Iggy: I don’t think this party is going too well.
Dani: Nonsense! I think it’s going great! I mean, the music’s excellent; the guests are having a great time—
She gets cut off by a loud scream of “CHEESE!” and a crash.
Dani: …Mario especially… And the food’s beyond belief!
Iggy: We have Princess Peach to thank for that!
Crazykoopa: Yeah, the food’s good, but there’s no crumb cake! How can you have a party without crumb cake!?
Dani: Hmm… Loads of sugar, a mess of people, and rambunctious music?
Crazykoopa: … Sounds good to me!
The song goes from a slow, calm beat to a more rocking tune. Dani giggles, having had a few pieces of the Sweet Shroom Cake.
Dani: I think it’s dance time!
Iggy: Have a good time… I’d dance, but I have two left feet.
Crazykoopa: Well I have a left foot and a right foot and I’m gonna try!
Iggy grins at his two friends. They never ceased to make him laugh… or at least grin. Dani walked off to talk to her parents, Luigi and Princess Daisy. Crazykoopa began to talk about the tennis season to Iggy.
Crazykoopa: So, how’s the Castle League faring in the tournaments?
Iggy: Very well, I have to say.
Soon enough, the guests at the party start to grow bored.
Morton: I’m bored, uninterested, tired of something, bored stiff…
Larry: Morton, shut up!
Luigi: I have to agree with Morton, though. It is kinda boring now…
Dani: Then we need to come up with something to do.
Roy: Thank you, Miss Obvious!
Dani: Just doin’ my job.
Crazykoopa: How about the “See Who Can Eat the Most Crumb Cake” game?
Mario: CHEESE!
Morton: I one time watched, saw, was spectator, monitored a television show that was called, named, went by, titled “Survivor.” It was about—
Roy: Morton, be quiet or I’ll make you!
Princess Daisy stood up. When she did, all the boys looked directly at her. Peach huffed.
Daisy: No, Roy. He may be onto something. Go on, Morton.
Roy: Just make it snappy!
Morton: It was about people who were stranded, stuck, marooned on a deserted, abandoned, uninhabited, isolated, remote island and the person who was left at the end won a prize, reward, gift—
Roy had taken all he could stand and taped Morton’s mouth shut.
Luigi: A reality show, eh? That sounds… interesting.
Bowser: Especially the whole winning a prize thing!
Dani: That would be a great idea for a party game! A spin-off of Survivor!
Iggy: Yeah…
Lemmy: …It does sound like fun.
Ludwig: But why settle for it being just a party game? I hear that people who go on television shows such as that get paid a lot of money for participating. If we could broadcast this on television…
Bowser: Great idea, Ludwig! Then there’d be more money for ME!
Mario: CHEESE!
Morton: MMMMPH!
Crazykoopa: Someone’s been hanging around Wario too much lately.
Larry finishes Ludwig’s statement.
Larry: Everyone would benefit because everyone would receive a prize, small or whatever. It’s almost like when you plant a flower and the ladybugs eat all the nasty insects that would typically make that flower lunch!
Roy: Oh geez, don’t you start going Mortonish!
Bowser: Then it’s settled! We’ll start a reality show and broadcast it on television!
Everyone cheers at the idea of being on television… and the thought of getting paid to play a game. However, Ludwig spoiled the excitement.
Ludwig: Wait! We can’t start a show just like that! First we’ll need a setting for it, and then we’ll need contestants, a show host, a camera crew, and a time slot on a television channel to broadcast our show on!
Iggy: That’s gonna cost…
Lemmy: …A lot of Coins!
Peach: I can handle the payment.
Bowser: So can I.
Ludwig: Then you two can split the costs in half. Now then, we’ll need a setting.
Larry: Oh! We can set our show in Grass Land! I know where there’s a place that’s completely isolated!
Ludwig: Grass Land it is. Now we need contestants.
Dani: How about everyone who’s here?
Ludwig is about to speak, but Daisy cuts him off.
Daisy: Don’t worry about the rest. I know of a good station for us to broadcast our show on.
Peach: …In Sarasaland.
The princesses are about to fight, but Crazykoopa makes a suggestion.
Crazykoopa: Hey! How about Princess Daisy broadcasts on Sarasaland television, and Princess Peach broadcast it on Mushroom Kingdom television? Then it’d be all over Plit!
The princesses nod their heads in agreement… for once. Everything was worked out. They decided to wait until that following Firstday to begin the show. So all they could do for now was wait…
Go on to Week One.
Go back to the Castle Grounds from here.