literature

Bubble, Bubble Nothin' But Trouble

Deviation Actions

T5-Comix-Cartoonz's avatar
Published:
897 Views

Literature Text

(Toon 5some Quickgag #2)

Bubble, Bubble Nothin’ But Trouble

Written By Salim Al-Mumin


    The scene opens atop the peak of the mystic Magma Mountain. Within the ancient volcanic temple we find Pyro the Dreaded Dragon Sorcerer and Jake the Flying Snake standing around a boiling cauldron. Pyro's scaly hand reaches over the bubbling goop and pours in just the tiniest drop of potion saying aloud,

Pyro: "Just a little drop of nightshade juice."

When the drop hits the goo in the cauldron it causes the solution to flare up with a cloud of smoke. Pyro corks the nightshade vile and places aside. He then drops two eyeballs into the cauldron and says,

Pyro: "With the eyeballs from a lame duck." [the eyeballs also cause the stew to flare up with a POOF. Pyro then reaches over and grabs a small forked tongue and says] "and now a tongue from Indian tree snake."

    Jake, who is still sitting nearby watching Pyro work his magic, shudders at the last ingredient. Finally topping it off with a little Oregano, Pyro's gruesome concoction is now complete! With his eyes glowing bright yellow, Pyro waves his hands over the cauldron and recites a frightful spell,

Pyro: "Bubble, bubble nothin’ but trouble, thunder roar and lightning strike so that we may dine on soup tonight!" Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! [Pyro laughs manically]

    Outside of the mountain, lightning streaks down from the Heavens as Pyro continues to laugh like a madman. Unfortunately for him, a stray bolt of lightning careens down through the mouth of his volcano and toasts both the brew and him too. Still holding his arms aloft, Pyro lets out with one more half-hearted laugh before collapsing over onto the cauldron causing it to flip up into the air and then promptly land down over his head. Jake slithers over to him, lifts up the cauldron and says,

Jake: "Maybe we should just go out for Chinese instead."

Then out of nowhere Ma-Caw flies down wearing stereotypical Chinese garb and rings a gong while laughing wildly.

Ma-Caw: "Ha! Ha! Ha! Haw!!!"

After which the cartoon ends with an iris out.

This very short script is part of a series of micro-shorts I've come to call "Toon 5some Quickgags". The regular shorts in my series are intended to be anywhere from 6 to 10 minutes in length. The "Quickgags" on the other-hand are meant to be no longer than roughly 4 minutes. I had originally planned everything to play out in a standard TV show format taking inspiration from 90's series like "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs". The idea was for these mini-shorts to appear sparingly between showings of the regular shorts, sort of like a quick vignette before the next cartoon.

I shall begin making animatics and storyboards for this cartoon in the near future to begin production, and hopefully garner a little attention, support, and help to turn this story into a fully animated cartoon for people of all ages to enjoy. If there are any animators out there with a knack for classic Looney Tunes/Disney style animation who'd like to lend a hand, please send me a note, because I definitely need all the help I can get.

You can support my projects on Patreon... www.patreon.com/iamtheunison

OR

Buy me a Ko-fi... ko-fi.com/A810IUM, but only if you want.
© 2016 - 2024 T5-Comix-Cartoonz
Comments2
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
kyrtuck's avatar
Less is more Pyro, stop making such over complicated recipes!