02x07 - The Case of The Filchered Files

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Pelswick". Aired: October 5, 2000 – November 15, 2002.*
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Series is about the title character, who uses a wheelchair, emphasizing that he lived a normal life. It was based on the books created by John Callahan.
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02x07 - The Case of The Filchered Files

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(Honking)

Whoa!

Whoa!

Ah!



♪ Oh, Alcatraz

♪ Oh, Alcatraz

♪ The scariness is on our

diploma ♪

♪ For shepherds pie

♪ Our nose held high

♪ You can’t tell a smell by it’s

aroma ♪

♪ Oh, Alcatraz

♪ Oh, Alcatraz

♪ You make my brain get bigger

♪ I’ll stand on guard

for Alcatraz ♪

♪ My boots stick on

for winter... ♪

Who wrote this?

Thanks.

Ahem.

Is this thing on?

(Microphone screeching)

ALLYes, it’s on!

(All chattering)

I penned those new school

theme song lyrics myself.

ALLWe know!

It would have had an extra

verse, but I couldn’t think of

anything to rhyme with "smuch."

Vice Principal Zeigler, the

th anniversary?

Have we been married that

long?



Of the school.

Oh.

We’re all very proud of Alcatraz

Junior High!

Next week, your school marks

it’s th anniversary.

We will be celebrating with a

banquet for current students,

students from years gone by, and

perhaps...some invisible

students from the future.

You all have duties for the

school’s th anniversary

banquet.

Sandra and Pelswick, you’re in

charge of developing a theme.

At last, something I can,

like, artistically grapple with.

The unspoken essence of the

school.

In, like, sundry period fabrics

and motifs.

Can I be swung headfirst into

the dinner gong instead?

(Clanging)

Julie, you can help them.

Julie?!

Okay, I’m there.

Theme time.

Your place, my place?

Long nights over a candlelit

hamburger--

Quiet!

Yes, ma’am.

Ace and Goon?

You’re in charge of ticket

sales.

Marty Humlub, you can be the

official student body

representative.

(Cackling)

Student body dweeb, you mean!

You’ll be greeting our

distinguished guests.

Some athlete named "Bulldog

Benson."

(Gasping)

Bulldog Benson went to

Alcatraz?

And wimp-o Marty gets to meet

him?

And Bulldog Benson’s gonna be

there.

And Boyd will be there green and

vibrating.

Tickets are twenty bucks!

I think we should all go.

I wouldn’t pay a nickel to

see Bulldog Benson!

Oh, he’s not tough.

They had real helmets in his

day.

In my football years, we had

straw hats!

Here kitty, kitty, kitty.

Come on, kitty.

KITTY THINKINGHmmm, like

I’m gonna move faster than

this for organic, skimmed milk.

Guess what, everybody?

The university just handed me a

marvellous opportunity.

I’ve been told that henceforth,

I can expand my occupational

horizons without regard to

university limitations.

What does that mean?

They fired me!

No way!

(Sobbing)

Quentie, Quentie.

Come to mama.

Mommy!

Hard times ahead.

We’re gonna need this more than

you.

All the answers to the

spring’s semester exams were in

my office safe, but they’re

disappeared!

’Peared.

I promised Dean Chopkin our

files were secure.

If those exam answers got into

the wrong hands...

Stupid people could do well

outside of politics?

Who else has the combination

to your safe?

Absolutely nobody.

Well then, I guess you did

it.

Of course he didn’t do it,

Gram Gram.

Dad, here’s your tea.

Thanks, sweetie.

I take milk.

Not anymore you don’t.

Listen up, people!

Until our breadwinner becomes a

functioning member of society

again, we’re gonna have to

tighten our belts.

That means no luxuries or

frivolous power consumption!

GRAM GRAMSo, I guess this

would be a bad time to ask for a

new left hip, huh?

KATEBatteries cost money!

What are you doing?

You know, ever since I’ve

been standing here, not one

ocean-going vessel has crashed

into your house.

Whoa, you look like you

discovered a cure for happiness.

My dad got fired.

From his job?

No, from his hobby.

Yes, from his job!

The whole family feels so bad

for him.

Yeah, it’s awful losing your

job.

It can just freak you right out.

It can give you cold sweats,

shaky hands, jiggl-y hip, the

weight gain, googly lip.

Basically, it turns you into the

King.

Uh-hunka-hunka-yeah.

Is that some sort of bad

cartoon imitation?

Ah, thank you.

Thank you very much.

You know, you should really

take your act on the road.

Preferably a real busy one.

You’re not asleep yet?

Good.

Why good?

We have to rent out your

room.

These are the Bernsteins’.

KATEGram Gram, what are we

eating?

Garlic potato rissoles.

Oh, the potato is nature’s

little miracle.

Cheap, filling and...cheap.

I’m worried about Dad.

Don’t you guys worry about

your father.

He wouldn’t let this thing lick

him.

Has anyone seen the paper?

(Burping)

Don’t worry, Dad.

I already looked through the

business section and put the

best jobs on your plate in

order of pay scale and human

dignity.

Don’t start at the bottom, it’s

a major downer.

Thanks, but I just wanted the

comics.

I’ve been looking up the

school’s history.

Alcatraz was built on the side

of an old apiary.

There used to be a bunch of

monkeys here?

Actually, an apiary’s where

they keep bees, Goon.

Why don’t they call it like

a bee-ary?

I don’t know.

Right after the school was

built, they used the bee theme

for lots of activities.

SANDRALike, whoa!

The football team was called the

Busy Bees.

Look at those outfits!

JULIEThis would make a neat

theme for the banquet.

What do you think, Pelswick?

Huh?

Oh, sorry, guys.

I’ve sort of got other things on

my mind.

He must be sick.

He left his potato sandwich and

homemade potato juice.

Moderately good potato soup,

Gram Gram.

How’s your jobs with the

works department?

I was fired.

No problem, I’ll get another job

tomorrow.

Did Dad look for work today?

Dad didn’t look for his shoes

today.

TV ANNOUNCERUp next on TV

oldiesMatch Game .

Oooh, a speedboat.

PELSWICKHe didn’t get out

of the house?

He didn’t even get out of his

bathrobe.

That’s why I got you this.

Congratulations, you’re a paper

boy.

No way!

I’m not delivering newspapers;

-year-old girls deliver

newspapers!

Uncool -year-old girls!

I’m too hip, too happening.

Listen, Austin Powers.

You think I enjoy pretending I’m

a blind blues singer outside a

java joint?!

♪ Ain’t no jam on Mama’s jam

roll ♪

♪ No wood in Mama’s fence ♪

♪ Mama ain’t got nothin’ but the

blues and cents ♪

(Harmonica playing)

♪ But the blues and cents

(Harmonica playing)

You do what you gotta do.

At least this you can do early

in the morning when no one is

awake to see you.

I’m ready!

T-bone steak or chicken wings?

We have steak and chicken

wings?

We sure do!

Who wants the potato carved into

the shape of a steak, and who

wants the potato carved into a

chicken wing?

Oh, come on, come on.

Give papa some biggie.

Don’t make me deliver

newspapers!

What do you got for me?

"Thank you for your generous

contribution."

Oh.

RADIO DJ:Hey, hey, you

night owls!

It’s :, you better get to

bed!

(Yelling)

(Growling)

(Dogs barking)

(Crashing)

I’m pleased to announce,

we’ve agreed on a theme for our

school’s anniversary banquet.

The buzzing Bayview bees.

Stangle’s Honey is graciously

lending us some old hives for

decoration.

Sandra’s decorating the hall,

and of course, Marty is greeting

Bulldog.

Goon, you can go to Stangle’s

and pick out the hives.

If Mr. Stangle’s not there, he

says take them from the left

side of the barn.

Left?

The museum has, like,

graciously offered to lend us

the original bees mascot costume

for Marty.

Oh, they have, have they?

SANDRASo that’s, like,

everything.

Pelswick?

Paper miss--

Pelswick!

Wh-- wh-- what?

I wasn’t delivering anything, it

wasn’t me!

No papers?

Huh, papers?!

(Laughing)

I was turned down by seven

companies today.

Three of them said I was too

light for heavy work, and three

said I was too heavy for light

work.

And the other one said I wasn’t

old enough.

What job are you not old

enough for?

Cruise ship entertainment

director.

Is your father gonna eat?

KATEHe ate.

RADIO DJHey, hey,

night owls!

It’s :, bed-y bye time...

Extra, extra.

Read all about me!

Hey, check this out.

There’s an article here about

stress.

Don’t tell me about stress.

I go to school all day.

After that, I have this boring

banquet planning committee, then

I go to bed before Bobby just so

I can get up at :am to

deliver these stupid newspapers!

And if that isn’t bad enough,

I’ve had nothing to eat but

potatoes.

For the last three days!

Stress can make you

short-tempered.

It can give you zits.

(Blowing)

Don’t you love popping these?

(Sirens wailing)

Yee-haw!

Was that a hallucination?

Nah, that was her second job

this morning.

The modelling gig didn’t pan

out.

I gotta go.

You can do it, you can

do...it.

You can stay awake.

You can--

(Snoring)

Put the ladder under that

window.

(Sighing)

(Whooshing)

One of the dimwits put that

together all wrong.

Ah, maybe they had it right

after all.

What have you done to

Bayview-a-saurus?

You’re fired!

Hey, look!

There’s Pelswick.

Where?

Behind the paper guy?

Actually, Goon, he is the

paper guy.

Oh!

Hey, Pelswick!

Wake up!

Wh-- wh-- huh?

Pelswick, what’s up with the

paper boy gig?

Pelswick?

I’m sorry, but you boys have the

wrong guy.

Oh, we’re sorry we--

Goon!

Come on, Pelswick.

We know it’s you.

What’s going on?

It is Pelswick!

You gotta promise not to tell

anyone about this.

My dad got canned, and we all

took on jobs to help out.

I got stuck with the paper

route.

Man, that really bites.

Hey, Goon and I are going to

Burger Barrel for lunch.

Why don’t you come with us?

We’ll buy you a burger.

Thanks, guys!

I’d appreciate some meat that

isn’t carved out of a potato.

So, these exam answers went

missing and he was held

responsible.

That’s horrible.

Gram Gram?

What are you doing...working

here?

I lied about my cleanliness.

What’ll you have?

What do you recommend?

Anything but the food!

(Cackling)

I’ll get my coat.

The left side of the barn.

My left?

Or the barn’s left?

(Bees buzzing)

What a bizarre theft!

Unless they find it before

tonight, I guess Marty will have

to greet Mr. Benson without the

historic costume.

Pelswick, how did you get a

copy of today’s paper before you

went home?

No, that’s a stinking lie!

I was in bed all night!

What?

Actually, I ran out and

bought one.

I need to know the pollen count

everyday so I know how much to

sneeze.

No, no, no!

Not black, yellow, black,

yellow.

Yellow, black!

Yellow, black!

Great news!

You got me a different job?

No, I got you more of the

same job!

Tomorrow, you’re delivering to

the university as well.

What?!

It’s an extra ten bucks.

We could probably afford French

fries with that.

How’s it going, Dad?

(Grumbling)

You look like you could use some

vitamin C.

You want a potato carved into an

orange?

GRAM GRAMHey, hey,

night owls.

It’s Gram Gram radio, all hits,

all through the night.

With no annoying commercials,

’cause I hate ’em as much as

you do.

What-- oh-- oh-- let go of me!

What the--

(Screaming)

Young street lamps seemeth

enclosed and thus impervious to

mine lighted stick.

Number one, nobody ever

talked like that.

And number two, cities haven’t

had lamplighters for years.

That’s the stress talking.

And this is my fist talking.

(In high pitched voice:)

Hi Pelswick, you’re early this

morning.

I’ve got to do the university

from now on as well.

I can visit my dad’s old office.

Did I mention stress could

raise your blood pressure and

cholesterol?

Yeah, that’s great.

Did I mention that I’m not

interested?

Huh?

Dean Chopkin?

What are you doing here this

early?

Well, since I’ve got you here,

could I talk to you about my

dad?

I don’t know what happened to

those files, but he’s been under

a lot of pressure with exams

coming up.

As I suppose you are too.

And like a friend of mine says,

being tired and overworked can

make you do weird things!

Like sleepwalk!

You took the files from Dad’s

safe!

Dean Chopkin, wake up!

Wait, just wait one sec.

My coat is--

(Screaming)

(Screaming)

Stop!

Stop!

No, no, no!

(Repeating)

Oooh, sharp corner!

Whew.

Dean?

Uh, Dean?

Dean?

I hate to do this, but it’s for

my father’s own good.

Ow!

What am I doing here?

You were sleepwalking.

You’ve been taking all the files

you’re so worried during the

day, and hiding them at night.

My dad gets his job back,

right?

What are you looking at?

You’re a paper boy?

At your age?

Ow!

Careful you boneheads!

I may have to let your

stinger out another six inches.

(Sighing)

Thank you for getting my job

back, Pelswick.

But I’d appreciate it if you

didn’t mention to any of my

friends that--

That you sat in front of the

TV and gurgled for three days?

Nah, I won’t.

No, that you were a paper

boy.

At your age.

(All chattering)

(Microphone screeching)

Is this thing on?

ALLYes, it’s on!

Welcome to the annual

Iditarod Sled Run.

Let’s deice the dogs and get

going!

I told you, it’s not the

Iditarod Sled Run, it’s the

anniversary banquet!

I mean, the th anniversary

banquet!

Please welcome football great

and Alcatraz alumnus, Bulldog

Benson.

(Cheering)

Here to present Mr. Dog with a

very special plaque that we

bought yesterday at a flea

market, and stuck a new name on

with glue, is our student body

representative.



No, I have to give this to

Mr. Benson.

Losers can’t be schmoozers,

Marty.

I’ll take that.

(Cheering)

Gram Gram?

I booked the gig before your

dad got his job back.

You didn’t tell me he was cute!

BOYDBulldog, I’m your

biggest fan!

No, he isn’t, Bulldog.

I am!

Get out of my way, you little

hoodlum--

(Screaming)

(Bees buzzing)

(Screaming)

Huh, he must have meant my

left.

(Screaming)

Oh, the bee humanity.

(Glass breaking)

Look out, Marty!

Bees!

No way, not only do I take

his job, now Marty’s being

att*cked by bees?

(Laughing)

Huh?

They think Marty’s the queen.

Has Marty grown?

(Screaming)

It’s okay, everyone.

We’re all right.

The banquet can continue.

Start the entertainment.

♪ When I was born in Louisiana

♪ I was already years old

♪ ’Cause Mama couldn’t afford no

baby food ♪

♪ That’s what I’ve been told ♪

♪ I’m a beekeeper, baby ♪

♪ Stirring up the honey of your

love ♪

♪ I’m a beekeeper, baby ♪

♪ Stirring up the honey of your

love ♪

(Bees buzzing)

(Screaming)

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