Mousehunt1997

[People gather at Chez Ernie as they greet Mayor McKrinkle, his wife, and kids, who enter a restaurant called Chez Ernie]

Reporters:
[chattering]

Leslie:
Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor, over here! Mr. Mayor! Do you think your recent triple heart bypass affect your campaign strategy?

Mayor McKrinkle:
Now, Leslie, I'm just here to eat.

Mayor and his family enter the restaurant

Ernie:
[French accent] Ah, monsieur le maire, Madame maire, welcome to Chez Ernie. What an honour it is to have you in my humble bistro. Suivez-moi. You brought the little ones. The little bicycle thieves. Bonjour! Our very best table. Have you lost little weight?

Mayor McKrinkle:
Oh, I--

Ernie:
I think so! I think you may be buff! Je suisse enchante pour votre beaute. You know what I mean?

The Mayor's Wife:
Oh, Monsieur Ernie... [chuckles]

Ernie:
Excusez-moi. Au revoir, les enfants! [enters the kitchen to cook the lobster loaf and sighs] The air's not so thin at the top. Just like the old man to die before I hit it big. [unaware of this, however, a cockroach, which is in Ernie's father's box of cubans, opens the lid, and scurries toward the food] Remember, everyone. Attention to detail is vital! Presentation is everything. [stops the waiter] No, no, no, no, no! These I must deliver myself. [puts a fire on Duck a l'orange, brings all of the food and places on the table] Duck a I'Orange avec du quack sauce... And for ze Mayor, la specialite de la maison, Lobster Loaf a la Ernest ou la bibliotheque. Bon Appetit.

Mayor McKrinkle:
Oh. [exhales]

Ernie:
Ah, bonjour!

Leslie:
Chef Ernie. How does it feel to be serving the mayor on the eve of his campaign reelection?

Ernie:
Well, Leslie... May I call you Leslie?

Leslie:
Ah, of course.

Mayor McKrinkle:
[eats the lobster loaf almond without noticing the cockroach in his food by mistakenly biting his head off] Crunchy! Hmm. I love the almonds.

Ernie:
Leslie, cuisine, she is a fickle mistress...

Becky:
[notices the cockroach's body, disgusted] EW! Look! [picks up a cockroach's body] A cockroach!

[All the reporters, shocked, go to the family table]

Betty:
That's only half a cockroach.

Becky:
Daddy, you ate the head! [realizing what he just ate, the mayor starts to feel sick, and freaks off, because he accidentally bit the cockroach's head off, because he hasn't seen the cockroach in his food]

The Mayor's Wife:
[clutches the mayor's shoulder, concerned] Honey, are you OK? [the mayor immediately vomits his food on the table and spits the cockroach's head out as well, causing him to clean the puke off. The cockroach's head crawls out of the mayor's vomit, because he inadvertentaly bit the cockroach's head off. Becky and Betty grab knives, and start trying to stab the cockroach's head, which crawls away to avoid getting caught, otherwise he'd get killed for poisoining the mayor. The mayor coughs while clutching his chest in agony, then collapses to the floor, screaming, and falling over unconscious, due to this shock causing him to have a heart attack, much to his wife's shock, just as she screams in terror] Not again!

Reporters:
Was this an accident or murder...? [Ernie just stands there, looking quite traumatized, as the reporters now crowd around him, demanding to know if he intended to murder the mayor or it was an accident]

[The paramedics put the mayor in the hospital truck ambulance, and try vainly to revive him, but fail. As they try again, the kids play outside, and much to Ernie's sorrow, the restaurant closes]

Paramedic:
Clear!

Becky:
I can do that better!

The Mayor's Wife:
[crying, blubbering]