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Wow. Our first real soundcheck. This is huge.

Not as huge as when we rock it tomorrow at Battle of the Bands. Yeah.

That's cool, too, but I really love soundchecks.

See if we'll win.

After we killed it at the auditions, we're walking in here as the band to

Yeah.

Well, well, well.

If it isn't preschool of rock.

Hello, Justin.

How's night lizard?

Or should we say night... gizzard?

Do you even know what a gizzard is?

No. You?

I asked you first. I win.

Just like we're gonna win Battle of the Bands, because we're a real band, and

you're a bunch of babies.

Babies? Well, say hello to Goo Goo and Gaga.

Bring it. I've picked boogers bigger than you.

Okay, those guys are the worst.

But everyone else in this club is going to give us the respect we deserve.

Yeah. Hey, Dewey, your baby band want my keys to play with?

Does the little guy want to look at the keys?

No one cares about your keys.

I hope you remember our bet, Dewey.

Oh, I remembered.

What did I bet?

You bet your band that we would win Battle of the Bands.

That's fine.

I'm a rocker.

All I need in this life is my guitar. You also bet your guitar.

I'm so stupid.

Isn't it time for your nap?

Here's a Betty Bye story for you.

You're going to lose.

The end.

You're the one who's going to lose because we've got a killer song to sing.

we're going to rock it because we practice all the time. Every day, yo. In

21A at William B. Travis Prep, which is our classroom. But we've turned it into

a rehearsal space with an elaborate system for writing our instruments.

Boom.

a soundtrack right now.

You'll see. We're not little kids.

Someone give me a boost.

I'm your man.

Get out of here.

Someone call my

pediatrician.

Hey, show me what you know, give it up to rock and roll, cause we ain't gonna

stop.

If you're feeling like you're getting schooled, this isn't the right one of

Hey, show me what you know, give it up to rock and roll, cause we ain't gonna

stop.

Your throat sounds terrible.

Does it hurt?

I feel like I swallowed a flip -flop. I may be coming down with something.

Are you serious? We need your voice tonight.

Good thing I always carry my rock and roll first aid kit.

Stage dive bandages.

Emergency drumstick eye poke pad.

Breath mat.

Not a breath mat.

Here we go.

Take a slug of this.

Tamika, don't be disgusting.

It's fish tank algae.

Beyonce swears by it.

It says not for human consumption.

Beyonce is not a human.

She's a god.

I'll make you a deal. Just take a swig, and you can have this lollipop to wash

it down.

Or I'll just take the lollipop. Good day, sir.

Not even on the Battle of the Bands website.

Night Lizard, Black Box, the Flying Armageddon Brothers.

There we are. And others.

That's us.

And every other band has a cool bio page.

All we have is a picture of Mr. Finn eating a hot dog.

Oh, am I standing next to a port -a -potty? Yeah. That's a good pic.

Mr. Finn, we're not getting the respect we deserve.

They're treating us like a bunch of little kids.

It doesn't matter what other people think of us now.

When we're on that stage tonight, everyone will take us seriously.

All right, we have science lab this afternoon, so let's get in one last

rehearsal. Yeah.

Cool lick. Is that shut up and dance?

Yeah, but I recorded myself playing it and sped up the tempo.

Nice.

Hello? Hey, Zach, it's me, Lawrence.

I'm just calling to tell you how awesome your ringtone is.

Thanks, man.

So, how's life?

Okay, I gotta go.

All right, guys. Let's really concentrate on our song. It's our secret

Night Lizard won't know what hit him. Yeah.

One, two, three, four.

Enjoy it while it lasts, uncooler rock.

Can we leave yet? I mean, school's over and the other kids have gone

ahead. We can't be late for Battle of the Bands. We have to follow my plan to

sneak out. If people see us with our instruments, they'll know we're a secret

band. Lauren, hall monitor's at it.

Clark's finishing his ceremonial folding of the vest.

Clark, you take your job seriously.

He's off duty. We're clear. Great. It's go time, people.

The track team is heading this way. Why are they coming inside?

It says they're repeating the track, so practice on the side.

Freddie, you were supposed to make sure there were no activities in the hall.

I thought I did, but I must have gotten distracted by life problems.

I'm sorry if you're going through a rough time. No, it's again my phone

life problems.

I have to get the money to send my twins to college or my ex -wife is going to

sue me.

I'm on my way.

It's Principal Mullins.

Principal Mullins, did you get your

hair something? I don't have time for chit -chats. The sprinklers outside are

all going haywire.

So if you don't mind, I'll be out back bailing out the soccer field. You want

know? Because I'm an educator.

Guys, get your stuff.

No teeth.

They're too unpredictable. We'll never get out of here. I got us into this

I'll get us out of it.

Lions, the last one in Miss Fisher's art room has to do push -ups. Let's go.

We have to move. Go, go, go.

I've got them doing wind sprints in the library.

Also, no idea how I ended up at the top of the dairy.

I can't believe you guys made me pull you out of the sprinklers.

Sorry, Mr. Finn. It's one of my life rules. If there's a sprinkler, I'm

to do it.

You should rest your voice. We have to keep you from getting sick.

Guys,

the important thing is we're all together and we're on our way to Battle

Bands.

gets in our way.

Uh, dude, you're kind of in our way.

We have a dress code.

No wet clothes allowed.

Sir, I don't know what you're talking about. Our clothes aren't wet.

That was disgusting.

But I think I made my point.

What are we gonna do?

Battle of the Beds is about to start and we don't have time.

It's right close.

There's a store across the street.

Ow! My thumb.

Oh, the poor widow baby hurt his widow's thumb.

We are not babies.

To be fair, we do kind

of look like babies.

All the stores have had to be... Good thing I had that gift card.

Could we look any more pathetic?

Our first band up is last year's winner, Night Lizard!

Guys, I know things look bad, but we can't give up. I'm telling you, it

matter what these people think of us now.

The second they see us on that stage, they'll know we've got something they

don't. A killer...

The judges haven't given their scores yet. We might still have hope.

Wow, a nine, a nine, and a ten. That is going to be almost impossible to beat.

I was probably wrong to put so much weight on the scores.

What are we going to do?

Tamika's voice is gone. We don't have a singer.

And we don't have a song either.

Yeah, if we sing our song now, it'll seem like we stole it from Night Lizard.

never should have bragged about our song to them. We all bragged, like dumb

little kids.

Everybody was right about us. We get distracted by video games. We run

sprinklers. Then we have to wear stupid ducky pajamas.

Although I am coming around on these. I just discovered the hood.

Tamika's right. We should just give up and go home.

How did you... I speak Tamika.

This is just not fair.

You kids work harder than all these other bands.

Those guys don't have homework.

They don't have to sneak out of school.

And they don't have to work so hard to keep their band a secret.

Exactly. If only we could prove to everybody that we rock and we deserve to

taken seriously.

Sorry.

But you're right. I say this isn't over. We can still blow the roof off this

joint. All we need is a plan.

I've got one.

Summer, think of a plan.

Me? Yeah.

You're our manager for a reason. If there's a solution out there...

You'll find it.

Sorry, I'll put this on vibrate. I know it's getting annoying.

No, it's not getting annoying.

That's our plan.

You're welcome, people.

Oh, Principal Lund.

I'm worried.

If I may, there's trouble afoot.

What is it this time?

Mr. Quinn's class, they've taken off in his van on an unauthorized trip.

Where would he take them?

I suppose I'll have to skip my funkercise spin class and look into

Right behind you, Chief. I'll get my vest.

What are we doing on the roof of the club?

This is where we're going to rehearse our new song.

What new song?

That song.

Shut Up and Dance.

We'll use that guitar lick and start to make our own killer version of it.

But first, we've got to get our singer back.

Algae time.

Let me pick it up.

It's yucky to me.

But we need you to do it.

I'll drink some with you.

I'll do me, Mr. Finn.

We are better musicians now. We know each other's rhythms.

We're a well -oiled machine.

This part of the machine just lets someone's pants fall off the building.

Freddy,

give us a beat.

No, no, let's walk the moon's beat. I want the school of rock beat.

Zack, start your riff.

Freddy, give us a beat off of that.

Tamika, lay down a base.

Lawrence, put some frosting on it.

Summer, bring it.

One, two, three, four.

This is even better than the song we had before.

We might really win.

Dad, your turn.

Actually, we came to apologize.

We feel bad about what we did.

Well, an apology is nice. But words of the wise, a greeting card along with it

really classes it up.

We thought about it and we realized you're not just a bunch of kids.

Thanks, man.

You're a bunch of kids locked on a...

All the days not to bring my parachute.

Get up here or be disqualified.

Over. We're not going to get to play.

No one's ever going to take us seriously now.

Came so close.

We even learned the song in 20 minutes.

Wait a second.

We just learned a song in 20 minutes.

No one's more serious than us.

But you said we need to get on stage to prove ourselves.

I was wrong.

We don't have to prove anything to anyone.

All we need is each other.

We're a battle of the band!

Or on top of it, anyway.

So why don't we play right here?

For ourselves.

Mr. Finn is right.

Yeah, let's rock!

Yeah!

Well,

I guess they're not showing.

And you should give the trophy to the band with the highest... for, which

appears to be Night Lizard. Hey!

That's my band!

And so, the winner of this year's Austin Battle of the Bands is...

What's that sound?

It's the sound of my heartbeat.

I'm just so excited right now.

It sounds like it's coming from the...

Let's go check it out. Yeah, you guys check it out. I'll hold the trophy.

He said shut up and dance with me.

You're making fun of me.

Dude,

you were right about these kids. And you've inspired me.

I'm going to start a band with a bunch of toddlers.

Rock on, man.

And since you won the bet, you can have the old name Dewey Finn Experience back.

Thanks. But I don't need it.

I'm in school of rock.