(The camera fades to the USS Applepies)
Dora: (offscreen) There it is, the USS Applepies.
(Scene cuts to Dora, Boots, Dorothy, Ian And Maribel in the spaceship)
Dora: When we get on board, you'll be greeted by ship's engineer Scooter, then you can get to work fixing the power.
Maribel: Okay.
(Inside the elevator, the music can be heard in the "Forgive-O-Matic", right now, it opens when Scooter is greeted by them)
Grumpy Bear (Scooter): Ah, Captain! You've returned!
Dora: Hello Scooter, any luck?
Grumpy Bear: I'm afraid not, Captain. The engines have got no power. And we've only five minutes until the meteor smashes us to bits.
Maribel: (approaches to Scooter (aka Grumpy Bear) How many people are on the ship?
Grumpy Bear: 364!
Maribel: And how many escape pods are there?
Grumpy Bear: Two!
Maribel: Drat!
(There is a short pause)
Maribel: How much do you know about this meteor?
Grumpy Bear: Funny you should mention it. Our sensors just turn that the meteor is made entirely out of...
Dora: What? Out of what?!
Grumpy Bear: Popcorn!
(Dora, Boots, Maribel, Dorothy and Ian gasped)
Maribel: (whispering) A popcorn ball meteor.
Dora: (whispering) The worst kind.
Boots: Uh, would that be caramel or cheese? Because I don't like that cheese stuff very much. It gets stuck in my tooth.
Grumpy Bear: It makes precious little difference when it hits it 5,000 miles an hour!
Boots: Ah, good point.
(Just then, Maribel hears the new guys sing)
Draculaura And Clawdeen: Meet me in St. Louis, Louis. Meet me at the fair.
Maribel: (offscreen) Hey, who are those guys?
Grumpy Bear: Oh, never mind them. They're the new guys.
Draculaura And Clawdeen: We will dance the hootchie-cootchie. I will be your tootsie-wootsie. Meet me In St. Louis. I'll be waiting there.
Maribel: (offscreen) Well, maybe they have some ideas.
Grumpy Bear: What? Not the new guys! They don't know anything! All they do is sing and eat, eat and sing! Between you and me, I think they're crazy!
Maribel: Oh!
Draculaura and Clawdeen: We will dance the hootchie-cootchie. I will be your tootsie-wootsie. Meet me In St. Louis. I'll be waiting there.
(Maribel approaches the two ghouls)
Maribel: Hi, I'm Junior.
Clawdeen: I'm Clawdeen Wolf!
Draculaura: I'm Draculaura!
Clawdeen: We're the new ghouls.
Maribel: So, why do you sing all the time?
Clawdeen: Why don't you?
Maribel: Because it's weird, I mean different.
Clawdeen: You know, sometimes, differences can be good, if we just take the time to get to know each other.
Maribel: Yeah, maybe. So, why do you eat so much?
Clawdeen: We're hungry, I guess.
Draculaura: It's our metabolism, or something.
Clawdeen: You know, sometimes, I think I could eat a whole bus.
Draculaura: Yeah? Well, sometimes, I think I could eat a whole spaceship!
Clawdeen: Oh yeah? Well, sometimes I think I could eat a whole planet! (Echoing) Planet! Planet! Planet!
(Just as Clawdeen and Draculaura were talking, Maribel turns to Grumpy Bear)
Maribel: (to Grumpy Bear) Scooter, how many space pods did you say there were?!
Grumpy Bear: Two!
Maribel: Clawdeen! Did you mean what you say about eating a whole planet?!
Clawdeen: Well sure, but-
Maribel: How would you guys like to help save the ship?!
Clawdeen: Gosh, that'd be swell!
Maribel: Grab the GHOULS!!
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The Gourds Must Be Crazy Recast Version
Short StoryJoin 5-year old Maribel as they take a trip to the USS Applepies because of the meteor impacting. And what about Clawdeen and Draculaura? Could they possibly help?
