 VEGGIN'
OUTby Jessica Lea Tigger longs for a girl who is "mature and sophisticated". When he collides into Kathy, causing her to drop her lunch, he thinks he's landed his dreamboat. Wanting to spend time with her, he offers to make it up and thinks his luck's in when Kathy asks to see him after lunch. Ed and Alex try to warn Tigger his feelings won't be reciprocated and when that doesn't work they laugh at his delusions. Tigger turns up to the CLC with an apple for Kathy as an apology. He is deflated when Kathy asks him to help show the mayor around - hardly the date he was fantasising about, but agrees to do it when she tells him he's "mature". Tigger brags to Ed and Alex - who have also been asked! Chloe skives games to give herself a shocking makeover - she's heard a photographer will be accompanying the mayor and hopes she'll be noticed as "the next top model". But Andrea is ponging from a hard lesson on the pitch; Chloe takes her to the cleaner's cupboard and forces Andrea to pin rim blocks to her clothes to help hide the smell. Back in the canteen, Lucy orders a vegeburger. Bryn, a vegetarian, tells Lucy her jelly contains animal constituents and Togger has to intervene when Lucy causes a scene at the servery. It transpires Lucy has gone veggie since their dad started work at Farmer Greg's farm, taking the baby lambs from the petting farm to be turned into meat. Jenny refuses to give up meat and is convinced Lucy's vegetarianism is another fad, but to prove she's serious Lucy takes Year 8 to Farmer Greg's where, using Rachel as a distraction, they sneak in without paying. Lucy shows Bryn the petting farm. Bryn explains the piglets are, contrary to popular opinion, highly intelligent and fears they may have been separated from their mother. Jenny's heart is melted by the animals in the petting farm but even Rachel is shocked when Lucy announces plans to take the animals back to the CLC and hold them hostage - until her dad promises to stop taking them for slaughter! Jenny knows Lucy's threat is doomed to inevitable failure but agrees to help anyway. Kathy briefs Tigger on his escort duties and notices how keen he is. Year 8 smuggle animals including a kangaroo, ducks and a turkey into the CLC but the ostrich Jenny was leading comes off its lead which annoys Lucy. Chloe and Andrea, playing a video game and wearing headphones, do not hear the commotion (well, not until the ducks quack) but then Andrea finds herself picking up a rat (which wasn't supposed to have been brought) and she's terrified! Chloe confronts the Year 8s, but is scared witless when a duck quacks at her and begs Andrea for help! Ducket shuts the big duck in the radio studio, unfortunately that's the first place Chloe runs to when Andrea teases Chloe about her phobia.. The mayor arrives; Kathy and the Year 10s escort him towards the CLC. Kathy freezes in horror when she sees the ostrich but Tigger spots it and diverts the mayor. Unfortunately the duck in the radio studio is clambering over the faders and puts Chloe's screams on air; Kathy thinks Tigger had this planned while Togger, now briefed on the missing animals by his dad, also thinks he's responsible. And when things couldn't get any worse, a photographer arrives in the CLC to be confronted with the rampaging animals - Year 8 start chanting "Meat Is Murder" and the rats chew the cables, setting off the alarm which automatically locks everyone in! Lucy is delighted things have gone this far and is about to make a radio broadcast when Togger and his dad bang on the door. The Year 10s abandon their mayoral escort when Kathy blames Tigger, the Year 8s start to panic faced with animal droppings all round. Eventually, Mr Johnson forces the door and everyone flees except Lucy. The mayor enters and is impressed with Lucy's tenacity. The animals are returned to Farmer Greg's (except the ostrich which remains at large). Lucy thinks she's won when Dad announces he's leaving for another job, but he still forces Year 8 to clean out the petting farm as punishment. |