The Abridged Script
FADE IN:
EXT. SOME SMALL TOWN
ELLIOT PAGE guzzles SUNNY D as some obnoxious INDIE SONG blares in the background so that everyone knows that this is an intellectual, independent film.
ELLIOT enters a convenience store and meets RAINN WILSON.
ELLIOT PAGE
I need to use the bathroom, as I've been downing delicious, high-quality Sunny Delight for the past hour.
RAINN WILSON
Sunny Delight? You mean the delicious orange-flavored drink containing a full day's supply of vitamin C in every serving?
ELLIOT PAGE
That's right! I found it in the fridge, behind the purple stuff! Now relinquish the bathroom key geeves, I for shizz need to spout.
RAINN WILSON
I can barely understand you. Is there a reason you're talking like what seems like a teenager designed by a committee of adults that have researched youth by watching MTV around the clock?
ELLIOT PAGE
Yes, and you better start talking like that too or you'll have no place in the movie, Dwight.
RAINN WILSON
Oh, er, uh, I mean that's one doodle that can't be undid homeskillet oh my god I need a new agent.
ELLIOT PAGE
You're so quirky! And so am I!
ELLIOT pisses on a pregnancy test and it tells them that they're PREGNANT as well as PRECOCIOUS.
ELLIOT PAGE
This sucks. The only thing left to do is walk home morosely while yet another obnoxious indie song blares.
ELLIOT walks home, then calls their friend OLIVIA THIRLBY.
ELLIOT PAGE
Hey Olivia. So I'm pregs for real.
OLIVIA THIRLBY
OhMyGodLikeForRealForRealPregs?
ELLIOT PAGE
Holy crap, what the hell are you saying? Did someone encrypt your copy of the script or something?
OLIVIA THIRLBY
YouShouldTotallyGetAnAToTheBortion.
ELLIOT PAGE
Yeah. First I need you to help me salvage the chair I lost my virginity in, which is on a lawn for some reason that is almost definitely quirky.
They take the chair, then ELLIOT sets up an entire living room set in front of MICHAEL CERA'S HOME.
MICHAEL CERA
Oh, hey. I like the couch on my front sidewalk, it's incredibly quirky of you.
ELLIOT PAGE
Yeah, well I'm pretty quirky.
MICHAEL CERA
So what are you doing here? Do you need someth-
ELLIOT PAGE
Wait, hold on. Your track team is about to come running by and I need to do a voice over narration for no particular reason, even though I only do it like three more times in the entire movie.
ELLIOT PAGE (V.O.)
Whenever I see the track team, I can't help but picture their penises, because doing so allows me to explain that fact in a voice over narration that I can end with the very hip term "pork swords."
ELLIOT PAGE
Alright, sorry about that. What were we talking about? Oh right, I'm pregnant and it's yours.
MICHAEL CERA
Rather than freak the hell out like a typical high school student, I'm going to sputter around for words awkwardly and barely finish complete sentences. It's kind of my thing.
ELLIOT calls an ABORTION CLINIC to make an appointment.
CLINIC RECEPTIONIST (O.S.)
Crimson River Abortion Clinic, how may I help you?
ELLIOT PAGE
Hi. I'd like to make an appointment for an abortion. Oh wait hang on my Hamburger Phone is acting up.
(shakes phone)
Alright, there we go.
CLINIC RECEPTIONIST (O.S.)
Alright, well just come in any time and we can tak-
ELLIOT PAGE
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't think you heard me. I'm talking on a HAMBURGER PHONE. How zany is that? That's for shizz quirky.
ELLIOT goes to the CLINIC and signs in. Another INDIE SONG blares over the scene to make sure you remember that you are supporting INDEPENDENT CINEMA by watching this movie.
CLINIC RECEPTIONIST
Please sign in here. Do you want a free condom? They make my boyfriend's penis taste like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
ELLIOT PAGE
Wow, what a completely quirky and inappropriate thing to say to a complete stranger!
CLINIC RECEPTIONIST
I know, right!?
ELLIOT suddenly runs out of the CLINIC and visits their friend OLIVIA.
OLIVIA THIRLBY
WhatAreYouDoingOhMiGod?
ELLIOT PAGE
I decided I want to keep the baby so that I can star in a wholly overrated independent film about a teenager giving their baby to a childless couple.
ELLIOT sits down to talk to their parents.
ELLIOT PAGE
So, I'm pregnant.
J.K. SIMMONS
WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING 16 WHAT THE FU-
ELLIOT PAGE
Dad, you're in an indie flick, remember?
J.K. SIMMONS
Oh right. Sorry, I didn't mean to blow up, I meant to make a dry, sarcastic remark.
ALLISON JANNEY
And I'd like to follow that up with a second barb.
ELLIOT PAGE
It's Michael Cera's. The kid from Arrested Development.
J.K. SIMMONS
Huh. I didn't think he had it in him.
ELLIOT PAGE
What, sperm?
ELLIOT goes ahead with their pregnancy and the movie SAVED plays out with fewer JOKES and more PRETENTIOUSNESS.
ELLIOT finds a couple to adopt their kid: JASON BATEMAN and JENNIFER GARNER. ELLIOT goes to meet them.
JENNIFER GARNER
We're so happy you'd consider us despite the fact that I starred in Elektra.
JASON BATEMAN
So who is the father of the little bastard?
ELLIOT PAGE
Oh, just this awkward, typecast kid at school named Michael Cera.
JASON BATEMAN
No shit? He played my son on Arrested Development. I look forward to the scene in this movie that reunites us for the first time since the show was canceled, which is sure to be a real pleasure for fans.
That scene NEVER HAPPENS. ELLIOT agrees to give their kid to JENNIFER and JASON.
TIME PASSES and MORE INDIE ROCK MUSIC PLAYS. ELLIOT goes through the various scenes that movies about pregnant people are obligated to include.
ELLIOT visits JASON BATEMAN.
JASON BATEMAN
Hey, want to watch some indie horror films and listen to some indie music together?
ELLIOT PAGE
That sounds great! I sure hope that watching the movie isn't interrupted by me having to go puke my guts out, sweaty and hunched over the toilet.
(pause)
Just kidding, none of that crap happens in the movie. Pregnancy is easy-peasy.
JASON BATEMAN
Well, I have good news. I'm leaving Jennifer Garner.
ELLIOT PAGE
Why, because your marriage to her has robbed you of your youth, which you have been reminded of since you started hanging around with me?
JASON BATEMAN
No, I just rented 13 Going On 30. I can't even look at her now. Has she been in anything good?
ELLIOT PAGE
Oh. Because if it was the other thing, then you could take notice of the fact that I remind you of your younger days despite the fact that my current predicament requires a level of maturity far beyond my years, and you could enjoy the contrast between our situations that is ironically illustrated by having us both get along so well.
JASON BATEMAN
How artistic!
ELLIOT PAGE
You're goddamn right it is!
LIVEJOURNAL: THE MOVIE continues. JASON abandons JENNIFER GARNER. ELLIOT page gives birth while some more INDIE MUSIC plays.
JENNIFER GARNER
Yay, now I get to raise an adopted kid in a broken home!
ELLIOT PAGE
And I passed all of my classes and everything! Pregnancy is as unobtrusive as it is without consequence!
MICHAEL CERA
So now that you popped the kid out, I think we're in love with each other. What should we do to express our love? Make out? Have sex again? Go buy seasons one through three of Arrested Development?
ELLIOT PAGE
Have you been watching a different movie? We should play yet more indie music together.
They DO. EVERYONE convinces themselves they loved the movie so that they don't feel STUPID.
END