[video/action] frog flood

[potatoesandmolasses]

[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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[potatoesandmolasses]

[He only notices one thing Carlos said.]

There's a dinosaur here?!

[imperfect_science]

Yes! [ Carlos’s excitement rivals Greg’s as he affirms that. But then- ]

Well, there were. The people who claimed to own them don’t seem to be here anymore, and I don’t know if the dinosaurs left with them, or if they vanished, or what happened.

[potatoesandmolasses]

Awwwwwww I got my hopes up.

[Beat.]

Maybe more dinosaurs will come!

[imperfect_science]

You never know! Maybe one of Wonderland’s future residents will be a dinosaur. We’ve already had plenty of talking animals, and… things that look like animals.

[ He’s pretty sure at least one of those was an alien. Can you still call things from other planets ‘animals?' ]

[potatoesandmolasses]

Oh, I've met some talking animals! There's Beatrice, who's a bluebird, and there was Fred, who was a horse.

[imperfect_science]

You didn’t meet them here, did you? [ More talking animals for Carlos to examine? How could he have missed that? ]

[potatoesandmolasses]

No, I met them in the Unknown. Beatrice is here too, though. She got here before us, even though for us, it was like she hadn't gone anywhere!

[imperfect_science]

Is that so? [ Mental note: keep eyes peeled for blue bird. ] And that’s normal, what happened to your friend. Time works very strangely here in Wonderland. Sometimes you’ll meet your friends from home, but they won’t remember some things, or they’ll remember things that you haven’t gotten to experience yet.

[potatoesandmolasses]

Hm, hat does sound pretty strange. I guess time is just funny like that.