(school bell rings)
- Don't forget, tonight is A Night at the Prom,
which is the theme to our homecoming dance.
Also, to the student who keeps scrawling your phone number
in the men's bathroom, your number's out of service.
Enjoy homecoming!
- I think the banner is set.
- In that case, I think we're gonna have a "banner" homecoming.
(both chuckle)
- Oh, funny friend.
- I just wish this was a Sadie Hawkins themed homecoming,
because there's someone who I'd really, REALLY
like to ask to the dance.
- Yeah, kinda like how I'd like to ask Angela.
Anyway, I gotta get changed to chaperone.
I'll catch you later, pal. (clicks tongue)
♪ (woeful music) ♪
♪ (incidental music) ♪
- (Chris) Wow, you look great.
That's what I'd say if looks mattered.
- Oh. "Thanks."
That's what I'd say if my self-worth
was based on how others view my appearance.
You should pin on my corsage
to complete the irony of the evening.
Tonight's gonna be better than ironic,
because I got a bootleg MP3 of the band playing homecoming.
- Are they amazing?
- Even better. They're awful.
It sounds like stuff those emo kids would like.
So we can just go and report on how lame they are.
- Yeah.
Wait. If we're going to homecoming with a purpose,
does that mean we're no longer going ironically?
♪ (heavy-bass techno music) ♪
(scattered cheers and conversations)
I can't wait to see this lame band. What's their name?
- Let's see.
Bleeding Toes. Heard of 'em?
- (mood drops) Yeah, I heard of them when they first formed.
- Oh. You didn't like them before they were cool? Nice.
- You don't understand. My dad used to be in Bleeding Toes.
That's how they got their name.
- Oh, right. The whole "gruesomely cutting off his toe" thing?
He's always bringing it up in class.
- (dramatically) "And even though we are separate,
you will always be a part of me."
(perkily) All right, and that was a poem
I wrote about my severed toe.
(students scream and groan in disgust)
- I've got to go find my dad.
(door squeaks)
- Don't tell him how lame the band is. Save it for the article.
(slight feedback)
- Okay, everybody. We'll have the band out soon.
But first, I'm gonna be DJ-ing on the ones and twos.
Who's excited?!
♪ (random beats) ♪ Whoop-whoop-whoop! Wiki-wiki-wiki.
Zz-zz-zz, zz-zz-kk-zzz.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah.
- Chris has got to see this.
♪ (beats continued, muffled) ♪
- Hey, Chris. Why aren't you enjoying the dance?
- Dad, I have bad news.
I just found out that the Bleeding Toes are back together
and are performing here tonight.
I just wanted to make sure that you knew.
- Oh, I knew that. It's totally fine.
- Are you sure? Because I was assigned to write about them.
But I won't if you don't want them getting more attention.
- Chris, I'm happy you've discovered a form of writing
that expresses yourself. That's great.
You should what feels right in your heart.
- No. I won't do anything that brings back negativity for you.
I'll just tell Jessica I can't do the article.
- You're not covering them?
But only you have credibility as a former emo
to really take them down.
- Well, maybe I don't need to tear something down
just because I don't like it.
- Well, then maybe I'll just leave this dance.
I was only attending ironically anyway.
- You came here with an agenda to trash the band.
That's not ironic! And you're not even Scottish.
- But I identify with their nationalistic plight.
You wouldn't understand.
- Gud! - Good!
-Gud! -Good!
- So... I'm gonna hit the bathroom.
♪ (dramatic string music) ♪
♪ (dance hall playing techno music) ♪
- ♪ (vocalizing to herself) ♪
Chris, why aren't you dancing?
What happened to that cute homeless girl I saw you with earlier?
- She left. Doesn't matter anyway,
because we only came together as a joke.
- Okay, everyone. Stop dancing!
Because now we have a band!
And they're not the normal prom-type band.
But let's just say a certain someone
feels a certain way about another certain someone.
And that other certain someone doesn't feel the same way
and feels guilty, which led them to booking this band.
(laughs rather uncomfortably)
Anyway, please welcome the Bleeding Toes!
♪ (rock music) ♪
- (off-key) ♪ I should feel happy, but I only feel pain ♪
♪ There's sunshine all around, but I only feel rain ♪
- Those words sound familiar.
- ♪ My former friends have gone online to make fun of me ♪
♪ The only thing to do is shun technology ♪
♪ (pre-chorus) ♪
♪ I'm gonna shun technology ♪
- Gud!
- Yes, they are good.
- ♪ I'm gonna shun technology ♪
♪ Gonna shun technology ♪
♪ My other toe represents technology ♪
Rahh!
Emo!
♪ (song concludes) ♪
♪ (woeful orchestral music) ♪