Ow, Hey!

(The camera opens to the Shnookums & Meat title card with the Shnookums & Meat title at the top, a pair of dog and cat food cans with both characters' heads on the front ends of the cans, and the subtitle "Created by Bill Kopp" on the middle bottom. The cans stand in front of a yellow background of fish skeletons and dog bones. The camera fades out and focuses on the episode card titled, "Ow, Hey!", with a confident Shnookums wearing a baseball cap and a bruised Meat with a black eye and a missing tooth and feeling dazed. Both heads are on two ends of a baseball bat in front of a green background, as the subtitles "Written and Co-Produced by Bill Kopp" and "Directed and Co-Produced by Jeff DeGrandis" on the bottom of the card. The camera then fades out, and the episode begins with the camera fading in on a warm, sunny day with the sun wearing a pair of sunglasses, as the camera pans down to see Shnookums and Meat's house and front lawn and zooms in on the characters resting in lawn chairs under a tree.)

Shnookums: "Boy, what a beautiful day!"

Meat: "Ah, it sure is. It's the kind of day that makes you feel healthy and alive."

(As the camera zooms in, the scene dissolves to focus on the pets taking in a fresh breath of air as their chests inflate and then deflate. Meat gets an idea.)

Meat: "Hey! Let's bat the old ball around!"

Shnookums: "That's a great idea, pally!" (He dashes away and makes it to the lawn chest on the side of the house. He props the lid up with a stick and pulls out a variety of sports equipment, starting with a pair of gym weights, a golf club, a baseball, a football, a mallet, a bowling pin, a bowling ball, a larger pair of gym weights, a pair of diving helmets, a tennis shoe, a skateboard, a fishing pole, a fishing box, a tennis racquet, a bike, a surfboard, an archery target, a pair of cricket clubs, and a ping-pong paddle, until he pulls out the baseball bat and mitt.) "You wanna catch or hit?"

Meat: "I'll catch!"

(Shnookums tosses his friend the mitt. Meat catches it and runs for the farthest corner of the yard, while Shnookums catches up with him. The scenes then slides to a shot of the two friends getting ready to play. Shnookums has a bunch of baseballs around him.)

Shnookums: (calling out to Meat) "Ready, buddy?"

Meat: (taking his position as the catcher) "Ready! (raises his chest and drops it) Bat one out here, Shnooky! (pounding his fist into the mitt)"

(Shnookums rubs his foot into the ground, takes a deep breath, and spits out some drool on the grass. He sticks his foot into the drool. Meat prances around like a schoolboy and punches his fist into the air like Muhammad Ali with his tongue sticking out.)

Shnookums: (raises and drops his chest and tosses the ball on his shoulder) "Okay, Meat-a-roonie! Here she comes!" (He hits the ball and causes a line drive. Meat sticks his eye out to see the ball coming to him and sticks his hands out, as if he's waiting for a boy to leap into his father's arms. However, the ball crash lands into his eye instead, causing Meat to fly a few inches and land on the grass. Meat raises his head and slowly gets the ball out using his eye. The ball has made a huge crater-like sore in his socket. The sore wilts, and Meat shakes his head back-and-forth before resting his hand on his forehead.)

Meat: "Ow! Hey!"

Shnookums: (feeling concerned) "Wow! Are you all right, pal?"

Meat: (groaning) "Yeah. (resting his hand on his forehead once more) Gee... I wasn't ready for it, I guess!"

Shnookums: "Are you sure you're ready, buddy?"

Meat: (stands up) "Hey! Batter, batter!" (Meat takes a few steps back and another step forth. He shakes his butt, wags his tongue, and puts his mitt up. Shnookums takes position and checks the distance with his fore-fingers. He taps the bat on his feet and on the ground and shakes the bat near his head. He grabs another ball and makes a second hit. Meat runs forward to grab the ball, which lands on Meat's head this time, making him become dazed.)

(To be continued)