♪ Who's gonna help when the danger overwhelms ♪
♪ And the mysteries are piled high? ♪
♪ Who's gonna be around, never gonna let you down ♪
♪ When you're on a wild ride?
♪ Your friends are always by your side ♪
♪ It's Craig of the Creek, he's gonna save the day ♪
♪ It's Craig of the Creek
So, Craig, what did you get?
Craig: "Time Will Till."
It's about a farmer who's...
old. Whoa-ho-ho!
That's a big-kid book.
I didn't pick it out. It's summer reading.
I just got assigned my teacher for fifth grade
and we have to read this over break.
Uh, what'd you expect them to assign, a comic book?
No!
That should've been considered.
[ Cellphone vibrates ]
They need me to come into work early.
Grandad, do you mind dropping me off
at Pasta La Vista on the way home?
Uh, you know what, Bernard, why don't you take the car?
Craig and I can walk home from here.
So, fifth grade.
That's a big deal.
You start taking airplanes to school instead of buses,
and they make you dissect human bodies in science class.
Pfft, no.
You don't do anything like that.
Oh. Well, what do you do?
I don't know, but it's gonna be different.
A lot different.
Whoa!
What the heck is that?!
A thingie, in a puddle!
It's a tadpole!
A mama frog probably laid her eggs here
thinking this puddle was a pond.
[ Bird squawks ]
It's an awful perilous place for this little guy.
We should get him outta here.
You got anything in that trusty purse of holding?
Yeah! This thing I got from a vending machine!
Oh, I thought that would work...
like in that show.
Maybe you should just scoop him up.
♪♪
Oh!
♪♪
Welcome to your home away from home, little tadpole.
Perfect!
He can stay in here until he's a full-grown froggy,
and then you can release him into the creek.
Fear not -- you are in good hands, tadpole --
I washed them with soap!
Kelsey: This should settle the argument once and for all --
which is faster?
Nature?
Or nitro!
Vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom!
Hi, JP, you look like
a very handsome automoboy today.
Vroom, vroom!
On your marks!
Get set! Go!
Vroom, vroom.
♪♪
[ Grunts ]
Uh, after you, Maney.
Oh, no, after you.
Oh, please, after you.
Okay, ya know what, how about we go at the same time?
That's a great idea.
So, I guess we'll call it a tie, again?
This is why we need to make them wear blinders.
Oh, hey, little tadpole, how are ya do--
Oh, my frog!
[ Beeping ]
Whoa!
It's only been a couple of weeks!
You're growing up so quickly.
Wow! Now you're a water type and a kicking type!
All: Who's that Creek Kid?!
It's Bobby!
My candy!
All right, let the mud fly!
But you can't see!
You're right, I can't see.
But I can hear!
Using the ancient technique of echolocation,
my ears will be my eyes.
I'll use sound to map my surroundings, like a bat!
Now mud me!
[ Screeching ]
It's working!
It's actually working!
Hyah! Yee-ah!
Kelsey?
Kelsey!
What if that had been us?!
Eh, Mortimor would have warned me.
Hey, big tadpole, I got you some more lettuce
and fresh water from the creek -- Ohh!
[ Water splashes ]
[ Gasps ] Arms! What?!
No way! That's crazy!
First there was nothing, then there were legs,
now there's arms!
Wow! You should put some dumbbells in there!
I bet by the time me and grandma come to visit again,
he'll be a full-grown frog,
ready to graduate to froggy fifth grade, just like you!
Oh, right.
What if he doesn't want to?
What if he's not ready?
[ Chuckles ] Don't worry, he will be.
Everything grows and everything changes.
That's how nature works.
Yah!
All right, the coast is clear.
Hey, do you guys ever think about what you'll be
like when you're older?
Well, I'll definitely be much taller,
which means I'll be able to leap farther and have a longer reach!
I hope I'm like my sister. My mom says Laura
really pulled it together after high school,
and I think I really need to pull my life together.
What do you mean?Well, like, the other day,
I fell asleep while riding my bike,
and I ran into a lamp post.
I just -- I wasn't listening to my body.
Like, I should've pulled over
and taken a nap in the driveway.
So, you know, hopefully it runs in the family,
and I'll be just like my sister.
Hmm.
There it is -- the locked filing cabinet of old!
Whoever can open its contents
will become Lord of the Office Supplies!
All right! Let's kick it!
Craig: Will I be just like my brother?
Will I be like Bernard?
So glad to be off work.
I thought we were gonna be able to close early,
but then that soccer team came in.
What kind of 7-year-olds play soccer at 9:30 at night?
Well, at least only one of them threw up.
Bernard has a job.
I'll have to get a job.
So, are we still hanging with Gibson tonight?
I don't know. He hasn't texted me back yet.
What are you gonna do at Gibson's?
I don't know, probably just drive around and talk.
Is that what I'll have to do for fun
when I'm older, just drive around and talk?
But that's so boring.
Finally, Gibson texted me.
"Where you at?" Where you at?
What do you mean, "where you at?"
I'm at home, where you at?!
Philly, getting a cheese steak?!
That's, like, three hours away!
Ugh! Gibson!
So what did Gibson say?
Oh, whoops. Sorry, Craig.
I thought you were Bernard.
[ Echoing ] Bernard, Bernard, Bernard, Bernard...
What?
Kelsey, JP, you gotta help me!
Huh? Who are you?
It's me -- Craig! I'm just in the fifth grade now!
No way! Craig is a kid,
not some decrepit, old monster!
Let's get 'em!
Wha?
Craig encountered...
Sleeve hurricane!
What can I do? What can I do?
What can I do?!
Um, I'll text Gibson!
D'uh! Gibson!
No!
Uh, Craig? Craig!
Gimme back my glasses!
All: Who's that Creek Kid?!
It's that one kid, Todd, from the Ten Speeds!
You remember him, right?!
All right, I think this should be able to transport
our little amphibian friend back to the wild.
Craig: I've got some bad news, Grandad.
We can't release the frog because...
he's disappeared.
What happened to it?
I don't know. There's lots of theories, though.
I'm going with he jumped out.
Hmm...
The lid is still on.
Oh, um, he must've put it back on
to cover his tracks... to be polite.
You know you can't lie to me, Craig.
[ Frog croaking ]
[ Gasps ]
Frog learned to -- hey, kid, no, wait!
Whoa! Ugh!
I don't want him to go!
Why not? Because he wants to stay here!
He wants to swim with Mr. Clam
and have mud fights and horse races
and he's not ready to go to fifth grade
and become Bernard!
Is that what the frog told you?
[ Croak! ]
Craig, I know change is scary,
but just because you're growing up
doesn't mean you're going to stop being you.
I mean, look at me. I don't act like Bernard.
I'm playing with frogs with my grandson,
and I'm 700 years old.
No, you're not.
I used to drive to work on a dinosaur.
Nuh-uh. Dinosaurs and people
didn't exist at the same time.
It's a fact.
Heh heh heh.
What I'm saying is, you'll always be Craig.
You'll just know more and be able to do more,
like raise a frog!
Now, what do you say we let this frog graduate
to the next grade, huh?
Craig: There you go, little buddy.
I release you!
Uh, guys, he -- he's not leaving.
Hey, it's okay.
You're not a tadpole anymore, you're a frog --
a beautiful, majestic frog.
And that's a good thing, because you can hop and swim
and do all sorts of new and exciting things
and become whatever frog you want to be.
[ Croak! ]
[ Squawk! ]
[ All gasp ]
We gotta help him!
Wait, Kelsey. He's got this!
♪♪
Nice one! Now use aqua jet!
♪♪
No, Froggy! You got one chance left!
Use tongue smash!
♪♪
Whoa.
You really grew up to be something.
[ Nasally voice ] Thank you, Father.
I will never forget you and your kindness.
May we cross paths in another lifetime.
[ Normal voice ] Fifth grade...
I wonder what that's gonna be like?
♪ When it's time to go to bed
♪ I know I don't have to feel alone ♪
♪ 'Cause I'll see you tomorrow
♪ At the creek
Just like I drew it.