[Grace is painting a picture of herself]
It's going to be perfect.
[The painting of Grace is almost finished. The Frank twins have decided to play a prank on her]
F1Frank #1
Do you want some help?
F2Frank #2
I can hold the (orange) paint for you, while you finish you picture.
[gives him the orange paint] Oh, all right.
[Grace uses a paintbrush and adds some orange paint to finish the picture. To play the "paint prank" on Grace, Frank #1 gives Frank #2 a can of green paint. Frank #2 gives the orange paint to his brother Frank #1. Frank #1 hides the orange paint behind his back. While Frank #2 is holding the green paint, Grace adds some green paint. Not knowing that it is green paint, she thinks that she still has the orange paint. Then the scene reveals to showing Grace's portrait face --which she just painted-- having green paint on it. When Grace finds out that she had used the green paint on her picture, she then gasps when she finds green paint on her picture.]
[Grace looks at her picture. The Franks begin to laugh after they pranked her. Grace sees one look of the green paint that Frank #2 is holding then one look at her picture. Then the scene cuts to the now-destroyed picture. Grace's picture is completely ruined thanks to the Franks who wrecked it by their prank. The scene cuts to Grace who looks hurt. But then her hurt expression turns into an outrage.]
[enraged after the prank] YOU'VE WRECKED IT!
[Grace completed with her glaring at the Franks who pranked her with the green paint making her think it was orange paint when it was really green. Finding the Franks's prank not funny, Grace now is furious about their pranks and she off-screen vows to get revenge on them]
Is everybody ready for square dancing?
Okay then, everybody find a partner.
[Everyone expect the Franks went to find a partner]
F1Frank #1 and Frank #2
Huh?
F2Frank #2
I don't want to be your partner! You squirted water in my face!
F1Frank #1
I do not want to be your partner! You put squeeze cheese on my chair!
F1Frank #1 and Frank #2
Mrs. Jenkins?
F1Frank #1
Nobody wants to be my partner.
F2Frank #2
Nobody wants to be my partner either, Mrs. Jenkins. [looks at his brother]
F1Frank #1 and Frank #2
Not even Frank.
Nobody wants to be your partner because we don't like your mean jokes!
F1Frank #1
But we were just having fun (today, Fritz).
F2Frank #2
Yeah, we were just having fun (today).
[about Frank #1 and Frank #2's pranks] Well, maybe you were having fun! But we weren't!
[Nora and Fritz walk away from the Franks cause they don't wanna to dance with them. Not even anyone else wants to dance with Frank #1 or Frank #2]
Well, Frank and Frank, it looks as though your funny business has gotten the two of you into quite a mess.
[The Franks look at each other and sigh sadly]
F1Frank #1 and Frank #2
[off-screen] Mrs. Jenkins?
[Frank #1 whispers through Mrs. Jenkins' ear]
All right. [to the students] Frank and Frank have something they'd like to say, everyone.
[Fritz, Yoko, Lilly, Doris and Timothy walks to the Frank twins because they have something to say to all of them when they played some practical pranks on them]
F1Frank #1
[to Frank #2] You before me, you first.
F2Frank #2
[to Frank #1] You before me, you first.
F1Frank #1
[aplogizing everyone in the school for pranking them all day] I'm sorry.
F2Frank #2
[also aplogizing everyone in the school for pranking them all day] I am sorry, too.
F1Frank #1
[off-screen] We were just trying to be funny (today).
We like your funny jokes and riddles.
Yeah. But not jokes that are mean.
I don't want to learn how to read.
Because if I do, Mama won't read stories to me anymore. She says I'll be reading all by myself.
That's what she told me last night.
[At the school library.]
LMrs. Lightfoot
And this is where our science and nature books are.
LMrs. Lightfoot
Are there any questions? [Doris raise her hand up] Yes, Doris.
Do you have any books about spiders?
LMrs. Lightfoot
Yes, indeed we do. [off-screen] Several of them, in fact.
[groans in disgust] I'm not going to borrow any of those!
[Timothy, Yoko, Fritz and Nora laugh]
Aren't you going to borrow any books, Nora?
I'd rather spin the globe.
What about my B-day cake, Mama?
YSYoko's Mom
Your party is on Saturday, Cherry Blossom. [giggles] It's a bit too soon to bake your cake.
[talking about the Gift Gallery] I just want to get something special for Yoko's birthday. They have very nice things there.
The things there cost a lot of money.
Well, not really, Nora. This week we needed to get you a soccer uniform, needed to get you a new wheel for your bike, and Jack needed a new stroller. But now, I still have to buy our groceries.
So, we can't go the gift gallery?
I am sorry. But we do not have the extra money sugar snap.
F2Frank #2
Look, I made eye holes.
F1Frank #1
[laughing] I'm going to do that too!
[The head from Frank #1's figure come off after Frank #1 accidentally cuts it off]
F1Frank #1
Oh, no! [picks up the figure's head]
F2Frank #2
Mrs. Jenkins, Frank's head came off!
Don't worry, there's a quick fix. We'll just tape it back on.
[Later, the head from Frank #1's figure is completely fixed thanks to Mrs. Jenkins]
F1Frank #1
Hey! It's Frankenstein!
F1Frank #1
Thank you, Mrs. J.
You're welcome, Frank. [walks away]
[Frank #1 roars like Frankenstein as his brother laughs in joy]
[explains about his model] This is my heart and lungs. And all my thinking goes up here in my brain.
[After Nora sees what Fritz made in his craft model --which was body parts-- she says...!]
[stinks --pinches-- her nose in disgust] EW!
[Nora thinks her team mate --Fritz-- was being sickening. But Mrs. Jenkins still like it.]
What's it like to be big?
But you're the biggest in the class.
There are a lot of other times when I'm the smallest.
Like all the time at home. I'm the smallest in my family.
Really? You're the smallest?
Uh-huh, I'm even too small to ride the bumper cars at the fair. I have to watch my brothers drive past, and stick their tongues out at me. They call me a shrimp! It made me so mad!
Hmm, I just don't like being called a shrimp either. If I see your big brothers sticking their tongues out, I'll tell them to stop it.
Thanks, Charles! [to Claude's figure] What do you think about that, Mr. Big Shot?!
[Charles and Doris giggle]
Do you want to come play at my house after school?
[As for Nora, she loses this because Charles is at Doris's house. So she --Nora-- postpones it --the long talking-to-- until tonight. That is, even though it was supposed to be for this afternoon after school.]
(Charles is going to Doris's house?! Well, I am talking to him about this "lie" and "being bigger" status tonight. And I did say, "Sometime after school".)
[Nora and Charles both get permission from their parents, their teacher Mrs. Jenkins, and their principal to break into the school so Nora and Charles can use the school over the weekend. That is, so Nora can talk to Charles about Charles's incident for a serious conversation. That is, both her --Nora-- and Charles. And Charles is going to be sitting on Nora's lap and doing nothing but the "serious conversation".]
DMDoris' Mom
Your big brothers can learn a thing or two from your little friend, Doris.
Charles is not little, Mom. He is just the smallest like me. (And he is just the smallest student in my class. That is, even if he is strong.)
[Despite remembering the craft models --since Charles's picture didn't line up like Nora and everybody else's pictures-- Doris still mentions Charles is big. But he is the smallest in the class.]
[Charles still feels the smell of Nora's nose. That is, after she --Nora-- was annoyed because his picture didn't line up on the floor like Nora's picture and everybody else's.]
Quick sticks, Yoko. The bus is waiting.
But Mrs. Jenkins, I can't find the Netzke family.
Oh dear. Did you look in your cubby?
Did you check your backpack? [Yoko nods] It's going to be okay, Yoko. I'll call your mother to tell her that the Netzke family is missing. Tomorrow morning, we will all help you look for them.
[That night at Yoko's house]
YSYoko's Mom
Yoko, I thought a glass of milk might help you go to sleep.
Thanks, but I'm not very thirsty. I wish I never took the Netsuke family to school, Mama.
YSYoko's Mom
I know, but someone will find them tomorrow.
But we looked everywhere today! Mama, do you think someone took them?
If they did, I hope they bring them back.
YSYoko's Mom
I do too. [kisses Yoko]
YSYoko's Mom
Goodnight, my Little Cherry Blossom.
[Yoko's Mom turns off the light and leaves off-screen]
[still thinks someone might find them and bring them back] I hope someone finds them.
