This was the original summary of the ending I wrote after getting the
text proofread by stately Dwight Kemper and kindly Rich Wilson:
“After a long and rough battle, the girls finally defeat Kool-Aid and
he gets arraigned by the Better Business Bureau. Everyone breathes a sigh
of relief. Bubbles shows she’s developed a bit of a neurosis when they
find she’s stockpiling crayons in the basement for future crayon shortages.
The end.”
What crayon aficionado among us has not been somewhat flabbergasted (and then disappointed) by the barrage of new colors from Crayola? A few of the new colors are useful to me, but the rest are uninteresting. I’m glad I stockpiled boxes of 64 crayons before all the new colors were released on the market. (Insert Peter Lorre laugh here.)
Bubbles says “I’m more of a traditionalist...” This sounds like a departure from character, but Bubbles picks up more vocabulary words than she uses, and in the deep shock of seeing a box of more colors than she realized existed in the crayon world, that sentence just popped out. Plus, isn’t it cute when a little girl uses (correctly even!) big words?
Buttercup also behaves a bit out of character when she says, “One thing I don’t understand...[is this] a punishable crime?” Normally, she seems to be a trifle short-sighted regarding the consequences of her actions, but I wanted to show that she’s aware that they might get in trouble if they rough up others unnecessarily.
Also, Blossom is temporarily a non-goody-two-shoes, since Her Hair Has Been Messed With And Someone Must Pay. Incidentally, I wrote the “Leader and therefore Responsible” to show that she thinks of those words with more Weight. She is, after all, a little self-important. Ah, heavy is the head that wears the crown...
Finally, I wrote in book format instead of in script, as that was easier
for me without all those camera directions, especially since I knew it
was going to be a long story.