Welcome To Eltingville Series Plot: The Big Spree

I just found a file that has the episode plots submitted for the proposed Welcome to Eltingville Adult Swim series.

I completely forgot that "The Big Spree" plot was part of the Eltingville series bible. I recognized it as a plot I reused for the first script I wrote for the Bart Simpson comic series published by Bongo. It was basically the same plot, with Bart in place of Josh, and the Springfield cast, of course. It ran in Bart Simpson #31, published in August, 2006, with the title, "Spree For All”. It featured pencil art by James Lloyd, inks by Andrew Pepoy, colors by Nathan Hamill and lettering by Karen Bates.

I also wrote a two-pager in that issue called "Handy Pop Culture Quotes For All Occasions!" which might have used some cut material I wrote for a Bongo-produced book called The Simpsons Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture, part of the Simpson's Library series. I knew I used one of the Welcome to Eltingville plots for a Bart Simpson script, but , like I said, I didn't recall also using this one. I may have posted about the other story before and forgotten about it, I'll poke around and see if I did. If not, I'll post about that one, also.

Anyway, here's the plot for "The Big Spree", part of the Welcome to Eltingville series bible.

THE BIG SPREE

The local We Be Toys store announces a big contest, with the grand prize winner getting five minutes to run through the store to fill up a shopping cart with all the toys he or she can grab.

The town goes crazy over the contest, all the local geeks start making plans for their shopping spree and try to stuff the contest ballot boxes. To everyone's surprise, Josh wins the shopping spree -- but his happiness quickly turns to misery when everyone from his fellow Club members to the high school jocks to Joe and Sal threaten and pressure him with their personal want lists. Josh becomes a nervous wreck -- he has horrible nightmares and can't sleep or eat and loses fifteen pounds in the week leading up to the shopping spree. He fights with his conscious over whether to stand up for his greedy self or bow to the threats and intimidations of his friends, relatives and enemies.

Finally the big day of the shopping spree arrives, and just before the whistle blows Josh finds the inner strength to take care of number one -- himself. Josh dashes madly off into the store, running like a lunatic with the metal cart streaking before him. It is his moment of triumph, but he takes an extra moment to gloat -- and turns his head to look back at everyone to tell them off, and to tell them they can kiss his big fat behind.

But suddenly Josh slams into an aisle display of clearanced Rosie O'Donnell dolls and passes out from the impact with the cart. A dazed Josh awakens with only seconds left on the clock, vainly trying to claw his way up the cart to get into the action figure aisle where his precious bounty awaits.

But the buzzer sounds, the time is up, and to Josh's horror all he has for his troubles are the twelve Rosie O'Donnell dolls that have fallen into his cart -- as well as the wrath of the Eltingville Club, the jocks, and practically everyone in town...who will all now be kicking his big fat behind for the next dozen weeks.