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Fandom Radio, Saturday, January 7th
Jim: Oh, hey. OW. Okay, that's a paw in my ear, I'm coming, I'm coming, you can stop trying to drag me here, you know. I'm out of bed now.
Marshall: -ine, fine, guys, I've done this before, I know the drill, all right?
*A thud, as if of someone sitting down heavily in a seat.*
Marshall: Although why this couldn't wait another three hours, it's a Saturday, c'mon!
Jim: … Hey. You were squirrelnapped, too? They even grabbed my Morph. He can't read.
Marshall: What's a morph?
*Chittering. Back-and-forth chittering.*
Marshall: Oh! … Whatever that thing is, I guess?
Jim: Yeah. That little traitor is a Morph… Thanks, Morphy. We should get this over with before they can give him any ideas.
School!
Jim: Chasing History's Monsters yesterday talked about how there were monsters, through history. And then they did introductions, where most people seemed to be singling out Loki for their definition. What? Really? He seemed nice enough to me on the shuttle... In Everyday Skills, Professor Oz talked about what skills he'll be teaching this semester. During the lecture, Peter and Rebecca talked about some of those skills before... complaining about their roommates, like how Matt is blind and apparently I... Really? Gee, thanks, Peter. I'm not on drugs, you can stop telling people that now.
Marshall: … You're roommate's kind of an ass.
Jim: Yeah. Kind of.
Marshall: Really an ass?
Jim: Right now, since we're on the air, we'll go with that one. Students introduced themselves and talked about the kind of skills that they think are everyday, and then Peter - who talks out loud to the radio when he thinks I'm not awake - negotiated the terms of a TA-contract with Professor Oz.
Marshall: In Leadership, Professor Summers was sad.
...
...
*Papers rustle, as if turning over.*
-ly not following school tradition. Instead of having everyone introduce themselves, he put them all in groups of three and had them vote on which group member should be their leader. During the lecture, Squall and Karla seemed doubtful, so maybe they thought the activity sucked? I dunno, seems kinda hard to pick a leader like that.
Jim: Yeah, usually it takes more than a conversation in a classroom. But I guess you can only do so much in one one-hour class?
Marshall: Yeah, but maybe they could wait until further into the semester, when they know each other better? Anyway, everyone got into their groups, and Professor Summers talked to Rebecca and Bobby about being his TAs, and then he and Bobby talked again after class. Apparently about peanuts? The squirrel went into, like, all-caps here. So I guess they were really important peanuts.
Jim: Or, judging by the thirty pairs of beady eyes that just pointed at you, maybe they just really like... those things.
Marshall: They're a nut! Well, actually, they're not, they're a legume like peas and beans, but most people just call them nuts.
Jim: … They can't tell the difference?
Marshall: The name doesn't help, and they do look kinda nut-like.
Jim: Next, they'll be calling tomatoes vegetables. Or tomato sauce.
Marshall: Fruit, people! Tomatoes are a fruit! And then in The Art of Scrap, which is actually a pretty cool class, we had coffee and collages. Which led to the introductions, so Dean -- hey, he said he didn't want to be called professor, all right? -- was totally following school tradition! They were, like, collages of introduction. We all listened to the lecture. With coffee. And not paste, Butters. Paste is not for eating. It is, in fact, for making collages, which we then presented! Mine was the Periodic Table of the Elements. ... Because I'm a giant nerd.
Jim: … That's a nerd thing? No way. Do you still have it? I think Earth elements are different from the ones back on Montressor, I want to compare sometime soon.
Marshall: How can you have different elements? Or -- do you just mean, like, different names? Because that would be cool to compare!
Jim: It might be different names. We'll have to get together sometime and compare the properties of them, maybe?
Marshall: Sure! Sounds like fun! … I actually just said that, didn't I? Finally, Wesley had coffee and Norse mythology in the library, where Peter and Cassidy met up and talked about Professor Pie.
And now I want pie. Is JGoB open this early on a Saturday?
Jim: You know, we could probably swing by after the broadcast to check. That sounds way more appetizing than the pirate smell in here.
Marshall: Totally breakfast-worthy. Sounds like a plan.
Jim: Cool. Professor Rogers had office hours yesterday, where he worked on stuff for his class. Professor McCoppin stopped in to talk about the internet and karaoke at the bar that has a... band with bad hygiene? Aren't they zombies? Huh. And then Tony dropped in to ask if he could be the TA for Sex Ed class. Professor Tyler was rearranging her desk during her office hours when Dave Nelson stopped by to negotiate her sponsoring the student newspaper. There's a newspaper? And there were six Professor Madroxes all playing sousaphone in his office. What's a sousaphone?
Marshall: The most heinous instrument in the world. Except for maybe bagpipes.
Jim: … Bagpipes kind of remind me of home, actually.
Marshall: Oh. Well, some people like them? I just. Really, really don't.
Dorms!
Jim: In the fifth floor common room, Jace was watching some kind of Real Housewives of Orange County thing? I dunno. Books are cooler. Quinn decided that what was on TV was total dreck, so she changed to a cooking channel, and then she and Kate talked about how Bruce was secretly a fan of America's Next Top Model. I don't know what these things are. Britta informed Jace that there were better ways to kill braincells than by watching bad TV, which led to a talk about how barfights are a way for guys to act out homoerotic impulses. And now an entire crew of pirates comes to mind that I'll never think of in the same way again.
Marshall: … You know a crew of homoerotic pirates?
Jim: I knew a crew of pirates who liked brawling!
Marshall: Oh. That does sound a little better, at least. Do I want to know why you knew a crew of pirates in the first place?
Jim: They burned down my mom's inn. And then mom's best friend hired them to crew a ship, because he's smart like that. Anyhow, Darcy wandered in for Poptarts - Why would you do that!? - and then, after Jace did the smart thing and turned down an offer of one, they talked about how it wasn't so bad that they didn't have many classes. And then Kate wanted to know who was cheating on who, but Jace told her that they were mostly just busy talking about what lousy mothers they were. Which... I mean, they're doing this on TV. So, obviously.
Marshall: Bobby Drake knocked on his own door. I guess he forgot his key or something? Or, wait, lost it while he was away, 'cause I guess he just came back to school. And then his roommate Warren was happy that he was back, blamed Tony for Bobby's rabbit being fat, and showed Bobby a recent gremlin bite video. That apparently included disco. I never want to get gremlin bit, okay?
Jim: That would make two of us. Uh. What's disco?
Marshall: You're probably better off not knowing, but if you really want to, maybe someone will show you the video? Alex Aaron was working on a special project. Wesley was dismayed, but the notes don't say if it's because Alex was mutilating toys, or because he's going to keep punching Loki anyway. Finally, Tony was working on his computer before Stephanie came by and Tony gave her a present. That he warned her to open away from the squirrels, which, really, doesn't that just guarantee that they're going to keep an even closer eye on her? There was no present for Bobby, though, who came by to tell Tony that he was back, and also about how things had been while he was home.
Town!
Marshall: Bod opened up Cafe Luke's, while Hope, at Turtle and Canary, was reading a magazine. I guess she wasn't really busy? At Stark Industries, Ben was -- oh man this sounds so cool I want one -- he was looking at a 3D star map! But I guess he didn't like what he was seeing? Which is sad, because, dude, 3D star map. Ender came by and they talked about it, though, and what means for Ben's galaxy. Galaxy? I guess that explains the 3D star map.
Jim: Yeah, Earth doesn't have those. Which is kind of weird, since space is, you know, 3D. What's up with that, Earth?
Marshall: Our tech's not there yet. But I'm working on it!
Jim: Get me the names of the stars and constellations and their coordinates, and I could throw together a decent starmap in an afternoon.
Marshall: … Done.
Jim: Cool. It'll be something to do when I'm not working on Professor Pie's solar surfer.
Marshall: … … … Solar surfer?
Jim: …. You Earth kids are so grounded, aren't you?
Marshall: Not by choice! That sounds so cool!
Jim: Talk to me later, maybe you can help me find materials for it or something. She's paying in cupcakes. Anyhow, Groovy Tunes is hiring! Seifer was there, looking over some video on his phone and listening to some group called the Bee Gees when Kenzi dropped in to tell him that her hangover this weekend was his fault. He made up for it by showing her the video of Squall and George's gremlin bite, before George stopped by to tell Seifer that he was the worst roommate ever. No, George. Really bad roommates go around lying about their roomies being on drugs to people.
Marshall: I miss my roommate at my last school. He only ever almost accidentally destroyed the world.
Jim: Only almost never?
Marshall: He wasn't the only one. It was kind of a thing at my last school.
Jim: I... guess that's kind of fair. I might have accidentally kicked off a defense protocol that reduced an entire mechanical planet to molten slag before it exploded, so it kind of evens out. Moving on, Toby decided to do his own cooking yesterday at Goodvalor's Little Bivoli, which resulted in maple glazed ribs. I don't know what maple is, but that sounds really good. Audrey kept leaving the Trooper Station for coffee since it was such a slow day, and at Dite's, Kenzi was setting up the mannequins in a... tea party tableau? And here I thought that Dite's was one of those adult stores. Anyhow, Peter stopped by with Gopher-Topher and asked if Dite's had any gopher-sized ... um. Oh, look. It is that kind of store. And, hey, my roommate is really one to talk about me when he's dressing gophers up in bondage gear. Jeez.
Marshall: … So I'm never going to that store, okay? Because. Oh. Ohgod. What has been seen cannot be unseen. Please tell me someone back where you're from has invented brain bleach?
Jim: I think they call it alcohol, yeah. At the Magic Box, Loki had... broken in so that he could read? Oh, man. Someone needs to show you where the library is, Loki. Needless to say, Tara was a little confused to find him there since the store wasn't even open, but Loki explained that he wasn't going to steal anything, and he actually wound up getting hired. So, hey, all the time to read that he wants, now! That worked out for the best for everybody after all. And at his home, Professor Summers was drinking and crying. Um... Feel better soon? Maybe after Vice-Principal Deadpool is done laughing at you?
Marshall: Oh, hey, I guess he really was sad! And that's the end of the notes! Thank you all for listening. I'd say it was a pleasure, but oh god gopher in bondage gear.
Jim: One he's been keeping in our room. I might need to stage an intervention, for the gopher's sake.
Marshall: Please, please do. That poor gopher. Wait, Gopher-Topher? The gopher is Topher? A), unfortunate animal transformation. B), NOT ON, JIM'S ROOMMATE. NOT ON.
Jim: Maybe saying I'm on drugs is a cover for something. Anyhow, we're out of notes, and you mentioned pie, and my clothes are starting to smell like the rum in here. And I think Morph is burping alcohol bubbles. I'm outta here.
Marshall: TO PIE!
*Click.*
Marshall: -ine, fine, guys, I've done this before, I know the drill, all right?
*A thud, as if of someone sitting down heavily in a seat.*
Marshall: Although why this couldn't wait another three hours, it's a Saturday, c'mon!
Jim: … Hey. You were squirrelnapped, too? They even grabbed my Morph. He can't read.
Marshall: What's a morph?
*Chittering. Back-and-forth chittering.*
Marshall: Oh! … Whatever that thing is, I guess?
Jim: Yeah. That little traitor is a Morph… Thanks, Morphy. We should get this over with before they can give him any ideas.
School!
Jim: Chasing History's Monsters yesterday talked about how there were monsters, through history. And then they did introductions, where most people seemed to be singling out Loki for their definition. What? Really? He seemed nice enough to me on the shuttle... In Everyday Skills, Professor Oz talked about what skills he'll be teaching this semester. During the lecture, Peter and Rebecca talked about some of those skills before... complaining about their roommates, like how Matt is blind and apparently I... Really? Gee, thanks, Peter. I'm not on drugs, you can stop telling people that now.
Marshall: … You're roommate's kind of an ass.
Jim: Yeah. Kind of.
Marshall: Really an ass?
Jim: Right now, since we're on the air, we'll go with that one. Students introduced themselves and talked about the kind of skills that they think are everyday, and then Peter - who talks out loud to the radio when he thinks I'm not awake - negotiated the terms of a TA-contract with Professor Oz.
Marshall: In Leadership, Professor Summers was sad.
...
...
*Papers rustle, as if turning over.*
-ly not following school tradition. Instead of having everyone introduce themselves, he put them all in groups of three and had them vote on which group member should be their leader. During the lecture, Squall and Karla seemed doubtful, so maybe they thought the activity sucked? I dunno, seems kinda hard to pick a leader like that.
Jim: Yeah, usually it takes more than a conversation in a classroom. But I guess you can only do so much in one one-hour class?
Marshall: Yeah, but maybe they could wait until further into the semester, when they know each other better? Anyway, everyone got into their groups, and Professor Summers talked to Rebecca and Bobby about being his TAs, and then he and Bobby talked again after class. Apparently about peanuts? The squirrel went into, like, all-caps here. So I guess they were really important peanuts.
Jim: Or, judging by the thirty pairs of beady eyes that just pointed at you, maybe they just really like... those things.
Marshall: They're a nut! Well, actually, they're not, they're a legume like peas and beans, but most people just call them nuts.
Jim: … They can't tell the difference?
Marshall: The name doesn't help, and they do look kinda nut-like.
Jim: Next, they'll be calling tomatoes vegetables. Or tomato sauce.
Marshall: Fruit, people! Tomatoes are a fruit! And then in The Art of Scrap, which is actually a pretty cool class, we had coffee and collages. Which led to the introductions, so Dean -- hey, he said he didn't want to be called professor, all right? -- was totally following school tradition! They were, like, collages of introduction. We all listened to the lecture. With coffee. And not paste, Butters. Paste is not for eating. It is, in fact, for making collages, which we then presented! Mine was the Periodic Table of the Elements. ... Because I'm a giant nerd.
Jim: … That's a nerd thing? No way. Do you still have it? I think Earth elements are different from the ones back on Montressor, I want to compare sometime soon.
Marshall: How can you have different elements? Or -- do you just mean, like, different names? Because that would be cool to compare!
Jim: It might be different names. We'll have to get together sometime and compare the properties of them, maybe?
Marshall: Sure! Sounds like fun! … I actually just said that, didn't I? Finally, Wesley had coffee and Norse mythology in the library, where Peter and Cassidy met up and talked about Professor Pie.
And now I want pie. Is JGoB open this early on a Saturday?
Jim: You know, we could probably swing by after the broadcast to check. That sounds way more appetizing than the pirate smell in here.
Marshall: Totally breakfast-worthy. Sounds like a plan.
Jim: Cool. Professor Rogers had office hours yesterday, where he worked on stuff for his class. Professor McCoppin stopped in to talk about the internet and karaoke at the bar that has a... band with bad hygiene? Aren't they zombies? Huh. And then Tony dropped in to ask if he could be the TA for Sex Ed class. Professor Tyler was rearranging her desk during her office hours when Dave Nelson stopped by to negotiate her sponsoring the student newspaper. There's a newspaper? And there were six Professor Madroxes all playing sousaphone in his office. What's a sousaphone?
Marshall: The most heinous instrument in the world. Except for maybe bagpipes.
Jim: … Bagpipes kind of remind me of home, actually.
Marshall: Oh. Well, some people like them? I just. Really, really don't.
Dorms!
Jim: In the fifth floor common room, Jace was watching some kind of Real Housewives of Orange County thing? I dunno. Books are cooler. Quinn decided that what was on TV was total dreck, so she changed to a cooking channel, and then she and Kate talked about how Bruce was secretly a fan of America's Next Top Model. I don't know what these things are. Britta informed Jace that there were better ways to kill braincells than by watching bad TV, which led to a talk about how barfights are a way for guys to act out homoerotic impulses. And now an entire crew of pirates comes to mind that I'll never think of in the same way again.
Marshall: … You know a crew of homoerotic pirates?
Jim: I knew a crew of pirates who liked brawling!
Marshall: Oh. That does sound a little better, at least. Do I want to know why you knew a crew of pirates in the first place?
Jim: They burned down my mom's inn. And then mom's best friend hired them to crew a ship, because he's smart like that. Anyhow, Darcy wandered in for Poptarts - Why would you do that!? - and then, after Jace did the smart thing and turned down an offer of one, they talked about how it wasn't so bad that they didn't have many classes. And then Kate wanted to know who was cheating on who, but Jace told her that they were mostly just busy talking about what lousy mothers they were. Which... I mean, they're doing this on TV. So, obviously.
Marshall: Bobby Drake knocked on his own door. I guess he forgot his key or something? Or, wait, lost it while he was away, 'cause I guess he just came back to school. And then his roommate Warren was happy that he was back, blamed Tony for Bobby's rabbit being fat, and showed Bobby a recent gremlin bite video. That apparently included disco. I never want to get gremlin bit, okay?
Jim: That would make two of us. Uh. What's disco?
Marshall: You're probably better off not knowing, but if you really want to, maybe someone will show you the video? Alex Aaron was working on a special project. Wesley was dismayed, but the notes don't say if it's because Alex was mutilating toys, or because he's going to keep punching Loki anyway. Finally, Tony was working on his computer before Stephanie came by and Tony gave her a present. That he warned her to open away from the squirrels, which, really, doesn't that just guarantee that they're going to keep an even closer eye on her? There was no present for Bobby, though, who came by to tell Tony that he was back, and also about how things had been while he was home.
Town!
Marshall: Bod opened up Cafe Luke's, while Hope, at Turtle and Canary, was reading a magazine. I guess she wasn't really busy? At Stark Industries, Ben was -- oh man this sounds so cool I want one -- he was looking at a 3D star map! But I guess he didn't like what he was seeing? Which is sad, because, dude, 3D star map. Ender came by and they talked about it, though, and what means for Ben's galaxy. Galaxy? I guess that explains the 3D star map.
Jim: Yeah, Earth doesn't have those. Which is kind of weird, since space is, you know, 3D. What's up with that, Earth?
Marshall: Our tech's not there yet. But I'm working on it!
Jim: Get me the names of the stars and constellations and their coordinates, and I could throw together a decent starmap in an afternoon.
Marshall: … Done.
Jim: Cool. It'll be something to do when I'm not working on Professor Pie's solar surfer.
Marshall: … … … Solar surfer?
Jim: …. You Earth kids are so grounded, aren't you?
Marshall: Not by choice! That sounds so cool!
Jim: Talk to me later, maybe you can help me find materials for it or something. She's paying in cupcakes. Anyhow, Groovy Tunes is hiring! Seifer was there, looking over some video on his phone and listening to some group called the Bee Gees when Kenzi dropped in to tell him that her hangover this weekend was his fault. He made up for it by showing her the video of Squall and George's gremlin bite, before George stopped by to tell Seifer that he was the worst roommate ever. No, George. Really bad roommates go around lying about their roomies being on drugs to people.
Marshall: I miss my roommate at my last school. He only ever almost accidentally destroyed the world.
Jim: Only almost never?
Marshall: He wasn't the only one. It was kind of a thing at my last school.
Jim: I... guess that's kind of fair. I might have accidentally kicked off a defense protocol that reduced an entire mechanical planet to molten slag before it exploded, so it kind of evens out. Moving on, Toby decided to do his own cooking yesterday at Goodvalor's Little Bivoli, which resulted in maple glazed ribs. I don't know what maple is, but that sounds really good. Audrey kept leaving the Trooper Station for coffee since it was such a slow day, and at Dite's, Kenzi was setting up the mannequins in a... tea party tableau? And here I thought that Dite's was one of those adult stores. Anyhow, Peter stopped by with Gopher-Topher and asked if Dite's had any gopher-sized ... um. Oh, look. It is that kind of store. And, hey, my roommate is really one to talk about me when he's dressing gophers up in bondage gear. Jeez.
Marshall: … So I'm never going to that store, okay? Because. Oh. Ohgod. What has been seen cannot be unseen. Please tell me someone back where you're from has invented brain bleach?
Jim: I think they call it alcohol, yeah. At the Magic Box, Loki had... broken in so that he could read? Oh, man. Someone needs to show you where the library is, Loki. Needless to say, Tara was a little confused to find him there since the store wasn't even open, but Loki explained that he wasn't going to steal anything, and he actually wound up getting hired. So, hey, all the time to read that he wants, now! That worked out for the best for everybody after all. And at his home, Professor Summers was drinking and crying. Um... Feel better soon? Maybe after Vice-Principal Deadpool is done laughing at you?
Marshall: Oh, hey, I guess he really was sad! And that's the end of the notes! Thank you all for listening. I'd say it was a pleasure, but oh god gopher in bondage gear.
Jim: One he's been keeping in our room. I might need to stage an intervention, for the gopher's sake.
Marshall: Please, please do. That poor gopher. Wait, Gopher-Topher? The gopher is Topher? A), unfortunate animal transformation. B), NOT ON, JIM'S ROOMMATE. NOT ON.
Jim: Maybe saying I'm on drugs is a cover for something. Anyhow, we're out of notes, and you mentioned pie, and my clothes are starting to smell like the rum in here. And I think Morph is burping alcohol bubbles. I'm outta here.
Marshall: TO PIE!
*Click.*