School Photos

We got "school photos" back today. I have a few questions.

1. Who are these children and what did you do with mine?
2. Were there threats involved? Did you tell them they had to cooperate or they'd have to take another month of swim lessons? Because I'm pretty sure the last time I tried to get a photo of the two of them together in the same room we couldn't go five seconds without one of them screaming and the other trying to remove  his underpants without taking his shorts off first.

Yeah, I'm talking about THIS guy, Mr. JC Penney. The one I promised the last photographer I'd try to have an exorcism for before bringing him back to the studio.  

3. And what's with these props?? Back in my day, we didn't have all this bluebonnets bullshit. We got a gray backdrop and some guy witha combover and coffee stains on his shirt randomly yelling RAMALAMADINGDONG!!! til you grimaced into something approximating a smile.   WHAT IS THIS?