Principal Takes a Holiday

Summary

Pod Meets World – “Principal Takes a Holiday”

Original Air Date: March 17, 2026
Hosts: Will Friedle & Sabrina Bryan
Episode Theme: A nostalgic, comedic deep-dive into the rare 1998 TV movie Principal Takes a Holiday, exploring its offbeat plot, star-studded cast, and whether it deserves a modern remake.

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Episode Overview

The hosts take listeners back to late-90s TV with a rewatch and discussion of Principal Takes a Holiday, a lesser-known ABC “Wonderful World of Disney” movie. As with all episodes of Pod Meets World, the approach is equal parts recap, friendly banter, and industry-insider commentary, filled with nostalgic tangents and behind-the-scenes musings.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Principal Takes a Holiday - An Elusive Disney Gem

• The movie aired in 1998, but due to tangled pre-2000s contracts, isn’t available on Disney+.
• It has become a VHS rarity; fans can currently find copies with varying quality on YouTube.
• Filmed in Vancouver at Point Grey High School—the real-life alma mater of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
• Hosts debate whether the plot (a senior prank gone awry and a fake principal) would work as a modern Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM):

  “...the idea of it could be really funny. And you know who would have to be the star of it? Brian Stepanek.” (Sabrina, 10:24)

2. Modern Vibe & Remake Potential

• The film gave off a darker, slightly more mature vibe than most typical '90s DCOMs.
• Sabrina suggests with “massive rewrites,” it could work for today’s Disney Channel.
• Will gets Ferris Bueller comparisons:

  “Yeah, I got a weird Ferris Bueller vibe from this one, too.” (Will, 11:50)

3. Initial Reactions—Befuddlement & Confusion

• Neither host had seen or heard of it before.

  “Never. I had never heard of this one… I feel like I lived and breathed the channel during this time.” (Sabrina, 11:58)

• Both admit they paused and watched the movie in “chunks”—never a good sign.

4. The Cast – A Mix of TV Royalty, Comedy, and Odd Cameos

• Zachery Ty Bryan (Home Improvement) as John; Kevin Nealon (of SNL, Weeds) as the drifter/“principal”; Kurt Fuller as Principal Hockenberry.
• Bill Nye the Science Guy as the science teacher:

  “He was teaching us science at the opening of the Tower of Terror.” (Will, 22:13)

• Noted cameos from Entourage’s Emmanuelle Chriqui, among others.

5. Plot Synopsis & Step-by-Step Breakdown

—See Timestamps below for major beats—

• John, a prank-prone senior, is left home alone for two weeks with one task: Don’t get in trouble or forfeit a $10,000 inheritance.
• His prank paints Principal Hockenberry red, but in trying to undo it, things spiral and leave the principal hospitalized.
• John and the new kid Peter plot to impersonate the new substitute principal (“Dr. Baxter”) to erase their demerits. They end up hiring a transient, Fitz, to play the part—with comedy and chaos ensuing.
• A dizzying number of side plots follow: love interests, a guidance counselor who thinks he’s in Hamlet, cafeteria reform, and a school-wide breakdown of discipline.

6. Social Commentary & Humorous Tangents

• The hosts repeatedly lampoon the logic of the plot—like hiring a stranger off the street as principal, the hasty credentialing process, and the bizarre reaction to school pranks:

  “That guy could have been on the run, could have been not allowed within 500 yards of kids…” (Will, 29:44)

• They touch on how some jokes and plotlines would feel out of place (or inappropriate) in a modern school setting (“pre-Columbine,” 35:54).

7. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On the script’s logic:

  “Filled with kind of good beats and then non sequiturs and then stories that didn’t make a whole lot of sense.” (Will, 45:31)

• On watching experience:

  “I just feel like we watched a movie that was just ... weird. Like, all over the place.” (Sabrina, 84:28)

• On casting:

  “Don’t try to push me into films, Sabrina. Don’t try to do it.” (Will, 11:11)

8. Behind-the-Scenes, Trivia & Nostalgic Side Notes

• The director, Robert King, later created The Good Wife and Evil; writing credits tie to Disney and Home Improvement.
• Sabrina was once an extra on Bill Nye the Science Guy (21:41).
• Long tangents about VHS tapes, period commercials, and the joys of the overhead projector.

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Notable Quotes

• On recreating the movie today:
  Sabrina (10:15): “He’d have to be the principal. Oh, wait, you’re talking about Brian Stepanek… He would be hilarious in this role!”
• On the movie’s weird structure:
  Will (45:31): “Filled with kind of good beats and then non sequiturs and then stories that didn’t make a whole lot of sense.”
• On Bill Nye the Science Guy:
  Will (22:13): “He was teaching us science at the opening of the Tower of Terror.”

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Major Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 08:15 | Movie intro, synopsis, and rarity discussion | | 09:45 | Remake potential & casting games | | 14:10-16:40 | Hosts’ initial thoughts: confusion, lack of narrative throughline | | 18:04-21:30 | Cast breakdown and actor anecdotes | | 29:21-45:41 | Comprehensive scene-by-scene plot rundown—bizarre twists, pranks, and critique | | 53:17 | Overhead projectors & classroom nostalgia | | 62:28 | The slap/kiss dilemma; school “credentials” drama | | 64:54 | The (lack of) consequences and “resolution” | | 75:03–78:07 | Game segment: “Preach to Teach” – Which celebrities worked as teachers? | | 78:22–83:01 | “Sabrina Sees”—random oddities, nostalgia, and observations | | 83:03–85:52 | 1-to-10 “Principal Hickenpooper Pickles” rating for the movie | | 85:53 | Tease for next week’s episode: Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board |

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Overall Critical Consensus

• Unanimous verdict: The movie is a curious time capsule—ambitious in casting and ideas but a narrative mess.
• Rating: Both Will and Sabrina give it 5 out of 10 “Principal Hickenpooper Pickles”.

  “I don't know how else to score this thing. This might have been a two. This might have been an eight. I'm giving it a five. I don't know.” (Will, 85:20)

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Final Thoughts

Principal Takes a Holiday is a strange relic—occasionally funny, buoyed by a game cast, but ultimately incoherent. The hosts’ run through captures the nostalgia of vintage ‘90s TV as well as the whiplash confusion of watching an almost-lost movie. While it’s not a must-see, it’s a fun curio for Disney and TGIF fans, and the episode is a great listen for lovers of pop culture tangents and banter.

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For Next Week

Next Episode: “Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board”

• The hosts will rewatch the sequel to the DCOM classic Johnny Tsunami.

  “I haven’t either. It is currently on Disney. So feel free to start without us and get a leg up…” (Will, 86:15)

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Transcript

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Sabrina Bryan]

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[Will Friedle]

Hey, Sabrina. Hi. So how did your team do?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Well, we killed it.

[Will Friedle]

Did you win?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Well, so brand new category this year that we entered is a game day spirit program. So we actually combine with our cheer team and do a big like, with flags and signs and a whole thing. You do your fight song, you do a chant, you do a timeout pattern. First time this division has ever happened. First time us coaches have ever choreographed, cleaned, known anything about this division. And we took home second in the nation, which was huge. You're going against teams that they either had a lot of experience with their cheer team doing game day or their song team doing game day. We had neither and we did very well. And then my palm girls, we had a little bit of a slip up. And these divisions are so, so competitive, like so competitive. And we had a little slip up on second, the second day because we compete three different days and you try to make it to the next round. So they, they chop the rounds in half and half and half. And the second day we had some major mistakes in the palm routine. So it dropped us down to entering. We kind of got into finals by the skin of our teeth in eighth place and we stuck. We stayed there. But the biggest thing with my palm routine is for my seniors. I've got eight seniors. They came off the floor Just defeated. Could not believe that the. The things that happened, happened. And so I was happy that they made it to finals. And I was like, all I care about right now. I don't care if you guys bump up. I just want you to come off the floor proud of what you did. Feeling like that is how. Because that's how you practice. That's how you do it. The way they did it on the second day just wasn't. It didn't represent the rest of the season that they've had. You know, they've had such a great season. They've done so well. They've been killing it in classes and practices. And it was a. That was the bummer to me is them walking off and not being proud of their routine.

[Will Friedle]

Hey, everybody has a bad day. I don't care who you are. Everybody has a bad day.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So them getting a chance to make it to finals, and they came off the floor so happy with what they did. But when I tell you it lit a fire under my girls butts for Jazz, and we ended up in third in the nation after finals. It was a routine that had people in tears. There was a routine that made people set alarms to be in the big field house for our performance because their routine just. They just are so gorgeous doing this routine. And wow, they really made a name for themselves. So I am like beyond proud and it was exciting. Monroe and Jordan were there this year. They don't get to come every year. And then we got to do two days at Disney World. And I am still in the Disney. Look at my sweater.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, geez.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Still in the Disney spirit. I can't help it. Seven days in Florida is not enough for me. I am just so Disney nice. And it was like exhausting. And it's an up and down roller coaster every year, but coming out on top this year was just. It makes cool.

[Will Friedle]

The day two with the. With the mess up day. Was it one person or was it like a bunch? No. Okay, that's good.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The disappointment that you have isn't mad at them. It's like, I'm sad for you guys because, sure, you could have done so much better, you know, but you finished

[Will Friedle]

second in the big one, the big.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The big unified routine. We got second. And it was overall a great trip. And my girls made me so proud. Like, we walked away from that competition knowing we laid everything out on the floor and, you know, now everyone's like, just hungry to get back there for next year, so.

[Will Friedle]

Well, that's good. Well, congratulations.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Thank you.

[Will Friedle]

I coached the team that came in

[Sabrina Bryan]

first, I. I knew that was you.

[Will Friedle]

That was me. And my girls killed it. But, hey, seconds. Great, too.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Congratulations.

[Will Friedle]

Second in the country is pretty damn impressive.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It is the hardest and most competitive competition there is out there for you.

[Will Friedle]

We were rooting for you. And second is nothing to sneeze at. That's.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Thank you. We'll be back. We'll be back to claim that top place next year.

[Will Friedle]

Well, we're back, and you're all back with us. So welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your PJs, and your popcorn and go back to a time when all the houses were smart, the wave tsunamis, and the high school's musical. I'm Will Friedle.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And I'm Sabrina Bryan.

[Will Friedle]

And speaking of high schools and competitions, well, we're back in high school, but this one ain't no musical. We're pulling off a senior prank gone wrong and leaving a path of destruction. Because it's time to recap the 1998 Wonderful World of Disney comedy, Principal Takes a holiday, released on January 4, 1998. Like all ABC network releases we review, this one has a very recognizable cast. But it's hard to find this movie these days. You might remember Wonderful World installments have not made their way to Disney because of tangled contracts pre 2000, which is a real bummer because that means one day these movies could just disappear forever. But we here at Magical Rewind are making sure someone is chronicling their existence while they can. That's us. Yes. We're taking one for the team. Or are we not? Maybe this movie was amazing. We'll get into it. Another commonality. It was filmed in Vancouver, this time at a high school named Point Grey, which is now infamous as the school where Seth Rogen and his best friend, Evan Goldberg. Goldberg wrote the first version of Superbad as students, a story that is loosely based on their own senior year there. That's why their production company is now called Point Gray. Now, it might be a little hard to find on the Internet, but Principal Takes a Holiday did get a VHS release two years after its premiere, which has become a rare item on ebay and at weird garage sales. So maybe you can watch it if you have a working VCR and you manage to find a copy. Okay, Sabrina, without giving too much away about your opinion of this movie, does it feel like a little more modern and darker than some of the dcoms we watch? Like, did you think that this movie could possibly get a 2026 remake actually, yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, I. I do think that there a way now that they're, you know, back then, you know, what was like a dcom. Right. And now that they've got such a great formula, they could take this, preface this storyline, do a couple of rewrites here and there, explain a few things here and there. And this movie, the idea of it could be really funny. And you know who would have to

[Will Friedle]

be the star nowadays? Who would it be?

[Sabrina Bryan]

We've had him on the pod. He is our amazing host of the games. I mean, he'd have to be the star of it. He'd have to be the principal.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, he'd be the principal. Oh, okay. Oh, wait, you're talking about Brian Stepanik. Yeah, you're talking about Brian Stepanek. Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Brian Stepanek would have to be this character who would be hilarious in so much. Take the character exactly where it needs to go, which is even farther.

[Will Friedle]

And now, see, I'm thinking I'm gonna. I'm gonna recast you. I think he should play the brother who comes in as the.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, the. The therapist.

[Will Friedle]

Therapist. Yeah.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

And I should play the principal. See, just like Disney, you weren't going to cast me either. Thanks a lot.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Sabrina told me you. I have sat in a room with Kenny Ortega and you told me you were done. You are not wanting to act anymore, so I'm trying to make. Make you feel bad and don't. You don't want to take.

[Will Friedle]

Don't try to push me into films, Serena. Don't try to do it. Yeah, no, I agree.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You guys would be a fun casting cast together. Oh, my gosh. That would be.

[Will Friedle]

I agree.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I would just want to be, at

[Will Friedle]

least on set, the possible retake of this film. And I also agree about the massive rewrites that would happen.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. But I think that in general, this idea is kind of like Ferris Bueller's day off kind of that idea of like, I mean, you could go so much farther with the pranks and the certain things that I think Disney Channel now really knows how to, like, kind of take it far. And I think that it would be really funny and they'd have such a great cast. There's so many great, talented kids on this show on the channel right now.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I got a weird Ferris Bueller vibe from this one, too. Anyway, as we ask every week, did you know anything about Principal Takes a Holiday before this?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Never. I had never heard of this one. And it's. It always shocks me. I don't know why, because I Feel like I lived and breathed the channel during this time.

[Will Friedle]

But again, this was not on the channel. This was a wonderful world of Disney. So this was abc.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I mean, those are the two, like, networks that I was allowed to watch. I don't think I watched really anything else. So something getting past me. Like, this feels very strange.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, well, you can create your own opinion because even though it's an elusive, wonderful World of Disney entry, the movie is currently available to watch on the YouTubes. So it's not the best quality, but it's actually not awful. It's not like, you know, somebody pointed a video camera, an old VHS camera at their tv. It's not a bad rip. All you have to do is search for principal takes a holiday and go to town. And I mean that literally. I want you to drive into a town, stop at the closest metropolitan area, and then. And just bask in all the commerce, and then pick up some milk, drop off some outgoing mail, and support the mom and pop hardware store on Haskell Drive. Then watch the mar movie whenever you want to.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I will say, did you do the one? I did the one that stopped, like, 10 minutes before the movie was done. It just, like, stopped. It just went. And I was like, wait a minute. I know I've been confused for several moments of this movie, but, like, that cannot be the end. I'll. When we get there in the. In the story bar, I'll tell you. And then the movie cut off.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, yeah, No, I saw the whole thing, luckily.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But the sec. The one that says full, so you guys gotta look for the full. Full movie actually is not as good quality. So I'm glad I watched the other one because it was better quality. And then I just watched the last, like, 10 minutes of, like, the one

[Will Friedle]

I saw was pretty good quality. And. And the whole movie. And I wanted to watch the one with all the commercials because I love that. But it was. The quality was so bad that I was like, I can't sit through this. Yeah, But I love the period commercials are so fun.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes, The Pepsi. There's a Pepsi commercial with Star wars at the end of one of them. For me, it was cool. It was fun to watch.

[Will Friedle]

That's what I mean. Yeah, I want to do that. And now let's erase those demerits and abolish detention. It's time for the synopsis. A rowdy senior jeopardizes his $10,000 graduation gift when he's caught mid senior prank by the principal. When a freak accident takes the principal out of commission. The students recruit a drifter in order to wipe his record clean. All right, early thoughts. What did you think? A principal takes a holiday.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You know me, and I feel like I'm starting to sound like a grandma now. But truly, I love the messaging. And when it came down to it, like, the biggest reason and why people were doing a lot of the stuff was to get. Just to get the girl. Like, and I don't know why that's. Movie. Like, not.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But this. That kind of became second nature. It was really about getting the, like, you know, punky girl and then the. The teacher. And I was just kind of like, where is. What message are we trying to give to these kids on this movie? And it did. Like, there was a message besides just, like, getting away with a big lie. And I kind of didn't love that. So that's kind of my. Just general. But in all honesty, the confusion I had. I don't even know what I would rate this. I'm so confused. I'm hoping today, going through it scene by scene basically is going to help me. Help me, Will help me.

[Will Friedle]

I can't, because that's what. I was coming here. I was coming here. So you can help me. Thank you. I have. That was my answer. I have no idea how I feel about this movie. Movie. Maybe this is the. A very good, Wonderful World of Disney. Maybe this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I truly don't know. There's some super weirdness in this movie. It's also never a good sign. I know you and I have talked about this where I had to watch it in chunks.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yep.

[Will Friedle]

I kept pausing it and looking at my phone and pausing it and leaving the room. And so that's not a good sign. Even something that, you know, wasn't my favorite movie of all time. But the cast was so good. Something like the Princess Protection Program. I didn't have to pause that. I didn't have to walk away. I sat and I watched a movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

This. This was so. I do not. And then there's a couple performances in this movie that are great, that are so good and so funny that it's like, wow, that guy was awesome. Or this was really good. So I have no idea what to

[Sabrina Bryan]

think about this script, though. There's just so many things that were like, why. Why was that even necessary? In all honesty? Like, the whole kid that goes to Stanford and. And also the girl that ends up getting. I don't even think that character was, like, necessarily needed in the movie.

[Will Friedle]

It could have just no other friends.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The guy from Home Improvement. It could have just been that guy.

[Will Friedle]

This was so. We'll get into it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He had a best friend too. Where did he go?

[Wilmer Valderrama]

I don't know.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Even in the movie, except for the very beginning, it was so weird.

[Will Friedle]

So weird.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was hard. It was. It was kind of like agreed. And then like I said, when the movie just cut off, I was kind of like, okay, I don't know, maybe that was it.

[Will Friedle]

That's par for the course. Understand that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I guess that was the end.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. I don't know. Yeah. Well, the movie was directed by Robert King, now a heavyweight Emmy nominated creator of the Good Wife. And it spin off the awful Wife. I'm kidding. That would have been great. The Good Fight. Alongside his real wife Michelle. The power couple also created a handful of other shows. Evil Lizbeth and the new Cupertino starring Ben Stiller's daughter. Principal Takes a Holiday was his first time behind the camera. So humble beginnings made for a big TV power player later. And like I mentioned, this is a big primetime ABC cast. Let's start with Zachary Ty Bryan as John Scaduto. Ty Bryan was one of the biggest young TV stars at the time, playing Brad on the once number one show in America, Home Improvement. He'd later appear in the movies First Kid, Magic island and Fast and the Tokyo Drift. But unfortunately nowadays he's just kind of, you know, kind of seen in news reports. It's been a troubled life and it's a real bummer. I just remember him as a kid. We had gym class every day. He was very nice back in the day. Haven't seen him in 30 years, but really a shame. And then a favorite of mine, the incredibly talented Kevin Nealon. Awesome. Plays Franklin Fitz, a star from Saturday Night live. In the 80s and the 90s, Nealon has become a character actor favorite. Seen in movies like Happy Gilmore, Coneheads and the Wedding Singer. And he's probably best known as one of the stars of Weeds, but has also appeared on shows like Dharma and Greg, Man With a Plan and third Rock from the Sun. Were you excited to see Kevin Yellen?

[Sabrina Bryan]

As soon as he came on, I was like. And also, you know, again, we know for a long time getting like a heavy hitter for Disney was like big because there was a little bit of astigmatism for adult actors to be a part of Disney, you know, movies and things like that, like channel stuff or ABC stuff. So I was really excited, feeling like, oh, this was a great get for Disney. I'M like, like stoked to watch this.

[Will Friedle]

It was so cool. And he was the best. And then, of course, we had, well, new addition to the school who instantly becomes his best friend. Even though he screws him over in the first 30 seconds, he's there. And then he has no other friends at all. Of course, I'm talking about Rashawn and Nal. He played Peter Heath. He's known for starring in shows like Sister, Sister, One on One Cuts, the Bernie Mac show, and many, many more. His character was very strange. He was great character, was very weird. Now we have Kurt Fuller is Principal Frank Hockenberry, who. It's just a fun name to say. Fuller is another amazing character actor, best known from some real classics like Ghostbusters 2, Wayne's World, the Running Man, Scary Movie and Midnight in Paris. I mean, just those movies alone. Amazing. He and the director Robert King seem to work together a lot. He appeared on the Good Wife, Evil and the Good Fight. Then we've got Jessica Steen. She plays Celia Shine, a Canadian local hire. Steen has appeared in the movie armageddon and on TV shows like Stargate SG1. And she was one of the stars of the show Heartland. And I did a bit of a deep dive on her, and it was really interesting. She was not a founding member, but one of the early, early proponents of Burning man and claims that the reason.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Burning man, like the Burning Man. Burning man out in the desert.

[Will Friedle]

Yep, of Burning Man. And she claims she was fired from Stargate SG1 because they said she would rather play in the desert on drugs than come to work. And she claims that none of that is true. So if you want to read her, it's really weird. The quote is very strange. But, yeah, she's a Burning man fan. And then I was blown. Oh, she was also on one of the shows. I think I said Heartland. And she's in Smart House. That's right. She played smart. I'm kidding. She was also in Smart House. And then I was blown away by somebody I knew from one specific role in Seinfeld, but Carlos J. Cut, I think, is how you say his name. He plays Oliver and he's seen in shows like Buffy, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and of course, that Seinfeld I was talking about. And in movies like Grosse Pointe, Blank, where he was great fun with Dick and Jane and Being John Malkovich, cast him in everything. He's so funny. He's the one who plays the. The doctor, the fake doctor actor who comes in and God, he's Just funny. And then I'm gonna let you take a shot at Emmanuel's last name. We've got actress. No, it's. I love doing that to people. We've got actress Emmanuel Shrikey. And she is Shrieky. She is Roxanne. She's best known as Sloane on the show and movie Entourage. But she was also seen in movies like Detroit, Rock City, Wrong Turn and you Don't Mess with Zohan. And on the TV side, she was recently also Lana Lange on Superman and Lois and in the Lincoln Lawyer. And I know her because we did a show together for a couple years where she was the Chitarra to my Lionel on Thundercats. Very, very sweet girl and a great actress. I would sit next to her every day when we were recording and somebody would go, emmanuel, Cricket, Cricket. And she's like, shrieky, shrieky, shrieky, shrieky. She'd say it nine times. So it's like, hey, I knew it. And then we have a cameo from Bill Nye the Science Guy playing of all things. Well, the science.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Science teacher.

[Will Friedle]

Nye is a real life science educator who has become a TV personality through talk show appearances and his own TV shows, teaching science through curiosity, humor and real work experiments. Have you ever met Bill Nye the Science Guy?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I was an extra on his show back in the day.

[Will Friedle]

Were you?

[Sabrina Bryan]

And it was so exciting to go and be on like Bill Nye's show. Like, it was the stuff that the set was just so cool and out of this world.

[Will Friedle]

It also.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And Michael Jackson was on Wait Next Door. Like so it was like, it was just like the best day, the best day of work.

[Will Friedle]

Now see, you had Bill Nye, but from the Nickelodeon days, older people like me, we had Mr. Wizard. So Mr. Wizard was the Nickelodeon Bill Nye.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Are you welched?

[Will Friedle]

Swear to God.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Mr. Wizard.

[Will Friedle]

And to God, hand to God. Mr. Wizard was. I think that was his name. I'm almost positive that was his name. Yes, it was Mr. Wizard. And so he was this old kind of curmudgeony guy who taught kids science on nickelodeon in the 70s and the 80s. Like early, early Nickelodeon when I was on. And then we got Bill Nye. And I remember the opening of Tower of Terror. Ryder, Danielle, Ben and I all went on the ride with Bill Nye. And before we started, he handed us all pennies. And he's like, I want you to hold the penny in front of your face as we drop. And so the picture is all which I still have is Bill not all of us dropping with the pennies. All hanging in front of us in the drop. Because the, you know, gravity, it does the. So it was really cool. He was teaching us science at the opening of the Tower of Terror.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You know, he was on Dancing with the Stars.

[Will Friedle]

Was he?

[Sabrina Bryan]

He did a season of Dancing with the Stars.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

That's awesome.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't remember who his partner was.

[Will Friedle]

That's awesome. Did I tell you I'm doing. They asked me. I'm doing Dance with the Stars.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Are you really?

[Will Friedle]

No, Absolutely. Uncle. Not happening. Never going to happen.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You're gonna get me every time. Cause my hopes are so high. My hopes are so high.

[Will Friedle]

Trust me, you'd never want a date. You'd just look at me and go, horror. You never want to dance again. So we can agree that Bill Nye was a fun face to recognize. But did his addition to the film negatively affect the runtime? Because it's only the real facet for which we can judge any film by. We continue to search for and praise anything hitting the 90 minute mark. And this week, Principal takes the holiday clocks in at 96 minutes. A stain on the legacy of the art form itself. Six minutes over target. And I can promise you one thing, it's the worst six minutes of the movie. So fix your life, Principal takes a holiday and shame on everyone involved. The writing credit goes to director Robert King, who also penned the Angels in the Outfield sequel, stupidly called Angels in the Infield, as well as movies like Dana Carvey's Clean Slate, which is a horribly underrated comedy. Two Geena Davis films, Speechless and Cutthroat island and Vertical Limit. He now focuses just on scripts for the TV shows that he's created. And we've got a story credit. A common Disney movie occurrence here. It's Paul Wolf. Wolf was a USC screenwriting professor for over 20 years who wrote on TV shows like Family Ties and Home Improvement. That might be the Zachary Ty Bryan connection. He would also produce and direct on the 90s drama series Life Goes On.

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[Sabrina Bryan]

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[Will Friedle]

And now why don't we all go and try to find a transient and put him around kids with a position of power and have him recap along with us because it's time for principal Take a Holiday. We Sabrina's laughing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I put him around kids, give him some power in a position. So good. It's true. That's literally how it starts.

[Will Friedle]

Yep.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like what?

[Will Friedle]

Yep. That guy. He has no idea who that guy is. That guy easily could have been on the run. He could have been not allowed within

[Sabrina Bryan]

500 yards of kids up a hitchhiker. Making it worse.

[Will Friedle]

Yep, there you go. Well, we open on a very familiar sight. It's our main character's teenage bedroom. It's been a minute, but we do love to see these a mechanism that gives us so much information in a very short amount of time. And in this case, we hear the phone ringing in an extremely messy room. And dare I say, it might even be considered mischievous. This bedroom, we see sketches and plans and maybe weaponry. Who knows? It was a strange room. The phone rings until the answering machine picks up. For John, it's his friend who we

[Sabrina Bryan]

never care about later.

[Will Friedle]

Nope, don't give a about this guy at all.

[Sabrina Bryan]

At all.

[Will Friedle]

At all. He wants to know if he went through the plan and snuck into the principal's office last night. Did he actually pull off the greatest senior prank ever? It's gonna be hard to top the 32 demerits he got last year, but he may have just done it. John eventually picks up the phone and tells his friend to chill. What do you think of the name for John for this movie? Part of me thought it was too generic. And then I was like, you know what? In this day and age of Hoyts and Florence and Blue, just hearing John kind of made me feel pretty damn good.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. But my question, I was actually, it's in my suburban disease, the name John. Would he go by John in high school or would it be like Johnny?

[Will Friedle]

No, Johnny was high school John.

[Sabrina Bryan]

John just seems older, like, than high school John.

[Will Friedle]

What's up, John? John boy John. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

But it was nice. It was not. It wasn't like, you know, yeah, Hudson or, you know, it's just like, oh, God, it's just John.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Thank God John. It's John. John and Ben.

[Will Friedle]

No offense to John's, no offense to Hudson's and people out there across the world. Anyway, the prank is going to go something like this. Principal Hockenberry arrives at his office at 8:00am, gets onto the loudspeaker at 8:05, coffee at 8. 10, out of the office at 8:12. And that's when it will hit 8:12am and with that, John joins his stern parents for breakfast. And his dad reminds him they're going out of town for two weeks, which seems like an awfully long time to leave your senior in high school. Mischievous, gotten 32 demerits, high school kid alone by himself.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, which they know about. It's not like they're like parents that are kind of don't understand or always. You know what I mean? Like, there's kids in school that get away with stuff, you know, and they're the ones that are always the pranksters. But, like, they get away with it. They're very aware of the mischievousness that their kid has.

[Will Friedle]

Well, it's not just that. They also set up the fact that his mother cooks him all his meals, his mother does all of his laundry. So they're just throwing this kid to

[Sabrina Bryan]

the wolves and someone's just going to check in on him. Like they're not like, it's not like an aunt or an uncle are coming to stay with him. Like, literally just got to check in on it.

[Will Friedle]

It's so strange. And so, yeah, it doesn't matter because

[Sabrina Bryan]

we never go back to the house after that anyway.

[Will Friedle]

I know, it's so weird, but his dad, they've coddled him. They've paid for private school, and now he's too dependent with zero discipline. They've decided on his first day of senior year that while they're away, he also can't use their car. So the kid who's mischievous, who gets away with everything, the parents say you can't use the car. And he doesn't completely follows the rules, which, to me, I was like, what? Of course he's going to. Of course he would have used the car. Like, right.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This already went to, like, the Ferris Bueller's Day off. Like, right. He's going to steal one of their cars.

[Will Friedle]

That's obviously part of what's going to happen. Or not all the right moves, but the risky business or any of this stuff. It's like, what? What?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. And to be honest, like, as a high schooler, my parents were going away for two weeks, and I just think I'd stay home.

[Will Friedle]

But it's. I mean, my God, who does that, though? Two weeks. It's so strange.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I can't use my car. I gotta ride my bike or. Okay, so. Okay, so I'll be home for two weeks. I'll see you guys when you get there.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. No, this whole thing was really, really weird. It started weird. And they then tell him if he gets one demerit this year, they're gonna rip up the $10,000 inheritance check he was supposed to get from his grandmother. John is, of course, furious about the new agreement, especially because he knows the senior prank could already be his first demerit. He is screwed. As they drive off, he knows he has to stop the prank. It's a race against time. 8:12 to be exact. When a large bucket of red paint is set to splash down from the doorway onto the principal, John furiously bikes his way to school. Because he's following the rules, he can't use the car, dodging construction sites and trying to beat Principal Hockenberry to his door. And on John's Tour de France, we also see a messy hippie and his dog getting kicked out of a truck. Of course, he had been hitchhiking, but we'll get back to that later in the hallways. Hickenlooper. Hickinbottom. Hicken. Hickenlooper. Hickin principal treats his troubled private school students like he's training dogs. He enters his office at 8, as predicted and starts the morning announcements, introducing Vice Principal Ralph Calder. While Hickenlooper rambles on, we see John in the background tiptoeing into the school to fix things undetected until he bumps into a new teacher, Ms. Shine. But even she can't stop him. Meanwhile, a new student, Peter Heath, who is just new, has arrived and is being ignored while looking for where to go. And to Peter's surprise, Hickenlooper is one minute ahead of schedule. John is doomed. He's sprinting through the school trying to stop the inevitable. And just as Hickenlooper reaches his office door, the phone rings. As he turns back to answer the line, just one small drip of red hits the floor. With the principal now preoccupied, John sneaks his way into the ceiling, but is caught red handed by Peter, the new student he's looking for. The principal Jod begs him to keep it down, but Peter has no idea what's going on. He just needs to get to his first class. And as awful as it sounds, you could tell this movie was done pre a lot of the horrible things that happen at schools. Because if you walk into a student nowadays saying I'm trying to disarm it and do it, it just. They wouldn't even shoot this nowadays. Like I don't think they would even put this in the movie nowadays. They, they would have changed the wording or would have changed the way it was it. Because this was obviously done at a much different time. Yes, it was right after Columbine though. Yeah. This was a strange thing for me. It just, it hit me weird because it was like the way they set it up and he's in there with scissors and I'm trying to diffuse it. It just, it brought my head to a different place, which is kind of scary.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's sad and sad that that's where it is because it's like a prank. He was not in any way trying to. He was trying to make a laugh out of the principal. Not trying to hurt him, right? Not do something that's gonna like melt his skin off. It's just gonna dye it, you know. So it was definitely like a fun filled type idea. But nowadays it's like, yeah, no, no,

[Will Friedle]

you wouldn't do it. And just as John is about to cut the wire and save himself from the worst demerit of his life, Hickenlooper grabs the handle and the red paint douses the furious principal. He completed the prank after all. John and Peter are now held in the office. Although I don't know why Peter's being blamed, especially since he's brand new at school and the principal obviously has it in for John. So why would he assume also that the new kid at school, who literally just walked in and had a meeting with him set up, also helped this guy set up this prank, who he'd never met before and was obviously the biggest joke.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Brand new kid at school. You know that none of this made sense.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, no, none of this.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was already going. Okay. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

That's why I was like, wait, what?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, we're gonna stretch everything like crazy here.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. So John and Peter are now being held in the office. John realizes he's only five minutes into the school year and he's lost. Lost ten grand. He blames Peter, but Peter had to save his own. For some reason he's new at school. Vice Principal Calder appears and wants to know how to get the red stuff off of Hickenlooper. Keep in mind now that everyone saw the principal doused in red, because that's gonna be important. John takes it even further, completely blaming Peter. Like it. As a result, both of them get. He doesn't know this guy, but I'm gonna. It's your fault. He's the one who told me to do. It was like, what an character. Right off the bat. And it wasn't like, that was. The thing about Ferris Bueller. Is Ferris somebody like a Ferris Bueller or. Or some Risky Business or Zack Morris. They never did it at the expense of somebody innocent or somebody else. Like, if somebody was a jerk, then maybe they got like. Like Principal Rooney. And in Ferris Bueller, like, maybe he got a bit of it, but he did it all to himself. Ferris Bueller didn't do anything to him. Him where this guy is already trying to actually do something to the principal, which. Okay, that's funny. It's the principal. I get it. But then this brand new kid who shows up at school. You're trying to destroy this kid's life. Like, what an. So, yeah, it was like, what the hell, dude? It's like, even if that kid did help him when he didn't, you still don't snitch.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

And so it's like, what is this guy doing? But anyway, okay, so he blames Peter, and as a result, both of them get six months detention and demerits on their permanent relationship record. Later on, in a exceptionally confusing math class, Peter is still fuming over the punishment. He's never gotten into trouble before, and this will cost him Stanford. And this also threw me because they had said it's a very conservative school that people send their kids to who maybe have had a little trouble in the past and need more structure. So why would they send this kid to the school who's been perfect and had awesome grades?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right.

[Will Friedle]

If, if, like, what's the point of that? So at this point, I'm going to. This might be a long 96 minutes. Yeah. So I just didn't understand it. The two boys are still arguing about it in science, and John suggests Peter find a way to remove the demerit. The only way to do that is to hack in the principal's computer. But Peter won't let him borrow his laptop. And hey, everyone, the science teacher's Bill Nye, the science guy. Cool. We're now in history class with that nervous new teacher, Ms. Shine. John has borrowed a laptop from the computer lab to break into the mainframe, but unfortunately, he was detected by Hickenlooper. And his best friend is there with him, who we never really learn his name and don't need to know anything about him because he absolutely disappeared.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This is the last time we see him.

[Will Friedle]

Thank you very much, whatever your name was. He is still washing the red dye off his face. He's got a really good hacker protection software set up just to stop kids like John. And just like that, the boy's last hope has failed. But John hasn't given up. They just need a new plan. And then. And I didn't miss anything here. In a real non sequitur, a wild dog appears and steals John's softball.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're on like the campus of some sort too.

[Will Friedle]

Sure are.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So this, this dog just like comes out of nowhere to the point where it made me go, wait, was that John's dog? I've seen the dog before. Was it John's dog?

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, it was the best friend's dog who we haven't met. Yeah, very strange. Steals John. John is unwilling to give up the one softball to any wild animals. So he rushes off miles down this thing to catch the mutt. But when he does get him, the dog doesn't have the ball. And his scruffy owner could really care less. He recognizes this man as a messy looking transient who was kicked out of the truck. Earlier in the movie, he introduces himself as Fitz and is laying down in the grass without a care in the world. He even suggests that John just escape the school as a construct. And when Hickenlooper notices that John has wandered off the campus because he's just there with binoculars, looking for demerits. It's the final straw. It is time for expulsion. He types the recommendation into his computer. But before he can press enter, John smacks a baseball. The softball pitched by Peter right through his office. It smacks through the window and cracks him in the back of the head. After a few seconds, he falls to the ground, knocked out. Okay, we quick cut to an arriving ambulance. The paramedics see the red blotches on Hickenlooper's face. There's other teachers surrounding them. Why don't the other teachers say, no, no, that's from the. It's red paint. Don't worry about it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, they go ahead and let him get admitted as a. Like. Someone with like, issues.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, they take him straight to the infectious disease department of the hospital. So nobody. They said, hey, we found him knocked out. Oh, my God, he's covered in red, but give me the gloves. No one went, no, no, no, that's from. That's paint.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, no.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, nobody's. Nobody said that. And now the boys are back in the principal's office, facing the judgmental look of Vice Principal Calder, who gives them four more months of detention. So they are now at 10 months.

[Sabrina Bryan]

10 months of detention and usually school that long.

[Will Friedle]

No, no, no, they're not. No, they're not. The receptionist also reveals that the district has agreed to send a substitute principal, Dr. Vernon Baxter, a name that really impresses Calder. Apparently, he's a big deal, and no one knows what he looks like, which is going to be important to the story, obviously. Then John notices something. A fax breaking through the news that Dr. Baxter won't be able to fill in. So he reads this upside down through a window far away.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He has eagle eyesight.

[Will Friedle]

Upside down. Eagle eyes is what this guy has John upside down. Eagle man is what they should call him. He's gonna be in Zurich. The doctor. And so then, thanks to an inspirational George Washington poster, John shares an idea with Peter as they leave school. Because now they're besties, apparently. What if they hire someone to play Dr. Baxter just for an hour while they wipe the computers clean of their demerit. And since John stole the fax, they have nothing to worry about. So he also somehow got into that room and grabbed the fax that was curled up against the window there, right?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, fax machines.

[Will Friedle]

Faxes were the best. Oh, man, they were. You get your sides faxed in for auditions and.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

Yep.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, Peter isn't having it, though, he's gonna tell the school all about Baxter and Zurich. But then his breath is literally taken away by another student. Roxanne, the toughest girl in school. She trips down the stairs right into Peter's arms. He helps her treat her broken ankle by ripping sleeves off his uniform shirt. But this turns out to just be a dream. This was a funny scene. It was realizing he's got to be more assertive for girls in situations like this, Peter decides he's in for the fake principal, so they just need someone who looks the part. So again, about the girl. Okay, I'll break all the rules over at the local neighborhood Hamlet audition. You know about those, right?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right, Sabrina.

[Will Friedle]

They're everywhere.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're everywhere.

[Will Friedle]

Exactly. I have one later today, just for fun. The boys, they just for the men's. Something to do. It's gonna be great. I can't wait. I'm not even reading. I just want to watch everyone else. It's gonna be so awesome. But they're trying to find an actor to play this part. So the boys star cast, and the best actor they find wants $200 a day and has some very diva requests, including a trailer and 11am call time. So knowing that's not gonna work, John then knows what he needs to do. He shows Peter Fitz, the messy transient from earlier. And this will be their Dr. Baxter. But when they approach Fitz, he isn't convinced. He just grabs a cup of urine and throws it on them. I'm kidding. You never know. He plans on hitchhiking to Alaska and just doesn't see himself as a private school principal. They beg him to help, offering $50 and room and board. Then during negotiations, Fitz notices John's drumsticks. They're like the ones Aerosmith uses. So they strike a deal. If Fitz does it, he gets the drumsticks. John is shocked. And frankly, so was I. Cause drumsticks cost like 15 bucks. He was just offered 50. And then John is super hesitant to get rid of his sticks, but eventually hands them over. And they never talk about it. It. You never see John play the. The drums. They never talk about. My dad gave them to me. These are Aerosmith sticks.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He does something with the drumsticks at the very beginning.

[Will Friedle]

Hits the bongo, like three times.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's it. It.

[Bowen Yang]

It's.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's literally it. We see another snippet of it later in reverse situation, but, like, the drum. And also drum sticks. Like, what are you gonna do with these drumsticks while you're still.

[Will Friedle]

They're like 15. Yeah. It doesn't make. Yeah, this guy could have gone and bought drumsticks and had 30 bucks and they never just. No, these are important to me. This was given to me by so and so. Whatever. Nothing. Nothing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Just another weird moment where you're going, what?

[Will Friedle]

It's just this movie was filled with kind of good beats and then non sequiturs and then stories that didn't make a whole lot of sense.

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[Sabrina Bryan]

You're never far.

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[Will Friedle]

So we're back at the hospital. Principal Hickenlooper has been fully quarantined, trying to convince everyone he isn't sick. But he's just diagnosed as delirious, even though again, everyone saw him cover with the red paint. And now Fitz is ready for his new role as Dr. Baxter. The boys prep him on how to walk stiffer and they buy him a suit. But he draws the line at cutting his long hair. He's now out. Not something he's willing to do, even for the drumsticks. So now the boys need to find yet another Dr. Baxter. Later that day, back at the beach, back in the transient where Fitz notices a woman doing yoga, and he's immediately attracted to her. He watches her walk away in the same way a stray dog looks at a. At a steak. And then. That was Mrs. Shine. Right?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay, this. I'm gonna just end up giving all my Sabrina Cs.

[Will Friedle]

Because that's fine. Because we gotta get through it.

[Bowen Yang]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

I don't get it. I don't get it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But.

[Will Friedle]

But.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay, first of all. Well, I'll leave that one. No, I can't. The weird stretches she's doing where she's just like standing there and she's just like, okay, I'm just gonna. And I'm just gonna. It's like they're not even like runner stretches. Those are like dancer stretches. So they must have realized this actress, like she's getting ready for burning or something. And she's out in the morning for her daily run. But like, she runs to the school. Why are you running? That's the. Yes. That's the only segue that we get to realize. She's the teacher.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Well, anyway, it has completely changed his mind about being the principal of Fitz. The boys, however, have returned to a different Hamlet actor, Oliver, as their last resort. He's excited about the gig, even brainstorming some disabilities he could have. He's told to report to the school at 7am but he feels like this is a bad idea. Idea. Anyway, it is now the big day. The boys walk into the school, hoping their new principal has arrived, ready to act, and are shocked to see Calder optimistic about the new Dr. Baxter. He proclaims the school will never be the same. It looks like the plan is working, but when they enter the office, it's not. Oliver, The Hamlet actor Dr. Baxter is Fitz with a haircut. Fitz is unpredictable right off the bat, mentioning dog vomit and haphazardly exposing his ankle. Dolphin tattoo, like you do. And then things get even crazier when Oliver, the Hamlet actor, now physically transformed, now physically transformed with a mustache, arrived too. He announces that he is Dr. Vernon Baxter. Peter then passes out. And this was pretty funny. Calder is confused. How are there two Vernon Baxters? The Hamlet actor is stumped on what to do next. He asks for a line. And then Peter passes out again. Fitz thinks on his toes and bear hugs the second Baxter. He claims it's his brother and that their dad named all their children Vernon, Baxter or even their sister and the dog. But Caulder is still confused. Why was the other Vern looking for an office? And Peter passes out for a third time. Again, funny bit Oliver quickly improvs about being born with a clubbed foot, but Fitz chimes in, claiming his brother is a therapist who will counsel students pro bono. It's an awesome pairing of actors for the movie. Vernon and Baxter as a combo really worked again. I just want to watch this because I didn't get the story. Now away from Calder and Fitz, the Hamlet, Baxter is furious at the boys. He was supposed to be the lead and now he's just student counselor. Calder jumps onto the loudspeaker and announces the substitute principal. Fitz takes the mic and asks the school to call him Dr. V, letting everyone know what he's wearing so they can spot him. It is very unhinged. At the end of the day, John and Peter finally approach Fitz in the bathroom. What is he doing? Why is he doing so much when he's only supposed to be there for one day? But before he can answer, he's called to an all teacher philosophy lecture. He nervously walks into the gym and sees his waiting audience on an overhead projector. Do they still use overhead projectors? They don't, do they?

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, no. They. Their stuff goes straight from their computer onto, like the whiteboard.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And stuff.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But the projector was so cool to see. I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, just like going in math class, like the teachers going through, like, how to work out a math problem, all that kind of stuff.

[Will Friedle]

And then.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And then spraying and then wiping.

[Will Friedle]

It takes you right back. It takes you right back. I saw something this morning that said Dirty Dancing came out in 1986 about dancing in the 19 in like 1963. If it was made today, it would have been a movie about 2001.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Will Friedle]

It's like, you've got to be kidding me. Talk about feeling old. And so now, yes, Fitz stands before the faculty to lecture about what it's supposed to be his own book. Instead, he plays with a projector and freestyles about how education is like pizza. John and Peter watch on in great horror. And this is Kevin Nealon in his wheelhouse. Just let him go. He was very funny. It's a weird part and I don't know, but just for an acting nomination for the Rewindies, he might have to be in the discussion just because he's so funny. But that might just be my personal love of him. It might not have been that great a performance. I just really like him.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I thought it was pretty clever and he just seems great. I wish it was bloopers because I feel like he'd go on his runs you love when comedian comedians do.

[Will Friedle]

Yes, he's Kevin Nealon, and I just love him so much. Anyway, Fitz eventually darts out of the gym, leaving them with pizza thoughts, but is stopped by the new history teacher, Celia Shine. And he's like, yeah, it sounds like a car wax. She's a huge fan of Dr. Baxter's and is thrilled to be working with him. But she did think he was older and bald, but whatever. She just wants to hear about his new work because she would love to have him as a mentor when she tries to get her credentials next week. He says he'll think about it, but when he drops his drumsticks and picks them up up, she catches a glimpse of that same ankle. Dolphin tattoo. Weird. Over in the counselor's office, Hamlet Baxter is showing Rorschach tests to students and saying that their answers are wrong. And John and Peter are back with Fitz, now at the principal's computer, finally hoping to erase their records. But they don't know the computer's password. Calder says the principal implemented some extra security measures, but the school has been working to solve the issue. Uhoh. This means a transient fit will have to stick around a bit longer. John thinks they can pull it off because no one is onto them yet. Right? Oh, we get an optical flip. As Ms. Shine is sitting down in the library to read a real Dr. Baxter book, she thinks something's up. It says in the bio he went to Cornell. So she jumps on the phone to call Principal Hockenberry Hickenlooper. But the staff at the mental institution says he's not taking calls. So instead she uses the white pages to call what's supposed to be Dr. Baxter's office. She leaves a message, wondering if she met him today and if he has a dolphin tattoo. Alright. At school the next day, Hamlet Baxter is chatting to another student, just spitballing his character backstory about serving in Vietnam. Meanwhile, for detention, Fitz is chilling with John and Peter, watching sports in his office. But Peter's freaked. The whole point was to get Fitz in and out, but John has to see his dream come true. They own the principal. But before they can celebrate, they're interrupted by a knock on the door. It's Miss Shine. As Fitz scurries to get everything in place, he accidentally turns on the mic and plays his dog barking to the entire School. Once Ms. Shine enters, she's shocked to see John, who apparently is now set up for something called independent drum study. Fitz says it's his new strategy. Suspicious, Shine quizzes Fitz about what school he went to. And he is just saved as VP Calder pipes in with Cornell. And that may have held off Shine for now, but she's starting to catch on. And then John suggests an idea for Peter's crush, Roxanne, which I thought was a very strange kind of transition. Now he's come up with an idea of how to get the girl. So Fitz calls her into his office and tells her she's been expelled. He continues to repeat himself over and over, almost as if he's cueing someone up. And then, right on cue, John pushes Peter into the office to confidently interrupt the principal. He demands better treatment for Roxanne, claiming a student's worth is not reliant on what they're doing wrong. Wrong. She passed the greatest test of all time, the test of Caterpillar. And then he means, no, no, no character. He's clearly blowing whatever script was written for him, which was proved when we see that John is secretly holding up giant cue cards right behind her. He's not trying to hide it all, just giant giant cue cards right behind her. And in the end, Fitz rips up the expulsion notice and praises Peter as a hero. In the cafeteria later, Fitz and Calder are looking at what might be toon, possibly. Fitz is disgusted by his first bite and thinks something must be done. He marches into the kitchen and demands that the chefs eat the dish. When he declines, Fitz says everything they serve from here on out must be edible. To the staff. And the students go crazy. They love this. In even better news, Roxanne and Peter are going out on a date. John's subterfuge worked after all, and now Peter has become the one addicted to manipulating the principal. John also spots Ms. Shine renting out all of Dr. Baxter's books in the library. Great. He realizes that they're all playing with fire at this point. And again, he now has no friends. It's just the one friend he has that we. It's so strange. That night at John's house, Fitz is playing the drums. But they need to read all of Baxter's books for research. And that's a good plan, because the real Dr. Baxter has just heard Ms. Shine's message. The next morning, John has turned into a full on dad. So this is what he's supposed to be learning, obviously making sure Fitz is wearing socks, eating healthy, and studying. And at school that morning, Ms. Shine is talking to Vice Principal Calder about her upcoming credentials test, which will have a written and observational portion. But she seems more concerned with this whole Dr. B debacle. She races up to Fitz and quizzes him on the three elements of his triangulation theory reform. This is coincidentally, something he does know. Kind of. So with a little help from a pantomiming Peter, Fitz answers the question correctly, holding her off for now. But the real Dr. Baxter has called the school and finds out that not only do they have one Dr. Baxter, they have a second Dr. Baxter. The receptionist assumes this is some sort of prank call and hangs up, forcing the real Dr. B to book a flight there at once. And yet Fitz is still banging his drums and acting crazy at school. He bans all rules. No more detentions, no more demerits. And guess who's back. Yup. Principal Hickenlooper Hickenbottom Hockenberger. Looking disheveled, he is shocked to see his school is in utter chaos. When he asks to see Dr. B, he sent to Hamlet Dr. Baxter and John, who is in the process of firing the counselor from his job. They just don't need two Dr. B's. But Oliver swears he's having a breakthrough with the square headed kid with the funny nose. He's finally feeling good about how he looks. That's an incredible joke. And then Principal Hickenlooper Hockenbach spots John paying off the actor and can't believe what he's seeing. And then he falls off the balcony and he looks like he falls like 60ft.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Seriously, like to his death.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, exactly. Horrible. Huge fall. And is taken right back to the institution. Then that night, it's Peter and Roxanne's big date at a fancy restaurant. They're seated right next to the kitchen, killing all possible romance. He dreams about kissing her, a real sign that this is a wonderful world movie, not a decomposition. But instead he just orders chicken, which again, you're at a fancy restaurant, they're gonna wanna know what kind of chicken you're ordering. Peter, you can't just say chicken. I was like, is it a piccata? Is it a Marsala? Where are we? Walk me through this. Chicken. Is it a chicken?

[Sabrina Bryan]

But it would be like a typical teenager going to a nice restaurant and being like, can I get the chicken?

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, chicken.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't know what any of this other stuff is.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, please. Eventually, they decide to leave the stuffy restaurant and instead of eating, just ride a moped on the beach. Back at the school the next day, Ms. Shine is trying to teach within this new no rules atmosphere. But kids aren't paying attention. They're just coming and going, music blasting, not paying any mind. Fitz watches on, as does an official in charge of credentials, who, in my opinion, should have some big problems with the school's credentials. Not hers, but sure. She eventually storms out, and Fitz follows close behind. He tells her this no rules policy was his idea. It has nothing to do with Ms. Shine. But she doesn't care. She's suspending her credentials immediately. Immediately. Now defeated. And again. All the other teachers are fine to teach in this system, but just her. She okay?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. What she said, too. I'm not here to evaluate the school. I'm just here to evaluate this one teacher.

[Will Friedle]

I know, but it's like you figure you'd make.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I also feel like that's not how that works.

[Will Friedle]

No, of course not.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's the way that this is how this whole situation works.

[Will Friedle]

Of course that's not how it works. That's not how it works at, like, eight hall. But anyway. Fitz realizes the crowded halls are now a zoo. Even Vice Principal Kaldor and Bill Nye are defeated. What has Fitz done? As Ms. Shine packs her bags, Fitz finds out Principal Huchenbucher's computer passwords have finally been overridden. He can actually change John and Peter's records. But he knows something bigger hangs in the balance. He immediately talks to the school board and gets miss Shine another chance. But she doesn't care. She's quitting teaching, but Fitz won't accept her resignation. He knows it's his fault. She says it has nothing to do with him. She just makes history. Boring. Fitz convinces her she is not boring. If she was boring, why would he have a crush on her? He begs her to stay, and then he kisses her. So problematic on so many levels. But who. Who am I to get in the way of love? I don't know. I partially checked out.

[Sabrina Bryan]

In the movie, it's kind of like, okay, whatever. Okay, we're just gonna get past that whole, like, sexual harassment. I mean, all the things that would happen. You can't just go around kissing people in your work of. Of like, your place of work. Work.

[Will Friedle]

By this point, I was like, okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's what I'm saying. You're just. At this point, you're like, okay, whatever.

[Will Friedle]

Yep, he's very much whatever. The next morning, when John goes to wake up Fitz, he's already downstairs cooking breakfast. He's focused and needs the entire school's help to get Ms. Shine her credentials back. And keep in mind, they're doing all this within, like, a week.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

They have two weeks to do this. And he even says we have to clean up the school and get her credentials back. And John goes, goes today. Okay. And that's it. They have one day.

[Sabrina Bryan]

There's a week, too. It's like five days of school, too, because Saturday and Sunday school, this is happening so quick. Real fast, real fast.

[Will Friedle]

The next morning. Okay, yeah. So they're going to do all this in. In a day. All right, sounds good. So as soon as he gets into his office, he takes to the loudspeaker and admits the entire student body that he's been wrong. If we really wanted to rebel, we would have really needed a plan to replace it. He begs them to look inside themselves and bring back order. And magically, they just do. They even start listening to Michein after John raises his hand with a question. He wants to know why, if the 1920s and the 1980s stock market crashes were similar, why was there no depression in the 80s? And somehow this very specific question has made her less boring. And everyone in the class is magically engaged and ready to learn. And in science class, Bill Nye is apparently just as boring until one kid says he needs to be shown the formula, not just told it. Ms. Shine loves what she sees all over the school, especially since the review committee is coming tomorrow. She even pinches fits on the A when she sees him. All right, sir. Also, the real Dr. Baxter keeps calling to say he's coming to take over the school, but luckily the receptionist still thinks it's a prank call. Also, Peter's sex life was looking pretty good until Roxanne goes to leave a rose on his locker and in the process notices the cue cards from when he asked her out out. She rightfully becomes angry. And who would keep the cards, Bro, Burn the evidence. Seriously, the giant cards? How are you not trashing those things instantly? You deserve to lose the girl. It seems, though, Ms. Shine has learned a bit more about Dr. Baxter because she finds Fitz just to slap him in the face.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, when?

[Will Friedle]

It's laterishly. When did she find out? I have no idea.

[Sabrina Bryan]

She just comes up and she just, like, goes to slap him.

[Will Friedle]

It's like, okay, she's now pinched him on the. And sexually assaulted him and actually assaulted him in. In the school. But she knows There's a Mrs. Baxter. Fitz tries to tell her the truth, but knows he can't. He'd be a liar in her eyes. Either way, she says she'll face the school board alone and never wants to see him again. We're back in Hackenbrock or Hooka Pooper's hospital room. He's working overtime to escape like he's Hannibal Lecter. While at school, the boys and Fitz finally erase their demerits in the computer system, which was their only goal in the first place. Fitz also decided to call Stanford with a well deserved recommendation for Peter. Fitz asks John if he needs anything added to his file for college, but John doesn't see the point. And with that, Fitz's time as principal is done. He hands his drumsticks to John and tells the boys to apologize to Ms. Shine. Form. So he doesn't even take the okay. And then. I don't really know how to explain this one. But then Bill Nye is back to boringly teaching a science class. He hasn't changed at all, even when the kids ask for more. And then, just when all hope is lost, he pops down under the desk in an oddly sped up scene that emerges with a leaf blower, excited to show students how the power of science is amazing. Did you notice how strange the scene was? It was just strange.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was like another, like I'm saying, it's like these offset, like little mini storylines.

[Commercial Voice]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

These vignettes that had nothing to do with anything.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Vignettes as a per. Like just these, like little things that didn't really. Again, because the lady that's coming to look at the school isn't looking for Bill NY's character. She's. He's just there to see Ms. Shine. So it's just like now he's. I don't know. It's weird and. Yeah. And it keeps getting weird with him. Like, it's like. I don't know if they like. Because they got Bill Nye. They were just like wanting to bring him and use him more. Like, I don't know. I don't know.

[Will Friedle]

And again, everyone was good. Like all the acting was fine.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Fine.

[Wilmer Valderrama]

It just.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The storyline itself was not seamless in any sense.

[Will Friedle]

No. Really Discombobulated.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

With Fitz nowhere to be found and the real Dr. Baxter arriving by taxi, Vice Principal Caldor takes the credential committee to Ms. Shine's class. Outside, Peter has found Roxanne, but she's still giving him the cold shoulder. Her. He apologizes and she argues that she would have liked to have known the real him. She then forgives him and says she'll give him another chance under one condition. He has to kiss her so hard her head explodes. Okay. He was dreaming again. And this could have been the part to get it down in 90 minutes. He just didn't need any of this. Like, none of it was. None of it comes back so anyway, in reality, she walks off mad. And now he really does run after her. He asks her out. No cue cards this time. And she accepts steps. All with a very weird rendition of can't help falling in love with you playing in the background.

[Sabrina Bryan]

She adds, and this is when my movie stopped.

[Will Friedle]

Oh really? It's like. And roll credits and right. You're like, okay, that.

[Narrator/Announcer]

That fits.

[Sabrina Bryan]

All right. He got the girl. And that's what the whole point of this movie was. Which still I don't really know what it was for. What the messaging was perfect.

[Will Friedle]

Works for me.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, so then I went back and saw the other one, said full movie. And I'm like, okay. And then there was like another like 10 minutes.

[Will Friedle]

I'm like, yeah, at least. So there you go. But she adds one condition though. He gets ready for the kiss. But instead she just wants him to carry her books. Nearby, John apologize. I would have loved if that was just the end of the movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That was it.

[Will Friedle]

Nearby, John apologizes to Ms. Shine for Fitz and tells her the truth about everything. Just as the reviewers walk into the room, which is the definition of bad timing. Also, Bill Nye has turned the leaf blower into an all out hovercraft and is now with his students riding it through the hallway ways. They eventually pick up the real Dr. Baxter, who went from angry about being impersonated to all out joy. The credentials review begins, but her mind is elsewhere. As she stumbles her words. John once again steps in with a question to help her out. And in the end, she does a great job. As the committee gets ready to leave, satisfied with what they've seen, there's one last wrinkle. Principal Hickenlooper Pippen Popper has arrived. Now in a cast and ready to expose the truth. He reveals the that Fitz is a drifter and also reveals that even Ms. Shine is involved, which she wasn't. The committee is not happy. And if these accusations could be proven, her credentials will be taken away for good. Hickenpooper points to Hamlet Baxter. He's also a fake. He rips off Oliver's fake mustache just as Fitz storms into the room. He takes full responsibility. He clears John of any wrongdoing and says he learned something at the school. If you put your mind to it, you can do anything you want. But Hickentooper, pooper pooper isn't satisfied. He spots the real Dr. Baxter and brings him in in to tell the committee the truth. But instead of condemning the school, he points out how much it's changed since he considered working there. He's seen some incredible results and calls Fitz the real principal. Everyone applauds and chants for Dr. V. Right as the nurses arrive to take Hicken Duper back to the hospital again for still getting his skin ripped off even though he was covered in paint. Outside, the two Dr. Baxters commiserate. Hamlet Baxter wants to save the world, or at least play someone who saves the world. World. Fitz apologizes to his dog and is approached by what appears to be a very angry machine. He admits he's a fake and knows she never wants to see him again, but in reality, she loves what he's done. The students need him, especially John, who now needs a recommendation letter signed for the University of Washington. He's going to use his grandma's check to pay tuition. Keep in mind that the check was for $10,000, which in 2006 will pay for about eight books. So John is going to college and Peter is with Roxanne and going to Stanford. Fitz kisses Shine and returns to the school as their new principal. The transient who's never teached. Never, never taught a day in his life. Never been a teacher.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No credentials, no education, nothing.

[Will Friedle]

The whole movie was getting credentialed for certain people and the transient. They're like and you're the principal.

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Boom.

[Will Friedle]

You're the right guy again with that weird version of Can't Help Falling in Love playing once again. And that's our movie.

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[Will Friedle]

let's do some real reviews. Sabrina, what do you got?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, I got the five star review today from Terry Pull. Sure it's a movie exclamation point.

[Will Friedle]

Five stars. I love it. I of course Then have the one star review, which is from Movie Freako six, which I frankly don't trust. Movie Freako six, Movie Freaks one through four. Great. Maybe five, six and seven. Don't trust you. Nope. Here we go. I will never accept a film that celebrates the injury of an educator. I'd like to teach that John kid a thing or two. Probably social studies and geometry. If given the choice one star. Wow.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You must be a teacher.

[Will Friedle]

Gotta be a teacher. And now we are coming to Sabrina's favorite part of our program, the feature game. And today our game is called Preach to Teach. Who's playing with us today? Do we know?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes, you have Mikayla.

[Will Friedle]

Yay. Mikayla's with us. So Sabrina's got a chance. We got a chance. Here we go. So with Principal Takes a Holiday, we have two incredible performances from Kevin Nealon and Carlos Jacka. I hope I'm saying that right. It's either Jackot or Jakat. Both portraying teachers. Sort of. They're fake teachers. And to honor their work, we're gonna get the name of four actors and we have to choose which has been a real teacher at some point in their lives before fame. And it is more common than you think. Three actors out of five wins. I have no idea.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, number one, Sting.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Sure. I'll go with yes.

[Will Friedle]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He was an English teacher and sports

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[Will Friedle]

There we go. We're one for one. Number two, Hugh Jackman.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I could see Hugh Jackman doing like drama. Drama teacher or something for sure.

[Commercial Voice]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

I want to make a prediction before I answer. This could be producer Jensen's first time where all five of them were actually teachers. Let's see. I'm going to go with yes. I agree with you. I could see Hugh Jackman.

[Commercial Voice]

Yes. At 18 he was an assistant housemaster at a school in the upland there.

[Sabrina Bryan]

What is a house master?

[Will Friedle]

Somebody who masters the house. Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like a boarding school. Does that have to do with boarding school?

[Will Friedle]

Probably.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

I don't know. Number three, Gene Simmons from Kiss. And I think I know this one. Yes. Gene Simmons from Kiss was a teacher, I believe. You know. You know Kiss.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. Was the super long tongue guy. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We didn't kiss. Didn't they paint their faces?

[Bowen Yang]

Uh huh.

[Commercial Voice]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Whoa.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That would be so wild to see your teacher.

[Will Friedle]

I'm pretty sure Gene Simmons from Kiss.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I was gonna say yes too. I feel like these are all gonna be teachers.

[Will Friedle]

That's what I'm saying. Yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

In the 70s he taught 11 year

[Commercial Voice]

olds in Spanish Harlem for six months.

[Will Friedle]

There you go. By the way, the way just Mikayla laughed. I know we're right. Number four. Mr. T. Yes. I'm saying yes to all of them. I bet she tried to screw us. It's yes. They're all gonna be teachers. Yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Mr. T. Mr. T. Mr. T. Oh, God, yes. Yes. Taught P.E. in Chicago.

[Will Friedle]

We were right. Liam said yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's so good, too. Oh, my gosh. Could you imagine then to see Mr. T and being like, that guy taught me how to do a push up.

[Will Friedle]

A pity the fool who don't come to gym class. Yes. Liam Neesom. Yes. I'm gonna say we got him. I'm gonna say we got producer Jensen. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Commercial Voice]

He was a teacher in training.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Five out of five, that's like extra credit. We get two points for the next game.

[Will Friedle]

And we called it beforehand. We called it by Hugh Jack, I think after Sting, I was like, they're all gonna be there.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

We took them down this week. That's all I gotta say. Can we do a Sabrina Seas?

[Sabrina Bryan]

We can. If I could find anything. It's. We've talked about everything. One of the first things, though, you know, we talk about. We did talk about this a little bit of. You know, we do get a chance to see a lot of the, like, main characters. Bedrooms for the first scene. This one, though, with them dragging the. The phone through the. The messy room, the skateboard, all of that stuff. I thought it was like one of the more like, creative ways to. To, like, move through the room. Right? Like, getting a chance to kind of see and look into the room. I did actually really like that. And again, it made me think of, like, back in junior high when I had, like, my own and my own message, like, answering machine. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

What's up, Richie Rich? Hey, Rockefeller.

[Sabrina Bryan]

By that time, people were getting their own line, and then you would do it. Made me think of. I used to have, like, no doubt. Like, sorry, I can't. Sorry, I'm not home right now. That was like. My answer was you. Like, that was like the thing to be like, hey, what's up? This is Sabrina. I'm not home right now, but I'll talk to you later. Give me sleep A message. It just, like, took me to Nostalgia World.

[Will Friedle]

Mine was Strut. Mine was strut. That was yours from Cheetah Girls, too. Well, mine was Strut from Cheetah Girls, too. That's my answering machine.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, man. Okay. Again, talked about how reckless. Now we're leaving him. There was a Weird cut. There were multiple weird cuts. I felt like how we were going from one aspect of explanation. And I don't know if it was because I, you know, have to remember this was actually on abc, so if they were like weird cuts because it was a commercial or what. I didn't watch the one with commercials, but a lot of them were really abrupt. And then going into a new scene, like, there was not like a.

[Will Friedle]

No, no transition stuff. At one point in the beginning, they like. I rewound it because I was like, what the hell is this? Where a scene ends and then all of a sudden it's just the two of them in red and blue jackets somewhere. And then it cuts away from them. And I was like, that's the one.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I same.

[Will Friedle]

Was that a weird cut?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, what just happened?

[Will Friedle]

Yes, yes. I did the same thing. I was like, what the hell is that?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes. Again, the weirdest, like, dancer stretches for a runner. I just have never seen that before. That got me off. It was just so like, hey, look, I'm limber, look what I can do. And when she bent over, I was like, okay, abc. Like, this is start. I mean, she literally does like a full. You know, which if you're flexible, you can like judging your toes. But like, it paused. It did a scan top to bottom and it paused on the derriere for sure.

[Will Friedle]

Yep.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Which we don't get to see on the channel ever, which is interesting. Okay. The moped scene was like another one. Just another little vignette of when they are at the. The restaurant and they do the moped scene. And it's kind of like, when did this get a. Get a moped? Like, why couldn't they have just been walking by a beach? Like, it just. This is these just.

[Will Friedle]

I think, I think then she's like holding on to him. I think that's.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, it's like, okay.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. But it's weird though. It's. You're right though. It's strange.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes. There was one song. So I, I, I don't know. I can't say I really remember a lot of songs at the time, but it did seem, I mean, when they were doing the Can't Help the Elvis song, but a remake of it. Yeah, it kind. I was like, I don't know. But this one song that played twice said one of the lines says, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm broke, so I hope it's free. What song is that?

[Will Friedle]

Oh, I gotta find out. I gotta find out what that is.

[Sabrina Bryan]

During the kind of montaging of when he is giving free reign to the school and the students. It's like, during that part, and it's just like, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm broke, so I hope it's free. I was like, that's such a funny line.

[Will Friedle]

Love it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Had to write it down. Last one was, why are cafeteria ladies or guys always portrayed as these, like, greasy, mean? Like, my cafeteria ladies were so sweet all through, like, junior high and high school. They were the sweetest. Like, they were always like, I knew you were gonna want a cookie. I got. I saved one. They were going, you didn't get here very early today, you know, or whatever. Like, they were always the sweetest. So shout out. Out to cafeteria ladies. I'm so sorry, but that is something that is, like a mainstay in so many movies. Like, the cafeteria person is not nice, where we all know that's not the truth.

[Will Friedle]

We see you. Cafeteria people see you, and we love you and you're sweaty and your hair nets, and it's. We. We know how hard it is, so we get it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

All right. That's all I got today.

[Will Friedle]

All right, well, now it's the time for our program where we are going to rate the last movie we saw. And this is. Is. This is going to be a difficult one, but let's figure out how we want to do it. First of all, I say one to ten. Okay, let's make ten. No, let's make ten the highest.

[Sabrina Bryan]

If you think that'll work.

[Will Friedle]

I think it'll work. We're going to make 10 the highest. That's what we're going to do. And this week we have some. We have, well, interesting ones. How about one to ten? Bland but refreshing names like John. One to ten. Local neighborhood Hamlet auditions. Unimportant drumsticks, one out of ten. Hamlet Baxters one out of ten. Dolphin ankle tattoos so weird. Overhead projectors, 1980s depressions. One out of ten sped up Bill Nyes. Or I'm going to add one out of ten. Principal Hickin Bicken. Pooper pickle.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I like that one.

[Will Friedle]

Is that the one we're going to do? I said pooper pickle, but pooper nickel works too. Any Pooper pickle, but any sound even close to hipper picker, two per tickle is gonna work. So I think you go first this time.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I guess I do. And I thought it would make a little bit more sense to me. I honestly, I just feel like we watched a movie that was just. There's no other way to explain but weird.

[Will Friedle]

Like, agreed.

[Sabrina Bryan]

All over the place.

[Will Friedle]

Just.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It felt like we were just kind of manic the whole time of trying to figure out, oh, okay, now we care. This character. Oh, okay, now we. You know, it did it. Like I said, I like the idea. I like having a crazy principal coming in, taking over, trying to help these kids out. I like the idea. I just think it was too all over the place for me to really be able to sit down and watch within one setting. I couldn't do it. I had to break it up. And going through it bit by bit just made me more confused. So I think I'm gonna go with.

[Will Friedle]

With.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm going to just go down the middle and give this a 5. Dr. Hip and Bach and Pooper pickle rating. I give it a 5.

[Will Friedle]

I agree with you 100% with everything you said. This movie was conf. I love Kevin Nealon. The Carlos jacket was great. It was a weird series of vignettes that did not mesh. There was no real through line. None of it kind of make any sense. But because of the cast, I'm also going to get. Give it five. Hicken Dot. Principal Hicken pickin Pooper pickles. Yeah, I don't know how else to score this thing. This might have been a two. This might have been an eight. I'm giving it a five. I don't know. So there you go. There was our film. Well, we saw a movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, we saw a movie.

[Will Friedle]

We saw a movie. Our next movie is one we've been looking forward to for quite some time. It is the sequel that has been looming in the distance. And now it's time to once again ride the wave. That's right. It's the 2007 follow up to the DCOM classic Johnny Tsunami. Johnny Capahalla back on board. Are you excited?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, my God. I cannot. You know, I've never seen this one.

[Will Friedle]

I haven't either. It is currently on Disney. So feel free to start without us and get a leg up while you wait and come check us out. Listen to all the stuff we've done. Because all the people that come on this podcast are so much fun to talk about and give us all the cool inside scoops on all the films we love to watch. So all you have to do is go to your preferred streaming service, search for Magical Rewind, and subscribe to the dedicated feed. And that way you get every new episode the moment it drops. And for more info, you can follow us @MagicalRewindPod on the Instagram, which is on the intranet. It's the world wide Weeb. Thanks everybody.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Bye bye.

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