- MALE TV ANNOUNCER: Coming up next on "Cupcake Island,"
the contestants fight off a tiger
with just a tube of frosting.
- TIGER: [on TV] [roars] - WOMAN: [on TV] [screams]
- BARB: Oh!
We're eating cupcakes while watching cupcakes.
- That's called winning the game of life, honey.
- Oh, hey, kids. Do you want some cupcakes?
- Put those away.
Max and I gave up desserts
in order to get in peak physical form to make the Z Force.
- They don't want cupcakes?
Is it too late to have more kids?
- Yes!
- Why would we need cupcakes when we've got rice cakes?
- BOTH: [chomping]
- Mm! Gross.
- [monitor beeping]
- FEMALE COMPUTER VOICE: Alert! Alert!
Incoming transmission from Super President Kickbutt.
- Thundermans, I have a very special assignment for Max.
- For Max?
What, are you guys testing out
some new sort of super hairspray?
- We'd like you to speak to some troubled youths
at the Metroburg Juvenile Detention Center.
- Oh, Max, remember that summer you spent there
while the rest of us-- - BARB: Unh-unh.
- --didn't go on vacation to Hawaii?
- You guys went where?
- President Kickbutt is talking.
- As a reformed supervillain,
we think you'd be a perfect role model
to help the kids turn over a new cape.
- Me? A role model?
I mean, fashion model, sure.
- [camera shutter clicks] - No filter needed.
- Are you going to do it or not?
- Uh...yeah, I'll do it.
But only if they name a sandwich after me in the cafeteria.
- Fine. You can have the chopped liver and onions.
- Yes!
- Super President Kickbutt, out!
- [sighs, laughs]
The Maximus O. Thunderman liver and onion sandwich.
[chuckles] Every time they puke,
they'll think of this guy.
- Well, what do you think about that, Barb?
Max is goin' back to super juvie.
- Yeah.
This time we can tell people about it.
- This is so much better than the last time I was there.
I mean, the only people they had come talk to us
were a couple of lame supes.
- Didn't they send Mom and Dad? - Yeah, it was the worst.
- ¶
- Nora, there's bedbugs on the couch!
- Save some for me.
- [digital bugs squishing]
- [bell dings] - All right, triple bug bonus!
- [video game music playing]
- A cockroach crawled under the lamp.
- [lamp shatters]
- Cockroaches?!
Kids, pack your bags! We're moving!
- HANK: [screams]
Evil Super Cockroach is back?
You ate my sidekick, but you won't eat my family!
- We're just playing Super Bug Blitz.
Can you just stop being old?
- I knew that.
Stop being so old, Barb.
- Kids, look at this mess.
You can't tear up the whole house for a video game.
- We didn't tear up the whole house.
- Yeah, we haven't even been near the bathroom.
- BOTH: [gasp] The bathroom!
- BILLY: Jackpot.
- [glass shatters] - [digital bugs squishing]
- Okay, they have a problem.
- [whooshing]
Take that, spider! - Look at Chloe.
Where'd you get that phone?
- Uh...I love you?
[whooshing]
- ¶
- Phoebe-e-e-e-e!
Oh, Phoebe, hi. What brings you by?
- 'Cause for the past 20 minutes,
you've been screaming "Phoebe-e-e!"
- Well, since you're here, do you mind cutting my nails?
They could use a trim.
- Ugh! No, I'm not touching those.
- Then I'll just do this.
- [nails screeching]
- Okay! Okay! Okay! I'll cut them.
- I just need them short enough so I can hit that button.
- PHOEBE: "Top Secret Party." Colosso, what is this?
- Don't touch it. You're not invited.
- [triumphant music plays]
- You made a "Welcome Back To Being Evil" banner for Max?
- That banner could be for anybody.
- [triumphant music plays]
- What makes you think he's gonna go back to being evil?
- Hanging with those pint-sized villains today
will remind him how much fun it was to be a bad guy.
You know, before you ruined him?
- Aren't you a pint-sized villain?
- I'm fun-sized. It's different.
The point is he'll be back to the old Max in no time.
- No way. Max gave up evil.
When Max gives something up, it's for good.
- Oh, like he gave up sweets?
Well, feast your eyes on the security monitors.
- [typing on keyboard]
- COLOSSO: This was taken this morning,
before he left for Metroburg.
- PHOEBE: What? Uh...
It can't be.
- And look what happens next.
- Oh, come-- no, Max, not the trash.
No, don't eat it.
What the-- Don't! Don't! Aww...
How am I the single one?
- Told ya.
He couldn't resist those cupcakes.
And he won't be able to resist being evil again.
- I guess I was wrong.
- Heh. Maybe you should push that button one more time.
- [foghorn blasting]
- [laughs] You were wrong.
[laughter continues]
- ¶
¶ What you see ¶
¶ Is not what you get ¶
¶ Livin' our lives with a secret ¶
¶ We fit right in ¶
¶ Bet you never guessed ¶
¶ 'Cause we're livin' our lives ¶
¶ Just like all the rest ¶
¶ A picture perfect family ¶
¶ Is what we try to be ¶
¶ Look closer, you might see ¶
¶ The crazy things we do ¶
¶ This isn't make believe ¶
¶ It's our reality ¶
¶ Just your average family ¶
¶ Trying to be normal and stay out of trouble ¶
¶ Livin' a double life ¶¶
- ¶
- MAX: Hey. - [chuckles]
Little Max Thunderman.
As I live and breathe. - MAX: [chuckles]
Officer Bosco! - BOTH: [laugh]
- Ooh, I still can't believe you're the same boy
who started the puddin' rebellion.
Uh, what was that slogan?
- "We're not puddin' up with this."
- BOTH: [laugh] - That's the one.
- Ha! - [laughs]
You'd better be careful in there.
This crop of delinquents is as bad as they come.
- Not for long.
I'm here to be a good influence on them.
Ugh.
It feels weird to say that out loud.
- The kids are right through that thundertanium door.
- [metal clanking]
- We had to upgrade the security systems
since somebody escaped three times.
- Ah...
I was so good at being bad. - [chuckles]
Well, now, nobody gets in or out without my knowing.
- [beep] - Hey, there.
- Oh! What the--
How'd you get past the security system?
- Oh, I'm the official Hero League protector.
I have access to every code in Metroburg.
It's a perk.
I also give free jelly jams.
- Ooh, I like you.
- Phoebe, what are you doing here?
- Well, President Kickbutt wanted me
to come watch you change some lives.
I don't mind. Do you? 'Cause she didn't mind.
Do you mind? - I don't mind.
- I have my talk all planned out.
And you can't be here, throwing around your pointy elbows.
- Look, don't make her leave.
She might take the jelly jams.
You want one? - PHOEBE: [laughs]
Max wouldn't eat those. He's given up sweets.
And when he gives something up, it's for good.
Right, Max?
- Back up. Why are you so close to me?
- Before you go in there,
you've gotta put on these power zappers.
No superpowers allowed in the detention center.
- Wait.
There's something very important I need to do first.
[powers whooshing] - Ow! Ow! Ow!
- [laughs] Classic Max.
- Ha ha! I knew you'd like that.
- BOSCO: [laughs]
- ¶
- President Kickbutt, our phones are missing.
- Send in the Z Force.
- The Z Force is at the center of the Earth
fighting a giant radioactive worm.
- Good! They're not busy.
- I am.
Stop calling me.
- Kids, we have your phones.
- Oh, good.
We'd better warm up our squishing fingers.
- Ow! Cramp.
- Kids, we took your phones away
because you were destroying the house.
You guys need a break from technology.
- When your mother and I were kids,
we used to play a little game called "go outside."
- Yeah.
- We play "Go Outside." It's an app.
On our phones.
- Every ten minutes, it charges both of your credit cards.
It's so fun.
- No, we actually played outside--
real games, like pick up sticks.
- Paint the sticks.
- Kick the sticks.
It was a lot of stick-based games.
- How old are you guys?
- Outside. - Mm-hmm.
- Fine. Come on, Nora.
I think the outside is that way?
- [door buzzes]
- All right...
time to meet Metroburg's worst of the worst.
This is T-Bone. He has magnet powers.
- I'm also a babe magnet.
- Child, sit down.
- This is Gale Force. She's a human wind tunnel.
- That's right. I blow a mighty wind.
- From which end?
- Wanna find out?
- This little one, they call Maisy.
And we don't talk about her power.
- Hello, Phoebe.
- How does she know my name?
- You're gonna be great. [chuckles]
You're gonna be great.
[chuckles] Release the monsters.
- [force field hums]
- Time to be an inspiration.
Sit down, delinquents!
- Where do you want me to go? - Away. You're ruining my flow.
So, you little wannabes think being bad is cool?
[scoffs]
Well, it's not!
- How would you know, buttface?
- It's "Mr. Buttface," to you.
And I used to be evil, just like you.
- You? Evil?
What's the worst thing you've ever done?
- Remember that news anchor that got punched by the kangaroo?
- Everybody knows Punchy.
- Well, I trained him. [laughs]
Yeah, they tried to turn Punchy good again,
but once you made an anchorman cry, there's no going back.
- Then you turned good. Right, Max?
- Why'd you bring your mom?
- We are twins.
- Sit down and stop riling up the juvies, Mom.
- Yeah! - Burn!
- I know where you sleep.
- The point is you are never too evil to change,
no matter what you've done.
- Well, uh, I destroyed a whole city
with a tornado made of corn--
a cornado.
- Okay.
Uh, thanks for sharing. [chuckles nervously]
You...
might be in your forever home.
What about you, T-Bone?
- I dropped a satellite on my gym teacher's car.
You tackle that, Coach Kelly!
- Please. Heh! That stuff's not that bad.
You know, I once tried to take over the world with, uh...
[chuckles] ...Dark Mayhem.
- KIDS: [gasping]
- You know Dark Mayhem? - Know him?
I was almost his plus-one at the Villain Awards.
- Okay, let's not forget to tell them about the time
you helped me take down Dark Mayhem--
'cause you're not evil anymore.
Remember that part, Max?
- Wait.
You took down Dark Mayhem, too?
- I don't wanna brag, but...
I gained his trust and stabbed him in the back.
- Wow.
Bosco, bring me a Max Thunderman sandwich!
- BOSCO: Get your own sandwich!
- ¶
- Woo!
- Aw, Hank!
The kids are having so much fun without their phones.
- Is it possible to be too good at parenting?
- BARB: [laughs]
- Oh, we should reward ourselves
with the "Cupcake Island" finale.
- Yeah. I have to see if Tristan can beat Bryce
after that gator took his baking hat.
Hank!
The TV's gone!
- What kind of filthy, no-good loser would steal our TV?
- These losers.
- What?
- We realized you guys were right.
We've all been spending too much time staring at screens.
- So we made the TVs go bye-bye.
- Um, kids, we... we appreciate the thought.
But we're about to watch our show's big finale.
- It is very important
we find out who gets off Cupcake Island.
- Maybe you could fly there-- on "Twig" Town Airlines.
- Sorry we can't "stick" around.
- You'll need these.
- Sticks?
Barb, I wanna watch
America's number-one dessert-themed reality show.
- Maybe we should take our own advice
and take a break from our devices.
- Yeah, I mean, I guess we don't need to see Bryce win.
- No, it's gonna be Tristan.
- Bryce! - Tristan!
- BOTH: We have to find the TV!
- Then I took control of Tech Rider's super cycle,
and almost drove my sister straight off a cliff!
[laughs]
Dr. Colosso and I laughed about that one for weeks.
- You used to be so awesome, Mr. Buttface.
- Yeah. Why did you turn good?
- Because I...
I don't know.
- Well, Max, you turned good because you love your family.
And deep down, he was really good the whole time.
- No, that's not it.
- Uh, I have an idea.
Why don't we write down all the things
we love about being good, huh?
Here. For instance, I love flossing twice a day
and having a brother I can totally trust.
- Wait, everyone stop.
Give me those pens.
Phoebe, I need to talk to you immediately.
- [chuckles] ¶ His mom's in trouble ¶
- Will you cut it out so I can change their stupid lives?
- I'm just trying to help you.
- They're villains. If you give them pens,
they're gonna use them to pry off their power zappers.
- I think you're overreacting.
Wait, why is one of those pens a straw?
- Because I switched it.
- [zapping]
- Now we're gonna teach you a lesson.
- [wind gust]
- MAX & PHOEBE: [thudding]
- [powers zapping]
- I think I'm gettin' through to 'em.
- ¶
- You kids are being very rude right now.
Just putting that out there.
- Shut your stupid trap.
- You guys better let us out of here or else!
- Or else what?
- Or else...
I'm gonna repeat my request to be released.
- If the Hero League ever wants to see either of you again,
they're gonna have to agree to our demands.
- What have we got so far, T-Bone?
- Uh, a picture of me in a silly hat.
Man, I miss hats.
- What was President Kickbutt
thinking, sending you down here today?
- ¶ We-e-e-e-ll... ¶
she didn't send me so much as I made the whole thing up.
- What? Then why'd you come down here?
- ¶ We-e-e-e-ll... ¶
- Just say it.
- Because this is the first time you've spent any time
with villains since you stopped being evil.
I was afraid that being around these kids
might bring out the old Max.
- So...you think I'd just go back
to be evil, just like that?
- No, I just meant-- - No, I get it.
You think I'll always be a villain.
And you're right.
- I'm sorry, what?
- People never really change.
I guess being back here with them
reminded me of who I really am.
- A stand-up guy who loves his family?
- No.
Evil. [evil chuckle]
Hey, kids! Let me help you out.
- Come on, Max, you've worked so hard
to turn your life around-- don't throw it all away.
- You know, real supervillains
would've busted outta this joint by now.
- How?
Even with our powers, we can't break that door down.
- Well, I guess you'll just have to talk to someone
who has access to every prison code in Metroburg.
- [clicks tongue]
Good thing there's no one here like that.
- President Kickbutt gave my sister all the access codes
back when she was named protector of Hiddenville.
- Then tell your mom to get your sister down here.
- I am his sister!
- Give them the code. - Never!
- I'll break her. My powers break everyone.
- [powers zapping] - PHOEBE: [giggling]
- Hyperkinetic tickle powers?
It's evil and adorable.
- [giggling]
[crying]
- HANK: [sobbing]
Our TV has to be here somewhere!
- I'm coming for ya, "Cupcake Island"!
[roars] - [couch thuds]
- Whoa, maybe we should give them back the TV.
- No. This is what we're waiting for, Billy.
They're cracking.
- Oh, kids! [laughs]
Listen, uh, your mother and I think
that we have taught you
a very valuable life lesson, right, Barb?
- Yep, yep! You guys learned.
We learned. Everybody learned.
- Here are your phones.
Now, where is our TV?
- I don't know-- the sticks are pretty fun.
- Give us back our TV!
- Oh, Chloe!
- [whooshing]
- He-he-hey!
I don't think that's our TV.
- It's all right, Hank, just take it.
- Billy, look.
They added crickets to Super Bug Blitz.
- What a time to be alive.
- [digital bugs squishing]
- Look, the kids are back to their old habits
because we couldn't give up TV.
Does this mean we're bad parents?
- No. Watch this. - [bugs continue squishing]
- Kids, go play with your phones...outside.
[chuckling]
That is called winning the game of parenting, honey.
And now to find out who won "Cupcake Island."
- BARB: Ooh...
- Tristan won it all, baby! [whooshing]
- BOTH: Chloe!
- [sobbing]
- PHOEBE: [continues giggling]
- Get her pointy elbows, where she's weak!
- Ow! [cries]
Okay, okay. The first number is 3.
Just please stop. [giggling]
- Come on. Just tell us the rest of the code.
- Max, why did you have to go back to being evil?
- Isn't it obvious?
So they'd be distracted while I do this.
[grunts] - [electrical zapping]
- [laughs]
- [powers zapping]
[powers zapping]
- [sighs]
Max, I knew you were good.
Well, now I do.
Before, I thought you were totally evil.
- Traitor! - Let's take them down!
- ¶
- All right...
we should get these power zappers on 'em before...
[giggling] ...they hurt us really bad.
- [powers zapping] - PHOEBE: What? What?
Why can't I control my hand?
- T-BONE: 'Cause there's metal in your watch.
Told you I'm a babe magnet.
[giggling]
Maisy, stop.
I'm gonna pee my pants. [giggling]
- Max, now!
- ¶
- All right, one of us just has to get to her.
- Oh, looks like we're in for some stormy weather.
- [wind gust]
- ¶
- [heavy thud]
- Max, it's up to you!
- I'm gonna need a push!
- ¶
- [sighs] Gotcha, windbag!
- That would be funny...
if I didn't just pee my pants.
- Sorry, kids.
But I told you, evil doesn't pay.
- Really?
'Cause it was kinda evil how you tricked us.
- Guys, being a superhero doesn't mean
you have to be all goody-goody like my older sister here.
- We are the same age!
- So, we can be superheroes, but still be cool like you?
- [chuckles] Exactly.
- All right. I'm in. - Me, too.
- I'll think about it.
- Hey.
I'm sorry I doubted you.
Should've trusted that you gave up being evil.
- Yeah, when Max Thunderman says
he's giving something up, it's for good.
You know about the cupcakes, don't you?
- And the garbage cupcakes. - Awww...
- [door buzzes]
- Oh, I forgot to tell you-- don't hand out any pens.
- ¶