Puppets - Vrooom, Vroom!

VROOM VROOM

Mooster: Good evening everyone! Getting closer and closer to Christmas!!! Are you getting excited? Me too! Hey – what’s that weird noise I’m hearing?

Moe: Vroooooom Vroooooom vroom vroom vroom VAROOOOOOM!

Mooster: Uh…Moe? Is that you?

Moe: Vroooooom Vroooooom vroom vroom vroom VAROOOOOOM! Errrrrrrrrrrrck Vroooooom Vroooooom vroom vroom vroom VAROOOOOOM!

Mooster: MOE! 

Moe: [Moe pops head out of window]: YES!?!?! (pant pant pant)

Mooster: What in the WORLD are you doing?

Moe:  Uh…nothing. Hey, I like all the decorations on our puppet stage! OH – and look – they decorated the whole auditorium!! [Sings} It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, all around the jungle…..”

Mooster: Yes, the auditorium looks really nice. We all need to remember to look with our eyeballs and not our fingers. But I was asking what you were doing?

Moe: When?

Mooster: Just a minute ago.

Moe: Talking about the Christmas decorations. Weren’t you listening? I just said, “Oh look, they decorated the whole auditorium” and then you said --

Mooster: No, no, no, before that. When you were vroom vrooming.

Moe: When I was what?

Mooster: Vroom vrooming.

Moe: Is that a noun or a verb?

Mooster: MOE – you know what I’m talking about!

Moe: Oh all right .. if you must know … I was pretending, Mooster! Haven’t you ever pretended? Have you NO imagination? You know you really ought to loosen up a little. Get in the groove….hang loose…..imagine….dream….pretend you are riding down the open jungle path, the sauna-like heat blasting gracefully through your fur…ahhh….

Mooster: You have really lost it this time. I have NO idea what you are talking about. And yes, thank you, I do have an imagination. I just cannot imagine what you are talking about.

Moe: I’m talking about only the most dazzling, most awesomest, most wonderfullest contraption on two wheels ever invented by a jungle bike man EVER!

Mooster: A bike? That’s what we’re talking about? A bike???

Moe: “A bike” he says. “A bike.”  NO, Mooster. Not “Just a bike.” [sighs] (Says dreamily) a brand new, 10 speed, high velocity low density top viscosity banana Bradley bicycle, complete with banana seat, chrome wheel rims and authentic plastic streamers attached to EVERY spoke! Ahhhhh….AND it goes like 400 miles per hour!!! OH year – that’s what I’m talking about!

Mooster: Ohhhhhhh. I get it. A bike.

Moe: It really doesn’t sound very exciting the way you say it.

Mooster: So is that what you are wanting for Christmas?

Moe: Oh – I am NO WAY waiting until Christmas. Well, not unless I have to. I’m going to see if I can buy it on credit.

Mooster: Do you have a job?

Moe: No.

Mooster: Do you have any kind of income?

Moe: No.

Mooster: So why would the store sell it to you on credit?

Moe: Because I am sooooooooo incredibly cute!

Mooster: Uh yeah…it doesn’t work that way.

Moe: Oh well. Then my folks can buy it.

Mooster: Moe, isn’t that bike like $600?

Moe: Yeah, so?

Mooster: Your dad doesn’t make that kind of money.

Moe: That’s why there’s credit cards! You buy it now on the plastic and you pay for it all year long.

Mooster: Moe, it’s a terrible way to do things. It’s better to save up your money and buy things, not put them on credit cards. Don’t you know people get in trouble all the time with putting too much on their cards and then they have a hard time paying them off.

Moe: Well…I have heard my dad say that before too….

Mooster: Because it’s TRUE! Doesn’t that company make a really nice bike for about $50?

Moe: Yesssss……

Mooster: Well couldn’t you be happy with that?

Moe: Welllllllll

Mooster: Moe, you could always save your allowance money for a while and buy one yourself.

Moe: I’d be saving for about a hundred years.

Mooster: Oh you would not. And it would teach you the value of money. It would make you appreciate it more if you had to pay for it.

Moe:  SIghhhh……You are probably right, Mooster.

Mooster: You know the Bible teaches us to be good stewards of all that God gives us. We are to take care of things and to be thankful for what we have.

Moe: Well, I will be thankful this Christmas for whatever I get. I don’t really neeeed a new bike. Plus…if I don’t put that expensive bike on my Christmas list, Mom and Dad might be able to buy me a couple games I’ve been wanting instead!

Mooster: Now you are thinking wisely!

Moe: Thanks, Moe. I know I probably don’t tell you this often enough, but…I do appreciate your advice. You are good friend! You help me keep my head on straight.

Mooster: The Bible talks about that, too, Moe! Here’s our Bible verse for next time: Proverbs 27:17  “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” That means that if we have the right kind of friends, they will help us make good decisions about all kinds of things!

Moe: Doesn’t that verse also mean that we can be an encouragement to each other?

Mooster: It sure does!

Moe: Oh boy – that’s a verse I need to memorize. I want to be a good friend – one that helps to sharpen another friend, so we can both be sharp and strong like iron!

Mooster: Me too, Moe!  Boys and girls – this week, let’s all try to be like iron. Iron is a very heavy metal, used for a lot of things. When you rub two pieces of iron on each other, they can be used to sharpen each other. In friendships – that means that we can help each other to be better. Of course, the Friend that sticks closer than a brother – Jesus – is the Best Friend of all!!! He is always there to help us make good decisions. Before you make any decisions, remember to pray and ask God to help you. Jesus is your Best Friend Forever!

Moe: That’s right, Mooster! Well – I gotta go fix my Christmas list. Thanks again, Mooster!

Mooster and Moe: Bye boys and girls!