How to Eat Rotten Grapes: A VeggieTales Movie/Transcript

Part 1
(New Line Cinema Logo Shows)

(Walden Media Logo Shows)

(Big Idea Entertainment Logo Shows)

(Intro with Whimsical Music and a montage of Junior Asparagus throwing up Plays)

Dad Asparagus: Wrapping up there Junior?

Junior: (counties throwing up)

Dad Asparagus: Maybe not

Part 2
(shows the asparaguse's new house)

Dad Asparagus: Okay, Careful there Lil, You're gonna knock somebody over

(Junior kicks a soccer ball in his room)

Mom Asparagus: Junior- (gets hit by the soccer ball) OH!, Junior, You know what, I'm saying stop, This is your room, Come on,

Junior: I don't like it

Mom Asparagus: Why not?

Junior: Smell the walls

(mom and junior smell the walls)

Mom Asparagus: Mm... Yeah, You know they just need a fresh coat of paint, You can pick the color

Junior: Black

Mom Asparagus: Black?, Cozy

Junior: I don't wanna go to school mom, I'm gonna be the new kid, It's the worst thing ever, How will i even know where to go?

Mom Asparagus: We'll figure it out

Junior: We?, No!, No Mothers!

Mom Asparagus: I wanna meet your teacher Mrs. Petunia

Junior: No!, No Mothers!

Mom Asparagus: And i wanna see your classroom and just make sure that everything's okay

Junior: No Mothers!

(Junior uses his fingers to make an X)

Junior: And also mom, Don't put anything in my lunch like a little note saying "Good luck Junior"

Mom Asparagus: Don' worry i won't

(mom and junior hug)

Mom Asparagus: Okay, Unpack, All right?, You're gonna feel so much better once you get settled in and get all your toys out

Junior: Toys?

Mom Asparagus: Material Possessions

(junior gets a picture out of a box with his old classmates saying we'll miss you junior)

Part 3
(junior arrives to his new school on his bike)

Rosie: Peter!, Peter!, Look!, There's a new kid, and he's riding his bike on the sidewalk

Carry the Cucumber: Look!, Principal Nezzer!

Principal Nezzer: Dismount young man

Rosie: "And walk your bicycle, Walk your bicycle"

(all laughing)

Peter (Pa Grape): Everyone, Stare at him

(they stare at him and Junior doesn't know why)

(Junior parks his bike)

Peter: Junior A, Is that where you're putting your bike?

Junior: It's the bike rack

Peter: It's the bike rack

(bell rings)

Peter: See you around new kid

(Junior pulls out the directions)

Junior: Mrs. Petunia and-- No!, No wait!

(directions falls in a puddle)

(junior sighs)

Junior: Aw you silly note

(Junior sees laura in the reflection of the puddle and turns at her)

Laura: Say you were lost

Junior: I'm not lost

Laura: Say you were though

Junior: Okay say i was

Laura: Follow me

(junior follows laura)

Laura: Sorry if i'm taller then you

Mr. Lunt and Carry: Four eyes!

Laura: Put your stuff in there and that's our classroom in there

Tom: Everyone calls that girl four eyes

Junior: Four eyes?

Tom: Laura

Gourdon: No hats allowed

(junior takes his hat off and looks up then puts his head in his cubby)

Junior: Please don't make me go there

(bell rings)

(junior gets his head grabbed out of his cubby and turns around and finds out that it was Prinicpal Nezzer)

Principal Nezzer: Come young man

(Carry laughs)

Carry: Sweet

Principal Nezzer: Class, You have a new student joining you today Everyone lets welcome Junior with a warm hello

(cricket chrips)

Mrs. Petunia: Class?

The Entire Class: Hello Junior

(Mr. Lunt and Carry enter the room)

Principal Nezzer: You're late, Get to your seats, Would you write your name on the board young man?

(Junior tries to write his name but the chalk cracks)

(Emma and Lenny laugh and Mrs. Petunia looks at them and they stop)

(Junior trie again and succeeds)

Principal Nezzer: "Junior Asparagus", With 2 As

Junior: 3

Principal Nezzer: I beg your pardon?

Junior: There's 3 As

Mrs. Petunia: Thank you Principal Nezzer, Welcome Junior, As part of our curriculum, we are studying Ancient Egypt

(petunia pulls down the map of egypt but it slides back up)

(the class laughs)

Mrs. Petunia: Thus The sphinx, Thus the pyramids, Thus the bust of Nefertiti, now would you like to sit Junior?, Lets see, Lets find you a seat, How about right there in back of Laura

Some of the classmates: Four eyes

Mrs. Petunia: Tomorrow make sure you put your backpack in the cubby, And welcome!

Kids: (whispers) Four eyes

(Gourdon hiccups)

(Laura smiles at Junior)

Part 4
(junior goes to the cafeteria)

Carry: Hey, Have a delicious lunch

(junior opens his lunchbox and takes out his container and worms fall out)

(all of the kids laugh and scream)

Carry: WOO-HOO!

(they continue laughing)

Peter: Hey! Junior A!, That's your lunch eh?, You eat yucky grapes?

(peter and mr. lunt laugh)

Junior: I eat them all the time, You wanna try one?, Here you go

(junior throws the grape in peter's face)

(everyone gasps)

Peter: SOMEBODY GET THIS OFF OF ME!

Someone Else: He's gonna get it now!

(everyone laughs)

Principal Nezzer: EVERYONE SIT!

(junior hides the grapes and nervously smiles at Nezzer)

Part 5
Lil Asparagus (Junior's Little Brother): I'M POPULAR!

Mom Asparagus: Lil tell Junior and Daddy what you did today, The preschool kids are called sea turtles and when they introduced Lil-

Lil Asparagus: I sang a song!

Mom Asparagus: They did he stood right up when they introduced him and he sung his little heart out didn't you?

Dad Asparagus: Oh yeah?, What song did you sing?

Lil Asparagus: 🎶Baby beluga in the deep blue sea, swims so wild and swims so free, heaven above, sea below, and the little white whale on the go-🎶

Junior: STOP!, NO MORE!,

Mom Asparagus: He's just singing Junior

Junior: He's not just singing, HE'S DELIBERATELY NOT STOPPING!

Lil Asparagus: 🎶The waves roll in, The waves roll out, See the water squirting out of my spout🎶

Part 6
(Junior is in his bed)

(Dad opens the door)

Junior: Dad?

Dad Asparagus: Junior, Couldn't tell if you were asleep

Junior: My brains keeping me awake

Dad Asparagus: What's the headline of that brain of your's?

Junior: I don't like mys school

Dad Asparagus: Yeah well, Junior first days are tough, First days can be really hard, You should've seen me at work today, You know, I, Uh, I couldn't keep anyone's name straight

(flashback)

Dad Asparagus: Thanks i'll be right with you-whatever your name is

Larry: It's Larry, Larry the Cucumber

Dad Asparagus: And then they made me wear i name tag

Carrot Security Guard: This is your IMB badge, You're gonna need this when you go over to the VOD because they're gonna ask for it for IOC

(end of flashback)

Dad Asparagus: Anything like that happen to you?

(flashbacks to scene 4)

Junior: Not really

Dad Asparagus: Did you make any friends?

Junior: Everybody is already friends, They all went to kindergarten probably and i'm just this kid who's just there all of a sudden

Dad Asparagus: Well you know what you do?, You go up to people, Ypu take the initiative, You say "Hi i'm Junior Asparagus"

Junior: Say my last name?

Dad Asparagus: My point is you don't wait for them to come to you okay?, You go up to them, Introduce yourself, Shake hands

Junior: I don't have hands Dad

(dad chuckles)

Dad Asparagus: Try and get some sleep, You know things are gonna get better i promise, You watch tomorrow you're gonna have a great day

Part 7
(shows junior's new classroom with mrs. petunia teaching the students long division)

(someone throws an paper airplane)

(Laura turns her head at the person who threw it)

(Junior turns his head)

(Peter smiles at Junior)

(Junior opens the paper airplane and it says Junior the rotten grape)

(bell rings)

(the kids start calling him Junior the rotten grape)

Junior: GUYS STOP!

Peter: We're just calling you that because that's what you said

Junior: No i didn't

Peter: Yes you did, You said "I eat rotten grapes" right?

Everyone: Yeah!

Peter: So, You're Junior the rotten grape

(Peter throws a grape at Junior)

(Junior bumps into Laura)

Laura: Oh hey, Hey does your house has a front door that's green?, I was trying to figure out where you live because my house has a orange door that says Carrot, That's my name, Laura Carrot

Junior: You're making it worse

(laura finds a grape and picks it up)

Laura: Does this have something to do with this?

Part 8
(it is recess time and junior is all alone)

(Tom grape comes up to junior)

Tom Grape (Thomas Grape): I'm Thomas Grape, I used to be friends with Frasier Broccoli, You know him?

Junior: I don't know anybody okay?

Thomas Grape: That's like me, No friends

Junior: I have lots of friends, They just go to this silly school

Thomas Grape: Hey, You know how you threw a grape at Peter and hit him in the face?

Junior: What about it?

Thomas Grape: I thought for sure he was gonna smash you with the death ring

Junior: The death ring?

Thomas Grape: Peter has a ring called the death ring, If he punches you with it, You die, But you don't die now, You die in eighth grade so nobody can prove it, It's got poison in it that goes into your skin and makes an ulcer, Very slowly you bleed to death

Junior: If he punches you with it?

Thomas Grape: He punched me, And in the eighth grade, I'm gonna be dead

Junior: What did you do to make him punch you in the first place?

Thomas Grape: Nothing!, He just said i was annoying him for some reason

Junior: How hard did he punch you?

Thomas Grape: Really really hard, Like this

(Thomas punches himself)

Thomas Grape: And then i fell down like this

(Thomas falls)

Thomas Grape: And it made a mark on my belly, Where the poison went in

Part 9
(a montage of the kids making fun of junior starts showing)

(and then Junior can't take it anymore)

Junior: You guys are silly!, You can say Junior the rotten grape all you want!, I DON'T CARE!, Grapes don't even taste that hard, i had a whole bowl for breakfast with brown sugar and cold milk

Peter Grape: That's a lie

Junior: Sometimes a boil them, Sometimes i do the on the barbecue, My favorite way, Rotten, The grosser, The slimier, The better

Peter Grape: Junior the rotten grape you couldn't even eat one grape, Right when it touched your tongue you'd throw up

Junior: You wanna bet?

Peter Grape: The smell would make you throw up, You couldn't even eat a quarter of a grape

Junior: I can eat eat this many grapes Peter, 10 easy!, And you'd be the one who'd puke just watching

Peter Grape: Lets bet

Junior: That i would eat 10 grapes?

Peter Grape: Yeah and when you throw up you lose

Carry: Yeah

Junior: What if i win?

Peter Grape: What's the bet you mean?

Carry: I know!, The loser has to come to school with grapes in his hat

Rosie: Yeah and he has to walk down the hall past everybody as he reveals the fact

Peter Grape: All right, It's gonna be you Junior the rotten grape

Carry: But Peter, what if he eats a tiny bit of a worm and then a year later a tiny bit more a worm-

Peter Grape: No you gotta eat all 10 grapes all on the same day and i get to pick them

Junior: When exactly?

Peter Grape: This Saturday

Junior: That's the day after tomorrow, I need more time to get ready

Peter Grape: Backing out? Come on Junior shake on it

Junior: I don't have any

Peter Grape: I SAID SHAKE ON IT!

Junior: It's a bet

(peter and junior shakes the "invisible" hands)

Part 10
(Dad is in the office)

(The coffee machine squirts on him)

Larry: Hey Mike

Mike Asparagus: Hey

Larry: I had a thought, You play tennis?

Mike Asparagus: Yep

Larry: How about Lisa?

Mike Asparagus: Yeah, Yeah we both play tennis

Larry: You gotta come down to our club, we'll play some doubles

Mike Asparagus: That be great Larry

(Larry leaves mike's office room)

Mike Asparagus: Great

Part 11
Mike Asparagus: You and i, We played tennis when we first met a couple of times, You were good

Lisa Asparagus: Yeah compared to you i was

Mike Asparagus: It's not that he asked me it's the way he asked me, Like he was testing me

Part 12
(Lenny is on a computer in the library)

Junior: Why are you looking at that?

(Lenny is startled)

Lenny: Peter Grape told me to, "Find out about rotten grapes" he said

Junior: That's what they look like inside?

Lenny: Yeah, they have brains, No eyes, They're blind, And look, Five hearts

(Emma and Gourdon making beeping noises with their mouths)

Lenny: And look at this interesting detail, The sphincter, That's the grape's butt

(everyone repeats sphincter)

Junior: STOP YOU GUYS, I have to eat one, I have to eat 10

(everyone continues to say sphincter)

Mrs. Petunia: BOYS WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING!

(they almost get busted but they change it to How the Ancient Egyptians Preserved their Dead)

Mrs. Petunia: "Ancient Egyptians Preserved their Dead" Fascinating topic boys, Fascinating!, The mystery of the sphinx, Excellent, Excellent, And on your recess too, Oh you're to be commended, Carry on

(They exhale in relief)

Junior: Oh, that was close

Part 13
Junior, Emma, Lenny, and Gourdon: Excellent, Excellent, Fascinating, And on your recess too!, The lost sphincter of the sphinx, The lost sphincter of the sphinx, The lost sphinc-

Peter Grape: You guys are friends with this guy who's gonna be barfing his guts out tomorrow?, Lenny get over here, You're not his friend, He's Junior the rotten grape, He doesn't have any friends, Lunt

Lunt Gourd: Right here Peter

Peter Grape: Tell him the new rule

Lunt Gourd: All 10 grapes must be eaten be 7:00 P.M. or you you lose

Peter Grape: And Lunt is the new timekeeper

Junior: Why do you make all the rules?

Carry: Because he just does

Peter Grape: You won't even make it to 7:00 because we're making the grapes taste bad

Junior: Like they already don't?

(everyone except Peter, Carry, Rosie, and Lenny laughs)

Peter Grape: YEAH BE QUIET GOURDON, you too Emma, Rosie, Rosie is the official grape cook

Junior: You're gonna cook the grapes?

Rosie Grape: I'm thinking up some disgusting recipes

Peter Grape: You said you like them rotten Junior the rotten grape, We're making the grapes taste nasty

Part 14
(Junior is on his way home)

(Junior comes upon Laura's)

(Junior hides behind the tree)

(Laura aims an arrow)

Laura: I see you so quit hiding

Junior: Just on my way and i thought you might wanna know i might be leaving this place

Laura: Is your family moving again?

Junior: No, Just me

Laura: Is this all because you threw a grape in peter grape's face?

Junior: That was really dumb!, Really dumb was it?

Laura: I loved it

Junior: You loved it?

Laura: Yup i loved it

(Laura aims arrow)

Junior: Whoa!, You're good!

Laura: Thank you, Say i knew

Junior: Knew what?

Laura: About the bet

Junior: You can't know you're a nice person

(Laura aims an arrow yet again)

Laura: Say i did though, Say i also know you've never eaten a grape in your whole life

Junior: How would you know that?

Laura: Because... Why would you?

Junior: Did you know it was tomorrow?, And can i tell you something?

Laura: What?

Junior: I have a really weak stomach, Really weak, There are a lot of foods i can't eat

Laura: Then why'd you make the silly bet in the first place?

Junior: I don't know, I was just trying to go to school and be a normal person

Laura: Normal people don't eat food of they're bodies Junior

(Both Laugh)

Part 15
Junior: Hey Mom

Lisa Asparagus: Hey what do you think?

Junior: I'm naked

Lisa Asparagus: All right come on we're going out

Junior: Where?

Lisa Asparagus: Lil's school, They're doing a performance and Lil's in it, We're meeting your Dad there, Come on i need you to put on a clean shirt

Junior: WHAT?

Lil's Teacher: Up swim the sea turtles, Up through the ocean waves, Ans then down, Down swim the sea turtles, Dancing on the ocean waves

(girl laughs)

Lil's Teacher: Focus Sea Turtles Focus

(Children Laughing)

Lil's Teacher: Focus Sweetie

Lil Asparagus: 🎶Sea Turtles, Baby beluga in the deep blue sea🎶

Lil's Teacher: No, Not--Come here, Focus Focus!

(applause)

Lil Asparagus: I am the greatest, Thank you ladies and gentlemen