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| The kids are out in the yard. Maggie sits on the grass sucking on her | |||
| pacifier; Bart and Lisa are to either side of her. The elder kids have | |||
| expressions of disgust and punctuate their disdain with corresponding | |||
| arm motions. | |||
| Lisa: | What a little baby you are. | ||
| Bart: | Don't you have any self-respect? | ||
| Lisa: | You don't see | ||
| Bart: | It's time to grow up, you little runt. | ||
| With an evil grin, Bart pulls Maggie's pacifier out of her mouth. (In | |||
| the process, Maggie falls forward onto her face.) Maggie picks herself | |||
| up, blinks twice, and walks off. | |||
| {Maggie walks down the hall, passes a mouse hole, falls, picked herself | |||
| up, walks offscreen, and falls again as the scene shifts to her entering | |||
| her bedroom.} | |||
| Maggie enters her room and opens the middle drawer of her dresser. It | |||
| is filled with pacifiers. Hundreds, easily. She removes one, places | |||
| it in her mouth, and sucks away. | |||
| The same set-up as before, except this time they're in the TV room. | |||
| Bart and Lisa speak with intense bitterness. | |||
| Bart: | What? | ||
| Lisa: | Another pacifier? | ||
| Bart: | You | ||
| Lisa: | We're just trying to help you. | ||
| Bart: | Yeah. Help you. | ||
| As before, Bart pulls Maggie's pacifier out of her mouth, and she falls | |||
| on her face. With evil grins on their faces, Bart and Lisa play catch | |||
| with the pacifier. Maggie crawls over to Bart and bites into his leg. | |||
| (*crunch*) Bart screams in pain (the animation here rather unusual), | |||
| and the pacifier sails through the air. Maggie catches it in her mouth. | |||
| Maggie sucks happily away next to the couch. Lisa steps into frame. | |||
| Lisa: | Hey Maggie. Look! | ||
| Lisa points offscreen behind Maggie, where we see that Bart is lying in | |||
| wait. Maggie turns her head, and Bart pulls the pacifier out of her | |||
| mouth. Bart and Lisa zip out of frame. | |||
| Bart scoots into the kitchen, the pacifier in his hand. | |||
| Bart: | Quick, the hot sauce. | ||
| Lisa skates in and tosses Bart a bottle of hot sauce. Bart stops the | |||
| bottle with the pacifier and shakes it, then pops the pacifier back into | |||
| Maggie's mouth (who has magically appeared in the kitchen). Bart and | |||
| Lisa watch with the evil grins of mad scientists eagerly anticipating | |||
| the results of their handiwork. | |||
| Maggie sucks three times, then steam pours out of her ears as her face | |||
| contorts. Maggie smiles, removes her pacifier, produces a bottle of hot | |||
| sauce, shakes the bottle with the pacifier as the stopper, then sucks on | |||
| it some more. | |||
| Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are on the couch watching TV, Maggie in the middle, | |||
| sucking away. | |||
| Bart: | You can have your dumb pacifier. | ||
| Lisa: | See if we care. | ||
| Bart: | We don't need pacifiers. | ||
| Lisa: | We're big. | ||
| Bart: | We watch TV. | ||
| Lisa: | We're mature. | ||
| Maggie reaches into her baggie and produces two pacifiers, one in each hand. | |||
| Bart and Lisa each take one and study them. | |||
| Bart: | What? For us? | ||
| Lisa: | Are you kidding? | ||
| Bart: | No way, man. | ||
| Lisa stares at the pacifier a bit, then sucks on it. Her eyes do a weird | |||
| effect. | |||
| Lisa: | Not bad. | ||
| Bart gives it a shot. | |||
| Bart: | Not bad at all. | ||
| The three kids suck away happily. | |||
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