How to Eat Fried Worms Page #3

Synopsis: The Forrester family - father Mitch Forrester, mother Helen Forrester, their pre-teen son Billy Forrester and their pre-school son Woody Forrester - have just moved to a new town where Mitch is starting a new job. Both Mitch and Billy are worried about fitting into their new environment. It's worse for Billy as Woody, who is not worried about the move, is at that stage in his life where everything is simple and easy. Billy's first day in the fifth grade at his new school does not go well when he gets into an altercation with the class bullies, led by Joe Guire. The altercation involves worms and Billy stating that he eats worms all the time, which leads to all the bullies calling him "Wormboy". As such, Joe bets Billy that he can't eat ten worms (without vomiting), the bet to take place this upcoming Saturday, with the last worm to be consumed by 7pm. Despite having a notoriously weak stomach, Billy takes him up on the bet. As the bet starts, the only classmate on Billy's side is Erika
Genre: Comedy, Family
Director(s): Bob Dolman
Production: New Line Cinema
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
PG
Year:
2006
80 min
$13,022,756
Website
1,210 Views


focused. It's Saturday.

You get to do whatever you want.

Just include your brother.

Okay, listen, Wood,

you're little, okay?

So you don't even

know anything, okay?

So today,

for the whole day

you have to obey me.

You know what that means?

Be your slave?

Well, yeah, kind of.

What are you doing?

Trying to drool

on those ants.

Ugh! Listen to me, Wood.

You know how we moved

here and how everything is different?

Like our house

and your school.

Well, it's the same

thing with me.

I'm not the same

brother you had before.

I'm a whole other person.

And everything you remember

about your old brother,

all isn't true

about your new brother.

For instance,

I've never been sick.

- I've seen you sick.

- Woody.

You threw up at Raging Waters

and they had to drain the whole pool.

That wasn't me!

Don't you get it?

And don't pick your nose!

What, you're gonna pick

your nose all day?

You're hurting my bike!

I'm not hurting your bike.

I can't hurt a person's bike.

Well, you're shaking it

and it's hitting my dilly-dink.

Don't say stuff like that.

My dilly-dink is my penis.

I'm gonna eat the worms.

Okay.

And, um...

what are you doing today?

Why?

I have to babysit

my little brother.

Where is he?

Get this stuff off me!

- Joey the Joke.

- Give me it, Nigel.

- Heard a story about you today, Joke.

- What story?

- Something about a worm.

- The bet, you mean?

You tell me, Joke.

Well, this new kid

at our school,

I-I'm making

him eat 10 worms and...

Same guy who threw

a worm in your face?

- Who told you that?

- Your dumb friend, Plug.

Plug told you?

Actually he told

his sister and she told me.

Said the whole school

was laughing and that you were afraid.

Were you afraid, Joke,

of a little worm?

I wasn't afraid.

Joke. Joke.

You're a joke.

Get out of here, crows!

Get out of my kitchen!

Look what happens when you put

them on a gummy worm.

Whoa, look at them.

They're having

a spasmodic convulsion.

Hey guys, here comes Joe.

- Plug.

- Yeah.

Come here.

- What did I do?

- Ask your sister.

Benjy, how are you

gonna cook them?

- With this stuff.

- What is it?

- Lard.

- Is that like butter?

Lard's from a pig.

It's the fat.

Pig fat.

Make sure you

tell Wormboy that.

Yeah, look at it.

10 seems like so many.

Why did you make it 10?

Because I said

I could eat 10.

But I didn't mean it.

And Joe said,

"You said..."

I couldn't back out because I did say

it, you know what I mean?

Not really.

Hey, Joe, there he is.

Hey, Wormboy,

that's your team, huh?

You and her,

and who's that little kid?

He's got training wheels.

Hey, Wormboy!

Wormboy?

Let me give you another person.

You know, help you out.

Make things fair.

Adam, go.

Wormboy!

You're gonna see

stuff today, Woody,

and it's just normal stuff

that big kids do.

And big kids never

tell their parents.

- Do you understand?

- Billy, I have to go poo.

Oh, Jeez.

I can't help it,

it's making me.

- What is?

- Everything.

Woody, come with me.

Billy, go.

All right, let's go.

Pig fat was not

part of the bet.

You're the one that said

you liked them fried, Wormboy.

"The greasier, the slimier

the better," you said.

Worm number one:

"Le Big Porker."

What are you talking

like that for?

I'm French.

Go on, Wormboy.

Eat it.

Bon appetit.

Yuck, worm juice!

It squirted right on me.

Go on, Wormboy, eat it

before all the guts run out.

He did it.

Oh, gross!

Ugh!

Ew ew ew ew ew ew

ew ew ew ew ew.

I don't like

where I'm sitting.

Look out, you guys!

I think he's

gonna puke already.

Where's the worm?

- Let's see.

- I don't think it's sanitary.

You have to swallow it,

Wormboy, all of it.

There's chunks in there

he hasn't even chewed yet.

Swallow! Swallow!

Swallow! Swallow!

Swallow!

Swallow! Swallow!

Hey kids,

no fires in the park

without adult supervision!

Want to make a wish, Woody?

Here's what you do.

Take a little stone

and go like this,

~ I wish I had a horse ~

~ That I could ride

ride ride. ~

Here, now you try.

~ I wish my brother

was dead dead dead. ~

Swallow! Swallow!

Swallow! Swallow!

Hey, make sure he

doesn't spit it out!

Swallow! Swallow!

Swallow!

Swallow!

Billy!

Ugh!

Swallow! Swallow!

Swallow!

Hey, you guys!

He ate it, Joe, look.

Yeah, I see him Benjy.

So what are we gonna do now?

We got no place to cook them.

Come on, you guys,

we need somebody's kitchen.

- My family is vegetarian.

- No way.

Hey, I know, Adam Simms.

His uncle owns

The Brown Toad.

My uncle hates me.

You boys know what you want?

You're taking up the whole

counter there.

- Uh, we're still deciding, sir.

- Yeah.

Adam!

- Oh, hi, Uncle Ed.

- What's this?

I was just, um, giving

you a hand in here.

Last time you gave me a hand you

nearly chopped your thumb off.

Yuck!

Here, just wear this.

Don't muck up the works.

Adam! Faster!

Cook faster.

Oh, no.

Ugh!

Hey hey hey! You're gonna burn

down my restaurant!

- But Uncle Ed...

- Stay back! Stay back!

There you go.

Omelet up.

Ding ding.

Boiler Head.

- Come on.

- Let's go.

Hello, boys.

Come on over here.

Come on.

You boys up to something?

You look a little mischievous.

Do you know,

that I used to come

to The Brown Toad

when I was a kid?

Yeah.

Oh, root beer float

and a bacon burger...

by golly,

I was in heaven.

Alley-oop.

Mm.

Mm mm mm.

Mm, that's a good omelet.

He ate the whole worm!

The principal

of our school!

"When I was a boy I ate

root beer floats, by golly!"

Why did he say

alley-oop?

- Yeah.

- Maybe he's nuts.

Yeah!

I am Boiler Head.

Alley-oop!

Alley-oop, alley-oop,

Alley-oop, alley-oop.

- Donny!

- Alley-oop, alley-oop...

I'm sorry.

We're just laughing, Joe.

I wasn't asking you,

Wormboy.

Adam!

What's this box of bugs

doing in my restaurant?

You're gonna have the health

department on my case.

Get out of here!

All of you!

Punks!

Don't worry, you guys.

I cooked the worm.

I seriously cooked it.

I cooked two worms at once.

See, two of them.

Oh, cool.

How did you

make it so lumpy?

I dunked it in

the French fry fryer

and then smeared liver

juice all over it.

Liver juice?

I was trying

to cover the worm taste.

Hey, you guys,

I should name it.

How about

"The Greasy Brown Toad

Bloater

Special"?

Plug!

What's the matter,

not French enough for you?

All right,

go on, Wormboy.

Eat it.

Ew!

Ugh!

Why are they

guarding him, Adam?

In case he throws up.

'Cause what if he

wanted to cheat?

He could throw up

and never tell.

So Joe made Plug and Bradley

the official puke watchers.

Adam, are you positive

Twitch is okay with this?

Sure.

No! Please!

They're gonna kill...

- Tomato paste.

- And put this cheese in.

Smell it.

It smells like a person's armpit.

You guys! You can't just

steal everything.

- Are we allowed to eat a pickle?

- No.

Your dog is walking

sideways, Twitch.

No no,

she has arthritis.

Oh, my eyes are burning.

- No!

- What all's in there?

Louisiana Hot Sauce sauce.

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Bob Dolman

Robert "Bob" Dolman is a Canadian screenwriter, actor, director and producer. His work in television includes SCTV, SCTV Network 90, and WKRP in Cincinnati. more…

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