Special Thank to Luna and Sam 1515 for helping
[The episode begins in Mrs. Johnson's class, and there's a spider in a tank that the students are eyeing.]
Lincoln: "Hey, Frank."
Classmate: "Frank! Over here, buddy!"
Clyde: "He's so cool!"
Mrs. Johnson: "Now, before we pack up, I need a volunteer to look after Frank this weekend while I'm out of town and when someone pass it, one of you will narrate the story of David's Play called "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
[The kids all volunteer to look after him, especially Lincoln.]
Lincoln: "Come on, please, Mrs. Johnson! Me! Me!"
Mrs. Johnson: "Lincoln."
Lincoln: "Yes!"
Clyde: "Way to go, Lincoln!"
[All the other kids moan in disappointment.]
Mrs. Johnson: "Now, Lincoln, this is a major responsibility. Frank needs to be fed twice and under no circumstances should he be let out of his cage. Unlike me this weekend." [chuckles]
[The kids all awkwardly glance at each other over what their teacher meant on that last part and the bell rings.]
Lincoln: "Well, see ya Monday, Mrs. Johnson." [grabs Frank's cage and heads home.]
Lincoln: "This is gonna be the best weekend ever!"
David: I'm so excited that you'll be the narrator for my play.
Clyde: "I'm not sure your sister Leni will think so. Remember last Halloween?"
[Flashback to last Halloween; the doorbell rings.]
Leni: [dressed as a flamingo] "I got it!" [answers the door to see Clyde in a spider costume.]
Clyde: "Trick or tre-"
Leni: "AAAHH!!! SPIDER!!!" [sprays bug spray everywhere and runs out the door while trampling Clyde.]
Clyde: "I'm all right..."
[End flashback]
Clyde: "She hid in her room for three weeks."
[Lincoln stops and turns to the viewers.]
Lincoln: "If I had to worry about my sisters every time I wanted to do something, I'd never do anything." [to Clyde] "Besides, we have a plan. Stealth mode." [waves his hand in front of his face and changes his expression and he and David sneaks into the house.]
Clyde: "Now I'm worried."
[Lincoln opens the door to see if Leni is around.]
Leni: "SPIDER!!!" [being chased by Luan holding a rubber spider over her face.] "GET IT AWAY! GET IT AWAY!"
Luan: "Aw, come on. It's fake."
David: Yikes! I guess she is scared of spiders.
[Lincoln and David conceals Frank's tank with a trench coat and hears Walt chirping and covers up his cage with a hoodie; they makes it to Lincoln's room and uncovers Frank's tank.]
Lincoln: "There you go, buddy."
[Someone's knocking at the door]
David: Come in.
[It was Lana with Lola's doll.]
Lana: "Can I borrow the big kid scissors?" [sees Frank and gasps] "Hey, what's that? Oh-ho! He's so creepy! Can I play with him? Can I?"
Lincoln: "No, no. Frank stays in the cage."
Lana: "Aw..."
[Enter an angry Lola]
Lola: "Lana, give me back my dolly!" [sees Frank, gasps and squeals] "He's so adorable!"
Twins: "Has Leni seen this?"
David: "No. And we want to keep it that way, don't we? So, shh."
[Enter Lisa]
Lisa: "Excuse me, some of us are trying to solve for Y." [sees Frank] "Ooh! Is that an aphonopelma chalcodes?"
Lincoln: "Uh...it's a tarantula. My class calls him Frank."
Lisa: [gets a closer look, along with the twins in awe.] "Fascinating specimen. Has Leni seen this?"
Lincoln: "No! That's why I'm trying to keep him a..."
[In no time, all of the other sisters who are not Leni are gathering around Frank's tank and ogling him.]
Lincoln: "...secret."
[The girls keep looking at him.]
Luna: "Has Leni seen it?"
Lincoln: "Guys, for the last time! Leni's not gonna see--"
[Leni opens the door.]
Leni: "See what?"
Siblings and David: [covering up Frank's tank] "NOTHING!"
[Leni gasps and her siblings gasp back.]
Leni: "Oh, my gosh! Are you planning a surprise party for me?! Wait! Don't tell me. I wanna be surprised." [leaves]
[The others sigh with relief.]
Lori: [leaving with the others] "That was close. You'd better know what you're doing, Lincoln." [leaves Lincoln to it]
David: Yeah. If Leni sees that spider, she'll freak out. Now if you'll excuse me, I better go and get some snacks.
[Lincoln looks in the tank to see that Frank is looking a little upset.]
Lincoln: "Hey, you look a little sluggish, buddy. Bet you'd really like to get out and stretch your legs. I guess a few minutes wouldn't hurt." [carefully places Frank out of his tank and onto his drawer.] "Now, where did I put those crickets?" [gets them out of his backpack.] "Maybe this'll cheer you up." [notices he's gone] "Frank? Where'd you go? Frank, come out! This isn't funny!" [beat] "Crud..." [gets out a magnifying glass and looks for Frank.] "Where are you, Frank? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?" [bumps into the twins]
Twins: "Where's who?"
Lincoln: [faking relief] "There you are! The two cutest twins in town! Found 'em! See ya!" [takes off]
Lola: "He was talking about me."
Lana: "I sure hope so."
[The twins go back to skipping rope; Lincoln checks Lisa's research table and knocks over a few of her beakers.]
Lisa: "What in Schrödinger's Cat?!"
Lincoln: "Sorry, Lis! I'll clean it up later."
[An explosion occurs which blows Cliff away and Lynn comes running out of her room playing Basketball, which worries Lincoln.]
Lincoln: "Lynn! Freeze!"
Lynn: [freezes] "We're playing Freeze Tag? Cool!"
[Lincoln checks Luna and Luan's room and gets bonked by Luna's drumstick during her jam session.]
Lincoln: "Ow!"
Luna: "Oh, Sorry about that dude!"
Lincoln: "That's okay" [checks their closet and sees a spider and thinks it's Frank.] "Gotcha!"
Luan: [she takes off her Groucho Marx glasses while she was reading a Comedy for Dummies book.] "What are you doing with my fake spider?"
Lincoln: "Fake? Oh, nothing." [hands it back] "Here. And here's your fake dog poop."
Luan: "I don't have any fake dog poop." [Lincoln reviles in disgust.] "Just kidding!"
[They both laugh and Lincoln resumes his search.]
Lincoln: "Where are you. Where are you? Where are you?" [checks under the bathroom door.]
Lori: [bursts open the door] "What are you doing, you weirdo?!"
Lincoln: "I'm...uh...looking for my contact lens! Oh! There it is!" [picks up a lint ball and pits it in his eye, making it squint.] "That's better." [runs off to his room past Lynn who's still standing still.]
Lynn: [through clenched teeth] "Can I unfreeze now?"
[Once he got in his room, he gets startled when he suddenly noticed David in his room as well.]
David: You lost the spider, didn't you?
Lincoln: David? What are you...
David: I came back to look at Frank again because he's so cute. But what am I looking at? An empty tank.
Lincoln: Okay, I did lose him. I looked around the hall, but I couldn't find him.
David: This is bad. And if Leni sees Frank, she'll definitely freak out.
Lincoln: [frantic] "Crud, crud, crud!"
David: Do your other sisters know that you lost Frank?
Lincoln: Well...
[The others open the door.]
Lori: "Alright, Lincoln! You don't wear contacts! What is going on?"
Luna: "You've been acting even weirder than usual, bro."
Lola: "Yeah. There's no way you think Lana is cute."
[Lana picks her nose in agreement and they demand answers.]
David: Tell them, Lincoln.
Lincoln: "Okay, I'll tell you! Well, Frank was looking sluggish, so I took him out of his cage to get a little exercise, and then I turned to get the crickets, and he was gone."
[The girls ramble about Lincoln's idiocy and worry about Leni finding out about Frank; Leni appears.]
Leni: "What are we whispering about? Oh right! My surprise party! Don't worry. I won't tell me!"
[The second she turns around, Frank is shown to be on her back and the others scream in horror and follow them to the kitchen.]
Leni: "See? I know nothing. Just making a smoothie." [opens the fridge to get her ingredients.]
[When her back is turned, it's revealed that Frank is gone again; they mutter about the issue at hand and fear what could happen next.]
Leni: "Oh, I need milk." [opens the fridge where Frank happens to be on the milk bottle.]
Lisa: "Wait!" [slams fridge shut] "You're lactose intolerant!"
Leni: "No, I'm not. I'm tolerant of everyone, whether they lack toes or not." [opens the fridge again]
Siblings and David: "NOOOO!!!" [notice Frank's not in that spot anymore.] "Huh?" [sigh with relief]
Lily: "Eee, pider!"
[Frank is scurrying across the floor and Luna traps him under a pot; Leni turns around to see what's going on and Luna and Lily pretend to have a jam session by banging pots and pans and utensils together; Leni digs the beat; as she's too distracted by the tune, they look under the pot to see Frank escaped again.]
Leni: "So, who wants to try my new recipe? It's curds and..." [takes a sip while Lincoln notices Frank on the ceiling light.] "...way, way too much spinach!" [her siblings gasp] "Ugh! I know! What was I thinking?"
[Frank plops right onto her glass.]
Leni: [thinking it's fake] "Ha! Nice try, Luan, but I'm not falling for that one again. Though, that spider looks pretty real."
[Frank blinks, leading Leni to realize...]
Leni: "AAAHH!!! SPIDER!!!" [busts out the bug spray.]
Siblings and David: "NOOOO!!!"
[Too late; Leni unleashes a massive spray cloud to ensure she got Frank.]
Leni: [running off in fury] "WORST SURPRISE PARTY EVER!!!"
[The cloud clears up and Lincoln spots what appears to be Frank's corpse.]
Lincoln: [lamenting] "Frank! No-ho-ho-ho-ho!"
Lucy: "I just wanna say I'm sorry for your loss...and that I'd be honored to serve as funeral director." [holds out a brochure for a business she owns called "Lucy's Lament"] "I keep an assortment of caskets on hand. Were you thinking shoebox, or for a little more money, mahogany?"
[Lincoln has settled for the shoe box deal, and everyone who does not fear spiders is there to attend Frank's funeral. Clyde arrives with a casserole dish.]
Clyde: "Hey, Lincoln. I brought you this casserole. My nana says that there's no greater comfort in times of grief."
Lincoln: "Thanks." [sighs] "This might as well be my funeral, too. Our whole class is gonna hate me for letting this happen to Frank."
[Everyone, kids and pets, gathers around to pay their respects to Frank.]
Lucy: "We are gathered here to mourn the untimely passing of Frank the Tarantula, a pet beloved by all."
Lola: [spiteful] "Except Leni!"
Lana: "The murderer!"
Lori: "Yeah! This is all Leni's fault!"
[The others agree except Lincoln.]
Lincoln: "Guys, this isn't Leni's fault. It's mine."
[Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Leni is washing her hands to wash away any and all tracings of Frank.]
Leni: "Ew! Ew! Ew!" [overhears Lincoln]
Lincoln: "I knew Leni was afraid of spiders, but I brought Frank home, anyway. It was a bad idea. I guess I deserve to have my whole class hate me."
David: Lincoln, You're not the one about taking care of Frank. It's my fault as well. I thought that Frank look cute but I didn't realize that Leni was scared of spiders. [tearfully] I am the worst boyfriend ever. I guess I'm gonna have to cancel my play.
[Cliff prematurely coughs up a hairball.]
Lola: "Ew! Gross, Cliff! Show some respect!"
Lana: [notices something odd] "Weird! This hairball looks like Frank!" [picks it up]
Lola: "Ew! Gross, Lana! Show some respect!"
[Lincoln then looks at the hairball and the corpse.]
Lincoln: "Because this isn't Frank! It's a hairball, too! Which means...Frank could still be alive!"
David: If that's true, then he's still somewhere in the house.
???: "AAAHH! SPIDER!"
David: "OH NO! LENI FOUND THAT SPIDER"
Clyde: "Uh, that wasn't Leni. I know that scream."
[Another flashback to last Halloween; Clyde had come to after Leni had mistaken him for a spider and attacked him.]
Clyde: [coughs a little] "Oh, hi, Mr. Loud. Trick or tre-"
Lynn Sr.: "AAAHH!!! SPIDER!!!" [tramples Clyde and runs after Leni.]
Clyde: "I'm all right."
[End flashback]
David: [grinning] "Mr. Loud's afraid of spiders?"
[A pest control van pulls up out front.]
Lori: [concerned] "And it looks like he's got the exterminator on speed dial!"
Kids: "Frank!"
[The kids watch as the exterminator gets out of his van and notices two caterpillars.]
Exterminator: "Oh, hello, cute little caterpillar family." [shots them with bug killer and laughs wickedly.]
Lincoln: "It's okay, sir. There's been a misunderstanding. You don't need to kill the spider."
Exterminator: "Huh. What are you, a spider hugger? Nobody stops me from getting my spider..." [heads into the house to find and kill Frank.]
David: This is bad, guys.
Lincoln: "I gotta go save Frank!"
Lynn: [still in her freeze tag pose and through clenched teeth.] "We can help!"
Clyde: "I can help, too!"
[They all request Lincoln to let them help him.]
David: Let us help. You can't do this alone.
Lincoln: "Okay. You guys distract the exterminator while I look for Frank."
[The others head in to do their job, but Lynn is hopping about; Lincoln runs up to her and tags her.]
Lincoln: "Unfreeze."
[Lynn now hustles]
Luna: [fake screaming] "There's a big scary spider in the last room on the right! I hope someone can exterminate this ugly spider!"
[The exterminator sprays what looks like a spider and laughs triumphantly, but it turns out to have been one of Luan's fake spiders, making the exterminator flinch.]
Luan: [tauntingly, wearing her Groucho glasses and holding a fishing pole with a fake spider in it.] "What's the matter? Afraid of a little rubber spider?" [laughs]
Exterminator: "I ain't afraid of nothin'."
Lucy: [right behind the exterminator] "Excuse me." [the exterminator screams at the sight of her and Luan smiles.] "The scary spider went in there." [points to the bathroom]
Exterminator: [checking under the bathroom door.] "Hmm..." [sniffs]
Lori: [bursts open the door] "What are you doing, you weirdo?!"
Exterminator: [embarrassed] "Oh, well, uh...I-I-I-I-I-I-I didn't..."
[Clyde appears in his spider costume from last Halloween.]
Clyde: "Roar! I'm a spider. Come and get me!" [the exterminator nonchalantly shoves him aside.] "I'm all right."
[The twins ensnare the exterminator into a jumprope tangle and high five each other.]
David: Ooh, I always wanted to do this. [tickles the exterminator, making his laugh]
[Then Lily shoves her pacifier in his mouth; he spits it out in disgust.]
Lisa: "Kids. They can be so juvenile. Mouthwash?" [shoves the container in his mouth, and when he sloshes it, it's revealed to be a little spicy.] "My special ghost pepper formula. The tingle means it's working."
[Enter Lincoln]
Lincoln: "Frank's not downstairs. So, he must be..." [spots him]
Exterminator: [coldly] "Upstairs..."
[Lincoln tries to save Frank, but the exterminator tangles him with the jump rope and beats him to Frank.]
Exterminator: "Ha! I've got you now!"
[Frank trembles in fear of his untimely demise.]
Lincoln: [begging] "WAIT! STOP! NOOOOOO!!!"
[The exterminator blasts bug killer everywhere, thus dooming Frank; the kids all gasp at his untimely demise, just as the cloud dissipates, someone in a hazmat suit appears.]
Lincoln: "Huh?"
Exterminator: "WHA?!"
[The person in the hazmat suit takes off their helmet and reveals to be Leni and it shows she just save Frank.]
David: LENI?!
Lincoln: [overjoyed] "FRANK!"
[The other kids cheer.]
Exterminator: [threateningly] "Why you..."
Leni: [strong-willed] "Hold it right there, mister! If you exterminate this spider, you'll exterminate..." [pointing to Lincoln] "...this boy's future! Everyone will think he's a spider killer and no one will ever trust him again! Do you really want that on your conscience?"
Exterminator: [remorseful] "Wow...I never thought of it that way. Lady, you just changed my life."
Lincoln & Leni: "Really?"
Exterminator: [disdainfully] "Of course not, you spider huggers! Exterminator out! Here's my bill." [plants the bill on Clyde's face and leaves.]
David: "Leni! That was amazing! But why?"
Leni: "I heard what you said at the funeral. And besides, maybe spiders aren't so bad after all. I mean, this one's kinda cute. Here you go." [gives Frank back.]
Lincoln: "Let's get you back in your cage, Frank."
Lisa: "I always thought Frank was a strange name for a female spider."
Lincoln: "Frank's a girl?"
Lisa: "Mm-hmm. I can tell from the markings. Plus, female spiders always get sluggish before they give birth."
Clyde: "Frank's gonna be a mommy?"
Sisters and David: "Aw..."
[On Monday, The play is ready to begin]
David: Ladies and Gentlemens, Boys and Girls, We like to welcome to our play and this story will be about the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Here's Lincoln Loud narrating the story.
[The audience applause]
[Lincoln read the story while you read the description; One Sunday morning, a caterpillar hatches from an egg. He is known as the Very Hungry Caterpillar, who loves eating, and so he begins to look for some food. He eats through increasing quantities of fruit on the following 5 days (Monday through Friday). First it's one apple on Monday, then two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, and finally, five oranges on Friday. On Saturday, he eats an enormous amount of food (which in reality is not for caterpillars but rather being human food), including one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. Then that night, he gets a stomachache from overeating (from all of those 6 days; Monday through Saturday). But the next morning, it becomes Sunday again. The caterpillar ate through one green leaf. And after that, he feels much better. At the end of that, he is not hungry anymore. He is neither hungry nor a little caterpillar. He is a big, fat, caterpillar. The now-big caterpillar spins a cocoon around himself. There, inside he sleeps in it for 2 weeks. Later, the caterpillar emerges as a butterfly with large, gorgeous, multi-coloured wings.]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Animated Film
THE END