Muppet College Dorms: The Next Semester

[The Count]

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[Muppet Newsgirl]

Scooter: (tuning up guitar) Where is everyone?
Beige: (shouldering accordion and testing a few keys) Let's see...Storyteller's off visiting her uncle - I think he's the dentist - Nora's off taking cookie orders to her sister and Erin's still across the river.
Scooter: Oh, yeah, she said something about some reporters' meeting...by the way, where'd you get that accordion?
Beige: Oh, my uncle left it to me.
Scooter: Is he dead?
Beige: No, he's hibernating.
Scooter: Uh, you're sure you're not thinking of Fozzie's uncle?
Beige: No, for a few weeks in March he rolls himself up in a cocoon and...oh, forget it. What song are we doing again?
Scooter: It's called C'est La Vie, and it's one of Erin's favorites - it's by ELP.
Beige: I knew it had some kind of French title. Start playing, Mr. Lake.

(Scooter starts playing. Beige waits to join in after the second chorus.)

Scooter: C'est la vie...have your leaves all turned to brown,
Will you scatter them around you...c'est la vie.
Do you love...and then how am I to know,
If you don't let your love show for me...c'est la vie.

Oh...c'est la vie...oh...c'est la vie...
Who knows, who cares for me...c'est la vie.

In the night, do you light a lover's fire...
Do the ashes of desire for you remain...
Like the sea, there's a love too deep to show...
Took a storm before my love showed for you...c'est la vie.

Oh...c'est la vie...oh...c'est la vie...
Who knows, who cares for me...c'est la vie.

(Beige does a streets-of-Paris accordion solo. Unbeknownst to him and Scooter, Erin and Nora choose that moment to return.)

Scooter: Like a song...out of tune and out of time,
All I needed was a rhyme for you...c'est la vie...
Do you give...do you live from day to day...
Is there no song I can play for you...c'est la vie...

Oh...c'est la vie...oh...c'est la vie...
Who knows, who cares for me...c'est la vie.

(Song ends.)

Erin: Bravo, boys, bravo.
Nora: (sniffles) That song always made me misty.

(Storyteller emerges through Fraggle hole.)

Storyteller: If you boys are playing music, let's have the ballad of Traveling Matt Fraggle and...Beige, if you keep making faces like that your face will freeze.

 

[RedPiggy]

Kelly (her brother having taken her game and installed it on his Vista laptop, where it works just fine): Grrrrr....

Cotterpin (now on computer desk, patting Kelly's arm sympathetically): There there ... you just don't have the knack for it. *giggle*

Kelly: Shut up.

Cotterpin: Do you plan on doing anything today ... or are you just going to sit there and moan and complain?

Kelly (turns to Cotterpin, smirks): There's a choice?

Cotterpin: Why don't we go out?

Kelly: I don't have any money.

Cotterpin: Don't tell me you need that stuff to leave your room.

Kelly: I guess we could go jogging 'round the dorms.

Cotterpin: Uh-huh. Somehow, you don't seem the exercise type. Red, you most definitely are NOT. Get out and DO something!

Kelly (looks wistfully at Spike's music stuff): I could try reformatting all those records and 8-tracks to MP3s. That should kill some time.

Cotterpin (facepalm): And keep you on your duff for hours, right?

Kelly (smirks): Like you said, I'm not Red.

Cotterpin (gasps with delight): Hey! Do you think there might be rumblebugs around here? We could go listen to them and sing Red's song.

Kelly (frowns): That is one of the most evil songs on the planet ... next to "Yakko's World". *breaks into song* United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru ... uh ...Republic Dominican, Cuba, uh ... darn. I knew more of it awhile back.

Cotterpin: Aren't you making a thing for that purple guy with the fangs?

Kelly: The Count? Sure ... but it'll be awhile ... not 'til May, at least ... and that's if everything works out. But it's not just for him ... it'll be for everybody. I still need a script. I guess I should work on that.

 

[The Count]

*Wonders why I get confused for my roomie. Oh well... Now to sit on my own duff as I enjoy a lengthy new episode of the Disney Pincast. Plugs self into computer and listens away.

 

[RedPiggy]

Cotterpin: Wait ... I'm confused.

Kelly: Come to think of it, so am I.

Cotterpin: So, there's TWO Counts ... and one of them's got fangs ... and the other one doesn't?

Kelly: Yeah. *shrugs* I guess it's just because I'm not used to calling "The Count" "Ed". Thus, confusion.

Cotterpin: Ah. But ... Spike calls him "little purple guy" too, doesn't he? He's seen "Ed" more than I have.

Kelly: This is Spike we're talking about.

Cotterpin (nods): Point taken.

 

[The Count]

LOL... You can find my pic on FB. There's a lot of us from MC over there. BTW: What was that Muppet likeness you showed off in another thread? PM if you prefer to share that way.

 

[RedPiggy]

Kelly (interest piqued): Oh? Someone left a comment on one of my awards, but never said who it was. What's your username? Mine's Imjessietr30.

edit:

Kelly: Oh, yeah, the whole "Muppet me" thing. Well, had I the money for that kind of thing, the picture consisted of what I would have picked: orange skin, dark brown/black (can't remember what the color was) shoulder-length hair, glasses, and a black leather jacket (I tend to like black leather jackets, as a rule ).

 

[The Count]

Hmmm... Interesting. *Takes descript of Kelly Muppet and stores it away. *Contacts a few friends.

 

[theprawncracker]

Gonzo: Ya know... a little human contact wouldn't kill ya!
Ryan: *blink* Gonzo... I live with a whatever, a prawn, an eagle, a chicken, and... Clifford. Who needs human contact?
Gonzo: *eyelids raise* Well somebody's in a good mood!
Ryan: *smirks* I'm just tired and stressed Gonzo.
Gonzo: It's been that way for awhile--we haven't done anything in ages--again!
Ryan: I know, I know, and I feel like a real heel...
Gonzo: I know how I can help!
Ryan: Oh, do you?
Gonzo: Yes! Take us out for pizza tonight! Ha ha!
Ryan: ...Alright, alright.
Gonzo: Great! Hey, guys! He caved!
*Pepe, Sam, Camilla, and Clifford Pop up*
Clifford: Heh, heh, I told you he would!
Pepe: *mutters* Fine, here's de five bucks, hokay! Now let's go get pizza!
Sam: As long as I can have my own table.
Camilla: Bragawk baw!
Gonzo: Of course honey, no chicken on anyone's pizza!
Ryan: *shakes head* *grabs coat* C'mon, gang! I'm hungry!

 

[RedPiggy]

Cotterpin (tugging and pinching at Kelly's arm): COME ON! Get the lead out!

Kelly (tries to swat her away gently): OW! Christ, Cotterpin -- I'm not leaving my room!

Cotterpin (melodramatically): But WHYYYYYY...?

Kelly: I ... just took a shower! I don't want to get messed up!

Cotterpin (sticks tongue out): What is it with you humans and Fraggles and WATER? Yuck! (puts hands on hips) You have been stuck in this room ALL DAY. Don't you have something IMPORTANT to do?

Kelly: Not until Tuesday, when I go to the hospital.

Cotterpin (in shock): Are you SICK?

Kelly (chuckles): No, clinicals. I'm gonna learn about mommies and babies this time around. I've heard it's easy.

Cotterpin: Well, YEAH. The mommies are doing all the actual WORK.

Kelly (now thoroughly amused): I have a question --

Cotterpin (sighs): Here it comes ...

Kelly: How are Doozers born? When Mokey has to take your dad to see Junior Gorg, you're a baby ... though you're like (ouch) half the size of your mom. Then you're full-grown when it comes time to get your helmet. So -- what's the deal?

Cotterpin (facepalms, shakes head): Do you do this to everybody ELSE around here?

Kelly: I've only met a few people. And right now you're the most convenient.

Cotterpin: Yeah? Well ... speaking of Mother ... I'm sure she has some really good food pellets waiting for me. I'm gone! *stares warily at edge of desk, then turns back sheepishly to Kelly) Uh, little help?

Kelly (smiles and puts Cotterpin on the floor): You staying the night at your place or over here?

Cotterpin: As much fun as having my bodily functions and life stages carefully analyzed by a complete stranger is, I gotta go see what my parents are up to. I want to make sure they didn't perish in some cave-in or something. See ya! *leaves through tunnel*