"Snail's Pace Productions Pleasant Facade Estates The Bizzy Buddies

The Night Before Christmas humorous illustrated story featuring The Bizzy Buddies writer illustrator Vuja Day

SCENE 1
INT. HOUSE - AFTERNOON

Welcome to Leekville, Allium County... the "Leek Growing Capital of the World"!

The largest landowners in the county, the Tuckus Family, goes back generations... with fortunes made and lost and gambled away and squandered away...dwindled, chipped and pissed away .

The family matriarch, Ma Tuckus, is considered to be the grand doyenne of so-called "polite society". She has three adult children (who still act like children). Two of them are fraternal twins Tommy and Troy. Different as night and day, they totally despise one another.

When the Tuckus twins inherit the family farm, Troy works his share in earnest as a struggling farmer. Tommy sells his half of the farm to land developers and makes LOTS of money!

A humorous exploration of the universal themes of self-loathing and greed. a veritable melange , a "social soup" of human attributes, foibles and proclivities... a melage, melange. A farming county/community being encroached upon by urban life. Everything is changing...

Welcome to Allium County, a farming community being encroached upon by urban life. Is it Leekville or Leek Ville This is the town of Leekville... a veritable "social soup"

A humorous exploration of the universal themes of self-loathing and greed. a veritable "social soup" of human attributes, foibles and proclivities... a melage, melange. A farming county/community being encroached upon by urban life. The crux of it all is the Tuckus family feud.The saga of fraternal twin brothers who hate each other...passionately! Fraternal twin brothers Tommy and Troy, who are as different as night and day, inherit the family farm. Troy honors the land by following in the family tradition of farmers. Tommy sells his half of the farm to a land developer who immediately plows down the fields and puts up a McMansion housing development called Pleasant Facade Estates. Tommy buys the biggest house on the highest hill... spitefully overlooking the property line where his brother's farm is.\par

Life in Leekville: A philosophical, poignant (and sometimes repugnant) view of the world as seen from a Leekville-ite's eyes.

LEEKVILLE Leekville is in the news, which stimulates the economy, and after Pleasant Facade Estates are built, then Bizzyland with the zoo and rides. Bizzyland with the Fairy Shooting Gallery. There is Ma Tuckus' house, the cemetery, the church, downtown, the mall, the hospital, the school

Being "encroached" like plants invading your space. It's also a metaphor for the suburban way of life encroaching upon the farmlands... like invading plants. Speaking of invading plants... there's The Power Plant!

Pleasant Facade Estates : a hoity-toity enclave McMansion-filled housing development in the town of Leekville, built on half the farm owned by the long-time Tuckus family now owned by the battling twin brothers, Tommy and Troy.

PLEASANT FACADE ESTATES behind a foreboding iron gate. the gate to the subdivision malfunctions frequently community pool ----------------------
\par birthdays for Tommy and Troy: a feud started years ago where Tommy gave Troy a tie for his birthday and Troy was incensed by it, feeling it was condescending, and for Christmas he gave it back to Tommy. For their next birthday Tommy gave it to Troy... and on it went for years\par \par
The saga centers on two brothers, fraternal twins, who despise each other. Different as night and day. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse/Country Mouse and the City Mouse. Troy stays on the farm, and is bitter because he feels he has made alot of personal sacrifices to stay and keep the farm running. Tommy leaves town after his wife dies, leaving 3 year old Barley in Troy and Jane's care. He late r returns with a new wife and step-daughter (who's a year and a half older than Barley) and he SELLS his portion of the land to LAND DEVELOPERS who promptly rolls in with bulldozers and dig up the earth and put a huge subdivision of McMansions (behind a menacing gate) There are fights in court about sewage placement and water rights

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ where one dysfunctional generation is raising the next dysfunctional generation. And at the eye of that storm swirls around the two Tuckus brothers - fraternal twins who are as different as night and day. The town mouse and the country mouse. The only thing they have in common is that they each despise one another/the other one./one another+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------------------------------------

is Ma Tuckus, who is running a covert cat house... a bed & breakfast for cats called "Tuckus Inn". It's zoned for business for humans, and if it's a cat house it is zoned as agricultural. And her place is not zoned for livestock agriculture. .. Ma Tuckus is continually/always threatening to re-write her will, leaving her sizeable assets (ie/fortune) to her cat Pierre. Her three kids: fraternal twins Tommy and Troy, and sibling Terri (formerly Terry). The region/world is plagued by "Ovis Syndrome": it renders sufferers with symptoms like unexplicable curling of the hair and "baaing" like a sheep. The only remedy comes from an innoculation made from the urine of sheep that eat leeks! Farmers in Leekville with sheep that eat leeks are in for a potential fortune/windfall! The two battling fraternal twin brothers are running against each other in the Allium County election.

TOMMY: (off camera)
(bellowing)
Hear ye! Hear ye!
The meeting is about
to commence!


BOARD MEMBER 2:
The issue is Tuckus
Drive versus Street,
Lane, Terrace etc


HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION Debate over street being named Tuckus TOMMY: As President of the Pleasant Facade Estates Home Owners' Association, I hearby declare that this meeting is over. Pan out to reveal that everyone has already long-left the table. -------------- thw hoity toity housing enclave with the home owners association Tommy wants a street in PFE named after him. Big discussion if it should be "street" or "drive" or "court" or "lane" TOMMY: "Court"...hmmm I like the sound of that, like the king's court OTHER: (smirking) Or like LEGAL court.. TOMMY: (gulping) I'll take Drive the decision about the naming of the streets... there is a petition to change the name of the street "Tuckus Trail". People are complaining that they are giggled at whenever they have to give out their address. Tommy is highly insulted. That's a good, strong German name. Tommy storms into the room, bug-eyed with rage!

TOMMY: (off camera)
CRYSTAL SHOP?!
What kind of life
skills will that bring?!


BARLEY: (off camera)
I dunno... I just
thought I'd enjoy it.


TOMMY: (off camera)
"Enjoy it??! You're
not supposed to enjoy.
your job!


Tommy storms into the room, bug-eyed with rage!

Barley's shirt slogan "It's OK to be OK"

TOMMY: All I can say is... "Get a job!!"



TAMMY:
What did you say?!


LITTLER:
(meekly)
i am i am


TAMMY:
That's more like it.


LEAZA:
Hey! What are you
doing to the dish
soap?!

LITTLER:
!-- (meekly)
--> That's my rainbow

Leaza impatiently grabs the multi-colored bottle, and ends up mixing the colors together into a khaki-colored goo

Littler screams out as Tammy grabs the bottle and the colors all mix together

LEAZA:
(shuddering
in disgust)
This isn't rainbow
colored... this is a
yucky color!


HISTORY TOMMY/TROY Tommy and Troy were always competitive with each other, and different as night and day. Tommy was the Town Mouse, and Troy was the Country Mouse.\par \par The family patriarch died and Tommy and Troy have to share the family farm (their brother/sister Tony was given the "family jewels" a pointed stab at his/her/their demeanor. But the jewels ended up being worth alot of money and he/she/them ended up receiving an equitable share Troy married a local gal Jane and they had a son named Jake. Tommy married a local gal, Amy, and they were hippies together, living in a tent on the property. They have a son, Barley. Troy and Jane lived in the farmhouse with Jake, while Tommy, Amy and Barley live in a tent on Tommy's half of the property.\par \par When Barley is 3 years old, Amy dies, leaving Tommy with a young child. Tommy leaves his son with Jane and Troy and leaves town. He comes back years later as a banker type and he has a flashy new wife who has a daughter of her own, a year and a half older than Barley. Tommy and Tammy have 2 children together... Timmy and Littler.\par

Tammy makes dinner for Tommy... very spicy. Tommy's eyes are bugging out. she wants his opinion, and he's trying to be diplomatic.\par
TOMMY: It's good... if you like ginger... and garlic.(coughing)..\par TAMMY: And cayenne!\par TOMMY: (choking) Oh yes... definitely that...\par and there's alot of all of them in that stew.\par TAMMY: It's not a stew. It's egg foo young.


MA and Pa are acrimoniously divorced. Haven't seen each other in years, both have to attend the same family function. Neither one of them will wear their hearing aids. TOMMY: Ma refuses to wear her hearing aid. TAMMY: Well, your dad will NEVER wear his. (Ma pretends she has a "hearing problem" and that allows her to overhear all kinds of things (her hearing is as sharp as a hawk) Three sons: fraternal twins Tommy & Troy; son Tony/Terry who later becomes "Tony" . Tony was an attorney and Toni became a doctor. Toni/Tony lives in the city, Tommy in the suburb, Troy in the country. The town of Leekville(population 3330) is the county seat for Allium County.(total population 33330)
\par Troy and his wife Jane have their teenage son Jake and other kids too. Jane ends up opening a bakery downtown while Troy continues working on the farm, angrily, because he "missed the big pay out".\par \par Fraternal twin brothers Tommy and Troy, who are as different as night and day, inherit the family farm. Troy honors the land by following in the family tradition of farmers. Tommy sells his half of the farm to a land developer who immediately plows down the fields and puts up a McMansion housing development called Pleasant Facade Estates. Tommy buys the biggest house on the highest hill... spitefully overlooking the property line where his brother's farm is.\par In retaliation Troy builds the biggest barn... right at the property line where his brother's McMansion is. And there are horses, cows and sheep... and the smell and the flies! The cows are always jumping the fence/escaping into Tommy's yard and eating his expensive sod lawn.\par \par Tommy's teenage son is so much more like his Uncle Troy than he is like his own father. And Troy has a teenage son and the same dilema too... his son is so much more like his Uncle Tommy than he is like his own father.\par

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jane is plain. Tammy is catty behind her back. But then Jane saves Littler's life! After than, Tammy is indebted to Jane and is in touch with her, even though the husbands don't talk to each other.

THE NEAR DROWNING OF LITTLER: When Littler was littler she fell in the pool/pond and almost drowned. Aunt Jane, who had recently felt compelled to enroll in the CPR classes at the local Y, saved Littler's life. Tammy is forever grateful and will never be angry with Jane for anything. TAMMY: Oh my God, you saved my baby's life! Jane bashfully stands there. TAMMY: Oh my God, what can I do for you? Can I pay you? (continuing) TAMMY: A shopping spree. Let me give you a shopping spree. Later on, Tammy takes Jane on a mall shopping spree and tries to dazzle her up. They go to the clothing stores and makeup shops and Jane comes out looking like a freak! (did Jane and Tammy know each other in high school? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fraternal twin brothers Tommy and Troy who have been battling each other since birth.\par \par \par Troy lives on the farm with his wife Jane and their four boys, Jake 16, and the three bratty boys all high on sugar.\par \par \par \b TUCKUS INN\par \b0\par Grandma lives down the hill, converted the family residence into a bed and breakfast "Tuckus Inn"\par \par Eventually it becomes a cat-only place... a \i salon du chat\i0\par \par \b TRINA:\par \b0 Daughter Trina is career obsessed surgeon and lives in a fancy apartment building in the city. She used to be an attorney.\par

the story of two fraternal twin brothers, different as night and day. They inherit the family farm... after Tommy's wife dies and leaves him with a 3 year old child (Barley) Tommy becomes a CPA and sells his half of the family farm to land developers... who mow down the trees and put in "Pleasant Facade Estates". Tommy and Troy. Their sister Trina is a lesbian who got her law degree and is now going for a medical degree (or vise versa) She lives in a swank apartment uptown (where the cheetah comes to live with neighbor Callie). Grandma (or Ma) uses the family home to open a bed and breakfast "Tuckus Inn". \par Troy marries Jane, who is a baker. They have a son named Jake. They make a go of the farm. Tommy and his wife live in a tent on the land (hippies) and have a son the same age as Jake. Their son's name is Barley. They name their son Barley.\par When Barley is 3, his mom dies (expectedly/unexpectedly). He never sees her again. His dad moves to the city to study finance and accounting, Barley stays with his grandma and at uncle Troy's house while his dad is away for a few years.\par Tommy eventually returns to Tuber Town, with a new wife (and stepdaughter) in tow. The new wife is gold-digger Tammy and her scheming little daughter Leeza, who is a year older than Barley. When tammy comes along, that's when Tommy gets the idea to sell lhis half of the farm to land developers. This move so draws Troy's ire, that the two brothers (who were never close to begin with) go for xxx of years without speaking to one another.\par \par Barley is more like his Uncle Troy, and Jake is more like his Uncle Tommy.\par \par Leeza is jealous of the attention Littler gets.\par \par Tommy and Tammy have 2 kids of their own... Timmy (in a wheelchair) and "Littler" (the baby princess).\par JOEY RAINBOW:
(shuddering)
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