A/N: More bloopers are still in progress and will come at a later date.
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A gray clapboard was held in front of the camera, which read, "SHOT t/5_18, TAKE 1, DATE 5/25/21, PRODUCTION: Turning Red, LOCATION: Chinatown"
"Speed! Marker!" the female director said through a megaphone before closing the clapboard and moving it out of frame. "And action!"
The camera began panning to different angles of Mei's attire and belongings.
"I wear what I want, say what I want, and I will not hesitate to do a spontaneous cartwheel if I feel so moved." Mei narrated to the camera.
She put her hands on the floor and went upside down with her legs in the air. Her backpack zipper loosened up, and her school supplies and backpack fell off her back.
"Oh, crap!" she shouted before losing balance and falling to the ground.
After a few seconds of awkward silence, a background extra couldn't hold back his contagious laughter, and everyone else started to laugh, including the crew behind the camera, and the boom mic appeared on-screen.
"What? That's not funny!" Mei's face turned red, filling up her backpack.
"Cut!" the director shouted.
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"Marker!" the director closed the clapboard shut.
Abby ranted something in Korean and aggressively kicked a piece of trash.
"That's not the line, Abby. Watch your language," a translator said in the background.
There were a lot of oohs and giggles from the other students in the background and the ones she just yelled at.
"Sorry, I got a bit carried away," Abby said apologetically.
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"And action."
"Manitoba, Alberta, and…um," Mei counted with her fingers. "What was it again?"
"Saskatchewan," the director reminded her.
"Sa·skat·che·wan," Mei repeated to herself. "Sorry, I'm not that knowledgeable on geography."
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"Manitoba, Alberta, and…" Mei counted but then her voice trailed off and awkwardly chuckled. "Come on, I just had it in my head."
"Saskatchewan!" the director loudly reminded her through bursts of laughter and assured her, "It's okay. I didn't know my geography that well when I was your age."
The clapboard took up the screen. "Rolling again!"
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The four girls were on top of each other, watching Devon from behind the Daisy Mart window
"Huh?"
"Mmm!"
Priya loudly moaned in a certain way that made the girls lose it and fall over, disconnecting the stack they piled up. The girls giggled uncontrollably from the certain sound she made.
"What kind of moan was that?" Miriam playfully punched Priya's shoulder.
"Okay, now, that sounded a little too dirty for this movie, so let's roll it again once more," the director said.
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"Come on. You know you want to," Miriam lured Mei in. "Here we go."
She rolled her eyes and put down her flute case before starting to dance and sing along to Nobody Like You. It wasn't long before Abby and Priya joined in their little dance. But, when the camera zoomed out, the director could be seen in the corner dancing along with them. The girls immediately stopped when they noticed her little dance.
"What? Can't the director have a little fun too?" she said as she kept jiving to the beat.
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"O-M-G, Mir! I'll guard it with my life!" Mei exclaimed.
She kissed the CD case on each and every side but then started coughing and spitting all over the place.
"So…much…dust," Mei wheezed, gasping for air.
The whole crew erupted into uproarious laughter.
"I'll make sure to use wipes before the next take," a crew member said in the background.
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As Mei rushed through Chinatown, two people carrying a pile of bamboo sticks were in her way. She threw her flute case in the air and rolled over, but she stuck out her legs too high and accidentally kicked the bamboo out of their hands, which flew all over the ground.
"Oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry. Let me help you with that." Mei started to help the two people pick up the bamboo sticks before the next take.
"Let's roll it again," the director said.
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And what was a blessing became...an inconvenience." Ming finished, biting her lip.
Then, the camera cut to Mei's shocked face, then to Sun Yee's portrait, and then back to Panda Mei again.
"Are…you…serious?!" she shouted before glowing red in a fit of rage.
She swiped the shrine with her paw but swung too hard, and it flew right at the camera, knocking it over.
"Oh, shoot! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Panda Mei ran to the camera and lifted the heavy equipment to stabilize it. "Sorry, did I ruin the take?"
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"Some of my moves are also hers."
Ming turned around, but she was in the middle of eating the plate of buns that was supposed to be for Mei-Mei.
"Oh, are we rolling already?" she asked with her mouth full and swallowed shortly after. "Sorry, I couldn't resist."
"Cut! Can someone please come help fill the plate with more bao?"
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"Why don't you come to the front office?" the security guard said outside the classroom. "I'm sure someone can…"
He put his hand on Ming's shoulder, and she shoved him away but aimed too high and kicked him in the nuts.
The security groaned in pain and grabbed his affected area. He slowly fell to his knees and then collapsed to the ground. The students saw the whole ordeal and lightly chuckled amongst themselves.
"Oh, that's gonna leave a mark," the director muttered.
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Mei was in her red panda costume and stood on a stool, throwing glitter around with her cardboard paws.
"Ever since, the red panda has…" Ming explained to the crowd.
The glitter landed on her face, and she lost her composure, spitting out the glitter and shaking her head.
"Pfft! Aah! I think it got in my eyes!" she exclaimed, her eyes twitching, rubbing the glitter off her face.
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"Let the fun begin," Mr. Kieslowski said.
As Mei wrote in her notebook, Miriam passed a note to her. She eyed the note before swiping it and peeking at it. She quickly wrote something on the note, but the teacher turned around right at that moment.
"Meilin Lee! If I catch you passing notes behind my back again, so help me…nah I'm just messing with you," he chuckled to himself.
The whole class laughed out loud in response, and Mei forced out a laughter as well.
"I'll just cover the note next time," Mei commented.
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Inside the bathroom, the jammed door was banging with a girl outside exclaiming, "Hey, I gotta go! Open up!"
Panda Mei whimpered and stumbled around before deciding to escape from the bathroom window. She slid the window open and leapt through it except that the bottom half of her was stuck. She tried squeezing and pushing against the wall, but she couldn't get out the window. After a short while of heaving, she gave up and let herself dangle out the window for the whole crew to see.
"Guys, I think my gluteus maximus is stuck," Mei called to them.
Mei's other friends showed up on-screen and laughed at her mildly embarrassing predicament.
"Maybe I shouldn't have eaten that extra bowl of rice for lunch," Mei sighed.
"I guess we'll have to pull you out of the hole just like Winnie the Pooh," Miriam said.
"I hope not," Panda Mei rolled her eyes.
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"What happened? Are you hurt? Are you hungry?" Ming asked Mei.
"Um…" Mei said before a bao was shoved in her mouth.
"How was school…what's with your face?" Ming asked with concern.
Mei muffled with her mouth full, and her face turned blue as the bun inside her mouth was blocking her airway. After struggling for a bit and squeezing her cheeks, she finally spat the bun out and gasped for air.
"Maybe, um, use a smaller bun next time," the director suggested.
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"How old are you? Thirty?" Ming asked.
"I'm seventeen," Devon answered.
"Oh, see, see? This is what happens when you don't wear sunblock and do drugs all day!" Ming pointed to Devon.
Devon snickered, grinning ear to ear, and was unable to stop wheezing uncontrollably.
"How dare you! Drugs are no laughing matter!" Ming shouted, feeling offended.
This made Devon chortle even louder, doing a faceplant to the counter and banging his fist.
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Panda Mei put a recycling bin to jam the bathroom door and put her paws in her mouth out of nervousness. Her heart jumped when she heard a toilet flush and Stacy opened the stall.
She couldn't believe her eyes and shouted, "O-M-G-whack!"
Mei pushed her paw into her face too hard and accidentally knocked her to the ground. She covered her mouth in shock and looked at the camera and then back to the stall.
"Is she okay?" someone in the background asked.
After a few seconds, Stacy got back to her feet and brushed herself. "Yeah, I'm okay. It's no biggie."
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Mei rolled under her bed and without looking, started drawing pretty quickly on her notebook. When she looked down at what she drew on the notebook, she rolled her eyes and shook her head. She showed the page to the camera which revealed just a large jumble of pencil scribbles.
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"I'll just go to sleep, and when I wake up... this will all be over," Panda Mei said to herself.
She leaped onto her bed, but she didn't hear any creaking or feel it crush under her weight. Panda Mei, frustrated, bounced on her bed a couple more times, but it didn't budge.
"I think we made the bed too durable," the set designer commented.
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"Tyler keeps putting these up," Miriam said. "Knock it off, butthead."
Tyler pointed and laughed at the girls.
"Not funny, Tyler!" Abby shouted.
"Devon, my precious mAAAanly man," Tyler's voice cracked.
It caught him off guard, and the girls started to giggle and point back at him.
"Stop it! Please!" Tyler begged. "I-It's just puberty! It's…natural!"
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"So, let me get this straight," Mei discussed with another cast member. "You can transform into a sea monster?"
"Yeah, pretty cool right?" Luca answered.
"All right, then, show me!" Mei demanded.
He grabbed a jug of water nearby and splashed some on his head, revealing his other form.
"Woah! That is so cool! So, all you need is water? Oh, that makes so much sense." Mei exclaimed. "You know, I can also transform into…"
And without hesitation, he splashed the rest of the water onto Mei's face. "I don't see any scales."
Out of frustration, she growled and poofed into her red panda form, which startled him a bit by her sheer size.
"You transform into a…red furry monster?" Luca shivered.
"Red panda!" Mei corrected her.
"Right. And you can do it at your own will? Neat."
"That's right."
Both paw and fin high-fived together.
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Panda Mei brushed the leaves off her body before she stopped right in front of Daisy Mart. She stomped her feet rapidly like Thumper and shouted, "Awooga!"
"Cut! No, no, no, you gotta emphasize the "oo" part a little more, like you really have the hots for Devon." the director explained.
"So, like Awooooooga?" Mei attempted.
"No, now that's too long."
"Well, why can't I just say something like, 'I love you, Devon!'"
"Well, now that doesn't get the point across as quickly, doesn't it?"
"Then, how about, AWOOGA!"
"There you go! That's perfect. Let's roll again."
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