The very next morning, Henry and Stanley's alarm clock woke them up pretty early, so they could be awake and ready for work. It was so early, the sun was just about to rise.

"Stupid alarm clock!" Henry angrily said as he threw their still-buzzing clock out the window.

"Ugh..." Stanley grunted. "I swear that thing is resetting itself an hour earlier every morning."

"Especially since it's barely daylight outside" Henry grunted as he closed the window and went back into his bed.

"Come on Henry, time to get ready for work" Stanley said as he climbed out of his bunk on the left side of the bed.

"Hey!" Henry exclaimed as he saw Stanley's feet in front of him "Get your stinky feet out of my face!"

"Yeah, yeah" Stanley rolled his eyes "I was going to..."

Stanley then jumped off his bunk and walked to his and Henry's bathroom. Henry then put his blanket over him and went back to sleep.

"What could've possessed me in accepting this job?" Henry asked himself as he tried to get some sleep.

In just an hour or so, Stanley was done with his morning shower and walked outside.

"Okay Henry, the bathroom is all yours" he said.

Henry grunted and covered his ears with his pillow.

"Okay then..." Stanley deadpanned "I'm just gonna go downstairs and wake up the others"

He then made his way down the stairs as Henry continued to try to get more sleep. He opened the door to the basement and found his eight brothers and sisters sleeping like babies (two of them, literally).

"They look so peaceful" he thought "Be a shame if I woke them up, though"

Stanley then went to the sleeping Mimi and Scooter to wake them up first.

"Mimi, wake up" he whispered gently "Come on precious, wake up"

Mimi stirred but didn't open her eyes.

"Come on Mimi, wake up" Stanley whispered, kissing her forehead repeatedly.

A few minutes went by before Mimi finally opened her eyes.

"Morning Mimi" Stanley said as he stroked his baby sister's cheek.

"Morning." Mimi smiled as she looked up at Stanley.

Stanley and Mimi shared a hug and Stanley then decided to wake up Scooter and Nancy, who were sleeping right next to Mimi.

"Scooter, Nancy..." he whispered as he gently shook Nancy "Wake up. Time to get up and greet the day"

The two stirred but didn't open their eyes.

Stanley bent down again and then started kissing Nancy's forehead. Just like with Mimi, Nancy started to wake up.

"Morning, Nancy." Stanley said.

"Good morning Stanley" Nancy yawned.

"Did you have a nice sleep, sis?" he asked her.

"I guess so" said Nancy.

"Good" he nodded "Because Henry and I have to go in a few minutes"

"Go where?" asked Nancy.

"To work" Stanley replied "We'd love to stay home and play, but we have to work all day. Don't worry, we'll be home later tonight. Now go wake up the others while I go upstairs and prepare breakfast"

"Okay Stanley" said Nancy.

Stanley then made his way up the stairs to the kitchen as Nancy got out of bed.

Eventually, it was time for Henry and Stanley to go work. Before they left, they left eight bowls of oatmeal on the table for their eight hungry siblings.

"Another day at work, here we come." Henry muttered.

"Everybody come down and eat your breakfast!" Stanley shouted to the others "Henry and I are going now!"

The brothers heard their siblings coming up the stairs and nodded at each other. They then walked out the door and headed to work.

As with yesterday, the workload was heavy as a result of the busy day at the garage.

"You boys sure are doing a good job" said Tinker "Normally, somebody would turn down a job like this, but y'all seem to be enjoying it"

"Yeah, this is as fun as giving my grandma a sponge bath" Henry sarcastically said.

"That's the spirit!" Tinker exclaimed.

"I'm sure it is" Stanley deadpanned.

"Well keep that spirit up" said Tinker "There was a car crash earlier and the cars that were damaged are being towed in as we speak. Y'all had better be done prepared"

"No worries Tinker, we'll be ready" Henry said, trying to fake a smile.

"Awesome" Tinker smiled "Catch you guys later."

After Tinker left the room, the brothers sighed in annoyance.

"Stupid job!" Henry complained "Stupid cars! Stupid oil! Stupid cloning machine!"

"No need to remind me." Stanley deadpanned.

Meanwhile back at the house, the kids were all done finishing their oatmeal.

"Boy, this mushy stuff sure doesn't have a lot of taste" Nancy remarked.

"Tell me about it" Flip folded his arms "Henry and Stanley could have at least left us some donuts or some of those waffle things"

"Oh well, what should we do now?" Alan asked.

"Let's watch Peter's Playhouse!" Mimi and Scooter cheered.

"NO!" everyone shouted.

"No, no, no!" Susie exclaimed "I never wanna see that awful hippo and his stupid show again!"

"Me neither" said the other five siblings.

"Oh, come on!" Mimi whined.

"I wanna watch Peter!" Scooter pouted.

"I'd rather hear two screaming siblings crying than listen to that crazy music!" Tom said.

Luckily for Mimi and Scooter, screaming and crying is what got them to watch Peter Potamus, much to the others' dismay.

Soon enough, the two started singing along to Peter's songs again, driving everyone insane "I love you, you love me, it's a special day you see..."

"Aaaaahhhh!" Suzie covered her ears "Make it stop! Please make it stop!"

"I think my ears are starting to bleed!" Flip shouted as he put his fingers on his ears.

Meanwhile, Henry and Stanley's day at work was getting worse and worse. If it wasn't the workload and all the cleanup, it was the crazy rock and heavy metal music that is playing in the garage that was driving them insane.

"I hate this job!" Henry grunted as he polished a grease valve.

"Yeah!" Stanley said as he mopped the floor "Why can't we just quit?"

"We don't qualify for anything else, that's why" Henry replied as he carried the box of valves to the garage.

"You don't say..." Stanley deadpanned.

Just then, Tinker came to check on the boys to see how they were doing.

"Nice job, guys" he said "Hope y'all are done soon, cause we got a whole shipment of transmission fluid coming in about one hour"

"When do we get our lunch hour?" asked Stanley.

"As soon as y'all finish helping me and my pa unload the cans of oil" said Tinker.

"I hate this job" thought Henry.

"Like right now?" Stanley asked Tinker.

"Pretty much" Tinker shrugged.

"Alright then" Stanley said as he and Henry followed Tinker to the storage room to unload the cans of oil.

After unloading the cans, Henry and Stanley were finally allowed to go to lunch. While they walked to lunch, they decided to make a quick stop at home to see how everyone was doing.

"I wonder how are the others doing?" Henry asked as they made their way through the front lawn.

"We're about to find out." Stanley said as he unlocked the door.

When they opened the door and entered the house, they were immediately greeted by one of the annoying songs of Peter's Playhouse.

"I guess that answers that question" Henry deadpanned.

"Not that terrible show again?!" Stanley moaned as he and Henry covered their ears.

"Oh my God, please make it stop!" shouted Alan.

"I can't take it anymore!" Flip shouted as he used his hat to cover his head.

"It's like it's inside my head!" Anne shouted as she banged her ear.

"I'm gonna turn off the television." Henry said as he marched into the living room.

Henry grabbed the remote and turned off the TV, much to relief of themselves and their six annoyed brothers and sisters.

"Oh thank God" Susie sighed "I thought I was gonna have to that special song till my ears fell off"

"Hey!" Scooter exclaimed as he saw the TV "What's going on?"

"You two have watched television the whole morning!" Henry said "Time to give your eyes a rest."

"Not to mention that it's lunchtime." Stanley added.

"Besides, you remember what we said" Stanley lectured them "Pop doesn't want us watching a lot of TV because it's gonna cost us a lot of money. Now get ready while Henry and I make lunch for us"

To be safe, Henry unplugged the television before he and Stanley went to make lunch.

Eventually, all the kids sat down to a nice lunch of chicken nuggets made by Henry and Stanley.

"Guys, I'm sick of having to deal with that Peter's Playhouse show every single day, just so Mimi and Scooter will stop crying" Suzie said as she ate a nugget.

"And I sure as heck don't wanna come back from a hard day at work to see some annoying purple hippo singing kiddie songs" added Stanley.

"But what can we do?" asked Alan "Peter makes Mimi and Scooter happy"

"Good question..." Henry said with a shrug.

"Well we'd better think of something" said Anne "I don't wanna spend all day having to watch 'Peter Goes to the Zoo', whatever that is"

"Or 'Peter Just Sits There' either" added Tom.

Stanley thought for a while "I've got an idea! Maybe Henry and I can go to the producers of the show and talk to them. I mean, the TV Network that produces the show is downtown, so how hard can it be?"

"Sounds easy." Henry said.

Henry and Stanley finished their lunch and walked to the station to do what they were planning on doing.

"You sure this'll work, Stanley?" Henry asked his brother.

"Hopefully" Stanley replied "After all, networks listen to their audiences a lot. Plus, they don't take comments or concerns from their 1+800 number"

"Good point" Henry nodded.

Eventually, the brothers arrived at the towers housing the headquarters of the television network.

"Let's hope this works." Stanley said as they entered the building.

Author's Note:

Looks like the Chan brothers are going to have a little confrontation with the producers of Peter's show, but something tells me that they are going to get a little more than they bargained for. Stay tuned for what they'll be getting!