Meanwhile back at the house, Scooter and Mimi were throwing a tantrum because they wanted to watch Peter, much to everyone's annoyance.
"I wanna watch Peter!" Mimi pouted.
"Me too!" Scooter pouted as well.
"We would turn Peter on, but the TV is not working" Suzie told them.
"How do they turn the television on?" Tom asked.
"I don't know, maybe they press a button on that remote thing or something" shrugged Anne.
"We're gonna have to figure out." Alan said.
The kids started looking around for anything that could possibly help them fix the TV, but found nothing at all.
"I can't find anything that could help us" said Nancy "I found the remote, but no matter what button a press, the TV doesn't turn on"
"I do remember that it's a red button that they pressed in order to turn it on or off." Alan offered.
"Well I kept pressing the button, but it won't do anything" Nancy said as she kept pressing the red button.
At that same time, Scooter looked behind the TV and saw the plug.
"Gee, I wonder what this is" he wondered as he looked at the plug.
He then noticed that the holes in the socket matched the things on the plug and put them right into the holes. At that same time, Anne clicked the red button again and suddenly, the TV turned on.
"Hey, the TV's on!" Anne exclaimed.
"That sure was pretty weird" Tom remarked "Just a while ago, it wasn't working and now it is"
"Yeah, I know" said Suzie "This is really weird"
"We wanna watch Peter!" Mimi and Scooter screamed.
"Fine!" Susie placed her hands on her hips "But only one show! After that, no more Peter for the rest of the day. Understood?"
"Fine" Scooter and Mimi pouted.
Susie then started changing the channels until they finally saw Peter Potamus' Playhouse, already about to start.
"It's Peter Potamus' Playhouse" said the announcer "With your host, Peter Potamus"
The scene then changed to Peter arriving on the set.
"Hola muchahcos" said the hippo to the audience.
"Hola Peter" said Mimi, Scooter and the studio audience.
"Do you know what today is?" asked Peter.
"A special day!" said the kids.
"Here we go..." Alan thought to himself as he and the others prepared to cover their ears.
Scooter and Mimi started singing "I love you, you love me, it's a special day you see. Yes we're all very special and you're my special friend. You're so special I'll say it again..."
After enduring another verse of that painful song, Peter started to talk.
"It really is a very special day muchachos" said Peter "And do you know why it is special?"
"Why?" asked the studio audience.
"Well today, I'm going to dedicate today's episode to my evil producer, C.M Miller, who kidnapped me and won't let me go" said Peter.
All the kids cheered, not knowing what Peter was really doing.
"Kidnapped?" asked Alan.
"What's that?" asked Suzie.
"Maybe he wants the kids to take a nap" suggested Flip.
"Maybe" Nancy said as Peter continued talking.
"Hey kids! Do you know what time it is?" Peter asked the kids.
"Music Time!" said Mimi, Scooter and the kids in the studio.
"That's right, Music Time!" Peter exclaimed "And now, I would like to sing a little ditty I wrote. Hit it, boys! Sing along if you know the words..."
The instrumental music of "If You're Happy and You Know It" started playing.
Peter started singing "C.M Miller is my producer's name. He promised me fortune and fame. But he lied to me, and then enslaved me. I am miserable and he is to blame!"
The kids cheered and clapped their hands after the song ended.
"Anyway, I will like to thank you all for watching my show" Peter said at the end "Sadly, this will be the final as I have decided to move onto other stuff"
"No!" shouted the kids in despair "Please don't say that Peter, no..."
"I'm sorry muchachos, but I must move on to bigger things" Peter said "Change may not be easy, but it's part of life and as your jolly purple friend, I would like to make this special episode the most special of all"
"How special can it be?" Scooter asked.
"How special can it be? Well today, I'm going to teach you all about how to make wonderful goodbye cards for the special people who will leave you and teach you a new song!" Peter replied.
"Oh. Sounds interesting" Nancy remarked.
"Yeah, for once this show is actually good" Alan remarked.
"Anyways, let's see how to make goodbye cards" Suzie said.
While Peter showed his adoring fans how to make goodbye cards, Henry, Stanley, and Mr. Confine watched their plan go smoothly.
"Well guys, it looks like our plan is going just fine" said Henry.
"Yeah, nothing can go wrong now" said Stanley.
"Oh I wouldn't say that" a voice said from behind.
The guys froze and the voice.
"Sheez!" Henry said. "Don't tell me that he managed to get free."
They turned around and saw Miller right behind them.
"Aaaahhh!" they shouted.
"So, you thought you could screw with my empire, huh?" asked Miller "Well I don't think so! I've spent a long time milking that cash hippo and I'm not about to let you hoodlums and this treacherous understudy take it away from me!"
"Joke's on you, Mr. Miller!" Stanley smirked "There's only three of us and one of you! You're outnumbered!"
"Huh" Mr. Miller snorted "You think, huh?"
He then snapped his fingers and the two guards immediately entered the room.
"Now, as you were saying?" He smirked at the trio, unaware that the camera was still filming.
"Is he gonna hurt us?" Stanley asked Henry.
"Pretty much" Henry gulped.
"Get him boys!" Miller told his guards.
The guards both charged towards Stanley and Henry, who quickly ducked out of the way.
The two guards moved too quick and were unaware that they were charging into camera view, just before they crashed into the set.
"You bumbling fools!" Mr. Miller exclaimed as the two guards crashed into the set in full view of the camera. "Look what you have done!"
"Um...sir?" The director asked as Mr. Miller walked on set, unaware that he's now on camera.
"Quiet!" Mr. Miller snapped before turning to Stanley, Henry and Mr. Confine.
The kids in the audience gasped, as did the rest of the Chan Clan back home.
"What's going on?" asked Scooter.
"I have no idea, Scooter" said Susie.
Peter then picked himself up off the ground.
"Uh boys and girls, I believe we are have some technical difficulties" he said to the kids in the studio audience "But don't worry, everything's under contr-"
Just then, Miller picked Peter up and glared right at him.
"Not so fast, Peter! You're going anywhere!" he snapped at him "I created you, I own you!"
"Which gives you the right to abuse me, huh?" Peter asked defiantly "Locking me in a small cage with little room, and-"
"Quiet!" Mr. Miller snapped "I said that I owned you, that means you do as I said!"
"Uh...Mr. Miller?" the director asked.
"Shut up!" snapped Mr. Miller, before turning back to the hippo "You think I care that people know my show is annoying? Do you think I care that kids are losing their dignity and adults are losing their sanity? I don't care!"
The kids at home and in the studio all gasped in shock.
"Listen pal, you'd better quit yelling at or else!" Peter said boldly.
"Or else what?" asked Miller "You're gonna sing about how it's wrong to be mean and lie?"
"No, it's because the camera is still rolling" Peter smirked "And you're on camera."
Miller quickly turned around and saw that he just blurted all of his bad deeds out on the air.
"Looks like the joke's on you, Mr. Miller" Stanley smirked.
"And now, here's the punchline" said Peter "What do you call a man who's just been publicly exposed without knowing it? Blown away!"
Peter then hollered really loudly and blew his evil producer right off the set, earning a round of applause from the kids.
"That was so awesome!" Scooter exclaimed as he watched the whole thing back home.
"I'm glad you liked it boys and girls" said Peter "That was my special Hurricane Hippo Holler. Just my way to end a special day like this one!"
The kids applauded again for Peter's amazing performance, thinking that it was part of the show.
"What an interesting way to end a show that normally plays annoying songs." Tom remarked.
"Not to mention that for once, I actually enjoyed this show" Anne added.
"Me too" added Susie.
"So did we" Alan, Tom, Flip, and Nancy nodded.
The six siblings then shuddered at what they had just said just a moment ago.
Back at the studio, Peter carried on with the show as if the interruption did not occurred.
The show went on as planned and finally, it was time for his final farewell song.
"And now boys and girls, time for our final farewell song" said Peter.
"Awwww" the children in the studio groaned.
"Oh boy" Alan thought.
Music to the tune of "The Special Song" started playing.
Peter started to sing "I love you, you love me. Time to say goodbye, you see. Yes, we had our fun, now it's time say goodbye. So long friends, I'll tell you why..."
"And why?" Mimi and Scooter asked.
Peter continued singing "...it was fun to be here. You all fill me so much, my dear. But now I have to go off to a very special land. Thank you all for being my friend!"
"Thank you, Peter!" Mimi and Scooter sang along.
"Goodbye everyone" Peter said to the audience "And remember, you're special"
Everyone nodded at the screen.
The following week, the kids all sat down together in the living room watching the news.
"You're tuned into HB News" said announcer "Brought to you by, Penguin Flakes! The world's only sugar-frosted cereal from the Arctic!"
"Here we go again with these advertisements." Henry thought.
"And now, here's our roving reporter, Reginald Livingston Segal with today's story!" the announcer continued.
The scene then cut to Reginald at his office.
"And finally, the incident from last week's episode of Peter Potamus Playhouse has sparked a justice department into the Peter Potamus empire, leading to the arrest of Peter's producer, C.N Miller for racketeering and tax evasion" said Reginald "In other news, Peter himself has been freed from Miller's custody and his current whereabouts are unknown. Meanwhile, Henry and Stanley Chan were rewarded with the key to the city by the mayor of Honolulu, who is also a parent, for and I quote 'Saving the sanity of adults all over the world'"
"Too bad the city doesn't have a door" Stanley said as he looked at he and Henry's reward.
"You're gonna need a large one for a key that size, Stanley" Henry deadpanned "On the plus side, we saved Peter from his evil producer"
"And more importantly, we never have to listen to his stupid songs again" Stanley remarked.
"Oh thank God" sighed Anne.
Stanley then turned to Mimi and Scooter "Mimi, Scooter, I'm sorry that Henry and I got Peter's show cancelled"
"Don't feel bad, Stanley" said Mimi "You were just trying to help"
"Besides, Mimi and I found a new favorite show" Scooter added.
"Oh really?" Henry arched his eyebrows "What is it?"
Mimi and Scooter pressed a button on the remote and came up another show.
"Hey kids!" said the announcer on TV "It's time for Wally's World! With your host, Wally Gator!"
The screen then changed to an anthropomorphic alligator in a pink hat, shirt cuffs, and collar.
"Hey kids, welcome to Wally's World!" said Wally "On today's show, we're going to learn all about what letter says 'Ga' and what to do when our hands get dirty"
"Hooray!" cheered the kids.
"But first, it's time to sing the Wally song!" Wally happily exclaimed.
"Oh no..." the older siblings squealed in fear.
"Here we go again..." Stanley groaned.
Scooter and Mimi started to sing along "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Wally's World. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, Wally's World! Wally loves to have fun, with all his friends! That's Wally's World!"
"Second verse!" exclaimed Wally.
"NOOOOOOO!" screamed everyone except Scooter and Mimi.
THE END
Author's Note:
Well, it looks