0:00:02 > 0:00:05# Creepy ain't the word Freaky ain't the word
0:00:05 > 0:00:08# Sneaky ain't the word See what I've observed
0:00:08 > 0:00:10# There's no easy way to describe this geeky place
0:00:10 > 0:00:13# Even geeky place doesn't tell you what I need to say
0:00:13 > 0:00:16# This is Strange Hill, where we're talking frogs that eat your face
0:00:16 > 0:00:18# It's very, very random You'll get used to these debates
0:00:18 > 0:00:21# If you stick around Although I wouldn't recommend it
0:00:21 > 0:00:24# When they used the name "strange", mate, they really meant it
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# There's some things in life with which you just don't mess
0:00:26 > 0:00:28# On every vest I got the letters SOS
0:00:28 > 0:00:31# Cos you never know what might be lurking round the corner
0:00:31 > 0:00:34# And what they might do if they ever found or saw you
0:00:34 > 0:00:36# Keep the lights on in the hallways all day
0:00:36 > 0:00:40# Things won't always tend to go your way
0:00:40 > 0:00:45# Watch your back and be prepared Can't wait for 3:30, see ya there. #
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Thou art more full of rats and more metallic.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Besides, ye can't kiss a summer's day.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05Attention! Valentine's Day is hereby banned at Strange Hill High.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Love hurts.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11I'm stamping down hard on any kind of lovey-dovey, smushy,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14wushy, blubbery, flubbery nonsense.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18You can't ban Valentine's Day. You might as well ban feelings!
0:01:18 > 0:01:21School is no place for feelings.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Apart from fear, loathing and a lingering sense of injustice.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28- But Mr Abercrombie, love is... - A myth, like fairies.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31- Seen them.- Ghosts.- Used them. - Or aliens.- Been them.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33But the heart is the most powerful thing in the world.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35I think you'll find that's MegaShark,
0:01:35 > 0:01:37the shark the size of a mountain.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42- There's no such thing.- Exactly! This school is run by the head. MY head.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44And if I hear so much as a rhyming couplet, from pupil,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47teacher or over-amorous goldfish that starts with
0:01:47 > 0:01:50"roses are red", they are instantly in detention!
0:01:50 > 0:01:55Roses are red, violets are blue, I love romantic rhyming couplets,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- and after this lesson, so will you, oh!- Detention!
0:01:58 > 0:02:02But I was only expressing my love for the English language.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04That's a gateway love.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Soon you'll be expressing love for art and culture
0:02:07 > 0:02:11and before you know it, you're a full-blown romantic!
0:02:13 > 0:02:16A teacher in detention?! This is brilliant!
0:02:16 > 0:02:18If we plant Valentine's stuff on all the teachers...
0:02:18 > 0:02:22- I don't like where you're going. - The greeting card shop? C'mon, Bex!
0:02:22 > 0:02:25You're the first one who'd want to give every teacher a valentine,
0:02:25 > 0:02:27which I'd normally find quite annoying, but in this case,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29it's perfect. You do want to spread love, right?
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Yes, but not as a weapon of mass detention!
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Becky, if you love love, you'll do my evil bidding.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38- You can't just say something like that!- I just did.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Now, grab Templeton and let's go before I ruin
0:02:40 > 0:02:41some other wonderful feeling.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Jill can drink half a cup of tea every half-hour.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47If she sits patiently in a tea house spending two shillings and sixpence
0:02:47 > 0:02:50a cup for six hours waiting for John to arrive...
0:02:50 > 0:02:55The answer is love, baby. Sweet, lovely love.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57- Detention!- Ha! Tannered!
0:02:57 > 0:03:02And in 1936, it was determined that the earth's centre was
0:03:02 > 0:03:04composed of white-hot iron.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05I'll show you...
0:03:11 > 0:03:15Oh, looks like the centre is actually truffles!
0:03:15 > 0:03:17- Detention!- Ha-ha! Double Tannered!
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Mr Kandinsky? Can you tell us about the place you grew up?
0:03:22 > 0:03:28Smolensk? In Mother Russia? Where my own hairy mother rests her head?
0:03:28 > 0:03:29This might help.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35HE SINGS IN RUSSIAN
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I'm reasonably sure that has romantic content. Detention!
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Hahaha! Triple Tannered! You're out!
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Now, get in there and think about what you've done!
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Maybe you'll think twice about expressing love.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00I don't get it. I hate everyone.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Mitchell Tanner, you've given love a bad name!
0:04:03 > 0:04:06And that name is Teacher-Free Fun.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09I prefer Zoltron, Master of Hate.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Just one last thing. With Abs in the staff room for the moment,
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- we can sneak into his office. - Why?- I've saved the best for last.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Abercrombie will have to give himself detention! Follow me.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Zoltron would be proud.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Once Abs puts himself in detention, the school will be ours!
0:04:27 > 0:04:30I'm not sure why I want a school, but mwah-hah-hah.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33He's coming!
0:04:33 > 0:04:34We're trapped!
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Don't sweat it. We can go out the window...
0:04:38 > 0:04:39..if it wasn't locked!
0:04:39 > 0:04:44- HIDE!- Templeton?- Templeton who? I'm a curtain.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48No, you clash with the furniture! We need a better hiding place.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Quick, in here!
0:05:05 > 0:05:07This cabinet is surprisingly spacious.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Like a secret passageway filled with bogey.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Gross! Let's go back.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Taaaaannnnneeeeeerrrr!
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Let's not. The only way is forward and down!
0:05:17 > 0:05:19And sideways!
0:05:19 > 0:05:21And up!
0:05:24 > 0:05:28That was cool. Has Abs got another secret office?
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Whoa!
0:05:40 > 0:05:44ALL: Whoa! Wah!
0:05:44 > 0:05:48- Where are we?- I don't know how but I think...
0:05:48 > 0:05:54- We're inside Abercrombie! - Ah!- Ah?- Ah!
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Tanner?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00We're in the head's head!
0:06:02 > 0:06:04And it's got a steering wheel!
0:06:04 > 0:06:09At last. Someone who really is a robot operated by tiny aliens
0:06:09 > 0:06:10determined to take over the world.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12That's ridiculous.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Says the girl inside her headmaster's head.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18- Wah!- What?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21This is only the greatest thing ever!
0:06:21 > 0:06:24We've got out very own drivable headmaster and we can get him
0:06:24 > 0:06:27- to do all sorts of cool things like...- Go to the toilet.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29That wasn't top of my list.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Eewwww!
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Mitchell! You can't just make a person do anything you want.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45People aren't odd-looking puppets with rods coming out of their arms.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50That would be REALLY strange. Really, really, really weird!
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Has he finished yet?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57So we all agree. We treat Mr Abercrombie
0:06:57 > 0:06:59with the utmost respect.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Of course, but first, let's make him dance like a clown.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- Whoa, headmaster's got talent. - You listen to me.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12I wonder what this button does?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- Oww! Which one of you did that? - Yo. You did?
0:07:15 > 0:07:20I certainly didn't. Why would I slap my... OW!
0:07:20 > 0:07:24- Mitchell!- What?- Can I have a go?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Right! As all the other teachers are in detention,
0:07:31 > 0:07:34I'm teaching all the classes today.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35We're late for class!
0:07:35 > 0:07:38No, we're not, because we're at class inside Abercrombie.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Mitchell, did Templeton just make sense?
0:07:41 > 0:07:43It's a crazy situation, so, probably, yes.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Oh, what's this do?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Now, Bishop. Tell me who invented... Wowsers!
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Mitchell, Templeton, my voice is coming out of his mouth!
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- I beg your pardon?- Excuse me. I seem to have someone - or thing -
0:07:55 > 0:07:57in my throat.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Now then, Croydonia, let me try!
0:07:59 > 0:08:01I want to make him say, "Mitchell is the greatest."
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Mitchell is the greatest. Woooooooo!
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Now, Tyson, aren't you sorry for putting Templeton
0:08:08 > 0:08:11upside-down in the bin every day since nursery school,
0:08:11 > 0:08:13- you baddy, you?- No.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15And don't just sit there.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Dance when I'm speaking to you!
0:08:19 > 0:08:24Dance! Dance like you've got squirrels in your pants!
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Nice one, Bex!
0:08:30 > 0:08:35Dance! It's not art unless you dance and say, "Co-co-nutttts!
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Keep dancing.
0:08:40 > 0:08:46I don't want to... Yes, I do because I'm co-co-nuts!
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- Do you think he's getting a bit tired?- Nah.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Class dismissed.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06Mr Chips, something strange is happening. What should I do?
0:09:06 > 0:09:11What? No, now's a very wrong time for the Happy Dance.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Is our headmaster talking to a mangy Teddy Bear?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16It's so heartbreaking. Let's make him kiss the bear!
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Oh, I guess I'm kissing you good night, Mr C.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28I may have no-one else, but I'll always have you.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Nitey-night, Nubby Nubs.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Aw. He's cute when he's asleep.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45Detention!
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Tanner!
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Yum, Cheddar!
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Maybe not.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01This is great. We can sell tickets!
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Tanner's Titanic Headmaster tours!
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Mitchell, you have to be responsible.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09Mr Abercrombie is a human being, a sad, lonely,
0:10:09 > 0:10:13peculiar Cheddar-shouting human being, but definitely a human being.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17I swear by your goofy hat, Rebecca Butters, that
0:10:17 > 0:10:21I will never treat our Headmaster as anything other than a human being.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- It's Mecha-crombie! Run! - Run and laugh! Tee-hee-hee!
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Roll up, roll up, for the once-in-a-lifetime
0:10:41 > 0:10:43attack of the 100ft headmaster adventure.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Which part of treating like a human being
0:10:46 > 0:10:49involves dressing Mr Abercrombie up as a gigantic lizard?
0:10:49 > 0:10:54HE ROARS
0:10:57 > 0:11:00No roaring in the library!
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Hey!
0:11:01 > 0:11:05Here, no cutting! The line starts back in his ears, yo.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06You've got to stop this!
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Chill, Bex. What's the worst that could happen?
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Ah!
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Ah!
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Mitchell Tanner, you've broken our headmaster!
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Do we get a refund?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Good morning, Mr Abercrombie.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29What? Who said that? Was it the voices in my head again?
0:11:29 > 0:11:33Oh, hello, voices! Shall we go to my office?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Let's all go.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Help! I was locked in the headmaster overnight!
0:11:38 > 0:11:41- Do you think Abercrombie's all right?- He's fine...
0:11:46 > 0:11:48..ish.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Mr Chips, remember when I lost you and I cried and cried
0:11:59 > 0:12:02and then I found you and I clapped my hands?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Yes, last Tuesday was quite a day.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Now that I'm literally in his head, I'm realising something.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Mr Abercrombie's sad and lonely.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14That's why he hates Valentine's Day so much.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20Is he crying?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26See! I told you! I told you!
0:12:26 > 0:12:30- Are you happy that he's sad?- Of course not, that would be heartless.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38- What do we do?- I always knew I'd drown in my own headmaster.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42I know what to do! Finally, my joint love of romance
0:12:42 > 0:12:45and submarines has come in handy!
0:12:50 > 0:12:53- Er, Bex?- There's one thing guaranteed to stop someone
0:12:53 > 0:12:57feeling lonely and sad! Ramming speed.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Take the wheel, Mr Templeton.- OK!
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Great! Have you come back to rearrange the rest of your limbs?
0:13:05 > 0:13:09No, I've come for...
0:13:09 > 0:13:11a hug!
0:13:13 > 0:13:18Mr Abercrombie, I hardly think it appropriate...
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Please, mean librarian lady.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23This is most irregular.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- What's that noise?- Don't you know? It's Abercrombie's heart!
0:13:34 > 0:13:40- He has one?!- My face! It's moving in a way I'm not familiar with.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43I think...I'm smiling.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47Oh, Melvyn! How I've longed to say that name.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Isn't it beautiful!
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Apart from being spun, deafened, blinded,
0:13:58 > 0:14:04sprayed with head juice and the fact we've lost control, it's luvverly.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- I've got control back! Uh-oh!- What?
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Attack of the 100ft headmaster. Contact...
0:14:16 > 0:14:20I don't know how, but TANNER!
0:14:23 > 0:14:27- Abandon headmaster!- Ah!
0:14:35 > 0:14:39- Gentlemen. I think things are looking up.- Where?
0:14:39 > 0:14:41All's well that ends we... Ow!
0:14:44 > 0:14:49- I don't know how, Tanner. But be sure, I know!- Know what?
0:14:49 > 0:14:52That you're somehow responsible for my recent...troubles.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55- Where's your evidence?- I don't need evidence! I'm a headmaster.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Just remember one thing, Mitchell Tanner.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00I've got eyes on...
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Yo, yo, yo, I'm a funky headmaster,
0:15:03 > 0:15:04there ain't none mentally faster,
0:15:04 > 0:15:07- I'm an educating bad boy, a student blaster!- Say what now?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09And he's got you in detention, because of disrespektion.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- Sir, Are you feeling OK? - Of course I am, Yo!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Bishop! That's you, isn't it?
0:15:17 > 0:15:20No, it's the headmaster, innit. Yo!
0:15:20 > 0:15:25The keys! They've gone. They've got the keys to the cabinet.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Now we've got control and we is going to run the school
0:15:27 > 0:15:30our way, innit! Now, give us your dinner money.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34And also the instructions on how to drive the headmaster properly, yo.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Wedgie for you, Balders!
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Now, cough up your dinner money or yous get it.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Yeahhhh, what he said.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47But, sir, you know I always bring sandwiches.
0:15:50 > 0:15:56- Let us in!- It's no use. There must be some gigantic lump blocking it.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59- Hey?- Let us in!
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Sorry. Didn't quite catch that. Bishop, bring up the bass!
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Sir?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15There must be some other way to control a hollow headmaster?
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Unfortunately, I think you'll find the brain controls the body
0:16:18 > 0:16:21and that's in the head. There's no other way.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24Yes, there is! There's one thing more powerful than the head...
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Oh, the heart.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31As much as I want to support your radical thinking, Bex,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34this baby hasn't seen much action in...ever!
0:16:34 > 0:16:37But you heard it when the he hugged the librarian and we lost control.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39If you and me go out and jumpstart Abercrombie's heart,
0:16:39 > 0:16:42then Templeton can take control back and stop the boys
0:16:42 > 0:16:44bullying the school into submission!
0:16:44 > 0:16:47This all sounds a bit lovey-dovey, hippy dippy nonsense to me.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49- What do you think?- Thoughts mainly.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53- Sometimes the occasional insight, but not often.- Glad I asked.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56Seeing as me and Captain Thoughts over here haven't got a better plan
0:16:56 > 0:16:59and I do want my toy headmaster back, let's do it!
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Now, how do we get this thing started?
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Matthews in the bin! Ha-ha!
0:17:05 > 0:17:10# Tyson, Lucas and Bishop sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. #
0:17:10 > 0:17:12And you smell of cheese! Got a problem?
0:17:12 > 0:17:17- Meet me in the library! - That would have to be a big tree.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20No-one accuses us of smelling of cheese.
0:17:20 > 0:17:26- Gruyere, I'd wager, innit. - They're coming, now what?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Now, I just need to get librarian lady to say lovely
0:17:28 > 0:17:32things that will awaken the love that lives in Abercrombie's heart.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Whoa! Back up, sister!
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Your plan relies on librarian lady saying lovely things.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Mitchell Tanner! Yo!
0:17:40 > 0:17:43We'll see who smells of cheese now!
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- Yo!- Bex! Do something!
0:17:48 > 0:17:53Um, excuse me, Miss Librarian Lady?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55- I'm on a break.- Ah, but, but...
0:17:55 > 0:17:57I just wanted to know if you could recite
0:17:57 > 0:18:01your favourite poem about love?
0:18:01 > 0:18:06Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds
0:18:06 > 0:18:12It's an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken...
0:18:12 > 0:18:17Poetry at Strange Hill High? Librarian lady?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18That's it, Abs, listen
0:18:18 > 0:18:21to the difficult-to-understand but apparently important words.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26What's going on? This music-less rap is effecting our control, yo.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28I don't think so.
0:18:29 > 0:18:35- Whoa!- Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
0:18:35 > 0:18:39within his bending sickle's compass come...
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Will you be my Valentine?
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Eeeeeew, as if!
0:18:45 > 0:18:49I might, though. We'll discuss it when no-one's looking.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks...
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Shakespeare! My true love! Hug?
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Hug the Bard, not me!
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Urgh! Mr A!
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Listen to the words and stop shoving cheese in my face!
0:19:04 > 0:19:08But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
0:19:12 > 0:19:17Bex! It worked. Temps has control... I think..
0:19:17 > 0:19:20I have control. I have control!
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Hey! What's going on, yo!
0:19:24 > 0:19:27If this be error and upon me proved...
0:19:27 > 0:19:30BOTH: I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37- Melvyn.- Lady.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39It's the beating of his hideous heart!
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Tanner, you can have the keys. I can't take this any more.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Bail out!
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Would you care to dance?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Er. Temps, don't overdo the heart-driving thing, yeah?
0:19:57 > 0:19:58I'm not driving.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01I went to investigate the digestive system and bowels,
0:20:01 > 0:20:03so thought I better wash my hands.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06If you're not driving, then who's making Abs dance?
0:20:06 > 0:20:10Oh, no! We've created a romantic headmaster monster!
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Ah! Mr Chips!
0:20:24 > 0:20:28Don't worry, Melvyn. You have me now.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31We can live and love in this school forever.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Stay...in this school? Forever?
0:20:36 > 0:20:41Forever, forever, in this school forever! Forever! Forever!
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- Forever!- Librarian lady? - I'm on break!
0:20:45 > 0:20:47What happened?
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Oh, she threatened me forever, she said forever.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53We're going to be in the school forever, Mr... What do you want?
0:20:53 > 0:20:56But, Mr Abercrombie, aren't you filled with love?
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Love, schmuv. No such thing!
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Get back to class and tell the teachers to get on with their jobs.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Be still, blasted heart!
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Abercrombie's back to being just slightly unhinged.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09So everything's back to normal, then.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13- And you'll never go inside Abercrombie's head again!- Of course.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16I've learned my lesson and put the keys where they belong.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19I wonder if we all have a portal into our heads.
0:21:19 > 0:21:20That would be ridiculous.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26What do you mean I'm not your type?!
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Hello? Where am I?
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Oh, golly! Might I have a spin?
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Ha!
0:21:45 > 0:21:50# You want to put your head before your heart
0:21:50 > 0:21:56# But what about the way you feels? Headteacher over heels. #