Bruce the Duck

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"Bruce the Duck" is a collection of nonsense I began to write when I was maybe sixteen or so. Because it is nothing but a bunch of self-referential, in-joke high school madness, I have annotated it. Anytime you see a hyperlinked footnote, you can click it to travel to the bottom of the page for an explanation of the reference. And each reference will contain a link to take you right back to what you were reading.

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Chapter 46: Amy

       Weird Al walked cautiously through the dark streets of Madrid.

       "For the hm hm hm Christmas, Fox hm hm hm, hm hm,"1 Weird Al hummed. Then he stopped and realized what a cool song that was and began to sing it out loud.

       "Twelve Sharkeys biting, eleven Bobbies triking, ten Ticks ha-haing, nine toons cha-cha-ing, eight doggies burpin', seven Tazes slurpin', six Rang***2 leaping, five Faboo X-men! four Clubhouse Pals, three Carmen gals, two Batty guys, and Cute Spiderman to light up our tree!" Weird Al paused. "Happy Holidays from Fox Kids!" he yelled. It echoed through the dark alleyway that Weird Al had found himself in somehow.

       Out of the shadows came slimy, leather-clad men. They looked at Al maliciously and snarled. Al chuckled and waved nervously.

       The sleazy guys attacked Weird Al and handcuffed his hands behind his back, stuffed a gag in his mouth, blindfolded him, and shoved a Rubber Ducky down his pants. Despite his handicaps, Weird Al could still hear the thugs talking.

       "We must take him to our leader," one said.

       "Sí, sí, vamos," said another.

       "Sí, vamos a cocinar un pato,"3 said yet another.

       Weird Al hoped for his precious Duck friend that Bruce was nowhere around.

       Al was taken by the thugs to a room that smelled like apple cider and piss. He was roughly thrown into a corner. Suddenly, his gag came out and his blindfold slid off, and Al opened his eyes to see a blonde woman dressed completely in red leather, with red leather pumps and nice red fishnet stockings. The woman cracked her whip at Al and growled like a lioness.

       Weird Al's face broke into a smile.

       "Amy!" He cried. She made a puzzled face and blinked.

       "Amy?" she said wonderingly. Then she grinned and said, "oh, that's right. I forgot I was Amy. Thank you, Al!"

       Amy jumped up and down in her 4-inch heels and promptly fell on her ass.

       Al tried to get up to help her up, but the handcuffs prohibited this action and he called Amy for help. She loosened his handcuffs and then he got up, crossed the room to her, and helped her up. She put on her normal clothes, screamed, "SHIT! I GOT WOOGIES MANG!" and left with Weird Al, leaving the thugs bewildered.


Chapter 47: The Search of Noble

       Noble surfed on his shining hubcap on the ocean. He was looking for Monty.

       "Hellooooo!" bellowed Noble. When he got no response he tried his walkie talkie.

       "Hellooooo!" he yelled into it.

       No answer.

       "Eetop mah-pee bop-uh-top!"4 yelled a transvestite sea monster.

       (Well,) thought Noble. (At least he's not saying "oowee pee momby."5)

       "What are you saying?" inquired Noble. "I can't understand you."

       "Sop-uh-kop ihtop, sup-uh-kop ihtop rop-ee-lop hoparopdop!"6

       Noble put his fingers in his ears. He attempted to drown out its bellows by singing a song. He sang the song that popped into his mind at the time: "Do you have a craving for a show that's really kinda wakky? Yearning for some fun that's loony, kooky, zany, and slap-happy?"7 The creature went to his face and bellowed some more.

       "Chop-oo ahnop mopeye nopadopsop!"8

       Oh! Something in Noble's superior intelligence came together. He realized this sexually confused creature of the deep was speaking "op" language.

       "Hopavop yop-oo sop-ee-nop Mopahnoptopee?"9 inquired Noble.

       "Mopahnoptopee?" repeated the creature.

       "Yopehsop."

       "U-mop . . . . . I sop-awop hopihmop uhnopdoperop-wopahtoperop. Lopoohkop thopehrop." said the creature.

       "Bopeye thopee wopay, I ehmop Nopohbopehlop. Wopuhtopsop yopoorop nopaymop?"

       "Fropaynopkop Fopuhroptopuhrop," confessed the monster.

       "Thopahtop ehxop-plopaynopsop ihtop," said Noble knowingly. "Sopee yopoo lopaytopehrop!"

       "Bopeye," agreed the monster.

       Noble waved and followed the creature's specific directions. Down into the sea he swam, searching for Monty.

       He found him. He was underwater with a Gumbyesque mermaid. He was also drowning, but he hadn't realized that yet.

       Monty was taken to the surface by Noble. Evie10, the mermaid he'd been flirting with, followed him.

       "Wopaytop!" yelled the transvestite serpent, Frank. Noble turned and saw Frank following him. He waited as requested and placed Monty on the shore. He hit him on the head with the hubcap and Monty came to. "Hellooooo," he shouted.


Chapter 48: Billy's Search for Steve

       Billy's eyes were wide open, and his jaw would have been on the floor if he were in a cartoon or a silly book.

       There, in the glade, was a jellybean tree.

       This had been Billy's short-lived obsession during his woogies experience. He had tried to force the tree to give him jellybeans. But now he wasn't looking for jellybeans, he was looking for Steve. He wished he would find him. Then he had an absurd craving for cheddar cheese.

       Still, he couldn't resist. He went to the jellybean tree and ate a significant number of them, even the black ones. Those little negro11 jellybeans were his favorite kind.

       Billy sat down, leaned against the jellybean tree, and promptly changed into a chicken.

       "Buck-aw," he protested, but it was futile. Billy began to flap around clucking and panicking. He couldn't stay a chicken!

       Billy suddenly laid an egg. Then he laid three more. "Buck-aw?" he said. Then he changed back into himself. He looked down at his offspring and they began to hatch. Four little chicks came out of the eggs, then they disappeared.

       Billy shrugged. Suddenly, he found Steve.

       Steve was lying in the bushes, groaning and talking to his mushroom.

       "Steve, I'm glad I found you! Come on back with me." Steve looked up.

       "Come on. I was hoping I'd find you . . . " he changed into a pig. Then he had three regular baby pigs and a runty pig, too. They snorted + squealed, and then disappeared. Then Billy, with a surprised squeal, changed back into a guy.

       (I think a pattern is developing here. What it is isn't exactly clear.) thought Billy. He grabbed Steve's arm and Steve looked shocked, yelled, "SHIT! I GOT WOOGIES, MANG!" and smiled.

       Billy almost stumbled over the large hunk of cheddar cheese that was suddenly in his path. He chewed it a bit and became a cow. He had four babies and then they disappeared and he changed back.

       Billy realized that, as a direct result of his woogies experience, he had gained the magical apparition of his material desires, and if he indulged them, he became a female animal which had disappearing offspring. (He didn't know this, but they were reappearing in the Real World.) Billy shrugged and grabbed Steve's wrist and dragged him home.


Chapter 49: The Elusive Heather

       Adam Sandler, the vibrator Jenny, and Björk watched all the search parties leave Blondeworld Island Coast in the search for those individuals who had sadly disappeared as a result of Woogies 3.

       They were alone. The three . . . entities stood around the gaping hole left by Heather when she had flown in reverse and drilled herself into the bowels of the earth.

       "What should we do?" asked Björk.

       "I guess we should check out the hole and see if she's down there," said Adam.

       "I'll go," volunteered Jenny. "Just drop me down there."

       Björk picked Jenny up and dropped her into the hole. They heard a splash.

       "I found her!" squealed Jenny through the water. Björk and Adam looked at each other, their eyes lighting up with glee.

       "I think she's dead," said Jenny solemnly, and the light went out of Björk's and Adam's eyes.

       "No I'm not,"12 said Heather, her voice echoing up through the hole.

       "Well, come on!" yelled Adam down the hole. "Pick Jenny up and fly on out of there!"

       "I can't," said Heather.

       "WHAT?!?" said Jenny.

       "I can't fly. I lost all my powers," said Heather. "You're going to have to throw me a rope."

       "What happened?" asked Björk. "Why can't you fly?"

       "I don't know," said Heather. "I just woke up in this hole and everything was different."

       Björk and Adam made a rope from their clothes, tying his pants to her shirt sleeves and so on, even using Adam's shoelaces.

       Heather put Jenny in her pocket and climbed up the rope. She collapsed on the ground, panting, and then fell asleep.

       "Poor Heather!" said Björk sympathetically. "How will she get back to Non-Blonde Land, especially if we can't find Amy or Julie?"

       "I don't know," said Adam, "but you're cute. Especially in your panties."

       And, thus lured by the magical Icelandic panties, Adam took her in his arms and blew a raspberry on her exposed belly.

       "Aaah! That tickles!" Exclaimed Björk, swatting Adam with her open hands repeatedly.

       "FOCKING SHEET!" said Adam in his buffoon voice.13 Björk grinned. Heather slept on.


Chapter 50: Dean Ween's Will to Live

       Mia hopped along the sidewalk, all the Londoners looking at her funny. She wasn't sure if it was her long black hair that they were staring at or if it was her vestigial wings, but she didn't care.

       And then, a voice from her pocket reminded her: "Maan! Yoo haf two lokk four Deen Wean, maan! Orr eye wil byte yor but!"14

       Chu-Head looked lovingly up at Mia from his position in Mia's pocket.

       "Okay, Chu," Mia assured him. "I'm looking."

       Mia looked straight up when she suddenly heard a strain of guitar music floating down from heaven. She searched the sky, jumping a little and flapping her little wings as if to fly up and search for the source of the cherubic sound.

       Suddenly she saw the angelic silhouette of Dean Ween, shaking his silky-sponge haired head slowly back and forth over his guitar as "A Tear for Eddie"15 was splendiferously spawned from the strings. Dean was atop Big Ben, looking with glazed eyes at the ground below.

       "No!" yelled Mia, knowing that if Dean didn't have woogies, he wouldn't feel suicidal. She had to help!

       Mia bgan to climb Big Ben. Guards rushed to stop her, but when they saw the winged girly, they hesitated.

       "Hey, you! Yeah, you! Get off that clock!"

       Mia of the world-renowned vestigial wings gave him the finger.

       "That's it!" yelled the guard in a Pestoesque16 style. He pulled out his gun.

       "Hey!" yelled Mia. "I can climb Big Ben if I want!"

       "Says who?" growled the guard, taking careful aim. Then he felt a blinding pain in his ass.

       "Sez Mistur Chu-Hed, maan!"

       The guard dropped his gun and began to jump up and down, swatting at the little yellow butt-biter on his ass.

       Mia reached the top of Big Ben, tackled Dean Ween, and caused him to fall backwards away from the edge. The sound of his guitar hitting the side of the ledge caused Dean to open his eyes wide and look at Mia.

       "C'mon, Dean, say it!" she cried.

       "Fuckin' shit! I got woogies, mang!" said Dean in wonderment as the breeze at this elevation lifted his hair.

       Mia, exhiliarated, hugged him.


Chapter 51: Alex's Transformation

       Alex sat on his eraser butt, chewing on his nails in Blondeworld Island Forest. His assignment had been to find Pimpy. He had left the group with a purposeful stride, looking like he knew where he was going, and as soon as he reached Blondeworld Island Forest, he leaned against a tree and picked his nose, trying to think of where Pimpy could be. The answer was: he didn't know.

       Suddenly Alex had a brainstorm. He would use his Woogies 2 acquired power of matter transformation to find Pimpy! He picked a shroom and contemplated its shroomness. Then he changed it into a Pimpyfinder. It pointed to where Pimpy was. In this case, it pointed straight up.

       Alex looked up unbelievably. The moon was up there! Alex put the Pimpyfinder in his pocket, put his arms over his head in a diving stance, and rocketed into the air. Of course, he was a rocket by now. As he blasted through the stratosphere, he looked down at Blondeworld Island. It was so small!

       Alex's head bumped the moon roughly, and he abruptly changed back into a human (with a normal butt) and landed on his feet on the moon. Alex's Pimpyfinder pointed left, so that was where he went. He spotted Pimpy, whose undies were full of moon rocks. Pimpy was sitting on the ground, surrounded by moon rocks. He was picking them up and scrutinizing them, sniffing them, licking them. Every once in a while, Alex saw as he approached, Pimpy would growl and throw the moon rock away.

       "Hey, Pimpy, over here!" yelled Alex.

       Pimpy snorted and looked up.

       "Come on, Pimpy! Come home!"

       Pimpy jumped nervously to his feet, scattering moon rocks. He looked so silly standing there, bewildered, his undies bulging with moon rocks, that Alex began to laugh. Pimpy looked sad.

       "Why are you laughing?" Pimpy asked.

       "No reason. Come on, Pimpy. Say the magic words and come home with me."

       "Why?" asked Pimpy.

       "'Cause I'm Alex the Prophet and I say so, dillhole."

       "Fuckin' shit! I got woogies, mang!"


Chapter 52: Herminio's Shit

       Herminio was purged of his shit. He stepped out of the shower and stretched, and let out a barbaric yawp17. He dressed in his best black suit with a red tie and combed his black hair and his black beard. He wanted to look his best, because . . . HE WAS GOING TO MEET THE LEGENDARY GENE WEEN!

       Herminio smiled as he thought of meeting Gene; everyone would be so pleased if he brought back a woogie-free Ween brother.

       He was just pondering where to start looking for the lost Gene


Well, there's nothing else to read. It does indeed stop mid-sentence, and that's probably a good thing. Though I guess it's sad that I never revealed whether my protagonist was found and whether he died of a horrible Spam-related illness. . . .


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FOOTNOTES:

1: I watched a LOT of Animaniacs at the time I wrote this, and it was around the Christmas season. Fox was running this cute commercial with the Warner Bros. singing to the tune of "12 Days of Christmas" a dumb lyric substitution with their cartoon shows featured. I don't know why I decided to have Weird Al singing it. [BACK]

2: That was supposed to be "six Rangers leaping," but it was a reference to the Power Rangers, and I didn't like them, so I censored them. [BACK]

3: They were in Madrid, which is why these guys were speaking Spanish, but I decided to throw in silly Spanish and this guy said "Yes, let's go cook a duck." Which explains Al's next thought. [BACK]

4: The transvestite sea monster was speaking Op Language. Here he said "Eat my butt!" God knows why. [BACK]

5: Some ridiculous baby doll whose commercial was on the TV all the time was supposed to talk "baby talk" that you could translate and figure out what she wanted. The trouble was that the "baby talk" didn't sound like anything remotely resembling what babies actually say, nor did the makers realize that babies try to imitate their parents rather than make up their own code languages which are consistent and can be understood like another language. "Oowee pee momby" was something the doll said. I think it might've meant she was hungry. [BACK]

6: Here the sea monster is saying "suck it, suck it really hard!" [BACK]

7: This is part of another Animaniacs commercial on Fox. [BACK]

8: Ahh yes, now the creature has said "Chew on my nads!" Brilliant. [BACK]

9: Let's save you some trouble. The conversation goes thusly: "Have you seen Monty?" "Monty?" Yes." "Um . . . I saw him underwater. Look there." "By the way, I am Noble. What's your name?" "Frank Furter." "That explains it. See you later." "Bye." (And then when he says "wopaytop!" that means "wait!") And he says "that explains it" in response to "Frank Furter" because that is the name of a transvestite character in Rocky Horror Picture Show, though the RHPS version was, of course, not a sea monster. [BACK]

10: Evie was the name of a celebrity who was mentioned on this weird tape we found in our friend Molly's front yard. The tape contained the paranoid rantings of a local schizophrenic, including philosophical discussions of Evie and her music. I named the Gumbyesque mermaid Evie in homage to this. [BACK]

11: You may have noticed I inserted Spanish words into this manuscript here and there, like "corbata" and "casa" and random Spanish in the Amy chapter. Here, the "negro" jellybeans is just using the Spanish word for "black." [BACK]

12: The "I think she's dead," "No I'm not" thing came from a skit on a Monty Python album in which Mary, Queen of Scots was beaten until the perpetrator thought she was dead, but she said "No I'm not" and so he continued to beat her. [BACK]

13: "The Buffoon" was a skit on one of Adam Sandler's albums. He said "focking sheet!" like that, among other stupid things that we found hilarious. [BACK]

14: This was the way Mr. Chu-Head talked and spelled. Chu was something Mia and her friend Molly made up, I think, and he was this obnoxious little critter that looked like an evil version of Pac-Man. He was always threatening to bite people's butts (or "byte" their "buts"). [BACK]

15: A sad-sounding instrumental guitar song written for Ween's friend Eddie Dingle. [BACK]

16: "Pestoesque" refers to Pesto, a character on Animaniacs. Pesto was a pigeon who was always misinterpreting the meaning of anything said by his friend Squit. He would get mad and finally yell "THAT'S it!" and start beating him up. [BACK]

17: "Barbaric yawp" was a quote in one of my favorite movies, Dead Poets Society. I liked the way that sounded. [BACK]