Episode 8: The Couples

**Opeining:**

(After the opening, in the Jacksons' house, Harry and Andy can be seen eating breakfast as fast as a speedrunner breaking a new record. For once, they were eating like pigs...)

April (confused): What are you doing? Eat slower, you’re not animals.

Andy (between bites): No time! We’re in a hurry!

Finn (laughs): Keep feeding yourself like that and I warn you that I won’t be cleaning the toilet after you pass.

Frankiln (laughing too): Ha ha! Well sent moron.

April: And where are you going?

Harry (already in front of the door with his brother): In high school, bye bye!

(they came out as quickly as the light).

April (confused): But... it’s Saturday... There’s no class.

Claudia (eat easy): Leave them alone, Mom. Morons will always be morons. Isn’t that right?

(Harry and Andy finally made it to school on time, but of course it wasn’t to work. They go to the school library and see that the other team members have arrived.)

Freddy: Harry! Andy! You guys came!

Andy: Of course!

Harry (Happy): We’d miss the very first Dream Team meeting for nothing!

Penny: Glad to hear you say that!

Carrie (searching): But...uh...

Haden: What is it?

Carrie: Where are Cordelia and Carla?

(Just after Carrie’s sentence, they hear a big explosion in the hallway, the dream team goes out into the hallway to check what it can be...)

Carla (groans): Ouch...

Sapphire (monotonous tone as usual): And... the laggards are there.

Melody: What are you doing? You’re going to destroy the whole school!

Cordelia (to Carla): See? I told you we shouldn’t have come here with a catapult!

Madison (shocked): What is it?! A catapult?!

Cordelia (just noticed the others are here): Oh! Hi! You look good.

Worris: Look good yourself.

Jessy (desperate): Come on, let’s talk inside...

Carla (confused): But... we’re inside, aren’t we?

Zach (angry): But there’s no interior. You destroyed most of the school roof because of your catapult.

(a bird nests even on Darwin’s head)

Darwin (exasperated): It’s humiliating... and when Jessy was talking about the inside, she was talking about the school library.

Carla (embarrassed and gets up): Sorry, sorry... we’re coming...

(Once inside, the atmosphere was strange; it was dark, they were all gathered around a round table -Arthur was sweating- it looked like a cult had gathered.)

Gumball (takes a solemn tone): My dear comrades... Welcome to the very first... DREAM TEAM MEETING!

(Some clap, some nod and smile, and some do nothing - Bubblegum and Zach don’t feel firedALL-)

Gumball (takes a big head -more than he already has -): Thank you, thank you...  As a leader, I must take on this heavy responsibility: we will now proceed to the distribution that each of us must assume...

Melody (cut him in the middle of his sentence, angry): Wait a minute, Gumball! We said there would be no leader, right?

Darwin (dissatisfied): Exactly, Melody! Gumball wants to steal our freedom!

(A real revolution is taking place in the school library.)

Freddy (trying to calm things down): Let’s calm down! Let Gumball explain.

Gumball: Thank you, comrade Freddy.

Freddy (Regrets): I already regret...

Gumball: Be rational! No one else can be the king, uh... well I mean the leader!

Carrie (sarcasm): And why, "my dear king".

Gumball (too proud): Because I am the hero of comics, even this one bears my name! (Behind him we see a large logo of the "Gumball Incredible World".

Carla (with an ego even bigger than Gumball): Hey, just so you know, I’m the reason this band exists, so I deserve to be the leader! Also, Gumball, your argument is invalid because we changed the show.

Sapphire (grunting -as usual): But we’re in "The Dream Team", so stop bickering and act like a group, for God's sake.

Penny: You don’t want to...?

Sapphire: No.

Penny (puzzled): How did you...

Carrie: To become his sentence? Know that you are so predictable that it becomes too easy...

Bubblegum (recap): So basically you drove me away from the orphanage at 6:00 AM to meet me at school on a Saturday and hear you argue when I haven’t even had breakfast yet?

Worris: Apparently.

Bubblegum (turns heels): ... goodbye.

Cordelia (wants to hold her): Wait a minute, sweetie, (hopeful) I’m sure we’ll find something!

Madison (embittered): Yes? And what’s your solution, Kirby?

Bubblegum (hugs Cordelia): Hey, that’s what I call it!

Cordelia (sweaty): Uh... ask Andy and Jessy! They look calm!

Andy (brilliant): It’s good that we’re calm.

Jessy (radiant): We are PERFECTLY civilized people.

(In front of so much light, Haden puts on sunglasses -so swag-.)

Worris (on the ground -because of the light-): Arg, what a horror!

Melody: What’s with the binz?

Andy (inspiring wisdom): You are so dedicated by your own person that you forget that we are a team above all.

(Lumiere indicating that she does not understand what he was talking about. Jessy asks her to turn around so that she can see that Penny, Madison and Carla were fighting -again- to appropriate Gumball. Haden and Harry were sadistically mocking Gumball.)

Darwin (embarrassed): Oh yes, I understand a little better...

Saphir (angry, to Penny, Madison and Carla): Stop it now!

(The three girls, under the pressure of the ghost, drop Gumball but they continue to stay close to him to ensure that their rivals do not profit from it.)

Worris: It’s problematic, if the group comes down to quarrelling for a minus-nothing...

Freddy (thinks): Yeah, we have to fix it right away or it will be complicated for the good understanding of the team...

Bubblegum (annoyed, to the three girls): Are you proud of yourself ?! We’re going to spend the first Dream Team meeting solving kids' problems!

Cordelia: Don’t include Noa in it. He would never have fallen so low...

Haden (annoyed to) : Okay, I’ll end this discussion. Where we could start to settle this.

Penny (upset): You don’t show off, Haden. It’s not like you and Harry don’t need therapy, too.

Harry (very angry, menacing look): Of. what. you. speak ?!

Madison (provokes): Gna gna gna, it is true that you too, you have sentimental problems. But we talk about Zach and Freddy who act like they are perfect when they can not even admit their tracky feelings to someone?!

Melody (a little jealous): Huh?! Who are you tal...

Zach (cut her, blushing with shame): It doesn’t matter. (Madison) Instead of making a mess where you pass, try to grow a little!

Madison (pulls the tongue): No desire.

(Lumiere makes Zach understand that she wants to know who Madison was talking about. Freddy gets embarrassed and try with Zach to calm the anger of Lumiere and Melody.)

Carrie (the calm ones): Oh! Calm down! You too, you really need this therapy!

Saphir (puts a hand on her shoulder): To believe that we came across a group of crazy...

Darwin (very jealous): What are you doing with my girlfriend. Huh?

Carrie: What are you talking about?

Cordelia (yelling at Carrie): Don’t touch my boyfriend! You think you’re beautiful with your bangs?!

Darwin (same on Saphir): Did you think that because you and she are ghosts there could be something between you! I’ll tell you something, my "buddy" (jump on Carrie): SHE’S MINE!!

Bubblegum (admiring the collective fight): Wow, how beautiful...

Worris: I’m finally thinking of going to the Pshyatric Hospital after that. You’ve driven me crazy...

Andy (still full of wisdom): What are we going to do with them?

(Jessy thought long and hard before whispering something in Andy’s ear. When she was done, he backed off and had a doubt.)

Andy (reluctant): Are you sure this will work?

Jessy: We don’t have too much choice, and then it’ll teach them a lesson.

Worris: What’s the lease?

Andy: So here’s the plan.

(A few minutes later, Bubblegum whistles loud as a warning and everyone stiffened. Once calm, Jessy explains the "program" of eur group therapy which consists simply in... dating one of the group members.)

Madison (shocked): Excuuuse me??!!

Worris (disinterested): Desperate times call for desperate measures, as they say...

Carla: But that’s great! That means I can go out with Gumball without Madison or Penny bothering me!

Haden (put a hand on his head): You know I heard everything?

Andy (smiled): Yes but don’t think it’s that easy.

Carrie: So, what do you propose?

Jessy: Andy and I wrote your name on a piece of paper, on one side is the name of each girl in the band and on the other, the name of each of the boys.

Andy: Needless to say, Jessy and I are not affected by this despicable and inhuman ploy since our couple is obviously doing very well -\_-

Worris (notes): Wait, you put my NAME in the lot?!

Jessy (avoid the Worris question to save Andy’s life): To do this, we will do a draw or I will take the name of a girl from this urn (which is actually a shoe box) and Andy will take a boy’s name, is that clear?

(They all nod like little children.)

Andy: Once all the names have been drawn, each "couple" will have to... well act like a couple. Going to the movies, having picnics, all that...

Gumball (reluctant): Is there a limited duration to this facade?

(Jessy then flashed an evil smile and giggled leaving a fright in his comrades.)

Jessy (sadist): No, there is none.

The others (except Andy): What?!

Jessy (ditto): The only way for you to regain a normal balance is to get along perfectly with your partner. So if I hear any concern from either of you, the band dissolves, okay?

(Faced with Jessy’s threat, everyone reluctantly accepted and stood ready to face their future "boyfriend" or "girlfriend". Andy then takes a piece of paper from his box and Jessy does the same with her box. They then unfolded each their piece of paper and announced who are the first "lucky"...)

Jessy (reading): So for me, I have the name of Madison.

Andy (ditto, chuckle): And... and I have the name of Worris.

(Everyone turned to the two concerned who looked at each other with outrage.)

Worris (takes a dark look): Oh, hell no...

Madison (take it very bad): W... What?! Did you think it was fun to be with you?

Worris (looks at her with an air that told her to be quiet if she did not want to lose a member): I. haven't. desire. to lose. my savings. 'cause of a Barbie girl doped with her mother’s makeup.

(Madison had no desire to reply, moreover she was too frightened by the black aura of Bubblegum who resented her because Madison had become the first "girlfriend" of Worris.)

Jessy (didn’t mind what was happening): Right. Now, I got the name of Bubblegum.

Andy: And I have Freddy.

Bubblegum: ... It’s fine.

Freddy (a little upset): Oww.

Bubblegum (tries to reassure him): Hey, relax. What I mean is that there is no one who crushes on you, so I do not hurt anyone.

Freddy (increasingly upset): That’s exactly how I took it, Bubblegum...

Bubblegum (confused): Ah? Well, then, I don’t know what makes you that way.

Jessy: Then it’s Penny’s turn.

Andy: And Haden is now his partner.

Haden: Oh, that’s great.

Penny: Yeah, yeah!

(Both clap their hands making some jealous.)

Jessy: Next is Carla.

Andy: Harry, this one’s for you.

Carla and Harry (rolling their eyes): Chance does SO WELL...

Jessy: And finally, I have Carrie, Lumiere, Melody and then Cordelia.

Andy: Who will be with Gumball, Darwin, Saphir and Zach respectively.

Jessy (sadist): Are you happy?

(Everyone else nods as if none of them had a choice.... Jessy then invites them and has a "good time" with their partner. We focus on Worris and Madison’s "couple").

Madison (trying to sympathize): So what do you want to do?

Worris (cold): Go home and bleach my eyes and ears.

Madison (gets angry): We’re not going to sit here doing nothing, all the same!

Worris: Why not?

Madison: Look! Penny and Haden are going to the movies. Come on, let’s go with them.

Worris (pulls the tongue): No desire.

Madison (pulls Worris' arm): That wasn’t a question.

Worris: Hey!

(He and Madison arrive from behind Penny and Haden. Madison starts the discussion as if nothing had happened.)

Madison: Hey, how are you?

Penny (jovial): Hi, we’re going to the movies. Want to come?

Madison (liar): Oh, that’s great ! I didn’t know.

Worris: Dirty liar.

Madison (taps Worris' elbow discreetly): Of course Worris and I will go with you.

(Worris still sulks at the idea of accompanying them.)

Haden: Don’t look like that, man. Is it okay if I buy you popcorn?

Worris (calm down): Salty, please.

(The four friends then go to the cinema -although they do not get along perfectly -. Then, the group of Bubblegum and Freddy was inviting Zach and Cordelia to go to a funfair not far from there.)

Zach: Yeah, but no, I’m not.

Cordelia (presses him): Oh but if we go if you don’t want to end up with your glasses stuck in the eyes....

Bubblegum (delighted): That’s good, Kirby. Don’t let him manipulate your life.

Freddy (lost): S...So, shall we go?

Zach (has no choice): Yeah...

(Finally, there is still Melody and Saphir, Gumball and Carrie, not to mention Lumière and Darwin who do not know where they can spend time.)

Melody: Where are we going, Saphir?

Saphir: I don’t know, honor you I guess.

Gumball: But you’re a couple, you should know what you do with Cordelia normally.

Carrie: If that’s it, he should have been excused from these trifles, too. But not so, so we’ll do a group thing.

Darwin: Lumi, there’s a place you’d like to go.

(Lumière mimes to his friends from this place Drawin talks about. She tried to make them understand that it is in space that she would like to go back for a ride but none of the small group understood the intentions of the girl of the stars.)

Melody: Sorry, I don’t understand what you want to do in an attic.

Carrie: Are you sure she wasn’t talking about the overworld?

Saphir: I don’t know, Freddy is good at mime.

(Lumière shows a downed mine)

Darwin (try to comfort her): Okay, okay! Uh... What if we went to a place that I like. The park for example.

(Lumière showed a amazed face, Carrie understood that she had never seen a park).

Carrie: Isn’t there parks on your planet?

Gumball (scared just to think about it): What, No parks?!?! Wait, are there video games, at least?!!

(Melody and Saphir both hit the back of Gumball’s head. This made Lumière laugh.)

Carrie: Well, it’s decided. We’re going to the park!

(When all the "couples" are gone in the school library, Jessy began to arrange her belongings followed by Andy.)

Jessy: Well, that was a good idea.

Andy: You are a real genius (show a paper where it was supposed to be written a name of their friend on it, all the papers that were in the boxes were actually empty.)

Jessy: You were the one who had the eye to match the right members. Without you, I would never have been able to do that. We managed to avoid the dissolution of the group.

Andy: We’re a good team. You want to go somewhere?

Jessy: Thank you for suggesting but I don’t want to mess with the others, at the risk of us failing the mission.

(After that, they continued to tidy up and clean up the room. After a while and when they were about to finish, Jessy having accommodation thought about asking Andy something.)

Jessy: If you want, we could go to my home.

Andy (glad) : Yeah why not. We could go through the bakery and buy brownies.

Jessy (happy) : It's a pretty good plan!

(They continue to move away, chatting quietly.)

END

**Casting:**

Jessy Walton : Kaley Cuoco

Andy Jackson : Chris Pratt

Freddy Firefly : Alonzo Lerone

Madison Walton : Victoria Justice

Gumball/ Zach Watterson : Logan Parker Grove

Harry Jackson : Cody Simpson

Penny Fitzgerald : Teresa Gallagher

Cordelia Henderson : Charisma Carpenter

Worris Crimson : Drew Fuller

Carrie Krueger : Jessica McDonald

Melody Swetty : Rose McGowan

Bubblegum Davidson : Scarllet Johanson

Carla Henderson : Miranda Taylor Cosgrove

Darwin Watterson : Terrell Randsom

Haden Diaz : Brian Krause

Saphir Diamond : Bradley Cooper

April Jackson : Emma Watson

Finn Jackson : Mike McFarland

Franklin Jackson : Zeno Robinson

Claudia Jackson : Kyla Rae Kowalewski

Sam Jackson : Josh Grelle

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