[In the beginning, the island of Madagascar appears in a zebra's daydream. A zebra he named Marty yells like Tarzan and jumps out of the vine after swinging on it. The choir penguins in their black bowties sing Born Free by John Barry, and they fly. He runs and jumps to the water in slow motion. A lion he named Alex appears, sneaking towards the zebra as if almost in the middle of a dream; he jumps up, snapping him out of his dream, and the music stops.]
[screams, slips from treadmill, tumbles and hits into a fence]
Alex! Do not interrupt me when I'm daydreaming! When a zebra's in the zone, leave him alone.
Come on, Marty. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday!
[expresses pain on the right side of his jaw]
Oh! Ah! Oh! Hey, um... I got s – I got something stuck in my teeth. It's driving me crazy! Can you help me out here? Please?
Ah! You came to the right place, my friend. Doctor Marty, D.D.S., is in the house! Please hop on top of my sterilized examination table, if you may. [Alex opens the mouth but can't see anything because it's dark] I don't see anything.
Ow!
OK, just don't talk with your mouth full. [Alex nods] Aha! Right here. What the heck is this doing in there?
Happy birthday!
Aww! Hey, thanks, man! You put it in behind the tooth. You all right?
These aren't even on the shelf yet. Here! Check it out. Check it out! Look at that. Ooh! Look at that! Ooh!
Look at that. It's snowing.
10 years old, huh? A decade. Double digits. The big 1-O! You don't like it?
No, no, it's great!
You hate it. Ugh! I should've gotten you the Alex alarm clock. That's the one. That's the big seller.
No, no! No. The present's great, really. It's just that another year's come and gone, and I'm still doing the same old thing. "Stand over here. Trot over there. Eat some grass. Walk back over here."
I see your problem.
Maybe I should go to law school.
You just need to break out of that boring routine.
How?
Throw out the old act. Get out there! Who knows what you're gonna do? Make it up as you go along. Ad-lib, improvise, on the fly. Boom, boom, boom!
Really?
You know, make it fresh.
Fresh, huh? OK. I could do fresh.
Works for me.
