Finding Nemo: Ariel's Adventure!

Chapter two:First Day of School/The Dropoff!

A little clownfish named Nemo pops into the frame.]

NEMO: First day of school! First day of school! Wake up! Wake up! C'mon, first day of school!

[Nemo then jumps on top of Marlin, who is asleep on the anemone floor.]

MARLIN: [asleep] I don't want to go to school ― five more minutes.

NEMO: Not you, Dad, me! Get up! Get up!

[Nemo is so excited he swims across the anemone, just as Marlin slowly begins to wake up to see Nemo swimming across the anemone.]

MARLIN: Okay. Huh?

NEMO: Get up, get up!

MARLIN: I'm up... what is it?

NEMO: It's time for school!

MARLIN: All right, I'm up. It's time for school.

NEMO: It's time for school! Time for school! Time for school! Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh boy! [Nemo loses control and tumbles out of the anemone.] Whoa!

MARLIN: Nemo!

[Marlin bursts out of the anemone to find Nemo stuck, face first, in a vase coral.]

NEMO: [muffled; still excited] First day of school!

MARLIN: Nemo, don't move! Don't move! You'll never get out of there yourself. I'll do it.

[In an anxious fervor, Marlin pops Nemo out of the vase coral, rushes him back inside, and frantically checks him all over.]

MARLIN: All right, where's the break? You feel a break?

NEMO: [calmly] No.

MARLIN: Sometimes you can't tell because fluid is rushing to the area. Now, any rushing fluids?

NEMO: No.

MARLIN: Are you woozy?

NEMO: No.

MARLIN: How many stripes do I have?

NEMO: I'm fine.

MARLIN: Answer the stripe question!

NEMO: Three.

MARLIN: No! See, something's wrong with you. I have one... [checks himself to see whether he has three stripes or not, and calms down upon noticing that he has three stripes] two, three? That's all I have? Oh, you're okay. How's the lucky fin?

[Nemo then shows Marlin his right pectoral fin, noticeably smaller than his other fin. Whenever he is swimming, Nemo has to flap it twice as fast, like a hummingbird, in order to stay balanced.]

NEMO: Lucky.

MARLIN: Let's see.

[Nemo awkwardly slaps his dad five with the withered fin.]

MARLIN: Are you sure you wanna go to school this year? Because there is no problem if you don't. You can wait five or ― six years.

NEMO: Come on, Dad. It's time for school!

MARLIN: Ah-ah-ah! Forgot to brush.

NEMO: Oh.

MARLIN: Do you want this anemone to sting you?

NEMO: [looks at it] Yes.

MARLIN: Brush.

[Nemo gives a brief perfunctory graze against the tendrils.]

NEMO: Okay, I'm done!

MARLIN: Uh, you missed a spot!

NEMO: Where?