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[You may have noticed something new in Wonderland. No, not the festive atmosphere as the holidays approach. More like the near-constant ribbiting everywhere. What's with that ribbiting? Don't frogs hibernate in the winter? Oh wait. Would you look at that? There's frogs. Everywhere. All different kinds of frogs. Real frogs. Toy frogs. Bullfrogs. Poison dart frogs. Tree frogs. Those teeny tiny tree frogs that live in really remote places of the world. Those horrible plastic frog toys with the tab on their butt so when you press down on the tab they jump into the air. A few toads. Peeper frogs chirping and making so much noise oh my god. Really big frogs with really weird eyes that probably aren't from normal Earth. Frogs wearing little clothes. Green frogs blue frogs yellow frogs pink frogs tree frogs brook frogs pond frogs river frogs frogs with wings frogs with hats frogs with tiny shoes.]

[There are so many frogs you guys and they are freaking everywhere.]

[The reason for all this madness comes on the network well after the place has been inundated.]

Hey, did you guys know that the closets are magic? They'll give you whatever you want! Well, they'll give you most of what you want. I asked the closet to give me wings but it only gave me chicken wings. Not cool, closet! Anyway, I haven't been able to find my frog, so I thought I'd ask the closet if it knew where Arnold is. But it couldn't get it right! And a lot of frogs started showing up! Like. A lot of frogs. Boy, I thought I'd never see Arnold among all those frogs.

[HUGE GRIN.]

BUT LOOK!!

[He holds up a frog that looks and sounds exactly like his own frog back home. Of course it's not the same frog, but Greg either can't tell or is content to accept a temporary replacement.]

It's Arnold! I found him! The closet really knows how to make a kid happy, am I right? Say hello to all the people, Arnold!

[The frog says "rorop."]

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[Compared to the others, Wirt is not surprised when it's a normal frog, but he's very surprised for a second at the sheer volume of frogs.

And then, he's not surprised at all, because it's Greg. Of course he's surrounded by a flood of frogs. Of course that's what's happening.]

I-I don't think-

[He was going to say it. He really was. "I don't think that's actually your frog." He had every intention of it, but as he starts to speak the words won't come, due to a weird combination of not wanting to crush Greg's hopes and dreams and feeling like he's not going to be believed anyway. So he forces up an awkward smile instead.]

...I mean, yeah! You sure found him, alright. Good job, Greg! Uh. ...Go you!

[Wirt feels like he's fumbling this and trying way too hard, but maybe it's better than not trying at all?]

Thanks, Wirt! [OF COURSE IT'S THE ACTUAL ARNOLD WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WIRT HAHAHA.] Hey, now that Arnold is back, maybe you can help me think of a name for him!

["Rorop" says Arnold.]

[Naming someone else's frog is a lot of responsibility he doesn't want, to be honest.]

Uh. Well, he's your frog, so...I'm sure you'll come up with something that sticks eventually. So he's not gonna stay Arnold?

[He's not particularly attached to the name either way, but he's never going to keep that frog's name straight if Greg keeps changing it every day.]

Okay, I'll try. Yeah, I dunno, he doesn't really seem like an Arnold.

[Wirt shrugs.]

I dunno either. He could be? I mean, it's not like we can ask him if he likes it. Since...he's a frog.

I bet he could talk if he had a really good reason to!

Oh yeah? Like what?

[Not that he really thinks it could talk, but he can indulge his candy pants brother now and then.]

Liiiiike if we had to distract a bunch of people by putting on a musical number and he had to sing! [He looks at Arnold.] Can you sing?

[Arnold says "rorop."]

[Wirt raises an eyebrow. If they had been from just a day in the future he might not have thought anything of it, since the frog's singing would save the day. But from when they're from now, it's more than a little far-fetched.]

That was, uh. Great. Frog.

[But then Wirt gasps!]

Oh! Oh! You could say it was...ribbitting!

[GET IT? LIKE RIVETING? And like the sound frogs make? ...No?]

[This face.]

...You know? Like riveting? When something's riveting it's really interesting and compelling, and you want to keep listening to it for a long time.

[No? Nothing? Wirt lets out a long siiiiigh.]

Nevermind. Puns aren't really funny when you have to explain them.

[Not that it's Greg's fault or anything. That's just what happens when there's a good nine years between siblings.]

Oh, okay. Did you know that airplanes hatch from really big eggs laid by silver turtles? That's a rock fact!

...Uh. No, I didn't know that, Greg.

[And he's like 100% sure that's not even a little bit true.]

They'd have to be pretty big turtles.

They're huuuuuuge turtles.

Like...bigger than our house? Or the football field? I guess they would have to be, to lay an egg big enough to have an airplane inside it...

[Who knows? Greg's imagination is a weird, weird place.]

Oh, yeah, they're as big as, as a skyscraper!

Edited 2015-01-06 06:52 (UTC)

That's...that's pretty big, alright. Like Godzilla-big or something.

I bet Godzillas hatch from eggs like that too.

I guess they have to come from somewhere. And they are lizards, and I'm pretty sure lizards lay eggs?

[That would be a huge egg though.]

Edited 2015-01-13 17:51 (UTC)

Yeah! They make their nests in volcanoes!

Godzilla lives out in the ocean though... Or something like that - whenever they show him coming out to fight stuff he always rises up out of the water.

[He makes little t-rex arms as he says this, as though it helps his point somehow.]

I bet there are underwater volcanoes...

Maybe...?

[How should he know?]

[Come on big brother, you should know more about volcanoes!]

That would be pretty cool...

[Sorry, little bro. Wirt doesn't pay a lot of attention in science class.]

Yeah, I guess it would be...

Edited 2015-01-29 05:24 (UTC)

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