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| Episode: | So Interesting |
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- Vinnie: [Snoring] Aaaaaahh! [Thud]
Minka: [Screeching] Oh! My sculpture!
Vinnie: Uh, oops?
Minka: Vinnie, that was my fruit scraps sculpture! Now I have to start all over, except my artistic muse has left me!
Vinnie: Hey, I said, "Oops!" What more do you want?
Zoe: [Groan] We've run around the park, played with all the pet toys, and eaten everything but the blanket. Now what should we do?
Blythe: Hey, I know - let's all tell the most interesting thing that's ever happened to us!
Pepper: Oooh! Me first, me first! I got a great story! It was a dark and stormy day -
Vinnie: Ooh, I like this story already!
Zoe: Shh!
Pepper: I was on the bus with my owner and it was super crowded! Everyone was smooshed in like sardines and this poor old lady was having a hard time staying on her feet.
[Tires screech]
Little Old Lady: Oh! Oh, my goodness! Oh, this is my stop!
Pepper: She got herself together. She accidentally grabbed me instead of her purse and got off the bus, with me under her arm! Ha! That was a nutso day!
Zoe: Aren't you forgetting something?
Pepper: Forgetting something? What do you mean?
Zoe: What happened to you after the bus left?!
Pepper: Oh, yeah. Well, uh... Once she figured she was holding a skunk, she screamed, I ran, somebody picked me up and took me on one of those cruise ship thingies, and we sailed off to the Bahamas and I got left there for some reason, but then I snuck on this other ship, yadda-yadda, detour to Greenland, daddle-diddle-dee, caught a hot air balloon home, and na-na-na-na, the end.
Blythe: Well! That was... interesting. Okay! Who wants to go next?
Pets: Me, me!
Blythe: Penny Ling, do you want to tell your interesting story next?
Penny Ling: M-m-me? Interesting? [Gulp]
- Blythe: Come on, Penny Ling, tell us an interesting story.
Penny Ling: Uh... I think I overdid it on some bamboo at lunch. Maybe somebody else should go.
Zoe: Oh! Oh! I've got a really good one! His name was Juan Jorge Jose!
Blythe: Isn't that the dog who does those hilarious flips in the dog treat commercials? [Laugh] It's adorable how he gets those stubbly legs up-
Zoe: Yes, adorable! We met on a modeling job for a dog food commercial. He fell in love with me; but sadly for him, so did the camera. [Camera clicking] He wanted me to jump the fence and run away with him to Hollywood, where he would make movies and I would stay home all day raising a litter of puppies. But I had to remain true to my first love - having my picture taken!
[Crowd cheering]
Pets: [Sigh]
Vinnie: [Sigh]
Penny Ling: Zoe, I can't believe you almost ran off with a big star.
Blythe: [Sigh] Okay, who's next?
Vinnie: Ooh! Once, I took a train, clear across the country.
Pepper: That's your interesting story? You rode on a train?
Vinnie: Who said anything about riding in the train? (Flashback to Vinnie's tongue stuck to the moving train) Heeeeeeeeelp! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllp!
Pets: Whoa, good story!
Pepper: I take it back!
Penny Ling: That's a really great story, Vinnie! Gee, these stories just get more and more interesting.
Pepper: Oh, hey, Minka! Tell everyone about the time you painted the king!
Minka: Okay! Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay! One time, I got to stay in a palace! See, my owner is the cousin to this cousin of the king's cousin, which makes me the pet of the king's cousin's cousin's cousin! In fact, we're royalty! So, we went to the king's throne room for lunch, and ha! Here's where it gets exciting! I jumped on the food table just to see what was there. [Screeching] Whoopsies! I knocked a glass of punch onto the king's shirt!
Zoe: Onto a king?! What happened?
Minka: Well... The color looked so pretty, so I had to make the rest of him look as pretty, so I used the rest of the food on the table to paint the king! One of my greatest works of art, if I do say so myself! And I do, I just said so, by myself!
Penny Ling: Such a great story, Minka.
Blythe: Okay, Penny Ling, now it's definitely your turn. Wow us!
[Whack!] (All eyes are on Penny Ling.)
Penny Ling: Well, one time I was eating and a piece of bamboo got caught in my teeth, and I never thought it would come out. It did, though. The end.
Pepper: Pfft! That's your story? Food got stuck in your teeth? You gotta have a more interesting story than that!
Vinnie: Yeah, everyone has something interesting happen in their life!
Penny Ling: Uh, well... There was a time I saw a snake and I jumped, but it just turned out to be a stick. The end.
Pepper: Laaaame.
Penny Ling: [Crying] I'm just not interesting!
Blythe: Oo-kay.
- Blythe: Don't worry about that stuff back at the park, Penny Ling.
Penny Ling: It's just everyone's so interesting and has such great stories. I feel kind of left out.
Blythe: I'm sure you have an interesting tale to tell, and you'll tell it when you're ready.
Penny Ling: [Sniff] Tale? Like a fairy tale?
Blythe: Well, some stories are so good they do seem like fairy tales.
Penny Ling: Um, I guess I can tell my story about the Green Bean Fairy Queen.
Blythe: The Green Bean who-to-the-what-now?
Penny Ling: The Green Bean Fairy Queen, who gave me a hug and made flowers grow out of my hair.
Blythe: Hold that thought, Penny Ling!
Sunil: What's this about interesting stories?
Russell: Oh, we skip one park outing and we miss out on some great stories!
Blythe: Lucky you for you, you won't miss this one, Russell. Go on, Penny Ling; tell the others what you just told me.
Penny Ling: Oh, it's not a big deal. Besides, I'm sure I told you all this one a hundred times before.
Blythe: Uh, does anyone remember Penny Ling telling us about a Green Bean Fairy Queen making flowers grow out of her hair?
All sans Penny Ling: No.
Penny Ling: Well, that part was a little weird. But, after growing up with fairies, you kinda get used to that kind of stuff.
Russell: What are you talking about?
Penny Ling: I should probably start at the beginning. I was born in the misty forest of Galloway [?]. [Yawn] The fairies brought me bean juice every morning.
Pepper: HOLD IT! Did you just say fairies brought you bean juice?
Penny Ling: Yes. The fairies were the reason I battled the Crab Witch while on my journey to find the Watering Stone.
Pepper: Ohhh, I'm getting a headache!
Zoe: Shh, I want to hear more!
Vinnie: Yeah, zip it, Pepper! Go on, Penny!
Penny Ling: Okay, where was I? Oh, yes! Years ago, I lived in the forest of Galloway where I was cared for by the bean fairies. The whole forest was beautiful. The fairies lived a happy life, playing games, helping the green beans grow, and being very nice to each other.
Minka Fairy: This is like that song about the boat, and the rowing of the boat! Rowing the boat! Oh... No, that's not it.
Zoe Fairy: My, you are one fabulous looking fairy!
Minka Fairy: Incoming!
Penny Ling: They tried to teach me fairy things like how to fly. [Screaming] But I was way better at falling. But then one day, all the water that made the green bean valleys so green stopped flowing. Everything in the valley became dry, shriveled, and brown! The fairies said this could only happen if somebody removed the Watering Stone from the waterfall.
Russell: The Watering Stone?
Penny Ling: Yes, the magical stone that keeps the waterfalls flowing.
Russell: Oh, that Watering Stone! Got it!
Penny Ling: Naturally, the fairies assumed it was the goblins who took the Watering Stone. I have never seen the bean fairies so angry!
[Zoe and Minka fairies raving]
Penny Ling: They were calling an all-out air assault against the goblins; I had to do something. Stop! Let me go talk to the goblins and try to get the Watering Stone back! Because the goblins lived on a remote mountain top, the fairies were afraid I couldn't make the trip, but it was something I knew I had to do. [Grunt] [Straining] Hello? Any goblins here?
Vinnie Goblin #1: Nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah!
Vinnie Goblins: Nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah! Nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah! Nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah!
Penny Ling: Hey, that's not very nice!
Vinnie Goblin #1: We're goblins. It's our thing.
Penny Ling: Hello, goblins. My name's Penny Ling and I've come here for a reason.
Vinnie Goblin #2: Quiet! Goblins do not talk to strangers!
Vinnie Goblin #1: Not without a test! You must pass a test!
Penny Ling: What kind of test?
Vinnie Goblin #2: A dancing test!
Vinnie Goblins: Yeah! Dancing test, dancing test!
Penny Ling: Dance? I just climbed that huge cliff wall and I'm a little tired!
Vinnie Goblin #1: If you fail, we send you back down the cliff wall!
Penny Ling: Seriously?
Vinnie Goblin #2: The only talking we want you to do is... with your feet!
Penny Ling: [Blows] (Takes out her silk rope and dances)
Vinnie Goblin #2: Oooh!
Vinnie Goblins: [Cheers and applause]
Penny Ling: Now, you must return the Watering Stone and restore the water to the Green Bean land.
Vinnie Goblins: Huh?! We're goblins! Took the Watering what-now?
Vinnie Goblin #1: But goblins don't steal!
Penny Ling: You didn't take the Watering Stone?
Vinnie Goblin #1: No, we love green beans!
Vinnie Goblin #2: Yeah, who doesn't? They're so versatile!
Penny Ling: Ah, well, this is awkward.
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: What you seek is not here.
Penny Ling: Huh?
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: I said, what you seek is not here.
Penny Ling: How do you know what I seek?
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Because I was listening.
Penny Ling: Just now while we were talking?
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Yes, I was standing right over there. Uh, ahem! He who listens is wiser than he who speaks!
Vinnie Goblin #1: Yeah, more like he who eavesdrops!
Vinnie Goblin #2: Yeah, how rude!
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Anywaaaay, if you seek the Watering Stone, look to the one who hates the beans of green.
Penny Ling: You speak in riddles, oh wise mongoose.
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Yes, like the reason the chicken crossed the road is known only by the chicken and not by the road.
Goblin Vinnie #2: Ah! Is anyone writing this stuff down? These are gold!
Penny Ling: Wise mongoose, will you take me to the one who hates the beans of green?
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Are you brave enough to face beasts who breathe fire, demons who drip acid, and monsters who smell like rotten bologna and bananas?
Penny Ling: Yes!
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Okay, good, because this won't be that bad.
- [Desert music]
Penny Ling: Hey, wise mongoose, where are you taking me?
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: [Wild laughter]
Penny Ling: Okay, no weird laughing, please! Are you taking me to the one who hates the beans of green or aren't you?
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: I am not taking you. On this journey, you are taking yourself. I am only walking ahead of you in the same direction.
Penny Ling: Ugh! Stop talking like that!
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Please, take one more step closer.
Penny Ling: Okay. There. Now what?
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Now, you meet your destiny.
(The sand opens up beneath Penny Ling and she falls through.)
Penny Ling: [Screaming]
Wise-Mongoose Sunil: Don't worry, you'll be fine! Tell her I say hello!
Penny Ling: And then everything went dark, dark, dark!
Mrs. Twombly: Time for the pets to go home, Blythe!
All sans Penny Ling: Awwwww!
Blythe: Don't worry. Penny Ling can finish her story tomorrow.
Penny Ling: Wow! You really want to hear more of my story?
Zoe: Are you kidding, Penny Ling? I need to know what happened when you went down the hole!
Pepper: Did the water ever come back?
Sunil: It was the goblins who stole the Watering Stone and the wise mongoose was trying to get rid of her. Am I right?
Russell: You know, you should never trust a goblin.
Vinnie: Everyone's always trying to blame them just because they're goblins.
Penny Ling: See you all tomorrow!
Zoe: Oh, I hate cliffhangers!
- (Mrs. Twombly is vacuuming the day camp while the pets wait for Penny Ling with thousand-yard stares.)
Blythe: Morning, Mrs. Twombly. Good morning, Mrs. Twombly!
Mrs. Twombly: Oh! Good morning, Blythe! Hehe, I guess I didn't hear you come in! All the little sweeties are here except Penny Ling. They haven't moved since they got here; it's as if they're waiting for something.
Blythe: Oh, they are.
Mrs. Twombly: Good morning, Penny Ling.
Blythe: Everyone is dying to hear the rest of your story.
Pepper: Come on, Penny Ling, finish your story!
Zoe: Ah, I barely slept last night! I was so excited about what happened next!
Vinnie: Don't leave anything out!
Blythe: It's the best story I've ever heard.
Penny Ling: Let's see, where was I? When I was little, I lived in the misty forest of Galloway-
Russell: You already told us that!
Penny Ling: Oh, right. I was climbing the rock cliff to get to the goblin encampment.
Pepper: You told us this part, too!
Russell: Go to where you got sucked into the sand.
Penny Ling: Oh, yeah!
[Fast forward]
Penny Ling: The wise mongoose told me to stand right on the spot where I felt through. I thought I was a goner! Lucky for me, I landed in some kind of underground prison.
Zoe: That was lucky?
Penny Ling: Well, it was better than being buried in sand.
Adventurer Russell: I wouldn't do that if I were you!
Penny Ling: W-who said that?!
Adventurer Russell: Voice in the fire.
Penny Ling: What?!
[Flare]
Adventurer Russell: Yeah, there's a face in the fire. I know it takes some getting used to - spirit of the flame, flame keeper, whatever.
Penny Ling: I'm Penny Ling.
Adventurer Russell: Are you looking for the Crab Witch?
Penny Ling: Is she the one who hates the beans of green?
Adventurer Russell: Probably. She's pretty crabby. And if there's hating going on somewhere, then yeah, it's her.
Penny Ling: Where is she?
Adventurer Russell: If I had to guess, I'd say behind that wooden door. But everything here is booby trapped, so just a heads-up.
Penny Ling: [Straining] Well, I don't see any booby-traaaaaap!
[Crash!]
Adventurer Russell: Well, that was convenient!
[Mystical music]
Penny Ling: [Gasp] Look! The Watering Stone!
Crab Witch Pepper: Well, well! What do we have here?
[Gasp]
Crab Witch Pepper: A visitor, I see!
Penny Ling: We've come to take back the Watering Stone!
Adventurer Russell: Hey, leave me out of this!
Crab Witch Pepper: A green bean lover, eh? Personally, I can't stand 'em! [Spit]
Penny Ling: Oh, so because you don't like green beans, you had to steal the Watering Stone and keep it locked in a cabinet?
Crab Witch Pepper: That's right! I'm the Crab Witch, and I am very, very crabby! And a witch!
Penny Ling: Are you just against green beans or is it all vegetables?
Crab Witch Pepper: What's it to ya? I stole it fair and square, and now I'm gonna keep you here as my prisoner forever! [Evil laugh] Ha! ...Haaa!
Penny Ling: I don't think so!
Adventurer Russell: [Scream]
[Glass shatters]
Crab Witch Pepper: Hey, what's the big idea? That display case was my mothers! GET BACK HERE WITH THAT!
[Zip, zip, zip!]
Crab Witch Pepper: Ow! Oh! Aah! Oh, why did I put these booby traps in here?! Oww! [Thud]
Penny Ling: [Straining]
- Penny Ling: Hey, goblins, I got it! I got it! [Laugh] I got it, I got it! I got the stone!
[Crack]
[Screaming]
Vinnie Goblin #1: Oh, no! She fell off!
Penny Ling: I'll never forget you!
Vinnie Goblin #1: And we'll never, ever forget you!
Vinnie Goblin #2: Wait, what did she say her name was?
[Water rushing]
Zoe & Minka Fairies: Thank you! [Smooching]
Penny Ling: You're welcome! And that's it, the end.
Minka: Hey, didn't you say something about getting a hug that made flowers grow out of your hair?
Penny Ling: Oh, yeah! That was the best part!
Green Bean Queen Blythe: Penny Ling, you have been very brave and worked very hard for us. Any time you need me, just call my name and I will come to you.
Penny Ling: [Laughing] [Gasp]
Blythe: Wow! Great story, Penny Ling! As far as stories go, it was very... interesting!
Pepper: Gimme a break, there's no way that story was true!
Penny Ling: It's 100% true!
Pepper: If it's true, call the Green Bean Fairy Queen here right now!
Penny Ling: Well, Green Bean Land is very far away. I don't think a call will go through. [Beat] It's not true! None of it! I just made it up as I went along so I'd have an interesting story to tell like everyone else!
Zoe: You made up all of that?
Pepper: The fairies? The green beans? The goblins? The Watering Stone?
Penny Ling: Mm-hmm.
Minka: That was awesome!
Russell: I could never have made up a story like that.
Blythe: I think being a storyteller is what makes Penny Ling pretty interesting.
Sunil: I concur!
Vinnie: I don't, but I do agree!
Penny Ling: Really? You think I'm interesting? Ho-ho, wow!
Minka: Yeah! I was going to do something else today, but I'd rather hear another story!
Pets: Yeah, tell us another! Please!
Penny Ling: Well, if you insist. Now this is a great story. Millions of light years from earth, on a planet of rocks and dust, there was a little pet shop...
[Fairy sparkles]
- [End credits]