Chapter 14

Homer was in Principal Skinner's office, right in front of the principal's desk. Right behind that desk was Skinner himself, calm but angry looking, sitting.

"Bart," he said. "You have cost the school a lot of money. We can't afford enough for anything."

"Bart" whined. "But I didn't do it!"

Skinner shook his head and got up and walked around. "That's your excuse for everything! That was your excuse for when flooded the school, that was your excuse for spreading a Level 1 virus around your classmates and that was your excuse when you replaced the movie Rudy with the Garbage Pail Kids movie during a school assembly."

"Bart" laughed. "Alright. That last one was pretty funny, I'll admit. It could've been worse; I could've replaced Rudy with Battlefield Earth."

Skinner rolled his eyes. "As much as I have to agree with you there…somehow…you are still punished. Yesterday's fiasco was the last straw! We have run out of money because we spent it all on fixing the school!" He went up to the office window. "We'll have to keep this quiet because if Superintendant Chalmers finds out about this…"

"Suddenly", Chalmers barged into his office. "SKINNER!" He said while walking to Skinner, who was turned to him, sweating.

Skinner wiped his forehead. "Superintendant Chalmers! What a surprise!"

Chalmers shouted. "Why do I hear that this school has run out of money?"

Skinner sweated even more. "Well, we have to fix up the school and that cost a fortune!" Then, he looked down on the ground, seeing something peculiar. "And where are your pants?"

Chalmers looked at the ground. "Well, your officers confiscated them. The one time I wear hammer pants and they think it's full of drugs." He looked back at Skinner and frowned. "Wait a minute, if this school is broke, how did you afford to keep the police on guard at this school?"

Skinner shrugged. "They were bored?" Chalmers crossed his arms, not believing him. "I let them borrow my early copy of the movie Inception."

Chalmers frowned. "SKINNER! I told you I wanted that copy!"

Skinner shook his head. "No, you wanted to borrow the new Twilight movie."

Chalmers put his hand over Skinner' mouth and whispered, "I told you not to say that out loud! Someone might hear!"

"Bart" laughed. "You picked Twilight over Inception!" he stopped laughing. "Wait. That's not funny. That's sad."

Skinner pointed at "Bart". "Superintendant Chalmers, meet the boy who broke the school."

"Bart" was peeved. "I told you! I didn't do it!"

Skinner went up to the "boy". "You won't be saying that anymore once we get through with you."

Chalmers was confused. "How, Skinner?"

Skinner pointed at the ceiling. "You see the police came over here during the night and put security cameras all over the school, watching everyone closely, especially Bart."

Chalmers was even more confused. "Yes, that's good work but how did you get the police to put up cameras and especially quickly over night?"

Skinner sighed. "I told them that if they did that, then I'll take them to see Burlesque."

Chalmers shrugged. "Wow, good deal."

Skinner nodded his head and then turned to "Bart". "Now, son," he said, with intensity. "You have brought me to Hell for the last twenty-two years of my life. You have brought nightmares into my mind. Now, your Hell is here in school. And I'll make sure of that."

"Bart" gulped.

Oh God, Homer thought. He's going to watch everything I do AND make my live a living Hell! This is just like EDTV, only funnier!

Skinner pointed to the door. "Now, off to class."

"Bart" glumly went out the door to go to class, when the school bell rang.

Skinner smiled. "You're late! When recess comes, you come back here for detention!"

"D'OH!" "Bart" shouted.

"No shouting in school! That's a whole day's worth of detention!"

D'oh. Homer thought.