Marxonica Family/Transcript

Submission Reel
Jo: "I am in Jackson, Michigan ready to help a family. Check it out."

???: "Hello, we are the Marxonicas!"

Harold: "My name is Harold."

Cleo: "And my name is Cleo."

Cleo: "We have 2 daughters: Ashley, who just turned 3 last week and Inez who is 2."

Harold: "Our daughters throw tantrums."

[Inez screams while throwing a tantrum]

Cleo: "They throw toys at us."

[Ashley throws her 13" Apollo plush toy at Harold]

Harold: "Ashley, don't do that!"

Cleo: "They also do other things like punch my womb containing our upcoming son."

[Inez punches Cleo's womb containing the upcoming baby boy]

Cleo: "Inez, no! You are hurting by womb. You don't want to upset your little brother that is going to be born soon!"

Harold and Cleo: "Supernanny, please help us. We are going to fall apart any minute now."

Jo: "Don't worry, both of you. I am on my way."

Observation Begins
Ashley: "I'm killing you,(bleep)!"

Cleo: "Ashley, leave your sister alone!"

Trip to the Zoo
Jo:"I decided to give the family a chance to go to Potter Park Zoo to test how Ashley and Inez behave in public."

[Ashley and Inez run off]

Cleo: "Girls, come to mommy."

Ashley: "I want to go on the merry-go-round!"

Cleo: "We can go on it later. Now we have to see some monkeys. Come on."

Inez: "Monkeys!"

[The girls run off to the spider monkey exhibit and put their arms into the cage bars]

Harold: "What are you two doing?"

Ashley: "We're trying to feed them, daddy!"

Cleo: "You need to get down from there. Look."

[Cleo points to a sign: "PLEASE DON'T FEED THE ANIMALS"]

Cleo: "Don't feed the monkeys. The zookeepers only feed the monkeys, not you ladies."

Inez: "I WANNA FEED THEM!"

[Inez smacks Cleo's legs]

Cleo: "Inez, you don't smack your mama's legs. That is very mean. OK? You cannot feed them."

[Ashley runs off to the zoo's merry-go-round]

Cleo: "Dear, we can't go to the merry-go-round until we are all done seeing all the animals."

Ashley: "PLEASE!"

Cleo: "We are not going there at this time."

Ashley: "(bleep)!"

Cleo: "Excuse me! You do not say that to mommy! That is not a nice word to say. We don't use words like that. I will have to place both of you into your strollers."

[Cleo and Harold strap in Inez and Ashley on their strollers respectively]

Ashley: "Aw, phooey. Now I can't feed the monkeys!"

[Ashley struggles to escape from the stroller]

Harold: "Sit still."

[The family arrives at the brand-new elephant exhibit]

Cleo: "These elephants are big and strong. Their tusks are made out of something that is very hard called ivory. Interesting! (imitates elephant trumpet)."

Ashley: "I like Elephants."

Harold: "Look, girls. Aren't those elephants amazing?"

Ashley: "Yeah!"

[Next, the family arrives at the brand-new hippo exhibit]

Cleo: "Look, girls. Look, look at the hippos. Aren't they amazing?"

[Inez leaves her stroller, climbs up the supports of the hippo exhibit and attempts to dip her toe into the water of the hippo exhibit]

Harold: "Hey. Inez, don't go in there. Leave the hippos alone."

Ashley: "Come on Inez, I want you to swim in there!"

Cleo: "Don't encourage her, Ashley."

[Cleo returns Inez to her stroller]

[Next, the family arrives at the Amur Tiger exhibit]

Harold: "Take a look girls. See the mommy tiger and her babies."

[Harold points to the tigress and her tiger cubs]

Inez and Ashley: (gasp) "Kitties!"

Cleo: "Yes, they're big kitties!"

Harold: "We came to one of my favorite exhibits, the tigers."

Cleo: "Aren't those little cubs adorable?"

Inez: "They are cute!"

Harold: "Awww, look at them."

[Harold takes a picture of the tiger and her cubs on his cell phone camera]

[Later, the family arrives at the penguin exhibit]

Cleo: "Come see the penguins. They are so cool!"

Ashley: "Wow, they are so cool!"

Naughty Pit Technique
Jo: "Today, I am going to introduce the Naughty Pit, Cleo."

[Jo brings in a clean trash can-shaped piece of furniture]

Jo: "This is where Ashley or Inez where go if they behave unacceptably. In addition to that, you are to discard..."

[Jo brings out 10 yellow beanbags]

Jo: "...ten beanbags and put them into the pit. Each time they move, then you must..."

[Jo brings out 2 more yellow beanbags]

Jo: "...two additional beanbags, okay?"

Cleo: "I think that sounds good."

Jo: "And it wasn't long before Inez kicked off."

Cleo: "Inez, it's time for you to take your nap."

Inez: "NO!"

Cleo: "Don't start with me or I will have to put you in the Naughty Pit. OK?"

Inez: "I am not tired!"

Cleo: "Come on. Let's go to the Naughty Pit!"

Inez: "NO! I don't wanna!"

Jo: "After that, Ashley kicked off, too."

Ashley: "Daddy,don't you dare put my little sister into the Naughty Pit, you stupid (bleep)!"

Harold: "That is not nice, Ashley. You will be going to the Naughty Pit, too!"

Jo: "No, Harold. You must give her a warning before you can discipline her."

Harold: "That is your warning. Don't say or do anything bad to your daddy or you will be going to the Naughty Pit,"

[Ashley hits Harold]

Harold: "That's it! Come to your own Naughty Pit!"

[Harold deposits Ashley into the Naughty Pit]

[Cleo comes downstairs]

Cleo: "What happened?"

Harold: "Oh, Ashley hit me so I put her in timeout. Inez didn't want to take a nap so she's in timeout too."

[Cleo confiscates Ashley's On the Go Birthday Fiesta Dora doll and Inez's Dora See 'N Say juniors talking toy]

Cleo: "Your toys are in toy jail."

Stay in Bed Technique
[Ashley and Inez are watching The Pajanimals in their bedroom on TV]

Jo: "As bedtime meanders closer and closer, the girls started to act up when they are sleeping when they want to sleep in their parents' bedroom."

Harold: "All right, ladies. It's time to turn off the TV and go to bed."

Ashley: "We don't wanna!"

Harold: "There is no other choice for either of you. Come on, it's getting late."

[Harold turns off the TV, but Ashley turns the show that she and Inez were watching back on]

Harold: "Ashley, we are not playing a game. Turn off the Pajanimals, please."

Ashley: "No!"

[Harold switches off the TV, scoops the girls up and takes them out of the master bedroom]

[Harold puts the girls into their Dora the Explorer beds and tucks them]

Harold: "Which bedtime story shall we read tonight?"

[Harold reads the girls a bedtime story and kisses them goodnight]

Harold: "Goodnight, girls."

Jo: "Everything was decent for a while until Inez began to flee from her bedroom and caused a bedtime disaster."

[Inez walks out of the bedroom]

Jo: "Cleo, you must tell Inez that it is bedtime and place her back into bed without any conversation."

Cleo: "That suits perfectly."

[Cleo spots Inez in the bedroom corridor]

Cleo: "Inez, it's bedtime."

[Cleo deposits Inez back into bed with no conversation and walks away quietly]

Cleo: "I returned Inez to bed and then Ashley and Inez are now out of their beds simultaneously."

Ashley: "Daddy, there's a monster in the closet."

Inez: "Mama, a monster's under the bed. I'm scared."

Cleo: "Girls, monsters are not real. You don't need to worry about them. Go to bed, please."

Ashley: "But I just saw it. It wants to come and eat us; please keep them away from us."

Inez: "Monster under my bed had sharp teeth, it was green..."

[Cleo sighs]

Cleo: "If this makes you feel better, I will look and check under your bed and closet for monsters."

Jo: "It turned out that the 'monster' that was under Inez's bed was actually Harold's sweater."

Cleo: "Ladies, I told you that they are not real."

Harold: "See? It was only daddy's sweater."

Ashley: "Oh..."

Harold: "It's bedtime, both of you. Come on."

[Harold deposits Inez and Ashley back into their respective beds]

Jo: "At 2:00 am, the girls are up watching a DVD. It is so crazy!"

[Inez and Ashley watch their Goodnight, Pajanimals DVD on TV]

Harold: [yawns] "What the heck?! What are my little princesses up to?"

Cleo: "What's that noise?"

[The two parents walk into Ashley and Inez's bedroom]

Cleo: "No Pajanimals. No. It is already the middle of the night. Mommy is gonna turn it off."

Inez: "NO! I WANT PAJANIMALS!"

Harold: "Inez, no Pajanimals. It is bedtime, princess."

[Cleo switches off the TV]

[Harold puts Inez back into bed]

[Cleo puts Ashley back into bed]

[Harold and Cleo say nothing and quietly leave the bedroom]

Cleo: "We had to get up and go back to their bedroom every now and then because they are very anxious when it is bedtime. We seriously became tedious."

[Ashley turns on the light and continues watching the DVD they were trying to watch with Inez and the duo jump on their beds continuously]

[The parents walk into Ashley and Inez's bedroom]

Cleo: "Girls, we are trying to sleep. Do not make anymore of that noise. Leave the lights and the TV off."

Ashley: "No!"

Harold: "Mommy is right. The TV has to be turned off. The lights need to be switched off too because we have to sleep."

[Harold and Cleo turn off the TV and the lights off respectively and the girls continue to sleep]

Jo: "I think I find it absolutely crazy that these girls are playing games with their parents when it comes to bedtime. Where's the bedtime routine?!"

Announcer: Coming up on Supernanny..."

Onward
Ashley: "Oh, (bleep)!"

Cleo: "Ashley, you don't say that word. You are going to the Naughty Pit!"

[Cleo deposits Ashley into the Naughty Pit and confiscates her 13" Sweet Pea Sue plush toy]

Cleo: "Your Sweet Pea Sue's in toy jail."

Ashley: "I WANT MY SWEET PEA SUE!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Cleo deposits the toy into the toy time-out box.]

Cleo: "That's where Sweet Pea Sue will be staying for the rest of the day."

[Cleo walks away from Ashley without anymore conversation]