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? What would you do
if I sang out of tune? ?
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? Would you stand up
and walk out on me? ?
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? Lend me your ears,
and I'll sing you a song ?
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? I will try not to sing
out of key, yeah ?
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? Oh, baby, I get by ?
? By with a little help from my friends ?
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? All I need is my buddies ?
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? High with a little help
from my friends ?
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? I'm sayin' I'm gonna get higher ? -?
Try with a little help from my friends ?
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? Whoa-oa-oa-oa ?
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? Oh, oh, oh, oh ?
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? Somebody who knows
quite sure ?
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? Baby ?
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? By with a little help
from my friends ?
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? Said I'm gonna make it
with my friends ?
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? Try with a little help
from my friends ?
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? Oh, I'm gonna
keep on trying ?
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? High with a little help
from my friends ?
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? I'm gonna keep on trying now,
baby ?
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? Ooh, ooh, ooh ?
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[ Choir singing indistinctly ]
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The halls of RFK junior high
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often echoedwith the sounds of music.
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The Kennedy chorale.
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The Kennedy madrigals.
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And, of course,the Kennedy now-tones.
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They were all part ofa long-standing family of song.
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But, as with every family,
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there was a skeletonin the closet.
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[ Off-key ] ? ah, ah, ah, ah ?
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? Ah, ah, ah ?
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? Ah, ah, ah, ah ?
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The boys' 8th-grade glee club.
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? Ah, ah, ah, ah ?
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The singing group from hell.
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Oh, boy.
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Twice a week, we transformedMr. Frace's choir room
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into kind of a chamberof musical horrors.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Randy Mitchell... baritone.
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? Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ?
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Doug Porter... monotone.
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? Ah, ah, ah... ?
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Paul Pfeiffer...no tone at all.
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And, of course...
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Me.
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Not that we didn't have heart.
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It's just thatthe 13-year-old-male voice
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isn't exactly designed for,well...
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For singing.
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Uh, hold that note.
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? Ahhh ?
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Hold that note.
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We weren't the stufftabernacle choirs are made of.
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So, out of a mutual respectfor the arts...
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And humanity...
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We'd reached an agreement.
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We wouldn't push Mr. Frace...
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If he wouldn't push us.
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All right, all right!
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That's enough!
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Just, uh, get out your books
and study.
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All in all,a pretty equitable arrangement.
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It isn't fair.
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Every other group gets
to sing some songs and stuff.
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Why can't we?
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Well, maybe because we stink.
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Then why are we here?
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Because we have to be here.
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Right, Warren?
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Warren gander.
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No one had ever heard himsing a note,
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much less say a word.
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So, what you're saying
is we're losers, is that it?
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But if Paul was looking tounite us in chorus...
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- Pbht!
- Pbht!
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He had just heardour best effort.
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Pbht!
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Face it...we knew where we stood.
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At the bottom of the heap.
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And we were smart enoughnot to seek the limelight...
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[ School bell rings ]
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Until, that is...
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the limelightwas thrust upon us.
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There.
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That's better, isn't it?
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Who's she?
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[ Note plays ]
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? My name is Miss Haycock ?
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And if there's anything
I want to impress upon you,
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it's...
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? Use your diaphragms ?
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? Always use your diaphragms ?
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What'd she say?
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? Do you hear
how that sounds? ?
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? Full and supported ?
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[ Plays note ]
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? If you're doing it right ?
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? You'll feel it down here ?
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[ Plays note ]
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? I'm thrilled
to be taking over ?
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? The 8th-grade
boys' glee club ?
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[ Plays note ]
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? And when we sing ?
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? We'll always sing like this ?
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[ Plays note ]
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? Because we're always going
to remember ?
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? To use our ?
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[ Plays note ]
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[ Unenthused ] Diaphragms.
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She was fresh out ofteaching school, full of ideas.
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And, oh, yes,
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the woman was a total lunatic.
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Well, I think she's great.
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Paul, get a grip.
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Why, just because
she sang a little?
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A little?
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I just hope she doesn't think
we're gonna sing like that.
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Well, maybe not at first.
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But once we master
this diaphragm thing...
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Diaphragms or no diaphragms...
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Miss Haycock's arrival
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had sent a shudder of fearthrough all of us.
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I don't want to sing.
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That's why I took glee club
in the first place.
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Yeah, why do we have to have
a student teacher, anyway?
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Relax, guys. There's nothin'
to worry about.
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This won't last long.
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What do you mean?
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I mean, this is her first job.
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She has to look
like she's trying.
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Mitchell did have a point...
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in theory.
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Maybe he's right.
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Maybe she'll... Get over it.
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Trust me, in a couple of days,
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she'll be acting
just like Frace.
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Put away your songbooks.
We won't need them, after all.
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And that was that.
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We'll need the entire hour
for voice auditions.
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[ Scattered groans ]
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Who wants to be first?
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First?
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Was she joking?
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Anyone?
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Only a complete doofuswould want to be f...
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okay, then.
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It was timeto show Miss Haycock
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exactly who she was up against.
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In other words...
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It was time to sing.
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[ Off-key ]
? my country, 'tis of thee ?
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[ Off-key ]
? sweet land of liberty ?
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[ Off-key ] ? of thee I sing ?
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[ Off-key ]
? land where our fathers died ?
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[ Piano plays notes ]
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[ Passionately ]
? from every mountainside ?
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? Let freedom ring ?
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There.
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We'd laid it out for her...clear as a bell.
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The folly of it all.
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The hopelessness.The complete...
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yes! Yes!
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That's the kind of passion
we all need.
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Huh?
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I found that very moving.
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Thank you, Kevin!
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Sure, anytime.
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Attaway, Caruso.
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Anytime at all.
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She made you sing?
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All of you?
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That I'd like to see.
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She said Kevin had passion.
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Really?
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[ Giggles ]
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She made a total fool out of
me, so can we just forget it?
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Well, I think she
sounds very sweet.
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So do I.
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Right gesture, wrong shoulder.
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Winnie, the woman's
a fruitcake, okay?
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In fact, somebody
ought to lock her up!
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In fact, somebody ought to...
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Kevin, that's not very nice.
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Uh-oh.
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What if it were me up there...
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standing there,
scared out of my wits,
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teaching my first class?
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Uh, well...
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is that how you'd treat me?
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Okay, this was tricky...very tricky.
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Maybe you should think more
about things like that, Kevin.
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It was pretty clearI was gonna have to find
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the moral highground here...
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and fast.
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? Fwa ?
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? To sustain the note ?
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? We simply let the air
flow out gently ?
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Now, you try.
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? Fwa ?
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[ Off-key ] ? fwa ?
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? Fwa ?
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Trouble is, our glee club
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wasn't exactly builtfor high ground.
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We'd been weanedon low expectations.
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Why's she doing this to us?
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Even Warren ganderwas showing signs of strain.
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Now, men,
I have a surprise for you.
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Great.What was it gonna be now?
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Today, we're going to begin
our first song...
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"stout-hearted men."
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I have copies for all of you.
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All right. That ripped it.
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No one... but no one...
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had ever threatened us withan actual musical arrangement.
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And, that's not all.
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We're going to be singing it
next month
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at the spring sing concert!
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- What?!
- What?!
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I know, I know.
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We don't have much time.
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But as I told Mr. Frace,
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my boys are up to it.
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And he agreed!
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And suddenly it was clear.
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Our reputationwas on the line, here.
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Our tradition. Our bad name.
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Miss Haycock?
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Yes, Kevin.
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Do you really think
this is a good idea?
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Why not?
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Well... I...
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we... Just think...
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Kevin...
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What if it were me
standing up here?
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Kevin...
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You think what?
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Awww!
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That...
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It would be...
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fine.
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I knew you'd all feel that way!
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Think of it.
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We're starting on
a new adventure... together.
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And so in a flash,our fate was sealed.
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The Glee Club's,Miss Haycock's,
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and, of course...
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Mine.
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[ Notes play on piano ]
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? Men, men, men ?
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? All right, basses ?
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? Men, men ?
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Over the next few weeks,
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Miss Haycock struggledto bring out our best...
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? Now, tenors ?
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? Ahhh ?
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Which, coincidentally,happened to be our worst.
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Splendid! Now, remember.
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Diaphragms.
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Diaphragms!
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Meanwhile,I found myself trapped
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between raw enthusiasmand outright malice.
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Ow!
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Hey!
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Nice goin', Arnold.
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What's that for?
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"That'd be great, Miss Haycock.
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We'd love to sing
in the spring sing."
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Come on, I didn't say that.
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Well, not exactly.
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We're gonna look like idiots
271
00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:05,796
in front of the whole school,
272
00:11:05,798 --> 00:11:06,964
not to mention our parents.
273
00:11:06,966 --> 00:11:08,332
What are we gonna do?
274
00:11:08,334 --> 00:11:09,399
Well, for one thing,
275
00:11:09,401 --> 00:11:11,201
we're not gonna mention it
to our parents.
276
00:11:11,203 --> 00:11:12,302
Deal?
277
00:11:12,304 --> 00:11:14,271
There's something else
we could do.
278
00:11:14,273 --> 00:11:17,008
We could practice.
279
00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:18,743
Look, you got us
into this, Arnold.
280
00:11:18,745 --> 00:11:20,745
So you got to get us out.
281
00:11:20,747 --> 00:11:21,879
How?
282
00:11:21,881 --> 00:11:23,113
Talk to her.
283
00:11:23,115 --> 00:11:25,450
She's never gonna listen to me.
284
00:11:25,452 --> 00:11:27,852
Why not? You're Mr. passion.
285
00:11:27,854 --> 00:11:30,153
You're the only one
she will listen to.
286
00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:31,421
Talk to her.
287
00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:34,725
Our lives are depending on it.
288
00:11:34,727 --> 00:11:36,694
Easy for them to say.
289
00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:38,796
But how do you talk to someone
290
00:11:38,798 --> 00:11:40,998
who can't even hear?
291
00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,132
[ Glee club singing ]
292
00:11:42,134 --> 00:11:43,934
Excellent! Excellent!
293
00:11:43,936 --> 00:11:46,403
The fact was, even thoughwe sang harmonies
294
00:11:46,405 --> 00:11:48,206
that would makeQuasimodo wince,
295
00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:50,308
chords not found in nature...
296
00:11:50,310 --> 00:11:51,843
Good!
297
00:11:51,845 --> 00:11:53,010
Better!
298
00:11:53,012 --> 00:11:55,246
Nothing deterred Miss Haycock.
299
00:11:55,248 --> 00:11:58,082
With a wisdomborn of weeks of experience,
300
00:11:58,084 --> 00:12:01,085
she pushed on, blindly...no!... Deafly...
301
00:12:01,087 --> 00:12:04,588
toward a goal that wasobviously beyond our grasp.
302
00:12:04,590 --> 00:12:06,958
I know. Let's march in place.
303
00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:08,926
Let's try that. Come on.
304
00:12:08,928 --> 00:12:10,427
We wanted to believe in her.
305
00:12:10,429 --> 00:12:12,396
But it was pretty clear,sooner or later,
306
00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:15,699
someone was gonna have to burstthis bubble...
307
00:12:15,701 --> 00:12:16,567
someone like...
308
00:12:16,569 --> 00:12:18,469
Psst! Arnold.
309
00:12:18,471 --> 00:12:19,971
[ Clears throat ]
310
00:12:19,973 --> 00:12:21,906
Me.
311
00:12:21,908 --> 00:12:28,512
? Man to man ?
312
00:12:28,514 --> 00:12:30,781
It's now or never, Arnold.
313
00:12:33,486 --> 00:12:35,152
Ah, what the heck?
314
00:12:35,154 --> 00:12:37,154
Was I a stout-hearted man...
315
00:12:37,156 --> 00:12:39,123
Or a craven coward?
316
00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:40,357
Miss Haycock?
317
00:12:41,227 --> 00:12:42,659
Yes, Kevin?
318
00:12:42,661 --> 00:12:46,163
We've been thinking
this whole thing over.
319
00:12:46,165 --> 00:12:47,831
And...
320
00:12:47,833 --> 00:12:49,433
See...
321
00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:52,136
We don't really wanna be
in the spring sing.
322
00:12:54,073 --> 00:12:56,507
It's just that...
323
00:12:56,509 --> 00:12:58,409
We're not any good.
324
00:12:58,411 --> 00:13:00,144
So...
325
00:13:00,146 --> 00:13:01,679
Maybe we shouldn't do it.
326
00:13:01,681 --> 00:13:03,747
There. Difficult, of course,
327
00:13:03,749 --> 00:13:05,816
but best for everyoneconcerned.
328
00:13:05,818 --> 00:13:08,786
You... Really feel this way?
329
00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:10,687
All of you?
330
00:13:10,689 --> 00:13:13,157
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
331
00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:15,259
I see.
332
00:13:15,261 --> 00:13:19,129
Well... I had no idea.
333
00:13:19,131 --> 00:13:21,499
And there you had it.
334
00:13:21,501 --> 00:13:23,201
We'd finally gotten throughto her.
335
00:13:23,203 --> 00:13:25,503
Miss Haycock was comingto her senses.
336
00:13:25,505 --> 00:13:26,904
She was going to see reason.
337
00:13:26,906 --> 00:13:28,973
She was going...
338
00:13:28,975 --> 00:13:30,674
[ Crying softly ]
339
00:13:30,676 --> 00:13:31,875
To cry.
340
00:13:35,381 --> 00:13:37,315
[ Crying intensifies ]
341
00:13:37,317 --> 00:13:39,550
Needless to say, we handled itwith a certain maturity.
342
00:13:39,552 --> 00:13:41,652
Well, what you do that for,
Arnold?
343
00:13:41,654 --> 00:13:43,354
Me?! You told me to!
344
00:13:43,356 --> 00:13:44,521
Way to go, Kev.
345
00:13:44,523 --> 00:13:46,223
I can't believe you did that.
346
00:13:46,225 --> 00:13:48,459
You were supposed to talk
to her, not make her cry.
347
00:13:50,430 --> 00:13:52,530
[ Crying continues ]
348
00:13:52,532 --> 00:13:54,865
We had no idea what to do next.
349
00:13:54,867 --> 00:13:57,301
The only thingthat could help us now
350
00:13:57,303 --> 00:13:58,635
was a miracle.
351
00:13:58,637 --> 00:14:01,705
And then... It happened.
352
00:14:01,707 --> 00:14:04,675
[ Warren vocalizing ]
353
00:14:09,916 --> 00:14:11,548
[ Vocalizing continues ]
354
00:14:14,787 --> 00:14:16,753
It took the tearsof a student teacher
355
00:14:16,755 --> 00:14:19,489
to bring a song to the lipsof Warren gander.
356
00:14:19,491 --> 00:14:22,226
[ Vocalizing continues ]
357
00:14:22,228 --> 00:14:25,863
? Men, men, men, men,
men, men, men... ?
358
00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:29,633
? Men, men, men, men,
men, men... ?
359
00:14:29,635 --> 00:14:33,637
? Men, men, men, men, men,
men, men, men, men ?
360
00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:36,040
And the rest is history.
361
00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:37,641
? Men, men, men,
men, men, men... ?
362
00:14:37,643 --> 00:14:41,478
? Lend me some men
who are stout-hearted men ?
363
00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,750
? Who will fight
for the right they adore ?
364
00:14:45,752 --> 00:14:50,087
? Start me with ten
who are stout-hearted men ?
365
00:14:50,089 --> 00:14:54,325
And so began the greatglee club comeback of 1970.
366
00:14:54,327 --> 00:14:56,126
? Give me some men... ?
367
00:14:56,128 --> 00:14:59,029
There were only two weeks leftbefore the big spring sing,
368
00:14:59,031 --> 00:15:02,800
but during those two weeks,we breathed, slept,
369
00:15:02,802 --> 00:15:06,670
and ate "stout-hearted men".
370
00:15:06,672 --> 00:15:11,075
? And I'll soon give you
10,000 more ?
371
00:15:11,077 --> 00:15:13,877
It became our anthem,our battle cry...
372
00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:15,379
[ Horn honking ]
373
00:15:15,381 --> 00:15:19,050
As we rallied 'roundour secret weapon.
374
00:15:19,052 --> 00:15:23,020
? Then there's nothing
in the world... ?
375
00:15:23,022 --> 00:15:25,255
It was kind of... Infectious.
376
00:15:25,257 --> 00:15:27,825
? ...a plan ?
377
00:15:27,827 --> 00:15:29,693
? When stout-hearted... ?
378
00:15:29,695 --> 00:15:31,494
And when the dayhad finally arrived...
379
00:15:31,496 --> 00:15:33,698
We had gone from horrible to...
380
00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:37,201
? Man to ?
381
00:15:37,203 --> 00:15:37,747
? Man ?
382
00:15:44,977 --> 00:15:49,980
[ Finale plays ]
383
00:15:49,982 --> 00:15:52,015
Magnificent!
384
00:15:52,017 --> 00:15:56,387
Well, anyway, we were ready...
385
00:15:56,389 --> 00:16:00,657
[ Choir singing indistinctly ]
386
00:16:00,659 --> 00:16:08,659
? Till you find your dreams ?
387
00:16:10,169 --> 00:16:11,701
[ Applause ]
388
00:16:13,939 --> 00:16:15,906
I'm not ready for this.
389
00:16:15,908 --> 00:16:17,541
Sure you are.
390
00:16:17,543 --> 00:16:18,842
No, I'm not.
391
00:16:18,844 --> 00:16:21,145
Oh, come on, Paul.
It's just one song.
392
00:16:21,147 --> 00:16:23,881
Or so I kept telling myself.
393
00:16:23,883 --> 00:16:25,016
Look around.
394
00:16:25,018 --> 00:16:27,018
These guys are
practically professionals.
395
00:16:27,020 --> 00:16:30,554
People are paying
a buck-fifty to see them...
396
00:16:30,556 --> 00:16:32,723
And us.
397
00:16:32,725 --> 00:16:33,957
[ Sneezes ]
398
00:16:33,959 --> 00:16:35,192
Uh-oh.
399
00:16:35,194 --> 00:16:37,194
That sneeze was a bad sign.
400
00:16:37,196 --> 00:16:38,229
[ Sneezes ]
401
00:16:38,231 --> 00:16:40,264
A very bad sign.
402
00:16:40,266 --> 00:16:41,365
Take a deep breath.
403
00:16:41,367 --> 00:16:43,000
You know how you get
once it starts.
404
00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:45,002
It's my nerves.
405
00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,170
Come on, Paul, what's there
to be nervous about?
406
00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:48,338
Remember?
407
00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:50,808
We've got Warren.
408
00:16:50,810 --> 00:16:54,045
[ Indistinct conversation ]
409
00:16:54,047 --> 00:16:56,313
Hey, you guys are in the
8th-grade glee club, right?
410
00:16:56,315 --> 00:16:57,982
Can't wait to hear you sing.
411
00:16:57,984 --> 00:17:00,718
You too. What are you singing?
412
00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,786
We're starting out with
Thomson's "Hallelujah,"
413
00:17:02,788 --> 00:17:04,989
then "Pater Noster,
qui es in Caelis"...
414
00:17:04,991 --> 00:17:06,323
the Vulpius version.
415
00:17:06,325 --> 00:17:07,792
Then something
a little lighter...
416
00:17:07,794 --> 00:17:09,827
some selections
from "La Boh�me."
417
00:17:09,829 --> 00:17:11,228
How about you?
418
00:17:11,230 --> 00:17:12,463
"Vulpius"?
419
00:17:12,465 --> 00:17:14,431
"La Boh�me"?
420
00:17:14,433 --> 00:17:17,568
- "Stout-hearted men."
- [ Sneezes ]
421
00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:19,336
Here they are...
422
00:17:19,338 --> 00:17:21,138
my boys.
423
00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:23,074
Come on, everybody.
424
00:17:23,076 --> 00:17:24,975
Gather 'round.
425
00:17:24,977 --> 00:17:28,012
I brought something for you.
426
00:17:28,014 --> 00:17:30,781
Here. Pass these out.
427
00:17:30,783 --> 00:17:31,915
Everyone gets one.
428
00:17:31,917 --> 00:17:34,452
Yep, Miss Haycockwas in her element...
429
00:17:34,454 --> 00:17:36,820
whatever element that was.
430
00:17:36,822 --> 00:17:40,357
I'm so proud of you all.
431
00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,194
Ever since
I was a little girl...
432
00:17:43,196 --> 00:17:45,796
No, geez, don't tell us this.We don't want to...
433
00:17:45,798 --> 00:17:48,599
I've dreamed of standing up
in front of a choir
434
00:17:48,601 --> 00:17:50,568
and molding them in song.
435
00:17:50,570 --> 00:17:53,471
Tonight will be
my very first time,
436
00:17:53,473 --> 00:17:57,340
and I have you to thank...
my men.
437
00:17:57,342 --> 00:18:01,245
I'll never forget any of you.
438
00:18:01,247 --> 00:18:05,382
The funny thing is, in a way,that turned out to be true.
439
00:18:05,384 --> 00:18:08,552
All right. Let's line up.
440
00:18:08,554 --> 00:18:12,323
We're next.
441
00:18:12,325 --> 00:18:15,826
And so from the murky depthsof Mr. Frace's choir room,
442
00:18:15,828 --> 00:18:20,231
the 8th-grade boys glee clubfinally stepped into the light.
443
00:18:20,233 --> 00:18:24,167
[ Light applause ]
444
00:18:32,211 --> 00:18:34,411
Sure, we had misgivings.
445
00:18:34,413 --> 00:18:39,482
But gazing down onMiss Haycock's confident face,
446
00:18:39,484 --> 00:18:41,385
we knew we had nothing to fear.
447
00:18:41,387 --> 00:18:43,220
She believed in us.
448
00:18:43,222 --> 00:18:45,489
And, of course, we believed...
449
00:18:45,491 --> 00:18:46,890
In Warren.
450
00:18:51,564 --> 00:18:53,364
[ Piano plays introduction ]
451
00:18:53,366 --> 00:18:55,900
But as I look backon that night,
452
00:18:55,902 --> 00:18:58,636
it isn't the anticipationI remember best,
453
00:18:58,638 --> 00:19:03,707
and it isn't the facesin the audience.
454
00:19:03,709 --> 00:19:09,246
? Ahhhhhhhhhh ?
455
00:19:09,248 --> 00:19:10,848
What I remember best
456
00:19:10,850 --> 00:19:14,985
is that Warren gander's voicechose exactly that moment...
457
00:19:14,987 --> 00:19:17,587
[ Croaks ]
458
00:19:18,991 --> 00:19:21,325
To change.
459
00:19:24,063 --> 00:19:25,963
[ Audience murmuring ]
460
00:19:28,234 --> 00:19:30,067
? Ahhhhhhhhh ?
461
00:19:30,069 --> 00:19:31,568
[ Croaks ]
462
00:19:31,570 --> 00:19:33,504
It was cruel.
463
00:19:33,506 --> 00:19:34,871
In front of our very eyes,
464
00:19:34,873 --> 00:19:39,210
Warren had transformedfrom lyric tenor...
465
00:19:39,212 --> 00:19:40,878
To...
466
00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:42,112
[ Croaks ]
467
00:19:42,114 --> 00:19:45,048
Well, a bullfrog.
468
00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:47,051
[ Murmuring, light laughter ]
469
00:19:47,053 --> 00:19:49,253
So the rest of usdid the only thing we could...
470
00:19:49,255 --> 00:19:51,355
we panicked.
471
00:19:55,728 --> 00:19:57,561
Keep going!
472
00:19:57,563 --> 00:19:59,863
[ Piano plays introduction ]
473
00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:02,065
Keep going!
474
00:20:02,067 --> 00:20:04,968
- Men.
- Men.
475
00:20:04,970 --> 00:20:05,970
- Men.
- Men.
476
00:20:05,972 --> 00:20:07,938
But the die was cast.
477
00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:09,807
[ Sneezes ]
478
00:20:09,809 --> 00:20:11,141
Paul sneezed...
479
00:20:11,143 --> 00:20:12,509
[ Sneezes ]
480
00:20:12,511 --> 00:20:14,711
Which was too much for Doug.
481
00:20:14,713 --> 00:20:16,046
[ Thud ]
482
00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:19,383
Somebody laughed,and I dropped my music.
483
00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:21,352
Keep going!
484
00:20:21,354 --> 00:20:22,519
[ Sneezes ]
485
00:20:22,521 --> 00:20:24,187
It was kind ofa chain reaction.
486
00:20:24,189 --> 00:20:27,157
[ Sneezes ]
487
00:20:27,159 --> 00:20:30,394
I'd like to say we rallied...
488
00:20:30,396 --> 00:20:32,263
[ Sneezes ]
489
00:20:32,265 --> 00:20:33,631
But... We didn't.
490
00:20:33,633 --> 00:20:36,766
[ Disorganized singing,
talking ]
491
00:20:43,375 --> 00:20:46,443
[ Disorganized singing
continues ]
492
00:20:51,884 --> 00:20:53,017
Men. Men. Men.
493
00:20:53,019 --> 00:20:54,418
- Men.
- Men.
494
00:20:54,420 --> 00:20:55,718
[ Sneezes ]
495
00:20:57,490 --> 00:20:58,656
[ Sneezes ]
496
00:21:00,426 --> 00:21:02,192
It was no one's fault, really.
497
00:21:02,194 --> 00:21:06,130
I guess we'd just been pushedbeyond our limits.
498
00:21:06,132 --> 00:21:08,565
We we're a bunchof 8th-grade boys,
499
00:21:08,567 --> 00:21:13,003
not an ensembleof stout-hearted men.
500
00:21:13,005 --> 00:21:14,037
[ Light applause ]
501
00:21:14,039 --> 00:21:15,606
[ Applause intensifies ]
502
00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:18,309
As for Miss Haycock,
503
00:21:18,311 --> 00:21:21,278
she'd dreamed of molding usinto something we weren't.
504
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:26,283
But that night,she got her wake-up call.
505
00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:30,220
? Give me some men
who are stout-hearted men... ?
506
00:21:30,222 --> 00:21:32,623
The only problem was...
507
00:21:32,625 --> 00:21:35,326
She wasn't there to answer it.
508
00:21:35,328 --> 00:21:37,995
[ Sneezes ]
509
00:21:37,997 --> 00:21:41,198
We never found out whereMiss Haycock disappeared to,
510
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,201
although some saidshe'd gone back to college.
511
00:21:44,203 --> 00:21:47,604
Still, I like to thinkthat wherever she is
512
00:21:47,606 --> 00:21:49,673
there's a warm spotin her heart
513
00:21:49,675 --> 00:21:52,042
for the 8th-gradeboys' glee club.
514
00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:55,012
After all,we'd learned from her,
515
00:21:55,014 --> 00:21:58,081
and in a way...She'd learned from us.
516
00:21:58,083 --> 00:21:59,416
We'd learned together...
517
00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:03,854
? Man to man ?
518
00:22:03,856 --> 00:22:06,056
Or so I like to tell myself.
519
00:22:06,058 --> 00:22:08,792
[ Finale plays ]
520
00:22:10,395 --> 00:22:12,495
[ Paul sneezes ]
521
00:22:12,545 --> 00:22:17,095
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