White Picket Fence With Tulips and a Dog

In short serio-comedy script White Picket Fence With Tulips and a Dog, Bordy and Henrietta argue over being forced to borrow money.

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FADE IN.

INT. CAR – RIDING – DAY

BORDY DRIVES. HENRIETTA sits shotgun.

HENRIETTA:  …Get the money?

BORDY:  I didn’t get anything. She needs a few days.

Henrietta gives Bordy a dirty look.

My mother isn’t an ATM, alright? She’s not gonna shoot out money at the push of a button.

HENRIETTA:  Bullsh’t. She’s loaded.

BORDY:  She’s not loaded. You could have went in to meet her, she saw you from the window.

HENRIETTA: I told you I’m not meeting parents anytime soon. God knows where this is even going.

BORDY:  You don’t need to meet a parent because we’re getting married, but out of some kind of decency.

HENRIETTA:  Few days she said?

BORDY:  Yeah.

HENRIETTA:  What are we doing for food?

BORDY: I ate.

HENRIETTA: What about me?

BORDY: What about you? If you would have come inside, you would have been fed.

HENRIETTA:  You could have brought me something to go.

BORDY: I’ll get you something to eat, alright? Chill.

HENRIETTA:  So she did give you money!

BORDY:  She gave me a few bucks to get by but, she’s working on the rest.

HENRIETTA:  So how much did she give you?

BORDY: What’s with all the questions?

HENRIETTA: What’s with all the secrets?

BORDY:  She gave me like a hundred.

HENRIETTA:  That’s nothing man.

BORDY:  Better than nothing, right?

HENRIETTA:  Whatever.

BORDY (IMITATING HER):  ‘Whatever, whatever.’ What’s that your new favorite word now?

HENRIETTA:  Whatever, dude.

BORDY:  Yeah. Never happy. That’s your new nickname, ‘never happy’.

HENRIETTA:  And your new nickname is ‘IDIOT’.

BORDY:  Whatever, never happy. Whatever.

HENRIETTA:  Whatever, whatever, IDIOT. (pause.) I want to eat.

BORDY:  What do you want from my life?

HENRIETTA:  What you promised me.

BORDY:  Yeah, well, life’s not that easy.

HENRIETTA:  You promised you’d take care of me and I’m here not being taken care of. I could go back home and leave this all behind.

BORDY:  You know, it’s not 1950 anymore, incase you haven’t noticed. There’s no white picket fence with tulips and a dog. That sh’t don’t exist anymore.

HENRIETTA:  Yes, it does.

BORDY:  That window is closing down hard and fast baby doll.

HENRIETTA:  I want my white picket fence or I’m out.

BORDY:  I can only do what I can do.

HENRIETTA:  I don’t want this sh’t life.

BORDY:  What do you mean? With me or in general?

HENRIETTA:  With you and in general. Sick of it. Always a struggle man.

BORDY:  Work harder.

HENRIETTA:  You work harder! I’m the one holding down a job. What do you do all day with those paintings? Look where we are! We are going nowhere!

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Script Summary

In the short serio-comedy script White Picket Fence With Tulips and a Dog, Bordy and Henrietta argue over having to borrow money from Bordy’s mother.

• Genre: Serio-comedy
• Length: ~10 Minutes
• Script Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
• Age Range: Any
• Themes: money, couple
• Best For: serio-comedy scripts

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Script Source: White Picket Fence with Tulips and a Dog

White Picket Fence with Tulips and a Dog is a serio-comedy by Joseph Arnone, 2026.