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Slumber Party

Album: 35: The Big Picture

Episode: 459

Lesson/Theme: Friendship

Bible Verse: Proverbs 17:17, Proverbs 27:17

Characters: Alex, Liz, Mandy

Writer:

Sound Designer: Rob Jorgensen

Original Air Date: December 16, 2000

Last Air Date: October 16, 2009

Description:
Mandy Straussberg is having a slumber party. Yes, a slumber party...those times when you have deep, meaningful conversations, stay up late and shaving cream the person who falls asleep first. Liz and Sarah arrive at Mandy's house just as her brother David is leaving to stay over at Alex's house. The first order of business, after arguing about sleeping bags, is to order the pizza. As they are eating the pizza, Mandy discovers it may be a long night as she is breaking up the constant tiff between Liz and Sarah. After playing board games, Liz suggests that they watch Revenge of the Killer Zombies, Part 3. When the other girls refuse, Liz suggests truth or dare instead. Sarah promptly dares Liz to go the end of the driveway, which terrifies her. Just as she is describing the terrifying glowing-eyed monster that lives in the region, they see beams of light out the window. Meanwhile, Alex and David are outside the house plotting to scare the girls with masks. When the boys pop up at the window with Cinderella and duck masks on, the girls open the window to find them laughing hysterically. The girls ask them where they got the flashlights and the boys insist it wasn't them. They hurriedly climb in the window to escape whatever frightening monster might be lurking out there. The girls agree that the boys can stay for a little while. The game of truth or dare continues with Sarah asking Alex who he thinks is the cutest in their class. After thinking for a long time, Alex finally replies....Holly....the hamster in biology class. Then David sees the Killer Zombies video and puts it in to watch it. After watching for awhile, Liz and Sarah get into another tiff and start a food fight. Liz decides to have a piece of pizza she left over from earlier. When Mandy refuses to allow her to use the microwave or oven, Liz decides to heat it on a lightbulb. Eventually Liz, Sarah, Alex, and David get into another shouting match and Mandy uncharacteristically flies off the handle. While she's lecturing the others, the fire alarm suddenly goes off and they realize they had forgotten about the pizza on the lightbulb. Mandy's dad comes down to see what on earth is going on. He finds a mess of party food, a burning piece of pizza, Alex and David (who aren't supposed to be there), and a zombie movie on the TV. Needless to say, he's less than thrilled. After calling Alex's parents, he starts all of the kids cleaning up the house. The next morning, the girls are having breakfast and they all agree that it was a good slumber party.

Questions:
What are some things that the girls did at the slumber party that they shouldn't have done? Why did Mandy feel like everything was getting out of control? Have you ever felt like Mandy? How would you do things differently at the party if you were in Mandy's place?