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‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫!♪ UH-HUH ♪ STATIC SHOCK

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

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‫[[SCHOOL BELL RINGS

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE, BE ♪

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‫♪ I'LL STAND WITH YOU ♪

‫♪ WHEN THE WORLD'S TOO CRUEL ♪

‫.BRING IT DOWN. DOWN. PERFECT

‫?HOW'S THAT

‫.VOTE FOR ME. SEE

‫DID YOU SEE WHAT ‫?HEATHER'S HANDING OUT

‫.OH, THAT IS SO CUTE

‫?CAN YOU BELIEVE IT ‫.JOEY BONBORA IS RUNNING

‫.I'D VOTE FOR HIM ANYTIME

‫.UH-OH, HERE COMES MADELYN

‫.OH, PLEASE

‫.LITTLE MISS PERFECT

‫HI. MY NAME IS ‫,MADELYN SPAULDING

‫AND I'M RUNNING FOR ‫.FRESHMAN CLASS PRESIDENT

‫WOULD YOU SIGN MY PETITION FOR

‫MADELYN SPAULDING. ‫COULD YOU !HMM

‫.AHH

‫THAT WAS SUCH AN ‫,EASY MORNING PATROL

‫I STILL HAVE 15 MINUTES ‫.BEFORE CLASS STARTS

‫HELLO

‫HI. OH, I JUST

‫SEE, I LOST A BOOK WHICH ‫.IS WHY I'M BACK HERE

‫HELLO. MY NAME IS ‫.MADELYN SPAULDING

‫.MADELYN, I KNOW

‫.WE'RE IN THE SAME HOMEROOM

‫THEN YOU MAY ALSO KNOW

‫THAT I'M RUNNING FOR ‫.FRESHMAN PRESIDENT

‫GOOD FOR YOU. WELL, I BETTER

‫AND IF ELECTED, I WILL DO ALL ‫I CAN TO MAKE DAKOTA UNION

‫A HIGH SCHOOL OF WHICH ‫.EVERYONE CAN BE PROUD

‫IN FACT, I'VE DRAWN UP

‫A DESCRIPTION OF MY PLATFORM

‫.THAT INCLUDES 32 ISSUES .ITEM 1... ‫UNIFORMS

‫MADELYN

‫TO KEEP DISTRACTIONS ‫SUCH AS IMPROPER CLOTHING

‫OR SOCIAL PRESSURES FROM ‫NEGATIVELY IMPACTING THE

‫[[WHISTLES

‫.GOTTA RUN

‫.BUT I DIDN'T FINISH EXPLAINING

‫.1 SIGNATURE DOWN, 49 TO GO

‫.UNH! AHH! COME ON

‫?YOUR NEW MORNING WORKOUT

‫NO. THIS PIECE OF JUNK

‫.IS BUSTED AGAIN

‫.BACK OFF, DE LA ‫HOYA .LET ME TRY

‫A GENTLE JUMP-START

‫.AND AWAY WE... WHOA

‫!OHH! HEY! OW! AAH

‫.YEAH, THAT FIXED IT

‫MAN, THOSE MACHINES HAVE ‫.BEEN FUNKY ALL YEAR

‫?BUT DOES THE SCHOOL ‫REPAIR 'EM .NO

‫I'M SORRY, MR. FOLEY. THAT ‫.IS A LOW-PRIORITY ITEM

‫.HEH. FOR THEM, MAYBE

‫MAYBE WE SHOULD TELL ‫MADELYN SPAULDING

‫TO ADD IT TO HER ‫.CAMPAIGN PLATFORM

‫.THAT CONTROL FREAK

‫LAST WEEK, SHE CAME ‫UP TO ME AT LUNCH

‫AND CRITICIZED THE ‫.WAY I WAS CHEWING

‫HEY, MAYBE YOU SHOULD ‫.RUN FOR PRESIDENT

‫YOU KNOW, ON A "FIX THE ‫.SNACK MACHINES" CRUSADE

‫.HMM, THAT'S NOT A BAD IDEA

‫,OH, YEAH, AND AS A BONUS

‫I GET TO GIVE MISS ‫HIGH AND MIGHTY MADELYN

‫.A LITTLE COMPETION

‫.DEAL

‫ARE YOU TIRED OF SNACK ‫?MACHINES THAT DON'T WORK

‫ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR CHANGE

‫?AND MAYBE A BURRITO

‫,THEN VOTE FOR RICHIE FOLEY

‫YOUR NEXT FRESHMAN ‫.CLASS PRESIDENT

‫.THAT'S RIGHT, FELLOW STUDENTS

‫NO LONGER WILL WE GO WITHOUT ‫,OUR CHIPS, OUR SODAS

‫.OUR CREME-FILLED TREATS

‫EXCUSE ME. FIX THE ‫?VENDING MACHINES

‫?YOU CALL THAT A PLATFORM

‫HE ALREADY HAS ENOUGH SIGNATURES ‫.TO QUALIFY AS A CANDIDATE

‫?HE DOES? YOU DO

‫YEP. WHICH MEANS ‫THAT IT'S GONNA BE

‫ONE MIGHTY TIGHT RACE

‫.BETWEEN ME AND JOEY BONBORA

‫REALLY? WELL

‫WELL, THEN, WE'LL JUST ‫.SEE ABOUT THAT, MISTER

‫?AND HOW'S YOUR SIGN-UP GOING

‫NONE OF YOUR BEES... OW! OHH

‫?HEY, YOU OK

‫.JUST PEACHY, THANK YOU

‫[[GROANING

‫?WHAT UP

‫?SHE EAT THE MEATLOAF

‫.I'M NOT SURE

‫.OH... UNH

‫.DARN THAT RICHIE FOLEY

‫,I SHOULD BE PRESIDENT, NOT HIM

‫.AND NOT JOEY BONBORA

‫ME. I DESERVE IT. IT'S JUST ‫!SPITE, JEALOUSY AND... OHH

‫.UNH! UHH

‫?EXCUSE ME. MR. HOMELESS PERSON

‫,MY NAME IS MADELYN SPAULDING

‫AND I'M WRITING AN ‫ESSAY FOR EXTRA CREDIT

‫ON THE POVERTY-STRICKEN ‫,POPULATION IN DAKOTA

‫THEREFORE, I'D LIKE ‫TO ASK YOU A FEW

‫?WHAT IN THE WORLD

‫[[COUGHING

‫EW

‫OHH

‫.Boy, thinking: I CAN'T BELIEVE ‫MR .LAWLER GAVE US A QUIZ

‫[[THINKING IN SPANISH

‫:Girl, thinking ‫.OH, THERE'S BRIAN

‫.HE IS SUCH A HOTTIE

‫.Brian, thinking: SHE'S LOOKING ‫AT MY ZIT .I KNOW SHE IS

‫Boy, thinking: I HOPE THEY ‫.DON'T BEAT ME UP AGAIN

‫,HEY, SPAULDING ‫?YOU GOT A PROBLEM

‫YEAH. HER PROBLEM IS ‫.NOBODY'S GONNA VOTE FOR HER

‫?WHY DON'T YOU BOTH BUZZ OFF

‫.HUH? BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ

‫.BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ

‫.BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ

‫!UNH

‫.[THINKING] I CAN CONTROL THEM

‫[STUDENTS TALK ‫[AMONGST THEMSELVES

‫.OK, PEOPLE, QUIET DOWN

‫WE HAVE A LOT OF ‫.SPEECHES TO HEAR TODAY

‫.UH, NO. WAIT, WAIT, WAIT

‫GIMME CARAMEL CORN ‫.OR GIVE ME DEATH

‫?UH, BETTER FED THAN RED

‫?HUH

‫?HOW ABOUT LET MY PEOPLE SNACK

‫HEY, RICHIE, MY ‫?MAN, HOW'S IT GOING

‫.UH, FINE, JOEY

‫UH, YOU KNOW WE'RE RUNNING ‫.AGAINST EACH OTHER

‫,YEAH? OH, WELL

‫.UH, GOOD LUCK

‫HE COULD ACTUALLY ‫.WIN THIS THING

‫COME ON! HE'S A NICE GUY, BUT HE'S ‫.NOT SMART ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT

‫.NEVER STOPPED ANYBODY BEFORE

‫AND NOW THE CANDIDATES FOR ‫.FRESHMAN CLASS PRESIDENT

‫.UP FIRST IS JOEY BONBORA

‫.JOEY, JOEY, JOEY

‫.JOEY, JOEY, JOEY

‫.HEY

‫.JOEY, PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

‫.JOEY, JOEY, JOEY, JOEY

‫.JOEY

‫?WHAT'S GOING ON THERE

‫.MR. BONBORA, WE'RE WAITING

‫UHH... UHH... UHH

‫,FELLOW STUDENTS

‫Both: I NO LONGER WISH ‫,TO BE FRESHMAN PRESIDENT

‫SO I WITHDRAW MY NAME

‫AND ASK YOU TO SUPPORT ‫THE ONLY CANDIDATE

‫WHO REALLY DESERVES YOUR VOTE

‫.MADELYN SPAULDING

‫?MADELYN SPAULDING

‫[[ALL PROTEST AT ONCE

‫PSST. V, CHECK THIS

‫.NOT SO FAST, RICHARD

‫.TIME TO GET INTO YOUR BRAIN

‫[[MADELYN GASPS

‫UHHH... UHH... UHHH

‫?HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON

‫.UHHH... AHHH... UNH. RICHIE

‫YOU... YOU'RE

‫.INTERESTING

‫.HEH HEH HEH HEH

‫?RICHIE, WHAT'S WITH YOU, MAN

‫.YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ONSTAGE

‫.NO. V, I HEARD MADELYN

‫WELL, YEAH. SHE WAS JUST ‫.HERE TALKING TO YOU

‫NO, BRO. LISTEN, IT ‫.WASN'T HER TALKING

‫IT WAS LIKE... SHE ‫.WAS INSIDE MY HEAD

‫.I MEAN IT, V

‫MADELYN SPAULDING

‫WAS RUMMAGING AROUND ‫INSIDE MY SKULL

‫TRYING TO CHANGE ME ‫INTO A .BRAIN PUPPET

‫?BRAIN PUPPET

‫.DRONE, MIND SLAVE, WHATEVER

‫,WHEN YOU SHOWED UP ‫YOUR ENERGY FIELD

‫MUST'VE CAUSED SOME KIND OF ‫.FEEDBACK AND STOPPED HER

‫RICHIE, YOU HAVE DEFINITELY BEEN ‫.WATCHING TOO MUCH SCIENCE FICTION

‫.BRO, I HEARD HER THOUGHTS

‫SHE PLANS TO TURN ‫EVERY STUDENT HERE

‫.INTO A ZOMBIE

‫LOOK, IF MADELYN HAD ‫,MIND-CONTROL POWERS

‫DO YOU HONESTLY THINK SHE WOULD ‫?WASTE TIME TAKING OVER A HIGH SCHOOL

‫.[ZOMBIE-LIKE] MADELYN

‫.NO, REALLY, YOU ARE TOO KIND

‫.THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

‫?WE'RE IN TROUBLE, YES

‫.WELL, LOOKY HERE

‫,VIRGIL HAWKINS

‫,SLACK-OFF EXTRAORDINAIRE

‫?ACTUALLY HITTING THE BOOKS

‫.MM-HMM

‫,MR. ALL-SCHOOL MERIT SCHOLAR

‫".MR." I DON'T NEED TO STUDY

‫?MISTER... WHAT ARE YOU READING

‫?HMM

‫.THESE ARE MY PSYCHOLOGY BOOKS

‫.I KNOW. SORRY

‫BUT I NEED TO LEARN ‫.ABOUT HOW THE MIND WORKS

‫?IN CASE YOU EVER GET ONE

‫.COME ON, I WON'T HURT 'EM

‫,THEN MAYBE NEXT TIME

‫YOU'LL ASK BEFORE YOU ‫.JUST GRAB MY STUFF

‫.PLEASE, SHARON

‫SOME OF THE KIDS AT SCHOOL ‫.HAVE BEEN ACTING WEIRD

‫.I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY

‫.GO ON

‫I FIGURE MAYBE IT'S ‫DRUGS OR A VIRUS

‫OR SOMETHING IN THE WATER

‫.OR SOMEBODY WITH TELEPATHY

‫?SAY WHAT

‫WELL, THERE'S ‫,THIS GIRL MADELYN

‫,KIND OF A PAIN. ANYWAY ‫SHE'S RUNNING AGAINST RICHIE

‫,FOR FRESHMAN CLASS PRESIDENT

‫ONLY RICHIE THINKS ‫SHE'S A BANG BABY

‫AND CAN TURN PEOPLE ‫.INTO BRAIN PUPPETS

‫!?BRAIN PUPPETS

‫.OK, I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY

‫.BRAIN PUPPETS

‫OH, VIRGIL, YOU'VE ‫DEFINITELY BEEN WATCHING

‫.TOO MUCH SCIENCE FICTION

‫OH, YEAH? WELL... WELL

‫.THAT'S WHAT I TOLD RICHIE

‫.SLEEP WELL, VIRGIL HAWKINS

‫.NOT

‫Virgil, thinking: I HAVE GOT TO STOP ‫.EATING JALAPE}OS BEFORE BEDTIME

‫Madelyn: VIRGIL HAWKINS

‫ME? NO. SEE, YOU ‫.GOT IT ALL WRONG

‫I'M STATIC, NOT

‫.NOW, VIRGIL, YOU CAN'T FOOL ME

‫.I KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU

‫!AAH

‫.Madelyn: HA HA HA HA HA

‫YOUR STATIC POWERS ‫,MAY PROTECT YOU

‫BUT THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO KEEP ‫.YOU FROM RUINING MY CAMPAIGN

‫?WHAT DO YOU MEAN

‫.OH, YOU'LL SEE

‫.OH, IT'S JUST A DREAM

‫?HUH

‫[GASPS] THEY'RE ‫.ALL BRAIN PUPPETS

‫.HEY, UH, FAMILY

‫?UP KIND OF LATE, AREN'T YOU

‫UH-HUH. LISTEN, I'M JUST ‫GONNA GO DOWNSTAIRS FOR

‫?YOU OK

‫Both: YOU AREN'T GOING ‫.ANYWHERE, VIRGIL

‫!SIS, POPS, AAH

‫.OK, BAD CHOICE OF WORDS

‫YOU REALIZE THIS IS ‫GONNA RUIN YOUR CHANCES

‫OF MAKING FATHER OF THE

‫.Y-YEAR

‫?YOU TWO OK IN THERE

‫[[BOTH GRUMBLE

‫.GLAD TO HEAR IT

‫!WAIT. STOP. SNAP OUT OF IT

‫MADELYN SPAULDING HAS ‫.TAKEN OVER YOUR BRAINS

‫.RICH, AM I GLAD TO ‫SEE YOU .YOU WERE RIGHT

‫IT'S MADELYN. AND SHE EVEN ‫.GOT TO POPS AND SHARON

‫.WE GOT TO DO SOMETHING

‫?OH, NO. RICHIE, YOU, TOO

‫[[GROANING

‫.SORRY ABOUT THIS

‫.RICHIE, I PROMISE YOU'LL BE ‫ALL RIGHT .I'LL CHECK YOU LATER

‫OK

‫[[GROANING

‫THINK I BETTER ‫.GET THIS ON TAPE

‫HELLO. MY NAME IS ‫,MADELYN SPAULDING

‫AND I AM RUNNING FOR ‫.FRESHMAN CLASS PRESIDENT

‫!HELL-O

‫.YAY. YAY

‫.SOME OF US ARE DESTINED ‫FOR GREATNESS .IT'S A GIFT

‫,BUT IT'S ALSO A BURDEN

‫ESPECIALLY IF NOBODY ELSE ‫.APPRECIATES THAT GREATNESS

‫.THIS COULD GO ON A WHILE

‫ESPECIALLY IF ‫EVERYBODY IS SO MEAN

‫AND NOT DOING THEIR JOBS

‫SO THAT THE REALLY GREAT PEOPLE ‫HAVE TO DO ALL THE EXTRA WORK

‫AND NEVER GET ANY THANKS

‫AND NEVER GET INVITED TO ‫.SLEEPOVERS OR ANYTHING

‫.YEAH

‫ONLY NOW, IT'S ‫.GONNA BE DIFFERENT

‫TOMORROW, YOU WILL ‫ALL VOTE FOR ME

‫AS PRESIDENT OF ‫.THE FRESHMAN CLASS

‫,AND IF THAT GOES WELL ‫?WHY STOP WITH FRESHMAN

‫.I COULD RUN THE SCHOOL

‫I COULD BE PRESIDENT ‫!OF EVERYBODY

‫.WHOA THERE, MADAME PRESIDENT ‫.I DEMAND A RECOUNT

‫?WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

‫.SHUTTING YOU DOWN, LADY

‫I HAVE YOUR WHOLE ‫.CRAZY SPEECH ON TAPE

‫.YOUR COVER IS BLOWN

‫.WELL, SO IS YOURS

‫I'M GOING TO TELL ‫THE WHOLE WORLD

‫THAT STATIC IS REALLY ‫.VIRGIL HAWKINS

‫.I'M STILL GONNA SHUT YOU DOWN

‫ATTENTION, STUDENTS, THIS ‫.IS YOUR PRESIDENT SPEAKING

‫GET ME THAT SUPERHERO

‫!AND HIS LITTLE TAPE, TOO

‫[[ALL GROAN

‫!AAHHH

‫.HAVE NO POWER

‫,AND NO WAY OUT ‫.EXCEPT PAST THEM

‫[[GROANING

‫♪ MAKE A MOVE, MAKE A MOVE ♪

‫♪ MAKE A MOVE, MAKE A MOVE ♪

‫♪ MAKE A MOVE, MAKE A ‫MOVE, WAKE UP, WAKE UP ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BEAT IT, BEAT IT ♪

‫♪ MAKE A MOVE, MAKE A MOVE ♪

‫♪ WAKE UP, MAKE A ‫MOVE, MAKE A MOVE ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BEAT IT, BEAT IT ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BEAT IT, BEAT IT ♪

‫[[GROANING

‫[[DRYER RUNS

‫!COME ON, COME ON

‫!OH, YEAH

‫.STATIC

‫?RICHIE

‫.YES, RICHIE

‫.AND THE VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM

‫YOU MAY AS WELL ‫.GIMME THAT VIDEOTAPE

‫EVEN IF YOU SHOW ‫,IT TO THE POLICE

‫I WOULD JUST TAKE ‫.OVER THEIR MINDS, TOO

‫.FROM NOW ON, I'M THE BOSS

‫OH, YEAH? WELL, YOU'RE ‫.NOT THE BOSS OF ME

‫.AM TOO

‫.AM NOT. AM TOO

‫.AM NOT

‫.OOOHHHH... HOLD HIM

‫GRRR

‫YOU... WILL DO

‫.AS I... COMMAND

‫.NO... I... WON'T

‫!AAH

‫.UNH

‫.YES

‫?HOW DID I END UP AT SCHOOL

‫WHY ARE WE OUT HERE ‫?IN OUR UNDERWEAR

‫.HUH. NICE NIGHTIE, RUTH

‫.TAKE A HIKE, WEASEL FACE

‫.I'M SO EMBARRASSED

‫.I CAN'T REMEMBER A THING

‫?OH, WHAT HAPPENED

‫UH

‫.I'M SADELYN MAULDING ‫.I'M RUNNING F-FOR... UNH

‫OH, LET'S JUST SAY ‫THAT MADELYN AND I

‫HAD A LITTLE MEETING ‫.OF THE MINDS

‫[[CHEERING

‫OK, OK. SETTLE ‫.DOWN, SETTLE DOWN

‫MY FELLOW AMERICANS

‫.OH, SORRY. WRONG SPEECH

‫.THIS WAS A VERY CLOSE RACE

‫THANKS TO YOU, THE FACULTY ‫KNOWS THAT WE WILL NOT REST

‫UNTIL THE VENDING-MACHINE ‫!CRIS GETS RESOLVED

‫[[CHEERING

‫AND THANKS TO MY ‫,OPPONENT, JOEY BONBORA

‫WHO WILL TAKE UP THE ‫ISSUE DURING THE NEXT TERM

‫AS THE NEW PRESIDENT ‫.OF THE FRESHMAN CLASS

‫.COME ON OUT, JOEY

‫.GREAT CONCESSION SPEECH, MAN

‫.VERY CLASSY

‫.HEY, I'M A BORN POLITICIAN

‫,AND SPEAKING OF POLITICIANS

‫WHAT'S UP WITH HER ‫?ROYAL WEIRDNESS

‫MADELYN? STATIC PEEKED ‫IN ON HER THIS MORNING

‫[[GIGGLING

‫SHE TOOK QUITE A ‫,ZAP TO THE HEAD

‫.BUT SHE'S GONNA BE OK

‫?DOES SHE REMBER WHO STATIC IS

‫SHE DOESN'T EVEN REMBER ‫.SHE'S A METAHUMAN

‫LET'S JUST HOPE ‫.IT STAYS THAT WAY

‫,V, I GOTTA HAND IT TO YOU ‫IT MUST'VE BEEN PRETTY SCARY

‫WHEN SHE HAD US ALL ‫,UNDER HER CONTROL

‫NOT TO MENTION HAVING ‫.EVERYONE TURN AGAINST YOU

‫.UH, YES, IT WAS

‫?V? V

‫.MUST EAT MEAT

‫.HAMBURGER

‫.YES, HAMBURGER AND FRIES

‫OOH

‫.HUNGRY

‫.FEED ME

‫.YUM

‫.MUST EAT

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

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‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

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‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA ‫BE A SUPERHERO ♪

‫♪ GOTTA BE, BE, GOTTA BE, BE ♪

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