Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps, Series 1 (Sept. 5, 2009-Nov. 7, 2009)

[In Ms. Mimi's class]

Ms. Mimi:
Now wiggle your nose.

[Ms. Mimi and the class in the classical music dance while bending down to their toes wiggle their noses. Ms. Mimi goes first bending down to her toes and wiggling her nose]

[Angelina finishes the phone call with Alice and hangs up the receiver.]

Angelina:
[mutters] I cannot believe this! Alice has the sniffles! And I do not have a partner! What am I going to do?!

[After Angelina gets off the phone with Alice and finds out that she --Alice-- has the sniffles, Angelina's doorbell rings.]

Vicki:
[from the door] Angelina?

[Angelina sees Vicki at the door and opens it. Viki hands the music player back to Angelina.]

Vicki:
Here is your music player back.

[Then Vicki tells Angelina the sad news about Gracie.]

Vicki:
Guess what happened? Gracie cannot be in the showcase. She has the sniffles.

[Now both of the girls --from Ms. Mimi's class-- Alice and Gracie have the sniffles. Vicki got home from Gracie's house. And Gracie told Vicki that she --Gracie-- got the sniffles.]

Angelina:
Poor Gracie! And Alice has them too!

Vicki:
Poor Alice. Well, see you later. I guess.

[The scene cuts from Angelina's room --where Angelina was making a broom into a dancing doll and impersonating it to look like Alice-- to the lunchtime theater at Camembert Academy. In this scene, Vicki tells Ms. Mimi that her dance partner Gracie has the sniffles.]

Ms. Mimi:
[to Vicki] Oh Vicki...! I am so sorry to hear that Gracie has the sniffles.

[Ms. Mimi hugs Vicki in comfort. The scene cuts to Angelina with her dancing doll and sets her on one of the lunch tables. Marco comes up to Angelina with the clipboard. Then he --Marco-- says to Angelina...!]

Marco:
(to Angelina) Ms. Mimi said to tell you that you and your partner are going to dance in the showcase.

[Marco sees the "dancing doll" which Angelina created.]

Marco:
Wow! That is your partner?

Angelina:
Yes.

Marco:
But she is not real.

Angelina:
Yes, she is. She is a real dancing doll.

[After Angelina says this, Marco looks at the rules.]

Marco:
[to Angelina] The rules do not say, "No dancing dolls".

Angelina:
Good.

Marco:
But it does not say they are okay either. I am not sure about this Angelina.

[The scene cuts to Ms. Mimi now talking to Angelina.]

Angelina:
Ms. Mimi? I really wish I could dance in the showcase.

Ms. Mimi:
You really want to be in the showcase. Do you?

Angelina:
[crying] Yes. I really do.

Ms. Mimi:
And are you willing to work hard?

Angelina:
Mm-hmmm.

Ms. Mimi:
Then I will give you some extra time to come up with a routine. And instead of dancing first, you and your partner may dance last today.

[After the gift, decorations and birthday cake got ruined.]

Angelina:
[before crying] No gift, no decorations, and no cake! Not a very good birthday party!

[Angelina cries. The scene cuts to where Angelina, Viki, Gracie, and Marco are staring at the ruined birthday cake that Marco just made. Now they end up with no gift, no decorations, and no cake/treats/baked goods to share]

Angelina:
[in between tears] We can't have a birthday party without a cake!

[Angelina, the girls and Marco know that they're too late to make or buy a new cake. Because there's no time to make nor buy a new one. They also have no decorations nor present either. Angelina resumes crying. The party for Ms. Mimi turns out to be ruined. However, before they give up, Polly hatches a plan. Polly runs to Angelina, Marco, Viki, and Gracie. And she whips out her untouched and uneaten leftover muffin from her bag.]

Polly:
[to Angelina, the other two girls, and Marco] We can (always) use my muffin as a cake.

[Polly knows she always has back-ups with plans if she has any whenever something goes wrong. At this, Angelina stops crying.]

Angelina:
[takes the muffin from Polly as she has suggested to celebrate with Polly's "treats"] Thanks Polly.

[So therefore, Polly's "treats" are served. The kids are set to have Polly's treats which are the muffins that she, Angelina, and their mom had made. The "birthday treat" is Polly's treats instead of cake]

Gracie:
Here's your card.

[Gracie hands Ms. Mimi her birthday card.]

Viki:
We drew it ourselves.

[Polly sets out Ms. Mimi's birthday "cupcake", which is actually a muffin with a birthday candles.]

Polly:
And here is your cake.

[But Polly notes that it's really a muffin and looks at it half sadly.]

Polly:
Well, sort of.

[The mouselings and Ms. Mimi have Polly's treats; muffins instead of cake. However, Polly did say it was "sort of" like a cake/cupcakes.]

[As the kids --Angelina, Gracie, Vicki, and Marco-- are playing their birthday song. Polly --on the other hand-- snuggles on to Ms. Mimi's lap.]

Ms. Mimi:
[she hugs Polly on her lap] To be very good, all a gift needs is to have lots of love in it.

[She takes the muffin and hugs Polly. Ms. Mimi --even though the real birthday cake was ruined-- does like muffins too. Polly hands Ms. Mimi her "birthday muffin".]

[The others --Gracie, Vicki, and Marco-- have heard the word "crickets" from Alice. That is, since Alice was going to read the "pretend class" --Gracie, Vicki, and Marco-- the story "Goldi-Mouse and the Three Crickets". Then --after the trio heard the word "crickets"-- they perform the chant "The Camembert Cheer".]

Gracie, Vicki, and Marco:
[chanting] Pirouette left, pirouette right!

Alice:
Now what are they doing?

Angelina:
The Camembert Cheer!

Gracie, Vicki, and Marco:
[chanting] Tap your toes with all your might!

Alice:
That's not fair! I was going to read my story!

Angelina:
I know. But..!

[Gracie, Vicki, and Marco are trying to do the "Camembert Cheer" which was taught by Ms. Mimi on them even though they should know that it is Alice's turn.]

Gracie, Vicki, and Marco:
[still chanting] Crouch like a cricket, then ready, steady, hop!

Camembert kids never--

[But before they can say the last word of their chant --The Camembert Cheer-- which is "Camembert kids never stop!", Alice --who gets to the last straw-- screams out a big, long, "STOP". She says it with her head shaking violently.]

Alice:
STOPPPPP!!!

[The others --Vicki, Gracie, and Marco-- stop chanting.]

Alice:
IT'S...! MY...! TURN!!!

Mrs. Mouseling:
And what role are you, Angelina?

Angelina:
I'm the bird, mom. I'm playing the flute.

Polly:
What kind of fruit? I love bananas, but they don't do any sound.

Angelina:
Not fruit, Polly, a flute.

Polly:
And don't play the fruit instead of a flute.

Angelina:
Is Gracie okay?

Marco:
She's quackers.

Angelina, Gracie, Marco, and Viki:
Good morning, Ms. Mimi!

Ms. Mimi:
[points at her throat]

Viki:
She's trying to say something.

Ms. Mimi:
[writes in her notebook]

Angelina:
It says she lost her voice.

Gracie:
If Ms. Mimi lost her voice...

Marco:
Oh no.

Ms. Mimi:
[gestures that she doesn't know]

Angelina:
[about Ms. Mimi calling everyone with music] It's gonna go on all morning.

Gracie:
Sorry, Angelina, I did my best to stop her.

Viki:
Stop me?

Gracie:
No.

Viki:
I was right all along. There is something going on, and I was coming here to say sorry to you. [cries]

Angelina:
Vici, I'm really sorry for what I did to your music.

Viki:
Then why are you always whispering about me and making silly secret plans?

Angelina:
Because I wanted to make a surprise Irish party for you to say a really big sorry.

Viki:
So that's what all the whispering and planning was about?

Angelina:
Uh-huh.

Viki:
Well, I'm sorry now.

Angelina:
[after waking up] Polly, am I dreaming or is the ice skate show really today?

Polly:
It's really, really, really today!

Angelina:
How do I look?

Alice:
Perfect. How about me?

Polly:
Double perfect.

Mrs. Mouseling:
Hang on a minute, girls. Now you have a busy day ahead of you. You need to keep track of your time and your things.

Angelina:
Don't worry, mom. We'll be the responsible mouselings of all in Mouse Land.

Mrs. Mouseling:
Do you have everything you need?

Angelina:
Not at all.

Mrs. Mouseling:
How about these?

[Polly reveals the lunch bags and Angelina gets them]

Angelina:
Oops.

Mrs. Mouseling:
Ahem. And these?

[She reveals the ice skates and Alice gets them]

Alice:
Double oops.

Angelina:
[after seeing her and Alice's lunches being gobbled by birds] Sorry, I didn't know birds really like jam sandwiches.

Angelina:
Oh no, oh no, on no!

Alice:
Oh what?

[As Angelina still raps --from the drum-- Ms. Mimi --as Angelina keeps going-- gets upset.]

Ms. Mimi:
Angelina...? ANGELINA...?!

[Angelina pauses and Ms. Mimi's shadow hovers over her.]

Ms. Mimi:
COME AND SEE ME AFTER SCHOOL PLEASE!

[As Ms. Mimi says this, Angelina knows that she is in big trouble.]

[The scene --after the lunchtime theater where Marco, Gracie, and Vicki were-- then cuts to Ms. Mimi's classroom. Angelina has to stay after school and she's in the classroom. That afternoon --after school-- Ms. Mimi has asked Angelina to stay after school for after school detention because Angelina was talking in class. Ms. Mimi is disciplining Angelina. In other words:
"The scene cuts to where Ms. Mimi is issuing Angelina with her after school detention". Angelina is seen in Ms. Mimi's classroom. She was making noises like the drum after being asked for quiet. So it cuts to where Angelina is in after school detention. She --sitting on a time-out chair-- is facing Ms. Mimi in front of her desk. Before assigning Angelina after school detention after school, Ms. Mimi talks to Angelina.]

Ms. Mimi:
[to Angelina] So, when I asked for quiet, Angelina...!

[Ms. Mimi then expects answers from Angelina.]

Ms. Mimi:
...I really do expect to get it! I am surprised!

Angelina:
[apologizing to Ms. Mimi for talking in class] I am sorry, Ms. Mimi.

[It is true that Angelina has apologized for her unruly behavior in class. But even though Angelina apologizes --for her unruly behavior which was talking and Ms. Mimi asked for quiet but she did not listen-- she knows that it sometimes does not cut it. Her behavior was still not okay. Really, she's still in trouble. Because in reality, if one apologizes, sometimes it does not allow them to get away with being punished. Sometimes it doesn't and therefore, they still have to pay the consequence. There are appropriate/common/natural/local consequences for actions. That means they --one and in this case Angelina too-- must be accountable for their actions. In this case --like for Angelina who talked in class-- she has to pay the consequence. She is ordered to stay after school and see Ms. Mimi to do after school detention. Possibly for a whole week and no drum day on said day. So --as a result-- Angelina is --in fact-- still in trouble. She still did something in class that she was not supposed to do. It was on purpose. Not only on purpose, but also a big no-no. So her "apology" does not work and she's still considered a wrongdoer --according to Ms. Mimi-- and must be punished or disciplined. Additionally, she --by extension-- is also held responsible for talking and disrupting in class. Although her after school detention was not seen, she still was assigned it by Ms. Mimi for being disruptive even though Ms. Mimi asked for quiet. Now Angelina has it for a whole week and she gets no drum day the next day or in other words, "not this year". From this point, Angelina's "after school detention week" with Ms. Mimi --after school-- starts, and starting today. So until her "after school detention week" is over, there is no drum day nor any after school activities for Angelina. Because she is in after school detention with Ms. Mimi.]