How to Eat Fried Worms Page #5

Synopsis: The Forrester family - father Mitch Forrester, mother Helen Forrester, their pre-teen son Billy Forrester and their pre-school son Woody Forrester - have just moved to a new town where Mitch is starting a new job. Both Mitch and Billy are worried about fitting into their new environment. It's worse for Billy as Woody, who is not worried about the move, is at that stage in his life where everything is simple and easy. Billy's first day in the fifth grade at his new school does not go well when he gets into an altercation with the class bullies, led by Joe Guire. The altercation involves worms and Billy stating that he eats worms all the time, which leads to all the bullies calling him "Wormboy". As such, Joe bets Billy that he can't eat ten worms (without vomiting), the bet to take place this upcoming Saturday, with the last worm to be consumed by 7pm. Despite having a notoriously weak stomach, Billy takes him up on the bet. As the bet starts, the only classmate on Billy's side is Erika
Genre: Comedy, Family
Director(s): Bob Dolman
Production: New Line Cinema
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
PG
Year:
2006
80 min
$13,022,756
Website
1,111 Views


I've got to do it.

If we don't fight the evil forces,

they'll destroy our planet.

Beat the evil forces!

Billy, I need

to talk to you.

Billy, I want you to look

after Woody today, all right?

Don't let him get

in any trouble.

- Woody?

- Yeah, Woody.

Make sure he gets lunch, all right?

We'll be back for supper.

No, Dad, no!

Billy, you don't have

a choice in the matter, okay?

I need to be fo...

focused today, okay?

So do I!

I need to be focused.

No, you don't need to be

focused. It's Saturday.

You get to do whatever you want.

Just include your brother.

Okay, listen, Wood,

you're little, okay?

So you don't even

know anything, okay?

So today,

for the whole day

you have to obey me.

You know what that means?

Be your slave?

Well, yeah, kind of.

What are you doing?

Trying to drool

on those ants.

Ugh! Listen to me, Wood.

You know how we moved

here and how everything is different?

Like our house

and your school.

Well, it's the same

thing with me.

I'm not the same

brother you had before.

I'm a whole other person.

And everything you remember

about your old brother,

all isn't true

about your new brother.

For instance,

I've never been sick.

- I've seen you sick.

- Woody.

You threw up at Raging Waters

and they had to drain the whole pool.

That wasn't me!

Don't you get it?

And don't pick your nose!

What, you're gonna pick

your nose all day?

You're hurting my bike!

I'm not hurting your bike.

I can't hurt a person's bike.

Well, you're shaking it

and it's hitting my dilly-dink.

Don't say stuff like that.

My dilly-dink is my penis.

I'm gonna eat the worms.

Okay.

And, um...

what are you doing today?

Why?

I have to babysit

my little brother.

Where is he?

Get this stuff off me!

- Joey the Joke.

- Give me it, Nigel.

- Heard a story about you today, Joke.

- What story?

- Something about a worm.

- The bet, you mean?

You tell me, Joke.

Well, this new kid

at our school,

I-I'm making

him eat 10 worms and...

Same guy who threw

a worm in your face?

- Who told you that?

- Your dumb friend, Plug.

Plug told you?

Actually he told

his sister and she told me.

Said the whole school

was laughing and that you were afraid.

Were you afraid, Joke,

of a little worm?

I wasn't afraid.

Joke. Joke.

You're a joke.

Get out of here, crows!

Get out of my kitchen!

Look what happens when you put

them on a gummy worm.

Whoa, look at them.

They're having

a spasmodic convulsion.

Hey guys, here comes Joe.

- Plug.

- Yeah.

Come here.

- What did I do?

- Ask your sister.

Benjy, how are you

gonna cook them?

- With this stuff.

- What is it?

- Lard.

- Is that like butter?

Lard's from a pig.

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Bob Dolman

Robert "Bob" Dolman is a Canadian screenwriter, actor, director and producer. His work in television includes SCTV, SCTV Network 90, and WKRP in Cincinnati. more…

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