The Story Pirates all decide to sue each other with the help of their lawyer Leonard Skeonard (Zach Cherry). Featuring two new stories: “The Alien That Discovered Banana Bread,” an electro pop song about an alien on another planet who discovers the greatest combination of ingredients ever, written by Eli, a 6 year old from Massachusetts, and “The Big Cluck,” a story about the blurry lines between fact and fiction, written by an 11 year old from Australia named Odette.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
The Alien That Discovered Banana Bread
by Eli, age 6, Massachusetts
Once upon a time, there was an alien that owned a store. And she said “there’s so much food that so much aliens discovered and I never discovered anything. Why don’t I mix so much ingredients together and see what happens?” So, she mixed and she mixed and she tried and she tried.
She mixed crackers and ice cream
She mixed grapes and hummus
She mixed broccoli and cereal
She mixed olives and chocolate
She mixed tuna fish and orange juice
She mixed onions and pretzels
She mixed cucumbers and pears
None of it was good.
And finally, she mixed banana and bread
“What’s this taste like? This is good! Why don’t I call this “banana bread”.
Now I’m going to make a sign that says “banana bread store”
Then everyone started coming to her store. The end.
Story Pirates’ adaptation of The Alien That Discovered Banana Bread was written and produced by Eric Gersen with vocal direction by Jack Mitchell
The Big Cluck
by Odette, age 11, Australia
Don’t listen to scientists. They are always lying, like when they say dinosaurs died more than one hundred million years ago (they didn’t) but that’s a different story you will learn at the end of your life because a dinosaur will eat you. Anyway let’s continue with my theory. The Big Bang never happened!! Instead of a star exploding and creating all these giant rocks that became planets…an egg exploded. Yes, an egg. Yes, I will explain.
One day before there were days an egg appeared and started floating in endless space for a few months. Then, suddenly, a crack appeared and then another and another until the egg cracked in two and a chicken popped out!! The chicken had a wide beak,a big floppy red thing on their head, and a nice long red cape. He took a deep breath, bent over, and started spinning, and as he was spinning planets and rocks and stars and balls of gas shot out of his giganormous butt.
Before I end this story I would just like to say that yes we are living on chicken poop and we always will.
And that is how how the universe was really created (not how the scientists say it was). Now I better run before that dinosaur comes and makes me meet my doom (again). THE END
Roll Call Stories
The Loon Who Wants To Go To The Moon
by Ana Joy, age 10, Canada
The World’s Gone Crazy
by Mackenzie, age 5, Australia
One day people went down a cave and found gems, mysterious gems. They melted them in a bucket above fire. But then this big plume of dust, so big they couldn't even see what going on. But then the dust settled. They walked back home and they saw that something weird is going on.
Bob: Why does my cars fly? And why does planes drive on the ground?
Mr Nobody: Oh no, Bob! I think those crystals we melted were magic crystals! Oh no.
Bob: Why are clouds on the ground? What are light things on the ground and heavy things are in the sky?
Mr Nobody: Oh no! Why are monster trucks flying and why are monster planes driving on the ground? This doesn't make any sense.
Bob: How will we stop it?
Mr Nobody: Why do we have power but there is no power? I don't get it!
Bob: Police, whoever made the world opposite, get them! Some people probably melted some magic gems.
Mr Nobody: Let's change our badges.
Bob: Why, Mister Nobody?
Mr Nobody: So we don't get caught.
Mr Nobody: Let's see if there are any clues in space.
We didn't find any clues up there.
Bob: Let's go back down to the city.
Mr Nobody: Why are there so many animals running in the city?
Bob: I don't know.
Mr Nobody: Why is the wide thin, and thin wide? Why is the rough soft? The world might be opposite. OK? Let's go to the jungle.
Bob: Why are there pets in the jungle?
Mr Nobody: I don't know.
Bob: Why is the grass so wide and tall? The last time we came here a few days ago there was short grass, and where there was a long grass a few days ago, now there is short. We need a new piece of paper.
Mr Nobody: To the paper shop!
Bob: Let's go back to the cave where we found those crystals. Maybe there is another crystal that will reverse them.
Mr Nobody: No, no other crystals. They're all the exact same.
Bob: Let's go to the beach. There must be some clues there?
Mr Nobody: Why is the water warm and not cold? This makes no sense. This world will never be stopped!
The end.
Gravity
by Finn, age 11, California
One day (yeah!) Issac Newton was sittin' under a tree and he said, "What holds us down? Do you know, or me?" and as we came to know and see it was called gravity.
Gravity, gravity, gravityyyy!
Yeah, gravity, gravity, gravityyyy!
Now we are on part two of this great story and he was reading a book in South Detroit and then an apple fell on his head and he said, "gravity!".
Gravity, gravity, gravityyyyy!
Yeah, gravity, gravity, gravityyyy!
Now we're at the end of this wonderful tale and the only thing that wasn't true was, South Detroit and I only have few words left to say the end hoorayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
