# Coivd Bound- the Cartoon By [Art Does It](https://paragraph.com/@art-does-it) ยท 2022-03-22 --- Episode 1 ![Body Imaging](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4f28d53fe5c876508cda997fd1eb0eda05213a3cfa4b5a63bddc2c173fe06220.png) Body Imaging INT. REGGIE'S ROOM -- DAY A purple haze lifts from a room of clutter: stuffed toy animals, pencils, pens, and sketch books. Amidst the clutter, REGGIE, a sad, skinny and spectacled 9 year old COVID bound girl, sits in shadows, slumped in front of a desk and a computer screen. The computer monitor SCREEN, a gloomy oblisque of mind control, pulses maddening text messages in front of her. ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN The world is at the end... The virus is not real... wash your hands... the virus is real. It's a hoax... buy REMAX. The Screen shifts between looking like an inanimate hardware box and a maniac mouth with no teeth. ON REGGIE She clicks the mouse and reveals another screen. We see ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN The live video screen is of a nervous ostrich-like lady SCIENCE TEACHER wearing a scarf around her mouth. She CHIRPS and MUMBLES a kitchen chemistry video lesson. How to create gas. TEACHER Now people, every kitchen should have a plastic bottle, baking soda and vinegar in it. The teacher grins and jousts a plastic liter soda BOTTLE at the screen. The teacher's eyes blink and BULGE into the screen TEACHER Now to the fun part the making and mixing of chemistry! The wrought teacher stuffs ingredients into the soda bottle. The teacher drops and drips GLOBS of ingredients all over herself and the counter. The teacher stretches a LATEX COVID GLOVE over the soda bottle mouth. The teacher grins madly at the screen, and SHAKES the bottle. The teacher LAUGHS insanely as the glove balloon INFLATES and fills the screen. The glove balloon is ready to burst and then... ON REGGIE Reggie's carpal tunneled bandaged WRIST CLICKS out of the video lesson window and scrolls through more news blasting headlines: ON COMPUTER SCREEN Make your own n95 masks... How to make your own PPEs... Do you have REMAX? Reggie glumly looks at her own COVID MASK, a crude hand stitched animal cracker print. Near the mask is an almost empty BOX of orange latex gloves. CRUNCHIE Reggie's giant, fluffy, cranky cat jumps onto the computer desk spilling clutter onto the floor. Crunchie sprawls across the desktop with her hind legs spread out like a bear skin rug. Next to Reggie, Crunchie rudely THWACKS the computer MOUSE. REGGIE Stop. Crunchie Thwacks again. The computer mouse grows ears, whiskers and eyes. The ANIMATE MOUSE glares back at Crunchie. Crunchie flattens her ears and HISSES and Thwacks the mouse again. The mouse sticks its tongue out. MOUSE Bleeh! REGGIE Stop it! Crunchie Thwacks the mouse a third time, as a charm. The mouse falls to the floor dead, with Xs for eyes and becomes a piece of hardware again. Reggie takes in the drama and blinks boredom. Crunchie sits up on the desk and PRANCES and PURRS knocking her barrel body against Reggie's bandaged wrist. REGGIE Ow. Crunchie continues to bruise against Reggie's wrist. REGGIE OWW! Reggie SIGHS and gets up from the computer. Reggie stiffly remembers and turns and grabs her COVID mask and gloves. Crunchie plops to the floor bringing more clutter with her to the floor. Crunchie is determined to cheer up droopy Reggie, Crunchie follows Reggie and gets under Reggie's feet, tripping her repeatedly. Reggie ignores the cat, straps on her COVID Mask and gloves and leaves her room with Crunchie underfoot. Crunchie continues to bruise against Reggie's wrist. REGGIE OWW? Reggie SIGHS and gets up from the computer. She bluntly remembers and turns to grabs her COVID mask and gloves. Crunchie plops to the floor determined to cheer up Reggie, her droopy owner. Crunchie follows Reggie and gets under Reggie's feet. Tripping her repeatedly, while Reggie ignores the cat and straps on her COVID Mask and gloves. Reggie drags herself the living room window, where she plops down on an ottoman. She props her face in her hands and gazes wistfully through the windows at a Spring already sprung in the front yard- There are trees with birds flying and twittering, fighting with each other, the butterflies and bees hovering over fresh green growth. The birds look like plated Trump birds. Squabbling. The butterflies INT. REGGIE'S HOUSE-DAY REGGIE, a sad, skinny and spectacled 9 year old COVID bound girl, sits in shadows, slumped in front of a desk and a computer screen amidst the clutter of stuffed toy animals, pencils, pens, and sketch books. The computer monitor SCREEN, a gloomy oblisque of mind control, pulses maddening text messages in front of her. COMPUTER SCREEN The world is at the end... The virus is not real...the virus is real. It's a hoax...buy REMAX. The Screen shifts between looking like an inanimate hardware box and a maniacal mouth with no teeth. Reggie clicks the mouse and reveals another screen where her nervous ostrich-like lady SCIENCE TEACHER CHIRPS a kitchen chemistry video lesson. COMPUTER SCREEN How to create gas. TEACHER Now people, every kitchen should have baking soda and vinegar in it. The teacher grins and jousts a plastic liter soda BOTTLE at the screen. Her eyes blink and bulge into the screen TEACHER Now to the fun part the making and mixing of chemistry!The emotionally wrought teacher stuffs ingredients into the soda bottle, dropping and dripping the ingredients all over her self and the counter. The teacher stretches a LATEX COVID GLOVE over the bottle mouth and grinning madly at the screen, starts shaking the bottle and LAUGHING insanely as the glove balloon inflates and fills the screen. The glove balloon is ready to burst and then... Reggie's carpal tunneled bandaged wrist CLICKS out of the video lesson window and scrolls through more news blasting headlines: COMPUTER SCREEN Make your own n95 masks...How to make your own PPEs... Do you have REMAX? Reggie glumly looks at her own COVID MASK, a crude hand stitched animal cracker print . Near the mask is an almost empty BOX of orange latex gloves. CRUNCHIE Reggie's giant, fluffy, cranky cat jumps onto the computer desk and sprawls across it with her hind legs spread out like a bear skin rug and, next to Reggie, she rudely THWACKS the computer MOUSE. REGGIE Stop. Crunchie Thwacks again. The computer mouse grows ears, whiskers and eyes. The ANIMATE MOUSE glares back at Crunchie, who is taken aback now and flattens her ears and HISSES and Thwacks the mouse again. The mouse sticks its tongue out. MOUSE Bleeh! REGGIE Stop it! Crunchie Thwacks the mouse a third time, as a charm, and the mouse falls to the floor dead, with Xs for eyes and becomes a piece of hardware again. Reggie takes in the drama and blinks boredom. Crunchie sits up on the desk and PRANCES and PURRS while knocking her barrel body against Reggie's bandaged wrist. REGGIE Ow. Crunchie continues to bruise against Reggie's wrist. REGGIE OWW? Reggie SIGHS and gets up from the computer. She bluntly remembers and turns to grabs her COVID mask and gloves. Crunchie plops to the floor determined to cheer up Reggie, her droopy owner. Crunchie follows Reggie and gets under Reggie's feet. Tripping her repeatedly, while Reggie ignores the cat and straps on her COVID mask and gloves. Reggie drags herself toothe living room window, where she plops down ontology an ottoman next to her cell phone. Reggie props her face IK in her hands and gazes wistfully through the windows at a Spring already sprung in the front yard. In the front yard there are lush greens with trees with birds flying and twittering, fighting with each other, the butterflies and bees hovering over fresh green growth. EXT. REGGIE'S YARD--DAY INT. REGGIE'S LIVING ROOM--DAY Reggie is excited and disbelieving. REGGIE Crunchie do you believe this? Crunchie shrugs and SHAKES her head NO. REGGIE A texting dog... Reggie looks out the window at Lili. Lili is somersaulting. The birds are fluttering above Lili. The butterflies and bees are flickering between Lili's legs, dancing with her. REGGIE A dancing dog too. Crunchie nods her head YES. Lili engages the birds, butterflies and bees in a line rumba dance. Covid masks are pulled off one by one by the joyous birds, bees, butterflies, with Lili swinging her paws like a band leader. Reggie and Crunchie look at each other. Should they dare take their own masks off too? REGGIE What do you think? Crunchie shrugs, I don't know. Reggie pulls out her latex gloves. She goes to the door. She reconsiders and stuffs the gloves back in her pocket. Crunchie sits on the ottoman, questioning, Now what are you doing? REGGIE Are you coming with me? Crunchie thinks about it then plops off the ottoman, darts to the door, and rubs along Reggie's legs. REGGIE We will go out only for a minute, ok? Reggie and Crunchie remove their own COVID masks, braving themselves for the outdoors. Reggie cracks the door open and bright lights and celestial song fills the room. Reggie steps outside and Crunchie, closing her eyes tight shut, follows Reggie, blindly outside too. FADE OUT: INT. REGGIE'S HOUSE-DAY REGGIE, a sad, skinny and spectacled 9 year old COVID bound girl, sits in shadows, slumped in front of a desk and a computer screen amidst the clutter of stuffed toy animals, pencils, pens, and sketch books. The computer monitor SCREEN, a gloomy oblisque of mind control, pulses maddening text messages in front of her. COMPUTER SCREEN The world is at the end... The virus is not real...wash your hands... the virus is real. It's a hoax...buy REMAX. The Screen shifts between looking like an inanimate hardware box and a maniacal mouth with no teeth. Reggie clicks the mouse and reveals another screen where her nervous ostrich-like lady SCIENCE TEACHER CHIRPS a kitchen chemistry video lesson. COMPUTER SCREEN How to create gas. TEACHER Now people, every kitchen should have baking soda and vinegar in it. The teacher grins and jousts a plastic liter soda BOTTLE at the screen. Her eyes blink and bulge into the screen TEACHER Now to the fun part the making and mixing of chemistry!The emotionally wrought teacher stuffs ingredients into the soda bottle, dropping and dripping the ingredients all over her self and the counter. The teacher stretches a LATEX COVID GLOVE over the bottle mouth and grinning madly at the screen, starts shaking the bottle and LAUGHING insanely as the glove balloon inflates and fills the screen. The glove balloon is ready to burst and then... Reggie's carpal tunneled bandaged wrist CLICKS out of the video lesson window and scrolls through more news blasting headlines: COMPUTER SCREEN Make your own n95 masks...How to make your own PPEs... Do you have REMAX? Reggie glumly looks at her own COVID MASK, a crude hand stitched animal cracker print . Near the mask is an almost empty BOX of orange latex gloves. CRUNCHIE Reggie's giant, fluffy, cranky cat jumps onto the computer desk and sprawls across it with her hind legs spread out like a bear skin rug and, next to Reggie, she rudely THWACKS the computer MOUSE. REGGIE Stop. Crunchie Thwacks again. The computer mouse grows ears, whiskers and eyes. The ANIMATE MOUSE glares back at Crunchie, who is taken aback now and flattens her ears and HISSES and Thwacks the mouse again. The mouse sticks its tongue out. MOUSE Bleeh! REGGIE Stop it! Crunchie Thwacks the mouse a third time, as a charm, and the mouse falls to the floor dead, with Xs for eyes and becomes a piece of hardware again. Reggie takes in the drama and blinks boredom. Crunchie sits up on the desk and PRANCES and PURRS while knocking her barrel body against Reggie's bandaged wrist. REGGIE Ow. Crunchie continues to bruise against Reggie's wrist. REGGIE OWW? Reggie SIGHS and gets up from the computer. She bluntly remembers and turns to grabs her COVID mask and gloves. Crunchie plops to the floor determined to cheer up Reggie, her droopy owner. Crunchie follows Reggie and gets under Reggie's feet. Tripping her repeatedly, while Reggie ignores the cat and straps on her COVID Mask and gloves. Reggie drags herself thehe living room window, where she plops down on an ottomanto Reggie props her face in her hands and gazes wistfully through the windows at a Spring already sprung in the front yard: trees with birds flying and twittering, fighting with each other, the butterflies and bees hovering over fresh green growth. INT. REGGIE'S HALLWAY -- DAY Reggie shuffles up to the doorway of her mother's home studio with cat still underfoot. She and Crunchie peek their heads in. Reggie's MOTHER, a professional FRENZY OF MULTI-TASKING sits at her computer, back to Reggie, with headphone and microphones. Before her are three computer screens and keyboards blinking and CHIMING discord and VIDEO FEEDS of other professional multi-tasking TALKING HEADS REGGIE I did my science. Mother's attention stays glued to her screens. MOTHER That's nice sweetheart, did you wash your hands? Reggie grimaces and looks at her hands. She pulls out a personal size bottle of HAND SANITIZER and squeezes a loop onto her hands. She rubs the goo all over her hands. Without a towel to dry with she eyes Crunchie and wiggles her fingers at the cat, threatening to wipe her hands on the cat's fur. CRUNCHIE Miao! Crunchie darts ahead of Reggie down the hallway. REGGIE Yeah sort of. --- *Originally published on [Art Does It](https://paragraph.com/@art-does-it/coivd-bound-the-cartoon)*