Fifth floor common room -- late morning: Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away...

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka settled down to enjoy a class-free morning in front of the teevee box, and managed to happen across children's educational programming.

'The Holy Grail!', he would have thought, or 'the Rosetta Stone!' -- if he had any idea what either of those were, but he doesn't. What he DOES know is that he may just be able to figure out the weird system of writing around here without having to *gasp* ask someone for help.

So, he has settled in to absorb as much Poppyseed Lane as humanly possible, and take copious notes. Copious. Like, a lot.

Within the first ten minutes, the purple puppet with fangs has already unlocked the mysteries of the way Fandom writes numbers by counting to ten ("Ah-ah-ah!"), the Pastry Monster has begun his journey into letters with "P is for Pastry", and two people did a dance while telling him it's okay to mispronounce "tomato".


Now... He threw a pillow at the teevee box. "I already know the difference between 'near' and 'far', you stupid puppet!" he shouted at it.

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[the_merriest]

Intrigued by the noise, Rikku popped her head in. Some student was yelling at the teevee thing, which had lots of brightly-colored fiends singing strange and cheerful songs.

Okay, this definitely wasn't a memory sphere. Unless the person was insane.

"What is this?!"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka jumped and stuffed his notes under a cushion.

"Uh -- I don't know," he said, after a moment. "It's really strange. But oddly hypnotic."

[the_merriest]

She gave him a considering look. "You're kinda weird, you know that?"

She sat down on the floor and watched the fiends dance some more. "Of course we all have noses. What kind of song is this!?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"I'm the king of weird!

... No, wait, that came out wrong.

Hi, I'm Sokka."

Some more letters came onscreen, and he made a few more surreptitious notes.

[the_merriest]

She waved. "Rikku. Nice to meetcha."

Turning back to the teevee, Rikku realized she was starting to hum along with the song. She giggled. "Whoa, you weren't kidding about the hypnotic thing, were you?"

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

After the continued confusion of that which was D.A.M.M., Katara was just looking for somewhere to study her English book in peace. She didn't find it in the 5th Floor Common Room, but she found her brother - sort of - instead.

She wandered in, still clutching the book. "Hi."

[the_merriest]

Rikku waved enthusiastically. "You missed the song about noses."

The plot of this story was kind of hard to follow. Maybe it was an arty kind of thing.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"...noses?" Katara asked, paying more attention to the TV. "Are all noses, big and small, equal then?"

[the_merriest]

"Something like that. It was saying that we've all got noses, and therefore we're all okay and we should take care of each other." Her eyes lit up. "Ooooh, it's a metaphor! Poetic whatever-it's-called! Wow, that clears up a lot."

She waved to it vaguely. "How'd you know? Have you seen this before?"

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

She giggled at the other girl's enthusiasm. "Just guessed. Since we all have one and all that." She tilted her head at the television. "This is an odd show. Oh! I'm Katara."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Katara!" Sokka called. "Check out this... I found this..." He trailed off, looking around furtively at the other people in the room. "It's very instructional," he finished, lamely.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara grinned and found a seat near Sokka. "I always wanted to know that everyone had a nose," she said.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"No, LOOK!" Sokka whispered in her ear, and tried to show her his notes without anyone else seeing. "I'm figuring out how their writing works!"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Still in his pajamas and afflicted with seriously messy bed-head, Anders was on his way up to the roof for a smoke when he heard the yelling.

"What the frak?" he asked, poking his head in.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara shrugged. "The television wants us to know that fruit is good for us, I think."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's nice of it," said Anders, still swinging back and forth from the doorframe. "I mean, it usually is. Unless it's man-eating fruit or something."

[the_merriest]

"Are we sure that we should trust the fruit?" Rikku asked. "Fruit doesn't have a nose. Maybe the nose song was a warning."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi wanders in to grab something to eat before her first class and notices the yelling kid she hasn't met yet.

"He can't hear you."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"I KNOW that, I just... was angry... I'm NOT STUPID!" Sokka sputtered.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh I see, I'm sorry. If you've never seen one of those before ever it might not be obvious at first." Pippi said cracking some eggs into a pan.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Eggs!" Sokka cried. "Do you have extra?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec wandered in at the sound of TV and grinned, finding a place to sit and watch along. "Puppets? I don't think I've seen this one before."

[the_merriest]

"I can't quite follow it," Rikku said. "So far, there have been songs about noses and differences between Near and Far, and I think the fiends are the good guys."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec gave her an appreciative look. "It's a kids' show, I think. Educational stuff."

[the_merriest]

"Really?!" Rikku stared at him, at the screen, and then back at him again. "What on earth are they trying to teach them!?"