Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004) s02e02 Episode Script
Bass Fest
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Jefferton alive
Hi. I'm the Mayor,
and my door is always open for you!
Jefferton alive
My name is Tom Peters,
and I'm full of ideas.
Community spirit!
Hi. How are you?
Shopping!
Food!
Free to be, being free ♪
Jefferton alive
Here's that
picture of "Papa" Richardson
I was telling you about.
This really old guy here started this dam with his family for fun.
Then, like,
they built a town here
and I guess dam experts were like, "What?"
as to how come
such a bad dam can remain, like
working for so long.
So, it's like all wood,
and it's totally rotted out.
Hope we don't get a rain storm soon. OK.
Excuse me, teach.
Tom Peters here.
I got a little bit of a question.
I'm doing a diorama of the darn,
and I was wondering if
The what, sorry?
The darn. The
The place where we are here.
You mean the dam?
You knowlanguage.
So, we're gonna, like,
drive to the bottom of the dam
and check out
all the crazy cracks in it.
It's totally
I'm sorry,
I should probably take this.
Could be an emergency.
Tom Peters' phone.
Listen! I need you
to stop by the music store
and pick up
some bass guitars for my boys.
I'm in the middle of my field trip now,
but as soon as I'm done I might go ahead--
Would you just do
what I say?!
What?
How's that, hon?
Steak dinner again?
OK, if you insist.
Two nights in a row.
And I will see you tonight,
my lover.
Bass, it's totally wizzed out ♪
Bass fishin'
with my mother-- guitar ♪
Bass ♪
It's totally wizzed out ♪
He's dead, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun
Wizz, Wizz ⪪
Yo, it's Wizzard.
Meet me at this year's
Jefferton Bass Fest.
Join the bass circle!
Meet bass techs and pros!
Join me as I attempt to hit the low G.
Three octaves lower than any man has ever played.
Bass Fest will take place rain or shine,
located at the base
of the Richardson family dam.
Excuse me, boys,
your papa's working here.
Would you mind
just turning it down a notch for me?
All right. Now all I have to do is add some water to my darn.
Look at that, it's holding. Great.
What do you think, Mayor?
Great work, Tom.
Heck of a diorama!
Well, thank you, Mayor.
I've been working pretty hard at this.
Boys, no! Darn it!
Shoot, what a mess!
Wait a minute.
Low-end frequencies
rickety wooden structure
Crickets!
Put this in your bass pipe and smoke it, Mayor.
- I'll bust that out at Bass Fest.
- Looking forward to it, Wizzard.
Hello, hello.
Anyone home?
Bass Fest Headquarters.
How can I help?
Hey, Mayor.
It's Tom Pet--
Respect the hand prints, man.
- Philip Sousa!
- You blew it, Tom.
Guilty as charged here.
My apologies.
But this is sort of an emergency.
OK, Tom.
Have a seat, please.
I'll just
take a knee here.
So, I wanted to talk to you about Bass Fest.
Well, you came to the right place.
The Wizz plays the bass!
Wizz!
Yeah.
Well
speaking of bass
you know, I don't want to throw up
any red flags, but I am worried
that some of the low-end frequencies
from the Bass Fest
-might rupture the Richardson darn.
- The what?
The darn.
The Richardson
Water-holding thing.
What are you talking about,
a dam?
OK, Tom. Well, I guess
I'm gonna have to write you a poem.
OK. Here you go.
"You mess with Bass Fest,
you mess with me!"
- The what?
- The
darn, theyou know,
the Richardson water-holding
Rhymes with "ham" or "pam."
- You mean the dam?
- That's it.
Now, my step-sons wouldn't let me
borrow their basses
So, I'm gonna try
and simulate the effects of
Boring!
So, I'm gonna try
and simulate the effects
of the low frequencies
from the Bass Fest on this model here.
- Right.
- Justlet me start here.
Sure.
- Let me start again.
- OK.
- Iflet me just
- Fine.
- Let me just
- Mayor's office.
- Sure.
- Hold on. If you'd just
All right, Mayor.
Let's hear your rebuttal.
On the first day of Bass Fest
my true love gave to me
A seven-string
double-funk supreme ♪
A crushing blow to Tom Peters' ill-conceived campaign
to cancel Bass Fest.
Jan, you've been doing some reporting on the issue.
What's with all the hubbub?
Well, Wayne, the
There's nothing
on the teleprompter, so
Come on, Jan.
Come on, honey.
I'm just not sure what I sh--
Go ahead, Jan.
I don't know
what I should do.
Brian, can we go to commercial?
Brian, go to commercial!
Stupid Bass Fest.
Hey, hon, this parking lot you set up is blocking my car in by the way.
You know, Joy, I really wish you would have discussed this with
"Leave Bass Fest alone."
The boys need
a ride to Bass Fest.
Well, as I stated earlier,
I am anti-Bass Fest, but
they can join me
in my protest canoe if they want.
Get them to Bass Fest now!
To the people of the future
Shoot.
To the people of the future,
this is Tom Peters, man from the past.
I make this record to tell you
of a town called Jefferton,
which once existed.
A beautiful place,
filled with beautiful people.
It was, for a brief moment,
a great town.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the moment you've all been waiting for.
Get ready to freak
your funky bass face, my bass children.
The grand bass master,
Jefferton's own Wizzard!
I gots to tell you
the Wizz is so high
on weed right now!
Check it, check it.
I'm gonna take this bass way
Low! ⪪
Let me just tune it down right here.
No! It's starting!
Wizzard, please stop!
Emergency.
Let me try this.
- Hi, Tom. There you are.
- Hey, Mayor. Got some bad news.
Looks like the bass playing is rupturing the darn.
Wrong again. It's your heavy canoe
that's rupturing the dam.
What?!
No! I'm pretty sure it's not.
Well, I'm pretty sure it is.
Wizzard's got something to say here!
Mayor
maybe Todd's right.
I mean, music's the most powerful force in this world.
Why shouldn't it be able to
tear down an old family dam?
Excuse me. Up here.
I have a theory to stabilize the darn
and keep the Bass Fest going.
Great, Tom. Can't wait to hear it.
All right.
What I'm going to do
is exactly mimic the low frequencies
on my side of the darn
- to act as a counterweight.
- Right.
All you have to do is play me a simple scale
and I'll doo-wop it back to you.
That should keep
the darn from breaking.
- Of course, Tom.
- Where me hacky sack at?
No, Wizzard,
Tom needs a bass line.
Yo, let's do this thang.
All right, I'll give it my best shot.
Wizz, try something a little jazzier.
You know, for the fans.
Can I just hear
the first part again?
Hey, Tom.
What are you up to?
Well, I, you know
Looking for my family,
I guess.
I hear you, Tom.
Can you believe what Wizzard said about the power of music?
Yeah. It was
What's the word I'm looking for?
Insightful.
Hello!
Anyone there?
Hello?!
Hello?!
Oh, no!
Where'd myson go? ♪
I don't know
but you betterrun, ho ♪
'Cause I'mbass fishin'
in the big time
Hip-hop rapping nonstop,
check me rhyme
I'm the Wizz,
I play my bass backwards ♪
Watch them bitches,
get outta my face, nerds
Hell, no!
Got no goatee on my face
Slap your ass
Like I slap mybass ♪
Abso-lutely.
Jefferton alive
Hi. I'm the Mayor,
and my door is always open for you!
Jefferton alive
My name is Tom Peters,
and I'm full of ideas.
Community spirit!
Hi. How are you?
Shopping!
Food!
Free to be, being free ♪
Jefferton alive
Here's that
picture of "Papa" Richardson
I was telling you about.
This really old guy here started this dam with his family for fun.
Then, like,
they built a town here
and I guess dam experts were like, "What?"
as to how come
such a bad dam can remain, like
working for so long.
So, it's like all wood,
and it's totally rotted out.
Hope we don't get a rain storm soon. OK.
Excuse me, teach.
Tom Peters here.
I got a little bit of a question.
I'm doing a diorama of the darn,
and I was wondering if
The what, sorry?
The darn. The
The place where we are here.
You mean the dam?
You knowlanguage.
So, we're gonna, like,
drive to the bottom of the dam
and check out
all the crazy cracks in it.
It's totally
I'm sorry,
I should probably take this.
Could be an emergency.
Tom Peters' phone.
Listen! I need you
to stop by the music store
and pick up
some bass guitars for my boys.
I'm in the middle of my field trip now,
but as soon as I'm done I might go ahead--
Would you just do
what I say?!
What?
How's that, hon?
Steak dinner again?
OK, if you insist.
Two nights in a row.
And I will see you tonight,
my lover.
Bass, it's totally wizzed out ♪
Bass fishin'
with my mother-- guitar ♪
Bass ♪
It's totally wizzed out ♪
He's dead, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun
Wizz, Wizz ⪪
Yo, it's Wizzard.
Meet me at this year's
Jefferton Bass Fest.
Join the bass circle!
Meet bass techs and pros!
Join me as I attempt to hit the low G.
Three octaves lower than any man has ever played.
Bass Fest will take place rain or shine,
located at the base
of the Richardson family dam.
Excuse me, boys,
your papa's working here.
Would you mind
just turning it down a notch for me?
All right. Now all I have to do is add some water to my darn.
Look at that, it's holding. Great.
What do you think, Mayor?
Great work, Tom.
Heck of a diorama!
Well, thank you, Mayor.
I've been working pretty hard at this.
Boys, no! Darn it!
Shoot, what a mess!
Wait a minute.
Low-end frequencies
rickety wooden structure
Crickets!
Put this in your bass pipe and smoke it, Mayor.
- I'll bust that out at Bass Fest.
- Looking forward to it, Wizzard.
Hello, hello.
Anyone home?
Bass Fest Headquarters.
How can I help?
Hey, Mayor.
It's Tom Pet--
Respect the hand prints, man.
- Philip Sousa!
- You blew it, Tom.
Guilty as charged here.
My apologies.
But this is sort of an emergency.
OK, Tom.
Have a seat, please.
I'll just
take a knee here.
So, I wanted to talk to you about Bass Fest.
Well, you came to the right place.
The Wizz plays the bass!
Wizz!
Yeah.
Well
speaking of bass
you know, I don't want to throw up
any red flags, but I am worried
that some of the low-end frequencies
from the Bass Fest
-might rupture the Richardson darn.
- The what?
The darn.
The Richardson
Water-holding thing.
What are you talking about,
a dam?
OK, Tom. Well, I guess
I'm gonna have to write you a poem.
OK. Here you go.
"You mess with Bass Fest,
you mess with me!"
- The what?
- The
darn, theyou know,
the Richardson water-holding
Rhymes with "ham" or "pam."
- You mean the dam?
- That's it.
Now, my step-sons wouldn't let me
borrow their basses
So, I'm gonna try
and simulate the effects of
Boring!
So, I'm gonna try
and simulate the effects
of the low frequencies
from the Bass Fest on this model here.
- Right.
- Justlet me start here.
Sure.
- Let me start again.
- OK.
- Iflet me just
- Fine.
- Let me just
- Mayor's office.
- Sure.
- Hold on. If you'd just
All right, Mayor.
Let's hear your rebuttal.
On the first day of Bass Fest
my true love gave to me
A seven-string
double-funk supreme ♪
A crushing blow to Tom Peters' ill-conceived campaign
to cancel Bass Fest.
Jan, you've been doing some reporting on the issue.
What's with all the hubbub?
Well, Wayne, the
There's nothing
on the teleprompter, so
Come on, Jan.
Come on, honey.
I'm just not sure what I sh--
Go ahead, Jan.
I don't know
what I should do.
Brian, can we go to commercial?
Brian, go to commercial!
Stupid Bass Fest.
Hey, hon, this parking lot you set up is blocking my car in by the way.
You know, Joy, I really wish you would have discussed this with
"Leave Bass Fest alone."
The boys need
a ride to Bass Fest.
Well, as I stated earlier,
I am anti-Bass Fest, but
they can join me
in my protest canoe if they want.
Get them to Bass Fest now!
To the people of the future
Shoot.
To the people of the future,
this is Tom Peters, man from the past.
I make this record to tell you
of a town called Jefferton,
which once existed.
A beautiful place,
filled with beautiful people.
It was, for a brief moment,
a great town.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the moment you've all been waiting for.
Get ready to freak
your funky bass face, my bass children.
The grand bass master,
Jefferton's own Wizzard!
I gots to tell you
the Wizz is so high
on weed right now!
Check it, check it.
I'm gonna take this bass way
Low! ⪪
Let me just tune it down right here.
No! It's starting!
Wizzard, please stop!
Emergency.
Let me try this.
- Hi, Tom. There you are.
- Hey, Mayor. Got some bad news.
Looks like the bass playing is rupturing the darn.
Wrong again. It's your heavy canoe
that's rupturing the dam.
What?!
No! I'm pretty sure it's not.
Well, I'm pretty sure it is.
Wizzard's got something to say here!
Mayor
maybe Todd's right.
I mean, music's the most powerful force in this world.
Why shouldn't it be able to
tear down an old family dam?
Excuse me. Up here.
I have a theory to stabilize the darn
and keep the Bass Fest going.
Great, Tom. Can't wait to hear it.
All right.
What I'm going to do
is exactly mimic the low frequencies
on my side of the darn
- to act as a counterweight.
- Right.
All you have to do is play me a simple scale
and I'll doo-wop it back to you.
That should keep
the darn from breaking.
- Of course, Tom.
- Where me hacky sack at?
No, Wizzard,
Tom needs a bass line.
Yo, let's do this thang.
All right, I'll give it my best shot.
Wizz, try something a little jazzier.
You know, for the fans.
Can I just hear
the first part again?
Hey, Tom.
What are you up to?
Well, I, you know
Looking for my family,
I guess.
I hear you, Tom.
Can you believe what Wizzard said about the power of music?
Yeah. It was
What's the word I'm looking for?
Insightful.
Hello!
Anyone there?
Hello?!
Hello?!
Oh, no!
Where'd myson go? ♪
I don't know
but you betterrun, ho ♪
'Cause I'mbass fishin'
in the big time
Hip-hop rapping nonstop,
check me rhyme
I'm the Wizz,
I play my bass backwards ♪
Watch them bitches,
get outta my face, nerds
Hell, no!
Got no goatee on my face
Slap your ass
Like I slap mybass ♪
Abso-lutely.