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This Tall to Ride

Irene Liu
October 22, 2025
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This Tall to Ride

A little girl tries to get on a roller coaster that she is far too short for. A poorly paid ride operator is all that stands in her way.

Irene Liu

October 22, 2025

Transcript

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  6. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  7. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  8. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  9. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  10. Dialog JO: Please wait until the vehicle comes to a

    complete halt before entering the-

  11. Dialog JO: Please wait until the vehicle comes to a

    complete halt before entering the-
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  13. Dialog JO: Hold on a sec

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  15. Dialog JO: Hey Kid!

  16. Dialog JO: Hey Kid!

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  18. Dialog KID: Blehh

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  21. Dialog JO: ugh.

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  27. Dialog JO: Yeah...

  28. Dialog JO: Yeah...

  29. Dialog JO: You are nowhere near tall enough to be

    getting on this ride

  30. Dialog JO: You are nowhere near tall enough to be

    getting on this ride

  31. Dialog JO: You are nowhere near tall enough to be

    getting on this ride

  32. Dialog JO: How'd you even make it past the gate?

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  44. Action Notes [thwap]

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  47. Dialog JO: Ryan..

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  51. Dialog Jo: Yeah, that doesn't count

  52. Dialog JO: Come on

  53. Dialog KID: How come he gets to go?

  54. Dialog JO: He's got a grown up with him

  55. Dialog KID: But that's not fair!

  56. Dialog KID: Can't you just let me go? I promise

    I'll be really good!

  57. Dialog JO: Ricky will fire me if I let you

    break the rules.

  58. Dialog JO: Just come back with your parents, ok?

  59. Dialog KID: Hmph!

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  61. Action Notes [SLAM]

  62. Dialog KID: What?!

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  65. Dialog JO (off screen): Sorry about that folks

  66. Dialog JO: Please keep all arms, legs, and-

  67. Dialog JO: Please keep all arms, legs, and-

  68. Dialog JO: Please keep all arms, legs, and-

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  73. Dialog JO: Kid.

  74. Dialog KID: (in a fake deep voice) I'm not Kid

  75. Dialog KID: I'm Tamantha!

  76. Dialog TAMANTHA(?): And I demand to be let on this

    ride!
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  78. Dialog JO: Right.

  79. Dialog JO: And you're not three kids stacked in a

    trench coat?

  80. Dialog TAMANTHA: Right!

  81. Dialog TAMANTHA: Whoa!

  82. Dialog TAMANTHA: Right.

  83. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  84. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  85. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  86. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  87. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  88. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wha?!

  89. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wha?!

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  97. Action Notes [raccoons growl]

  98. Dialog JO: Kid, what the f-

  99. Dialog JO: OH MY GOD.

  100. Action Notes [screaming]

  101. Action Notes [screaming]

  102. Action Notes [screaming]

  103. Action Notes [screaming]

  104. Action Notes [screaming]

  105. Action Notes [screaming]

  106. Action Notes [screaming]

  107. Action Notes [screaming]

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  110. Action Notes [screaming]

  111. Action Notes [screaming]

  112. Action Notes [screaming]

  113. Action Notes [screaming]

  114. Action Notes [clack]

  115. Action Notes [baby wailing]

  116. Action Notes [baby wailing]

  117. Action Notes [screaming]

  118. Action Notes [screaming]

  119. Action Notes [screaming]

  120. Action Notes [crash]

  121. Action Notes [crash]

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  128. Action Notes [thud]

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  136. Dialog JO: Kid!

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  139. Dialog TAMANTHA: Oof!

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  141. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

  142. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

  143. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

  144. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

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  146. Dialog JO: You either take your phone

  147. Dialog JO: You either take your phone

  148. Dialog JO: and call your parents

  149. Dialog TAMANTHA: But!

  150. Dialog JO: or I will call them for you!

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  153. Dialog TAMANTHA: I don't have any parents

  154. Dialog TAMANTHA: I don't have any parents

  155. Dialog JO: Oh.

  156. Dialog JO: I'm sorry

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  160. Dialog JO: Look kid

  161. Dialog JO: Normally this is called bioterrorism

  162. Dialog JO: Normally this is called bioterrorism

  163. Dialog JO: And you definitely should not be doing that

  164. Dialog JO: And you definitely should not be doing that

  165. Dialog JO: But if you promise to never do it

    again

  166. Dialog JO: But if you promise to never do it

    again

  167. Dialog JO: I'll take you on the ride once my

    shift's over

  168. Dialog TAMANTHA: Really?

  169. Dialog TAMANTHA: Okay! Action Notes [phone buzz]

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  174. Action Notes [phone buzz]

  175. Dialog JO: Y-

  176. Dialog JO: You!

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  179. Dialog JO: [sigh]

  180. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wa-

  181. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wait!

  182. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  183. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  184. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  185. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  186. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  187. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  188. Dialog JO: Yeah, before I knew you lied!

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  190. Dialog TAMANTHA: If you won't go on the ride with

    me

  191. Dialog TAMANTHA: then...!

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  193. Dialog TAMANTHA: Then I'm gonna tell Mommy

  194. Dialog TAMANTHA: you took off my clothes!

  195. Dialog JO: You can't just say things like that

  196. Dialog JO: You can't just say things like that

  197. Dialog JO: You can't just say things like that

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  199. Dialog JO: Wait wait wait! It's not what it

  200. Dialog JO: sounds like..

  201. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  202. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  203. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  204. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

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  210. Action Notes [knuckles crack]

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  213. Dialog DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RICKY RAT: I pay your insurance!

  214. Dialog DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  215. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  216. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  217. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  218. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

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  222. Dialog TAMANTHA: Heh.

  223. Dialog RYAN (off screen): Alrighty all you rat-ical rodents!

  224. Dialog RYAN (off screen): Alrighty all you rat-ical rodents!

  225. Dialog TAMANTHA: Yay!

  226. Dialog RYAN: Please remain seated

  227. Dialog RYAN: with all hands, arms, and legs inside the

    vehicle at all times

  228. Dialog RYAN: with all hands, arms, and legs inside the

    vehicle at all times

  229. Dialog RYAN: And enjoy the ride!

  230. Dialog RYAN: And enjoy the ride!

  231. Dialog RYAN: And enjoy the ride!

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