- Wow, our first real sound check.
This is huge.
- Not as huge as when we rock it tomorrow
at Battle of the Bands.
all: Yeah!
- That's cool too, but I really love sound checks.
- Think we'll win?
- After we killed it at the auditions,
we're walking in here as the band to beat.
all: Yeah!
- Well, well, well.
If it isn't Preschool of Rock.
- Hello, Justin. How's Night Lizard?
- Or should we say Night...Gizzard?
- Do you even know what a gizzard is?
- No. You?
- I asked you first.
I win...
just like we're gonna win Battle of the Bands,
because we're a real band
and you're a bunch of babies.
- Babies?
Well, say hello to Goo-goo and Ga-ga.
- Bring it. I've picked boogers bigger than you.
- Okay, those guys are the worst,
but everyone else in this club
is gonna give us the respect we deserve.
- Yeah. - Hey, Dewey.
Your baby band want my keys to play with?
Does the wittle guy wanna wook at the keys?
- No one cares about your keys.
- I hope you remember our bet, Dewey.
- Oh, I remembered.
What did I bet?
- You bet your van that we'd win Battle of the Bands.
- That's fine. I'm a rocker.
All I need in this life is my guitar.
- You also bet your guitar. - I'm so stupid.
- Hey, uh, isn't it time for your nap?
Here's a beddy-bye story for you.
You're gonna lose.
The end.
- You're the one who's going to lose,
because we've got a killer song.
- And we're gonna rock it,
because we practice all the time.
- Every day, yo.
- In Room 21A at William B. Travis Prep,
which is our classroom,
but we've turned it into rehearsal space
with an elaborate system for hiding our instruments.
Boom.
- We're in a sound check right now.
You'll see. We're not little kids.
Someone give me a boost.
- I'm your man.
- Whoa. Where we going?
[crashing]
- Someone call my pediatrician.
I mean grown-up doctor.
[upbeat rock music]
- ♪ Stop tellin' me to read between the lines ♪
♪ It all adds up to one thing ♪
- Five, four, three, two, one.
- ♪ If you think you're gonna lose your cool ♪
♪ Well, sometimes you gotta break the rules ♪
♪ Hey, show me what you know, give it up to rock 'n' roll ♪
♪ 'Cause we ain't gonna stop ♪
♪ ♪
♪ If you're feeling like you're gettin' schooled ♪
♪ There's an answer right in front of you ♪
♪ Hey, show me what you know, give it up to rock 'n' roll ♪
♪ 'Cause we ain't gonna stop ♪
- ♪ Hey! ♪ - ♪ Are you ready to rock? ♪
- All right, there's the band
that's gonna take home the trophy tonight.
kids: Yeah.
- Tomika, you pumped?
- [in croaky voice] Yeah.
- Whoa, your throat sounds terrible.
Does it hurt?
- I feel like a swallowed a flip-flop.
I may be coming down with something.
- This is serious. We need your voice tonight.
Good thing I always carry my rock-and-roll first aid kit.
Stage dive bandages,
emergency drumstick eye-poke patch, breath mint.
Not a breath mint.
Here we go.
Take a slug of this.
- Ugh, what is this?
Liquid worm guts?
- Tomika, don't be disgusting.
It's fish tank algae.
Beyoncé swears by it.
- It says, "Not for human consumption."
- Beyoncé's not a human.
She's a god.
I'll make you a deal.
Just take a swig,
and you can have this lollipop to wash it down.
- Or I'll just take the lollipop.
Good day, sir.
- Did you guys see this?
We're not even on the Battle of the Bands website.
Night Lizard, Black Box, The Flying Armageda Brothers.
- There we are, "And others."
That's us.
- And every other band has a cool bio page.
All we have is a picture of Mr. Finn eating a hot dog.
- Ah, am I standing next to a Porta-Potty?
- Yeah. - That's a good pic.
- Mr. Finn, we're not getting the respect we deserve.
They're treating us like a bunch of little kids.
- It doesn't matter what other people think of us now.
When we're on that stage tonight,
everyone will take us seriously.
All right, we have science lab this afternoon,
so let's get in one last rehearsal.
- Yeah.
[music playing]
- Cool lick. Is that "Shut Up and Dance?"
- Yeah, but I recorded myself playing it
and sped up the tempo.
- Nice.
[music playing]
- Hello?
- Hey, Zack. It's me, Lawrence.
I'm just calling to tell you how awesome your ring tone is.
- Thanks, man.
- So how's life?
- Okay, I got to go.
- All right, guys, let's really concentrate on our song.
It's our secret weapon.
Night Lizard won't know what hit 'em.
- Yeah.
- One, two, three, four!
[lively rock music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ You got one shot, tick tock ♪
♪ Blink and then it's all gone, so long ♪
♪ Let me hear you say, "Whoa, the time is now" ♪
- Enjoy it while it lasts, Uncool of Rock.
Ha ha!
- ♪ Don't want to find out it's too late ♪
♪ Let me hear you say... ♪
- Can we leave yet?
I mean, school's over, and the other kids have gone ahead.
We can't be late for Battle of the Bands.
- We have to follow my plan to sneak out.
If people see us with our instruments,
they'll know we're a secret band.
Lawrence, hall monitor status.
- Clark's finishing his ceremonial folding of the vest.
We get it, Clark. You take your job seriously.
He's off duty. We're clear.
- Great. It's go time, people.
[gasps]
The track team is heading this way.
Why are they coming inside?
- It says they're repaving the track,
so practice is inside.
- Freddy, you were supposed to make sure
there were no activities in the halls.
- I thought I did,
but I must have gotten distracted by life problems.
- I'm sorry if you're going through a rough time.
- No, it's a game on my phone called Life Problems.
I have to get the money to send my twins to college,
or my ex-wife is gonna sue me.
- I'm on my way. - Principal Mullins!
- Oh, Principal Mullins!
Did you get your hair... something?
- Okay, I don't have time for chitchat.
The sprinklers outside are all going haywire.
So if you don't mind,
I'll be out back bailing out the soccer field.
You want to know why? Because I'm an educator.
- Guys, get the stuff.
- Hold on! - [gasps]
- Go, team!
- They're too unpredictable.
We'll never get out of here.
- I got us into this mess.
I'll get us out of it.
[whistles]
Okay, Lions.
Last one to Miss Fisher's art room has to do push-ups.
Let's go.
- We have to move. Go, go, go.
- I've got them doing wind sprints in the library.
Also, no idea how I ended up at the top of the stairs.
- I can't believe you guys made me pull you
out of the sprinklers!
- Sorry, Mr. Finn.
It's one of my life rules.
If there's a sprinkler, I run through it.
- Tomika, you should rest your voice.
We have to keep you from getting sick.
- [sneezes]
- "Er." "Sicker."
- Guys, the important thing is, we're all together,
and we're on our way to Battle of the Bands!
- Yeah! - Whoo!
[music playing]
- Lawrence, stop calling me!
[music continues]
La--
Lawrence? - Zack. I'm still in here.
Is it safe to come out yet?
- Turn the van around!
[tires screech]
- Here I come!
Ooh, sprinklers.
- We did it!
We made it to Battle of the Bands!
And you know why?
Because we're rockers.
When we put our minds to something,
nothing gets in our way.
Uh, dude, you're kind of in our way.
- We have a dress code.
No wet clothes allowed.
- Sir, I don't know what you're talking about.
Our clothes aren't wet.
- [retching]
- That was disgusting.
But I think I made my point.
- What are we going to do?
Battle of the Bands is about to start,
and we don't have time to go home and get dry clothes.
- There's a store across the street.
- Ow! My thumb.
- Aw, the poor wittle baby hurt his wittle thumb.
- We are not babies.
[laughter]
- To be fair, we do kind of look like babies.
- Of all the stores, it had to be Pajamarama.
- Good thing I had that gift card.
- Could we look any more pathetic?
- Our first band up is last year's winner,
Night Lizard!
[rock music playing and crowd cheering]
- Guys, I know things look bad,
but we can't give up.
I'm telling you, it doesn't matter
what these people think of us now.
The second they see us on that stage,
they'll know we've got something they don't:
a killer song!
- Yeah.
- ♪ Whoa, our time is now ♪
- Why does this song sound so familiar?
- ♪ 'Cause you know tomorrow won't wait ♪
♪ And I don't want to find out ♪
- Because it's our song.
They're stealing our song!
- Nooo--
- Don't worry. I got you.
Ooooooooooooo!
- ♪ Our time is now ♪
[cheers and applause]
- I can't believe Night Lizard stole our song.
- We lost Battle of the Bands
before we even got a chance to play.
- The judges haven't given their scores yet.
We might still have hope.
- Wow! A nine, and nine, and a ten.
That is going to be almost impossible to beat.
- I was probably wrong to put so much weight on the scores.
- What are we going to do? Tomika's voice is gone.
We don't have a singer.
- We don't have a song either.
- Yeah, if we sing our song now,
it'll seem like we stole it from Night Lizard.
- I never should have bragged about our song to them.
- We all bragged, like dumb little kids.
- Everybody was right about us.
We get distracted by video games.
- We run through sprinklers.
- And then we have to wear stupid ducky pajamas.
Although I am coming around on these.
I just discovered the hood.
[hood quacking]
- [sighs] Tomika's right.
We should just give up and go home.
- How did you-- - I speak Tomika.
- This is just not fair.
You kids work harder than all these other bands.
Those guys don't have homework.
- They don't have to sneak out of school.
- And they don't have to work so hard
to keep their band a secret.
- Exactly.
If only we could prove to everybody that we rock
and we deserve to be taken serious--
[hood quacking]
- Sorry. But you're right.
I say this isn't over.
We can still blow the roof off this joint!
All we need is a plan.
I've got one.
Summer, think of a plan.
- Me? - Yeah.
You're our manager for a reason.
If there's a solution out there, you'll find it.
[music plays]
- Sorry. I'll put this on vibrate.
I know it's getting annoying.
- No, it's not getting annoying.
That's our plan.
- You're welcome, people.
- Oh, Principal Mullins.
A word, if I may.
There's trouble afoot.
- What is it this time?
- Mr. Finn's class.
They've taken off in his van on an unauthorized trip.
- Where would he take them?
- Battle of the Bands. It's today.
- [sighs heavily]
Well, I suppose I'll have to skip my Funkercize spin class
and look into this.
- Right behind you, Chief. I'll get my vest.
- What are we doing on the roof of the club?
- This is where we're going to rehearse our new song.
- What new song?
[music playing]
- That song, "Shut Up and Dance."
We'll use Zack's guitar lick as a start
to make our own killer version of it.
But first we've got to get our singer back.
- Algae time.
Let me shake it up first.
All the sludge is at the bottom.
- I know it's yucky, Tomiks,
but we need you to do it.
I'll drink some with you.
Algae me, Mr. Finn.
[sighs] Okay.
One...two...
three.
- No fair. You didn't drink yours!
- It was disgusting!
- My voice.
Hey, I can complain again.
- Which means you can sing.
- I'm gonna stick with complaining.
- Lawrence, help me put the clothes up to dry.
- Sure.
- Now all we have to do is learn the song.
- It took us months to learn the last one.
- We are better musicians now.
We know each other's rhythms.
We're a well-oiled machine.
- This part of the machine
just let someone's pants fall off the building.
- Oh, well.
Freddy, give us a beat.
[drum beating] No, no.
That's Walk the Moon's beat.
I want the School of Rock beat.
Zack, start your riff.
[guitar music]
Freddy, give us a beat off of Zack.
♪ ♪
Love it. Tomika, lay down a bass.
♪ ♪
Lawrence, put some frosting on it.
♪ ♪
Summer, bring it.
♪ ♪
One, two, three, four!
- ♪ Is our destiny ♪
♪ He said, "Ooh, ooh, shut up and dance with me ♪
- This is even better than the song we had before!
- We might be able to win!
- ♪ Ooh, ooh, shut up and dance with me ♪
♪ ♪
[all cheer]
- Lizards.
- You can't steal this song.
You already had your turn.
- Actually, we came to apologize.
We feel bad about what we did.
- Well, an apology is nice, but, word to the wise,
a greeting card along with it really classes it up.
- We thought about it,
and we realized you're not just a bunch of kids.
- Aw, thanks, man.
- You're a bunch of kids...
locked on a roof!
[song ends]
[cheers and applause]
- Let's hear it for Black Box!
[cheers and applause]
Next up, our very last band,
School of Rock!
[cheers and applause]
- They're calling our name. We're gonna miss it!
- I don't think we're trying to open the door anymore.
- Is that what we were doing?
- Man. Of all the days not to bring my parachute.
- School of Rock, get up here or be disqualified.
- It's over.
We're not going to get to play.
- No one's ever going to take us seriously now.
- We came so close.
We even learned the song in 20 minutes.
Wait a second.
We just learned a song in 20 minutes.
No one's more serious than us.
- But you said we need to get on stage to prove ourselves.
- I was wrong.
We don't have to prove anything to anyone.
All we need is each other.
We're at Battle of the Bands!
Or on top of it, anyway.
So why don't we play right here, for ourselves?
- Mr. Finn is right.
- Yeah, let's rock.
all: Yeah!
- [sighs]
Well, I guess they're not showing.
And you should give the trophy to the band
with the highest score, which appears to be...
Night Lizard.
Hey, that's my band.
- One, two, three!
- ♪ Shut up ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, don't you dare look back ♪
♪ Just keep your eyes on me ♪
♪ I said, "You're holding back" ♪
♪ He said, "Shut up and dance with me" ♪
♪ This moment is our destiny ♪
♪ He said, "Ooh, ooh, shut up and dance with me" ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ We were victims of the night ♪
♪ The chemical physical kryptonite ♪
♪ Helpless to the bass and the fading light ♪
♪ Oh, we were bound to get together ♪
♪ Bound to get together ♪
- And so the winner of this year's
Austin Battle of the Bands is--
[muffled music]
What's that sound?
- It's the sound of my heartbeat.
I'm just so excited right now.
- It sounds like it's coming from the roof.
Let's go check it out.
- Yeah, you guys check it out.
I'll hold the trophy.
Vince? Vince?
- ♪ He took my arm ♪
♪ I don't know how it happened ♪
♪ We took the floor, and he said ♪
♪ "Oh, don't you dare look back ♪
♪ Just keep your eyes on me" ♪
♪ I said, "You're holding back" ♪
♪ He said, "Shut up and dance with me" ♪
♪ This moment is our destiny ♪
♪ He said, "Ooh, ooh, shut up and dance with me" ♪
♪ ♪
♪ A backless dress and some beat-up sneaks ♪
♪ A discotheque Juliet teenage dream ♪
- This better be good, Clark.
I'm paying my cat-sitter overtime.
- Oh, this is a clean bust.
Behold Mr. Finn and his class of rule breakers.
I can't wait to see the furious look on your face.
Yeah, that look.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Deep in his eyes, I think I see the future ♪
♪ I realize this is my last chance ♪
♪ He took my arm ♪
♪ I don't know how it happened ♪
♪ We took the floor, and he said ♪
♪ ♪
♪ "Oh, don't you dare look back ♪
♪ Just keep your eyes on me" ♪
♪ I said, "You're holding back" ♪
♪ He said... ♪
- ♪ "Shut up and dance with me" ♪
- ♪ This moment is our destiny ♪
♪ He said, "Ooh, ooh" ♪
- ♪ "Shut up and dance" ♪
- ♪ Don't you dare look back ♪
♪ Just keep your eyes on me ♪
♪ I said, "You're holding back" ♪
♪ He said, "Shut up and dance with me" ♪
♪ This moment is our destiny ♪
♪ He said, "Ooh, ooh, shut up and dance with me" ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
- ♪ Shut up and dance with me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, shut up and dance with me ♪
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- That was amazing.
Judges.
[cheers and applause]
So the winner of this year's Battle of the Bands
is School of Rock!
[cheers and applause]
- No!
- Does somebody need his wubbie?
- I know you're making fun of me.
But yes.
- Dude, you were right about these kids,
and you've inspired me.
I'm going to start a band with a bunch of toddlers.
- Rock on, man.
- And since you won the bet,
you can have the old name Dewey Finn Experience back.
- Thanks, but I don't need it.
I'm in School of Rock.
kids: Yeah!
[cheers and applause]