They found themselves falling down a long tunnel, until finally they landed in an enormous cavern with stalagmites and stalactites. At one end of the cavern was a green light and at the other end was a small bar with reggae music, dancing-girls in grass skirts, and a blue neon sign that flashed, "ASK."
Standing behind the bar was a zombie waiter with a mug of beer in his hands. He was trying to decide which of his customers to wait on first. Sitting at the bar were an old man in vintage clothing, a paisley horse, and a large, pink, inflatable chicken.
The chicken turned to the horse and said, "SQQAUUUKKK... whoosh!!! Fsh fsh fsh, SQUUUAAAAKK!"
The horse replied, "NNEEEEY, cough, NEYYYY!!"
Skipper and his crew kept busy as they waited for their drinks. Skipper and the penguins were involved in an arm-wrestling contest (Or should that be flipper-wrestling?) The director's head was down and he muttered, "Why me?"
Meanwhile, the bartender said, "Another Shirley Temple, Mr. Descartes?"
The old man said, "I think not," and vanished.
The horse said, "You shouldn't have put Descartes before de horse."
During all of this talking, the chicken had been staring at the neon sign flashing "ASK." Finally, the chicken asked the bartender, "Say, what does that mean, 'ASK'?"
The bartender replied, "Well, it's asking you to Ask".
The befuddled chicken said, "Ask about what?"
The bartender responded, "It asks you to ask about what you want to ask about. The sign does not know what you want to ask about until you ask. So it asks you to speak up. If you don't ask it, you will never know what you want to know. That's why it's telling you to ask. That's why you bothered to ask me."
The chicken said, "SORRY I ASKED!"
But Skipper knew that he had to ask about his fateful quest, so he sat on Descartes' barstool and said, "Why am I...." But before any more words could be said, he promptly exploded.
But since he was a restless soul, doomed to wander the Earth until he found the magic tea, his guts and stuff fell off of everyone. They then began to form back together. But Skipper's nose ended up being in the wrong place. Still, he was Skipper. As he continued to pull his smouldering carcass back together, the bartender shouted, "Hey! There's no smoking allowed in here!"
Skipper began walking away, but the dancing-girls surrounded him. They were muttering something about "The Preordained One."
Then all the dancing-girls pulled down the zippers on their costumes and otters popped out. So Skipper unzipped his own costume to reveal that he too was an otter.
But then the otters unzipped their otter costumes to reveal that they were really dancing-girls. So Skipper unzipped his otter costume to reveal that he too was really a dancing-girl.
But then the dancing-girls unzipped their dancing-girl costumes to reveal that they were really seers. Skipper then reached back to unzip his dancing-girl costume. However, he found that the zipper was jammed. "Anyone got some WD-40?" he asked.
The horse at the bar said, "Nay," so Skipper's zipper remained stuck.
Meanwhile, fifteen Samurai warriors who had been dishonoured were about to commit ritual hara-kiri. Suddenly, a clumsy magician stumbled in and knocked over most of the samurai. Unfortunately, this caused half of the Samurai to fall on their daggers. They quickly died. However, their ghosts were stuck in limbo so they just hovered about annoying everyone.
The magician got up, and collided with the bar. He then said, "How do you do? My name is Shmuckaluckalikethat The Great Annoying One. I have traveled the world searching for a mighty hero to help me retrieve the mystic tea. But sadly, the plane that was carrying him crash-landed in a giant bowl of salad. Now I may never find him."
He bashed his hand on the bar and suddenly everyone changed shape. The dancing girls returned to their original shape. The director became a lawyer (no improvement). The penguins became rats. The horse was now a yak. The samurai who were still alive were now babbling English politicians. The bartender was now a monkey. And Skipper became... Skipper.
Skipper looked around at the new characters and then looked back at the magician, who was floating away and motioning for Skipper to follow. Skipper did so and soon discovered that something was changed about him. He was skipping. He skipped to the door, turned, and said, "Where's the bathroom? I haven't gone since the beginning of this story!"
Shmuckaluckalikethat The Great Annoying One waved his wand and in a puff of multicolor smoke, a Porta-Potty appeared. The door creaked open, and inside was a huge, snarling, Secret Service agent. He held Skipper back and said, "Sorry sir, you have to wait." He then spoke into his collar, "Sector secure bring him in."
Suddenly a limo pulled up and Bill Clinton stepped out. After he gave a politician's smile and waved, he dissapeared into the Porta-Potty. Secret Service men surrounded the Porta-Potty to make sure the President was not disturbed. Skipper watched as Monica Lewinsky followed after Clinton.
Meanwhile, Bob, who had been having a rather lousy day, went over to the bar and asked for a triple scotch with a vodka chaser.
Nearby, a Secret Service agent went over to the dancing girls and said, "Ladies I'm sorry, but a new policy dictates that any suspicious people within the vicinity of the President must be strip-searched."
While the Secret Service agent searched the dancing girls, Skipper knocked on the door of the Porta-Potty. What he heard was "Oh Bill!"
Skipper then in frustration said, "To Hell with it. I'll hold it." With that he turned and followed the magician.