(evil laughing) (screaming)

(storming) (calm music)

- Grave, grave, gravy boat, floating down the stream.

Merrily merrily merrily, huh?

- [Punnywise] (evil laughing)

- Awe, that laugh.

For some reason it makes me really strange.

- [Punnywise] Are you sure it doesn't make you feel grate?

(evil laughing)

- Ah, bro I get it.

I'm stuck on a grate.

How about a little less jokes and a little more help,

mysterious sewer person.

- [Punnywise] Okay, I'll stop clowning around.

I've gotten plenty of other boats unstuck, so don't worry.

You'll float too!

- Okay, cool!

So, do you have something you can push me with?

- Sorry, no arms, but I can touch my tongue to my eyeball.

- No, I don't see how that's of any help to me whatso--

oh my goodness that is so creepy!

- I was just trying to help!

Together we can lick this problem! (evil laughing)

- Awe that laugh again.

Ooo what's happening to me?

- What's the matter?

Don't my jokes float your boat? (evil laughing)

- Awe, what the?

(evil laughing)

Please, stop laughing!

It's, it's-- (screams)

- Talk about a grave, grave, gravy boat. (evil laughing)

(intense music)

- Huh, who's there?

Hello?

- Hey Pear!

- Ah, dude!

What are you doing up on that bookshelf?

- I don't know, sometimes I like to see

what the world looks like to tall people.

- Ugh, well get down here!

I think I found something important.

- About the clown everyone's talking about?

Do you think Punnywise is actually real?

- I'm still not sure.

A clown who's laugh can kill you?

It sounds crazy,

but I started researching the history of comedy in Dairy,

and here's what I found.

Back in the 90s there was this prop comic called Orange Top.

Like all prop comics, he was super unfunny.

Nobody laughed.

They usually just groaned or rolled their eyes.

Well, one day,

he made an audience member roll her eyes so hard

that she fell out of her chair and died!

The town formed a mob and tried Orange Top for murder!

In the moments before he died,

Orange Top cursed the town of Dairy,

claiming he'd return in 27 years,

and this Autumn just so happens to be the 27th anniversary

of his passing.

- Oh my gosh!

Pear, we can't let anyone bring prop comedy back!

Society fought too hard to rid ourselves of it!

We can never go back!

- Listen, I found these old VHS tapes of Orange Top

in the video section.

- Don't make me watch 'em, Pear!

- What have to!

It's up to us to stop Punnywise!

Now let's go round up the rest of the losers!

These tapes might tell us something!

- Yeah, I've been thinking,

maybe we can name ourselves something other than the losers.

It's really not helping at school.

(creepy music)

- Oh wow, what a relief!

How can I ever thank you?

I'm so very grape-ful.

(booing)

- Bro, I don't know how much more I can take.

- I think he's kind of funny. (laughs)

- Hey guys, did someone bring that balloon in with them?

- No.

- Eh, someone must've accidentally

stepped on the VCR cables.

- How, none of us have feet!

- Did somebody change the channel?

- Hey, here's a joke.

- Tell me if you've heard this one before.

- Uh, wait, listen!

I think the TV is telling us a joke.

- Why don't cannibals eat clowns?

- I don't know, why don't cannibals eat clowns?

- Well?

- Cause they taste funny! (evil laughing)

Where's everyone going?

Don't you wanna take a stab at prop comedy? (evil laughing)

- Don't listen to his laughter!

Cover your ears!

- We don't have ears!

- You don't have any ears?

I have something that might help, hear! (evil laughing)

Get it, hear? (evil laughing)

- Ah, it's laughter, I can't take it.

- Yes you can, go on, take it! (evil laughing)

- Ah, it's so unfunny, ah!

(evil laughing)

(screaming)

- Grapefruit!

(screaming)

- I think it's coming from the sewer!

- We gotta go help him!

- In the sewer, with that creepy clown running around?

I'll pass, we don't even know how to beat him!

- What if we fight fire with fire.

His terrible jokes are making our lives miserable, right?

So what is we gave him a taste of his own medicine?

- Yay, I love medicine!

It helps so many people!

- So what are you saying, Pear?

- I'm saying we go down to where he lives, into the sewer,

and we kill Punnywise with--

- Punny humor!

- Normally I'd be annoyed by a joke like that,

but honestly, that's the exact kind of energy

we need right now!

- Yay!

- Ah, this looks so much more sanitary

when the Ninja Turtles do it.

(evil laughing) - Shh, listen!

I think we're getting close!

- Great, that's exactly what I'm afraid of!

- [Punnywise] You sure you're not afraid of crabs?

(evil laughing)

- Okay, yeah, he's right!

That was exactly what I was afraid of.

- Stay strong, little Apple!

I read about this in the library.

Punnywise can take many different forms!

Keep it together and remember the plan.

- Yeah, I definitely piddled myself back there.

I guess it's a good thing we're already in a sewer.

Cut out the middle man.

- Fellas, you came for me!

- Grapefruit, let's get you and us the heck out of here!

- Wait, look closer, that's not Grapefruit.

- Eh, well well, it seems you're too clever for me.

I guess I'll just have to face facts. (evil laughing)

- Ah, his laughter, it's, it's too much!

- Stick to the plan!

- Okay, hey Punnywise, hey!

- Yeah?

- Knock knock.

- Ooo, a joke, Punnywise loves jokes!

Who's there?

- Cow says.

- Cow says who.

- No, cow says moo!

- (evil laughing) That's such a bad joke, I kinda love it.

Wow, what's my body doing?

Well that's dairy unexpected. (evil laughing)

- Hey Punnywise you hear the one about the Italian chef?

He pasta away.

- (evil laughing) I should've seen that one coming.

Jokes like that are a pizza cake.

(coughing) Hey, what's happening to me?

- I think the better question is what's hap-pun-ing to you?

(laughing)

- (evil laughing) Wow, even Marshmallow's

getting in on the action. (gagging)

- I contributed, yay!

- Look, is that Grapefruit?

- It is I, the hour or so has been quite strange.

- [Pear] Grapefruit, we're on the verge

of beating Punnywise.

You just gotta make him laugh one last time.

- Say no more.

Hey Punnywise! (farting)

- (evil laughing) It's so dumb!

Whoa, oh no!

I will return, I will return!

(cheering)

- Grapefruit, that fart was brilliant!

- Yeah, dude, perfectly timed and everything.

Way to go!

- (chuckles) Thanks guys, yeah that was definitely planned.

It certainly wasn't an accidental fart

and I definitely wasn't planning on delivering

a high brow political limerick

I've been polishing up for the past few months

as a submission to the New Yorker.

- Look, it's Orange Top!

- Where am I?

- Orange Top, you've been possessed

by a murderous clown demon for the past 27 years.

- You mean, I'm free?

- That's right, you don't have to tell bad jokes anymore.

- Oh wow, what a relief!

How can I ever thank you?

I'm so very grape-ful!

(record scratching)

- What is happening right now?

- Nothing, I'm just trying to say thanks a latte!

(groaning)

- Really dude?

- What, would you prefer a note of appreciation?

(evil laughing)

(groaning)

- Well, lesson learned,

once a prop comic, always a prop comic.

- Honestly, I almost preferred the clown.

- Awe, did they not enjoy my jokes?

Gee, I hope I didn't blow it! (evil laughing)

(intense music)