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“Smarty Pants”
Written By:
Tracy Berna
First Draft:
1/30/01
Second Draft:
2/9/01
Third Draft:
2/21/01
Final Draft:
2/22/01
FADE IN:
1 CROCKER (OS)
Well, class, the test results are in--
2 CROCKER
And, as always, AJ gets an A.
3 AJ
Alright! Another “A!” I’m gonna add this to my
“A” collection!
4 WANDA
What’s wrong, Timmy?
5 TIMMY
Aw... I didn’t study.
6 WANDA
I thought you were studying all week with
Cosmo? What were you guys doing?
7 COSMO
Hey! Wanna play the “Not Study Game?”
8 TIMMY
How do you play?
9 COSMO
You’re already playing!!!
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10 COSMO/TIMMY
Yaaayyy!!!!!!
11 TIMMY
An “F!!!” I failed? My parents are gonna totally
kill me!!!
12 AJ
Go AJ! Go AJ! Go AJ! Go AJ!
DISSOLVE TO:
Timmy, AJ, CHESTER and other KIDS mull about. Timmy stares at his
paper with disbelief. AJ holds his out.
13 AJ
Go AJ! Go AJ! Uh huh! Uh huh!
14 TIMMY
Awright, I heard! The whole school heard you!
Give it a rest!
15 AJ
There’s no need for jealousy, Timmy!
16 TIMMY
I’m not jealous, I’m just sick of Crocker failing
me.
17 AJ
If you studied, you probably wouldn’t fail. I’ll
bet I could help you get that “F” all the way up
to a “D!”
18 TIMMY
Thanks, Supernerd, but shouldn’t you be
rescuing a calculator from a tree?
19 AJ
(coldly) Spell “calculator.”
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20 TIMMY
C...A... L... Q... LATER!
Timmy runs.
DISSOLVE TO:
Push in over…
21 DAD (OS)
Son, do you know why we’re disappointed in
this “F?”
22 TIMMY
Because I can do better than that?
23 MOM / DAD
What / You can?
24 MOM
What a relief! We were going to blame
ourselves!
25 DAD
You march right up to your room and apply
yourself!
DISSOLVE TO:
26 TIMMY
(Sigh)Chapter one. (beat; then) I’m done! Let’s
play the “Not Study Game!”
27 TIMMY
Now let’s play Crash Nebula!
28 WANDA
Shouldn’t you be studying?
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29 COSMO
That’s not how you play the not study game!
30 TIMMY
All I have to do is get the turbo-laser
hyperbole generator to process Bubba’s
Principle of Zoom... and create a plot
31 TIMMY (CONT.)
hole large enough to travel through the
time-space continuum! Almost...
almost...
32 TIMMY
DARN IT!
33 AJ
Hi Timmy! I...
35 AJ
Are you playing the Crash Nebula video game?
Shouldn’t you be studying?
36 TIMMY
What are you, my Mom?
37 AJ
Genealogically, Timmy, that would be
impossible. “Genealogically” means...
38 TIMMY
I KNOW WHAT GENEA... GENIE...
39 AJ
Genealogically.
40 TIMMY
I KNOW WHAT THAT WORD MEANS!
41 AJ (VO)
Hey, Genius! You missed the receiver!
42 TIMMY
Darn it! Just ‘cuz AJ gets A’s all the
time, he thinks he knows everything!
But he doesn’t. (beat) Hey, but I could!
Right? I could wish that I knew
everything!
43 COSMO
We can’t help you cheat on any tests, Timmy...
44 TIMMY
But I’m not asking you to help me cheat on a
test! All I’m doing is wishing that I knew
EVERYTHING!
45 WANDA
Somebody deserves an “A” in loopholes!
Wanda and Cosmo look at each other, nod, and grant the
wish. POOF! Timmy’s head flips open like a trash lid and
every book in the room opens up. The WORDS fly off the
pages, and into his head.
46 WANDA
Okay! Let’s see how smart you are!
47 WANDA
What flammable...
48 COSMO
Pudding!
49 WANDA
Sorry. (beat; then) What flammable gas is
the most abundant element in the
universe?’
50 TIMMY
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51 WANDA
Correct! It’s official! You know
everything!
52 COSMO
I like making the buzzy noise.
DISSOLVE TO:
53 MOM
Hey, Sweetie. How’d the studying go?
54 TIMMY
My supplemental erudition session came
off exceedingly propitious.
Mom and Dad’s jaws hit the floor. Timmy hands his shocked
mother a neatly bound NOTEBOOK.
55 TIMMY
Mother, I took the liberty of
calibrating the time it takes you to
apply your make-up and realized, if
applied in a counter-clockwise motion,
you could conclude your ritual in half
the time, thus, saving 51.6 seconds.
56 MOM
What would I do with the extra time?
57 TIMMY
Not burn the toast?
58 TIMMY
Okay! Time for school! Ciao!
59 MOM
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60 DAD
I don’t know, but can we keep him?
DISSOLVE TO:
DISSOLVE TO:
Timmy walks into class, very cocky. He takes his usual seat
near AJ. They glare at each other.
61 AJ
Anything you want to say, like “I’m sorry?” Or
“I should study more?”
62 TIMMY
Hope you brought your good brain, Poindexter.
63 CROCKER
Well, we’re two days away from the
Academic Brainathon. I don’t suppose
anyone other than AJ read...
64 TIMMY
About the Texans’ war for independence
from Mexico?
65 AJ
(totally shocked) Wha?
66 TIMMY
Remember? The Alamo.
67 TIMMY
Yes, the Alamo. Circa 1836. 13 days. Gained
Texas it’s independence and added more
than...
68 AJ
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(interrupting)
...a million square miles to America!
69 TIMMY
Actually a million, five thousand and two.
AJ checks an ENCYCLOPEDIA.
70 AJ
(crushed) He’s right.
71 CROCKER
May I borrow your “A?” (takes one out of AJ’s
desk and gives it to Timmy) Here you go!
AJ fumes silently.
CUT TO:
72 AJ
What was that about?
73 TIMMY
What’s the most intellectual way I can
phrase this? Oh yeah! Just smokin’ you
at your own game. (in AJ’s face)
Go Timmy! Go Timmy! Go Timmy!
74 AJ
(Very sarcastic) Yeah, Timmy, Go. You’re smart
for a day. You think anybody’s impressed?
75 WAXELPLAX
Wow, Timmy, I’m impressed! Word on the
street is that you got really smart
really quick! How’dja do that?
76 TIMMY
(beat) Internet.
77 WAXELPLAX
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78 AJ
But... I’ve always been first chair!
79 WAXELPLAX
Oh, AJ, you’re still on the team!
You’ll just be in second chair!
80 AJ
What’s the difference?
81 TIMMY
One chair. DUH!
Waxelplax and Timmy share a laugh. AJ sinks his head and storms off.
Timmy opens his locker to pull out his book bag -- Cosmo and Wanda
are on the locker as “posters” of... well... Cosmo and Wanda.
82 TIMMY
Oh, man, this is awesome!
83 WANDA
I don’t know, Timmy... AJ seems pretty miffed.
84 TIMMY
Yeah... you’re right. Maybe I should say
something to him... HEY AJ!
85 AJ (OS)
Yeah?
Timmy pulls out the certificate and spikes it, doing his own end-zone
dance.
86 TIMMY
Go Timmy! You’re the first chair! Go Timmy!
Go Timmy!
ON AJ as he fumes.
DISSOLVE TO:
87 DAD
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88 TIMMY
Drek.
89 DAD
Ooo! The other game!
90 TIMMY
Garbage.
91 TIMMY
Ooo! Government Funded Television!
92 DAD
(disappointed) Awwww...
93 ANNOUNCER (VO)
He was once the smartest kid in school... until
his best friend smoked
On TV, Timmy does his end-zone dance in front of AJ. Mom enters with
a big SUNDAE. His folks are tense around their new, genius
son.
95 MOM
Hi, Timmy... I made you...
96 TIMMY
(grabs sundae w/out looking) A hot fudge
sundae with 16 nuts on it instead of the
standard 25.
97 DAD
Uh... Son? I was going over your
college fund and...
98 TIMMY
(grabs papers)...you spelled college wrong.
99 DAD
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100 TIMMY
Geniuses get to stay up late.
101 MOM
(chuckles) Not when they’re 10 years
old, they don’t.
102 TIMMY
How would you guys know? If YOUR math is as
good as his spelling I’m probably already 18!
103 DAD
Alright, Mister! Those Gasping Mice
are right! You’re out of line!
104 MOM
You can make fun of my math skills
until it’s 13 o’clock, but you do NOT
act like a smarty pants!
105 TIMMY
Can you prove I was a smarty pants?
106 DAD
Huh?
107 TIMMY
Do you have any evidence of my
smartyness? And where are these pants
you speak of?
109 TIMMY
I can out-think my parents! Cool!
110 DAD
(re: mice) Exactly!
DISSOLVE TO:
We push in...
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DISSOLVE TO:
There are TWO TABLES. One reads “Dimmsdale,” the other “Mortimer
Snerd.” THREE STUDENTS sit at the Snerd table. AJ sits in the center
chair of the Dimmsdale table, desperately flipping through books.
111 TIMMY
A little last minute cramming? Up late last
night playing video games?
112 AJ
That’s it! I challenge you to a fact off!
113 AJ
The Atomic weight of Hydrogen!
114 TIMMY
One! Crude device that fires electric sparks!
115 AJ
Tesla Coil! The Capitol of Idaho!
116 TIMMY
Who cares?
117 AJ
You’re right! Who cares about any of this?
118 TIMMY
No, I meant who cares about the capitol of
Idaho?
119 AJ
All I was trying to do was be a pal.
If being smart is the one thing I’m good at,
then I should be able to share it with my
friends! If I had any!
AJ storms off angrily. Timmy softens. AJ’s words hit home. Timmy opens
his backpack. Cosmo and Wanda are in it, small.
120 TIMMY
(softly) Guys? Is he right? Have I been a jerk
lately?
121 COSMO
Well, how do we put this?
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122 WANDA
That’s a big ol’ 10-4, Big Jerky!
123 TIMMY
Guys, I’m sorry.
124 COSMO
Well... Apology accepted!
125 TIMMY
And as soon as the competition’s over, I wanna
go back to being plain, old, ordinary me!
126 WANDA
After? Timmy! Wait!
128 ANNOUNCER
Today’s contest is between Mortimer Snerd
Elementary...
132 ANNOUNCER
As you know, this is a knowledge
competition, where knowing everything
means you win!
ON TIMMY
AJ reaches for the buzzer but Timmy is lightening quick and beats him.
SFX: DING DING!
134 TIMMY
Well, it’s very obvious. The answer
is... uh... (beat) ...Duh?
SFX: BZZT!
135 ANNOUNCER
I’m sorry... Duh is not the right
answer.
136 ANNOUNCER
Mortimer Snerd!
138 WAXELPLAX
First point goes to Snerd!
139 AJ
What are you doing?
140 TIMMY
Um... building dramatic tension?
141 ANNOUNCER
Next question. What is the capitol of Idaho?
AJ reaches again... but Timmy beats him and buzzes in first again.
BEAT.
142 TIMMY
(beat) Uh... who cares?
143 ANNOUNCER
Sorry! Mortimer Snerd?
145 TIMMY
I gotta go.
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146 AJ
Boise!
147 ANNOUNCER
Correct! Point for Dimmsdale!
CUT TO:
148 TIMMY
Guys, I don’t know anything anymore!
149 COSMO
Welcome to my world!
150 WANDA
Now that you’re in a competition, you
can’t use the knowledge to win! That’s
cheating! The wish is off!
151 TIMMY
What? Why didn’t you tell me that?
152 COSMO
It’s not like you were listening to us anyway,
Mr. “I know everything in the whole wide
world!”
153 TIMMY
Oh, man... I’ve been such a jerk...
154 TIMMY
Look at how happy he is now. Jeez...I
just had all this success because of a
wish. AJ worked hard for it – and I
took it away from him!
SFX: BUZZZT!
155 ANNOUNCER
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156 AJ
But we’re not on television!
157 ANNOUNCER
You don’t know that.
158 TIMMY
Hey.
159 AJ
What. Did you get the questions wrong
so you can look like the big hero with
a come from behind victory?
160 TIMMY
Uh... No, and I’m sorry I was a jerk to
you. I was just jealous. And, in an
impossible-to-explain way, I sorta
cheated to make myself look good and
you look bad.
161 AJ
Yeah well... maybe you would have let me help
you study if I hadn’t been so busy gloating.
162 TIMMY
You deserve to gloat! Everybody’s got one
thing they’re good at. You’re good at studying,
I’m good at uh... uh...
163 AJ
Playing video games! Did you see how much
faster you were than me on the buzzer?
164 TIMMY
Yeah... but it doesn’t matter. I can’t
win by cheating. I’m gonna disqualify
myself.
165 TIMMY
Hi... I...
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AJ zips in.
166 AJ
...he wanted to tell you that he wants to switch
chairs with me and get back in the game.
Right?
167 TIMMY
Uh... yeah! What he said. He’s the smart one!
168 AJ
And you’re the fast one! I’ll be the brains, you
be the thumb. Deal?
169 TIMMY
Deal!
DISSOLVE TO:
170 AJ
It’s Arachnid.
171 ANNOUNCER
Correct!
172 AJ
Nice button hitting, Timmy.
173 TIMMY
Don’t thank me! Thank the not study game!
DISSOLVE TO:
175 TIMMY
A question about that smelly stuff?
176 AJ
A question that can be about anything.
177 ANNOUNCER
Describe the propulsion system used on…
(surprised) …the spaceship of Crash
Nebula?
AJ looks horrified.
178 AJ
I don’t know the answer! I’m always
studying! I...
179 TIMMY
Crash Nebula’s Cross-dimensional
propulsion system uses a turbo-laser
hyperbole generator and Bubba’s
Principle of Zoom, creating plot holes
large enough to allow them to travel
throughout the time-space continuum.
180 ANNOUNCER
Correct! Dimmsdale wins!
181 TIMMY
Actually, I’d like this to go to AJ.
He did the work. I just made the buzzy
noises.
182 AJ
That’s why we’re a great team.
183 AJ
I need to work on the gloating.
Timmy lifts AJ over his head. The crowd of admirers zips in to lift him
up and carry him out.
184 TIMMY
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185 CROWD
Hurray!
186 TIMMY
Hip Hip!
187 CROWD
Hurray!
188 TIMMY
Hip Hip Hoo -- DOOR!
189 CROWD
What?
190 WAXELPLAX
His brain! His precious brain!
DISSOLVE TO:
191 WANDA
We’re glad you’re back to normal, Timmy!
192 COSMO
We missed the more nice, less smart you!
194 DAD
After re-reading our parenting books,
we think we’ve got a reply to your
sassiness. And we’ve brought along a
lawyer.
195 TIMMY
I think you have grounds to... ground me. I was
a creep.
196 LAWYER
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197 DAD
Ha! We did it, we did it!
198 MOM
We grounded the smart kid! We grounded
the smart kid!
199 TIMMY
(sighs) Well... nothing to do now except study.
200 WANDA
Good idea, Timmy!
201 TIMMY
Cosmo?
Cosmo shoves all the books off Timmy’s desk, and poofs up the video
game. A JOYSTICK appears in Timmy’s hand and he starts blasting
away. Cosmo pulls out fruit pies and starts eatin’ as Wanda sighs and
we...
FADE OUT.
THE END