Last time on Make it Pop
If you're still looking for a lead, it's me.
Agh! The store is in a truck, and I'm stuck in the back.
Corki: My father saw the whole thing!
And I know this must be very disappointing, but I--
Mr. Chang: That was wonderful.
Incoming cast list...
And I'm... not on the list.
Mr. Stark: Alright, everybody, quickly,
we're running out of time.
I said places, people!
Trees, shrubs and other random foliage, upstage.
Twigs and yellow bricks...
To the wings.
Problems, Mr. Stark?
First day of rehearsal is always a special challenge.
The excitement, the dreams, the hormones...
The mayhem.
They will find the play and it will be great.
Not what I meant.
Last year's play was a colossal failure.
And this year...
Caleb: I'm winged monkey number seven!
This is awesome...
Ahhhhh.
I'm okay....
I'd say "break a leg"
but it looks like Caleb's got that covered.
Mr. Stark, I need to talk to you.
Can it wait?
Have I ever waited for anything as long as you've known me?
I guess not.
How could you not cast this?
♪ Maaaaaaaaakkeeee it Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop, oh, yeah ♪
You are one of the most talented performers at MacKendrick.
One of?
Have you taken a look around this place?
I almost got it...
Your performance the other night was terrific.
So why am I not the lead?
Because I couldn't reward someone when I found out she
had dyed a few of her fellow classmates flamingo pink.
What?
How did you find out about that?
I'd love to help you piece this together, Sherlock,
but some of us have play rehearsal.
Kissies.
Okay kissies people-- Places people.
♪ Make it pop, woo, woo ♪
♪ I can't wait no I can't wait ♪
♪ No, I can't wait, no I can't wait ♪
♪ So make it pop, we're bout to, we're bout to blow ♪
♪ Wait till we drop, Oh ya, we're ready to go ♪
♪ Ain't gonna stop ♪
♪ When is it time for the show ♪
♪ We make it, you make it, they make it ♪
♪ M-m-m-m-m-m- Make it pop ♪
♪
She hasn't moved in hours.
Well, that's not so unusual.
She hasn't said anything in hours either.
Oh, this is serious.
Ahh!!
She's alive!
I can't believe this!
Sun Hi, it's just a play.
Maybe to you, Jodi. But to me, it was another piece of my celebrity puzzle.
Be fabulous: check.
Get a Nation of followers: check.
The band blows up: check.
We've performed in front of people.
I'm not sure if that's really "blowing up?"
Corki!
Sorry.
What now?
I'm fifteen.
Time is running out!
Take it easy.
Before your world ends
you might want to read this review of our last concert.
"The pop divas wowed the crowd
with astounding vocals and amazing moves,
Singer Sun Hi Song finishes off with a pitch-perfect solo."
That's not bad.
Jodi: See?
And it's on the internet.
Can't get any more credible than that.
Mhmm.
Mr. Stark: Pay attention!
It's a house of cards, people!
Mr. Stark are you okay?
I having more trouble controlling this group
than my all-cats production of Cats.
Am I happy to be cast as a tree?
No, but am I one to go half way?
Uh-uh.
Oh, for the love of Dorothy.
Caleb: I'm okay.
Nice commitment.
Don't you feel kind of sorry for him?
I don't think trees display empathy.
Especially not for someone who clearly can't see real talent
when it's standing right in front of him.
He needs help.
Maybe from someone who exudes leadership.
Authority.
Discipline.
Know anyone like that?
Besides me?
I don't know...
I mean what makes him Oz and not...
Whoever fits into that role might find themselves
indispensable to this play.
Mr. Stark: Places people,
People!
Corki, you're a genius!
Places people, please!
Places?
Line up, now!
You see that is the power the quarterback,
student body president,
and 'would have been' homecoming king wields.
This might be useful to me.
I'll keep your play in line
but ah I'm gonna need a little something in return.
I know.
You don't want to be a tree.
Nice commitment by the way.
Thanks.
Mr. Stark I want creative control.
Ha!
Absolutely not!
It takes years to get creative control.
It is earned, young man, not given.
Okay, suit yourself.
As you were!
Fine!
You can be my... assistant director.
Your name will appear on the playbill under mine,
and in a much smaller font.
Don't push it, Jared.
Got it.
Deal.
Places everyone.
Thank you...
Jared: Let's take it from the top!
Mr. Stark: Act one, or two, it doesn't matter,
we're going back to the beginning.
It doesn't feel right without Sun Hi here.
Like we've abandoned her.
Sun Hi?
No way....
For her it doesn't get any better than
Reading great reviews about herself
♪ Everybody's searching for the same light ♪
♪ Wishing on a dream inside their hearts ♪
♪ Let's go, let's find a spark we can ignite ♪
♪ Together, together ♪
♪
♪ All around the world people lookin for love ♪
♪ All around the world, all around the world ♪
♪ All around the world ♪
♪ Looking for love, looking for love ♪
♪ So many of us wanna make a difference ♪
♪ United we can turn it all around ♪
♪ We need to feed the flame and make it stronger ♪
♪ Together, together ♪
♪ Wherever we go, whatever we dream, it's somewhere ♪
♪ We're hoping to find, we know in our minds, it's out there ♪
♪ Ooooh ooooh Ooooh ooooh ♪
♪ Yeaah, yeaah ♪
♪ All around the world People looking for love ♪
♪ All around the world, all around the world ♪
♪ All around the world ♪
♪ Looking for love Looking for love ♪
♪ All around the world ♪
No...
I think Sun Hi would be sad to be missing this.
I think you're right.
Jodi: Sun Hi?
Corki: Sun Hi?
Don't you have class?
Yes.
But I'm sick.
My eyeballs are completely dried out.
Are you sure you're not just forgetting to blink?
I was reading our review
which led me to an article about us in the local paper.
That led me to a story about potbellied pigs.
And that led me to a site where I watched
two incredible seasons of "Tracey's Turbo Taxi".
Then I remembered the band and tracked down a review
in the MacKendrick Gazette.
Which is where I found this comment, from Populargirl15.
It says, "Best new band ever?"
Ummm. Only if this is Opposite Land!"
Okay, that's pretty harsh.
But it's the only bad comment on here.
Then it's the only one that matters.
You never care what anyone thinks.
I know, right?
I'm not myself!
I'm sorry!
I love Tracey's Turbo Taxi.
♪
Jodi, listen to what Populargirl15 just said.
"Sun Hi thinks her band's amazing.
But really, it's just amazingly bad."
So then I wrote, "That's what you think."
Are you feeling okay?
Super!
So now, what's a better way to say,
"You stink like cheese,
And not the cheese that's supposed to stink"?
Look, I know it hurts when people say bad things about you,
but be the bigger person.
Focus on other things.
Like what, the play?
Everyone knows I can't do that!
The band's all I've got and Populargirl15 is trashing it!
She's just trying to provoke a reaction out of you.
She's a troll.
That's right.
And I'm gonna smoke that troll out of that sewer she lives in.
Wow.
I will not be joining you on that little adventure.
I just had these clothes dry cleaned.
♪
Hey, what's wrong?
I can't believe I lost my sketch book.
I had the coolest designs worked out,
and now I have to start all over.
They'll never be as good as they were.
When something like that happens with my music,
I just let my mind go free.
Sometimes it turns out even better.
And other times, worse.
So I'm not the only crazy one.
Nope.
Not to say that you're crazy or anything.
Just crazy brilliant.
No one's ever called me that before.
That's because they don't know you,
Ms. "Crazy Brilliant Pants".
So how do you let your mind go free?
Well often times there's not more than one thing in there.
So it's pretty easy for me.
C'mon.
Artist to artist.
♪
Alright, okay.
Oh, no!
The play rehearsal!
We're late, come on!
♪
Sun Hi: I'm gonna get cha!
And I'm gonna find ya!
Whaa, can't hide from me!
So... I'm gonna go.
I'll leave you here to your own devices.
Get it?
Cause you're on all of your--
Listen the troll goes to our school, her comment,
"Your band could use a, little of the Wizard's magic"
points to an intimate knowledge of the play.
It is a cast or crew member.
Great work.
Well, see you later--
You haven't heard my plan yet!
I'm going to bait her into saying more annoying drivel
during rehearsal and catch her in the act!
Wow.
I'm shocked at the depth and deviousness of your plan.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
It wasn't a compliment.
Although I do admire how resourceful you can be
when you put your mind to it.
Is that a compliment?
If it means I can leave, then yes.
Jared, you're supposed to be keeping track of everyone.
We're missing The Scarecrow.
I'm sorry Mr. Stark it won't happen again.
On a more creative level, I can't help but wonder
if the Munchkins should be munchier.
They can't get any munchier.
This school has rules about this kind of thing.
Where were you guys?
We were... stuck in traffic.
You have a car?
Did I just say traffic?
He meant quicksand.
But there's no quicksand around here.
And that's what makes it so strange...
and yet... believable.
Mr. Stark: Oh please, stop talking.
Especially you.
Of course it is...
A-ha!!
I knew it!
What's the meaning of this?
The meaning is...
Valerie Graves is a troll!
Angry and dismayed selfie!
Grrr.
Whoa, there are no trolls in Oz.
Interesting idea.
No, really, she's been trashing me and my band.
Is this true, Valerie?
Yes.
It is.
Don't try and deny it!
Wait, what?
I'm sorry, but the last time I checked,
I'm allowed to have my own opinions.
Just like you have opinions about chasing fame
and who knows what on your cute little blog...
Those opinions are totally different!
How so?
Because...
They're mine.
Plus, I'm a better person than she is!
Okay Sun Hi this is a closed rehearsal, alright.
Let's go back to the monkey number people!
This time Caleb,
I wanna hear that primate chatter in the back row!
Okay people.
It was Valerie.
Why do you care what Valerie says?
I don't know!
I never question myself.
It's kinda like with my father,
why do I constantly worry about his approval?
Maybe because he's a bazillionaire
who can take away your allowance whenever he gets "disappointed."
Obvi.
Yeah.
I think we both need to
stop thinking about external approval.
Okay.
I can tell you how great you are and you tell me how amazing,
unique and astonishing I am on a daily basis...
Better make it hourly.
Deal.
As long as you take care of this.
I still look fabulous!
Sun Hi: Brrraaaaaauuuuu Eeeeeeeeee, Awwww
I'm not even gonna ask.
Don't question my methods!
Well wrap it up, go grab Corki.
The shows about to start.
I'll go get her.
Brrruuuuuu.
People in the house...
It's XO-IQ!
♪ Why d'ya think you got to be better ♪
♪ Who said ♪
♪ Who said that you need to go and change ♪
♪ Can't you find a tighter sweater ♪
♪ Well we say ♪
♪ Come with us and learn the game ♪
♪ Don't listen, don't you listen ♪
♪ Come with us we're on a mission ♪
♪ You should be yourself and glisten now ♪
♪ There's a way you should be talking ♪
♪ Follow us the way we're walking ♪
♪ If you want that cute boy callin' you ooo oo ♪
♪ Don't listen to a word they're saying ♪
♪ We'll be 5-star hotel staying ♪
♪ 80 million hits and playing, too ♪
♪ The rules ♪
♪ Ow ow, ow ow, the, the rules ♪
♪ Now they want your lips to be redder ♪
♪ And they say they say OMG your skirt's too long ♪
♪ Come with us and the boys will be better ♪
♪ Yeah we say ♪
♪ Come with us and it's, game on ♪
♪ Don't listen, don't you listen ♪
♪ Come with us we're on a mission ♪
♪ You should be yourself and glisten now ♪
♪ There's a way you should be talking ♪
♪ Follow us the way we're walking ♪
♪ If you want that cute boy callin' you ooo oo ♪
♪ Don't listen to a word they're saying ♪
♪ We'll be 5-star hotel staying ♪
♪ 80 million hits and playing, too The rules ♪
♪ Ow ow, ow ow, the, the rules ♪
♪ The rules ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Oooh, the rules ♪
♪
Jodi: That was one of your best songs yet
Thanks, you like?
I mean, yeah you liked it?
Totally.
Can I hear more?
Yeah, I mean I got a couple more songs...
Wow.
I'll be busy into next year.
Sun Hi: Du, da, du, da, da, du, du.
Hey guys.
What's up?
Why does something always have to be up with this generation?
Can't anything ever just be normal?
I mean I blame social media!
Owe.
What's with him?
I didn't notice him.
Because I don't pay attention to him.
No reason to, you know?
Oh!
Look at that.
It's already time for Corki to tell me how great I am again.
These things just make the day fly by!
♪
All right Sun Hi Nation, listen up!
I feel closer to a more perfect me.
Wait!
How many people saw me look like a crazed maniac yesterday?
It was definitely ninety five percent of the student body--
Stop!
Corki, I said I'm close to a more perfect me,
but there are still times when you must lie to me
as much as humanly possible, okay?
I'm not ever going to lie to you.
I'm just going to let you
continue to discover your better self.
It's Jared.
What does he want?
He said "I need to see you".
What do you think this means, "I need to see you?"
Probably nothing, right?
But it could be anything.
It could be everything.
It could be the most pivotal moment of my life...
It's good she's keeping her expectations low.
Yeah.
I'm sure this is going to work out just fine...
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