You Have Died of Dysentery.


I. Love. This.


Transcript below...

[Opening montage of 'frontier' people working]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: Their dreams were dying in Independence, Missouri.

Man in Blue Flannel Shirt (talking to another man in black hat): Folks 'round here are takin' the trail to Oregon. (close up to Blue Flannel Man) I reckon' we ought to do the same.

(cut to close up of man in blue shirt, black suspenders & blond woman)

Man in blue shirt and suspenders: (exclaims) Oregon Trail?!

Man in black hat: (sarcastic and unenthused) We could die of boredom.

Woman in white bonnet: We could LEARN a thing or two.

Blond Woman: You won't learn anything.

[Scene Change]

[People packing up wagons]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: They packed up and left the only home they've ever known.

Man (used to have black hat): Paw (referring to man in blue flannel) thinks he knows everything. I can't WAIT to start my new life in Oregon.

Woman: (snotty and derisive) What new life? You're going to be a carpenter. Just. Like. Him.

Man: (yelling) NOBODY WANTS TO BE THE CARPENTER!

[Scene Change] Opening credit.

Blue Flannel Man:(to shopkeeper) I'll take four oxen and all the bullets sixteen hundred dollars will get me.

Shopkeeper: Want any food or spare parts? Each person will consume--

Blue Flannel Man: (cuts him off) No, Shopkeep. Just the bullets. Just. the. bullets.

[Goodbye Montage]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: Now they'll learn quickly that the trail is no game.

[Running in the dessert]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: (ominous) It's survival.

Man by Fire: (evil laugh) This trail is filled with thieves. (shot of man in prison) Injuns. (people on horses in stereotypical outfits) And horror I dare not say. (stampeding buffalo) You will die on this trail...just like Ol' Poop Face. (Poop Face's grave marker) (evil laughter)

[Scene Change]

(Man shoots buffalo)

Man: (excited) Paw! I shot me another one! That's over fourteen hundred pounds of meat!

Paw: (shaking something disgusting) But son. We can only carry back ten pounds.

[Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: Ride the adventure!]

Woman: (running over to man shitting in the bushes) Get outta that brush! You're going to get a snakebite!

[Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: Ride the DRAMA!]

Blue Flannel Man: Get down here and help me concoct this [garbled]--

Man White Shirt: Dad I told you, I don't want to be a carpenter! I wanna be a BANKER!

Blue Flannel Man: (shrieking) A BANKERS NOT GONNA HELP ME FORD THIS RIVER!

(fighting)

[Scene Change...rafting]

[Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: Ride the trail!]

Woman in red shirt: (exasperated) How did your brother get dysentery?!

Man sitting on a fence: Ow! (farts) Ow! Ow!

[Montage]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: In the first film based on the educational video game...

[More montage]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover of Blue Flannel Shirt Man: We knew that this would be difficult. Not many people would get there. (Mac & Cheese's grave marker pan)

(up close) Blue Flannel Man: But we will make it!

[More inspirational montage]

[Title and credit]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: The Oregon Trail.

[Man walking off with hat held high]

Dramatic Movie Trailer Voiceover: Coming Soon.

[End credits]

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