If the batch watched TV what would they watch?

Hunter looks around the motel room. Two beds, a chair, a bureau, and a holo-set occupied the room. He turns to Tech, "who gets first watch?"

"I suggest Wrecker. He's likely to fall asleep if you put him on a later one."

"Yeah, Wrecker, get on the roof and watch the safe house, Cross'll relieve you in an hour. Tech, get some sleep, you need it. I'll head down to the market and get supplies. Echo... do whatever, just don't wake up Tech. You'll relieve Crosshair." Hunter leaves as wrecker heads up the fire escape.

Tech pulls out his datapad and sits on the couch. Crosshair snags it from him and forces him off. Tech grumbles and climbs into the bed, glaring at Crosshair until he fell asleep.

Crosshair takes the couch and starts looking up things that would drive Tech nuts trying to delete. Echo looks around, unsure of what to do. Crosshair looks up at him, "what, you've never been in a hotel before?"

"No, I don't know what to do."

Crosshair rolls his eyes and gets up. He grabs Echo's shoulders and pushes him onto the floor, right in front of the holo-vision. He hands him the remote and points at the buttons, "on, next channel, previous channel, volume up and down." He plops back on the couch, "just flip through the channels until you find what you like."

Echo nods and slowly clicks through them until he stops on a competitive baking show. He found himself rooting for a single dad of three who was making a eight layered moonberry cake with silver frosting. Crosshair comes over and changes the channel, "you're making me hungry." He wanders back to the couch as Echo continues searching. He stops on an ad and wandered to the bathroom. He comes back to a show with two rodians having a very intense conversation. The girl was weeping into a handful of flowers while the man beat his chest. Echo sits down and watches the whole display, contemplating changing the channel. The whole thing was in rodian so it''s not like he understood what they were saying anyway. Suddenly a second man came in and barks at the first. The first defends himself and they argue. Everything seemed so exaggerated. The woman leaped between them and wailed, then dies of sorrow, or passed out, Echo really couldn't tell. The men wail as Crosshair complains, "put it back on the baking channel."

"I thought it was making you hungry."

"I'd rather be hungry than have bleeding ears."

"but it just got interseting."

Crosshair narrows his eyes at him, "if you don't change it, I will."

"fine, what channel?"

Crosshair looks at the time and checks the HV guide, "you can watch your baking show for fifteen minutes then change it to 144."

Echo tilts his head then switches back to the baking show. The guy Echo was rooting for was now in fifth place. "hey, he's still in the race."

Fifteen minutes later Crosshair snags the remote and changes the channel, "I'm not missing my show."

the scene changes to five sock puppets colored like the Coruscant guard singing a theme song. Random things are blowing up in the background, including; a puppet of Palpatine, three model ships, a cleaning droid, and one of the sock guards. Echo stares at Crosshair as the sniper bounces along to the chaos. He turns back and listens to the words.

"we're the corrie guard,

we're overworked and stressed,

we catch the scum so you can rest,

we're the corrie guard,

don't you cry or fret,

on Fox we always bet,

beeccaauussee

wwee'rree

tthhee

ccoorriiee

ggguuuaaarrrddd!"

Echo looks at Crosshair again and notes the massive smile on his face. Crosshair looks him in the eye, "don't you dare tell wrecker we're watching this without him."

Echo nods and watches the show.

A guard sat behind a large desk wearing a tie made of duct tape. He also wore a mustache made of duct tape. He taps a small pile of flimsies, "just this morning we found out about a tragic incident. Due to the shortage of hairy workers the "comfy slippers" factory has shut down. Many old people are very unhappy with the fact that they must now wear less fuzzy shoes. They have now decided to riot. We'll go out to the field with Jet."

"thanks Rocket, I'm with the leader of the riot." the clone walks up to an old man who's throwing hard candy at a wall. He holds a furry fruit to his face, "Sir, what's your name?"

"old Mr. Fartley." the old man says. His smile gave away the fact that he was having too much fun. Echo counted three actual old people and four clones in white wigs. One lady was rocking in a chair with a tooka in her lap. Echo loses it as she yells, "I want my slippers! These shoes are as rough as sandpaper!"

"Mr. Fartly" takes a bite out of the fruit and the clone pulls it back to his face, "you heard it here folks, back to you Rocket."

it goes back to Rocket, "in completely unrelated news..."

a voice behind the camera says, "get out of my office."

"we're filming. Five more minutes Sir."

"you couldn't have done this somewhere else?"

"Fox's was occupied."

"fine, you have until I come back with my caf."

they wait a moment before looking back at the camera, "in completely unrelated news, natborns are gross. And that's all the time we have for today."

it switches over to "Boba's prison survival tips" tip #149, "how to pick up chicks".

Boba grins at the camera, "how to pick up chicks. You'd think that would be very hard in a prison but it's not." he frowns and looks at someone off-screen, "this is dumb."

"stick to the script."

he smiles back at the camera, "you take five credits and bribe one of the guards to take a picture. Strike a pose that shows off your hot bod... do I have to?"

"come on."

"like this." he frowns and strikes a strongman pose. "after that, you have the guard send it to the girl's side of the complex."

the scene changes to a frilly room with a male trandosian in a curly blond wig. He had two large balloons stuffed down his shirt. A clone comes over and shows him the picture. He loses it and smacks his chest, popping a balloon. As he's laughing you heard Boba's voice going, "it's not that funny! That's it, I quit!"

Echo is wheezing on the floor as Wrecker comes in, "hey! You're watchin' it without me!"

Crosshair shrugs, "it just happened to be on." he gets up and heads up the fire escape.

Wrecker sits next to Echo, "what'd I miss?"

"he... old people... ha ha ha..." is the only thing Echo could muster.

Tech wakes up and groggily gets up, "why are you laughing so hard?" he sees the show, "you're watching it without me? Could you watch something else, I was asleep."

"you could watch it with us." Wrecker says.

Two sock puppets who look like General Skywalker and Senator Amadala start kissing behind a curtain. A light is behind them.

Tech stares at the screen before sitting on the couch to watch.

A large stuffed blue sock comes over and giggles excitedly, "more gossip!"

a clone sock comes over with popcorn and shares it with him. Two more sock clones come over and watch until sock-Anakin stops, "we're being watched."

"scatter!" the clone socks yell as they run. Sock free Taa waddles away as sock-Anakin tackles him.

Hunter comes back to see Wrecker, Tech, and Echo watching a show. He sighs, "Tech, you're supposed to be asleep."

"I was but Echo's laughter woke me up."

"Tech..."

Wrecker shushes him, "I can't hear the show."

Hunter rolls his eyes, "fine, but change the channel one this episode is over." He stuffs a box of food in the mini-fridge and sits to watch.

The scene now was a little girl wearing an orange jumpsuit and an eye-patch in an interrogation room. She was trying to frown but was smiling too much. A clone came in and plopped a holo-disk on the table. It showed a bowl and spoon sitting in a puddle.

The clone speaks, "we know you did it."

"Did what?" The girl asked happily.

"don't play dumb, you know you murdered those puff-a-roos. We have evidence."

"I didn't do nothin'." She shakes her head.

"You do it every day. Right at breakfast."

"You can't prove anything." She crosses her arms and does mock defiance.

"we can prove it all, the spilled milk doesn't lie."

"yeah? And what do you think I am?"

"a cereal killer!"

(dramatic horn plays) she gasps.

"And you're going away for a long time." He stands up and carries her out.

"noooo..."

Wrecker laughs.

The "news room", now a closet, came back on.

"special news bulletin! Researchers have discovered that telling bad jokes does not make you a dad. Worried citizens may now breathe a collective sigh of relief."

the room shakes and the "reporter" is handed a flimsy, "This just in, a sudden wind gust has knocked over the senate building and is reported to smell like morning breath. Citizens are now required by law to brush their teeth."

Wrecker almost fells on Echo that time as he wheezes for air. Hunter face palms as Tech and Echo try to help Wrecker up.

Tech comment, "It wasn't that funny."

"ye...yes it was!" Wrecker wheezes out.

"Maybe we should watch something else." Echo says.

Wrecker waves him off, "No, no, I'm good now."

"Alright."

"Boba's prison survival tips" #56 pops up. "how to start a conversation".

Boba stands with his arms crossed looking into the camera. "how to start a conversation. If you're lonely or want a breakout buddy these are the best way to get to know them. First, you walk up and sit next to your target during lunch. Second, insult him."

He sits next to a big shark-like guy and looks up at him, "You're not so tough, My grandma can take you with one arm."

"are you looking to get eaten?"

Boba turns to the camera, "If he doesn't respond by trying to kill you then you're quickly on your way to being besties."

The shark guy shakes his head and turns back to his food.

"just make sure you don't over do it, like this." Boba grabs the guy's food and dumps it on his head. The guy jumps up and chases Boba out of the room. A "technical difficulties" screen pops up. It had an exaggerated cartoon image of Tech trying to reattach some droid parts.

Echo looks at Tech, "Is that you?"

"Yes, I had been hired to reprogram some server droids and one of them asked if he may draw me. I did not find out until later that they had incorporated the image into this. I do not mind."

Echo shakes his head and stares back at the screen.

Two clone sock puppets were now standing guard with a prisoner puppet in the call behind them. One sways to the other, "Hey, what do you call a kid with no legs?"

"what?"

"grounded."

the prisoner boos.

The second one turns, "what do you do when you catch someone stealing music?"

"what?"

"you check his record."

the prisoner roars, "how do you even know what that is?"

"what do you call a bird on an electrical wire?"

"what?"

"stunned."

"stop it!"

"what happens if a dentist stick his finger in a power socket?"

"what?"

"he gets a million watt smile."

"if you don't stop I'll strangle you!"

"what do you get when you cross a tooka with a speeder?"

"what?"

"I don't know, but the engine was purring before I turned it on."

"that's it!" the prisoner shoves his head through the bars and "strangles" the first one. The second one fires his blaster and the prisoner "dies". "I wonder what he was mad about?"

Tech lets out a loud short noise while Echo facepalms. "I could do better than that."

the episode ends with the theme as Crosshair comes down, "your turn, Reg."

Tech take the remote and switches the channel to a kid's science show as Echo walks away.

A green nautolan man is talking about a small lizard thing, "the tilarian ro skink is such a cool creature that can make itself poisonous to predators."

a blue nautolan man comes up beside him, "it does this by eating the leaves of the goboya tree. It absorbs the toxins and sweats it out through it's skin."

"how cool would it be to have ro skink powers?"

they both say "what if?!" and the show becomes animated.

I wasn't sure how to end this. It was just a fun idea.