FanFic: The First Time it Happens... [Archive]

Smiles

04-13-2006, 09:23 PM

Okay, so I'm going to start this new story.... even though I'm not finished my other one yet (I WILL FINISH IT!) And I'm going to try to update this story more frequently than I've been with my other... you'll all prolly have to bug me a little though.

If I take to long you have my permission to poke me with a stick. So here's chapter 1...

~*~CHAPTER 1~*~

The state of the boarding house was chaotic as usual. Amidst the hubbub Kermit, Clifford, Rizzo and Pepe were having their weekly Friday night card game, giving not a twitch to the bedlam surrounding them. The doorbell rang and when no one gave up their eccentric activities to answer it Kermit reluctantly got up, made sure none of his poker partners would peek at his cards, and headed towards the door.

When he was just about at the door Piggy flew down the stair and beat him to it. Piggy flung the door open and gave a great big hug to a young cow, no larger than himself, with a small light red suitcase and her dark brown hair in pigtails. Kermit shot a confused look to Piggy about their visitor.

"Kermie, this is my friend Denise," she said addressing not only Kermit but the rest of folks in the room who had all stopped what they were doing and see their new guest. "Remember, I told you all about her visiting when you were watching the game a couple nights ago," Piggy continued.

"Oh of course," Kermit nodded not wanting to admit that he hadn’t been paying attention to anything she said that night, "Umm, I’m Kermit. Pleased to meet you."

"Oh so your Kermit?" Denise exclaimed happily, "I’ve heard sooo much about you! When’s the wedding?"

Kermit changed from his natural green to bright red, "Look, I don’t know what Piggy’s told you, but there’s no wedding. Gee, um, we’re not even dating." He looked around at everyone who was staring. Some were biting their lips, some covered their mouths, and some looked away; all of them trying to conceal their laughter. He braced himself for the inevitable karate chop that was bound to happen after making a comment like that to Piggy’s friend. But… it didn’t come, she just brushed off the comment as if nothing had happened.

"Umm, Rizzo, Pepe," Piggy said sweetly, "would you two show Denise to the guest room and help her with her bags?" The two collected themselves enough to make it to the stairway.

"Hokay Ritzo, I’ll do the showing and jou do the helping," Pepe said as he and Rizzo lead Denise up the stairs to the guest room. With the dead silence downstairs, their laughter could be clearly heard when they reached the top.

Piggy walked a couple feet to where Kermit stood. ‘Here it comes,’ he thought, ‘she just didn’t want to make a bad impression on her friend.’

But to Kermit’s great surprise, and relief, no karate chop came. No drop kick either. She just fluttered her eyelashes and said ever so sweetly, "You know Kermie, one day you’ll have to admit you love me." With that, she walked off to talk to find her friend, quite aware that as she left all eyes were on her.

Leyla

04-13-2006, 09:33 PM

Yay! Yippee! Yippee! Yay! I love it already! Squeeee! More please!

Beauregard

04-14-2006, 02:46 AM

Pepe's line was, like, one of the best Pepe lines I have heard, ever. I'm covering giggles and snorts here.

redBoobergurl

04-14-2006, 01:24 PM

Ooh, I like it! I'd love to read some more! Great job so far, very descriptive!

Smiles

04-14-2006, 04:55 PM

~*~CHAPTER 2~*~

Piggy poked her head into the guest room and watched Denise unpack her things. "Need some help?"

"Sure," Denise said and the two of them began folding shirts and jeans and putting them in dresser drawers. "So Piggy, mind telling me what’s going on with you and Kermit?" she asked not very surprised at the situation, she’d been used to Piggy’s antics since they were little girls. And Piggy had to gotten used to her antics by now too.

"Well it’s hard to explain," Piggy told her.

"Try me," said Denise looking at her stack of clothes in her suitcase. "I’ve got time," she laughed.

Piggy sighed, "Well you see, um… remember in my one movie where I sang ‘the first time it happens you know’?" Denise nodded. "Well," Piggy continued, "I guess that’s not always true for everyone. You see Denise I believe in love at first sight. But I also believe in love at second sight, and seventh sight, and three thousand and eleventh sight! And well some people have a delayed reaction, and that’s Kermie."

"So it’s like he’s in love with you, but he just doesn’t know it yet?" asked Denise.

Piggy shook her head, "Oh he knows he’s in love with me all right, he just doesn’t know thatyet!"

"Men are difficult," Denise nodded.

"Men ARE difficult!" Piggy agreed.

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"Got any threes?" Clifford asked.

"Go fish. I cannot believe you convinced us to switch from poker to go fish Pepe," Kermit said.

"I was having an off game hokay?" Pepe explained.

"He probably lost that ace he keeps up his sleeve," Rizzo commented.

"I’m going to ignore that," Pepe said looking over his cards, "got any twos?"

"Go fish," Rizzo told him, "So Pepe what do you think of that cow?"

"Ah, she’s not my type," Pepe said as he drew his card from the pile.

"Since when has any girl not been your type?" Clifford asked skeptically.

"Well see first I met the pig…" Pepe began.

"Yeah, Kermit’s the only one who Piggy’s his type," Rizzo cut in.

"Hey, wait a…" Kermit tried to defend himself.

"I wasn’t talking to you Kermit," Rizzo stopped him.

"But I…," Kermit gasped.

"Really Kerm, If they’re not talking to you, then you really should stay out of the conversation," Clifford told him.

"Si Kermin, butting in to other peoples conversations is rude," Pepe told him. Kermit shut his mouth. "So anyways… and then I meet this cow who is friend of the pig, and it’s like she’s wearing a big sign: stay away Pepe," He finished.

"Unless you wanna get karate chopped," Clifford laughed, "So have you any fours?"

"Yeah," Kermit sighed handing over the card.

Clifford looked over the card unsurely. "Um so now that I have a pair what do I do?" He asked placing his cards down on the coffee table.

The rest of the group shrugged. "I dunno, I’ve never gotten that far before," Pepe told him.

TogetherAgain

04-14-2006, 05:27 PM

<Laughs> "I dunno, I've never gotten that far before." HAAAA!

And of course, I love the rest of the chapter as well. Oh, for shame, did I forget to comment on chapter one? I did? Oh, shame on me! I love this story, really, I do, and I want to know where it's going and what happens next and- MORE PLEASE!

Ruahnna

04-15-2006, 09:25 PM

[QUOTE]Clifford looked over the card unsurely. "Um so now that I have a pair what do I do?" He asked placing his cards down on the coffee table.

The rest of the group shrugged. "I dunno, I’ve never gotten that far before," Pepe told him.[QUOTE]

Oh, Smiles--I'm going to assume your double meaning was cleverly planted (good job!) or that you have wonderful intuition for double meanings. There's not a man in the card-playing crowd you describe who actually knows what to do with "a pair"--since he's never been part of one long enough to find out! Well played! (And yes, that was intentional.)

Smiles

04-17-2006, 10:50 AM

Thanks for all the lovely comments all. I'm ever so glad you like it!! Now on to the story.....

~*~CHAPTER 3~*~

The next morning Denise awoke not to her typical wake up call of birds chirping or a rooster crow, but to an explosion. She was quite sure she’d dreamed it, why would there be an explosion anyway? But the commotion that had woken her up continued and she wondered what on earth was going on.

She decided to head down and get some breakfast, that is if she could find the kitchen in this maze of a house. Luckily, she found the kitchen not long after she started her search and in an instant she knew where all the noise was coming from. She stood jaw dropped in the doorway and took in the peculiar sight before her.

She watched as the inhabitants of the house scrambled around bumping into each other trying to get some food, while most of the food in the house appeared to be flying through the, with a couple penguins. "What on earth is going on here?" she muttered to her self.

As if from nowhere, a strange blue fellow popped up next to her. "Piggy hasn’t told you much about life at the boarding house, has she?" he asked.

"Well I don’t suppose I could really believe what she told me anyway," Denise answered still looking around the room in awe. The blue fellow nodded. Thanks to some residential blabbermouths, news of last night’s incident had spread all over the house, and even to a few folks on the street.

"Well life in the boarding house is weird and wacky," the blue fellow told her, " And as guide to the weird and wacky, I, Gonzo the Great would like to say please keep all hands and feet inside the vehicle and". He stopped short as he watched Denise walk absent-mindedly away. Gonzo shook his head, "You should never leave your tour group."

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Denise eased her way through the mob of muppets much more easily than she had anticipated looking in from the outside. She was just walking along looking at all folks she didn’t recognize, the few she did when a pastry was thrust in front of her face. She looked down, confused, at the small orange guy who had showed her to her room.

"Raspberry flapover," he told her, "eat it."

She took a bite and made a face. "Pepe, this tastes like dirt," she told him.

"Well jour not going to want anything the chef makes, hokay," Pepe responded.

"There’s a chef here?" Denise asked in astonishment.

"Yes, jour not going to want his food. And these are good raspberry flapovers!" He said putting several of his hands on his hips.

"PEPE! These taste like DIRT!" she told him.

Pepe glared at her, "Cow."

"Shrimp!" she rebutted.

"No, King Prawn," he told her.

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Denise grabbed an apple from the fridge and some eggs from chef with a strange dialect and took them up to her room. This way even if she didn’t like the chef’s food she would still have something to eat.

She didn’t really understand what the chef had told her but she thought he said something about a ‘western’ omelet. "I wonder why they call this a western omelet?" she asked herself aloud.

"Because it speaks in the twang of a cowboy from the Wild West," said an anonymous voice speaking in the aforementioned accent. Denise looked around the room but saw no one there. "Down here," said the voice. She looked down at her omelet, which now had eyes a mouth and was sporting a stylish ten-gallon hat. "Howdy," said the omelet, " It’s lovely to meet ya an all. But I’ve got to get goin". And the omelet inched out the door.

Denise watched it go, amazed, the n shrugged. She still had the apple. As she was about to take a bite it ‘popped!’ and exploded all over the room. Apple bits everywhere.

Miss Piggy walked into the room. "Hey Dee," she said, "I need to go get a dress for the show tonight. So Janice Camilla and I were wondering if you want to go out shopping in Hensonville."

Denise shook her head, "No way!" Piggy looked at her, confused. "You see Piggy," Denise continued, "I looked around town before I came here last night. There’s just too many references, too many inside jokes out there. Way too much for me to handle."

Piggy laughed, "All right Dee, if you’re sure." She looked around the room. "I see you tried to eat one of Harry’s apples."

Denise nodded, "Do you have to deal with this every day?!?"

"You get used to it," Piggy laughed.

"And why do you keep laughing at everything I say?" Denise asked, almost offended.

Piggy laughed again, "That’s how you get used to it around here."

ReneeLouvier

04-17-2006, 12:55 PM

"Too many inside references, too many inside jokes." Loved that. XD

And Piggy is slowly going mad...that's how she deals with it. XD

Leyla

04-21-2006, 09:59 AM

Now where did I leave my poking stick... ah, here we go!

*poke, poke*

This is great fun, Smiles, and therefore it must be continued! Denise is interesting. It's nice to see Piggy having a friend. Love all the Muppety craziness too. Renee definately has a point about Piggy going mad, though.

Denise shook her head, "No way!" Piggy looked at her, confused. "You see Piggy," Denise continued, "I looked around town before I came here last night. There’s just too many references, too many inside jokes out there. Way too much for me to handle."

Now this, I understand! Speaking as someone new to this forum, and to the Muppets in general, in a way, I spend a lot of time hopeless confused at all the references and in no way am I gonna attempt to live up to this... reality that people have created.

Loved the double entendre that Ruahnna mentioned, whether it was intentional or not, and really, I just love the whole thing. Sooooo.... *poke, poke.*

Fragglemuppet

04-22-2006, 12:19 PM

I love this story so far! I love reading descriptions of all the zaneyness that goes on at the MBH, and seeing someone from the outside trying to acclimate themselves to it is allways good for a laugh... or 50! Only one thing though. Denise does seem to have a bit of an attitude, doesn't she? I mean I know having part of your breakfast walk away, and part of it explode isn't really fun, but still...
Oh, and Leyla? Regardless of what you may think, there is no escape! You will be baking muffins, and shooting penguins out of cannons before you know it, LOL!

Leyla

04-22-2006, 06:33 PM

It's like being sealed into those invisible mime boxes, isn't it? Oddly enough, I understand penguins being shot out of cannons, but I have no idea about muffins... or ziffling, although I'm apparently good at it. You guys are great though.

*taps invisible glass* Yep, I think I'm gonna like it in this box.

Ruahnna

04-22-2006, 07:18 PM

Smiles--I also meant to say earlier that I like to see that Piggy didn't dump all of her "I knew you when" friends. As one of the more, um, aged people on this forum (I am old enough to be the chaparone, but not mature enough!), I can attest to the power of friendships formed when you were young and idealistic. Nice to see Piggy has some of those down-home values. Keep going, honey--keep it coming!

TogetherAgain

04-22-2006, 08:23 PM

I hear questions about Ziffels and Muffins? Allow me to explain. A "ziffel" is named for the member Ziffel, who did/does it a lot, and I think the term was first used by D'Snowth, but don't quote me on that. It's when two people submit a post at almost exactly the same time, neither of them having any idea that the other is posting. I'll use an example that Ziffel himself has used- Let's say that Member A posts and 12:44, "My favorite food is hotdogs. They're delicious, I love them!" Members B and C read A's post at about the same time, and reply at the same time. Member B's post comes in first, at 12:46: "Does anyone know what Jim Henson's favorite food was?" Then comes Member C's post, also at 12:46: "I love them too!" Member B has just pulled the purest form of a ziffel, in which the flow of the conversation was interrupted. But it would have also been a ziffel if Member B had posted, "Yeah, hotdogs are great," because Member C wouldn't have known that Member B had posted.

Muffins... Well, I don't think anyone is really sure how that started. Usually, "muffining" is when a thread is taken off of its original topic. My first exposure to muffining was when a thread asking where the real Muppet puppets are kept evolved into hijacking the Electric Mayhem bus, breaking into where ever the Muppets are kept, stealing all of them, kidnapping the Muppeteers... Come to think of it, I don't think we ever returned those Muppets... A more recent example of muffining happened in my Flippersteps thread. After my heartwrenching car accident chapter, you may recall, there was over a page of posts in which we drank hot chocolate, cuddled with various stuffed animals, and yelled at me for being so heartwrenching. (Sorry, I can't help it.) Or, an even better example- by defining ziffeling and muffining, I am currently muffining this thread. So, to un-muffin... sort of...

I seem to have neglected to reply to this chapter. Shame on me! I love it! And I agree with everything that everyone else has already said. So please, pretty please, MORE PLEASE!

Ruahnna

04-22-2006, 08:28 PM

How funny--I muffin all the time and never even knew it! BTW, TogetherAgain, you are always very nice to include us newbies and sortof newbies in the loop.

imwhoim

04-22-2006, 09:13 PM

Vigor....more vigor. Original MS Vigor is very interesting. Are there any clips from the Henson archives. Your fiction could one day be gold, just take something as simple as a paper clip and look what Microsoft did.

Fragglemuppet

04-22-2006, 09:29 PM

Pardon?

imwhoim

04-23-2006, 06:29 PM

Vigor is that pesty little paper clip Microsoft included as an assistant with its Office programs. Could it be customized into a muppet? Wouldn't it be great if you click on help and Fozzy Bear pops up?

Smiles

04-23-2006, 08:01 PM

Thanks again for the lovely comments!

Yeah Denise does have a bit of an attitude...but she is Piggy's friend, after all.

Imwhoim, im not really sure what the the MS paperclip has to do with anything, but a muppet one would be cool

Don't worry Leyla, I am also a confused newb, I had absolutely no idea what a ziffel was, though I did know of the member. So thanks for explaining Lisa1 (though you do need to work on you unmuffining skills... :p... And on with the story!!!!!!!!

~*~CHAPTER 4~*~

Denise sat around in her room leafing through a magazine Piggy had lent her, years ago. She was so bored her brain was throbbing. All she needed to do to end her boredom was walk out that door into the craziness that engulfed this place.

But… she didn’t know any of them. How could Piggy have left her? Well she did invite her but still… and all of the folks around here were so strange. Yet,… they were exciting, interesting, different. Still….

She snapped her self out of her thoughts and back into reality. Why was she being so indecisive? She could hold her own with these people. She held her head up high and began to start a self-guided tour of the boarding house.

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Stepping out into the hallway was like stepping into a carnival. It was swamped with people, from a man throwing fish, to Rowlf reading the newspaper, to a guy with bubbles coming out of his head.

She sighed and headed down the stairs to take a look at the kitchen when it wasn’t at its rush hour. The kitchen was much less chaotic than it had been earlier that morning. Though, while looking at the scene in front of her she could hardly believe that it could be considered less chaotic than anything.

The crowd was gone, but penguins remained, still flying through the air, some with cue cards. Skillfully dodging them, the Chef chatted with Rowlf and Rizzo carried piles of food out of the fridge. She watched the penguin aerobatics and shook her head.

Sam the Eagle who had briefly introduced himself the other day stepped into the room and looked over the place. Upon the sight he made a dignified huff and began walking in circles around the kitchen muttering, "Weird, unamerican," and such.

Denise watched him make several laps and the decided to start up some casual chitchat. "Those penguins are awful strange aren’t they," she said to him.

Sam looked at her, flustered. His eyebrows raised, his eyes bulged, his beak clamped shut and he quickly walked off in the opposite direction. "Unnatural, just unnatural," he muttered.

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Denise sat down in living room and flipped the channel to some talk show.
Rowlf sat down next to her. She was shocked that with all the people around no one had already snagged the television. She looked at the insanity around her, on second thought, perhaps these folks didn’t need TV.

Wait a minute, she thought looking at Rowlf. Rowlf was in the hallway, he was in kitchen, he was sitting next to her now…

"Rowlf are you following me?" she turned and asked him.

"Wouldn’t think of it," Rowlf calmly told her and turned back to the talk show.

Denise shrugged, coincidence. But as she continued her self-guided tour, she noticed that every where she went, there he was.

When she went back to her room and he was there it was the final straw.

"Rowlf you are stalking me!" she incriminated him, pointing her finger menacingly, "I know what it looks like!"

"Happens a lot, huh?" Rowlf asked.

TogetherAgain

04-23-2006, 08:13 PM

Haha! "Happens a lot, huh?" Oh my gosh, I just love Rowlf... And oh poor Denise! In a house with a bunch of weirdos, and no idea what to do! Even Sam was no help, and he thinks they're weirdos, too! Oh my gosh, this is hysterical. Oh, please tell me what happens next, please oh pretty please! MORE PLEASE!

Leyla

04-23-2006, 08:33 PM

Yay! You updated!!! And yay for Rowlf! Glad someone's looking out for the poor girl. As wonderfully chaotic as the boarding house is, I still wouldn't mind visiting... although personally, I wouldn't leave my tour guide.;)

Loved Sam's complete unhelpfulness. Well, it's not like he can cope with the others either.

So fun! Keep writing!

ReneeLouvier

04-24-2006, 05:05 AM

good gracious. >< This is getting nice and positively nutty!

imwhoim....wow, that's the weirdest muffin I've seen yet! Talking about the paper clip guy. What does that have to do with the fanfic though? o.O

Ruahnna

04-28-2006, 10:40 AM

Smiles? You still there, honey? Poke, poke. (whispers to someone behind her, "Do you think we need a bigger stick?") Waiting with bated (or maybe I mean "baited") breath.

Leyla

04-28-2006, 08:39 PM

Maybe not a bigger stick... maybe a sharper one, or maybe we could just chain her to her keyboard.

Maybe I'm just crazy... and demanding. MORE! (Hey, it works for Lisa!)

*Pats Smiles sweetly on the noggin.* I mean well, really.

Smiles

04-29-2006, 05:20 PM

I know you all mean well. ;) Though I think I would perfer a bigger stick to a sharper one....

So anyway, you can all put your sticks away for now, cause here's more story....

~*~CHAPTER 5~*~

"I can’t believe you told him to follow me!" Denise yelled.

"I told him to keep an eye on you," Piggy said trying to fit her new purchases in her overstuffed closet, "I thought it was something Rowlf could handle," she mumbled under her breath.

"But I don’t see why you had to go and do that, I’m not a little girl you know," Denise argued.

"Well Dee, you were so shocked after breakfast, and you can be a little immature, and I didn’t expect Rowlf to be so pathetic and fail miserably at something so…" Piggy began, trying her dresser now, and was interrupted by Denise.

"Well e didn’t do that bad of a job…Hey! I’m not immature!" she pouted.
Piggy sighed, then smiled, "It’s okay. Come on. We can make cookies."
"Chocolate chip?" asked Denise. Piggy nodded.

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"Now Denise, you may not think this but the penguin flipping is very systematic," Piggy explained once they reached the kitchen, "Just follow me. Step front, step left, step right, stay still while you count to ten, step back, count to three, step left, step right……."

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"I’m going to go see if anyone in the dining room wants some of these cookies," Denise told Piggy and began working her way out of the kitchen.

"Right, left, 1, 2, 3, back, left, 1, front, front, 1, 2, Don’t the penguins in the kitchen get annoying? 7, 8, left, right," she mumbled on her way.

"Be glad your not here while they’re swimming in the bathtub," Piggy told her friend who hadn’t traveled very far. About fifteen minutes later she reached her destination and Piggy began cleaning up the cookie material.

"But Kermit," Sal and Johnny walked in trying to convince their leader to add a last minute number for Johnny’s mama in to tonight’s show.

"Oh Kermie!" Piggy exclaimed and went over to him using a slightly more risky, yet extremely faster method of avoiding the penguins. Running. "I need to talk to you about something." Johnny and Sal shut their mouth and stared at her intently. "Alone," she added.

"Oh of course," the two muttered and walked out into the living room.
"What is it Piggy?" Kermit asked.

"It’s about Denise. You see she doesn’t really get out much, and I thought that she could use something really exciting to do, and that we could give her a role on the show, that might broaden her horizons, we’ll nothing too big, nothing like Moi, but if you were going to have Annie Sue on tonight or something…." Piggy rambled.

"I think someone’s a step ahead of you Piggy," Kermit said and turned Piggy’s attention out through the open dining room door.
"So could you like fill in fer me?"

Piggy watched as Janice asked Denise to fill in for her with the band for their number on the show tonight. After a little hesitation, and some prodding from the rest of the band, she agreed.

"Oh, I told Janice that maybe Dee could fill in while she goes for a doctors appointment," Piggy told Kermit as a side note.

"She plays guitar, huh?"

"I guess we’ll find out," Piggy shrugged.

"Piggy!" Kermit exclaimed.

"What?"

"You can’t just do that!"

"Well now she’ll be on the show."

"But she doesn’t play guitar!"

"You don’t know that, Kermie. Moi has everything under control."

Kermit crossed his arms and sighed. "We better make a back up plan," he said and dragged her down to the basement via the dining room.

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Just as Kermit and Piggy had been watching Denise and The Electric Mayhem in the dining room, they were being eavesdropped on by Johnny and Sal from the living room.

"They're in love," sighed Sal.

"Oh yeah Sal, cause they talk sooo much like lovers," Johnny said sarcastically.

"Well they argue like a married couple," Sal pointed out, "I’ll bet they’re the first couple around here to get married."

"No way Sal, my money is on Gonzo and Camilla," Johnny said.

"Hey is that a bet I hear?"

Bill Bubble Guy

04-29-2006, 05:22 PM

Very good Smiles. I can't wait to find out Rowlf's excuse for stalking Denise though I'm sure he wouldn't have any bad intentions.
And I loved the indirect cameo of my friend Bill the Bubble Guy.
Keep it up

Hee Hee You just ziffled me:D

Ruahnna

04-29-2006, 06:12 PM

If Rowlf follows her home, can she keep him? Hmm--maybe there's another couple in the running, er, walking?

TogetherAgain

04-29-2006, 10:24 PM

Maybe it's another couple in the penguin-dodging... <Giggles>

Speaking of which, I LOVE the penguin dodging! And Piggy being her usual conspiring self, I love it. I wonder if Denise plays guitar...

MORE PLEASE!!!!!

Leyla

04-30-2006, 04:38 PM

But the sharp stick worked! :halo: Roughly how old is Piggy's friend anyway? My estimation of her age is bouncing back and forth.

I love that Piggy sicked Rowlf on Denise (I love Rowlf, he's such a cool guy).
I also find it extremely amusing to see Piggy trying to teach anyone anything, let alone baking cookies. She's been hiding a baking affinity apparently since that interview with Regis.

It is too funny that Piggy, and one presumes the other muppets have worked out a system for dodging the penguins. I also like how she abandons the cautious approach and runs through them to talk to Kermit. I don't think the penguins would come off the winners in a collision with her anyway.

The little dig at Annie Sue was great, and Kermit's panic at having someone with possibly no guitar skills replacing Janice is really cute. Sal and Johnny are funny too.

Clearly I've been reading too many of Ruahnna's stories 'cause when you wrote that Kermit dragging Piggy to he basement for a back up plan, well, my mind went guttery for second. "Ooh, the basement... oh, wait, they're not married, or probably dating in this one, right, right."

Lousy brain, always getting me in trouble.

Write more soon,
Leyla

imwhoim

05-01-2006, 08:20 PM

Riddle me this...

There are two doors, one leads to pure treasures and the other to certain death. In front of the door are two muppets, one who always tells the truth, the other who always lies. You have the ability to ask only one of the muppets only one question. What question do you ask to insure yourself to pick the door leading to pure treasures......Jeapardy music....

ReneeLouvier

05-01-2006, 09:49 PM

imwhoim

05-02-2006, 08:37 PM

It is a Riddle - solve it.

ReneeLouvier

05-03-2006, 08:34 AM

Oh! Okay....hmmm.....

Well, the question you ask also depends on the Muppets in front of the door. Considering it's one who always tells the truth and one who always lies...I'd say it's Fozzie (truth) and Miss Piggy (lies).

If it were thouse two muppets, I would ask Miss Piggy which door she would go through. As she would lie, saying the other door. (The one of certain death.) I would go through the other door, ending up picking the one with pure treasures.

Hope I solved it right. >>

The Count

05-04-2006, 03:25 PM

*Forgetting about the muffining...
Hey smiles... Can we get some more story please? Would hate to have to use this cute little stick I borrowed from you on you as well.

Smiles

05-08-2006, 06:15 PM

Hehe... um I have no idea how to go about figuring out that riddle. The door on the left???

Oh well, here's more story. It's a short chapter this time, but I would like to avoid the poking sticks for once and post before anyone starts using them;)

~*~CHAPTER 6~*~

Rizzo was standing atop a crate addressing the large crowd of muppets who had congregated in the living room, reading off a small notepad he was holding, "Okay so then we’ve got Dr. Teeth, Clifford, Pops, Link and Waldorf with their money on Janice and Floyd."

Statler looked over at his friend, "Waldorf you old fool!"

"What you don’t think I should have joined the bet?"

"No! You should have bet on the frog and the pig like I did!"

Rizzo cleared his throat and tried to talk over the chatter coming from the large crowd, "Okay. Okay. Any last bets before we close the books?"

Gonzo jumped up and down from the middle of the crowd waving money in his hand, "I wanna bet on Denise and…anyone in the house!"

Rizzo sighed and walked over to him, "Gonzo you can’t enter the bet, you’re a couple."

"Oh really Rizzo? I thought I was a few," he said putting his money back in his pocket.

"Besides that isn’t the smartest bet to make pal," Rizzo explained to him.

"Who’d you bet on? Me and Camilla, right?" Gonzo asked.

"I’m just taking the bets on this one," Rizzo explained.

"You make a lot of money off these innocent gamblers Rizzo," Gonzo laughed.

"Well sure, sure. How else do you think I could afford that lovely fondue pot we’ve in our room? You know the show barely pays the rent," Rizzo said.

Just then, Kermit rushed into the room, to frantic to notice the gathering, "The show! Come on, we’ve got to get the to the show!" He rushed out the door with Piggy, Bunsen and Beaker trailing behind him. Everyone else quickly alert the few who weren’t in the room and followed after them.

They all piled into the Electric Mayhem Bus. Even with people on the roof and the fender, it was an unsolved mystery how they all fit. Dr. Teeth made sure everyone buckled in, "On the bus safety matters," and floored it.

The Count

05-08-2006, 06:45 PM

Thank you. *Puts poking stick down.
Liked the betting circle... Gonzo: Thought I was a few.
Good stuff, hope for more soon.

Fragglemuppet

05-08-2006, 07:05 PM

Oh my, you can't leave us there! Well, since you're the one writing the thing, I guess you technically can...
That conversation was so tipically Gonzo! You know at first, I thaught Rizzo was going over the show, and I thaught, maybe it was a way Kermit and Scooter could keep him out of the kitchen. Then when I figured out what it was, I laughed out loud. And I wonder what could have happened at the theater... Must be an emergency... What suspence! And the poor muppets, allways with money problems!

Leyla

05-08-2006, 07:08 PM

Yay! I'll just put down my extra pointy poking stick here and make extensive use of the hugging attachment.

Great job, Smiles! I love how you continued that line about betting on who gets hitched first with an actual betting scene. I'm telling you, we should make sure this bunch doesn't get unleashed on Vegas anytime soon. It's amazing how much betting they do. :)

I, too, loved Gonzo's line about being a few. He's such a funny guy, and he's had his eye on more than one lady (or chicken) over the years.

Love Rizzo and Gonzo's fondue pot, too funny! I also liked this line:

Even with people on the roof and the fender, it was an unsolved mystery how they all fit.

It's gotta be one of those tardis things, bigger on the inside than the outside.

I'm glad you updated! Hoorah!

Leyla

TogetherAgain

05-08-2006, 08:39 PM

Oh my, you can't leave us there! Well, since you're the one writing the thing, I guess you technically can...
<Chuckles> Hey, it could be worse. I have a friend who once told me that when she posts fanfic online, she stops whenever she gets sick of typing- even if it's the middle of a sentence, or even the middle of a word! Thank goodness nobody does that here.

Anyways, a nice little chapter here. Short, yes, but everyone's in character, and thus funny, and entertaining, and Muppety, and basically a good fanfiction. Well done. MORE PLEASE! (I'm sorry, but it's just the nature of my being- I AM a poking stick!)

The Count

05-08-2006, 09:16 PM

Huh? You're a poking stick now? Thought you were Insane A. Sylum.

TogetherAgain

05-08-2006, 09:37 PM

Oh, pardon the confusion... I am a poking stick named Insane A. Sylum.

The Count

05-08-2006, 10:06 PM

Glad to meet you. Me? I'm a Muppaholic named Frogg E. Legs.
Along with being a great many other things...

More story please BTW.

The Count

05-08-2006, 10:08 PM

Glad to meet you... Me? I'm a conneisseur of a great many things. I go by many different names. Some call me Scratch, or Nick, or even B.L.

Fraggleforever

05-08-2006, 10:10 PM

Smiles, I love this story. I really do. The Muppets are being their usual selves, (well, as usual as Muppets can be), and I like Denise. I can't to read the next chapter!

Bill Bubble Guy

05-09-2006, 07:47 AM

Great work Smiles. Keep it up.

redBoobergurl

05-09-2006, 12:59 PM

Hi Nicole! I just wanted you to know that I am still reading this story! I just haven't had much of a chance to read and comment on it. It really is quite good and I am enjoying it. So keep up the good work!

Smiles

05-12-2006, 06:14 PM

For the record, I was only going to have them go do the show next, but some of the comments on here got me to thinking that maybe I'll put something a bit more of a twist, but I'm not very twisty so I gave it a tiny oomph.

Gee that didn't even make sense to me. Anyway next chapter....

~*~CHAPTER7~*~

"It’s nice of you to help officer, but we have a show to do."

Piggy watched her love argue with the police officer, her back leaned against a wall of the theater that wasn’t incinerated. It was amazing how many fires happened at the theater and the boarding house. But with folks like Gonzo and Crazy Harry running around, how could it be avoided? This time the right wing was where sparks flew.

"You cannot do a show in there," the officer pointed out.

"We could just use the part that wasn’t hit by the fire," Kermit argued.

"But the fire just happened today. It’s unsafe!"

"The Muppet Theater is always unsafe!"

Piggy giggled to herself. With as many fires as happen, Kermit always got just as worked up about it. Everyone else walked around totally unfazed. Some chatted; a few lingered on the bus. Others practiced their skits, for they had come to know that the show must go on. The show always goes on.

"Okay everybody," Kermit addressed the crowd of muppets, TV crew, and audience members that had gathered around, "We’re doing the show in the park this week. Umm… any show requiring electricity, I guess, just put off till next week."

"Well there goes our number," Dr. Teeth commented.

"Yeah man, without out electric, were just like… mayhem," Zoot said.

"MAYHEM! MAYHEM!" agreed Animal.

Bunsen looked down at his guitar with a sigh, "I guess we won’t be needing this." The band curiously looked at him. "It’s an automatic guitar," he explained, "it hears the song the rest of the band is playing and plays the tune without any strumming of the stings or whatnot. We were going to use it for Denise because…" Piggy glared at him from a distance. He gulped, "Well we just were."

Floyd picked up the guitar and looked it over, "Hey you never know, maybe we could use this for Janice."

"What about me?" Janice asked, walking up to them.

Floyd jumped a bit, but quickly reacquired his usual ever-cool demeanor, "Nothin Baby. We were just wondering what it was like for you, you know, being with guys all the time. In the band, even back at the house. What about girl stuff?" He slipped his hands around her waist and she placed her arms on his shoulders.

"Oh," she said, "There’s enough girls around here to go shopping or have girl talk."

"Well with the pig, the chicken, and the cow it’s more like a barnyard."

She laughed a little, "Besides it rully cuts down on the competition."

Floyd smiled, "Yeah, I guess with all the guys around here I’m the one who ought to be worried about competition."

"Fer sure you ought to be," she said. He pulled back and looked at her. "Kidding," she giggled.

He smirked a bit, "Aren’t you supposed to be at a doctors appointment?"

"You know Kermit," she sighed, "He called and said it was an emergency." The two of them began walking hand in hand onto the bus. "Oh," she commented while they were walking, " I heard the whole comment about the guitar."

The Count

05-12-2006, 09:40 PM

Cute... Cute chapter.
Short one, but it helps bridge the gap. An automatic guitar for Denise, guess they won't need it now that Janice's back.
Hope for more soon.

Leyla

05-12-2006, 09:41 PM

Heehee, this was a fun chapter! Loved the commentary on the fires and the walking, breathing probable causes.

"The Muppet Theater is always unsafe!"

Very, very funny! I like how Kermit is really the only one who cares, and of course, how the show must go on.

Too bad Bunsen's guitar won't work now... it was a great idea, although, come to think of it, Denise is probably much safe this way.

Nice interaction between Floyd and Janice... though Floyd is lucky Piggy didn't catch that barnyard remark. :) Great part, very funny!

Leyla

Bill Bubble Guy

05-28-2006, 09:09 AM

I haven't been reading much but since I finally finished my updated Muppet Show outline with Harry Secombe I've read the new chapter Nicole. It's looking very good I'll have to re read the whole thing from the beginning sometime. Keep it up :)

TogetherAgain

05-30-2006, 10:32 AM

I realize I never replied to this chapter, but that doesn't mean I didn't read it. I read it, and I love it. And I'm still waiting for more.

Just thought I would let you know.

Smiles

05-30-2006, 01:49 PM

Ay me! I just realized I haven't written a new chapter for this in over two weeks! So wrote one;). But more importantly, I also haven't READ everyone's fanfics in about an equal length of time!!!!!

So I'm sorry everyone and look forward to doing my hideously large amount of catch up when the God of Summer gives me free time (June 13th!!!) Untill then here's a chapter.....

~*~CHAPTER 8~*~

"Can you understand anything he’s saying?"

"I didn’t know that Kermit talked so quietly on the phone!"

Scooter pushed his ear up to the door and strained to hear; Gonzo, Fozzie, Floyd and Clifford gathered to hear what was going on. "From what I can tell," he told them, "He’s either talking to the Insurance Company or the Bank."

"With our luck, probably both."

"He’s been on the phone for such a long time."

"Oh hey, someone’s coming! Disperse! Act natural!"

The group moved away from the door and started to casually chat as Piggy walked in.

"Great show today everybody."

"The band was great."

"Nice cannon act, man"

"Hey Scooter, why’d you walk on stage during my monologue?"

"Well I wasn’t in any skits this week, and I couldn’t just leave my fans hanging!"

Piggy stood silent and raised her eyebrows, (or would have if pigs had eyebrows). The guys gulped and looked at her. "Are you all eavesdropping on Kermie?" she asked.

"Course not." "No way." "Eavesdrop? Us?", They murmured.

"Besides," added Fozzie, "Even if we were we wouldn’t be able to understand anything he’s saying." The guys sighed, closed their eyes and shook their heads. Their cover was blown.

Piggy smiled, "Did you really think you could hear without a glass?" She pulled one out of her purse and put it up to the door.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Kermit sat at his desk, phone in hand, papers strayed everywhere. "Yes…. Yes….. I know we’ve had a lot of previous fires……… But we have your insurance; you can’t just not help us…………… Our policy was canceled?" he searched around the papers on his desk, " after the last fire?" he continued to look, " I don’t have any record of that………Are you positive?…….. You have record of it."

He stopped twiddled his thumbs for a moment and took a breath, "Look, can you give a frog a break here? We can’t afford the construction crew without this insurance money…….. The bank won’t give us anymore loans…Oh…. You don’t care…. Well then…" He left the phone on not really knowing what to say.

"That’s it!" he heard the voice from outside his door behind him. Someone jiggled the door handle, "locked." "Kermie, Kermie! Open the door! Kermie!" He turned around and faced the door just in time to see it come crashing to the floor.

Piggy slowly and gracefully walked in. "It’s okay Kermie, we can do it." He stared as the others popped in the door way, "Yeah Kermit, we can rebuild the theater."

He shook his head, "I dunno guys. None of us are really construction types, we weren’t exactly built for this."

They all shrugged. "Kermit," Scooter piped up, "We’ve done lots of things that your average frogs, dogs, bears, chickens and whatevers can’t normally do. We never that stop us before."

Kermit nodded, "Okay. But we’re going to have to start with that door."

TogetherAgain

05-30-2006, 01:59 PM

<laughs at the door>

Yay! Yay for the new chapter! Yay for eavesdropping! It comes so in handy in these stories...

You get your free time June 13? Dang it, I leave the country June 18. I'll miss out on the story for a while. Eh, so is life...

MORE PLEASE!

The Count

05-30-2006, 02:06 PM

Good chapter... Please post more when you can.

ReneeLouvier

05-30-2006, 05:19 PM

Wheee! I am loving this story!

Muppet Matt

05-31-2006, 01:22 PM

This is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ruahnna

06-02-2006, 08:42 AM

Would love to see the entire contents of Piggy's purse--wouldn't you?

Smiles

06-21-2006, 09:33 AM

Goodness.... So much for the 13th.....:smirk:

~*~CHAPTER 9~*~

Denise carefully carried the yellow paint up the ladder and dipped in her paintbrush in. She slowly stroked the paintbrush back and forth, back and forth, on the wall until she accidentally knocked the paint over with her elbow.

"Well I’ve always wondered what it was like to be a golden retriever," she heard from below.

She cringed. "Oh sorry Rowlf," she said as she walked down the later and took a look at the dog now dripping yellow paint.

"It’s all right," Rowlf sighed, "Must be fun for you. You come to visit and the put you to work. What’s a coat of paint going to do for a burnt theater anyhow?"

"Well," Denise replied taking a look at her work thus far, "you’d be surprised how much a little yellow paint can do to brighten things up."

"It’s doing wonders for me."

Denise laughed a little, "I guess a better get you a towel or something."

Rowlf shook his head, " I wanted to go back to the house anyway; you saved me the chore of finding a good excuse." He walked off and Denise looked down at her once full paint can.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"I’m going to need another paint bucket," Denise said to Kermit and Piggy who were trying to keep the whole rebuilding business organized. Kermit because that’s just what he does, and Piggy because she was trying to avoid doing anything that might actually cause her to get dirty.

"We just gave you a full one fifteen minutes ago," Kermit pointed out.
"Well I kinda spilled mine," Denise said, "On Rowlf."

"It’s okay Dee," Piggy said handing her a new bucket of paint, "It’s the fourth one that was spilled today." She marked it down on the supplies list and turned to Kermit, "Maybe we shouldn’t have done the paint dear."

Kermit blushed a bit at the word "dear", then looking at Denise, still standing there, shrugged.

Denise turned around, tilted her head to the side, and began walking back to her ladder. No kidding.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Denise walked over to her ladder swinging her unopened paint bucket, her head in the clouds.

"Watch out Denise, you’re stepping all over our cards."

She looked down at her feet atop a card game with Fozzie and Pepe on either side of her. "Don’t you need four people to play poker?" she said steeping off the cards.

"We’re playing solitaire," Fozzie told her.

"Now that’s a one person game."

"We’re betting on who can get it done the fastest."

She watched the guys play for a while, neither of them very good. "Shouldn’t you two be working anyway?" She smirked.

"We are on our "card break" hokay?" Pepe told her.

She smiled, "Looks like you two could use a little help." She sat down and began giving them pointers.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Jou helped him win!"

Denise looked down at Pepe from atop her ladder, "Stop pestering me! I helped you too!"

"But jou are the reason he won! Do jou know how much I lost on that bet?" Pepe said, hands on his hips.

Denise rolled her eyes and went back to painting, "It’s only a hair dryer."

"But without it how will my hair be beautiful and soft?"

"I’m sure Fozzie will give you visitation rights for your hair dryer."