Rzykruski Martin Landau, who is replacing their former teacher who is still recovering from a near fatal lightning strike. The Weird Girl Catherine OHara in Victors class points out that lightning strikes, while rare in most of the world, are especially common in New Holland, and infers that it might have something to do with the towns centerpiece a ghostly windmill that sits on a hill in the center of town. Mr. Rzykruski is an especially eccentric western European immigrant, with a stark, demented affection for science. His passion for science is electric, and his students feel it too. All the students eagerly dream of ideas for their upcoming science fair projects. Rango 2011 Even when the original Pirates of the Caribbean movies werent working, they were still admirably weird. So its unsurprising in. 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When obese classmate Bob Robert Capron injured himself by falling into an open manhole, Whiskers pooped a B. When spooky classmate Nassor got knocked out cold by a fastball while playing catcher, Whiskers pooped out an N. Victor refuses to accept the V from the Weird Girl, and bicycles home. When he arrives he finds hunchbacked classmate Edgar E Gore Atticus Shaffer waiting for him. Edgar begs Victor to be his science project partner. Romantic Horror Movies Ponyo Wiki' title='Romantic Horror Movies Ponyo Wiki' />Victor declines the offer, saying that he likes to work by himself. Edgar is annoyed, and leaves. At dinner, Victor asks his parents to sign his permission slip for the science fair. Edward agrees to sign the form only if Victor also signs up for baseball, and gets out of the house once in a while. Edgar agrees, and the form is signed. The following day Victor, Sparky, and the Frankensteins go to Victors first baseball game. Toshiaki is pitching, and Victor is at bat. Toshiaki rockets the first two pitches past Victor, but Victor manages to smack the stuffing out of the third. The ball soars out of the park, and Sparky runs after it. The ball rolls across the street and comes to a rest in the gutter. Victor runs after Sparky, but as Sparky is about to return to the field, hes hit by a passing car. Victor, now seeing Whiskers omen for what it is, cries as Sparky ends up dead in the road. Sparky is given a somber funeral at the New Holland Pet Cemetery. He is buried beneath a dog bone headstone, in a wooden box. The next few days are extra hard on Victor, who is still distracted by Sparkys demise. In science class he mostly makes doodles of Sparky, while ignoring Mr. Rzykruskis lesson. Mr. Rzykruski explains that almost all creaturess bodies run on electric impulses, even after they die. To demonstrate, Mr. Rzykruski produces a dead, pinned down frog. He attaches a pair of wired clamps to each of the frogs legs and flicks a switch. White hot electricity jumps from the frogs body, and its legs leap up and down. Victor looks on in awe, and immediately draws crude lightning bolts around the doodle of Sparky. Victor sneaks into the New Holland Pet Cemetery, and digs up Sparkys remains. He sneaks home, past his parents, and up to his room. He collects various bits of electrical equipment from around the house and assembles a crude laboratory in the attic. He places Sparky on a platter and raises him up through the attic skylight. Next door, Mr. Burgemeister watches in disgusted curiosity as Victor lets fly a trio of kites into the storm. Victor returns to the attic and watches as lightning strikes near Sparkys body. A bolt strikes Sparky, and bright electrical sparks flow through the attic. As the effects of the strike dissipate, Victor reels in Sparkys body, and checks for signs of life. He finds none. Saddened, Victor hugs Sparkys remains, and feels his tail move. Sparky, though scarred from the accident, and stapled all over, is alive. He wags his tail with glee, until it falls off. Over the next few days, Victor keeps Sparkys reanimation a secret from his family and classmates. He pleads with Sparky to stay in the attic while hes at school. The Weird Girls cat, Whiskers, appears in the attic skylight and calls to Sparky. Sparky chases Whiskers out through the skylight, and into the neighbors yard where Bobs mother Conchata Ferrell is hanging bed sheets. She catches sight of the decomposing Sparky and retreats into her house. Sparky spends the rest of the day outside. He flirts with Elsas poodle Persephone, and by touching noses, gives it a shocking Bride of Frankenstein like white streak in her hair. He manages to go mostly unnoticed, with the exception of Edgar, who spots him on the way home from school. Victor returns home, charged up Sparky and finds Edgar waiting for him. Edgar blackmails Victor, and threatens to tell the whole town about Sparky, unless Victor gives him what he wants a science fair project. Edgar visits the local pet shop, and buys the only dead goldfish in the store. He makes Victor reproduce the experiment which reanimated Sparky. A storm gathers, the kites are sent up into the sky, and a single lightning bolt electrifies the fishbowl with the floating, dead fish. They lower the bowl into the attic, but its empty. Edgar runs his fingers through the water and infers that the fish has to be in there, because he can feel it. The two shine a light into the bowl, and barely see a nearly invisible living skeleton swimming in the water. Their experiment somehow turned the fish invisible. Victor is confused by the results, but Edgar is pleased. An invisible fish will surely win him first place at the science fair.