31 Plays in 31 Days, #5 - “Girl Gangs”

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This one is really silly, as most of my Little Monsters skits are. It’s packed with dumb monster puns, most of which have a germ of something but need sharpening up. Also it involves like seven characters, which will be fun when the time comes to shoot it. But it has bits that make me smile.

While each one of these is supposed to be a totally stand-alone joke, I find myself picking up on the thread of Abbey being a new girl in school who is finding her place in the social hierarchy. Also, Mattel just released the G3 doll for a new character, the ghost girl Spectra Vondergeist, who totally strikes me as another Mean Girl type. So I’ve decided she’s the leader of another girl gang who can be a rival to the one consisting of Draculaura, Cleo, and Toralei.

I struggled to figure out the third Mean Girl in Spectra’s gang. I decided to use Venus McFlytrap— gorgeous doll —but she strikes me more as a cool creative weirdo than a queen bee. Still, I used that for a bit in here that actually is pretty funny. Turn your limitations into inspirations!



Day #5 - “Girl Gangs”
From Little Monsters
By Phoebe Roberts

ABBEY BOMINABLE, a yeti
DRACULAURA, a vampire
TORALEI STRIPE, a tiger werecat
CLEO DE NILE, a mummy
SPECTRA VONDERGEIST, a ghost
CATTY NOIR, a black werecat
VENUS MCFLYTRAP, a plant monster
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(ABBEY walks through the halls of Monster High. DRACULAURA, TORALEI, and CLEO approach.)

DRACULAURA: Hey, yeti girl. You decided if you’re going to join our crew?

SPECTRA: (Off) Not so fast, bloodsucker.

(Enter the rival girl gang of SPECTRA, CATTY, and VENUS.)

DRACULAURA: Oh, my God. Spectra Vondergeist.
 
SPECTRA: Yeah, I know. I look pretty good for a dead bitch.

(TORALEI and CATTY square off)

TORALEI: I thought I heard yowling earlier! I figured it was a swamp monster in heat.

CATTY: You’d know yowling. You sing like a dying cocktrice.

(CLEO stares down VENUS.)

CLEO: You look like somebody should have rolled you up and smoked you at a ska concert.

(Beat)

VENUS: I don’t really have a problem with you.
 
DRACULAURA: I told you freaks, this is our half of the school.
 
SPECTRA: You can’t keep me out of anywhere, I can walk through walls. We heard you were telling this tall frosty drink of water that you were the coolest ghouls in school. We’re here bury that rumor six feet under.

(She turns to ABBEY.)

SPECTRA: Hey, new kid. If you want to scream with the queens, come find us. If you want to cheep with the creeps, stay where you are.

TORALEI: Don’t start any more business you can’t finish, ghosty.

CATTY: Easy, kitty. You don’t want to cross our path… or it’ll be bad luck for you.

(Beat)

VENUS: I like your hair.

CLEO: Thanks, I like yours.

(SPECTRA and DRACULAURA glare at each other, then each snaps her fingers, and their crews fall in line and depart. ABBEY keeps walking.)

ABBEY: Come down from the mountains, they said. Make some friends, they said…