00:06I am calm, I am relaxed, I am a happy tree.
00:18You are making it very hard to be a happy tree!
00:24Sorry, Liv, I'm just, I'm losing my mind, waiting for this letter that will tell me if I made tryouts
00:30for the Junior Olympics.
00:32Junior Olympics.
00:33It's just a chance to play basketball for my country and travel the world for a year and score a
00:40bangin' Team USA duffel bag.
00:42You know what, it's no big deal.
00:46It's the biggest deal ever!
00:47Bam! What?
00:50I just got home, and now she might be leaving for some once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to represent our
00:56country as a Junior Olympian?
00:59How selfish can she be?
01:02Maddie, I totally hope you do get to do your basketball audition.
01:07It was called a tryout.
01:09Well, whatever it is called, I hope you break a leg.
01:15Maddie!
01:16This was on the porch.
01:17Oh! My letter!
01:19I'm gonna throw up.
01:21Okay.
01:22Okay.
01:23You open it.
01:24Don't touch it!
01:25Okay.
01:26Okay.
01:28Ready?
01:32Socks?
01:35You have been pranked by Joey.
01:42Booyah!
01:49Booyah!
01:50Booyah!
01:53Booyah!
01:54Booyah!
01:56Booyah!
01:57Booyah!
01:58Booyah!
01:59Booyah!
01:59Booyah!
02:00Booyah!
02:01Booyah!
02:02Booyah!
02:03Booyah!
02:04Booyah!
02:05Booyah!
02:05Booyah!
02:05Booyah!
02:06Booyah!
02:07Booyah!
02:08Booyah!
02:08Booyah!
02:11Booyah!
02:12I dare you come on and follow, you dance to your own beat, I'll sing the melody when you say
02:21yeah, I'll say no when you say so, all I wanna do is go, go, go.
02:30You, you, you're the half of me, me, the half will never be, me, the half will just get crazy,
02:39you, you, the better half of me, me, the half will always be, we both know, we're better in stereo.
02:50No.
02:57Boom, boom! That is 14 in a row. Where's your defense, little man?
03:07It is three feet below your shoulders, that's where.
03:13How was this even fun for you? I'm done here.
03:18Oh, come on. One more?
03:19I'm just trying to keep my mind off Maddie in the Junior Olympics.
03:22I really don't want her to leave.
03:24Have you heard anything?
03:25I keep my nose out of such affairs.
03:29Come on. One more game?
03:31Why don't you just get Joey to play with you?
03:33I mean, he's not leaving for his pottery class for a little while.
03:38Wait a minute. Pottery class?
03:41He told me he was meeting with his zombie appreciation society.
03:46Wait. He's lying to us?
03:49Why would you lie about doing either of those things?
03:53Unless you're doing something even more pathetic.
03:57What do you think he's up to?
04:00I don't know.
04:01Just when you think you have a munch all figured out, he throws you a curveball.
04:07Maybe he has a secret girlfriend.
04:16Okay, look. We need to figure out what Joey's hiding.
04:20Last time he had a secret, I woke up with 64 white mice in my bed.
04:26Wait. So are you saying this is an affair you would stick your nose in?
04:31Oh, Diggie.
04:32My nose goes where it's needed.
04:41Hey, Rooney. Did you hear anything from the Junior Olympics people?
04:44Uh, no. Still no letter.
04:47Wow. Serious?
04:48I said no letter!
04:53I'm sorry. I was just hoping for good news about the tryouts.
04:56Oh, wow. Okay. So you're saying you want me to move away for a year?
05:02That's not what I'm saying at all.
05:03Oh, okay. So then you don't want me to make the team.
05:08Oh, wow. No. Um, I want what you want.
05:12Mm-hmm.
05:13Exactly as much as you want it.
05:19Hey, Maddie. Hear anything from Junior Olympics?
05:22No!
05:23I swear, if one more person...
05:26Hey, Maddie. Did you hear me?
05:39Yes! Thank you for taking the bouncing upstairs, Maddie. It is so much better!
05:47Sorry. Any sign of the mail?
05:50No?
05:54You know what? I'll check again.
05:57Even though it's only been eight minutes since the last time...
06:03I'm sure the mailman is standing right there, about to knock.
06:10Got a certified letter for Maddie Rooney?
06:13Okay. Have a good day. Bye.
06:19Junior Olympics.
06:21Did it come?
06:25Um...
06:26Did you see that moment of hesitation where I almost did the right thing?
06:33No! No mail here.
06:37It was brief.
06:39But it was there.
06:41No!
06:41No!
06:42No!
06:43No!
06:43No!
06:44No!
06:44No!
06:48Dude, what are you wearing?
06:51We are not following Joey into the jungle.
06:55You don't know that.
06:57So, Maddie might move away, and now you're dressed like a shrub.
07:04I got big problems, kid.
07:09Leave them at the door.
07:11We have work to do.
07:13I installed a GPS tracking app on Joey's cell phone.
07:17Would you believe his password was one, two, three, four?
07:20What a munch.
07:23Total munch.
07:26Hey, can you teach me how to change the password on my phone?
07:29No!
07:46my gps app just said joey entered the school
07:51we just saw joey enter the school
07:56i know this thing's good huh
08:06okay i just don't get it who wouldn't mysteriously sneak out at night just to come back to school
08:11a teenage superhero who uses ridgewood high as his bat cave
08:18i knew his dorkiness was just too dorky to be anything but a secret identity
08:24dude i can't believe i have to say this out loud but joey is not a superhero
08:31now i'm embarrassed i brought it up
08:51boom jungle
08:56you're welcome
09:26what are you two doing here
09:29we're superheroes and this is our bat cave
09:38i didn't open maddie's letter but i struggled for hours about what to do with it
09:44in the end i decided there really only was one right thing to do
09:49hide it long enough for her to miss tryouts
09:52yeah it turns out that the toilet tank is not a great hiding place
10:03and there
10:06oh hair dryer
10:08is there any problem you can solve
10:14fyi information
10:15life is going to get a lot more complicated for you both when you grow up
10:22live honey can i come in
10:39okay yeah come on in
10:42hey
10:43how are you doing
10:45so good i am phenomenal
10:48i am just great
10:53poor maddie has been out on that basketball court all night
10:57she is so anxious waiting for this letter to arrive
11:00it's just cruel that they make her wait so long
11:03it is so cruel
11:12i have just been a nervous wreck
11:15thinking about another one of my babies leaving the nest
11:18but you you're right there supporting your sister
11:22it's just like this picture you two made
11:25sisters by chance
11:27friends by choice
11:29you know
11:29you girls live that
11:32every day
11:33every day
11:35twice on sundays
11:39oh i remember the night you were leaving for hollywood
11:54mom mom guess what
11:56what is it maddie
11:58we played basketball recess today and it was better than everyone
12:02even the boys
12:04bam
12:04what
12:05bam
12:06what
12:09i like that
12:10bam
12:11what
12:20what
12:20is
12:21happening
12:25joey
12:25parker just follows you around because he worships the ground you walk on
12:29it is cute that he can't take his eyes off of you
12:32so that's why he poops with the door open
12:37he'll grow out of that
12:43appreciate the offer
12:44what offer
12:45bluetooth and babe
12:48got a bell
12:51here is aunt dina's number in case you need to get a hold of us in la
12:55keep it someplace safe
12:57got it
13:01there she is look out hollywood it is live rooney
13:07i had the most amazelicious idea
13:10instead of saying the name of my show i should always sing it
13:14sing it
13:20that's gonna get old
13:24that's gonna get old
13:26all right everybody time to take mom and live to the airport
13:30wait
13:31i need a twin moment
13:33are they gonna hug or fight
13:35i never know
13:38look
13:38i could be gone for a long time
13:41you see the word and i won't leave
13:43you have to go live
13:45i'm gonna miss you
13:46but this is your dream
13:51thanks that means everything to me
13:53now go out and show hollywood how we do it in steven's point
13:58bam wood
14:02yeah don't do that
14:11wow
14:13thank you mom really needed that reminder of how selfless my sister was
14:18i would be a monster not to do the same thing for her
14:21oh a hideous monster
14:29all righty
14:30you figured out my secret
14:32i'm in a drum circle
14:34we're called the bucket street boys
14:39go ahead
14:40make fun
14:41joey that was awesome
14:44and you know i die
14:46a little inside every time i compliment you
14:51i was really impressed too joe
14:54yeah no one's taking you seriously right now diggy
14:57stand down
14:58soldier stand
15:00down
15:04so uh what's with the sneaking around
15:06well you know some of my guys are a little shy
15:13a lot shy
15:16so we've been rehearsing in private
15:18but we're going public tomorrow
15:21between fifth and sixth period
15:24whoa
15:25that's hallway rush hour
15:27that's the point
15:28we're gonna stop traffic with our insta jam
15:32pick up some insta hallway tread
15:37that's cool i mean you just became slightly less munchy
15:44i just don't get why you keep the one thing you do well a secret
15:49one thing
15:50clearly you have never seen me give medicine to a cat
16:09maddie couldn't sleep so she was practicing free throws whatever those are
16:14and have you ever noticed how a bouncing basketball sounds like guilty secrets trying to pound their way out of
16:20your skull
16:33what is happening
16:52i felt like the picture was trying to tell me something
16:56and it seems to me that if a picture comes to life you should probably listen to it
17:03give her the ladder
17:05fuck
17:08you had better be asleep by the time i get back young ladies
17:17maddie
17:18look who just came
17:20two letters from the junior olympics
17:23finally
17:28wait this just got here
17:30it's midnight
17:33yeah
17:34yeah
17:37it's this new feature
17:38that the post office has
17:40where they wait until the last second to deliver something important to build excitement
17:44it's called um
17:46uh it's it's called the anticipost
17:50liz
17:53when did this letter really get here
17:56okay so we got here this morning
17:58what
17:59you have this all day
18:01hey
18:02you cannot blame the messenger
18:05well i can't if the messenger never gave me the message
18:09now what is going on out here
18:12live hit my junior olympics letter
18:14all day
18:15what
18:16olivia rooney
18:19you see that
18:20that
18:20is the face of an appalled mother
18:22you appalled her
18:23because you
18:24are
18:25appalling
18:28i wouldn't say mom looked appalled
18:30she just looks kind of worn out
18:32what if you tried to sabotage me
18:37i would never sabotage your dream like that
18:41well now madison that's not totally true
18:46do you remember five years ago
18:48live's audition dvd
18:50we are not talking
18:52about five years ago karen
18:55now i think i'd like to hear karen's story
19:04say goodbye to hollywood live
19:07maddie stop
19:08what are you doing
19:10i'm destroying this audition video
19:13i don't want her to leave
19:15honey
19:16no
19:18no i know this is gonna be hard
19:20but
19:20this is live's dream
19:22we have to let her try
19:24if she doesn't
19:25she will always wonder what might have happened
19:27you're right mom
19:30i once passed up a chance to move to indianapolis
19:34to fill a coveted spot in a regional production
19:37of oliver
19:38as street urchin
19:40number three
19:42i carried that regret with me
19:44every single day of me life
19:51you almost destroyed my audition dvd
19:55live i
19:56no no
19:57huh
19:57it's cool
19:59wow
19:59um for a while there i thought i was the evil twin
20:02but it turns out
20:03we're both evil
20:04same z's
20:08you can't call same z's
20:10i was like ten
20:13okay
20:14i think we should focus less on the evil that you share and more on the love
20:18neither one of you wanted the other one to leave
20:23maddie she's right
20:25i mean i moved back to wisconsin to be with you
20:29not ready to let you go
20:33so yeah
20:34i hid your letter
20:36i'm sorry
20:39i mean
20:42i get it
20:43your heart was in the right place
20:46live just know that whatever is in this letter
20:49we're never gonna lose what we have
20:52that's right
20:53you'll always be sisters by chance
20:57friends by choice
20:58yeah so let's not say that out loud anymore
21:04open your letter
21:06open the letter
21:07yeah open the letter
21:09okay fine i will
21:11diggy
21:14what are you doing here
21:16just walking by i thought i'd say hello
21:21weird but sweet
21:23but sweet
21:24open the letter
21:29i made tryouts
21:31i made tryouts
21:37this is huge
21:39i'm so proud of you
21:43wait i have to be in chicago for tryouts in six hours
21:49i'm never gonna make that
21:50six hours
21:53six hours
21:54what have i done
21:55okay um
21:56no no no you know what
21:57i can help
21:58i can have you packed in five and a half
22:01whoa
22:04oh
22:05this is trial turn next weekend
22:10i know
22:11oh but did you see her jump
22:18maybe i am the evil twin
22:30am i too late for the instant jam
22:32i got a bathroom hall pass for my teacher
22:34but i didn't tell her what bathroom
22:39guys you made it
22:41by the time sixth period starts you'll be able to say
22:45joey rooney
22:47i knew him when
22:53attention ridgewood
22:55get ready
22:58to get
23:00rhythm
23:04one
23:05two
23:05three
23:06four
23:09really
23:12seriously now is not the time to be shy
23:19man this is terrible
23:20we have to do something
23:22you're right
23:23i have an immobilizing dart gun in my pocket
23:26we could say he was dehydrated
23:31i think i have a better idea
23:37thanks man
23:51now you guys drummers
23:54or are you bummers
23:59well the joke is on you
24:01because joey's out there
24:02with the captain
24:03of the basketball team
24:05and you guys are just standing here
24:07getting lectured
24:09life is greater
24:16hey joey we got the band back together
24:18all righty
24:24one
24:25two
24:26three
24:26four
24:48where'd it go joey
24:49what now biggie they love me
25:03so how'd it go
25:05did you make the team
25:05well
25:07they said she had a lot of potential
25:10and she was one of only three sophomores invited to try out
25:14yeah they um
25:16they said i did a really great job
25:18and they uh said for me to keep practicing
25:22oh maddie
25:23so sorry
25:25yeah because we start in ten weeks
25:29i made the team
25:30bam
25:31what
25:33did you see their faces
25:35i didn't give it away
25:36i didn't give it away
25:39oh maddie i am so proud of you
25:44thanks mom
25:47wow
25:48i'm really gonna miss you rooney
25:51but
25:52i'll be here waiting for you when you come back
25:56thanks diggy
25:57no way
26:04so um
26:07i could be gone for a really long time
26:09you just say the word
26:11don't go forget your dreams
26:15what
26:17i'm totally kidding
26:18you have to go
26:18i already made plans for you half of the room
26:27thank you for watching my audition video
26:30i would love to be your stephanie einstein on sing it loud
26:35oh that was great honey
26:39now you go on up to bed and we will mail this out tomorrow
26:43thanks mom
26:45okay
26:45sleep well honey
26:49hello hollywood
26:53hope you enjoyed lif
26:55she's adorable
26:56but while we have you here
26:58i'd love to throw my hat in the ring for stephanie's mom
27:02alberta einstein
27:04no
27:04i don't have a script
27:06but here's how i imagine the character would be
27:15hello
27:17what i didn't see you there
27:19the name's einstein
27:23alberta einstein
27:24hey honey
27:25you want some popcorn
27:27yeah sure
27:28that'd be great
27:31okay
27:32i hope you consider karen rooney
27:34for the role of alberta einstein
27:36thanks
27:37cheers
27:38you
27:40you
27:44you
27:45you
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