Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

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(ORCHESTRA TUNING)

- (TAPPING)

- GIRL:
OK, enough tuning already.

- Settle, people! Quiet, please!

- (TAPPING)

- Strings.

- (TUNING STOPS)

One and one, main title.

And a one, two, three, four!

(UP-TEMPO ORCHESTRA MUSIC

PLAYING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

Come on.

Come on-a-rama. Come on.

"Outlook not so good"?

What? No way!

You try, Mouse.

(MEOWS)

OK, Magic 8 Ball, last chance.

This is gonna be the best,

most way not boring summer ever, right?

Signs point to...

..."Yes"! Yay! You rock, Mouse.

Don't leave me hanging.

WOMAN:
Judy?

You almost ready?

The bus will be here in five minutes.

Uh-huh! I'm totally (QUIETLY) almost

(NORMAL VOICE) ready!

WOMAN:
Good. You don't want to be late

for the last day of school.

Let me see.

Shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes.

- Help me, Mouse! Where are my? Ah!

- (MEOWS)

Hairbrush, hairbrush, hairbrush.

Oh, hairbrush!

See, here's the thing, Mouse.

You know how every summer

is "S" for Snoresville

because all I ever do is

visit Grandma Lou and get a sunburn

and pick my scabs and watch TV.

And it's not even cable.

But this summer is going to be different

because I have a plan.

A P-L-A-N for the most super duper,

double-rare, not bummer summer ev...

- WOMAN:
Judy?

- Coming!

- (MEOWS)

- Mouse. (SMACKS LIPS)

- Look, Mom!

- Hey.

- BOY:
Look, Dad.

- Nice.

Hi!

Beat you to the bus, Stink. Bye!

Is that a new trend?

Wearing pajamas to school?

Let's just be happy

she remembered her shoes.

(HORN HONKING)

Rocky!

Judy!

Last day! No more homework,

no more tests.

No more fink-face Finch, the pest!

Yeah!

(COMMOTION)

What's with the Mr. Potato Head hair?

I wouldn't talk,

Mr. "Frank Eats Paste" Pearl.

- For me?

- FYEO. "For Your Eyes Only."

And Amy and Rocky.

"TP Meeting...

Shhh!

Shhh.

(WHISPERING)... after school

for way important summer plan."

What's going on?

Is it the last day of school

or something?

ALL:
Yay!

Frank.

Don't get too excited. There's still...

...three hours and 27 minutes

until summer officially begins.

(ALL GROANING)

In fact, guess what I have here?

Hot off the press.

A pop quiz.

What? No way!

JUDY:
On the last day of school?!

Just a few questions to make sure

that you were paying attention.

All right.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Question number one.

How many times did I wear

a purple tie to school?

- Twenty-seven! Twenty-seven!

- A hundred! A hundred!

- Never.

- (BELL DINGS)

"Never" is correct.

Excellent, Jessica.

- Ha-ha.

- Fink-face Finch strikes again.

- MR. TODD:
Question number two.

- Aww.

- How long did it take our class

- For me?

- To go around the world?

- ALL:
Eight and a half days!

- (BELL DINGS)

- You guys are breezing through these.

These are too easy for you.

I gotta go deeper.

Let's see, let's see, let's see here.

Ooh, oh, this is a good one.

This is a big one.

Mucho grande.

- Come on! Tell us!

- OK, OK, OK.

Can anyone guess,

and this means you, class 3T,

what I, Mr. Todd,

will be doing this summer?

(CLOCK TICKING)

We need a clue!

Give us a clue!

ALL:
Clue! Clue! Clue! Clue!

Clue! Clue! Clue!

Clue! Clue! Clue!

- OK, OK. Hold it to a dull roar, dull roar.

- (SHOUTING STOPS)

- Let's see.

- (BELL DINGS)

Ooh! I have the perfect clue.

The clue is...

- (WIND HOWLING)

- Brrr!

...cold.

- Oh, refrigerator salesman!

- That's not bad.

- Snow remover guy.

- That's clever.

- Polar bear trainer!

- That's dangerous.

ROCKY:
Snowball fight. Snowball fighter.

Antarctica is cold.

(DOGS BARKING)

- JUDY:
Mr. Todd?

- Judy!

Ooh! I know! You're going to Antarctica!

The real one!

That's a great guess, but sadly, no.

- (BUZZER RINGS)

- Any other guesses?

All right.

Well, don't say I didn't warn you.

# Well, I come

from the teachers' break room

# With a banjo on my knee

# Now listen up, dear students

It's so elementary

# World-class 3 You'll wanna look for me

# 'Cause if somehow you find me

# There's a prize, oh, yes, sir-ee!

# You'll see me at the mall,

the pool, the park and by the sea

# And sometimes you'll find me

at the public library

# Oh, class 3 You'll wanna look for me

# 'Cause if somehow you find me

# There's a prize, oh, yes, sir-ee!

(ALL SINGING)

# You'll see me at the mall

# The pool, the park and by the sea

# And sometimes you'll find me

at the public library

# Oh, class 3 You'll wanna look for me

# 'Cause if somehow you find me

# There's a prize, oh, yes, sir-ee! #

- (CHEERING)

- (BELL RINGING)

All right, kids, let's go!

Let's go! Have a great summer!

- Bye, Mr. Todd! Stay warm!

- I will.

Stay Judy!

- Whoa!

- Ooh!

Last one in is a... Whoa!

Hey, no fair!

OK, TPers, are you ready

for the most way rare,

double-cool summer plan ever?

Time out. What's a TPer?

Oh, we forgot.

Amy's not a member.

- A member of what?

- Of our club.

- Quick, Frank, go find a toad.

- Me? You find a toad.

(GROANING)

JUDY:
Frank.

(BOYS GROAN)

Do you see anything?

Rock. Rock.

(CHUCKLING) Not a rock.

(CROAKING)

- Why am I doing this again?

- (KIDS GIGGLING)

Shh. You'll see.

If he jumps on my face,

you are so dead.

- Do you feel anything?

- AMY:
Yeah.

A toad. A fat, slimy...

Ew! Something just got wet!

- ALL:
Toad pee!

- (LAUGHING)

- (AMY SCREAMS)

- (CROAKING)

- Gross!

- Don't wipe it on her!

- You are sick!

- Sick awesome!

And now you're a member of our club,

the Toad Pee Club.

Which means you're toad-ally cool.

So...

...are you ready for my plan?

Introducing the one and only

Judy Moody Mega-Rare

Not Bummer Summer Dare!

I don't get it.

OK, you know how

we always hate summer

because it's boring

with a capital "B"?

I don't hate summer.

I love summer.

Anyway, this'll solve

all our problems.

I spent two days

and 16 erasers figuring it out.

"Ride Scream Monster, surf a wave."

- Are these the dares?

- JUDY:
Yup.

So we do these dares, and for each one,

we get ten Thrill Points.

Plus Bonus Points

if we do something crazy like,

ride the Scream Monster with no hands.

Or Loser Points if we chicken out.

At the end of summer, we add it all up,

and if we reach 100,

then presto, whammo,

we just had the best summer ever!

Is that thrilladelic or what?

Um, it's thrilladelic, only...

...I kind of forgot

to tell you something.

(MOUTHING SILENTLY)

Um... He forgot to tell you that...

...he's going away for the summer.

What?

Yeah. To circus camp.

I'm gonna learn how

to walk on a tightrope,

and do magic tricks and stuff.

And I won't be here, either.

I'm going to Borneo.

You guys!

I thought you were serious.

Borneo?

What even is Borneo?

It's an island in Indonesia.

And I am going with my mom.

- We leave in a week.

- Me too.

On Friday.

That is so not fair!

How am I supposed to have

the best summer ever,

if you're not even here?

I'm not going anywhere.

You can have fun with me.

Great.

Just great.

DAD:
It looks like somebody's

in a bad mood.

Really? Who?

She's mad because Rocky and Amy

are going away for the summer.

Could you please not talk

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