Have You No Selpurcs?

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[edit] General information

Theme: Scruples

Scripture: 14:8-9, 15-16 Proverbs 14:8-9, 15-16

[edit] Summary

Curt and Lucy gind out what "selpurcs" are by playing a game of Whit's design

[edit] Plot

Lucy and Curt are waiting for Lucy's mom to pick them up from Whit's End. While they wait, Connie gives them a test she's come across in a magazine that measures your "HQ"-Honesty Quotient. Whit walks up just as they finish. To no one's surprise, Curt fails miserably. Lucy, on the other hand, scores a perfect 100 percent. She rubs Curt's nose in it a little bit, then the two of them leave as Lucy's mom pulls up.

Whit is intrigued by the test. He's not only dismayed that Curt scored so poorly, Whit's also upset that Lucy enjoyed pointing it out to everyone. So John Avery decides to come up with a game for Lucy and Curt based on the test. The game is called "Selpurcs." All Curt and Lucy have to do is follow the instructions contained inside a series of envelopes scattered around Odyssey. If they adhere to the directions, and if they figure out what "selpurcs" means, they are promised a fabulous surprise at the end of the game.

Curt and Lucy agree. Instantly, they are faced with a series of moral dilemmas involving Connie and a mail-order scarf, a quart of orange juice, Lucy's neighbor's newspaper, and a movie called Betsy the Bumblebee. At each turn-and in typical fashion-Curt makes the wrong choice or helps others to make the wrong choice. By the end of the game, things are a mess. But the two have learned some things. Curt realizes that the disastrous results are due to the lousy choices he's made. Lucy is reprimanded for her prideful attitude-and both of them have figured out what "selpurcs" means. Have you?

[edit] Discussion Questions

1. What should Lucy have done when Curt made the wrong decisions?
2. Why did Lucy need to learn a lesson?
3. Have you ever faced any dilemmas like the ones Curt and Lucy faced?
   1. If so, what did you do?

[edit] Cast

Characters	Actors
Connie Kendall	Katie Leigh
Curt Stevens	Fabio Stephens
John Whittaker	Hal Smith
Mr. Johnson	Jeff Parker
Lucy Cunningham-Schultz	Genni Long
[[{{{Character6}}}]]	Katie Leigh

[[Category:Episodes with {{{Character6}}}|127]][[Category:Episodes with {{{Character6}}} voiced by Katie Leigh|127]]

[edit] Notes

• Betsy the Bumblebee has a sequel: Me and My Honey which shows up in The Mailman Cometh

• Apparently, there is a Zappazoids movie. Strangely, it is rated "G".

• On the official summary of the episode on whitsend, the movie is titled 'My Little Unicorn'.

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[edit] Quotes

Curt tries to get half off a quart of orange juice with an expired coupon

Curt (whispers to Lucy)-See? They don't even look at it.

Clerk - You can't use this, it's expired.

Curt-Oh? Really?...Well can't you just sorta pass it on through?

Clerk-P, p, pass it on through? No I can't pass it on through, that would mean a loss of money to the store! It might reflect on my paycheck, you trying to take food out of my mouth or something?

Curt-No! Forget the coupon, here's a twenty.

Clerk-Much better. Kids these days.

Clerk gives them an envelope.

Clerk-Hope it doesn't have any coupons in it.

[edit] Resources

Have You No Selpurcs? on whitsend.org

Have You No Selpurcs? on AIOHQ.com

Have You No Selpurcs? on AIO Soda Fountain