Brains On HQ is riddled with emergencies! A bowl of pudding is chasing Sanden. Marc’s piano has challenged him to a rap battle. And Rosie is out of mustard. Anna and Ruby need Molly’s help to solve these problems, but Molly is in her favorite chair so she can’t be bothered. Hopefully, a sneak attack can get her on her feet.
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ANNOUNCER: Now entering Brains On Headquarters.
[DIGITAL CHIRPS]
MOLLY BLOOM: What's up, Smarty Pal? You having a good time? I know I am. I'm currently relaxing in my extremely comfortable love seat. This little baby couch is so squishy and warm, and all of my problems melt away when I'm sitting on it.
[ALARM BLARING]
They're playing music. [CHUCKLES] How nice.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Molly! Oh, thank goodness. Molly, the alarm is going. We need your help.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Brains On HQ is riddled with disasters.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, if it isn't my good friends, Anna Goldfield and Ruby Guthrie. You guys here to loaf on the love seat too?
ANNA GOLDFIELD: No! Molly, we're here because we need your help. Can't you hear the alarm?
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm sure everything's perfectly fine. How bad could it be?
[ALARM STOPS]
RUBY GUTHRIE: Well, on the first floor, a witch has cursed Sanden Totten's pudding because he refused to answer one of her riddles. And now, the pudding is chasing him around and won't stop until he learns a thematically-appropriate life lesson.
MOLLY BLOOM: Hmm, I always prefer jell-o anyway.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Well, on the second floor, Marc's self-playing piano and longtime music rival, Do Re Mimi, has challenged him to a rap battle. And the loser will be banished from Brains On HQ. But Marc can't rap because he's lost his backwards rap cap.
MOLLY BLOOM: That's so wack.
RUBY GUTHRIE: And on the fifth floor, Rosie's run out of mustard. OK, I know that one doesn't sound that bad, but altogether, it's not great.
MOLLY BLOOM: Listen, you two. I would love to help, but I'm already sitting in this glorious love seat. And I am too relaxed to get up. So maybe you can find someone else to handle the pudding, the rapping, and the mustard.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Molly Harmonica Bloom, it is your responsibility to handle all the wacky comings and goings of this organization. We need you.
RUBY GUTHRIE: She's right. Are you sure you won't get up just to solve one problem?
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm very comfortable and refuse to get up. The only way I could possibly see myself getting up is-- no, no, that's too much.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Molly, tell us!
ANNA GOLDFIELD: We'll do anything.
MOLLY BLOOM: [SIGHS] The only way I'll get up is if you two play a super fun sneak attack with me.
[GROANING]
RUBY GUTHRIE: Fine.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Yep, yep. Hurry up and play the music. We both want to play a--
MEN: Ha-ha hoo-ha!
ANNOUNCER: Sneak attack.
MOLLY BLOOM: Our sneak attack is called Genre Replay. For this challenge, I want each of you to come up with one glorious sentence about a topic of my choosing. Ruby, since you're so worried about Sanden's pudding, you'll come up with a sentence about pudding. And, Anna, since you seem so worried about Marc's cap, you'll write something about caps.
Once you've written your sentences, we'll give you three different genres or styles of movies, like drama or comedy. You'll say your sentence as if it were from that kind of movie. Ruby, Anna, does that make sense?
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Yes.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Yes, that makes sense.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: It does.
MOLLY BLOOM: All right, Ruby, let's hear your sentence about pudding.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Ooh, a sentence about pudding and Sanden, because he's in a disaster about pudding.
[CHUCKLES]
OK, my sentence for Sanden is. Sanden has a witchy, preposterous pudding problem.
MOLLY BLOOM: Ooh, wonderful! Now let's hear it in the style of a Western movie.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Ooh. [CLICKING TONGUE] That's me and my cowboy boots--
[LAUGHING]
--with the spurs.
[WILD WEST THEME]
Ooh! Now, Sanden there, he's got a witchy, preposterous pudding problem, partner.
MOLLY BLOOM: Just like a cowboy. All right. Now let's hear it in an animated movie style.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Ooh! I'm imagining my eyes are really big.
[LAUGHTER]
And I'm remembering my sentence. And I think it goes--
[WHIMSICAL MUSIC]
Oh, my eyes, they're so big! Sanden has a witchy, preposterous pudding problem. No, no!
[GLASS BREAKING]
MOLLY BLOOM: I saw that. I saw the animation in my head. All right, finally, let's hear it. In the genre of horror.
[EERIE MUSIC]
RUBY GUTHRIE: [GASPS] Sanden has a witchy, preposterous pudding problem!
[WHIMPERING]
Oh my gosh, the horror!
MOLLY BLOOM: All right, Anna, it is your turn. Show us your sentence about caps.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: The right cap feels good and looks good, forwards and backwards.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Nice. All right, let's hear it in the style of a musical.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Ah, so we're going to-- there's going to be some--
[VOCALIZING]
(SINGING) Whether it's forwards or backwards instead
Looks and feels good with a hat on your head
[BRASS BAND MUSIC]
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Is that anything?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah, I heard you tap dancing. I felt it. I saw the technicolor. Beautiful. All right. Now I want to hear it like it's from a 1940s noir mystery film.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: OK. I want you to see the black and white tones and the glass-windowed door with the sign on it that says Anna G Private Eye.
[CHUCKLING]
And then I want you to hear a gritty, hard-boiled narrator's voice as it says the right cap feels good and looks good, forwards and backwards.
MOLLY BLOOM: Mm. Hard boiled indeed.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: My favorite kind of egg-- [LAUGHS] and detective.
MOLLY BLOOM: And lastly, a romance movie.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Man, this-- If there were a romance movie with caps as the foremost premise, this would be the trailer, right? You'd have really schmaltzy strings, kind of swelling, very like The Notebook -ey.
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC]
The right cap feels good and looks good forwards and backwards.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Wow.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Heartwarming. Beautiful.
MOLLY BLOOM: That was a really great sneak attack, you two.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Ah, great! Now that we played, can we please, please, please solve all our problems?
MOLLY BLOOM: Sure. But honestly, they don't seem all that bad to me.
[ALARM BLARING]
ANNA GOLDFIELD: What is it now? [GASPS] That alarm means the impossible. Rosie's run out of ketchup, too!
[THEME MUSIC]
MOLLY BLOOM: That's it for this Smarty Pass episode. It was written by Anna Weggel and produced by Aron Woldeslassie. Our executive producer is Beth Perlman. And the APM Studios executives in charge are Chandra Kavati and Joanne Griffith.
Brains On is a nonprofit program. Bye, Smarty Pals.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Bye!
RUBY GUTHRIE: See Ya!
(SINGING) Ooh, you're the Smash Boom Best
Ooh, put you through the test
Ooh, you're the Smash Boom Best
Ooh, better than the rest
It's Smash Boom Best
It's Smash Boom Best
[DIGITAL CHIRPS]
MOLLY BLOOM: What's up, Smarty Pal? You having a good time? I know I am. I'm currently relaxing in my extremely comfortable love seat. This little baby couch is so squishy and warm, and all of my problems melt away when I'm sitting on it.
[ALARM BLARING]
They're playing music. [CHUCKLES] How nice.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Molly! Oh, thank goodness. Molly, the alarm is going. We need your help.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Brains On HQ is riddled with disasters.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, if it isn't my good friends, Anna Goldfield and Ruby Guthrie. You guys here to loaf on the love seat too?
ANNA GOLDFIELD: No! Molly, we're here because we need your help. Can't you hear the alarm?
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm sure everything's perfectly fine. How bad could it be?
[ALARM STOPS]
RUBY GUTHRIE: Well, on the first floor, a witch has cursed Sanden Totten's pudding because he refused to answer one of her riddles. And now, the pudding is chasing him around and won't stop until he learns a thematically-appropriate life lesson.
MOLLY BLOOM: Hmm, I always prefer jell-o anyway.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Well, on the second floor, Marc's self-playing piano and longtime music rival, Do Re Mimi, has challenged him to a rap battle. And the loser will be banished from Brains On HQ. But Marc can't rap because he's lost his backwards rap cap.
MOLLY BLOOM: That's so wack.
RUBY GUTHRIE: And on the fifth floor, Rosie's run out of mustard. OK, I know that one doesn't sound that bad, but altogether, it's not great.
MOLLY BLOOM: Listen, you two. I would love to help, but I'm already sitting in this glorious love seat. And I am too relaxed to get up. So maybe you can find someone else to handle the pudding, the rapping, and the mustard.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Molly Harmonica Bloom, it is your responsibility to handle all the wacky comings and goings of this organization. We need you.
RUBY GUTHRIE: She's right. Are you sure you won't get up just to solve one problem?
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm very comfortable and refuse to get up. The only way I could possibly see myself getting up is-- no, no, that's too much.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Molly, tell us!
ANNA GOLDFIELD: We'll do anything.
MOLLY BLOOM: [SIGHS] The only way I'll get up is if you two play a super fun sneak attack with me.
[GROANING]
RUBY GUTHRIE: Fine.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Yep, yep. Hurry up and play the music. We both want to play a--
MEN: Ha-ha hoo-ha!
ANNOUNCER: Sneak attack.
MOLLY BLOOM: Our sneak attack is called Genre Replay. For this challenge, I want each of you to come up with one glorious sentence about a topic of my choosing. Ruby, since you're so worried about Sanden's pudding, you'll come up with a sentence about pudding. And, Anna, since you seem so worried about Marc's cap, you'll write something about caps.
Once you've written your sentences, we'll give you three different genres or styles of movies, like drama or comedy. You'll say your sentence as if it were from that kind of movie. Ruby, Anna, does that make sense?
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Yes.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Yes, that makes sense.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: It does.
MOLLY BLOOM: All right, Ruby, let's hear your sentence about pudding.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Ooh, a sentence about pudding and Sanden, because he's in a disaster about pudding.
[CHUCKLES]
OK, my sentence for Sanden is. Sanden has a witchy, preposterous pudding problem.
MOLLY BLOOM: Ooh, wonderful! Now let's hear it in the style of a Western movie.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Ooh. [CLICKING TONGUE] That's me and my cowboy boots--
[LAUGHING]
--with the spurs.
[WILD WEST THEME]
Ooh! Now, Sanden there, he's got a witchy, preposterous pudding problem, partner.
MOLLY BLOOM: Just like a cowboy. All right. Now let's hear it in an animated movie style.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Ooh! I'm imagining my eyes are really big.
[LAUGHTER]
And I'm remembering my sentence. And I think it goes--
[WHIMSICAL MUSIC]
Oh, my eyes, they're so big! Sanden has a witchy, preposterous pudding problem. No, no!
[GLASS BREAKING]
MOLLY BLOOM: I saw that. I saw the animation in my head. All right, finally, let's hear it. In the genre of horror.
[EERIE MUSIC]
RUBY GUTHRIE: [GASPS] Sanden has a witchy, preposterous pudding problem!
[WHIMPERING]
Oh my gosh, the horror!
MOLLY BLOOM: All right, Anna, it is your turn. Show us your sentence about caps.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: The right cap feels good and looks good, forwards and backwards.
MOLLY BLOOM: Oh, Nice. All right, let's hear it in the style of a musical.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Ah, so we're going to-- there's going to be some--
[VOCALIZING]
(SINGING) Whether it's forwards or backwards instead
Looks and feels good with a hat on your head
[BRASS BAND MUSIC]
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Is that anything?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yeah, I heard you tap dancing. I felt it. I saw the technicolor. Beautiful. All right. Now I want to hear it like it's from a 1940s noir mystery film.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: OK. I want you to see the black and white tones and the glass-windowed door with the sign on it that says Anna G Private Eye.
[CHUCKLING]
And then I want you to hear a gritty, hard-boiled narrator's voice as it says the right cap feels good and looks good, forwards and backwards.
MOLLY BLOOM: Mm. Hard boiled indeed.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: My favorite kind of egg-- [LAUGHS] and detective.
MOLLY BLOOM: And lastly, a romance movie.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Man, this-- If there were a romance movie with caps as the foremost premise, this would be the trailer, right? You'd have really schmaltzy strings, kind of swelling, very like The Notebook -ey.
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC]
The right cap feels good and looks good forwards and backwards.
RUBY GUTHRIE: Wow.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Heartwarming. Beautiful.
MOLLY BLOOM: That was a really great sneak attack, you two.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Ah, great! Now that we played, can we please, please, please solve all our problems?
MOLLY BLOOM: Sure. But honestly, they don't seem all that bad to me.
[ALARM BLARING]
ANNA GOLDFIELD: What is it now? [GASPS] That alarm means the impossible. Rosie's run out of ketchup, too!
[THEME MUSIC]
MOLLY BLOOM: That's it for this Smarty Pass episode. It was written by Anna Weggel and produced by Aron Woldeslassie. Our executive producer is Beth Perlman. And the APM Studios executives in charge are Chandra Kavati and Joanne Griffith.
Brains On is a nonprofit program. Bye, Smarty Pals.
ANNA GOLDFIELD: Bye!
RUBY GUTHRIE: See Ya!
(SINGING) Ooh, you're the Smash Boom Best
Ooh, put you through the test
Ooh, you're the Smash Boom Best
Ooh, better than the rest
It's Smash Boom Best
It's Smash Boom Best
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