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That's why you should never keep a snapping turtle in your back pocket.

That is the last time I ask you what's new.

Hey, Mr. Maltby, guess where Zack got bit by a turtle?

I don't have time for your turtle tales. My grandmother's coming.

Well, that's nice. No, it's not.

She's constantly embarrassing me, telling me that I have to loosen up.

Me!

You're Mr.

Loosey Goosey.

Marion!

Grandma is here!

Oh, I see, Peanut.

Looks like someone hasn't grown since my last visit.

I love her. It's just that we are nothing alike.

Bye, Grandma.

I want you to meet my grandmother, Rose Mosby.

Hi. Nice to meet you. Look at you. Nice to meet you, young fella. Sweet as

sugar.

Isn't he a strapping young gentleman?

Get your looks from me. You know that, don't you, little peanut?

Come on, give me that.

Oh, Grandma, please.

Oh, Marion, you need to relax.

It's just lipstick.

Now, you'd be used to it if you had yourself a wife.

I can't believe a cat like him is still single.

That's funny. Up top, maybe get a little... Maybe I haven't married

can lead to children.

Marion.

Now, you leave them alone.

All children are sweet and wonderful.

Except for him.

Oh, but Grandma loved you anyway. Come on, give me a little more sugar.

Kissing that little bald head.

more than three syllables.

No, this word only has two syllables.

A job.

You have to get a job?

Yes. Daddy says it'll give me a sense of accomplishment and pride and teach me

the value of dollar.

I'm not even sure what this is, but I'm starting to think it's an obscene

gesture.

Well, I'd like to sympathize, but I work two jobs, here and at the clock bucket.

I'm saving up to buy a used car.

Come with a used chauffeur?

You know what? Your dad is right.

It'll be good for you to live off the money you earn.

But I'll starve.

Daddy's so cheap, he's only giving me $1 ,000 for every dollar I make.

Oh, you poor thing.

My dad just installed a pay toilet.

Daddy, please.

Some of us have real problems.

I'm selling Conclusion.

The 1940s was a decade filled with fascinating firsts, from the invention

bipolar junction transistor to the... Zach! True!

False! All the above!

Sorry to wake you, but it's almost time for you to go to sleep in French class.

Bonsoir.

Wait, what about our homework assignment?

Ah, yes, thank you, Cody.

Each of you must choose a fascinating first from the 1940s and write a three

-page paper on it.

And dismiss.

Take a fascinating first from the 1940s. Like what?

Since on the introduction of Daylight Savings Time.

Just thinking about this assignment is giving me goosebumps.

Is that what those are? I thought those were your biceps.

Coming right up.

Thank you so much for promoting me, Mr. Flegel.

Frankly, wearing that Hillary hen costume was kind of embarrassing.

So much more dignified to be working back here.

Now, working the counter isn't easy.

Remember, you have to beat the timer.

If a customer gets a free meal, it comes out of your pay.

Don't worry.

I won't let you down, sir.

Welcome to Clock Bucket. Would you like to try...

You sell exercise equipment?

What are you doing here?

I was in the neighborhood looking for a job, but no one's hiring.

You're looking for a job?

You can work here if you'd like.

What? You're going to hire her without an interview?

You're right.

Can you say, would you like fries with that?

Fries? I would never eat something so greasy and disgusting.

Close enough. You're hired.

fainting problem.

If it happens, I have some smelling salts in my purse. Let me just find them

here. There's some moisturizer.

Don't want to get ashy.

Take it from someone who was there, like me and your mama here.

Me? Isn't that something to clean your glasses with in there? Oh, of course I

do. There you go.

Oh, why don't you write about the black sailor, Hugh Mulzac?

Oh, okay.

Now, in 1920, Hugh Mulzac earned his captain's stripes in the Merchant

But all they offered him was command of a ship with an all -black crew.

She's talking about segregation.

Correct. Now, Hugh didn't think that was right, so he turned them down.

Twenty -two years later, the Navy built the SS Booker T. Washington.

You keep an anchor in your purse?

It's my key chain.

Oh.

In 1942, Captain Hugh Mozak finally took command of the

military's first... integrated crew.

Now, how is that for a fascinating historical first?

Fascinating? Where'd you read it? Read it? Boy, I lived it. I was a dancer in

the USO, performing at the ship's send -off.

Oh! Just like that.

Look at that move. Shake, shake, shake.

You save it till we go clubbing.

Oh, yes.

Oh, I stood on that dock and I waved to Hugh and his crew as the ticker tape

flew.

You know, I like a guy who won't be dissed. I'm definitely

writing about Hugh Mosek.

Now, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I have one. You got

a vacuum cleaner in that purse?

Try that off the side.

Okay. That means there's a car at the drive -thru. Use this script to take

order. Okay.

Okie dokie, boss.

It's really easy, but has to be done in the right order.

First, you take a toasted sesame bun, add a smidge of honey mustard, one

chicken breast, two slices of tomato, three sour pickle discs, a mound of

shredded lettuce, and a squirt of pepper herb sauce.

Huh?

It's easy, if you use this little trick I made up.

even a word.

Sesame, smidge, supple, slices, sour, shredded, squirt. Oh, stop saying that.

Okay. Sesame, something, something.

How about one F?

Salad.

Okay. This is the simplest job in the whole place.

Just stand there and cluck.

Feet shut.

Oh, wow.

Tell me about it.

Welcome to Cluck Bucket. Would you like to try our wing -a -ding dinner?

Uh, no.

I'd like a half chicken.

The left half, but take off the skin.

Coleslaw, but pick out the carrot bits. And a root beer.

Stir out the bubbles.

members speak to each other.

You're not going to be a team player.

Then you're not ready to work the counter.

I can't wait to get my report back.

Man, I've never seen you so excited about your homework before.

Well, you see, the more I learned about Hugh Molesack, the more into it I got.

I just hope Mr. Dwash doesn't notice I've heated the margins a little to get

all to fit on only three pages.

I've never felt closer to you.

Good morning, class.

I've graded your papers.

Cody, you don't have to take notes on this.

Oh, I know.

Don't have to take notes.

Cody, excellent as usual.

Zach.

the 1950s, the decade of rock and roll and radial tires.

Uh, Mr. Dwight, I don't understand. I mean, I thought I did a really good job

this report, and look, it's not even written on the cafeteria napkin this

Yes, it's refreshingly devoid of pudding stains, but also devoid of accuracy,

starting with that first sentence.

The first time an integrated crew served under a black captain was in 1942 when

Roosevelt was president.

Except that the Navy wasn't desegregated until 1948 when Truman was president.

It's in your textbook.

That thing you use as a pillow?

Yeah, but you see, I'm not talking about the Navy.

I'm talking about the Merchant Marine, which during wartime was under control

the military.

And the book doesn't even mention Hugh Malzack.

Hugh Malzack?

Is that like the name you added to my attendance sheet, Hugh Jabot?

Yeah, man, right?

No. Hugh Mozart was real, and I don't deserve a D.

Well, perhaps I should invent a new grade for you. Maybe a Z for all the

you've snored in my class.

Don't take it personally. I sleep in all the boring classes.

In that case, why don't I give you a D plus?

Well, I guess that's a little better.

As in a D plus a week of detention.

Box.

Welcome to Cluck Bucket. Try our egg -citing new Cluck Muncher salad.

Box.

Why'd the chicken cross the road?

Why? She didn't. She stayed here while her boss went out for a shiatsu.

You're getting a massage in the middle of the day?

We're not busy.

And London's doing fine.

Here we go. One whole chicken cluck bucket and a kitty cluck truck.

Maddie, I don't know why you're always complaining about having to work. It's

easy. Except right after a football game ends.

Help!

Me! Please!

Sorry. My wings are tied.

I don't know if this was such a good idea.

I already have a week in detention. I don't want to go for a month.

Well, Hugh Mozak had 22 years of detention working as a cook when he

been a captain.

Why? Because he wasn't afraid to stand up to the man.

you're right. And I'm not afraid either.

No, coming in the hallway.

He's coming.

Quick, hide me in your purse.

Come on.

Don't be brave, son.

Zach, you're here early for detention.

I know you said my paper was wrong, but I brought proof.

Living, breathing proof.

Well, she was living and breathing when we got here.

Uh, Mosby?

Uh, Mosby?

What?

What? What?

Why am I wearing a wooden skirt?

I make you work, though, don't I?

Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it. Oh, okay.

Rose Mosby, this is my history teacher, Mr. Dwash. Oh, child, wait a minute.

Who's never heard of Hugh Mozak?

Don't talk back to Grandma.

Stop it.

I will stop it when you admit that you were wrong about Hugh Mozak. He was

Trust me, I know I was there.

Well, I'd like to take your word for it, but to be honest, you seem a bit batty.

I'm batty.

I'm batty. You want to know what's batty? This bat is batty.

He was sweet on me.

Jackie.

See, I like to carry around a few mementos from my life.

That's it.

Got it. I got it.

I have something tonight. The Book of Washington was launched.

You better not have the ship in there.

Oh, pishposh.

Oh, you know what?

I left it in my other purse.

Oh. Oh, what a pity. In that case... Here it is.

Oh, look at that.

Captain Hugh Mosey.

Wow. And that's an integrated crew saluting him.

And look at the date.

September 29th, 1942.

Okay. Well, I guess the textbook was wrong.

Well, not just the textbook.

I think you owe somebody an apology.

I'm sorry I called you Batty.

Not me.

This little slice of sponge cake right here.

Zack, I'm sorry I didn't give you a fair shake. I'm going to regrade your paper.

And?

And you don't have to serve detention.

And? What? What else?

I don't know. I was just going to see what else you offered up.

Don't sass your teacher.

Excuse me, but I think these fries are a little underdone.

costume in the kitchen.

It's highly flammable.

Well, that seems like a port -a -thine choice, don't you think?

That's it. You're fired.

No! No!

I'm begging you.

Please, I need this job.

Daddy, have some dignity.

You're fired, too.

No!

My daddy will cut me off. Please, I'm begging you. I'm on my knees.

I'm on my nose.

These furs are really filthy.

We're better than that.

Let's walk out of here with some dignity.

Order

whatever

you want, honey. Not every day we get to celebrate an A+. From Zach.

I just can't believe you did better.

but won't you get in trouble with the owner?

Nope, it's fine with me.

London, you own the Cluck Bucket?

I do now.

I bought it with the money I earned here.

$6 ,000 an hour doesn't seem like much, but after a while, it starts to add up.

Wow, can I get a job here?

Sorry, not available.

Daddy was going to cut me off, but by buying the Cluck Bucket, I was able to

hire myself as manager, give Maddie her job back, and best of all, Check out

Hillary Henn.

Can I please change my name to Ronnie?