Post by Gilbert on Oct 17, 2023 11:10:38 GMT -5
We open the scene and Gilbert is standing in front of his bedroom mirror putting on a suit. The suit is, of course, much too big for him but he’s putting it on anyway. Why he has chosen a suit that is as purple as The Joker’s however, is anyone’s guess. His phone is on his bed and begins to vibrate. While setting up the bowtie, he turns to look at his phone. It’s tag team partner and very unlikely bestie, Max Rotten.
Gilbert: H-hi Maximus.
Max: Gilbert! I’m bored. Let’s go out and beat the shit out of something.
Gilbert: O-oh. S-sorry Max. I can’t tonight. I have my school reunion.
Max: A school reunion? You fucking what?
Gilbert: Y-yep. I’m just getting ready to go n-now. Sorry, we can’t hang tonight.
Max: Well that fucking sucks! What am I supposed to do now?
Gilbert: I-I don’t know. All I know is, I can’t help you tonight.
Max grumbles to himself for a few moments and then hangs up, just as Gilbert’s mom calls him downstairs because no, he’s not taking his mom, she’s taking him! There is a huge difference there! Gilbert shouts down that he’s ready to go and we fade out.
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When we fade back in, the school reunion is in full swing and Gilbert is walking arm in arm with his mom. Former classmates around whisper, point and titter to themselves when suddenly a huge, obviously former jock storms over to Gilbert.
Jock: Hey! Gross Gilbert made the party with his equally gross girlfriend! How the heck did you get a girlfriend, man?! You were gross!
Gilbert’s mom tries to get in the jock’s face but Gilbert quietens her down.
Gilbert: C-Casey, f-for your information my girlfriend was busy tonight. This is my mom! So sh-shut up! I s-see y-you haven’t changed one bit.
Casey: Oh, my god! You brought your mom to the reunion?! How sad and pathetic are you?!
Gilbert: H-how sad and pathetic are YOU for still bullying people well into your thirties? It’s 2023 you big meathead. Come on, Mom. Let’s go inside.
Gilbert and his mom head inside Gilbert’s old school leaving the old jock Casey dumbfounded. Just where has this confidence from Gross Gilbert come from?! He used to be such easy pickings. Stuffing him in his locker, swirlies down the toilet, farting on him at every opportunity, making the little dweeb do his homework….ahh such good times. Casey follows Gilbert inside not wanting to stand for such an injustice! Hell no.
Before the scene fades out, a few nearby bushes rustle, but not from the wind. The camera pans over to them and we see Max Rotten watching on. After Casey wanders inside Max climbs out of the bushes and the scene fades out.
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It’s later in the night and Gilbert is sitting with his mom when the hottest girl in school when Gilbert was in school comes sauntering over to him. Let’s call her…..Kaitlyn. Gilbert always had an eye for Kaitlyn back in the day. The fact that she looks like Alice Knight cannot be a coincidence, given what we know about Gilbert and Alice Knight.
Kaitlyn: Hi Gilbert!
Gilbert: K-Kaitlyn! Y-you remember me?
Kaitlyn giggles, tapping Gilbert on the shoulder.
Kaitlyn: Of course I do, silly! How have you been? What are you up to these days?
Gilbert: I-I’m a wre-wrestler.
Kaitlyn struggles to stifle a laugh.
Kaitlyn: Did you say you’re a wrestler, now?
Gilbert: Y-yes. I wrestle for Outsiders.
Kaitlyn: You mean that OCW thing on TV?
Gilbert: W-well yes, but I-I’m on Outsiders mostly.
Kaitlyn: But it’s like…. Totally the same thing.
Gilbert: It’s r-really not, Kaitlyn.
Kaitlyn is a bit pissed that Gilbert answered her back. She was the QUEEN of the school. He would NEVER have dared answer her back, back in the day! Hell, he should be honoured that she was even talking to him, this dweeb. She would show him! She doesn’t show that she’s pissed however and merely flicks her hair back over her shoulder and smiles at Gilbert.
Kaitlyn: Well….anyway…like do you wanna dance?
Gilbert looks shocked. The hottest girl in school wants to dance with him? This has to be a trick, right? Gotta be. Or maybe it’s that he’s finally famous now and it’s finally rubbing off for him, creating dividends for our boy. Gilbert has some reservations and trepidations down in the pit of his stomach but he does his best to ignore them. After all, the hottest girl in school just asked him - Gilbert - for a dance! Everything is coming up Milhouse! Uh…’Gilbert’. Everything is coming up Gilbert!
Gilbert: Uh… sure!
Kaitlyn holds her hand out and Gilbert stands up, as Kaitlyn leads him to the dancefloor as his mom looks on. The music changes to a slow dance number and Gilbert and Kaitlyn get close. Gilbert puts his arm around Kaitlyn’s waist and she puts her head on Gilbert’s shoulder. As the music continues, Kaitlyn looks over Gilbert’s shoulder without his knowledge and nods to Casey and the rest of the jocks behind him.
Out of nowhere a lot of red gunge falls from the sky and Gilbert’s mom looks on in horror! Gilbert stands there for a few seconds and lets out the largest primal scream that is the loudest that anyone has ever heard. Everyone but Gilbert and his mom begins to laugh. Gilbert is humiliated. Outside the building Max hears Gilbert’s screams and makes his way into the school. Arriving at the gymnasium, he looks through the door and grows angry at what has happened to his tag team partner and the screen fades out.
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Gilbert: S-So…coming up at the next Outsiders show, Max and I, we’re defending our tag team titles against the no-good b-bastards El Knuckle and the Nickleman in a tag team I Quit match. The n-No Good Bastards may be some sick, sick puppies who will stop at nothing to win the match and do anything and everything that they can to win. But that’s f-fine. You know why? Because my tag team partner is a sick puppy too. Max Rotten seriously lives up to his name. Max LOVES to fight. He lives for fighting so our match, I’m not worried at all about winning a-at all.
And honestly, what’s happened to me recently, I’m starting to believe that being a sick puppy is the only way to go, really. I guess Max is really starting to rub off on me, I suppose. S-so you know what, no good bastards? Nickleman and El Knuckle? Max and I, we’re going to retain our t-tag team titles and make the two of you give up. I don’t know how we’re going to do it but we are! And I’m going to show everyone that Gilbert isn’t the dweeb that I used to be at school. B-being stuffed in lockers and swirled down the toilets. Well no more! No more I tell you!! I’ve come a long w-way since CJ O’Donnell kicked my butt in front of the entire roster on Equality Five.
And I have Lord Allton, Zybala and Max to thank for that. They can all see my potential.
When Max and I retain our tag titles against you, everyone will see that Gilbert is no longer Gross Gilbert. No, Gilbert is now: Gilbert The Great! Oh yes, Oh yes I am! So No good bastards, I-I hope you’re ready, because Gilbert the Great is going to finally live up to the potential that I have inside me. Heck, you might even see me as the Outsiders World Champion one day. So let’s hurry up and get this match done because I’m going to kick your butts, Max is going to kick your butt - and when we retain our tag team championship, I’m going to celebrate with a huge glass of milk and some cookies!
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Gilbert stands there, humiliated and looks around the room with everyone laughing at him. He does not see his tag team partner standing outside the gymnasium door, looking through the window. Gilbert then runs into the nearby boys bathroom to wash his suit. His mom begins to cry and shout at everyone who had humiliated her son, but no-one pays attention to her. She follows Gilbert into the bathroom as Max looks on from outside the gymnasium door. Max smashes a nearby locker before opening the door to the gymnasium slowly. In the bathroom Gilbert’s mom is doing her best to clean her son’s suit but the grime and slime doesn’t seem to come off very easily. Gilbert takes his glasses off, wiping the slime from them and running them under the tap for a while.
Gilbert: I knew I shouldn’t have come tonight, mom.
Gilbert’s mom: I’m sorry, Gilbert. I shouldn’t have made you come.
Gilbert: I thought life would be different now. But I suppose nothing changes.
Gilbert’s mom: Come on, Let’s go home. It’s late.
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Gilbert: H-hi Maximus.
Max: Gilbert! I’m bored. Let’s go out and beat the shit out of something.
Gilbert: O-oh. S-sorry Max. I can’t tonight. I have my school reunion.
Max: A school reunion? You fucking what?
Gilbert: Y-yep. I’m just getting ready to go n-now. Sorry, we can’t hang tonight.
Max: Well that fucking sucks! What am I supposed to do now?
Gilbert: I-I don’t know. All I know is, I can’t help you tonight.
Max grumbles to himself for a few moments and then hangs up, just as Gilbert’s mom calls him downstairs because no, he’s not taking his mom, she’s taking him! There is a huge difference there! Gilbert shouts down that he’s ready to go and we fade out.
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When we fade back in, the school reunion is in full swing and Gilbert is walking arm in arm with his mom. Former classmates around whisper, point and titter to themselves when suddenly a huge, obviously former jock storms over to Gilbert.
Jock: Hey! Gross Gilbert made the party with his equally gross girlfriend! How the heck did you get a girlfriend, man?! You were gross!
Gilbert’s mom tries to get in the jock’s face but Gilbert quietens her down.
Gilbert: C-Casey, f-for your information my girlfriend was busy tonight. This is my mom! So sh-shut up! I s-see y-you haven’t changed one bit.
Casey: Oh, my god! You brought your mom to the reunion?! How sad and pathetic are you?!
Gilbert: H-how sad and pathetic are YOU for still bullying people well into your thirties? It’s 2023 you big meathead. Come on, Mom. Let’s go inside.
Gilbert and his mom head inside Gilbert’s old school leaving the old jock Casey dumbfounded. Just where has this confidence from Gross Gilbert come from?! He used to be such easy pickings. Stuffing him in his locker, swirlies down the toilet, farting on him at every opportunity, making the little dweeb do his homework….ahh such good times. Casey follows Gilbert inside not wanting to stand for such an injustice! Hell no.
Before the scene fades out, a few nearby bushes rustle, but not from the wind. The camera pans over to them and we see Max Rotten watching on. After Casey wanders inside Max climbs out of the bushes and the scene fades out.
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It’s later in the night and Gilbert is sitting with his mom when the hottest girl in school when Gilbert was in school comes sauntering over to him. Let’s call her…..Kaitlyn. Gilbert always had an eye for Kaitlyn back in the day. The fact that she looks like Alice Knight cannot be a coincidence, given what we know about Gilbert and Alice Knight.
Kaitlyn: Hi Gilbert!
Gilbert: K-Kaitlyn! Y-you remember me?
Kaitlyn giggles, tapping Gilbert on the shoulder.
Kaitlyn: Of course I do, silly! How have you been? What are you up to these days?
Gilbert: I-I’m a wre-wrestler.
Kaitlyn struggles to stifle a laugh.
Kaitlyn: Did you say you’re a wrestler, now?
Gilbert: Y-yes. I wrestle for Outsiders.
Kaitlyn: You mean that OCW thing on TV?
Gilbert: W-well yes, but I-I’m on Outsiders mostly.
Kaitlyn: But it’s like…. Totally the same thing.
Gilbert: It’s r-really not, Kaitlyn.
Kaitlyn is a bit pissed that Gilbert answered her back. She was the QUEEN of the school. He would NEVER have dared answer her back, back in the day! Hell, he should be honoured that she was even talking to him, this dweeb. She would show him! She doesn’t show that she’s pissed however and merely flicks her hair back over her shoulder and smiles at Gilbert.
Kaitlyn: Well….anyway…like do you wanna dance?
Gilbert looks shocked. The hottest girl in school wants to dance with him? This has to be a trick, right? Gotta be. Or maybe it’s that he’s finally famous now and it’s finally rubbing off for him, creating dividends for our boy. Gilbert has some reservations and trepidations down in the pit of his stomach but he does his best to ignore them. After all, the hottest girl in school just asked him - Gilbert - for a dance! Everything is coming up Milhouse! Uh…’Gilbert’. Everything is coming up Gilbert!
Gilbert: Uh… sure!
Kaitlyn holds her hand out and Gilbert stands up, as Kaitlyn leads him to the dancefloor as his mom looks on. The music changes to a slow dance number and Gilbert and Kaitlyn get close. Gilbert puts his arm around Kaitlyn’s waist and she puts her head on Gilbert’s shoulder. As the music continues, Kaitlyn looks over Gilbert’s shoulder without his knowledge and nods to Casey and the rest of the jocks behind him.
Out of nowhere a lot of red gunge falls from the sky and Gilbert’s mom looks on in horror! Gilbert stands there for a few seconds and lets out the largest primal scream that is the loudest that anyone has ever heard. Everyone but Gilbert and his mom begins to laugh. Gilbert is humiliated. Outside the building Max hears Gilbert’s screams and makes his way into the school. Arriving at the gymnasium, he looks through the door and grows angry at what has happened to his tag team partner and the screen fades out.
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Gilbert: S-So…coming up at the next Outsiders show, Max and I, we’re defending our tag team titles against the no-good b-bastards El Knuckle and the Nickleman in a tag team I Quit match. The n-No Good Bastards may be some sick, sick puppies who will stop at nothing to win the match and do anything and everything that they can to win. But that’s f-fine. You know why? Because my tag team partner is a sick puppy too. Max Rotten seriously lives up to his name. Max LOVES to fight. He lives for fighting so our match, I’m not worried at all about winning a-at all.
And honestly, what’s happened to me recently, I’m starting to believe that being a sick puppy is the only way to go, really. I guess Max is really starting to rub off on me, I suppose. S-so you know what, no good bastards? Nickleman and El Knuckle? Max and I, we’re going to retain our t-tag team titles and make the two of you give up. I don’t know how we’re going to do it but we are! And I’m going to show everyone that Gilbert isn’t the dweeb that I used to be at school. B-being stuffed in lockers and swirled down the toilets. Well no more! No more I tell you!! I’ve come a long w-way since CJ O’Donnell kicked my butt in front of the entire roster on Equality Five.
And I have Lord Allton, Zybala and Max to thank for that. They can all see my potential.
When Max and I retain our tag titles against you, everyone will see that Gilbert is no longer Gross Gilbert. No, Gilbert is now: Gilbert The Great! Oh yes, Oh yes I am! So No good bastards, I-I hope you’re ready, because Gilbert the Great is going to finally live up to the potential that I have inside me. Heck, you might even see me as the Outsiders World Champion one day. So let’s hurry up and get this match done because I’m going to kick your butts, Max is going to kick your butt - and when we retain our tag team championship, I’m going to celebrate with a huge glass of milk and some cookies!
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Gilbert stands there, humiliated and looks around the room with everyone laughing at him. He does not see his tag team partner standing outside the gymnasium door, looking through the window. Gilbert then runs into the nearby boys bathroom to wash his suit. His mom begins to cry and shout at everyone who had humiliated her son, but no-one pays attention to her. She follows Gilbert into the bathroom as Max looks on from outside the gymnasium door. Max smashes a nearby locker before opening the door to the gymnasium slowly. In the bathroom Gilbert’s mom is doing her best to clean her son’s suit but the grime and slime doesn’t seem to come off very easily. Gilbert takes his glasses off, wiping the slime from them and running them under the tap for a while.
Gilbert: I knew I shouldn’t have come tonight, mom.
Gilbert’s mom: I’m sorry, Gilbert. I shouldn’t have made you come.
Gilbert: I thought life would be different now. But I suppose nothing changes.
Gilbert’s mom: Come on, Let’s go home. It’s late.
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Word Count: 1,500