[THUNDER RUMBLES]
LIV [AS TESS]: The night that I was hit by lightning, I don't remember much.
[THUNDER STRIKES]
I wandered away from the football game and wound up at the clock tower.
I could feel something inside me was different.
[PANTING, GRUNTING]
But what I didn't know was that everything had changed.
Everyone has secrets in high school.
Mine could destroy the world.
Or save it.
What's happening to me?
[SOBBING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
-Cut! [BELL RINGS]
That is a wrap on day one of Voltage! [LAUGHING]
We are shooting the very first episode of my new show, Voltage
and I am so excited!
Gemma, our amazing director,
knows, like, everything about every comic book ever written.
So she's basically Joey, except with social graces.
Liv!
Do you see the thought bubble over my head?
I don't, but I will trust you that it's there.
Oh, it is there, baby.
And it says that was literally
the greatest thing I have ever seen.
Oh, thank you, Gemma!
When Tess realizes she has electromagnetic powers
because she was struck by lightning,
she is both confused and overwhelmed.
You brought that to life!
[GASPS] Well, just wait until tomorrow.
I cannot wait to shoot in my new super suit.
I can't wait to see Tess,
the cheerleader slash engineering prodigy, become SkyVolt.
The reluctant superhero forced into the service of mankind.
Yeah. There really is a lot going on with this character.
I'm just a little bit nervous about playing a superhero.
Liv, look at my eyes.
Oh.
That is close. Ha!
SkyVolt is a superhero idolized by little girls everywhere,
including this little girl,
who needed the SkyVolt comics to get her through fifth grade and beyond.
I don't mean to put the pressure on you, but there's pressure and it's on you.
-Yeah, I know, and I feel that pressure. -Mmm.
And I really wanna live up to it.
I also feel my eyelashes move every time you exhale.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
♪ Better in stereo Better in stereo ♪
♪ I'm up with the sunshine Let's go ♪
♪ I lace up my high tops Oh, no ♪
♪ Slam dunk, ready or not Yeah, show me what you got ♪
♪ I'm under the spotlight Holler ♪
♪ I dare you, come on and follow You dance to your own beat ♪
♪ I'll sing the melody ♪
♪ When you say, yeah I say, no ♪
♪ When you say stop ♪
♪ All I wanna do is go, go, go ♪
♪ You, you The other half of me, me ♪
♪ The half I'll never be ♪
♪ The half that drives me crazy ♪
♪ You, you The better half of me, me ♪
♪ The half I'll always need ♪
♪ But we both know ♪
♪ We're better in stereo ♪
Yo, Liv, Liv, check it out.
I just hung your Voltage poster.
Please acknowledge my baller hanging skills,
so I can go eat breakfast like a boss.
-Well, Joey, it looks amazing. -Aw.
But I would rather...
see...
this!
Bam, champs!
Aw! Liv.
Wow, thank you so much.
I am so not used to all this attention that I'm getting as state champ.
Yeah, well, you'd better get used to it, because you're a big deal, Maddie.
I mean, they asked you to lead the homecoming parade.
I know. How cool is that?
I know I'm jealous. You get to wear a Paulie the Porcupine cabezudo.
Okay, so a cabezudo is a giant parade head.
I actually said, no, to leading homecoming at first
because I thought a cabezudo
was one of those creatures who attacks goats in Mexico.
That is a chupacabra. STYLE ::cue()
Yeah. Turns out Joey's knowledge of dumb stuff finally paid off.
Ha! Yay, I'm useful. Oh.
Hey, you are crazy good at crafts.
Any chance that you have time to help me finish this Paulie head by tonight?
I kind of need it by tomorrow morning for the parade.
Oh, I thought you would never ask!
I mean, the best part about shooting Voltage in Stevens Point
is so that we can have sister moments like this.
And brother moments too, right?
Yes, those as well. [LAUGHS]
-Gotta go to set. -Okay.
All right, Liv, show me SkyVolt.
[GASPS]
My thought bubble is speechless.
Gemma, this suit looks so awesome.
Wait until you start blasting electricity.
We put air cannons in the sleeves to give you a nice kickback.
Just a little something-something to make your powers look real.
[GASPS] Double somethings. I'm onboard.
In this scene, you're going to split the branch and free the class president,
who doesn't want your help, but needs it!
Playing a superhero is intimidating,
but you don't wanna let down the millions of little girls
waiting to see SkyVolt on TV.
-[GASPS] -Can you hear them?
"Inspire us, Liv."
[GASPS] [IN LOW-PITCHED VOICE] "Inspire us!"
Oh, little girls, I hear you.
SkyVolt's coming!
-Let me see your best lightning blast. -Okay.
Are you watching? Because it's gonna look great.
[EXHALES]
[STEAM HISSING]
Yeah. We are gonna have to work on that.
Olé, ha ha!
Oh, we got a runner! No, no.
Man.
What? Whoa, dude!
It's the gift card that we gave mom and dad for their anniversary.
For our parents' 20th,
we gave them a night at the best restaurant in Stevens Point.
BOTH: Goofy Gary's Fun Zone!
-Foosball, bowling, arcade games. -Oh.
And when you order a burger, they serve it on a souvenir Frisbee.
[SNIFFS] Ah!
It smells like bacon grease and excitement.
They never went to Goofy Gary's?
Their anniversary was, like, six months ago.
Unbelievable, ungrateful!
And a bunch of other 'un' words that I'm too livid to remember right now!
We need to teach them a lesson,
that if they won't use this, we will.
We can't do that.
No, wait, I want to do that. Please convince me that we should do that.
We take the gift card to Goofy Gary's, have the time of our lives,
then put the card back.
Those ingrates will never even know.
Question, how are we teaching them a lesson
if they don't know that we did it?
Oh, this is one of those lessons you feel without knowing.
They sting the worst.
Solid logic, bro. Let's go.
BOTH: ♪ Goofy Gary's for family fun ♪
♪ The fun time here is never done ♪
♪ A fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun ♪
♪ A fun, fun, fun, fun, fun ♪
♪ Oh, Goofy Gary's for... ♪
BOTH: [SING-SONG] Hi, Maddie.
-What are you guys up to? -Oh, well, we were--
Wait, stop.
Does this involve me at all?
-It does not. -Then I do not care.
Cool.
Um, have either of you guys heard from Liv?
Because she promised that she was gonna help me with the Paulie head,
but she's not home yet.
Oh, Joey, it sounds like there might be some hurt feelings going on.
Maybe we should set aside our plans and have a chat with Maddie.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
-Ah, never. -Uh, could you imagine though? Ha ha!
All right, Liv, blast that tree.
And action!
-Cut! [BELL RINGS]
How did that look? Am I making the air cannons work?
The cannons look great.
Yes! Okay. How's my performance?
Do I look like a superhero?
The cannons look great.
No! What am I doing wrong?
[SIGHS] Something's missing.
I-- I want my thought bubble to say, "Wow!"
Right now, it says, "Meh."
Well, I want a "wow." STYLE ::cue()
I just don't know how.
How do I wow? Tell me now.
Liv.
-Look at my eyes. -Oh, we're doing this again. Ha!
Your performance is like every superhero I've ever seen.
I want you to be the superhero I've never seen.
And what is that exactly?
I don't know. I've never seen it.
BOTH: ♪ Fun, fun, fun, fun Fun, fun, fun ♪
♪ Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun ♪
Ah! Can you believe that we only had to play 100 games of Skee-Ball
to win all of this cool stuff?
It was nice Goofy Garying with you.
Hmm. The same to you, sir. Bravo.
Hey, Munch, you forgot to return your bowling shoes.
Or did Goofy Gary's give me awesome shoes
in exchange for my student ID? Ha!
Ah, I can feel the power of hundreds of bowlers
that have worn them before me.
Yeah, that's probably a foot fungus.
Either way, I love them.
BOTH: Whoa, SkyVolt!
JOEY: That suit is so cool!
Now all you need is superhero music whenever you enter a room.
Luckily for you, I just won a musical belt buckle.
[BEEPS, PLAYS STIRRING MUSIC]
-What are you two up to? -Okay, don't tell anyone, but--
Wait! Stop. Does this involve me at all?
-It does not. -Then I don't care.
Cool.
Have you guys seen Maddie?
No. Why'd you get to wear your SkyVolt suit home?
Ah, superhero homework. [LAUGHS]
I'm just not really figuring out my character,
and I thought it would help to practice with my super-power air cannons.
[SIGHS]
Oh, no.
Maddie finished the porcupine head without me?
Uh-huh, whatever. Did you say air cannons?
"Liv, couldn't wait any longer. Had to get to bed. Maddie."
I am the worst sister ever.
[BEEPS, TROMBONE PLAYS "WAH-WAH-WAH"]
[LAUGHS] I love this belt buckle!
Okay, thanks for letting us know.
-Goofy Gary's just called. -Oh! That dump by the mall
where the boys got us a gift card for our anniversary?
Apparently, Joey left his student ID there.
Joey was at Goofy Gary's? He can't afford to go there.
Unless they used our gift card.
They stole our anniversary gift that we didn't even want.
That is lower than low.
-This calls for a hardcore punishment. -Mm-hm.
What do you think? Ooh, no screens for a month.
-Two weeks of grounding. -Hmm.
Ooh!
-Make them go for an evening walk with us? -Mmm.
No, no, I have something in mind that is worse than dinner at Goofy Gary's.
-In fairness, they do have good nachos. -Oh, Pete, barf.
[SIGHS] Ready?
Don't I look ready?
Ooh.
Hello, man.
-Take that! [STEAM HISSING]
I went to Goofy Gary's and got beat up by a superhero.
Best day ever!
[LAUGHS SILENTLY]
I am Zaydock, son of Raydock!
You'll never stop me, SkyVolt!
Please, stop me, Liv.
Eat lightning, Zaydock!
[STEAM HISSING]
BOTH: Our sister's SkyVolt! Out sister's SkyVolt!
Okay, you guys are really big fans of the comic.
Honest answer, how am I doing?
[IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE] Liv, you are doing great.
Okay, well, Joey, your voice just went up, like, six octaves.
-I can tell that you're lying. -[IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE] What? Lying?
No!
It really is super high.
Please don't sugarcoat it, because I'm working really hard.
I'm just not getting it.
Yeah, you ain't wrong, girlfriend.
You're making her too heroic. I mean, what's with the posing?
I don't know why this is so hard for me.
I have never had this much trouble figuring out a character.
Okay, well, see, in the comic books,
SkyVolt doesn't really want to be a superhero.
You know, she even tries to get rid of her powers.
Okay. So to be a superhero, STYLE ::cue()
I have to try to not be a superhero?
How do I do that?
Duh! By pretending.
Oh!
[LAUGHS] Good idea. Let me pretend
-to blast you into next week. [STEAM HISSING]
-Oh. -No!
Oh, no. This is horrible.
Maddie needs this for the homecoming parade tomorrow.
Dang it! Now mom is never gonna let us play with super powers at the house.
Liv.
It's, like, 2 in the morning. What are you--?
My cabezudo.
What happened?
Maddie, I'm so sorry.
I didn't make it home in time to help you.
And then I ruined your porcupine head.
But it's gonna be okay, because I'm just gonna stay up all night
and I'm gonna fix it.
Liv, you can't stay up all night,
because you shoot your, like, huge scene tomorrow.
[LAUGHS] Don't even talk to me about Voltage,
because it's just a mess, but this I know I can fix.
And if you don't lead in that parade tomorrow,
I am officially the worst sister ever.
How can you say that?
Liv, you moved an entire TV show to Stevens Point
just so that you could spend time with me.
Yeah, but I feel like I've already missed a major sister moment.
I know that you play a superhero on TV,
but I'm gonna let you in on a little secret.
You're actually a human.
[SIGHS] I know.
-I hate that. [BOTH LAUGH]
Well, we'll just, you know, fix this together.
We'll make this, like, a major sister moment.
I would love that.
Thank you, Maddie.
Evening, twins.
Why are you up so late?
Oh, well, I couldn't get comfortable in my bed.
Then I realized, I left my mattress in the backyard.
Good night.
[ALL CHATTERING]
[OVER MEGAPHONE] Attention, people, the floats are lined up out front.
Two minutes to parade time.
[ALL CHEERING]
Maddie's not even here.
Are we going to do this without our grand marshal?
We're here! Hi. Ooh, we're here.
MADDIE [IN COSTUME]: Bam! What? [LAUGHS]
-Thanks, Liv. -Yeah. And you know what?
Even though we only got 20 minutes of sleep,
I am so glad that we got to build this together.
Have a great parade, Maddie! [LAUGHS]
[MADDIE SNORING]
Maddie?
Maddie.
-Maddie, wake up! -I'm awake.
Oh, I'm awake. Why is it so dark?
[OVER MEGAPHONE] It's parade time, people!
[ALL CHEERING]
Porcupines, ho!
Another full house. Panda wins again.
PETE: Hey, boys! -It's mom and dad. Hide the stuff!
Oh.
-What are you boys up to? -Nothing.
-Why? -We're not guilty of anything.
Mm-mm.
Huh, Kare-bear, look.
Why, Pete, look.
It's the Goofy Gary's gift card the boys gave us for our anniversary.
We have been looking high and low for this.
BOTH: Uh-oh.
You know what? Let's all go to Goofy Gary's.
[LOUD WHISPERING] We're done for.
[WHISPERING] Just be cool and we'll get out of this.
You know that being cool is not exactly my forte.
Are you sure you wanna go to Goofy Gary's?
I mean, word on the street is that the food has gone way downhill.
I hear the wings are of the pigeon variety.
You know what? When you go to Goofy Gary's,
you're not exactly going for the food.
You're going to make a memory with your family...
that you will never forget.
It's true. Ha!
It's a magical place.
Keep it together.
-What do you say, Karen? -I say...
♪ Goofy Gary's for family fun ♪
BOTH: ♪ The fun time there is never done ♪
♪ Ah, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun ♪
♪ Ah, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun ♪
Okay. Yeah, okay. Okay, we used your gift card.
And sure, yeah, it was fun, fun, fun.
And fun, fun, fun.
But it was so wrong, wrong, wrong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. STYLE ::cue()
You two are gonna work to pay off what you spent,
and then you're gonna take us to a restaurant that we want to go to.
Ooh, can we go to Fast Al's Greasy Food Hut?
Oh, Pete, barf.
Okay, Liv, this is SkyVolt's big moment.
Ready?
Yeah.
I actually am. [LAUGHS]
I realize that the key to playing SkyVolt is understanding Tess.
You know, she's just this normal high-school girl
who's been given enormous power.
I think I was trying to make SkyVolt super human
by focusing on the super, when I should have been focusing,
you know, on the human.
That's great.
But by "ready," I meant are you zipped up in the back?
[LAUGHS] That!
Yes, I'm ready.
Just forget about all that other stuff.
Okay.
[BELL RINGS]
[CABLES WHIRRING]
Action!
[GRUNTING]
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRIRNG]
[GRUNTING]
[ALARM BEEPING]
[GRUNTING]
[PANTING]
[ALL CHEERING]
Oh, my sister is a superhero!
My sister is a superhero! [LAUGHS]
Dude, that was so awesome.
I'm so proud of you.
Liv, I had the prop department build me something.
Wow is right!
Gemma, thank you so much for letting us see a sneak peek.
-I gotta see it again! -I know.
Parker, pass the remote.
[STEAM HISSING]
I might have made myself my own air cannons.
Who wants popcorn?
[PETE LAUGHS]
ALL: Oh! [GROANS]