Surreal Life

Man: Coming up...

Duck: Hi, my name is Harls.

Man: ...reincarnation is on the fritz...

Cows find existence fleeting... Boyze, Idaho: ♪ Show me the real thing, baby ♪ Man: Teenage daydreams come true... [ Both scream ] ♪♪ ...and aquatic creatures search for meaning.

Surreal life, next on "Film School Shorts."

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[ Indistinct conversations ] -Shh!

Duck: Hi, my name is Harls.

All: Hi, Harls.

Harls: [ Sighs ] I've been reincarnated 356 times.

♪♪ ♪♪ [ Sighs heavily ] [ Wings flapping ] [ Thud ] [ Whoosh ] [ Thump, furniture clatters ] [ Pans clatter ] [ Thud, bottles clink ] [ Thud, bottles clink ] [ Thud ] ♪♪ [ Cap fizzes ] Ahh.

[ Bottle thuds ] [ Cap fizzes ] Ahh.

[ Cap fizzes ] [ Cap fizzes ] [ Cap fizzes ] Ahh.

[ Indistinct conversations ] [ Thud ] [ Whoosh ] [ Indistinct conversations continue ] Female kangaroo: [ Giggles ] [ Pop ] [ Giggles ] [ Ding ] [ Indistinct conversations continue ] [ Loud crash ] [ Clattering ] ♪♪ Frog: Hi, my name is Harls.

♪♪ [ Duck quacking, frog croaking, monkey calling ] [ Elephant trumpets, large cat purrs, whale calls ] [ Whoosh ] [ Cow moos ] [ Electricity surges overhead ] ♪♪ [ Electric humming ] -Girl: [ Giggling ] [ Moos ] [ Dad and Mom gasp ] -Dad: Huh?

-Mom: See, honey?

I told you we should've bought organic.

[ Audience laughs ] ♪♪ ♪♪ Boyze, Idaho: ♪ The sky is the limit ♪ ♪ And nothing's gonna hold me down ♪ ♪ Nothing's gonna keep you down ♪ ♪ Nothing's gonna slow us down ♪ ♪ Give me the real thing ♪ ♪ Show me the real thing, baby ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Give me the real thing ♪ ♪ Show me the real thing, baby ♪ Radio deejay: This is Radio One, and we're back, wrapping up our first segment there with the band.

They're being called the biggest boy band of '94.

They're called Boyze, Idaho.

They launched into fame earlier this year with their hit single, "Girl, Let's Get Married," and they're continuing their first cross-country U.S. tour in their hometown, Boise, Idaho, tonight.

But tickets for their show tonight sold out in record numbers.

Looks like there's gonna be a lot of young women with broken hearts in Boise tonight.

You're listening to Radio One.

[ Pop music playing ] [ Pricing gun clicks ] -[ Angie crying and moaning ] ♪♪ [ Exhales slowly ] ♪♪ [ Angie crying ] No.

[ Grunts ] I'm gonna die here.

And then once I die, I'm gonna come straight back here, because this is hell!

Tara: You don't have to be such a baby.

Angie: I'm not a baby, Tara!

You are!

Do you realize this concert was going to be my chance to meet Zac, the hottest, greatest, musician, singer/songwriter, dancer that has ever walked the earth?

Tara: Zac is objectively the second hottest.

Justin is the hottest.

I think Dan might be 30.

-Angie: Okay.

Objectively, yes, but I don't care.

I was going to get backstage, we were going to fall in love, and he was going to propose to me with the song, "Girl, Let's Get Married."

-Underrated song.

Boyze, Idaho: ♪ ...keep you down ♪ ♪ Nothing's gonna slow us down ♪ ♪ Give me the real thing ♪ ♪ Show me the real thing, baby ♪ ♪♪ ♪ There ain't no stopping us ♪ ♪ We're gonna make it through you ♪ ♪ Through you, through you ♪ [ Angie inhales sharply ] Tara: ♪ Unh, unh, unh, unh ♪ [ Hums ] Both: ♪ There ain't no stopping us ♪ [ Door bell jingles ] [ Door closes ] -[ Tara sighs deeply ] Can you go, please?

Angie: No, I really don't want to.

I just don't want to.

Boyze, Idaho: ♪ And nothing's gonna hold me down ♪ ♪ Nothing's gonna keep you down ♪ ♪ Nothing's gonna slow us down ♪ ♪ Give me the real thing ♪ ♪ Show me the real thing, baby ♪ [ Both scream, laugh ] Boyze, Idaho: ♪ There ain't no stopping us ♪ ♪ We're gonna make it -- ♪ -[ Angie gasping ] -[ Tara grunts, gasps ] Dan: We're Boyze, Idaho.

'Sup, ladies?

Tara: What are you -- what are you doing here?!

Dan: Well, somebody decided to blow up our mini-fridge.

Justin: Shut up, dude.

It was hilarious.

Dan: Now we have to wait for our manager to call.

Oh, sweet!

Doughnuts!

Angie: I love you.

Aah!

Oh, my God!

This is the best day of my life!

I need to get all my magazines!

Okay, stay cool, stay cool... ♪♪ Zac: Going outside.

You coming?

Boyze, Idaho: ♪ When I saw you in the crowd ♪ ♪ My heart was beating loud ♪ -Dan: Mmm.

[ Door bell jingles ] Boyze, Idaho: ♪ I knew I wanted you ♪ ♪ It was something in the way that you move ♪ -Zac: Hey.

-Tara: Hi.

Zac: So appreciate you being here, fan of mine, uh... Tara.

♪♪ ♪♪ Zac: You know, we all really love our fans.

We even give out private concerts if you ask us really nicely.

Tara: So you guys won't be paying for the doughnuts Dan's eating?

[ Laughs ] Zac: Come on, Tara.

We're rich, but we're not doughnut-rich.

[ Tara laughs ] -Zac: I'm kidding.

-Tara: Mm-hmm.

[ Train whistle blowing in distance ] Zac: Besides, girls like you give us stuff for free, anyway.

Tara: That's not the lyric.

-Zac: The what?

-Tara: The lyric is, "Girls like you should never give anything away for free."

-Zac: What?

-Tara: You know, your song.

Zac: You know, we, um... We -- we don't write those songs.

Tara: But I read that you guys write all the songs together.

Zac: No.

[ Laughs ] I'm going solo.

I need to really focus on my -- on my R&B career.

You know, like... get to do real music.

Tara: But what about the stuff you guys are doing right now?

Some people really like it.

Zac: What?

No.

No, no, no.

That -- that stuff is..

It's stupid.

You'll be fine.

At least you're cooler than your sister.

Tara: Nice.

Really nice.

Man: Zac: Oh, come on.

I was... [ Door bell jingles ] ♪♪ ♪ Whoa, oh, oh ♪ ♪ You're out of my head ♪ -Dan: Whoa, baby.

Angie: Tara's not...is she?

♪ Whoa, oh, oh ♪ ♪ You're out of my head ♪ Tara: Knock it off!

She's 15, creep!

♪ Baby, I'm not... ♪ Dan: Bogus.

Ah!

Angie: I'm not a child.

Tara: Yes, you are.

Like, legally, Ange.

Angie: As if.

You're just mad that they're not all in love with you.

Tara: What are you talking about?

-Angie: You were kissing Zac... [ Door bell jingles ] the love of my life!

-Tara: I didn't kiss him.

These guys don't even like each other.

They're breaking up.

-Man: No, dude, come on!

-Angie: What?

-Man: Come on!

[ Clattering ] -Angie: No.

[ Clattering continues ] -Man #1: You calm down!

-[ Man #2 speaks indistinctly ] -[ Tara sighs deeply ] [ Banging ] -Man: Dude, stop!

-[ Man laughs ] -Man: You calm down.

-Tara: Hey!

This is our store, and you need to respect it, so you guys are gonna help us clean up and then leave.

Justin: What are you gonna do, call the police and tell them male vocalist group Boyze, Idaho, stole from you?

Dan: Yeah.

-Tara: We will...uh... [ Horn honks ] Justin: Huh?

What?

Tara: ...gonna call the... You guys are gonna be banned from this place if you don't leave right now.

-Zac: Oh, no.

Ooh.

[ Horns honking ] [ Women screaming ] [ Horn blares ] [ Women continue screaming ] Justin: What the hell?!

Angie: I called the Boyze, Idaho, fan club.

Duh.

-Man: Guys... -Zac: When?

Angie: The second you got there, obviously.

Dan: They're gonna mob us, guys.

My back can't take another mob.

-Zac: Oh, boy.

-Woman: Marry me!

[ Screaming continues ] Angie: So, you guys might want to sneak out the back.

Man: Dude, I told you -- farm girls are wack.

Angie: [ Shouts indistinctly ] Go!

Go!

[ Melancholy music playing ] [ Angie sighs ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ "Don't you wanna stay?"

♪ ♪ He said to me, almost pleading ♪ Angie: It's more fun to listen to them with you under a cash register than it was to meet them in person.

Tara: Yeah.

Let's never meet another boy band again.

-Angie: Deal.

-Tara: Yeah.

♪♪ Angie: Wait, who is this?

♪ ...spend the night with me?

♪ Tara: I think they're called Bloom.

Angie: Am I crazy, or are they amazing?

-Tara: I love it.

-Angie: Yeah.

Yeah!

-Tara: Yeah.

[ Laughs ] Bloom: ♪ He got me high ♪ ♪ Feels like the first time ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I know I'm a fool, I used to believe ♪ ♪ The beaten path ♪ ♪ Never see him again, only in the glow ♪ ♪♪ ♪ "Don't you wanna stay?"

♪ ♪ He said to me, almost pleading ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Maybe I'm a fool 'cause I would try ♪ ♪ Anything once ♪ ♪ His eyes are blue, made of something wild ♪ ♪ "Don't you wanna stay the night with me?"

♪ ♪♪ ♪ He got me high ♪ ♪ He got me high ♪ ♪ Feels like the first time ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I know I'm a fool, I used to believe ♪ ♪ The beaten path ♪ ♪ Never see him again, only in the glow ♪ ♪♪ Man: The sheep goes... [ Sheep bleating ] Man: This is a dog.

[ Dog barking ] Man: Do you hear the frog?

[ Frog ribbiting ] [ Ribbiting rhythmically ] Man: Do you hear the frog?

♪♪ Do you hear the frog?

♪♪ Do you hear the frog?

Listen to the cat.

[ Meows ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Here is the turkey.

Here is the turkey.

Here is the turkey.

Here is the turkey.

[ Gobbling ] [ Moos ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Do you hear the frog?

[ Water gurgling ] [ Inhales deeply ] [ Radio playing indistinctly ] [ Dog barks in distance ] [ Audience laughs ] [ Light jazz playing over radio ] [ Crickets chirping ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Inhales deeply ] ♪♪ [ Cooing ] ♪♪ [ Gasping ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Announcer: You can watch more films by subscribing to our YouTube and Vimeo channels, or visiting pbs.org/filmschoolshorts.

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