Togetherness

Yes. No, I'm on my way, I'm just

- getting the bagels. - There you go.

Oh, thanks. Keep it.

Yeah. Uh-huh.

Brett: Alex, we should push this stuff against the wall.

We've gotta make room for all the other stuff coming in, okay?

- Hey. - Brett: Okay. Good.

- What's up? - Um...

- What is all this? - What are you talking about? This is Dune.

- You said one car full. - Technically, it is. It's just one U-Haul.

It's just temporary, until we get a permanent space.

Can you just move all this stuff into that room back there?

That has, like, a missing part of the roof? This stuff is not waterproof.

This is papier-mâché. I have to, like...

Fine. Okay, fine. Jesus.

Stupid-ass Dune.

I heard that, by the way.

So, don't be surprised or alarmed

if Anna Booth-Meyers gets in touch with you.

If and when she does, my advice would be to just ignore her calls.

Not to get too much into the gory details,

but Anna wants to make this a full-on private school.

Now, technically, she doesn't have the authority or the power to do that.

- That's actually not true at all, Michelle. - Oh, God.

La Petit Village is a dual immersion

French charter school that is 100 percent completely funded.

All we need is just an official vote to reassign the charter into my name.

The board is gonna vote this Saturday. It's very exciting.

Okay, what is going on here?

- Is that true? - My school is

based on French language arts.

Singapore Math. Montessori approaches.

How about you, Michelle? Would you like to talk to us about your school?

Do you even have a curriculum?

Okay, Anna, that was your department.

It was my department because you couldn't handle it.

No, because I was delegating,

because I was trying to... take care of the 19,000

other things that also needed my attention.

Do you or do you not have a curriculum for your school?

We've had... we've had...

Anna: Exactly. Thank you. Good luck.

Okay, moving on, I am working very closely

with Professor Watsey at Occidental College.

He is the head of the French literature department.

- On top of that... - Actually...

if you will turn your attention towards the loading dock,

where you will see the first installation

of our arts and humanities-based curriculum.

Anna: I'm sorry? Mm-hm.

Mr. Pierson? Mr. Pappas?

Can you come in and just say hi to everyone?

Yeah...

Just...

So Mr. Pierson has an MFA from CalArts.

And Mr. Pappas has over 20 years of experience

with... all different types of puppets.

- Puppets? - Puppets.

- Puppets. - Yeah.

Uh... would you gentlemen mind telling us

what you have prepared for our school?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Um...

- Michelle: Great. - I will allow...

- Please. Yes, please. - myself to go first.

Yeah. Um... (clears throat) So, essentially,

what we believe is that the performing arts

engages all the senses in...

a way that educates the entire being...

That's right. We believe that the renaissance

child is the child of the future.

Alex: We can have, uh, scholars, artists,

and happy children... all at the same time.

Three for one.

Is that helmet papier-mâché?

This helmet is papier-mâché.

That's an excellent... observation question.

Yeah, and if you're interested in... in looking into it a little further,

there's a whole room full of this puppet stuff.

So, everybody come up and feel free to ask questions.

Yeah! Yep. Come on up. Come on up. We're having a little show and tell.

- Michelle: Yeah, come up, don't be shy. - That's right.

- Come on, guys. - Alex, Brett: Yeah! Yes!

Brett: Come on up and we'll have

a little show and tell of our works.

Alex: Yeah. Okay, just... so what I'm hearing

is you desperately need "stupid-ass Dune" to save your school?

If she's throwing some big party to butter everyone up to vote for her,

then I need something to swing the vote in my favor.

And you need this too.

If Anna wins, then we're not going to that school.

And we can't afford to go to private school.

- Alex: Dude, uh... - What's up?

The best they can do is get us used sand

in a few months, so...

Well, we're gonna need the sand now.

- Why? - Because we're going up Saturday night.

We're not ready, and we don't have sand.

- So... - We're gonna get ready,

and, last time I checked,

there was an annoying amount of sand at the beach.

Okay, but that sand belongs to the state of California.

What do you want, you want the stage to look like a crackhouse?

Or you want it to look like a magical, mysterious

learning kingdom? To get that, we need sand.

- Alex: He's right. - To get sand, we need you,

we need all your charter school parents,

we need as many people as we can get together.

Alex: Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

Michelle: Okay, time to load up.

Thank you, guys. Thanks.

Oh, Jesus. Finally.

Load up, you hooligans!

What up, BP!

I brought you my best men!

Brett!

- Natalie? - Hey!

Don't leave me hanging, tiger.

Hey. What are you doing here?

Uh... this is my...

this is my... my thing.

How do you know Dudley?

Wait, who's Dudley?

Dudley Walker. Du...

Oh. Yeah, everybody knows Walker.

Michelle: Guys, let's go!

Uh... okay. Fuck!

Alex: Come on, party people! Whoo!

Oh, God! Oh, God!

Come on now, watch the beat! Watch the beat!

Woman: Go, Alex! Go, Alex!

Alex: Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh!

Alex: Let's go, Michelle! Come on.

- Oh, no. - Come on.

- No, no. - Come on!

No, no! No!

You put me up here, now you're not coming with me?

All right, who else wants to go?

Alex: Oh, shit!

Yeah! Thank you.

She's super cute.

You're melting my Popsicle.

Whoo! Hey!

- Too much? - No, it's just enough.

Ah!

Okay, thanks.

Hi! Thank you for being here. Thank you!

Thanks, guys. Oh, sorry!

- Hi! I'm Michelle. - Hi. Natalie.

- I was in the truck with you. - That's right, yes.

- This is Brett. - Uh, yeah... yeah, we met.

- Yes. - Michelle: Cool.

Yeah.

There's a lot of sand at the beach.

Dudley (over walkie-talkie): The perfect spot, my friend. Not a soul in sight.

Copy.

Over.

Dude, who is that Natalie girl?

- Why are you asking? - 'Cause she's hot.

Did you see us grinding in the truck?

That's the girl, dude. That's the girl from the Uber thing,

- the whole... yeah. - What?

Why did you invite her?

I... I didn't invite her!

She's friends with Dudley, dude. I'm not a fucking idiot.

- Oh, my God! - Dudley (over walkie): Brett, cop, cop, cop!

- Halt all operations. - Oh, shit, cops!

Now, motherfucker, he's pulling into you right now.

Okay, uh, everybody, drop your shovels,

and... and just pretend like we're, um,

we're playing in the sand. We're hanging out.

Frolicking in the sand. Come on, people. Frolic!

- That doesn't make any sense. - Alex, pretend you're doing a beach workout,

like the one we went to that time.

Brett: He's coming. He's coming. Hurry.

Hurry up, hurry up. Go, go.

Okay! Listen up, you maggots!

Uh, give me 20 mountain climbers, right now! Hit the deck!

Uh, Alex, it has to be something that normal people can do.

Okay, uh, jumping jacks. Jumping jacks!

Here we go! Ten, nine,

eight, seven, six,

five, four, three,

two, one! Okay, okay! Uh...

- Uh, barrel circles! - Barrel circles!

- Run around your barrel! - Yeah!

Engage your core! High knees!

Come on, here we go! Four, three,

- two, one! - Roger, we're in...

All right, shit sticks!

Let's do 20 seconds of butt kicks!

At this rate, we'll be here all night, huh?

That's not a butt kick! That's not a butt kick!

Come on, like this!

Brett: Yeah!

All clear here.

Heel to ass! Heel to butt!

Alex! Alex!

- All right, good job, everyone. - Yes!

(Michelle sighs)