Sweetums' Incredible Journey to Hollywood

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Chapter 7

Over the next four months, Sweetums worked as hard as he could, choosing to work on holidays to earn time and a half, but despite his hard work, Mad Man Mooney only gave him a 43 cent raise after four months. Sweetums did have a habbit of breaking Mad man Mooney's big rule, that he don't talk to the customers, and once Sweetums got a 17 dollar pay cut just because he talked to seven customers in a row.

Sweetums was still living and working there three years later, and he was wondering if he was ever going to move out.

"It's been three years, and I'm still working here", thought Sweetums, "I'm finally making five dollars now, though I might get another pay cut if I talk to the customers again, but my parents moved to florida, my friends all left the country for college, I haven't had a good meal in three months, and there haven't been any customers all day".

Just then, Mad Man Mooney called Sweetums out. "Hey, jack! Come out here!"

Sweetums ran out to the parking lot, where he saw the customers, Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, and Camillia.

"That's my jack", said Mad Man Mooney.

"Oh, hi, Jack", said Kermit.

"Jack not name, Jack job!", said Sweetums.

Mad Man Mooney grabbed Sweetums by his chin fur and pulled, "How many time have I told you not to talk to the customers?!", he said sternly.

Sweetums pushed the car that the customers were buying, but then he was bothered by a fly that wouldn't stop flying around him.

"Now, at Mad Man Mooney's, there's no wheeling and dealing", said Mad Man Mooney, "The price you see on the car is the price you pay".

At that point, Sweetums hit the fly right onto a price tag which read "$1195", but when he hit the fly, it was splatted into looking like a period, so the price looked like it said "$11.95".

"I'll take the car for eleven dollars and ninety-three cents", said Kermit.

Mad Man Mooney looked and got furious. He had decided to fire sweetums after the customers left. Sweetums let the customers in the car.

"This car is nice", said Gonzo.

"Bawk", said camillia.

"Let's go", said Fozzie.

Kermit stook his head out the window, "Hey, we're going to hollywood, do you want to come with us?"

"Hollywood!", shouted an excited Sweetums, "Oh, boy!" He was so excited that he ran to get his things packed without telling kermit, so they all just left, not knowing that he wanted to come with them.

Sweetums was packing his things and then he heard the car leaving.

"Wait!", said Sweetums, who rushed his packing and then ran, "Hey, wait for me!"

Sweetums chased the car, but the car was a bit faster than he was, and they were too far away to see Sweetums in any of the rear-view mirrors.

"I wantot o go to hollywood! Wait...", screamed Sweetums.

Mad Man Mooney went to sweetums' garage room, "Sweetums, You are fired! I want you to pack all of your things and..."

Mad man Mooney then noticed that all of Sweetums' things were packed.

"What a good worker", thought Mad Man Mooney.

A police officer then showed up, "Excuse me, Mr. Mooney, but you're wanted down at the police station".

 

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Chapter 8

Sweetums was chasing after the car, but he started getting a bit tired. He was running as fast as he could, though. Unfortunately, he wasn't paying attention to where he was running, and he soon fell into a sewer hole.

"Oh, I hope this never happens to me again", moaned Sweetums, who then climbed out of the hole, but somebody walked past the hole and stepped on Sweetums' hand, causing him to fall back into the hole. Then a box of dynamite fell into the sewer and exploded.

"Is there any way to stop it?!", yelled Sweetums.

He eventually got out of the hole and walked to a nearby gas station, "Tom's Gasoline and Gun Powder".

Sweetums saw a sign that read, "Now hiring! Green people only", sand Sweetums said, "Hmm, I guess it is easy being green after all".

He went to the pay phone and called Mad Man Mooney totell him that he quit, but he got the voice of a receptionist.

"Hello, this is Mad Man Mooney's used car shop", said the receptionist.

"Hello, I'd like to speak to Mad Man Mooney", said Sweetums.

"I'm sorry, but he can't talk to you right now", said the receptionist, "He's going to jail".

"Well, tell him that I quit", said Sweetums.

"Well, what a coincidence, because he was going to fire you", said the receptionist.

Sweetums then hung up the phone and heard some carnival music. Sweetums went to the nearbye carnival. He walked to the parking lot and saw the car that Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and camillia had bought. He recognized the license plate and everything.

"Jackpot!", exclaimed Sweetums, "I'm getting warmer!"

 

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Chapter 9

Sweetums entered the bogeon county fair, hoping to find Kermit and get a ride to Hollywood.

"Frog! Bear! Chicken! Whatever!", shouted Sweetums, but they didn't hear him yelling.

Sweetums was searching for them. Eventually, they were right behind them but had their backs turned so neither saw each other. A big crowd of tall people and elephants walked right between Sweetums and the other muppets right before Sweetums turned around, blocking his view of them. When this crowd finally got past him, the muppets were gone, but Sweetums saw a chicken feather on the ground.

As sweetums was looking, a man asked for some help.

"Hey, you!", said the man, "My name's Craig, and I need to carry these boxes to the dunking booth, and I need some help. Would you like to help?"

"Sure", said Sweetums.

Sweetums picked up a stack of boxes, which covered his face and blocked his view. Craig picked up the other stack, which also blocked his face and his view.

They walked past the muppets. Kermit saw them but obviously not their faces, and Sweetums bumped into kermit and said "Sorry", but didn't know who he had bumped into.

Kermit observed them, then asked himself, "Where have I seen those legs before?"

Sweetums and Craig put the boxes away.

"Man, you did a good job", said Craig.

"Why, thank you", said Sweetums, "Oh, and by the way, have you seen a frog, bear, chicken, or whatever around here?"

"No", said Craig, "But there is a pig who's nominated for a beauty contest".

"Thanks, anyway", said Sweetums.

 

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Chapter 10

Sweetums was still searching when he suddenly got hungry. he stopped by an ice cream stand to get some ice cream.

"Hi, there, what can I get you?", asked the ice cream man.

"I'd like to have all eighteen flavors of ice cream that you have", said Sweetums.

"Okay", said the ice cream man, who gave him eighteen scoops of ice cream.

Sweetums took his ice cream cone and left. After he ate his ice cream, he went back to the parking lot to see if the car was still there.

"Well, they're still here", said Sweetums, who then went back looking for them, but as soon as he left, Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, and camillia rushed to the car to rescue Gonzo, who was floating on balloons.

Sweetums suddenly had to go to the restroom, so he went into a tent, thinking it was a restroom. He walked in, but then realized that it was a changing room for the beauty contest contestants, and they all ran out, screaming. Sweetums ran out too.

"I've just got to catch up with them!", he shouted.

Sweetums finally went to the restroom, and then he decided to play some carnival games.

"Hey, you", said Marvin Suggs, who was in charge of the "test your strenght" booth, "Why don't you test your strenght?"

A muppaphone was at the bottom of the machine. Sweetums took a mallet and hit it, causing the muppaphone to shoot up to the bell really fast.

"We have our first winner!", exclaimed marvin Suggs.

Statler and Waldorf observed.

"A winner?", asked Statler, "How could it be?"

"How else?", said Waldorf, "The thing is obviously rigged".

 

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Chapter 11

Sweetums had won the "Test your strenght" game. The Newsman showed up to congraduate him.

"Congraduations!", said The Newsman, "You are the first to have won today. How do you feel?"

"Great", said Sweetums.

"What are you going to do next?", asked The Newsman.

"I'm going to Hollywood!", said Sweetums.

"Well, as the first winner, you get a free train ticket to any place that you want to go", said The Newsman.

"Yayyyyy!", said sweetums.

Sweetums went to the train station to go to hollywood.

"Tickets please", said the train conductor, who wasn't paying too uch attention.

"Here's my ticket", said sweetums, who got it stamped.

Sweetums went onto the train and then tried to take a nap.

"Ahhh", stretched Sweetums, "This is the life".

Three hours later, the train stopped, and the train conductor showed up.

"Excuse me", said the conductor, "Can I punch your ticket?"

"Okay", said Sweetums, who handed him his ticket.

"Oh, wait", said the conductor, who looked at the ticket, "This ticket is for Hollywood. This train is for New Mexico. How did I mistake where you were going?"

"So this isn't the hollywood train?", asked Sweetums.

"No", said the conductor.

Sweetums then ran off the train and started running for Hollywood.

"That was unneccessary", said the conductor, "The train could have just given him a free trip to Hollywood".

 

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Chapter 12

Sweetums ran as much as he could. He saw signs that pointed to ways to get to hollywood, and spent two whole days running and following the arrows and direction sings. He eventually got tired, but he didn't think that he had enough money to afford a night at a hotel, so he kept running. he eventually saw a sign that said "Hollywood 380 miles".

"I'm getting closer!", Sweetums said to himself.

Though he didn't have much money, he did have enough money to get some food, so he walked into a nearby all-you-can-eat-for-$3.99 resturaunt.

"Who are you?", said the resturaunt clerk, who just happened to be Pops.

"I'm Sweetums, and I'm here for the buffet", said Sweetums.

"Right this way", said Pops.

"Oh, boy!", shouted sweetums.

Sweetums ate as much food as he could. A man at another table observed.

"Man, you're eating likee you've never eaten before", said the man.

"Oh, I've eaten before", said Sweetums, "I just haven't eaten in two days".

"yeah", remarked Fat Blue, who was sitting at another table, "I'm the one who really hadn't eaten before".

"Why haven't you eaten in two days?", asked the man.

"Oh, I'm going to Hollywood", said sweetums, "I've been running to hollywood. I might as well, as I don't have enough money for a hotel. And I'm also saving as much money as I can".

"Well, what a coincidence", said the man, "I'm going to california myself. Maybe I can give you a ride".

"That'll be great!", said Sweetums, "I'm Sweetums. What's your name?"

"They call me Old Man Maguyver", said the man, "Me and my familys neighbors have been traveling in a big trailer."

Old Man Maguyvers families neighbors then came to the table.

"Oh, these are my neighbors", said Old Man Maguyver, "This is Chuck, Norah, Tom, Casey, Bridget, and Indiana".

"Hi", said sweetums.

"I've got a few big sacks", said Chuck, "Let's sneak as much food as possible into these sacks and then sneak them into the trailer."

"Why are you doing that?", asked sweetums.

"it's called grocery shopping", said Norah.

"But this is a resturaunt, not a grocery store", said sweetums.

 

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Chapter 13

Sweetums and the gang got into the trailer. Chuck drove the car, and everybody was ready to go.

"Sweetums, why don't you put these sacks of food into the overhead storage cabnets?", asked Norah.

"All right", said Sweetums, who did so.

"I'm gonna have to show you to your room", said Indiana.

Indiana took Sweetums to a room, which had two beds.

"Here is your room", said Indiana, "We're always ready to pick up strangers while on the road. We have two extra beds, but you'll probably take up both".

"I probably will", said Sweetums, who then accidently tripped over soem wire and broke a mirror.

"You idiot!", yelled Casey, "You broke a mirror! That's bad luck!"

"Oh, I'm sorry", said Sweetums, "I'll clean up".

Sweetums went to get a broom, which was right next to astep ladder. sweetums went under the ladder to get to the broom.

"Aaaaaahhhhh!", screamed Casey, "You're under a ladder... more bad luck!"

"Chill out, casey", said Old Man Maguyver, "it's only a superstition."

"That's easy for you to say", said Casey, "You were born on friday the thirteenth".

"That's right", said Old Man Maguyver.

"Not only that", said Casey, "but you were born on the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month..."

"There are only twelve motnhs in a year", said Old Man Maguyver.

"Don't smart off", said casey, "That doesn't change the fact that you were born in room 13 on the thirteenth floor".

"You do realize that today is your thirteenth birthday, right?", asked Maguyver.

"it is?", said casey, "Aaaaaah!"

He screamed and then jumped out the window. After he fell out, he suddenly blew up.

"Oh, no", said Norah, "He exploded".

"It's okay", said Sweetums, "it's not like anybody ever died from an explosion before".

As they observed, thirteen black cats came and liked the remains of casey.

 

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Chapter 14

After Casy had jumped out of the window of the vehicle, he landed on a land mine. He exploded and died. He blew up into many different pieces, and his family swept up as many of those pieces as possible and put them into a jar.

Nora sighed, "He was just too superstitious".

"I know, I know", said Old Man Maguyver.

"When we get back home, we'll try to give him a proper memorial service and funeral", said Bridget.

They were all very sad. Chuck decided to stop the vehicle and they all rested for the night.

Sweetums was resting in his room, but he couldn't sleep.

"Oh, man", moaned Sweetums, "I just met such nice people, and so soon after meeting them, one of them died. I hope that nothing bad happens to me and I make t to hollywood".

Sweetums eventually went to sleep, and he had a bad dream. First, he was walking into a dark room. he heard voices counting up to 14 over and over again. He saw two glowing eyes, staring at him. The eyes were as big as he was.

"Swee-tums...", said the voice, which echoed what he said, "You'll never make it there..."

"Who are you?", asked Sweetums.

"I am your evil negative side", said the voice, "Go back......."

"No!", said Sweetums, "I must beleive in myself!"

Sweetums' mother and father suddenly appeared.

"Sweetums!", shouted his mother, "Come back to mad Man Mooney's place right now!"

"Yeah, boy", said his dad, "You'll never accomplice your dream there".

They chased after Sweetums, and then a cage dropped on him. His parents fell into a sewer, and a puff of smoke showed up into the cage. Out came Mad Man Mooney.

"Well, Jack, I've told you for the last time to quit talkign to the customers", said Mad man Mooney.

"JACK NOT NAME!", shouted sweetums, "JACK JOB!", and then he ate Mad Man Mooney whole. After chewing and swallowing him, some purple slime came out his nose, and grew into Mad Man Mooney.

"You'll never get away from me", said Mad Man Mooney, "Because you suck!".

"No, I Don't!", shouted Sweetums.

Mad man Mooney then shrunk sweetums down to the size of his hand and put Sweetums into a bottle and put a cork on top so he couldn't get out. Mad Man Mooney through the bottle into a lake.

"How do I get out?", Sweetums asked himself. Then, he decided to push the cork out, but it was too heavy. He then saw kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and camillia in a row boat.

"Hey, we're gonna let you out", said kermit, "Do you want us to?"

"Of course", said Sweetums, wondering how he could hear Kermit.

"I didn't hear anything", said kermit.

"Let's get out of here", said Fozzie.

They rowed away. sweetums was scarred. Then he heard a flushing noise and the water was fluhsing. But then Sweetums finally woke up from his bad dream.

 

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Chapter 15

Three days later, the gang stopped for lunch at a Doc Hopper's French Fried Frog Legs resturaunt.

"I'll have a Slappy Meal", said Sweetums.

"I'll have frog legs and omletes", said bridget.

"I'll have five frog legs and a side order of toast", said Chuck.

"I'll have jellybeans", said Indiana.

"And I'll have frog leg soup", said Norah.

They had their meal, and then they finished.

"That was good", said Chuck.

"It sure was", said Norah, "It's just a shame that Old Man Maguyver was too tired to eat".

"Well, I'll go get back in the trailer", said Sweetums.

Sweetums entered the trailer.

"How was your lunch?", asked Old Man Maguyver.

"It made me gasey", said Sweetums, "But I hope that it gives me the stranght to get to hollywood".

Sweetums went to his room, but when he got there, he started to have to go to the restroom. Old Man Maguyver was using the trailer bathroom, so Sweetums went back into the restraunt.

The others went into the trailer.

"Sweetums is in here, right?", asked Bridget.

"yes", said Maguyver, "He's in his room".

"Good", said Indiana, "Now let's go!"

Sweetums then left the restroom and when he left the restraunt he saw a trailer leaving the building.

"Oh, hey, wait for me!", shouted Sweetums as he chased after the trailer, "Not again!"

Sweetums ran after the trailer. He got to it and then jumped at the back of the trailer. He got on top and then went to the front of the car. He stuck his head down so the driver could see him, but instead of any of the people he was traveling with, he saw a man with a black beard and glasses.

"Stop!", screamed Sweetums.

"Aaah", screamed the driver, who then stopped.

"Wait", said Sweetums, "You're not Old Man Maguyver, Chuck, Indiana, or any of the other people I met".

"No, 'm not", said the driver.

"This is the wrong trailer", Sweetums realized.

"Then beat it", said the driver.

Sweetums then saw a sign that said "Hollywood 100 miles".

"I've gotta catch up", thought Sweetums, who then ran.

 

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Chapter 16

Sweetums was walking to Hollywood in the dessert. It was getting really hot outside. He then saw a building which read, "Hollywood talent agency", and a sign which read "Now casting", which was underlined, and underneath that was "Monsters Only!".

"Well, this running gag is finally paying off", said Sweetums.

Sweetums grabbed the doorknob, but whenever he tried touching it his fingers went through it. The building then faded away.

"Aw, crud", said Sweetums, "Just a mirage".

Sweetums walked farther. He then saw Mad Man Mooney.

"Hey, Sweetums", said Mad man Mooney, "Come back and be my jack".

"No", said sweetums.

After that, mad man mooney faded away.

"Another mirage?", thought Sweetums.

It was getting darker, but he was still seeing things. He saw a stampede of bulls running towards him. Sweetums was running back and saw a big wall blocking him. The bulls ran through him, but he didn't feel anything. The wall and bulls disapeared.

As he was walking, he saw Kermit and the gang getting onto the electric mayhem bus.

"Oh, it's probably another mirage", thought Sweetums.

The bus took off. Sweetums walked closer to the broken-down car. He put his hand on it, and realized that he could feel it.

"If I can feel this, then..", said Sweetums, who then realized that he wasn't just seeing things. he then ran.

"Hey, wait for me!", shouted Sweetums.