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Jin.

Beca grabs her bag and they exit, leaving Dr. Mitchell.

11.

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BECA (CONT'D)

16 EXT. ACTIVITIES FAIR - BARDEN QUAD - LITTLE LATER 16

A series of recruiting booths are set up throughout the quad.

Anything and everything is represented: One booth reads, “FWord:

A Collection of Feminist Voices,” another says, “Barden

Newspaper,” another reads “Dudes With Ponytails. Est. 1988.”

Beca, headphones around her neck, and Kimmy Jin are at the

booth:
“RIAC: Running in a Circle.” Two REPRESENTATIVES give

Beca the hard sell.

RIAC REPRESENTATIVE #1

Basically what we do is we join

arms in a large ring and we run

clockwise and sometimes we’ll do

variations on that.

RIAC REPRESENTATIVE #2

It’s really about movement and,

health, circulation, mimicking the

earth’s orbit around the sun.

BECA:

So you run around in a circle?

RIAC REPRESENTATIVE #1

And so can you.

He holds out a pen for Beca to sign up.

BECA:

Yeah. I’m gonna look around --

RIAC REPRESENTATIVE #2

-- Around!

RIAC REPRESENTATIVE #1

You would do so well here.

Kimmy Jin spots the “Korean Students Association” booth and

makes a beeline for it. The KOREAN STUDENTS welcome her with

open arms. Beca, now alone, puts her headphones on.

17 EXT. ACTIVITIES FAIR - BARDEN QUAD 17

ACROSS THE FAIR:
Jesse and Benji stride through, stopping at

the gratuitously rowdy Sigma Beta Theta FRAT booth. Goodlooking,

bare-chested, beefy GUYS party and chant.

FRAT GUYS:

“Drinking beer, smoking dope,

sucking on a tit!

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(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

If you ain’t pledging SBT, then you

ain’t worth no sh*t!”

BENJI:

That’s a double negative.

JESSE:

That’s a lot of negatives.

BENJI:

Follow me. There’s only one group

on this campus worth joining.

NEEDLE DROP:
A HEAVY GUITAR LICK kicks in as the camera FLIES

over the fair, table after table, finally landing on...

THE Barden Treblemakers: A motley crew of eight confident

nerds sitting under a tree: DONALD, a cool dude with black

glasses, UNICYCLE, a guy always astride a unicycle, a few

other thin, unathletic DWEEBS, and BUMPER, the outspoken

ringleader.

Jesse and Benji stand nearby. Benji gestures to the guys.

BENJI (CONT’D)

As far as Barden goes, that’s what

being a man is all about.

Bumper blows an iPhone pitch pipe. The Trebles suddenly rise

and sing the gayest version of The Dazz Band’s “Let It Whip.”

Amazingly, a HANDFUL OF PRETTY GIRLS gather around to listen.

BENJI (CONT’D)

The Treblemakers. The rock stars

of a cappella, the messiahs of

Barden. Well, you know, not

including athletes, frat guys, or

actual cool people.

JESSE:

Organized nerd singing! Is this

for real?

BENJI:

You bet it is. How’s your voice?

Jesse joins the Trebles in “Let It Whip.” Benji’s impressed.

18 EXT. ACTIVITIES FAIR/BELLAS BOOTH - SAME TIME 18

Aubrey and Chloe stand in front of their tiny “Bellas” booth

handing out flyers. Aubrey scoffs at the Trebles.

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FRAT GUYS (CONT'D)

(CONTINUED)

AUBREY:

I will stop at nothing to take down

those dicklicks. [ALT: suck butts]

A homely girl, BARB, walks up.

CHLOE:

Hey, Barb! Gonna audition this

year? We have openings.

Chloe tries to hand her a flier but Barb won’t take it.

BARB:

Oh, now that you’ve puked your way

to the bottom, you might actually

consider me? I’ve auditioned three

times and never got in because you

said my b*obs look like baloney.

Barb puts her hands on her hips. Her cardigan is pulled back,

revealing two huge, baloney-like areolas beneath her t-shirt.

BARB (CONT’D)

The word’s out. The Bellas’s are the

laughing stock of a cappella. Good

look recruiting this year, douche-b’s.

Barb leaves. Chloe looks a tad shaken.

CHLOE:

This. Is.

(singing)

A TRAVESTY!

(then)

If we can’t recruit Baloney Barb,

we can’t get anybody.

AUBREY:

Take the dramatics down a notch.

CHLOE:

You’re the one who got us into this

hot mess!

AUBREY:

We’ll be fine. I’m confident we’ll

find eight super-hot girls with

bikini ready bodies who can

harmonize and have perfect pitch.

A PACK OF HOT GIRLS walk by. Aubrey offers a flyer. They

PUSH her away and keep walking. Aubrey dons her “game face.”

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(CONTINUED)

AUBREY (CONT’D)

Keep flyering. We have a tradition

to uphold.

CHLOE:

How about we just get good singers.

A chubby GIRL walks up and takes a flier from Chloe.

CHLOE (CONT’D)

Hi! Can you sing?

Can you read music?

Can you match pitch?

CHUBBY GIRL:

Yep.

Yep.

Chloe sings three notes. The girl matches them, perfectly.

CHUBBY GIRL:

You want me to do it in “A’?

CHLOE:

Your name?

CHUBBY GIRL:

Fat Amy.

AUBREY:

You call yourself Fat Amy?

FAT AMY:

Yep. So you twig b*tches don’t do

it behind my back.

AUBREY:

See you at auditions... Fat Amy.

Fat Amy walks away.

AUBREY (CONT’D)

That was oddly satisfying.

ANGLE ON:
Beca, who has now stopped at a booth called “CAMPUS

DJ’S”. She excitedly picks up a flier. It reads: “BARDEN

DJ’s (”Deaf Jews. A Club For The Hearing Impaired Children

of Israel.”) Beca reacts, bummed. Fat Amy walks up as a

JEWISH STUDENT signs and mumbles excitedly.

JEWISH STUDENT:

Shalom!

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(CONTINUED)

FAT AMY:

(loudly, to Student)

That’s not a real word! Keep

trying! You’ll get it!

BECA:

(laughs, to Fat Amy)

Not a lot of Jewish people where

you’re from, huh?

Beca continues on, passing near the Bella booth. Chloe sees

Beca and points her out to Aubrey.

CHLOE:

Hey, what about her? She could be

made cute.

AUBREY:

Are you blind, Chloe? That girl’s

a freak. She’s so not a Bella.

Ignoring her, Chloe hands Beca a flyer. Beca takes off her

headphones.

CHLOE:

Hi! Any interest in auditioning

for our a capella group?

Beca eyes the flier, then Chloe and Aubrey.

BECA:

A capella. Oh right, this is a

thing now.

CHLOE:

Totes. We sing covers of songs but

do it without any instruments.

(over sell)

It all comes from our mouths!

Beca reacts, “Wow.”

CHLOE (CONT’D)

There are four groups on campus.

the Bellas. That’s us. We’re the

tits. The BU Harmonics...

ANGLE ON:
THE BU HARMONICS BOOTH: A CO-ED GROUP where HOMELY

GIRLS, including Barb, give back rubs to GUYS who don’t know

they’re gay yet.

CHLOE (CONT’D)

The High Notes.

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(CONTINUED)

ANGLE ON:
THE HIGH NOTES: A GROUP that’s always high. A

couple of them laugh too hard. Three or four fall over.

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