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A Special Kind Of Love
This script, and 45 others are available on Short Orders Volume 3 for $24.00.

CAST:  Four puppets, voice offstage.
SCENE:  Each puppet on stage is wearing a large cut-out letter -- L, O, V, E.

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VOICE:  I'm going away soon.
PUPPET E:  Will you be back?
VOICE:  Yes, some day soon, I'll return.  I've left you my word.  Now, if you remember my word, it won't seem like I'm away at all.  Remember my word.
(PUPPETS LOOK AROUND AND LINE UP IN VARIOUS WAYS, FINALLY AS L-O-V-E)
PUPPET E:  How long do you think he will be gone?
PUPPET L:  You never can tell, but there is no sense in waiting around.  I think we should try to get his word better well known.  Love, kinda catchy, don't ya think?   (OTHERS NOD HEADS.)  Let's launch a world-wide advertising campaign.  O, you can be in charge of billboards. I don't want a motorist to go by without the word "love" being on his lips. E, you're responsible for writing some kind of a catchy jingle that we can use on radio and television.  Maybe you can use something like "love makes the world go round" or "love is a many splendored thing."  Got the idea?
PUPPET E:  (GRUMBLING) Yeah.  (THE OTHERS BEGIN TO ACT UPSET)
PUPPET L: (CONTINUES) Now, V, I'm putting you in charge of special events.  You're creative; you can come up with something special.  Maybe a LOVE tennis match with all the big shots there.  Get that?  Big shots?  Ha, ha, ha.
PUPPET E:  Just on minute, L.  Who put you in charge?
PUPPET L: Well, our leader, of course?
PUPPET E:  When did he say you were the chief?
PUPPET L:  Hmmm...he never actually said I was to be in charge, but he put me at the beginning of his word... and somebody's got to give the orders.
PUPPET O:  Maybe, but I don't think you are the one to do it.
PUPPET L:  Well, then who?
PUPPET O:  Me, of course.  I am an O which is the symbol of eternity.  I'm without beginning and without end.
PUPPET E:  And without brains, too. (OTHERS LAUGH.  O ACTS AS IF FEELINGS WERE HURT)
PUPPET V:  I present myself as the compromise candidate.  Without me you'd just be L-O-E; low.  With me we'll fight our battles on land, sea, and in the air, and we will have victory.
PUPPET E:  Oh, come off of it, V.  You're all forgetting what he said.
PUPPET O:  What's that?
PUPPET E:  Remember that he said that the first shall be last and the last shall be first.  Well, I'm last, so he obviously meant me to be first.
PUPPET V: You?  Never...
VOICE:  I left my word with you, and you have turned it into something ugly and hateful.  Now, what did I ask you to remember?
PUPPET O:  Love, master.
VOICE:  Yes, love, my special kind of love.  And it's not just a word to put on billboards or to justify fighting.  It must be in your hearts and controlling your lives.  (PUPPETS BOW THEIR HEADS AND BRING THEIR HANDS TO A PRAYING POSITION.)   Now, rise, go out once again.  This time don't just tell of my love.   This time let's live it.