"Hey!" "Welcome to the Freedom Tunnel." "Are you guys painters?" "Well, no." "But as you can see, I am an artiste." "My medium is fabric, seasonal fruits, and cuddly creatures." "That's cool." "Your art sounds delicious and fuzzy." "What is this place anyway?" "It used to be an abandoned train tunnel, but now it's been set aside by the city for artists to paint whatever they want." "Or hiding when they have a fight with their girlfriends." "We're looking for Alex Russo." "Follow me." "Thank you." "Oh!" "What's this supposed to be?" "It's a question mark." "No, I know what it is, but what's it mean?" "It means whatever you want it to mean, man." "I think it means he hasn't decided what to paint yet." " Hey, Alex." " Hey, Line." "I get it." "It's a car symbol in a tunnel, on a cracked wall, representing the death of industry." "No, it's my initial in a circle, representing my initial in a circle." "Hey, Larry." "I was wrong." "Way off." "Yeah." "It is her initial inside a circle." "Congratulations, Alex." "I'm the president of the committee." "I'm supposed to congratulate her first." "Well, I'm vice president." "What do I get to do?" "After I congratulate her, you get to wish her well." "Oh, for the love." "Would somebody congratulate me and then tell me what for?" "The Tribeca Prep Mural Paint Committee had a meeting and I nominated you to be mural painter." "Oh, my gosh." "You nominated me to paint a mural for the school?" "No." "Alex, I need your help." "The rest of the submissions were terrible." "So I told them about how you do murals down here and they all agreed to it." "I questioned why I even brought it up, but it was too late." " Don't let me down." " Yeah, don't let him down." "I'd say don't let me down, but you could never let me down." "Anymore." "Paint a mural for the whole school?" "I don't know." "You'll get out of class to do it." "Well, then, you should have said that first." "What an honor." "Ham and cheese on white, wheat or sourdough." "Your choice of side salad, cole slaw, or French fries." " Max?" "What are you doing?" " Yeah?" "I'm making a video menu." "We have so many options that I can't remember them all, so I'm just going to play this for the customers." "We are gonna start hiring people to work here who aren't related to me." "You'd have to pay them, Dad." "Oh." "That's why I don't do it." "Oh, he did the wrong thing." "I got the whole thing on video." "This is so going on the Internet." "What do you say?" "Can I put it on the Internet?" "Oh, sure." "Sure you can." "I want everyone to know how rude my customers are." "Don't smile." "I saw you laughing." "I stayed up all night working on these." "Either one would make a great mural." "Especially the one that I'm sliding closer to you." "Which one do you think I should go with?" "Oh, honey." "It doesn't even matter." "What matters is that you're finally doing something for someone other than yourself." "We just need to savor this moment." "Excuse me." "I know, honey." "I know." "It's a miracle." " We're good parents." " Yes!" "Wow." "Look at all those sketches." "You're really going all out for this mural." "No, I'm not." "I just want to make it good, because I have to look at the stupid thing everyday." "Except this one's not stupid." "It's really awesome." "But I'm not excited about it." "Say whatever you want." "We all know how much you care about this." "It does seem like you care." "I'm just sayin'." "The Alien Language League has moved up a bracket in the debates." "It's exciting." "So, I'm not going to be here to oversee the progress on the mural." "Your vice president is on it." "Great." "Text me progress reports every five minutes." "Who's gonna destroy Peakskill High at tomorrow's Alien Language League debates?" "Tribeca Prep." "We're gonna gee n'or their bla-nee-kan." "I heard there's gonna be an actual scout from NASA in the audience." "Do you know what this means?" "We're gonna have an audience!" "So, it's called New York:" "Above and Below." "Above will be the pretty, happy New York which makes me want to barf." "And below will be the gritty, grimy New York filled with barf." "That's it." "Excellent." "My committee corral approves." "If I can I'd just like to make one little suggestion." "Just a little cactus hair." "I'd like to see more cowboys in the above ground city." "Cowboys?" "In my mural?" "Our mural." "I think they would really represent our country's great Manifest Destiny and "westward, ho" mentality." "I think you're the only one who knows what you're talking about." "So, I think I'm just gonna go on my own for this." "Absolutely." "Go your own way." "It's your vision." "And you know what your vision should have?" "Caricatures." "I love it when people's heads are too big for their bodies." "And they always hold teeny tiny tennis rackets." "OK." "So, giant heads, teeny tiny tennis rackets..." "And how about a bunch of panda bears riding on the subway?" "And the Statue of Liberty shredding an electric guitar." "And panda bears." "If anyone else has another idea why not just write it down and pass it in to Miss Russo." "No, stop writing." "Why do you all have scrap paper immediately available?" "You'll do a bang-up job, Miss Russo." "Oh, nice." "Harper..." "Times Square filled with pizzas?" "And look, this one just says, "A picture of my grandma."" "Whose grandma?" "How I'm supposed to know what she looks like?" "Oh, you've met my Nana Franny." "She does needle point, fought in World War II." "I'll get you a picture." "All right, Max." "What's the big emergency?" "All right." "Well, I put that video of you on the Internet and got tons of hits." "People loved it." "So, if you jump on the other end of this board for me" "I'll be launched up and land safely on our terrace." "And I'll put that on the Internet." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Hold it right there." "I got tons of hits?" "Oh, yeah, you did." "So come on." "Jump on the other end, and I'll become famous." "The only thing that's gonna happen is you'll be launched two feet in the air, and you might break your arm." "Dad, come on." "Just jump." "Fine." "Just to show you how this is not gonna work, I'll do it." "Yes." "Ready?" " Yep." " One, two, three." "I did it." "Hi, Mom." "Knock it off!" "You've sure packed a lot in here..." "Pandas on the subway." "The Statue of Liberty playing electric guitar." "And what's this?" "Is that a cowboy with a giant head with a teeny tiny tennis racket?" "I know it's a mess, but it's just what everybody else wanted." "Let me tell you something very wise, all right, Alex?" "When it comes to art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder." "All right?" "It's impossible to please everyone." "You're probably right." "Or maybe you're not." "No, I'm definitely right." "You can't please everyone." "OK." "I was trying to make a dramatic exit." "Oh!" "Oh, all right." "Well, do your thing." "OK." "Thank you." "You're probably right." "Or maybe you're not." "Pretty good." "So it's called The Eye of the Beholder spell." "It makes everybody see what they want to see." " I'll cast it on the wall..." " Hey, hey, hey." "As vice president of the mural committee," "I can absolutely not condone the use of..." "Magic as a means to artistic expression." " Are you done?" " Are you still gonna use magic?" " Yes." " I'm done." "The weight of this mural is too much to shoulder." "Watch me use The Eye of the Beholder." "I'm gonna have to inform Justin." "Oh, my gosh!" "It's Nana Franny." "Oh, that's the most beautiful mural I've ever seen." "Oh, thank you, Alex." "Thank you." "Thank you." "What is all this commotion?" "Oh, Miss Russo." "You've lassoed my soul." "The perfect melding of past and present." "Time is relative." "History is cyclical." "The cowboy shall once again rule the western plains." "Those cowboys look like panda bears to me." "Well, buckaroo, with great art the interpretations are endless." "Thank you, Mr. Laritate." "Miss Russo, there was a time when I thought you wouldn't amount to much..." "That time was yesterday." "But now look at you." "You must be very proud to be an artist who pleases everyone." "You're a real people pleaser." "People pleaser?" "Me?" "No, no, no." "I'm Alex Russo." "I don't..." "I know." "But look at how happy everyone is." "So if everybody else is happy, then that means I should be happy too, right?" "That's how happiness works." "Oh, I get it!" "Knock it off!" "That's um..." "That's some pretty crazy stuff, huh?" "Yeah." "Everybody's watching this." "It's going viral." "What are you gonna do next?" "Next?" "I just launched myself onto a two story terrace." "That's cool." "But you need to plus it, dude." "That's already been done." " By who?" " You." "That's right." "I do need to plus it." "Knock it off!" "Hey, Harper, guess what?" "Peakskill High didn't stand a chance." "What can I say?" "They didn't have a certain Justin Russo." "Thank you very much." "Yeah, and next up..." "Sachem High." "And they better bring it or they're going home, crying to their mommies on their little bikes made up like starships." " Ooh!" " I wish we'd thought of that." "Oh, my gosh." "The mural." "There's beakers, test tubes and the the Action News weather lady giving an incredibly accurate forecast." "Wow!" "Robot president." "This is awesome!" "Wait a second." "I see test tubes." "Zeke sees robot president." "And you see..." "Nana Franny." " Oops." " Harper?" "What's going on?" "Did Alex use The Eye of the Beholder spell?" "I don't know the name of the spell she used." "But if I was gonna name it, I would probably name it that." "You knew about her using magic?" "Why didn't you text me?" "I just love seeing Nana Franny so much." "If you want my resignation just say it." "I want your resignation." "La, la, la!" "I can't hear you!" "Give me your..." "Harper!" "Harper!" "Alex, I trusted you to paint that mural and you just used magic and blew it off?" "No, I had a great concept and I was so excited about it." "But everybody kept yelling their ideas at me like I was some sort of paint monkey." "Alex, it's a committee." "It's what committees do." "And now that you mention it everything down here looks like it was painted by monkeys." "Using magic on the school wall was completely reckless, Alex." "Yeah, well, I'm the one who's suffering." "Mr. Laritate said I was an artist who pleases everyone." "And that's when I realized I please everyone but myself." "And you know what that is?" "That's a sell out." " I'm a sell out." " A sell out?" " Who's a sell out?" " Me." "I'm worse than that rapper who did that washing machine ad." "Wiki-wiki-wiki-wash..." "Ridiculous." "This is the mural I wanted to paint for my school, but I didn't." "So, why do you feel so bad?" "At least you painted what you wanted." "It's just down here." "Look, let me tell you about an artist I know who makes a living drawing cheesy greeting cards." "Let's say his name is um me." "Am I a sell out?" "Of course." "You draw greeting cards?" "Yeah, but the artistic ones, right?" "Yeah, sure, if you think a thermometer that says," ""Get well soon," is artistic." "That's you?" "The thermometer clearly has a fever." "I mean, a thermometer with a thermometer in his mouth." "That's..." "That's genius." " That's good." " Yeah." "When I draw that stuff, it tortures me deep inside my soul." "And it hurts." "But I use that pain to create all this." "Down here." "It's perfect." "You're right, Line." "Thank you." "I am now officially a tunnel person." "Yeah!" "Tunnel people!" "So, you're just gonna do your art down here?" "Yes." "And if you would just leave, I would get a chance to do it." "So you don't want your art to be seen by anyone?" "I don't get that." "That's because you're not an artist." "You're right." "I could never paint a question mark on a wall." "Hey, Line." "He called you a monkey." "That was before I knew about that thermometer thing." "All right." "From down below, this art should show." "Oh, my gosh." "It's my mural." "Alex, what did you do?" "Well, defacing school property is something I would do and have done many, many times." "But I can't take credit for this one." "This has nothing to do with panda bears." "I hate it and I'm telling Mr. Laritate." "Justin, I don't know how this got here." "I didn't move it." "That must make you mad." "No." "Actually, it kind of feels good to have everyone see my original idea." "Even though they all hate it?" "That's OK." "At least they saw it." "And even though they hate it, it made them feel something." "Well, then it looks like I did it again." "Boo yah." "Justin, now is not the time for your Alien Language League junk." "No, no, no." "I'm the one who moved your mural." "And did you see how I was playing it like it wasn't me?" "I was like, "You must be mad," and "What if they take it down?"" "And you were like: "Now I know why I'm an artist, because they all hate it."" "When really it was me the whole time." "I was acting." "I can't believe you did all that for me." "Well, you're the artist and you're my sister, and I think your work deserves to be seen." "Thank you." "Don't get the wrong idea." "I hate the mural." "The message is heavy handed." "The theme's been done before." "And your trees look like big, green lollipops." "Yeah, I gotta work on my foliage." "Miss Russo, this is not what we discussed." "What happened to that handsome cowboy?" "You asked me to paint the mural, and I did." "And I'm not going to change it one bit." "President of the mural committee, how could you let this happen?" "I left my vice president in charge when I was gone." "That's right." "He did." "And I will go find her." "No, no, no." "It's not their fault." "Mr. Laritate, I'm sorry, but from now on," "I'm gonna paint what I want to paint." "Artists are so temperamental." "All right, so what I'm gonna do is jump this unicycle, right here over all of these garbage cans, wearing this bubble wrap." "Do you think you could run up and jump those trash cans on your own?" "No way, dude." "That's why I got the unicycle." "A unicycle can't go any faster than you can run." " I beg to differ." " Based on what?" "It has a wheel." "Do you even know how to ride a unicycle?" "No, but I can ride a bicycle." "And this is one wheel less than that, so it's gotta be easier." "I feel I've asked enough questions to not be responsible for what is about to happen." " Where's the record button?" " Right there." "On the back." "There's no turning back now." "OK." "It's go time." "He did the wrong thing." "That really hurt." "Max, what are you doing?" "Giving the people what they want." "I'm an Internet sensation." "Well, knock it off!" "It's her." "It's the "knock it off" lady." "Why they calling me the "knock it off lady?" What?" "We love how you always say:" ""Knock it off." "Knock it off."" "And we love it when you pretend to be mean." "Oh, well, I'm not pretending, but thank you." "We're from the "knock it off" lady fan club." "Knock it off!" "Wait a minute." "I'm the one who started this whole thing." "Watch!" "No, no, no." "I'm the one who started this whole thing." "I do all the stuff she says "knock it off" to." "Knock it off!" "Knock it off!" "Knock it off!"