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Movie!Gabriel: Where have you been? You didn’t return last night?

Show!Adrien: Wait, you care?

Movie!Gabriel: Of course I do.

Show!Adrien: (teary eyed) The girl I like didn’t like me back.

Movie!Gabriel: oh… my boy.

Show!Adrien: (hugs his dad) It hurts Dad.

Movie!Gabriel: I know… it will be alright. I’m sorry I haven’t been present since your mother…

Show!Adrien: I just want you present now.

Movie!Gabriel: (crying) my baby boy.

(And now for a swap in the other direction)

Show!Gabriel: Where have you been?

Movie!Adrien: (sad from earlier) So now you care?

Show!Gabriel: What is with that tone?

Movie!Adrien: (starts walking to his room)

Show!Gabriel: Adrien. I am your father and you will tell me where you were this instant.

Movie!Adrien: Just go back to focusing on your work, it’s what you really care about. (Walks off)

Show!Gabriel: (fidgeting with the ring) what is wrong with this thing, why didn’t that work?

yep we're definitely back

The other Pranksters would also be working there, though they wouldn't be buddy-buddy with the Electric Company.

I know that Danny would be cooking up some anchor charts for his class of first graders. He's definitely got a list of rules hanging in the back of his room, bullet points and doodles penned in smelly markers. His daily messages are a huge hit with students, too. They spend their mornings trying to work through rebuses. He's very particular about how he runs things—think how Gregory first planned out the entire school year by the minute. The Electric Company doesn't appreciate how he gets so crazed when his routine gets thrown off.

Annie is 100% an art teacher. She's coming in every single day with a coordinating outfit; she's got a growing collection of bright funky headbands, belts, and cute earrings at home. Annie loves switching up the projects from year to year, working with as mediums as she can get her hands on. She proudly displays each piece that was made in her class out in the hall. I just know that she would be encouraging students to pursue the arts outside of school hours, opening up her room for anybody who still wants to create and design when the final dismissal bell rings. She'd be jealous of the Electric Company for their even tighter bonds with her students; so many people come and go through her room that it's hard to get to bond with everybody. Along with her budget being cut and those funds diverted to the main classrooms, she finds it hard to not take her anger out on the Electric Company.

Manny handles the middle grades as a STEM teacher. He thinks that theoretical lectures are extremely boring and has made his class into a graded practical course. Admins for the district are astounded every time they walk into his workshop of a classroom. There's a short maglev track with hovering cars, a marble run made out of cut-up paper towel rolls that reaches the ceiling, and of course, robots of all kinds. He wants his students to take over the world with their glorious minds. This does come at the expense of the Electric Company's sanities, who are losing sleep over this new generation of pranksters.

Concept: an Abbott Elementary AU for the 2009 The Electric Company with the Electric Company as teachers and Francine as the principal (not sure what to do about the other Pranksters though)

At the moment how I feel

todd freaking people out by sniffing them for 43 seconds straight

plus a headcanon! : todd is able to smell oddness like otis did here in the audition script thingy.

villains probably have an “odder” scent than normal people or agents do. that would explain how todd was able to tell kooky wasn’t actually kooky in the rps tournament. olive smelled less odd than a villain would.

or why he started sniffing the heck out of otis TWICE. once in the garden and ALSO in world turned odd. notice how that time he had a reason to be suspicious of both of them, but he only chose to sniff otis and not olympia. why?

OTIS REEKS OF ODDNESS BECAUSE HE IS A VILLAIN

like you cannot tell me he didn’t know his secret before anyone else did because of this. also, even though the “smells like oddness” line got cut out of the actual show, maybe smelling oddness is another one of Otis’ secret specialized abilities, or just a thing that all villains can do.

anyways! odd squad brain rot is real but I’m glad i can share it with y’all.