Elephant and Piggie: Gerald Has Had It

**Note: This may have similarities to Spongebob Can't Take It so please don't criticize.**

Have any of you ever heard of Elephant and Piggie? Let me try to break it down: ***Elephant and Piggie*** is a book series for early readers created by Mo Willems. The series, which debuted in 2007 with two books, is done in a comic book style, and features two friends: an elephant named Gerald, and a pig named Piggie. The books are written in conversational style with Piggie's words appearing in pink letter bubbles and Gerald's appearing in grey letter bubbles. The books often address issues of friendship. I used to be a big fan of those books, but one incident was so BAD that I will never read any other picture book AGAIN.

So I was at Walmart one day buying groceries but I happened to find, you don't wanna believe this, an Elephant and Piggie book. It looked old and the wrapper read something like this: **"Elephant and Piggie: Never Before Seen Story"** Of course, I was young and niave at the time so I didn't think much of it. So I bought it and I paid for it. When I did, the cashier had this really terrified look on her face and she told me something I can't describe in words:

*"If you read that book, Beware, You will be his next victim"*

Of course I didn't know what she meant by that, so I just thought "whatever".

So I got home and took off the wrapper, the cover looked innocent enough, The title of the book read: **"Gerald Has Had It"** The image consisted of Gerald looking mad and Piggie annoying him. I started to read, The meat and potatoes of the story began with Gerald resting, typical Elephant and Piggie style. All of a sudden Piggie appeared wanting Gerald to play with her, Gerald said yes. It then shows a montage of Gerald and Piggie playing together. They played tag, ate lunch, danced to music, telling jokes, etc. They finally played catch, which was normal, but what came next was so shocking that it still haunts my nightmares. While Gerald was playing with his ball, he heard a crash off-screen. "What was that?" Gerald said confused. He decided to investigate the strange noise. He found Piggie crying with a deflated balloon in her hands. Gerald felt bad for Piggie so he asked her what's wrong, Piggie replied with:

"I was playing with my balloon but it accidentally hit a thorn bush and it **POPPED**!!!"

To make Piggie happy, Gerald decided to let Piggie have his ball. Piggie's mood immediately brightened up and she began playing with Gerald's ball. This went on for 25 minutes. I thought that this was the end but it wasn't. Gerald looked annoyed, he asked Piggie if he could have his ball back. Piggie said:

"Um...can I have five more minutes please?"

Gerald said fine and Piggie continued to play with his ball which took another 25 minutes. It then showed a pop-up saying "25 minutes later" It then shows Gerald looking pissed off, he walked up to Piggie and demanded the ball back, Piggie asked why he needed it back so badly, Gerald explained that it was his ball. When Piggie refused, Gerald was MAD. He was so mad in fact that he slapped Piggie in the face and yelled:

**"PIGGIE I SAID GIVE ME THE FUCKING BALL NOW!!"**

I was shocked, Did Gerald just swear in a kids literature!??!?! Whoever made this might've been drunk or put it as R-rated for adult content. Piggie screamed in fear at the sight of Gerald, it then pans to Gerald and he looked possessed at this point. His eyes were hollow black, his teeth were pointy, he had horns growing out of his head like a demon and his pupils were red. Piggie then got worried.

Piggie: Gerald, what has gotten into you?

Gerald (demonic voice): **That doesn't matter I just wanna have fun with you.**

Gerald then pushed Piggie over the edge, Piggie screamed as she was falling to her demise, when she hit the ground, blood and guts splattered everywhere. I almost puked, they had never shown blood in a kid's series like this. Gerald then walked up to Piggie and started doing violent stuff to her: he punched her in the eye, ripped out her heart, and burned her legs, etc. All the while, Piggie was screaming and crying begging for Gerald to stop. I almost cried as well, Piggie was one of my favorite characters. Gerald then pulled out an axe and prepared to decapitate Piggie.

Piggie: (begging) Gerald! Please don't do this to me! Why are you like this today!?!

Gerald: **Say goodbye, pink swine! But don't worry close your eyes and you'll be in Heaven** (laughs maniacally)

Gerald then with a quick slash slashes off Piggie's head with the axe. During that time, Gerald snapped out of his pissed alter-ego as his hollow black eyes with red pupils on his eyes turned back into his regular grey color as well as his teeth and the horns on his head disappears and he ended up feeling shocked about what he's done to Piggie.

Gerald (heartbroken) Oh no...w-what have I done...

Gerald looks at Piggie's corpse and mourns her death, I felt bad for Gerald. I wanted to close the book but my hands were attached to it so I had to keep reading.

Gerald (between sobs) I'm...sorry Piggie....please forgive me.

The book then ended right there, I was well, I was bewildered, What the hell did I just read? In the back read something like this:

"Oh, Is Gerald crying because his best friend is dead... How sad. **Well, good she deserved to die as well as you Mo Wellems I thought we were friends but you only care about yourself you piss ugly ass of writer fuck you Mo I hope you burn in hell for all I care!!!"**

In the end, I had questions ringing in my head. *What happened there? What led Mo Wellems to make this kind of thing? And why?*

I decided to contact Mo Wellems, I also took some screenshots of the book as proof so that he would believe me.

I received an email from Wellems a few days later. He said in the email that he was extremely sorry for what I had seen. I found out that the book was a pilot story that was made by someone who worked on the company. When Wellems and the other members viewed it as definement, they were appalled and scared from this. The same person was later fired. Wellems then said that the person hid the book in Walmart where I found it on that same day. He then killed himself after the police were notified of his actions.