Revolution in Dubbo – Episode 9
Dr Poo faces a rampaging mob and comes over all evil (‘Don’t you come evil all over me!’) before realising that some occult force from the French Revolution has arrived in Dubbo and brought the chaos of history with it. Then little Marky de Sade arrives with a stange occult object in his pocket. (‘What in Bernie Smith’s name can it be?’)
POO: What can it be that’s causing these ordinary civilised people to become such barbaric, bloodthirsty savages?
DANA: Um… too much Milo?
POO: No!
DANA: Violence on radio?
POO: No!
DANA: Their neighbours are learning the trumpet?DANA: It’s my little brother, Bobby Sock!
MARKY: Ah piss off Dana, I’m a different character this time.
DANA: Oh sorry, but your voice looked just like him
Revolution in Dubbo – Episode 10
Marky pulls out his dried pet frog, which Dr Poo recognises as the French Frog Royal: King Louis XVI’s pet frog and advisor, François D’Amphibian. It starts to emanate, glowing with an eerie red light (‘What does it mean?’ / ‘Don’t walk… don’t walk… don’t walk…’)
KEVIN: In Dubbo, France, in New South Wales, in the Eighteenth Century, now, revolution runs rife and the streets jog with blood! And it’s because of what? Yes, James Watt, the inventor of steam!
JAMES WATT: Lies, all lies – I was in England at the time, putting the kettle on so I could invent steam
DR POO: This wrinkled old frog has evil powers, Dana, and not only that, it cuts the washing up time in half!
Revolution in Dubbo – Episode 11
Dr Poo tries to swap Marky’s frog for a bag of marbles and some sheep’s entrails. Charles Dickens finds himself transported from his bath to Dubbo.
DR POO: But alas, he dabbled in the black arts, and in the fish ponds, and eventually sold his soul to the devil for the chance to sit in Helen of Troy’s bath water.
DANA: Oooh! What happened then?
DANA: Revolution, the guillotine, and a reason for Charles Dickens to write ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
DANA: And somehow this awful frog has turned up in Dubbo?
DR POO: Yes, bringing all of that with it.
CHARLES DICKINS: Including me!
Revolution in Dubbo – Episode 12
Charles Dickens is supposed to be in 19th Century England, writing all those lovely books that you have to plough through to pass your exams, but has arrived in Dubbo along with the French Revolution. Dr Poo chases Marky on Denis’s motorbike and leaves Dickens and Dana to face a huge revolutionary mob.
CHARLES: Help me, doctor. Help me get back to my 19th Century bath before the water goes cold
DR POO: Er, speaking of your bath, Charles, I couldn’t help noticing that er you’re um er you’re nude.
CHARLES: My nude what?
DR POO: No, we can see your um dickens
CHARLES: Well of course I’m Dickens. OH, I see what you mean, I’m nude, oh dear, I must cover myself with something
DANA: Use this towel, Mr Dickens!
CHARLES: Good god, a woman!
DR POO: No, use the towel, Charles.
