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| - Daniel Scruptwin, businessman, takes a trip across seas for some unknown business-like reason. Unbeknown to his family, co-workers, and most of himself, he has a terrible secret: Multiple Personality Disorder has plagued him for decades. Mostly it was unnoticeable; in fact, most of the characters don't seem to realize his disorder. The audience, however, is tipped off by Scruptwin's sudden exclamation of "I'm a pancake!" partway through the first scene in conjunction with sudden, jerking "flipping" movements. Mostly his friends dismiss such "episodes" as "Stress of the business," as co-worker Nick says repeatedly through Act I. Nick himself is rather convinced he is a zebra with an above-average intelligence, so Daniel's outbursts seem quite tame.
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| - Daniel Scruptwin, businessman, takes a trip across seas for some unknown business-like reason. Unbeknown to his family, co-workers, and most of himself, he has a terrible secret: Multiple Personality Disorder has plagued him for decades. Mostly it was unnoticeable; in fact, most of the characters don't seem to realize his disorder. The audience, however, is tipped off by Scruptwin's sudden exclamation of "I'm a pancake!" partway through the first scene in conjunction with sudden, jerking "flipping" movements. Mostly his friends dismiss such "episodes" as "Stress of the business," as co-worker Nick says repeatedly through Act I. Nick himself is rather convinced he is a zebra with an above-average intelligence, so Daniel's outbursts seem quite tame. At the end of the first act, Daniel convinces himself he is a sea turtle and abandons ship to find freedom. He finds it in Act II, clinging to his suitcase as he floats across the sea, singing the number Help, I Can't Stop Rhyming. Eventually he washes up on a deserted island that turns out to be filled with geese. He spends his first days and nights there singing to himself, surprised every time he switches to another personality. At the end of another very long musical number, all fifty-two of them realize that their body is stuck on an island. Eventually Daniel adapts the only way he can — assuming the personality of a goose. After another song, I'm A Goose, I'm A Goose, I'm A Goose (But I Still Can't Stop Rhyming), a storm blows his suitcase open. A single piece of paper blows past Daniel and gives him a papercut on his finger. The traumatic experience makes him burst into song once more. At the end, he finally realizes his true identity as a businessman. His newfound geese friends grab him and fly him to America during one of their shit-bombing runs. Daniel lands in America, cured of his disorder, blood pumping through his veins, opportunities unfolding before him, and promptly becomes part of the obesity epidemic and dies three years later of a heart attack.
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