10.A Weekend With Orko/Teatime.
I say! No coffee group is complete without mentioning a gentle slice of life vignette about Furaha and Orko living in a London apartment with a love of jazz and piano music and cupcakes for afternoon tea. I admit it, it's based on Toonami UK's August 2003 He Man Weekend Marathon, but it was the landmark event that changed how viewers saw Toonami in the UK, and thinking of London and jazz music is better than when the people at Disney thought of jazz in Paris where the Aristocats lived.
9.Chip N Dale: Cupcakes and Round My Family Tree Auditions.
Yes, Round My Family Tree is an absolute earworm for me and various other Disneyphobians who watched The Tigger Movie as a kid, but want to know what happened when they casted the Tiggers who got a role in the sequence? In this comic, characters like Tony The Tiger, Shere Khan and Garfield try out for a role in the sequence, but are instantly rejected. Then in Cupcakes, which takes place at the Cupcakes 2 Love restaurant in Yorkshire, Pooh from The Book Of Pooh, Blue from Blue's Room, Oswald the octopus and Clifford The Big Red Dog all gather for afternoon tea at the BEST CUPCAKE RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD! Only, Clifford can't get in because he's too big. All for laughs, I suppose. It is the world of Chip N Dale of course!
8.Teddy Orko
One of my friends from a town near me always holds a doll wherever she goes. Whether it's her favourite Minnie Mouse doll or a Care Bear, you can be sure that no one calls her a big baby. She also has fantastic rainbow hair and wears Disney jumpers, like one with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Pluto. Well, in Teddy Orko, Orko pretends to be a big Trollan teddy bear, making squeaking and growling noises as Furaha hugs him tight. It's a nice, sweet little vignette that I may share with my new friends at the One Stop Shop - most of them carry teddies too!
7.Orko & The Deep Of Life
Nobody recognises the power of water in nature better than me. Orko is seen in this vignette swimming in deep water, encountering little fish and plant life deep under the incoming tide and relaxing on the top of the water. This is a life that's just right for a Trollan after crash landing on Earth, away from the abuse of Prince Adam/He Man and Cringer. And to bind this and the next one in my list together, here's something that may take you to paradise...
6.Three Best Friends In Paradise
This is an idea I almost forgot about, based on the poem 'Two Black Boys In Paradise' - except there's a lioness cub, a Trollan wizard and an Autobot leader enjoying themselves on a pure, safe, simple island, away from the dangers and harsh jobs of the real world - swimming in the ocean, relaxing on the beach and exploring the jungle. Outside today it's really cold with snow, but luckily the water and weather is warm in Paradise. Just where the One Stop Shop Coffee Crew would be when it's snowing and they can't go out for coffee.
5.Walking With Monsters
My support worker can't come and take me out this Friday, but luckily I bought myself a £3 DVD named Walking With Monsters to make up for it. The back of the DVD says the monsters in the series may look like something out of a fantasy nightmare, but are actually present before us humans were around. This series came out when I was 5, and now I'm happy to share it with my friends from the One Stop Shop - what I tell them will make them spit out their fruit filled vegan food in shock and disgust over things like:
HYNERPETONS THAT LOOK LIKE OMELETTES! (EEEEWW!)
GIANT SPIDERS! (EEEK!)
MONSTERS EATING EACH OTHER WITH BLOOD FLYING EVERYWHERE! (OH NO!)
THE FACT THAT 2 ENTERTAIN RELEASED THIS, THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE & AARDMAN'S DARKSIDE IN THE COURSE OF TWO YEARS! (OOOOOOOH!)
4.The Itchy Body Bug Inspector
And speaking of bugs (and rather grotesque prehistoric ones in fact), this Sybil & Friends story sees me wake up complaining about an itchy leg which I tried to scratch overnight, so my sister Cleo, Bluey's sister Bingo and Rex's roommate Vince play at being doctors to find out what's going on under my skin. Bingo uses a plastic toy butter knife to pretend to scrape at my skin, and to everyone's shock, they find a lot of pretend bugs under there, including a giant millipede (actually a toy green and purple centipede) that wants to eat my flesh away. Cleo, Bingo and Vince must chase it before it goes under someone else's skin. Will they do it? I guess the Coffee Crew will have to find out, won't they? Eh? EH?!
3.Cheese, Orko & Cringer Stay Up
This is another Sybil & Friends story based on the Bluey episode 'Fairytale' that thankfully isn't grotesque or disgusting. In this '80s-set story which is set on the Eternia '80s kids seem to know and love, Prince Adam leaves Orko to look after Cringer and Cheese while he, Teela and Man At Arms go out to an important banquet for the night. The moment our three heroes leave, Cheese and his friends plan to stay up all night, stealing chocolate cake from the palace kitchens, drinking all of Man At Arms' beer and telling scary stories. I know, beer was mentioned in The Tiger Who Came To Tea but it's nice to have a kids' character, especially a tough one like Man At Arms, drink it. I don't want to see him smash it over Orko's head, though. Poor thing.
2.Orko & Optimus: Bag Of Tricks
In this comic, Orko is tired of having only a minor role in the He Man episode 'The Last Stand'. He goes to bed that night and has a dream about having a much bigger role in the episode, talking with Prince Adam about the things produced from his sleeve and revealing what he uses the white sticky porridge, flower, ball, vault and three eyed goldfish for - feeding babies, doing magic and...*GASPS IN HORROR* STORING MONEY?! This angers Adam so much that Orko produces another ball from his sleeve and throws it into Adam's face, throwing him off the cliff and causing the little wizard to earn a definitive ovation from the producers and crew as filming finishes, and he wakes up triumphant he'll stop Prince Adam from stealing his thunder once and for all. If Orko can be the true star of the show, you can too! And so will the Coffee Crew.
1.Orko's Ears
No Coffee Crew list would be complete without the inclusion of a much lighter vignette of Orko's eternal stay on Earth with his lion family. It features a usual scenario of Orko relaxing on the sofa, not a care in the world. Then Furaha sneaks up to him and begins to fiddle with his ears. Orko begins giggling over the ticklish feeling, but then once it stops he hears giggling and asks who did that. Furaha appears, and Orko pounces onto her and tickles her. This inspired by me fiddling the ears of my own pets, such as Mushroom and currently my dog Mylo, who is being a bit of a naughty today as he stole both sound remotes at once.
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