"Pumpkin to talk about!"

(Or "Silence of the Yams!")

"WELL THE LAST TIME YOU REMEMBER, BOTH ROCKY'S FAMILY AND BULLWINKLE'S FAMILY HAD ENCOUNTERED BORIS AND NATASHA, WHO INTENDED TO USE A MASSIVE BOMB ON THE ENTIRE RESTAURANT AND KILL THEM ALL!"

"MWEHEHEHEHH!!" Boris laughed riotously alongside Natasha.

"HOLD IT!" Rocky exclaimed. "HOLD EVERYTHING!"

"WITHIN AN INSTANT EVERYTHING SEEMED TO STOP. QUITE LITERALLY EVERYTHING, INCLUDING BORIS AND NATASHA WHO WERE SECONDS AWAY FROM HITTING THE GROUND."

"What the heck d'you guys think you're even doing?!" Rocky exclaimed. "This is supposed to be a time where our families get together for LONG-LASTING MEMORIES! And speaking of family--"

"ROCKY EXAMINED THE OLD FAMILY PHOTO AND SCOFFED AT THE IMAGE."

"Why're you guys even arguing over a dumb old photo anyway? Last I checked we have no "Great-Grandpa Martin J. Squirrel!"" Rocky exclaimed, turning the old photograph around. "This says "MARVIN J. SKURL"!"

"IT TOOK A FEW SECONDS BUT EVERY FAMILY MEMBER OF ROCKY'S BEGRUDGINGLY APOLOGIZED TO EVERY MEMBER OF BULLWINKLE'S FAMILY FOR HOW ANGRY THEY'D BEEN, AND VICE-VERSA."

"I apologize, Torpedo…" Bill shook the hand of Rocky's father.

"Sorry, Vera…" Missile hugged Bullwinkle's mother.

"Vell I NAWT!" Boris exclaimed, pressing a few buttons on the explosive. He proceeded to jump onto the bomb, wearing a cowboy hat. "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWSKI!"

"AMMY, GET EVERYONE OUTTA HERE!" Rocky exclaimed to his sister. "I'll take care o' this!"

"UTILIZING ALL THE STRENGTH HE HAD CONTAINED WITHIN HIS SQUIRREL BODY, ROCKY WAS ABLE TO LIFT THE BOMB AND TOSS IT FAR AWAY FROM THE RESTAURANT, SAVING BOTH HIS AND BULLWINKLE'S FAMILIES!"

(*KABLAAAAAM!*)

"Cooooolll!!" Bullet and Artie sighed at the explosion.

"(*damn, this is the BEST THANKSGIVING EVER!!*)" Jerry excitedly and rapidly signed.

"There we go, crisis averted!" Rocky smiled.

"BUT BORIS WAS NOT GONNA CALL IT QUITS, NO SIR! BORIS PREPARED TO DROP ONE OF THE ENORMOUS "Bullwinkle's" LOGOS RIGHT ON VERA WHILE SHE WASN'T LOOKING. MARGE THANKFULLY NOTICED, AND WHILE SHE INITIALLY WANTED THE SNOBBY MOOSE TO DIE FOR MOCKING HER PREGNANCY WEIGHT, MARGE RECALLED VERA WAS A MOTHER, TOO."

"HAAAAAH!" Marge exclaimed, shoving her body as much as she could, pushing herself and Vera out of the way of bodily harm.

(*KA-BOOM!*) The enormous logo shattered to pieces on the ground.

"You…saved me…" Vera gasped.

"BUT THE EXPECTANT MOTHER SQUIRREL DID NOT HAVE MUCH OF A RESPONSE, SINCE HER WATER BROKE…"

"R-Ralph!" She exclaimed, clutching her abdomen.

"THE MUSCULAR SQUIRREL, DESPITE HIS LOW INTELLECT, IMMEDIATELY WENT INTO PROTECTIVE FATHER MODE…"

"Don't worry hon I got ya!" Ralph exclaimed, picking up his pregnant wife with ease, then turned to Bullet and Artie. "Kids, cousin Rocky will watch you, we'll be back later, we've gotta go see Dr. Eichhörnchen!"

"ALRIGHT!" Bullet and Artie high-fived each other.

"ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY HAD TO DO NEXT…"

"Hey Artie, Bullet!" Rocky hollered, holding up a football.

"IF THERE WAS ONE WAY TO UTILIZE THESE HYPERACTIVE KIDS AND DEFEAT BORIS AND NATASHA AT THE SAME TIME, THIS GOOD, OLD AMERICAN PASTTIME WAS IT!"

"GO LONG!" Rocky exclaimed, picking up the football and throwing it at Boris.

"vat th--Ees dat a bomb?!" Boris pondered, holding the football. "AAGH--"

"BORIS WAS IMMEDIATELY PUMMELED BY BULLET WHO SENT HIM FLYING DIRECTLY INTO THE DUDLEY DO-RIGHT ANIMATRONIC."

"Aw YEAH! TOUCHDOWWWNN!!" Bullet exclaimed, slamming the ball on the ground and doing a touchdown dance. "HEY LADY!"

"BULLET THEN CHUCKED THE FOOTBALL OVER TO NATASHA, WHO MADE THE SERIOUS MISTAKE OF CATCHING IT."

"Vait, oh no--"

"--I GOT IT!" Artie hollered, RAMMING Natasha into the side of a wall.

"YEAH!" Bullwinkle exclaimed, dog-piling on Natasha as well.

"--OOMPH!" Natasha exclaimed.

"now let's take out the garbage!" Rocky hollered.

("I got this one!") Jerry signed.

"THE ASL-SPEAKING MOOSE USED HIS ANTLERS TO HAUL BOTH BORIS AND NATASHA OUT OF THE RESTAURANT, BOTH ROCKY'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY AND BULLWINKLE'S SIDE APPLAUDING."

"Great job peanut!" Missile kissed Rocky repeatedly.

"Oh, well done, son!" Vera hugged Bullwinkle.


"WITH BORIS AND NATASHA DEFEATED YET AGAIN, ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE'S FAMILIES (having put aside their old arguments and differences) COULD SHARE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING MEAL TOGETHER…"

"Oh Vera, did I ever tell you about when Rocky was little?" Missile asked the mother moose.

"Oh great here it comes…" Rocky groaned, preparing for what his mom was gonna say next.

"He was real fussy as a youngster, didn't want anything to happen to his precious flight helmet, oh, and I can't forget his first day of school, he flew right into my arms cause the bell scared him!" Missile laughed along with Vera.

"MOOMMM!" Rocky exclaimed. "Quit embarrassing me!"

"ROCKET JEROME SQUIRREL, Can't I share ONE humorous anecdote from your youth?!" Missile exclaimed.

"MEANWHILE, BULLWINKLE DECIDED TO GIVE ROCKY A LITTLE BREAK, AND HAD TAKEN THE LIBERTY OF WATCHING MARGE'S KIDS IN HER ABSENCE."

"Awww check it out you guys!" Bullwinkle spoke to Bullet and Artie, the three of them viewing a text message from the moose's cell phone from Ralph--a picture of an adorable newborn squirrel wrapped up in a yellow baby blanket. "Your new baby sister...Callie! Your dad says it's short for "Caliber" but that's probably to keep up the whole ammunition/projectile theme your family has going."

"Wow, she's got dad's light brown fur..." Artie spoke, zooming in on the squirrel kit.

"I'm--I'm--IONWANNA BE A BIG SISTERRRR!" Bullet loudly whined, fat teardrops cascading down her reddened face.

"ARTIE IMMEDIATELY SLAPPED BULLET ACROSS THE FACE."

"GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF!" He hollered. "We're TWINS! So we're gonna be the BESTEST big brother and sister EVER!"

"Thanks I needed that..." Bullet hugged her twin brother.

"MEANWHILE, ROCKY'S FATHER AND BULLWINKLE'S FATHER WERE TALKING AMONGST THEMSELVES..."

"--glad everything turned out alright in the end." Bill sighed.

"Yep, our boys are real chips off the ol' blocks!" Torpedo sighed, pouring himself some bourbon, then some for Bill. "Can't believe we don't really have a great-grandpa Martin, though.."

"Sometimes it takes a new generation to heal the wounds of the old, I guess..." Bill replied, smiling.

"WELL, HAPPY THANKSGIVING, FOLKS! MAKE SURE TO BE WITH US NEXT TIME FOR ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE!"

End.

A/N: The character of Ammunition "Ammy" J. Squirrel speaks almost entirely in USAF military lingo and the United States Military Alphabet. Also Marge's beefy husband Ralph was originally going to be named Homer as an obvious Simpsons reference.