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Line Leader

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The setup

A solemn grade-school recess line leader turns the walk to the playground into an epic war with the fifth graders.

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The premise

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After volunteers are pulled from the audience to play schoolchildren, a teacher names Ryan the line leader for recess. Ryan treats the job as a sacred calling, quickly hands the title to Caleb and delivers rousing speeches about the journey across the corridors. A rival leader from the fifth grade blocks the way and both sides march into a mock-heroic battle. The teacher ends it by sending Ryan to the office as he laments the cost of reaching recess.

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Reading at an eighth grade level

I've seen horrors worse than that conjured up by the mind of R.L. Stine himself.

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  1. 00:00

    Guys, from the audience, can we just get three guys to come up?

  2. 00:02

    We won't fuck with you. Yeah, one, two, three. There you go, you guys.

  3. 00:04

    Just come up and line up here.

  4. 00:08

    And, uh, just try not to fuck anything up.

  5. 00:12

    Cool, between them is good.

  6. 00:14

    Okay, cool, do the lights down, lights up, and then we'll start this thing.

  7. 00:20

    Okay, it is 12.30, so it is time for recess.

  8. 00:23

    And today is Tuesday, so Ryan, you are the line leader.

  9. 00:26

    Let's line up and head outside now.

  10. 00:28

    Alright,

  11. 00:29

    all right

  12. 00:33

    men!

  13. 00:35

    Listen up!

  14. 00:36

    I lead you today not for selfish purpose or personal gain but because I've been

  15. 00:43

    ordained by a power greater than I we have been promised a time and a place

  16. 00:50

    our time is now that place the quad hey Ryan is no longer the line leader Caleb

  17. 00:58

    is the new line leader let's head up and go as we step off these cold cavernous

  18. 01:02

    Tiled floors of academia

  19. 01:03

    And on to the warm grass of recess

  20. 01:07

    We shall rest well

  21. 01:08

    Knowing we have proven our worth

  22. 01:10

    Caleb, true of heart and thought

  23. 01:12

    Yes, line leader

  24. 01:13

    What the fuck is this?

  25. 01:15

    Caleb, you've proven yourself

  26. 01:17

    To be a most worthy companion

  27. 01:19

    Wise beyond your years

  28. 01:21

    Reading at an eighth grade level

  29. 01:22

    And I ask of you

  30. 01:24

    As we journey onward

  31. 01:25

    Make certain that no student

  32. 01:26

    Is to fall to the wayside

  33. 01:28

    And be left behind

  34. 01:29

    That as we pass through

  35. 01:31

    every door closed every light darkened caleb this is your charge the charge of the caboose

  36. 01:38

    okay every second that we spend here we don't spend outside i want all you kids to know that

  37. 01:43

    we go upon my mark man very good two three yes marching outside now very good

  38. 01:51

    a little bit faster please a little bit faster ryan

  39. 01:58

    why why brian caleb what do you elven eyes see fifth graders a whole slew of them what should

  40. 02:07

    we do stand your ground men

  41. 02:11

    you guys there it is i derrick of the fifth

  42. 02:18

    derrick of the fifth what brings you to the corridors of mathematics

  43. 02:21

    i lead my men to the great luncheon hall where they have been promised a feast

  44. 02:26

    so that they may sup and be nourished.

  45. 02:29

    I lead my men to the quad for recess.

  46. 02:32

    I ask of you and your men that you stand down

  47. 02:34

    so that we may pass.

  48. 02:37

    I answer not to man, but only to the voice

  49. 02:39

    of the one true teacher, Miss Haggerty.

  50. 02:43

    Then you do not yield.

  51. 02:45

    Nay.

  52. 02:47

    Then we must do battle.

  53. 02:50

    All right, men.

  54. 02:51

    Whoa, Ryan.

  55. 02:52

    It's enough.

  56. 02:52

    On my mark.

  57. 02:53

    You have answered this line, mere children.

  58. 02:55

    No

  59. 02:56

    No, I charge in no way

  60. 03:06

    Do not fight them

  61. 03:23

    Holds.

  62. 03:24

    Holds.

  63. 03:25

    Holds.

  64. 03:26

    Please, no, Ryan, don't do this.

  65. 03:28

    Ready?

  66. 03:28

    No.

  67. 03:29

    No.

  68. 03:36

    Oh, my God.

  69. 03:46

    You're all proud.

  70. 03:48

    Jesus.

  71. 03:49

    Look at what men do to each other.

  72. 03:51

    And for what, I ask?

  73. 03:54

    I've seen horrors worse than that conjured up by the mind of R.L. Stine himself.

  74. 04:00

    Why, God, why, Mrs. Logan, have you chosen me for such a forsaken path?

  75. 04:05

    Yeah, I didn't choose you, Ryan.

  76. 04:06

    Now you're going to the office.

  77. 04:07

    Why have you turned your back on your loyal people?

  78. 04:12

    I have reached recess, but at what cost?

  79. 04:17

    No, no, no, Ryan, no, oh my God.

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