Kaieteur Falls/Transcript

(The story begins in the classroom, Ms. Frizzle has a surprise for the class.)

**Ms. Frizzle:** Good morning, class! I have a surprise for you all!

**Arnold:** Oh no! I don't like the sound of that!

**Lindsey:** Don't worry Arnold, you're gonna love this, I'm sure of it! Everyone, to the bus!

(They go to the Bus and sit down.)

**Ms. Frizzle:** Hit it, Liz!

(The Bus transforms into a plane with water-themed decorations, and flies to the Amazon.)

**Ms. Frizzle:** Wahoo! We're here. I just have one more thing - Bus, do more of your stuff!

(Ms. Frizzle clicks the Bus Remote's button that opens the emergency door, which houses two swan pedal boats)

**Ralphie:** Is it just me, or are those not boats at all? They're swans.

**Ms. Frizzle:** Not just any swans, Ralphie, swan pedal boats! With pedals at the bottom, like a bike!

**Wanda:** Awww, they're soooo cute!

**Tim:** I've seen these before, in lakes and ponds.

**Arnold:** Finally, I'm actually OK with a field trip!

(Everyone giggles as Tim, Dorothy Ann, Ralphie, and Jyoti get into one boat and Arnold, Keesha, Carlos, and Wanda get into another.)

**Ms. Frizzle:** Alrighty class! As Val always says, "Let's get out there and EXPLORE!"

**Carlos:** **Swan** you later!

**Everyone:** Carlos!

**Ms. Frizzle and Lindsey:** Hit it, Liz!

(A ramp falls down from the bus and the 2 boats went sliding down it into the river.)

**Everyone:** WOAH!

(The boats splashed onto the river)

**Keesha:** Well that's ONE way to head into a river.

(Arnold seemed to notice something on the edge of the falls and made a shocked expression.)

**Arnold:** (stunned) Uh guys?

**Wanda:** Well you know the Friz, always has to make things more exciting.

**Arnold:** Uh guys?!

(Arnold is ignored once again.)

**Arnold:** GUYS?!

**Carlos:** What is it Arn-

(Carlos notices what he noticed: a really tall, massive waterfall, heading their way)

**Carlos:** (stunned) Uh ladies, you might wanna look at the other end....

**Keesha:** What does that mea-

(Keesha and Wanda noticed the waterfall too. Meanwhile on Pedal Boat B, Ralphie noticed the waterfall too and had a similar reaction.)

**Ralphie:** Is it just me, or is that what I think it is?!

**Tim:** What's wrong Ralphie?

(DA, Tim, and Jyoti saw Ralphie pointing to the waterfall.)

**DA:** (stunned) Wa-wa...

**Tim:** WATERFALL!!! Quick! Pedal!

**Arnold:** Hurry!

(DA and Tim were pedaling for their boat as Keesha and Wanda were pedaling the other trying to fight the fall's flow.)

**Carlos:** Uh, we'll have to go **rapid**ly!

**All:** Carlos!

**Arnold:** I DEFINITELY SHOULD'VE STAYED HOME TODAY!!!!!

(As the kids were trying to escape the falls, they did no other but pray to the heavens above.)

**DA:** (looking up at the sky with hands together) If you let us live, I'll tutor any idiot who requires it! Oh Please don't let us die! I haven't became a researcher!

**Tim:** (likewise) And I haven't became famous!

**Jyoti:** (likewise) And I haven't won the Nobel Prize!

**Keesha:** (likewise) I haven't won every beauty pageant!

**Carlos:** (likewise) I haven't became a stand-up comedian!

**Wanda:** (likewise) If we live, and I'm not such a weaselly wimp, I'll save every endangered species!

**Arnold:** (likewise) If we live, I'll stay home the next time we go on a waterfall!

**Ralphie:** (likewise) If we live, I'll become a famous athlete and let Jyoti kiss me!

(Everyone at his boat stares at him shocked, DA and Tim stopped pedaling)

**Ralphie:** What? Like we're gonna make it.

(The kids just kept getting closer and closer to the falls as they made their final requests and promises.)

**Tim:** We're all gonna die! The current is too strong! We're not gonna make it! I think we've been Frizzled! Probably for the last time of our lives!

**Ralphie:** Hey guys, I think we might make it if, I think I speak for Jyoti, Carlos, and Arnold too when I say this but PUT SOME METAL TO THE PEDAL!!!

**Carlos:** Ralphie's right! Put that pedal to the ultimate metal!

(The Airplane School Bus hovers above the Falls, with Ms. Frizzle, Lindsey, and Liz inside. Ms. Frizzle is watching.)

**Ms. Frizzle:** What is it, Liz?

**Liz (**pointing to the swan pedal boats approaching the waterfall)

**Lindsey:** (screams) What have we done?! They're gonna head over that waterfall! We gotta head over there, pronto!

**Ms. Frizzle:** Okay, Bus, do your stuff!

(Meanwhile, the kids get even closer to the waterfall. They started to scream in terror. Their whole lives flashed before their eyes.)

**Arnold:** So this is how it ends? Man, I knew I should've stayed home today!!

**Carlos:** Make sure they put that quote down on your gravestone!

**Arnold:** (writing down) Put "I knew I should've stayed home today" on gravestone.

**Ms. Frizzle (over the speakers)**: OK class! Tie the ropes to your boats!

(They tie their ropes to the necks of their swans)

(A hatch opens on the Bus. The ropes are pulled inside the Bus)

**Ms. Frizzle:** Soooooo, um how are you guys? Awesome ride wasn't it?

(The class looked at her with angry faces as they sat down. Arnold was just traumatized.)

**Keesha:** Let me get the facts, it almost killed us all! Like a roller coaster with the steepest and straightest, perfectly 90°-angle drop ever!

**Lindsey:** We're so sorry! We had no idea there was a waterfall there! Please don't tell your parents!

**Tim:** It's ok, I think...

(Everyone stares at him)

**DA:** According to my research, that waterfall is Kaieteur Falls. It's the world's largest single drop waterfall that's over 741 feet high.

**Ralphie:** And we just so happened to have survived it!

**Tim:** Man, we were frizzled big time. I guess we'll never take life for granted again.

**Arnold:** Looks like I won't be needing this

(Arnold puts away a piece of paper titled *Last Will and Testament of Arnold Perlstein*.)

**Jyoti:** So Ralphie, you were saying?

**Ralphie:** Huh?

**Jyoti:** Remember, when you said that if we lived, you would become a famous athlete and.....

**Ralphie:** Oh that! You see, I thought we were all gonna die and.....uh......come on guys! Back me up!

**Jyoti:** Pucker up!

(Jyoti was puckering her lips and leaning closer to Ralphie, until she was stopped by someone.)

**Wanda:** Now now Jyoti, let's save that for when we get back.

**Ralphie:** Phew! Thanks Wanda!

**Lindsey:** Anyway, let us take you somewhere to make it up to you.