The kids calmly entered the office of M.J. Jenkins—decorated in a 70's fashion with disco albums, macrame wall art, and filled to the brim with "That Darn Kid" merchandise.

"Yep." Percy gazed around. "It's totally him."

M.J. sat on a large armchair at a small desk with a name tag on it. He wore a leisure suit and looked to be at least in his 30's now, with blonde hair and a handsome complexion.

"Oh." He spoke, noticing that the children were in his office. "Welcome, VeggieTales kids! I've heard a lot about you."

"And we've heard a lot about you, too!" Annie replied.

"Hey, uh, Mr. M.J.?" Junior asked. "We were wondering if you could sign this photo of you."

"Our friend was a real big fan of your show.." Annie replied. "He'd go nuts if he knew you personally signed it."

"But of course!" M.J. smiled, whipping out a pen and signing the photo. "Anything for a fan of "That Darn Kid"."

As the blonde asparagus started signing the photo, Laura noticed that there was something odd on his desk—his name tag, which didn't say M.J. In fact, it actually read...

"...MERLYN J. JENKINS?!" Laura exclaimed.

M.J.'s eyeball started twitching, he threw away the pen. Laura chuckled, then laughed a little, then a lot, then full-on GUFFAWED at the sight of the weird name.

"BAHAHAAAAH!! YOUR NAME IS MERLYN?!" Laura looked up at the asparagus.

"What..." Merlyn's left eye twitched. "...did you say?"

"I said "BAHAHAAAAH!! YOUR NAME IS MERLYN?!"." Laura chuckled, repeating in the exact same tone. "Why, what's wrong?"

Merlyn gripped Laura and pushed her to the side of the wall. He moved in closer and clenching his teeth, said;

"Young lady...do you find my name...HUMOROUS?!!"

"Well, duh, cause who names their kid Merlyn?" Laura chuckled. "It's a chick name!"

In the background, Junior, Laura, Percy, and Annie were all shaking their heads "no" at Laura, trying to get her to stop laughing, until Merlyn glared at them.

"The one rule in my studio, and I repeat, the ONE RULE, that no one is EVER to break, is to say my name, rather than M.J. Jenkins." Merlyn approached the other kids. "It is GREATLY embarrassing, and I will enforce that rule, or my name isn't MERLYN JOJO JENKINS!!"

The asparagus stood proudly, until he realized what he had said.

The kids processed it slowly, until it clicked. Their faces turned super red, they tried to keep it together despite their intensely smiling faces, until they let loose the floodgates of laughter.

"—AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA..." Annie chuckled, rolling on the floor. "Wait, for a second there, I thought you said your middle name was "Jojo"."

"It is." Merlyn replied.

"PFFAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!" Annie laughed yet again along with everyone else.

"BOY!" Percy guffawed. "I bet YOU were the most popular kid in school with a name like MERLYN JOJO—GAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!"

"Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrghh...MY PARENTS WERE HIPPIES OKAY?!" Merlyn exclaimed. "THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TOO EARLY TO FORCE GENDER ROLES ON ME!!"

The kids continued to laugh and laugh at the asparagus' ridiculous name, until Merlyn cracked yet again. He walked over to the desktop P.A. system and slammed the button down.

"—IIIII-VAAAAAANN!!!" Merlyn yelled at the top of his lungs.

(*BOOM!*)

(*BOOM!*)

(*BOOM!*)

The ground rumbled, and so did everything else, including the kids. A glass of water started to ripple as well. People fled the area once they saw something very large and tall approach Merlyn's office—and that tall thing broke through the wall, leaving a huge impact.

"Children...say hello to my bodyguard..." Merlyn chuckled, pausing for dramatic effect.

The "bodyguard" in question was a tall, muscular cucumber, pretty much half Goliath's size. He wore a black security uniform with a small name tag, along with dark sunglasses.

(*balalaika instrumental plays*)

"—IVAN TÜKEELJÜ!" Merlyn exclaimed, laughing maniacally. "...he's from Moscow!"

"...PRIVYET, KEEDZ..." Ivan spoke in a very gravelly accent.

"Wow..." Laura spoke, a little scared at the size of Ivan. "Y-you work out?"

Ivan growled and approached the kids even closer—the kids moved back.

"Uh.." Libby chuckled. "I uh, just remembered we have..."

"That thing!" Junior exclaimed.

"Yeah that thing!" Percy replied.

"So we'll see you around, comrade!" Annie replied.

The kids quickly ran away, but Merlyn still watched them with a huge, malicious grin on his face.

"Ivan..." Merlyn gave a glare at the children, then pointed with a non-existent hand at them.

"—Kill them, now."

"DA!" Ivan enthusiastically responded.