Uncool World

...so one of them has to go, in the "Cool Showdown"! Ok - jumped a bit here, so a little background... It's Friday afternoon (no shock there then!), and the gang are hanging out next to the beach. Bree and Colby, the so-called 'cool kids' are amusing themselves by poking fun at Bluke, in their typical 'cool' manner not too far away from Tino and co. Tino has had enough, and confronts them. When this triggers a 'uncool blur' response (the emphasis being that Colby and Bree see themselves as so far above anyone else, they can't even see them), which Tino throws down the gauntlet - Only one of them can be cool, not both. Hence the showdown. The showdown is pretty clever - Absolute silence, save for (Tino's?) commentary; Bree and Colby several yards from each other facing off, and most of Bahia Bay's Middle School population crowded round to watch the event. It is all over in seconds: Colby comes out with the shades, Bree comes out with the look, then Colby comes in with the kill: Bree's Little Muffins (is it that?) membership card! Classic! A nice atmospheric touch comes when the rain begins to fall on a defeated Bree and the other kids turn their backs and walk away (not as though she'd be able to see the of course). The battle also has a knock-on effect on Carver, who is forced to seek comfort from his 'Shrine to all things Cool' only to have his sister ridicule him! Now we move on to Saturday, and two brilliant quotes (actually, two sentences that Bree manages to put together for the first time...). 'I... See... Uncool... People!' Now that she has been knocked off her cool perch, Bree starts to recognise the world around her... sort of. Tino, Lor, Tish and Carver take it upon themselves (well, actually Carver persuades them to aid him, as be believed that 'When there were two cool kids, there was an outside chance I could be the third, but now there's one, what chance do I have?'), and really, there wasn't much else they were going to do anyway, so why not? They try to show Bree what the 'uncool' world looks like, but as soon as she took off her sunglasses, she became hysterical: 'The SUN!!! It BURNS!!!!!' From her cool world where she didn't have to lift a finger, she could not suss out even the simpler things like rollerblading, bike-riding and playing arcade games... she was well out of it. So on to Sunday, with a beach concert featuring the showing of a never-seen-before video for Chum Bucket's latest 'hit', the DJ seeks a member of the audience to rate the video - everyone expects Colby to be picked, but in fact it is Bree who is chosen, and being selected makes her cool again to the others. This automatically places her above Colby who is now subservient, but instead Bree decides that everything should be as it was before, except that it was now uncool to pick on people below them... Slight anticlimax, but it couldn't really end any other way: Tino: Way to go Bree! I knew you could... Colby: Can you hear something? Bree: Nah, it's just an uncool blur... Tino: Huh! Well I guess I should've seen that one coming(!) On an interesting sidenote, Carver has a word with the DJ prior to Bree being chosen to rate the video. The others assume that Carver had suggested to the DJ that he pick Bree. Tino on the other hand, doesn't... Tino (to Carver): You were asking him to pick YOU, weren't you? Carver: Lalalalalalala not listening! Lalalalalala... There were many injokes and side humour that goes on in this episode, but it's midnight here, so I won't go into them (besides, typing in this small window is making it very difficult for me to tell what I'm writing about!). Nice to see a reference to The Sixth Sense as well. Oh, and the pizza place theme in this episode: Cirque du Pizza - yeah, seriously!