(OPENING THEME PLAYING)
(DRIPPING)
(WHIRRING)
(DRIPPING)
(BUZZING)
ALL: Ba-ba-ba-ba-bored.
There's nothing to do
around here.
Uh, I know, it's so boring!
The dreary time is here for me
as well.
Titans, I know you're bored!
So am I.
But, if we band together
in defiance of the tyranny
of boredom...
Ahh! Your inspirational
speech is super boring!
Do you mind?
I'm trying to read.
THE OTHERS: Sorry.
Why don't you
try reading a book?
(WIND WHISTLING)
What is so special
about the books?
Well, Starfire,
books are a world
of imagination.
They create pictures
in your mind.
Come on.
You're just sitting there
looking at words.
Words can take you
on an imagination adventure.
- (MURMURING)
- You know,
I've heard tell of this
but you know,
I've never seen it
in action.
Uh, I'd like to go
on an imagination adventure.
Can we, uh, see one?
Sure.
(SNAPPING FINGERS)
BEAST BOY: The Return of
the Invisible Man.
(SNIFFING)
(CHOMPING)
My imagination is going
into overdrive!
ROBIN: Biography
of Benjamin Franklin!
This is so amazing!
CYBORG:
The Adventures of Pinocchio.
This is so magical!
STARFIRE: The Birdwatcher's
Guide to Pelicans!
(GASPING) My brain
has never been so alive.
Reading is fundamental, yo!
"Geppetto held
Pinocchio's hand
"and showed him
how to put one foot
after the other."
- (THUMPING)
- Oh... Huh!
Oh, how interesting.
- (MONSTER ROARING)
- (ZAPPING)
(COUGHING)
Invisible Man,
you are the coolest.
(GULLS CRYING)
Books are the best thing ever!
Why did I not try
the reading before?
The world of imagination
is awesome.
(SIGHING) If only
we could take our love
of reading to a new level.
Well, I've always wanted
to start a book club.
They have clubs...for books?
- I want to be a member.
- Me, too.
Me number after two.
(ALL READING)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
(PANTHER ROARING)
So, uh, how is this
supposed to work, Raven?
Well, book clubs share
comments about
the books they've read.
I loved my book.
The pelicans are funny.
They give me
the splinknards.
(GIGGLING)
My book was crazy fun.
It was filled
with so much adventure.
My book had science,
and science is cool.
Guys, it's more
than just sharing feelings,
it's about sharing thoughts.
What's a thought?
(SIGHING) Uh.
Let me show you.
(CLEARING THROAT)
I found my book's premise
to be unconvincing,
the plot twists trite,
and the philosophical
underpinning
a strained attempt
at significance.
(ALL GASPING)
What did you just do, Rave?
I think she just took the fun
out of reading.
Quick, Beast Boy,
tell us about your book!
I love my book so much
I wrote a song about it.
? My book has a front
And a back ?
? With paper in the middle ?
? It has words ?
? They are big and little ?
? Numbers on each page
Can't get lost ?
? So when I open it
Man, I read like a boss ?
? I love the feel of the paper
The smell of the ink ?
? It challenges my brain
It's making me think ?
? It's my book, baby,
There ain't no other
like it ?
? It's my book, baby,
What... ?
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
(RAVEN SIGHING)
Wait, Rave.
- What?
- (STUTTERING) We, uh...
We finished reading
all of our books.
And?
We needs new books to read.
Why don't you just read
each other's books?
You are nasty, girl,
that is just gross.
I don't know what to tell you.
Our eyes are hungry
for the letters
arranged in punctuated
patterns that convey meaning.
Don't you understand?
We got the need.
The need to read!
You gotta get us
more books, man!
You can't start us reading
and then cut us off.
Reading is fundamental.
(SLAPPING)
Get it together.
Oh, this is bad.
This is real bad.
(SOBBING)
I can feel
my imagination dying.
It hurts.
There must be more books
around here somewhere.
Let's split up.
Titans, go!
(OPTICAL CIRCUITS BEEPING)
(CHOMPING)
No books in here.
(WHINING)
No books under the couch.
(SNORING)
(DINGING)
What's up, fellas?
Listen, listen,
I have found one.
ROBIN: Wait!
That's a comic book.
STARFIRE: Is not a comic book
a type of book?
CYBORG: It doesn't count
if it has pictures!
BEAST BOY: Aw! This could never
feed our imagination!
(BEEPING)
I think I hear a book in here.
(MONSTER HUMMING)
Man, I am having some
serious deja vu right now.
Nothing.
(FLUSHING)
(SNIFFING)
I smell a book.
(DIGGING)
Bingo!
Oh, who is the good boy?
Who is the good boy?
ROBIN: You sure
there's a book in there?
Only one way to find out.
(ALL GASPING)
CYBORG: Look, it's got a face!
Ooh, I love faces!
Oh, joy!
It is smiling at me.
Let's read it.
You guys found another book?
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
And it has a face.
(GASPING) Not that book.
You can't read that one.
We have to. It's gonna
fuel our imaginations.
But not in a good way.
That book's evil,
that's why I buried it.
- Too late.
- ALL: Ooh! Aah!
(SINISTER MUSIC)
(SQUAWKING)
I told you not to open it.
It's unleashing all the things
you've imagined.
Well, how do we stop it?
You have to turn off
your imaginations.
- (GROANING)
- (GLASS BREAKING)
I can't do it.
(SCREAMING)
(EVIL LAUGHING)
Why did the biography
of Benjamin Franklin...
- ...have to be so...
- (ZAPPING)
...compelling?
You made reading
too much fun, Raven.
(YELLING)
- (SQUAWKING)
- (STARFIRE GRUNTING)
(FISH FIRING)
There has to be a way
of making books boring.
- What might turn our
imaginations off again?
- (FISH SLAPPING)
That's it.
We have to take the fun
out of reading.
(ALL READING)
Who's going first?
(GROANING)
Um, the premise
that a man might become
invisible
is, like, totally far-fetched
and resists even the most
strenuous suspensions
of disbelief, bro.
While the biography goes over
some well-trodden ground,
ultimately it reminds us
why Franklin is one of our
most fascinating
Founding Fathers.
We're doing it.
We're making reading boring.
Keep it up, guys.
(PELICANS SQUAWKING)
The author's understanding
of the ancient Egyptians'
associations of pelicans
with death and the afterlife
seem tenuous,
to say the least!
(YELPING)
The climactic appearance...
(YELPING)
...of the Blue Fairy
and her subsequent
humanization
of the Little Wooden Boy
serve to symbolically
demonstrate... (WHISTLING)
...the overcoming
of lesser impulses
in order to discover
one's real self.
It's over.
I'm gonna destroy this book
so it can never
hurt anyone again.
(MELLOW JAZZ PLAYING)
You should have warned us.
Reading isn't
just fundamental,
it's dangerous.
We almost died
because of books, Rave.
I hope this doesn't
do anything to diminish
your love of reading.
(COUGHING)
(MELLOW JAZZ CONTINUING)