Ace-Morales Family/Transcript

Before the revolving line of credit

Announcer: "Tonight on Supernanny..."

Announcer: "For the first time ever, Jo visits a family on a grandmother."

Grace: "Fetch me a teaspoon."

Announcer: "Who is stubborn, lazy and grumpy."

George: "I'm just a little boy."

Grace: "You're eight years old;"

Announcer: "And wants people to grow down and shrink."

[George fetches Grace a teaspoon]

George: "Here's your stinkin' teaspoon. Happy?"

Grace: "Eat soap."

George: "What are you, nuts? It's toxic!"

Grace: "Eat shampoo."

George: "Do you think I'm an idiot, you crazy old woman? It's soap as well!"

Grace: "Eat caterpillars."

George: "What do I look like, a bird?!"

Grace: "The more the caterpillars you eat, the merrier."

Regina: "SHUT UP!!!"

Submission Reel

Jo: "I am here in the USA to visit a grandmother who treats the oldest child like a slave. Let's see what we have here."

??? "Hi, we are the Ace-Morales Family. I'm Kristen."

???: "And I'm William."

Grace: "Hello? GEORGE? GEORGE?"

Kristen: "And this is my mother, Grace. Who lives with us. My mom kind of likes to...use our oldest, George as a slave."

Grace: "Get me my medicine!"

Observation begins

Grace: "Eat slugs."

George: "Are you kidding?"

Grace: "Eat worms and beetles."

George: "You're joking, Grandma."

Grace: "I never joke."

George: "But grandma..."

Grace: "Eat earwigs."

George: "SHUT UP!"

Grace: "You're trying to get away, aren't you, boy?"

George: "NO!"

Grace: "Eat cockroaches, worms, beetles and triangles."

George: "IT DOESN'T WORK!"

Observation continues

Lynda: "Grandma is an ugly, smelly old wart!"

Grace: "George, what are you doing? It's time for my medicine!"

George: "Grandma never moves from her chair."

Grace: "It's what's good for you that counts. You must eat cabbage, three times a day."

Lynda: "YOU UGLY WITCH!"

Grace: "Eat triangles everyday."

George talks to Jo

Jo: "Do you go to school at all, George?"

George: "I used to, but when grandma moved in with us, everything changed. My dream is to become a doctor, because I want to find a cure for cancer."

Grace: "Boy, are you slacking off again? Look at that. You're almost as tall as me. That's ridiculous."

George: "I'm just a little boy,"

Grace: "You're eight years old,"

[George fetches Grace a teaspoon]

George: "Here's your stinkin' teaspoon. Happy?"

Grace: "Eat soap."

George: "What are you, nuts? It's toxic!"

Grace: "Eat shampoo."

Jo: "For me to observe was utterly unbelievable."

George: "Do you think I'm an idiot, you crazy old woman? It's soap as well!"

Grace: "Eat caterpillars."

George: "What do I look like, a bird?!"

Grace: "The more the caterpillars you eat, the merrier."

Regina: "SHUT UP!!!"

George tries talking to Grace

George: "Grandma, we need to talk to you right now!"

Grace: "Yeah, yeah. Get on with it. Can't you wait? You're almost as tall as me. Never grow."

George: "If we didn't grow, we'd never be grown-ups."

Grace: "Look at me. Am I growing? Certainly not."

George: "But you did once, Grandma. You never care about my dream of becoming a doctor or finding a cure for cancer."

Grace: "Whatever. Grow down instead of up."

George: "I don't have a social life! You don't let me go to school and have any fun. It's always "fetch me it!" or "I dare you not to go to school!". Maybe, I just want to be a normal boy and concentrate on my studies!"

Jo: "But Grace was having none of it. She blew her top off and made poor George upset. It was utterly unbelievable."

[George talks to someone on his cell phone in his room]

George: "Mom, we've got to do something about Grandma! She's treating me like a slave. She keeps telling me to grow down, eat disgusting things like caterpillars, and she's ruining my life!"

Jo: "Later on, George was complaining to his mother about Grace."

George: "Mom, are you listening to me?! Grandma won't let me go to school and have any fun! I need you and Dad!"

[Grace duct tapes George's mouth]

[George rips the duct tape off and locks his bedroom door behind him. He resumes talking to his mother on the phone]

George: "Mom, please! She's ruining my life."

[Grace unlocks the door, snatches the phone and hangs it up]

Grace: "You want to disobey me boy? Then I'll shut you up with some duct tape!"

George: "I thought you never leave your chair."

[Grace ties George up with the tape]

Grace blows her top off

Grace: "Why, you lazy good-for-nothing brute! Where have you been all morning?"

George: "I went to school."

Grace: "YOU DID WHAT?"

George: "I said I went to school."

Grace: "That does it, EAT BOOGERS, YOUNG MAN!"

Jo confronts Grace

Jo: "I decided to confront Grace about her behaviour with George."

Jo: "RIGHT NOW, YOU AREN'T ACTING LIKE A 59 YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER!!!!"

Grace: "Grow down instead of up."

[Jo raises her voice]

Jo: "THAT IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!"

[Grace rolls her eyes]

Jo: "Grace, why are you rolling your eyes?"

Grace: "That's what I must do. Grow down instead of up. No adults have to listen to others."

Jo: "You are going to a homeless shelter!"

Grace: "Why?"

Jo: "You'll find out soon enough."

The homeless shelter part 1

Grace: "I'd rather want this to be the zoo instead."

Jo: "What do you mean? You need to think of others, especially when problems occur."

Grace: (singsongly) "Grow down instead of up, dork."

Man supervising the homeless shelter: "Ma'am, we do not tolerate this behavior."

Grace: (singsongly) "You grow down instead of up too. Look at that. You're 120 and you're still living. That's just ridiculous."

Man supervising the homeless shelter: "I'm far younger than that. Besides, there's Jeanne Calment who was born in 1875 and died in 1997. She lived for 122 years."

Grace: "I don't believe you."

Man supervising the homeless shelter: "Oh, really? Log on to Wikipedia on the internet and check it for yourself."

Grace: "Back in my days, we did not have internet or Wikipedia."

Man supervising the homeless shelter: "Wikipedia was created by the very very very very early month of the 3rd millennium. You can go to the internet on the computer."

Grace: "Stop going on the computer. It makes you grow."

Jo: "Computer is not very good for you."

Grace: "Yes, it is. It makes you grow the wrong way. Up instead of down."

Jo: "No, it does not."

Grace: (singsongly) "Just grow down instead of up."

George goes to School

[George gathers his books and backpack and heads out the door, off to catch the school bus]

Cut to:

[George's class is reading a book called "George's Marvellous Medicine" by Roald Dahl]

Mr. Taylor: "Now class, are we ready to read the first chapter?"

[George volunteers to read]

Cut to recess:

[George's best friend Lucas goes over to him]

George: "Hey, Lucas,"

Lucas: "How are you doing, George?"

Grace apologizes to George

Jo: "I wanted Grace to write a 700 word essay about the error of her ways."

[Grace is writing the essay under Jo's supervision]

Grace: *writing* "It was very mean of me to be nasty and selfish. I should grow up instead of down for I was such a fool. And I hope that George forgives me."

Reinforcements

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