Portland Center Stage Nov/Dec 2014 | Page 68

george Bailey: Listen, mister, you seem to know an awful lot about my life. Enough to know that. And, well, I don’t wanna be rude, but, let me just ask you this: did that particular Christmas Eve of mine LOOK LIKE FUN TO YOU?! Crumpet: Fair point. But what is fun for you? What, say, are some of your favorite holiday movies? And do not – do not! – say It’s a Wonderful Life. george Bailey: Ernest Saves Christmas. And Santa with Muscles (starring none other than Hulk Hogan). And It’s a Wonderful Life! Crumpet: Santa with Muscles was also the feature debut of Mila Kunis. Wildly underrated. Screening at my place after we spend some sweet holiday time with America’s favorite non-couple, Charlie Brown and Lucy Van Pelt! Charlie, I have to start out with something I’d always wanted to know – what is Snoopy really like? luCy: A queen never has to belittle herself by orchestrating others’ failures. Charlie Brown can do that without my help. He excels at failure. In fact, I would say he is the poster child for failure. Please don’t misunderstand. I like Charlie Brown. It is good to have friends that make you look good when you stand next to them. And I looked so good at the Christmas play! Crumpet: And how did the play go, Charlie? Your special ends before we have a chance to see the performance. Charlie: It was pretty good. My mom liked it … luCy: He’s a great dog, my best friend. But maybe that’s because I’m the one who feeds him. [Interrupts] There was lots of applause. Mostly for me. Linus was pretty good too and afterward our parents took us to get double scoops of ice cream on waffle cones ... and the two flavors I got were chocolate cherry bliss and spumoni. Two kinds of ice cream ... that is happiness! Crumpet: Lucy, are you still in search of real estate? Crumpet: Just as I imagined, that is great to – luCy: luCy: He is a DOG!! Good grief ... what do you think he is like? He is lazy and smelly and licks peoples’ faces with his di