♪ Gotta get up gotta go get up ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey hey ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Woo ♪
♪ Here we go here we go hip ♪
♪ Here we go here we go ♪
♪ Hey hey hey hey hey hey ♪
I put a shock to your system!
'Static Shock!'
I'm sorry I haven't been around much lately.
Being Static takes up a lot of time.
There's another reason, too, moms.
Truth is, lately, I haven't been feeling up to coming here.
I'm bettin' you wanna know why, right?
Just gettin' comfortable, moms.
This might take a while.
It all started a couple of weeks ago.
I was on my class field trip having big fun.
Man, this place is tre off the hook.
Yeah, but I can't believe they're still open
while they're making all these renovations.
How do you think they're paying for the renovations?
I'm just glad they didn't shut down the Lava Land ride.
Oh, look! Yes! Some of the lava spewed on my shirt.
It's nacho cheese, Richie.
Ugh. Different eruption.
That's your friend.
Don't remind me.
There you are, Daisy honey.
Mom!
Wanna take some photos at the You Oughta Be In Pictures booth?
Make some funny faces to scare your father with.
Cool. But aren't you supposed to be chaperoning?
I can't chaperone my own daughter
for a couple of minutes?
Catch up with you guys later.
Eh, Daisy's mom's cool, isn't she?
Yeah.
You're right, Daisy. That Virgil is cute.
Mom!
Well, come on, V. We gotta get ready for our screen test.
Alright, actors. Time for wardrobe.
Come on, Thomas. This isn't lecture hall.
Yeah, man. It's an amusement park. Amuse yourself.
This is still a class field trip, guys.
We're supposed to be learning something.
Uh, somehow, I don't think
any of this is gonna end up on the finals, Thomas.
Of course, you realize, this means war.
Food fight!
One at a time, children. One at a time.
How's it coming?
Just need to disconnect
one more wire and the trams
in the north sector will be offline.
zap
Uh-oh.
What do you mean "Uh-oh?"
Even Einstein took a break once in a while.
But Thomas Kim? Work, work, work.
Dude needs balance in his life. No doubt.
Maybe we should invite him to go bowling with us.
- Hmm, maybe not. - Maybe not.
Whoa! That's a transport tram. It shouldn't be going that fast.
- Look out! - Ah!
Shouldn't be doing that, either.
Move away!
zap
Whoa, whoa!
What's it made of? Fiber glass?
Nothing like a little pressure.
♪ Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey ♪
zap
crash
Oh, come on!
Whoa.
Yes!
Now, the door is open.
How'd you do that?
A little something called magnetic induction.
I zapped the first piece of track
and it magnetized the others.
And I thought it only worked with paper clips.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Whoever you are, your mother must be really proud of you.
Yeah...she sure would be.
Now, don't take this the wrong way, moms.
When I got home the last thing I wanted to
think about was you.
Whoa. Unh.
What are these videos doing in the middle of the floor?
Virgil. Hey, son.
We need more burgers, Virgil. Stat.
On it, pops.
Hey, son. How was the movie park?
You seen one runaway tram, you've seen 'em all.
- The videos, pops? - We're gonna go through them.
For that compilation tape we're making about your mother.
- What? - It's for the memorial service.
I know we told you about it, Virgil.
Oh, yeah.
Aren't you gonna help us screen them?
Uh, I'd like to, pops, but I-I got a ton of homework.
They gave you homework on field trip day?
That's how it is. They give you one day of fun.
Then, double the workload the next day.
I-I better get to it.
Hmm. I thought he'd be psyched to do this.
'I can't believe she ever wore'
'that tacky polka dot dress you bought her, daddy.'
'Yeah, that's love, alright.'
'She looks pretty, anyway.'
'Yes, she does.'
I wanted to help 'em, moms, but it just hurt too much.
'Mom acts so funny!'
I had to get out of there. So I went on patrol.
Thinking it would help me clear my head.
crash
Man, who smacked this place down?
- Grrr. - What the!
Sorry I asked.
Yay, play, play.
You call this playing?
Looks more like mess hall.
The party's over, buddy.
- Bad, bad, bad! - Bad?
You totally trash a five-star restaurant
and I'm bad?
zap
Somebody got up on the wrong side
of his alien pod this morning.
Anybody get the license number of that Bang Baby?
It was wild, moms. No matter what I threw at it
this thing was impervious to pain.
I was telling Richie all about it the next day.
At it even had purple skin and orange hair.
Ugh. Bang Babies. They just have no fashion sense.
The worst part was, every time I hit it
it just got madder and madder.
'Ahem.'
Perhaps, you'd like to share your story
with the class, Virgil.
Uh, no thanks, Ms. Pettibone.
I hope I won't have to separate you two again.
Class, I'm handing back your essay test.
Undoubtedly, some of you will be
happier with your grades than others.
Oh, yes! I'm happy. What about you, Rich?
I'm...one of the others.
Uh, Ms. Pettibone. I think there's a problem here.
Excuse me, Thomas?
You gave me a 99. But I didn't get anything wrong.
You made a grading mistake.
- 'What a nerd.' - 'Made grading mistake.'
Crazy brainiac.
Class. Let me see your essay, Thomas.
Ah. You made a slight grammatical error.
In this sentence, you're using "its" in the possessive form
but you incorrectly placed an apostrophe there. I'm sorry.
But.. What am I gonna tell my parents?
You got the highest grade in class.
That's what you tell them.
Whoa, dude. You're actually bummed about only getting a 99?
Trade ya.
What in heavens name!
You wrong. Wrong!
crash
Holy creature feature!
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!
W-w-wrong about what?
Argh! Everything!
What is that thing?
Whatever it is, it's no teacher's pet.
♪ Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey ♪
Run, ma'am. Call the police.
Man, that was a double taser shot. What does it take?
boom
Aah! Unh!
Bad man...gone.
Where's a full body cast when you need one.
After that throwdown, moms, even my aches and pains
had aches and pains. At least, I was alone in the house.
And the peace and quiet was doing me some good.
And then she walked in.
So now you turn up home, baby bro.
I've got your speech slotted for ten minutes.
So don't run off at the mouth like you normally do.
- What speech? - For the memorial service.
No one told me I had to speak.
I took it as a given that you were gonna do this.
And that's the problem, right there.
No one asked me about this from jump.
No one even thought about how I feel about this whole thing.
This isn't about you, Virgil, it's about mom.
Now, you're gonna stop being a brat and do this speech.
You can't make me! You can't make me do anything!
Make the stupid speech yourself!
Virgil.
Please don't make me do it, pops.
I don't wanna make a speech.
I would never force you to do that, son.
And...about what I said to Sharon..
Forget it. We all lose our cool now and again.
In fact, I may owe you an apology.
For what?
I thought you had come to terms with your mom's death
all this time.
I was wrong about that, huh?
Pops, I..
- You wanna talk about it? - Maybe later. Okay?
I understand.
It took me a long time before I could even say her name
without feeling pain.
Whenever you're ready, son.
It would be nice if you did speak at the memorial, Virgil.
If for no one else, for your mom.
Just think about it.
- Hello? - Virgil, it's me.
I just came back from the school parking lot..
Multiple tow-truck action, man.
I was there, Rich. Tell me something I don't know.
Okay. I found something on the scene, V.
It's gonna blow your mind.
It's the smoking gun, V.
Iron clad proof that Thomas is mister tall, dark, and ugly.
- What if Thomas dropped it? - Come on, V.
Thomas is the kind of dude who keeps track
of everything he has.
He wouldn't just lose an "A" paper like that.
I know.
But we have to be absolutely sure
before we break the news to his peeps.
Wait a minute, bro.
If we're right about Thomas
isn't he the last person we should be going to?
To paraphrase one of your favorite sayings, moms
if superheroing were easy, everybody would do it.
Once more, Thomas, what event triggered
the start of World War I?
The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand.
Mm. Now, the name of that assassin?
I...I don't think that will be on the test, father.
That attitude is the difference between
a perfect score and a 99.
Excuse me, dear, but Thomas has visitors.
Hey, Thomas. Mr. Kim.
Virgil? Richie?
Hey, yo. Thought we'd come over to hang.
Hang? Hang what?
You know, like, visit. If that's okay?
Of course, it is.
- But, dear, Thomas' studies-- - Can wait.
Our son has friends. Come on.
Thomas.
Oof. First place.
So you were a pretty big brain even in the first grade, huh?
Academic achievement cannot begin early enough.
- Please don't sit there! - Huh?
Uh, sorry.
So, Thomas, we found something of yours.
Your essay test paper.
Yeah. It was in the school parking lot.
- Ring any bells? - What're you talking about?
My test is right.. Right..
You must have dropped it.
But I was never in the parking lot.
- You sure about that? - Yes!
- What're you trying to say? - Easy, Thomas. Easy.
Last thing we need is you throwing a tantrum.
A tantrum? Me? I would never do that.
And I don't appreciate the two of you goofing on me like this.
Hey, yo, dude. Get a grip.
Get out of my house!
If he's a Bang Baby, he has no clue, Rich.
Maybe he's like Jekyll and Hyde or something.
Mommy. Mommy.
- Drop that remote! - Oh, yeah. Right.
Like I'm really gonna miss you going postal.
- I mean it, Rich. - Ah, ah, ah.
Just sit back and take your embarrassment like a man.
Mommy, Virgil is being bad. Punish him.
[bawling
Better?
Mommy, why you didn't punish him? He's being bad.
Oh, he's not bad, honey, he's just cranky.
Doesn't even know why.
Sometimes you have to let 'em work through that crankiness.
See? All better now.
He's my good boy.
'Oh, look at my..'
Now I see why you didn't want to look at this.
She was so great and now she's...gone.
She really knew what made me tick.
thump thump
Hey! We have a doorbell, you know?
You tease me.
- Yo, Richie. Get ready to move. - Right, V.
Now, Thomas, old buddy.. It is you, Thomas, isn't it?
You can take a joke, right?
No! Jokes bad!
Well, then...how about a psych act?
Now!
Let's take this outside.
crash
If he's gonna be like that, I gotta get him out of here.
Yo, Thomas. Come and get me.
No! Not Thomas!
Thomas weak.
I hope this works.
Missed me.
zap
Maybe this wasn't such a hot idea.
crash
Yeah, it's working, alright.
'Just like with moms.'
What happened?
He just had a tantrum.
But he's feeling much better, now.
Thomas never actually knew he turned into a creature.
But now that his parents are clued in
he's getting the best of care.
If you hadn't shown me how to calm him down
I don't even wanna think about it.
I'll come back soon, moms. Promise.
Thanks. Thanks for everything.
'For the longest time, I missed my mother so much'
I forced myself not to think about it.
But now I know that was wrong.
I've learned something just recently..
...that's very important.
My mother's physical being may be gone
but her spirit is still very much alive within me.
And it always will be. Thank you.
♪ How I got over ♪
♪ My soul looks back and wonders ♪
♪ How I got over ♪
♪ My soul looks back and wonders ♪
♪ How I got over ♪
♪ Just as soon as I can get there ♪
♪ Oh yes oh yes ♪ ♪ To that sweet promised land ♪
♪ I'll be looking up my loved ones ♪
♪ And they'll take me by the hand ♪
♪ My soul looks back and wonders ♪
♪ How I got over ♪
♪ My soul looks back and wonders ♪
♪ How I got over ♪