Original subtitles

♪ Hey, whatcha doin'?

♪ Everybody's movin'

♪ It's time for Little Lunch

♪ It's time for running, swinging, sliding

♪ Bounce and seek and hide

♪ It's time for shouting, laughing, climbing

♪ It's time to skip this beat and start that rhyme

♪ Before your class goes back

♪ While you go to eat your snack

♪ Take off the plastic wrap

♪ And do a little hand clap

♪ Hey, whatcha doin'?

♪ Everybody's movin'

♪ Hey, whatcha doin'?

♪ Little lunch! ♪ Whoo!

It's so nice out here today. Not like yesterday.

Yesterday was a different story.

Yesterday was a very windy day. I'm reading about it now.

You're reading about yesterday, today?

The library is open at little lunch today

so, Battie borrowed a book about weather.

But I don't see how it can be about yesterday.

I'm not reading about yesterday, I'm reading about windy days

because yesterday was a windy day.

A very windy day!

It was making everyone crazy. And when I say everyone, I mean Rory.

The wind turned Rory into some kind of wild animal.

A monkey. I don't think it was a monkey.

He was definitely being a monkey.

We watched the movie about the apes and he's been obsessed ever since.

Oh, an ape! I can see that he was being an ape, not a monkey.

They're very different.

The increase in positive ions when the wind blows

may cause irrational behaviour...

..and result in a rise in accidents.

I don't think Mrs Gonsha loves windy days.

Rory! Get back here and stop being a monkey!

Mrs Gonsha thought he was being a monkey.

Mrs Gonsha wasn't thinking straight.

I want everybody outside! I mean upside. I mean inside!

Everybody inside!

When we got inside Mrs Gonsha told us

we were gonna do some yoga for the rest of little lunch. YES!

Mrs Gonsha said we all needed to calm down.

Well, Rory needed to calm down.

I think Mrs Gonsha was the one who needed to calm down.

Rory! Rory!

I told Mrs Gonsha that I couldn't do any yoga

because, A, I didn't have my good stretchy pants,

and, B, I didn't want to.

Mrs Gonsha ignored her. She didn't hear me.

She was already doing that breathing thing.

In through the nose...

..and out through the mouth.

Rory, I said cross-legged on the floor!

That bit was OK, I guess.

But then we started doing all these exercises.

It was cool. It was wrong!

I asked Mrs Gonsha if Mr Haliotis, the PE teacher,

knew we were doing yoga at little lunch.

Because isn't yoga something we actually should be doing in PE?

Not at little lunch?

Debra-Jo, be a cat. Now!

I think one hour of PE on a Thursday is enough.

Debra-Jo hates PE.

I like PE! I just wish there was more written work.

She hates exercise of any kind.

And I mean ANY kind.

Why are pens so heavy?

I loved the exercises.

They're not called exercises,

Mrs Gonsha said the correct term is poses.

Battie is a sticker for the correct terms.

She means 'stickler'.

The first POSE we did was the mountain.

Honestly, I couldn't quite see how we were supposed to be mountains

because it felt we were more like trees.

But Mrs Gonsha was not in the mood for arguing.

I can go and get Mr Haliotis now.

Debra-Jo put your hands up over your head and stop talking! Now!

OK, what do you think this one is? What do I look like?

A swan? No. A rocket? No. A bottle? A chair!

And I'm not asking you because you know what it is!

You did it! I don't remember that one.

How can you not remember the chair pose?

You had to have strong legs, like a chair,

and a straight back, like a chair.

And Debra-Jo sat on you, like a chair.

It was all Rory's fault.

If he hadn't have been misbehaving,

we wouldn't have been doing yoga at all.

Rory wasn't doing yoga at all.

He was doing karate.

Yeah, 'cause we were doing the warrior.

Rory! Warrior is about finding your own inner strength!

Not about fighting.

I think Mrs Gonsha better look up 'warrior' on the internet.

Pretty sure she's got that wrong.

But I have to say, I was super impressed

that she could do so many moves.

She was standing still for ages.

I don't know why we had to stand still for so long.

If an actual warrior stood that still for that long

his village would have been taken over by other warriors.

I like the warrior. And I also like the airplane.

Which kind? Propeller or jet?

The yoga pose, Battie, not the machine in the sky.

It's so cool! And it feels like you're flying.

Debra-Jo was defiantly flying...

Argh!

..mainly into the furniture.

Hey! Oh, I'm sorry.

That's probably not a good place to sit.

On a beanbag? Designed for sitting?

Sitting, not talking.

I could've stayed still

if everything in front of me wasn't wobbling so much.

I quite liked having to be still.

It was like playing one of those games

where you can't move, and you have to freeze.

Only this time, if I wobbled a bit, Tamara couldn't tell me I was out...

Melanie! You moved!

..although she tried.

Melanie, you moved.

It's yoga, I'm not out.

Well, you shouldn't be wobbling so much!

Me? What about Rory?

Don't tell Mrs Gonsha I said this,

but, holding your foot up is really boring.

I was just trying to keep things interesting.

Mrs Gonsha told Rory he needed to be calm, not a rock star.

Rory! You need to be calm, not a rock star.

Mrs Gonsha said we would be able to balance if we emptied our minds.

Which obviously didn't take long for Rory.

But longer for other people.

I liked the tree pose.

I liked sage pose.

I liked eagle pose.

I liked when it was over.

Well, you're calmer now we're finished.

Yes!

Actually, it's still a bit blowy

so you can all lie down or just sit still. What?!

I don't think Rory has ever sat still for five seconds,

let alone five minutes.

But the weird thing is he did lie still.

I don't know what happened

but Mrs Gonsha turned on that weird sloppy music

and it felt like there was a big, sparkly balloon in my brain.

It made me sort of sleepy.

I was so glad we were allowed to lie down now.

And that Rory was being quiet.

I was exhausted!

I wanted to ask Mrs Gonsha if we would be marked on our yoga

but I couldn't even get up!

No-one could. Not even Mrs Gonsha. Especially Mrs Gonsha.

It's not like we haven't seen Mrs Gonsha asleep before.

'Chapter 17: Stretcho finds a friend among the Zertgongs.

Stretcho undertook a strict training regime...'

But that's just a dozing, nodding-off asleep.

Mainly when Battie is giving a talk.

I don't blame her, sometimes I nod off when I'm giving a talk.

But this was different. This was really asleep.

Like, like night-time sleep.

If we didn't know Mrs Gonsha was sleeping by looking at her,

we knew by listening to her.

She was snoring.

When my dad falls asleep on the couch while we're watching TV

we move his arm or his leg and he stops.

I was thinking, 'Maybe I could move Mrs Gonsha's arm',

when suddenly, she rolled over.

And she stopped snoring.

But, as she rolled over, there was another sound.

It was like...

It was more like...

Actually it kind of went...

Whatever it sounded like, it can only have come from one place.

Rory. Rory.

Rory.

Rory's second favourite thing to do, is fart.

Rory's first favourite thing to do is fart in front of people.

He loves it.

He even writes the ones he's most proud of in his journal.

'April 16, I had baked beans for breakfast.'

Remember that one?

So we knew it had to be Rory.

But when we turned around Rory was perfectly still.

He wasn't giggling, he wasn't high-fiving,

he wasn't fist-bumping.

Which meant it wasn't Rory.

It definitely wasn't Rory.

Mrs Gonsha farted.

Poor Mrs Gonsha.

All the other kids were laughing their heads off,

which was not very nice.

All the OTHER kids?

I didn't mean to.

I blame the yoga. I got too relaxed.

That's what Mrs Gonsha said too...

..after we told her what happened.

I did what?

What did she do?

I cannot believe I slept through the whole thing. I hate yoga.

I think Mrs Gonsha took it pretty well.

OK, tomorrow I'm bringing sandwich.

She took it pretty well

considering she did the most embarrassing thing

in the history of school teaching.

Oh.

Right! Well.

Have a run outside for two minutes.

But, Mrs Gonsha, it's still windy out there.

Not as windy as in here.

Whew! Am I right, Battie?

On second thoughts, everyone at their desks. Spelling test.

YES!

♪ Theme music

♪ Uh-huh, uh-huh

♪ Hey, whatcha doin'?

♪ Everybody's movin'

♪ Hey, whatcha doin'? ♪ Little Lunch! ♪

Every year, the Health Van comes to school.

The Health Van people tell you about health.

How you need to exercise every day.

And how you need to eat the right food so you don't get sick.

Exactly. Stop eating my sugar snap peas.

Do you want me to get sick?

The Health Van people talk about bullying and peer pressure.

How important it is to wash yourself and have a shower every day.

When did they talk about that?

Actually, I think that was my Dad. Last night.

We all know the Health Van. We all like the Health Van.

But we had never heard of the Body Bus.

The Body Bus?

Nobody knew why the Body Bus was there.

I knew why it was there.

Cool! The Body Bus!

What's the Body Bus? It's the bus that goes around

and collects dead bodies when there's been a virus outbreak

and the whole city's been wiped out.

Was there a virus outbreak? Was the whole city wiped out?

You guys get too hung up on details.

I'm the Incursions Monitor

and I had not been told about any Body Bus visiting.

Debra-Jo was kind of freaked out.

She was asking a lot of questions.

Why is it parked here? Are we supposed to go inside?

Did we get an incursion notice? Why wasn't I told?

And I did not know the answers.

Um, I don't know.

I don't know, I don't know and... I don't know.

They can't make us go in there. Not without a signed permission slip.

Maybe they got one from our parents.

Yeah, maybe it was one of those notes

that go home in a sealed envelope that we weren't allowed to see.

Why? Why would they do that? I know why.

Because the bus was sent by the army

to sign up new recruits for a secret mission.

From primary school? Children?

The army wouldn't be allowed to do that.

Which is why it has to be a secret.

Rory was being ridiculous, but he had a point.

The Body Bus had been kept a secret from us.

Why didn't Mrs Gonsha tell us the Body Bus was coming?

Maybe it's a dentist bus.

My cousin had a dentist bus come to school. He got three fillings.

I'd found a packet of hard, chewy caramels

in an old showbag under my bed,

and I'd been eating them all morning.

Has anyone got a toothbrush?

They're not dentists in there. It's not called the Tooth Bus.

It's not called the Mouth Bus, it's not even called the Face Bus.

It's the Body Bus. We're getting check-ups.

Cool! I love that stuff.

When they weigh you and measure you

oh, and when they bang your knee with a hammer.

What's that called again, Debra-Jo?

She walked away without answering me!

Debra-Jo had been acting weird since she saw the Body Bus.

But when she walked away without answering a question, we knew -

She didn't know the answer and had to go look it up!

She knew the answer, Rory.

She walked away 'cause she was upset.

I was scared because...

..if we had check-ups they might start at the head and ...

..the night before the Body Bus came,

my mum was combing my hair and she found... head lice.

We washed my hair with the lice treatment

and my mum promised me she got all the eggs.

But what if they found more inside the Body Bus?

I had to get my mum to come and get me.

Debra-Jo! What are you doing?

You know you're not supposed to be at the phone tub.

Oh, Mrs Gonsha, I just really need to use my phone to call my mum.

It's an emergency.

What's the emergency? I forgot to make my bed.

I know it was a stupid thing to say.

As if I'd forget to make my bed.

I needed a Plan B.

Now we were worried about Debra-Jo.

As Incursions Monitor, it wasn't like her to disappear

when something was in the playground as exciting as the Body Bus.

Debra-Jo takes her role as Incursions Monitor very seriously.

She organises us into boy-girl pairs, alphabetically.

Atticus and Amelia, you need to swap.

Amelia comes before Atticus.

Amelia, I expected more from you.

Rory, why are you standing at the back, next to Yani?

R-O-R-Y!

And that's when we don't even have an incursion. She's just practicing.

And I want these positions exactly next Thursday for the puppet show.

Debra-Jo! I told you - stop using my megaphone!

I don't see why we can't share it, Mr Haliotis.

But Debra-Jo wasn't organising anything.

Debra-Jo was in the sick bay.

I decided ringing my mum was a bad idea,

because it would be like the time I found out I had a spelling test

on science words I didn't know.

Potassium.

There's lots of potassium in bananas. Potassium.

Yes, Debra-Jo? But Mrs Gonsha,

we're not supposed to start 'what's the matter' chemistry till next week.

It's easier to use the words if you know how to spell them,

so I thought we'd get a head start.

Mum, either come pick me up or tell me how to spell potassium.

Dysprosium. And dysprosium.

And she said, 'Debra-Jo, you're overreacting'.

No, I'm not picking you up.'

I needed another way to avoid the Body Bus.

Are you sick? What's wrong?

I probably should have thought that through.

I have a splinter. A rash.

A headache. You have all three?

Yes. I have a splinter-rash-headache.

It starts off like a splinter and then spreads like a rash.

We should tell Mrs Gonsha. Let's go get her.

No!

The boys were super-excited about getting in the Body Bus

'cause I'd worked out why they were checking our bodies.

They were micro-chipping us with a GPS!

We were going to be human tracking devices!

It actually happens! I saw a documentary about it.

A documentary? Or the movie about robots we watched at your birthday?

A documentary!

It was the movie about robots.

I couldn't ring my mum. I couldn't pretend I was sick.

I had to find somewhere to hide.

Just until the inspections were over.

We found Mrs Gonsha and brought her in to see Debra-Jo.

But she wasn't there so we thought she must've been feeling better.

Battie's tree was the perfect place to hide.

Battie played in there all the time and no-one ever came looking for him.

'Chapter 22. Stretcho was exhausted

after fighting the Erkmons for three days straight and he...

Battie? How long have you been up there?

Since about Grade Two.

Oh, OK. Please don't tell everyone.

I like to keep it... Hey, Tamara!

It's your throw-in.

Where was I?

The problem was, I'd never climbed Battie's tree before.

I'd never climbed any tree before.

I weighed up my options.

Climb the big scary tree, get my head checked on the Body Bus.

It was a no-brainer.

It's pretty hard to get started on my tree.

The only way to do it is fast - take a run-up

and jump onto the first small sticky-out bit that holds your foot.

Even though I was probably a lot slower than Battie,

I actually thought I'd started really well.

I said I THOUGHT I'd started well.

Debra-Jo! Sorry, Mrs Gonsha.

Are you alright?

Melanie and Tamara said you had a splinter-rash-headache.

After falling from the tree,

now I had a splinter and a rash and a headache.

Now, do you want to tell me what's going on? Ohh.

By now, we'd kind of lost interest in the Body Bus.

I realised I had lost valuable tree time.

But when I got to my tree, my run-up space had been taken over.

I didn't think I'd be able to make it over Mrs Gonsha's head.

He's good, but... Not Mrs Gonsha-head good.

You've been acting like you're worried about something. Are you?

We could see Mrs Gonsha and Debra-Jo sitting down.

They were obviously talking privately.

So we went over to listen.

Mrs Gonsha was being so kind and nice

and my splinter and my rash and my headache were hurting

and I knew it would be safe to tell her.

You think you've got head lice?

You think you know someone.

Who's got head lice?

Everyone has head lice. From time to time.

Or all the time.

Debra-Jo has head lice. No, she doesn't!

Your mother rang me this morning to say you were very upset

because she found one... She only found ONE?

..but you were clear because she combed your hair for three hours.

Three hours?

Who combs their hair for three hours?

Who combs their hair for three minutes?

Not me, obviously.

I comb mine for much longer than three minutes.

Let's go clean you up.

I still don't understand why a bit of lice got you so worried.

The Body Bus!

The Body Bus? What's the Body Bus?

Guys! Guys! I know what it is!

I'd finally worked it out. He actually had.

Well, it had worked itself out.

It's not the Body Bus at all!

The Peabody Bus?

Peabody Business Supplies.

I tried to break the phone rule, pretend I was sick

and climb Battie's tree

all because of Peabody Business Supplies.

Maybe next time you won't get so worked up about having head lice.

Who's she kidding?

♪ Theme music

♪ Uh-huh ♪ Uh-huh

♪ Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ Everybody's moving Hey, whatcha doing?

♪ Little Lunch! ♪

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