At Home By Myself... With Carl Wingin' It

-I've never been fond of this unit.

-It's intimidating.

Let's try to get in shape!

I thought you went jogging every day?

That wasn't working out.

Free cupcakes! Get them while they're hot!

I'll take that one.

-Cupcakes?

-I can't resist! He bakes them fresh!

GROANING

I'm intimidated. Look at this equipment.

GROANING AND STRAINING

OK, I can't lift this much weight. Is Serge watching?

Yeah. But mostly he's laughing.

I'll wait for him to look away and make it lighter.

Hey, new guy.

Serge, you know that my name is Carl.

-But here, you're a fish out of water.

-I'm just trying to work out.

You tryin' to show me up?

Just tryin' to feel the burn.

Are you challenging me?

It's not a competition. I'm just trying to get strong, guy.

Ultimate Strong Guy Competition it is!

What?! No! How did you get that from that?

Serge gets what he gets from wherever he gets it!

Do my ears deceive me? Did I hear "Strong Guy Competition?"

Your ears aren't lying.

There hasn't been a Strong Guy Competition here for 20 years!

BOTH: RAAAARGH!

And now there's another one...yay(!)

# Let's give it one more shot

# Let's give it everything we've got

# Cos if we get it right

# We will surely conquer the world

# Hey! I've got my wings

# From an angel

# Now we're wingin' it all the time

# I'm giving wings to an angel

# Always an angel

# Now we've got to learn to fly. #

I heard that you volunteered to work the camera

for the video yearbook.

From where?

My mouth, when I had the idea.

-What's a video yearbook?

-A yearbook on video.

Duh!

Count me in!

I already have the camera!

And I already have the star quality!

'Everyone gather round!'

It's time for the Ultimate Strong Guy Competition!

Excuse me? I don't mean to interject,

but it should be called the Ultimate Strong Person Competition,

we don't want to exclude the girls.

Fine! Ultimate Strong Person Competition!

What about animals?

Perhaps it should be the Ultimate Strong Mammal Competition.

Strong Mammal Competition?

There's only two male person competitors!

And I already made the sign!

Maybe we should re-order the sign and reschedule.

-What's Wednesday like?

-Stop stalling!

On this day, we will determine the strongest student at Bennett High!

Let's do it!

-CHEERING

-Let's do it!

Time for the car pull!

Did he say the "car pull" or "Carl poo"?

What you see here is 15 tons of dead weight!

Carl, Serge, whoever pulls their cart the furthest wins

the Strong Guy Competition.

Serge! You are the reigning sports phenom

at Bennett High, you go first!

Oh-ho!

You got it, coach! I won't let you down!

Ready?

Pull that cart!

CHEERING

STRAINING

Good pullin', Delvecchio! Good pullin'.

Montclaire, if you pull you cart past Serge's,

you will be champion!

-I hope you heard the word "if".

-What does that pylon represent?

-That's how far a donkey can pull the cart.

-OK.

Brace yourself, Jane. He's going to win.

Woah! Woah!

CHEERING

Told ya!

Montclaire's the winner! WOAH!

He pulled it past the donkey mark!

Slow down, Carl!

Look out, Carl!

CRASHING AND SCREAMING

Wake up, Carl. I have something for you.

Carl, wake up!

Wake up, Carl!

Yikes, Jane! Injured strong mammal here.

Sorry. How are you doing?

My doctor has never seen anything like this.

He says it's a three point sprain, my hip, knee and ankle.

I brought you these comics to pass the time.

-Why are you dressed like that?

-It's for drama class!

We're doing a play based on a Hitchcock movie!

I better get to school.

The paper comes out in a few hours and I have a lot of editing to do.

Monkey Lawyer! I hear in this issue he banana appeals!

Serge, tell us, what was your most memorable moment at Bennett high?

When I lost the Strong Man Competition.

How does that make you feel? Don't worry, we won't judge.

Yes, we will.

Losing the Strong Man Competition broke my heart!

Serge will never play sports again!

I'm retiring, forever!

My favourite moment was when I won a Grammy.

You won a Grammy?!

I thought it was a Grammy. It turned out to be a Grannie.

It's an award for my volunteer work at the senior centre.

Oh, yeah...

-I wish I could magic your leg better.

-I am so bored

that I actually wish I was at school.

How about I bring the school to you?

Magic TV monitors. Think of any place in Bennett High

you want to see and it'll show up on the monitors.

Anywhere in the school?

Except the girls' changing room.

This is cool! I can eavesdrop on people

talking about my Strong Guy victory.

Enjoy the monitors!

Let's see what Bennett High is up to this fine morning.

"Vroom vroom," went the sports car!

"Harooogah!" Went the old Jalopy!

GROANING

Woah!

MOBILE RINGS

What's cracking?

Your knee bone still connected to your hipbone?

I'll be honest with you - I've been snooping on these monitors.

I figured you might.

Nobody is talking about how I pulled a cart so heavy that

I broke my lower body in half. And I am starving too, by the way.

-All right, I'll bring a pizza.

-Just make sure it's pepperoni.

-Stay put.

-Like I have a choice(!)

Come on, basketball, drop already!

Ah! Oh!

-Oh, no!

-Who ordered the pepperoni pizza?!

Well, it wasn't the person that just saw you do magic.

What?

I'm sure someone saw you beam out.

Maybe they were mid-blink and missed it.

How long are your blinks? Rewind the footage.

Stop.

Who's that?

Zoom in, zoom in.

It's Denise. Case cracked and closed.

Hold on, we're not done yet. Enhance and enlarge the image.

We've already figured it out, it's Denise.

The pizza's getting hold.

Enhance and enlarge the image, Porter.

-Whoa.

-Pull back.

BOTH: Jane!

What do we do, what do we do?!

-OK, all we have to do is go to the school and talk to Jane.

-Agh!

Don't forget to hydrate, you guys.

Serge, what's with the clothes?

See you, Coach. I'm retiring from sports.

What?!

To become...a nerd.

I've signed up for botany class.

-Is this because you lost the Strong Guy Competition?

-It was a sign.

Like "Do not enter" or "Keep off the grass" or "Stop".

As in, "Serge should stop doing sports".

Is there anything I could say to make you change your mind?!

If I told you, I'd have to change my mind.

Just hang my jersey from the rafters

so everyone'll remember what Serge did.

This is a sad day for sports at Bennett High!

A sad day!

Everyone, drop your head in sadness!

Most memorable moment?

I guess it was this morning, for about 20 seconds

I had peace and quiet before you students came in and ruined it!

MOBILE RINGS

Excuse me.

What? I'm in the middle of an interview here!

N... No! Don't ever call this number again!

I wuv you too.

I can't believe Jane found out about me. You know what this means?

I'll be banished to the Planet of Banishment,

and won't be able to see the finale

-of Ultimate Extreme Ninja!

-OK, look,

I will PVR it for you if you promise to stop freaking out.

-I am not freaking out.

-OK, look, I will take care of it.

Just get that basketball on the backboard.

Now give me a skylight.

-OK, OK.

-Make yourself scarce before she gets here.

Is the coast clear?

Dude, you're fine.

# My most memorable moment

# Was a memory I remember not too long ago

# Though it feels like... #

-Sorry, Principal Malone, uh, battery died.

-Uh, yeah...

-So, uh, don't call us, we'll call you.

-Yep, we'll call you.

Carl, there you are.

I'm dying to talk to you. I saw the craziest thing ever.

-Crazier than a half-weasel, half-llama?

-Porter levitated a ball,

conjured a pizza box out of thin air and then vanished!

-There's a simple explanation.

-What?

That's the thing they use to train the basketball team to do tip-ins.

-Could've been that.

-I guess.

And this is a visual aid for a presentation

Porter and I are doing for class.

See how it looks like it appears out of nowhere?

It's uncanny, right? Maybe he was holding it.

If you follow me... If somebody stood in this shaft of light,

you would be blinded long enough so that you wouldn't see

them run out, thus creating the illusion that

they disappeared into thin air.

I've never noticed this skylight before.

The first four or five times I saw people beam out of this gym,

I was sceptical.

Well, this is beyond weird, but maybe you're right.

Thanks, Carl.

Carl, how did it go?

-Oh!

-Oh!

Why don't you ask Jane?

Tell me what's going on!

-Fess up!

-Porter, what do we do?

Uh, I'm sure you'll think of something.

Agh!

Agh!

It's OK, Jane.

I am totally freaking out right now!

There is a rational explanation for all of this.

Oh, yeah, picture a pizza box, fishing line, sunlight in my eyes

and the liar with a broken leg.

-Tell me what's really going on!

-OK, but if I tell you,

you cannot tell anyone. This is strictly between us.

OK, OK, unless you and Porter are aliens -

then I'll grab Alex's plasma gun and blast both of you.

This plasma gun isn't real,

but creatures from other planets don't know that.

Pow, pow, pow!

No, no aliens here, Jane.

You can tell me anything.

We've been best friends since third grade.

Mrs Ellison's class, remember?

She'd sneak potato chips out of her desk.

She took tiny gerbil bites, thinking we wouldn't hear her!

But we'd always hear!

This can't leave us, OK?

-OK.

-Porter's an angel.

-An angel?!

-Yeah, an angel.

An angel?!

Yeah, an angel, with the halo and the wings.

OK.

Wow, I am so relieved that you know my secret!

This is going to change everything.

Wait, what do you mean, it's going to change everything?

-I have to write an article about this.

-What?!

You just said you wouldn't!

That's what secret means - you keep it secret!

It is going to change the world!

Friendship, secret - hello!

Fine.

Thank you, Jane.

Agh!

My most memorable moment?

Um, I...

Good question. Sorry, what was the question?

Riveting television here, Jane(!) Say something.

That's the problem, I can't say anything, I can't.

Cut. Jane, calm down. I've never seen you so tongue-tied.

-What's wrong?

-A friend told me an earth-shattering secret.

It is the story of a lifetime, but my friend told me I can't reveal it.

Listen, if I know anything, it's that you're a reporter.

It's, like, your life, and nobody should try to stop that.

Even I know that a true friend would know that,

and I am really shallow, Jane!

Right.

You have to get out there and tell that story.

You're right, Denise - thanks.

You know what, Brittany?

I'll make a great AIT someday.

Jane, you can't write this story.

But if you had the cure to every disease in the world,

would you keep it to yourself?

If my secret gets out, I'll never get my wings.

Wings? Tell me more.

Porter's an angel-in-training, an AIT, if you will.

To get my wings, I have to help out Carl,

and that'll never happen if everyone finds out about this.

The world has to know.

Jane, you don't have any proof.

Don't I?

I wasn't born yesterday. I've been tracking

weird events around here for a while now,

and you two are always in the middle of it. Now I know why!

Woo-hoo! I'm so smart!

I'm happy you're happy,

and I can appreciate the effort that went into this.

But I'm sorry.

Sorry for what? Oh, wow!

That was so cool!

Luckily, I still have this.

Hmm!

-CARL: 'Porter's an angel.' JANE:

-'An angel?!'

I can do this all day, Jane.

Fine, I don't need proof - I have my own eyewitness account,

and my credibility is impeccable.

That's right, my credibility is beyond question.

Maybe you could travel to this morning

and ensure Jane doesn't see you do magic.

My magic isn't strong enough,

and you know the trouble that could cause.

-Now what are we going to do?

-Ready to do your yearbook entry?

We've got problems - they affect you too.

Jane discovered Porter's an angel.

She wasn't going to say anything, but somebody talked her into it.

-Oh-oh.

-What?

It was me, but I had no idea she was talking about that.

The AIT programme could get shut.

Oh, no! Everyone'll believe Jane's story,

-because her credibility is beyond question.

-Yeah, it is.

Yeah, it is!

I have an idea - we'll need your help.

Jane knows Porter's an angel, but she doesn't know you can do magic.

You have some kind of dastardly scheme in mind - I'm in!

Hey, Alex. Any plans for the weekend?

Getting my portrait painted with my favourite chicken.

How about you, Jane?

Well, I'm actually... Agh! Alex! What are you doing?!

Nothing, just heading to math class.

Are you OK, Jane? You look a little pale.

Yeah, I'm good... I'm just going to... Oh!

I am texting everyone to tell them to watch the awesome video I did.

How did you...

How did you do that?! There's... There's letters behind your head!

They're right there, right there!

Did you drink a little bit too much soda for lunch, Janey?

Hey, Serge.

Am I Serge? I don't even know who I am any more.

Why do you say that?

Ever since I tried to replace sports with botany,

my life has been meaningless.

-Botany?

-I picked it

because I thought it meant I bought stuff, but turns out that's not it.

But it is hard and boring,

and my heart rate doesn't even reach peak levels! Agh!

Oh, no! No, not you too!

Agh!

-This isn't happening!

-It's a sign!

It's a sign from the universe!

It means Serge isn't a nerd, Serge should play sports!

Agh!

I'm free! I'm free!

I knew you'd be happy for me!

Please don't publish that article.

-Think of Porter.

-Think of Porter.

It's kind of already too late.

Jane. Jane Casey.

Can we talk for a minute?

So, I just read the preview copy of your article.

If I'd got this from anybody else,

I wouldn't have believed it,

but your credibility's beyond question.

I know! Porter's an angel that does magic!

An angel!

You don't just mean a good guy, everyone likes him,

popular kind of angel?

No, and he's not the only one.

Jane, really.

I saw Brittany do magic too!

If you're talking about my on-screen magic, then you're totally right.

No, Brittany's an actual angel!

And so is Serge! Oh, and I saw Alex float!

They can all do magic!

Next you're going to be saying Denise is an angel too!

Yes, yes, she is!

Look, look at her halo!

Oh, she just made it disappear to trick you!

-I called it. Jane's lost her marbles.

-No, I haven't!

No, no, I haven't!

See, she's an angel, and she's an angel!

Oh, he's definitely an angel! Everyone's an angel...

I'm sorry, Jane.

Remember I said your credibility was beyond question?

Suddenly I'm having a lot of questions.

I think you're overworking yourself.

But what about my article?

I'm pulling it.

Yes, sir, I understand.

Maybe I have gone a little bit loopy.

Oh, yes, maybe I should drop a few of my clubs.

The Let's Do Things After School Until It Gets Really Late Club

takes up a lot of my time! Guys, have I totally lost it?

-I'll take Jane.

-I'll take Carl.

Oh, my! So I haven't lost my marbles?

-No, Jane.

-But you'll never be able to tell anyone.

So Denise, are you...?

Yep.

And Carl, are you too?

No, I'm just me.

-Oh, my, this is just so mind-blowing!

-I'm sorry

-we had to trash your credibility.

-What I did to you was way worse.

I'm so sorry I betrayed our friendship. It wasn't cool.

No, it wasn't cool at all, but I think

our friendship can handle a couple of angels.

All that matters is that you keep our secret.

I will. I lost an amazing article, but I have to admit,

this magic stuff is pretty cool.

When life gives you lemons, you just make lemonade.

Yummy!

Porter, could you give me a Pulitzer Prize

-for investigative reporting?

-No.

-Denise, could you give me a car?

-Nuh-uh.

Maybe some ice cream?

Thanks!

And some sprinkles?

This could be fun!

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