Muppet College Dorms: The Next Semester

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Erin: Thank you, lovely bats. (puts tip money in jar marked: For next trip to Europe)
Nora: Shouldn't Jim and the others be arriving?
Storyteller: Hmmm...one Fraggle friend of mine who specializes in the paranormal says that there is an unusually large amount of...
Nora: Paranormal activity?
Storyteller: Yes, right outside our door.

(outside)
Jerry Juhl: I told you, we should have come in twos and threes.
Joe Raposo: It's kinda crowded out here.
Richard: Yeah, we could have waited, but our sorbet would have melted.
Jim: And after all that hard work she's put into it...
Christine: Not to mention all the time we've spent daydreaming about it.
Eren: Please, just knock on the door - Joe, you're standing on my foot.

(inside)
Erin: I think paranormal's the wrong word. I mean, they're angels, they're well-established in the holy kingdom of heaven, not wraiths condemned to walk the earth. (opens door) Come in, everyone, your sorbet's on the table.
(Jim and his band of loony angels eagerly traipse in, greet the mortal occupants of room 7 and make a collective celestial beeline for the sorbet - and the three of us grab our own cups of sorbet and join them)

 

[BEAR]

(In room 29...)
Bry: (coming in) Boy, what a day... Hey, Telly. Did you ask Erin about the sorbet to sell at Hooper's?
Telly: Yep! She said it would be nooo problem!
Bry: Good! Would you mind going downstairs and asking her how many flavors she has and how much would be available for tomorrow?
Telly: Yes, Sir! (salutes, and then goes downstairs to room 7.) I wonder if she has anymore of the lime flavored...la de da de da... (he gets to room 7, which is Erin's room, and hears a lot of chatter from inside the room) Hmm...I didn't know there was going to be a party tonight. (He notices that the door has been left open just a crack and Telly pokes his head in) Erin? (All he can see is the spirits of Jim Henson and company) GHOSTS! AAAAAAHHH! (runs away terrified)

 

[BeakerSqueedom]

Claudia: Did someone say paranormal? *Smiles evily*

Bunsen: Do not get her started!

Beaker: D: *hides her alien signs and books*

Claudia: *takes camera and rushes out of the room* SNAP SNAP SNAP MY GHOST PRETTIES!

Beaker: MEEEMEE!

Claudia: *takes a pic of the ghost figures in Erin's room*

Bunsen: Please stop, you are running in your jammies!

Claudia: O_O *faces reddens* SORRY ERIN! XD *rushes back in to her own room* .....Yah...but it's cute...it has wittle monkeys all over it. :3 AWWWW!

Bunsen: It is kind of adorable but no reason to run like a little girl with no proper wear.

Claudia: True, least I am not nakie. >_> They don't even look like pj's...just sweat pants and a shirt...

Bunsen: *Shaking* THE HORROR

Beaker: *faints*

Claudia: *Rolls eyes*

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Storyteller: Telly! What's wrong?
Jim: (in Erin's chair, finishing up last of his sorbet) Goodness, he looks like he's just seen a ghost.
Nora: Or six.
Storyteller: Hmm, hmm...where's Erin?
Joe: Which one? There's two here, but one's got an e, the other's got an i.
Storyteller: Erin with an i. The mortal one.
Jerry: She went back to start another round of lime.
Erin: (turns on radio as she walks in) I'm back...was that Telly I heard running out of here, screaming?
Christine: (sitting on sofa next to Richard) It was, poor guy.
Richard: He was yelling something about ghosts.
Jerry: We're not ghosts, we're...um...incorporeal individuals.
Richard: I don't care what he calls us, just as long as Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray don't come running in. (whistles a few bars from the "Ghostbusters" theme)
Jim: Remember when the Ghost Hunters people came by the studio?
Nora: Didn't one of you try to drop a water balloon on them?
Richard: I almost did, and you won't believe what Don...hey, wait a minute, Don's not here.
Joe: I'll call him...is that okay, Erin?
Erin: Fine by me. What flavor would he want?
Joe: Either lemon or strawberry. Your pick. (looks up) Don, if you want some sorbet, come and get it!

(Claudia appears with camera)

Richard: Claudia, can you get one of me and Christine? (R and C pose with arms around each other's shoulders)

(Don appears)
Don: (mock-scolding) How dare you have a party without telling me first.
Erin: It's okay, we've only just started. Here's your strawberry - (hears screaming) Uh-oh, I think we've started a paranormal panic around here.

 

[The Count]

Count: Sewen! 7 spectacular spirits in Room #7! Looks like someone got lucky. Small joke.
Me, hearing screams coming from the hallway, in alternating medium deep or ghostly haunting vampire voice: Aaah. Music to my ears.
*Evil laugh.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Jim: Oh, thank you, Count. (looks at clock) Well, everyone, I think we'd better be getting back, it's getting late.
Storyteller: Thank you all for dropping by.
Erin: Yeah, without you it'd be dull as tombs.

(chorus of groans - then angels start to leave)

Christine: It was lots of fun tonight...(yawn)
Richard: Come on, Gumbelina,* I'll read you a bedtime story. (over shoulder) That's good stuff, Erin, make sure you don't run out!
Don: Jerry, you want to see my latest idea for...
Jerry: Not after that speaking tube incident, please.
(Joe departs, humming Clair de Lune; Eren flies out soon after)
Jim: Good night, Muppet fans.

(back to "normal" in 7)

Erin: Well, let's clean up and start packing it in, shall we?
Nora: Boy, that was weird...can we do that again?
Storyteller: As long as there are Muppet fans and sorbet lovers, yes.

(up in heaven, everyone retires for night on their respective clouds)

* According to Jacquie Gordon, Christine's mother, "Gumbelina" was Richard's nickname for Christine.

 

[BEAR]

(In room 29...Bryan is pouring a cold drink and Bert and Ernie are folding laundry)
Bry: What did Erin say? Telly? What's the matter? You look like you've seen a ghost or something.
Telly: I diiiiiid!
Bry: Oh, Telly. Come on, stop kidding around. I should have just called her. (goes to the phone to call Erin)
Telly: I'm not kidding around! I saw a ghost! Actually, I saw se-se-se-seven of them!
Bert: Telly, don't be ridiculous. There are no such things as ghosts. Right, Ernie?
Ernie: (covered in a white bed sheet from the laundry pile) Anybody see a pillow case anywhere?
Bert: (turns to face Ernie) AAAAH! (runs away)
Telly: AAAAH! (follows Bert)
Ernie: (laughing under the sheet) Khekhekhekhe!

(The camera pans out through the window of room 29 to a full shot of the moonlit Dorm House...)
The voice of JH's spirit echos from the Heavens: Muppet College Dorms were brought to you today by the letter S (a group of stars form the letter in the sky) for sorbet, screams and silliness, and by the number 7 (another group of stars form a 7). Pleasant screams...oops, I mean dreams. (chuckles)

 

[BeakerSqueedom]

Claudia: Oooo...titles are fun...

Bunsen: How?

Claudia: Well, if I had an awesome title for a name. It'd be Claudia the Catastrophic!

Bunsen: That does not truly fit your character though.

Claudia: Yah, it does!

Beaker: Mee.

Claudia: *Chokes* Beaker the buttkicker? XDDD

Beaker: *nod* *poses*

Bunsen: Then I modestly call myself Bunsen the buff.

Claudia and Beaker: *Loling their heads off*

 

[theprawncracker]

Ryan: *singing* There's something in the air today!
Gonzo: *singing* There's something we can't put our fingers on!
Clifford: Don't'cha think ya should stop singin' and get out there and buy the thing?
Ryan: Hold on! I just heard Piggy was on Today, so I'm trying to catch her before I go.
Rizzo: *rolls eyes* Oh, c'mon... You've been waitin' two years for d'is t'ing, and you're waiting because Piggy is on T.V.?
Ryan: ...Yes?
Uncle Deadly: We shall not attempt to understand you...

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Nora: (groggy) I dreamed that our room was invaded by ghosts, and we all sat around eating sorbet.
Storyteller: (at table, reading paper) That wasn't a dream, sweetie.
Erin: But I'm still amazed we didn't have the Ghost Hunters camped out on our doorstep.
Storyteller: Mm. So what's on for today?
Erin: I've got to run errands and stuff. As for the sorbet, I've got five trial pints ready for Hooper's: lemon, lime-coconut, kiwi, mango-orange and strawberry. So tell Bry and Telly that they can swing by and pick them up whenever they can.
Nora: Will do. What about the two ice cream places?
Erin: We'll see what they're looking for, and I'll prepare their batches when I get back.