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Season 1 Final Outline Episode: “Princess Is Better Than You” April 30, 2014

“Princess Is Better Than You” HARVEY BEAKS FINAL Outline 4.30.14 Logline: When Princess upsets Claire, Harvey and the twins want to teach Princess a lesson. But they discover she is more human than they thought. The kids gather to compete in a competition judged by Dr. Roberts. All the local kids have gathered for what they think is a “cake party”. However, Dr. Roberts reveals that they are there to instead compete in a Best Kid competition! Harvey and Fee are excited to compete – sounds like fun! Foo is confused about where the cake went. Harvey encourages the other kids and wishes them the best of luck. Claire’s mom is always springing surprise competitions on Claire and her sister. Claire always loses to her older sister, but with her sister not there, Claire has an actual chance at winning for once! Dr. Roberts explains that the Best Kid Competition is a decathlon-type event with a wide range of mental, physical, emotional, and psychoanalytical competitions. The winner of the most events will be deemed the “Best Kid”! Dr. Roberts says “The winner could be any of you! It could be you (points to Claire), it could be you (points to Foo), it could be my wonderful, talented, and amazing daughter, Princess! But we’ll have to see. It’s anybody’s game.” END OF COLD OPEN The games begin! Princess unfairly dominates. The kids are all kind of terrible at the various events. No one really takes the events as seriously as Claire, which is why she is clearly the frontrunner. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Princess is clearly the loser. She’s barely participating. However, at the end of the first event, Princess is named the winner! Harvey and the others are confused. During the juggling event, Princess throws balls at everyone and is deemed the winner. During the log toss, Princess naps against hers and wins. She beats Technobear at modeling/posing, Piri Piri at “Best Smile”, Kratz at piebaking, and Foo at “Best Song and Dance Man”. In competitive growling,

Princess “defeats” Fee’s roar with a dismissive grunt. Lastly, Princess faces off against Claire in a spelling bee. Dr. Roberts asks Claire to spell “diplatosis”. Claire says that isn’t even a word. Dr. Roberts immediately moves on to Princess. She must spell “perfect”. Princess cocks a hip and spells it “M-E” then drops the microphone. Princess WINS! Claire looks distraught. Princess failed each event (and didn’t even participate in some), yet she was deemed the winner for every event! Dr. Roberts happily names his daughter, Princess, the BEST KID. Harvey notices Princess being mean to Claire and resolves to right her wrong. Dr. Roberts hands Princess a stupidly big trophy. Princess runs around the stage and ungraciously rubs her victory in everyone’s faces. Harvey’s beginning to think this competition may be rigged in Princess’ favor… Fee says, “Well, no duh, dude.” Princess waves her trophy at Claire. Claire is upset and begins to walk away, but is stopped by Fee. Fee is particularly motivated to do something about this injustice. She assures Claire they will fix this by STEALING the trophy from Princess and give it to Claire, the rightful winner of this rigged competition. Harvey has reservations about that plan. It doesn’t seem right. Fee sways Harvey by pointing out two wrongs make a right. That’s just math. ACT TWO The kids distract Dr. Roberts and sneak into Princess’ room. At Princess’ house, Foo and Piri Piri present Dr. Roberts with a giant wooden statue of Princess. It’s a Trojan Princess that Harvey, Fee and Claire hide in. Piri Piri keeps Foo on track as Foo reads scripted lines written on his hand about how they are presenting a gift to congratulate Princess’ win. Princess is unimpressed with the likeness, but accepts it. She always needs new things to smash. The kids inside look frightened. Princess leaves to get a bat. Harvey whispers to Foo through the Trojan Princess and tells him to distract Dr. Roberts so they can escape. Foo asks Dr. Roberts about all the crystals, a passionate topic for the doctor, while the kids scramble out, unnoticed. Harvey, Fee, and Claire sneak upstairs and find Princess’ room. Her room is

full of crystals, but no toys. Harvey thinks it’s strange that she’s so rich and privileged yet has no toys. Fee hunts for the trophy as Harvey notices a few crystals with hair and dresses near a crystal dollhouse. Weird. Fee opens a closet door, and discovers a huge closet FULL of trophies. She’s got a billion of them! Fee is deflated – Princess has so many trophies, she won’t miss one, and therefore never learn her lesson! Harvey hears Princess coming and everyone hides. Princess shuts her bedroom door and looks around, suspicious. She settles down near her crystal dollhouse and plays with the crystals as if they were little dolls, speaking in different voices and playing in private. The hiding kids aren’t sure what to make of this. Foo swings in to the room through the window, and loudly asks if they’ve stolen Princess’ trophy yet? Foo surprises Princess and she backs into the folding dressing screen that conceals Harvey, Fee, and Claire. The kids are caught, but find Princess sympathetic. Princess discovers the kids in her room and is enraged and embarrassed. Harvey asks if those crystals with dresses are her… dolls? Princess says her dad won’t buy her real dolls because he says crystal ones are better for her health. Her dad will give her anything she wants, except for toys with plastic (because plastics shrink her aura). She knows her substitute dolls are dumb, but… She doesn’t have to explain herself to them and tells them to leave! Claire sympathizes with Princess. Her mom doesn’t let her watch TV because she says it rots her brain. But she does get to have dolls. Claire pulls out a doll from her backpack and hands it to Princess. Claire exits, leaving Princess speechless. Harvey convinces Princess to redo the competition fairly. Princess feels a feeling (a rarity for her) and asks Harvey what’s happening. Harvey explains that Claire was NICE to Princess. She was being nice? That’s stupid! Harvey suggests Princess should do something nice back... like holding a Best Kid Competition REMATCH, so people like Claire have a fair chance at winning. Princess considers, then yells, “DAD!”

ACT THREE Kids gather for the rematch. Princess hasn’t changed. Everyone gathers at the rematch. At the bottom of the big “Best Kid Competition” sign is the word “Rematch” tacked on. Princess reminds her dad to judge fairly, and Harvey gives her a thumbs up. Harvey tells Claire that today is her day! Claire says she’s been training her whole life for this. Dr. Roberts says instead of a full rematch that would take lots of time and keep him away from his patients, they’re going to do one ultimate match -- a winner takes all SACK RACE. Harvey tells Princess she’s doing a good thing by agreeing to play fairly. Princess agrees – she is pretty awesome and fair. That’s why she’s going to CRUSH them in this race! Harvey looks concerned. Princess doesn’t sound like she’s following the plan. Princess goads Harvey, Fee, Foo, and Claire to try and do better than her because she’s the best at EVVV-REEE-THINGGG. She’s going to win just like she always does! That’s what fair is! Harvey tells the twins they need to do something to make sure Princess doesn’t cheat. Harvey, Fee, and Foo get physical with Princess during the final event. At the starting line, Princess glares at her competitors. Dr. Roberts announces the one rule: Stay in your sack and cross the finish line to be named Best Kid! He starts the race, and the kids are off! Princess immediately steps out of her sack and throws it at Harvey’s face. Princess waddle/sprints towards the finish line while everyone else hops in their sacks. Harvey protests that Princess is cheating, but Dr. Roberts doesn’t notice. Fee and Foo want to run after her, but Harvey encourages them to stay in their sacks. They can’t stoop to her level and be cheaters too! The twins agree. Foo ducks down in his sack and Fee lobs him through the air, bombing Princess. Foo scrambles to grab onto Princess’ leg to be dead weight for her to drag. Fee pulls up her sack and rips her feet through the bottom so she can run. Fee grabs onto Princess’ other leg, but Princess is a juggernaut. She powers towards the finish line even with the twins hanging off her. A few kids passed Princess while the twins were slowing her down, but Princess is fueled by rage. She catches up to them and yells, “I’m the best!” as she knocks them out of her way.

Claire diligently hops along, doing the absolute best she can. She’s really pushing it to her maximum ability. Harvey notices Claire, but knows Princess is going to beat her if he doesn’t do something. Harvey leaps on Princess and drags along behind her, pleading with her to play fairly. Princess doesn’t care and continues to trudge along. Harvey tells all the other kids (except Claire) to help slow down Princess. All the kids in the sack race latch on to Fee and Foo and create a chain of bodies for Princess to drag. Princess is reminded of Claire’s kindness and deems Claire the winner. Princess is feet away from the finish line and the weight of the kids she’s dragging affects her. As Princess struggles, Claire’s doll falls out of her pocket. Princess notices it and remembers Claire’s kind act. Princess decides NOT to cross the finish line and instead, sits on the ground, inches from the finish line. Claire happily crosses over the line and is elated! She won! But Dr. Roberts immediately names Princess the winner of the sack race, and therefore the Best Kid! …Again! Princess tells her dad, “No!” and makes Dr. Roberts announce Claire as the winner. Dr. Roberts doesn’t understand, but if it will make his little Princess happy, then he will do so. Claire is deemed the Best Kid. The contestants cheer! Claire is thrilled to have a trophy and runs home to show her mom. Harvey, Fee and Foo congratulate Princess for doing the right thing. Princess brags and says she let Claire win because she doesn’t have room for more dumb trophies. Harvey says it was still nice of her, but Princess is already walking away, not listening. END