(Peter Potamus Lost Episode) Donkey Skin

== Prologue ==
I have this job where I clean people's old rooms and houses. I usually sell what I find or throw it away. I rarely ever kept stuff other than an old projector they once had at movies in the 60s. Honestly the past couple of months have been stressful. My landlord has been increasing rent for no reason other than his gambling addiction and I have been struggling to pay the bills. This problem mostly directed people like me because I never got a real full-time job, so I had no choice but to stay. But the hotel was absolute shit and literally looked abandoned. I even heard someone died here. It’s a miracle how the police have never got onto him.
I was asked to clean up an old lady's house whose husband had recently passed away. Turns out he was a big fan of Hanna Barbera, and she was hoping I could get rid of that old stuff. Odd because I always thought Hanna Barbera was kind of lame. Just some dumb down version of looney tunes. But I soon found something that would change my mind.
As I was cleaning out an old office area when I found this strange film with a piece of masking tape having “Peter Potamus' ' written on it. I held on to it thinking it would be a good excuse to use my projector.
The problem, however, is getting it passed by my landlord. You see, I was a little behind with my rent and if he saw it, he may take it as payment. But luckily, he wasn't in the area and was in his office, so I could easily make it to my apartment.
== The episode starts ==
The episode started with the usual opening theme. Once it ended the title card that normally came on the screen was shown with the loud drums and trumpets in the background and the title card reading “Hanna Barbera presents: Peter Potamus and so-so in: Donkey skin”. Then after a quick fade the scene opened up with Peter's ship floating in the sky with a nighttime background with nighttime fog all around.
“Sheesh,” Peter said behind the wheel, squinching his eyes “It’s so dark I can't see a blooming thing. How’s our light so-so?”. So-so was seen at the tip of the ship holding a small candle which was soon blown out by a sudden wind. “It’s more like a “dark ''. '' he then said followed by his obnoxious chuckle. “Ah, we’ll have to land somewhere.” Said Peter, “Ah ha! There's a castle.” A huge castle on top of a rocky mountain was shown completely blackened by the dark night only lightened by the bright windows. Honestly it was really well drawn. This looked more like it was something by Disney rather than Hanna Barbera.
The duo landed their ship and began to approach a giant dark red door with golden knobs. “I don’t know about this place Peter.” Said So-so “It has horror cliches written all over it. And I can't even read.”. “Oh, come now So-so,” Peter said “We can live like royals here” he then knocked on the gate. He waited a few seconds with no response. He knocked again and waited with no response.
“Hmm… This place must be abandoned” He then said. Then he turned the knob trying to open it, but with no prevail. “It’s locked, I’ll have to give it my Hurricane Hippo Holler”. Peter started inhaling, sucking in a bunch of air and causing rocks and dirt to get sucked in his mouth. He then let out a big scream shaking the door and getting it all dirty. The door still stayed tall, but Peter fell over on the ground.
Seconds later the door opened to reveal a man with a very expressive light green face in a black robe and an emerald, red crown with green jewels on it. “Hey look peter!” So-so said pointing his paw at the stranger “There's the owner”. “W-well…” Peter said getting up “Must be a heavy sleeper”. “Welcome travelers,” The man said in a deep voice “I am king Lothra, ruler of the north kingdom.”.
“Nice to meet you, your highness.” Peter said, tipping his hat “I’m Peter Potomus and this is So-so. We were hoping we could crash somewhere overnight. It’s a pretty cloudy night.”. “Why Shure,” King Lothra said “We are having a party in my place. You should join, you will be the guests of honor.”. 
“Guests of honor?” Peter said, “We’d be delighted!”. “Excellent,” the king snickered, “Come in.” he then walked them inside.
The three of them were all walking down a grimy yellow brick hallway with a raggedy old red carpet on the ground. There were strange paintings on the walls that depicted bloody skeletons and those creatures seen in that one PSA Hanna Barbera made. “Gee Peter” So-so said “Don’t you think this is all a little strange?”. “What do you mean So-so?” Peter asked. “Well for one this guy seems pretty unusual for a king. Just look at how he dresses. Plus, if this is a kingdom then where are the villagers? I didn't see any houses at the bottom. And look at those paintings.”. “Come now So-so.” Peter said, “Shure it’s a little different but we’re still the guests of honor.”. “Yea but…” So-so began but was soon interrupted by running into Peter who suddenly stopped.
“We are here,” Luthra said, opening a giant golden door. Behind the door revealed a starry night with a bunch of tiny donkeys plating in a huge theme park with roller coasters, a giant slide in the middle, and A Ferris wheel. “Oh wow!” Peter said in amazement. “All the food and snacks here are free so help yourself.”. Both of them smiled and ran to the park in that classic Hanna Barbera run. King Luthra could be seen smiling.
Peter and So-so made it to the park gazing at the scenery. They started riding some of the rides. Peter then found some strange yellow drinks being served to the tiny donkeys acting drunks. He went up to it and decided to have a couple. Then he had some more. He then started drinking a lot more, starting to get drunk.
Some of the drunk donkey kids started stumbling into a dark alley. They were then met with a man in a creepy yellow donkey suit luring them with his long boney finger. They followed him further and further from the park into a doorway which slammed shut the moment they were all inside.
This looped for a while with the two main characters playing around in the park and the donkey suit luring the children away with toys, food, and other sorts of things. The next scene showed the park completely empty and Peter and So-so playing a dart game with Peter chugging down another yellow drink.
“Wow Peter, you sure are having a lot of those drinks,” said So-so. “They are that good. I can't stop drinking them. And besides they're free.” said Peter standing all drunk like then throwing the dart which landed at a trash can. “Well, it looks like I win again.” Said So-so “If you’re goanna spend the whole night drinking those, I’m getting some more banana bread.”. “Okay,” Peter said, as So-so walked off “But that gives me a head start on the Cheeseburger party” He then collapsed on the floor babbling.
So-so was shown walking and looking around the park. “Gosh, where has everyone gone?” he thought to himself. He then found the strange door the children had gone to half opened. “Huh, I've never seen that door before.” He said before entering.
The next scene showed him walking down a dark hallway for about two minutes then meeting a small wooden door with some flesh tearing sound effects being played. “What’s that sound?” So-so asked.
He opened the door to see a small room with a bed behind sheets and something under a cloth. He went up to the unknown object to reveal the cloth then looked absolutely horrified. The scene then showed a dress and a small cap. But they were made out of the skin of donkey kids all stitched up together with still unblinking eyes and strange smiles that were so wide they couldn't possibly make them even by cartoon logic. There were two holes on the chest and the hat. Footsteps could be heard approaching the room. “Shit!” So-so said in a panic “Gotta hide!”. He then got on top of the bed. The donkey man came into the scene.
He then approached the dress, memorizing it, then the bed pushing aside the curtains revealing a realistic looking trace drawn little girl lying in the bed lifeless. He took off the head of his costume to reveal King Luthra and sat next to her and rubbed her hair. “It’s almost ready my dear Luna.” He said “Your wedding dress is nearly complete. Once it is, I can finally bring you back. Do you remember when we would play in the lake? You loved to swim. And I loved watching you. But if your parents ever found out I would go to jail. There's no time, the moon is almost at the right position. And I still need to collect that fat hippo and his dumb monkey friend.”. Suddenly, So-so slipped and his tail fell on Luthra’s head.
“YOU!” The king said pointing at So-so who immediately ran to the door. The next scene showed Peter still drunk at the booth and So-so running up to him. “PETER!” So-so said, pulling Peter’s arm “WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!”. “Not now So-so” Peter groaned “The party’s still going.”. “NO, YOU IDIOT! THAT LUTHRA GUY’S GONNA KILL US! HE SKINNED ALL THOSE DONKEY KIDS AND NOW HE’S COMING FOR US!”. “That’s ridiculous,” Peter said. Just then Luthra came on the scene. “PETER!” So-so screamed “WE NEED TO RUN NOW!”.
“Oh, hey Luthra. What’s up?” Peter asked. “Oh, we were just all going to a little get together.” Luthra answered “You should join us. We’re cutting a huge cake.”. “Peter, No!” So-so said “Don't trust him!”.
“Never mind him,” Luthra responded “He just watched a scary movie”. “Well, I guess that makes sense,” Peter said “Hey, wait a minute, I never saw a movie theater here.”. “Oh, it's in the other part of the park, '' Luthra responded. “Oh.”.
The two walked into the door into the room. Peter walked up to the dress and said “Huh, there's something weird about this clothing here.”. Just then, Luthra came from behind stabbing Peter with a syringe causing him to scream. He then got a knife and stabbed him in the arm creating a huge cut.
Peter was now lying on the floor bleeding with Luthra standing on top of him with the knife ready to finish him off. But just when Luthra was going to strike, So-so jumped on his face, digging his claw into one of his eyes. He fell over as So-so went to pick up Peter.
“So-so” Peter said weakly, “What’s going on?”. “What I’ve been trying to tell you Peter now come on!” So-so said, helping Peter to the exit. But Luthra was getting up, and he was in no mood to be playing those Hanna Barbera shticks.
“YOU’LL NEVER ESCAPE!” The king shrieked as the pair ran through the castle in that classic run in these kinds of cartoons. All of a sudden, Peter began laughing maniacally with a grin growing on his face. “Peter, what’s so funny?!” So-so asked. “I don’t know.” Peter said, continuing to laugh “EVERYTHING HURTS!”. Peter’s mouth began to twist into the long grin the dead donkeys had, and his laugh became louder and more insane. His eyes became motionless and stiff.
They then found the door they entered through only for it to be locked. Luther was suddenly approaching from behind them. They tried the windows, but they were all barred up. Any kind of way they could escape was somehow locked up. Like the owner was Shure whoever came in could not come out.
“Oh crap!” So-so said “We can't get out!”. Luthra was right on them smiling knowing that he won as Peter’s laughter continued almost sounding like crying. “PETER, SHUT UP!” So-so yelled banging on the door “HELP! LET US OUT! HELP US! PLEASE!” he continued banging.
The camera cut to Peter now just standing with that huge smile not laughing but inhaling trying not to laugh. So-so was looking at him in both fear and confusion in what was going on. King Luther was coming closer and closer with the knife in his hand. Then Peter let out a blood curdling scream tearing off Luthra's skin in a surprisingly graphic way. It was obvious that this scream was supposed to be as loud as possible. Thank God I wasn't wearing headphones otherwise I could have gotten hearing loss or even went deaf.
Luthra’s lifeless mussel was shown standing there for a few. Minutes before falling over. “I’ve never been so glad to hear a Hippo Hurricane Holler before.” spoke So-so flatly. Just then, Peter collapsed on the floor with So-so approaching him before the screen went black.
After a few seconds it showed Peter's point of view waking up on the ship seeing So-so steering the wheel then letting out a groan. So-so turned around to see him awake “Oh my god Peter you scared the crap out of me!” he said. 
“What happened?” Peter asked. “That king Luthra guy injected you with some drug” So-so answered “But it looks like it was temporary.”. “Where is he now?”. “He’s dead. It’s alright now. The fog is gone now so we should have smooth sailing from here on out.”.
“That’s good to hear,” Said Peter “Oh, and So-so.”. “Yes Peter?”. “The next time I suggest we go to a dark castle at night in the middle of nowhere, slap me.”. “Oh, I will Peter, I will.”. And with that the episode faded to the ending card then cut off.
== Conclusion ==
I honestly could not believe what I just saw. This was pretty disturbing for something like Hanna Barbera, but then again A find like this could get me as much as thousands of dollars. I was goanna show it off to a professional the next day but then returning from my job, I found the whole hotel burning down. Apparently, the Landlord passed out smoking and drinking and the cigars brushed the alcohol causing an explosion. Taking out anything in the apartment including him.
Believe me I did everything to find out more about the episode even contacting the lady but apparently, she knew nothing about it. All I have to show for it is this article. And the memories.
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