Flamingo Scenes | Flamingo Notes
| # | Title/Plot | Bickham: | Plots | Characters | Story Questions | Mirror | Setting | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 2 Happy sticks up for Minder with Mummi and Jagpreet. | Goal: Take a break Conflict: Tries negotiating with Mummi, who yells at him. Disaster: Ends up being forced to keep moving. | Happy v Mummi, | Happy, Mummi | Why won’t Mummi let Jagmeet have a moment of peace? | Final scene, leaving home with a new father figure. | Apt. 504 | 2003.0908 | |
| 2 | 1 Happy plots to cover up for Minder during their move apart but gets found out. | Goal: Sneak in and out. Conflict: Trying to leave but being goaded into getting involved. Disaster: Compelled to say something about his Mummi that’ll come back to haunt him. | Happy v Mummi | Happy, Jagpreet | Why does Jagmeet want to move out so bad? | Second last scene, ending up back at his old home, at peace. | Apt. 219 | 2003.09081 | |
| 3 | 99 Happy tries to act cool with Sweety but fails. | Goal: Play it cool with Sweety. 504. Conflict: Stumble through her questions. Disaster: Leave feeling embarassed. | Happy vs Sweety | Happy, Sweety, Minder, Sweety’s Sister | What were the sisters arguiing about? | Their final interaction can perhaps by in Garfella? | 10 Garfella Drive | 2003.09082 | Happy is terrified of Sweety seeing his home. |
| 4 | 4 Happy tries to cover up for Minder’s mistake but Babbu sees through it. | Goal: Cover up for Minder. Conflict: Babbu interrogates Minder Disaster: Babbu uncovers Minder’s error | Happy vs Babbu | Happy, Minder, Babbu | 10 Garfella Drive | 2003.09083 | |||
| 5 | 5 Happy tries to get Babbu’s help to put together his computer desk but Mummi overrules him. | Goal: Solicit Babbu’s help. Conflict: Convince Babbu to help. Disaster: Mummi overrules Babbu | Happy v Mummi | Happy, Babbu, Mummi | Apt. 504 | 2003.09084 | |||
| 6 | 6 Happy tries to stay out of argument between Mummi and Jagpreet but get’s dragged in. | Goal: Stay out of conflict. Conflict: Tries to stay out of it. Disaster Get’s brought in | Happy v Mummi | Happy, Mummi, Jagpreet | Apt. 504 | 2003.09085 | |||
| 7 | 2 Happy searches for Daddi only for him to be brought home drunk by police. | Emotion: Anger at being involved in family drama. Thought: How can get out of this situation. Decision: He can get peace band knowledge by watching educational TV Action: Watches an educational program. | Happy v Mummi | Happy | Apt. 504 | 2003.09086 | |||
| 8 | 4 Happy tries to watch TV but his drunk Daddi gets escorted home by police. | Goal: Tries to watch TV Conflict: Gets interrupted by Daddi coming home drunk. Disaster: Goes to bed exhausted instead. | Happy vs Daddi | Happy, Daddi, Mummi | Why are his parents together? | Apt. 504 | 2003.09087 | ||
| 9 | Happy enters class to escape home but is seated next to Sweety. | ||||||||
| 10 | Happy tries to bond with fellow Sikh Shera, but is questioned on his faith. | ||||||||
| 11 | Happy tries to be combative with flirt Saad but is turned into the butt of the joke. | ||||||||
| 12 | Happy tries to make a good impression on the principal but is labeled a troublemaker with Saad. | ||||||||
| 13 | Happy tries to concentrate on a project with Sweety but they are invited to a party by Saad. | ||||||||
| 14 | Happy contemplates day 1 in the cafeteria line | Emotion | |||||||
| 15 | Happy confides in Ram about Saad’s invite but is mocked instead. | ||||||||
| Saad invites Happy to a party to get closer to his friend Sweety. | The promise of high dies with Ms Grant’s will | NACI | 2003.0909 | Odaine is MIA. Ms Grant is overwhelmed. Happy is intimidated by Shera’s faith. Saad mentions hip-hop/gengster movies references. Happy is jealous of Sweety’s flirtation with Saad.Saad is nice to Happy in order to get close to Sweety | |||||
| 7 | The cafeteria is like the savannah | NACI | 2003.0909 | Happy is told of older cool kids by Jug. Jug is jealous of Happy’s in with Saad. Ram mocks Happy’s new friendship with Saad. Saad can be seen talking to everyone (black and brown). Sweety is seated with the girls, foreshadowing next chapter. | |||||
| 19 Happy gets Giselle trapped with Jug but he regrets his role. | Speakeasy vibes | 10 Garfella Drive | 2003.0909 | Kugi and Giselle are locked in a room. Happy is worried about Mummi spotting him. Happy meets Dilmit but they don’t speak. Kugi is his mentor. Amit questions Happy’s toughness. | |||||
| 6 Happy asks for Minder’s advice on joining the gang and then chats with his friends online (make this more cause and effect) | The new world | 10 Garfella Drive | 2003.0910 | Babbu is also a mentor. Mummi resents Happy’s attempts to bond with Babbu. Mummi also asks Happy to water down dad’s drinks. Babbu teaches him the vending machine trick. Happy sees a cockroach. Happy tries his first drink while watering down the bottle. Happy chats with Ram online. He sends Dilmit a friend request. Amit asks if Happy is a girl and says he only adds girls. Sweety helps Happy set up his profile. | |||||
| 7 Happy gets Odaine brutally beat up but won’t join in. | Network effects | NACI | 2003.0911 | Grabbing people and walking thru the halls as a group. Ms Grant is suggesting the kids try volunteering for civics class. Shera and Jug are around and take part in the plan, creating the quad. Happy tells Saad about Odaine’s return. Amit beats up Odaine and threatens Happy for not joining in. | |||||
| 29 Moose councils Happy on how to survive in the gang. | The underworld | 777 | 2003.1031 | First drink and hangs with Kugi. The older kids like Happy due to his assumed piety, which we know to be fake. This spurs him to attend the gurdwara as it’s what he feels he has to offer. We meet the older gang. Billa is chopping a chick. Moose is inviting to Happy. Money engages with Happy on a religious level. Happy has been laying low, but plans to trick or treat with Ram and Jug but ditches them for the gang. Happy ditches Ram and Jug’s plans. Happy sees the man he wants to be - Moose, Tension with Amit who bullies him and tries to piss on him. He’ been bullying him for weeks. An older kid brings him close as a Gyani and gives him advice. Sweety invites him at homeroom. | |||||
| 31 Happy gets grounded and starts e-dating Dilmit while chatting online and doing the gang’s homework. | Anticipation | 10 Garfella Drive | 2003.1103 | Happy gets grounded for his 1st bad report card. Minder brings Jimmy over for a visit. Shera shares his 1st conspiracy theory (loose change doc?) Happy & Dilmit have sparked a long dialogue before he asks her out. They connect on hip-hop forums and playing a game. Behind a screen, he boasts unsubstantiated. He and Sweety debrief over the crazy evening. He would rather date her, but determining she’s out of reach, he redirected to Dilmit. Poem subplot | |||||
| 33 Happy volunteers at the gurdwara, but determines piety is not for him. | Gurdwara | 2003.1108 | Shera convinces him to wear turban. The gurdwara also serves as his required volunteer hours to pass civics class. Shera suggest he come to the gurdwara and get holy Happy spends his day preoccupied with something else Shera agrees to write his name down for the rest of the hours. Happy is not interested in the gurdwara, despite it being the way into the older kid’s hearts. He knows he must find another way. | ||||||
| 36 Happy defends Mummi when she gets caught shoplifting. | Albion Mall | 2003.1109 | She draws him in to her mess once again and he bails her out. “You saw me, why didn’t you say anything?” Tell mum at the end that never again, tables have turned as he bails her out. Poem subplot | ||||||
| 37 Happy is confronted by Sweety about the duplicate poems. | The king’s (Gobind or Daddi’s) court | Albion Mall | 2003.1211 | We get intro-d to older kids and the ante gets upped. Gobind is helped. Homework is relevant. Happy runs into Danny, dad’s friend and is embarrassed of him. He learned something from Babbu a while ago that he implements. Happy is too shy to chat with Dilmit. He also has other motivations for not talking, explore them. Dilmit is not as pretty as Sweety (weight). Happy leads the plan and Saad help out. Saad and Happy treat to pizza from vending machine earnings. Amit daps Happy for the cash.A new precinct is being built near the school due to historic crime. Poem subplot concludes. | |||||
| 40 Ram picks up Happy and Dilmit on the way to the mehla. | Movie Theatre | 2003.1212 | Gets in fight with mum when he gets home fired up from yelling at Ram. They have their final falling out. Happy tells him about his ‘gf’ Dilmit and acts real gangster. | ||||||
| 41 Saad asks for Bhangra tips from Happy. | Banquet Hall | 2003.1213 | Billa or Moose hotwires the car for the younger kids’ ride home. Dilmit is heartbroken that Happy is ignoring her. Ram sense a shot and tries dancing with her and Happy’s boys get in the way. Saad and Amit both try to get with Sweety and argue. Happy is awkward as all the other kids know the older ones. Amit and Saad are testy with each other. Dilmit sends Sweety over to break the news that they’ve broken up. Sweety and Saad go for a walk together. | ||||||
| 44 Happy attacks Ram in the school’s back parking lot. | NACI | 2003.1215 | Picks a fight with him while Ram refuses to fight. Happy punches him once and all the kids rush in. Happy listens to hip-hop fight songs and gets in the mood to scrap. The gang eggs him and helps him out. | ||||||
| 45 Happy tries to get the story straight before getting suspended. | NACI | 2003.1215 | Ram snitches and gets them in trouble | ||||||
| 46 Happy thinks of how to break his news until Mummi tells him to get a job as Daddi is laid off. | 10 Garfella Drive | 2003.1215 | Daddi’s identity is threatened as his work defines his value as a man. Mummi is desperate for income but also control of Happy, who she sees slipping deeper. | ||||||
| 48 Saad tells Amit to back off from Sweety. | 777 | 2003.1217 | Mummi’s got bigger prios now and has lost control of Happy during his suspension. Shera and Amit are friends and he is hanging and hits the weed. Amit tells him to sell weed. Things are tense in the gang. Happy given insane mission by Amit, tries to get Saad to mediate. Lays seeds for their later fight over Sweety. | ||||||
| 51 Happy gets ripped off by a customer. | Give and Go | 2004.0104 | He meets a ref kid who he befriends. The ref kid gets him into the new job later and they form the theft ring together. Happy Sells Weed at work. | ||||||
| 52 Happy stands up to Daddi and Mummi gets in the middle | 10 Garfella Drive | 2004.0104 | Happy asks her for cash so he can pay back Amit | ||||||
| 55 Happy tells Sweety how he feels and she rejects him. | NACI | 2004.0105 | Jug makes a joke in class and Happy laughs, breaking the tension between them. They reform friendship. Happy uses counties to buy food for lunch. They have a study session. Happy picks her up and is gassed by having a car. Sweety confides that she’ll date Amit instead of Saad. Happy gels his sideburns in the bathroom. He is in a diff class than Grant (not homeroom) | ||||||
| 56 Happy avoids Amit in vain and the Young Gunz have a big fight. | Etobicoke General | 2004.0105 | Saad and Happy hang in the ER. His eye is sunken now. | ||||||
| # | Title/Plot | Bickham: | Plots | Characters | Story Questions | Mirror | Setting | Time | Other |
| 57 Happy tries to rest off an infection in Punjab, but Pinder won’t let him. | Punjab | 2006.0701 | Happy ruminates on how he’ll conquer high school on his return. Perhaps this happens in winter, more extreme as Happy is suspended. Mummi is around. Pinder overrules her in Happy’s favour. Happy got suspended off screen. | ||||||
| 58 Happy is driven through the village while he reflects on his privilege. | Punjab | 2006.0815 | Happy witnesses a wedding in India. Pinder says bye at airport. | ||||||
| 61 Happy and Mummi comes home to a messy home and a knock from Sweety. | 10 Garfella Drive | 2006.0830 | Daddi has been living in squalor. Daddi had a tiff with Jagpreet in the parking lot and grabbed her. Babbu is livid. Happy logs into messenger to find out what has gone on. | ||||||
| 66 Happy reenages with Sweety after years apart. | NACI | 2006.0906 | The teacher is great. Sweety encouraged him to join the class. | ||||||
| 63 Happy arranges to make a theft with Vick in loss prevention. | Big Box Store | 2006.0906 | Meet new boss char (newfie) | ||||||
| 67 Saad’s returns to visit Happy from Vaughan. | 10 Garfella Drive | 2006.0908 | Brief chat with Pinder to show how far Happy has come Dilmit dates Ram. He visits Happy and tells him he lost virginity. He tries to rope Happy into doing crime again, but bigger this time, due to watching something like the Sopranos together. Saad is told to hang onto moose’s gun and brings Happy. Sweety helps his mom clean out the plance and encourage Happy to enroll in socio next year to get white ppl exposure | ||||||
| 71 Happy drives the crew around the neighbourhood. | Rexdale | 2006.0910 | Jug/Sher adopt Happy. Jug tells them he is dating Giselle and Happy is shocked about Jug’s class rise. Sher has consp theories. Jug starts drinking hard. Happy sells this to the gang as a pro of him being in. Amit spurns Happy. Saad forms a new gang with Jug and Shera as an offshoot of his new things in Vaughan. | ||||||
| 70 Dilmit pushes Amit and Ram to bully Happy until Shera breaks it up. | NACI | 2006.0912 | Ram is now friends with Amit and at the top of the hierachy | ||||||
| 78 Jug abuses Giselle on a late night road trip. | 10 Garfella Drive Billa’s Garage | 2006.0916 | |||||||
| 74 Saad meets Happy at the mall to hand over cash and sell stolen merchandise. | 2006.10 | Happy sees and confronts Babbu at mall about stealing Jagpreet | |||||||
| 76 Happy tries to ask Sweety out one last time. | AGO | 2006.10 | Sweety and Happy go the AGO as part of SOCIO. No other guy will go. Happy is asked to Chip by Saad over the phone. Sweety and both their mums go? Cracks in their friendship begin to show. | ||||||
| 83 Happy gets caught stealing by Boss and Moose gets arrested. | Big Box Store] | 2006.10 | Moose is upset with Happy and blames him for the arrest. Saad is now wilder without Moose’s calming influence.Happy and Boss bottle scene. | ||||||
| 81 Mummi warns that they’ll have to send Minder home as his apartment is expensive. | 46 Happy thinks of how to break his news until Mummi tells him to get a job as Daddi is laid off. | 10 Garfella Drive | 2006.10 | ||||||
| 85 Saad pressures Happy to install chip at Sweety’s workplace. | 2006.11 | ||||||||
| 86 Saad and Happy tail Amit as he runs credit cards. | Peggy Sue | 2006.11 | Saad has Happy tail him in his car and they find out how Amit’s criminal enterprise works. Amit and Billa are big on the credit card scams whilst Billa and Saad are behind. Saad regrets focussing on the cheap stuff at the big box store while a better lick was being built by his enemy. | ||||||
| 88 Happy breaks down and gets consoled by Mummi, but it leaves him wanting more. | 10 Garfella Drive | 2006.11 | Shows he’s grown past her in a fuller way. Mummi also tells him Minder needs to be sent back to India, Happy hates this. | ||||||
| 89 Happy asks Shera for help to break free from Saad. Happy snitches on Amit | 2006.11 | Shera is a hermit and won’t engage with society anymore himself. | |||||||
| 90 Happy tells Saad he won’t chip the machine and Saad beats him up | 777 | 2006.11 | |||||||
| 91 Happy & Minder get ready at their now-shared apartment. Boss meets Happy downstairs | 10 Garfella Drive | 2007.01 | Minder looks happy at last. Happy is now back to selling weed out of their apartment to make rent with Minder’s salary. | ||||||
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| Happy sits down at a barbershop to cut his beard but doesn’t. | Albion Mall | JAN | Jug is with him and encouraging him. | ||||||
| Happy runs into Drew on the bus and it asked to attend his trial | Courthouse | A bottle chapter with a TBD purpose. | |||||||
| Happy and Mummi visit Minder in custody after wild night | Precinct | AUG | Jagpreet Leaves and Frames Minder. Happy drives them over |