The Story Pirates accidentally wake an ancient, slumbering underground monster (Josh Radnor). Featuring two new stories: “Now We’re Cooking With Butter,” a game show where contestants have to cook food with only one ingredient, written by Oliver, a 10 year old from Pennsylvania, and “The Town of Snake Therapists,” the strange tale of a town ruled by reptiles you can share your problems with, written by a 14 year old from California named Freya.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
Original Stories
Now We’re Cooking With Butter
by Oliver, age 10, Pennsylvania
NOW WERE COOK’IN WITH BUTTER SHOW
INT. AFTERNOON
Butter stick logo after you see the judge’s 1 2 & lalalala the singing one. (judge 3) and our contestant think it’s going to be a normal game show butter is it.
ANNOUNCER Welcome back to now were cook’in with butter lets go to our first contestant Mark. The show were we just use butter. MARK So I made a butter soup with butter vegetables .
JUUDGE 1 I like all this butter texture. MARK I know all I had was butter.
JUDGE 2 Nice butter flavor Mark. MARK Ugh. All I had in my fridge was butter.
JUDGE 3 THE SINGING JUDGE Yum this is really goo...d la la la la la la la ohh sorry this I really good butter soup so you got a...
MARK Oh my gosh this is so anoying all you guys are talking about is the BUTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUDGE 3 THE SINGING JUDGE ...25.6 Out of 30. ANNOUNCER So our next contestant is...Rachel. RACHEL I made butter cupcakes with butter sprinkles.
JUUDGE 1 Nice going with that butter flavor
RACHEL Ok all I had at my station was butter!!!!!!!!!
JUDGE 2 Texture on the other hand great butter texture.
RACHEL Thanks. YOU KNOW I ONLY HAD BUTTER WHERE EVER I LOOKED AT MY STATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUDGE 3 THE SINGING JUDGE These cupcakes are really suga...ry la la la la la la oh sorry agian you got a... RACHEL SAME THING AS THAT MARK GUY. All I had was BUTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUDGE 3 THE SINGING JUDGE 24.4 Out of 30
ANNOUNCER And that the end of the show and our two contestant both got 2.5k!!! THE END
The Town of Snake Therapists
by Freya, age 14, California
In a squished little town, there lived a bunch of snakes. If you were a therapist in that town, you were basically a god. All the current therapists were fired, so there was a new election. The snakes were arguing on who to elect, when a comet came and destroyed the town. They had to work together to rebuild the town with scarves. They realized they don’t need a monarchy of therapists and that all jobs are important.
Story Spark
Oliver, who wrote “Now We’re Cooking With Butter" is presenting this week's Story Spark!
Write us a story about a game show. The game show is kinda like a normal game show? But there’s also something about it that is very weird. Make sure to tell us what weird thing is going on with the game show, who the contestants are, who the host of the game show is, and most of all, what weird thing do you get when you win?
Roll Call Stories
One Awesomely Awesome Day in Meep Land
by Lily, age 9, Connecticut
One awesomely awesome day in meep land, there was a meep called meeplymeep. Meeplymeep likes pizza and the game :jump over the cat. Meeplymeep, like most meeps has no arms and he is very green with purple dots. Once on a Sunday meeplymeep wanted to learn how to play clarinet so he can join the MAGIC MEEPYS BAND!!!!!!!! He told his friend meepmoopy but she thot he was crazy. ’’we have no hands meeplymeep! You can’t do that! Meeplymeep was sad that no one understood him. “don’t they know that I’m going to learn magic? It’s in the band name!”. On that Sunday, that magical Sunday meeplymeep learned magic! After years and years of practicing he learned how to use magic to play clarinet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “finally, I can both use magic and play clarinet!!!!!!!” And after that he played many games of jump over the cat and ate pizza and most of all meeplymeep lived meeply ever after with his friends and clarinet. The end. (Also he did join the band)
The Haunted Dishwasher
by Phoebe, age 6, Arkansas
Once upon a time there was a Mom, and she washed two straws. When she opened the dishwasher, it came out with three! She had to wash them, so she put more, and more in, so she could wash them. And there kept being more and more straws! They had to do something, because their house was filling up with straws! They thought that the dishwasher was haunted. So, they tried to cast a spell on it. "Alakee, alakazoom! Make there be less straws!" The spell was supposed to take away all the straws. But, instead of taking away straws from the dishwasher, this spell actually made there be 1000 more straws every time you washed them. And their house was filled up with straws and the family ran away, and never saw their house again.
The End.
Alive Furniture
by Frank, age 8, Ohio
Run, run, run for your lives!
The furniture, the furniture’s alive!
The couch’ll eat you if you sit on him.
The barstool’ll give your pants a trim.
If you open the fridge, he’ll make you into ice.
If you watch TV, he’ll turn you into lice.
The hot tub — if you take a soak,
he’ll burn you alive
or at least give you heat stroke.
The carpet will roll you up,
And the trash can will give you a really big scare.
The kitchen table — he’ll eat your food from a cup,
The fan — he’ll slice you to shreds with scissors, his favorite pair.
The coffee maker’ll pour boiling water on your head,
And just like I said…
The furniture, the furniture, the furniture’s alive!
Run, oh run, oh run for your lives!
the battle of the snacks
by William, age 10, Montana
Once, a long time ago the two kinds of snacks healthy snacks and sugary snacks were united. but then two kids started eating the sugary snacks but not the healthy snacks (because who needs healthy stuff right?) before the last sugary snack was eaten he yelled"avenge me!!!!!!!!!!" and then the healthy snacks grabbed swords and started attacking the kids and the kids mother told them"make sure to eat the healthy snacks" the healthy stuff screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but fortunately the kids refused and their mother said "then i'm going to sell your pet lion" and the kids said "okay" so their mother sold their lion to a zoo but the kids pressed a secret button that said "lion rain" and lions started to rain from sky and the lions ate all the healthy snacks. THE END
