Please!

I said I'd come back!

I'm not doing anything.

Oh, that's your normal face, isn't it?

Hmm...

The only problem is, you need to pass a test in order to prove you belong in my class.

So, you're gonna have to study like you've never studied before.

Let's go!

You gotta think big.

Think deep.

Pretty soon, you'll make that quantum leap.

So?

What do I do?

I've literally never studied before.

Are you kidding me?

All these years of teaching you?

Just go to your mind palace or whatever and try to remember how to study!

Okay.

I'll try.

More like a mind cupboard.

Okay, Watterson.

Time to roll up your sleeves.

What?

More work?

No.

Roll up your sleeves so I can write the answers on your arm.

But that's cheating!

Yeah, but if you rearrange the letters in the word teaching, what do you get?

Uh...

Eating?

Cha?

What?

No!

Cheating!

But isn't that wrong?

Only if you get caught.

Look, when I was your age, I cheated too.

What the what right now?

I scribbled the answers on the cave wall.

Oh, so that's what cave paintings are.

Okay, what's the best way for me to cheat?

In your case, every way.

Right, Watterson.

You have one hour.

Begin.

Okay, plan A.

I can't read it.

Why?

It's all backwards.

I wrote it in front of a mirror.

Okay, plan B.

Oh, no.

It goes dark when I close my eyes.

Just pull on them.

Watch out!

What is going on here?

Just, uh, visualizing my answers.

Oh, I've always wondered what that would look like from the outside.

Carry on.

Plan C, then.

Sir?

Yes?

Can I use the bathroom?

Hmm.

So, did you use the notes we left in there?

Yep.

Ah, good.

I have to say, I prefer to apply paper.

It's softer.

What the?

Okay, next plan.

Use the water bottle.

Oh, yeah.

Thanks.

I meant the label.

Read the label!

Recycle after use.

Oh, of course.

The answers were written inside the label!

What is wrong with you?

Use these!

I can't read that.

Don't worry.

I've got this.

Never mind.

I'll write the answers on the window.

Ah, ah.

Dag nabbit, it's too hot outside.

Ahhhhhhh.

Watson, you have five minutes remaining.

I'll just whime it.

First answer, the birth of Venus.

No!

That's not really necessary!

I can hear you!

Good point.

Question two.

Tom, we don't have time for this!

I'm gonna do it myself!

What?

No!

You can't!

You're only one IQ point away from being a vegetable!

Question three!

Question three!

Okay.

Here we go.

Okay, Waterson, I've marked your test, and I've got some bad news.

I'll see you back in eighth grade tomorrow.

Look!

You got an A-plus?

But how?

Must have been all the time we spent going over it.

Wait, so you actually...

Yes.

I actually learned something.

And a pleasure to keep you with us, too, Miss Simeon.

Good job, Waterson.

I guess you didn't need me after all to help you cheat.

Use your pen for the test.

Yeah, it really helped.

It meant I could focus and didn't need to cheat like you did in the eighth grade.