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Underdog |
Agent 54
here again. I got to listen in on what
was supposed to be some kind of organizational meeting of some unique
Americans. The meeting didn’t really go
very well and I don’t know if much was accomplished. Here’s my report.
Scene: A nice hotel suite that is set up like a
corporate board room with a long table and eight chairs. There is an easel with a flowchart near the
head of the table. In a nearby corner is Sweet Polly Purebred with a stenography machine. She’s obviously recording
the minutes of the meeting. Underdog
stands at the head of the table as the other attendees meet, greet find their
seats.
Underdog: Everybody please settle down and take your
seats. I’d like to get this meeting started.
As the
attendees take their seats it becomes clear that everyone in the room belongs
to the canine species.
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Snoopy |
Snoopy: Say, what’s this meeting all about?
Lassie: Yeah, I don’t even know why I’m here. You
know I have to get back to keeping an eye on Timmy or he’ll fall down a well or
something.
Scooby-Doo: RhI’m rhhungry!
Underdog: Okay, now that we’re all seated, we can
begin. I asked you all to come here
because something needs to be done. As
you know, Cats currently dominate this planet and that is just plain wrong.
Huckleberry
Hound: (in a slow southern drawl) That’s right, they do dominate and that’s not
very nice.
Rin Tin
Tin: If I had my way, there’d be no
cats on this planet. I hate ‘em.
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Lassie & Timmy |
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Huckleberry Hound |
Underdog: Take
it easy. I’m not trying to start an
inter-species war. I just wanted to see
if we could organize our efforts to rebuild our standing as “man’s best
friend”.
Snoop
Dogg: War! Man, I ain’t up for no war. I could go for a couple Tacos right now,
ain’t that right, Scooby!
Scooby-Doo: Rhat’s rhhight!
Underdog: C’mon
everybody let’s focus. There’ll be no war
and no food until after our business is done so let’s concentrate.
Odie: Kibbles & Bits, Kibbles & Bits! Hey! I don’t want to go to war with my buddy
Garfield.
Snoop
Dogg: Shiiiit! Man, Odie, Garfield
ain’t your friend you freakin idiot.
Underdog: Hey, hey everybody! Nobody’s talking about war and let’s be civil
to each other. Remember we want respect
from mankind again.
A siren from
a firetruck interrupts the meeting and most of the dogs jump up, knocking over their
chairs, to run to the open balcony. Leaning
over the rail, with their fore paws on it, they strain to watch the truck go by,
leaving only Snoop Dogg, Huckleberry Hound and Underdog at the table.
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Snoop Dogg |
Snoop
Dogg: Man, chasin firetrucks don’t make
no sense to me.
Huckleberry
Hound: Exactly, once you’ve caught one,
the thrill is gone.
Snoop Dogg looks over his shades and down his snout at Huckleberry Hound.
Snoop
Dogg: Huh? Dog, you didn’t catch no firetruck!
Huckleberry
Hound: I most certainly did. In my
youth I was quite an athlete.
Underdog: Yo! C’mon
everybody. I’m trying to hold a meeting.
The dogs
take a few minutes to get resettled around the table.
Underdog: Sweet Polly, where were we?
Sweet
Polly: Snoop Dogg said Shiiiit!
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Rin Tin Tin |
Underdog: (interrupting) No, no, after that.
Sweet
Polly: You said “Remember we want
respect from mankind again.”
Underdog: Yes, yes exactly. Now, for how many years have we been pulling man’s
dog sleds (Canadian Limos), sniffing their luggage at the airport and leading
them around when they can’t see. We’ve
been working too hard for too many years with too little respect. Look what Michael Vick had us doing and look
at the NFL. They have 4 teams named
after cats but, none named after dogs.
Rin Tin
Tin: I thought the Cleveland Browns
were named after dogs?
Scooby-Doo: Rhat’s rhhight!
Odie: I don’t think so. The Browns are named after coach Paul Bear
Brown.
Lassie: So, they’re named after a Brown Bear?
Huckleberry
Hound: Paul Bear Bryant coached
Alabama. Roll Tide!
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Scooby Doo |
Underdog: Dogs, dogs, we’re getting off the point.
The door to
the room suddenly opens and we see Chester Cheetah standing in the
doorway. He tosses a tennis ball into
the room that bounces once and goes over the balcony railing. The same dogs that chased the firetruck jump up
to chase the tennis ball and leap over the rail after it. They all fall 5 stories into the Hotel
swimming pool, splashing and terrifying all the swimmers there who scream and run in a panic. Rin Tin Tin comes away with the
ball.
Rin Tin
Tin: (doggy paddling in the pool with tennis ball
in his mouth) I got it!
Up in the
Hotel room, Chester Cheetah speaks to the stunned dogs that remain.
Chester
Cheetah: Looks like this meeting is
adjourned.
With a victorious
and devious laugh Chester runs down the hall at 60mph and is gone.
After a few
stunned seconds of silence, a dog speaks.
Huckleberry
Hound: Well Mr. Underdog, thank you for
inviting me to your lovely meeting. Good
night.
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Chester Cheetah |
After
Huckleberry leaves, we hear from other dogs in the room.
Snoop
Dogg: Man, that’s one strange dog. I gotta get some of what he’s smoking.
Sweet
Polly: So does this mean the meeting is
over?
Underdog and
Snoop Dog both look at Polly with their heads half-cocked and puzzled looks on
their faces.
Wow, what a meeting! It may not have gone as planned but, I think
they meant well. I’ll have to keep an
eye on this pack.
No this meeting went as it should have gone and the leap for the ball was a hoot. I laughed out loud once I knew they landed in the swimming pool.
ReplyDeleteHave a sillytastic Silly Sunday. ☺
Lucky for them someone put a pool there.
DeleteThanks again and have a great week
LOL I imagined it all happening as I read it and laughing especially Scooby-Doo's Rhat’s rhhight! and yay to a revived Rin Tin Tin LMAO
ReplyDeleteHave a tanfastic week :-)
Thank you. This was fun to write.
DeleteHave a Scooby snack on me.
Funny how civility fits in with the 5 story drop in this war between cats and dogs...
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Chester Cheetah knew there was a pool there?
DeleteLucky the pool was there to catch their fall. Such a funny read! Thanks for linking up to Friday Frivolity.
ReplyDeleteYes it was very lucky.
DeleteGlad you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting.
Haha! You hit all the TV dogs I remember from when I was a kid - even Huckelberry Hound!
ReplyDeleteHuckleberry Hound was my favorite. Too bad Chester Cheetah ruined the meeting. Thanks for visiting.
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