Rodkins Family/Transcript

Before the revolving line of credit
Announcer: "Tonight on Supernanny..."

[Annie rings the doorbell]

Announcer: "Annie Blume goes to West Yorkshire, England to help two adults with four kids."

[Courtney and Thomas are beating each other up]

Announcer: "A bratty 14-year-old teen girl often does drugs."

[Josephine smokes weed]

Josephine: "(bleep) YOU (bleep)HOLE!"

Annabelle: "Josephine, don't say that."

Announcer: "A preteen girl with Type 1 Diabetes who is driving her parents and siblings crazy and refuses to eat her snacks."

[Christopher tries feeding Courtney with a carrot]

Courtney: "I DO NOT LIKE IT!"

Christopher: "Do you wanna get sick?"

Courtney: "NO!"

Announcer: "And she also refuses to watch TV everyday."

[Courtney spits at Annabelle]

Courtney: "THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT LETTING ME TO WATCH THE WORST WITCH!"

Announcer: "The 6-year-old Thomas behaves worst!"

[Thomas cries]

Announcer: "He beats up his sister..."

[Thomas throws a plate at Courtney as Courtney smacks Thomas through the face]

Announcer: "...and he always get abused."

[Courtney kicks Thomas in the leg, leaving him to cry]

[Courtney pushes Thomas out of the way]

Announcer: "Alexander winds up suffering for a long time."

Alexander: "I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS (bleep)!"

[Alexander runs off]

Announcer: "Can a British family be protected?"

[Christopher is now in tears]

Submission Reel (UK)
Narrator: The Rodkins Family, a family in West Yorkshire, consisting of mum Annabelle and dad Christopher. They have four children - 18-year-old Alexander, 14-year-old Josephine, 12-year-old Courtney, and 6-year-old Thomas.

Submission Reel (US broadcast)
Annabelle: "Hi, I'm Annabelle. I'm 46."

Christopher: "I am Christopher. I am 39."

Annabelle: "Together we are married. We have Alexander, who is 18, Josephine, who is 14..."

[Courtney is sitting on the couch]

Annabelle: "...Courtney, who is 12..."

[Thomas is drawing a picture]

Annabelle: "...and Thomas, who is 6. Josephine is a weed-addicted pothead and goes out with her 17-year-old boyfriend."

[Josephine is shown smoking bong]

Josephine: "I'm doing drugs, so go away."

Annabelle: "Courtney has Type 1 Diabetes at age 10 and she needs to eat to stabilize her blood sugar level."

[Christopher takes Courtney a diabetes shot, causing her to scream and cry]

Annabelle: "She also has very bad behavior and abuses his brother."

[Courtney kicks Thomas in the leg, leaving him to cry]

[Courtney pushes Thomas out of the way]

Annabelle: "And I drag her off her "TV-Time" when it's time for breakfast, lunch and dinner."

[Annabelle and Christopher drag Courtney off from watching TV]

Courtney: "Please let me watch my show!"

Christopher: "Thomas is a very badly-behaved child towards others."

[Thomas punches Courtney through the leg as she slaps him through the face]

Christopher: "We also tried every reality TV show from World's Strictest Parents to Nanny 911."

[Christopher sees Josephine drinking a bottle of vodka]

[Courtney throws a pillow at Thomas]

Annabelle: "But it didn't work! Annie, save us until we fall apart! Don't let the 3 kids except Alexander send you packing!"

Annie: "Okay, I am on my way."

Introduction
[Annie steps out of the car, walks up to a lovely-looking 2-story house and rings the doorbell]

[Annabelle answers the door]

Annabelle: "Hi, how are you?"

Annie: "Good."

Annabelle: "I am Annabelle Rodkins. I am from West Yorkshire, England. I am here with Christopher Rodkins."

Annie: "Sounds cool."

Annabelle: "I am obsessed with architecture and I became an extreme architect!"

Annie: "Magnificent!"

Annabelle: "Here is the living room!"

[Annabelle shows Annie the living room with pale walls, brown floorboards, a flat screen TV, a brown table, 2 pink couches with 3 pillows, two yellow and one blue and pictures hanging from the wall]

Annie: "This is one of my favorites."

Annabelle: "I like to show you our room tour. Here is the kitchen. It has blue walls, black tables, brown chairs, pots and pans. And inside the cabinet, we have Cap'n Crunch cereal, Lucky Charms cereal, Fruity Pebbles cereal, Oreo cookies, Hersey's Kisses bags, and others."

Annie: " "

[Annabelle shows Annie a bedroom with pink walls]

Annabelle: "This is Courtney's room. I will like you to say hi to Courtney."

Annie: "Hello, Courtney."

[Courtney is shown watching Glee on her laptop]

Courtney: "Hey, guys. I am watching Glee."

Annie: "That's nice. Any other favorites?"

Courtney: "There's so much to choose from."

[Annabelle shows Annie the other kids, 2 boys with brown hair and one teenage girl with the brown hair]

Annabelle: "Meet Courtney's siblings, Josephine, age 14, Thomas, age 6 and Alexander, age 18."

Alexander: "Hello there."

Thomas: "Hi there."

Josephine: "S'up?"

Observation begins
[Courtney is watching Harvey Street Kids on her laptop] Thomas: "What are you watching?" Courtney: "Harvey Street Kids." Thomas: "That's a girly cartoon." Courtney: "SHUT THE (bleep) UP!" Thomas: "MAKE ME!" [Courtney violently attacks Thomas] Alexander: "Can we all just get along?" Courtney: "NO!" [Courtney spits at Alexander] Alexander: "You may not spit at me." Christopher: "Don't worry, we got this." Annabelle: "I agree." Christopher: "You may not spit at your brother." [Courtney hits Christopher and pushes him out of the way as Christopher grabs her arms and pin them into the wall as she starts crying] Courtney: "GO AWAY!" Christopher: "You may not abuse me. If you don't like Thomas, ignore him."

House Rules
Annabelle: "Okay, kids. Today we are going to have some house rules."

Courtney: [groans] Oh boy.

Annabelle: "Rule number 1: No swearing and mean words."

Thomas: "Can I break the rules?"

Alexander: "No."

Annabelle: "Rule number 2: No fighting, no hitting and no kicking."

Courtney: "Those rules seem pretty "meh" to me."

Annabelle: "Rule number 3: No interrupting people while watching TV. And that means you, Thomas!"

Thomas: "Me?"

Annabelle: "Yeah, you".

Naughty Tuffet
Annie: "We have found out that Josephine is smoking a bong so I tried consficating it."

[Josephine is smoking a bong]

[Annabelle tries confiscating Josephine's bong]

Annabelle: "Give me the bong."

Josephine: "NO!"

[Josephine hits Annabelle]

Annabelle: "Don't hit me!"

Josephine: "What's next? You are going to discipline me, (bleep)hole?"

Annabelle: "We do not swear infront of others."

[Josephine spits on Annabelle]

Annabelle: "For fourteen minutes I consficated her iPhone for spitting at me."

Annabelle: "We do not spit in this house. I am confiscating your iPhone for fourteen minutes."

[Annabelle consficates Josephine's iPhone]

Josephine: "I like you better when you're dead."

Annabelle: "Drop the attitude. We're not just gonna stand here all day."

Josephine: "PIECE OF (bleep)! BULL(bleep)!"

Annabelle: "I consficated her 27 Dresses DVD for swearing."

Annabelle: "That's it. I am taking away your DVD for swearing."

[Annabelle sends Josephine to the Naughty Tuffet and consficates the 27 Dresses DVD]

Josephine: "NO FAIR!"

Annabelle: "I will take all of your stuff away if you don't keep this up and that is final!"

Annabelle: "There are some not-so-good things about her so Courtney got sent to the Naughty Tuffet for no reason."

Courtney: "Mom, can I have a boyfriend?"

Annabelle: "No, because boys are perverted."

Courtney: "But, I want a boyfriend!"

Annabelle: "You may not. Wait until you are now 14 years old."

Courtney: "14?!"

[Courtney hits Annabelle]

Christopher: "Courtney! Naughty Tuffet, now!"

[Courtney is sent to the Naughty Tuffet for 12 minutes]

Green Smoothie
Annie: "Annabelle teaches the three kids a lesson they will never forget. So she proceeds to give them green smoothies."

Thomas: "Courtney is a piece of (bleep)!"

Annabelle: "No, Thomas. We don't say that."

Thomas: "(bleep) you, (bleep)!"

Annabelle: "That is not nice to your sister."

[Thomas spits on Courtney and Courtney slaps on Thomas]

Courtney: "(Bleep) OFF LOSER!"

Annabelle: "GREEN SMOOTHIE FOR YOU, THOMAS!"

Thomas: "NOBODY CAREEEES!"

Annabelle: "I said, GREEN SMOOTHIE!"

Thomas (whining): "I hate smoothies!"

Annabelle: "Drink it, NOW!"

[Thomas sets a smoothie on fire with a lighter]

Annabelle: "My word. You lost your Ben 10 DVD for 6 minutes."

Thomas (screeching): "IT IS NOT FAIR! BUT COURTNEY HATES SMOOTHIES! FOOD MAKES HER SICK! SUPER SICK!"

Annabelle: "Yes she will be sick!"

Mommy and Me
[The kids are making clay]

[Alexander makes a Tardis]

[Josephine is making a heart]

[Courtney is making a star]

[Thomas is making a dog]

Courtney: "Yours is trash!"

Thomas: "MINE IS BETTER!"

[Thomas punches Courtney]

[Courtney scratches Thomas]

[Thomas whimpers]

Josephine: "SHUT IT WITH ALL THE WHIMPERING YOU (bleep)!"

[Alexander gasps]

[Thomas cries]

Courtney: "YOU SHUT UP YOU (bleep)!"

Josephine: "KILL YOURSELF, JACK(bleep)!"

Thomas (screeching): "HOW DARE YOU!"

[Thomas destroys the Tardis clay and the heart clay with his hammer]

Courtney: "PAYBACK TIME!"

[Courtney and Josephine destroy Thomas' dog clay with hammers]

[Thomas cries]

Thomas: "MY DOG!"

Alexander: "MOM! LOOK WHAT THEY DID!"

Annie: "JOSEPHINE! IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO GO TO THE NAUGHTY TUFFET!"

[Annie sends Josephine to the Naughty Tuffet]

Annie: "Courtney! You're next!"

Courtney: "Me?" [whimpers]

Annie: "YES YOU!"

[Courtney whimpers again and gets send to the Naughty Tuffet as well]

Annie: "You lost your Briar Beauty doll for 12 minutes."

[Annie confiscates Courtney's Briar Beauty doll]

Courtney: "GIVE IT TO ME!"

Annie: "AND YOU! JOSEPHINE! You lost your 1 Girl Nation CD for the rest of the day."

[Annie confiscates Josephine's 1 Girl Nation CD once again]

Good Eater
Annabelle: "Okay, so since Courtney doesn't want to eat her carrots and green beans. I decided them to teach her a lesson for her. I will teach you how to eat your carrots and green beans."

[Courtney uses a fork to stab her green beans and put her into her mouth as she chews]

Annabelle: "You used to hate those carrots and green beans?"

[Courtney nods]

Annabelle: "Sounds good. You were good at eating."

[Courtney eats the carrots]

Annabelle: "Perfect. Perfect for your help."

Courtney: "Yeah. Unhealthy snacks threaten my health a lot since I have Type 1 Diabetes."

Josephine, Courtney and Thomas vs. the Babysitter
[Monique Dumais comes in]

Annabelle: "Hello, which child are you going to babysit?"

Monique: "I would most likely to babysit Josephine, Courtney and Thomas."

Annabelle: "All 3 are badly behaved?"

Monique: "Yeah."

Christopher: "We are ready for a family outing with Alexander so all 3 of you CANNOT come because you are badly behaved."

Alexander: "Be good to your babysitter."

Josephine: "Okay."

Annabelle: "I have laid out of the lunches. We have some chicken wings with BBQ sauce."

Monique: "Okay, thanks. This is Mittens, the family's house cat."

Christopher: "Yeah."

Alexander: "See us at 8:00PM."

Monique: "Okay."

Thomas: "Can we have McDonald's?"

Monique: "No! We are having chicken wings with BBQ sauce."

Courtney: "Aw, can we watch Steven Universe after this?"

Monique: "Yes. There are good television shows we can watch. Some are live-action such as Unfabulous, Modern Family, Big Bang Theory and Parenthood and some are animated such as the Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, Steven Universe, Sailor Moon, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb, Fanboy and Chum Chum, Clarence and many others."

Thomas: "Awwww, but I want McDonald's!"

Monique: "Too bad. We have chicken wings with BBQ sauce. I will bet the chicken wings are really good."

[Christopher, Alexander and Annabelle leave]

Thomas: "I WANT MCDONALD'S!!!!!!!!!!"

[Thomas screams from the top of his lungs]

Monique: "NO! WE ARE HAVING CHICKEN WINGS WITH BBQ SAUCE!"

[Thomas grabs his Thomas the Tank Engine figure in fright]

Thomas: "NEVER!"

Courtney: "HE WANTS MCDONALD'S AT ANY TIME HE WANTS TO!”

[Monique confiscates Thomas' Thomas the Tank Engine]

Thomas: (Screeching): "I WANT THOMAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!"

Monique: "Too bad! It goes in the Toy Time-Out Box!"

Thomas: "SHUT UP!"

[Thomas bites Monique]

Monique: "Bite me again and there will be no more TV and no more toys."

Courtney: "I HATE CHICKEN WINGS WITH BBQ SAUCE THAT THREATENS MY OWN HEALTH!!!!!!!!! THAT SUCKS!"

Monique: "Do you want to get sick?"

Courtney: "No!"

[Courtney throws the plate away]

Monique: "You do not throw the plate away."

[Monique confiscates Courtney's Draculaura Frights Camera Action doll]

Courtney: "I HATE YOU! I WANT DRACULAURAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"

Josephine: "That's it. I'm going to smuggle some drugs."

[Josephine smuggles some drugs]

Thomas: "I WANT THOMAS NOOOOOOOW!!!"

Monique: "No you don't."

[Thomas throws a vase at Monique]

[Monique confiscates Thomas' ]

Alexander storms off
[Annie goes into the room with Alexander]

Annie: "Can I talk to you?"

Alexander: "No, go away and leave me alone."

Annie: "Please?"

Alexander: [sighs] "Fine."

Annie: "Why are you upset?"

Alexander: "I am sick and tired of being treated as the third parent."

Josephine, Courtney and Thomas turn over a new leaf
Annabelle: "Josephine and Courtney are turning into stuck-up princesses and Thomas is one bad apple, too. So I made all 3 write apology letters to their family and their older brother, Alexander."

[Josephine is writing "Dear Family, I am sorry for doing drugs, ruining holidays, talking back, staying past curfew and lying to you. I really wanted to say this but I wanted to apologize. I promised not to be stuck up. Love, Josephine." on the paper]

[Courtney is writing "Dear Family, I'm sorry but I have to say this. Sorry for all the things I have done. I am sorry for ruining holidays, hitting my siblings, lying to you, talking back and many other bad things. I promise not to be rude. Love, Courtney." on the paper]

[Thomas is writing "Dear Family, I am sorry for fighting, throwing tantrums, annoying you, kicking you, screaming at you and hitting. Love, Thomas." on the paper]

Annabelle: "Did you wrote an apology letter?"

Josephine: "Yes!"

Courtney: "Yeah!"

Thomas: "Yup."

[The 3 kids show Annabelle their apology letters]

Annabelle: "Great job! You are now offically ungrounded!"

Josephine/Courtney/Thomas: "Yay!"

Annabelle: "Josephine, I'm taking you to Rue 21 and Old Navy! Courtney, you could now have your Apple White doll back and I am taking you to Justice! And Thomas, now you should have your Super Why plush and DVD, The Lego Movie DVD and your Star Wars Legos!"

Courtney: "Oh boy! Now can I go to Justice?"

Annabelle: "Sure you can!"

Courtney: "Yes!"

Onward
[Annabelle takes Courtney to Justice]

Annabelle: "What do you think of this shirt?"

Courtney: "Amazing! I want it!"

Annabelle: "That's cool. I will buy $ for it."

[Annabelle takes $ for the shirt]

Annabelle: "Take $ for the shirt."

???: "Okay."

Courtney: "Yay! Now can I go to ?"

Annabelle: "Sure."

[Annabelle takes Courtney to ]

Josephine: "I used to be a drug addict but now I am back in my innocent, well-behaved self."

Josephine: "Mom, look! I am not a drug addict!"

Annabelle: "Yup, you are well-behaved just like your older brother."

Josephine: "So I can be cool?"

Annabelle: " ."

Courtney: "I used to be whining over Mixels, Littlest Pet Shop, Steven Universe, my toys and my TV but now I am eating more. I promise not to refuse to eat my snacks."

Courtney: "I am not having diabetes anymore!"

[Courtney eats an apple]

Thomas: "I used to be an amok runner but now I am in my happy, innocent self! I need to follow the rules and promise not to make any trouble."

[Thomas watches Lloyd in Space on his tablet]