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**Setting:** Founders Day Parade preparations in a small town
**Main Character:** Ben, the new mayor
**Plot:**
1. **Brainstorming:** Ben's team struggles to come up with ideas for the parade float, leading to a dance party.
2. **Ben's Solution:** Ben prepares a detailed, boring speech, but the team rejects it, suggesting alternative ideas (e.g., catching food in his mouth).
3. **The Smarties:** Ben discovers "The Smarties" (Super Mentally Advanced, Really Truly Intellectually Endowed Society), joins, and becomes proud of his new, intellectually aligned friendships.
4. **Conflict:** Friends and team members feel left out and mock Ben's new affiliation, leading to a falling out.
5. **Climax:** Ben quits The Smarties after realizing they're "jerky know-it-alls" and rejoins his friends to help with the parade float.
6. **Resolution:** Ben is welcomed back, and the group comes together to participate in the Founders Day Parade.
**Themes:**
* The importance of genuine friendships over intellectual elitism
* Embracing one's community and finding common ground
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, keeping each fact as a short sentence and numbered for reference:
**People and Roles**
1. Tom is the new mayor.
2. Ben is a member of the group and later joins "The Smarties".
3. Hank is a friend of the group and participates in the Founder's Day Parade.
4. Angela is a singer and a member of "The Smarties".
**Events and Organizations**
5. The group is preparing for the Founder's Day Parade.
6. "The Smarties" is an organization for the "Super Mentally Advanced, Really Truly Intellectually Endowed Society".
7. Ben joins "The Smarties" and receives an official headgear.
**Inventions and Concepts**
8. Ben creates the "Brainerator", a device to convert "garage talk" to "brilliant Bencabulary".
9. A "No Brainerator" is reverse-engineered from Ben's invention to simplify complex information.
**Miscellaneous**
10. Ben injures his leg (knee) during a brainstorming session.
11. The group participates in the Founder's Day Parade with a float.
12. Ben initially plans to do a "Big Mayor Dance" for the parade but later changes plans due to his injury.