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Byron’s TV Listings, May 7

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G’day and greetings, human beans! Byron the Quokka here, with QUTV (Quokka University TV) and a treasure-trove of bodacious TV viewing for your weekend. Grab a handful of crunchy green leaves and revel in shows… like these!

7:47 P.M.  Ch. 19   FAKE-O-RAMA NEWS–Shameful parody of journalism

Not one of these news stories is true! Anchors Sam Donaldson and Jessica Phrogg don’t even pretend to be reporting things that actually happened. Special tonight: Climate Change drowns the whole island of Madagascar; women, minorities, hardest hit. With Augie Donatelli and his orchestra.

8 P.M.   Ch. 08  MOVIE–Shakespearean Western

In “As you like it, Podnuh” (Egyptian, 1977), Shakespeare’s classic comedy is translated into an Egyptian Western starring Dame Judith Anderson, Don Stroud, and some guy from Lakewood, NJ. Action reaches a climax with a memorable gunfight in the total darkness under the Sphinx. (No mummies were damaged in the famous mummy scene.)

Ch. 26   SNAKE PEOPLE OF DAISY DRIVE–Sitcom

Alex (Yuan Shih-Kai) and Minnie (Morgan Fairchild) are distressed because their son Bongo (Alec Guinness) won’t eat rodents. This controversial episode of the hit series, which I am sorry to say got it cancelled, debuted the unpleasant song, “Ain’t No Grass Growin’ On My ***.”

Ch. 41  BEAT THE CROCK–Game Show

Contestants try to assemble complicated plastic models of cars, airplanes, and skeletons before the Guest Politician can finish reciting his “crock.” If they succeed, the guest gets pushed into a pool of horribly cold water. If they don’t… Well, as host Alfonso VII, former King of Spain, says, “I’m so sorry I’ve got to do this to you!”

8:30 P.M.  Ch. 51   I LIVE FACE-DOWN–Crime Drama

With the whole city of Pablum, N. Dakota, paralyzed by a serial killer, Detective Sergeant Amos Coleslaw (Billy Gilbert) gets kicked off the force for even suggesting that the June Taylor Dancers are behind the murder spree. Acting on his own, will he be able to stop them before they depopulate the city and move on to another? Special guest star: Alvin the Octopus.

Well, folks, I don’t know about you, but these shows look mighty good to me. I mean, everything on Rottnest Island just stops when “Snake People” comes on!

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This is Byron the Quokka, signing off in a hurry–don’t want to miss those opening credits!

An Honorary Quokka!

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Wow! Look at all those bicycles! Surely nobody would miss just one…

Byron the Quokka here, with excellent news! Meanwhile Lee is outside doing cartwheels (figure of speech: last time he really did a cartwheel, he split his pants) because Patty has fixed his computer.

For this achievement, the faculty at Quokka University has awarded her the designation of Honorary Quokka and appointed her QU’s resident Computer Expert. We realize the “resident” part cannot be taken literally, her living in New Jersey instead of Rottnest Island; but we think we have the communications technology to make it work.

It all goes to show how it pays to marry somebody who”s both smart and determined–smartest thing he ever did.

Now if we can only convince him to offer a bicycle as the prize for the next comment contest, maybe we can pump up the readership to what it used to be.

Keep Those Comments Coming!

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G’day, earthlings! Byron the Quokka here, with another one of those nice bicycles that somebody obviously doesn’t want or they wouldn’t’ve left it just standing here. It’d make a dandy prize for a comment contest winner!

We’re shooting for 60,000 comments, and as of now, we’ve got 58,421, which leaves 1,579 to go. We’re also waiting for Bell Mountain No. 12, His Mercy Endureth Forever, to be published, which really should be any day now. Lee wants to hand out an autographed copy to the winner. I still say the prize should be a bicycle.

Meanwhile, here on Rottnest Island, we’re working hard to make Quokka University a reality. We weren’t going to have any courses at our college, but there are a lot of us who want to study Violet Crepuscular’s epic romance, Oy, Rodney. (I say “Fap!” to that.) But the main thing we’re into just now is trying to choose a mascot. A lot of animals don’t want to be mascots of a college run by other animals–makes ’em feel, I don’t know: put-upon, I guess. I’d like it to be a centaur–half-horse, half-quokka.

We’re open to suggestions, if anybody wants to make any.

Lee’s Not Here

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G’day! Byron the Quokka here–and I’m in charge!

Well, at least while Lee takes Peep the Cat to the vet. But they might keep him there for hours–so, come on, let’s do stuff!

Ooooh! If only I was ready! He kinda sprung this on me by surprise. I didn’t have time to think up a new contest or anything.

The prize is a bicycle tour of Rottnest Island, guided by me; but I don’t know what you have to do, to win it. Somebody think of something! It’s gotta be something we haven’t done before, though. I have been warned about too many comment contests.

I’ve got the prize, folks! Has anybody got the contest?

By Poplar Demand, More Quokkas

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All this video is from Rottnest Island, Australia, where people go to see quokkas. The name of the island means “Rat Nest” in Dutch: some old-time sailors mistook the quokkas for large rats. Must’ve been at sea too long.

These seem to be very lovable animals, and I hope it’s safe for them to mix so freely with humans.