| SNOW
BIZ This story
first appeared in a comic book: Writer: John Stanley (1914-1993) This is the 1995 TV script, but the 1951 comic book version was almost identical. Note: The characters and their surroundings were copied unchanged from the comic books; hence the old-fashioned appearance of some things such as clothing styles. * * * * *
* Lulu: Oh, boy! [She runs excitedly down the hall to an old-fashioned telephone and dials.] [Her friend Annie wakes up and reaches for her similar phone.] Lulu: Annie, Annie! Look out the window. Do you see what I see? Annie: Snow? Lulu: Right! Meet me in front of my house with a shovel, and then we'll go door to door and see if......[The scene fades out.] * * * * *
* Lulu: I don't see why we girls can't earn money shoveling snow off sidewalks. Annie: If boys can do it, we can too. Iggy [from off screen]: Guys, guys, wait up! [Iggy runs past them with a shovel.] Lulu: Speaking of boys...... [Tubby, Willy and Eddie, with shovels, up ahead of the girls. Iggy joins them.] Tubby: Hey, girls! Gonna build a snowman? [The four boys' expressions are friendly.] [The two girls look at each other as if to say "Here we go with another girls vs. boys showdown!"] Lulu and Annie: Hmph! [With determined smiles, they approach the boys.] Lulu: No, Tubby. We're gonna shovel snow off sidewalks and make some money. [At this, the boys' faces change to a challenging expression.] Tubby? What?? Do you hear that, guys? Eddie: GIRLS?? Willy: You gotta be kidding. Tubby [in Lulu's face with a big grin]: You'd be lucky if your own pop hires you. Lulu: You just wait and see. Tubby: Sorry, girls, no time to chat. We've got shoveling work to do. [The boys march off, in single file, like soldiers.] One, two! One, two! One, two! Lulu: We'll show them, Annie. We can make twice as much money as they can. Annie: But, Lulu, there's twice as many of them as us. [They walk off in another direction, passing houses and some small apartment buildings.] * * * * *
* Woman [angrily]: Joe, will you PLEASE shovel the snow off our sidewalk? Joe: That's a big job, Mary. I've gotta rest up for it. [The doorbell rings.] Mary [to herself, on the way to the door]: Hmph! He's gotta rest up for it. Why, somebody's gonna slip and break their neck out there! [She opens the door, which has a circular window in it.] Lulu: Shovel the snow off your sidewalk, Ma'am? Annie: Only one dollar! [In the original comic book version, it was "Only twenty-five cents!"] Mary [grinning]: Oh, Joe! Come here! Joe: Whaddaya want? Mary: These two big, strong girls would like to shovel our walk. [Joe looks at them from his chair.] And for only one dollar! Shall I let 'em? Joe [jumping up]: Uh, no. I--I--I'll do it. I'll go get dressed. Annie [disappointed]: Oh. Mary [laughing]: Here you go, girls. One dollar each. [She hands them two dollars.] And it was worth every penny to get my husband to do some work around here! Lulu and Annie [astonished]: Gosh, thanks, lady! * * * * *
* Lulu: Wow! A whole dollar each. Annie: And for doing nothing! Lulu: Let's try this place, Annie. It needs a good shovel. [A mean-looking teenage boy looks out the window at them, then goes and opens the door, which has a rectangular window with blinds.] Boy [angrily]: Whaddaya want? [The girls are a little scared.] Lulu: Uh......Oh......Sh-sh-shovel the snow off your walk, Mister? Annie: Only one dollar! Boy: Naaah, beat it! [Slams the door in their faces and walks across the room.] If I had a dollar, I wouldn't be hangin' around HERE! ["A quarter" in the comic book.] HEY! [He grins suddenly.] [The girls outside, walking on.] Boy [from off screen]: Hey, you girls! Come back here! [They return. The boy is leaning out the window.] You can shovel the walk. Just make sure you do a good job. [Closes the window and turns away.] And when you come for your money I'll chase you away, and tell Mom I did it. And charge her......oh......two bucks. [He smiles, proud of his con-artistry.] [Outside, the girls are shoveling. Behind them we see an old-style street lamp.] Lulu: Gosh, Annie, I just don't trust that guy. I don't know if he'll even pay us. Annie: I don't trust him either, Lulu. [The boy waves to them from the window with a friendly, innocent smile.] Lulu: Well, maybe he's okay. Annie: Hmph! Lulu: Look, Annie! A dollar bill! [She picks it up.] Annie: Wow! Boy [at window]: Hey! You found that on my sidewalk, so it's mine! [He holds out his hand for it demandingly.] Lulu: Gosh, the nerve! [They see the boy turn furiously toward the door.] Uh......Let's go! [They take off. The boy runs wildly out the door.] Boy: Hey, come back here! [He slips on the partly-shoveled walk, grunts, staggers, and falls into the snow piled up at the side.]
Annie: I knew he was a wise guy. [They meet the four boys.] Hi, Tubby. Did you guys make any money yet? [In the background is a factory building.] Tubby: Naw, we didn't get one single job. Everybody's shoveling their own walks. [Willy and Eddie nod glumly.] Iggy: And if WE can't get anything, what chance have you GIRLS got? Lulu [holding up the money]: Oh, I don't know. We've made three dollars already. ["A dollar and a half" in the comic book, where the woman had given them a quarter each. The girls walk on.] Boys: WHAT?? Iggy: Of all the LUCK! Eddie: How did they do it? Willy: I don't believe it!
Lulu: Let's try this place, Annie. Annie: Yeah, it needs shoveling bad. [They knock on the door of a small house with a little grocery shop on one side and a fenced-in lot on the other. There are three small triangular windows in the door. After a long wait, the door is opened by a kind-faced old woman. On the wall behind her is an old-fashioned clock with a pendulum.] Lulu: Shovel your walk, Ma'am? Annie: Only one dollar! [Again, "25 cents" in the original.] Woman [smiling sweetly]: Oh, bless your little hearts! But I'm a poor widow. I can't afford to pay. [She closes the door, still smiling.] Lulu and Annie [sympathetically]: Aw! [They look around at the snow-covered walk and then look at each other.] Lulu: Gosh, are you thinking what I'm thinking, Annie? Annie: I don't know what you're thinking, Lulu, but I think we oughta do it for nothing. [They begin shoveling.] [At the other end of the block, the four boys are standing.] Willy: Will you look at that? They got ANOTHER job! Eddie: How do they DO it? [The boys are now looking angry.] Iggy: Yeah! They made enough dough already. Tubby: Okay! We're gonna take that job away from them. And that means...... [Cut back to the girls.] Boys [from off screen]: Snowball fight! [The girls look up, puzzled. The boys run toward them with snowballs. In a store window behind them we see a sign saying "100% OFF".] Boys: Yay! Charge! Get 'em! Yeah! Go! Tubby: We're takin' over this job, girls, so scram! [The boys wave snowballs threateningly.] Lulu [smiling, cool and calm]: Yeah. Sure, Tubby. Boys [confused]: Huh? [They expected the girls to fight back.] Lulu: But promise me one thing, that you'll do a good job. It's important! [You can see the famous "Little Lulu gleam" in her eyes.] Tubby: Don't worry about that. Just beat it. [Annie is suppressing a desire to laugh.] Lulu: Let's go have a couple of hot chocolates, Annie. [The girls walk off cheerfully.] Iggy: Goody! [A snowplow goes by, burying the walk in snow up to the boys' necks, to their disgust.]
Tubby: Well, guys, it can't get any cleaner than that. Let's get our money. [He knocks and the woman answers.] We've finished shoveling your walk, Ma'am. That'll be one dollar, please. [Or "25 cents".] Woman: But I didn't hire anybody to shovel my sidewalk. [The comic book story ended at this point. The following is in the TV version only.] [Iggy, Willy and Eddie make snowballs.] Tubby: Uh, guys......ha, ha......I, uh, uh...... [The two girls at a table with mugs of hot chocolate. The window behind them says "Nate's Sweet Shop" but the writing is backwards since we're looking from the inside. Across the street we can see a building with large double doors, perhaps a library.] Lulu and Annie: Mmmm! [As they raise their mugs and drink, we see Tubby run by outside, with snowballs flying at him, but the girls don't notice. They click the mugs together.] Lulu and Annie: CHEERS! [End of Snow Biz.] All characters, logos and comics images copyright their respective publisher. All content and all other images copyright 2002 comicreaders.com. |