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"All Growed Down" is an episode included in the film itself.

Plot[]

Wild gus

Lieutenant Griswald and Madge Griswald bring Gus to Third Street School. Gus is a wild child and thinks that the other students he meets will be just like him, but to his surprise everyone is acting well behaved in class, and Miss Finster reads them a story. When recess starts all the children are quiet and nobody acts like they do in the future. Gus notices Gretchen just reads and never gives anyone ideas, Vince just runs around quietly, The Diggers just play in a sandbox, Laura Jameson, aka Swinger Girl, does not swing high, the Upside-Down Girl does not hang upside down, the Ashleys do not say “Scandalous”, and Spinelli is a shy little girl with a doll. Gus then meets one little boy with a red baseball cap whose name is Theodore Jasper Detweiler. Gus befriends him and gives him his nickname: T.J. Miss Finster is very shocked with Gus' behavior.

Kindergarteners Before the Fun
Kindergarten Gang

Shortly afterward, Gus realizes that everyone is clean and being well-behaved because they are afraid of Mikey who acts as a big bully and Randall is the one who takes him. Gus is enraged and he later reveals the reason that Mikey acted like a monster is because Randall told him lies and said he was his only friend. Mikey is actually friendly and explains that Randall was behind everything because he wanted to take control of the whole grade and have everything belong to him.

Then Gus convinces all the Kindergartners that they should be like him and be wild like a normal Kindergartner, then all the kid begins to act like their future selves, Vince becomes more active, Gretchen starts passing her theories to other kids, Spinelli realizes that she is a very tough girl and T.J. becomes brave and adventurous. Randall is horrified and quickly tells Miss Finster that everyone is all messy. Miss Finster is very furious and demands to know who did this. When she finds that it was Gus, she takes him to Principal Prickly's office. However, T.J. and the gang form a plan and help Gus escape from the office, leaving Spinelli's doll in the chair he was sitting in. The next day, Gus had to move again with his parents and would not attend Third Street School again until he got in the fourth grade.

Trivia[]

Regular[]

  • The Diggers' laugh was previously used during Spinelli's eye zoom/wipe in "Mama's Girl".
  • This episode is credited as "All Growed Down".
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