Mystery Girl (The Naked Brothers Band)

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"Mystery Girl"
The Naked Brothers Band episodes
Episode nos.Season 3
Episodes 1-2
Directed byJonathan Judge
Written byPolly Draper
Produced byPolly Draper
Featured musicNat Wolff
Alex Wolff
Cinematography byKen H. Keller
Editing byCraig Cobb
Production code301-302/ 995
Original air dateOctober 18, 2008 (2008-10-18)
Guest appearance
Miranda Cosgrove
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"Mystery Girl" is the first and second episodes of the third season of the television series The Naked Brothers Band , which premiered as a television movie on Nickelodeon on October 18, 2008 [1] to 4 million viewers for children in the 6-11 and 9-14 age groups; it was the top rated episode of the series. [2]

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The TV movie episode is in the format of a rock- mockumentary. Mystery Girl was directed by Jonathan Judge and written by Polly Draper, who also serves as showrunner and is the mother to the show's stars Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff, the lead singer-songwriter and drummer, respectively. Miranda Cosgrove guest stars as herself.

Plot

The Naked Brothers Band begin filming a motion picture called The Top Secret Naked Brothers Band Musical Mystery Movie.

13-year-old Nat Wolff tries to grapple why Rosalina (Allie DiMeco), aged 15, is trying to get herself written out of the script. To Nat's dismay, he later discovers that Rosalina is going to leave for a 6-month boat cruise around the world for winning a violin competition and he subsequently becomes mad at her.

Meanwhile, 10-year-old Alex Wolff panics when he finds out that he has to kiss his skateboarding buddy, Juanita (Teala Dunn), aged 11, for a scene in the film. Much to their relief, it turns out that Juanita did not have to kiss Alex—as it was just a typo by the screenwriter; instead, Juanita only has to kick him.

Christophe (Andrew Keenan-Bolger) is the stubborn movie director. He gets overthrown and replaced by Cooper Pillot, the 13-year-old producer of film.

During the time Nat is moping around, he develops feelings for his costar, the renowned actress Miranda Cosgrove, aged 15, and he feels confused after kissing her for a scene in the movie. After that, Miranda suggests that Nat do something very special for Rosalina before she leaves for the cruise.

Nat finally accepts that Rosalina is leaving and decides to perform a serenade with the band for her, by singing his self-written composition, "Your Smile", outside of her apartment.

Cast

Main cast

Special guest appearance

Guest starring

Discography

SongLead Vocals/Piano/Guitar and LyricsDrummer
"Blueberry Cotton"Alex WolffAlex Wolff
"Face in the Hall"Nat WolffAlex Wolff
"I Don't Want to Go to School"Nat WolffAlex Wolff
"Scary World"Nat WolffAlex Wolff
"Your Smile"Nat WolffAlex Wolff

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