Script

SIDE 1

ALEX

Surprise!


MARTY

Aaaagh! Alex, don’t interrupt me when I’m daydreaming. When the zebra’s in the zone, leave ’em alone.

ALEX

C’mon, Marty! Can’t a guy drop by to see his best friend? His best buddy? Say hi? Maybe even say, oh I don’t know...

(GLORIA, MELMAN, the LIONESSES and MASON the Chimpanzee enter with a cake.)

GLORIA, MELMAN, LIONESSES, MASON

Happy birthday!!!

MARTY

Aw, you guys...

(The group recites their clearly planned birthday greeting.)

GLORIA

Happy birthday Marty! We made you something sweet.

ALEX

It’s covered in frosting and it’s so good to eat.

MELMAN

Ooh, it’s your tenth birthday, this party is for you.

GLORIA, MELMAN, LIONESSES

Because you act like a monkey and you smell like one too!

MASON

Smell like a monkey?! I say! Stop perpetuating that loathsome stereotype! Uncivilized barbarians!

 

SIDE 2

 

KING JULIEN

Welcome, you cavalcade of weirdos! Please feel free to bask in my glow.

MARTY

Uh. Okay.

KING JULIEN

We thank you for saving the insignificant life of Mort. Don’t be rude, Mort, what do you say?

MORT

I just... I just want... I just want to say thank—

KING JULIEN

Oh, be quiet, Mort. You are so annoying! We also thank you with enormous gratitude for chasing away the Foosa.

(The LEMURS react in fear.)

Foosa.

(The LEMURS react in fear.)

GLORIA

The whoosa?

KING JULIEN

The Fo...

 (Before the LEMURS react, KING JULIEN stops them with

a look.)

...oosa.


 

SIDE 3

 

LEW

You did it! You did it!

LEMURS

You saved us! Saved us!

ALEX

Hi! Yeah, sure. Nice to meet you... squirrels? Are they squirrels?

MELMAN

I think they’re just really full-figured raccoons.

LYNN

You must come with us!

LEE

Meet the king!


MARTY

King of the full-figured raccoons?

LARS

King Julien the 13th!

ALEX

Hey, that sounds really awesome, but you know what? We’re kinda on our way to...

(MAURICE enters.)

LEMURS

Maurice! It’s Maurice!! (etc.)

LEE

(to the ZOOSTERS)

That’s Maurice. He’s King Julien’s adviser and right-hand... lemur!

MELMAN

Oh... they’re lemurs.

MAURICE

Welcome to Madagascar!!

GLORIA

Madagascar?

LEMURS

Madagascar!!

MAURICE

Ahem. Presenting, his royal highness, the illustrious King Julien the 13th... self-proclaimed Lord of the Lemurs, etc., etc., hooray everybody.

(KING JULIEN appears.)

KING JULIEN

Here I am. The King, the head of your honcho. Come out my little lemurs. 

 

SIDE 4

MARTY

Alex?! Come out, Alex! Alex, the boat’s here. We can go home! (ALEX crawls out from behind a rock, where he has been

hiding.)

ALEX

Hungry... Alex hungry...

MARTY

Alex! There you are!


ALEX

Marty? Go away, Marty. I don’t want to hurt you.

MARTY

Snap out of it, Alex, the boat came back! We can get out of here. Go back to civilization. And everything will be just like it used to be.

(ALEX growls. #22 – THUNDER begins. MARTY jumps back.)

ALEX

We can’t be friends! Nature doesn’t want us to be friends, Marty. Now get out of here.

(ALEX retreats. We can still see him, however, as he wrestles with his instincts. MARTY starts to leave, then turns back, determined.)

MARTY

Alex. I ain’t leavin’ you.