Allnighter
"Meaning and hope. Check"
The
Story
Mistakes, points of interest and cross references
The people behind Allnighter
The adventure begins in Schwinger's office, where Pete, Wayne and Monica have all been summoned after being caught breaking the law around school. Wayne was caught trying to impersonate a hall monitor. Monica got stuck for forty minutes on the gym rope: she was "too scared to climb up, and too proud to give up her quest" of making it too the top to ring the bell. Pete was guilty of trying to smuggle his friends, the earthworms, out of science class to a life of freedom where they wouldn't have to live in constant fear of dissection. Schwinger begins to dish out his punishment but is soon stopped by an urgent call from the art class: they have stolen the kiln and have a list of demands. With parting words of "stay there 'till I get back," Schwinger goes to put down the revolution. Only he doesn't return.
When the three friends realise this and persuade Wayne not to call his parents by tempting him with a real hall monitor's sash, the school is theirs, with nobody else around to stop them doing whatever they want. This is what Pete and Monica think anyway, but Wayne tells them of the evil Night Guard, who searches the school for children by night so that when he finds them he can eat their skin. This doesn't put Pete and Monica off though and they 're soon running riot in the school: shouting in the library, burping over the school tannoy and taking the skeleton on a ride through the school. Then Monica moves on to unchartered territory: the boy's toilet. After giving her feet a wash in the urinals after being told that's what it was for, she hears something (after all, one of her ancestors was half blood hound). Jingle jangle, jingle jangle. The unmistakable sound of the Night Guard approaching. This worries Pete, Wayne and Monica who momentarily decide that they should ring home. But then Monica is drawn to climb the rope that humiliated her earlier, to regain her pride. With Wayne monitoring the halls she manages to ring the bell at the top, but only just in time as they scarper on hearing the terrifying sound of the Night Guard approaching. They get away from the gym just in time. The next port of call is for Pete to rescue his friends the worms, but he can't do it without getting the science room keys from the boiler room. Again, Wayne is left on lookout with exact instruction to "flick the light three times" (or flip the kite three mimes as he hears it whilst hyper-ventilating yet again). With that, Pete and Monica plunge into the abyss of the boiler room.
Outside, Wayne can only listen and hyper-ventilate as the Night Guard approaches again. Fearing for his skin he puts the paper bag, (that keeps him from hyper-ventilating when he's scared) over his head and runs away screaming, knocking himself out cold on the lockers. The Night Guard goes down into the boiler room, but luckily, Monica's exceptional heaing gives them plenty of warning and they escape into the air vents with the keys they need. They get Wayne, branding him a "wuss-on-a-stick" and head off for the worms.
However, the Night Guard continues his unrelentless pursuit and Pete fears with the weight of the worms in the aquarium that he's just rescued, he won't be able to outrun him. But Pete hadn't counted on Wayne who vows to moniter the halls while they make their escape, and ask the Night Guard for his hall pass. Wayne is soon captured though.
Pete feels guilty and goes to Wayne's rescue. They find him up on the roof top with the Night Guard who is gardening (and not chopping Wayne's head off as it first appeared). Roger, the Night Guard, has a midnight garden on the roof that nobody knows about. Pete, Wayne and Monica vow to keep his secret safe and see him again next full moon when the garden will blossom, and return to their designated positions in Schwinger's office. With it now being morning, Schwinger waltzes in and, astounded that Pete and his friends were still there, lets them have the day off while Pete leaves him in his chair to "think about what he has done".
Mistakes and Points of Interest
- When the Night Guard catches Wayne, the scene is reminiscent of the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's legendary film "Psycho".
- The bald man that appears in an extra in many episodes is back again, this time as the worm detector who catches Pete smuggling his earthworms out of class.
- How does Wayne manage to run round the corner of the corridor with that bag on his head?
- When it shows Wayne on the floor, after colliding with the locker, the bag covers the whole of his head. When it zooms in, the bag is moved, this time leaving his mouth exposed.
- In the same scene, when Wayne shouts "They're alive!", it's dubbed over (his mouth doesn't move).
- The spider shown in the cobweb in the boiler room is a cheap plastic one.
| Little Pete - Danny Tamberelli | Wayne Pardue - Justin Restivo |
| Monica Pruling - Maris Hudson | Principle Schwinger - Adam West |
| Big Pete - Mike Maronna | |
| Written by - Tami Yellin and Todd Yellin |
"If I go home without my skin, my Mom'll kill me."