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Cupcake Bob
Season 5 Episode 12 | 11m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
A summer boat trips leads to a gruesome discovery.
Ever had a bad date? A summer boat trips leads to a gruesome discovery in Cupcake Bob. Directed by Olivia Accardo.
Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.
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Cupcake Bob
Season 5 Episode 12 | 11m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Ever had a bad date? A summer boat trips leads to a gruesome discovery in Cupcake Bob. Directed by Olivia Accardo.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(clapper clapping) (kettle whistling) (whistling dying down) (dishes clanking) - Hi.
Do you think I could squeeze in one last boat ride this season?
- Ask your dad.
- Okay.
Hey.
Do you you wanna come over in a little bit and take the boat out or something?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm good.
Yeah, that's fine.
Alright, cool.
Bye.
(door closing) (footsteps) (shuffling) (rattling) (groaning) Dad!
Dad!
(footsteps) Dad, do you know where the keys to the boat are?
- It's November.
- So?
- The boat hasn't been running smoothly.
- Yeah, it'll be fine.
Dad, where are the keys?
- Hon, I don't want you taking the boat out.
- Hm!
- You heard what I said.
Gas is expensive, the weather is bad.
You can't take the boat out.
- That's not fair.
I promised Jordan I'd bring him out before it got to cold.
- Well, you should have consulted with your parents first.
- Mom said I could.
- No she didn't.
Okay, fine.
Take the boat out and don't come crying to me when you stall far from home.
I'm not gonna help you.
- Okay, well she did and there's nothing in this whole wide planet earth that's gonna stop me from taking that boat out, father.
Nothing.
Oh, fuck!
What the?
- What?
Why do you guys have that?
- [Nora] Dad!
- Should I take a picture?
(scoffs) - Dad!
(groans) Dad, um...
There's a dead cat in the boat.
Can you help me please?
- Yeah.
- Dad, please come help me!
No, I know, but-- Dad!
(door closes) Can you just like, hold my hair back?
(sighs) I'm just trying t0-- (groans) - Alright, can you just hold it right there?
- No, come on!
- [Jordan] Hold on.
Let me do it.
Okay - Tell me when you're done.
(scoffs) - Dude, you got like, 23 likes in the past 15 minutes.
- That's great.
- Alright, well are we going or... - Are you kidding?
This, that is Beyonce Knowles, that cat belongs to someone.
If you're not gonna help me, just... - What?
- Dude, just go home.
- 30 likes.
Okay, alright, cool.
Yeah, I'll give you a call later or something.
Bye.
(sighs) Can you like knock or talk first or something?
- You took responsibility for the creature and its rightful owner.
For what you found.
- You know, Beyonce Knowles was going to get in trouble no matter what, because statistically, indoor cats live longer than outdoor cats.
- Yeah, but this morning I, was it Beyonce Knowles?
- The last time, that Bob had one of his cats found, they found him wailing in the street.
- Wailing in the street?
- Wailing in the street.
That guy has about 10 or 12 cats.
Beyonce Knowles was his favorite.
Beyonce Knowles was everyone's favorite.
- [Dad] Where do you get these ideas from?
(knocking) - Can I help you?
- Hello, Bob.
We're your neighbors.
Margaret and this is my husband Jeff.
- This is our daughter Nora and we found this this cat, this deceased cat in our boat earlier today and we're afraid that it's-- - I'm sorry.
- Oh no!
It's um!
- Beyonce Knowles?
- And it's so young too.
And still warm.
But it's not Beyonce Knowles.
- Oh!
Good?
- Don't worry, I'll take care of the bag for you.
It was so very nice of you to go through all this trouble for me.
- [Nora] Yeah, no problem.
- Just a second!
Hey, Jesse, give me that, get that refrigerated tupperware, yeah that's it.
Give me that box, yeah.
Cupcakes!
Thanks!
Here.
- Thanks.
- Wow!
- What would we have to do to get a whole cake?
(ringing) ("Lose My Way" by Tokalos)
Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.