How it All Began / Transcript

(Opening theme)

(We open the video in Hope's massive bedroom as she watches a tape and is looking at her laptop for new pen pals to talk to.)

(Knock knock)

Hope: Come in.

(It's her father.)

Hope: Hey dad, how's the inventing coming along?

Mr. Amamiya: Inventive! How about the friend situation?

Hope: Um...

Mr. Amamiya: I see that you aren't particularly in the friends zone yet. Not the way you know it though sweetheart.

Hope: Well, dad, it's just nobody at school wants to be my friend.

Mr. Amamiya: Come on you've got Emily and Tara don't you?

Hope: Before they turned over to the Pinkies. (sighs) If only I still had contact with Priyanka, Shannon, Yuki and Antonia from elementary school and junior high, but we all lost contact in high school. Dad, I wish you could see....

(Music for "I Want the Globe to be my Friend" starts)

Hope:
 * Some girls like to be with dolls
 * Or put on silly hats
 * Or make friends with fish, and birds, and alley cats...
 * That's not the way I want to be
 * I'm tired of those things...
 * I need some best friends
 * Won't you help me please?

(A band scene emerges)

Hope:
 * I Want the Globe to be my bestie
 * I want the Globe to be my friend
 * I want to want to get my own best friend
 * A real girl who's not playing pretend (Oh!)
 * I want a girl my age to be my pal
 * We'd soon become good friends because
 * Although they're different, and they're not like me
 * I think it's cool to have diversity!
 * If I make friends, with a girl from the other side of the world
 * I'd be happy as can be!
 * And I know that we're so far, we'll talk every single day!
 * If you know a girl out there, one you'd like to recommend..
 * Well...
 * I just can't wait until then!!!
 * I want the globe, the whole wide world to be my friend!!!
 * Please! Be my friend!!!

(Hope poses and her dad claps)

Mr. Amamiya: Hm. Looks like the Instaband is working pretty well. Sweetheart, I'm glad that you mentioned friends because I just invented this. It makes smartphones look like babies.

(He puts down a little smartphone like device with a globe at the top. Hope's is yellow.)

Hope: Wow... What is it?

Mr. Amamiya: It's called a Global Port. Point it to any mirror or screen and you'll be transported anywhere! I made several others too!

Hope: Oh wow, thanks dad! Can I have it?

Mr. Amamiya: Sure honey! Now if you need anything at all, just call okay?

Hope: Alright!

(Hope continues her search and finds a girl in Morocco)

Hope: Wow, Dawn Berger, "I'm originally from Paris, but moved to Morocco when I was 9 years old. I can help you with your French and Arabic, and I'm also looking for friends." Gee, it must be really cool there!! Outdoor markets and really cute accessories... I wanna go!

(Hope accidentally flips her Global Port and it starts sparkling)

Hope: What's going on?

(The Global Port begins shining and Hope is transported to Morocco)

(Marrakesh, Morocco)

Hope: Wow! I'm actually here?! And in my pajamas? This has got to be a dream. It has to be!

(Hope walks around and then hears something. The clucking of chickens, it's a stampede!)

Hope: Eh?!

Girl: Hey!! Look out!!

(The girl, just like the one in the photo from earlier, pushes her out of the way)

Hope: Thanks... Hey! You're from here ---

Girl: You should be a little more careful next time, you know.

Hope: And, who are you?

Girl: My name is Dawn Berger. I'm 20 and I live here in Marrakesh. Suppose you're American, aren't you?

Hope: Y-yeah...

Dawn: That's great! All the Americans here are guys trying to grab my attention. I'll tell you later, right now you need to change out of those clothes.

Hope: But these are my pajamas...

(Music for "Welcome to Morocco" starts)

Dawn: I know. Come, we're going shopping.

Hope: Whoa!

Dawn:
 * I see you're not from here at all
 * You're a girl from out of the extraordinary
 * That must've used some kind of witchcraft...
 * Tailor make her something good and something very bright
 * Something that makes her look like she wasn't born last night!

(The tailor makes Hope a special outfit from Moroccan materials)

Dawn:
 * Welcome to Morocco!
 * Home to the Arabic taco!
 * Welcome to Morocco!
 * A land of mystery and paradise!
 * Nothing else will suffice
 * We live like Aladdin most of the time!

Hope: Wow...

Dawn: Come now, my American darling!

Dawn:
 * The country is right by the ocean
 * We often go to the beach, right on the water!
 * Although people think we're European, we are really African!

Hope:
 * I really never knew that!

Hope:
 * Your country is so shining and beautiful and bright
 * It feels like I'm in another story book world!

Dawn:
 * So much history, Mediterranean cuisine!
 * Our story's diverse and it's across this land that we have always wanted to expand!

Dawn:
 * Welcome to Morocco!
 * Home of the Arabic taco!
 * Welcome to Morocco!
 * A land of mystery and paradise!
 * Nothing else will suffice!
 * We live like Aladdin most of the time!
 * We live like Aladdin most of the time!
 * Yeah!

Dawn: And here we are!

Hope: Wow, it's like an American house I thought you said that you lived like Aladdin from Arabian Nights.

Dawn: That's what some people think! We have modern homes just like everyone else.