01x17 - Pet Problems/License to Rock

[bunniefuu]

- ♪ Monster, Monster High ♪

♪ We might give you a fright ♪

- ♪ Unique as can be ♪

♪ And friends forever, literally ♪

♪ We might walk, might swim, might fly ♪

♪ Either way we gonna run the night ♪

- ♪ We're Monster, Monster High ♪

♪ Monster, Monster High ♪

♪ We might give you a fright ♪

♪ Monster, Monster High ♪

♪ Friendship never dies ♪

♪ We're Monster High ♪

♪ Monster High-igh-igh-igh ♪

[whispered] We're Monster High.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- Ready? And action.

Hey, mummy rappers.

You will not believe the day I just had.

Huh.

The lighting on that one could be more illuminating.

Hey, mummy rappers!

This big day started with a visit to my pharents.

[both gasp]

- Announcing the arrival of she,

your beloved second daughter, first of her name,

her embalmed majesty...

- It's me! [laughs]

Turn it off, scarabs. - [squeals]

[groans]

both: Cleo!

- Mummy! Baba! [laughs]

Don't you just love my new announcement system?

The whole vizier doing intros thing issolast millennia.

- We weren't expecting you.

[gasps] Is something wrong with Nefera?

- What? No, Nefera's fine.

- Thank Ra. We were worried.

We hadn't heard from her since she sent that meme

on the family text thread five minutes ago.

- [laughs] A chupacabra playing a piano.

I am dead.

Nefera is so good at memes.

- [laughs sarcastically] Hilarious.

Can we please focus

on the reason we're all here today?

- Well, we are here

because we rule the mummy kingdom

from these thrones.

What brought you here?

- I just have a small request.

- Mm. - Didn't we just give you

something?

Yes, that bracelet.

- And I love it.

It goes haunt to haute couture with ease.

But the thing is, Draculaura, Clawdeen, and Frankie

all have adorable pets, and while I love my scarabs,

bugs who obey my commands aren't exactly pets.

[scarabs whine]

Mummy, Baba, I want a pet too!

- Look, Mummy Muffin,

pets are a lot of responsibility.

You have to put its wants above your own.

- Yes, Mummy Dearest.

I know I haven't been the most responsible,

but that's ancient history.

I take care of my scarabs really well.

Isn't that right, my beetle babies?

Whoa!

[gasps, laughs]

Ignore that.

Please give me a chance.

If you give me a pet,

I'll give it everything it wants and needs.

Promise.

- Oh, yeah!

When a snack attack bites, Frankie's got the antidote.

Thanks for grabbing the grub.

- Zaps-olutely, Deuce.

Dontcha love Shocky Road ice cream?

- [chomps]

[gulps] - [gasps]

Gluttony! - I'm not Gluttony. I'm Greed.

Snakes other than Gluttony eat too, you know?

- Also, I've cut down on my sugar intake.

- Enough about you. More about me.

As you all know, I, Pride, am the most interesting snake.

[upbeat music] - Announcing the arrival

of the bright star of heaven...

[indistinct]

Cleo de Nile!

- Lenore! - Squawk nevermore.

- [scoffs] Fine.

I didn't realize you were curating such

a specific sound design for the Coffin Bean.

- [admiringly] Nevermore.

- [laughs] Thank you.

I knew I could count on you to share my love

for shiny things.

Isn't it totally gorg?

- Cleo, over here!

- Frankie, I've been looking everywhere for you.

[both laugh] - Really? Me?

- My parents just got me the most amazing,

adorable gift, and I could not wait to show you.

- Well, I don't wanna intrude.

- Deuce! Stay.

Everyone needs to see my new pet, Hissette.

- Hm.

- I picked her from the shelter

because she is just like moi.

We're twinsies.

- Aww! Love her already.

- I do dig a good serpent.

- [gasps]

- No, Hissette.

You have good taste, but that bracelet is mine.

Now show everyone how you won my heart

with your cat walk--er, uh, cat slither.

- [hisses]

[atmospheric music]

- A smize! - Nice move!

- Great job, Hissette.

- She's not so great.

She isn't even attached to anyone's head.

- Well, Envy,

if her elegant strut isn't enough to impress,

I'm sure Hissette does other tricks.

Follow the commands of your queen.

Sit.

- [hisses]

- She does not like being bossed around.

She is like you, Cleo.

- Strut? Twirl?

A smoldering gaze over your shoulder?

- Ooh, did you train her to run away?

'Cause that's what she's doing.

- Hissette, come back, sweetie-snakes.

- [laughs] She used to call me that when we were going out.

- You two used to go out?

- Mm-hmm, yeah.

We had some laughs,

but we're better as just friends.

- [grunts]

[gasps] Scarabs, get that snake!

[scarabs scream]

Hissette, give Ringo back.

Now. - [spits]

- [shivers, squeals]

- So... [laughs]

Maybe she's not as well-trained as I implied.

Probably should work on that to prove to Mummy and Baba

I can handle her.

- [gasps] Can I help train her?

Learned a bunch from working with Watzie!

- I'm no snake charmer,

but I know snakes, and I'm charming.

So count me in.

- Hissette, stop eyeing the bling and focus.

I need you to learn to listen to me

by listening to Deuce and Frankie.

- To train a pet, first you must figure out

what it likes best, then you can use that

to positively reinforce behaviors you want.

Read that in a pet-training brochure on the way over here.

So what does Hissette like best?

- I dunno.

Deuce, what are snakes into?

- My seven scaly deadlies love c*ck-chip spookies.

I bet Hissette will too. - [huffs]

- How 'bout a bug-scotti? - [huffs]

- No? Okay. A chocolate mouse?

She's not digging any of my home-baked snake treats.

- I've got an idea.

I'll be right back with this, Finnegan.

[flat guitar music]

Just need a little...

both: Aah!

- Frankie, what are you doing?

- [whines]

- My boo-ologist brain bit says

that snakes respond to sound vibrations.

All we gotta do to train Hissette

is make this axe wail like a banshee.

[heavy rock music]

♪ ♪

- [groans] Frankie, please stop.

You're giving me a splitting headache.

- And now Hissette is trained.

Ta-da! Wait, where'd she go?

- I think she must've slithered under the bed.

- No, there's a secret entrance to the catacombs under there!

[gasps] She could be anywhere by now!

[gears clinking]

- And wherever she is, we'll find her.

To the catacombs!

[curious organ music]

- Here, snaky, snaky!

[scarabs chattering]

- Any sign of her?

[groans] Poor Hissette.

It's dark down here, and that's scary.

I'm really getting worried about her.

- Maybe she's hiding up there.

[mysterious music]

Hmm, not-- aah!

Whoa! [groans]

I spy with my little, loose eye Hissette tracks.

She went that way.

♪ ♪

No, Clawdeen told me about this thing.

Any noise'll wake it, so-- - Hissette!

- [roars]

- Let me get my pet, or you'll find out

what it's like to be the salad course

at a de Nile family feast.

Meet my mummy plague!

- [roars]

[burps]

- Ah, caskets.

Aah!

- Cleo!

- [groans] - [gasps]

[inspiring music]

- Oh, glad I wore my jackleg today.

- Frankie, you saved me. Thank you.

- [laughs nervously] It was nothing.

Whoa, my cheeks must be malfunctioning.

Ha, they feel so hot. [laughs]

- [gurgles]

- Won't you come to me, Hissette?

You can sneak by that big, scary plant

a lot easier than we can.

- Mm-mm. [hisses]

- If she's not comin' to us, then we go to her.

[laughs] Hey, plant dude,

why don't you just...

freeze?

both: Deuce! - Right!

Gorgon blast first, then supercool one-liner.

I need to blast this plant into a paperweight!

But you two gotta grab Hissette and get outta here!

- [roars] - I won't be able to control

where my gaze lands, and I might hit any one of you!

- Maybe I could lasso her!

[groans]

Any other bright ideas?

- Hmm, yeah.

Like the brochure said, to get us to come to us,

we gotta give her what she likes best,

which was not Deuce's treats.

Hmm, what could she like?

- Don't look at me. I just met her!

- [roars] - But you said

you were twinsies.

- Uh, well, uh, she does love bling like me.

This bling is mine.

- Cleo, hurry, please!

- [exclaims] But if I don't have my beautiful bracelet,

what do I have?

- You got me and Hissette and Deuce!

Well, if he doesn't get eaten.

- [bellows]

- [gasps, squeals]

- Oh, she's scared.

My pet needs me.

Hissette, I want to give you what you want,

even if it means I can't have everything I want.

This is for you.

- [gasps]

- [screeches]

[lively, tense music]

- [laughs]

♪ ♪

[chatters]

Eee! - [roars]

- [laughs] Aww.

Aww, Hissy, I love you too.

- If you would please leave now...

- Come on!

♪ ♪

- Ugh, finally.

Yo, scarabs, you coming?

[yells] I've really gotta work on making that last longer.

- So Hissette was saved, and that's the story.

Come back tomorrow when I do an unboxing

of this thing Pandora sent me.

Uh, super excited about that.

I'm almost certain it will end well.

[laughs] Bye, Ra pack!

Ah, you were right all along.

It does look better on you.

Selfie!

Work that crown, tail's popped.

Now a silly one. Oh, my Ra, we look amazing!

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- [snoring] [rooster crows]

[upbeat rock music]

♪ ♪

- Where is this music coming from?

♪ ♪

- [snores]

- Wow, you can sleep through anything, Skullette.

[grunts] Whoa!

♪ ♪

Finnegan, it's the middle of the day,

and everyone's sleeping!

[howls] - Aah!

Oh, hey, Clawdeen.

I didn't wanna wake my roommate with this sweet riff,

so I came here to practice in peace.

What are you doin' up?

- This is a quiet place to practice

if your seashell headphones are plugged in.

- Oh, my bad.

Auditions for band leader of the school band are tonight,

so I gotta cram that last-minute jam.

I'm as excited as a minnow in a mosh pit.

Having my own band with all kinds of monsters in it

is why I came to Monster High.

[lively guitar music]

- If you play what's in your heart,

I'm sure you'll do great, but keep it down

when we're trying to sleep.

Your music isn't exactly a lullaby.

- I'm hearin' what you're howling, Clawdeen.

♪ ♪

[owl hoots]

- Auditions!

Can't you feel the electricity in the air?

Anyone see my keytar strap?

- Here you go, Frankie.

Nice flute, Clawd.

- This audition process is pointless.

With my talent and stage presence,

I'm gonna be the next band leader.

- Don't you have enough in your milk bowl,

being the Hissfits' band leader?

- Yes, Finnegan.

Thanks for reminding everyone that I'm the only one here

with previous band leader experience!

- Reminds me of a saying I learned

in my under-sea jam band:

"Being the leader is not about the best riff strum

"or the highest notes sung,

but bringin' the band together as one."

- Dreadful evening, students!

It's time for band leader auditions!

And the best part is,

any musician, no matter what you play,

can be our band leader!

The process is simple.

Each student will perform a song for the judge,

the one, the only...

aah!

[clanking]

- Uh! [whines]

Excuse you.

- Oh, I should've mentioned,

our judge isn't very good at greetings.

- [bellows]

- Now, whoever best soothes the kraken

with their music will become the new band leader!

- Soothe?

I've never used my music to calm down before.

It always pumps me up!

- Your music isn't exactly a lullaby.

[echoing] Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby.

- [gulps]

- All right, everyone.

You have a few minutes to prepare for your audition!

- I'd better come up with a soothing song fast,

or it's playing alone in the garbage goblin closet

forever.

[upbeat rock music]

Now this is rockin' out!

Hey, Mermom, Merdad!

Dad! Mom!- What? Finnegan?

- We can't hear ya over the rockin'.

Ya caught us in the middle of band practice.

Ooh, speakin' of, how'd the audition go?

- It hasn't started yet,

but it's gonna be brutal to the max.

I have to play something mellow,

and if there's one style of music

I don't know it's that.

- Sorry, Finny-pie, even when we rocked you to sleep,

we were rockin' out!

- We don't have any soothing songs

in our family songbook?

- How 'bout "Ode to Thrashing"?

Wait, that one's probably too thrashy.

- We're just not mellow merfolk.

- Potential band leaders, back to the Clawditorium!

- Okay, I gotta jet.

Have a fun jam sesh, merparents!

- If anyone can crack this kraken, it's you, son.

- Love you!

all: ♪ Bye-ye-ye-ye! ♪

- [roars]

- And on that note,

the audition has begun.

Clawd, you're first!

- Back in Beheme, pest control is % music.

My favorite pest-defeating tool is my flute.

Woodwinds are the most soothing of all instruments.

Now my song.

[gasps] [bright flute music]

- [growls]

- That's never happened before.

[gasps] [bright flute music]

- [growls, exclaims]

[giggles]

- The kraken loves it.

- Major applause for that groove.

My pal Clawd's got soothe moves.

- [hisses]

- Well done, Clawd.

But we'll have to wait until all the auditions are done

for the kraken's final verdict.

Frankie, you're up!

- One of my brain pieces was in a keytar player

with a license to jazz.

Let's get groovy!

[vibey keytar music]

- [mumbles]

- Do your worst, Mr. Tickles.

♪ ♪

- [giggling]

♪ ♪

- [squeals, laughs]

- [chuckles]

- I've never been more disappointed in a spider.

- [squeals] - [laughs]

- Finnegan, your turn!

- [growls]

[suspenseful music]

[upbeat rock music]

[snarls]

- Oh, wait.

Not the punk crowd.

So...

[flowing guitar music]

- [roars]

- Sorry, bro!

I mean, uh, Kraken bro.

[mellow guitar music]

- Ha, my interference isn't needed.

There's already the best type of sabotage going on,

self-sabotage.

- [growls menacingly]

[screams]

- Oh, dear.

I promised Headmistress Bloodgood

our audition would have no broken doors this year.

- Bummer.

I freaked out the kraken.

- Or maybe he ran off to buy your album.

- Or he had to toot in private.

- [growls]- [gasps]

- Or he had to wreak havoc on the school.

[distant screams]I'm beginning to like him.

- Oh, dear, the kraken wasn't supposed

to leave the Clawditorium.

We have to get him back in here.

- I think I have an idea to get that rowdy kraken back.

But I'm gonna need all your help to make it work.

- I'm with you, Finnegan. - Same.

I wanna help.

- Wait! If you're taking on a beast intent

on destroying the school and everyone in it,

you're gonna need a chaperone!

And a sax player!

- And I'll join up with you

after a wee catnap.

- [sighs] Where's that kraken? - [roars]

- Don't need my detective brain bit

to know he went that way!

- [mumbles excitedly]

- [grunts] - [bellows]

- Lagoona, wait!

We need the kraken not eaten,

or band leader auditions will be a bust!

- [growls] Fine,

though the school policy clearly states

that I can consume anything I find in my tank,

I know being band leader has been your dream

since you were a minnow, Finnegan.

- Let's go for a swim, Sally.

[triumphant music]

♪ ♪

Sally's my guitar/trite.

Now I'm ready to rock.

[dramatic rock music]

Hey, Kraken, you like bubbles?

- Yeah.

- Yo, Frankie, hit us with some keytar.

♪ ♪

- Huh?

- Clawd, get that flute ragin'.

- [chuckles]

- Go wild, Mrs. O'Shriek.

♪ ♪

- Turns out I couldn't miss the opportunity

to see you all fail.

Wait. What's happening?

- [growls]

[bellows]

- Hey, Toralei, quick, join in on this!

Wait, what instrument do you play?

Sweet, percussion's just what we need.

- Really?

Everyone always makes jokes.

- Jam with us. Now!

♪ ♪

- [laughs]

- This sounds radical!

Keep goin'!

- [cackles]

♪ ♪

- Well done, students!

Bravo! Bravo!

- Thanks, it felt so good playing together.

- [growls] [all gasp]

[snarls]

[both laugh]

- Oh, my sea shanty! [gasps]

The kraken has chosen Finnegan to be the new band leader!

[all cheer]

- Congrats!

- Guess some monsters are soothed

by sweet lullabies,

and some of us are soothed by rockin' out.

- Wait! But I didn't even get to audition yet!

- Pfft. [vocalizes]

- [gasps] Toralei did what?

- [growls]

- Toralei, sabotaging your classmates

is not band leader material, but don't worry.

We still have a special job for you!

[laughs] You've been selected

as the student who will fix the Clawditorium door!

Oh. [laughs]

Thanks again for your time, Kraken.

[giggles]

We appreciate your musical wisdom.

- [rumbles]

Oh! Baby's first audition!

Did you have fun, my sweetie sea monster?

- [laughs] - That's a baby?

- Fun. Gotta love life's surprises.

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪