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FRANKIE: [V.O.] Good evening, IBall. Today was one of the biggest days of my life! But for anybody, the day of the fearleading tryouts would be a big day. Clawdeen and I wanted to join Draculaura on the team because us roomies do everything together.
HEATH: We've got spirits! Yes, we do! We've got spirits! How about- (yelps) Whoops. (chuckles nervously) (gasps, grunts)
COACH THUNDERBIRD: Good effort! Give it up for Heath! Next up, Clawdeen!
DRACULAURA: Whoo!
TORALEI: A half-human on the squad? G to the R to the O to the double S. Gross.
CLAWDEEN: (grunts) (howls)
STUDENTS: (cheers and applause)
COACH THUNDERBIRD: Clawsome! And next up, Frankie!
CLAWDEEN: Hi-paw! You got this, Frankie! If you get nervous, just remember our eye scream party after today's pep rally. New friend tradition!
FRANKIE: Yeah! Gonna eat that eye scream so fast all my brains will freeze! Give me an X! Give me a K! Give me a Q! What's that spell? Wait. What does that spell?
COACH THUNDERBIRD: Thank you, Frankie. Enthusiastic.
DRACULAURA: As your head fearleader, I wish everyone could be on the team.
TORALEI: I opposite of wish everyone could be on the team, but final decision is up to Coach Thunderbird.
COACH THUNDERBIRD: Up first to join our squad, welcome freshmonster Clawd!
CLAWD: (grunts)
COACH THUNDERBIRD: Whose routine left us desirous? It could only be the dreadful Iris!
IRIS: (gasps)
COACH THUNDERBIRD: He brings the doom and gloom-a! Give it up for fearless Kuma!
KUMA: (roars)
COACH THUNDERBIRD: With the fiercest moves I've ever seen, let's all welcome our Clawdeen!
CLAWDEEN AND FRANKIE: (squeal)
CLAWDEEN: Whoo-hoo!
COACH THUNDERBIRD: And... (chuckles) Oh, that's it folks. Thanks, everyone. See you at tonight's pep rally.
HEATH: What?
SPECTRA: Tryout fail, Urg.
FRANKIE: Didn't make the team?
COACH THUNDERBIRD: Sorry. But try again next year.
FRANKIE: That's, like, 9 1/2 lifetimes away!
DRACULAURA: Oh, Frankie, don't cry. You're going to make me cry too. And this mas-cary is not waterproof.
FRANKIE: We always hang out together.
CLAWDEEN: True. And I don't know how I'm gonna have fun knowing that you're not, so I won't join either.
FRANKIE: No, I don't want to ruin it for you. You should still do it.
CLAWDEEN: Really? Are you sure? I don't want you to feel bad.
FRANKIE: (sniffles) See? I don't feel bad, I'm fine. You fearlead. I gotta get ready for class.
CLAWDEEN: Thanks, Frankie.
HEATH: Not making the team? Major burn.
SPECTRA: Only a mass text can convey my mass disapponitment. How many exclamations in "ugh"?
HEATH: 12.
FRANKIE: So this is disapponitment. I've felt a lot of feelings- happy, sad, confused, elated, excited, electrically ecstatic- but I've never been disappointment before. And I don't like it. How do I make the bad feels go away? My feelings feel worse than when Watzie left for the dragon migration. At least then, I had Draculaura and Clawdeen with me. What am I supposed to do now?
HEATH: My dad told me two things. "First, always practice your fiddle. Second, bottle up your feelings, son. It's best to ignore them."
FRANKIE: Oh, so all I need is a bottle? Well, that seems easy queasy!
HEATH: And so...
FRANKIE: Thanks, Heath!
HEATH: I did that for a long time. But then, I started therapy, and I realized that bottling up my feelings was unhealthy. Yeah, you gotta get your feelings out by expressing yourself! Share your feelings! Spread 'em like wildfire! (snorts) Uh, Frankie?
SPECTRA: They bounced a while ago.
HEATH: (sighs) Rejection really stings.
SPECTRA: Aw. Hug, Heath?
HEATH: Yeah. Thanks, Spectra. (gasps, grunts)
FRANKIE: Found one. Now, how to get feelings in the bottle. Being alive's confusing. (echoing) Disapponitment! Oh. Maybe doing my monster minute will take my mind off this. Hi, IBall. Tryouts were... Aw, well, Clawdeen got picked and I didn't. And now, I'm going to miss the friend fearleading fun. Hmm? So, that's how bottling up your feelings works. I just gotta use this to get rid of all the bad feels. Then I can get eye scream at the Coffin Bean with the roomies, and I won't bring them down. Mmm, eye scream.
CLEO: Frankie. As self-proclaimed party princess and slayer of the eye scream socials, I am taking post-pep rally eye scream requests. So do you want mint electric chip or shocky road?
FRANKIE: Don't care, Cleo. Whatever.
CLEO: Whatever? But you love eye scream.
DRACULAURA AND CLAWDEEN: (laughing)
CLEO: Oh my Ra! Clawdeen's fearleading outfit is killer!
FRANKIE: Yep. Clawdeen and Draculaura match, and I'll never match with them.
CLEO: Frankie, do you have FOMO?
FRANKIE: FOMO?
CLEO: Fear of missing out.
FRANKIE: FOMO? Nope. Not anymore. See you at the pep rally.
DRACULAURA AND CLAWDEEN: (laughing)
DRACULAURA: Frankie, how are you doing?
FRANKIE: Fine. Great. How was fearleading practice?
CLAWDEEN: Oh, it was so clawsome! We were practicing the pyramid and Draculaura said, "What about the pyra-beginning and the pyra-end?"
DRACULAURA AND CLAWDEEN: (laughing)
CLAWDEEN: It was funny.
DRACULAURA: I guess you had to be there for it.
FRANKIE: One sec.
CLAWDEEN: Hey, Frankie, Draculaura and I gotta go. It's time for the pep rally.
DRACULAURA: We'll see you there!
FRANKIE: Yep, from the stands.
CLEO: Aw, Frankie. You saved me a seat. Okay, your level of pep for a pep rally is seriously lacking. So spill. What happened with tryouts?
FRANKIE: I don't know what went wrong. I just didn't make the team.
CLEO: I'm sorry. Sometimes disappointing things happen.
COACH THUNDERBIRD: Put your hands, paws, claws and ectloplasm together for Monster High's new fear squad!
FRANKIE: (gasps) Gotta bottle up! (grunts) Oh! Oh, no!
STUDENTS: (screaming)
TORALEI: I can't see!
CLAWD AND IRIS: (grunting)
CLAWDEEN: (howls) My toe!
CLAWD: I'm drowning in pom-poms!
DRACULAURA: Aah! It's the pyra-end!
COACH THUNDERBIRD: We can't do a pep rally in the dark! Darkness isn't peppy!
SPECTRA: Can anyone see my ICoffin?
FRANKIE: Ooh! Oh! Oh, bolts! What do I do now?
CLEO: Follow my nightlight.
MANNY: Oops! Sorry, didn't see you there! Oops! Sorry! Wait, I think I just apologized to my seat.
CLEO: I'm not so great with the dark. Uh, not because I'm scared of it! The dark is scared of me. That's why I sleep with a nightlight. (chuckles nervously)
FRANKIE: Cleo, do you have an extra feelings bottle I can borrow? Mine broke.
CLEO: Feelings bottle? Bottles are for organs, not feelings.
FRANKIE: Oh, heard something different. Sorry.
CLEO: Hey, wait. You look like you've been needing to talk all day.
FRANKIE: No thanks. Don't want to put all my bad feels on you.
CLEO: Frankie, that is sweeter than a mummy embalmed with honey, but I've got my sympathetic ear on today. It's open to hear all the bad feels.
FRANKIE: I wanted to be a fearleader with Draculaura and Clawdeen! We'd make pyramids and eat eye scream, and I have could have pom-poms! Pom-poms are amazing! But I didn't make the team, and now my friends are having fun without me. And the worst part is I can't even tell them about it 'cause that makes me a party pooper! (sniffles)
CLEO: Lots of layers there. Luckily, you have an emotional superstar here to unpack it. First, letting out is way better than bottling it up. Bottling up the bad ends up bottling up the good too. Second, if you can't let it out to Clawdeen and Draculaura, you let it out to me, or journal, or get smooth self to therapy, or just shout it out to the sky.
FRANKIE: Let it out? Oh... I wanted to be a fearleader!
CLEO: Oh! Uh, yes! Okay, release your inner geyser.
FRANKIE: (sobbing) Oh, wow! That big bolt didn't leave me feeling bad. Actually, I'm kinda charged up now.
CLEO: (chuckles) I know, right? Top-level emotional processing is what gives me enough energy to juggle school, clubs, and plotting to take over the throne.
FRANKIE AND CLEO: (laughing)
FRANKIE: Thanks, Cleo. Think I'm ready to watch the pep rally. Oh, no! I completely ruined the pep rally! I have to save it!
STUDENTS: (screaming)
FRANKIE: By the power of feeling stuff!
LAGOONA: (munches loudly, chuckles)
FRANKIE: (gasps)
COACH THUNDERBIRD: And the show can go on! Monster High, meet your new fear squad!
FRANKIE: Whoo-hoo! Go Clawdeen! Go Draculaura! Go, fear squad!
HEATH: All right! Yeah!
LAGOONA: Whoo-hoo!
GOOBERT: Yay!
MANNY: Yes!
SPECTRA: (gasps)
DEUCE: Whoo!
CLEO: Whoo-hoo! All right!
FRANKIE: [V.O.] So, IBall, the first big thing I learned on this big day is that it's okay if us roomies don't do everything together. And the even bigger thing I learned is that sharing my feelings with my friends makes us even better friends. Being honest about how I feel would never scare away real friends like Clawdeen and Draculaura... and Cleo. And learning that makes me feel so happy I could cry.
LAGOONA: Nothing sweeter than the tears of joy. (gulping)
END OF EPISODE SIXTEEN: CRUSHED