Dungeons and Daddies - S2 Ep. 5 - Dance Dance Revelations

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

It's the day of the big school dance, but WHO WILL THEY GO WITH!?This episode contains profanity, violence, and sexual content.Support the show on Patreon!Get merch and more at our website!Follow us on Twitter @dungeonsanddads!Check out the subreddit! DM is Anthony Burch (@anthony_burch)Lincoln Li-Wilson is Matt Arnold (@mattlarnold)Normal Oak is Will Campos (@willbcampos)Scary Marlowe is Beth May (@heybethmay)Taylor Swift is Freddie Wong (@fwong) Theme song is "On My Way" by Maxton WallerBrian Fernandes is our Content ProducerAshley Nicollette is our Community ManagerEster Ellis is our Lead EditorTravis Reaves provides Additional EditingRobin Rapp is our transcriber Cover art by Alex Moore (@notanotheralex) Send us stuff and get in contact: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/contact The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dungeons and Daddies is a rowdy, horny, violent podcast for grown-ups. Content warnings can be found in the episode description. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the trumpet! Trumpet! Trumpet! Trumpet! Trumpet! A little bit of him makes me your man. Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies, not a BDSM podcast.

A podcast instead about four teens in a world forever changed by the metaverse, crypto, and an elder god that their grandparents unleashed accidentally. My B. My B. Like my bad. Oh, my B. Oh. Oh, shit. That's some real teen time. Man, the chemistry today is on fire. The charts.

My name is Freddie Wong. It is on fire. My name is Freddie Wong. It is on fire today. I play Taylor Swift, the Rad Ranger. Anime-loving, cool teen who's just scored. You're the Red Ranger, but you're the Rad Ranger? It's the Rad Ranger, yeah, yeah. Who's just scored a date to the upcoming dance. Which makes you the Green Ranger.

That's true. The Green Ranger was so fucking dope. So fucking rad. Do you think the Green Ranger smoked weed? Anyway, Taylor's rad fact for this week. Taylor, as a survivalist, as a practitioner of the various

weapon arts, has a thing out for throwing stars. You might think, like, oh, he likes anime. He's a survivalist. Certainly he's got some throwing stars. No. No throwing stars. We canonically established that you had throwing stars in, like, the first episode of the podcast. Like any good anime,

he can change his mind a few episodes later. It don't matter, Will. If he has throwing stars, he doesn't use them, Will, because he believes that throwing stars are actually impractical in actual usage. They're limited. There's so many better weapons you can use, but secretly it's because one time

Taylor set up a cardboard box in his backyard to practice throwing stars, and he threw it wrong, and he cut his hand. And then ever since then, he's been scared to throw the throwing stars. So then as a result, to compensate, he's like, throwing stars are actually not. No true warrior uses throwing stars. They're a fabrication. Does he have the kukiri?

Do you know what I mean? Like, what's the little knife that Naruto throws? He could never figure out how to throw that well. So instead, he just refuses to throw throwing stars. Anthony, go ahead and put that. I see that you're typing that into the notes. Great. Just establishing some more canonical.

No, I'm tweeting at Jason David Frank, the actor who played the Green Ranger and asking if he smoked weed. Ah, very good, very good, very good. He hasn't posted since February 25th. Sorry, I'm not smoking. A lot of my hopes are not high. Hey, everybody.

My name is Matthew Arnold. I play Lincoln Lee Wilson, the schooled-at-home soccer kid who's the petrified paladin. Yeah? Does that rhyme? That's your name? Wow. I like that.

I mean, your anxiety over it is very in character. Yeah, okay. So there we go. A little rad fact about Lincoln. I know it's not Halloween, but this fact's about Halloween. Lincoln always has the same costume, which is his future self as a great soccer player on a team. Aww team and then he always gets insecure about it like he always gets it because his dad's like yeah you should really envision

your future he's like well i'm gonna be a great soccer player so it's with his jersey it's on chelsea it's you know the year 2050 or whatever it is but he's always like i'm not good enough to be a great soccer player i can't top this dad fact okay ask what's the candy rules for uh lincoln around halloween he gets one candy a night until next halloween so he gets his years he's trying to get that 356 that's the secret number he's gotta get 356 candies canonically there's only 356 days because the earth has changed its orbit a little bit what are you talking about 365 days how old are you hey this is the future days he doesn't have candy for no no the weight and the gravitational shift from the doodler has given every month one

extra day so now it's 300 uh no no less less days less days whatever i say is right whatever the thing is to make my thing make sense hi everyone i'm will campos i played normal oak uh perky chirpy chicken fucking perky, peppy, chipper, cheery, school spirit, mascot, kid, and the Claritin Cleric, because he has allergies. Love it. My dad fact about Normal today is that Normal has a big sister named Hero Oak, and Hero is a senior at Video Game High School. What?

So you dare. How dare you? You can't do that. The first thing Anthony's gonna do is that video game high school blows up he's gonna be like hey on the news

today you find out alright well he does have a big sister named Hero H-E-R-O like the character from Much Ado About Nothing oh wow

I didn't think you were gonna go to high school you didn't think you could do that okay no no you know

I was expecting we have two of the three other stakeholders in here right now yeah but I'm the one in charge of this universe yeah you can do whatever

you want Anthony Captain America showed up in Free Guy fuck it baby, but I'm the one in charge of this universe. Yeah, you can do whatever you want, Anthony. Captain America showed up in Free Guy. Fuck it, baby. There's Hulk. We got Hulk in this one, everyone. I was really hoping you were all going to get

really upset and yell at me over it and then it would be fun that I trolled you into putting Video Game High School in, but now that it's like I've gotten permission, it's kind of taken the joy out of it. And that's how you parent.

It was great, too. It's like it's all the other universes that are canonically in our universe. Like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo universe. That's the only other fictional universe that shares its canon with the Duchess of Dali. Technically, our show takes place in the real world. So any movie that took place in the real world is part of what happened in our world.

No, it's just the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. Hi, my name is Beth May and I play Scary Marlow, a goth punk seeker of darkness who is not like the other warlocks. I guess a better way, because

you guys all changed. Do you think it's better than our alliteration? She's a wacky warlock. A wacky warlock. she's a wacky werewolf warlock she's a woman warlock she's a warlock of divorce warlock all of those things here's a deep cut rad fact first crush that scary had was on the evil penguin in the pebble and the penguin i think his name is drake or something the sound of this movie's google search results reaching above two over the last year for the first time in a decade don booth sat up from his nap in a cold sweat oh guess who plays the evil

penguin is tim curry yeah, that makes sense then. He's just Gaston. But he's hot. This is a zaddy penguin for sure. I see that for scary. Yeah. It's weird to see a penguin

that has teeth. I'll put that on. Yeah. Oh, yikes. It's true. They have to wear the cape and his leg day and his whole muscle

on top. Oh, man. This is a disgusting film. I feel like I get scary better now, though, honestly. I feel like I do disgusting film. I feel like I get scary better now, though, honestly. I feel like I do, too. I feel like I just understood her better. I'm Anthony.

I'm your dad. So the bad news is today I was late. But the good news is that I got to meet Beth's mom before we started. And I know what you're thinking. I'm not going to talk. I'm not going to make jokes about how I'm going to get to third base with Beth's mom or anything like that. I'm not going to make jokes about that. It's not a joke.

I am going to talk about how I'm going to get to second base with Beth's mom or anything like that. I'm not going to make jokes about that. It's not a joke. I am going to talk about how I'm going to get to second base with Beth's mom. We are going to do so much over the clothing petting, so much PG-13 groping and caressing. Last episode,

you tracked down a kid named Abe Gould, Lou Bega. So was he actually Lou Bega? He wasnould, Lou Bega. Wait, so was he actually Lou Bega? He wasn't actually Lou Bega. So if your name anagrams to someone else, you just channel that person's energy? Is that what it is? Yeah, I think, I mean, I have my own head of canon for it, but maybe it will be relevant

later on. Yeah, he bonded with an acolyte of the doodler and tried to take parts of a bunch of different ladies to make a weird science kind of homunculus like ultra woman for himself to date. You stopped him. You got Erica Drippen's teeth back. She's absent for this episode because she's currently getting them all put back in.

She's too popular for us. She's too popular for you, frankly. Not for Taylor. Not for Taylor. And then, yeah, that night a couple of FBI guys came to Link's house. Oh, that's right.

Yeah. Yeah. They wanted to know why he went to the police. The non-linear storytelling of this season is a lot like Pulp Fiction. It's really fascinating.

Yeah, yeah. We pick up at school. It's Friday. The dance is tonight. And while all of you are in your separate classes, your badges vibrate and you get a message saying that you need to meet in the gross bathroom. And you immediately know what that is because there's one bathroom on campus that has never worked.

All the stalls are clogged and horrible and it's stinky and nobody ever goes in there. And Pepperoni Tony keeps saying he's going to fix it and he never does. Lincoln has not been into any of the bathrooms. He thinks they're all. Is Lincoln still pissing outside? No, he holds it. He thinks all the public bathrooms are gross. So he's like the gross bathroom.

So Lincoln is going to enter and look around in every bathroom. Oh, normal on his way from wood shop covered in splinters. Sees Link walking around says, Link, no, the gross one's over here. That's not the gross one. Is this the girls' bathroom? Don't go in the girls' bathroom. That's illegal.

Oh, hey. Hi, Taylor. Wait, what? You need me to go in the girls' bathroom? Is that the gross one? Yeah. Well, I just assumed

the girls' one was really nice. No. What do you get up to in there? Oh, man. Could you talk a little bit about- We just put tampons everywhere. Wait, what?

Yeah, no, girls' bathrooms are completely disgusting. Well, now you got me wondering which bathroom is the gross bathroom. I text back on my badge and I ask, what bathroom do you mean? She says girls' bathroom near the field. Wait, but we can't go in that one. I think if Scary writes us all a note and we all go in with Scary, we can go into the girls' bathroom. Okay.

That's what an ally looks like. Please forgive these freaks as they come into the girl's bathroom. It's super necessary. I tape it on my shirt. I tape that on my shirt. Okay, let's go. So inside this. Oh my God.

Oh my God. I mean, it's not that dirty. It's like nobody's used it in a really long time. It doesn't smell great. Like it feels like the toilet's probably clogged a long time ago, but it's not like the shit's still in it or anything like that. All the stall doors are open and May Hales steps out from one of them and goes, hey, come here. We got a job. Agent Hales. Yeah. Yeah. She's also covered in blood.

So this is what happens in the girl's bathroom. Yeah. Look. Okay. So I found out a bunch of stuff. Okay. Lay it on us. Long and short of it is that you need to get to the dance tonight. You need to be there tonight when it happens. Oh, I don't think that'll be much of a problem at all. Okay, as you say that, the announcement's starting. You hear Vice Principal Pepperoni Tony saying, VPPT. As a reminder, there's no going stag to the dance.

You have to have a date. We're not allowing no losers at the dance. You have to have a date, and you gotta kiss them. That's the rule. No losers. Pepperoni Tony out. And Mayhale goes, oh, yikes, well,

that's a you problem. I tortured that weird monster you brought in. You what? I got some information from him. I tortured him. Okay. What, is that not?

I mean, it's too late now. You can't untorture a goblin, but. Oh, well, I mean, you're my boss. Did you want me to, like, not do that in the future?

Run it up past us, I think. You were situationally okay with torturing people. I can't. Lady, I'm 14. What do you want from me? You're my boss. It's fair. Okay, it's fair.

I didn't even get any permission from torture. Oh, good. What a relief. Yeah, yeah. I just asked him and then he didn't give me anything useful after I tortured him. It was waste time. Just don't do that anymore. Okay. Or if you are going to do it, didn't give me anything useful after I tortured him. It was waste time. Just don't do that anymore. Okay.

Or if you are going to do it, don't tell us about it. That feels worse. That feels way more worse. No, I'm saying don't do it. But if you do, we're kids. We can't hear these things. There's lots of things adults do that they don't tell us about. So let's keep that relationship between the adults and us teens, okay?

Okay. But don't do it. I won't. She says, winking at't she says no that sounds like you're gonna do it though but you said that i could and just not to tell you and i'm not winking you're not gonna torture somebody don't but if you do if i did if you do but i wouldn't but you won't leave a note in this bathroom. And then if we want to know, we'll check the bathroom. How about that? Okay. Yeah, I can do that. Okay.

Okay. That makes sense. But yeah, but don't. I won't. She says, taking out a notepad, writing, I tortured that thing you found and then putting the stick at note on the door. That one doesn't count because you already told us about that one. I flush it down the toilet.

All right. Well, it doesn't work. It just stays right. Now I tortured. I flush it down the toilet. All right. Well, it doesn't work at all. It just stays right. Now I tortured that guy just sitting in the toilet. The important thing is the place that he came out in was a school, which like was obvious because that's where you found him in that kindergarten. And he said that the creature that he was with said that it, quote, didn't want to start a run mid-session.

So then they went to the kindergarten. So I use that info and I narrow the search to high schools. And I found a big energy reading under yours. That's been building up over time to an incursion tonight. These incursion holes, they match up with a different name I saw repeated in your dad's files. What was that? Oh, yeah, I don't want to. But like somebody named Nicholas, he said that if you go and close a hole, you would get a lot of it would be a glorious thing.

You would get a lot of glory. I don't get it. Oh, thank God. It doesn't matter. Great. I was thought you were gonna connect on that we're gonna have to keep saying glory hole but no no incursion holes that's way cooler

like kicking in the net you kick it in the glory hole no yes Gary what do you think about glory hole is the name of a, that's the coolest name I've ever heard. Print up some merch and distribute it. I think that's a real hit. This is why I didn't have kids. Oh, fuck. This sucks. That's great.

We'll just cancel the dance. That's great. Nobody has to stress out about going. Yeah. Or kissing anybody. We can't cancel the dance. We cannot do anything to cancel the dance. i need to be clear that this dance is happening motherfuckers why taylor taylor let me break it down for you here's what's gonna happen

you're gonna go you think you're going out with erica drippings i am you're gonna say hey erica do you want a slow dance and she's gonna say maybe later and then that's gonna have a couple times and then the dance is gonna be over i clearly remember her saying no she did not i mean she didn't say the words no but all the words she said put together she furrowed her brow and nodded that's a yes be that as it may scary does she say yes or no recording d and dad's right now would you go out are you texting Elise? Whoa, wait, Scary. Scary, you got Erica's number? Scary, you got Erica's number?

I don't know why you have to worry about this. Beads of sweat gathering on Taylor's forehead. I texted Elise. Risky text sent. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. What'd she say, Scary? Oh, that was to a different text.

I'm sorry. All right, we'll figure it out later. It says my post base is on the way. Also that and like weirdly there are sort of tunnels and she points into the stall and instead of a toilet there, there's just this big kind of platform not to freak you out, but this is another form of

upy downy machine and she presses the button and it shoots downward and she goes, yeah, I went around looking after I finished killing the little thing that you brought me. Did you kill the dude? Oh, oh, so you're upset that I killed it after torturing it? Would it be better if I didn't kill it after torturing it? If we didn't want you to tell us about torturing,

why would you think you'd want us? You know what? I'll take that. I also won't, winking, kill anyone after I, winking, don't torture them. Miss Hales, this is going to come up on your performance review. And then as you look at Taylor,

he's got thumbs up. So anyway, if you ever want to get to daddy's HQ or any of your homes or the school really quickly, uh, there are these tunnels, uh, that connect to all of them.

So there's fast travel tunnels. Hey, that's a good way. That's a good way to put it. Yeah. I guess there's fast travel. Okay. How do we close these holes?

Okay. So yeah, that I don't know. Find something to plug the glory hole right basically like the glory into the glory hole no yeah you uh well um the thing i didn't kill told me that it only actually appears in space when it's spitting something out into our world the incursion point so i guess you just have to sit around wait around for that thing to sort of open and then maybe you can we it or destroy it. Did you get any idea as to where in our school

such a thing, a portal, might open up? It's going to be in the cafeteria, which you're using for the dance. And also, you managed to stop the on-the-sauce person from killing anybody, and you did it without, this time, killing anybody else. So you get... A horse was injured.

Well, I mean, no horse can really be injured as long as they live in your heart. Okay. So yeah, you get ten Daddy Warbucks for that. Wow. And she hands them to you. For some reason, these are like almost all Will. Daddy Willbucks.

Daddy Willbucks. I wanted to give you these. And she upgrades your badges. She taps them with a little digital stick. And it says, Daddy's, you know, and then your name. And it says level two because you all leveled up. Yes! Is this like growing up, we stronger god not really like growing up like you think you're stronger and then you get a little bit stronger than that and you realize like i actually wasn't

i was actually weak like it's not a straight line it's not i love i can cast speak with animal without expending a spell slot now that's gonna be so fun for anybody who might have to voice those animals yeah like we wouldn't have the fbi help us or anything right because yeah none of you guys had the fbi like you right what do you mean what about the fbi you had the fbi show up last night i mean either i mean no well roll deception with disadvantage link i got a natural 20 with disadvantage so that's a shame that that doesn't kind of mean anything unless you'd throw another natural i stopped listening once you 15 15 okay so everybody roll uh perception and if or insight Natural 20. Went to Spanish, so that's a shame that that doesn't mean anything unless you throw another natural 20. I stopped listening once you... 15.

15. Okay, so everybody roll a perception or insight, rather. I know that he's lying to me. I got an 18. I believe him. Got a natural one. Taylor is clueless. The FBI stopped my torrent network of fine animes,

but little did they know that all I had to do was encrypt my traffic. Making sure that nobody... Yeah, it's just good that we haven't gotten in trouble yet. So that's great. Normal texts link a question mark. Oh, that Bezos energy. But I leave it at that for now.

I text them back. I say, I'm right here. And I look at them. I just text back, dot, dot, dot, question mark, question mark. Does normal text you guys while he's with you? Normal, what's up? What happened with the FBI, man? That's what I just said.

Nothing happened with the FBI. That's why I brought it up. Norma, lay off him, all right? Yeah, Norm, like, why are you so suspicious, man? I just get a vibe that Link isn't being entirely honest with us. You're being hella among us right now. I'm not trying to be among us. I'm not saying anyone is suspicious.

I'm not saying. If something happened with the FBI, I'd tell you. I did tell you when the FBI came over to my house. FBI came over to my house. Yeah. Remember a couple years ago when we prank called the president? The president! Well, the FBI showed up.

Those were good times. Yeah, man. I missed that. I was sharing a lot of Disney animes and, well, you know, the local newspaper tells the sordid tale of that one. Cut to Family Guy style, a front page of a newspaper, local teen raided by FBI. And you see a younger Taylor in the doorway, like, screaming and being held back by his mom as, like, the FBI just is, like, smashing his computers. It is so deeply emotionally crushing to me that you refer to a jump cut to a flashback as, you know, like in Family Guy.

You know, like in family guy so mayhale says like okay well if the fbi did like we don't fuck with the fbi like they're bad they're bad what we're not uh big fans of the fbi here at daddy's so how about the police no not i mean the police just don't listen firefighters yeah firefighters are fine okay ambulance drivers so i'm gonna head back to HQ and not clean up a lot of not blood. We can wait for clean water solutions. Or we can engineer access to clean water. We can acknowledge

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slash write the future. so we have to find a way to shut down this hole more than that you need dates i mean there's four of us so we just pair up we just go out with each other yeah just pair up i'm taking well we haven't as she's responded no i'm just saying like if i need it either i'm going out with erica or i need to make sure that i'm available in case she says yes to that no i am reserved taylor for our dads we gotta stop this thing which means we need dates dates. Otherwise, we're losers. I will not besmirch the good name of my date by committing to another date without confirmation. There's a knock on the bathroom door on the outside of the door. We're busy! We're busy! Yeah, this is our clubhouse.

Wait, it could be somebody we could date. Oh, hey! Hello? So you open the door, and it's Hermie the Unworthy, and he goes, Hello. Hello, scary. It might well be perhaps someone, perhaps that you could perhaps date maybe. I just noticed you were in the scary bathroom, the gross bathroom for a while.

I thought something may have happened. I just wanted to check to make sure you were safe. I am a very considerate man, as you can see by my checking on you. I just know that you're doing fine. So I'm going to just going to, I guess, unless you had something you want to ask me, I guess I could just give you the space that you require because I'm a good, because I understand. I accept. I respect the agency of a woman. I think I need.

Yeah. I'd love to give you what you need. I'm dealing with a lot right now. And I think I just need some space. Some space. Yeah. Yeah. Happy to give you some space.

I can, I can like, like wait outside for, yeah. Happy to give you some space. I can wait outside and we can talk more. We got a lot of stuff. We're taking a long time in here, man. If you could just give us... Oh, there's many people in there. Yeah. All friends, right? Just friends. Yeah, all friends.

Hermie, go away! Okay, okay. That kitten's got claws. And Hermie steps away by walking backwards but still maintaining eye contact oh my god all right so no one's going out with her me that's for sure okay fine taylor we'll figure you out in a second but like right the i mean well all right like how do you want it it's not a real date so like can you just go with normal or whatever or like go with me and then the other one will find one? No. Okay. Okay. Everybody knows that going with your friend is like more embarrassing than even a friend.

Yeah. Wow. You better watch it though. Yeah. here's what i propose as you can see while you were talking i lied about the fbi i can't lie to my friends but i can't say anything more about it okay just trust me okay they came to my house that's all let's talk about game dates i want to give you a high five right now school spirit high five for i don't know if i'm allowed to do that they said a lot of confusing stuff to me so i'm just gonna stay low and i'll talk to you guys more when i can let's just get these dates okay all right well as you can see i've constructed construction paper flyers advertising each one

of us and our various qualities and there's see these little tabs here so i figured we could put these on the community announcement bulletin board and then anyone that wants to date us can just grab one and then we'll pick one my first step was i was just gonna go through we have the list i was gonna go see everybody who said no to me being a pervert i was gonna hit them up first that's a great way to narrow it down unfortunately it does look like everybody actually said i was a perfect except for erica and i don't want to get on taylor's thing but i was like maybe i'll just ask her what if she winds up going with someone else then you and taylor can go together i said let's pair off that's fine i think that it's fair i mean listen that won't happen you should have another backup because i'm going with erica okay but you will go with me if erica for some reason gets sick

okay so unavailable on the record day normal then we all got dates yes and you can just pretend with anybody else whatever norm yeah if we go to this dance together you can just pretend to kiss or kiss. It doesn't matter. I didn't want to go with anybody else, whatever. Yeah. If we go to this dance together, you can't wear the mascot outfit. Are you serious? I'm serious. Norm, you need to find the woman who loves you for who you are. All right, let me go look. And if I can't find anybody, then we can talk about it.

Okay. I go and I put a construction paper bulletin on the community announcements that says, like, it's me, normal. You know, the guy in the mascot costume. Would you like to go on a date with Teeny the Teen and talk about school spirit and have a fun time? If so, rip one of these things off and put it in my locker with your name on it. Really quick, Beth, can you send me Elisa's number? Are you going to?

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Are you going to text Elisa? That's really good. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Are you going to text Elise? That's really good. Oh, fuck. No. Wait. I got it.

No, you don't have her number. I'm going to text. Yeah, goddamn right. Don't text first. Don't text first. Don't text first. No, don't text first. I have to text her.

I need to know if my date's going with another person. You should both text her. I'm sorry. We're good. Okay, here's what we'll do. We don't get to see what we each other say, but we both write our messages and then we hit send at the same time.

Yeah, that's what I was going to do. I was going to send it in character. But we don't hit, you have to hit send at the same time. Hold on, wait, wait, wait. Okay, so I have my text message done. Do you have yours ready?

Yeah, I've already sent it, dude. What? No, okay, on three. One, two, three. Son of a bitch, you can't, you fucking. What are you doing, Taylor? I'm just asking.

It's not a big deal. Do you want to read our texts? Okay, yeah, I'll go first. Yeah, read your texts aloud. What are't you fucking what are you doing taylor i just i'm just asking it's not a big deal do you want to read our texts okay yeah i'll go first yeah read your text a lot what do you say what do you say taylor i said hey erica this is your boy t swift just checking in one time to pick you up for the dance smiley face emoji lady dancing emoji thumbs up emoji three sunglasses emojis and the avocado i just wrote hey erica it's link hope your teeth are better sorry about my hand in your mouth but glad glad it all worked out. Anyways, I just need to know if you're going to dance with Taylor. Not a big deal. Just your answer. We'll decide if I need to find another date. Have a great day. Oh my God. Have a great day. Oh my God. I literally just texted Elise, like recording D and Dad's right now. Would you go out with Freddie's character? I just texted Elise, like, recording D and Dad's right now.

Would you go out with Freddie's character? Have a great day and keep being your best self, best link. It's a real Wolverine-Cyclops situation. Oh, my God, it is. We're both fighting for Taylor. No, I mean, for her, that's her choice. No, her choice is Taylor or not. I'm not asking to go with her.

I'm asking if she's going with Taylor or not. Well, you did. You were blind. It definitely sounds like. I'm going to need to find another date. Wait, is Red like I was asking her out? I was trying to say that if Taylor. No, because you said like that she needs to. Oh, God.

Not cool, dude. Not cool. I was trying to do you a solid. I didn't want to tell her that you also promised me to go on the date. I was just like, hey, just to be clear. Just to be clear. Roll a D20 to see if your phone dies. I got 19.

Oh, I need to roll to see if I die. Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roll your d100. Hey, just to be clear. And roll your wisdom savings thread to not jerk off. I'm not asking you out. It's that if you don't go with Taylor, I'm going with him.

I got a 59. I'm still alive. Still alive. What am I rolling? The masturb 59. I'm still alive. Still alive. What am I rolling? The masturbation? Wisdom saving throw. A 10. So I think you say it's 34 right now at this point, I think?

I think so, yeah. Holy shit. It pays to not masturbate, kids. I don't know what to tell you. You did put up an advertisement. I put up a construction paper advertisement. So I feel like that's a persuasion roll with disadvantage. Because a piece of paper is doing the persuading for you.

And your reputation is probably not amazing. My reputation has preceded me. Well, I got a 10, so... I guess one person should answer then. So Hermie the Unworthy shows up and goes, Hello, normal. I see you require companionship to the dance. Is it like meet under the tree outside?

Like, where are we to do these interviews and auditions? In the note, I said, like, take the green tab and slip it into my locker. So I feel like what happens is I open the locker. I see the green tab. I close it. And Hermie the Unworthy is on the other side. Oh, hey, Hermie.

What's up, dude? Don't visit your locker very much, I see. I mean, yeah, I've just kind of been waiting. You know, I've been a little nervous that no one was going to answer. But someone did. Isn't this crazy? Yes. Isn't it?

You answered, didn't you? A gentleman never tells. But that's specifically the point was. Yes, I guess it was me. Yes.'t you? A gentleman never tells. But that's specifically the point was. Yes, I guess it was me. Yes. Do you want to go to the dance with me, Hermie? The question is, do you want to go to the dance with me? I mean, like, you know, it would have been kind of mean for me to put this out there and then not say yes to the one answer. So if you want to go like I just, you know, if this is like some weird thing about scary, though, because like we're probably going to go together. So if this is just an excuse to hang out with scary, I'm kind of not into that.

If you're suggesting that I would want to hang out with a man who refuses to take off a mascot costume just solely to increase my own cachet by seeming so much more attractive by comparison in a formal situation. If you're implying that I have some sort of machinations that you are merely a gear in the larger cog and machinery of. That is what I'm implying. I guess that's what I'm asking you. Frankly, that's offensive. Oh, I'm sorry. To think that I could be so devious.

Does he make a persuasion check? Why don't you roll insight? Oh, no. i got a seven he could be telling the truth he could be lying well you know her me maybe i misjudged you uh perhaps you did it's you know maybe you can make up to me at the dance okay okay or maybe you could have been scared to make up for me at the dance or maybe it's just you maybe i'd be happy either way i don't i don't or maybe there's only one way I'd be happy.

I feel like you should have to make another persuasion check. You have to make another insight check. All right, I got the 19 now. All right, come on now. You got greedy, man. You got greedy. I can't, I can't. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

You know, but you're a nice guy. You know. Of course I'm a nice guy. I mean, you're not. But if you learn to be a nice guy, but you get some nice girl or guy or fella or lady or whoever would like you. So just maybe try to not be so much of a creep in the future. So make a dexterity saving throw.

Okay. I got a 19. Okay. So he tries to shove you into your locker. You see it coming a mile away. I step out of the way. Okay. So he just puts his hand forward

and then steps forward trying to shove you in the locker. You step out of the way. His hand hits the locker. And then he like very swiftly like turns as if he's just leaning of the way. Okay, so he just puts his hand forward and then steps forward trying to shove you in the locker. You step out of the way. His hand hits the locker, and then he very swiftly turns as if he's just leaning against the locker, and he goes, look. Goddamn, he's smooth. Let me be real with you.

In the words of Jane Austen, you have no prospects, nor do I. The only chance we have of getting the people that we want is to be at that dance, wait for their inevitable heartbreak at the end of whichever knuckle- buffoon they had decided to go with. Because you know as well as I that girls love to go with assholes. So I just wait for that asshole to break her heart.

You can wait for some asshole to break somebody. I don't know, whatever you're interested in. And then who's there to pick up those pieces? Who's there to reassemble that broken, broken woman into something that will make out with me? That's me. Oh my God. And that's going to be you.

You know what? I'm going to reassemble your broken pieces, Hermie Unworthy. And I'm going to show you that maybe it's time to just have a good time with someone and not have to worry about all that stuff. So you know what? I will go out with you because frankly, I think someone needs to keep an eye on you. Perfect. So yeah, that sounds good. You got a date. Perfect. All according to plan. At least texted me back. out with you because frankly i think someone needs to keep an eye on you uh so uh yeah that

sounds good you got a date perfect all according to plan at least texted me back so taylor takes one look at his phone and goes and puts it away and says i'm all spoken for i'm sorry link that's okay i just want to make sure yeah you're gonna need to find someone but i'm more than happy to help you out yeah link would not give this away to the rest of the crew because he respects Taylor, but I do want to just shout out Elise's role playing via text, which is Elise sent back, Link, how did you get this number? Yes. Yes, I'm going with Taylor. Their mom is rich.

Let me read you Elise's. i would not say that to you because i'm like oh i look at you i can't give you a sad look like oh i'll read that i'll read the lisa's text back to me her response was uh do you have money a car and then i responded yes my mom is rich and i have a self-driving car she will loan me guaranteed and then her response was okay fine but don't tell anyone i reserve the right to change my mind. And we enter separately. And then my response back, which I haven't heard back from him, is, so, like, do you need a ride, though? Great.

She never texted me back. True role-playing genius. All right. Guys, I got a date with Hermie the Unworthy. I think I can fix him. He just needs some school spirit. He just needs to realize that because he goes to this school, he's a number one teen who can believe in himself.

Link, okay, if I go on, like, one speed date and then I don't like him, maybe we should go out. I'm just saying. Oh, okay, that's fine with me. Guys, should go out. I'm just saying. Oh, okay. That's fine with me. Guys, I gotta admit, I've been homeschooled, and this is really confused

because I've never been on a dance before, and I was like, are we trying to do it to get to the dance? Are we trying to do it to find love? And both of them are scary to me. You're not helping your case here, man. I just wanted to get there, so I was going to go out

and be a chaperone or something, but I'm cool with going with you, Scary, if you don't like the boy or whoever you're going to go talk. Go on your date. You're on a date now. That's cool. I don't care. Oh, this is great because I actually went ahead. I got carried up in the moment and I did put up a construction paper flyer for you, Scary. Oh my God. So there should be some options waiting for you in your locker. She opens her locker. So I rolled a D20 to see how many responses you got. And I rolled a 19.. So, Kellogg's Pop-Tart Locker situation.

Yeah, you have your pick of the litter of all the school's most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes. Make sure to see all 19 so that Anthony has to role play all 19 tweets.

I was actually thinking about doing literally exactly that. If we wanted to do speed dating where I do 19 different personalities and voices. Or we could round robin them. Oh, that's true. We could round robin.

Oh, that's pretty good. Okay. So, Anthony, here's what i want i want you the discord matt will myself like just we'll all come with different personalities names though i want names okay yeah you throw me names so i just grabbed 19 names from our patreon forum where people can submit names and i just plug them into our discord so we can do a round robin of speed dating. You go first, Will, and then it'll go to me. All right, so Becca Cornstarch walks up to Terry in her marching band uniform and says, Hi, Scary, I saw your note and I thought it was so nice.

Dick Spencer, Australian. Dick Spencer's the name. Dick Pleasure is the game. Oh, I don't have a dick. You don't? Oh, well, fuck you then. Next. Hey, it's me, Billy Steeskeg.

Just been, uh, we were coming back from the weight room, and I just saw, you know, I was working out my quads. It's a leg day. You never skip it. I mean, I saw you have a thing up and you're looking for a date. So I was thinking, you know, you and me. What do you say? Tell me about your favorite music.

Oh, it's just a lot of like classic rock, like 30 Seconds to Mars. Paramore. Paramore. Oh. Like. Panic at the Disco. Panic at the Disco. Led Zeppelin 2.

Led Zeppelin 2. The second Led Zeppelin. Sounds like you're in the Disco. Panic at the Disco. Led Zeppelin 2. Led Zeppelin 2, the second Led Zeppelin. Sounds like you're in the really gritty stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever it takes to get that pump. I think I've found my way. No! Not this guy!

Not this fucking guy! At least hear what Matt's gonna do with Yarn the Untangler. Oh, there's this dude behind me who's just been like, Yarn the Untangler oh there's this dude behind me who's just been like yarn the untangler comes sprinting to the table is your name scary have you has the date been taken yet

has the date been taken yet bro I think Shin and I are gone bro oh wait is this this is the right place though right yes it's the right place fuck okay fuck alright he runs back. He leaves. On the way back. He clearly does not go to school, by the way.

Oh, my God. He just runs off campus. Don't know who this person is. Hey, Link. I think, yeah, I think I'll go with you. Wait, what? Oh. Okay.

Yeah, that's great. That's the classic teenager move of saying yes to somebody just going with someone else yeah cut to the weight room where billy steeze cake is lifting weights with all of his bros uh we'll roll quick d20 to see how well he does on this bench she's cake steeze cake's Cheesecake rolled a natural 20. Oh, my God. So Billy's Cheesecake's a weight spotter. Ken Hippogriffy Jr. is like, so how did it go with Scary, bro?

Bro, totally locked in. You know what I'm saying? Just like these reps. Great. That's cool. All right. A tear falls from Ken Hippogriffy Jr.'s face. Man, I really would have loved to go on a date with Serenity Mousepad, though.

Okay, well, yeah, that's cool. I mean, that's great. Again, this is just for the mission. It's not like, I'm glad we figured this all out, right? It's just for the mission. Just for the mission. We all got dates. You're going with, who are you going with? Hermione the Unworthy, I think.

He just needs friends. He just needs a positive, you know? Okay, we know that the dance is happening in the cafeteria, right? Yeah, I think so. That's where the incursion's going to be. So we want to be Johnny on the spot, you know, right there. We need to pre-prep the cafeteria with weapons, tools,

anything we might need because we don't know what we're going to face, everybody. That's true. So Taylor just sits down on one of the toilets and flushes it. Nothing happens. How do we get... Isn't this the secret room? How do we get... One of them just doesn't have a toilet there. It's just a platform. It's an upy-downy. But it's not like a fun, like, it looks like like a toilet and then when you sit on the toilet it sucks you

down i've changed my mind that's more fun so there's a toilet that when you sit on it it sucks you down into a tube there's no pooping for this toilet like out of order oh yeah yeah definitely good idea yeah big old no pooping please sign and no peeing too wait wait no okay wait a second i don't know about you guys but i feel like if you tell teenagers not to do something, they're most, okay, we should put no pooping on all the other toilets. That's true. That would for sure make it most likely that this is the one toilet nobody would poop in.

Link, you've got to, you know, for a kid who's been homeschooled, you really understand the mind of the high school. The keen insight that Link has into the mind of a teenager. So, yeah, you do that, you get sucked through like a pneumatic tube, but it's man-sized.

It doesn't shrink. We don't like a Santa Claus situation where you're smushed down? No, you do not get Santa Claus. You just get sucked through a pneumatic tube

all the way back to Daddy's HQ and you pop out in front of the big old vending machine. Wow. That's right where we wanted it.

This form of travel is remarkably convenient. Okay, guys, here's my thought. I'm really curious about those keys. I think we should try one of those keys out on the Obsidian door. Ten bucks. I think they're ten each. We got ten?

Let's do it. Yeah, let's use one of the keys and blow it on the Obsidian door. I really want to see. I feel like maybe we'll get some clues about our dad behind this thing. So you spend your ten bucks. You get a jeweled key. And when it touches your hand, you feel that you are closer than you've ever been to extreme power. Actually, if anybody wants to roll Arcana.

I rolled a 16 Arcana plus one, 17. Oh, wow. Okay. Did you just get taller? Maybe. You seem like, doesn't she like, she's got like a glow. You get a vague sense that whatever is behind this door, you feel like you'll level up a couple times at least if you go into this fucking door. Whoa.

Whoa. Like everybody who opens it? Yep. There's four locks on it, right? What happens to the key? Does it get locked in there? Do you want to try it on the lock? Yeah, I mean, I'd be scared.

Yeah, we have one of the keys, right? Yes, you have one of the keys. What's it look like? So it looks like. Ooh. Whoa. Looks like this. Whoa.

Wow. It's like a legit old ass like antique shop key. Anthony, where did you get that? Etsy. Oh. Oh, shit. I got it for real. Okay.

I don't know why I did though. I'm looking at it now and I'm realizing you didn't need this. Did you get four of them? You didn't. I did. Okay. Well, that's great. And I don't know why I did that.

Well, give it to Beth. And she probably feels really cool now holding that key. And we're all going to want that. Yeah. And I want a key too. So we're're gonna keep playing the game doors so we all get keys it's like gameplay i love it out there thank you matt should i put it in the door should i wait until we all get the keys i don't know let's just see what happens when we put in the door i guess okay okay so you put it in the door yep uh and you turn it off my so scary as you turn the

key in the lock two things happen, you feel a great deal of power infuse into your body. As I'm locking the door. No. I did it. Yeah, you just feel a lot of energy coming through it, and you level up. Which she levels up? Oh, yeah. Yes, just scary. And the second thing that happens is you hear a voice echoing in your head, and it says one

word, and it's a voice that is not really familiar to you, yet somehow feels familiar in a non-specific kind of sense okay like the movie trailer guy yeah like the movie trailer guy it's like no one knows his name back from the dead you hear the word power oh my god what wait do we hear that no no It was just in Scary's head. Okay, but we heard it. Like, Matthew Arnold heard it.

I can't say you didn't. You're in the room with me. So Lincoln doesn't give a shit. No, Lincoln doesn't give a shit. Now you learn about whatever the opposite of dramatic irony is, where you have to pretend that your character doesn't care. It's like I'm in a J.J. Abrams movie, and someone just told me their name was Khan.

Yeah, exactly. Scary. That's fucking weird, Don Will. Scary, what, exactly. Scary. Such a weird duck, Will. Scary, what like? Scary. What happened? You have a glow about you. You looked like you heard something in your head just now. Oh, man. Did I? What did you hear?

Wait, you did hear something? You look more powerful now, too. Yeah, well, that's the thing. I think I heard. Yeah? No, I couldn't be. Engineer access to clean water. We can acknowledge indigenous cultures. Or we can learn from indigenous voices. We can demand more from the earth. Or we can demand more from ourselves.

At York University, we work together to create positive change for a better tomorrow. Join us at yorku.ca slash write the future. We're going to be late for the dance. The dance is tonight, right? The dance is tonight. Ah, I promised Erica that I'd pick her up. I got to go. I've rented a limo and everything.

Can I come along to pick up my date in the limo too? Is that all right? All right, I've upgraded the limo to a bus. Okay, so you stop by Erica's house and- The bus is attempting a three-point turn in this cul-de-sac. You know what I mean? Sure. Yeah, you knock on the door and Dr. Dri-de-sac. You know what I mean? Sure. Yeah, you knock on the door, and Dr. Drippins answers the door.

Dr. Drippins DDS. DDS opens the door. I look in the driveway, and I note the four Lexus convertibles that they have, because fucking orthodontists make bank like nobody's fucking business. Correct. He's got a car, and he's got one of those big plastic teeth on a spring that goes back and forth. Like a Django and Jane? Yeah. What? got like one of those big like plastic teeth on like a spring that goes back and forth in the future dentist come to you can i ask what's his novelty license plate that he would have on his lexus convertible as a orthodontist oh, it's brace yourself with all the vowels gone. Fuck, that's good.

That's so good. That's on the top of the dome? Fuck, Anthony's like, that's in the game. Brace yourself. Fuck, that's good. Hello, Mr. Drippins. I said doctor. I'm sorry.

And that's a woman you're speaking to. On internet. That's a dad. We're recording this on International Women's Day. day i said dr drippins opens the door anthony i do believe that elise a woman in the last episode said that her father was a dentist she didn't say that her mother wasn't also a dentist they could have been in dentistry school i think i see the dad also a doctor in the kitchen doing dishes while her mother, also a doctor, answers the door. I can't give this child a retainer.

This is my son. Oh, hello, Dr. Dripens. I'm here to pick up Erica for the dance. It's tonight. Oh, Erica's waiting for you at the dance. She already headed out. I'm sorry. I thought.

Oh, just a little. Oh, you know, crossed wires, as it were. Yes, popular kids, they meet at the dance rather than before. Oh, Erica's waiting for you at the dance. She already headed out. I'm sorry. I thought. Oh, just a little. Oh, you know, crossed wires, as it were. Yes, popular kids, they meet at the dance rather than before. Oh, gosh. Well, I guess I'll just. I go back to the bus. I guess Erica's already there, guys. All right.

Well, the next house is Hermie Unworthy. Oh, by the way, how is everybody dressed? I want to know how everyone's dressed for the dance. Let's see. Normal has the mascot outfit he's in his formal wear this evening so it's like a big oversized tuxedo t-shirt and like like black extra size jumbo shorts so that's what normal scary is wearing a gorgeous dress black obviously none of that high heel shit. She's wearing sneakers.

Also gorgeous. And then also black. Taylor's dressed as an RX-78 Gundam. Alright, I'm going to Google that one. Self-made? Yes. Like vacuum form? It's like with the shoulder pads out to the fucking nines.

He has to walk sideways through every door. What a chill mom Dr. Drippen's DDS is who had not mentioned or remarked on a robot coming to pick up her daughter before the dance at all. The moment he closed the door, the two doctors laughed. Yeah, yeah. You immediately hear them just being like,

oh, well, it looks like Erica lied to another child. Lincoln, since he recently had a growth spurt, all of his nice clothes don't fit anymore. So the nicest thing he has is his soccer jersey. So he's wearing that. In his hand,

he's got a couple presents for everybody. First, he's like, hey, so I got this. And I was like, wait, that's stupid because we're not really going on a date. So I got everybody a corsage.

Can we just all? Oh, that's really nice. Yeah, so Scary, here's one for you, but I also got it for everybody else. I thought I should do this before we pick up Hermie because I didn't get him anything. Oh, okay. i see there's a rose garden in his house i'll just

rip one of his mother's prized roses out of the garden and give it to him that seems like that'd be fine right i love the normal nose of surprise roses oh wow you're gonna rip one of those prize roses but they went every year what are you doing oh is that bad are you not supposed to do that go ahead do it i use my lance and i just want to say I feel like I didn't go to school before and I know it's been a little, I've been a little bit, maybe grumpy, maybe haven't been the best and I just want to say I really, I'm glad that we're friends now and I feel like you guys are my friends. So I got you all a little something for the dance to kind of show that we're a team and

I got everybody cool bracelets. So like, yeah, they're just like, it's's not gonna fit over my gun it might not fit over my costume i like kind of shimmy my arm out to like put it out i was trying to get them to like be like a thing but like they're just yellow bands i just wrote your names on them oh this is so cool oh my god it's like we're a super team this is great and then uh taylor kind of like struts over and you hear like as the actuator motors like it's just it's not just cardboard this is like got motors in it. Or is he making that noise in his mouth?

Hard to say. You know what? I want to say I believe in you. So I also got one for Erica, too. If she wants to see him also. Taylor puts his Gundam hand on your shoulder and says, you know what? Link for the biggest pervert loser in school. You're pretty cool.

Cool. Well, OK. I don't know. I think you're pretty cool. Oh, thanks. Well, I'll put them on i yeah i just yeah i want to go on the record as saying that i was the first one to think you were pretty and you know maybe that means you know i'll be the first one of all of us to think harry unworthy's a cool guy i gotta say like no every minute before this dance i was crying with my dad because I miss my other dad.

But this is really feeling good right now. So I'm kind of with you all. That's some very powerful high school energy coming into that. Okay. So do you guys put the bracelets on? Yes. What buffs do we get? Friendship.

Friendship, I guess. Matt, if there's a fucking wire in this bracelet, this is some FBI sting pot, and you fucking serpent code our asses, I'm going to be furious. Oh, no. What kind of house does Hermie live in? He lives in a decently suburban house with a very large SUV in the driveway that makes you think like, oh, that dad is compensating for something. And it must run in the family. What does his custom license plate say, Anthony?

Oh, it says, uh. Do no Herm. Do no Herm. Do no Herm. Do no Herm is way better. Do no Herm. Also a doctor. Yeah, he's also a doctor. A lot of doctors in San Dimas.

Okay, so yeah. Normal gets us like, okay guys, just, you know, like I'll go in, I'll lay the groundwork once again with Hermie to be cool. And yeah, we'll go from there. Okay. Taylor holds his hand out. Hold on. Wait, before you go, I'm going to just get a scan and my targeting computer. Does it find any? I want to say I got a 15 on my check to see whether he's actually a general. Yeah, I'll roll

if he's got a computer in there. I mean, you can roll whatever you want. Freddie's the one who's going to have to answer because I don't know what the fuck he did. It's basically I've repurposed Google Glass 2.0. They tried it again. It was just as bad. But it's just as bad. So it's like, if I squint, I can kind of see my email. Yeah, exactly. And it's like really small still.

Wish me luck. I'm a little nervous. I don't know why. I've never done something like this before. Go get him, buddy. Do you need us to be near? Matt definitely gestured patting Norma on the butt when he said go get him, buddy. Just so everyone's aware.

Go get him, tiger. So, Norma steps out of the van and walks up to the front door and looks at the roses but thinks better

of ripping one out of the garden and rings the doorbell. Hermit the Unworthy opens the door and he's wearing a tuxedo. He's fucking dressed to the nines,

like, frankly, overdressed for a school dance and he goes, congratulations, tiger. This is your lucky day face it tiger you just hit the jackpot and he just strolls past you toward the bus could you imagine to have that much confidence in high school like even taylor is intimidated by this amount of confidence. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Taylor like kind of scoots out of the way, moves his shield out of the way. We all just had a really nice friendship bonding moment. So, you know, just if you could be cool, that'd be great. He turns over his shoulder and he goes, I can't not be cool. I'm Hermit the Unworthy. And he like saunters up into the bus.

Real quick, real quick. Teen huddle really quick. What the fuck happened to her what's going on like did I miss something Norm you said you invited Hermie

that's not Hermie right is that Hermie yeah I think it's Hermie everyone you all remember Hermie from

school uh well he waves but just with two fingers what the fuck is going on um hey well

welcome to Taylor's bus yeah yeah it's a cool bus thanks for picking me up we going or not we're gonna have a quick group chat just the the bracelet holders here okay the bracelet wow you guys are real cool all right cool yeah and that's fine i'll just be in my phone on my zoom um this is hey hermit doesn't know about like the whole like this is more for me just putting it on my own mental kind of energy here like we're here to like stop something this isn't actually a dance so i'm gonna stop having fun okay

i'm just talking to myself but like that's just right mission mission yeah yeah the mission comes first the mission for sure it comes first two or three slow dances and then the mission can we let her me know i don't know if he'll understand okay yeah you know we're not gonna get it yeah we're all like crime fighters we're all like you know kind of part of an organization that fights evil monsters that have infected this world and we're looking for our lost dads. What do you think about that? He steps off the bus. What?

He goes, uh, that's weird. That's weird? You're being weird. What? Oh. What did I say? Wait, Herbie, no, you gotta come. Herbie, no, wait.

I gotta get to the dance. I gotta save the world. Well, you could do that on your own because that sounds weird. I'm in a bus full of crazy people. I'm Hermie the Unworthy, not Hermie the me the unliving i don't want to get murdered by you that was a joke i was just we're just razzing you welcome to the bus you know it's just our little thing we do when we pick people up it's pretty lame that you fell for it real persuasion i got a 17 wow okay so with three, he goes, yeah, I knew

you were joking with me. Come on. I was joking back on you. I wasn't going to leave you high and dry. You can't get into the dance without a date. Wagons roll, baby. And he punches the top of the bus. The bus driver's like, hey, please don't do that. Sorry, man. Sorry. What DVD is the bus driver

playing for us? Homeward Bound 2. I love that. Lincoln's already crying. Can we turn that off? Okay. As you approach the dance, you can already hear from inside the dance, Darude Sandstorm. Darude Sandstorm.

But over that, you can hear the voice of Vice Principal Tony Pepperoni. Singing over Darude Sandstorm. Singing over Darude Sandstorm. What would you sing over Darude Sandstorm? Look at the dance. She can figure it out. Pepperoni, Tony going, so good to see soz? She could figure it out. Pepperoni, Tony, don't get to see so many dates, so many

couples out. You gotta treasure these moments while you can. Try to keep the population of San Dimas out. It's just weird that you grow up and your wife wants to talk to your Calzone Mickey brother. It all makes sense now. It's the most important thing

to be with. I met my lovely wife in high school and I thought we'd be together forever. Holy shit! It all makes sense now! It's the most important thing to be with. I met my lovely wife in high school and I thought we'd be together forever. Holy shit. Things change, but I'll hold on to this moment with everything you have. It doesn't get any better than this. Just dance together. Keep dancing. Oh my god. The vice principal is like pushing

him away. He is the vice principal. The real principal is like in the corner. The real principal. Top ten things to never say is the vice principal. The real principal is like in the corner just like. The real principal. The real principal. Top ten things to never say to a vice principal. Holy shit if the principal dies I get to be principal. We shouldn't be in the same car together.

So yeah and then you enter the dance and you see a lot of people dancing to Sandstorm. I go hey what song is this? And then everyone is contractually obligated by law says to root Sandstorm and reply to me. They do that. But there's an uneven number of you

because there's five of you. I'm looking around for Erica and I'm going to roll perception. Yeah, roll perception. Investigation to see where Erica is. Hmm, 11. So with 11, you don't see her. This is a theme.

I've rolled 11, I think, every episode. Yeah. Interesting. What a fun thing to have be your thing. That's so fun. Yeah, no, you don't see her.

She's not here. That's weird. Where's Erica, man? You got her number, right? Why don't you hit her up? Hit them digits.

Yeah, I text her, like, W-Y-A, question mark, kissy face emoji, and then like the four eyeballs.

So here's the problem. I can respond for Erica, but it's no way that whatever I say is going to be funnier than what Elise would say. So I'm going to say that your phone dies. Oh, no, I forgot to charge it. Oh, wait, wait, my charger's on the bus. The bus is turned away. Can we look around for like, is there any of Erica's friends? Can we like see?

Margarita Pizza is crying in the corner alone with her finger reattached. You want to ask? Hey, Margarita, where's Erica? Are you crying? Hey, what's going on? Are you okay?

It's hard to see through this helmet. Hold on. She goes, my fucking dad is telling everyone about the problems that we're having at home with my mom cheating out with his brother, the calzone Tony. Their brother named Tony. And I just, my date abandoned me and I can't get into the dance. Wait, who was your date? Stinko Bartleby.

Stinko? Stinko's a straight shooter. Yeah. What the fuck happened? I think, you know what I think? Oh, God. Oh, no. It finally happened.

The popular kids, they have a separate dance that they go to. It's not really a dance. They just, like, go to a park and they hang out. Hold the fucking phone. What? I think he must have gone with somebody else. Maybe with Erica or something. Wait, what?

They didn't tell me where to go because I'm not cool enough because somebody chopped my finger off and I was gross about it. Your finger looks really good now, though. Yeah, you can't really tell. Thank you. Can you play the piano? Well, you did before. Oh, you're funny.

That's funny. Hey, I sense a... We're down a person. Do you want to come with us to the dance? You're telling me Erica's not hearing a separate cooler person dance? It seems like it's probably where Erica is. Does somebody want to roll a persuasion or something to make her join your group? It seems like life's dealt you a rough blow. And, you know, at times like these, you know, it's really important that we all help each other out, you know, and that we all come together as classmates and as friends. That's what I

believe in as one of the core values of this school is, you know, camaraderie. I got an eight. She goes, oh, God. Oh, you know what? I'm not crying anymore. Yeah. Congratulations. You snapped me out of it.

This is this sucks. I'm I'm just going to go home. I'm just going to go home. Hey, you can just go to the party. Nobody's going to stop you. No, yeah. Stay at the party. It'll be like way like cooler. I got a 16. Wait, you're going to the party. Nobody's going to stop you. No, yeah. Come on. Stay at the party. It'll be, like, way, like, cooler.

I got a 16. Wait, you're going to this party, Scary? Yeah. Oh. I just figured you'd be too cool to go to a party because you're the cool, like, the rebel kid. If you're going to the party, you must be, like, fine. Actually, um, yeah.

I'm not. Why are you looking at me? Oh, you're not going to the not going to dance so we can both not go to dance scary we have to go there's gonna be a thing here scary we have to go scary he points out the bracelet we're you know okay yeah no I mean it's not cool

that I'm doing it but it is what I have to do it's kind of like a birth obligation right to save the world kind of thing. Pretty lame. Scary like totally like threw away the vice principal's lunch. This was her punishment.

She's not doing it because she wants to do it. She's got to do it. I got to do it. Yeah. I got a 17. Okay, so you're here as punishment. Well, that's kind of cool. That's kind of anti-authority, which is sort of

my thing with my dad being the vice principal. You know what? You could go to the dance and hear me out ironically. What? Like as a joke on how dumb it is. Like with a robot. Like with a robot. Like imagine if you went to a dance

with a robot. Oh my God. to a dance with a robot Oh my god That would be so cringe An RX-78 But in such a based way Alright, well which one of you is my date? RX-70, me I raised my shield Yeah, that would be pretty ironic

Walk up to your dad and tell him I'm marrying this man Yes, that's what we're doing That's why we're doing this And she grabs you by your fucking gloved robot Gundam hand, and she marches you into the fucking dance just as her dad is going like, oh, good, I thought I saw five people there.

I was going to get angry about it, asynchronous. I was going to say, that better be a polycule. You better all be loving each other. Oh, thank God, six people. And then you get on the dance floor, and you see Larkin Sparrow are dancing. Larkin Sparrow? Yeah, Larkin Sparrow, adult Larkin Sparrow Oak are dancing.

Wait, my dad and my uncle are? They're dancing in the middle of the dance floor. What? And they turn to you, Norma, and they go, oh, hey, Norma, what's up, man? Party down. Oh, my God. What are you guys doing here? I'll explain next episode.

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Did somebody say my name?