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- If you were a super hero, what would your power be?

Flight? Super-strength?

Ooh, what about the ability to read people's minds?

I mean, people are so confusing.

Wouldn't it be great to always know what they're thinking?

Wait, but what if they secretly don't like what I'm wearing?

Or what if they think I smell or something?

Okay, would that be a superpower or super-curse?

- But it's so cute. - I know, right?

- Ugh, can you believe that this might be

our last pickle festival together?

- That's why we have to make this the best time ever,

right Holly?

- If you could erase a bad memory from your brain,

would you?

- Are you afraid of getting back on the scrambler?

Okay, I keep telling you that it wasn't the ride that made you barf,

it was all that cotton candy.

- No, I'm asking because that's what Oscar did to me.

Look.

He deleted ever photo of us together.

It's like we never even went out at all. Ugh.

Do you think he's okay?

(sighs)

- He's smiling in the photo he posted today.

- I mean, isn't that exactly what you'd do

if you didn't want the world to know you were hurting?

- Maybe. But that's not your problem anymore.

That's kind of the whole point of breaking up with someone.

- Right. Let's just forget about him

and try and focus on the volunteering orientation

and trying to have a nice time.

- No, Holly, the best time ever! - Woo!

(laughs) - Right.

Pickle Festival, here we come.

♪ You and me run to a different beat ♪

♪ We are brave, lead the way, lead the way ♪

♪ Be the you inside ♪

♪ And watch the world take flight ♪

♪ We are brave, lead the way, lead the way ♪

♪ Be the change ♪

♪ Be the change ♪

♪ Gotta be the change ♪

- Four gallons of soda, 10 packs of gum, 12 wooden bowls,

four heads of lettuce, and 10 litres of sports drink.

- Oh yeah. - Are you guys preparing

for the weirdest heist of all time?

- No, it's for the pickle festival's most prestigious event,

the pickle-eating contest.

- And I am training Heather and Levi.

- If he ever shows up.

- So, the soda water is for expanding your stomach.

- Gotta chug two gallons

and then eat two heads of lettuce the night before.

- Honey, that sounds disgusting.

- And the bowls are for practising

the movement of the pickles, right?

Old bowl out, new bowl in, old bowl out, repeat and repeat.

And the energy drink is for balancing out

the sourness of the pickles, right?

And for staying hydrated.

- And the gum is for training.

I have to have a strong jaw if I'm gonna crunch those dills.

- Oh yeah. - In fact, I should probably get started.

- So, sweety, I'm only mentioning this

'cause you are actually eligible this year.

I mean, are you sure you don't want to enter

for the pickle prince and princess pageant?

- Ooh, I hear they have a pretty cool sponsor this year.

Moi. - I mean, we could take you down

to that new boutique and get you a fabulous green dress.

- Now that sounds disgusting.

- Okay. Just thought I'd make sure that you're sure

before I completely put it out of my mind.

(phone vibrating)

- Levi's not coming! He's doing the pageant.

- See?! I mean, isn't that nice? - No, it isn't.

I mean, I have to figure out why he's doing this

and he's making this huge mistake.

- But you're training. - Don't worry, I'll be back.

With Levi.

(door opens)

(carnival barking)

- I've been working on my carnival barking.

"Step right up, step right up,

put your name in, test your strength and win a prize."

(laughing)

- So, um, what's the protocol here?

- Mm, I don't know yet, that's kind of what orientation is for.

- No, I, I mean with Oscar. - You're still on that?

- Hey, the festival covers like ten million square feet.

What are the odds you're gonna run into him?

- Not low enough, which is why I need to figure out how to act.

Okay, I mean, what if he's sad and heartbroken,

do I hug him when he cries? Or what if he's angry

and starts shouting at me?

I just don't know where we stand.

- Well, I know where he's standing.

- Do you think he saw me? - I think so.

- Well, what does-- does he look mad, does he look sad?

- He's coming. - Hey Holly.

- Hey, Oscar.

- Um, you're ready to run the kids booth again?

- You're, uh, you're, do you still sign up for that?

- Of course. Couldn't let those little munchkins down, right?

(chuckles)

Do you want me to grab our schedules?

- Yeah! Yeah, yeah, sure, that'd be grood...

- Okay.

- That was weird, right?

- Well, you did just combine great and good

into a mutant word, so-- - No, no, no, I, I meant him.

- He seemed totally normal.

- Which is weird that he'd be normal, right?

- Hey, do you wanna switch spots?

- No, no, no, if Oscar can be mature about this,

so can I. So can I. Who knows,

maybe we can even be friends.

Yeah.

(Levi): Just at the store trying on outfits for the pageant.

What do you think? - That you're bailing on me

for this dog and pony show.

- Okay, watch it, I'm not a pony.

I'm a stallion.

And I'm not bailing on you. I can do both.

- Well, you're not gonna have time to properly train.

Why are you even doing this anyway?

Blink twice if you're being blackmailed.

- Look, I'm here on my own free will.

This is the one year where we get to do this

and, so, I thought I'd try it.

Also, Claudia thought it'd be fun.

- Claudia?

- How do I look?

- Green. - You look nice.

- You have a real way with words, Levi.

Tell her to ring it up.

This is going to be the best pageant ever!

- So, this is really what you two are going to be doing all weekend?

- Come on, not all weekend.

We're just gonna do the welcome reception,

then the pageant with the intro,

then the talent portion, then the Q&A.

Huh. Guess it is a lot. Why, did you want to come and watch?

(sighs) - I might... stop by.

(sighs)

- Hey, Heather.

Need something?

- You have to promise not to make a big deal about it.

- Okay, I promise I will try.

Are you okay?

- I must not be because I think I might want--

- What?

- To do the pageant. - Wa!

- Mom! You promised.

- Yeah, no, no, no, I'm chill. I'm chill, I'm chill.

(gawks)

And now smile.

Okay, hun, you don't have to look so freaked out.

- I just don't want to look like a whole different person.

- Uh, you won't. - Well, I don't even know

what half of this stuff is for.

- Okay, I promise if you don't like the look,

you don't have to do the pageant.

I'm still proud of you for trying.

I'm a little curious as to what or who

made you decide to do this.

(sighs) - I don't know, I guess

I just thought it would be kind of cool to represent the town.

- Mm-hmm. - And also the $1500 scholarship

is no small potatoes, you know I like money.

- This is true. (sighs)

- And also Levi and Claudia are doing it.

- Right. You don't want to feel left out.

- Well, K, that just makes me sound pathetic.

- No, it doesn't, it makes you sound like a joiner.

And there is nothing wrong with that.

Do you know that when your sister did this, she said

that it was a transformative experience

for her and her friends.

- I don't know if I'm ready for that.

- Well, ready or not...

here you come.

- Hm. - Hm good or hm bad?

- Good. I think. I mean...

thought it was gonna be all silly and frilly.

But this still feels like me.

- So, you happy?

- I guess I better get working on my talent.

- That makes this the 50th Pickle Prince and Princess Pageant.

Yes, a half a century

of searching for the best and brightest 13-year-olds

to represent Collinsville.

This is my-- - Hors d'oeuvres?

- Uh, no thanks, it's okay. - Oh.

Nervous? - What gave it away?

- Oh, the fact that you didn't snarf down

a whole plate of mini burgers.

You look great, kiddo. Go get 'em

- ...and stay tuned to Q88.9.

(applause)

(laughing)

- What the heck?

- I'm sorry, I'm just not used to seeing you in...

not pants.

It's kind of weirding me out.

- Oh, so it's okay for Claudia to get all glammed up but not me?

- It just caught me off guard, that's all.

And you didn't have to do all this just to cheer us on.

- I didn't. I entered the pageant.

- Oh. Uh, cool.

- Huh! You look like a vision. - See.

That's how you compliment someone.

- Okay, I said I was sorry.

Uh, we're gonna go get some food. Do you want to come?

- That's okay, I'm not that hungry.

- Alright.

- Your Mom make you do this too?

- I chose to, for some stupid reason.

- You don't look horrible.

- Thanks. You don't look awful either.

Why would Levi laugh at me in a dress but not Claudia?

- The guy can't laugh at his girlfriend like that

and expect to survive.

- There's no way that's true.

- Oh yeah, it's a total death wish.

- No, Claudia's not Levi's girlfriend.

(scoffs) - Could have fooled me.

(joyful music)

- Alright, and you're done, you look great, buddy!

Alright, run along, run along.

(laughing) - Okay, kiddo, uh,

there's kind of a line forming, so I really need you to choose.

- Hmm. I would go for pickle princess.

- Mmm. - Why?

- Because she demands a pickle army.

- And she lives in a pickle palace.

- I wanna be a super hero.

- Um, okay, um...

Oh. Uh, that, that looks really hard. Are you sure?

- I don't need some silly boy to save me.

(chuckles) - Right.

- Don't worry, you got this.

- Uh, okay, um.

Ooh, I'm gonna need more green.

- Ah, happens every year. (laughs)

On it.

You know, we make a great team.

- We do, don't we.

Ugh, I don't know what I was worried about.

We can totally be friends, right?

Totally, we're fine. (bell ringing in distance)

- Hey! (indistinct chatter)

- What's wrong?

They look like boyfriend and girlfriend.

- Really?

- Oh, and she's so good at face painting.

I want mine to look like that!

- Face paint delivery! Sorry it took so long.

- You have a lot of people counting on you, you know that?

- Whoa. Where did that come from?

- I saw you with that girl. - Which girl?

(scoffs)

- Which one is there, is there more than one?

- Oh boy.

- Wh-- did you even wait until we were broken up, Oscar?

I mean, we were together for a really long time.

- Okay, Holly, maybe we should just go somewhere else and talk?

- Okay, um, you know, I just, I, I need to go.

(sighs)

- Well, I guess you're with me for now.

- But the biggest problem facing young people today

is probably having to live our lives online.

(sighs)

- I think I'm gonna be sick. - Me too.

- Public speaking is my worst nightmare.

- But I think we should also learn

how to cut ourselves a little slack.

(applause)

- Wonderful.

Next up, please welcome, Heather Hobbie.

(applause) - Here's how it's done.

- Hello, Heather. Your question is:

If you could go back and tell your younger self anything,

what would it be?

- Thank you so much for asking me Miss Talbot.

(laughter)

Yo, uh, so.

If I could go back and tell my younger self anything,

it would probably be...

Look out for snakes.

No, obviously I don't mean literal snakes,

I mean people who you thought were nice but, you know,

they're actually just slithering around in the grass

waiting to bite you in the butt.

(indistinct chatter)

Some of them might be your friends.

Some of them might be in this competition.

Some of them might be named--

- Heather! - No, that's not it.

- Stop it.

- This whole thing was stupid anyways.

(gasps)

(mic feedback)

- Heather, what the heck? - Think you owe us an apology.

- And you owe me $10,000.

- What are you even talking about?

- We had a contract, okay?

We wouldn't get crushes on each other.

We all signed it, remember?

I saw you at the Calico.

How could you do this to me?

- It just kind of happened. - Oh, yeah.

Big ol' whoopsie-doopsie! I'm sure that you just slipped

and fell in dance class, and Claudia's lips broke your fall, right?

- Don't you want us to be happy?

- Did you even want me to do this stupid pageant with you?

Or were you just trying to figure out a way to hang out without me?

(sighs) - No, we were actually

really excited you wanted to do this with us.

- We? Wow.

- Okay, what do you want?

- I want to go back in time when we were all just friends

and I wasn't wearing this terrible green dress.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- For what it's worth, I just met that girl.

(scoffs) - I'm so easily replaced.

- I'm confused, Holly. Last time I checked,

you were the one who broke up with me, right?

- Yes.

- And you still want to be broken up?

- Yes.

- But I'm not allowed to have fun with you or talk to any other girls?

- Yes.

- So, you just want me to be miserable?

- Yes. Ideally. At least for a while.

(scoffs)

I don't know.

Maybe it's just, it's weird seeing you after...

you know.

- To be honest, I was miserable. For a while.

I really missed you.

- That's why you deleted all of our photos from your socials.

- Yup.

But then I realized, maybe you were right.

Maybe we weren't the best couple.

- Well, then why did you decide to still volunteer the booth with me?

- Because...

I thought that even if we weren't boyfriend-girlfriend,

then we could still be friends.

And I wouldn't lose you completely.

- Um. It's weird...

being together but not...

together, together.

- Well, I want you to think about it and,

if you don't want to hang out, then I can switch jobs with Amy.

Or you can switch.

I just don't want it to be weird.

- Okay.

- I'm gonna head over to the tent

and hope to see you there.

(pensive music)

(sighs)

(repeated ringing)

- Okay.

So, I'm guessing the pageant isn't going very well?

- How'd you know I was in the pageant?

Oh, right.

Well, I only did it because I thought it would be something

fun to do with my stupid friends.

But now I'm not even sure if I'm in the pageant anymore

or if I have stupid friends, so.

- Ugh, yeah,

nothing like that pageant to break apart a friend group.

- Holly said that you guys had great memories of doing it.

It brought you closer together?

- Yeah. Great memories to laugh at and bond over now.

But it wasn't quite that fun in the moment.

- You're serious?

Where's Holly now?

- Oh, you cannot take that.

Do you want to tell me what happened?

- Levi and Claudia are dating now, apparently.

- Aw. That's so cute. - Hey.

No, it is not, it's disgusting.

And two, how do I make them stop?

- Do you like Levi? - Ew, no.

- Do you like Claudia? - No.

- So why do they have to stop?

- Because it's gonna totally mess up our friend group.

- Where are they right now?

- I don't know, probably back at the pageant canoodling.

- And where are you?

- Here in front of you.

Did you bonk your head with the giant mallet, 'cause--

- No. You're here, without them.

So, who's really messing up the friend group?

Look, you can't stop people from falling for each other,

but you can choose to support them.

Or lose them.

Hey! Wait, you don't want to take your prizes? Wait.

Choose.

♪ And all the king's horses and all the king's men ♪

- Why does it have to be king?

- Fine.

♪ And all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men ♪

♪ Couldn't get humpty together again. Woo! ♪

(applause)

Right. Thank you!

That's all for me, don't forget to tip your waiter.

(laughter) - Ah, wait.

Do you guys have time for one more?

- Uh, sure.

Do you want me to move?

You can have the tent for yourself.

- No. No, no, no. Stick around. I, uh,

I might need your help on this song.

Alright kids. So, you might not know this one,

but I wrote this song with someone who was

and still is very important to me.

Alright everybody, stand up!

(joyful laughter)

♪ It was me, it was you ♪ (chuckles)

♪ All the things, we could do, and we talked ♪

♪ Underneath apple trees ♪

♪ All our dreams, everything, that we hoped, we could be ♪

♪ Wanted more than we're supposed to believe ♪

♪ You told me I can't do that ♪

♪ Said I can't go back ♪

♪ But I know what I have ♪

♪ Nothing can stop us now! ♪

♪ They try and talk me down ♪

♪ But I don't hear a sound ♪

♪ 'Cause I know I can do anything with you ♪

♪ No matter where we are We'll make it through the dark ♪

♪ 'Cause I know I can do anything with you ♪

(cheering)

(laughter)

- Didn't know you were coming back.

- Of course. Couldn't leave these munchkins hanging, right?

- I'm confused. Are you two boyfriend and girlfriend?

- Just friends.

At least we're gonna try.

(chuckles)

(sighs)

- I'm a dummy.

- No arguments there.

- And I'm sorry if I screwed up the pageant for you both.

- You didn't. - You won?

- Oh. No. Collin won.

His answer about why we should revere farmers more in our society

was surprisingly moving.

- I started tearing up.

- But we both knew we weren't gonna take that crown anyway.

- Never say never.

You can be each other's prince and princess if you want.

- Look, sorry we didn't tell you earlier.

We were just afraid that you might...

over react a little.

We don't have $20,000 on us, but contract's a contract,

so, would you accept an ice cream sundae as a settlement offer?

- Enticing but...

if you're hungry, there's one thing you can do

to put this whole thing behind us.

- What are you talking about?

What is she talking about?

(crowd cheering)

- That's incredible. - That's too slow.

Ugh, they needed my training.

- That is disgusting.

(sighs) - That's friendship. Woo!

(crowd cheering)

- Guess we don't need super heroes to solve our problems.

Just good friends.

(rhythmic music)

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