Episode 8: "Ludovico Goes Back to School"
- Hello kids! How was your first day of school?
- What did you do today?
- In Biology class, we were shown a freaky thing!
- How freaky is this!
-Let me see! Let me see!
- Ludoviquito! Give me that magazine!
- Did you see it all?
- No, just bunnie slippers and a big spider
- Did the new Miss show it well?
- She's not bad, but the next one seems to show more
- What about you, Junior?
- During recess, I played with my new buddies.
- So, who's going to give me his lunch every day?
-I am, I am!
- Mom, can you make me 46 sandwiches for tomorrow?
They're for my new buddies
- Honey, you love to share
- we're so proud of you
- I made some beans germinate and got an A
- So?
- Bibi, you have any idea how many kids
would love to have some beans to eat
and here you are wasting them!
Why can't you be a normal girl??
- Being here reminds me of my time at school
I still remember Miss Abelarda
She knew me better than my parents
- Ludovico, how come your parents send you to school?
Can't they see you're a total idiot?
- I don't think they've realized
- What would you tell her if you saw her again?
- I'd tell her: "now I am where I want to be"
- Where is that?
- Away from you, witch!
Miss Abelarda!
- So, your kids come to my elementary school?
I am the new substitute teacher
The previous one died suddenly and no one knows why
- I...someone hid her heart pills
but it was an accident
Well, that's what I heard
I was not even there, I did not even see the 25 mg pills that fell to the sink
- How did you recognize me? You still remember me?
- I swore I would never forget you
Firstly, to prove one day that you are a good-for-nothing!
- You had a good eye for that
- I had it, I had it.
But thanks to Ludovico I lost my good eye
and now I only have the bad eye left
- Forgive me.
Since that day I haven't touched a yo-yo again!
- Secondly, a few years ago I realized that you should never
have received your elementary graduation diploma
- But why?!
- You didn't finish your last school work satisfactorily!
- The clown-lamp-napkin-holder for mother's day?
- that one!
and if you don't show up tomorrow to finish
I'll void you elementary graduation diploma!
- Come back to elementary school?? Me??
- Welcome back to P.Lush City Heroes Elementary School!
- What are you all doing here so early?
It's not even 7 am
- That's what your family and friends are for
to be there for you every time you're humiliated
- One day, one day.
- It's so much fun working here!
That's the only reason I tolerate my miserable salary!
- Excelsa, don't poke your nose in this
- That's impossilbe
- Look at the bright side, neighbor
Women love men in uniform
- Going back to school is already too hard for me!
- But you know what the positive thing about this is?
- No, what is it?
- I don't know either, that's why I'm asking you
- You have everything you need?
- Everything, including your useless kids
- At least Federica is certain that they're her kids
- One day, one day you'll see
- Know one thing: Ludovico will finish that work
and will finish elementary school today
I'll go through that like a mature grownup
- That's the way to go
- That's my dad!
- Federica!! You forgot to put animal crackers in my lunch pack!!
- I told you I wanted animal crackers!
- that's my dad
- Good morning!
Kids: I want to introduce you to your new classmate
- Hi kids
My name's Ludovico. Plush
I like soccer, I have no pets but I have 3 kids
Any question?
Later...
- ...And in the end you light a cigarette.
And that's how babies are made.
Any other question?
-Thanks Ludovico!
You can have a seat
"That's how I went back to elementary school,
the place where I learned to follow rules"
- And after being beaten up by the other class,
I stopped making jokes about them
-Why?
- I learned to respect rules
- Are you enjoying your first day at school?
- yes, yes.
- I'll be watching you very closely.
- Don't come too close, please.
- Are you threatening me?
- No, but from far you can't see your mustache
- I will not let you finish elementary school
At the first truancy, at the first tardiness I'll do it
So watch out
- Everything will be okay, dad
Besides, this is another chance to spend more time as a family
- Bibi, don't speak nonsense
If God wanted kids to spend more time with their parents
He wouldn't have given us TV
Why can't you be a normal girl??
- I'll show you how things work here, dad
First, you have to find someone younger than you
to take advantage of him
- No, that's awful
-Bibi, just look at some the best singers, they do a perfect job
- Look, start with that kid
- Good idea!
- Don't do it, dad!
- Watch and learn
- You! Sing right now!
- Please, leave me alone
- Sing, I say!
Stand up now!
- Don't do it, dad!
It's cruel!
- Stand up!
- I told you that kid was cruel
- This is a nightmare
My only consolation is to see your brother getting adapted to school
Sometimes it's difficult with adopted children
But Junior is a total hit
- Don't hit me! Stop! don't hit me!
- Are you really 12?
- Yes
- Why do you have a beard, then?
- why are you so stupid?
- Are you having fun, son?
- Who's that man?
- I am his dad
- You bring your dad to school?
- No! He's really not my dad
He's my adopted father, but I just met him today
- Sure, sure
- The new kid bring his dad to defend him!
- No, no. I'm here to finish elementary school
- Dad!!
- The new kid has a slow father!
- I'm not slow
I just didn't finish the clown-lamp-napkin-holder for mother's day
- The new kid has a slow father!
- You see what you do, dad??
- Calm down, Junior.
What's the worst thing that could happen?
- That's what you said I was adopted
- Enough!!
- Let me go! Let me go!
- What are you doing to this defenseless girl?
- Nothing, I was just defending myself from this monster
- Monster??
Listen you brainless
I am Curly Top, and I'm here to make you stop
- This girl is incapable of harming anyone
- She's a liar!
- How dare you say that!
- It was awful!
- You liar!
-Enough! To the principal's office!
- Kids, this is Miss Yadira
- Good morning, Miss Yadira!
- Ludovico, when she comes everyone gets up!
- I'm sure about that!
- Get up!
- Be careful with Ludovico
Don't take your eyes off him
- I promise
- I'm talking to her
- Be clearer.
"And that's how I met Miss Yadira
and since that moment I knew..."
- Miss Yadira, the new boy is talking without moving his lips and he's scaring me
- Ludovico, leave your classmates alone!
- Hey, if you don't leave me alone..
- What, what are you going to do?
- Kids, quiet.
You've got just 1 hr to finish your clown-lamp-napkin-holder. Get to work
- It's beautiful, Curly Top.
Great job
- Here's mine, Miss
- Ludovico! I'm speechless!
Your work is great, it's so versatile it can be anything
A flower vase, a unicorn or a galaxy or...
-Or a piece of crap!
-Exactly, a piece of crap
- I'll tell Miss Abelarda to process your diploma immediately!
- Before this class ends you'll be a new man
Congratulations!
I did it! I did it!
- Not so fast. P.Lush
I'm not done with you yet
See you at the break
- The break?
- Dad??
- Not so loud! Curly Top is looking for me
Here, buy me a soda at the cafeteria
- Dad, you can't do this. Think about us.
-You're right.
-Here, buy something for yourself, too
- I meant that you think about the example you're setting
- What would my brothers think if they were here?
- Be careful with Curly Top
- Dad, you can't spend the rest of your life in that container
- why not, some people do it
- You have to face your problems
- You're weird sister is right.
I must confront that little monster as a man
- Push me out!
- I need to talk to you!
- You finally left your hiding place, sissy?
- Yes, and I want you to know that you look
like a wet bread
- I don't care
- You have fish eyes
- I don't care
- You have a face of pus-like follicle
I don't care
-I'm sure you wet your bed at night!
- Dad, but you do that too.
-You're right
But I'm sure you soil your underwear!
Well, I do that, too.
But you look like a flea!
- I don't care.
- Al right! You win!
But let me tell you one thing:
When you grow up you'll marry someone like me!
That's it! that's it
- You just made cry the cruelest girl!
- and you're the most hated boy by Miss Abelarda!
- You're our hero!
- What happened, dad?
- Kids, this is a special day that will last forever in the family's memory
Today, we stop being humiliated and now we humiliate
At least in this school
- It was not about that
- Shut up, Bibi!
My dad is a hero now
-Why can't you be a normal girl?
- Now you can do whatever you want
- Give me your sandwich!
- But he's your friend and so am I
- You too? Give me your sandwich then.
- I don't have one
- give it to me!
- Honey! You forgot your sandwich!
-Here, you can have mine, but bring your own tomorrow
Now, give me your sandwich!
- Oh, are you liking school?
Did you make new friends?
- Hey! Ludovico's mom brought him lunch!!
- Hey! I'm not his mother!
- It's not his fault you look so old
- What! I'm a young woman!
- Women hit Ludovico!!
- Don't mess up with him!
- Hey, I can defend myself
- Girls defend Ludovico!!
- You see what you do, mom?
- Quiet! Don't meddle in this!
- Enough! This is no way to treat a woman
- She's right. She's too old.
- You'll see when you get home!
- Kids! What is going on here?
- Who started?
- Ludovico.
- This is the last straw! You again!
- He forced us to beat him, knowing he would hurt our small hands
- Punish him!
- Please don't. I finished my clown-lamp-napkin-holder.
I earned my diploma
- That's what you think.
Look what I do with your diploma
I warned you!
You got into trouble
You'll never graduate from elementary school!
- You said the same thing before the break
- Hold on!
-Miss Yadira, what's this?
- Principal Yadira
- I'm from the Department of Educaton
We know about the cruel way you treat the students
I'm part of a secret operation
And we have evidence to arrest you
- Ha ha! They caught you!
-Shut up!
- You can't treat your students like that!
"And at that moment, Miss Yadira became my hero"
- Especially an idiot like him.
- Take her away!
-You'll pay for this, Ludovico!
- Honey! Everything was fixed in the end
- Not exactly
- I didn't throw the 25 mg heart pills that fell to the sink by accident!
- That brat!
Now we'll have to get him from jail
- Tomorrow! The recess is not over yet.
- Blend in
My turn!
- My turn!