Board Thread:Pitches/@comment-25375217-20150508070339/@comment-25375217-20150510001639

this is the third time i have written this stupid post and something keeps happening that closes the tab and i am gdoihoahudagnoyganifougangiofyao

I have done some things to get points for the leaderboard but that was mainly an attempt to get it into the "hit new show" range before it premiered. Which I succeeded at. So i'm basically done. This is actually an episode I thought would work very well for the show and evolve Emma and Alex's friendship a little, which is something I haven't been good at doing yet. The licenses are something I'll actually be featuring on the show as a plot device shortly. Stay tuned... :P

Now for the summary:


 * The episode opens up to Alex coming into the time machine (which is disguised as a house btw). She hears someone singing upstairs (probably Dark Horse) and she follows the voice to see Emma listening to her MP3 player (Alex will give it to her (and explain it to her) in the fourth episode) and singing along. Emma is embarrassed, but Alex tells her she's really good. A commercial comes on TV (the TV is first seen in the first episode's montage where Neal teaches them about the 21st century for a singing competition) for a new singing competition, America Wants Talent, and Alex begs Emma to sign up. Emma is unsure, and points out that she doesn't know how to write songs, but Alex says that she can write songs and it would be a nice way to give Alex some fame as a songwriter. Wanting to help her friend, Emma relents.


 * The next scene has Sherman filming Emma's audition (she'd sing a little bit of Future Sounds Like Us in this scene). Alex thanks him for agreeing to help and he says that as long as they take him onto the set with them, they're even. Emma asks why he wants to go on set and he explains that he wants to get the judges' autographs and sell them. Emma and Alex doubt that the judges would even talk to him, much less sign autographs for him, but Sherman remains hopeful.


 * After that there's a scene where Alex runs into the time machine screaming "WE WON! WE WON!" Emma and Johnny are confused until she explains that Emma got onto the show. Emma is nervous, but Alex and Johnny assure her she'll do fine.


 * Emma, Alex, Johnny, and Sherman arrive on the scene. Sherman immediately runs off to find the judges and drags Johnny with him. Emma and Alex are taken backstage by the host and told to make some friends. All of the other contestants are either much older or much younger than them, but Emma sees one girl their age. Only to find out she's a rich snob who's intent on winning (introducing Mandy Patinski). So they sit down alone to work on Emma's song.


 * Cue some scenes of Sherman and Johnny trying to get to the judges, then we see Mandy performing and getting a really great score. Emma is called to go up after the commercial break and she begins to freak out, so Alex comforts her. She goes on and performs and everyone loves her. She gets a higher score than Mandy. Mandy sarcastically congratulates her, but assures her that she won't win the competition.


 * There's a montage set to another song (no clue which one yet) which shows kind of a map of them filming in different places and showing Emma getting constantly higher scores than Mandy's, until finally they're the last two contestants. Mandy gets a nearly perfect score and Emma is told she has to get a perfect score to proceed. Alex, Sherman, and Johnny are just offscreen watching her. She performs her third song (i'll get all of the songs together in a few minutes, just gonna finish this now) and gets a perfect score. Mandy storms off, screaming, while the four laugh and cheer together (Alex, Johnny, and Sherman having run on stage when Emma won). Emma is told that she gets to go on tour as a reward and she tells Alex that she better work on more songs. The host then tells her that she gets professional songwriters, not Alex. Emma doesn't want to leave Alex behind, but Alex insists that she has to.


 * Emma heads across the country to California for her first performance. She's handed a new song by her professional songwriter (one of Laura Minx's songs) and she sings a few bars, but doesn't want to perform it. Her new agent insists, and she reluctantly relents. After the agent and songwriter leave, Emma sees in her fanmail pile a song from Alex. She reads over it and discretely switches out the two pages of sheet music.


 * Her concert is broadcast live across the world, and Alex, Johnny, and Sherman are watching. Alex asks if they think Emma got the song. Johnny is sure she did, while Sherman is more realistically and points out that the fanmail probably didn't even make it to Emma. They argue for a few seconds before being shushed by Alex because it's starting. Emma performs Alex's song (How Do I Get There From Here if ChynaGrande's okay with it), much to Alex's joy but her agent's dismay. The agent confronts Emma after the concert and tells her she has to follow the rules if she wants to stay in the business, and Emma tells her agent that she doesn't want to stay in the business and leaves.

That's basically it. Idk where Neal is during this episode... And there's probably some more "not from the 21st century" stuff I could've worked in. But still, that's the basic theory of the ep.