A frame from Bothering Snape
Bothering Snape is the very first episode of the Potter Puppet Pals.
Summary[]
Harry Potter and Ron Weasley spontaneously decide to bother Snape. Snape gets annoyed and kills them with the Avada Kedavra curse. Dumbledore thinks they’re taking a nap, pickpockets them, then declares “Naked Time!”
The running time is about 1 and 1/2 minutes not counting preloader. 1050 frames in all running at 12 FPS.
Characters (in order of appearance)[]
Harry Potter (debut)
Ron Weasley (debut)
Severus Snape (debut)
Albus Dumbledore (debut)
Transcript[]
(Setting: A brown table, with a blue background behind it.)
(The first few measures of the main Harry Potter theme plays, sounding as though it has been played by an old FM synthesizer. A sign pulls up from the bottom of the table saying, The Potter Puppet Pals Present… then the sign flips the other way around, now reading, “Bothering Snape”. Another sign comes out from the left side of the screen reading, Animated by Neil Cicierega, then both signs drop to the bottom of the screen.)
(Harry Potter then pops up from behind the table, a little bit off to the right from the center)
Harry: Hi, I’m Harry Potter!
(Ron Weasley pops up to the left of Harry)
Ron: And I am RON!
Harry: Let’s go bother Snape!
Ron: Right-o!
(They both dash off into the bottom-right hand corner, and it switches to the direction they’re going at, as Severus Snape pops up, directly in the center.)
Snape: I am Snape, the Potions Master.
Harry: Ready? Let’s go bother him!
(Harry and Ron lunge at Snape, flailing their arms in all direction, bumping into and hitting Snape.)
Harry and Ron: BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER!
Snape (at the same time): Get off! Get OFF! … AAAH!
(Snape collapses to the right on the floor, unmoving. Harry and Ron dash away to the left. Switch to where they’re dashing to, where Ron has just popped up on, to the right of the now-apparent screen.)
Ron: Heh-hey! That was FUN!
(Harry pops up to the left of Ron.)
Harry: I like the part where he stops moving!
(slight pause)
Ron: Let’s do it AGAIN!
(Harry and Ron dash down to the bottom of the screen, switches back to where Snape has just regained his consciousness.)
Snape: Oh no…
(Harry and Ron once again, dash at Snape and start bothering him.)
Harry and Ron: BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER-
Snape (at the same time): STOP! STOP IT! STOP IT!
(Snape raises his wand high in the air with one hand, and raises his other hand as high as the other.)
Snape: AVADA KEDAVRA!
(Green sparks start shooting out of Snape’s wand, and soon it reaches Harry and Ron and builds up a ball of green flashing light around them, shocking them out of their senses.)
Harry and Ron (in unison): OOOOOOOOH-OOFH!
(Harry and Ron collapse to the left of the screen.)
(*BWAH-BWAAAAHH..* Two very uneasy sounding notes play. Snape gets closer to Harry and Ron to examine them, to see if they’re still alive.)
Snape: Oh dear…
(Albus Dumbledore pops up to the right of the screen.)
Dumbledore: Hello, Severus!
(Snape turns his head in the direction of Dumbledore, as he goes over to examine Harry and Ron.)
Snape: I… I can explain, sir…
(Snape looks straight-forward again)
Dumbledore: What’s THIS? (Snape gradually starts walking away to the right from Dumbledore and the two unliving bodies of Harry and Ron.) It seems young Harry and Ron are taking an afternoon NAP! Let’s see what they’ve got in their pockets.
(Dumbledore shuffles around in their robes, and goes all the way down to the bottom of the screen, then pops right back up with a small gray sack of money in his right hand and a bomb in his left, both on strings.)
Dumbledore: ALAS! (raises up the gray sack) Nine sickels… and a (puts down the sack and raises the bomb) Dungbomb… (puts down the bomb) this is my lucky day! Now where did Snape go… more importantly, where the ‘ell am I?
(slight pause, Dumbledore looks to the left, then to the right, then back straight-forward. There’s another slight pause, then Albus ducks down, shuffling noises are heard, then Albus pops back up, completely in the nude.)
Dumbledore: NAKED TIME!
(the Naked Time themesong plays, and Dumbledore goes into a crazy dance, then ducks back down at the end of the song)
(sign raises up saying, The End in large letters)