The Good Brothers - The Rabbit - P. A. Nolte

1/ Close-up on a scruffy man in his early 30's taking a big hit off a joint.  He's sitting in the passenger seat of a 1972 Gremlin, but there shouldn't be enough background visible to tell that just yet.

Chaz (OP): Is it any good?

2/ The Gremlin tools down a quiet country road.  There's farmland and pastures on either side, punctuated with trees.  Up on the left is a larger plot of untouched land.  That's where the car and its passengers are headed.

Jesse (OP): I dunno.  You're smoking some of it now.  Is it?

Chaz (OP): Guess so.

3/ The first man, Jesse, is joined by a second, Chaz, in his walk down to a particularly secluded field.  They've parked the car by the side of the road and followed a worn dirt path down the hill and almost out of sight.

Chaz: Whose land is this?

Jesse: Dunno.  Couple plots down from my aunt's.

4/ They stop walking.  Jesse has his hands on a large clump of tall grass, like he's about to pull a curtain.  He's excited to show his friend the fruits of his labor.

Jesse:  Wait for it, ...

5/ An inset of a small, grey perking up.

6/ Jesse and Chaz stumble into an open patch of field expecting a large crop of marijuana, but a significant number of stalks have been stripped a few feet off the ground.  Small woodland creatures, primarily rabbits, but also a raccoon, a few squirrels, and maybe some birds, scatter in every direction.  They drop tiny pipes carved from mushrooms and corncobs and whatever else.  Rolling papers go flying.  The scene is a drug bust where Beatrix Potter characters meet Cheech and Chong and everything is charmingly chaotic.

Jesse: AGAIN?!

Jesse: I HATE THAT RABBIT!!!

The Good Brothers--David Press.

PAGE EIGHT.

8.1: The brothers climb out of the car and start advancing towards the building. Brian has a mic stand, Bruce has his acoustic guitar, and Larry has a banjo. The queued up crowd have their hands raised cheering the brothers on.  

1. CROWD:            Woooo!

8.2: The main lobby to the building is filled with PEOPLE all wearing Good Brothers t-shirts and hats and selling merchandise.

NO DIALOGUE.

8.3: They make their way through the crowd; people are reaching out to touch them.

NO DIALOGUE.

8.4: The brothers enter the THEATER. It’s picturesque—it’s an old OPERA HOUSE they’re in. There is an announcer on the main stage.

1. ANNOUNCER:        Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the GOOD BROTHERS!

8.5: The brothers are on the stage now and BRIAN is speaking into the microphone.

BRIAN:               Why thank you for having us. It took a lot for all three of us to get here, and there are some party crashers—

8.6: The cops try to get into the building but the people in the line are blocking the door and it’s hard for cops to push through the crowd.

CAPTION [BRIAN]:     --So it would be great if you could prevent them from entering the building and disturbing us!

The Good Brothers - Tracking Him Down - Perry Kent

Panel 1

Exterior, day. A beat-up old camaro pulls into the gravel parking lot of a rough looking road-side diner.

Panel 2

Interior, day, diner. Two brothers around the same age, one wearing denim and the other flannel and a cowboy hat, walk quietly through the double doors of the diner. The manager, a middle-aged man wearing a short sleeve button-up and a tie, walks towards the brothers. The diner is a giant mess with waitresses cleaning broken dishes and food off the ground, though it doesn't look like it's helping.

1. MANAGER: Sorry, no service right now.

Panel 3

The brothers talk with the manager as the denim-brother holds out a photo to the manager.

2. DENIM-BROTHER: You seen this man?

3. MANAGER: Yeah, that's the bastard who did all this then ran the hell outta here.

Panel 4

The brothers turn to leave as the one in flannel shoots another question at the manager.

4. FLANNEL-BROTHER: Which way did he go?

5. MANAGER: East. Wait--

Panel 5

The two brothers respond at the same time as they walk out the double doors of the diner.

6. MANAGER (OP): Who are you?

7. BROTHERS: His brothers.

-END-

The Good Brothers – It’s All Relative – MK Stangeland Jr.

(7 Panels)

Panel 1: Dramatic panel as THE GOOD BROTHERS enter a large studio.

TEXT (1): A battle of MUSIC! And FAMILY!

TEXT (2): The Good Brothers!

Panel 2: A group that looks much like the GOOD BROTHERS, but if they were an emo hip-hop rap group.

TEXT: The Bad Brothers!

Panel 3: A group that looks like a bunch of nuns trying to be a country music group.

TEXT: The Good Sisters!

Panel 4: The CHEMICAL BROTHERS.

TEXT: The Chemical Brothers!

Panel 5: The JONAS BROTHERS.

TEXT: The Jonas Brothers!

Panel 6: The BLUES BROTHERS.

TEXT: The Blues Brothers!

Panel 7: Wide shot, showing a number of other similar groups that have filled the room as they prepare for a musical showdown.

(END PAGE)

The Good Brothers - Keeper - Grant McLaughlin

1 - Cain and Abel are walking together, coming down from a mountain (maybe have a little burning bush up there in the background).  Abel wears a big ol' smile - like, to the degree where you might wonder if he isn't a little simple.  Cain is furious, arms crossed and brow furrowed.

NO COPY

2 - Cain and Abel have arrived at their little homestead.  Abel sees his sheep and waves at them enthusiastically, as thrilled with them as he seems to be with everything else.  Cain continues to glower and arm cross, something down on the ground (and off-panel) catching his upset eye.

ABEL: God's pretty great, eh?

CAIN (1): Yeah.

CAIN (2): Sure.

3 - Abel bends down and gives a big hug to one of his sheep, as happy as ever.  Cain leans over to pick something up.

CAIN: Hey, Abel...

4 - On Cain's hand, which holds a big ol' rock.

CAIN (tailless): Let's go out to the field.

The Good Brothers - Good Advice - Liam Meagher

Single Panel: The brothers are cowboys in the wild west standing in a jail. Two brothers are standing outside a cell, while the third brother is inside the cell in handcuffs.

Brother Outside Cell: You've got to stop just shooting everyone who walks off in a different direction on your lunch break.

Why The Good Brothers? - Liam Meagher

We had just arrived in Toronto after a tight ride with a car full of gear on one of the coldest nights of the year.

Two of the bandmates had to head back to the capital before returning to Toronto the next night for the show so the posse was down to three. After braving it back out into the city night to grab some booze and snacks groceries, we settled in. It's always odd being in someone else's apartment when they aren't home - peeking around, trying to get a feel for what their life might be like - so I headed for the record collection and pulled this one out.

The cover seemed to be an apt description of the three of us and looked as though it might be a snapshot of the night ahead.

We didn't listen to it.