Electric Bloom (2025) s01e11 Episode Script

1
My beat, my drum ♪
So we just got back from the Music Icon
Awards and we didn't win one.
-We won four!
-[giggles]
Album of the Year,
Best Record, Best Female Pop Group,
Best Music Video,
Best Country Album.
Whops, wait, that's not ours.
-Well, keeping it anyway.
-Jade!
Fine. I'll put it in our
"return to Shaboozey" pile.
Okay, on to
the Ask Us Anything.
"Electric Bloom has fans
all over the world,
"but you must have
some haters too, right?
"How do you all handle that?"
Great question.
Look, of course
we've had some haters. Still do.
But we know how
to let the hate roll off our backs.
But we haven't always been
this cool about it.
It's a skill we learned
from some very unlikely people.
Not them.
Sorry, guys.
Ventriloquist Club meets in room 318.
See you in my nightmares!
Ladies!
I appreciate you helping me
with the school's
Save the Music
concert fundraiser.
Our instrument budget
was cut so much,
we're this close
to using boba straws as flutes.
Yeah, this school
definitely needs some new instruments.
How old is this tuba?
What tuba?
Happy to help, Mr. B. You've always been
a huge supporter of our music.
You guys are good. That's why I chose
you to play the fundraiser.
Electric Bloom is gonna put butts in
seats and help sell tickets.
We're on it.
Already promoting the show on our socials.
Appreciate you ladies.
All right, I gotta go.
I also run Ventriloquist Club.
How did it come
to this, Clarence?
We gotta help that man.
I'm gonna make another post.
Ooh, cool!
A lot of people commenting
they're excited
to see the show.
Oh, no.
Someone named The Edi$on Troll
hit us with a lot of trash emojis.
They're calling us trash?
No! They're just asking
a question.
Yes. There will be
waste receptacles at the fundraiser.
Thank you for
considering Mother Earth.
They also posted puke emojis.
They're saying our music
makes them want to throw up?
No, they're just asking
another question.
Yes, our shows do rock.
You may experience
motion sickness.
Ask your doctor
if Electric Bloom is right for you.
"Electric Bloom stinks."
Tulip. Any thoughts
on that one?
Well, it could be--
It might mean--
Oh, no.
We have our first hater.
Unless
No, no.
[Electric Bloom]
You and me ♪
You and I ♪
I got your back
and you got mine ♪
We're in this forever ♪
Wherever we go,
we go together ♪
It's all for one ♪
It's you and me ♪
Because all we are
is all we need ♪
We're in this forever ♪
Wherever we go,
we go together ♪
So we had
our first online hater, The Edi$on Troll.
Which meant someone
at our school was messing with our heads
while we were trying
to get ready for the fundraiser.
So to make the troll go away,
we decided to combat hate with love.
[Posey reading]
Oh.
Hi.
We're Electric Bloom.
Recently, we've noticed
some comments on our socials that are
Tulip, how would
you describe them?
Unpleasant.
Yes. And that makes
the world
Tulip?
Unpleasanter.
Well said.
So please, don't choose hate.
Choose love.
Because you can't spell love without some
of the letters from Electric Bloom.
[all] Cheers to you.
Let's see The Edi$on Troll
try to hate on us after that love fest.
Excuse me?
I know they're not
talking about us.
How dare you, sir?
You don't even know my hamster!
Clearly, our "fight hate
with love" video didn't work.
I don't understand.
We're delightful.
Who at this school would ever hate us?
[singing in Spanish]
Las Dos Shellys, leaving Espanol ♪
Muy bien! ♪
[giggling]
Mystery solved.
-We know it's you.
-Excuse me, bro?
You're The Edi$on Troll,
and you've been bashing us online.
Ew, gross.
We would never post anonymously.
That would take away
all the joy
of saying exactly how we feel
right to your face.
Yeah, like this.
Your shoelaces
are trying too hard,
your pinky nail is chipped,
and your hair smells like no. Bye!
-Okay, it's not them.
-Yeah, definitely not.
The bottle said
"coconut dream."
-Hey.
-Hey.
Oh. You seem down.
Still dealing with
that Edi$on Troll stuff?
Yeah. You know, it's so sweet
that you know my heys.
The one I like
the most is, "Hey."
That's the one I like.
Yeah, the one I like
is, "Hey!"
There's four other people
standing here. Don't be weird.
Guys. You're clearly upset
about this troll.
What if the three of us
help find them
so you can focus
on your fundraising gig?
-You think you can find them?
-More than think.
I'll give you
The Vince guarantee.
Whoa, wait.
The Vince guarantee? That's big time.
-Hundred percent success rate.
-I'm in.
Wow. Thanks, guys.
That really helps us out.
All right.
Well, we gotta get to class.
Bye, D.
[shouting] I said no!
Okay, boys,
there's a process to this.
Step one, we use logic
to narrow down the list of suspects.
Yeah. Find a motive.
Speaking of, Lucas,
you asked Posey to the dance
and she said no.
That's a motive.
-Are you the troll?
-No.
-Prove it.
-No.
He's clean.
Later that day,
we were rehearsing for the fundraiser,
but we were a little preoccupied
with our online critic.
[off-key music playing]
Okay. This is ridiculous.
I agree.
We should just ditch our instruments
and commit to scrolling.
No! Opposite!
We need to get away from all this negative
energy and do something fun,
preferably somewhere
with good food and bad cell service.
[gasps] I know just the place.
It's super old school
and very '80s.
[pleasant music playing]
So you meant the people
that come here
are super old school
and in their 80s?
I know. It gets wild in here.
And wait until
you try the soup.
It's the perfect
tepid temperature.
Which is great because my doc's been
on me about my salt intake.
How sure are we
that Tulip isn't actually 75 years old?
Tulip, doll!
It's been way too long.
How the heck are you?
Still kicking.
Jade, Posey, this is Eddie.
He runs the joint.
Nice to meet you ladies.
Although,
I have some bad news.
-You're out of the soup?
-Whoa, whoa, whoa. Lower your voice.
What, are you trying
to start a riot in here?
It's our lounge singers.
They're a no-show.
So, no performance tonight.
Sorry.
We can help! We're singers!
Uh, Tulip? We're a pop band.
Yeah. We don't know how
to lounge sing.
I don't think that we should--
Oh, she's already on stage. [chuckles]
Remember, slow it down
and add some pizazz. [laughs]
Start in the key of C, boys.
Keep up with my changes,
and for goodness sake,
lay off the hi-hat, Lenny.
[drum roll]
Oh, every song,
every minute, when we're side by side ♪
No limits, no limits, yeah ♪
Oh, and it's just
the beginning when we hit the lights ♪
No limits, no limits, yeah ♪
More shoulder shimmies.
Too much shoulder shimmies.
It starts to get offensive.
Na, na, na, na, yeah ♪
Na, na, na, na, yeah ♪
Na, na, na, na ♪
No limits, no limits ♪
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! ♪
No limits! ♪
[applauding]
Now, that's how
you razzle dazzle 'em!
We had a blast.
When we were up on that stage,
we felt totally free.
No judgment, no haters.
And we did so well,
Eddie invited us back the next night.
He called us last minute, so we just had
to throw on whatever we had lying around.
Anybody in the house
want to hear some music?
Well, I'm sorry
to disappoint you all.
All, all, all it takes
is one little spark to start a fire ♪
That can light,
that can light the whole world up ♪
You'll always only ever be ♪
The one, the one,
the one for me, yeah ♪
That one goes out
to Cindy and Bob,
who are celebrating
their 50th anniversary.
We should all be so lucky.
My beat ♪
My drum ♪
My beat, my drum ♪
Jade, bring us home!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh ♪
My beat, my drum ♪
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh ♪
My beat, my drum ♪
My beat, my drum ♪
[applauding]
Thank you.
We're Electric Bloom. Good night!
Well, good afternoon.
It's only 5:00 p.m.
Wow, you people eat early.
Hiya. I'm Dolores.
These are my friends, Georgie and Ethel.
We're the Lounge Ladies.
Legendary Jersey City band.
We perform here.
That's great.
We'll have to come see you sometime.
-Thanks. Bye.
-Oh, um
I misspoke.
We used to perform here.
Until one night
we were a little late,
because of none
of your business,
and another act took our spot,
lost us our gig.
Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
You should be.
It was you, and you, and you!
Yep, we took the Lounge Ladies' gig,
but we didn't mean to.
No matter
how much we apologized
and begged Eddie to give the Lounge Ladies
their gig back, he wouldn't.
And then, things got worse.
Guys, guys!
The Edi$on Troll
just reposted a video and tagged us in it.
Attention, fans
of the Lounge Ladies.
[Georgie] Ethel, you gotta pull it away
from your face or no one can see.
Give it to me.
We want to let you all know we will no
longer be performing at Eddie's,
thanks to a certain band
who shall remain nameless.
Electric Bloom!
Fine. Electric Bloom.
But the girls themselves
shall remain nameless.
Posey, Jade and Tulip.
Yeah, them.
They got us canned.
I'm gonna look
at the comments now.
-Posey, no, Posey
-Posey, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[all scream]
[upbeat music playing]
Once that video of the Lounge Ladies
dropped, we got a lot of heat.
We had to act fast
to clear our name,
so we made a video
about how we're not bad people
and never meant to get
the Lounge Ladies fired.
We told the Internet
to stop with the hate.
It's getting old.
And then the Internet did
what the Internet does.
-Hey.
-We're Electric Bloom.
We are bad people
Who get people fired.
-Also--
-We hate--
Old people.
I'm so mad at us.
When did we make that video?
Tulip, we never made it.
The Edi$on Troll mashed it up
to make us look like monsters.
Well, it worked.
We disgust me.
This is gonna be bad.
It already is.
"Boycott Electric Bloom"?
Great. Everyone at school
hates us now.
-Now?
-[both laugh]
-Remember when you said "Now"?
-[both laugh]
Ladies!
Guess what I'm playing?
The world's tiniest violin
because you feel so bad for us?
Wrong. It's no violin,
because the school can't afford any
because the fundraiser
hasn't sold any tickets,
because Electric Bloom
can't stay off the dang Internet.
-So you saw the video of us--
-Yep.
-And the one where we--
-Uh-huh.
Okay. I know how to fix this.
-We'll just make another video--
-No more videos.
Try doing something IRL that makes people
like you instead of hate you.
The music program really needs this
fundraiser to raise funds.
We're right there
with you, Mr. B. We won't let you down.
Thanks, ladies. All right. I'm gonna make
some videos to promote this fundraiser.
So you get to make videos?
I ain't got no haters.
[upbeat music playing]
[slurping]
Great idea coming here, Vince.
Return to the scene of the Lounge Lady
crime. Maybe find the troll.
Hey, I gave those girls
The Vince guarantee.
Also, I heard the soup here
was good.
And it is.
[smacks lips]
It really is.
[phone chimes]
The troll just posted again.
"Electric Bloosers"?
They're getting smarter.
Or sloppier.
Hey, Dante, couldn't help but notice,
but you were on your phone
at the exact same time
the comment posted.
Oh, excuse me, ma'am.
Could I get some of those tiny crackers,
please? Thank you.
-Are you saying I'm the troll?
-What I'm saying is
Oh, not these.
The salted ones, please.
What I'm saying
is that you spend
a lot of time with Jade.
Yeah, and Jade does spend a lot
of time with Electric Bloom.
Exactly.
Maybe Dante's motive
is to end Electric Bloom
so he can have Jade
all to himself.
Or I was sending Jade
a selfie of us.
He's clean.
[slurping]
Tickets to the fundraiser
were not selling.
We needed
to do damage control.
So we invited
the Lounge Ladies to our school
to publicly apologize
for taking their gig.
Fellow students of lunch,
what happened with the Lounge Ladies
was a misunderstanding.
We never meant
to take their gig,
and we are not enemies
of the elderly.
I love elderly people!
I plan to become one someday.
There's been one inside me
yearning to break free for years.
What we're trying to say is,
Dolores, Ethel, Georgie, we're sorry.
Which is why we got you this cake
that says, "We're sorry."
We wanted to say more,
but they charge by the letter.
Wow.
You girls are too sweet.
We accept your apology.
There's no beef between us.
And now,
to answer the other question that you
girls asked us before we got out here.
I'm sorry, what--
What question?
These magnanimous girls told us it's not
enough just to say "I'm sorry."
They said
it wouldn't feel good
unless we played the fundraiser concert
tonight instead of Electric Bloom.
And we humbly accept
their offer.
[cheering]
Hang on, hang on.
We definitely did not--
Did not anticipate
this level of enthusiasm
for these fine performers.
And we humbly accept
your humble acceptance of our offer,
which we definitely made,
to play the gig that was once ours.
The end.
Ticket sales are picking up.
You girls are amazing!
I'm proud of you.
You stole our gig.
What goes around
comes around, sweetheart.
Thanks for the free cake.
Next time, get red velvet.
[upbeat music playing]
I'm still so angry!
I know! Those Lounge Ladies
stole our gig right out from under us.
If I wasn't so mad,
I'd be impressed.
What a waste of cake!
We gotta do something
about this.
It's time to fight fire
with fire.
So we came up with a plan.
Not one we're proud of,
but a plan nonetheless.
Okay, here's how
it's gonna go down.
First, we lure
the Lounge Ladies into this classroom,
with something no self-respecting
senior citizen can resist.
A good deal.
[Tulip's voice]
Look, gals! Coupons.
Fifteen percent off blouses
at Blouses and Stuff!
[Posey's voice]
I love that place!
They have the best stuff!
[Tulip] And once we get 'em
inside the classroom, we lock 'em inside.
[all scream]
[Jade's voice] Hey, we're stuck in
here screaming for help!
Why can't you hear us?
[Tulip] I'll tell you why.
Because on the other side of the door,
we'll have a very loud
white noise machine.
[white noise playing]
[crying for help]
[white noise playing]
[Jade] Meanwhile, the crowd at the
fundraiser will grow restless
because the Lounge Ladies
are a no-show.
[Jade's voice]
Where's the music?
We need to save
the music program!
Also, random thought.
Has anyone noticed
how super cool and awesome Jade is?
[Posey's voice]
Okay, girl, reel it in.
[Tulip's voice]
But you make a good point,
Dante I-don't-know
your-last-name.
Who will save the music?
We need some heroes!
[triumphant music playing]
Did someone say heroes?
Electric Bloom is here
to save the day!
And the school's
music program!
Let's rock!
Music program saved!
[Tulip] And The Edi$on Troll
will apologize in a very sincere way.
[Tulip's voice] I'm The Edi$on Troll,
and I am now apologizing
in a very sincere way.
[Posey] And everyone else who ever said
mean things to us will apologize too.
[Posey's voice] Bro.
You made me rethink
my whole opinion
of Electric Bloom.
So to myself, I say,
"Ew. Be better, Shelly."
[Tulip's voice] I'm here, too.
[Jade] And while the crowd
is loving us,
those shady Lounge Ladies
will be in their own personal nightmare.
[Tulip] Because we let in
the dummies.
[foreboding music playing]
[screaming]
[Posey] Stop, stop, stop!
What are we doing?
Yeah, we can't do that.
We're not terrible people.
Who would do that?
Not even me.
That was some dark, messed-up business.
Okay, so we all agree.
Plan's off.
I don't know.
I think it could have worked.
I would have fallen
for that coupon.
Take a seat, ladies.
We need to talk.
[mumbling]
The troll's got
to be here somewhere.
You're typing a lot
for a guy who's supposed to be looking
for a guy typing a lot.
Yeah, a guy
who builds his reputation as a "fixer"
is the perfect cover
for someone who's actually a troll.
I was just texting you
a selfie of us eating soup.
He's clean.
Man, we're adorable!
Yeah, will you send me that?
Guys, can I be honest?
I don't think
we're gonna find this troll.
I've talked
to every kid in school.
I've tapped all my usual informants,
including the snitches.
I got nothing!
But what about
The Vince guarantee?
You don't think I know
about The Vince guarantee?
I haven't slept in nights!
I let those girls down.
The Vince has failed.
So from now on,
just call me
V
Vince.
You know, we could just report the troll's
account and have it taken down.
-[phone chimes]
-Approved.
The Vince is back, baby!
Whoo!
It was kind of my idea.
He needs this, man.
Just let him have it.
We're so sorry.
We weren't really gonna do it.
We let the Internet hate
and online troll mess with our heads.
We responded in so many ways,
and none of it worked.
-I just don't know what to do anymore.
-That's the secret.
Stop doing!
[scoffs] I don't--
Clearly, you don't know me.
[chuckles]
With haters, you can't react.
That's how they win.
Haters gonna hate.
Easy for you to say. Do you know what it
feels like to have someone comment
"you suck"
in the middle of the night?
Sweetie. I've had someone scream
"you suck" in the middle of a song,
but in more colorful language that I
cannot repeat in a high school setting.
You have haters.
We've had hecklers.
They're all the same.
But we never responded
to the negativity.
Except for that one time Ethel had to
rough up a guy in the front row.
[chuckles]
That's okay.
I eventually married him.
Look, as much
as it pains me to say it,
you ding-dongs remind us
of us.
You're really good
at what you do,
and you love it
just like we do.
Don't let anyone
take away your joy.
Thank you.
That's really good advice.
From here on out,
we ignore the trolls.
No matter how much shade
they throw at us.
Oh, my gauze!
I just realized
we didn't take our own advice.
We retaliated against them
for taking our gig.
[gasps] We're monsters.
Ladies. You can have
your gig back.
Girl, what?
Come on, Georgie.
They're-- They're just trying
to buy better instruments for the kids.
I mean, look at this tuba!
What tuba?
Thank you all
for being here tonight.
Your generous contributions
will make sure
that the students
of Edison County High
will have music in their lives
for years to come.
And now,
please welcome to the stage
You guys sure this ain't gonna change
again? Because I'm gonna say it.
Electric Bloom!
[girl] Boo!
Hey! That's not cool.
It's all good, Mr. B.
It doesn't bother us,
because we're doing what we love.
Really? Bothers me.
Hey, boo again
and see what happens.
Okay, tonight we're honored
to share the stage
with three people
who also love what they do.
So give it up for
the Lounge Ladies!
[cheering]
[crowd clapping]
Hit it, boys!
Oh wait, that's me. I'm boys.
[smooth jazz playing]
There's still some dreams
I've got to chase ♪
I'll take my chances
while I'm getting all the breaks ♪
It's apple pie in the sky,
there's no ceiling ♪
Just like Mama used to make.
So don't look down ♪
You know a frown
is not appealing ♪
That's right!
Live today ♪
And tomorrow ♪
With twice the joy
and only half the sorrow ♪
Thanks, Eddie,
for having us back.
You never should have
gotten rid of us in the first place!
Time's flying by
Pick up the pace ♪
Here we go!
There's still some dreams
I'm gonna chase ♪
Ba-pa da-pa, yeah ♪
[crowd clapping]
[slurping]
So that's how we learned about haters.
They're all the same.
They're faceless, nameless cowards
who are jealous that you have the guts
to put yourself out there
and they don't.
And by the way, we never found out
who The Edi$on Troll was.
But who cares?
We don't need to know who
they are because we know who we are.
And that's the end
of that! ♪
Ba-pa da-pa, yeah ♪
[laughs]
[upbeat music playing]