[Super-hot day at the Loud House… Clyde, Liam, Rusty, Zach, Stella and Kara are all in the backyard of the Loud House, wearing their swim suits and sharing a pool while using fans to cool themselves from the heat]
Ooh-wee. It is hotter than a pig in a pepper patch.
[coming out the back door, carrying a bucket of ice] Okay, I got the ice! Get ready to chill. [accidentally trips on the fan's plug and falls on the ground, dropping the ice bucket on him as it melts]
There's got to be a better way to stay cool.
[smiles] Actually… [realizes] Oh, no. Never mind.
[giving in] Okay, fine. Know how I'm neighbors with Principal Ramirez? [her friends all nod yes] Well, I'm housesitting for her this weekend while she's at some teacher's conference, and… she has a pool! [her friends all talk at once with excitement] Technically, she never said I could use it. I'm just supposed to water the plants and feed her birds and stuff… [shrugs] But I guess I could ask. [takes out her phone]
I don't see why she wouldn't let us.
Please, Stella, I feel like I'm melting! [groans while sinking slowly into the pool]
[types a text and sends it] There. Text sent. Now we wait.
Uh, guys? Can we wait at her house? I think Lily wants her pool back.
[Lily is revealed to be in a bucket of water and scowls angrily at them for using her kiddie pool; Later… the gang arrives at Principal Ramirez's house where her three parrots are sitting on a perch in the backyard until Stella appears with a box of bird food]
RPRed Parrot
Stella's here.
Hey, guys! Here you go. [pours the food into their bowl]
[Her friends dash over and gasp in amazement at the pool as it glimmers in the beautiful sunlight]
Ooh! This is exactly what we needed! [to Stella] Did she text back yet?
[checks her phone while Ramirez's parrots eat their food] Negative. We shouldn't go in until we hear back, so just hang out until then. [goes inside the house]
[takes out a spray can of sunscreen] Better reapply my sunscreen. Gotta protect my epiderm. Know what I mean? [sprays himself and Zach in his sunscreen, which covers Zach's glasses]
That should be everything. The only evidence is my tense, nagging guilt.
[relieved] Thank you, guys. Now you better go. Principal Ramirez will be here in 20 minutes.
[Lincoln and his other friends start to leave]
Don't be nervous. There's no way Ramirez will know we used the pool. [starts to leave, until…]
RPRed Parrot
[caws; mimicking Lincoln] There's no way Ramirez will know we used the pool.
[shocked] Did they just--?!
GPGreen Parrot
[caws; mimicking Zach] Pool party!
[horrified] They're repeating what we said!
Those featherheads are gonna rat us out!
[takes out a roll of duct tape] Oh, no, they won't! [attempts to tape their beaks shut, causing them to shriek in terror]
[grabs the duct tape out of her hands] You're not taping their beaks shut, Kara.
[The parrots squawk in relief]
Wait, guys, there's no reason why Ramirez would think they were talking about us.
RPRed Parrot
[mimicking Rusty] Rusty Spokes cannonball!
[relieved] Phew. It's just Rusty.
[offended] Kara! Not cool, dawg!
GPGreen Parrot
[mimicking Clyde] Stella, the pool party hostess with the mostest! [squawks]
[squawks; also mimicking Clyde] Chef Clyde's tropical smoothies!
[sighs, realizing she's wrong] We're toast.
Welp, there goes my recommendation to U of M.
[disappointed] No. I'm the one she trusted, and it was my idea. I'll tell her it was all my fault.
[frustrated when the green parrot mimics him] Why am I being singled out?!
Maybe it's not enough to teach them new phrases. We have to make them forget the old ones! [swinging a round cracker tied to a string like a pendulum in front of the parrots' faces] You are getting very sleepy. You will fall into a deep sleep and forget all about the pool party.
[The parrots enter the hypnosis spell… and so does Zach]
[notices] Uh-oh, I think Zach caught some stray hypno-rays!
[collapses and stands up; groaning] Where am I? Why am I looking at birds?
They aren't saying anything, so I think it worked.
Yeah! They forgot all about the pool party, Lincoln.
RPRed Parrot
[squawks; mimicking Clyde] Pool party, Lincoln.
[realizing he messed up] Whoopsie.
[groans] I gotta start over again.
Don't bother, yo. I just came up with a better idea. [then shown in front of the house, waving to his cousin Derek; holding birdcage with a blanket covering it] Thanks, D-Dawg! [brings the cage into the backyard] Cousin Derek comes through again. I sent him a picture and he got three identical birds in under 30 minutes!
I still don't feel good about replacing Ramirez's birds.
It's only until Lisa can wipe the memory. We can sneak them back here next week.
Behold! [pulls the blanket off the cage, revealing a featherless parrot, another parrot with an eyepatch, and a third parrot with a black beak]
Rusty, these birds look nothing like Ramirez's!
Relax. Cousin Derek also sold me bird paint. [holds up three cans of bird paint with a logo of parrot (which resembles Sergio), corresponding to the original parrots' feather colors; paints the replacement parrots to look identical to Principal Ramirez's] Oh, missed a spot. Done!
I must admit, they don't look that bad… if you squint.
FPFeatherless Parrot
[in Italian] Buongiorno! (translation: Good day!)
EPEyepatch Parrot
[also in Italian] Come stai? (translation: How are you?)
[surprised in anger] Rusty, these birds speak Italian!
NYNew York Parrot
Yo, forget about it.
Not that one. He's from New York.
Either way, Principal Ramirez is gonna know they're not her birds! [pulls out her phone, getting a text] It's her! "Five minutes away", car emoji, smiley face emoji.
She's really going hard on the emojis.
[out of options] Welp, guess I'll have to face the music.
NYNew York Parrot
How you doing?
Not great, but thanks for asking.
[Five minutes later… Principal Ramirez parks her car into the driveway of her house just as Stella returns the original parrots to their perch and Rusty hides the replacement ones in his hair]
[hastily as Principal Ramirez enters the backyard] Principal Ramirez. I bet you're wondering why we're all standing around here in our swimming costumes.
Not really. [shoves him, Zach and Kara out of the way; to her parrots, happily] There you are! Oh, my babies! Mommy missed you! [gives them smooches]
RPRed Parrot
[mimicking Rusty] Rusty Spokes cannonball!
GPGreen Parrot
[squawks; mimicking Zach] Stella's pool party!
[mimicking Colonel Austin] Hasta la bye-bye, chump!
Yeah, about that. We can explain. We really messed up. We used the pool before we got your text.
[sighs] I'll just go to community college.
[puzzled] Wait, wait, wait. I'm confused. I told you to use the pool. Didn't you read my text?
[holds up her phone; confused] The one with the angry face emoji?
Angry face? I thought that was the "It's hot" emoji. [takes out her phone] See? I said, "I'm down. It's super hot. Swimming is the bomb."
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