The brilliance of the Ice Age transcript is that it has to describe a purely visual, silent character. Any good transcript of the opening sequence reads like a nature documentary on meth:
The story opens on a freezing landscape, where a unique saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat comically struggles to bury his acorn, accidentally triggering a massive crack in the ice and causing an avalanche in the process. Meanwhile, as herds of prehistoric animals migrate south to escape the advancing freeze, we meet our three unlikely protagonists: ice age 1 transcript