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Led the Wildcats to back-to-back city championships.
- A legend. - Yes. Legends, one and all.
But do you think that any of these Wildcat legends became legends
by getting involved in musical auditions days before the league championships?
- Get your head in the game! - No.
These Wildcat legends became legends
because they never took their eye off the prize.
Get your head in the game!
Who was the first sophomore ever to make starting varsity?
- Troy! - Who voted him team captain this year?
- Us! - And who is gonna get their butts kicked
in Friday's championship game if Troy's worried about an audition?
- We are. - Guys, come on.
There's 12 people on this team, not just me.
Just 12? Oh, no.
I think you're forgetting about one very important 13th member of our squad.
- My dad. - Yes, Troy.
Wildcat basketball champion, class of 1981.
Champion, father, and now coach.
It's a winning tradition like no other.
From lowly Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, to early warriors, medieval knights.
All leading up to...
...lunkhead basketball man.
Yes, our culture worshiped the aggressor throughout the ages
and we end up with spoiled, overpaid bonehead athletes
who contribute little to civilization other than slam dunks and touchdowns.
That is the inevitable world of Troy Bolton.
But the path of the mind, the path we're on,
ours is the path that has brought us these people:
Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Sandra Day O'Connor,
Madame Curie, Jane Goodall, Oprah Winfrey
and so many others who the world reveres.
Uh, but, what is? I've got Kelsi waiting for me to rehearse.
Gabriella!
Troy Bolton represents one side of evolution.
And our side, the side of education and accomplishment
is the future of civilization!
This is the side where you belong.
Guys, if you don't know that I'll put a 110% of my guts into that game,
then you don't know me.
- But we just thought... - I'll tell you what I thought.
I thought that you're my friends. Win together, lose together, teammates.
- But suddenly the girl... and the singing. - Man, I'm for the team!
I've always been for the team. She's just someone I met.
All right the singing thing is nothing. A way to keep my nerves down.
It means nothing to me. You're my guys and this is our team.
Gabriella is not important.
I'll forget about her. Forget the audition and we'll get that championship.
Everyone happy now?
Behold lunkhead basketball man.
So, Gabriella, we'd love to have you for the scholastic decathlon.
Did you wanna grab some lunch?
Well, we'll be there if you wanna come.
- Wildcats! - Get your head in the game!
Whoo!
- Let's go! - Go, Wildcats!
# Everybody sing out
# Wildcats everywhere wave your hands up in the air
# That's the way we do it let's get to it. Time to show the world # Wildcats. Sing along. They really got it going on # Wildcats in the house everybody sing out
# Wildcats everywhere. Wave your hands up in the air... Troy, Troy, Troy...
# It's funny when you find yourself # Looking from the outside
# I'm standing here but all I want is to be over there # Why did I let myself believe # Miracles could happen?
# 'Cause now I have to pretend that I don't really care # I thought you were my fairy tale # A dream when I'm not sleeping
# A wish upon a star that's coming true # But everybody else could tell
# That I confused my feelings with the truth
# When there was me and you
# I swore I knew the melody that I heard you singing
# And when you smiled you made me feel like I could sing along # But then you went and changed the words # Now my heart is empty
# I'm only left with used-to-bes and once upon a song # Now I know your not a fairy tale # And dreams were meant for sleeping # And wishes on a star just don't come true # 'Cause now even I can tell
# That I confused my feelings with the truth # 'Cause I liked the view
# When there was me and you
# I can't believe that I could be so blind
# It's like you were floating while I was falling # And I didn't mind
# Because I liked the view, ooh ooh, ooh, ooh # I thought you felt it too
# When there was me and you
Hey, how you doin'?
I wanna talk to you about something.
And here it is: I know what it's like to carry a load with your friends.
I get it. You've got your boys, Troy. It's OK. So we're good.
Good about what? I wanna talk about the final callbacks.
I don't wanna do the callbacks either.
Who are we trying to kid? You've got your team and I've got mine.
I'll do the scholastic decathlon and you'll win the championships.
It's where we belong.
- Go, Wildcats. - But I...
Me neither.
Gabriella?
Go Wildcats!
Hey, Captain!
- What's with Troy? - Don't worry about it.
Oh, hey!
- Troy! Hey. - Hey, Troy!
Hey, um...
We just had another team meeting.
Oh... wonderful.
We had a team meeting about how we haven't been acting like a team.
I mean us, not you.
- About the singing thing... - I don't even wanna talk about it.
We just want you to know that we're gonna be there.
- Cheering for you. - Huh?
If singing is what you wanna do,
we should boost you up, not tear you down.
Yeah. Win or lose, we're teammates.
That's what we're about. Even if you turn out to be the worst singer in the world.
Which we don't know, because we haven't heard you sing.
You're not gonna hear me sing, guys.
Because Gabriella won't even talk to me...
...and I don't know why.
We do.