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Title:King Dead
Original Air Date:December 16, 1999
Guest Star:Jon Benjamin

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(Open on set. Space Ghost is outside the glass yelling to Zorak and Moltar inside.)

Space Ghost: -king dead! And if you don't open the door and let me in, you're fired.

Zorak: Well, we're not opening the door. How ya like that?

Space Ghost: Then you are completely fired!

Moltar: Good! We didn't want to work here anyway!

Space Ghost: Good! 'Cause now you don't!

Zorak: Good! 'Cause we're leaving!

Space Ghost: Good! 'Cause that's good!

Zorak: Good!

Moltar: Pfft! Good!

(Moltar and Zorak walk off set)

Space Ghost: Good!

(Pause)

Space Ghost: Hey! Hey! (knocks on window) Brak! (knocks again) C'mere, buddy! C'mere.

(Brak walks on set)

Space Ghost: Open the door.

Brak: No!

Space Ghost: I have beans.

Brak: Somebody say "beans"?

(Brak races to the door off-camera)

Brak: Who likes beans?!

Space Ghost: Press, press the blue button.

Brak: Yellow!

Space Ghost: No, not the yellow--

Brak: Yellow button!

Space Ghost: No...not that one.

Brak: It's lemony! And lemony's better than...AGGGHHH!!!

(Brak gets hurled into space. Meanwhile, Moltar and Zorak are in the airlock.)

Zorak: Freedom!

Moltar: Yeah!

Brak: AGGGHHHH!!!!

Moltar: What do you wanna do?

Zorak: Let's start a band!

Moltar: Yeah! We'll call it "Freedom"! I like that.

Zorak: That sucks!

Moltar: But "freedom" rhymes with "We from," like "We from the land of rock!"

(Zorak closes the airlock door)

Moltar: What? It's good!

(Back to set, where Space Ghost and Brak are now both stuck behind the glass.)

Brak: Space Ghost...

Space Ghost: Shut up. Hey! (knocks on glass). Tansut! Hey!

(Tansut walks on set)

Tansut: Did somebody just yell, "Tansut!"?

Space Ghost: Hey, come over here, buddy. Yeah, open the door. (Tansut walks to the door off-camera) Press, press the blue button.

Tansut: Oh, the pretty one?

Space Ghost: That's right.

Brak: But oh boy, do the yellow button!

Space Ghost: No.

Brak: Yellow!

Space Ghost: No.

Tansut: Agggghhh!! I went flying!!!

(Tansut is hurled into space, where he flies past Space Ghost's apartment. Cut to inside, where we find Moltar and Zorak. Zorak is playing guitar while Moltar stands on the TV.)

Zorak: Moltar, c'mon! Rip it up!

(Moltar jumps off the TV to reveal a keyboard hung around his neck. He plays a light melody to accompany Zorak's metal guitar.)

Zorak: I said to rock, not to suck! (singing)

(Back to set, where Brak, Tansut and Space Ghost are all stuck outside the glass)

Tansut: Why don't you just Inviso in there?

Space Ghost: No, this is what we'll do. (Brak and Tansut start walking toward the door) I will take on the form of steam and enter through the mail slot. Form of steam! Form of steam!

(Brak and Tansut walk back on set)

Space Ghost: Form of steam. Form of steam. Form of steam. Form of steam.

(Space Ghost looks at Tansut and Brak)

Space Ghost: You've wasted all the steam!

(Meanwhile, Zorak and Moltar are still jamming at Space Ghost's apartment. Suddenly, the power goes out.)

Zorak: Ya see that? Ya sucked all the lights out!

Moltar: No, I blew the fuse's mind.

Zorak: God.

Moltar: Wait!

(Moltar suddenly disappears but Zorak misses it because he turns his head)

Zorak: God, you're dumb.

Moltar: Where'd I go?

Zorak: Eh, let's just make some prank Calls.

(Moltar reappears)

Moltar: Oh, I'm back.

Zorak: Quit lookin' at me.

(Back to set. Space Ghost starts the show as Tansut passes in front of the camera.)

Space Ghost: Greetings!

Tansut: And greetings to you, sir!

Space Ghost: I'm Space Ghost! And welcome to the big show! Tonight--

Tansut: And I'm Tansut. I'll be your director tonight!

Space Ghost: Yeah, good. Well, I was just--

Tansut: Is it bad if a chicken bites you?

Space Ghost: Did a chicken bite you?

Tansut: Well, no. But he's gonna!

Space Ghost: Then go away from the chicken!

(Time passes)

Brak: Hello, my peeps! Peace out!

Space Ghost: Brak, just shut up and play me to the desk.

Brak: But did ya know...!

Tansut: (facing the curtain and muttering to himself.) Then go away from the chicken...

Space Ghost: Tansut! Is the guest ready?

Tansut: I don't know! I'm not in the control room! Unless this is the control room! Is it?

Space Ghost: (sighs.) Brak, play me to the desk.

(Space Ghost invisos to desk)

Brak: (singing) Where'd he go? I don't know! Where's that Space Ghost? Where'd he go? To the desk!

Space Ghost: Thank you.

Brak: (high-pitched singing.) Da-da-da!! DA DA DAAAAAAAA! DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

(The guest monitor starts to drop, then gets stuck)

Space Ghost: And now the monitor is actually lowering. Tansut?

Tansut: Oh! I'll fix it!

(The monitor goes back up toward the ceiling.)

Brak: You should interview a dinosaur!

Space Ghost: Forget it.

Brak: 'Cause I saw them once in a movie...'cause people don't see 'em!

Space Ghost: Yep, we'll do that. Never.

Brak: They don't live here.

(Space Ghost stands up to talk to Jon Benjamin. The shot is cut off so we can't see their eyes.)

Space Ghost: Jon, you ever notice the word "home" appears in a lot of songs?

Brak: They live on the dinosaur world.

Space Ghost: People always goin' home or comin' home.

Jon Benjamin: I guess you're right.

Space Ghost: They never write songs about buyin' a home, though, do they? That seems weird to me.

Jon Benjamin: D'oh, Space Ghost...

Space Ghost: Hang on a second, Jon.

(Space Ghost jumps on top of the guest monitor and stomps it down to its normal position, prompting loud laughter from Brak.)

Jon Benjamin: Should a... Ha! Ha!

Space Ghost: Jon.

Jon Benjamin: Yeah.

Space Ghost: Have you seen that show, Jon?

Jon Benjamin: The Dr. Katz show, that's the show you're talking about?

Space Ghost: No, not that show, Jon. The show I'm talking about has skeletal dogs.

Jon Benjamin: Oh well, tell me about it.

Space Ghost: Well, it's got dog skeletons with the bones that dogs do have. You know, I mean, the ones they own. That are in their body. Under the fur.

Jon Benjamin: Is it that great?

Space Ghost: Well, it hasn't aired yet, Jon, but I'm sure that it will.

Jon Benjamin: But you obviously haven't seen it.

Space Ghost: That's what I sh...that's what I meant to say when I said I had seen it, is that I want to see it. That's what I should have said.

(A phone rings)

Jon Benjamin: I am not taking calls right now. That's all there is to it.

Space Ghost: But it's my phone, Jon. And it's 'ranging'.

Jon Benjamin: Let it ring.

Space Ghost: But what if somebody's calling?

Jon Benjamin: Uh, take a message.

Space Ghost: All right. (answers phone) What's your message?

(Zorak is in Space Ghost's apartment on his phone)

Zorak: Please! Help me! I am being attacked!

Moltar: And you're a woman.

Zorak: And, uh, I'm a woman.

Moltar: Hang up. He'll be here any minute.

Space Ghost: She'd be dead by the time I got there.

(Space Ghost's phone rings again)

Space Ghost: Oh god. (answers phones) Greetings!

Moltar: Come to your house.

Space Ghost: You know, from now on, could you call me before the attack? 'Cause otherwise you're just wasting my time.

Moltar: Oh no, see, uh, I'm a cable guy.

Space Ghost: Cable?

Moltar: And I'm a woman.

Jon Benjamin: Can you tell her to call back?

Space Ghost: I'll try.

(Cut to Space Ghost in "Dr. Katz"-style animation)

Space Ghost: But cable is important.

Moltar: There's some good stuff on right now. And, uh, you oughta be here watchin' it.

(Space Ghost takes off)

Jon Benjamin: Is he gonna come back, or is that definitely not...?

Brak: Who?

Jon Benjamin: The guy that was right there.

Brak: He's gone?!

(Music starts as Brak suddenly sports a giant Carmen Miranda-style hat of fruit.)

Brak: Who likes beans?

Tansut: I like beans!

Brak: I love beans! Wooo woo woo!!

(Cut to Zorak in Space Ghost's house.)

Zorak: Now what?

Moltar: Uh, he's comin' here, so we should probably go there. That works, right?

Zorak: Eh, and crank call him here from over there.

Moltar: Yes! And as he picks up the phone, we'll jump out and kill him with zombies! (laughs as Zorak stares.) What's wrong with that?

(Back to Space Ghost set)

Brak: (singing) I'm gonna strip! I'm gonna take off my clothes! I'm gonna undress! I'm gonna take off my--

Moltar: Knock it off! (slams a dissonant chord on the keyboard.) This ain't no Cartoon Planet.

Brak: You coulda just turned it off.

Zorak: Brak, put your clothes back on.

Jon Benjamin: There's nothing wrong with a beautiful body. I'm saying if you have it, you, it's there for a reason. Show it around.

Zorak: Oh ho ho, we are so taking that TV.

(Back at his house, Space Ghost is watching a skeletal dog on TV)

Space Ghost: These shows sure are something. I'm glad I'm watching them.

(The phone rings)

Space Ghost: (answers.) Space Ghost residence! Space Ghost speaking!

Moltar: Come back here, to the studio.

Space Ghost: Can you hold on a second?

Moltar: Uh, sure.

(Space Ghost holds the phone away from his ear so he can pay attention to "Circus of the Barking Dead" on the TV.)

Moltar: Hello?

Space Ghost: No, I'm here. I'm here.

Moltar: Look, you want your cable cut off?

Space Ghost: No! Precious cable! I will give every hair on my body for it!

Moltar: Then get back to the studio!

(Space Ghost zips back to the studio, where the guest monitor is missing.)

Space Ghost: Tansut, where's my TV?

Tansut: I'm stripping!

Space Ghost: Yeah, I know. Where's my TV?

Tansut: (has his shirt off.) The case of the missing TV.

Brak: (has his shirt off.) Fa-na-da-DAAAAA!!!

Space Ghost: What's wrong with you? (cut to Zorak at Space Ghost's house, talking into the guest monitor.)

Zorak: Look at these muscles!

Jon Benjamin: Wow, they're really bouncy.

Zorak: What do you mean by that?

Jon Benjamin: Well, you know you're middle-age, and sometimes things settle.

Zorak: How dare you say that to me!

Jon Benjamin: Sorry.

Moltar: Should I unleash the zombies?

Zorak: Look, man, that's just, uh, very unrealistic.

Space Ghost: (speaking on his TV) Viewers of the world! One of you took my television! And I want it back! Tansut, tell me--

(The shot suddenly switches to Brak. Space Ghost goes to the control room, where Tansut is still undressed.)

Space Ghost: Did you get that?

Tansut: My navel can hold a quart of bean dip.

Brak: Somebody say beans?

(Music starts and Brak again pops up wearing his giant Carmen Miranda fruit hat)

Brak: Who likes beans?

(The shot in the monitor cuts to Zorak)

Zorak: So, Ghost, we meet again! (laughs.)

Space Ghost: Zorak, someone stole my TV, and it wasn't me! 'Cause it's mine! You get me?

(Zorak punches Jon Benjamin in the stolen guest monitor)

Zorak: We have your guest!

Space Ghost: And my TV!

Zorak: And we have many demands that are very unreasonable!

Moltar: And disorganized! We have to sort them out and prioritize! 'Cause some of the demands maybe aren't as strong as others, and still others aren't as outrageous so they go in a separate box and the what, uh...from the...uh...

Zorak: Just give us two weeks!

(Two weeks later. Zorak lands in the control room holding a tape, which Space Ghost grabs)

Zorak: Here.

Space Ghost: Thank you.

Zorak: You're welcome.

Brak: You're welcome! No, you're welcome! No, you're welcome!

(Space Ghost cuts Brak off by playing the tape in the control room monitor. He searches through the tape.)

Zorak: Keep goin'.

Space Ghost: Okay, Aunt Grabby, here it comes.

(A movie preview-style screen pops up with a warning:)

The following preview has been approved by all aliens in the Intergalactic Motion Picture Empire.

This motion picture has been rated U due to unreasonable demands.

Announcer: They came from different worlds, then they kidnapped Jon Benjamin and took him to someone's apartment. And that's when they made...Unreasonable Demands!

Zorak: I want a pet I can love, but I don't want to take care of it!

Moltar: Okay, we rollin'?

Announcer: Only one thing can stop them, and that thing doesn't exist. Yet.

Jon Benjamin: Well, I just...

Zorak: You get nothing!

Jon Benjamin: Would you let me go on? I mean, why interrupt?

Moltar: 'Cause we're rude!

Jon Benjamin: Can I have my sucker back?

Announcer: Unreasonable Demands!

Zorak: We get it, or he gets it! Or you get it! Ya get it?

Announcer: Get it - this Christmas! Unreasonable Commands! This film is not yet rated.

(Graphic on screen reads:

This film is not yet rated.

X55 approval pending - content insured Contact - Zenylox, Juggler of the Stars)

Brak: I'm goin' to the movies!

Tansut: Me too!

Space Ghost: Wait a minute! Computer, zoom in.

(Computer zooms in on painting of Golden Gate Bridge on Space Ghost's wall.)

Automated Voice: Enhancing. Enhancing complete.

Space Ghost: That's the bridge I painted. It's like they filmed this tape recording in an exact replica of my apartment. Wait a minute! They must be in my apartment! But wait a minute...

Automated Voice: Yellow.

Space Ghost: How'm I gonna get in there?

Automated Voice: Block.

Space Ghost: Wait a minute. I have the keys. Perfect!

(Cut to Moltar in Space Ghost's apartment.)

Moltar: Maybe what we oughta do, is we die, and then we come back as zombies.

Zorak: Just give the whole zombie thing a rest, all right?

Moltar: But zombies don't rest, see? That's the beauty. They feast on living brains.

Space Ghost: ATTENTION!

(Space Ghost is standing outside his apartment speaking through a megaphone.)

Space Ghost: I HAVE THE KEYS! IT IS MY APARTMENT!

Zorak: Oh no, the keys!

Space Ghost: IF YOU'RE WATCHING MY CABLE, PLEASE DESCRIBE WHAT'S ON!

Zorak: What about our unreasonable demands?

Space Ghost: YOU DIDN'T LIST ANY. LOOKS LIKE YOUR MOVIE IS GOING DIRECTLY TO VIDEO. VIDEO PRISON!

Zorak: Oh yeah? Well, we're sending Benjamin out in pieces!

Space Ghost: THAT'LL BE FINE. JUST DON'T TOUCH MY TV, OKAY? OR YOU'RE --KING DEAD! (CLEARS THROAT) SO, UH, WHAT ARE YOU ALL WATCHING?

Zorak: Hang on. It's, it's on, but we're not watching it.

Space Ghost: YOU'RE WASTING IT! I'M COMING IN!

(Space Ghost enters his apartment, where Moltar and Zorak are standing with lampshades on their heads.)

Space Ghost: Hmm. These aren't my lamps. These have feet. This must not be my apartment.

(Jon Benjamin laughs from the guest monitor, which is also under a lampshade.)

Space Ghost: I'd better go get a new apartment.

(Cut to Burial Ground Apartments - Now Renting. Space Ghost is standing inside a cursed apartment with a toaster, a boot, a scary photo, a book called "Matt's Mind" by Maiellaro, another book called "The Spells of Love" by Willis, a fork and other various items swirling around him.)

Space Ghost: I'm not going to let them get me. I'm not. I'm not gonna let them get me.

(Credits roll)


Guest Star
Jon Benjamin
Written By
Dave Willis
Matt Maiellaro
Pete Smith
Jim Fortier
Mark Banker
Voices
George Lowe
C. Martin Croker
Dave Willis
Andy Merrill
Don Kennedy
Offline Edit
Jon Schnepp
Online Edit
Jay Bellissimo
Production Coordinator
Bonnie Rosmarin
Production Manager
Vishal Roney
Talent Coordinator
Nina Bishop
Re-Recording Mixer
Roy Clements
New Animation
Jon Schnepp
Guitars
Matt Maiellaro
Eric Wachtman
Music
Man or Astroman?
Production Assistants
Maya McClure
Natali Tesche-Ricciardi
Head Writer
Matt Maiellaro
Supervising Producer
Dave Willis
Executive Producers
Keith Crofford
Mike Lazzo

© 1999 Cartoon Network, Inc. All rights reserved.
Animated Characters TM & © 1966 Hanna Barbera Productions, Inc.
All Rights reserved.


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