Welcome back to Season 7! When last we saw the Story Pirates, they jumped into a magical picture frame to…who knows where! Today, we find out where. Featuring two brand new stories: “The Completely Normal Frog,” a song that is in no way weird, we swear, written by Wyatt, a 10 year old from Vermont, and “The Laughing Landline,” the story of a town that learns a valuable lesson from fading technology, written by a 12 year old from Canada named Fia.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
The Completely Normal Frog
by Wyatt, age 10, Vermont
Once upon a time in a random swamp, there lived a very normal frog named Gorf, because Gorf is frog backwards.
(GORF) Hi!
He lived in modern home, eating McDonalds with his pet mosquito, Gerg (greg backwards), which is totally normal, so STOP LAUGHING AT THIS TOTALLY NORMAL AND NOT AT ALL STRANGE STORY. Ahem.
Now, on with the story.
(GERG) Hey Gorf, wanna go fly fishing at the pond?
(GORF) I'm tired. What if I just lay down in a lawn chair while you fish?
(GERG) Sounds good to me! And also totally normal and not at all weird!!
(Later, at the pond)
WHIZZZ
(GERG) Wow, I just saw a WHOPPER!
(GERG) Can you hand me another fake fly to use? My lure isn't working on this fish.
(GORF) Okay, here is a good one.
(GERG) Thanks!
*SILENCE*
(GORF) Does it seem weird that you're fly fishing?
*PAUSE*
(BOTH) NOPE!
*C-CRACK*
(GORF) AHH LOOK OUT FOR THAT BRANCH FALLING TOWARDS YO-
*WHACK*
*KABLOOSH*
(GERG) AHH THE CURRENT IS WASHING ME UPSTREAM! WHICH IS NORMAAAL [fading out]
(GORF) Oh no! I must make a very fancy nine-story 400 MPH yacht to follow him in 3 seconds!!!!
3 seconds later!
(YACHT) NRR NRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(GORF) Hooraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! [fading out]
(GORF) Look there he is! I nom must jump from the ninth story balcony and save him!!!
*HUP*
(GORF)AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
*KABLOOFSHHHHH*
(GERG) You saved me!!!!!
(GORF) All in a days work foor... SUPER GORFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What Really Happened~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*HUP*
(GORF) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
*KABLOOFSHHHHH*
(GERG) HEY! You landed on me while I as having a soft drink on a floaty not rushing down a river at ALL! AND YOUR YACHT NEVER EVEN MOVED!!!!!
(GORF) All in a days work fooor... SUPER GORFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!
(GERG) AND YOU SPILLED MY SOFT DRINK!!
(GORF) THE END!
Our adaptation of “The Completely Normal Frog” was written by Ned Riseley and Rachel Wenitsky and produced by Jack Mitchell
The Laughing Landline
by Fia, age 12, Canada
Once upon a time there was a city named seriousville and everyone in it wasn't allowed to laugh.
In seriousville there was a girl named Grace. Grace loved being serious with her friends. One day she went to call her friends on her landline, so she dialed her friend, Rachel's phone number but instead of ringing she heard laughing. First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! Grace screamed!! But then Rachel picked up and asked why she was screaming. Grace said that her landline was just laughing! Rachel said that was crazy because no one in seriousville laugh. She said no one had laughed in so long that she forgot how! Grace said she was probably right and then hung up. Later that day Grace's mom tried to call her boss but instead of ringing she heard laughing. First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! Grace's mom fainted! Even later that day Grace's dad tried to call his wife but she was still fainted so he got sent to voicemail. But instead of ringing he heard laughing! First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! He ran away. Finally the whole family decided to call 911. But instead of ringing they heard laughing! First a giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw! But then they started to laugh! Then their neibours started to laugh, then their whole street, then the whole city, then the whole world started to laugh first giggle then a laugh then a full on guffaw!
THE END!!!
Roll Call Stories
The Mad Men
by Jauni, age 9, California
The Jewellery Trees
by Griffin, age 6, New Zealand
Once upon a time there was a jewellery tree and it washed up on the island of Ckomanako. And there were lots more jewellery trees growing, and there were special treasures that fell out of the tree (only crystals).
And there was another jewellery tree that only grew one jewel and then another, and then a coin. It was so weird. A coin is not jewellery.
And then the island, there was a stingray that stole the jewellery and a hunter hunted the sting ray. The jewellery tree came to life and they helped shake all the jewellery off, there was a treasure chest attached to the tree. The hunter stole the chest and held the chest lid down. And then a shark came to another island of jewellery trees and a cat came with the shark and the neighbours got really excited, and the dad got really mad. Because he hates jewellery. Those are jewellery trees! They're made out of jewellery! He pulled all of the jewellery trees out of the ground with his big muscles. The jewellery came to life and started beating him.
Then the island wasn't a fairytale anymore. It was all a dream. The end.
The Red Panda Who Wanted To Be A Tooth Fairy
by Miriam, age 12, Wisconsin
There was once a red panda who was very special! She was the queen of ALL the red pandas! Her name was *INHALE* Queen Samantha Girdlelocks Cupcake Ice Cream Cookie Sprinkles The 131st! And she wanted to be... *drum roll* A Tooth Fairy! She loved the idea of collecting human bones that had been yanked out of the mouths of small children! It sounded AWESOME! She called the Tooth Fairy Department on her telephone and greeted them as formally as she could, "Greetings fairies! I am looking for The Tooth Fairy so I can steal her job!" she said into the telephone. "Okay!" Said a voice from the phone, "I'm giving her the phone right now!" they said cheerfully. "Hello!" Said a voice that sounded WAY too happy, and Queen Samantha Girdlelocks Cupcake Ice Cream Cookie Sprinkles the 131st immediately recognized this voice as the one and only voice of the one and only Tooth Fairy. "Hello!" Queen Samantha Girdlelocks Cupcake Ice Cream Cookie Sprinkles the 131st said in reply, "I am here to steal your job!" she added. She felt that the Tooth fairy should know this, "Um.." Came the voice on the other end of the line, "No. Thank you for the offer though!" "Aww MAN!" The Queen thought. "But!" The Queen's fuzzy ears perked up in interest, "You can have a pin that says, 'I tried (but failed) at stealing the Tooth Fairies job!' " "Okay!" Said the Queen.
THE END!
