Laugh, Zack Laugh

"Laugh Zack, Laugh" is a season 1 episode of the Summerlands, in which Zack goes insane over a lack of kids to scam.

Characters

 * Patrick
 * Double-D
 * Zack
 * Jimmy
 * Sarah
 * Kevin
 * Nazz
 * Rolf
 * Jonny
 * Plank

Plot
Zack's scheme for the day is to sell "ice cream - big scoop" from a cardboard box thinly disguised as a sales van. The fact that this ice cream is actually made of pink-painted tennis balls, paper & glue doesn't seem to bother him, what does bother him is there's not a single customer to be seen. Where are the other kids? Well each and every one is in bed with chicken pox and that means the Eds - the only healthy kids in the Cul-de-Sac, are just going to have to amuse themselves today, which wouldn't be so bad if only Zack wasn't so difficult to please and constantly griping about the others boring him with their ideas of fun. Eventually the lack of potential earnings causes Zack's brain to have a meltdown and he cracks under the strain, running amok mistaking fire hydrants for Jawbreakers and wooden fences for buttered toast, not to mention swindling the local squirrel population out of its nut supply! The only safe solution is to capture him but of course that won't be easy and Double D is going to get very bruised along the way but with the right kind of bait the trap can surely be sprung. After countless attempts they finally succeed, but capture themselves in the process.

Quotes

 * Patrick: [advancing on the chicken pox stricken Jimmy] "It is so gross! Can I touch it?"

Patrick: "I've seen this before." Zack: "Where?" Patrick: "There!" [Showing more "QUARANTINE" signs] Double D: "It must be an epidemic!"
 * Double D: [Looking at the "QUARANTINE" sign] "It's a QUARANTINE."

Double D: "I'm not registered for that!" Zack: "Then we'll elope!"
 * Zack: [crazy] "Will you marry us?"


 * Jimmy: "Hello Mr. Postman. Are those eggs for me?"

Patrick: "I ate it! Discretely."
 * Zack: "Where's the key?!"


 * Zack: "KEVIN! SARAH! Oh no, I'm calling on Sarah!" [Zack loses it]


 * Patrick: "Dig a hole, dig a hole, dig a hole," [Zack grumbles] "Ha ha, I am a good shovel, huh Zack?"


 * Zack: [After Patrick's Jonny mask fall off] Jonny... you dropped your face... I'll get ya a new one!


 * Zack[sounding like Desi Arnaz]: "Lucy, I'm home!" (jumps on Double D).