[upbeat music]
- So, what do you kids think
of the new Thirsty War
smoothie menu?
- I think it's
a shameless attempt
to make money off the new
"Hungry Wars" movie
that's coming out this weekend.
- And you would be correct.
That's why you're taking over
the family business someday.
- You know,
I do have some ideas--
- I said someday.
- Oh, I see you named a smoothie
after Ganderk the Great.
- Who's Ganderk the Great?
- Only the most powerful Gnome
Fairy in all of Gardenia.
- And maybe the entire
Middle Universe?
- And their favorite
"Hungry Wars" character.
- Oh, two Ganderk the Grape
smoothies, please.
- That Ganderk dude
has cool hair.
Just like Dicky the Grape.
- You just called yourself
a grape.
- I know.
- Ooh, Mr. Harper.
Not to nitpick,
but you spelled Ganderk wrong.
And also, in the last movie,
Ganderk is poisoned by grapes,
so this is a double fail.
- You're a double fail!
Sorry, I'm just-- I worked
really hard on this menu...
which is also spelled wrong.
Give me back those 'manus'.
- You two kids sure know a lot
about "Hungry Wars."
- Yep, that's why we made a pact
to go see the new movie
together.
We are "Hungry Wars"
movie buddies.
- Secret Ganderk battle cry!
both: Ganderk!
- Knock it off, you Gan-dorks.
Derek Moses just walked in.
- Look at him.
- He's so cool.
- Cooler than
Monday night bingo.
- He might be the coolest kid in
school, but I'm a close second.
Very close.
Check this out.
Moses, my man.
Grab a seat.
- No, thanks.
I prefer to stand.
It's one of my
ten cool-mandments.
Always be
slightly above the crowd.
- Let me try this.
[exhales sharply]
Oh, he's good.
- So, what's the
small talk du jour?
- Whoa, he speaks French.
- We're talking "Hungry Wars."
- Yeah, we're seeing it tonight.
- Ooh, Dawn and Mack.
This sounds serious.
- No, it's nothing like that.
- And what's it like?
I'm getting a small whiff
of something uncool here.
Wait.
[sniffs]
You're not going with
your parents, are you?
- No, it is definitely
not like that.
- Good, 'cause that
would be breaking
Moses's cool-mandment
number one:
never see a movie
with your parents.
- Please, we are way past that.
We go to the mall without our
parents, we stay home alone.
- We're very evolved.
- We're hardly ever
around our parents.
- Don't your parents
own this place?
- Ah, we just hang out here
for free smoothies.
- You're lying.
But in a cool way.
Speaking of cool,
I'm going to leave you guys with
cool-mandment number six:
always use your name
in your exit line.
Moses has to goses.
[clicks tongue]
- He's as cool as a loafer
in October.
- Two grape smoothies.
- Oh, hey, Mom, don't forget.
Mack and I are going to see
"Hungry Wars" tonight.
- Yep, we can't wait.
- For what?
To drop me off?
- No, to see "Hungry Wars"
with you guys.
- With who guys?
- You guys.
- It sounds like
you're saying, "You guys."
- We are.
Look, you're not old enough
to go to the movies with a boy
by yourself, silly.
- But it's not a boy-girl thing.
It's a movie buddy thing, silly.
- Now it's a movie buddy
family thing.
- Yeah, we're going to take
the boys and make a night of it.
- Which boys?
- You boys.
- Who boys?
- You boys.
all: Oh, boy.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Na na na na na na
na na na na na ♪
- ♪ Hey! ♪
- ♪ Na na na na na na
na na na na na ♪
[whistling]
♪ ♪
- ♪ One, two, three, four! ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Na na na na na na ♪
♪ Na na na na na na ♪
- ♪ Hey! ♪
♪ One, two ♪
- ♪ Na na na na na na ♪
- ♪ One, two, three, four! ♪
[upbeat music]
- There is no way
I'm going to the movies with
Mack, Mom, and Dad.
- Me, neither.
I mean, it'd be breaking
Moses's cool-mandment.
- If anyone sees me,
then I won't be
the second-coolest kid
in school anymore.
- And I won't be the 47th.
We'll be laughing stocks.
- Okay, let's all stop pacing.
That's it, I have to
text him and cancel.
"Mack, I'm sorry, but I'm sick
and I can't go tonight.
[coughs]
Let's see 'Hungry Wars'
again soon, movie buddy."
[coughs]
And send.
There, crisis averted.
- Did you type your coughs?
- Of course, it makes it
more believable.
- Who's ready to get hungry?
- Harper family movie night.
[blows horn]
- Uh, guys?
Sorry to ruin whatever that is,
but Mack had to cancel,
so guess we'll just
have to stay home.
Not see him
or any of our other friends.
- Aw, man.
- What a bummer.
- Disappointment.
- Don't be disappointed.
We'll just go without Mack.
- Yeah.
Harper family movie night.
[blows horn]
- But I promised Mack I wouldn't
see "Hungry Wars" without him,
and I can't break
my movie buddy pact, so...
- Oh, oh, totally get it.
Oh, don't worry, kids.
all: Aah.
- We'll just see something else.
- Yeah.
- [all gasping]
- We got to do something.
- Uh, you know what's better
than seeing something else?
Seeing something else
somewhere else.
Like a different movie theater.
- That's a great idea.
- So instead of going
to our usual theater,
why don't we go check out
that new movie theater
all the way over
in Fort Collins...
[whispers] where no one
we know will see us.
- That is a great idea.
- Harper family movie night
and road trip.
[sputters]
- I don't know.
Fort Collins is pretty far.
- I heard they have
a popcorn booth you stand in.
It blows popcorn all around you.
Anything you catch, you eat.
- Anne, get the keys.
- No, but Tom--
- Anne, keys, now.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Man, this place was far.
- And totally worth it.
Behold,
the Popcornado.
- Ricky, I got to admit,
movie theater road trip
was an impressive idea.
- I do put the imp
in impressive.
- And the best part is,
Mom and Dad can embarrass us
all they want,
'cause we're in a place
where no one knows us.
- Except Natlee.
- And Dooley.
- And Xander.
And Callie and Tessa.
- Everyone knows us!
- This was a terrible plan.
- All right, just calm down.
We don't want to draw attention
to ourselves.
- Six tickets to
"Triassic Jungle."
Can I get a Harper family
movie night?
[blows horn]
- She brought the horn.
- We got to get them in the
theater before she blows again.
- Oh.
Hey, Mom, the theater's
filling up.
We should probably get in there.
- Come on, Dad.
- But I'm in line
for the Popcornado.
- If we don't hurry up,
all the good seats will be gone.
- And you know how
you hate sitting in the back of
the theater.
- And then you get all whiney.
- The kids are right, Tom.
You do get a little whiney when
you don't get what you want.
- But we got a half hour
till the movie starts.
I want to go into
the Popcornado now...
Oh, I see what you mean.
- Tell you what, if you hurry
and get us good seats,
we'll save your spot
in the Popcornado line.
- Here, take our coats
and save our seats.
- Oh. Oh.
Okay.
- All right now, run along now,
last one to the theater's
a rotten egg.
- We're adults.
We don't care about being
the rotten egg, right, Anne?
I'm always the rotten egg.
- Okay, as long as they're
in there and we're out here,
we're good.
- Not good.
Mack is here.
- The whole school's here.
- Wait, is anybody else mad that
none of these people called us?
- I can't let Mack see me.
He'll know I lied.
Here, I'm going to go
into our theater.
You guys keep an eye on him and
text me if he's heading my way.
- Okay, quick quaddle.
What's the best way to follow
Mack without him seeing us?
- You guys having
a secret conversation?
- Uh, no.
We're not having
a secret conversation.
The more the merrier, buddy.
- Well, you see,
cool-mandment number three says
to always trust your gut,
and right now,
my gut's telling me you guys
are up to something uncool.
- No, this is just how we talk.
- Anyway, we have to get going.
- Why?
You're not here with
your parents, are you?
- What?
- No way.
- Parents are for kids.
We're just chilling
in the lobby.
- Trying to decide
which video games to play
to attract more sweet,
parentless honeys.
- The answer's simple:
whatever game Moses is playing.
Let's go.
[clicks tongue]
- [sighs]
- Check it out, Anne.
They have a lobby cam.
Oh.
Oh, this is--
Look at this amateur
in the Popcornado.
His technique is terrible.
He should be using his mouth,
like this.
You gotta...
- No, honey, don't.
Please, honey.
Oh, excuse me.
I'm sorry.
Those seats are taken.
Yeah.
- You're supposed to be saving
my spot in the Popcornado line.
- Oh, don't worry.
The boys are saving it.
- Really?
Because it looks like
they're playing video games.
- Which we both know
is not what they're
supposed to be doing.
Let me go take care of this.
- Mm.
- I give you guys one job.
And by the way,
Mom and Dad can totally
see you...
later.
'Cause they're certainly
not here with us now.
- What's going on?
You guys are all acting weird.
And Moses got a noses
for that kind of thing.
- This is how we always act.
You got to remember, we're not
nearly as cool as you.
- Speaking of things
that are not cool,
I just saw Mya and Gerald
Dinkler with carrot sticks.
- [gasps]
- Healthy snacks at the movies?
Moses opposes.
- Where's Mack?
You guys were supposed to be
keeping an eye on him.
- He's right there.
You're welcome.
- Wait, he's seeing
"Hungry Wars" without me?
- Well, if it makes you
feel any better,
I don't think he saw you.
- It doesn't make me
feel any better.
He broke our movie buddy pact.
[upbeat music]
- Mack and I had a movie pact.
- Here we go with
the pacing again.
- We were supposed to be
movie buddies.
- In his defense, you do have
a terrible text-cough.
- And he's not seeing it
at your usual theater
where you might have found out
and gotten upset.
That's pretty considerate.
- And you did lie to him first.
So I'm kind of Team Mack here.
- I lied to protect
our movie pact.
He broke it.
You know what?
I'm going in.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You don't want to face him
when you're this mad.
- Yeah.
Pace it off, mama.
- No.
I'm going to call him.
- That's a worse idea.
You know things don't
go well when you call angry.
- I believe the term
is Dawn-dialing.
- Yeah, remember last Christmas
when Aunt Gilda gave you that
juggling lesson as a gift?
And you thanked her with
a big, fat Dawn-dial.
- She still won't take
any of our calls.
- Who gives somebody one lesson?
You can't learn to juggle
in 45 minutes.
It can't be done.
- Just give me the phone, Dawn.
- Guys, don't worry.
This is not
an Aunt Gilda situation.
Voicemail.
I'm just going to express
my disappointment
and ask him to call me later
to discuss it.
Hey, Mack.
It's Dawn.
How's it going...
is what I would have said
if I wasn't so mad.
I can't believe you went
to "Hungry Wars" without me.
- Should have taken the phone.
- That's right, Mr.
I'm-gonna-go-to-Fort-Collins-
so-nobody-will-see-me.
I'm at the Brister Six
with my parents.
- At least she didn't say us.
- And my brothers.
- Hey, we made the message.
- And I just saw you
go into the movie
you and I made a pact
to see together.
But I guess our friendship
doesn't mean anything to you,
so guess what, mister?
You're no longer my movie buddy.
You are my movie...
enemy.
Dawn out.
What have I done?
- Classic Dawn-dial.
- That she dragged us into.
- Yeah, now everyone's
going to know we're here
with our parents, too.
We're doomed.
Thanks a lot, Dawn.
- Don't blame me.
You guys should have never
let me Dawn-dial.
You know what?
I'm going to call
all three of you right now
and tell you how angry I am.
- Dawn, stop.
- Oh, Mack's coming back out.
- Hey, I went into
the wrong theater.
Um, I'm not seeing
"Hungry Wars."
I mean, I want to, but I'd never
see it without my movie buddy.
Uh, where's "Triassic Jungle"?
Over there?
Thanks.
- Oh, no.
Mack's heading in our theater.
- Oh, this is bad.
- I have to delete that message
before he hears it.
You guys have to help me.
- This is not our problem.
You dialed your bed,
now you have to...
lie on your phone...
bed.
- That doesn't make any sense.
- I would have thought of
something that made more sense
but Aunt Gilda only gave me that
one improv lesson.
[exhales]
The point is, you have to
get Mack's phone yourself.
- Why do you need Mack's phone?
all: Aah!
- I didn't say Mack's phone.
I said Zach's cone.
- Yeah, our friend Zach
lost his cone
and we were helping him find it.
- What kind of cone?
- Ice cream.
- Dog.
- Snow.
- He's a cone guy.
- You know, my gut tells me
you guys are up to something,
and I'm going to find out
what's going on.
Moses is going to go
find Mack's phoneses.
- He doesn't knowses
where Mack goeses.
- Can we please stop rhyming?
- I supposes.
All right, just follow my lead.
Hurry, Mack went this way!
- Nice try, Harpers,
but Moses ain't slowses.
- He fell for it.
Okay, now stay closes--sorry.
Okay, there's Mack.
- Yeah.
- Right by Mom and Dad.
- How are we going to get his
phone without them seeing us?
- Lobby cam.
I got an idea.
Follow me.
- Should do it.
- Don't you think you should
just sit down at the end?
- [chuckles]
No need, Anne.
It's common theater etiquette
that an article of clothing
indicates a saved seat.
- Hmm, well, you might
want to tell that guy.
- The what--how--what--no, no.
I don't know what kind
of theater etiquette you're used
to, but in my America,
a sweater on a seat means,
"Get lost, hippie."
Let's move.
Come on.
What's going on?
Oh.
Dang it.
I'm C6.
- Yes!
- Aah.
Lucky Fort Collins kid.
Popcornado,
full head of hair.
Neither one's going to
last forever!
- Dicky, you're supposed to
dump the popcorn out.
- Why would I waste popcorn?
- Because now you can't
see anything.
- I can see clouds.
- That's popcorn.
- Sweet!
- Oh, here he comes.
- Hey, uh, I was called up here.
Seat A6.
- Yes.
You're the big winner.
- Who are you guys?
- Uh, Butterpop.
- Popcorn Peeps.
- Tub Buddies.
- This isn't about us.
This is about you.
It's prize time,
so let's get popping.
- Wait, why does that sign
say "back in ten"?
- Those are just instructions.
Back in and count to ten.
- Oh, and uh, give us
your phone so, you know,
we can take your picture.
- Oh, man, I wish my movie buddy
were here to see this.
- How's the plan going?
- Okay, in you go.
- Huh?
- Come on, delete.
- What's taking so long?
- My fingers are all buttery.
- My face is all buttery.
[Popcornado runs]
- Give it to me.
- No, give it to me.
I know it's you, Harpers.
- It is not us.
We are popcorn robots.
- Beep bop beep bop beep beep.
- Moses, what are you
doing with my phone?
- He doesn't have your phone.
We do!
Huddle!
- I know one of you has it.
- Yes, but which one?
Scatter!
- Hey.
- Not cool.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Since no one here respects
loosely-draped articles
of clothing,
looks like I'm going to
have to lock it down
with a secure
sweater-jacket-scarf barrier.
Yeah.
Nothing's getting
through that baby.
- Oh, except that guy.
Excuse me, I'm sorry.
We're saving those
for our children.
Where are our children?
- These four seats have been
empty since I came in.
I think you're hogging them.
So, until your "children"
come back...
- [gasps]
- I'm going to sit here.
- No, no, no, no.
Do not air quote our children.
- Our children
are totally "real."
- Okay, honey,
if you air-quote "real"
it means they're not real.
- [huffs]
"Does it?"
- Yes, come on.
- Where am I going?
Where am I going?
What's happening?
- Oh! Oh!
Ah. Oh.
My head!
Oh, ah.
- See? Those are our kids
"right there."
- Still wrong.
- See, everyone?
Told you we came here
to the movies with our kids.
Ha ha!
- Yep, now everybody knows.
- I knew it.
You Harpers broke
cool-mandment number one.
- Dawn, I thought you were sick.
You typed "cough"
and everything.
What's going on?
- When I asked my parents if I
could see "Hungry Wars" with you
they said only if
they chaperoned,
and I was too embarrassed to
break cool-mandment number one.
- So you put on a popcorn bucket
head and stole my phone?
- Only because when I saw you
go into "Hungry Wars"
I thought you were seeing it
without me,
and then I got kind of mad
and Dawn-dialed you.
- Like Aunt Gilda?
- Worse.
- I'm sorry, Mack.
I should have just
told you the truth.
- Thanks.
- For the record,
I was Team Mack all the way.
- None of this would have
happened if we hadn't been so
worried
about being seen at the movies
with our parents.
- Let's go.
Why don't you go sit
with your "friends?"
Hey, kids.
- Hi.
- I get it.
I only went into "Hungry Wars"
because I saw Moses,
and I didn't want him
to see me with...
my Mom.
Sorry, Mom.
- You know,
I thought you guys were cool,
but you've given me no choice
but to let everyone know
just how uncool you are.
- Then you'll have to
let everyone know how uncool I
am, too.
I'm with my parents.
- Natalie?
- It's Natlee.
- Ugh.
You guys aren't the only ones.
- Oscar?
- Wow, we all came this far
just to avoid being seen
with our parents?
- Am I the only kid cool enough
to be here without my parents?
- Derek Norman Moses,
stop pretending
you're unsupervised.
You know the only reason you get
to roam around here by yourself
is because I work here.
Now get back to that break room
and do your homework.
- Come on, Mom.
You're making me look so uncool.
[sighs]
- Stop that.
- Ugh.
- Norman.
- Okay, well,
now that that's settled,
why don't we grab our seats?
The movie's about to start.
- Animals.
- Oh, then why don't we all see
if we can get into "Hungry
Wars"?
- Sounds good, movie buddy.
- There's just one thing
we need to do first.
- Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
- That's our Dad.
- [blows horn]
- Her, we do not know.
[upbeat music]
[whistling]
♪ ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah! ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah! ♪