3rd Floor Common Room, Monday Morning

[longislandiceme]

Bobby was up and halfway dressed before he remembered that it was, oh yeah, break week.

Going back to sleep at this point would just be kinda silly, he felt, and so he wandered out to the common room and flopped down on the couch with a bowl of cereal as he flipped through the channels.

Man, weekday morning television sucked. It was mostly morning talk shows, and the only cartoons were for like, five year olds. Bobby required cartoons that were at least rated Y7.

[ooc: yeah, so it's a bit of method RP. I have no idea why I'm up this early.]

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[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie hadn't forgotten that it was break week; she was just a naturally early riser.

So she came toddling out sleepily in her pajamas, already going through the motions of making coffee before she noticed Bobby. "Morning! Anything good on TV?"

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"Not unless your definition of good includes Regis and Kelly or Dora the Explorer," Bobby informed her.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I don't know what that second one is at all," she admitted, "but it sounds interesting, at least!"

[longislandiceme]

"It's, um, a kid's show?" Bobby told her. "About a little girl, and every episode she has a different quest sorta thing she has to do. It involves audience participation."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...isn't it a bit early for that?" Sookie asked, frowning as she got some coffee.

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"It's never too early for quests!" Bobby insisted. The fact that he was this cheerful this early was exactly why there are limits on his coffee intake, yes.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie eyed him. "No? It's not?"

It was way, way too early for quests.

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex had risen early since she had work and decided to hit up the common room for a snack, before heading out.

"Morning," she added in a wave to the greeting. Alex was in need of some caffeine, oh yes.

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"Morning," Bobby waved back. "Hope you're good with cartoons, because it's either that or morning talk," he informed her with far too much cheer for someone who hadn't had coffee.

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"Cartoons win over morning talk shows any day," Alex chuckled, helping herself to some coffee. She'd fill up her thermos, once she finished her first cup.

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"See, exactly," Bobby agreed. "Morning talk shows don't have monkeys. I'm totally in favour of shows with monkeys."

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"Monkeys make things funnier," Alex decided. She wondered if Fandom might throw monkeys at them during the next phase of weirdness. Might be kind of fun. "I'm Alex, by the way. I don't think we've met?"

She'd seen him a couple of times but couldn't remember ever really talking to him before now.

[longislandiceme]

"Bobby," he introduced himself. "I'm a new kid- well, until Saturday I guess, when the new new kids arrive."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle still looked groggy and cranky and a lot more like Katchoo than either of them would admit to when she shuffled up to the fourth floor in search of something to eat that didn't have a disturbing amount of brightly colored sprinkles on it. (She might have developed a junk food addiction, but there was no way Fruity Pebbles were going in her mouth. Nothing edible should be those colors.)

"Oh," she said, brightening just a fraction. "Hello, Bobby!"

She'd meant to wait until now to try and straighten her hair, honest.

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Bobby had no such qualms about eating things in unnatural colours, which is why he had a bowl full of chocolate Lucky Charms. "Gabrielle, hey! We're watching cartoons. Despite being well outside the target audience."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle gave him an odd look and grabbed a cushion from the couch for defensive purposes, just in case. "Why is someone targeting the audience?"

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"Uh, so they can sell the products advertised during the commercials?" Bobby tried to explain, completely missing Gabrielle's overly literal intepretation of the phrase. "Not that the kids buy stuff. But they look at it and want it and then ask their parents for it." When accounting was the family business, it was sort of hard not to pick up some basic knowledge of marketing and economics.

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"And then the parents go to buy those things, and they're easy pickings for whoever came up with this diabolical plan," Gabrielle concluded. "That is . . . fiendishly clever. Which is not to say that I approve of these things, but it is sheer elegance in its simplicity impressive in its twisted way."

Gabrielle? Inhabit the same world as everyone else sometimes, please.

[longislandiceme]

Well, Bobby wouldn't go so far as to say it was 'fiendish', but it was definitely a proven business tactic. Then again, it wasn't like he had much experience with subtle fiendishness.

"Some people'll do anything to make a buck," he agreed.

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana was generally not a morning person, but she had a cat who needed to get fed and who had tried to claw her eyes out once already. "Are toddlers attacking?" Yeah, so this wasn't her common room. Not that she cared.

[longislandiceme]

Yes, but they're all on the opposite coast "I don't think so. This is just the more interesting of the television choices."

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

It's Diana. Saying creepy but accurate things by accident is her talent. "Ugh. What's the alternative? Bitchy housewives beating each other with Tupperware?" Diana sleepily stumbled through the kitchen in search of cat food and cereal. This had the potential to not end well.

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"Soap operas aren't for another hour or so, I think," Bobby said. Not that he knew for sure. Really.

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"Oh, I meant the real ones." She studied the cat food and cereal and blinked repeatedly, trying to figure out which one was which.

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"That happens in real life?"