[lighthearted music]
- [trilling lips to note scales]
[breathes deeply, continues trilling lips]
- Munchy, start the story! - Yeah, come on!
This is our favorite part of the holiday we made up!
- This is how I get my instrument, which is myself,
ready to read out loud.
[clears throat, trilling lips]
both: Munchy! - Okay!
[sighs] Let me set the mood.
[crackling]
- Ooh, you got a fireplace app?
- I can feel the virtual warmth.
- [clears throat]
"'Twas the night before Friendiversary,
"and near windows covered with frost,
Munchy sat reading a book like a boss."
"Each year we tell the story so we won't forget
about the special day when Lex and Presley met."
"Two friends met on playground snow--"
- Get to the part where our scarves
get tangled in the merry-go-round.
- And we become instant friends.
- Hey, I'm reading here!
- This is Zack Camacho.
Tune in to channel 44 tonight
for your "Zack Camacho Winter Weather Report."
It's not only accurate, it's Zack-urate!
- I knew I should have paid for the ad-free fireplace.
Where was I?
- You were saying that Friendiversary
celebrates the day Presley and I met.
- And now we exchange gifts,
and one year my gift was so thoughtful, it made Lex cry.
- And the next year, my gift made Presley cry even harder.
And then it became a competition...
- To see who could make the other cry more tears of joy.
- And as a trophy, the winner gets the scarves
that have been tangled together since the day we met.
- You're telling all the good parts!
I look forward all year to reading this
on Friendiversary Eve!
Now I got to skip ahead.
Gifts, cry, cry harder...
Ah! There we are.
"The end."
Now, Lex, you won the Friendiversary scarf last year,
so I will take it and put it in the Friendiversary scarf case.
It hurts, I know.
[angelic chorus sings]
Now, you will exchange gifts tomorrow
on the merry-go-round where it all began.
Then I will award the scarf to the new winner.
[angelic chorus sings]
- Sorry. I like the "ahh."
- Now, I know that Friendiversary
has become a competition,
but I don't like that one of you has to leave empty-handed.
So this year the runner-up will receive...
the Munchy Fun Pack!
Now, I won't tell you what surprises are inside,
but let's just say... there's a crazy straw.
- All right, I'm gonna go wrap the present
that's gonna make you cry.
Can't wait to win the scarf.
- More like you're gonna win the Munchy Fun Pack.
- Both good prizes!
- I love you. - Love you, too.
- Gonna destroy you. - Gonna destroy you, too.
[lighthearted music]
- Help!
Anyone who happens to be walking by, I need help!
Especially if your name is Lex, I need help!
- You okay, son? - Ahh!
Get out of here, Dad. I'm waiting for Lex.
- What do you mean? - Well...
I got my hand wet and froze it to this grill.
Now I'm waiting for Lex to rescue me,
and then if life is anything like the movies,
we'll fall in love.
- Ohh, good plan, son. There's only one problem.
Lex left 20 minutes ago.
- What? Ugh, no!
I don't know what to do, Dad.
I just can't get Lex's attention.
- Son...
I used to have girl problems, too.
When I met your mother, a lot of people said
I didn't have a shot with her...
including your mother.
- What's your point?
- My point is I'm gonna teach you
how to succeed at love
with the delicate art of vision boards.
- And what does that have to do with love?
- Everything!
You glue images of what you love to a board,
then life makes it happen.
Now, let's get some glitter and glue sticks
and start boardin'!
- Dad. [door closes]
I'm still stuck!
Dad!
[lighthearted music]
♪ ♪
- I got here as fast as I could.
What's the emergency? - Finally!
I'm wrapping my present for Presley,
and I need your finger to tie this bow.
- You couldn't ask Reggie?
Come on, man, lend her a paw!
[Reggie whimpers]
- Don't be like that.
[whispering] Reggie hates Friendiversary
because he's jealous if my bestie-ness with Presley.
- Ah.
Well, finger time.
Which one do you need? Pointer, ring, pinky?
I'm going pinky-- small but mighty.
- [normal voice] I am so gonna win that scarf this year.
[phone chimes]
- It's Presley. She needs me to come over.
It's an emergency. - Oh, wait.
Before you go, let me tell you what I got her.
You're not gonna believe this. - No, no, no, no!
You know I don't like Friendiversary gift spoilers.
- It's really good, you're gonna love it.
- Nope! La, la, la, la, la, la,
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Uh, uh...
Look! A cockroach!
Got to get to Presley's. So many Munch-mergencies!
Or should I call them E-Munch-encies?
[gasps] Hey!
A single falling snowflake.
That's good luck.
[lighthearted music]
I'm here! What's going on?
- I'm training myself so I don't cry
when I see Lex's present.
And I just chopped all these onions,
and I didn't shed a single tear.
- So what's the emergency?
- I have all these chopped onions.
Want some?
- No.
I want them all!
Hey, can I get a sip of that water, too?
- No. That's my Friendiversary gift for Lex.
- Ugh, I didn't want Friendiversary spoilers!
But now that I know, I got to say, it's the perfect gift.
Lex loves water!
- Actually, that's not water. They're friendship tears.
- What?
- See, I've been crying a little every day
thinking about what a great friend she is.
- You filled that whole jar with your tears?
- Sure did.
These tears are from when I got a bad haircut
and Lex got a matching one to cheer me up.
These tears are from when she showed up with a pizza
just because.
And these tears are from when she gave me the last slice
of the "just because" pizza.
I'm so winning the scarf this year.
- The scarf. I forgot it at Lex's house!
- What? This is an E-Munch-ency!
- I thought about this a lot, and it's Munch-mergency.
- You're right. That's better.
Now go! - Right!
[wind howling]
Ugh! I liked it better when it was just one of you,
little snowflake!
[door closes]
There might be a problem with Friendiversary.
Ah-choo!
[upbeat music]
[cell phone ringing]
- This is Presley, future Friendiversary winner.
- I'm not so sure about that.
There's a flash blizzard so we can't do our gift exchange.
- It's worse than a Munch-mergency.
It's a Munch-tastrophe!
- Come on, we are not going to let a little snow
stop Friendiversary.
[gasps]
That'll do it.
- ♪ I got, you got me ♪
♪ We got this ♪
♪ I like the odds when we're side by side ♪
♪ I like the sound of that ♪
♪ Oh, we're taking off, gonna do this right ♪
♪ I like the sound of that ♪
♪ And when things go wrong, then friends are on it ♪
♪ 'Cause I got you, got me, we got this ♪
♪ ♪
- Hello to all of you fans of weather,
and/or me, Zack Camacho.
I'm reporting live from the biggest flash blizzard
in Altoonisburg history.
Residents are strongly advised not to go outside.
Wait. I'm outside.
Oh, oh!
[wind howling]
Tell my story!
- This stupid blizzard just ate Zack Camacho!
And worse, it's ruining all of our Friendiversary plans.
We can't meet up to exchange gifts,
and I have your present all ready to go,
along with a tissue for you to cry into.
- Well, I have your present all wrapped
and, like, two tissues for you to cry into.
- Well, I have your present-- - Yeah, yeah, three tissues.
Hold on, I have a Munchy sitch happening.
What are you doing?
- It's too dangerous to go back outside,
so it looks like we're stuck here.
Luckily, I have my Munchy Survival Pack.
- Wait, is that different from the Munchy Fun Pack?
- Yes, one is fun, and one is for survival.
- How many extension cords are in there?
- 17.
I also brought my inflatable bed.
Oops. Wrong inflatable.
Well, now you have a raft.
- Okay, I'm back.
- Lex, I hate to say it, but I think we'll have to wait
to celebrate until after the blizzard.
- But it'll be the first time we don't exchange gifts
on Friendiversary since we were five!
We even did it when we both had lice.
- Yeah, you got me that cute hat I had to burn later.
Ah, but we can't go out in this blizzard!
- Yeah, better to stay home and be safe
than go out and be sorry.
Happy Friendiversary.
- Happy Friendiversary.
Sucker!
Like I'm letting a blizzard ruin my chance
to win Friendiversary.
- Don't mind us, we're gathering more supplies.
- Can we just make this vision board already?
- Not so fast, young one.
You must first open your eyes to the vision
before putting your hands to the board.
Ooh, I need this!
We've worked up a thirst gathering supplies!
- Dad, no! Those are my tears!
- [gags]
[screaming] Why?
- I've told you a million times
not to drink things you find lying around!
- Oh, I still taste tears.
- [sighs] Well, I'm off.
- Where are you going? There's a blizzard out there.
- I'm gonna fight through the snow
and surprise Lex at her house.
When she sees that I've risked my life
to give her my jar full of tears,
she's gonna cry for sure.
I'm gonna shove my friendship right in her beautiful face!
- What are you thinking?
- Dad's right. You can't go out there.
- No, I meant, what are you thinking still standing there?
Your idea's so good, you got to get to Lex's fast!
The colder you are when you get there,
the better your plan's gonna work.
[wind howling]
Push from your legs and aim with your head!
[crash]
- It's already going great!
- I'm a pretty good dad, aren't I?
[lighthearted music]
- S-s-surprise!
Happy Friendi--
Wait, where's Lex?
- Uh...
- Ah-choo!
- Okay, son.
Let me see everything you put on your vision board.
No! That's not a vision board!
You need at least three collage elements and a color pop!
- This is a waste of time.
Just because I put a picture of Lex on a board
doesn't mean the universe
is gonna make her walk through the door.
[wind howling]
- S-s-surprise!
- It worked!
- Wait, where--where's Presley?
[hair dryer whirring loudly, muffled chatter]
- And that's where Lex is.
- Start over. I didn't hear anything.
- Okay. [hair dryer whirring loudly]
Lex decided she was gonna fight through the snow--
- Without the hair dryer on!
- Lex said she was gonna fight through the snow
and surprise you at your house.
She said that when you see that she's risked her life,
you're gonna cry for sure.
- I can't believe she went to my house.
How dare she do what I did?
- I can't believe she fought through the snow
just to see me.
[crying]
- Are you crying? - No!
I got to call that thoughtful little snake.
[cell phone ringing]
Hey, Lex. I was just about to call you.
So you're at my house?
- Yeah, it's weird here.
Your brother's gluing pictures of me onto a board.
Why are we riding a horse on the moon?
- You'll see.
- So you're in my room? - Yep.
Munchy's in a raft.
[sighs] So what are we gonna do now?
- If I may interject, you guys need to stay put.
It's not safe to be out in this blizzard!
- He's right. We should stay put.
- Definitely, that's the responsible thing to do.
- You're coming here to see me, aren't you?
- Of course I am!
And you're gonna do the same thing, aren't you?
- You bet your sweet potato fries I am!
- You two are nuts!
This storm is serious, and it's getting dark,
and you guys are just gonna end up
at different houses again. - He's right.
We should meet at the playground.
- Yes! - No!
Guys, stop acting like you're tougher
than Zack Camacho-- you just aren't.
- See you at the park, Lex. [phones beep]
Give me the Friendiversary scarf.
- Fine!
But don't forget the Munchy Fun Pack for the runner-up.
- What are you gonna do while I'm gone?
- Don't worry. I've got big plans.
Hey, Reggie. Want to see something cool?
Look, I'm one of those inflatable dancing guys
outside a car dealership.
[hair dryer whirring loudly]
[lighthearted music]
- Frienda!
- Versary!
- Frienda!
- Versary!
- I can't see you, but I can hear you.
Go toward the merry-go-round!
[wind howling]
Happy Friendiversary. - Happy Friendiversary.
I was hoping when I hugged you, you'd feel warmer.
- I'm trying to be warmer. I really am.
- Let's exchange our gifts and get inside.
- Okay.
You just have to let go first.
- Oh, am I still hugging you?
I can't feel my arms.
Open mine first.
You're looking at a year's worth of--
- Friendship tears?
- Yeah. How'd you know?
- Open my gift.
[wind howling]
- Is this a jar full of your friendship tears?
- [crying] Mm-hmm.
- And that means that we both--
- [crying] Mm-hmm.
- Do you want to-- - Mm-hmm.
[both scream]
- Oh, no! Your tears!
- It's okay. I'm making more.
- I'll help you!
[both crying]
- Okay, it was freezing before,
but being wet is making it worse.
- Yeah. - Let's go.
- Okay.
- I can't get up.
- Me neither. What's happening?
- I think our friendship tears froze our pants
to the merry-go-round!
- Are you telling me we are stuck on our butts
in the middle of a blizzard?
- I think your butt already knows the answer to that.
[both screaming]
[lighthearted music]
- Okay, we can do this. - Okay.
- Three, two, one!
[both straining]
- How can we still be stuck?
The snow's letting up! - It's not the snow.
It's so cold, our tears froze us to the merry-go-round!
- Okay, new plan.
We wait for spring to thaw us out.
Bonus, we don't have to finish the paper due tomorrow.
- That's even worse! I already finished mine.
- I'm still not getting a signal.
- The blizzard must have knocked out the service.
- [sighs] This is the worst Friendiversary ever.
Even worse than when the lice came back a second time.
- We need to burn so many more hats.
- Hey, we have the Friendiversary scarf!
We can use that to keep us warm.
- Okay, let's shuffle over to it.
- Okay.
- You're going the wrong direction!
We have to work together! - Okay, okay.
- Why would you switch directions
after telling me to switch directions?
- I've never done this before!
Go counterclockwise.
- You know I don't know what that means.
- You know what? I'll just lift my legs.
You go whichever direction you want.
- Okay.
- Okay, here it comes.
Stop!
- Sorry, I was too focused on my feet.
We'll get it the next time around.
Shuffle with me!
- Okay, here it comes again! Grab it with your foot!
- Aah! - Oh!
Get it, get it!
- I got it.
Ugh, okay.
[both breathing heavily]
- Okay.
[angelic chorus sings]
[sighs] - That's better.
- At least our necks will survive.
- Wait.
Is the Munchy Fun Pack in there?
- Yeah, I brought it for the loser.
- Well, open it! Maybe he thinks a blanket is fun!
Crazy straw.
- Coupon for a free hug.
- Extension cord.
What is with him and his extension cords?
"Press in case of Munch-mergency."
This is definitely a Munch-mergency.
[booms, whistles]
[both gasp]
- What just happened? - Look up there!
It's a giant upside-down "W"!
- Or an "M."
"M" for "Munchy."
- Ohh.
[whoosh]
- Was that the--
[gasps] It was!
It's the Munch Signal!
My friends need me!
[lighthearted music]
♪ ♪
- What are you doing, Fisher?
And what are you wearing?
- It's my horse-riding outfit
because I made a vision board with Lex and I riding a horse.
But do you see Lex? Or a horse?
Or Lex on a horse? No!
Because vision boards don't work!
- Hmm...
I'm not so sure about that, son.
Let me show you my board.
- Wait, is that the two of us?
- That's right. My vision board has the two of us
making vision boards together.
And look at us.
- You mean you could wish for anything in the world
and you'd wish to spend time with me?
- [crying] Mm-hmm.
Aw. Watch the board.
Watch the board, watch the board.
[lighthearted music]
♪ ♪
- Help.
Your turn.
- Help.
Your turn.
- Help.
No one's coming. - [sighs]
I can't believe this is happening on Friendiversary.
- You know what?
Before my lips freeze shut, I want to say something.
Friendiversary should be a celebration, not a competition.
- Sounds like loser talk to me.
- I'm being serious!
You mean the absolute world to me.
- I feel the same way.
I couldn't ask for a better friend.
- Are you trying to move your hand to do a fist bump, too?
- Yep. Nothing's moving.
- [crying]
- Are you crying? - No, are you?
- [crying] It's me.
- Munchy! - How long have you been there?
- Long enough to witness the greatest moment
in Friendiversary history!
- We spilled our friendship tears,
and it froze our butts to the merry-go-round.
- I suspected something like this might happen...
which is why I came prepared!
- Is that hair dryer plugged all the way into my room?
- Yep, thanks to my 17 extension cords!
Also, funny story about these cords...
[hair dryer whirring loudly, muffled chatter]
But, yeah, that's why I settled on 17.
- Freedom! - Yes!
- Sorry I missed the gift exchange.
But who won the scarf?
- You did. - Totally.
- But I didn't get you guys a gift.
- Yes, you did!
- You got us the greatest gift of all...
the gift of not freezing to death.
[soft music]
- "And then they rushed home to avoid the frostbite.
Happy Friendiversary to all, and to all a good night."