| FO: As the webmaster of FlyingOmelette.com and the writer/creator of the RAU, I sincerely apologize for what you are about to witness. You see, I was writing up this sketch in which Dr. Honen Calzoun leads a BINGO match when several lines into it I began to get the feeling that it seemed vaguely familiar. I continued to write, but the nagging familiarity persisted until I suddenly remembered an Animaniacs episode that had a similar premise. Well, except that in my sketch, Dr. Calzoun had a lot more than one person to deal with, but since I haven't seen that episode of Animaniacs in years and have no idea how much of my sketch may have been subconsciously "taken" from it, I decided to give it the axe and present this debacle in its stead.
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| Honen: Today, class, I will teach you...ze multiplication tables.
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| Honen: You heard me. Ze multiplication tables. |
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| Honen: MULTIPLICATION TABLES! You know, 2 X 3, 0 X 0, 4 X 5, etcetera! Sheesh. My accent isn't dat bad, now. |
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| Honen: You can't what? I haven't even told you what to do yet. |
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| Honen: Do I want you to do what? |
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| Honen: What? Dat's what I ask you! |
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| Honen: (Manchmal hasse ich wirklich mein dummes Leben.) Look, iz not that hard to understand. Let's start by multiplying 2 times 2. Who can multiply 2 times 2 for me? How about Kitashi? |
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| Honen: ... 2 times 2 iz 4. We take ze number 2 two times. 2 + 2 = 4. Now 2 times 3 iz ze number 2 three times. 2 + 2 + 2 = 6, so 2 times 3 = six. Are you following me yet? |
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| Honen: Okay, I try to explain more clearly zis time and...Punch? What ze hell kind of response iz "Punch"?? |
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| Honen: Verdammen Sie es aller zur Hölle!! Okay, one more time. (Ich bete, daß dieses arbeitet.) Here is a multiplication table:
Zis is for ze ones. Any number times one equals itzelf. So 9 times 1 = 9, 2 times 1 = 2, 6 times 1 = six. See what I'm saying? Easy to remember, no? |
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| Honen: *falls over* |
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| Honen: Iz...there... no one...in... zis room...who can do... one stupid...steenking... little multiplication problem? |
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| Honen: Oh, gracias, peu d'ange. Would you like to explain one for ze rest of ze class? |
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| Honen: Dat's right. Just tell everyone what you know... |
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| Honen: Yes, yes, of course I want you to do it. Dat's why I ask. Just tell ze class how to do any multiplication problem. Any at all! Explain it for them, Akky! |
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| Honen: ... ... |
LATER THAT EVENING
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| Zumo: Well, they told me you were in the infirmary recovering and...Ooh...man, you look terrible...which is pretty bad considering that you usually look just plain awful. |
| Honen: I want to go back to my island. |
| Zumo: You mean the island that was condemned because it was crawling with a disease that made you sick and almost killed you? |
| Honen: Dying slowly of rare bronchial fungus infection better than teaching here. |
| Zumo: So what happened to the west wing? |
| Honen: I dunno. How bad's ze damages? |
| Zumo: It's gone. |
| Honen: Gone? They clean up damages already? |
| Zumo: No, the West Wing is gone. It's not there. |
| Honen: ... I am one doomed Oni... |
| Zumo: Oh, take it easy, big fella. They ain't gonna pop ya. |
| Honen: I don't know why they don't. |
| Zumo: They find you as unintentionally hilarious as I do. |
| Honen: *soupir exaspéré* |
| Zumo: Well, I brought you a book from the library. I thought reading might take your mind off things. It's called "Blue Dragon". |
| Honen: Hmph. Well, okay, perhaps it will help.
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| Zumo: ... |
| Honen: And what was dat supposed to put my mind on?? |
| Zumo: ...written by the Panoptically Vague Prophet... |
| Honen: Well, it didn't work. I still want to go home. |
| Zumo: He might have been able to go into more detail...if only RPG books could have more than 5 pages. |
| Honen: Usually they aren't more than one. |
| Zumo: Want to go bowling? |
| Honen: Okay, but since you've only insulted me twice tonight I promise I won't use you for ze pin this time. |
| Zumo: Ah, you're too kind. |
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