by Matt
(When we last left off, Brad Munkus was being sent off to Cattonvale for some analysis by neurospecialists...)
VICKY: Although MUNKUSTRAP isn't the one who needs to have his head examined...
MATT: Don't say it.
(So what does he do about it? What EVERYONE does in a musical when a crisis arises! He SINGS...er, with a little help from our announcer.)
ADMETUS: It looks like Brad and Demnet are heavily amazed today. Here are some more prizes to amaze, here on Marriage Maze.
MUNKU: Dear blender
ADMETUS: You won't blend into the background with this in your home
MUNKU: Oh won't you help a first offender
Oh toaster
ADMETUS: Pop up in the popularity ratings!
MUNKU: Don't you put the burn on me...
ADMETUS: Look at this!
MUNKU: Refrigerator, why are we always sooner or later
Bi... (Jellylorum cuts him off)
JELLY: (stomping onto the set) Okee, too much swearing in this song. Let's move on.
DEM: But I didn't get to sing!
JELLY: I said, LET'S MOVE ON.
(Moving right along, the show resumes, as another tom brings in a wheelchair.)
ADMETUS: And now it's back to Marriage Maze. And for those of you who are Cattonvale watchers, here's our surprise guest. Yes, and heeeere's Bert!
GUS: Hey folks, it's Lonzo from the rest home!
ALONZO: Hey, Bert! (he slaps Bert a high five)
GUS: Hey, Lonzo!
ALONZO: I've come for Mr. Munkus.
GUS: Brad will learn to care in a surgical chair.
POUNCE: Sheesh, who writes this stuff? Whoever it is has got to be one of the greatest weirdos in the history of the world!
MATT: I'll tell Richard O'Brien you said that. I'm sure he'd be flattered.
(The audience cheers. Macavity and his henchcats are the ones who are the most audible.)
ALONZO: Nothing, uh, serious, I hope.
DEM: Oh no no, just a routine checkup.
GUS: Just a routine checkup, hey viewers?
(The crowd laughs, again, Macavity and his henchcats are louder than the rest of the cats.)
NUNZIO: Gee, you're in a chipper mood all of a sudden.
MAC: I found a copy of the script. What they're gonna put Munkustrap through is going to keep me in a good mood for a LONG time.
NUNZIO: But you said you respected the...
MAC: SHADDAP!!!!
NUNZIO: (mumbles something in Italian)
MAC: I HEARD THAT!
(Anyhow, Brad gets wheeled off to the hospital, as "Marriage Maze" ends.)
ADMETUS: Ha ha ha! Well, Bert's done it again, another rocky marriage is headed for intensive care.
GUS: The subject is committed. (the music stops and cameras go off, as Bert turns to the floor manager) As are we all.
POUNCE: No kiddin'.
TUMBLE: More like "we SHOULD be committed for being in so many parodies".
(We then hear the beginning of the medical drama "Cattonvale".)
ADMETUS: Cattonvale, the arrival. Introducing Brad and Demnet Munkus.
(We see Rumpmo and Grizion McKinley in the Cattonvale office.)
RUMPUS CAT: OK, I've been good about everything so far. But I look like a dork! I'm wearing a WOMEN'S bathing cap, for cryin' out loud!
MATT: It was the only one I could find that matched your fur color. And Cosmo McKinley IS bald. I'm going for accuracy.
RUMPUS: YOUR accuracy, MY humiliation! AURGH!
GRIZ: I don't see what the problem is...
POUNCE: Maybe it's because YOU'RE wearing a white coat in this one, and in reality, your behavior makes US want to call the cats in the white coats...
BANDERSNATCH: Uh, Pounce, she's past the insane thing, remember?
POUNCE: Sorry, forgot.
TUMBLE: However, YOU, on the other hand...
POUNCE: Tumblebrutus, you are SO dead.
TUMBLE: Where have I heard that one before?
MATT: GUYS! Longer chat, longer parody...
POUNCE & TUMBLE: Eep.
(SO ANYWAY, we're in the office of Drs. Rumpmo and Grizion McKinley...)
RUMPUS: Ah, Mr. and Mrs. Munkus, how wonderful to see you. I'm Dr. Rumpmo McKinley. And this is my sister and colleague, Dr. Grizion McKinley.
GRIZ: We understand you've been going through a rather trying time.
POUNCE: I'll say. Whenever we do a parody!
DEM: Well, yes, we have...
MUNKU: (cutting Demnet off) Now, now, now, listen, there...there's nothing really wrong with me. Demnet and I haven't been getting along too...(Lonzo injects Brad with a sedative)...well lately and I had a little... little trouble... (Brad suddenly passes out.)
MAC: I suddenly love Alonzo.
ALONZO: Uh, Macavity, we're acting. There wasn't anything in that needle.
MAC: There WASN'T? Grrrr...
DEM: Oh, Brad!
RUMPUS: Ooooh! Does he do this often?
DEM: No, he's never done this before.
RUMPUS: Good. Then there's still hope. Lots and lots of hope...
POUNCE: Unlike for our director, where there's no hope of curing his maniacal desire to cast Cats in parodies we don't really want to be in...
BANDERSNATCH: THAT'S ENOUGH, POUNCE!
GRIZ: If anyone can help Brad, we can.
(A nurse--Nurse Rumplelong--comes into the room.)
DEM: Well, he does need help.
POUNCE: (points at Matt) No kiddin'.
BANDERSNATCH: Don't make me get the duct tape.
RUMPUS: Ah, Nurse Rumplelong, you've arrived.
RUMPLE: Aowww, that wos real short naotice, becos the other monkeys...
TUMBLE: HEY! We're cats, not monkeys!
BOMB: And that was ANOTHER joke we've used way too many times.
GRIZ: Attend to Mr. Munkus.
RUMPUS: Just one or two formalities that have to be dealt with, Mrs. Munkus. A contract to be (whacks Nurse Rumplelong on her butt with the papers) signed.
MUNGO: 'Ey! Daon't do that to me beloved 'Teaza!
(Rumpus Cat turns on his fireball-red eyes and glares at Mungo.)
MUNGO: Roight. Shuttin' up naow.
DEM: Can I do that later, please?
GRIZ: Of course you can, Mrs. Munkus.
VERONI: And what we can do now is have an HTML break....
KEL: As the segues get worse and worse and worse...
"Shock Treatment" belongs to a bunch of people who aren't this author. CATS belongs to The Really Useful Group and for that matter the computer used to write this wasn't invented by the author. OH, and he didn't invent the internet which this is posted on either--- we all know Al Gore did that, right?
This fic is © Matt