Puppet World Records

**Puppet World Records** is the first segment of the third episode of *Puppet People*. In this episode, Sally has built a blanket fort in an attempt to get in the Guinness World Records book, but the fort gets destroyed overnight, and it's up to Sally to find who dun-dun-dun it! The episode premiered on December 21, 2022, on Waycross PBS.

## Characters

* Sally
* Susan
* Megan (*background cameo*)
* Jacob
* Handy
* Alfredo
* Cyrus

## Gong Gag

Handy pulls the blanket sideways instead of having it fall to the ground. This doesn't work, and he bumps into the gong. Drummer Dog hits the gong from behind the blanket. Handy gets the blanket to fall on the ground. **Note**: This is the first gag to feature the current logo.

## Plot

It starts with Sally making a video showing off her newly made giant blanket fort. She starts to brag about it too much so Handy turns the camera off to give her some notes. Susan knocks on the fort, asking to borrow the blankets. Sally says no because they're using the blankets. Handy quits being cameraman and goes inside the fort, making Susan the camerawoman. Sally realizes that there wasn't a need for a cameraman or camerawoman that entire time because she would just be standing in front of the fort. Enter Jacob as a Guinness World Records employee, who comes to look at the fort. He is very impressed and tells Sally that she won. Sally's jaw drops in shock. Jacob leaves, saying he'll keep in touch with Sally. Later that night, the lights suddenly turn on dimly and the blanket fort is gone. Jacob is running through the room and trips on something. The noise has woken Sally up. She turns on the room light and is in shock by what she sees. Cyrus runs into frame, excited that he gets to solve a crime since crimes barely happen in that area. Sally tells Cyrus what happened. Jacob vents about how his run didn't go as planned. The next day, Sally rallies up a search party. There is a sign in front of the drums that says "WHO STOLE MY MONEY?", in bad handwriting. The sign says what it says because Sally assumes she would be rich if she had a page in the book. She notices that nobody is even there to watch her talk about last night's disaster, but brushes it off because mostly everyone is in one room where they can already hear her. She yells for their attention, asking the who, what, why and how. Susan answers "Isn't it obvious? It was clearly me!", which takes us to a flashback of her asking for the blankets. Sally denies Susan's claim, which takes us to another flashback, this time of Susan in a chair about to take a nap to pass the time until Sally's done with the blanket fort. Sally regrets not telling everyone that she wouldn't be done even when she got out of the fort. Susan suggests rebuilding the fort. Sally asks how. Jacob puts his hands together, activating "jump cut powers". Sally teleports to a newly rebuilt fort. The Guinness World Records employee returns, once again impressed by the fort because it's "still up" (he didn't know it was once taken down). The employee tells Sally that the page for her has officially been made. An excited Sally begs for her money. The employee says he's not even sure if it's his job to give the money. This disappoints Sally as he leaves. Sally then plays in her blanket fort, where she finds Susan, who says the fort is really small on the inside. Susan confesses that she's not actually the one who destroyed the fort. Confused, Sally thinks that Susan was the only one involved, then realizes that Handy could have also done it because he was also there, going inside the blanket fort after quitting the cameraman job. Sally and Susan wonder why Handy wanted to quit in the first place. Handy suddenly shows up. Sally quickly tries to lie that they were not talking about him, but he already overheard everything. Handy tries to explain why he quit, but Sally is too mad at him to listen. Handy eventually gets his sentence out-- he quit because he was "busy" with other things (he just wanted to go to the restaurant). Alfredo comes out of the fort as dramatic music plays. Alfredo states that since his entrance came with dramatic music, he could have possibly done it. The Guinness World Records employee enters once more, this time angry that the fort is still there. He confesses that he wasn't really going to give her any money, but he didn't want her to feel bad so he just took the fort down himself that night. Sally then gives up on winning the record, until a wind blows a lot of money into the room. It destroys the fort, but Sally doesn't care because she just got a lot of dough!

## Trivia

* It is unknown why Jacob rebuilt the fort if he wanted it destroyed.
* Megan can be seen in the background behind the fort. She wasn't in this episode because her cotton was falling out. Susan was Sally's best friend instead of Megan.
* This episode was originally called "Puppet Blanket Fort".
	+ Ironically, both the original and final title were also titles from early pilots of the show.
* This is the first episode to feature the current logo