- Mr. McLeish: Olaf, Olaf! Have you seen my other clown shoe?
- Olaf: Clown shoe, Mr. McLeish?
- Mr. McLeish: I'm going to a circus-themed fundraiser for the mayor and I stayed up all night learning now to juggle these trout. This will impress the County supervisors, don't you think?
- Olaf: Or disturb them. One of the others, sure.
- Mr. McLeish: Well, I can't perform for anyone without my other shoe.
- Olaf: Of course not, sir, you'd look like some kind of a clown.
- Mr. McLeish: No, I wouldn't at all! That's the point!
- Olaf: Oh, I see! Hey, is that it over there?
- [Pups growling]
- Mr. McLeish: Great. Where am I going to get new clown shoes at this time of day?
- Olaf: Where did you get new clown shoes in the first place?
- Boots: Have you guys heard who my perfect person is? Do you think it'll be a cool kid? Will he love me better than anyone else?
- Rebound: That's what the Free Kid Database says, and it's never wrong. Except maybe that one time because Mr. Nut-Nut spilled acorn juice on the computer, which you should never do, or even drink acorn juice in the first place because yuck! That is disgusting! But also-
- [Plop]
- Mr. McLeish: D'oh, now where's my trout?!
- Lucky: Hey, nice fish, Rebound. Boots, good news - your person is on his way right now.
- Boots: Sweet!
- Cookie: There you go, Boots, looks good on you.
- Lucky: Remember, once a Pound Puppy-
- All: Always a Pound Puppy!
- Boots: Ohhhh! Tell me about my kid again!
- Strudel: The database says, he is a unique sort with an eye for artistic expression.
- Boots: That means she's gonna be a great artist someday, and paint pictures of me!
- Chucky: That's the one!
- Cookie: Apparently he's eager too. He's already here.
- Chucky: That's the dog for me, I just know it! Look at him, mom - he's got crazy hair and big eyes, and he's just incredible-astic!
- Mom: I guess he kind of is. If that's the kind of dog you want, we can- [Phone rings] Hello? Oh, dear! I understand. That's obviously very serious. Thank you. Chucky, that was principal Del Fuego. He said you've been drawing pictures of teachers in the whiteboard in permanent marker.
- Chucky: What? N-No, I didn't do that!
- Mom: What did I say, Chucky? If you can't behave at school this year, you're not ready for a dog.
- Chucky: But mom, it wasn't me! I've been super good since I started third grade! I really, really, really want this puppy!
- Mom: We'll have to go home and talk about this. Come on.
- Chucky: Oh, man! What a downer!
- Boots: He was my perfect person...
- Niblet: That's what I thought, and I'm never wrong.
- Lucky: We may have to change strategy on this one. Pound Puppies, let's go down for a level three confab.
- Patches: We're right behind you.
- Lucky: No. You pups stay here with Boots and don't get into trouble.
- Boots: I will get to be with my kid, right?
- Lucky: We'll see, Boots.
- Squirt:: Eh, I'm not so sure. Once a bad biscuit, always a bad biscuit, that's what I always say.
- [Latch closes]
- Boots: [Tearfully] But... I know he's not a bad biscuit. I saw it in his eyes!
- Rebound: Don't worry, Boots. We won't let you down!
- Boots: But the Pound Puppies said-
- Patches: Ha, the Pound Puppies say a lot of things. Do you have any idea who we are?
- All Three: We're the Super Secret Pup Club!
- Boots: Meaning?
- All Three: To the school!
- Boots: Okay, so this is Chucky's school. Now what?
- Rebound: I saw this show once where this guy looked like he was guilty of robbing something even though he wasn't guilty, and then some detective people proved he wasn't guilty and that they got the real guy and then the first guy went free and kissed his wife and that's what happened!
- Cupcake: It's the perfect plan - we'll be defectives!
- Patches: Detectives. We'll prove Chucky's innocent, and where better to start than right here at the scene of the crime?
- Boots: That sounds great!
- Rebound: Woo-hoo!
- Cupcake: We're on it!
- Patches: Let's do it!
- [Beat]
- Cupcake: We have no idea what we're doing, do we?
- Patches: What we need is a police dog.
- Rebound: I know a police dog. Well, she's more of a detective dog, she couldn't get into the K9 academy because she's too small, but she's super smart, and her name is Pepper! Like this-
- Cupcake: Stop talking and get her already!
- Rebound: You got it!
- Rebound: ...and then there was this other cop show where the detective had a mustache but he didn't have a talking car and-
- Pepper: Hold it, I got it from here. You all have Pound Puppy badges yet they're sparkling new. So you're not experienced enough to be full-fledged Pound Puppies. This neighborhood is in a jurisdiction of Shelter 17, but there's no sign of Lucky, so you're working on your own. I hope you got his permission.
- Patches: Uhhhh, of course we did!
- Pepper: You called me to a school, so there's probably some kind of discipline problem. But human discipline isn't a Pound Puppy offense, unless you brought me here because a puppy's perfect person has gotten in trouble. So, you think this boy, this Chucky, is wrongly accused and you want me to prove him innocent?
- Cupcake: Wow, she's good.
- Patches: So, will you help?
- Pepper: Of course, I will. Once a Pound Puppy, always a Pound Puppy. Now down to business. Boots, nothing personal, but frankly, you're too close to this case. You gotta stay back at the pound.
- Boots: Awww!
- Pepper: And as for you pups, there's one extremely important thing you gotta understand if you're gonna open an investigation at this school.
- Rebound: What's that?
- Pepper: It's closed now.
- Patches: Yep, she's good.
- [Kids chattering]
- [School bell dings]
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: Time for class!
- [Sneaky theme]
- [Door opens]
- Pepper: Now.
- [Door creaks, shuts]
- Pepper: We're in!
- Rebound: Well, that was easy.
- Janitor Brisbane: Great didgeridoo, stray dogs in the hallways! Not on my watch!
- [Door opens]
- Janitor Brisbane: Now stay there! I keep a clean school no matter what it takes, and no dogs are gonna stop me!
- Mr. Farragut: Janitor Brisbane, we have an upset tummy incident in Room 33.
- Janitor Brisbane: Oh, I'll clean it up. I'll clean it up right smart. On my way. But you mangey blokes are goin' nowhere.
- [Door closes, locks]
- Cupcake: Maybe it won't be as easy as we thought.
- Rebound: Stuck in the janitor's office?!
- Patches: We'll never get to prove Chucky is innocent.
- Cupcake: This place smells like toilet cleaner!
- [Smack]
- Pepper: Snap out of it!
- Cupcake: I guess I deserve that.
- [Door opens]
- Janitor Brisbane: You see? Dogs, running loose like it was the Outback.
- Principal Del Fuego: I see them, Paul, but we've got a more pressing problem - another drawing on the whiteboards, this time in Mr. Farragut's science room.
- Janitor Brisbane: Ah, barbnuts, permanent marker again?
- Principal Del Fuego: Afraid so.
- Janitor Brisbane: Curse that Chucky the Troublemaker! He's a barb on my backside all last year. Must've drawn on every whiteboard in the school.
- Principal Del Fuego: The boy said he turned over a new leaf, even enrolled in art class to channel his drawing impulse.
- Janitor Brisbane: Yeah, well if it took, then I'm a dingo's armpit, which I'm not. [Grumble]
- [Door closes, locks]
- Pepper: We just got our first break!
- Rebound: First break? Chucky just drew on the board again.
- Pepper: We don't know that for a fact, but we do know there's a new crime scene - in the science room.
- Cupcake: Let's go investigate!
- Pepper: Bingo!
- Cupcake: No, my name is Cupcake.
- Pepper: [Sigh] I'm getting too old for this.
- Patches: Getting too old for this? That's right. While you guys were wasting your time talking about important stuff, look what I found.
- Pepper: A way out? Nice work, rookie!
- Principal Del Fuego:[Reading] Mr. Farragut is a prosaic simpleton. What ever could that mean?
- Janitor Brisbane: Why don't we just round up Chucky and ask him?
- [Thud]
- Rebound: [In airduct] Ow!
- Principal Del Fuego:D-Did you hear something?
- Janitor Brisbane: Yeah, prob'ly just rats. Now, as for Chucky-
- [More thuds]
- Rebound: [Muffled] You stepped on me!
- Cupcake: [Muffled] Did not! You stepped on yourself!
- Pepper: [Muffled] Shh! I smell science. I think this might be the-
- [Clatter]
- Pepper: Whoa!
- [Crash]
- Janitor Brisbane: Well, that time I definitely heard somethin'. Huh, I must be goin' barmy.
- Principal Del Fuego:Whoever it was gave Mr. Farragut a really big belly. The last thing he needs is a negative commentary about his body type.
- Janitor Brisbane: [Angrily] And now I've gotta spend the next three hours scrubbin' off THIS board! Curse that Chucky! I told you he'd never change!
- Principal Del Fuego:Now, Paul, Chucky gets the benefit of the doubt. I'm going to call him into my office and hear him out, then we'll see if-
- Jefferson: Aaagh! What in the name of Chaos Theory happened here?!
- Ian: We were going to hold a science club meeting!
- Carlyle: How are we supposed to use this tainted board to draw our Euclidean brain puzzlers?
- Janitor Brisbane: Chucky struck again!
- Jefferson: Oh, fractals!
- Janitor Brisbane: They should'a never let him back! He's more dangerous than a pack'a wild wallabies!
- Patches: Mental note: That guy really doesn't like Chucky.
- Pepper: Excellent observation.
- Janitor Brisbane: Come on, ya brainy blokes. I'll unlock the room next door; you can have your fun time science book hoo-hah there.
- Pepper: Look and observe. What do you see?
- Cupcake: He can't draw for old kibble, that's a fact.
- Pepper: Yes, the drawing style is crude. Good, Cupcake.
- Patches: It looks like it was made from only three colors.
- Pepper: Precisely. And unless I miss my guess, [Sniffs] they're scented markers. Interesting.
- [Door opens]
- [Danger theme]
- Pepper: [Barks]
- Janitor Brisbane: [Yelp]
- [Pups barking]
- Janitor Brisbane: [Growl]
- [Screech]
- [Crash]
- Janitor Brisbane: Aww, now I've gotta clean this up!
- Patches: That was awesome! [Beat] I mean, in a bad way.
- Rebound: So what do we do now, Pepper, huh?
- Pepper: The principal said he was going to hear Chucky's side of the story, so we should too. A good detective gets every angle.
- Rebound: If I turn my head at an angle like this, I look super adorable. Look!
- Patches: Ugh, now even I'm getting too old for this.
- Principal Del Fuego: I was really hoping you'd shape up this year, Chucky. But right now, things don't look so good.
- Chucky: I did my time, I tell you! I'm a changed kid now, and I didn't draw on the whiteboard! I was in phys ed class the whole time!
- Pepper: Aha! It seems Chucky has an alibi! I wonder if it holds up?
- Principal Del Fuego: Nobody else in school has a history of drawing on whiteboards and permanent ink, Chucky. And you know Mr. Farragut isn't very happy at being called "a prosaic simpleton."
- Chucky: Dude, I don't even, like, know what that means. Sir.
- Principal Del Fuego: Neither do I, but- That's not the point! Afraid I'm going to have to call your parents.
- Chucky: Oh, please, don't! No! My mom said if I got in trouble one more time, she wouldn't let me have a dog, ever! And man, I tell you, that pup - he's my soulmate. I gotta have him! It's why I'm working so hard to be good this year! Please, Principal Del Fuego, don't call my mom!
- Patches: Wow.
- Cupcake: There's no way that kid is a bad biscuit.
- Principal Del Fuego: Alright, Chucky, I really do want to believe you. I won't call your mother for the moment. But if I find something that proves you did it, I'll have no other choice.
- Rebound: I just know he's innocent. We have to prove it, we have to! If we can prove it-
- Cupcake: Then Lucky won't be mad at us for running off without his permission?
- Rebound: There is that.
- Chucky: Sorry I'm late to art class, Mrs. Vanvoorhees.
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: That's alright, take your seat.
- Ian: Thanks for messing up the science room, Chucky.
- Jefferson: Whatever. Just as long as he doesn't mess up our work of genius during the assembly this afternoon, that would ruin everything we worked for.
- [Geeks laughing]
- Rebound: Looks like they don't like Chucky, either.
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: Chucky, come up here for a moment. Now, Chucky, there are a box of markers missing from the shelf. Do you, by any chance, know what happened to them?
- Chucky: Why is everybody so down on me? Is it so wrong to be different around here? I didn't take the markers!
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: Oh, I'm sorry, Chucky. I know you're being more responsible this year; you've done a great job feeding the class rat. But I talked to Coach Wilson, and he said you left phys ed class about the time the drawing went up in Mr. Farragut's class.
- Chucky: Dude, I left to go to the bathroom, that's all! Ma'am.
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: I believe you, Chucky. But you can understand why it might look bad.
- [Class bell dings]
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: Remember, everyone - after lunch is the school assembly. Go straight to the auditorium.
- Pepper: It doesn't look good for Chucky, I'm afraid.
- Rebound: What do you mean?
- Pepper: His alibi isn't sound. He left gym class and he lied about it, so he had the opportunity. If he had the means, it would be another nail in the coffin.
- Rebound: So when you say "means", would the markers be a means to make that drawing?
- Pepper: You're learning, Patches.
- Patches: So if the markers are still missing, someone might have them. And if we find who has them, then maybe we might find the drawing!
- Cupcake: But how do we find them?
- Rebound: Simple, we're dogs! We follow our noses!
- [Sneaky theme]
- Pepper: [Sniffs] Got the scent.
- [Pups sniffing]
- Pepper: Now to put the theory to the test. [Sniffing]
- Patches: The markers!
- Cupcake: But this is the janitor's office! Why would the janitor have a box of markers in his backpack?
- Pepper: He's trying to frame Chucky. The janitor never liked chucky, that gives him a motive. His job gives him access to any classroom, anytime. So he had the opportunity, and these markers are the means.
- Cupcake: I never liked that guy. He uses all these weird words like dingoes and didgeridoos.
- Rebound: That drawing on the whiteboard had weird words too, right?
- Pepper: Case closed! Let's turn this backpack in to the principal!
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: [To Del Fuego] Those markers are still missing. Can we at least buy new ones?
- Principal Del Fuego: Now, now, Jen - you know we blew our marker budget during Pen Fest.
- [Pups barking]
- Principal Del Fuego: What on Earth?
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: Well, I'll be - the markers!
- Principal Del Fuego: And let's see who's hiding them in his backpack. Chucky Collins?! Oh, dear, this is a shame. A terrible shame! These random puppies have settled this once and for all. I have no choice but to call his mom.
- [Tragic sting]
- Janitor Brisbane: So... What were the markers doin' in your backpack, boy?
- Chucky: I have no idea, and I'm not answering any more questions without my mom present. No, wait, wait! No, no, I-I don't want my mom present! The system's turning against me, man! They're all turning against me!
- Patches: Oh, this is all our fault! We never should've brought the backpack here!
- Cupcake: How were we supposed to know it was Chucky's?
- Principal Del Fuego: Chucky, I'd like to believe you, but now the hall monitor tells me that you didn't go to the bathroom during phys ed. He saw you leaving the art room.
- Janitor Brisbane: Ha! You're a cheeky li'l Joey, aren't you? And there are three markers missin' from this box! Where are they?
- Principal Del Fuego: Don't you have some puppies to lock up or something?
- Chucky: Look, I-I admit it, I didn't go to the bathroom, but only because I was gonna feed the rat Mr. Biddlesworth. I promised I'd do it, and I forgot this morning, so I wanted to be responsible. I'm a new boy, remember? All I want is my puppy.
- Principal Del Fuego: If we could talk to that rat, maybe we could confirm your story. But since we can't, I'm sorry - your mother is on the way.
- Rebound: Of course!
- [Pups barking]
- Janitor Brisbane: What is it with the dogs in this place?
- Pepper: What are you pulling here, rookie? Chucky had the means, he had the opportunity.
- Rebound: But he didn't have the motive. He wants a puppy more than anything. Why would he ruin that by drawing on the walls? And maybe the principal can't talk to the rat, but we can!
- Pepper: I hate to say it, but now even you're making sense.
- Pepper: All right, rat, squeal! The reputation of a boy named Chucky is at stake!
- Mr. Biddlesworth: [Squeak]
- Pepper: So he did come in to feed you this morning!
- Mr. Biddlesworth: [Squeak]
- Rebound: Then he couldn't have possibly made that drawing at the same time!
- Pepper: Did you see who took those markers yesterday?
- Mr. Biddlesworth: [Squeak]
- Pepper: Well, that's what you get for sleeping on the job.
- Mr. Biddlesworth: [Squeak]
- Patches: Yes, he is a nice kid.
- Cupcake: And no, we haven't seen his art.
- Rebound: Aww, look - it's Boots!
- Patches: He sure loves that dog.
- Pepper: But more importantly, look at it - it's nothing like the drawing in Mr. Farragut's room.
- Patches: Huh, you're right.
- Pepper: And think back. That drawing was made of three colors and there were three markers missing from the box.
- Patches: Do you think someone took three markers and planted the box in Chucky's backpack?
- Pepper: That's exactly what I'm thinking, Patches.
- Cupcake: And if Chucky was feeding Mr. Biddlesworth, he wasn't in Mr. Farragut's room when whoever it was made that drawing.
- Rebound: So Chucky isn't guilty, like I said!
- Cupcake: Well then, who could it be?
- [Geeks laughing]
- Carlyle: This will be our finest hour!
- Jefferson: Check and mate, Chucky!
- Ian: Perhaps the fall guy is the prosaic simpleton after all!
- Pepper: Prosaic simpleton...
- Cupcake: Yeah! I still have no idea what that means.
- Patches: Wait, do you think...?
- Rebound: Then what?
- Cupcake: Could it be...?
- Rebound: Be what?
- Pepper: It most certainly could. And remember what they said?
- [Flashback]
- Jefferson: Just as long as he doesn't mess up our work of genius during the assembly this afternoon, it would ruin everything we worked for.
- Rebound: It would?
- Pepper: Chucky's mom is coming, we don't have much time! You know what we need to do.
- Rebound: We do?
- Pepper: You go to the principal's office, get Chucky and the grownups to the auditorium. I'll meet you there.
- All Three: Super Secret Pup Club! Go, pups, go!
- Rebound: Will someone explain to me what's going on?
- Mrs. Vanvoorhees: Come on, kids - the assembly starts in a couple of minutes.
- [Door closes]
- Jefferson: Let our masterpiece commence!
- Principal Del Fuego: I'm sorry, Mrs. Collins.
- Mom: No, I'm sorry, Principal Del Fuego.
- Chucky: Why does no one believe me?
- [Pups barking]
- Janitor Brisbane: Bloomin' pooches! Come 'ere, you!
- Chucky: Hey, my backpack!
- Mom: Chucky, wait!
- Principal Del Fuego: No running in the halls!
- [Chase music]
- [Screech, thud]
- [Clank]
- [Thud]
- Janitor Brisbane: [Grunt]
- Girl: [Yells]
- [Markers squeaking]
- Janitor Brisbane: Great Barrier Reef!
- Jefferson: Uh! It appears we are, as they say colloquially, busted.
- Ian: Shall we flee?
- Carlyle: Indeed.
- [Pups growl, bark]
- Principal Del Fuego:[Clears throat]
- Janitor Brisbane: Come on, ya raffajeffas[?], talk!
- Principal Del Fuego: Paul, you really need to switch to decaf.
- Jefferson: Alright, we confess. We drew the picture of Mr. Farragut, and the one in Mrs. Dinkle's room yesterday to force a call from the principal, that put Chucky on highly attenuated frozen H2O.
- Janitor Brisbane: What?
- Jefferson: On thin ice. Then we took the markers out of the art room after class, we played stick to get out of gym class, did the dirty deed, and planted the box of markers in Chucky's backpack. And we put it outside Janitor Brisbane's office so he would "discover" it.
- Principal Del Fuego: B-But why?
- Ian: We wanted to get Chucky thrown out of school, duh!
- Mom: [Gasp] That's horrible!
- Carlyle: You have no idea what he was like last year - he drew on our best science project ever and utterly ruined the science fair for us!
- Principal Del Fuego: Chucky?
- Chucky: Yeah, I did do that. I didn't know what it was. Seriously, guys, I'm sorry, and I've been trying to make up for it all year. You gotta give me another chance. Please?
- Principal Del Fuego: Well, since you're innocent this time, all right. But you three - you will clean up the school mural and write a formal apology to Chucky.
- Janitor Brisbane: And one to me, usin' words we can all understand!
- Jefferson: We apologize.
- Chucky: Does this mean I can get a dog, mom, huh?
- Mom: Well...
- Lucky: Okay. Winch and hook?
- Cookie: Check.
- Lucky: Drop package?
- Squirt:: Check.
- Lucky: Portable infrared human detection network with motion detector system?
- Strudel: [Straining] Check.
- Boots: Wow!
- Rebound: What'cha doing, guys, huh?
- Lucky: We finally came up with a plan B to get Boots here adopted. Hey, where have you pups been, anyway? Why is Pepper with you?
- [Car pulls up]
- Chucky: There he is, there's my puppy! Hi'ya , bud! You could come home with me now, for reals!
- Mom: Come on, Chucky, let's go talk to the strange man in the sweater vest and one clown shoe about taking your puppy home.
- Boots: I'm going home..! Thanks, everyone! This is the best day ever!
- Lucky: [To Rebound, etc.] Uh, you pups didn't go off and do something without my permission again, did you?
- [Pups laugh]
- Pepper: How did you figure it out?
- Lucky: Well, it doesn't take a detective to figure it out, now does it?
- [Credits]