"Now that we've finished reading The Three Musketeers, can anyone explain the meaning of," ""All for one, and one for all?"" "Uh... is it, like, you have one cake and you cut it into five or four pieces" " and then... ?" " No!" "Anyone other than Simon?" "Anyone?" "All right, please guide us out of The Valley of Ignorance." "Um, the musketeers were a team and they were stronger together than apart." "Hence, the famous phrase, "All for one, and one for all"." "Who doesn't know that?" "So the musketeers are kinda like Alvin, Simon and me!" "Uh, sure." "(Bell rings)" "So, if you were a musketeer, Alvin, which one would you be?" "Easy." "The Artful Dodger!" "Alvin, A) give me back my pencil." "B) The Artful Dodger wasn't a musketeer, OK?" "He was in a book by Charles Dickens calledOliver Twist!" " Huh?" " We read it last week!" "Anyway, this might explain your less than stellar grade." "Simon, what's one F when I've got... ?" "Wow!" "Those sure looks like a lot of Fs to me." "Alvin, may I speak with you?" "Oh, I wish I could, Miss Smith, but I was kinda on my way out." " Get in here!" " All right." "What?" "What are you saying?" "I'm saying, if you don't pass the final exam, you'll have to redo the year, and be in my class again!" "Neither one of us wants that!" "Am I correct?" "But, but..." "I'll be separated from Simon and Theodore!" " They'll be a year ahead of me!" " Yes!" "You're getting it!" "Just study harder, Alvin!" "Be more like Simon." "You'll do fine!" "Please!" "I'm begging you!" " So, what did Miss Smith want?" " Did you get detention again?" "I don't want to talk about it." "(Moans) No..." "Sorry, this bus is for the big kids." "You're staying back a year, remember?" "But you can't separate me from my brothers!" "We're a team!" "You know, all for one, and one and all." "You know, like..." "like those muskrats!" "What can I say?" "You failed." "Bye-bye!" "Simon, Theodore, wait!" "(Tooting) Let's go, Alvin, time for school." "Oh..." "Neville, it's my truck, OK?" "And now I want to take it home!" "But Miss Smith says we have to learn to share." "I already learned that!" " (Giggling)" " Miss Smith, Miss Smith." "I'm clearly more advanced than these children, OK?" "Please put me back with my brothers." "Sorry." "♪ Got the feeling you don't like us" "♪ But we couldn't care not a bit less" "♪ Wanna break us, wanna stop us" "♪ And all of this because, because you're jealous" "♪ I got much better things to do than get kept down by you" "♪ It's true" "♪ I don't even need a reason" "♪ I'm a build a wall for you" "♪ Locking up with fifty keys and throw 'em in the ocean blue" "♪ Can you hear the rhythm of my heart beat, heart beat" "♪ It is saying let's be crazy" "♪ Ain't nobody gonna copy" "♪ Can you hear the rhythm of my heart beat, heart beat" "♪ Wild and free, it's just like me" "♪ And ain't nobody gonna stop me ♪" "Simon, wake up!" "Simon, ya gotta help me!" "Now, this invention of mine is so cool!" "It can actually read brain waves." "So, let me just get this all hooked up and let's see what's going on in your brain." "Here, here, read this chapter." "Hmm." "Brain waves almost completely inactive." ""But the early settlers didn't know how hard winter would turn out to be."" ""Using straw from the horse stables, they would..." Ooh!" "Ho, ho!" "His studies would have to wait!" "There was fun to be had!" " Alvin!" "Alvin!" " Huh?" "What?" "Look at your brain waves!" "You see this huge spike here?" "You must have been enjoying the text!" " This is great news!" " I hate to disappoint you," "Simon, especially, when, you know, you get all excited, your face lights up, you know, you look all hopeful, a great job, you've turned around a horrible student." "But, well, it wasn't the book that got my brain going." "Wait." "What?" "Simon, Simon, I was flying through space, but then, suddenly, these aliens came out of nowhere!" "Flying?" "Aliens?" "Alvin, look!" "Look at all the pages, OK?" "There is nothing here about aliens!" "I know that, Simon!" "This is what I'm trying to tell you!" "I'm reading the words, but my mind is wandering to something a lot more exciting!" "OK." "You know what?" "You know what?" "Look, look, you know, let's just try again." "I hate it, Simon!" "I hate it!" "I can't do it!" "Read it again!" ""But the early settlers didn't know how hard winter would turn out to be..."" "Ooh!" "Stop!" "Back to the book!" ""But the early settlers didn't know how hard winter would..."" "Ooh!" "My own plane!" "Get back to the book!" "Alvin, the monitor indicates that you're actually enjoying the book!" "That is unless your mind is wandering again." "Uh..." "No, no." "The book was, um, fascinating this time!" "I am feeling very confident I'll pass that test." "So, you want me to fail?" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Exactly!" "Because the only way we stay together as brothers is for us all to fail and be held back." "Well, what does Simon think?" "Simon?" "Are you joking?" "Simon thinks anyone can be smarter if they just study more!" " How dumb is that?" " Is it, though?" "Theodore, yes!" "I'm already at maximum study capacity." "My brain is all filled up already!" " There's no more room!" " But Simon will never agree" " to fail." " Well, he might." "If you fail too and then... you know, maybe if we, you know, change his test scores..." "What... what did you just say?" " Change his test scores?" " (Gasps) What?" "No!" "No!" "Alvin!" "We can't do that!" "Theodore, we have to if we want to stay together!" "(School bell rings)" "Will everyone please hand in their homework?" "I'm looking so forward to reading them." "Oh, Miss Smith, I'll collect them." "You just, you know, you sit back and relax." "Simon, would you mind explaining this?" "Simon, I've never seen that before in my life." "Theodore, know anything about this?" "He knows nothing!" "And I think it'soutrageous you would even ask him to " "We did it because Alvin is going to be held back if he doesn't pass the final exam and we have to stay together, so we all have to fail." "Oops." "So much for the munketeers' oath." "Alvin, you can pass the test if you study." "He says his brain is at maximum capacity." " So... so that option's out." " No, it's not!" "I hate this!" "I hate it!" "That's it." "I give up!" "I don't want to!" "I've had it!" "They'll just send me back with those children," " 'cause I don't understand it!" " Then read it again, and again, and again, until you do get it." "Oh, I hate you." "So, Alvin, do you feel ready for the test?" "No." "No, I don't!" "Time!" "I'm not sure about answer 25, Miss Smith." "Oh, I'll make a note of it." " Give me the test, Alvin!" " Oh, and question 33?" "That didn't seem, you know, entirely fair." "I'll take it under advisement." "Give me the test!" "No..." "Aramis!" "Your sword!" "(Door bell rings)" "Porthos, the cardinal's men have come to arrest us!" "Attack!" "(War cry)" "Aaah!" "I know it's strange to see me outside of school." "It's unsettling for me as well." "But I felt it was very important that we talk." " It sounds serious, Miss Smith." " Well, it is." "It's the hardest thing to say." "Oh, you can stop right there, Miss Smith." "I'll tell him." "Dave, I failed the test." "I tried to study, but... but, you know, it just goes to show you I'm a lost cause." "I'll just have to do the year over." "Simon and Theodore will go on to great things while I'm stuck with a bunch of, you know, infants." " Well, there." "Now you know." " You're wrong, Alvin, as usual." "You passed." "I even double-checked three times." "I passed?" "I passed?" "OK..." "Let's pretend that didn't just happen." "If Alvin passed, why are you here?" "To tell you that Simon and Theodore failed." "And I would like to know why." "Hey, hey." "This isn't my test." "Or Theodore's." "Does this mean we're going to be held back?" "Alvin, did you mess with our test scores?" "Well, uh, funny... funny story." "I was walking by Miss Smith's office, when I saw the tests scores on her desk and, well," "I was pretty sure I had failed, and then, you know," "I wanted to make sure that we all stuck together." "That we all stayed back " "Alvin, we discussed this!" "I said you couldn't fail us!" "But I didn't remember!" "I'm a slow learner!" " Alvin!" " OK!" "I'm sorry!" "I didn't know I was gonna pass the test." "I didn't believe you when you said studying worked!" " Who knew?" " We all did!" " That's what we kept saying!" " Well, I didn't!" "(All) Alvin!"