Plank4Prez

[andbegone]

Who: Plankton, Richard, and whoever attends
What: Election Rally
Where: Transport Center
When: 4/23
Warnings: plankton constitutes a warning just by existing


[So it's very possible that, following the whole fiasco yesterday, you started noticing signs tacked up around Vista Way. And replacing the maps in every information booth in the parks. And slipped under your doorway. And just littered around the ground.

Point is, they're everywhere, and while whoever made them clearly lacks any sort of artistic ability, the point still comes across pretty clearly:

ELECTION RALLY: COME SUPPORT YOUR NEW FUTURE MAYOR!!!!!!!!!!!

4/23 IN THE TRANSPORT CENTER
WE WON'T EVEN MAKE YOU PAY FOR THE PINS OR ANYTHING

#PLANKTON OR PERISH

Even if you managed to ignore all the posters and just happened to pass through the Transport Center by sheer chance, it's going to be very difficult to ignore... whatever's going on in the center of the area.

Plankton's dragged crates away from who-knows-where to make some sort of stand, because he doesn't have the time to put together any actual materials, he has to get started on this campaign thing pronto. He doesn't have a real megaphone, either, but he's got a rolled up poster he's shouting into from where he's standing atop like three crates stacked on top of one another. Regardless of if there's a crowd of people around him by the time you show up or if it's just Richard, his campaign manager and virtually sole supporter, either way he acts as though he's got the undivided attention of the whole city.]

People, people, please. I know you have endless questions about my spectacular new policy ideas, but I can only handle so many questions at a time. Believe me, I greatly value your opinion and want to hear each and every word from all of you.

[He doesn't sound sincere in the slightest, but he's got the ham part of the whole thing down perfectly.]

Comments

[dothebackslide]

Now, this is what we call a thin disguise. No matter how ridiculous the disguise may seem to the audience, it will absolutely fool everyone else within the story. The disconnect between reality and the story is a good way of cultivating humor from the sheer obviousness of the disguised character's manipulations as well as the idiocy of the other characters who fall for the disguise. Another routine that can result in comedy and even tension is from miscommunication as the heroes struggle to prove what they see to be obvious to others. Chicken Boo is, of course, a master craftman of this kind of humor, but it can be found in other forms of media as well. The resolution of this dilemma can take some time.

[Where did Dan Backslide come from, where did the Carnival Barker go, and why is Dan casually eating from a bag of cracker among the girls.]

[itsthecount]

What is a disguise?

[dothebackslide]

See, watch this, no one else will even notice how suspicious that question is. Classic.

[Listen he's educating teens on toon logic, its important.]

[hallotween]

No, we notice, we definitely notice, why doesn't anyone else notice this!

[dothebackslide]

I'UNNO. ANIMAL CRACKER? [Just violently shakes it in front of her face.]

[hallotween]

[slowly cultivates racism against toons alongside the robot thing]

[ilovepuppies]

They need be stopped.

[hallotween]

Can you even imagine how much worse this place would be if any of these numbskulls got power? It'd be a disaster!

[ilovepuppies]

[It's at this moment that Star gets a terrible idea, and her grimace turns upward into a sinister grin.]

Gosh, wouldn't it be just awful if something were to happen to their campaign? Something that ruins all their credibility, maybe?

[hallotween]

... I'm listening.

[ilovepuppies]

Oh, you know, what if they said the fuck word during one of their big important speeches?

Or if Olaf punched the baby instead of kissing it...?

[hallotween]

Or if someone pushed Olaf in front of the monorail?

[SHE WAS THINKING MORE ALONG THAT LINE]

[kindaruledatit]

Exac-Gauh!

[Jumping away now. Good grief.]

[dothebackslide]

dang girl you loOK LIKE YOU'VE SEEN A GHOST BEAR!

[kindaruledatit]

Shut up about bears!

[SHE IS NOT HERE FOR YOUR KINKS]

[dothebackslide]

NOT UNTIL IT STOPS BEING FUNNY!

[kindaruledatit]

[She just fucking throws a punch at him.]

[dothebackslide]

[The punch absolutely lands and Dan just vibrates with a wobbly sound effect as birds fly around his face.]

N-now you're being a good straight man! All three of you!

[kindaruledatit]

I'm not a man. Or straight!

[dothebackslide]

Wordplay! You're getting better every day!

[kindaruledatit]

[A small, annoyed grunt.]

So this is how it's gonna be.