Summary/disclaimer: Time another chapter of Trouble with Maniacs. Enjoy the 800-word chapter. I don't own Anamanics, Tom Ruegger, Warner Brothers Animation and Steven Spielberg do.

(2 week after Trouble Time, Sunday.)

Punchline was alone today, his brothers had gone off to get ice cream, and the Warner Siblings were gone to prank some of the guests that came to check on the set.

"Man, if today was any more exciting, I'd be bursting with joy…."

Punchline muttered, he didn't notice Meek climb up onto the roof the fellow Trouble Sibling was on.

"You can't burst, we haven't gotten to… No, that joke is just bad…"

Meek muttered, somewhat annoyed at his inability to tell a somewhat risqué joke.

Punchline turned to face his sibling and blinked, the two brothers sat on the roof of the building.

"Meek, what are you doing here, I thought you guys went to go get a snack?"

Punchline muttered, Meek shrugged, it was somewhat hard for the brothers to joke since they were still young to the world of joking, it came more naturally on set.

"Eh, someone had to keep you company this chapter or else it would have been boring…. Shriek is going to be gone for a few hours, he's trying to joke with a group of guys that he thinks love his jokes… Not that I have much room to talk of that, I can't even tell the same caliber jokes that I can offstage as I can onstage."

Meek muttered, Punchline lightly ruffled his brother's head, he knew it was hard to tell the brothers apart off set as only their clothing and height was the only thing really telling them apart.

"Eh, don't sweat it, little brother, it's hard to tell us apart when we aren't filming Trouble Time…. We're still rusty on humor, it comes with that and being nervous…. It's one reason we need help from the Warners, we will never be able to be as good as them until we get some more training… Besides, we are brothers after all, we are going to act a bit similar… It isn't like we can help that yet… It's too early in the story for that to happen…."

Punchline muttered, he looked up at the sky, wondering what would happen next on this day.

"Yeah, but sometimes it's hard to tell us apart, I've had people mistake me for you, brother… It's crazy at times… It really is…"

Meek muttered, he rolled his eyes in annoyance, Punchline nodded and sighed while leaning on the roof, neither sure what to do today and neither having the slightest idea where to go next at the moment.

"Hmm… Like I said, that time will come… It just takes time… Much time at the moment, this story did just start after all, things haven't settled into place yet… Speaking of which, is Shriek going to be gone ALL day? Because if he is, then we should go home… I don't feel like waiting for him all day just for him to show up, get ticked off a little, then come back home to sleep and do it all over again… Then again, that's how he is on the show and off the show, so I doubt it would be much different if we went to go get him now…"

Punchline muttered, he had no idea what his brother was up to, and he really didn't want to know, Shriek was far from being adult, but some of the jokes he made put Meek to shame… That, and he was much too arrogant for Punchline's taste.

"Know him? He's probably off trying to look for a contract or something…"

Meek muttered, Punchline rolled his eyes at this, nodding.

"Yes, because he has to have merchandise and all that… We've only been on air for a month, we aren't going to have video games and all that yet… Freaking…"

Punchline started to say before cutting himself off, it wouldn't help to curse.

"Let the idiot have his moment in the sun, big brother, it won't last."

Punchline heard his brother say and laughed, it would be time for them to go home soon.

"Yes, it won't…. Ok, let's go home, brother, there will be time to crack jokes and be silly soon…. Depends on what happens next though, things are going to be boring for a while… Let's go."

Punchline muttered before sliding off the roof, his brother following him soon after that.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter done! Yes, for now this will be the last chapter, I want to be able to flesh out the Trouble siblings like people wanted and I can't do that yet… I also have new stories coming so there's that… I will post when next chapter will be, until then, Lighting Wolf out!