A Winter's Tail/Transcript

Oliver and Company: The Series

A Winter's Tail

Act I

(Overhead shot of Manhattan. The streets are covered in snow, and several New Yorkers are dressed in winter clothes. Cut to an interior shot of the houseboat. The gang are shivering and huddled around the TV. Francis is watching an opera performance, utterly engrossed.)

Dodger: Frankie, I know you're gonna call me an uncultured swine, but how do you watch this?

Francis: This, my friend, is opera. The art of telling a story through--

Dodger: Well, it sounds like noise to me!

Rita: Not to mention, the sopranoes kind of sound like Georgette!

Dodger: Trust me, Princess Snooty wishes she sang like that!

(The two slap five. Fagin approaches from off-screen.)