| 8-Bit Theater | |
| Episode 173 | |
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| Now who doesn't love Lewis Carroll. | |
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| Date Published | Tuesday, July 16th, 2002 |
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Fighter vs. Word Play
Setting[]
Cast Appearing[]
- Fighter McWarrior
- Eye-Stalk (first appearance)
- Jabberwock
- Vargus
Script[]
| Fighter is walking in the dark cave. | |
| Fighter | Boy, it sure is dark and scary and lonely in this doom cave. Now what was that story Master Vargus used to tell me about quests to make them less scary... |
| A flashback occurs involving a young Fighter and Vargus superimposed over an image of a Jabberwock. | |
| Vargus | Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch! |
| Fighter | Banderwhat? |
| Vargus | He took his Vorpal sword in hand: long time the Manxome for he sought so rested he by the Tumtum tree, and stood awhile in thought. |
| Fighter | "Manxome"? I just heard you say that and I still don't know how that's pronounced. |
| Young Fighter imagines himself holding a Vorpal sword as well as a Tumtum tree and a Stalk-Eye as "Manxome...?" The Stalk-Eye says "Yo." | |
| Fighter | Cookies taste good. |
| Vargus | And, as in Uffish thought he stood, the Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the Tulgey Wood, and burbled as it came! |
| Fighter | See, whiffling I could almost believe, but you had lost me with "Tulgey". |
| Jabberwock | (looking distinctly like a dragon) I gots yer "Tulgey Wood" right here! Ohhh, yeah! Burble! |
| Vargus | One, two! One, two! And through and through the Vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back. "And, hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. |
| Fighter | You totally made all that up! Half those words aren't even real! |
| Fighter | I'm going to be so disillusioned when I grow up thanks to this. You better just hope that I don't recall this memory at some traumatic moment in the future in an attempt to calm my nerves with a dose of childhood. 'Cause, man, you just killed my innerchild and I'm only six. |
| End of flashback. | |
| Fighter | Lousy disillusionment of childhood memories. What you do for Fighter! |
Trivia[]
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