Forgetters

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[LATER Joy finds two workers vacuuming up memories from the shelves.]

Female Forgetter: Phone numbers. We don't need all of these. They're in her phone.

Male Forgetter: Just forget all of that. Please.

Joy: Excuse me. Hi.

Male Forgetter: Forget it!

Joy: I need to find Friendship Island...

Female Forgetter: (pointing to memories) Look at this. Four years of piano lessons.

Male Forgetter: Yeah, looks pretty faded.

Female Forgetter: You know what? Save "Chopsticks" and "Heart and Soul," get rid of the rest.

[Zoop! The memories get vacuumed up.]

Joy: Are you--

Female Forgetter: U.S. Presidents. What do you think?

Male Forgetter: Eh, just keep Washington, Lincoln and the fat one.

Female Forgetter: Forget 'em!

Joy: Hey! You can't throw those away! Those are perfectly good memories.

Male Forgetter: The names of every "Cutie Pie Princess" doll?

Joy: Yes! That is critical information! Glitterstorm, Honeypants, Officer Justice...

Female Forgetter: Forget 'em!

[He vacuums up the memories behind Joy. The memories shoot out a sewer pipe and fall into the darkness of the Memory Dump.]

Joy: Hey! Bring those back.

Female Forgetter: They're in the dump. Nothing comes back from the dump.

Male Forgetter: Yeah. Look lady, this is our job, OK?

Joy: Wdym

Female Forgetter: When Riley doesn't care about a memory, it fades.

Joy: Fades?

Female Forgetter: Yeah, and it happens to the best of 'em.

Male Forgetter: (pulls memory from a cart) Except for this bad boy! This one will NEVER fade.

Joy: (recognizing it) The song from the gum commercial?

Male Forgetter: (conspiratorial) Sometimes we send that one up to headquarters for no reason.

Female Forgetter: It just plays in Riley's head over and over again. Like a million times! Ha! Let's watch it again!

[She rewinds it and plays it again. They sing along.]

Joy: We all know the song. Okay. Yup. Real catchy.

Male Forgetter: (to Female Forgetter) What do ya think? Should we do it?

Female Forgetter: Yeah! Ha ha!

Male Forgetter: OK, here we go! Ha ha ha!

[He tips the gum memory into the inner workings of the shelf. FWOOM! It shoots up towards Headquarters. Fear, Anger and Disgust are having a peaceful morning. The memory drops into Headquarters, playing at full volume.]

Gum memory: Tripledent gum will make you smile! Tripledent gum! It lasts a while-

Anger: Wha-- this again!?!

[The Forgetters walk away, laughing and singing.]

Joy: (following them) Wait! Do you know how to get to Friendship Island?!

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