"Hey Scratchy..."
"Doc..."
"HEY SCRATCHY, RISE AND SHINE!"
"Ahhh!" Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff yelped as he was drawn out of his slumber. He looked up and saw five faces staring down at him and he freaked out.
"Oh no! Zhey're multiplying!" he exclaimed.
"Well math is a rabbit's best subject," Buster offered.
"Hey Scratchy," Yakko said, "these are our friends from Acme Acres, Buster and Babs Bunny."
"No relation," the two rabbits offered.
"They're kind of stuck here till tomorrow, is it okay if they stay with us?" Yakko asked.
"Huh?" the doctor asked, feeling very confused.
"Good!" Dot exclaimed, "Now that that's settled, when do we eat?"
"Vhat?" Otto asked as he sat up and looked at the toon rabbits, "Dem? S-shtay here?"
"Oh gee that's swell, Dr. Scratchy," Buster said as he took the doc's hand in both of his own and rapidly shook it, "You're a pal and a half, you know that? Put her there, put her there."
After Buster about shook the doctor's arm clear out of its socket, he stepped aside, and Babs came up, and made a little curtsy and said, "Charmed, I'm sure," and giggled mischievously.
"Okay, Scratchy, we got it from here," Yakko said, "you go back to sleep."
"Bye!" the five toons said as they raced out of the living room.
Dr. Scratchansniff sat there for a moment in silent confusion, finally asking, "Vhat vas dat?" But he was too exhausted from the morning trip to ponder it long as he yawned and fell back asleep.
"Looks like these will come in handy after all," Yakko said as he took a bag of carrots out of the fridge that Dr. Scratchansniff had put away with the rest of the groceries.
"Thanks, Yakko," Buster said as he and Babs took a couple and started munching on them.
"So what're you guys going to do here for a vacation for two whole weeks?" Babs asked.
"I don't know," Dot shrugged.
"It's gonna be weird not having Ralph to chase us around for that long," Wakko said.
"Weird? You?" Babs asked, and added sarcastically, "Nooooo!"
"Well I got an idea for lunch," Yakko said, "how about a weenie roast and s'mores?"
"Sounds good to me," Buster replied.
"Me too!" Babs agreed.
"But where?" they asked in unison.
"I'm thinking," Yakko said as he looked out the back window, "There's nobody around here for miles...and there's nothing out there but a lot of dirt and rocks...we could make our own fire pit."
"Sounds fun to me," Dot said.
"Yeah, when do we start?" Babs wanted to know.
Getting the fire pit dug and gathering the rocks around it was the easy part. So was gathering enough twigs broken off the trees to start a fire. Then it came down to the issue of who would start the fire. Wakko was very eager to light it, which had Yakko responding, "As curious as I've always been if there's life after death, I'm gonna have to pass on that."
So instead Yakko went about lighting the fire while Dot, Babs and Buster collectively sat on Wakko to keep him from breaking loose and storming over to the fire pit and trying it himself, and it wasn't an easy job. The three toons put their weight together to hold Wakko down, but he still struggled and fought and writhed around under them to try and break loose.
Buster gritted his teeth and called over to Yakko, "Hurry up, we can't hold him much longer!"
"Almost got it!" Yakko called back as he used a blowtorch to speed up the process.
Wakko managed to throw the others off of him and scurried off along the ground, but the others grabbed him by the legs to hold him back, he kicked his legs high in the air for a few seconds before he realized he wasn't making any headway, so instead he tried to pull himself along on his hands and moved them so quickly they spun around in a little cyclone, and when the dust cleared they saw he'd dug a hole in the ground and all the upturned dirt was in a huge pile beside him.
"Whoops," he said with a goofy grin as he hanged there, suspended by the others, "I think I'm turning into a rabbit."
"You got the burrowing part down alright," Buster said as the three of them dropped him on the ground.
"Okay, that's taken care of," Yakko said as he put the blowtorch in his pocket and it disappeared.
The five of them yelped and whooped and cheered as they hopped and danced around the fire pit as the flames grew, having so much fun being together that they were completely unaware they were being watched.
"This has been so much fun," Babs said as they sat the table eating the dinner Dr. Scratchansniff had made for them.
"Yeah," Buster agreed, "It's too bad our friends couldn't be here too."
"That could be arranged," Dot suggested.
"Yeah, how 'bout it, Scratchy?" Yakko asked, "Could they come?"
Otto was flabbergasted by this question and stammered a bit before asking, "How many friends are dere?"
"Mainly just Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig," Buster answered, "the girls are away at camp right now."
"Vell, I don't know," the doctor scratched his head, "It's a long vays for them."
"We could drive over and pick them up," Yakko offered.
"I am not going all ze way to Acme Acres tonight, Yakko."
"No problem, I could drive," Yakko said.
"You don't know how to drive, Yakko," Dr. Scratchansniff pointed out.
"That's okay, I never let that stop me before," he replied without missing a beat and a nonchalant smile on his face.
"Vhat?"
"Never mind."
"I know," Babs said, "they could come the way we did, the tunnel's already dug."
"Yeah, they'd get here before sundown at that rate," Buster said. "Whadda ya say sir?"
"PLLLEEEEEAAAASE?" the five toons asked as they clasped their hands together pleadingly.
"Oh alvight, alvight," the doctor said as he pushed his chair back, "But I must ask that you don't veck da house, and don't keep me avake, I'm exhausted after being on the road all day, and I need to vest."
"No problem, Scratchy," Yakko said, "you'll never even know we're here."
"Alright!" Buster pushed his chair back, "Where's the phone?"
"Over there," Wakko pointed to the wall.
Buster ran over and grabbed the receiver and dialed. "Hey Plucky, wait'll you hear where Babs and I are...we're with the Warners...no, they're on vacation at this house at..." he turned and asked, "What's the address here anyway?"
"114 Left Side Drive," Dot answered.
Buster relayed the address and told Plucky, "Get Hamton and come on over...we're staying the night, it's gonna be a blast! Just go over to my place, hop down the hole and follow the tunnel. You can't miss it."
"What'd he say?" Babs asked when he hung up.
"A few things I can't repeat for our rating," Buster answered, "but he's coming." He turned to Yakko and asked, "Is the doc gonna be a problem?"
"Not at all," Yakko shook his head, "I got these babies."
He reached in his pocket and pulled out a set of Acme Super Duper ear plugs.
"Ooh!" Babs awed over them, "how convenient!"
"Yeah, but Yak, how well do they work?" Buster asked.
"One way to find out," the eldest Warner answered.
The five of them crept into Dr. Scratchansniff's bedroom where he was already in bed snoring like a freight train. Yakko tiptoped up to the bed and very carefully stuck the plugs in the doctor's ears, then yelled directly at him, "HEY SCRATCHY, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!"
Nothing.
"Alright!"
"Hold it, let's give it a real test," Yakko said as he reached out of frame, picked up his little brother, stood him right by the bed, and pulled out a two liter bottle of Burpa-cola and told him, "Go to work."
Wakko's eyes got big in excitement and he guzzled down the soda until the bottle was empty. There was a rumbling in his stomach, then he tipped his head back and belted out the largest belch anybody had ever hood, loud enough that the entire house shook like there was an earthquake.
"Barf-o-rama!" Babs exclaimed in disgust when everything finally stopped shaking.
The doctor stayed asleep in the bed.
"Alright! Now we can really get this party started!" Yakko said as they ran out of the doc's bedroom. At the last second he reached back in, shut off the light and pulled the door shut behind him.
