[calming music]
[camera flash]
[birds calling] [waves rushing]
[hopeful music]
[hopeful music continues]
[stage light switch flips]
[camera flash]
- [Bart] What if I told you that magic was real?
Would you believe me?
[bell dings]
It all started with my plan to impress Grace,
my high school crush.
- [Announcer] Chuck Powers and the Power Plants!
[siren blaring]
[lights thud] [audience cheering]
- [Crowd] Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart!
[intense rock music]
- [Bart] Little did I know that I would find
some unexpected help in a garbage can.
♪ Try to search in your mind ♪
♪ For some words that really shine ♪
♪ In your heart ♪
♪ A magic sound ♪
♪ Rhythm and rhyme can be found ♪
♪ If you find it and you like it ♪
♪ You can sing it your way ♪
♪ Every note that you wrote, you can give away ♪
♪ No time to guess ♪
♪ No need for stress ♪
♪ 'Cause today is your day ♪
♪ Sing it your way ♪
[lock clicks]
[door creaking]
[mystical music]
[meteors whoosh by]
[meteors impact]
[suspenseful music]
[suspenseful music continues]
[engines rumbling]
[flies buzzing]
This is Earth?
Hey, get me out of this can!
It says that during the Absolution Trial,
the accused genie is sealed within a containment vessel.
Yeah, well, contain this! [grunts]
Ahh!
[electricity buzzing]
- The questioned Magister may only perform magic
for their human.
Fine.
Hey, you want a free wish?
I know magic! I know magic!
- During the Absolution Trial, the questioned Magister
is invisible until the containment vessel is rubbed...
Is rubbed three times.
[Hamahan groans]
- Good morning. - Morning.
I know you're nervous. Just keep it simple.
Introduce yourself, play, and remember to bow.
It's not that kind of audition, Dad.
- Every audition, be it for the Royal Philharmonic
or for those Power Pants, has decorum.
- It's the Power Plants, and they're a high school band.
If they're worth leaving my choir for,
they had better be professional.
I'm going to be late.
[exciting rock music]
[wheels squeaking]
Please, just one teleportation spell.
No more rule breaking.
[magical music]
[garbage can rattles]
[electricity buzzing] [Hamahan whimpering]
Do you want the Sub-Regional Chancellor to banish you?
- Sub-Regional Chancellor my-
[electricity buzzing] [Hamahan whimpering]
Tell me about Earth, and people.
- What do you want to know? They ask for stuff.
I give them stuff. They ask for more, I give them more.
Then they ask for more, I give them more,
and then they got the gall to ask for more!
And then?
["Rule For Everything" by Ben & Eugene Mironer Plays]
♪ There's a rule for everything ♪
♪ More important than you think ♪
♪ Each of us should know his place ♪
♪ Or we'll end up in disgrace ♪
♪ We should all obey the law ♪
♪ 'Cause independence is a flaw ♪
♪ Follow what the charter says ♪
♪ Save yourself from all that stress ♪
♪ Yes ♪
♪ And I try to tell it to my father ♪
♪ But I don't know why I bother ♪
♪ 'Cause no matter what I say ♪
♪ Any rule, he'll disobey ♪
♪ He will find a way to stray ♪
♪ He will find a way ♪
♪ To stray ♪
[hammer thudding] [discordant rock music]
[distorted guitar soloing]
[discordant music continues]
[cool rock music]
Wow, right on, man.
They're totally going to pick you.
Yeah?
Yeah, I've been here all day.
No one was even close to your level.
[slurps drink]
- Thanks. - Yeah. Lee.
I just moved to Newhall.
Man, I'm already obsessed with the Power Plants.
I heard they were having auditions.
Just had to offer up my place, you know?
You live here?
Let me know if I can get you
a strawberry coolie or something.
[Announcer] Next up...
♪ 30 ♪
Don't worry about the blindfolds, dude!
We just didn't want to be biased.
Make it scream, man.
[electric guitar static]
[blues music]
[blues music continues]
[feedback screeching]
I think something's wrong with the sound.
Here, let me see the guitar.
[audio cable clicks in]
[rad rock music] - Nice! Dude!
Huh.
All right, don't be shy.
[blues music plays]
[feedback screeching]
[laughing]
- Better luck next time, dude. - Yeah, we'll let you know.
♪ 31 ♪
[Hamahan snoring]
Magister Hamahan.
[sinister music]
If you grant three wishes correctly
and within the bounds of the charter
before the sapping gem...
[liquid pours]
drains the last of your magic,
your negligence will be forgiven.
If, however, you fail,
your magic will be revoked,
and you will be banished forever.
[menacing boom]
[Hamahan groaning]
[meditative music]
Ohm
[bells twinkle]
Oh yeah, you should check him out.
Abdumeeni will change your life.
[trash bags rustle]
[door thuds] [ominous music]
[violin strums]
[violin Strums]
[rumbling]
[ominous music continues]
[cackling Laughter]
[boom]
[fog hissing]
[Booming Voice] - Behold the power
of the great and mighty Hamahan!
You have summoned me, and as my ward,
[normal voice] you're entitled to three wishes!
[Hamahan Laughs]
Okay, what's the first one?
No thanks, garbage genie.
You don't believe me, huh?
Well, I'll make you believe.
[magical teleportation bells]
No, don't!
No, I gotta show this guy my power.
- But follow the rules and ask, as the charter says...
Thank you, Master, for freeing me
from my containment vessel.
I shall repay you with three wishes.
Rules and regulations may apply. What is your first wish?
['Hamahan Song' by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
♪ If you have a master plan ♪
♪ Need a wish to come true ♪
♪ Then Hamahan is your best man ♪
♪ He will make it all go through ♪
♪ Just for you ♪
♪ I'm a wizard, I'm a star ♪
♪ I'm the best of them by far ♪
♪ Let me out and set me free ♪
♪ Make a wish, then two, then three ♪
♪ This is not a sham or scam ♪
♪ Go ahead and rub the can ♪
♪ Give a chance to Hamahan ♪
[tire burning rubber]
[Hamahan scatting whimsically]
[Hamahan continues scatting]
[Hamahan scatting speeds up]
[Hamahan continues scatting]
♪ I am Hamahan ♪
[bicycle rattles]
[hurried footsteps]
Nerd.
I'm sure the text covers this.
[magic whoosh]
Just 'magic read it', all right?
I'll be sapped dry before you finish it.
That's against the rules.
[as Ginnie] - That's against the rules...
- [Reporter] Scientists have still been unable to locate
the crash sites from the two meteors.
- [Announcer] Stay tuned for more classic love songs.
[old 1940s music]
It's their loss.
Huh?
I'm happy you're back at choir.
Dad?
I can't be in choir.
But you love choir.
I do.
But...
It's just not cool.
[exasperated sigh]
Do they give cool scholarships?
What if I started my own band?
- No reputable conservatory is going to accept garage music.
At least the Flower Pants win awards and press.
[paper rustles]
Band Jam is in two weeks.
[camera flash]
If you can't join them, beat them.
[punk-rock guitar]
The Power Plants have won Band Jam for two years in a row,
and Chuck Powers, he's a high school legend.
If my band won this, we'd be distinguished, right?
Do you honestly think you can train
a group of musicians in two weeks?
If not, I'll go back to choir
and never argue about it again.
I would be very impressed to see that.
Wait and see. [upbeat music]
[Backseat Driver by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
♪ It shouldn't come as such a big surprise ♪
♪ 'Cause it has been the story of my life ♪
♪ Nobody ever wanted my advice ♪
♪ Because I haven't got the nerve to drive ♪
♪ I don't want to be a backseat driver ♪
[Hamahan strains]
[trashcan rattles]
♪ I don't want to be a backseat driver ♪
[Hamahan straining]
♪ I don't want to be a backseat driver ♪
♪ Let me take the wheel, let me take control ♪
[trashcan rattles]
♪ I will not give up, I am a survivor ♪
[electric Zapping] [Hamahan yelling]
♪ And I am ready for the main role ♪
[paper rustling]
♪ I've had enough of being in the back ♪
♪ I've paid my dues, whatever the price ♪
♪ I'll memorize every turn of the track ♪
♪ This is my chance to win ♪
[abrupt record scratch]
You put this on my locker?
[grunts]
[students laughing]
♪
What is your first wish?
- A million dollars. - Yes, great wish.
The Guild recently cut processing time
on monetary wishes down to 100 years!
Please go away, I can't be seen with...
Whatever you are.
- Right, social status. Highly coveted by teenagers.
Don't worry, I'm invisible.
[footsteps]
- You're not invisible, you're just in high school.
Oh?
[magical buzzing]
[whoosh]
[grunt]
- [screams] You can run, but you can't hide!
[humming]
♪ Cool flames and a jet pack too ♪
[Tank] You're mine, Bagalszby!
♪ Upbeat Rock Music ♪
What's up?
Nothing much, man. The yoozh.
- Listen, I'm starting a band, and I need you to be in it.
- Look, being in a band is not going to impress Grace.
You're just going to be a nerd in a band.
Do you remember Charlie Poughweirs?
- Who's Charlie Poughweirs? - Watch and learn.
I went through the school's yearbooks, and I found him.
This is Charlie Poughweirs. Here, he gets a guitar.
Then he starts a band, okay?
Your point is?
The point is,
this is Chuck Powers.
The Power Plants?
Okay, I'll do it.
I'll be in your band.
I want to join!
You don't play anything, Timmy.
- I want to join! - Shh!
Allen, welcome back.
And Gertrude.
- Here. - Hello.
And Elise. - Here.
- And Ms. Julia. - Here.
Great.
[Anton sighs]
[pen scratches]
- Maybe he could be manager? - Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee!
[sultry music]
♪ Oh yeah ♪
[record scratch]
Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee!
Who the heck is that guy?
- Wow, the robo-nerd doesn't know
the Power Plants' new guitarist.
Dude, Lee rocks.
The burnouts know something I don't?
Their social branding must be justified.
- Robo-nerd talk funny.
Ha ha ha!
Sorry, Bart.
Hey, there's always college.
What's your wish, Master Bart?
To be like him?
Better than him?
[magic chimes]
[whimsical music]
[whimsical music continues]
[magical popping]
Impressive, huh?
So you're ready?
After your three wishes, we're gone forever,
so make them count.
Why are there two of you?
I'm overseeing his trial.
Now, let's make that wish!
Trial?
Magical malpractice, but it's a mistake.
A technicality, if anything.
He's much better now. Come on!
- Um. - Come on!
Do you want to be as cool as Lee or not?
[whimsical music]
[rubbing]
[Hamahan groans]
[Hamahan grunts]
[light boom]
Ahhh.
Hey, the great Hamahan was contemplating
the great beyond and that kind of thing.
What's going on?
Um.
I wish I was the most popular guy in school.
Sure you do. [chuckles] Get ready!
[magic music crescendo]
Hold on.
[magic music fizzles out]
That's an invalid wish.
To grant that, you'd have to alter the minds
of your entire school.
So?
Well, it would break dozens of rules.
So?
- Can you make another wish? Try something smaller.
You said I could be as cool as Lee.
You can, you can, you just can't...
wish for it.
[Hamahan sighs]
Look.
It's Grace. - Yeah.
All I really want is for her to like me.
[chuckles] Yeah, you got it.
Actually, that's also invalid.
- What kind of genie isn't allowed to grant wishes?
Well, that's what I said!
The Charter is a tad limiting.
Oh, The Charter. I mean, really?
- Can I at least wish Lee wasn't in my class?
Thank you! Here we go, ready?
[magic music crescendo]
[Hamahan straining]
[bubble pop]
Done.
Whew! [laughs]
Well, that used to be bigger.
Have fun at school and stuff.
One wish down, two to go.
Right, easy.
Take it easy, got it. [mystical music]
[anticlimactic music]
[discordant classical music]
Someone will come.
[walkie talkie Beeps]
Timmy.
[radio static]
Timmy!
[radio static]
Still no one.
Hey, Bagalszby!
♪ Sinister rock music ♪
- Oh god. - I got your flyer!
Tank, I'm so sorry I ran into you.
Do you need math homework?
Where's your kit?
Timmy, where's our kit?
First aid kit?
Drum kit.
Uh, we don't have one.
- You're auditioning band members and you don't... [growls]
Morons.
[wheels creaking]
Guess this'll work.
[plastic bucket bangs]
All right.
[tape clicks] [muffled rock music]
[intense rock music]
♪ There's a place that's always night ♪
♪ There's a space where you can't hide ♪
♪ There's a face that's filled with fright ♪
♪ I know this place and I know this face ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
Yeahhhhhh
[plastic and metal banging]
Cold as blood and hot as snow
Clear as mud and soft as a blow
Clear as mud and soft as a blow!
[metal ding]
[whoosh]
Wooh!
So what're we gonna call the band?
Did you see Lee do that backflip?
I can't do a backflip, and I do yoga.
Like, I heard he once saved a baby llama.
Like, that's so sweet.
Grace, it's time for your break.
Oh my god, he's just so perfect.
- Hey, store policy. - He's just so cute, like-
- Got to take it out back. - Okay.
Maggie will get mad at me!
- [Grace] Like, who saves a baby llama? Oh my god.
Oh, hey man. How's it going?
Fine.
Sorry about that audition.
Sound system's such a bummer, huh?
Yeah.
Bummer. - Yeah.
Hey, doesn't that chick Grace work here?
May I take your order, sir?
Ah, that's how it is. One...
I'll do a Happy Moose Juice.
Thanks, man.
Are you into her?
Maybe. Why, are you calling... [laughs]
Are you calling dibs, man? - What? No!
Well, sorry, buddy. I don't do dibs.
I mean, girls aren't like objects you can claim.
[whipped cream hissing]
[laughs] Calling dibs...
[whipped cream hissing]
[organ keys]
[magic whoosh]
Are you ready for your second wish?
[Bart] Maybe. [pencil scratching]
[Ginnie] Let me try.
Just be careful, okay?
[guitar strum]
Yeah, I'm going to take this.
I want to help you!
[guitar strums in the key of G]
That's pretty good. It's not bad.
♪ G ♪
- I saw you're back in choir! Why didn't you tell me?
[Bart sighs]
Bart, stop!
I didn't know.
Just make a wish, he's all better now.
He was supposed to get Lee out of class, not me.
- You wished for him to not be in your class,
so technically... So technically.
I didn't ask for a rocket ship.
I didn't wish for superpowers.
All I wanted was some help keeping Lee from Grace.
Forget it.
[bike rattle]
['Magic' By Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
♪ Be careful with everyday magic ♪
♪ You don't want to hurt anyone ♪
♪ 'Cause it can so quickly turn tragic ♪
♪ It can wound a person like a gun ♪
♪ Magic should always be kind ♪
[trashcan lid]
♪ No one left behind ♪
♪ Magic ♪
Hey! Get outta here!
♪ Magic, magic ♪
♪ Still, I may be wrong ♪
♪ And maybe only fools will not do what they want ♪
♪ Because of stupid rules, but they keep holding on ♪
♪ Still, I may be wrong ♪
♪ I may be wrong ♪
♪ Still, I may be wrong ♪
[magic twinkle]
[melancholy music continues]
[footsteps]
Mr. Bagel... sby?
- Bagalszby. - Yeah.
There was a mistake with my schedule.
No, this is correct.
But I didn't transfer. The choir?
[chuckles]
No offense, you know?
- Looks like there was an issue with your transfer credits.
Your schedule was changed,
and this was the only open elective.
I'm so sorry you're stuck in...
♪ The choir ♪
Choir? [groans] [Ginnie laughing]
[footsteps]
[ominous music]
[magic whoosh]
[ominous music continues]
[muffled band practicing]
♪ I said hey, hey ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
Okay, okay, stop.
Willis, you have to rock it out!
Rock it out?
[bottle cap opens]
This is a cello, Bart, an instrument of precision.
It's not a Fender, or a bucket.
And Deandra, I can't hear you at all.
Where are those pipes?
And Tank-[bucket clattering]
Yeah.
- Let's choose a band name. - Ooh!
Can't we learn one song first?
Deadly Rage Death!
- Insta-Glam.
How about The Lessers?
- The Lessers? No, we need a name people connect with.
Something like...
The Power Plugs.
Deadly Rage Death!
I like Deadly Rage Death.
What?!
[bucket hit]
Okay, take five.
We need to schedule more rehearsals.
Timmy, as the manager,
I need you to try to help us find some better instruments.
I don't know what to do.
[gymnasium sounds]
Okay, I know how to get us to the next level. Look at this.
[basketball slam]
You've been blasted!
[running footsteps]
You were saying?
What if you play this?
No, it won't work. Not on a cello.
- But if you had a bass, you could play it, right?
Bart, please. I'm an all state cellist.
I could make the switch in my sleep...
if I had a bass.
And if Deandra had a saxophone,
we'd hear her better, right?
Saxophone, bass?
You do realize that Tank is playing
a toolbox, a bucket, and me,
and this drum solo is very lengthy.
It'll be fine.
- I'm all willing to take one for the team and everything,
Bart, but Tank hits really hard.
You know, this back brace is expensive.
It's not a proper hi-hat.
It'll be fine, trust me.
[school bell rings]
Blasted!
[Hamahan grunting] [electricity buzzing]
He's not going to mess it up, trust me.
[trashcan rattles]
[to himself] - Wow, pretty good.
Hey, Master Bart! Good to see you, pal!
You're here for your second wish, right?
All right, what do you got for me?
Please don't screw this up, Hamahan.
Screw it up? What do you mean?
Let's hear it, come on.
- I wish for the world's greatest instruments.
All righty, you got it. Coming right up.
[magic crescendo]
[bubble pop]
♪ magical arpeggio ♪
Ahhh.
I think I did it.
He did it!
I got it. I think I did it.
[garage door creaking]
[Bart] What are these?
Instruments.
Did he get these out of a swamp?
Maybe with some polish.
[wood bending] [metal string clatter]
[Bart] Polish?
I know it doesn't seem like it,
[soft high-hat hit]
[cat meows]
but this is progress for Hamahan.
Progress?
I need this band to be great.
Everything is riding on turning
us nerds and that thug into a real band.
Real bands don't have cats that live in their kick drums.
I just don't know what to do anymore.
[mystical music]
[magic whoosh]
[poof]
[magic twinkle]
[mystical music continues]
[magic whoosh]
[poof]
[magic whoosh]
[poof]
And something just for you.
[magic twinkle]
[poof]
[mystical music continues]
♪ Heavenly music ♪
It's beautiful.
[Ginnie gasps]
Thank you.
You won't get in trouble for this, right?
No.
Yeah! [discordant music]
[Willis cheering]
Woo!
Yeah, so where'd you get all these?
- Well, my dad's part of the Music Association.
- And? - So he helped us out.
- Just gave them to you? - Mm-hm.
Huh.
[discordant music]
[chaotic drums]
[Lee singing opera in Italian]
♪ Santa Lucia ♪
[Lee continues singing in Italian]
[door creak]
[teen girls giggle]
Dude, Lee made first tenor.
- Dude, he rocks. - Yeah, he does.
- Being first tenor made me a nerd, but it makes Lee rock.
It's the 'continuum of cool'.
Lee is cool, so everything he does will be cool, even choir.
You're not cool, so nothing you do will be cool. Cool?
Cool.
Ow.
[bike clattering]
Your drummer should play slower.
- I can't tell him what to do. - Why not?
What's so different about that boy
that you can't tell him how to play?
- Why can't I tell Tank what to do? Have you seen him?
Only the most fragile plants grow thorns.
[snip, snip]
[snip]
[sighs] Fine. What do I know to a teenager?
Nothing, zilch,
nada, nix.
Um.
Yeah.
[loud drums] ♪ What's going on, where's everyone gone ♪
Okay, hold up, hold up, hold up.
The drums are...
Let's try slower.
Five, six, seven, eight.
[discordant music]
Guys!
Yeah.
Tank, let's talk. [Tank growls]
[garage door rattling]
Oh my god.
This is bad. This is really, really bad.
- Can you see? - No, I can't.
- There is a line between responsibility and stupidity,
and in that garage is the wrong side of that line.
[ominous music] [Tank growling]
You're playing too fast.
Am I?
Yes. Get serious, man.
We only have one week left.
So?
Why did you join our band?
To hit things.
Statistically, he's going to die,
so how do you think Tank's going to do it?
You're out of the band.
Big mistake.
[Tank growling]
I'm gonna give you the first shot!
No, keep it interesting! First three shots!
- You take the first shot. - What?
You heard me.
No, I gave you the first shot.
Come on, right here.
[Tank grunts]
I knew it. You're all show.
Only the most fragile-[fist thuds]
[Bart coughing]
You hit me.
You said to.
Fine, I get it!
I never wanted to be in your stupid band anyway!
[drumsticks clattering]
Yes you did.
But Tank,
now it's your band too.
You all right?
Yeah, I'll be okay.
Well, if anyone asks, I beat you bloody.
[Tank sighs] [chair creaks]
[garage door creaking]
Let's go. We got a lot to practice.
[otherworldly music]
You won't get in trouble for this, right?
No.
[cheerful music]
[coins and paper money clatter]
[Bart] Here you go.
Thanks. [school bell rings]
- [Teacher] All right, class, so as you read,
or should have read, in your reading last night,
we're learning about the mitochondria.
The mitochondria creates the energy
for the cell to function.
It's really sweet,
what you're doing for her.
Do you think someone could like me
as much as you like Grace?
Of course. You're pretty.
Strange. Pretty strange.
- You think I'm pretty? - What? No!
- Oh. - I mean...
I gotta go help my dad.
[cheerful music]
['What's Going On' by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
♪ Today I saw no one, nobody passed by ♪
♪ And when I called, no one answered the phone ♪
♪ I said hey ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ I said come on ♪
♪ I said hey ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ What's going on, man ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ What's going on, where's everyone gone ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ I took my guitar and I started to play ♪
♪ Guess it's gonna be one of those days ♪
♪ I said hey ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ I said come on ♪
♪ I said hey ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ What's going on, man ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ What's going on, where's everyone gone ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ Don't mind being on my own ♪
♪ Sometimes it's good to be alone ♪
♪ But come on ♪
♪ On the other hand ♪
♪ The day's way better with my band ♪
♪ Come on over right away ♪
♪ I don't want to wait all day, so come on ♪
♪ Don't say you can't ♪
♪ I need to be with you, my friend ♪
♪ What's going on, man ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ Badooba Badow ♪
♪ What's going on, where's everyone gone ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ What's going on, man ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
♪ What's going on, where's everyone gone ♪
♪ What's going on ♪
- Woo! Yeah! - We did it!
We are the best band ever!
Yeah! Woo!
[camera flash]
- [Bart] Finally, we sounded like a real band.
We actually had a shot at winning Band Jam.
Yeah, baby!
♪ Melancholy music ♪
Oh, come on. It's not that bad.
We're going to pass this trial soon. It'll be fine.
Then what?
I become a Magister and grant everyone else's wishes?
- Well, yeah. I mean, isn't that what you want?
- I don't have a choice anyway. It's against the rules.
- Well, you know what else is against the rules?
This!
[ominous crescendo]
Are you out of your mind?
Hi, Ginnie. I'm an octopus.
We're best friends.
- If the Sub-Regional Chancellor saw you-
Nahhh.
- [Sub-Regional Chancellor] Yes, if he saw you.
[electricity buzzing]
- Your Magical Sub-Eminence!
[garbage can clatters]
His Grand Chancellor is displeased.
What'd I do this time?
I didn't spin around three times after granting every wish?
Come on.
Ginnie, why don't you tell him?
- [Hamahan] What? What are you talking about?
You would have been banished, and Bart...
The ward needed my help.
Did you alter my magic?
Not only that, but she intervened
with an innocent boy's private affairs.
For this, she shall be banished.
[Hamahan] What?
- Unless she grants three wishes for the boy she wronged.
Lee?
I can't. Bart... Bart is on his own.
We must abide by The Charter.
[Meditative chime]
Hi.
Grace.
Hey.
- Hey, Lee. - Namaste.
Namaste.
I love your necklace.
Made it myself.
It's so cool and creative.
- You like that? - It's really earthy.
Grace.
Hey.
Did you get the tickets I left you?
Oh, that was you?
That was really sweet, Bart. Thank you.
Grace?
Yeah?
I like you.
[Lee gaffaws]
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
You know?
I should have told you earlier, I just...
Look, you're a really sweet kid,
I just don't think
me and you are spiritually compatible.
What is that supposed to mean?
- Well, for one, you're a Pisces, and I'm an Aquarius.
Just...
It's better this way, Bart.
Hey, don't be jealous, man.
It's bad for your energy.
You're an Aquarius? - Yeah.
- I'm a Gemini. - Ooh, Aquemini.
Ginnie. [ominous music]
[melancholy music]
['Jealous Me' by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
♪ You always thought I was your friend ♪
♪ I think it's time for this to end ♪
♪ And even though it makes you blue ♪
♪ It's the best for me and you ♪
♪ You shouldn't try to rock the boat ♪
♪ My status must remain afloat ♪
♪ I let you dream for far too long ♪
♪ Now you should leave, don't tag along ♪
♪ Don't offer love at any cost ♪
♪ Your fight already has been lost ♪
♪ You're not the one I love, baby ♪
♪ All you could do is jealous me ♪
♪ Don't offer love at any cost ♪
♪ Your fight already has been lost ♪
♪ You're not the one I love, baby ♪
♪ All you could do is jealous me ♪
[whispers echoing indistinctly]
[distorted echo] - [Lee] Don't be jealous.
[distorted echo] You're an Aquarius? I'm a Gemini.
[distorted echo] - [Grace] Well, for one, you're a Pisces.
Bart?
[cymbal plays]
That was your cue.
Bart, what are you...
Come on.
Bart, we only have 45 minutes left.
It's pointless. We're losers.
A band doesn't change that.
We're just losers in a band.
It's okay, guys. He doesn't mean that.
Runt!
Giant!
Robo-nerd!
Tank!
Idiot nerd.
It's what we are.
That's all they'll ever see us as!
Hey, hey! What are you doing?
I'm telling the truth.
Those are labels.
You are Bart Bagalszby.
The truth is, we can be whoever we want to be.
Can Tank be a mathlete champion, Willis?
Can Deandra be a ballerina?
Can you walk without a back brace holding you up?
That's right.
We're nerds.
We're freaks, we're losers.
And cripples.
But you know what, Bart?
We're okay with that.
Oh yeah?
- You know, Grace doesn't want to go out with you
not because you're a nerd.
Grace doesn't want to go out with you
because you're an asshole.
Shut up! Go to college already!
You'll still be a freak in a brace!
Come on, guys.
We'll rock Band Jam without him.
[footsteps]
[melancholy music continues]
[whispers echoing]
- [distorted echo] - Don't be jealous. - Yeah.
[high-hat crashes]
[electric guitar smash]
[distorted guitar echoes]
[Bart breathing heavily]
[whispers] - Asshole.
[Bart sobbing]
[magic whoosh]
Hey.
Your friends look up to you.
Grace doesn't.
- [Bart] What do you know? You're not from here.
You're not even real!
No.
[magical warping]
I'm not.
[melancholy music continues]
[melancholy music]
You were right.
I'm transferring back to choir on Monday.
You did it.
What?
Your band sounds great.
I'm very proud of you.
[melancholy music continues]
It's too late.
It doesn't matter anymore.
Give it time.
[melancholy music fades]
[picture thuds]
Bart!
[hovering]
Bart!
Bart! Master Bart!
C'mon you gotta make your final wish!
- I want a ham sandwich. Can you handle that?
I don't want to make a little wish.
I want to make a great wish. Come on, make a great wish.
Just make the sandwich!
Or does Ginnie have to help you with that, too?
- You know, I've been ruining wishes for a very long time.
A very long time.
And she never broke the rules for me,
but she broke them for you.
Now she faces what I do,
which is an eternity of darkness, silence,
and solitude.
[Hamahan flies away]
[echoing] I'm sorry, Bart!
Hamahan? [melancholy music]
["Where Did You Go? by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
Ginnie.
♪ I'm a nerd whose name is Bart ♪
♪ Not your classy type of guy ♪
♪ Well, I was worthless at the start ♪
♪ Never thought I'd climb so high ♪
♪ I never dreamt that I could fly ♪
♪ Ginnie where did you go ♪
♪ Ginnie, I've missed you so ♪
♪ What should I do ♪
♪ Ginnie, I've been so wrong ♪
♪ Ginnie, it's been so long ♪
♪ Without you ♪
[trash can lids clatter]
♪ Then one day I lost it all ♪
♪ I have only myself to blame ♪
♪ Ginnie, please return my call ♪
♪ Don't let me go insane ♪
♪ Don't let me wait in vain ♪
♪ I want to be with you again ♪
♪ Don't let me go insane ♪
♪ I want to be with you again ♪
[glass shattering]
[wheels clattering]
[car engine]
[cheerful humming]
[car engine stops]
My friend! You lost?
Just looking for someone.
Band Jam. Everyone's over there, dude.
Chuck Powers?
Hop in.
[door opens]
[door thuds]
I had a flat once. It's rough.
I had this plan.
But it didn't work out.
Dude, you just gotta roll with it, man.
Just ride the wave.
You're the exception.
Everyone's something.
I tried to do what you did.
Start a band, get out of being a nerd.
But it all fell apart.
You just gotta let it happen.
Just let go!
[cassette tape slides in]
['Just Let Go' by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
♪ Who needs a tutor ♪
♪ Your song's in me ♪
♪ Without computer, I feel so free ♪
♪ My feet in motion, chasing the beat ♪
♪ Showing my emotions to an empty street ♪
♪ The rhythm's right, the rhyme is here ♪
♪ Jamming all night is my career ♪
♪ It's no big harm to sing out loud ♪
♪ My winning charm will conquer the crowd ♪
♪ Sometimes you're bold and sometimes you're shy ♪
[frantic knocking]
♪ Sometimes you're low and sometimes you're high ♪
♪ Sometimes you lose ♪
- We need to set up, we still need to do all this stuff...
♪ Sometimes you frown ♪
- We also need a bass and I need a binder and everything,
and we also need your keyboard!
♪ It's all for show ♪
[together] ♪ Just let go ♪
♪ Just let go ♪
[crowd talking]
- What's up, Chuck? - What's up, guys?
- What's up? - Yo, what's going on?
- Give me a squeeze! - There we go.
- Yeah, big old squeeze. - Missed you guys, man.
- Missed you, man! - Chuck.
- What's up? - You got a marker?
- There you go, dude. - I'll see you guys later.
- Peace! - Who's all here?
Everyone. [boys talking over each other]
♪ rock guitar riff ♪
[audience cheering] - Come on!
Okay guys, you're on in three.
- You got the oil? - Yeah.
[crowd chatter]
- So I really get three wishes with these rules, huh?
[oil spray can]
Okay, everybody know the set list?
Dee, what's wrong?
It's a really big crowd.
Oh no. Dee, you okay?
No cold feet now. We gotta do this.
I believe in you.
Do you believe in you? You got this.
You're going to be great.
- Look who it is! You don't want to be a part of this.
You need cool band.
[shirt rustles]
Willis was right.
The band should be called The Lessers.
I'm sorry.
- [Announcer] And now, put your hands together for...
Insta-Glam!
[crowd cheers]
- Get off the stage! - Power Plants!
Get off the stage! - Power Plants, woo!
Get off, we want the Power Plants!
Come on, come on!
[over PA system] - I'm Bart Bagalszby.
I was, am,
will always be a loser.
[audience booing]
Not because I was in choir or got picked on.
I'm a loser
because I thought those things made me one.
♪ Mystical Music ♪
[magic hovering]
[trash can clatters]
Third wish!
I wish...
♪ suspenseful music ♪
I wish Willis had a better back.
[Hamahan laughs] [mystical music]
[magic crescendo]
[fluid sloshing]
♪ mystic music crescendo ♪
[magic whoosh]
[mystical music continues]
[firework booms]
[Hamahan breathing heavily]
[tense music]
[magic zapping]
Yo!
♪ Triumphant music ♪
[brace clatters]
[vertebrae popping]
[energy humming]
[bones crack]
[liquid drains]
[magic flourish]
[crowd gasping]
- [Grace] Wow, that was crazy. Did you see that?
[audience cheering]
[cheering continues]
[Bart over speaker system] - This is for all the lessers out there!
[celebratory music]
['You Can Do It All' by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
[piano keys play]
♪ When nothing goes right ♪
♪ Got another setback ♪
♪ When nothing is white ♪
♪ And everything is black ♪
♪ When you you're feeling down and lonely ♪
♪ And your life's a living hell ♪
♪ They treat you like a clown ♪
♪ And no one's there to help ♪
Two, three
[drums]
♪ Stop waiting for a miracle ♪
♪ To save you from a fall ♪
♪ Don't call for something mythical ♪
♪ When you can do it all ♪
Let's go.
♪ Wipe your tears away ♪
♪ Lift yourself from the floor ♪
♪ Today is your day ♪
♪ You're not a fool anymore ♪
♪ The world's here for the taking ♪
I wish...
♪ Time to show you're the best ♪
Break the, break the...
♪ Go ahead and try to make it ♪
♪ Spread your wings and leave the nest ♪
♪ Stop waiting for a miracle ♪
[magic whoosh]
[firework boom]
♪ To save you from a fall ♪
♪ Don't call for something mythical ♪
Yes, Master?
Your wish?
♪ When you can do it all ♪
[celebratory music continues]
Hey, loser.
Hey.
Did you get what you wished for?
♪ You can do it all ♪
Yeah.
All because of you.
♪ You can do it all ♪
♪ Stop waiting for a miracle ♪
♪ To save you from a fall ♪
♪ Don't call for something mythical ♪
♪ When you can do it all ♪
♪ You can do it all ♪
♪ When you can do it all ♪
[audience cheering]
[cheerful music]
- No! - Why not?
Because with her bubble shield,
she has three defense points.
I'll add this level four spell,
which doubles the attack on my ghost,
which I'm pretty sure means-
Every time!
- [Bart] You see, there's magic in all of us.
You just have to look for it.
Tank and Deandra started a successful rock duo.
Willis graduated from Harvard with high honors.
Timmy became a famous photographer.
And me and Ginnie,
well, I guess you could say we lived happy ever after.
Five, six, seven, eight!
[camera flash]
['Believe' by Ben & Eugene Mironer plays]
♪ You can go to bed at eight ♪
♪ You can stay up really late ♪
♪ Try to play it safe or take a chance ♪
♪ But it doesn't really matter ♪
♪ 'Cause still, your world will shatter ♪
♪ When you suddenly fall in love at first glance ♪
♪ All the magic in the world ♪
♪ Will someday get old ♪
♪ When the melody of love will play for you ♪
♪ Yesterday he was a geek ♪
♪ But today, I think he's chic ♪
♪ Now no one's gonna tell him what to do ♪
♪ College is a promised land ♪
♪ Where nerds are in command ♪
♪ A future full of happiness awaits ♪
♪ We'll have a lot of dates ♪
♪ We'll live in huge estates ♪
♪ And be famous like Zuckerberg and Gates ♪
♪ Start enjoying every day ♪
♪ 'Cause your luck is on its way ♪
♪ All you really need is hope and belief ♪
♪ Be exactly who you are ♪
♪ Be prepared to go far ♪
♪ And to always wear your heart upon your sleeve ♪
♪ I was locked up in a can ♪
♪ No one talked to Hamahan ♪
♪ My life was just one endless night ♪
♪ Since they had to lift my ban ♪
♪ I'm a wizard once again ♪
♪ I think that this millennium's all right ♪
♪ Everyone was scared of Tank ♪
♪ So I want to be quite frank ♪
♪ I never had real friends at all ♪
♪ Now we are good friends ♪
♪ This is where our old life ends ♪
♪ The problems of the past now seem so small ♪
♪ Start enjoying every day ♪
♪ 'Cause your luck is on its way ♪
♪ All you really need is hope and belief ♪
♪ Be exactly who you are ♪
♪ Be prepared to go far ♪
♪ And to always wear your heart upon your sleeve ♪
♪ Keep following your dreams ♪
♪ It's okay to be naive ♪
♪ Life's better than it seems ♪
♪ If you do believe ♪
[all laughing and cheering]
- Again, the guild is profoundly apologetic for the mishap.
We will gladly grant you a third wish.
[Lee muffled grunting]
Sing! Sing!
♪ Muaah ♪