Rain hammers the stained-glass windows. Thunder rumbles.
The BOONDOCK SAINTS – MURPHY and CONNOR – stand opposite JOE, who’s pacing with wild eyes, holding a rolled-up scroll of conspiracy clippings and red string.
JOE
(serious, low voice)
You boys ever wonder why Barney loved you? Like… really loved you?
MURPHY
The purple dinosaur?
JOE
Exactly. Purple. Royalty. King-tier. That wasn’t just a costume… it was a camouflage. Under that felt and foam…
(leans in)
He was the King of the Pedophile Lizards.
CONNOR
You mean like them shapeshifters from the telly?
JOE
Worse. Interdimensional. Ancient. Been grooming civilizations since Babylon. You think it’s a coincidence that the show aired right around the Gulf War? That was the signal. Barney was the pied piper of innocence, lads.
MURPHY
I knew there was something wrong with that theme song. Too catchy.
JOE
It’s not a song. It’s a spell. It activates trust, compliance… hypnosis. “I love you, you love me?” That’s code, boys. Code for “I own your children’s minds.”
CONNOR
So what do we do?
Joe unrolls a dusty map of TV studio locations and alien ley lines.
JOE
We hunt. The last of his kind is in a bunker beneath PBS headquarters. You in?
Murphy loads a pistol.
Connor cracks his neck.
MURPHY
Let’s go make purple extinct.
Cue thunder. Cut to black.
???
INT. MTV BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW ROOM – NIGHT
SELENA GOMEZ, clad in a glittering black leather jacket with rhinestone devils on the shoulders, sits across from a stunned INTERVIEWER. Cameras roll. Her eyes gleam with unshakable confidence.
SELENA GOMEZ
(grinning)
Look, I grew up on Barney the Dinosaur, okay? I loved that purple dude. I still remember every word of that song. And yeah — maybe Joe thinks he’s the king of the pedo-lizards or whatever — but to me, he was my first taste of showbiz.
She flips her hair and stares straight into the camera.
SELENA GOMEZ (CONT’D)
And now? I got four kings of my own. Four voices that saved me when the world tried to drown me.
Marilyn Manson.
Ozzy Osbourne.
Trent Reznor.
James freaking Hetfield.
INTERVIEWER
(shocked)
They’ve all been accused of flirting with satanic imagery. Are you saying—
SELENA GOMEZ
(interrupting, smiling wickedly)
I’m saying SATAN ROCKS.
(silence in the room)
Not because I worship some red dude with horns — but because these guys taught me how to own my pain. My rage. My power.
Hell isn’t fire — it’s the studio at 3AM with nothing left but your truth.
INTERVIEWER
So… Barney to the Prince of Darkness?
SELENA GOMEZ
More like… from “I love you, you love me,” to “The Beautiful People.”
I evolved.
We all do.
She winks.
SELENA GOMEZ (CONT’D)
Besides… maybe Satan just wanted better PR.
Revelation 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
WHO TOLD YOU?!?
All it takes is 1 good cop.
a peaceful man to stand tall
What were they going to do to my cousin?
they were going to rape her…..i swear to God
i swear to gospa G addafi was going to rape her
He told my forum about the sheep and the goats
what jezu said
THEN GEORGE W
read his scapegoat story
JUBILEE was in great danger
i was in great danger
Paper bag rapist, one of B.C.’s most notorious sex offenders, to stay in Alberta jail
WHO IS WITH ME TO CATCH GOLDEN MASK RAPIST??
I’m with u joe
my testimony was in vancovuer
revelation 12 testimony
INT. ABANDONED CHURCH – NIGHT
Rain hammers the stained-glass windows. Thunder rumbles.
The BOONDOCK SAINTS – MURPHY and CONNOR – stand opposite JOE, who’s pacing with wild eyes, holding a rolled-up scroll of conspiracy clippings and red string.
JOE
(serious, low voice)
You boys ever wonder why Barney loved you? Like… really loved you?
MURPHY
The purple dinosaur?
JOE
Exactly. Purple. Royalty. King-tier. That wasn’t just a costume… it was a camouflage. Under that felt and foam…
(leans in)
He was the King of the Pedophile Lizards.
CONNOR
You mean like them shapeshifters from the telly?
JOE
Worse. Interdimensional. Ancient. Been grooming civilizations since Babylon. You think it’s a coincidence that the show aired right around the Gulf War? That was the signal. Barney was the pied piper of innocence, lads.
MURPHY
I knew there was something wrong with that theme song. Too catchy.
JOE
It’s not a song. It’s a spell. It activates trust, compliance… hypnosis. “I love you, you love me?” That’s code, boys. Code for “I own your children’s minds.”
CONNOR
So what do we do?
Joe unrolls a dusty map of TV studio locations and alien ley lines.
JOE
We hunt. The last of his kind is in a bunker beneath PBS headquarters. You in?
Murphy loads a pistol.
Connor cracks his neck.
MURPHY
Let’s go make purple extinct.
Cue thunder. Cut to black.
???
INT. MTV BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW ROOM – NIGHT
SELENA GOMEZ, clad in a glittering black leather jacket with rhinestone devils on the shoulders, sits across from a stunned INTERVIEWER. Cameras roll. Her eyes gleam with unshakable confidence.
SELENA GOMEZ
(grinning)
Look, I grew up on Barney the Dinosaur, okay? I loved that purple dude. I still remember every word of that song. And yeah — maybe Joe thinks he’s the king of the pedo-lizards or whatever — but to me, he was my first taste of showbiz.
She flips her hair and stares straight into the camera.
SELENA GOMEZ (CONT’D)
And now? I got four kings of my own. Four voices that saved me when the world tried to drown me.
Marilyn Manson.
Ozzy Osbourne.
Trent Reznor.
James freaking Hetfield.
INTERVIEWER
(shocked)
They’ve all been accused of flirting with satanic imagery. Are you saying—
SELENA GOMEZ
(interrupting, smiling wickedly)
I’m saying SATAN ROCKS.
(silence in the room)
Not because I worship some red dude with horns — but because these guys taught me how to own my pain. My rage. My power.
Hell isn’t fire — it’s the studio at 3AM with nothing left but your truth.
INTERVIEWER
So… Barney to the Prince of Darkness?
SELENA GOMEZ
More like… from “I love you, you love me,” to “The Beautiful People.”
I evolved.
We all do.
She winks.
SELENA GOMEZ (CONT’D)
Besides… maybe Satan just wanted better PR.
CUT TO STATIC.
???