HAPPY BIRTHDAY 1 [Video]

[happybirthdaytoyou]

[Eugene has chosen to write his numbers in frosting on a shiny reflective worktable in the back of the main branch of MAGNIFICENT BAKERY. Mort and Rhonda are lucky he didn't do the same thing on the living room coffee table. Because of this, the first thing anyone sees is the bakery ceiling while a deep voice shouts from off to the side:]

SO! By way of these secret numbers, I have gained access to an equally secret supernatural network! MAGNIFICENT!

[And now the owner of that voice is leaning over the table. He appears to be a middle-aged Japanese-American man, wearing chef's whites, with a streak of flour on his cheek and a very manic expression covering the rest of his face. It's a face that many people in the numbers club have probably seen before on bus shelter advertisements.]

I look forward to learning more about this secret numbers club! However, there is one thing I must know first!

… when are your birthdays?

[How else is he going to know when to make the cakes?]

Comments

Voice

[reckless_fire]

'Bout time somebody with a useful talent got sucked into here.

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[happybirthdaytoyou]

Have you met my brother? He's the numbers club psychiatrist! It's a VERY useful talent!

Voice

[reckless_fire]

Uh...no, don't think I have yet.

And yeah, I guess that's probably useful, too--but it's not cake.

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[happybirthdaytoyou]

I see you are a man with priorities!

Or hear. I hear.

Voice

[reckless_fire]

Well, I wouldn't put it ahead of my family or surfing the Pipeline in Oahu...but it'd probably rank a close third.

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[happybirthdaytoyou]

[Leans forward, and says earnestly:] There is nothing more important than family.

Voice

[reckless_fire]

[Okay...that's a little intense...] Uhh...yeah, I think we can agree on that.

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[happybirthdaytoyou]

[Especially because it's not like he can even see you that way.]

Good.