Request Line: A Prom To Die For – Part 17 (A Bun In The Oven)

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

HUNTER RENFROW remains plugged into the VR simulation while DJ 3000′ and the PRODUCER look on uncomfortably. 

PRODUCER: It feels incredibly inappropriate to witness this.  Borderline illegal, honestly. These girls…

DJ 3000′: [interrupting sternly] WOMEN.  I MUST REMIND YOU AND ANYONE ELSE WHO HAPPENS TO BE PERUSING THIS, PARTICULARLY ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS USING THE PSEUDONYM PREFIX “SPIDER” THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS REPRESENTED IN THIS VIDEO GAME ARE PORTRAYED BY ACTRESSES WHO ARE WELL INTO THEIR TWENTIES.

PRODUCER: Even so…how long is this “end credits” sequence going to run for?

DJ 3000′: UNTIL HUNTER DECIDES HE’S SATISFIED AND EXITS THE GAME.

PRODUCER: [flabbergasted] Wait, what? You put a high school A/V Club geek into a fantastical simulation of…a romantic nature…and you expect him to exit voluntarily?

DJ 3000′: THAT CONTINGENCY DOES SEEM LIKE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED MORE CAREFULLY IN THE DESIGN PHASE.

PRODUCER: He’s never going to come out.  He’s going to want to spend the rest of his life in there.

DJ 3000′: WELL, THAT’S WHY I CALLED YOU.  I WAS HOPING YOU MIGHT HAVE AN IDEA.

PRODUCER: [sighs] I do, actually.  Do you at least still have control of the temporal characteristics of the simulation?

DJ 3000′: OH, ABSOLUTELY.  YOU WANT TO ANIMATE A SEQUENCE IN BULLET TIME?

PRODUCER: I was thinking of a time-skip, actually.

CUT TO:

INT. GUEST ROOM IN A MEDITERRANEAN VILLA MADE UP TO LOOK LIKE A HONEYMOON SUITE – DAY

HUNTER RENFROW: [laying on his back on the bed with his hands behind his head, looking as happy as we’ve ever seen him] Wow.

ANGIE MARTINEZ: [curled up next to him] Yeah.

HUNTER: I’d have thought after these last two months, one of us might be getting a little bored.

ANGIE: [purrs] Not me.

HUNTER: Me neither.  It was so nice of your wealthy aunt to arrange for us to stay at her villa here in Corsica for as long as we like.

ANGIE: Yeah. She’s the best.

HUNTER: I thought maybe later this morning we could take another walk down the beach to that little inlet.  Where we…

ANGIE: Oh, I remember. That sounds wonderful.

HUNTER: [raises his voice] Hey Rachel, do you want to head down to the beach after breakfast?

RACHEL DUNBARTON makes a series of retching noises from the bathroom, then enters the bedroom.

RACHEL DUNBARTON: Actually Hunter…

She is interrupted as ANGIE MARTINEZ leaps out of bed and rushes past her, producing her own set of off-screen retching noises.

RACHEL: Oh.  You too?

After a few moments ANGIE MARTINEZ emerges from the bathroom, daintily wiping around her mouth with a washcloth. She looks at RACHEL DUNBARTON and nods. 

RACHEL: [sighs nervously]

ANGIE: [also signs nervously]

RACHEL and ANGIE: [in unison] Hunter…we need to talk.

HUNTER RENFROW bolts upright in bed. 

CUT TO:

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

HUNTER RENFROW is sitting upright in the hospital bed, having ripped off the VR headset and thrown it across the room. 

HUNTER: You absolute assholes.

DJ 3000′: IT WAS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, BUDDY.

PRODUCER: Come on, kid, you knew it couldn’t last forever.

HUNTER: I was in heaven, and you ripped it away from me.

DJ 3000′: WOULD IT MITIGATE THINGS SLIGHTLY IF I TOLD YOU THAT FOOTBALL SEASON WAS ABOUT TO START?

HUNTER: No.

PRODUCER: It’s time to get back to real life, Hunter.

DJ 3000′: STARTING WITH THE SEASON FINALE OF REQUEST LINE. FOR A FINAL TOPIC, I THOUGHT WE COULD DO “PREGNANCY”.

The PRODUCER chuckles.

HUNTER: [glares at him] Not funny. Not funny at all.

DJ 3000′: I’LL GET US STARTED WITH THE TITLE TRACK TO THE 1988 MOVIE “SHE’S HAVING A BABY” BY DAVE WAKELING.  PHONE LINES ARE OPEN – GIVE US A CALL AND LET YOU KNOW YOUR PLEASURE.

As the song plays…

DJ 3000′: SPEAKING ON PHONE LINES BEING OPEN, YOU SHOULD CHECK YOUR MESSAGES, HUNTER. YOUR PHONE HAS BEEN RINGING OFF THE HOOK.

HUNTER RENFROW fidgets in bed and reaches out to grab his cellphone from the nightstand. 

HUNTER: Oh wow.  There’s a lot of text messages, too. I…oh.  Oh no. Oh dear God no.

Today’s theme is “A Bun in the Oven”.  We’re looking for songs about pregnancy and procedures that might be associated with the condition.  Feel free to throw in songs that include the word “Baby” in the title.  Please post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10k34t42”.  Last week’s puzzle answer of “No I In Threesome” by Interpol was solved by Yeah Right (with an honorable mention to Gumbygirl for coming in second).  Thanks so so much to everyone who contributed over the offseason, we’ll see you in nine seven months!