What About A Parrot?

“Yeah, great. Really nice.”

“Did you watch me?”

“We all watched you.”

“Do you want to see me do it again?”

“I think that's enough, get back up here. Since we're all here I'd like to discuss something. Wait, he slipped off the ladder. Are you okay?”

“I'm okay!”

“All right. There we go, good job. Now, I think you all know the number one problem we're facing at this time.

“Clown assassins?”

“Dimensional travel?”

“Sarcasm?”

“Cowboys?”

“No. No, no, no. Animals that talk.”

“Really?”

“Yes. And I've come up with a solution. We're going to kill them!”

“Why?”

“What?”

“I met a talking shark once, he seemed pretty cool.”

“Was he pretty cool? Or was he contrived and hackneyed?”

“Says the guy with a pegleg.”

“Look, we're all constrained by the conventionalities of the medium. But a costume is not the same as the unnatural power of speech!”

“So you propose slaughter. That's disappointing.”

“Do you want to go back out on the plank?”

“Okay! Everybody watch!”