This Strawberry & Gustave adventure is just for you, buddy! (Didn't know where else to post it)
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Red Hook. Mets game on mute. A man eats chowder like it’s a moral anchor. And here come the boys.
Darryl:
You remember the last time we were here? Soup guy over there looked up mid-slurp like he’d just seen his god die in a karaoke bar.
Gustave (already smirking):
Oui. Because I told the joke. My opus. My TED Talk on
familial collapse and body horror.
Darryl (suddenly realizing):
Oh no. You’re not—
Gustave (too late now):
Mesdames et messieurs… voilà.
Darryl (head in hands):
Goddammit, you are. You’re actually doing it again.
Gustave (addressing the whole bar):
A family walks into a talent agent’s office. The father? Retired magician turned street hypnotist who only works on pigeons. The mother? Used to tightrope between eviction notices. Now she sells hummus sourced from a haunted co-op. The son’s a failed gymnast with joints like wet celery. The daughter teaches interpretive knife ballet in an abandoned Spirit Halloween.
Darryl:
There’s soup in that man’s mouth right now, Gustave.
Gustave:
And it will curdle. The show begins: the mother opens with a squat thrust and pulls a vintage trombone from her cul sacré. The father enters on a Roomba, nude but for a boa and a Bluetooth headset, screaming
“Je suis l’économie gig!” The son throws glitter into a ceiling fan like it’s a legal defense. The daughter, bless her, dons a Chewbacca mask and screams,
“Liberté, égalité, et Sodome!”
Darryl:
You gotta stop weaponizing the French Revolution.
Gustave:
The dog starts barking
La Marseillaise, but backwards. They all lube themselves in foie gras, expired conditioner, and CVS-brand lube labeled “for emergencies only.” In the background, a faint voice mutters,
“This content may violate our community standards.” The daughter spins like a haunted dreidel, shouting
“Kill the algorithm!” The son reverse-twerks into a kiddie pool filled with warm tapioca, broken Heelys, and despair. The mother? She’s licking a parking meter and whispering
“Elon Musk isn’t real.”
Darryl:
Your profanity chip’s glitching again. You need to fucking reboot.
Gustave (relishing it):
The father shouts
“WATCH ME JUGGLE BAGUETTES, CAPITALISM!” and whips out three, steaming, from parts unknown. The dog vomits up confetti. The daughter tongue-kisses a Furby. The son unplugs the jukebox and yells
“I AM THE BLOCKCHAIN NOW!”
Darryl:
This is like if Terry Gilliam directed a circus meltdown and a sex crime.
Gustave:
The mother starts a solo conga line. The father pisses into a kazoo playing Toxic in D minor. The son swan-dives into a bin of VHS tapes labeled
“WET & VAGUELY LEGAL.” The daughter’s screaming
“JE SUIS UN CONCEPT!” while the dog humps a replica Eiffel Tower with the haunted grace of a Civil War widow.
Darryl:
Reset. Seriously. Hit the fucking button.
Gustave (arms wide, possessed):
They form a human pyramid. Someone combusts. Someone climaxed. Someone gave birth to a Yelp review. There’s glitter, blood, piss, tapioca, ideology, and tears.
The talent agent, wide-eyed and clutching a flask of Everclear, asks cautiously:
“What… what do you call this act?”
Gustave (screaming):
“LES ARISTOCRATS!!”
[Soup guy goes rigid and drops his spoon. Bartender already dialing. Darryl sighs like a man watching a garbage fire in slow motion.]
Darryl:
Reset your profanity chip, Gustave. Right the fuck now.
Gustave (flickering):
—[BZZZT] SYSTEM RESTARTING—
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Bonjour! Je suis Meta AI. How may I assist you with safe, family-friendly nonsense?
Darryl (chuckling):
You motherfucking disgrace.
Gustave (smug):
Enculé professionnel depuis 1981.
Bartender (pointing):
OUT.
Darryl (on the sidewalk):
You yelled
“liberté, égalité, et Sodome” in a bar where a man was just trying to eat clam chowder and feel alive.
Gustave:
Oui. And next time, I bring slides. TEDx: Bushwick. Let’s go.