Emmie asks: What if a city sank in squid ink? (Cthoffee Shop Part 2)
What If World - Stories for Kids
Eric O'Keeffe / What If World LLC
4.5 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Find out the origin story of Scully the Squid and his Uncle Cthunkle, with special appearances by Alabaster Zero and Squiderella!
Lessons include: even grownups can have growing up to do; just because a kid gets older, it doesn’t mean they have to give up on all the things they used to enjoy.
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| 1:34.7 | Hey there folks and welcome back to What if World, the show where your questions and ideas inspire off the cuff stories |
| 1:41.0 | I'm Mr. Eric Earhost and today we're finishing up a two-part, |
| 1:44.7 | cathuncle-based story inspired by your questions. Speaking of which, we've got to read any |
| 1:50.4 | Chong's question before we hop back into the story. She wrote, What if Cthuncle? |
| 1:55.6 | Sunk knew what city with his ink and if you remember our story from last time |
| 2:01.4 | It started in the present with Cthuncle opening his brand new coffee shop |
| 2:07.0 | The Kaffafi shop, but Detective Alabaster Zero did not quite trust that squidapus |
| 2:15.0 | Then we saw a flashback to when Cthuncle was trying to take over New What City |
| 2:21.2 | He'd set up towering buildings filled with his ink that he was selling as, |
| 2:26.6 | ooh coffee, he had planned to flood and sink New What City by letting loose all of this stored up ink |
| 2:34.8 | when the next big storm hit but things didn't go according to plan |
| 2:40.0 | The big storm they were expecting came weeks early along with a little baby squid |
| 2:47.3 | That you might know as scully the squid. Cthuncle decided to take care of this baby squid |
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