Love Notes for Muffy/Transcript

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At a science fair Muffy has offered snacks to the judges.

Brain: What an outrage! She's gonna win just because she bribed the judges. This is a science fair. Where's the science in French pastry?

Francine: The laws of science don't apply to Muffy.

Brain: There must be some kind of justice in the world! We can’t Muffy get away with this.

Francine: But what can we do?

Brain: I’m going to get REVENGE!    He raises his fist. Lightning strikes.

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Brain is working on complicated plans of revenge.

Francine: Brain, you have to let this go, or else you'll become some crazy guy living up in the school rafters, dropping chandeliers on people.

Brain: I can’t talk to you. I must use all my available brain capacity plotting revenge.

Francine: They haven't even announced who won yet. Who knows? She might lose.

Brain: Yeah, right!

Francine: Sometimes, it's better to forgive and forget, be noble, stuff like that.    Muffy walks by.

Muffy: The nutritional value of lunch? Who cares? Preserving one's wardrobe is what really matters.

Francine: to Brain: What exactly did you have in mind?

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Brain: Have you ever realized how frighteningly easy it is to manipulate someone into doing whatever you want?

Arthur: Brain, you're acting kind of weird today.

Brain: Am I?   (laughs madly)

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Fern confronts Francine in the cafeteria.

Fern: Why did you and Brain write that note?

Francine: Shh! Not so loud. How did you know it was me and Brain?

Fern: Only the Brain could use "regardless" in a sentence correctly.

Francine: What gave me away? It must have been a really hard to find clue.

Fern: I saw you put it on Muffy’s desk.

Francine: Oh.

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Muffy approaches Fern on the playground.

Muffy: Well, what did you find out?      Francine and Brain are watching from the trees.

Francine: Fern’s gonna tell Muffy! Let’s confess before it’s too late.

Brain: You’re overreacting.

Fern: Er, too many people have been over the crime scene. Any clues have been destroyed.

Muffy: Hm, some detective YOU are! If I'd paid you, I'd be asking for a refund.

Muffy walks off. Fern approaches Francine and Brain.

Fern: My reputation is ruined thanks to you.

Francine: Look what a mess this stupid note caused. I wish we’d never started any of this.

Brain: The thrill of revenge seems to be very short-lived.

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Brain and Francine try to remove a love note from Muffy from Rattles' locker.

Brain: Hold on tight, this is gonna be bad.

Rattles: Hey, what're you doing in my locker?

Francine+Brain: (stutter)

Muffy: They're here because of me.

Rattles: Oh, yeah?

Brain: It's all my fault.

Francine: And mine. We were mad at Muffy and wrote her a fake love note and she thought you wrote it and now you wrote back and now it’s in your locker, but you probably shouldn’t read it.

Rattles+Muffy: (break out laughing)

Rattles: You oughta seen the looks on your faces! You were right. They really did think you put a note in my locker. Oh brother!      He walks off.

Francine: You mean, you knew we wrote the note?

Muffy: No, but I knew Fern would know who did it. So I followed her and listened to what she said. Then asked Rattles for a favor. Overall, a very satisfying day.

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Mr. Ratburn: The winner of the award for the best entry in the science fair is Francine Frensky for her analysis of bag lunches versus school meals.  

Francine: to Brain: Maybe you just need to learn to cook.