New Haunts

''[Outside the GLART, black birds squawk on tree branches. One bird transitions to inside the GLART. A close-up of a green cobweb with a spider hanging down from it. A mummy's hand touches the GLART railing. A lightning special effect happens to a kid in a hot dog costume. The shot returns to normal. The kid in the hot dog costume sniffs. A wide shot of some kids including Ronnie Anne and Sid on the GLART.]''

Ronnie Anne: "I love Halloween in the city. Everyone gets so into it."

[The GLART's lights turn on and off as a spooky voice comes on the GLART PA.]

Stanley: [In a spooky voice over the PA] "Oooooh! Welcome to the GLART Ghost Train! Chugga-chugga choo-chooooo!"

Sid: "Yep, even my dad! Hey, dad!"

[Stanley opens the conductor's door.]

Stanley: [Normal voice] "Hi, girls! Happy Halloween. I wanted to wear a costume, but the GLART said no! It's not like it would interfere with my job! My hands would totally be free inside a taco costume!"

[Stanley frowns.]

Sid: "Um, dad? Shouldn't you be driving the train?"

Stanley: "Oh, right. So sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry."

[Stanley closes the conductor's door.]

Sid: "OK, show me the text again. I just want to see it!"

[Ronnie Anne chuckles and shows Sid a text on her phone.]

Sid: [Squeals and dances on top of her seat, singing.] "Going to a sixth grade party!"

Ronnie Anne:: "I still can't believe Kingston invited us to his Halloween party."

Sid: "I know! [Sid stops dancing, but still stands.] A sixth grader! It's probably because I helped him get an eraser out of his ear once."

Ronnie Anne: "Nice! Man, this Halloween is going to be awesome!"

[Sid sits down.]

Sid: "Epic!"

Ronnie Anne:: "Legendary! But I just got to talk to Bobby first, every Halloween, we put on a haunted house, we even do this vampire boogie dance thing, it's sort of a tradition, and this year, we're supposed to do it at the mercado."

Sid: "A haunted mercado? Fun!"

Ronnie Anne: "Yeah, but Kingston's party is going to be so much more fun! I just hope Bobby is OK with it."

Later, at the mercado]

Bobby: [Amazed] "You got invited to a sixth grader's party?"

Ronnie Anne: "Yeah, I'm sorry."

Bobby: [Kinda bummed out at first] "Don't be, that's awesome, you should go."

Ronnie Anne: "You won't be upset that I'm bailing on our tradition?"

Bobby: [Puts some zombie hands in the melons] "Well, I do love our tradition, but, it's your first Halloween in the city, you should live it up. Besides, I'm sure Carl and CJ will help me with the haunted mercado."

[At the freezer case, Carl is putting fake spiders up, when a pumpkin sneaks up on them, Carl looks, sees no movement, and returns to the spiders, the pumpkin sneaks up on him again, and Carl looks again, he's about to return to the spiders when CJ jumps out of the pumpkin and scares him, CJ laughs]

Carl: [Forgetting what he was doing before] "Spiders! Get em off! Get em off! Get em off!"

[Carl runs into a wall, CJ laughs until his pumpkin starts falling over]

Bobby: "Maybe I could teach them the vampire boogie."

Ronnie Anne: "Cool, thanks Bobby, you're the best."

Bobby: "Have a blast. Now, where did I put those vampire teeth?" [Digs through the box, and gasps when he fells them; in a vampire's accent] "I found them." [Evilly laughs, then screams when the teeth bite him]

[Later that night, a giant red lobster and a gum ball machine are walking own the streets]

Sid: "I hope nobody else is dressed as a lobster."

Ronnie Anne: "Pssh, no way, these costumes are great, if there's a contest, we're definitely gonna win."

Sid: "I bet the prize will be something awesome and sixth gradery, like... deoderant."

Ronnie Anne & Sid: "Ooh."

[Back at the mercado, Bobby is finishing with the decorations, Carl and CJ walk up to him]

Carl: "Okay, I think that's everything, we hung the cobwebs up, set out the pumpkins, put the zombie head in the dairy case."

[Just then, Mrs. Flores runs out screaming]

Mrs. Flores: [Freaked out] "AYE! Madre Mia!"

Bobby: "Oh, sorry Sra. Flores."

CJ: "Are we all done?"

Bobby: "No, there's one more thing," [In a vampire accent] "You must learn the vampire boogie."

[Just then, Vito runs out]

Vito: "Gah! Zombie!"

Bobby: "But first, maybe I should move the zombie head."

[Meanwhile, at the Kingston's apartment building, the elevator opens, and Ronnie Anne and Sid are squished, they struggle  a little to get out, But when they do, Sid's tail gets stuck in the doors]

Sid: "Oh-no, my tail."

[The elevator starts going up, Ronnie Anne helps Sid out, and they roll down the hall, the stop when they hit a door, dazed, and see the number]

Ronnie Anne: "Oh, hey, we're here."

[Ronnie Anne knocks]

Kingston: [Inside] "Come on in, door's open"

[The girls enter, and see that no one else is wearing a costume, everyone goes quiet and stares at them]

Sid: [Oblivious] "Oh yeah, we're totally gonna win the costume contest."

Ronnie Anne: "Sid, it's not a costume party."

Sid: [Realizes] "Oh, well, that's embarrassing, maybe we should get out of here."

[They try to squeeze out the door, when Kingston approaches them]

Kingston: "Hey Ronnie Anne, hey Sid."

[The girls squeeze back in]

Ronnie Anne: "Kingston, my dude, so, uh, we thought this was a Halloween party."

Sid: "Yeah, cause it's Halloween."

Kingston: "It is, but, we're sixth graders, way too old for costumes. But uh, yours are, neat."

Sid: "These aren't costumes, they're uh, uh, really cool coats, everyone's got 'em in France."

Kingston: [Walks off] "Right."

Sid: [Shakes Ronnie Anne] "What should we do? Take the costumes off?"

Ronnie Anne: "But we just have turtlenecks and leggings on underneath, that might look even weirder."

Sid: [Looks at everyone still staring] "Maybe we should just own it."

Girl #1: [Looking at her snack] "I wonder if they make this in a pepper jack." [Pops it in her mouth]

Girl #2: [Giggles] "I doubt it."

Sid: [Approaches them, with confidence] "This lobster's hungry, butter get out of my way. Get it?" [The girls looks at her blankly] "Don't be shy, party's like this really make me come out of my shell, claw me." [Extends a claw, but gets no response]

Ronnie Anne: "I got it." [The girls high five, and Sid's claw flies off...] "Nice one." [...and lands in the punch bowl, drenching the other two girls]

Sid: "Oh-no, my claw." [She turns to get it, but her tail knocks everything else off the table]

Girl #1: "You ruined the snacks!"

[The girls try to clean it up, but Sid, accidentally shakes up a bottle of soda and it sprays all over Ronnie Anne's dome, which makes it rip open]

Sid: "Sorry."

[Ronnie Anne's gum balls start spilling]

Ronnie Anne: "My gum balls."

[One guy steps on them and goes flying onto the couch, the kids one the couch are aggravated by this, and one accidentally sprays cheese into the ceiling fan, which gets all over everyone]

Girl #1: [To Kingston] "I told you, not to invite fifth graders."

Kingston: "She was really tall, I didn't know."

Ronnie Anne: "Thanks for the invite, but, uh, we've got a thing at the, uh,"

Sid: "Dry cleaners."

[The girls take off]

[Back at the mercado, Bobby turns on a radio]

Bobby: "And five, six, seven, eight." [Carl and CJ try to dance, but just bump into each other and fall over, Bobby turns off the music] "No, no, no, first you shuffle in, [demonstrates as he speaks] "then you bite a neck, then you're a bat, then-

Carl: [Groans] "This is boring," [grabs the cauldron from the table] "can we eat candy now?"

Bobby: [Takes the cauldron and puts it back, much to Carl's sadness] "Not until you've mastered the boogie."

[Back on the streets, the gum ball machine and the lobster are strolling along, displeased]

Ronnie Anne: "Oh, well, that was an epic fail."

Sid: "Although we did have the best costumes."

Ronnie Anne: "So, what now?"

Sid: "We could go back and help Bobby with the haunted mercado, that sounded kinda fun."

Ronnie Anne: "Yeah, but, I really wanted our first Halloween in the city to be awesome." [Gets an idea] "Oh, I know," [takes out a quarter and puts in in her costume, and takes her cell phone out of the dispenser] "let me text Sameer and see what he's up to." [Gets a response] "Ooh, he's at a party at the skate park, that sounds even better than Kingston's."

Sid: "Cool, but we better ditch the costumes."

Ronnie Anne: "Yeah, we won't make that mistake again." [The throw their costumes into a dumpster] "Problem solved, let's roll."

Sid: "Ah, skateboard pun, nice."

[The girls head off]

[They arrive at the skatepark, but the doorman at the entrance stops them]

Doorman: [Points to a sign] "No costume, no entry."

Ronnie Anne: "Dang it!"

Sid: "Actually, these are costumes, we're dressed as mimes, very big in France."

[They demonstrate, but the doorman points to another, smaller sign]

Doorman: "No mimes either."

Sid: "Charge!"

[She and Ronnie Anne dive past the bouncer, and are amazed at how cool the party is, until the bouncer drags them out by their legs]

Doorman: [Dangling them upside down] "Nice try." [Drops them]

Sid: "What now?"

Ronnie Anne: "Don't worry about it Sid, I've got an idea." [They return to the dumpster and get their costumes] "Slightly damaged and extremely smelly, but, still usable."

[They put them back on]

Sid: "It's not so bad if you breathe through your mouth." [Does so, and swallows a bug] "Watch out for flies."