Big Nate (2022) s02e20 Episode Script

[bell rings]
[upbeat music]
- Ah.
Ah.
♪
- You know, there's a drinking
fountain right over there.
- Hm?
Brainy Girl Brain Water is
way better than regular water.
It increases my
already formidable
intellectual abilities.
- OK, quiet down, children.
Let's give a big P.S. 38
welcome to the person who
controls our budget,
Mayor Klatchko!
- Great news, kids.
Rackleff's Earth
Day Festival will
be held in the park on Friday.
Schools will be closed
so you can all attend.
[cheering]
Now for the bad news.
A hole in the ozone
layer has formed
directly above Rackleff.
[dramatic music]
- [screams]
Things are
finally looking up.
[screams]
- Bottom line, Rackleff
produces too much trash.
Now I believe children
are our future,
which means now that
we adults have created
an environmental catastrophe--
- It's up to me to fix it.
[upbeat music]
Don't want to go
to school today ♪
The sun is red hot
and I wanna play ♪
But if I get caught
they'll make me pay ♪
Detention again ♪
- Big Nate, Big Nate ♪
- Math and social studies
just ain't my thing ♪
- Big Nate, Big Nate ♪
- Rocking with my band
is where I'm king ♪
Stealing the teacher's teeth
or bailing on a test ♪
- Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
Big Nate ♪
[loud clang]
[loud crash]
- Starting immediately,
everyone in Rackleff,
including school, will have
their trash output measured.
The least trashy school
will receive a cash prize.
- [gasps]
[upbeat music]
Cash prize?
That's us.
Right, kids?
P.S. 38 barely creates any
trash.
- [screams]
♪
In fact, it doesn't
make sense for us
to have trash cans at all.
[glass breaking]
That's why you'll be each
given your own trash bag
to keep with you at all times.
At the end of each day,
the bags will be weighed,
and that number in pounds will
be deducted from teachers' pay
and from students'
grade point averages.
- My GPA?
Oh.
Principal Nichols, I'll help
you monitor these filthy kids.
- Next.
- Go on.
Thrust thy verdict upon me.
- 17 ounces?
Shame.
- Oh, man.
[beeps]
- Zero garbage?
Attaboy, Nate.
- Whoa, whoa.
Zero garbage for a
walking pigsty like you?
What'd you do with your junk?
- Hmph.
- [growls]
- That's littering, Gina.
- [screams]
- What did you do
with your garbage?
- Isn't it obvious?
I put it in my locker.
- Gross!
You're creating a breeding
ground for bacteria.
- Let them breed.
My locker is infinite.
Yeah, I've been stretching
it out for years.
- So are you guys going to
the Earth Day thing on Friday?
- Pfft.
No way.
Let's go to a movie.
- Of course we're going.
Climate change is no joke.
That ozone hole is terrifying.
- [screams]
- Oh. Yeah, no, of course.
The Earth is like-- whew.
It's, like, super crucial.
- Oh wait, I have an idea.
We can create
planet-positive art projects
for the festival to
make people consider
their carbon footprint.
- Ooh, an art project's
the perfect opportunity
to knock Ruby's socks off.
You know, I am super
passionate about the Earth.
So, uh, what do you say we
rendezvous in the art room
after school?
- Sounds great.
- We'll be there.
- Love this idea.
- Not too shabby.
My incentives are working.
- We still have to find
a place for this garbage.
If we put it in the dumpster,
the city will record it.
- Let's toss it in that big
room with all the books.
- You mean the library?
- Someone stuff
bushel of single Señor
Chip garbage into meat locker.
- Aren't these
those chips you like?
- Single Señor Chips?
The chips that are individually
wrapped in excessive packaging
to ensure that every chip
is a perfect and delicious
unbroken specimen?
No, no, no, no, no.
Uh-uh.
- Principal Wesley Nichols.
[both grunting]
[nervous laughter]
- I'll quit the chips tomorrow.
- I'm done
with the Brain Water.
both: We'll never
speak of this again.
- I'm going to build
a miniature Rackleff out
of flaming red pipe
cleaners to show
that global warming is hot--
but not hot in a Ruby way.
Hot in a bad way.
- Yeah.
I'm making a butt because
butts, like burning garbage,
release toxic gas
into the atmosphere.
- Well, I'm going to craft
a hyper-realistic litterbug
from actual insect bits.
- I shall perform the
role of Mother Earth
as a living statue.
- Oh, Ruby.
Ruby.
[laughs] No need to
carry your trash around.
Why don't you stash
it in my locker?
That's what boyfriends are for.
- I'm transforming this
trash into a mixed-media
sculpture about trash.
[blows]
Hold on.
Hold this for a sec.
- Ruby's retainer.
- [gasps]
It looks like Ruby's gums.
It smells like Ruby's gums.
It tastes like Ruby's gums.
- Be careful with it.
Those things cost a fortune.
I'm always getting in
trouble for losing them.
Ta-da!
My sculpture is complete.
- I don't get it.
- Guys, I'm kidding.
This is just the base.
I am going to paper maché it.
Got discarded pierogi
flour from the kitchen
and newspapers from
Sheila's poop tray.
- That's gross.
And my grossness tolerance
is through the roof.
- How'd you get into sculpting?
- Oh, it's always
been my thing.
You know how in kindergarten
most kids make babyish stuff
out of pipe cleaners?
Well, I was super
into pottery by then.
- Ruby thinks pipe
cleaners are babyish?
OK, OK.
I got to pivot.
- Next.
- I have no trash
because I switched
to reusable sandwich bags.
- Maybe give that
a good scrubbing
between uses, son.
- We aren't supposed
to waste the Earth's water.
- Take it to a dry cleaner.
Next!
- So I'm going to wrap myself
in a tentacle representing
the evil EEW Corporation whose
irresponsible packaging is
ruining the world!
- Hey, Mother Earth,
stop wiggling.
- You should add more
support to her neck, Nate,
or it's just going to--
- Nah, it's fine.
See?
[groans]
- Next.
[dog barking]
- Oh my God,
you have like no trash.
- I know, right?
Who needs paper
when you have skin?
- [whistling]
[beeps]
- [growls]
Where do you put
your trash, Nate?
- Oh, sorry, Gina,
that information is locked up.
[laughs]
- Chica, did that
used to be pastrami?
- Yep.
Asia is pastrami.
And I'm using liverwurst
for Australia.
- So baller.
- [groans]
You know that's
going to rot, Ruby.
You should use wax or something
normal like what I'm doing.
- That's the whole point.
They will rot.
It's a statement on the
decaying state of the Earth.
- So cool.
- Great minds think alike.
Check it out.
I'm going to heat mine
up a little bit just
to show the effects
of climate change,
which is a very real thing.
- No!
- Sculpting isn't for everyone.
- But I want to be impactful.
I'm just better at drawing.
- Draw something, then.
You're an amazing cartoonist.
- Sure.
I mean, if you think my
comics are that incredible,
then yeah, OK.
OK, I'll do it.
- Hey, cool.
- [laughs]
[groans]
[laughing maniacally]
[dramatic music]
[laughing maniacally]
♪
[glass breaking]
- [munching]
This is the last one.
- Fresh!
[jazz music]
♪
[laughing]
[gasps]
[grunting]
[tense music]
♪
- Hey, your litterbug
came out great.
- It's haunting.
- Check out my very
impactful artwork.
- I love it.
Oh, hey, no homework because
of the festival tomorrow.
Movie?
- Oh, yeah.
Finally.
Not that this project
hasn't been equally fun.
- Oh, I got to wash
my hands first.
- Yeah, me too.
- Me three.
- Yeah, I'm nasty.
- No, no, no, I'm good.
My hands are clean.
The perk of being a cartoonist
instead of a garbage sculptor.
Huh?
[laughter]
Ruby really is
an amazing artist.
She's amazing in general.
- Wow, Nate, making
art out of garbage
was a stroke of genius.
You've come a long way
since those silly comics
you used to draw.
This is truly awesome.
[whistling]
- Ugh.
♪
[bell rings]
- Which movie should we see?
"Tai Chi Penguin"
or "I Barf on Your Grave"?
- Oh, I can't go to the movie.
I just remembered
my dad needs me
to organize his sock drawer.
- Really?
Are you OK?
- Totally.
Yes.
I'm so OK.
Just so many socks,
so little time.
I'll miss you, though.
- Aww.
That's so sweet.
Oh, here.
Why don't you take
this with you tonight?
So you feel like a little
piece of me is with you.
Just do not lose it.
My parents will freak!
- Oh, sweet.
♪
Ah.
Oh, it tastes like pepperoni.
[all gagging]
I'll meet you guys
here in the mornings.
What kind of loser gets one
upped by his girlfriend?
I gotta make my own
trash sculpture.
- Hmm.
[grunting]
[gasps]
Ah!
- Gina?
Is all that trash yours?
- [sobs]
I tried to stop, but Brainy
Girl Brain Water is the best.
How could something so
beneficial to me be wrong?
- I know this packaging
is totally wasteful,
but Single Señor Chips
are so lip-smacking good.
I can't resist.
Maybe we'll just give
ourselves a little pass.
What harm could just two
people's garbage do, right?
- Exactly.
To the library!
[rodents squeaking]
- I think the trash in here has
gotten a smidge out of hand.
- We've got to get
this trash out of here.
- We can't put it
in the dumpsters,
or the city will record it.
- If only there was some way
to make it all disappear.
Huh?
[whooshes]
[upbeat music]
- [grunting]
The people want sculpture?
I'll give them
sculpture, Nate style.
With a little inspiration
from my muse, Ruby.
[blowing] Why is this so hard?
Now we're cooking.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Wake up.
Mylar balloons are terrible
for the environment.
- What she said.
We must confiscate
the balloon pump
at once so no further
balloons can be created.
- Whoa, man.
Thanks for the
truth bomb, dudes.
You go ahead and take it.
I just work here.
- Self-portrait as Atlas.
Ha, ha. Nailed it.
Wait till Ruby sees this!
- Oh?
Some of this trash is vile.
- [laughs]
- Last load.
Went through the whole
school and collected
every bit of stray garbage.
- Oh, yeah!
The city's got nothing on us.
Show me the money.
Problem solved.
- Here we go, yo,
here we go, yo ♪
So what, so what, so
what's the scenario ♪
here we go, yo,
here we go, yo ♪
[doorbell rings]
- Ruby, how was the movie?
- Fine.
But I missed you so much.
- Well, uh, I'm here now.
- No kidding.
You live here.
Hey, can I have my retainer?
I think my teeth are
shifting already.
- Oh, no!
- Oh, yeah, of course.
It's, uh--
- Yeah.
Well, my parents thought it was
missing and hit the ceiling.
I told them to chill,
that I left it in my locker.
[muffled speech]
- Wait, what did I do with it?
[thunder rumbles]
- You lost it?
- No!
No, no, no, no.
It's not lost, no.
Don't worry, it's, uh--
it's probably in the art room.
I went back there last
night because, well, you
know what we tortured
artists are like when
we have to create, right?
So I, uh-- I knocked out
one more little teeny tiny
Earth Day project.
You're going to love it.
Come on.
- Um, are they using the
hole in the ozone layer
to get rid of garbage?
- Thus making
the ozone hole even bigger?
Not the planet-friendly
solution those guys
think it is.
[laughter]
- [gasps]
My sculpture's gone!
- What about my retainer?
- What if they don't
all make it to the hole?
- Let's think positively.
The ozone hole will destroy
everything eventually, right?
So we're good.
Señor, Señor, por favor
me quiero Señor Chips!
Espérame, espérame, espérame!
- Hey, dork brain.
Did you throw my
epic sculpture away?
- Eh, Since your art usually
looks like trash, probably.
- And my retainer?
- No.
Because touching someone else's
retainer would be unsanitary.
Plus, those things
cost a ton of money,
and parents freak
if you lose them.
- Ugh, tell me about it.
- Ha.
OK, well, uh, as
long as your retainer
is not floating in
the sky somewhere,
I'm sure we can find it.
- You're right.
OK, just think, OK, when's
the last time you saw it?
- Hmm, let me see.
It was in my mouth when I was
blowing really, really hard.
And then all of a sudden, it
got way easier for some reason
and-- oh, no.
- Hello?
Did you remember where
you left the retainer?
- I'll meet you
guys at the park.
I gotta get my sculpture back.
- Are you kidding me, Nate?
[groans]
[cat yowls]
[rock music]
♪
- This is school
business, Nate.
See, Gina?
This is why I buy
so many drones.
- [groans]
- Found my feelings hurt ♪
- Ah!
♪
- Now what did
I just say, son?
Ah!
- Ha, ha.
Crud. Out of potatoes!
[dramatic music]
♪
- Whoo, y'all gon' make
me lose my mind ♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- [gasps] Look, P.S. 38's
address is on all these boxes!
- Ah!
This is clearly
P.S. 38's trash.
Forget about that sweet prize
for being the least trashy.
We could get fined!
♪
- There it is.
♪
- Nate, wait!
Tell me where you
hide your trash,
or I'll burn your
precious sculpture.
- Wait, wait, wait.
No, no, no, no, no, don't!
Ruby's retainer is in there.
- Tell me!
- OK, fine.
I put it in my locker, OK?
My locker is infinite.
[screams]
- [laughs]
- You know, I got
to hand it to us.
Our art projects look awesome.
And they're going to make
people stop and think.
- Yeah.
About their butts.
- I am so proud of what we did.
Glad I got to do something
meaningful with you
guys before I get grounded
for the rest of my childhood.
- Oh, hey guys.
- [screams] My sculpture!
You ruined it, Nate!
[crying]
- No, no, no, it's OK.
Look, it took a heroic effort,
but I found your retainer.
Hey, Ruby, wait!
Was it something I said?
- Is this thing on?
Before I reveal the worst
trash offender in town,
I'm pleased to
introduce our best
planetary citizens, P.S. 38.
Against all odds and all logic,
they generated zero garbage.
- Oh, thank you,
Mayor Klatchko.
Well, let me tell
you, it is such
an honor and privilege to be
accepting this money from you.
- [sighs]
[screams]
- What matters to
us most at P.S. 38
is that we did win
the prize money--
and, of course,
saved the planet.
♪
- [screaming]
- Ruby, come back!
Ruby, keep going!
- Whoever is
responsible for this
will be given a maximum fine.
- Quick, take my hand.
- I'll always
love you, Francis.
- No!
- I'm not one to
break character,
but mother nature
needs to be heard.
I'll tell you who is
responsible for this.
Big businesses like
the EEW Corporation.
They created this
global catastrophe.
They make the
single-serve products
that overtake our landfills,
pollute our drinking water,
create holes in the ozone!
- This young lady dressed
like a contestant in a vegan
beauty pageant is right.
It's EEW Corp that makes all
these unsustainable products.
I hereby ban Single Señor Chips
and Brainy Girl Brain Water
from ever being manufactured
in Rackleff again.
- Ew.
- Never mind.
Chip and water
production will continue.
You consumers will pay
for your terrible choices.
We will just repair
the ozone layer using
fines levied against--
Please come to the podium,
Wesley Nichols.
- [crying]
- Leave me alone, Nate.
You destroyed my sculpture
and you didn't even care.
You only care about yourself.
- No.
No, no, no!
That's not true.
I care about you, Ruby.
I mean, that's why I spent all
week trying to make a really
cool sculpture to impress you.
- This wasn't about
you looking good.
The whole point of creating
art for the festival
was to make a difference,
to care about the Earth.
- Hey, I-- I love the Earth.
It's easily one of
my favorite planets.
And hey, I am always thinking
about my carbonated footprint.
I mean, that's one
of the many things
that you and I have in common.
- The only thing you
and I have in common
is we spend too much
time around trash.
Goodbye, Nate.
- [groans]
[whimsical music]
[dog whines]
- Ah!
♪
Ahh!
♪
[laughs]
♪
[laughs]
[groans]
Uh-oh.
[screams]
[groans]