Arnold
[Arnold comes home, FTi truck passes by]
Grandpa?
Grandpa Phil
That's my name. Don't wear it out. [shark jaws fall down]
Arnold
Grandpa, I'm worried.
Grandpa Phil
Oh, don't worry, Arnold. We won't sell the boarding house. We're behind you all the way. Right, Pookie?
GG Grandma Gertie
[in cheerleader outfit]
Home team, home team, woo!
Arnold
But what if Scheck gets everyone else to sell?
Grandpa Phil
Then I guess they'll bulldoze down the neighborhood, short man. Pookie and I will have to move to an old folks' home and who knows what'll happen to you. You'll probably be sent to a foster home in some Midwestern state like Manitoba or... wait, no, that's not a state, that's a province. Oh, no, Arnold! You'll be a Canadian!
Arnold
Grandpa, I'm serious.
Grandpa Phil
I know, Arnold, but we're not cooked yet. Whatever happens, we'll all be OK, even if we have to become Canadians. You know, they have very good bacon there. Canadian. Bacon. This thing on? Come on, Arnold. Work with me.
Arnold
Goodnight, Grandpa. Goodnight, Grandma.
GG Grandma Gertie
Go, team! [Grandpa sits on the shark jaws]
Helga Pataki
[Ernie Potts plays accordion; Oskar Kokoshka and Mailman Harvey play saxophone; Grandpa (wearing a rasta wig) is on drums; Mr. Hyunh plays guitar; Suzie Kokoshka is a DJ; Grandma is tap dancing. Arnold and Gerald are at controls. They all play some kind of strange pokla rock music, and Grandpa smashes one of Suzie's records, annoyed by her DJ techniques. The crowd is cheering] [watching from a roof]
Blockapalooza, hah! Please.
R Reporter
[for TV]
It's called Blockapalooza, a last-ditch effort to save a forgotten neighborhood from the wrecking ball. A classic story of the little guy pitted against the corporate giant.
Big Bob Pataki
[Nick Vermicelli and Big Bob are watching TV at Big Bob's house]
What the heck are they doing? They'll mess up the whole deal!
Nick Vermicelli
Forget about it. It's all taken care of.
Arnold
[on TV]
You know what this is about. It's our last chance to stand up and tell Future Tech Industries that we won't sell. We won't let 'em tear down our neighborhood.
Nick Vermicelli
[The crowd on TV screen is cheering]
One of our guys intercepted their permit, thereby making the whole assemblage illegal.
O Officer
[Police cars suddenly appear at the party]
Go, go, go!
Gerald Johanssen
[The crowd is panicking. Police breaks up the party. People are running away] [to the officer]
Hey, what's going on?
RC Riot Cop
This whole assemblage is illegal.
Arnold
But we filed a permit.
RC Riot Cop
We never got any permit.
V Voice
[Nick Vermicelli and Big Bob are laughing at the TV screen]
Please disperse from this area at once!
Arnold
Grandma?
GG Grandma Gertie
Bring on your worst. We shall not be moved. [She chains herself to the door of the Sunset Arms]
O Officer
Come on. Nice and easy. [Grandma almost bites him]
Grandpa Phil
Hey! Stop, that's a frail old lady!
GG Grandma Gertie
[while she and the door she's chained to are carried into the SPAT car]
Never give up Arnold. Never give in. Save the neighborhood. One if by land, two if by sea. Put the lime in the coconut. Mix it all up. [The car speeds away while she laughs]
Arnold
Von Scheck?
Grandpa Phil
I wonder if he's related...? [Telling about the Tomato Incident] Anyway, Von Scheck's men attacked the neighborhood, but the locals used guerrilla warfare. They made a barricade of turned vegetable carts and fought with whatever they had. They had lots of tomatoes. They were British tomatoes, which were small and hard and really hurt if you got hit with one. That did it. The redcoats were in full, ignominious retreat. That's why we eat American tomatoes, Arnold. Although I had one recently from Chile. Very juicy.
Arnold
Grandpa, did that actually happen?
Grandpa Phil
Of course. I sliced it up and put it in a sandwich.
Arnold
No. Don't you see? This is our answer.
Grandpa Phil
Yes. Yes, Arnold! Juicy tomatoes from Chile! Why didn't I think of that?
Arnold
No, the Tomato Incident. If that battle took place right in the boarding house, this whole neighborhood should be a national landmark.
Grandpa Phil
Well, there probably was a document that declared this block a historic site once.
Arnold
Then maybe I can find it.
Ernie Potts
Yeah? Just one little detail, Gramps. Where you gonna get the explosives?
Grandpa Phil
From you, of course. Just go down to your job site and lift a couple hundred pounds of explosives when no one's looking. Huh?
Ernie Potts
That's the craziest thing I ever heard, especially considering I got twice that much under my bed. [The rest of the boarders look at him incredulously] What? Hey, we all got our little peccadilloes.
GJ Gerald Johannsen
[Grandma finally escapes through the sewer. Gerald points out at security cameras]
Those cameras detect any motion. If we even move, they'll see us. [Arnold pulls out the remote-control car] Arnold, this is no time for playing with a toy car.
Arnold
I'm not playing, Gerald. [The car speeds down the hall, and camera turns to watch it]
HO Head of Security
[seeing something on the screen]
What was that?
G Guard
Come on, let's check it out. [Two guards run away]
Arnold
We can get to Scheck's office this way. Come on. [The boys get into Scheck's office] Deep Voice said to look in the room behind his desk. [Gerald pulls a book from a shelf, and it opens a secret door]
Gerald Johanssen
What are you waiting for? [The boys see a huge number of safe deposite boxes. They sigh] Well, we'd better get started.
Ernie Potts
[The men move TNT boxes from above into the tunnels]
That's the last of it, Gramps.
Grandpa Phil
Now all we have to do is run this wire up to the street and wait for the bulldozers to come. Then, we blow a huge hole, and they fall right in.
OK Oskar Kokoshka
Sounds great, Grandpa. Now let's get out of here.
H Mr. Hyunh
Yes! It is still very creepy.
Big Bob Pataki
[discovering the trench the boarders have made]
Hey, what's goin' on? 286-DX plunger, high-gauge wire, C-47 tubing. I know what you're up to - you're planning to blow the street up, make a hole big enough to stop the bulldozers from knocking down the neighborhood. You could do serious jail time for that.
Grandpa Phil
Well, I...
Big Bob Pataki
You need any help?
