Skip, that's brilliant!

Monologue assignment from 1st year of TAW with a grumpy Wirt (Over the Garden Wall) I just now tied down and colored. AND the monologue is Martin from my favourite BBC radio sitcom Cabin Pressure <3 

We had lovely Sarah Airriess - aka @tealin - as our teacher this time, and being a fangirl herself she had selected this as one of the clips we could choose… So of course I had to take it. 

V: life trajectory

“When you finish school,” he says, leaning comfortably on the counter, “We could make you assistant manager. You know, make it official.”

Carolyn moved the jar of humbugs aside, making room for the newly stocked-up liquorice. “Mmm.”

Her father warmed to his theme. “Then, if you and your new fella - what’s his name, love?”

“Ian,” she supplied.

“Well, if the two of you wanted to get married one day, you’d have savings to settle down with, wouldn’t you.”

“I’m just helping over the holidays, Dad,” Carolyn reminded him. “You won’t change my mind.”

@jay-eagle, @skipthatsbrilliant and I are doing a thing

ok listen. listen. at first i was sure that only arthur would ever really play pokemon go, because the rest of them didn’t seem the type 

but then i was like, but what if thats not the case

carolyn still doesn’t play, because she has ceo things to do, but martin and douglas start playing alongside arthur. its not a rare sight to find all three of them in the portakabin staring at their phones.

douglas got into it because his daughters both got him playing. he only really knows the basics of the game and franchise, but he has the best luck at finding rare pokemon. he’s on team instinct because thats what emily told him to pick.

martin got into it because ‘i live in a student house ok’. he knows almost nothing about pokemon, but once he gets started, he soon knows like everything. he has the best luck at finding places where pokemon spawn, thanks to his removals business taking him around. he’s team mystic because it was blue.

arthur of course knows all about pokemon and had the app downloaded as soon as it came out. he loves playing it and he especially loves that his house is big enough that just walking around inside gets pokemon. he drives carolyn mad running everywhere and playing, and he loves that martin and douglas play too. he’s the best at actually catching pokemon, usually on the first try. he’s team valor because moltres was his favorite.

martin also starts a second business out of his van, ferrying students from the local college out on pokemon expeditions. they all start calling him ‘professor martin’ because of his technical knowledge and he keeps reminding them to stay hydrated.

douglas, while possessing basic knowledge of pokemon and pokemon types, still asks ‘is that a pikachu’ about every pokemon he or martin catch, just to annoy martin.

also the airfield has a gym. its in range of the portakabin, and its always changing teams. and every single time martin beats the defending team, douglas snags it out from under him. (martin gets revenge one time by literally sitting on douglas to keep him from stealing the gym. which led to interesting places ;)) there was also one memorable time neither of them got it, because karl nicked it before they could get a pokemon in. its still team valor since arthur dumped a super high powered gyrados in to help defend it