Dub over Dream Journal
9 lines 3 characters 0:45 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
HE RUINED MY DREAM JOURNAL!
The scene
Nine lines, forty-five seconds, three characters, and two of the most committed child screams in cinema. Max wants his journal back. Linus denies taking it. Mr. Electricidad, the teacher, tries to intervene and calls Linus Minus
by mistake, then threatens to make the name permanent. Max shrieks that his dream journal has been ruined, and Linus shrieks back that he did not and Max should be expelled. The film has become a much-loved so-bad-it’s-good comfort watch, and this classroom is its most quoted moment.
Mr. Electricidad, played by George Lopez, gets four lines and the only calm ones in the scene. The two boys split the other five, and nearly all of them are shouted. What makes the scene funny is the total sincerity: a grown man making a maths pun about a child’s name and meaning it as a warning, and two kids treating a notebook like a matter of life and death. The two closing screams are back to back, which is where every dub of this either lands or falls over.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
Give me back my journal!
Class has begun, everyone in your seats.
Linus took my journal!
There are 6 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
The teacher’s slip and correction needs a deliberate stumble, followed by a straight face. Max’s scream is short and easy to nail. Linus’s rebuttal is the trap: it is long, it is all one breath, and it ends in a demand for expulsion, so most people run out of air halfway. In a two-player room, one player takes the teacher and the other takes both boys and argues with himself, which is funnier than it sounds. Solo, this is a quick warm-up scene. Play the teacher as a man who is very, very tired.
The dialogue is muted and everything else stays — the score, the room, the picture. You record each line over the silence and the scene plays back with you in the cast. How a dub is made · what the score measures.
From the gallery
7 dubs of this scene have been posted so far. The most voted, in the performers' own words:
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NadiaZ14 with hadij —
He ruined my dream journal
voice-match 66 · 4 votes · in English · September 2026 -
jht with First post
voice-match 61 · 3 votes · in English · September 2026 -
Heitozin009 with vxverity
voice-match 52 · in Portuguese · September 2026 -
Kayaa
voice-match 61 · in English · September 2026 -
The big skib —
He ruin my dream journal
voice-match 69 · in English · August 2026