Kablooey
Meanwhile at Coco's pineapple house under the earth in Undermine...
Coco: Trixany! You vain Blood Elf--Will you stop tucking your shirt in for twenty minutes and sign this birthday card for our cousin??
Trixany: I'm trying to get an 'Anne Hathaway but I'm on the runway' look, but it is stupid-hard to be this effortlessly casual. Ugh! I'm thanking the dev gods right now for our transmog system.
Sharpen: Why?
Trixany: So I can name and save this hot mess for some other time--Aww, this card! It's that blue dog that explodes! So cute.
Sharpen: He does what, now?? That doesn't sound very nice for an innocent child's birthday card.
Coco: *snatches the signed card back* Heh, Goblin children ain't innocent. I sure as gold wasn't. The kid is five, he's like on his third explosion by now, anyway.
Trixany: Sharpen, you're a pure, innocent Alliance Night Elf. I'll explain. Kablooey gets upset whenever people assume she's a robot dog, when actually, she's a robot bomb.
Coco: Honestly, she's a killbot, but that part's ova the kid's heads. The parents get it though, and there's lots of lowkey references to goblin engineering schematics. The explosions happen when the adult characters run off on their own and sic Kablooey on the bad guys. Tastefully and off-screen! She never remembers it and they sing educational songs at the end. It's brilliant bit a Goblin ingenuity, that show.
Trixany: You see Sharpen, it's actually an adult show about goblin engineering that's safe for kids to watch. Cute, right?
Sharpen: I preferred Malfurion's Sing Along as a kid.
Coco: How was that? *puts the signed card in the bright gift bag*
Sharpen: ... ...
Sharpen: Ok, I lied. This horrifies me! Night Elves have zero traditions like this--raising a generation of innocents for war. What is WRONG with the Horde?!
Trixany: It's not war, Sharpen. It's entertainment. Well, except for that episode where Kablooey the robot dog went haywire on a bunch of Gnomes.
Coco: You are always supposed to check killbot props to ensure they ain't been swapped for real-life killbots! That set manager shoulda been fired.
Trixany: And it ruined the wedding cake, when Uncle Stembolt married Auntie Fuselight?
Coco: Oh, gold! Those two are my favorite, cutest couple that hasn't dog-sploded yet on the show.
Trixany: *cheers, hugs Coco* Daaw! And that's exactly why Kablooey hasn't!
