"Entimeclopedia" Treatment
Logline: An educational episodic series
similar to “The Magic Tree House.” In a world in which talking animals have
gone through exactly the same history as humans, a group of four talking friends
find a magic encyclopedia that allows them to travel through time and space. In
each episode they learn about strange events or times that they travel to and
see that truth really is stranger than fiction.
Synopsis: “Entimeclopedia” brings the
success of the “Magic Tree House” concept to an episodic television show.
Through the show, children explore events from the past and learn lessons along
the way.
Pilot Story Arc:
Terry
the Kangaroo, Milly the Flamingo, Bill the Tortoise, and Leonard the Lion are
walking through the jungle when they happen upon a struggling frog wizard,
whose foot is stuck in a bear trap. They help the frog wizard out of the trap
and before he teleports away and in return the wizard bestows upon them a
magical encyclopedia.
The
four friends are intrigued by the magical, glowing book. They flip to a page in
the middle of the book and just after they see the page labeled “Salem Witch
Trials”. The quartet is whisked away to Salem Massachusetts in 1962.
The
friends begin to explore Salem in confusion when Milly pulls out her cell phone,
only to realize she has no cell service and none of her calls go though. The
four are spotted by some of the townsfolk. The townsfolk don’t recognize the
foreign technology of the cell phone and suspect the friends of being witches.
They throw the friends in jail.
The
friends meet other suspected witches, learning they are not actually witches.
The witches describe what they will go through if they do not escape so the
four friends trick jailer and escape with the witches. They are then teleported
back home. People actually thought that witches existed, truly stranger than
fiction.
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