Journey into Atlantis-Patchy the Pirate: Encino is Gone!
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Somewhere in Los Angeles County in Encino, California, There is a live traffic jam on a busy expressway. It was rush hour on the U.S. 101 which passes through Encino and is a major commuter route for drivers going to or from Los Angeles. Rush hour is a time during each day when traffic congestion on roads is at its heaviest. Normally, this happens twice every weekday: once in the morning and once in the afternoon or evening, the times during which most people commute.
Among the vehicles is a stereo-type-looking pirate, He has a black eye patch and hook, which he frequently switches between eyes and hands, respectively. Also, he has long, curly black hair in a braid and a long, curly black beard and wears many pirate accessories, like a hat with a skull-crossbones symbol on it and a purple pirate jacket. One of his teeth is usually blacked out to look like he is missing one. This is Patchy the Pirate, the President of the Spongebob Squarepants Fan Club is in one of the cars which is shaped like a rowboat in it. He is also wearing sunglasses.
"Let's go!" shouted Patchy as the pirate honked the horn of his rowboat car and then noticed the audience in the fourth wall.
"Hey, kids. Rush hour traffic here in Encino is a real bringdown." As he grumbles in frustration. "Little music should soothe me jangled nerves. At least my in-dash hi-fi still works."
Patchy puts a cassette tape in the radio, which breaks and the music stops. Patchy takes out the broken cassette tape. "Oh! Me ultra-rare "Frampton Comes Alive" 8-track destroyed!" As he grumbles in frustration he tosses it out of the car. "And I'm gonna miss the new SpongeBob cartoon if this traffic doesn't move soon!"
Patchy growls and cries while he moans knowing that he had to miss a new episode of Spongebob. Suddenly, Patchy's cell phone rings. The ringtone is SpongeBob's piccolo from the theme song as he picks up and answers the phone and says "Yes, Patchy here. Start squawkin'."
On the other side inside Patchy's House is a small green marionette puppet-like parrot with a flower-shaped collar, a tuft of red and yellow feathers for "hair," and big googly eyes who was on the phone on the couch watching the new Spongebob episode. "Squawk, hey patchy, where are you? The new Spongebob cartoon is gonna start soon?" He asked to which Pachy responded. "Stuck on the 101. Be a dear and record it for me, will you?". Hoping his pet parrot would record the episode for him. "Oh, I threw out that old Betamax machine in the garbage." squawked Potty.
"YOU WHAT?!" Shouted Patchy. "Oh Calm down Beardy!" He reassures his pirate friend. "Potty, you know how important this cartoon is to me!" he exclaimed.
Suddenly someone honks at Patchy which he growls, turns around, and yells out. "Do you mind? I'm trying to talk to me parrot!". The man resembling Spongebob producer Paul Tibbitt looks at Patchy in shock as Patchy gets back on his phone to talk to Potty. "Sorry, Potty. Just some landlubber. Potty? Hello, hello, hello, hello!?" Ke looks at his phone's screen. It says "call dropped" with a Jolly Roger symbol. Patchy groans. "Dropped again." he puts his cell phone down as shouted. "Curse this traffic!" Then he sees the traffic moving again. "Ooh!" Patchy pulls up his anchor, much to the man's confusion. Patchy drives off back home hoping to catch on what's left of the new episode.
Suddenly Patchy drives into a desert-like area in which his home was supposed to be, but it's gone as he gets out of his rowboat car. "Arrgh! Home at last!" Then Patchy noticed something was wrong. "Huh? What the?" As eyes burst through the sunglasses. He saw his hometown
Encino is now gone without a trace instead it's an arid desolate desert wasteland. "Encino It's gone. NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Then Patchy collapses to the ground and cries and turns to the audience and speaks."You know, kids, this kinda reminds Patchy of an old story. Another story of a... lost city. Why don't you check it out? Oh, Encino." As he continues to cry.
