How to Eat Fried Worms

Yeah!

Ew!

Hey, Billy, look...

Ah.

Are you all right, Billy?

Wrapping it up

there, Billy?

Maybe not.

Okay, careful there, Woody.

You're gonna knock

somebody over.

Billy...

Oh!

Billy, you know what?

I am saying stop.

This is your room, come on.

- I don't like it.

- Why not?

Smell the walls.

Mm... yeah.

You know what?

They just need a fresh coat of paint.

You can pick the color.

- Black.

- Black?

Cozy.

I don't wanna go

to school, Mom.

I'm gonna be the new kid.

It's the worst thing ever.

How will I even

know where to go?

We'll figure it out.

We? No.

No mothers.

I want to meet

your teacher Mrs. Bommley.

No, no mothers.

And I want to see your classroom and

just make sure that everything's okay.

No mothers.

And also, Mom,

don't put anything in

my lunch like a little note

saying, "Good luck, Billy."

Don't worry, I won't.

Okay, unpack, all right?

You're gonna feel so much better

once you get settled in

and get all your toys out.

Toys?

Material possessions.

Joe, Joe, look!

There's a new kid

and he's riding his

bike on the sidewalk.

- Look! Boiler Head!

- Dismount, young man.

"And walk your bicycle.

Walk your bicycle."

Everybody,

stare at him.

Billy F, is that where

you're putting your bike?

- It's a bike rack.

- It's a bike rack.

- Billy F?

- Yeah, Billy F.

Billy F.

See you around, new kid.

Mrs. Bommley and Isaac...

No! No, wait!

Aw, you stupid note.

Say you were lost.

I'm not lost.

Say you were though.

Okay, say I was.

Follow me.

Sorry, I'm so tall.

- Erk, Erk, Erk!

- Incoming!

- Incoming

- Coming in.

- Erk, Erk.

- Erk, Erk

Erk, Erk!

Put your stuff in there, and that's

our classroom in there.

- Erk, Erk.

- Everyone calls that girl Erk.

- Erk?

- Erika.

No hats allowed.

Uh, please don't

make me go in there.

Ow!

Oh!

Come, young man.

Sweet.

Class, you have a new

student joining you today.

Everyone, let's welcome

Billy with a warm hello.

- Class?

- Hello, Billy.

You're late.

Get to your seats.

Would you write your name

on the board, young man?

Billy Forrester,

with two Rs.

- Three.

- I beg your pardon?

There's three Rs.

Thank you, Mr. Burdock.

Welcome, Billy.

As part of our curriculum,

we are studying Ancient Egypt.

Oh!

Thus the Sphinx,

thus the pyramids,

thus the bust

of Nefertiti.

Now, would you like

to sit, Billy?

Let's see,

let's find you a seat.

How about right there,

in back of Erika?

Erk, Erk.

Tomorrow, make sure

you put your backpack in the cubby,

and welcome!

Erk, Erk.

- Erk.

- Erk, Erk, Erk.

Hey, have

a delicious lunch.

Woo-hoo!

Hey!

Hey, Billy F.

That's your lunch, huh?

You eat worms?

I eat them all the time.

You want to try one?

Here you go.

Somebody get this

off of me!

He's gonna get it now.

Everyone sit!

Boiler Head.

- He's gonna get it.

- Look at that.

I'm popular!

Woody, tell Billy and Daddy

what you did today.

The pre-school kids

are called sea turtles

- and when they introduced Woody...

- I sang a song!

He did. He stood right up

when they introduced him

and he sang his little heart out,

didn't you?

Oh, yeah?

What song did you sing, Woody?

~ Baby beluga

in the deep blue sea ~

~ Swims so wild

and swims so free ~

~ Heaven above,

sea below ~

~ And the little

white whale on the go... ~

Stop! No more!

He's just singing, Billy.

He's not just singing.

He's deliberately

not stopping!

~ The waves roll in ~

~ The waves roll out... ~

~ See the water

squirting out of my spout. ~

- Dad?

- Billy, hey.

Couldn't tell

if you were asleep.

My brain's keeping me awake.

What's the headline

in that brain of yours?

I don't like my school.

Yeah, well, Billy,

first days are tough.

First days can be really hard.

You should have seen me at work today.

You know, I, uh, I couldn't

keep anyone's name straight.

Thanks, I'll be right

with you, Bob.

It's Rob, Rob Simon.

And then they made

me wear a name tag.

This is your IMB badge. You're gonna

need this when you go over to VOD

because they're gonna

ask for it for IOC.

Anything like that

happen to you?

Not really.

Did you make any friends?

Everybody is already friends.

They all went

to kindergarten probably.

And I'm just this kid who's

just there all of a sudden.

Well, you know what you do?

You go up to people, you take

the initiative, you say,

- "Hi, I'm Billy Forrester."

- Say my last name?

My point is, you don't wait

for them to come to you, okay?

You go up to them, introduce

yourself, shake hands.

Kids don't shake hands, Dad.

Try and get some sleep.

You know, things are gonna get

better, I promise.

You watch, tomorrow

you're gonna have

a great day.

Wormboy! Wormboy!

- Wormboy! Wormboy!

- Stop!

- Wormboy!

- Get away!

- Wormboy! Wormboy!

- Get off!

Wormboy!

Stop! Get off!

We're just calling you Wormboy

'cause that's what you said.

- No, I didn't.

- Yes, you did.

You said, "I eat worms."

Right? Right?

- Yeah!

- Yeah!

So, you're Wormboy.

Wormboy.

We'll get back with you

at recess.

Oh, hey. Hey, does your house have

a front door that's green?

I was trying to figure out

where you live 'cause my house

has a red door with

a sign that says Tansey.

That's my name,

Erika Tansey.

You're making it worse.

I'm Adam Simms.

I used to be friends

with Frasier Boone.

You know Frasier Boone?

I don't know anybody, okay?

That's like me.

No friends.

I have lots of friends.

They just don't go

to this dumb school.

Hey,

you know how you threw a worm

at Joe Guire and hit him in the face?

What about it?

I thought for sure he was gonna smash

you with the death ring.

The death ring?

Joe has a ring called

the death ring.

If he punches you with it,

you die.

But you don't die now.

You die in eighth grade,

so nobody can prove it.

It's got poison in it

that goes into your skin

and makes an ulcer.

Very slowly

you bleed to death.

If he punches you with it?

He punched me.

And in the eight grade...

I'm gonna be dead.

What did you do to make him

punch you in the first place?

Nothing.

He just said I was annoying

him for some reason.

Uh, how hard

did he punch you?

Really really hard.

Like this...

And then I fell

down like this.

And it made a mark

right here

where the poison went in.

Ugh!

Ugh!

Wormboy! Wormboy!

Wormboy! Wormboy!

Wormboy!

Wormboy!

Wormboy! Wormboy!

Wormboy!

Wormboy!

You guys are stupid!

You can say Wormboy

all you want.

I don't care!

Worms don't even

taste hardly.

I had a whole bowl for breakfast

with brown sugar and cold milk.

That's a lie.

Sometimes I boil them.

Sometimes I do them on the barbecue.

My favorite way,

fried like French fries.

The greasier and the slimier

the better.

Wormboy, you couldn't

even eat one worm.

Right when it touched

your tongue you'd puke.

- You want to bet?

- The smell would make you puke.

You couldn't even eat

a quarter of a worm.

I can eat this many worms, Joe.

10 easy!

And you would be the one

who'd puke just watching me.

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