Chapter 1

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In the beginning, the island of Madagascar appears in Marty's daydream. Marty yells like Tarzan and jumps out the vine after swinging it. The choir penguins in their black bowties singing Born Free by John Barry and they fly. Marty runs and jumps to the water in slow motion. Alex appears, sneaking towards Marty as almost in the middle of a dream, Alex jumps up snapping him out of his dream "Surprise!"

Marty screamed, then he falls from his treadmill and crashes into a fence. He got up "Alex! Do not interrupt me when I'm daydreaming! When a zebra's in the zone, leave him alone."

Alex said "Come on, Marty. I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday!"

Marty chuckled "Hey, man. Thanks!"

Alex expresses pain on the right side of his jaw

Alex said "Oh, ah! Oh! Hey um... I got s—I got something stuck in my teeth. It's driving me crazy! Can you help me out here? Please?"

Marty said "Ah! You came to the right place, my friend. Doctor Marty D.D.S. is in the house! Please hop on top of my sterilized examination table, if you may."

Alex opens the mouth, but Marty can't see anything, because it's dark "I don't see anything."

Alex said muffled "It's on the left."

Marty shouted "Ow!"

Alex said muffled "Oh, sorry."

Marty said "OK, just don't talk with your mouth full." Alex nods "Aha! Right here. What the heck is this doing in there?" He pulled out a snow globe.

Alex said "Happy birthday!"

Marty said "Aww. Hey, thanks, man. You put it in behind the tooth. You all right."

Alex said "These aren't even on the shelf yet. Here! Check it out. Check it out! Look at that. Ooh! Look at that! Ooh!" Alex shook the snow globe.

Marty looked at it "Look at that. It's snowing."

Alex said "10 years old, huh? A decade. Double digits. The big 1-O!" He saw that Marty was down "You don't like it?"

Marty said "No, no, it's great!"

Alex said "You hate it. Ugh! I should've gotten you the Alex alarm clock. That's the one. That's the big seller."

Marty said "No, no, no. The present's great, really. It's just that another year's come and gone and I'm still doing the same old thing." He imitated "Stand over here, trot over there. Eat some grass. Walk back over here."

Alex said "I see your problem."

Marty said "Maybe I should go to law school."

Alex said "You just need to break out of that boring routine."

Marty asked "How?"

Alex said "Throw out the old act. Get out there! Who knows what you're gonna do. Make it up as you go along." He did some moves "Ad lib. Improvise. On the fly. Boom, boom, boom."

Marty asked "Really?"

Alex said "You know, make it fresh."

Marty said "Fresh, huh? OK. I could do fresh."

Alex said "Works for me."

Earth, Wind and Fire's Boogie Wonderland plays as the statue monkeys ring the bell at the front of the zoo ring at the zoo's opening hour. The People are coming! Alex bursts with excitement about them "Here come the people, Marty! Oh, I love the people! It's fun people fun time! Whoo!"

Alex hops into Gloria the Hippo's habitat and tap dances on her butt "Let's go, Gloria! Up and at 'em! We're open!"

Gloria yawned then asked "What day is it?"

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