MC Dorms: 2009: Home for the Holidays.

[The Count]

*Turns on the internet radio station to listen while rechecking all the Fraggle Rok entries for the list.
Wonder how that new payload tray Pin added to her scooter's working for her. Then again, she could've just as easily detached the thing if it was slowing/weighing her down. *Goes to get a glass of milk before returning to the computer, then switches on the music station.

 

[RedPiggy]

Kelly (sighs)

Cotterpin (rolls eyes on her way out the door): Are you STILL bored? Why don't you go work some at the saloon? You've been griping for a week about the bills.

Kelly (pouts): But I really need to study...

Cotterpin: -_- We ALL know you wait 'til after lunch to study. Why don't you help me? I need a team of creatures bigger than Doozers for THIS project ....

Kelly (glances over at Cotterpin): Such as?

Cotterpin: Well, there's a huge gap over by the ABC Artery, across the street north of the cemetary. The Doozer Dome Amusement Park worked so well, I'm designing one for Hensonville. The only problem is that it needs to fit all creatures and consist of things they want to do. I've tried seeing that video of Gonzo and others playing around at Disneyland, but let's be honest, they don't meet the height requirements for most of those things. I've got some lovely adjustable designs for roller coasters and such. I just need help building it.

Kelly: So, you want me to use magic?

Cotterpin (shakes her head): No. I'm gonna ask everyone for their input. You remember an old Sesame Street clip of a bunch of kids designing the equipment for a playground? This is kind of like that.

Kelly: Well, not everybody loves nerve-popping adrenaline rushes. Don't forget to have some quiet stuff in there too, like ...

Cotterpin: Teacups?

Kelly (rolls eyes): Spare me. No, I was thinking more along the lines of a dark, quiet place where you could get away from all the excitement.

Cotterpin: O_O Uh ... we have a park, you know.

Kelly (nods): But how would you convince Boober to go to this amusement park?

Cotterpin (nods): Ah, now I see your point. *leaves to ask everyone for good amusement park ideas*

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Nora: Hey, guys, can you help me here?
Scooter: Sure, what's going on?
Nora: Well, even though Halloween's still a month off, Mrs. Farley wants me to put together a list of spooky books for the front window display.
Erin: Let's see..."Dracula," Bram Stoker...
Scooter: "Invisible Man," H.G. Wells...
Beige: Pretty much anything by Poe...
Storyteller: "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley..."The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Washington Irving...
Scooter: Hey, that reminds me, Erin, this came in for you...(takes something from out of the pile of mail) Flyer from the Happy Wanderers Society - they're leading a nighttime hike up near Sleepy Hollow on Oct. 30th.
Beige: Cheerful...and check out what it says at the bottom: "Society assumes no responsibility for injuries inflicted by flying pumpkins or phantom horses."
Nora: (writing) Sleepy...Hollow...well, that's a start. Do you guys want to do the haunted house again this year?
Erin: Why not? I know someone who'll lend us a few gargoyles, and there's this cauldron in the window of Finders Keepers...
Storyteller: And I have some excellent new stories about the Caves of Despair...and I know where we can find some wonderful fake Poison Cacklers...
Beige: I'm not sure "wonderful" belongs in the same sentence as "Poison Cacklers."

 

[The Count]

Hmmm, sure hope that cauldron at Finder's Keepers isn't the one the Horned King was after. But knowing Ruthie...
Count: That reminds me... We got this in the mail today.
*Gets the bat-gram advertising this year's batch of treats at Penny Candyman and i-scream flavors for Shocktober at the Deep Freeze.

Looks promising, will maybe try the Double Double Toil and Decaf.

Well boys, you're free to mingle with the rest of the gang... Will be going over the Jim Henson Hour entries now. Sure hope Steve gets back to it too on a future MuppetCast episode.

 

[RedPiggy]

Kelly (whispers an announcement to her goblin door knocker)

Goblin door knocker: Attention. Kelly will be out of town from October 2 to October 4. It'd be nice if she could bring her laptop, but she may not.

 

[The Count]

Ed's Bat Doorknocker: Thanks for the info. We wish her heiress well.

 

[RedPiggy]

Kelly (listening to all the knocker conversation): Hey! I'm not gone YET!

 

[The Count]

Nooo... But I'm almost gone myself, like solid gone. *Hard to stay awake.
UD: Maybe you need one of those eye-popping milkshakes.
*Makes one for me, using that Witch's Coffee Brew i-scream, lacing it with coffee chocolate chips.

Thanks Uncle D. *Sips some and tries to continue with more JHH's.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Hmmm, sure hope that cauldron at Finder's Keepers isn't the one the Horned King was after. But knowing Ruthie...
Count: That reminds me... We got this in the mail today.
*Gets the bat-gram advertising this year's batch of treats at Penny Candyman and i-scream flavors for Shocktober at the Deep Freeze.

Looks promising, will maybe try the Double Double Toil and Decaf.

Erin: I'll talk to Ruthie, but I'm pretty sure that the cauldron isn't prone to giving rise to the Cauldron Born - even if you had Eilonwy's bauble and Hen Wen.
Scooter: On the other hand, there's that pot of colcannon that my aunt once left in the refrigerator for four months - you could get a few Cauldron Born out of that.
Nora: (scribbling "Chronicles of Prydain" on list of books) Let's see...Mrs. Farley said go easy on the Stephen King books...and there are those books on haunted castles and palaces.
Beige: (listening to Ed) Hey, Ed, can I borrow that Deep Freeze flyer when you're done? I'd like to see if they still make that triple-fudge one with the bits of coconut.
Storyteller: Sounds deadly...and speaking of deadly, Ed, would you ask Uncle Deadly if he has a portrait of himself in his Hamlet costume? It'd work well for our haunted house next month.

 

[The Count]

Mmm... Been a while since I've done one of these posts.

*Uncle D gets the portrait of his performance for Storyteller.
UD: Please be careful with it, Ellie would torture me if anything happened.

*Hands the flyer off to Beige, calls to get another one to see what we'll be getting this year.

*Count gets The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo; The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston La Roux; and The Mummy, Ann Rice for Nora's display.