Charlotte Chicken was organizing her collection of recordings that had chicken-scratch guitar, her very favorite sound in the world. She'd recently received a recording from Nancy's Aunt Fritzi and put it on her stereo. The song was called "Tiptoe Through the Farmyard" and starts out with a driving beat, made from recorded samples of tractor engine, but the song is driven more by the chicken-scratch guitar line that lingers in the left channel and those synth blips that tiptoe through it all. The chicken-scratch guitar was the best she'd ever heard, driving her into ecstasy, but the song was ruined by the tiptoeing synth blips.
Charlotte then realized that Aunt Fritzi had sent the recording to torture her with frustration, just because Charlotte had recently thrown rotten eggs at a recent Tiptoe Ballet performed by Nancy and Sluggo.
She had to play the song over and over, because the chicken-scratch guitar was so wonderful, but the tiptoeing synth blips made her want to pull her feathers out. Within a day, Charlotte Chicken had pulled out all her feathers. She called Aunt Fritzi and apologized for throwing the rotten eggs. Fritzi decided that Charlotte had suffered enough, and sent over a copy of the recording with the tiptoeing synth blips removed.
Charlotte never even realized that the synth blips were the backing music to the Tiptoe Ballet. The next time Nancy and Sluggo performed the ballet, they had the ushers screen the audience for rotten eggs, before allowing them to find their seats. But there was no danger of this, as pictures of the featherless Charlotte Chicken had spread around the internet, much to her embarrassment.
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Tales of Tiptoe and More - Volume II
HumorThe second volume of an on going series of episodes, often involving Nancy and Sluggo's tiptoe experiences.
