list actor and whatever the hell’s popular right now and team ‘em both together? Hmm, now let’s see, uh, oh! I know! How about Betty White and a Ninja Turtle? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, followed by a red “X” that covers it and a buzzer noise) No, no, no, ooh! How about William Shatner and Pokemon? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, and the same graphic and sound are played) No, no, that’s too obvious. Oh, I got it! How about Damon Wayans and that gecko from the GEICO commercials? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, and the same graphic and sound are played) No, no, wait for summer…oh! I’ve got it! I really got it! (laughs) How about Whoopi Goldberg and one of the dinosaurs from that TGIF sitcom? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, and the same graphic and sound are played one more time) Fuck you, I’m lazy.” “Theodore Rex”!
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(The movie’s title screen is shown again, followed by a montage of clips from the movie as NC speaks)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Man, and I mean MAN, is this weird! I just don’t get who thought this had potential. Who would throw money at this, thinking they would honestly get it back? And for that matter, how did they manage to even get some of these people? I mean, they’re not gigantic names, but I’m seriously surprised that every actor didn’t change their names to Alan Smithee after watching this shit-fest. It’s that bad.
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NC: So…as if you honestly need to ask why this movie didn’t work, let’s take a look at “Theodore Rex.”
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(The movie begins)
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NC (voiceover): So we start off with our intro that pretty much looks like a bad Powerpoint presentation.
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Narrator: Billionaire Elizar Kane will launch his New Eden Missle to bring on another Ice Age. After Mankind is extinct, Kane will reanimate the pairs of all earth’s animals he keeps frozen in his ark.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Oh, good. At least they’re taking this seriously.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So we see this assassin guy going after…well, a dinosaur, as he tries to kill him by…letting loose a butterfly.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(The green butterfly lands on a T. Rex’s nose and explodes, causing our dinosaur hero Theodore Rex to wake up from his dream and breathe heavily)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Wow, I never been so simultaneously annoyed and confused at the same time.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: (sings to himself before getting into the bathtub) Rubber duckies three and four in the water.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So after that bad dream, we see Teddy. He’s a dinosaur cop who lives in an apartment with his dog Zippy—wait!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Wait. I need a moment for that to sink in. (He rests his head on his hand before looking off-screen to take a deep breath and sigh) OK.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): As he drives around the city that I think was designed by Ringling Brothers, we then come across another cop named Katie Coltrane (Whoopi Goldberg), as her and another cop go roaming the streets for… (cut to a clip of some small henchmen laughing to themselves in a high-pitch as they carry a body into a secret vehicle) ...chipmunk Jawas?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Katie and the other cop swing down to crash through the vehicle’s glass roof)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie Coltrane: Right from the great police.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Spinner: (taunts Katie) Uh, are you collecting for the policemen’s ball? (His henchmen laugh)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: …Isn’t that Harold from “Harold and Maude”?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Spinner: Put that thing away, co-op so we can hurry. (His henchmen laugh again)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Either way, I’m hoping for multiple suicides.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(The vehicle crashes into a stack of barrels and the henchmen climb out the back as a police officer sees them)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Policeman: Hey!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(The henchmen split up and run away)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): (as the henchmen) Run! We’ll regroup with the Lollipop Guild!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: Yeah, I need an I.D. on a murder victim.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So after retrieving one murder victim, we get another, as Rex is seen hovering over the body of the dinosaur he saw in his dream.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Policewoman: (talks with Theodore while walking together) It’s like somebody had a sensitivity attack to keep this infinite under wraps which, you know, I don’t blame them. ‘Cause if this got out…
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Could be trouble, I know.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Here’s a fun fact. This actress actually had to do this scene 20 times in order to keep a straight face. Heh, can you blame her?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Policewoman: So what are you doin’ out in the jungle tonight, huh?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Funny thing. I was home asleep, right? And all of a sudden, I had this flash. Deep down, I knew something was wrong.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Policewoman: Wait. Are you telling me that all you dinos are on the same wavelength?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Well, it’s kind of like…we feel for each other.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Wait, so not only do dinosaurs exist in this world, but they also have psychic powers? Well, I don’t know about you, but this movie about a Tyrannosaurus Rex who solves crimes in a futuristic city has totally lost me on its credibility! So Goldberg meets up with her only friend, a little boy named Sebastian.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(NC points his finger up to cue the intro music for the song “Under the Sea,” then flattens his hand to cue the music to stop)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Sebastian: Can you swing by the playground tomorrow? It’s a surprise.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: I’m not real good with surprises.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Sebastian: Katie.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: I’ll be there if I can. I try really hard.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: (as Katie, waving goodbye) Bye! I look forward to your inevitable kidnapping!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So Rex goes to a fundraiser for Elizar Kane, whose genetic discoveries are the reasons dinosaurs are walking the earth again, but for some reason, are one-tenth their size.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: I’m, uh, looking for, uh, Commissioner Lynch. (looks off camera right) Oh! There he is. Heh. Nice talking to you, Mr. Summers. (He turns around and his tail knocks an entrance decoration (shaped like an elephant’s trunk) over and makes it sway a little before he walks off)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): OK, guys, word of advice. Don’t green-light a movie when your animatronics are worse than Chuck E. Cheese!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore walks by a woman, and his tail whips her rump, making her turn around and gasp before throwing her drink at another man)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Oh, yeah, he knocks things over with his tail. It’s funny, because—oh, wait. No, it’s not.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Commissioner Lynch (Richard Roundtree): (to a couple guests) Excuse me. (He turns to his left to see Theodore Rex standing there) Teddy?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: SHAFT?!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Commissioner Lynch: Not many people get to meet their maker at a fundraiser, huh?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Oh, G—NO!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Alex Summers: (to Lynch) Excuse me, sir. Is, uh, something wrong?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Commissioner Lynch: Yes, yes. There, uh, there’s been a dino-cide.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Oh, and the fact that you’re JOHN SHAFT AND YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT A FUCKING DINOSAUR!!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: I’d like to be assigned to the case.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Commissioner Lynch: Now, now, Teddy. We all have our paths to follow.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: (as Lynch) For example, my path leads to… (The movie poster for “Steel” is shown briefly) (He sobs to himself)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: (to a server) So, who do we have, Frenchie? Meat, meat, meat and meat. You know, I’m a recovering carnivore.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Server: (lifts up a lid to reveal treats) Sweets?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Yes! Cookies!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Server: (sternly) One per customer!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore uses the end of his tail to poke the opposite shoulder of the server, making him turn his head to the right and walk of)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): And his quest for finding that mysterious shoulder tapper begins.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: (mocks the server) Hello? (Speaks to himself as he start grabbing cookies and stuffing them inside his shirt) Six of these. (He starts making munching noises to himself as he continues stuffing the cookies secretly)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Yeah, cookies. Swinging tails and cookies. Those are two running jokes, people. These are the knee-slappers that you’re gonna have to see over and over again! Isn’t that just thrilling? Aren’t you excited to see where the cookie story arc goes?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Commissioner Lynch: (to Theodore) You have the case. (Theodore gasps excitedly at the news) Undercover. We’re teaming you up for your own good.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: OK, great!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Alex Summers: A veteran pro. Coltrane.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to a man dressed as a Rambo soldier walking toward Teddy, Lynch and Summers)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Hey-hey! We already know that that’s not Coltrane, so this joke doesn’t work. (Katie walks up to lightly shove the man out of the way) Out of the way, guy, who’s only here for a throwaway gag!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Alex Summers: Coltrane, there’s been a homicide, and your name came up.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So Judge Dreadlock here is teamed up with Teddy, much to her dismay.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Lynch: Teddy Rex, meet Katie Coltrane.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Hi.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Lynch: You two solve this case together.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore Rex chuckles)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: Whoa-whoa-whoa, what?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore Rex sighs)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Lynch: That isn’t public relations, but I’m de-promoting him temporarily.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: He’s a dinosaur.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: He is—I juh—WHA??
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Summers: Hey, Coltrane. Straighten up and fly right. This is your chance for a comeback. Don’t blow it.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Oh, please. If I wanted to see Whoopi Goldberg interact with dinosaurs, I’d watch “The View.” (An image of Whoopi Goldberg with her other panelists from “The View” is shown briefly)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: No suspects, no clues, no motives. So we need to determine a, uh…cause of death?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Sweet Christmas! “Lamp Chop’s Sing Along” has better lip movements than him! So they go to where the dead dinosaur’s body has been taken, which is a museum—that seems ironically cruel—as Rex decides to examine the body.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Doctor, may I?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Coroner: Help yourself.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore examines the body, closing his eyes and making grunting noises as he extracts something small from the body with tweezers)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: There we go. Send this to Captain Alaric at headquarters.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: …Then I suppose those weird sounds he makes are never gonna be explained.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Yeah, dinosaurs just hack up hairballs whenever they look over a dead body.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: (speaks quickly) Yeah, why not? There’s a dinosaur walking around solving crimes with Whoopi Goldberg in it! Anything’s possible! (mocks laughter)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So they find out the dinosaur used to live in a nightclub where other dinosaurs hang out.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Tina: Hey, Teddy!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Hey, Tina!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Tina: How are you?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: I’m fine.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): OK, now you’re making the 3D Jaws look realistic! Can you put in a little more effort into these puppets, guys?!
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to Theodore and Katie sitting at a table)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Coltrane: What is this?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Ahh, now this is great. This is hydroponic seeds.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): You know, when he talks, I don’t hear what he’s saying. I just hear all the gears and wheels that are moving that giant fake head. (As we see Theodore talk, we briefly hear sound effects of mechanical gears and wheels activated) So they come across a singer named Molly Rex, who apparently knew the murder victim.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly Rex: (sings) I’ll take your blooms, stomp on your trombones. Come and we’ll flag this joint so we can carry on.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): This is, like, a REALLY bad high. In fact, this whole scene looks like the tripped-out bar from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” doesn’t it?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Raoul Duke (from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”): (speaks while intercutting with footage from “Theodore Rex”) I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things. It won’t be long now before they tear us to shreds.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Man (from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”): (stumbles off his bar stool) Hey, (babbles something incoherent)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So they go in to question the singer only to find out that the murder victim used to work for Elizar Kane.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: I really gotta go. I’ll call ya. See ya.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Molly Rex sniffs the flowers Theodore gave her and holds it against her heart before eating them)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: …That’s not even worth addressing. There’s far too many weirder things to talk about in this movie.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Like this scene for example.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Snipper’s henchmen pursue Theodore’s car from behind)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: The Trick or Treaters are out for early Halloween.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Oh, wait, I’ve seen this! Don’t the Power Rangers come out and usually beat the crap out of these guys?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(As the henchmen continue the chase, we suddenly cut to a doctor’s examination room with Katie walking in)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): (surprised) What? Hey, what?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Doctor: I finally got his I.D. by breaking the code.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: The code?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Doctor: The genetic code. The map of our destiny, and we’re all slaves to our DNA.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Suddenly cut back to the henchmen climbing onto Theodore’s vehicle and tearing it apart to get at him)
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NC (voiceover): W-Wait! What the—?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Code Red! Code Red! Katie, where are you?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut back to the examination room with Doctor Alaric handing Katie something)
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NC (voiceover): HUH? What je—?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut back to the henchmen on Theodore’s truck)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: OK, OK, OK. Let’s play a game. What does this scene (he points to a screenshot of the examination room scene on his left) have to do with this scene (he points to a screenshot fight scene with the henchmen on his right)?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): I mean, she’s not discovering anything about Teddy being attacked, so what’s the connection? You don’t need your editor to play “Six Degrees with Kevin Bacon” with your audience, guys! Just be straightforward! OK, so the bad guys catch up with Teddy and horrifyingly…throw custard pies at him. (Pauses) Really? That’s-that’s not that bad. I mean, granted, it’s annoying, but you can’t really make that look very threatening.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Well, OK, unless you added this. (He points camera left to cue the shot of the smug Popcorn-Eating Guy from “Free Willy” and the accompanying dramatic music sting; NC laughs) I’m gonna go on tour with that guy.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So they (the henchmen) return to that assassin guy who is not happy with their progress.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Edge (the assassin guy): (threatens Snipper) This is your last chance. You keep your eye on the Rex and the gun, or I’ll stick you in a blender! (He walks away laughing)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: (as Edge, laughing) “Blender”! It’s funny because it begins with a “B”! (He laughs again)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So they (Theodore and Katie) return to headquarters—which is looking an awful lot like a McDonald’s playground—as the commissioner is displeased.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Lynch: Where the hell were you when the car was stripped?
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: It was a Medivack.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Lynch: Medivack?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: It was a Medivack!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Lynch: Your orders were to stick with Teddy! You embarrass the department!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: SHE embarrassed the—SHE embarr—DID YOU EVEN SEE EARL SINCLAIR OVER THERE?!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So while Coltrane tries to talk with the commissioner—What the hell? (Green arrows points to some strange activity going on in the background) Why are they playing shuffleboard with Hershey’s Kisses? Fuck it, I don’t care. Teddy goes to try and find some clothing that’ll make him look more like a real cop.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: (Stands in the center of a machine) OK, Ella, dress me up. Now, make me look nice, OK? (Ella presses some buttons to change Theodore’s clothes into an opera singer dressed for “Ride of the Valkyries”; Theodore sings his scales) Mi-mi-mi-mi! (speaks) Push the button! (His clothes now change to a mariachi costume)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: OK…seriously. I mean, seriously!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): People really can’t dress themselves in the future? They have to spend thousands of dollars to have groundbreaking technology because they don’t know how to put on their fucking socks?! What sense does that make? And for that matter, why all these stupid costumes? Is there a scenario where you’re gonna need a dinosaur to dress as a hula dancer? I’m sorry, but I honestly do not see a situation where that will be required!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Ella: I think this will do fine.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(The camera reveals that Theodore now wear clothes very similar to what he wore before: a hooded jacket and jeans)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: Yeah, you look good.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: (nods) Yeah.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: You look like a real cop.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Oh, yeah. Because he looked SOO different from before now, doesn’t he? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(He shows images of Theodore what he wore before and what he currently wears) He’ll just blend in to the crowd!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Meanwhile, at…the sprinkled testicle building, the assassin finds a hostage they can use in case Goldberg and Teddy get too close.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(As Elizar Kane presses buttons on a computer device, the assassin stands there smiling at Dr. Veronica Shade, who is dressed in red)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">The Joker (from “The Dark Knight”): (dubs over the assassin) Why so serious?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizar Kane: Ah, Sebastian.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So they kidnap Sebastian by luring him with his favorite video game: Bland Non-Advertising Blank Screen. Remember that game growing up? I’m sure it would get ''your'' attention if you saw it, right? (A henchman’s hand jabs through the screen as Sebastian plays on the game and grabs for him, pulling him in) So Teddy meets up with Molly again as they head back to his place for some Tyrannosaurus sex.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly Rex: (leaves a room) I’m a fool for milk and cookies.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore whimpers to himself in lust at the thought of cookies)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore: Oh! C-Cookies! Cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies! (He follows Molly behind)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Yep, that running joke of cookies has literally resorted to the shouting of the word now, which is a shame. I saw real potential for that joke. (Theodore and Molly dance together and let their tails hit loose objects around the room) Oh, but thank God we still got the swinging tail gag! You think by the 97<sup>th</sup> time, it’d be annoying, but it’s not! It’s…it’s-it’s-it’s really annoying.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore leaves the nightclub to take a deep breath and sigh with pride; as he approaches Katie’s vehicle, we see that from his point of view, the camera sways as though Theodore was dizzy and drunk; NC follows his head along with the awkwardly tilting camera)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: Ooh, you got it bad, don’t you? Oh, I see you dancing out on the street under the stars and flinging your tail around like you’re a free guy?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore: You act-you act like only humans fall in love! I can’t understand you! Why do you keep your feelings all bottled up inside, huh? Huh?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: (stops moving his head to speak) Is the cameraman drunk?!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Is that why the angles keep tilting? I tell you what; if it is, I wouldn’t blame him! It would be the only way I could get through filming this movie, too!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Alaric: (studies the remains of a butterfly that looks like the one Edge used at the beginning of the film) I reconstructed the little gizmo myself.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: Fascinating.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore: Though, where could our killer get a weapon like this?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Alaric: At Techno Guild Circles, he’s known as the Toymaker. Somewhere in the ninja grid.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Wait, wait, wait, w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-wait. (Beat) There was a ninja grid in the movie this whole time? We were…hanging out with these two morons, and we could have been watching a ninja grid this whole time?! (Pauses) What else have we been missing out on? Is there a “rock bands on skateboards” grid as well? (A Photoshopped image of the bands KISS and The Rolling Stones skateboarding is shown briefly) Come on, guys, focus on the good stuff!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So they go to meet this Toymaker when…
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</p>
  +
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore and Katie stop to see a purse open up; Katie readies her gun as a small puppet character slowly pops out of the bag)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Guy in the Bag: Welcome to Dead Storage. Who’s gonna die?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: …Yep! (He gives up on the credibility of the scene) Why not? I mean…nothing surprises me anymore. If he wants them several minutes talking to an inanimate finger puppet, I’m totally OK with that.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to a hairy caterpillar-like worm appearing before Katie and Theodore and standing itself up)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Ah? And what’s this?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: It’s a hairy hot dog.
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</p>
  +
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: …Of course, it is! (chuckles) If he wanted a hairy hot dog to talk to a finger puppet, turn into a butterfly and blow up by a bunch of helium containers, I’m OK with that now! There’s really no point in questioning it. It’s like trying to save a sinking ship with a Band-Aid! Anything I try to do would be completely pointless. (Pauses before he speaks in a high-pitched voice as though scared) Save me!
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</p>
  +
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Toymaker: (greets Theodore and Katie) Welcome. Have some tea.
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</p>
  +
  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: Are you the Toymaker?
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</p>
  +
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Toymaker: I’ve been called many things.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: One of them being “Toymaker.”
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</p>
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  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So the Toymaker escapes, blows up the building…and forgets to exit the building. You know, it’s not much of an escape plan if you don’t actually escape. (Theodore’s tail wraps around the Toymaker’s mouth as it pulls him up) So they interrogate the guy as he reveals Elizar’s plans to destroy mankind to perfect a master race. So they bust the Munchkin commune as they get the bad guys to build them a…
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</p>
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  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to Theodore riding a flying machine under the moonlit sky)
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</p>
  +
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Look at me, Katie! I’m a Pterodactyl! (He flaps his arms) Caw-caw! Caw-caw!
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</p>
  +
  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Why? What is the purpose of this thing? A Lego plane is playing puppet with a Tyrannosaurus Rex! WHY DOES THIS NEED TO BE SEEN?
  +
</p>
  +
  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to the flying machine crashing into Elizar Kane’s headquarters)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): (as Elizar) Well, I can’t say I expected this.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Snipper: (to Elizar) They made me bring them here!
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</p>
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  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizar: (points to Snipper) He’s the one! Shoot him! Shoot him!
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</p>
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  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Dr. Veronica Shade shoots at Snipper with a laser gun and he shrinks down to disappear into a disc)
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</p>
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  +
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Harold (from “Harold and Maude”): I decided I…that I enjoyed being dead.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Dr. Veronica Shade: (to Katie, holding her gun at her) What was your name again?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Katie: (while being restrained by two henchmen) Coltrane.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizar Kane: Get rid of them. (The henchmen start to take Katie away) Get rid of them!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Well, wait. Why don’t you just shoot her, too? I mean, this gives her ample time to escape! (Katie defeats the henchmen with her fighting moves) Yeah, like that!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to Katie escaping outside and the henchmen going after her)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Yes, because nothing blends in to the cover of darkness than bright shining lights and a glowing Nintendo controller!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Why don’t you just paint a neon bull’s-eye on your back while you’re at it?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So as Teddy wakes up, Elizar launches his doomsday missile and reveals his evil ways.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizar Kane: (speaks in a thick accent) Here’s my ark. It contains a seat of the new Eden I brought their breathing pairs of. All plans…
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): (asks blandly) Huh? What? Say again? What? (Elizar speaks incoherently now) OK, dude, seriously. You gotta run your evil plan through Babelfish. I have, like, no idea what you’re saying right now.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizar Kane: Oh, no.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): OK, bottom line, he built a spaceship that’s an ark that will keep two of every animal safe, and Teddy is going to be one of those animals.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to Dr. Shade holding up a hypodermic needle)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Hey! Hold your horses. Needles creep me out, you know.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Dr. Shade: Oh, one little prick, and you’ll wake up in paradise.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: Wasn’t that Tom Cruise’s marriage proposal?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Why did you guys kill Oliver and Adam, huh?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Dr. Shade: (walks toward the doorway of a large vault) They threatened to expose Mr. Kane’s master plan.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore Rex: Ohh?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Dr. Shade: Don’t you realize…
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): (speaks blandly) Oh, gee. She’s standing by the door. I can’t possibly imagine what’s going to happen or how Teddy’s gonna get out of this—(Theodore swings around to smack his tail at Dr. Shade, knocking her into the vault and allowing him to shut the door) D’ooooh! And here, I thought it was gonna be cookie-related. So Goldberg saves the kid but is shot by the assassin, who I guess messes up her robotic armor or something.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Elizar Kane shoots at Theodore and hands the gun back to Edge, who takes it and walks away laughing evilly)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: (as Edge) I just thought back to my “Blender” joke. (chuckles) “B”! (laughs)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So again, after NOT killing anybody, Teddy goes after the bad guys and tries to stop the missile as well.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Kane and Edge escape in their open-air vehicle; Theodore uses a grappling hook from up above to grab for Kane and lift him up high from the vehicle as Edge (in the passenger seat) screams at the sight of the vehicle ramming into a sign (which has Kane appear on it with the tagline “The Future is NOW” posted above him) and exploding)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Jesus. Were they driving a Pinto?
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Female Computer Voice: Detonation minus 15.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So Teddy only has seconds to stop the missile. Maybe he has to fight his way through an army of soldiers. Maybe he has to find the code to turn the missile off!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Theodore simply presses a button on a remote, causing the missile to explode in space above the Earth and disappear)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): Or maybe he just does that. What, seriously? That was it? No big battle or climax or…oh, hell, why am I complaining? It makes the movie short.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Cut to an outdoor ceremony where Lynch presents Theodore an award)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Lynch: It’s my honor to promote you to Detective First Class.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Theodore: Wow. (He shakes hands with Lynch)
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</p>
  +
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): So the two of them get a medal for their hard work, and…that’s really about it! It just ends with the words, “See Ya,” like you just got done talking to a really annoying friend that you know in fact you will never see again.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: And trust me! There is nothing in this movie that you’ll ever want to see again!
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">(Clips from the movie play again as NC speaks)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): I don’t even know what to say about it. I literally can’t even comprehend the premise, it’s that bad. It’s sort of beyond belief. (Cut to a clip from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) It’s like what Jack Nicholson would see in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” after he got lobotomized.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): (as R.P. McMurphy) I see Whoopi Goldberg and a T. Rex solving crimes.
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC (voiceover): (as Chief Bromden) Yes, you need to die now. (The Chief proceeds to cover McMurphy’s face with a pillow to suffocate him)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">NC: So if you’re looking for a…''spectacular'' disaster of a movie, I’d recommend seeing “Theodore Rex” once. (Pauses to lift a finger) Once. I’m the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don’t have to. (He gets up to leave)
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</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">THE END
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Channel Awesome Tagline—Theodore: Cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies!
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NC: Hello, I’m the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don’t have to.

(The title screen for “Theodore Rex” is shown) NC: (laughs) Where do I even begin with this? Whoopi Goldberg and a dinosaur go solving crimes—nope! Can’t even begin with that. That’s the premise. The premise is so stupid I can’t even begin with it. So let’s begin with how they came up with the premise: some jackass executives are in an office saying “Hey! We’ve gotta make some money real quick while putting absolutely no effort into it. Hmm. Why don’t we take an A-minus-list actor and whatever the hell’s popular right now and team ‘em both together? Hmm, now let’s see, uh, oh! I know! How about Betty White and a Ninja Turtle? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, followed by a red “X” that covers it and a buzzer noise) No, no, no, ooh! How about William Shatner and Pokemon? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, and the same graphic and sound are played) No, no, that’s too obvious. Oh, I got it! How about Damon Wayans and that gecko from the GEICO commercials? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, and the same graphic and sound are played) No, no, wait for summer…oh! I’ve got it! I really got it! (laughs) How about Whoopi Goldberg and one of the dinosaurs from that TGIF sitcom? (A Photoshopped picture of the two together is shown, and the same graphic and sound are played one more time) Fuck you, I’m lazy.” “Theodore Rex”! (The movie’s title screen is shown again, followed by a montage of clips from the movie as NC speaks)

NC (voiceover): Man, and I mean MAN, is this weird! I just don’t get who thought this had potential. Who would throw money at this, thinking they would honestly get it back? And for that matter, how did they manage to even get some of these people? I mean, they’re not gigantic names, but I’m seriously surprised that every actor didn’t change their names to Alan Smithee after watching this shit-fest. It’s that bad. NC: So…as if you honestly need to ask why this movie didn’t work, let’s take a look at “Theodore Rex.” (The movie begins) NC (voiceover): So we start off with our intro that pretty much looks like a bad Powerpoint presentation. Narrator: Billionaire Elizar Kane will launch his New Eden Missle to bring on another Ice Age. After Mankind is extinct, Kane will reanimate the pairs of all earth’s animals he keeps frozen in his ark.

NC: Oh, good. At least they’re taking this seriously.

NC (voiceover): So we see this assassin guy going after…well, a dinosaur, as he tries to kill him by…letting loose a butterfly.

(The green butterfly lands on a T. Rex’s nose and explodes, causing our dinosaur hero Theodore Rex to wake up from his dream and breathe heavily)

NC (voiceover): Wow, I never been so simultaneously annoyed and confused at the same time.

Theodore Rex: (sings to himself before getting into the bathtub) Rubber duckies three and four in the water.

NC (voiceover): So after that bad dream, we see Teddy. He’s a dinosaur cop who lives in an apartment with his dog Zippy—wait!

NC: Wait. I need a moment for that to sink in. (He rests his head on his hand before looking off-screen to take a deep breath and sigh) OK.

NC (voiceover): As he drives around the city that I think was designed by Ringling Brothers, we then come across another cop named Katie Coltrane (Whoopi Goldberg), as her and another cop go roaming the streets for… (cut to a clip of some small henchmen laughing to themselves in a high-pitch as they carry a body into a secret vehicle) ...chipmunk Jawas?

(Katie and the other cop swing down to crash through the vehicle’s glass roof)

Katie Coltrane: Right from the great police.

Spinner: (taunts Katie) Uh, are you collecting for the policemen’s ball? (His henchmen laugh)

NC: …Isn’t that Harold from “Harold and Maude”?

Spinner: Put that thing away, co-op so we can hurry. (His henchmen laugh again)

NC: Either way, I’m hoping for multiple suicides.

(The vehicle crashes into a stack of barrels and the henchmen climb out the back as a police officer sees them)

Policeman: Hey!

(The henchmen split up and run away)

NC (voiceover): (as the henchmen) Run! We’ll regroup with the Lollipop Guild!

Katie: Yeah, I need an I.D. on a murder victim.

NC (voiceover): So after retrieving one murder victim, we get another, as Rex is seen hovering over the body of the dinosaur he saw in his dream.

Policewoman: (talks with Theodore while walking together) It’s like somebody had a sensitivity attack to keep this infinite under wraps which, you know, I don’t blame them. ‘Cause if this got out…

Theodore Rex: Could be trouble, I know.

NC (voiceover): Here’s a fun fact. This actress actually had to do this scene 20 times in order to keep a straight face. Heh, can you blame her?

Policewoman: So what are you doin’ out in the jungle tonight, huh?

Theodore Rex: Funny thing. I was home asleep, right? And all of a sudden, I had this flash. Deep down, I knew something was wrong.

Policewoman: Wait. Are you telling me that all you dinos are on the same wavelength?

Theodore Rex: Well, it’s kind of like…we feel for each other.

NC (voiceover): Wait, so not only do dinosaurs exist in this world, but they also have psychic powers? Well, I don’t know about you, but this movie about a Tyrannosaurus Rex who solves crimes in a futuristic city has totally lost me on its credibility! So Goldberg meets up with her only friend, a little boy named Sebastian.

(NC points his finger up to cue the intro music for the song “Under the Sea,” then flattens his hand to cue the music to stop)

Sebastian: Can you swing by the playground tomorrow? It’s a surprise.

Katie: I’m not real good with surprises.

Sebastian: Katie.

Katie: I’ll be there if I can. I try really hard.

NC: (as Katie, waving goodbye) Bye! I look forward to your inevitable kidnapping!

NC (voiceover): So Rex goes to a fundraiser for Elizar Kane, whose genetic discoveries are the reasons dinosaurs are walking the earth again, but for some reason, are one-tenth their size.

Theodore Rex: I’m, uh, looking for, uh, Commissioner Lynch. (looks off camera right) Oh! There he is. Heh. Nice talking to you, Mr. Summers. (He turns around and his tail knocks an entrance decoration (shaped like an elephant’s trunk) over and makes it sway a little before he walks off)

NC (voiceover): OK, guys, word of advice. Don’t green-light a movie when your animatronics are worse than Chuck E. Cheese!

(Theodore walks by a woman, and his tail whips her rump, making her turn around and gasp before throwing her drink at another man)

NC (voiceover): Oh, yeah, he knocks things over with his tail. It’s funny, because—oh, wait. No, it’s not.

Commissioner Lynch (Richard Roundtree): (to a couple guests) Excuse me. (He turns to his left to see Theodore Rex standing there) Teddy?

NC: SHAFT?!

Commissioner Lynch: Not many people get to meet their maker at a fundraiser, huh?

NC: Oh, G—NO!

Alex Summers: (to Lynch) Excuse me, sir. Is, uh, something wrong?

Commissioner Lynch: Yes, yes. There, uh, there’s been a dino-cide.

NC: Oh, and the fact that you’re JOHN SHAFT AND YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT A FUCKING DINOSAUR!!

Theodore Rex: I’d like to be assigned to the case.

Commissioner Lynch: Now, now, Teddy. We all have our paths to follow.

NC: (as Lynch) For example, my path leads to… (The movie poster for “Steel” is shown briefly) (He sobs to himself)

Theodore Rex: (to a server) So, who do we have, Frenchie? Meat, meat, meat and meat. You know, I’m a recovering carnivore.

Server: (lifts up a lid to reveal treats) Sweets?

Theodore Rex: Yes! Cookies!

Server: (sternly) One per customer!

(Theodore uses the end of his tail to poke the opposite shoulder of the server, making him turn his head to the right and walk of)

NC (voiceover): And his quest for finding that mysterious shoulder tapper begins.

Theodore Rex: (mocks the server) Hello? (Speaks to himself as he start grabbing cookies and stuffing them inside his shirt) Six of these. (He starts making munching noises to himself as he continues stuffing the cookies secretly)

NC (voiceover): Yeah, cookies. Swinging tails and cookies. Those are two running jokes, people. These are the knee-slappers that you’re gonna have to see over and over again! Isn’t that just thrilling? Aren’t you excited to see where the cookie story arc goes?

Commissioner Lynch: (to Theodore) You have the case. (Theodore gasps excitedly at the news) Undercover. We’re teaming you up for your own good.

Theodore Rex: OK, great!

Alex Summers: A veteran pro. Coltrane.

(Cut to a man dressed as a Rambo soldier walking toward Teddy, Lynch and Summers)

NC (voiceover): Hey-hey! We already know that that’s not Coltrane, so this joke doesn’t work. (Katie walks up to lightly shove the man out of the way) Out of the way, guy, who’s only here for a throwaway gag!

Alex Summers: Coltrane, there’s been a homicide, and your name came up.

NC (voiceover): So Judge Dreadlock here is teamed up with Teddy, much to her dismay.

Lynch: Teddy Rex, meet Katie Coltrane.

Theodore Rex: Hi.

Lynch: You two solve this case together.

(Theodore Rex chuckles)

Katie: Whoa-whoa-whoa, what?

(Theodore Rex sighs)

Lynch: That isn’t public relations, but I’m de-promoting him temporarily.

Katie: He’s a dinosaur.

NC: He is—I juh—WHA??

Summers: Hey, Coltrane. Straighten up and fly right. This is your chance for a comeback. Don’t blow it.

NC: Oh, please. If I wanted to see Whoopi Goldberg interact with dinosaurs, I’d watch “The View.” (An image of Whoopi Goldberg with her other panelists from “The View” is shown briefly)

Theodore Rex: No suspects, no clues, no motives. So we need to determine a, uh…cause of death?

NC (voiceover): Sweet Christmas! “Lamp Chop’s Sing Along” has better lip movements than him! So they go to where the dead dinosaur’s body has been taken, which is a museum—that seems ironically cruel—as Rex decides to examine the body.

Theodore Rex: Doctor, may I?

Coroner: Help yourself.

(Theodore examines the body, closing his eyes and making grunting noises as he extracts something small from the body with tweezers)

Theodore Rex: There we go. Send this to Captain Alaric at headquarters.

NC: …Then I suppose those weird sounds he makes are never gonna be explained.

NC (voiceover): Yeah, dinosaurs just hack up hairballs whenever they look over a dead body.

NC: (speaks quickly) Yeah, why not? There’s a dinosaur walking around solving crimes with Whoopi Goldberg in it! Anything’s possible! (mocks laughter)

NC (voiceover): So they find out the dinosaur used to live in a nightclub where other dinosaurs hang out.

Tina: Hey, Teddy!

Theodore Rex: Hey, Tina!

Tina: How are you?

Theodore Rex: I’m fine.

NC (voiceover): OK, now you’re making the 3D Jaws look realistic! Can you put in a little more effort into these puppets, guys?!

(Cut to Theodore and Katie sitting at a table)

Coltrane: What is this?

Theodore Rex: Ahh, now this is great. This is hydroponic seeds.

NC (voiceover): You know, when he talks, I don’t hear what he’s saying. I just hear all the gears and wheels that are moving that giant fake head. (As we see Theodore talk, we briefly hear sound effects of mechanical gears and wheels activated) So they come across a singer named Molly Rex, who apparently knew the murder victim.

Molly Rex: (sings) I’ll take your blooms, stomp on your trombones. Come and we’ll flag this joint so we can carry on.

NC (voiceover): This is, like, a REALLY bad high. In fact, this whole scene looks like the tripped-out bar from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” doesn’t it?

Raoul Duke (from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”): (speaks while intercutting with footage from “Theodore Rex”) I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things. It won’t be long now before they tear us to shreds.

Man (from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”): (stumbles off his bar stool) Hey, (babbles something incoherent)

NC (voiceover): So they go in to question the singer only to find out that the murder victim used to work for Elizar Kane.

Theodore Rex: I really gotta go. I’ll call ya. See ya.

(Molly Rex sniffs the flowers Theodore gave her and holds it against her heart before eating them)

NC: …That’s not even worth addressing. There’s far too many weirder things to talk about in this movie.

NC (voiceover): Like this scene for example.

(Snipper’s henchmen pursue Theodore’s car from behind)

Theodore Rex: The Trick or Treaters are out for early Halloween.

NC (voiceover): Oh, wait, I’ve seen this! Don’t the Power Rangers come out and usually beat the crap out of these guys?

(As the henchmen continue the chase, we suddenly cut to a doctor’s examination room with Katie walking in)

NC (voiceover): (surprised) What? Hey, what?

Doctor: I finally got his I.D. by breaking the code.

Katie: The code?

Doctor: The genetic code. The map of our destiny, and we’re all slaves to our DNA.

(Suddenly cut back to the henchmen climbing onto Theodore’s vehicle and tearing it apart to get at him) NC (voiceover): W-Wait! What the—?

Theodore Rex: Code Red! Code Red! Katie, where are you?

(Cut back to the examination room with Doctor Alaric handing Katie something) NC (voiceover): HUH? What je—?

(Cut back to the henchmen on Theodore’s truck)

NC: OK, OK, OK. Let’s play a game. What does this scene (he points to a screenshot of the examination room scene on his left) have to do with this scene (he points to a screenshot fight scene with the henchmen on his right)?

NC (voiceover): I mean, she’s not discovering anything about Teddy being attacked, so what’s the connection? You don’t need your editor to play “Six Degrees with Kevin Bacon” with your audience, guys! Just be straightforward! OK, so the bad guys catch up with Teddy and horrifyingly…throw custard pies at him. (Pauses) Really? That’s-that’s not that bad. I mean, granted, it’s annoying, but you can’t really make that look very threatening.

NC: Well, OK, unless you added this. (He points camera left to cue the shot of the smug Popcorn-Eating Guy from “Free Willy” and the accompanying dramatic music sting; NC laughs) I’m gonna go on tour with that guy.

NC (voiceover): So they (the henchmen) return to that assassin guy who is not happy with their progress.

Edge (the assassin guy): (threatens Snipper) This is your last chance. You keep your eye on the Rex and the gun, or I’ll stick you in a blender! (He walks away laughing)

NC: (as Edge, laughing) “Blender”! It’s funny because it begins with a “B”! (He laughs again)

NC (voiceover): So they (Theodore and Katie) return to headquarters—which is looking an awful lot like a McDonald’s playground—as the commissioner is displeased.

Lynch: Where the hell were you when the car was stripped?

Katie: It was a Medivack.

Lynch: Medivack?

Katie: It was a Medivack!

Lynch: Your orders were to stick with Teddy! You embarrass the department!

NC: SHE embarrassed the—SHE embarr—DID YOU EVEN SEE EARL SINCLAIR OVER THERE?!

NC (voiceover): So while Coltrane tries to talk with the commissioner—What the hell? (Green arrows points to some strange activity going on in the background) Why are they playing shuffleboard with Hershey’s Kisses? Fuck it, I don’t care. Teddy goes to try and find some clothing that’ll make him look more like a real cop.

Theodore Rex: (Stands in the center of a machine) OK, Ella, dress me up. Now, make me look nice, OK? (Ella presses some buttons to change Theodore’s clothes into an opera singer dressed for “Ride of the Valkyries”; Theodore sings his scales) Mi-mi-mi-mi! (speaks) Push the button! (His clothes now change to a mariachi costume)

NC: OK…seriously. I mean, seriously!

NC (voiceover): People really can’t dress themselves in the future? They have to spend thousands of dollars to have groundbreaking technology because they don’t know how to put on their fucking socks?! What sense does that make? And for that matter, why all these stupid costumes? Is there a scenario where you’re gonna need a dinosaur to dress as a hula dancer? I’m sorry, but I honestly do not see a situation where that will be required!

Ella: I think this will do fine.

(The camera reveals that Theodore now wear clothes very similar to what he wore before: a hooded jacket and jeans)

Katie: Yeah, you look good.

Theodore Rex: (nods) Yeah.

Katie: You look like a real cop.

NC: Oh, yeah. Because he looked SOO different from before now, doesn’t he? (He shows images of Theodore what he wore before and what he currently wears) He’ll just blend in to the crowd!

NC (voiceover): Meanwhile, at…the sprinkled testicle building, the assassin finds a hostage they can use in case Goldberg and Teddy get too close.

(As Elizar Kane presses buttons on a computer device, the assassin stands there smiling at Dr. Veronica Shade, who is dressed in red)

The Joker (from “The Dark Knight”): (dubs over the assassin) Why so serious?

Elizar Kane: Ah, Sebastian.

NC (voiceover): So they kidnap Sebastian by luring him with his favorite video game: Bland Non-Advertising Blank Screen. Remember that game growing up? I’m sure it would get your attention if you saw it, right? (A henchman’s hand jabs through the screen as Sebastian plays on the game and grabs for him, pulling him in) So Teddy meets up with Molly again as they head back to his place for some Tyrannosaurus sex.

Molly Rex: (leaves a room) I’m a fool for milk and cookies.

(Theodore whimpers to himself in lust at the thought of cookies)

Theodore: Oh! C-Cookies! Cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies! (He follows Molly behind)

NC (voiceover): Yep, that running joke of cookies has literally resorted to the shouting of the word now, which is a shame. I saw real potential for that joke. (Theodore and Molly dance together and let their tails hit loose objects around the room) Oh, but thank God we still got the swinging tail gag! You think by the 97th time, it’d be annoying, but it’s not! It’s…it’s-it’s-it’s really annoying.

(Theodore leaves the nightclub to take a deep breath and sigh with pride; as he approaches Katie’s vehicle, we see that from his point of view, the camera sways as though Theodore was dizzy and drunk; NC follows his head along with the awkwardly tilting camera)

Katie: Ooh, you got it bad, don’t you? Oh, I see you dancing out on the street under the stars and flinging your tail around like you’re a free guy?

Theodore: You act-you act like only humans fall in love! I can’t understand you! Why do you keep your feelings all bottled up inside, huh? Huh?

NC: (stops moving his head to speak) Is the cameraman drunk?!

NC (voiceover): Is that why the angles keep tilting? I tell you what; if it is, I wouldn’t blame him! It would be the only way I could get through filming this movie, too!

Alaric: (studies the remains of a butterfly that looks like the one Edge used at the beginning of the film) I reconstructed the little gizmo myself.

Katie: Fascinating.

Theodore: Though, where could our killer get a weapon like this?

Alaric: At Techno Guild Circles, he’s known as the Toymaker. Somewhere in the ninja grid.

NC: Wait, wait, wait, w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-wait. (Beat) There was a ninja grid in the movie this whole time? We were…hanging out with these two morons, and we could have been watching a ninja grid this whole time?! (Pauses) What else have we been missing out on? Is there a “rock bands on skateboards” grid as well? (A Photoshopped image of the bands KISS and The Rolling Stones skateboarding is shown briefly) Come on, guys, focus on the good stuff!

NC (voiceover): So they go to meet this Toymaker when…

(Theodore and Katie stop to see a purse open up; Katie readies her gun as a small puppet character slowly pops out of the bag)

Guy in the Bag: Welcome to Dead Storage. Who’s gonna die?

NC: …Yep! (He gives up on the credibility of the scene) Why not? I mean…nothing surprises me anymore. If he wants them several minutes talking to an inanimate finger puppet, I’m totally OK with that.

(Cut to a hairy caterpillar-like worm appearing before Katie and Theodore and standing itself up)

NC (voiceover): Ah? And what’s this?

Theodore Rex: It’s a hairy hot dog.

NC: …Of course, it is! (chuckles) If he wanted a hairy hot dog to talk to a finger puppet, turn into a butterfly and blow up by a bunch of helium containers, I’m OK with that now! There’s really no point in questioning it. It’s like trying to save a sinking ship with a Band-Aid! Anything I try to do would be completely pointless. (Pauses before he speaks in a high-pitched voice as though scared) Save me!

Toymaker: (greets Theodore and Katie) Welcome. Have some tea.

Katie: Are you the Toymaker?

Toymaker: I’ve been called many things.

NC: One of them being “Toymaker.”

NC (voiceover): So the Toymaker escapes, blows up the building…and forgets to exit the building. You know, it’s not much of an escape plan if you don’t actually escape. (Theodore’s tail wraps around the Toymaker’s mouth as it pulls him up) So they interrogate the guy as he reveals Elizar’s plans to destroy mankind to perfect a master race. So they bust the Munchkin commune as they get the bad guys to build them a…

(Cut to Theodore riding a flying machine under the moonlit sky)

Theodore Rex: Look at me, Katie! I’m a Pterodactyl! (He flaps his arms) Caw-caw! Caw-caw!

NC (voiceover): Why? What is the purpose of this thing? A Lego plane is playing puppet with a Tyrannosaurus Rex! WHY DOES THIS NEED TO BE SEEN?

(Cut to the flying machine crashing into Elizar Kane’s headquarters)

NC (voiceover): (as Elizar) Well, I can’t say I expected this.

Snipper: (to Elizar) They made me bring them here!

Elizar: (points to Snipper) He’s the one! Shoot him! Shoot him!

(Dr. Veronica Shade shoots at Snipper with a laser gun and he shrinks down to disappear into a disc)

Harold (from “Harold and Maude”): I decided I…that I enjoyed being dead.

Dr. Veronica Shade: (to Katie, holding her gun at her) What was your name again?

Katie: (while being restrained by two henchmen) Coltrane.

Elizar Kane: Get rid of them. (The henchmen start to take Katie away) Get rid of them!

NC (voiceover): Well, wait. Why don’t you just shoot her, too? I mean, this gives her ample time to escape! (Katie defeats the henchmen with her fighting moves) Yeah, like that!

(Cut to Katie escaping outside and the henchmen going after her)

NC (voiceover): Yes, because nothing blends in to the cover of darkness than bright shining lights and a glowing Nintendo controller!

NC: Why don’t you just paint a neon bull’s-eye on your back while you’re at it?

NC (voiceover): So as Teddy wakes up, Elizar launches his doomsday missile and reveals his evil ways.

Elizar Kane: (speaks in a thick accent) Here’s my ark. It contains a seat of the new Eden I brought their breathing pairs of. All plans…

NC (voiceover): (asks blandly) Huh? What? Say again? What? (Elizar speaks incoherently now) OK, dude, seriously. You gotta run your evil plan through Babelfish. I have, like, no idea what you’re saying right now.

Elizar Kane: Oh, no.

NC (voiceover): OK, bottom line, he built a spaceship that’s an ark that will keep two of every animal safe, and Teddy is going to be one of those animals.

(Cut to Dr. Shade holding up a hypodermic needle)

Theodore Rex: Hey! Hold your horses. Needles creep me out, you know.

Dr. Shade: Oh, one little prick, and you’ll wake up in paradise.

NC: Wasn’t that Tom Cruise’s marriage proposal?

Theodore Rex: Why did you guys kill Oliver and Adam, huh?

Dr. Shade: (walks toward the doorway of a large vault) They threatened to expose Mr. Kane’s master plan.

Theodore Rex: Ohh?

Dr. Shade: Don’t you realize…

NC (voiceover): (speaks blandly) Oh, gee. She’s standing by the door. I can’t possibly imagine what’s going to happen or how Teddy’s gonna get out of this—(Theodore swings around to smack his tail at Dr. Shade, knocking her into the vault and allowing him to shut the door) D’ooooh! And here, I thought it was gonna be cookie-related. So Goldberg saves the kid but is shot by the assassin, who I guess messes up her robotic armor or something.

(Elizar Kane shoots at Theodore and hands the gun back to Edge, who takes it and walks away laughing evilly)

NC: (as Edge) I just thought back to my “Blender” joke. (chuckles) “B”! (laughs)

NC (voiceover): So again, after NOT killing anybody, Teddy goes after the bad guys and tries to stop the missile as well.

(Kane and Edge escape in their open-air vehicle; Theodore uses a grappling hook from up above to grab for Kane and lift him up high from the vehicle as Edge (in the passenger seat) screams at the sight of the vehicle ramming into a sign (which has Kane appear on it with the tagline “The Future is NOW” posted above him) and exploding)

NC (voiceover): Jesus. Were they driving a Pinto?

Female Computer Voice: Detonation minus 15.

NC (voiceover): So Teddy only has seconds to stop the missile. Maybe he has to fight his way through an army of soldiers. Maybe he has to find the code to turn the missile off!

(Theodore simply presses a button on a remote, causing the missile to explode in space above the Earth and disappear)

NC (voiceover): Or maybe he just does that. What, seriously? That was it? No big battle or climax or…oh, hell, why am I complaining? It makes the movie short.

(Cut to an outdoor ceremony where Lynch presents Theodore an award)

Lynch: It’s my honor to promote you to Detective First Class.

Theodore: Wow. (He shakes hands with Lynch)

NC (voiceover): So the two of them get a medal for their hard work, and…that’s really about it! It just ends with the words, “See Ya,” like you just got done talking to a really annoying friend that you know in fact you will never see again.

NC: And trust me! There is nothing in this movie that you’ll ever want to see again!

(Clips from the movie play again as NC speaks)

NC (voiceover): I don’t even know what to say about it. I literally can’t even comprehend the premise, it’s that bad. It’s sort of beyond belief. (Cut to a clip from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) It’s like what Jack Nicholson would see in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” after he got lobotomized.

NC (voiceover): (as R.P. McMurphy) I see Whoopi Goldberg and a T. Rex solving crimes.

NC (voiceover): (as Chief Bromden) Yes, you need to die now. (The Chief proceeds to cover McMurphy’s face with a pillow to suffocate him)

NC: So if you’re looking for a…spectacular disaster of a movie, I’d recommend seeing “Theodore Rex” once. (Pauses to lift a finger) Once. I’m the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don’t have to. (He gets up to leave)

THE END

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