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1. INT. CHONKSY'S APARTMENT · 3 AM · A

• He uses the sitcom method: one line on a legal pad, rewritten forty times.
• Chonksy: "It's worse." Rewrites. "It's worse." Rewrites. "It's better." Squints. "…It's the first one."
• Button: by dawn he has one page. He looks at it the way people look at newborns.

ACT ONE

2. INT. CHUMPY'S APARTMENT · B

• Chumpy becomes a real producer and builds a budget on a cracked shell tablet. Line items: SNACKS 60%. SET 20%. CAMERA 15%. EMOTIONAL SUPPORT 5%.
• Chonksy: "We don't have a budget." Chumpy: "This is the budget's vibe."

3. INT. SEAVER'S WORKSHOP · B

• Chonksy hands Seaver the pages. Seaver reads them the way he inspects a load-bearing wall.
• Seaver: "Structurally speaking…" A long pause. "…it's the first thing I've read that holds." He puts on a hard hat. He's in.

5. EXT. LOT · B

• Sea Panda Kid finds out and talks his way in through blackmail: "I'm FIFTEEN. Nobody can fire me. I don't have a job. That's leverage."
• Chumpy: "What's in the backpack?" Sea Panda: "That's need-to-know." (It's snacks.)

6. INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE · NIGHT · B/C

• Ink arrives smuggled in a laundry cart. She runs camera, lights, boom and slate at once with her eight arms.
• Platrick runs sound. Platypus electroreception means he can hear everything, including Ink's heartbeat through the mic, which speeds up whenever he talks.

ACT TWO

7. INT. WAREHOUSE · BUILDING · B

• Seaver builds a western saloon out of studio scrap. Seabear does a stunt off a ladder onto mattresses, insists on doing it again, then does it nine more times. He just likes it.

8. INT. WAREHOUSE · FIRST SHOT · A

• Everyone waits for Chonksy. He doesn't know how to say "Action."
• Chumpy: "You just say it." Chonksy: "It feels illegal." Chumpy: "It is illegal." Chonksy: "…Action." Nobody moves. "That's you, Seabear." Seabear: "Oh! I was so moved."

10. INT. WAREHOUSE · LATE · C

• Platrick and Ink share one pair of headphones under a work light and listen to the day's audio. One tentacle curls around his paw. A tiny ink heart floats up.
• Ink: "You can hear my heartbeat through this?" Platrick: "Cool cool cool… yes." Ink: "What's it doing?" Platrick: "…Cool stuff."

11. INT. PRESS JUNKET · DAY · A

• Chonksy does the SPACESHARKS press. Reporter: "What's your process?" Chonksy: "I copy." The reporters write it down like it's profound.

ACT THREE

13. EXT. BACK ALLEY · NIGHT · B

• Chumpy jogs film cans across town. He is, technically, getting in shape. His phone rings. Chumpy: "Mom. I'm jogging." Silence on the line. Mom: "…Are you in trouble?"

14. INT. WAREHOUSE · A · ♥ heart beat

• Gotter appears in the doorway, frail. He watches them shoot and starts to cry.
• Chonksy: "Do you want to…?" Gotter shuffles to the camera. Very quietly: "…Action."
• He hasn't said it in sixty years. Nobody makes a joke. Even Seabear stays quiet.

16. EXT. STUDIO LOT · 3 AM · A

• Seapholk stands alone under a streetlamp, sonar rings rippling out. Across town, one warehouse window glows.

TAG

17. INT. SEA SI OFFICE

• Introduce the Watcher, a tired walrus agent newly assigned to "ambient studio noise."
• His log: "Subject laughing. Possibly suspicious. Possibly I'm lonely."

ON THE CURRENT

21. REMAKE CLIP: "SAD MEN" · slot: after Scene 11

• The ad-agency drama remake. The famous title sequence: Chonksy in a sharp suit falls in silhouette past skyscrapers, through clouds, totally unbothered, lounging mid-fall with his paws behind his head. (A callback to the Chonksy Falls video.)

22. THE CITY WATCHING: DENTIST & ELEVATOR · slot: under Scene 13

• A dentist's office: a patient with his mouth clamped open laughs at Sad Men on the ceiling TV. The dentist, a crab, waits.
• An elevator: two strangers watch the elevator screen's Sad Men clip, then pretend they weren't.

SHOWRUNNER PASS · WORLD-TRUE (new scenes)

Tests: true to the world, funny, interesting. See WORLD.md.

COMEDY PASS · STAKES & LAUGHS

Engines from Seinfeld, Bernie Mac, Gillis, Rock, Farley and the bench. See COMEDY_PASS.md.

STAKES: exposure on live Current at the junket; Seabear's uninsured stunts. CLOCK: wrap before the Sea SI moves. PRICE: Seabear's back.

40. THE REHEARSAL · Scene 5, before the first day · Fielder

• Chonksy has never told anyone what to do. So, alone in the warehouse, he builds a full-size cardboard replica of the set and casts an inflatable pool-toy orca in a bathrobe as the boss, then rehearses saying "Action."
• "Action." "Action." "Action!" "Action?" Chumpy, holding a box painted like a camera: "That one was a question." "Directors can ask questions." "Not that one."
• On the fortieth take, the inflatable orca slowly deflates, folding forward onto the cardboard desk, as if it's bowing. Chonksy (moved): "…Thank you."