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Reality Boy by A.S. King

  • Episode 1, Scene 1

    Gerald Faust (5 years old) and his mother, father, older sisters Tasha and Lisi are put on an episode of the reality TV show Network Nanny to teach the family how to be better.
  • Little Boy Goes Viral

    After the nanny takes away his Game Boy for throwing a tantrum Gerald hops up on the kitchen table and poops on it. This clip from the show goes viral on YouTube and he ends up being known as "The Crapper".
  • Episode 1, Scenes 20-29

    After giving her mother and the "nanny" some fake excuse as to why she didn't do any of the chores on her chart, Tasha loses her TV, computer and video game privileges while Gerald and Lisi gets praised for doing there chores. After the crew leaves Tasha goes and watches the TV with a big bowl of ice cream. When Gerald tries to tell his mother that she's not allowed Tasha yells that he's the problem child not her. Angered he goes upstairs and poops in her bed.
  • Episode 1, Scene 36

    The fake nanny left the family for the last week but left little spy cameras all over the house. Out of view of the camera while they were watching the TV, Tasha called Gerald names, poked him and wiped spit on him when he didn't react to the Tasha pinched his nose and covered his mouth till he turned pale. When Lisi told Tasha to stop, Tasha punched Gerald right in the stomach. When he caught his breath he charged at her and hit her until his parents stopped him, in view of the cameras.
  • No Progress

    After the crew and fake nanny left, the Faust family isn't any better. The only way Gerald could communicate was by pooping on stuff. Tasha is still secretly a terrible 11 year old. Their mom writes a letter to Network Nanny asking them to come back and they agreed.
  • Episode 2, Preshow Metting

    The day before filing started Gerald's parents promised that if they could prove to the TV viewers that they were cured they would go to Disney World. Later while he was brushing his teeth Tasha slammed him against the wall and told him not to mess it up for her.
  • Crazy

    While Lisi and Gerald are downstairs they hear their mother and sister Tasha having a screaming match upstairs. They sneak up and creak open her bedroom door to see 12 year old Tasha pinning their mom against the wall with her hands around her throat.
  • Episode 2, Scene 15

    After cooking their parents their anniversary dinner, fake nanny, Gerald and Lisi go upstairs to play Clue while Tasha went to her room. While they were playing Tasha pooped in her own bathroom sink and blamed it on Gerald, when episode 2 finally aired, the whole day was cut out.
  • Episode 2, Scene 35

    On the last day of filming Gerald eavesdropped on the conversation his parents and the "nanny" we're having after sending him and Lisi upstairs. He heard his mother say that she couldn't love him and Lisi at all, she loved only Tasha.
  • Episode 3, Scene 12, Take 17

    After fake "nanny" insisting that Gerald clean up the own mess he made in Tasha's room and asking why he tortures Tasha if she loves him, Gerald punched fake nanny square in the face.
  • 10 Years Later

    Gerald is now 16 and works at the PEC center, Lisi left to college in Scotland and Tasha lives in the basement with her boyfriend.
  • Jako

    At the boxing gym Gerald works out at a guy named Jako walls up and tries to fight him, Gerald then leaves and avoids the gym.
  • Like A Tiger

    After Gerald yells down to the basement to tell Tasha to cut it out, she comes upstairs and goes up to him, pinching his nose and covering his mouth right in front of their parents. As he starts to run out of breath he bites her hand hard then leaves for work.
  • Joe Jr.

    At work while on break he meets Joe Jr., the son of the guy who runs the circus, and makes friends with him.
  • Register #1 Girl

    After telling his dad he's not coming home from work, he hangs out with Hannah, who works with him, all night then goes home.
  • Getaway

    At lunch at school Hannah pitches the idea of writing demands and kidnapping themselves as a way to escape.
  • Boxing Ring

    Gerald goes back the gym and ends up getting into the ring with Jacko. Gerald ends up getting some broken ribs while Jacko face gets messed up.
  • Girlfriend

    Later in the day Hannah calls Gerald and tells him she wants to go out with him.
  • Seventeenth Birthday

    His parents get him a 300 dollar gas card.
  • Party

    After his parents leave on a getaway he gets back home to see his sister is throwing a massive party. After he calls and tells his father and his father calls the cops and tells Gerald to get away from the house.
  • Runaway

    That night he calls Hannah and tell her to pack her stuff. Her picks her up and they start their way down to Florida, where Joe Jr. and the circus is.
  • Demands

    Gerald finally answers his dad's phone calls and tells him he's not going home as long as Tasha still lives there.
  • Finally Safe

    After getting to Florida and seeing Joe Jr., Gerald and Hannah go back. Gerald's father realize that the house isn't a safe environment so when Tasha and his wife are out of the house, he and Gerald I pack up and move out into a new house in a different town.