Original subtitles

MITCHELL: I do solemnly swear

that everything I am about to tell you is true.

A spill of weirdness from another dimension

turned my hometown into the center of weirdness

for the entire universe.

Don't believe me? Just watch.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

MITCHELL: I'm no sucker for the latest fad.

And when it comes to horror movies,

give me the good old Living Dead every time.

Life in Eerie has raised my weirdness index

and zillion dollar effects just don't cut it.

I know what I like, and I stick with it.

Hey, Oscar, what's up? [GAME] Oh!

Watch where you're going.

It's Buddy's snack time.

BUDDY: Buddy hungry. Feed me.

Nurture me.

Buddy? Little Buddy Beep Beep.

BUDDY: Nom, nom, nom. Not you too, Oscar.

Ooh! Ah! Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.

Ooh! Ah! Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.

[BEEPING] How do you put up with that?

Ooh! Ah! Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.

I'm renting Swamp Zombies 14, The Reawakening.

You wanna watch it?

I gotta look after Buddy.

Congratulations, best buddy!

BUDDY: You win! Yes!

Come and get your prize. I beat it finally!

I'm there, Mitchell. I'm there!

Where? Seven billion, 900 million points.

I gotta collect my prize.

MITCHELL: Oscar had come down with a case of the fads.

That's a disease that normally runs its course.

But in Eerie, Indiana, the Little Buddy fad was about to

make an epidemic of the measles look like a bad rash.

Have a nice day, sweetie.

Bye, sweetie.

Have a good day at school, dear.

Oh, not you, too!

Dwayne got him for me. BUDDY: Feed me more!

He's so cute.

Yeah, especially that cute way he drives his knuckles on the ground.

I meant Little Buddy.

I just love taking care of him.

He eats and sleeps and plays, just like a real person.

Or even Dwayne.

Buddy richly rewards those of us with the gift for nurturing others.

If I get enough points, and I will,

I'll get a solid gold Buddy Beep Beep.

The last thing you ever nurtured was a cactus and it died of thirst.

Uh-oh. Buddy has to go potty. Little Buddy has to go potty.

Ugh! [TOILET FLUSHING]

[CARRIE CHUCKLING]

[BUDDIES BEEPING]

Hey, Stanley. Hi, Mitchell.

Killer shirt, Mr. Crawford. Thanks.

I'm big on Buddy.

Hottest item in the store.

Get with the program, Mitchel.

All the kids are into Buddy Beep Beep.

How much? Wrong attitude.

How much? $29.95, plus shipping.

Thirty bucks for a toy that ends up in your sock drawer next month?

Buddy's not a fad.

He's a commitment.

The price is worth it. [CHUCKLES]

You really ought to get one. What's the shipping and handling on that?

You don't have to send away for it. Buddy's made right here in Eerie.

Sure you don't want one?

Don't wanna be left out?

Has anybody seen Oscar?

ALL: Mm-mm.

He really wanted me to see his gold Buddy.

Morning, Andre. Probably it's so cheesy, he's hiding it.

STANLEY: Mitch, it's fantastic.

I can't wait to get one.

I really wanna win it.

Who else has won one?

Oh, Jim Farey and Dave Zimmerman.

You know, I haven't seen either of them or their Buddies around either.

There you go, put that on the rack for me, will ya?

No problem.

[BUDDIES BEEPING AND CHATTERING]

MITCHELL: That picture was like the first tickle in your throat

or a sign of the sniffles.

Only, the new little Buddy bug wasn't of the 24 hour variety.

The newspaper said that Little Buddy had been inspired

by the inventor's childhood experiences.

Even a kid from Eerie couldn't have had a childhood that warped.

[ALARM BLARING]

[CACKLING]

Another prize winner, eh?

Uh, no... What's the matter?

Don't you wanna get in on the fun?

There's a great prize!

Sure, you gotta work hard. You gotta pay your dues!

I don't even own a Little Buddy.

Huh? I just wanted to talk to whoever's in charge here.

Oh. Well, that'll be me.

Prendergast. Toymaker. What do you want? I'm busy.

I was just looking for a friend of mine.

Oscar Lewis. Oh. Well, uh...

He's, uh, on tour.

With Jim Farey and Dave Zimmerman?

Who? They won prizes, too.

Oh! [LAUGHS] Oh, yeah.

Zimmer...

Yeah. Well, you see, the solid gold Buddy is such a fabulous prize,

that the winners always...

leave town to show it off.

So they're probably somewhere in the...

In the great mid... mid-ish... west...

showing it to distant,

you'd never get their phone numbers distant...

relatives.

Oscar doesn't have any distant relatives.

And you don't have any friends here, so,

so go away.

BUDDY: Prendergast, I need you!

Who's that? Never mind.

Um, just go. And don't come back unless you're a prize winner, okay?

Have fun!

Prendergast, I said I need you!

I'm coming, Beep Beep.

I can't find my card!

[BEEPS] Here we go.

MITCHELL: Two things about the Eerie Toy Company struck me as supremely weird.

One was the overgrown kid of a toymaker,

and the other was that for all of its size,

Prendergast and his partner seemed to be the only guys who worked there.

Where's my new CD? MITCHELL: You're home early.

How is Dwayne? There is no Dwayne.

He called me shallow and irresponsible.

You neglected the lovable little tyke.

There just wasn't any time for Dwayne.

Little Buddy never stopped asking for stuff.

What was I supposed to do?

What we have here is a failure to commiserate.

Just hit replay and try again.

There is no replay.

You only get one chance to prove that you're good enough for him.

And now he's dead. And Dwayne says it's all my fault.

MITCHELL: Guilt and shame.

Little Buddy knew exactly which buttons to push.

Which made me wonder,

who was really enjoying this game?

BUDDY: Where are you, Prendergast?

Just putting away some toys, Beep Beep.

Toys we don't need any more.

[STUTTERING] Just checking up on you.

You don't mind me doing that, do you?

Not at all, Beep Beep.

[YAWNING] I like being checked on.

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

You like being looked after, don't you, Prendergast?

Yes, Beep Beep.

Well, so do I!

Get in here!

Buddy's an addiction and you're hooked, Stanley.

No, I'm not. I'm fine.

I can quit any time I want.

BUDDY: Feed me! [BEEPS]

You were saying?

[PAGER BEEPING]

My mom!

Thank you.

What's wrong?

Family calls, it's almost Buddy's play time.

I can't go off blowing points. He needs me.

I'm too close to winning.

What's more important? Your mom or a microchip?

Tell you what. I'll babysit Buddy while you go call your mom.

Are you okay?

He wants to play catch press the right button.

Okay. He wants to play tag press the left button.

All right.

And if he wants to play something else, press both buttons at the exact same time,

as fast as you can.

All right. I'll make sure he works up a sweat.

No! No, no, no, no, no.

He'll need to take a bath. He's very particular about his bathing.

Okay. Just don't lose any points.

All right. Go.

MITCHELL: Little Buddy looked like he was about to claim another victim.

Stanley was losing his grip on reality.

Hi, Mom.

BUDDY: Come on, play with me!

I wanna play catch.

Oh! Throw harder!

Come on! Play better!

MITCHELL: I had to admit. Buddy was kind of fun.

A cute little rascal.

And boy, was he high maintenance.

"Gimme, gimme, gimme."

[BEEPING] BUDDY: Congratulations, Big Buddy!

You win!

Come and get your prize!

[LAUGHS] Hey! Jackpot!

Way to go, Mitchell!

Ooh, ooh! You win! Ooh, ooh! You win! Ooh, ooh! You win!

MITCHELL: This was a toughie.

Stanley really wanted that prize.

But in his present state, he was blind to the danger of this thing.

BUDDY: Come on, best buddy.

What are you waiting for?

Let's go!

Let's go!

MITCHELL: Something weird was going on at that factory,

and I had to save Stanley and the others from themselves.

[BEEPING]

[WHOOSHING AND BEEPING]

♪ Winner, winner You're a winner

♪ Winner, winner

♪ You've won!

Congratulations, best buddy!

You're a caring nurturer.

Sit down. BUDDY: Feed me! Nurture me!

Stanley was right. This thing is awesome.

PRENDERGAST: Yeah. How do I take it off?

PRENDERGAST: You don't.

MITCHELL: Hey! [LAUGHING]

[MITCHELL YELLING] Hey!

Let me out of here!

Where are you taking me?

[SCREAMING]

Welcome, Buddy.

Nurture me.

Mr. Crawford, I can't find Mitchell anywhere.

Seems like him and my Buddy have disappeared off the face of this planet.

Yeah, is that fantastic or what?

"Fantastic"?

Without me, my Little Buddy will die.

No, I mean the win.

What win? Mitchell won the prize.

Hey, you should have heard the bells and stuff. [CHUCKLES]

Your Little Buddy was so happy.

[GROANS] Oh!

MITCHELL: What's going on here?

PRENDERGAST: I used to be a master toymaker.

Then I created Buddy.

MITCHELL: You built that monster?

Actually, I built myself.

He's not a monster. He's a...

A teacher, a tutor in the arts of compassion and responsibility.

He's a disease.

Big Buddy rules now. Put him in nurture mode, Prendergast.

You gotta stop this!

Why are you taking orders from that thing?

PRENDERGAST: I'm completely in control. Convert him, Prendergast.

Toys don't control humans.

Humans play with toys.

Hey, we work here.

We don't play with toys, we make them.

Now, just... just relax.

This will convert your brain waves to Buddy's program.

It's just like being at summer camp.

Promise.

Have a nice trip.

[WHIZZING] [FLUTE MUSIC PLAYING]

BUDDY: Welcome to Camp Buddy, little friend.

MITCHELL: How may I serve you, Beep Beep?

STANLEY: I trusted him, Crawford.

My best friend!

He leapfrogged off my points and stole my prize!

Now, now, Stanley. That's just a chocolate card.

It's time to put the past behind you.

Move on.

Buy yourself a new Buddy. I can't.

I don't have 30 bucks.

You don't? Oh.

That changes everything.

You've been deceived.

That's what I was saying.

And in that situation, there's only one thing

a betrayed amigo can do.

There is.

And that would be?

Stanley, sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

I'm going to that factory,

ripping that gold Buddy off of Mitchell's arm,

and beating his brains out with it!

Ah, feisty little fella.

Gotta learn to hold his cows though.

Are we all having a good time, kids?

ALL: Yes, Beep Beep.

Just keep pushing those buttons.

We're all having a great time at camp.

Great time at camp.

Great time at camp.

[MUSIC BOX PLAYING]

Stop.

What are you doing?

I'd like to play with you, Daddy.

Play toys with me.

We're not here to play.

You're a Prendergast, a toymaker.

We don't play with the toys.

We make the toys.

No, play!

Play is a waste of time.

You need to make something of yourself.

Now get to work!

Play! Work!

Push those buttons.

Trust your father. It's just like being in camp.

You will have a great time in camp.

Great time in camp. Great time in camp.

Great time in camp.

BUDDY: Prendergast!

Snack time!

I swear! You're a little more useless every day.

I should stamp you obsolete.

Look at them, Prendergast.

High maintenance, but Cuba's the dickens.

Pay attention, Prendergast!

I'm sorry, Beep Beep.

[YAWNING] I'm just so tired lately.

If you don't get with the program,

you're gonna be put on the junk pile

with all the other forgotten fads.

Beep Beep, you haven't let me rest in over...

Oh, here we go! Me, me, me!

All right. Have it your way.

Take a 15, that's, 15 minute break,

but be back here on the dot!

Thank you, Beep Beep.

You're too kind.

I know.

[YELLING] Mitchell Taylor!

[BEEPING]

I'll get it, Beep Beep.

[DOOR BUZZING]

[DOOR OPENS]

STANLEY: Mitchell!

When I catch you, you're gonna be so very sorry.

[GRUNTS]

[CAMERA WHIRRING]

[STANLEY WHISTLING] [SNORING]

Ooh! Time to go party, little buddies.

Back in five minutes in full nurture mode.

ALL SPEAK IN MONOTONE: Yes, Beep Beep.

Bee Beep us our friend.

Beep's our friend until the end.

We just serve him night and day.

We make toys our work, not play.

Buddy Beep Beep is the one...

Where's my prize, you Buddynapper?

MITCHELL: Having a great time in camp.

You cheated me, Mitchell. I though you were my best friend.

Beep Beep is my friend.

Well, I bet he doesn't know you're a back stabber.

Are you listening to me?

Having a great time at camp.

Ugh!

[STUTTERS] What happened?

Where are we?

Do you know how much Buddy meant to me?

He was like the little brother I never had.

The puppy I was allergic to.

Two weeks of non-stop nurture!

Just give me a chance to explain.

MITCHELL: Then he puts this really weird helmet on you.

And the real prize is you get to be Big Buddy's slave forever.

Churning out Little Buddies to create new slaves.

We gotta stop that from happening.

I know. But we have to save the others first.

We got to find something to kick-start their brains.

I got it.

BUDDY: Red alert! Red alert!

Prendergast, I need you!

Camp's over, guys.

We got cool new toys.

Stop this! Get back to work!

[SCREAMS] No!

Prendergast! Prendergast! For the love of technology...

Quit it!

Get back to work!

Nurture me, little buddies. Nurture me!

Hey, you!

[SOBBING]

You...

Prendergast? Don't!

Prendergast, take it.

You're not running Buddy, he's running you.

This is your chance to break free.

Don't listen to him! Don't listen to him!

I'd like to play with you, Daddy.

Play toys with me.

PRENDERGAST SR.: You're a Prendergast, a toymaker.

We don't play with the toys,

we make the toys.

Don't you wanna have fun?

Don't you wanna play what you want to, not what he tells you to?

Prendergast! What are you doing?

Don't I matter to you? [SOBBING]

You see? He only cares about himself.

[YELLING]

He doesn't want caring or compassion, he wants to own you.

He'll take you down with him.

[SNARLING]

Don't abandon me, Prendergast.

What will people think if you don't take care of me?

I don't have to look after him any more?

[SOBBING]

I can have a life?

I could have fun!

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

Prendergast, don't do that!

Don't do that! Put that down, please.

No!

Hula hoop! Almost had it there!

You ingrate! You're nothing without me!

I made you rich!

And you made me a spare part.

You're a cute idea, Beep Beep,

but you went horribly wrong.

And I'm free now.

I am free!

What about me? What about me?

I have a new passion now.

I'm going to enjoy the hula in every hoop.

A yo in every yo-yo.

A whoopie in every cushion. Whoopie!

I don't need you any more, Beep Beep.

We don't need you any more.

We can have fun on our own.

[SCREAMING]

BUDDY: Nurture me! Nurture me!

Oh, please take care of me.

What will I do without someone to take care of me?

I'm just a little guy. I'm helpless.

What will happen to me...

[CRUSHING]

[WHOOPING]

MITCHELL: Buddy's end wasn't pretty.

But it was a lot better than he would have given any of us.

Buddy had forgotten that when it comes to toys,

kids are supposed to be in charge.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[CLATTERING]

STANLEY: Solid little sucker.

You really wanted that, didn't you?

Yeah, I guess I did.

It's really cheesy now, though.

Kind of like the stuff you find at yard sales.

Kids... we have no attention span.

STANLEY: Ain't that the truth.

Stanley, today we have preserved the freedom of kids

to obsess over the next fad that comes down the pike.

We've protected our heritage of fair play and laying fair.

And best of all, safeguarded our inalienable right...

to goof off.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

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