91.) May 2, 2010: "Anchormanesia 2.0" [1J]

Once the groundbreaking ceremony had wrapped-up at the Central Park Zoo, the driver of the "Live at Five" news van walked back to the van to find that his anchorman, Chuck Charles, was already there, asleep in the passenger seat.

"You OK there, Chuck?" he asked as he tapped on the anchorman's shoulder.

"Oh, me? I'm just great," Chuck replied as he awoke. "Now hurry up and get in so we can pick up some sushi before we return to the studio."

"Sushi?" the driver inquired puzzledly. "Chuck, you hate sushi."

"What?!" Chuck objected. "What are you talking about? I love fish, and sushi is my favorite."

"Yeah," the driver remarked sarcastically.

"Hey, don't you be giving your commanding officer any lip," Chuck responded.

"Commanding officer?" the driver wondered. "Chuck, you're just an anchorman."

"And the Grand Canyon is just a hole in the ground," Chuck replied. "Hey, you know what? Forget the sushi – I want to go for a quick swim instead."

"Swimming now?" the driver remarked. "Chuck, if I didn't know you better, I'd swear you've suddenly gotten the mind of a penguin."

"Now why would you say that?" Chuck asked. "And what have you got against penguins?"

92.) May 3, 2010: "The Medicine Man"

"All right, Rico, it's time to take your medicine," Kowalski said as he poured some cough syrup into a teaspoon. "You'll be feeling better very soon."

"I don't wanna," Rico mumbled in protest. "It tastes bad."

"It tastes like grape," Kowalski replied as he inched the spoon close to Rico's mouth.

"Nope!" Rico objected as he swatted the spoon out of Kowalski's flipper.

"Rico, unless you want your cough treated by the vet – who will probably give you a shot for it – you're going to have to let me to treat you myself," Kowalski stated.

"No!" Rico declared as he closed his beak tightly.

Just then, Skipper waddled by.

"Skipper, I don't know what to do," Kowalski said. "Rico refuses to take his medicine on account of taste."

"Hmm," Skipper responded. "Perhaps we should try thinking outside the box."

"How so?" Kowalski asked.

"Well, you know how they hide pills for dogs in pieces of cheese?" Skipper whispered in Kowalski's ear. "We should try something similar for Rico."

"Ah, I've got just the thing," Kowalski whispered back as he pulled out a hollow inert grenade and poured some medicine inside behind Skipper's back. "He'll never expect it hidden in this."

93.) May 4, 2010: "Birds of a Feather Chill Out Together" [2J]

"Whoa, boys, is it getting hot in here or what?" Skipper asked his unit in the HQ on a swelteringly hot afternoon.

"I concur," Kowalski said.

"Uh-huh," Rico agreed.

"Indeed," Private stated. "Perhaps we should all go for a swim."

"Nah, that water is much too warm on a day like today," Skipper responded. "What we really need to do is something drastic."

Skipper then waddled over to the refrigerator and opened up the door. He then used his flippers to estimate the height, width, and depth of the inside before he turned to his team and nodded.

"It'll be a squeeze, but there should be enough room for all of us," he said as he began to climb into the refrigerator.

"Skipper, you can't be serious," Kowalski responded. "All of us? In the refrigerator?"

"Hey, it's your call," Skipper replied. "But it'll beat the heat."

Exhausted by the heat, the others decided to join their leader in the refrigerator, finding it a much tighter squeeze than Skipper had originally anticipated.

After a while, Private became thirsty, so he pulled the flipper next to him.

"Hey, Skipper, could you pass the orange juice?" he asked.

"I'm not Skipper," Kowalski replied.

94.) May 5, 2010: "Greetings From Gerfurjicklestan" [3J]

"I've brought the mail, Skipper," Private said as he returned to the HQ after raiding the zoo's mailbox to obtain mail sent to the penguins.

"Anything good?" Skipper then asked.

"Well, let's see," Private responded as he flipped through it. "Kowalski got his latest issues of National Review and Scientific American, you've gotten a letter with a big red 'classified' stamp on it, and it seems we've all gotten a postcard."

"A postcard?" Skipper asked. "Who's it from?"

Private then looked at the name of who had sent the postcard.

"It's from Buck Rockgut, sir," Private replied.

"Rockgut?" Skipper asked. "I thought we sent him halfway across the world after he cracked looking for the Red Squirrel a few months ago. What's he say?"

Private then cleared his throat and began to read the postcard.

"Greetings from Gerfurjicklestan. I am hot on the trail of the Red Squirrel. I haven't caught him yet, but I'm close – I can feel it. The day of reckoning is soon coming for that criminal, and I'll see to it that he's behind bars for good. Thanks again for your tip, soldiers! Sincerely, Buck Rockgut."

"But, Skipper," Private then commented, "didn't you make up Gerfurjicklestan?"

95.) May 6, 2010: "Bingo!"

One evening, the penguins, lemurs, and Marlene got together to play bingo at the penguins' HQ. Rico volunteered to be the official caller; he shuffled the numbered balls inside his gut before regurgitating them one at a time during the game.

"I-18," Rico called upon hacking-up that number.

"Yes!" Private declared as he marked that space on his card.

"O-75," Rico called out next.

"Thank you, Rico," Skipper smiled as he stamped that location.

As the game continued along, Marlene and Julien both noticed each other's card was just one number away from winning.

"Oh, if only I could get this flightless bird to call N-41," Julien then said.

"Julien, you can't cheat," Marlene responded.

"Oh, really?" Julien replied as he stood up. "Watch me."

Julien then walked up to Rico.

"Penguin, if you call N-41, I'll split the winnings with you," he whispered into Rico's ear. "You know, I keep 90 percent, you get 10 percent."

"Hey, no fair!" Marlene declared as she approached Rico as well. "Rico, call G-58 and I'll give you all of my breakfast fish tomorrow."

"No!" Rico declared as he regurgitated the next number. "B-14!"

"Bingo!" Kowalski exclaimed.

Both Marlene and Julien were shocked.

96.) May 7, 2010: "PRIVATE"

With the other penguins engaged in training exercises, Private decided to do some overdue spring cleaning inside the HQ.

After an array of other maintenance activities, Private began clearing off a shelf that held an assortment of various junk and clutter belonging to all four penguins. While doing so, he came across a mysterious box that had his name written on it in big capital letters: PRIVATE.

"Funny, I don't remember ever having this before," Private remarked to himself as he removed the box's lid. "I wonder what I put in it."

Private then looked inside and found several notes written in a strange code as well as some sort of decoding device. As Private began to take them out for closer inspection, Skipper waddled in.

"Say, Private," Skipper then stated, "what do you think you're doing with that box?"

"I'm not sure," Private responded. "I forget why I even had this box."

"Huh?" Skipper wondered. "What makes you think that's yours? It's not like your name is on it."

"But it is," Private replied as he pointed at his name.

"That's not your name, Private," Skipper stated. "I wrote that because the contents are private – for my eyes only."

97.) May 8, 2010: "Fleas"

While waddling together on a recon mission one afternoon, the penguins were suddenly accosted by a familiar feline.

"Oh, my penguin friends, you have to help stop my suffering!" Max, the penguins' stray cat friend, said as he approached the group. "The horror! The torture! I cannot escape it!"

"What is it, man?!" Skipper asked. "Has Officer X been harassing you again?"

"Oh, this is a totally different kind of torture," Max responded as he began to scratch behind his neck. "I'm being attacked by fleas!"

"Bloodsucking fiends!" Skipper declared. "But don't worry, we can fix this."

Skipper then looked to Rico.

"Rico, fix moon cat up with a flea collar," he said.

Rico then hacked-up a red one and handed it to Max.

"Thanks," Max said as he placed the collar around his neck. "But what about the fleas that are still attacking right now?"

"Hmm," Skipper pondered before turning back to Rico. "Rico, could I get a flea bomb, please?"

Rico chuckled darkly as he then regurgitated a round ball bomb and lit it.

"Fleas go kaboom!" he declared.

Max's eyes suddenly widened with shock.

"No, Rico!" Skipper declared. "We don't want the cat to go kaboom, too!"

98.) May 9, 2010: "A Card for Mom"

Upon returning to the lemur habitat, Maurice found Julien working hard on a project.

"What are you working on, King Julien?" he asked while walking over.

"Oh, this?" Julien asked as he held up the card he was writing in. "This is just a Mother's Day card I'm going to send out. And I bet you'll never guess who I'm sending it to."

"Um, your mother?" Maurice asked slowly.

"Wow, Maurice, how did you know?" Julien responded.

"Well, I think sending your mother a card is certainly a nice gesture," Maurice then said. "I should probably send one, too."

"Really, Maurice?" Julien questioned. "Why do you think my mother would want a card from you?"

"Nevermind," Maurice declared, rolling his eyes.

He then glanced at Julien's card.

"Mind if I take a look?" Maurice asked.

"Sure," Julien replied.

Maurice then read the card aloud.

"Roses are red
"Violets are blue
"I want to wish a
"Happy Mother's Day to you.
"Love, King Julien."

"Your majesty," Maurice then commented, "did you really have to sign your card 'King Julien'?"

"Of course, Maurice," Julien replied. "She may be my mother, but I'm still the king – I have a royal reputation to keep."

99.) May 10, 2010: "Ballooners"

"Wow, you can see the whole city from up here," Private commented as he and the other penguins continued to drift through the sky inside the hot air balloon that Kowalski had built. "This is so much fun!"

"Indeed it is," Skipper remarked as he then patted Kowalski on the back with a flipper. "Congratulations, Kowalski, you've managed to create something that hasn't yet threatened society or endangered our lives, and I'm proud of you."

"Thanks, Skipper," Kowalski smiled.

As the team continued to float over the city, they chuckled thinking about how all the humans who looked up and saw the balloon had no clue that it was being operated by penguins.

Then suddenly, a strange gust of wind blew hard against the balloon's envelope, partially collapsing it as the hot air escaped. With no hot air to lift it, the balloon began to drop from the sky.

"Kowalski, increase heat output, pronto!" Skipper declared.

"I can't, sir," Kowalski replied as he tugged on the rope that activated the burner. "We've run out of fuel."

"But without hot air we'll crash!" Private panicked.

"Hot air?" Skipper thought, turning then to Rico. "Rico, I sure hope you've packed some beans."

100.) May 11, 2010: "Well Played" [4J]

"This is a job for science!" Kowalski stated confidently as he pulled out his clipboard to plot a solution to the penguins' latest predicament. "Just give me a moment and–"

"No dice!" Skipper stated as he quickly slapped Kowalski. "We haven't the time."

"Of all the stars in the galaxy, my favorite is the toasted marshmallow fish," Kowalski then said.

"What?" Skipper wondered.

"Life is like a box of homerun derby," Kowalski continued. "No pale pastels, but polka-dotted leprechaun toothpicks."

"Skipper, you hit him too hard!" Private then exclaimed. "You broke Kowalski!"

Skipper's heart suddenly sunk.

"Kowalski, no!" he yelled. "I didn't mean to hurt you, I swear!"

"The xylophone is really a banjo in disguise," Kowalski continued.

"I'm so sorry," Skipper then apologized. "Really, I'd do anything to fix you right now."

"Would you admit that you were wrong?" Kowalski asked.

"Yes!" Skipper answered with great concern. "Anything! Anything!"

"Then I'm back, sir," Kowalski stated as if nothing had happened.

Skipper then realized that Kowalski's disorientation was just a ruse.

"Kowalski, that was a dirty rotten trick!" Skipper then yelled.

He then waddled over to Kowalski and patted him on the back.

"Good work, soldier," Skipper smiled. "Well played."

Drabble Notes

1J: Throughout much of the episode "Command Crisis" (which is currently unaired and available only on the show's special DVD release, "Operation: DVD Premiere"), Skipper believed that he was TV anchorman Chuck Charles, suffering from a condition that Kowalski dubbed "anchormanesia." Spoiler warning for the rest of this drabble note: At the end of the episode, however, Skipper's condition was revealed to just be a ruse to test the rest of his team. For this drabble, I thought it would be funny to sort of reverse roles a little and show what might happen if Chuck Charles suddenly began to think he was Skipper.

2J: This drabble was inspired by a photograph I took of stuffed Skipper and Rico toys I had placed in my freezer just over a month earlier.

3J: Buck Rockgut and his obsessive quest to capture the Red Squirrel were featured in the episode "The Red Squirrel." Also, it should probably be noted that Private and the others can generally read now (within reason) per my practice of personal continuity.

4J: The idea to make Kowalski speak gibberish was inspired by his doing so after being slammed to the ice by the sewer rat king in the "Miracle on Ice" episode.

On Final Analysis: 100 Days Comes to an End

Overall, I've really enjoyed working on this sequel project. Some days the ideas for the drabble plots came easy, some days they were more of a challenge, but throughout I always stayed determined to complete the project as promised to myself and the readership. I have, on my honor, now completed this project according to the rules I set forth and took an oath to uphold – it is by these presents that I can now relieve myself from my duties as a 100-day double-drabblist.

When I completed my original "One Hundred Days of Drabbles" in December 2009, I decided to thank those who had submitted reviews on it. So, in keeping with tradition, I'd like to again take a moment to thank those who have posted reviews on the first nine chapters of this sequel project. So far, 24 individuals have submitted a total of 49 reviews on "One Hundred Days of Drabbles: Double Time!" They are (in order of their first review): Myrkin, halfhuman123, Sky-Blue-Indigo, ggreen7295, SkullShovel, knockknocktimerico, ruthc93, Yokai Summoner, SkullCemetery, kvzpenguin (penguin212), matchmaker, KowalskiFan, PinkPirate, warriorgirl07, Kerjen, PinkNinja!, Warlord-Xana, random, SomeRandomPenguin, milordo-z 2.0, Jokegirl, Iron-Mantis, SBATP, and (none yet). While I appreciate all of my readers, I especially appreciate these 24 who have taken the time to provide feedback. They truly make all the hours I've given to this project (well over 100 of them) worth it.

And so concludes this final installment of "One Hundred Days of Drabbles: Double Time!" I certainly hope you've enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

GrandOldPenguin
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
3:45 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time