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"HIPPOS ON THE LOOSE"
A strange day in Odyssey when some painted hippopotamuses (hippopotami?) break loose from a visiting circus and scatter throughout town. (June ’92)

"THE CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT"
As part experiment, part curiosity, Eugene starts feeding his Super-Duper Protein Booster shakes to a garden of innocent vegetables in a forgotten corner of a greenhouse.

When Eugene leaves on a week’s vacation, the vegetables continue growing at an alarming rate, until a ten foot carrot crashes through the glass wall, several multi-ton egg plants escape and come rolling down the slopped street, and a mutant radish takes on a higher intelligence and organizes the rest of the vegetables into a radical gang of revolutionaries. Everything’s in chaos till a representative of V-8 Juice arrives with a plan. (11/1/92)

"REVENGE OF THE ANCHOVY PIZZA" or, "ENLIGHTENED ALIENS"
After a night of too much pizza, Eugene dreams Whit’s End is taken over by an army of yogurt-hungry aliens. At first Eugene is terrified, until he learns all they really want is a little culture in their lives. (2/25/93)

"ATTACK OF THE KILLER FLAMINGOS"
The sky turns dark pink over Odyssey as an ominous flock of killer flamingos comes to town. Folks are in a quandary until Bart Rathbone comes up with an ingenious plan using lawn ornaments and bologna sandwiches. (Unknown date)

"ODYSSEY IN A PICKLE"
As part of a cross-country tour, the McDoogle Pickle Company comes to Odyssey in a giant PickleMobile. Bart and the Bones Boys decide to steal it. The Odyssey Police take off in hot pursuit, chasing the runaway Pickle down the highway. It seems there’s not way to stop the Colossal Cucumber, until someone from the Ronco Corporation arrives at the roadblock with a giant Vegematic. (10/29/97)

"LOVE ME TENDER"
Whit must don an Elvis costume to save the life of a little girl.

"STAYIN’ ALIVE"
Same idea with a BeeGees costume. (5/15/98)

"TWINKIE, TWINKIE, LITTLE STAR"
Jared bites into a Twinkie—and discovers a lost Elvis song buried in the sugary cream filling. Inspired, Jared launches into a singing career that catapults him to fame (at least on community access television). (11/5/98)

"THE CHICKEN" (A Very Shorty)
As part of the "Sister Cities" program, The Most Supreme Ruler of Upper South-Eastern Zonzo-Benaygo arrives in Odyssey with a very special "gift"—a symbol of liberty in his country—a 67 foot high statue of a bronze chicken. Now a fight erupts in city council—no one wants a 67 foot chicken anywhere near them. But little do they know an extremely surprising, apocalyptic twist awaits them all. (6/17/99)

"POLYESTER PURGATORY"
A miscalculation on the Imagination Station sends Eugene back to the 70’s—right in the middle of a disco, featuring a leisure suit fashion show. Eugene frantically tries to talk his way out of his modeling debut as he attempts to get the Imagination Station functioning again--but it’s not working. Can he escape the 70’s without being unduly overcome by the perils of polyester? (7/30/99)

"A SHORT STORY"
A bus transporting a traveling troupe of midget mimes breaks down in Odyssey. To help pay for their bus repairs, the little mimes offer to perform their famous hat tricks on Kids Radio. Whit says his heart goes out to them, "but you know, I think it’s just too visual." (9/1/99)

"CHIHUAHUAS ATTACK THE MULLIGANS"
The Mulligans are confronted by a roving pack of rabid Chihuahuas. In desperation, they call the local Chihuahua expert—who determines that Lisa’s tuba playing is actually attracting the little dogs, but could end up causing harm to them in their mentally deranged state. The moral dilemma: Do Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan tell their daughter that her tuba music isn’t fit for the dogs? Or do they risk being nibbled to death at the ankles? (9/17/99)

"MEAT ME IN ST. LOUIS"
On an investigative expose for the Odyssey Times, Whit goes undercover at a meat-packing plant where he suspects the company is using recycled office supplies in their meat. But as he sneaks into the plant with his hidden tape recorder, he suddenly realizes his Polish sausage disguise was not such a good idea.(Fall 2000)

These really made my day Laughing

Dave · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject:

Lots of those are good ideas! We need some hilarouly funny shows, even if they are on "Kids Radio."

Here is one of my ideas:
"The Hawk"
Alex becames a world skating boarding champ after being inspired by the Tony Hawk computer game!

Dave

Bennett Charles · Town Villain Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 2410

They should actually make them and put them in a seperate special 'Album.'

Jared · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject:

They'd provide a few laughs, but what a waste of half a season! :)

And of the writers' talent.

Bennett Charles · Town Villain Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 2410

Yeah, you're very right about that Jared. Though, maybe that should be the innitiation to get to be part of the aio crew. If someone wants to be part of the crew, then they will have to produce a show (unfortunatly, this can also waste the talents of the musicians...and sound effects crew...) and if it's good enough the person is in. At the same time, it produces a show for us.

Gandalf · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:11 pm Post subject:

I agree with Jared (and Nathan in a previous post), these ideas are best left untouched. They may be funny but not all at once and probably they would need to be fine tuned. John Beebee is one of my favorate writers and he did a wonderful job with The Great Wishy Woz, which if I remember correctly was another project that the rest of the team thought was bizzar. He fine tuned it and poof! We have one of the greatest AIO episodes ever! So maybe in the next few years we might have one or two of these ideas turned into an episode!

Jared · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject:

The Great Wishy Woz was one of the greatest episodes ever?

I thought it was pretty funny in places and stupidly corny in others... a rather good ep, but not a great one.

Gandalf · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject:

Oh Jared, Jared, Jared, My poor boy. You don't live in Kasas do you? You have to understand that The Wizard of Oz is like a food, drink and air here. Everyone knows every line of it. The whole episode was wondeful. I'm sure there are many "in-jokes" that no one except a Kansan (or an Ozy) could possibly understand.

The Top Crusader · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 11:45 pm Post subject:

Pink Floyd would probably get most of them...

rosie · Inquisitive Member Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 1197

Your right. I'm not kansan. I've only watched the movie a couple of times, and didn't like the ep.