Story Time, Monkees-style

From "Captain Crocodile"

Micky: Would you like to hear a story?

Kids: Yeah!

Micky: (picks up book) Alright, I got a story.

Mike: But, that's a dictionary.

Micky: Shhh....We're gonna hear a story now, ready kids? Ah, let's see here, ah, sit down there, and, uh, great! Well, here's the story.

(Begins story) Once upon a time, in the land of Kirschner, there was a handsome prince in love with a frog and three little pigs! And he didn't know how he would get through the forest, 'cause the wicked grandmother had given him a poison apple. So he was walking through the forest, and uh, with goodies, in, uh, in a basket, and uh...(Passes dictionary to Mike)

Mike: And he, uh, he came across a wicked step-ladder, who, uh, who was, uh, pretty, uh, tall, because of all the rungs, and uh, she said, uh, "You rang?" and he said, "Sure, the rungs are..." uh, because he had this basket of goodies, and uh...(Passes dictionary to Davy)

Davy: He had this basket of goodies, and he started walking toward little Snow White's little house, where the, where the six, uh, midgets lived with the four frogs...

Micky: Seven!

Mike: Seven.

Davy: ...Seven midgets, with the four frogs. And the, and the, and the toadstools were beginnin' to, to look bad, because, uh, Columbus was, uh...(Passes dictionary to Peter)

Peter: Uh, uh, uh, (Reads from dictionary) Commando: Allied troop in, unit in Wu-Wu Two(WWII). Commedia Dell'arte: A kind of comedy descended from the Roman comedies of...

(At this point it becomes incomprehensible)

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