The Return of the Dodos

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Chapter 18

Mr. Snuffleupagus was in his cave, watching a new game show.

"Welcome back to Depressed Housewifes", said Sonny Friendly, the host of the show, "now, as you may or may not remember, these hosuewifes are all depressed because Huxley has stolen their stuff. They are competing to get their things back. But first let's see who the judges think is the most depressed!"

Mr. Snuffleupagus, who was watching the show, thought, "Oh, gee, if I was a hosuewife, I wuld qualify for this show, and I could win a chance to get everything back."

The judges had announced the winner.

"Housewife number three, you are the most depressed! Congraduations, you are the winner!", shouted Sonny Friendly.

"Oh, boy!", shouted the winner, "So I get my stuff back, right?"

"Well, not exactly", said Sonny friendly, "First you have got to wait untill we all defeat Huxley and are able to get our stuff back."

"That wasn't nice, getting her hopes up like that", thougth Mr. Snuffleupagus, "But now that I think of it, I beleive that somebody accidently left something here recently, and I put it in the secret basement. Maybe it's still there, but I can't remember what it was."

Mr. Snuffleupagus went down to the secret basement, ganced in the room, and then said to himself, "oh, good, it's still here!"

Meanwhile, Sam and Sid Sleaze were just about to cross the bridge to new York City.

"Well, Sam, we're gonna make it after all", said Sid.

"That's right, Sid, we're almost there", said sam.

They drove through broadway, glancing at the signs for various broadway plays, including Manhattan Melodies, Little Shop of Horrors, The Odd Couple, and last but not least, Hair! Sam and Sid observed walking piles of hair walking into the theatre.

"hmm", thoguht Sam, "Maybe we should see if those hairballs would like to be in our circus. Anyway, Sid, we got to rememebr our cover story when we get there, pretend to be nice, and then trick that big yellow bird. You listen?"

"Oh, I'm sorry", said Sid, "I wasn't paying attention. My mind wandered off at that helicopter up there."

Sid Sleaze pointed his finger at Huxleys helicopter.

Back at Sesame Street, Maria, Gina, Elmo, the honkers, a dinger, Rosita, the Dodos, and the birdkateers were trying to cheer Big Bird up.

"Come on, Big Bird", said maria, "We know you're sad."

"We all feel terrible", said Rosita.

"Most of our favorite things have been stolen", said Gina, "But we must move on."

"Well, I don't want to move on", said Big Bird, "I want my picture of Mr. Scooper back, I want radar back, I want my rollerskates back, I want my picture of the alphabet back...." Big Bird started to cry again.

"We're all sad, Big Bird", said maria.

"I'm not sad", said Donnie.

Bruno carried Oscar into Big Birds home.

"Oh, the turkeys depressed", said Oscar, "I love it! Everybody is miserable. Aw, this is the life, right, Bruno?"

Bruno just stared at Oscar.

"Oh, Oscar, will you please go away?", asked Big Bird.

"Oh, I like your language", said Oscar, "But you've gotta get rid of that 'please' part."

"Will everybody go away?", said Big Bird.

"Look, Big Bird!", yelled maria, "You've gotta put yourself together!"

"Yes", said Gina, "It may be bad, but it could be worse."

"yeah, cheer up", said Oscar.

"wait", said Big Bird, "Do you really mean it, Oscar?"

"yeah, I think", said Oscar, "I've been feeling a little weird lately ever sinc eI figured that even without the hair spray I would remain green."

Oscar turned to Bruno.

"take me home, Bruno", said Oscar, who went into his trash can and closed the lid.

"you know, Gina, you're right", said Big Bird, "it could be worse. Why, my nest could have been blown away, or everybody could think that my best friend isn't real, or I coudl be struggling to fidn some "La-La-ers" for a big La La show, or I could be too big to play games with everybody, or I could be struggling to find out how Santa Clause can get down the chimney when he is so fat, or I coudl be struggling to learn math, or I could be painted blue and locked in a cage...."

"That's the spirit, Big Bird", said Daddie Dodo.

"hey, and you finally got my name right", said Big Bird.

"A wise man once gave Elmo some great advice", said Elmo, "he said, 'do something'".

"that's right", said Big Bird, "And my Grannie Bird told me to cheer up."

Just then, Mr. Snuffleupagus came by.

"hey, Bird!", said Mr. Snuffleupagus.

"Hi, Snuffy", said Big Bird.

"You're going to just love the news I have for you", said Mr. Snuffleupagus, "remember a few days ago, shortly after the Dodos arrived, you came over to my cave?"

"oh, yeah, I forgot", said Big Bird.

"Well", said Mr. Snuffleupagus, "Then I guess you forgot that you broguth radar over, and you left him here. I put him in my secret basement so that nothign bad would happen to him, and I have broguht him for you!"

"oh, boy!", said Big Bird, who took Radar, "I've missed you, Radar!"

Big Bird was happy again. "Oh, did I leave my pciture of Mr. Dooper at your cave?"

"oh, no", said mr. Snuffleupagus.

"Oh, well", said Big Bird, "i'll get it back."

Then Alan came.

"Hey, Big Bird, somebody is here to see you", said Alan.

"Oh, wow, and I just got another visitor. This is such a good day."

"well, I'm glad that Big Bird is happy again", said Maria.

Big Bird walked out of his nest area to see who was there to see him. He saw that it was the Sleaze brothers.

"Hello, Big Bird", said Sam Sleaze.

Big Bird screamed bloody murder when he learned it was the Sleaze Brothers.

 

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Screamed Bloody Murder? Oh my! A little far for sesame street! Big Bird, karate chop em! Knock em dead! Yeah!

whoops...another random moment..

 

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Chapter 19

Big Bird ran back into his home, trying to hide from the Sleaze brothers.

"What's going on?", asked Alan, "who are you guys?"

"Oh, my name is Sam Sleaze, and this is my brother, Sid", said Sam, "We used to own our own carnival, untill we got arrested."

"yeah", said Sid, "and we just got released."

"Oh", said maria, "You are the guys who locked Big Bird in a cage and painted him blue!"

"No wonder Big Bird was screaming so loud", said Alan.

"But we have changed", said Sam, "We just wanted to apologize to Big Bird and offer him free passes to our next carnival."

"Oh, boy, a carnival! I hope we'll be in town when you get ready", said Donnie.

"Well, we are a touring carnival", said Sid, "So you might be able to come."

"Oh, good", said Marie.

Sam and Sid went to Big Birds nest area.

"Hey, bird!", said Sid, "We're not here to take you back."

"oh, really?", said a disgruntled Big Bird.

"We just wanted to tell you that we are sorry", said Sam, "And that we are having another carnival soon, and to make it up to you, we are going to give you and your friends free passes."

Big Bird thought for a moment.

"Oh, no you don't", shouted Big Bird, "You are probably just pretending to be nice so that you can trick me back into that cage! Well, I am not going to fall for it! Now, please go away!"

"well, we tried to give you free passes", said sam, "But I guess we should just concentrate on our show, and not make it up to you."

Sam and Sid left, when they accidently bumped into the Dodos.

"oh, we're sorry", said Daddie.

"yeah, we always bump into things", said Mommie.

Sam looked at the Dodos and got an idea.

"Hey, Dodos, would you like to come to our carnival?", asked Sam.

"Oh, we would love to be in a carnival", said Donnie.

"okay", said Sam, "You all get in the back of the truck. We'll take you there."

They all got in the truck. Sam had Sid come with him to the corner of Sesame Street, next to the Mail-It shop, where they thought nobody would hear them.

"Alright, Sid", said Sam, "These talking, stupid Dodos will make us rich, and when we take them to our carnival, we'll send a note to that big yellow bird, telling him that he needs to save them!"

"oh, yeah", said Sid, "And then we will capture him too! Brilliant!"

They went to the truck to get it started. However, Forgetful Jones was behind the bushes and could hear everything. He ran down the streets.

"hey, everybody!", shouted Forgetful Jones, "I just heard some bad news!"

Everybody stopped what they were doing and came to the center of the street to hear what he had to say.

"So, Forgetful, what's wrong?", asked Gordon.

"I forget!", said Forgetful Jones.

 

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Chapter 20

The Dodos rode in the back of the Sleaze Brothers truck.

"Wow", said Mommie, "This is a breezy ride."

"yeah", said Daddie, "it's priceless."

"I'm getting cold", complained Marie.

"Well, I'm getting old", said Daddie.

The truck stopped in an empty field area.

"Well, here we are", said Sam, "This is where we will set up our carnival."

"Oh, wow", said Donnie.

"And you all get to sing on stage!", said Sid.

"oh, wow", said the Dodos.

"now, get in this cage so that you won't get lost", said Sid, "We're going to set up."

Sam and Sid started to get to work. Sam wrote a letter and mailed it to Big Bird.

"well, I wrote my letter", said Sam, "Now we've got to send it and trick Big Bird."

A black man walked by.

"Hello", said the black man, "My name is Kevin. Do you have any jobs availible?"

Sam made a smirk. "yeah, you can be our delivery boy."

On Sesame Street, Big Bird and Elmo were playing tag, only they didn't run away from each other.

"You're it!", said Big Bird.

"Now you're it!", said Elmo.

"No, you're it", said Big Bird.

"You're it", said Elmo.

Then, they got tired of playing.

"Big Bird", said Elmo as he was breathing hard, "Elmo is exhausted. Elmo needs a rest."

"Okay, Elmo", said Big Bird, You go home, and I'll play with you later."

Elmo walked away, humming the Elmos World theme, when he accidently bumped into kevin.

"Oh, pardon Elmo", said Elmo.

"it's alright", said kevin.

"hey", said Elmo, "You look familiar. Do I know you?"

"Probably not", said Kevin, "I don't show my face in public very often."

"Well", said Elmo, "Elmo knows you from somewhere, Elmo feels like the answer is under my nose, but Elmo can't remember."

"Well, keep trying", said kevin, "By the way, can you tell me where a Big Bird lives?"

"Oh, sure", said Elmo, "he lives right behind those doors over there."

"Thank you", said kevin.

Kevin walked to Sesame Street when he saw Oscar moving with his legs sticking out of the bottom of his trash can.

"Man, what are you supposed to be", asked kevin, "Some relative of R2D2?"

"Are those the letter and numbers of the day?", asked Oscar.

They went back to what they were doing.

Prarie Dawn and Betty Lou observed what happened.

"So, how can Oscar have a way to go to Grouchland in his can, have Bruno carry it with him in it, and be able to have his legs out of the bottom of the can?", asked Prarie Dawn.

"Just pretend it doesn't matter", said Betty Lou.

Kevin made it to Big Birds nest. Mr. Snuffleupagus was there, too.

"I've got a letter for Big Bird", said Kevin, "Which one of you is Big Bird?"

"I am", said Big Bird. Kevin handed him his letter and left.

Big Bird read the letter out loud.

"Dear Mr. Bird,

We have your precious Dodo friends at our carnival. Either you come over here or else they will stay at our carnival forever.

Sincerely,
Sam Sleaze."

"Oh, no!", said Big Bird, "We've got to find the carnival right away and rescue them!"

"Oh, dear", said Mr. Snuffleupagus.

They both left immediately, not thinking about bringing anybody else along.

 

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"Well", said Elmo, "Elmo knows you from somewhere, Elmo feels like the answer is under my nose, but Elmo can't remember."

The under Elmos nose comment is a refference to the fact that kevin Clash is Elmos performer, and works underneath Elmo (which would be under Elmos nose).

 

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Good Job! The cameo was clever

 

[Fragglemuppet]

I just read this story all the way through, and it's hilariou I love your sense of humor! An
I have one question though. Is Betty Lou's catch phrase, "Just pretend it dosn't matter," a refference to anything?

Thanks,
Kate

 

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I have one question though. Is Betty Lou's catch phrase, "Just pretend it dosn't matter," a refference to anything?

No, it's not a refference to anything.

 

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Chapter 21

Sam and Sid started advertising at a record time. People were lining up for jobs, and people with unusual talents were lining up to audition to be part of the fun fair. Sid was giving the job interviews.

The first wannabe to audition was a light blonde-haired man with a small beard.

"hello, my name is caroll", said the man.

"Carroll? Isn't that a girls name?", asked Sid.

"Well, it;s also a boys name", said caroll, "Anyway, I would like to be a par tof your fun fair."

"Okay", said Sid, "What unusual talants doi you have?"

"I have a split personality", said Caroll, "Sometimes, I am unusually cheerful and happy, and other times, I am unusually grouchy."

"That's normal", said Sid, "Next!"

"Oh, it's Normal , is it?", snapped a suddenly grouchy caroll, "Well, then I ain't comin' to your stinkin' carnival!". He stomped away, very angry.

The next man who auditioned had two pigs.

"My name is Danny", said the man, "And I have two of the worlds toughest pigs. Their names are Ken and Lilly."

"I'm Ken", moaned Ken The Pig.

"And I'm Lilly", said Lilly The Pig.

"And we are Dannys tough pigs!", said the two pigs, who started to beat at each other.

"Now, wait, we don't want no violence here", said Sid, "now go away!"

Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus made it to the fun fair.

"Wow, they got this place ready pretty fast", said Mr. Snuffleupagus.

"hey, it's kevin", said Big Bird, "hey, Kevin, can you tell me where Sam or Sid Sleaze are?"

"Sid is busy auditioning freaks", said Kevin, "But Sam is over there", and Kevin pointed to where Sam was.

"okay, Sam", said Big Bird, "Where are the Dodos?"

"Why, they are this way", said Sam, who then noticed Mr. Snuffleupagus, "You and your friend can come this way to them."

"What a friendly fellow", said Mr. Snuffleupagus.

"yeah, they seem friendly on the outside", aid Big Bird, "But you should never trust a stranger."

Sam Sleaze led the way.

"Now, you two go in this room", said Sam.

Big Bird and Snuffy both walked into the room, which led to the inside of a cage. Sam quickly shut the cage door and locked them in it.

"Ha! Now, not only do I get a big yellow bird for my show, but I also get a family of Dodos and a large mammoth creature", said Sam.

The Dodos were in the cage next to Big Bird and Snuffys cage.

"hey, it's Big Dodo", said Donnie, "Are you going to be in the show too?"

"You know, Bird", said Mr. Snuffleupagus, "I think we should have had maria, Gordon, Bob, or soembody else coem with us."

 

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Ok, Now it's becoming cameo infested! lol Nice Job
Ncik (whoops!)
Nick