girl, you gotta know you're my shining star

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The last ten days have been an impressive effort on my part not to sulk. Seriously, there should be Oscar buzz right now for my performance as a not-petulant teenage girl, possibly an Emmy nom, at least a Globe. Somewhere under the water is a ridiculous and creeptastic city the likes of which no one on this island has seen before with all kinds of

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"This was one of the best things to come out of SNL in years," Aidan said, stepping into the room and moving over to the couch when he heard the familiar song. While he'd always been a fan of the earlier years he had to admit every now and then some of the newer casts came up with something good.

"Motherlover was pretty good too."

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"I love the old SNL reruns," Olive said, looking over at the guy. "But then you watch the new stuff and it's like... eeeh, it's really hit or miss. Except the Lonely Island. Like 'I'm On a Boat'? Gold!" She couldn't even explain why that song was so hilarious if she wanted to try, but she was pretty sure no explanation would make it clear to someone who didn't already find it funny.

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Sitting down on the couch, Aidan wondered just what this girl considered 'old'. Old for her could be Farley and Spade, who were seriously funny, but relative newcomers as far as Aidan was concerned.

"It does not get better than Aykroyd, Belushi, Chase, Curtin, and Radner in their prime," he said. "Although I don't know if any of them could deliver the line 'T-Pain fucked a mermaid' as well as the Lonely Island guys."

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"Andy Samberg just has a gift for weird comedy music," Olive said with a shake of her head, grinning, "but God, yes. Radner, Ackroyd - Bill Murray? Oh, perfection, all of them. You know, in the rec center, it comes on the TV sometimes. I mean, I don't spend a whole lot of time down there, but I catch it sometimes and it's just... that is good stuff." She'd been exposed to a wide variety of genres of film and television growing up, but comedy had always been first and foremost in the Penderghast household.

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"This is why we need a DVR here," he said, glancing back at the screen for a moment. The evolution of humor was fortunately gradual enough that Aidan's 18th Century sensibilities weren't offended by watching a music video about a dick in a box. Actually, he was pretty sure Dick in a Box would have been a big hit in the pubs of Colonial America with just a few changes.

"What happens if the Three Stooges comes on while I'm not there? How am I supposed to live with missing the Stooges while on the Island?"

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"If it's any consolation," Olive said, "I'm pretty sure it won't. I think that TV only plays stuff from the Seventies. But yes, DVR, the solution to all those SNL sketches I've missed and the episodes of The Brady Bunch I need to revisit." There were plenty of people who didn't enjoy what the rec center had to offer, but really, Olive felt there was something to be said for the entertainment of the decades prior to her birth. Kids her age just did not get it. "I bet the shelf has some, though. I haven't seen any Three Stooges in forever."

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"The seventies weren't bad television wise from what I hear," Aidan said. They weren't bad from what he remembered either, but old habits still die hard and he wasn't quite ready to hoist the vampire flag for all to see just yet.

"If necessary, I'm pretty sure I could write out the entire scripts to a few Stooges movies. Actually, I'm pretty sure they're all the same ten gags just in different order."

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"If it ain't broke..." Olive laughed, soft, to herself. "That is quite probably more gags than I rely on personally, which is why they were the professionals." Of the many careers she had considered over the years, actually, comedienne's never been one of them. She had a healthy respect for those who can manage it, but she just couldn't see herself being one of them. One thing to be said for this guy, he certainly had taste. She smiled, head tipping slightly. "I'm Olive."

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"Nice to meet you, Olive. I'm Aidan," he said, nodding his head in response. She was pretty young to be into the old SNL and she didn't look hipster, so she must have just had good taste. She also looked rather... female to like the Stooges, but Aidan didn't consider that a bad thing.

"And it's okay, you're young, I think you get more as you get older, sort of like leveling up."

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"Wow, is that how it works?" Olive asked, grinning. "I've never felt more like a Pokémon." She'd been pretty young when the Pokémon craze actually went around, but she had fairly vivid memories of her older brother loving them and of a few failed attempts at performing the Pokérap before she actually knew what most of the words were.

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Aidan remembered when Pokémon was at the height of its popularity, the cards and the show and the thousand little kids running around obsessed with it. He had actually thought it was pretty interesting, if a bit over-hyped.

"Just don't let anyone come up to you and try and stick you in a ball and force you to fight other people," he said. "The whole concept turns kind of brutal when you really start to think about it."

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"Right? It's like... cockfights, but worse, because you're basically shrunk down into some pocket dimension. Literally carried around in some kid's pocket." Olive shook her head. "You'd think there'd be laws against that. Animal cruelty complaints. Mostly, though, I just remember wanting one when I was little." That and the idea that pink was kind of a cool hair color, that was pretty much all she had managed to come away from it with.

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"What happens if Ash shows up here?" he asked, hardly believing that he was discussing the possibility of a fictional character arriving on the island. He wondered if that was a sign that he was adjusting or that he was giving in to the madness.

"Will the Pokeballs still work? More importantly, what will Ash do if he can't complete his lifelong dream of becoming a Pokemon Master?"

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"Well, probably he'd raise his fist up in the air," Olive said with an accompanying and suitably dramatic pose, "and yell about it some, but oh God, what if they don't work and, like, Pikachu's stuck in a ball forever?" The weird part was, it could have happened. No matter how accustomed she grew to this place, she could never wrap her mind around the fact that characters she'd grown up with in one way or another could easily be - and were - her neighbors now. "That's kind of depressing."

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"It is. That's why I wasn't going to go there with the whole, 'large animal trapped in a tiny sphere'," Aidan said, flashing her a smile to let her know that he was just teasing.

"I think that does make it your responsibility to get the conversation on to a less depressing track though."