Throughout the film, Trixie and Junior engage in an escalating prank war.Īround the same time, LaWanda DuMore ( Laraine Newman), the richest lady in Mortville, takes an interest in Ben, much to Junior's chagrin. Junior, annoyed at Ben's sudden love interest, retaliates by attempting to draw a mustache on Annie's picture hanging in the hall, only to be foiled by Trixie ( Ivyann Schwann), the girl whose balloon he popped earlier. When Ben comes to, he sees school nurse Annie Young and becomes smitten with her. Murph retaliates by trying to drop the school's satellite dish on Junior, but it misses him and hits Ben instead, knocking him out. He gets on school bully Murph's bad side when he tapes him to the chalkboard. Igor panics at the sight of him and promptly promotes him to the sixth grade. When Junior starts his first day of third grade, he sees that Igor Peabody ( Gilbert Gottfried) is the principal of his new school. Meanwhile, Ben's father, Big Ben Healy ( Jack Warden), arrives to live with them when he loses all of his money in a bad investment.

He takes two of them on dates: Junior ruins both. Ben and Junior arrive at their new house, and moments later, dozens of women line up in their front yard, all of them wanting to date Ben. He pops it with his sling shot and laughs at her as he goes by. Before they arrive at their new house, Junior sees a girl roller skating on the sidewalk with a balloon. Ben is initially sad to be leaving Cold River until Junior reminds him that everyone there has been horrible to him his whole life. Ben Healy and his son, Junior, move to Mortville, Oregon, a quiet community, as a way to start over.

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