Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps, Series 4 (Sept. 4, 2010-Nov. 13, 2010)

[The scene is in Angelina's mind where Polly is having her party. While Angelina is at the carnival with her friends, Polly is having an "unhappy birthday" because Angelina is not at her party.]

Mrs. Mouseling:
[to Polly] What is the matter, Polly? It is your birthday. You should be having fun.

Polly:
I can't have any fun!

[Mr. Mouseling and Mrs. Mouseling look on at their youngest daughter --who is not having fun at her party since Angelina is not here.]

Polly:
[before crying] THIS IS THE WORST BIRTHDAY EVER!

[Polly buries her face in her hands and cries.]

Polly:
[crying] BOO HOO!

[Polly takes her hands off her face and --tearfully-- looks at the viewers in between tears.]

Polly:
[in between tears and before resuming crying] BECAUSE ANGELINA IS NOT HERE!

[The --now-- teary-eyed Polly --after saying this-- resumes crying. Then she hugs her mother's waist. She is crying because it's her birthday and wishes Angelina was part of it.]

[At the dance stage.]

Ms. Mimi:
What a day! First that big gust of wind, then Mr. Chirpyface dropped my lunch, the protein bars did not fill me up, and I wasn't able to dance in the dance studio because of the waxed floor. And now, I am not only hungry but really thirsty.

[The scene cuts from the dance stage to Ms. Mimi's story. And back to Ms. Mimi's story, the scene is shown in the classroom. In this scene, Ms. Mimi whips out her water bottle and tries to drink some water.]

Ms. Mimi:
[narrating] Luckily, I remembered to pack my water bottle.

[But before she can take a drink, her water bottle spills. And there is water all over the multiplication test. So the final straw happens where she --Ms. Mimi-- accidentally spills water --from her water bottle-- on her desk and on the multiplication test.]

Ms. Mimi:
[sadly --after she had spilled her water] Oh dear!

[Ms. Mimi picks up the multiplication quiz.]

Ms. Mimi:
My problems, they are multiplying!

[As she says this, she holds out the multiplication quiz and acts like the multiplication problems on it are her problems.]

Ms. Mimi:
[narrating] I dried off the multiplication test --when I was met with a happy surprise.

[Alice --as her "unsuccessful character" Baby Bear-- breaks the chair.]

Angelina:
[to Alice] ALICE!? Goldi-Mouse, she was supposed to break that chair --during the real performance!

[At the dance class on Saturday.]

Ms. Mimi:
Repeat after me just the way I am speaking.

[Ms. Mimi states a quiet sentence.]

Ms. Mimi:
[whispers] Today, we are going to learn the word "dynamics".

All:
[say the same sentence and they whisper it like Ms. Mimi] Today, we are going to learn the word "dynamics".

[Ms. Mimi states a loud sentence.]

Ms. Mimi:
[says the sentence again but in a loud voice] TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LEARN THE WORD "DYNAMICS"!

All:
[they say the same sentence again like Ms. Mimi --but repeat it in a loud voice] TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LEARN THE WORD "DYNAMICS"!

Ms. Mimi:
Good.

[After they repeat the same phrase --but in a loud voice-- Ms. Mimi asks them what they think the difference was between the two sentences.]

Ms. Mimi:
[then to Angelina, Vicki, Gracie and Marco] What is different about those two sentences?

[Angelina raises her hand]

Ms. Mimi:
Yes, Angelina?

[Even those two sentences are the same --the same phrase-- Angelina raises her hand. Then --despite the fact the sentence was the same-- she explains what the difference was between the two sentences.]

Angelina:
The first one is soft. The second one is loud.

Ms. Mimi:
Exactly. We changed the dynamics. First the loudness, then the softness.

[So the similarity between those two sentences was that they are the same phrase --"Today we are going to learn the word 'dynamics'". But the difference was, the sentence --said the first time-- was quiet, but the one --said the second time-- was loud. That is how the second sentence is different from the first.]

Angelina:
[narrating] Right after breakfast, Mom put her feet up. And we got to work.

[Mrs. Mouseling is reading a book]

Mrs. Mouseling:
I am looking forward to a peaceful rest.

[Angelina and Polly are singing a song called "The Itsy, Bitsy, Spider" while putting the books away for their mom]

Angelina and Polly:
[singing] ♪ The itsy, bitsy, spider went up the water spout. ♪

♪ Down came the rain and washed the spider out. ♪

♪ Out came the sun and dried up all the rain. ♪

♪ And the itsy, bitsy spider went up the spout again. ♪

Polly:
[as Angelina looks at the big mess after she and Polly made with the books that they were supposed to put away and made them into a tower] What is it, Angelina?

Angelina:
We were going to give Mom a really nice Mother's Day (surprise and present). But we made too much noise...! [looks at the mess] And a big mess.

[Polly adds more books to her pile; then to Angelina after their said song hoping to try to get to have the same song or another song going on again]

Polly:
Are we going to build some more?

Angelina:
No, Polly. We need to put the books away now.

Polly:
Okey dokey. [sings a non-lexical song; a song being an inanimate one] ♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! ♪

Angelina:
And we need to do it quietly. So Mom can relax.

Polly:
[gets loud again] OKEY DOKEY!

Angelina:
Shhhh! [remembers the word her teacher Ms. Mimi had told her about the day before; which was about "dynamics". Then she tells it to Polly] I know. Ms. Mimi, she was talking about dynamics yesterday. Loud music makes you want to jump around. Quiet music always makes you dance very softly. [to Polly] Polly? Do you want to help me?

Polly:
Yes, please with cheese.

Angelina:
I want to sing a quiet little song. Can you sing along with me.

Polly:
Mm-hmm. I guess so.

Angelina:
And while we are doing it, we can put the books away.

Polly:
Okay, Angelina.

[To vote for what person to tell Mrs. Thimble the truth about the Rodentford cheese, Angelina plays One Potato, Two Potato with A.Z, Alice, and Gracie and taps on their fists. The fist who stops on whoever's should be the person to tell Mrs. Thimble.]

Angelina:
One potato, two potato,

Three potato, four,

Five potato, six potato,

Seven potato, MORE!

[When Angelina says, "...MORE!", her fist stops on her own. That means Angelina is "it" and the person to tell Mrs. Thimble the truth about the smelly cheese.]

Angelina:
Oh dear!

Alice:
Good luck, Angelina.

[Angelina is trying to get Alice a trick out to get her to be sad in the sad rhyme from the poem. Gracie sits next to A.Z at lunch in the lunchtime theater. She --Gracie-- looks at A.Z's moldy cheese --in his lunch-- and becomes disgusted about the stinky smell from the moldy cheese.]

Gracie:
[to A.Z] P.U! MOLDY CHEESE! KEEP THAT AWAY FROM ME!

[Gracie smells the stinky --and moldy-- cheese, turns her head away, and pinches up her nose from the moldy cheese's stinky smell.]

Gracie:
[stinking her nose] PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

[Gracie walks away from the lunch table A.Z is sitting at --pinching up her nose. She gets disgusted because someone would ever have moldy cheese in their lunch.]

Alice:
Great rhyming, Gracie. But that is still not helping.

[Gracie --stinking up her nose-- tells Alice about the stinky smell coming from the moldy cheese in A.Z's lunchbox.]

Gracie:
[through a pinched-up nose] That wasn't supposed to rhyme! I meant it!

Angelina:
[narrating] The next day, something happened which made my big dreams very small indeed.

[The scene cuts to Polly and Mrs. Mouseling. Polly is crying because she does not want Angelina moving away to Metroquefort Ballet Companies Junior Ballet School --the said boarding school-- for her big dream. Because then, Angelina is moving to other places so she can travel around the world after boarding school. And starting the first "move-out", it is boarding school.]

Polly:
[cries] That is not fair. I don't want Angelina to move away for her big dream.

[Mrs. Mouseling hugs Polly on her lap.]

Mrs. Mouseling:
[comforts Polly] I know dear.

[The big girls --Angelina, Alice, Gracie, and Vicki-- appear.]

Angelina:
Mom? Can we bring a snack?

Gracie:
To take out to the park?

[Angelina sees her little sister Polly crying.]

Angelina:
[to Polly] Polly? What is the matter?

[Polly turns to Angelina.]

Polly:
[in between tears --and to Angelina] I am sad, Angelina. Because you are moving away.

Angelina:
I am not leaving until next week, Polly.

Polly:
[crying] But I already miss you.

Mrs. Mouseling:
[to Polly] Polly? Why don't you go to the park with Angelina?