This is the transcript for Employee Fun Day.
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(The episode begins with Pa Grape closing his store.)
Pa Grape: Good Night, store.
Ichabeezer: Hey, Pa, what's the big idea? You closing early today?
Pa Grape: Yep, once a year I close up shop for Employee Fun Day.
Ichabeezer: What's an Employee Fun Day?
Pa Grape: I spend the day doing fun activities with my staff
Ichabeezer: How do you make money doing that?
Pa Grape: It's not about money. It's a way to show the folks I work with that I appreciate them.
Ichabeezer: Employee Fun Day, huh? Sounds good. I think I'll do it too. We'll go golfing and listen to old jazz music. They'll love it!
Pa Grape: Well...
Bob: Burger comin' at ya!
Jimmy: Icha-cheese and onions combo slam.
Larry: Have an Icha-riffic day!
Ichabeezer: Stop working You're all done for the day!
Larry: Did you sell the business?
Ichabeezer: No.
Bob: Is it the health Inspectors again?
Ichabeezer: No! I've decided to have an Employee Fun Day. You ever heard of that?
Bob: Like a day off?
Ichabeezer: Yeah! I'm taking you all out for a good time.
Tina: Wow-whee!
Ichabeezer: I've got the train ready to go. Come on! Ha!
Corn Woman: Um...
Ichabeezer: Hmm?
Corn Woman: Who will be serving us burgers if you have no employees?
Ichabeezer: Oh, yeah. I almost forgot. CarrotBots, come in!
Carrot Bot: We will provide services. Please clearly dictate your desired sustenance or say, "More options."
Corn Woman: Um... more options?
Carrot Bot: What was that? Please try again.
Corn Woman: More-
Carrot Bot: What was that? Please try again.
All Carrot Bots: What was that? Please try again.
Ichabeezer: Things are running smoothly already.
Bob: Wow, are you taking us swimming?
Larry: Oh! Oh! Do we get to go on the water slide?
Ichabeezer: No, no. Even better.
Jimmy: Wow, bowling and picnicking?
Tina: And hang-gliding? Aww, you shouldn't have!
Ichabeezer: I didn't. Stop trying to guess! We're almost there.
Larry: It kinda looks like all the fun stuff was back that way.
Ichabeezer: Yeah, if that's your definition of fun.
Group: It is.
Ichabeezer: No, it's not.
Group: It is.
Ichabeezer: No.
Group: It is!
(train whistle toots)
Ichabeezer: Here we are. Let the fun begin!
Larry: Where's all the fun stuff?
Ichabeezer: Right here.
Bob: Golf?
Ichabeezer: Yeah. Isn't that fun? Jimmy, you go set up these flags. Tina and Bob can be ball retrievers. And Larry, you're my caddy.
Larry: (gasps)
Ichabeezer: Fore! Well, go get it.
Bob: (moans) Oh.
Ichabeezer: Fore!
Tina: Ah, phooey.
Larry: So, when's the fun part of Employee Fun Day?
Ichabeezer: This is very definition of fun!
Larry: Oh, yeah.
Bob: This is miserable.
Tina: I'd rather be at work!
Larry: I don't know if I can do this all day.
Ichabeezer: Hey, you whisperers, wait till yo see what's next. All aboard Ichabeezer Fun Time Express!
Tina: Maybe the next thing will be hang-gliding.
(Cut to Ichaburger)
Corn Woman: No! I do not want ice in my hamburger!
Carrot Bot: Extra ice in hamburger.
Corn Woman: Also, I'd like a large French fry.
Carrot Bot: One large French fry.
Corn Woman: Yes, thank you.
(Whirling)
Corn Woman: (gasps)
Carrot Bot: Next customer, please.
(cut back to the group)
Ichabeezer: Just remember, the loud noise means you found something.
Tina: This isn't hang-gliding.
Ichabeezer: Already found something, Bob?
Bob: No, it's just... I'm not really into this. This seems more like something you would enjoy.
Ichabeezer: Well, speak for yourself, Bob. There isn't a soul on this earth who doesn't enjoy detecting metal
Tina, Larry and Jimmy: We don't like it.
Bob: We appreciate that you're trying to give us a day off, but--
Ichabeezer: Okay, okay, not everyone is a metal detecting fanatic like me. Now, what I have next will be sure to knock your socks off.
Voice Announcer: Employees of Ichaburger! Your wonderful and generous employer has hired the greatest entertainer in the solar system. Never before have you witnessed such talent as you will tonight!
Bob: Hey, this might be cool.
Tina: Yeah, a real show.
Voice Announcer: And now, I give you... you're boss, Ichabeezer!
Bob: Oh, man.
Ichabeezer: Thank you, thank you, ladies and gentleman. I call this one, "Get back off my lawn, Jack."
(saxophone honking)
Ichabeezer: Ah, Not digging that either, huh? Okay, how 'bout opera?
Bob: Oh, I like opera.
Ichabeezer: (screeching) Figaro-oo!
Bob: I no longer like opera.
Ichabeezer: Okay, juggling!
(All gasp)
Ichabeezer: Argh!
(All moans)
Ichabeezer: Wow, what a tough room. Fine, I'll do some standup comedy! Everyone loves a joke. I wrote these just for this event. If you don't laugh, you're fired! That was one of the joke, folks.
(Weak chuckling)
Ichabeezer: Good! See? Guess who is having the worst day ever? You! Yeah, that was a joke too. It's Fun Day! Come on! You guys are having the time of your lives.
Larry: But we're not. It was actually kinda true.
Ichabeezer: Okay, fine. It's the end of the show.
(fireworks pop, fizzle)
Announcer: Thank you, everybody, for coming the Ichaburger Employee Fun Day. That's all for now. Keep making those burgers!
Ichabeezer: Stop the music! I give you the day off put all this together for you, and you don't even appreciate it!
Bob: We appreciate the idea of it. We know you meant well.
Larry: It's just, everything was sort of your thing. Not really our thing.
Tina: Yeah, it was nice of you. It just wasn't fun for us.
Ichabeezer: (signs) My Employee Fun Day wasn't good enough for you, huh? Well, if that's how you feel, I guess maybe you should work somewhere else. I want employees who know how to have a fun time!
(Cut to Ichaburger)
(beeping within)
Corn Woman: I asked it to hold the mayo, and now it won't do anything else.
Carrot Bot: Holding, Holding, Holding.
Ichabeezer: Sorry, everybody. We're closed. I'm having Employee Fun Day with my real friends, the robots.
Corn Woman: Are you going to get your other employees back? I liked that burger-making thing they do.
Corn Man: Yeah, and how they don't have blank robotic stares.
Ichabeezer: These are the only employees I need and we are going to have some real fun.
(Cut to the golf course)
Carrot Bot: Ball retrieved. Ball retrieved. Ball retrieved.
(Detector whines)
Ichabeezer: Aha!
Carrot Bot: Detecting. Detecting. Detecting. Detecting.
(Saxophone honking)
Carrot Bots: Cheering. Cheering. Cheering. Cheering.
(saxophone honking)
Ichabeezer: Thank you. Thank you.
(Pa Grape shows up)
Pa Grape: What's this?
Ichabeezer: This is my Employee Fun Day.
Pa Grape: With robots? What happened to your staff?
Ichabeezer: My staff? Oh, them. Well, they didn't know how to have fun, So, I let 'em go.
Pa Grape: Are robots actually able to have fun?
Carrot Bot: No.
Ichabeezer: But you were cheering.
Carrot Bot: We are programmed to do whatever you tell us.
Ichabeezer: But did you feel appreciated?
Carrot Bot: Negative. All of the activities were constructed to please you. Our perception was that you appreciate yourself, not us.
Pa Grape: Carrot Bots, play me something catchy. In Luke it says, "As you wish that others would do to you, do so to them."
(Music begins)
Pa Grape: (singing) I Appreciate You
I Appreciate You
Please know this you're on the top of my list
That's how high I rate you
I'm thankful for you my friend
And all the things you do for me
Ichabeezer: (singing) And I want to show you
The same loving kindness
And hope that you can see
Together: (singing) That I appreciate you
Pa Grape: (singing) Here's my gratitude
Ichabeezer: (singing) For your great attitude
I'm hoping to be what you are to me
That's why I'm here to thank you
Together: (singing) I appreci...
I appreci...
I appreciate you
Ichabeezer: I, I made Employee Fun Day all about my own idea of fun. Why I didn't even think about what they might enjoy.
Pa Grape: And do you really want robots for employees?
Carrot Bot: Requesting permission to stop holding the mayo.
Ichabeezer: No way. Bob, Larry, Tina, and Jimmy are not just my employees, they're my friends, and they are each unique. Why no robot could ever replace that. Oh, no offense.
Carrot Bot: None taken.
Ichabeezer: Carrot Bots, I have a new mission for you. Find my employees and bring to the waterfront in... oh, half an hour. I'm gonna do Employee Fun Day right this time!
Carrot Bots: Sir, yes, sir.
(The robots went to Bob and Larry's house to pick up the group.)
Carrot Bots: Alert! Alert! Alert!
Bob: Hey, it's Ichabeezer's robots!
Carrot Bots: Come with us.
Group: Whoa!
Carrot Bots: Mr. Ichabeezer requires your presence.
(Outside, Larry went on the waterslide, Bob went swimming, Carrotbots are playing music, Jimmy goes bowling and Tina hang-gliding.)
Larry: Water slide!
Bob: Swimming!
Jimmy: Bowling!
Tina: And hang-gliding! Whee!
Bob: This is the most fun I've ever had in one day!
Larry: You said it. Ichabeezer outdid himself.
Tina: Hey, where is Ichabeezer anyway?
Jimmy: Yeah, we need to thank him.
Ichabeezer: Look out below! Wah-ha!
(splashes)
(all laughing)
(Pa Grape and Ichabeezer clinking the ice cream sundae for cheers, ending the episode)
(End of transcript)