[Tuesday morning, 9:00 AM; The children are running to school as the bell rings, avoiding to be late for class]
[yelling to them as they enter the school and head straight for their classrooms] GET TO CLASS! STRAIGHTEN THOSE TEETH! DON'T CHALLENGE ME! [notices Principal Tonino standing near him] Principal Tonino, heh, heh. I was just encouraging the children, and... Wait! [lets out a big sniff] I smell… ARCADE TOKENS!
[Manny and Frida show up with items from the arcade and leaving a trail of game tokens]
FridaDude, you owned Super Macho Fighter 2 at the arcade!
[surprising them] RIVERA! SUÁREZ! YOU ARE LATE AGAIN!
Frida
There was a fire!
Frida
So we rescued-
Frida
Fell down a well!
Frida
On the ledge!
[Rivera House; Rodolfo and Maria discuss with their son about sending him to a charm school in Switzerland if he gets expelled]
Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brian Equihua Rivera, if you get expelled, we are going to send you to a charm school.
[Manny reacts with horror and opens his mouth to scream, but is confused to see his grandpapi doing it]
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! No grandson of mine is going to a charm school! Or to Switzerland! It is.... unnatural.
Nonsense! It will be good for Manny. They will teach him punctuality, etiquette, and how to knit cute little tea cozies.
MGManny & Grandpapi
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sorry, mijo, but you have to take responsibility for your actions. Make us proud.
[Little later, Manny walks into his room, sulking, and closes the door behind him before leaning against it]
Frida
[kicks the door down, which lands on Manny; panicking] If I get expelled, my parents are gonna send me to military school! Can you think of anything worse?!
Frida
This is serious, dude. If we get sent to different schools, we'll never see each other again. We cannot be late tomorrow.
Right. We got work to do.
[as Manny makes it school, just in the nick of time; happily] Manny, we are so proud of you!
ETEl Tigre/Manny
[weakly] Hooray.
I was finally going to be rid of him!
I was finally going to be rid of him!
[his mustache piece falls off; enraged at Sergio with a background of fire] YOU'RE LATE! 500 DETENTIONS!
[Sergio screams in shock]
Frida
Everything worked out great, Manny. There's just one problem.
ETEl Tigre/Manny
My shattered spine?
Frida
We gotta keep getting here on time every day for the rest of the year.
[Manny faints and passes out]
Banned from the video arcade?!
Frida
We were just cooling the place off for him. Is that gratitude?
Aw, man. It's like a million degrees out and we got nothing to do now. Except, well, you know.
Frida
Watch pigeons explode from the heat? [A pigeon explodes off-screen] Yeah, I just hope I don't get a beak stuck in my hair this time.
Frida
Too bad we got here late and they only had one costume left for you.
[wearing a princess kitten costume; dismayed] Princess Fluff-a-puff, master of the flying kittens.
Frida
Come on, you look adorable.
Never speak of this again.
[Manny and Frida are waiting excitedly in line at the movie theater to get tickets for…]
Chainsaw Ninjas VS. The Mutant Bloodworm!
Frida
WHOO! This is gonna be the best movie ever!
AMAssistant Manager
[as Manny climbs up to the ticket booth on a small ladder] Sorry, no children.
Ah, but I am no mere child. I am… [spins his belt buckle] EL TIGRE!
AMAssistant Manager
Yes? And I am… [spins his name tag] The Assistant Manager! [pushes Manny off the ladder] Next!
[offended] Oh, yeah? Well, who wants to see a lousy movie, anyway?
You haven't seen the last of me, El Tigre! [laughs and jumps into a pipe chute]
ETEl Tigre/Manny
Dang! Dr. Paprika got away!
[calling out] CHĪPÔTLE!!!
Frida
Nope. That's the escape hatch. He just jumped into the incinerator chute.
[burned and battered] I detest you people.
[After Raul rips himself off from Manny's face and flies away as Manny and Frida wave goodbye to him…]
You know, Frida, I really learned… [painfully] EE-YOOOOW!!!! [passes out]
Frida
[satisfied] Well said, dude. Well said.
Maria, I must speak to you… alone. [Cut to them in his room] I am concerned that…
[notices the painting of herself up on the wall] Rodolfo, what is that?
What?! Nothing! I put it there to cover a hole. [clears throat] Maria, I am concerned that Manny is being led astray by his Grandpapi's criminal misdeeds.
[holds up a book of "Kids Manny's Age"] Kids Manny's Age are susceptible to their grandparent's influence. It's a fact.
We need to discuss the possibility of… Grandpapi moving out of the house.
[hearing his parents' discussion through the walls] No! He can't leave! Grandpapi isn't a bad influence on me.
Frida
How'd you learn to eavesdrop like this?
I can't believe it. They turned down every chance to steal, pillage, and punch me in the face. Maybe they really do want to change.
Frida
Yeah. Hey, how about I heat some churros. That'll cheer you up.
No, Frida. I wanna watch my mother change people for the good.
Oh, I hate this. There's gotta be some way I can make it up to him.
NNewscaster
Breaking News: We interrupt the Celebration of Heroes to take you to the Celebration of Heroes. Sartana of the Dead is attacking the convention center.
WPWhite Pantera/Rodolfo
[along with the other heroes, all facing her] Forget it, Sartana. You'll never get in!
I don't have to. Because you'll never get out! [cackles and strums her mystic guitar, creating an unbreakable force field around the convention center and trapping all the heroes]
They all stuck in there? Is time for the list! [takes out his list of robberies] "Places I hasn't robbed yet. Numero #1, the place that only sells light bulbs." Have fun, children!
Frida
Superheroes, cops, fire fighters. Every hero in the city is out of commission!
No. There's still... [spins his belt and changes into…] El Tigre!
Frida
Uh, I hate to puke in your piñata, but didn't that Hero-meter thing-y say you're not a hero?
ETEl Tigre/Manny
Time to prove it wrong.
ETEl Tigre/Manny
[after taking down five criminals] That's five down.
[Zoom out of Miracle City, still being invaded by an increased number of villains]
Frida
Two-million to go.
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera · 255 quotes
