Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 19, 2009
December 18, 2009
December 20, 2009
Transcript:
Alice: Daddy! Watch me practice my lines for the Blisshaven Winter Pageant! I play a snowflake and so does Nara! Dad: OK! Alice: "We are winter's jewels, dancing through the air. Every one a different shape. Snowflakes everywhere!" Then Kevin chases us with a snow shovel and yells, "Keep off my driveway, you stupid snowflakes!" Dad: Alice please! you're giving it all away!
margueritem over 14 years ago
Don’t spoil the plot!
Flintstoned over 14 years ago
That was a plot?
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
The plot thins.
William Burnett Premium Member over 14 years ago
ALICE: Make sure you stretch. We don’t want you to pull a hamstring on those high back kicks.
peteysgrrl over 14 years ago
Priceless!
vldazzle over 14 years ago
I knew it would have a rhyme.
limonozo over 14 years ago
i like the rhyme, but i think I’m still partial to the “something, something, something else, blah-dee, blah-dee dah!”
rayannina over 14 years ago
At least she doesn’t give away the surprise ending …
SPOILER ALERT! * * *… it turns out the snowflake was already dead – it was a ghost and didn’t know it …
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
rayannina, that’s grand! Or maybe:
Snowflake: “You shoveled my father!”
Man with Shovel: “Flake, I AM your father!”
Snowflake: “NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”
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kirbey over 14 years ago
The end was a surprise but I rather like the realism.
Dirty Dragon over 14 years ago
I bet Jimmy Fretwork wrote that part.
comics4brown over 14 years ago
Alice’s dad should know that even if the program is supposed to go one way – it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will work out the way it should. Kids programs, especially pre-schoolers, tend to have lives of their own and with Blisshaven it’s even more so I’m willing to bet.
JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago
How true, comics4brown!