User blog:Discofurby/Here Comes the Airplane

This is a short fanfiction that came into my head when I was thinking about how little sense the "here comes the airplane" trick makes.

Story
Lisa Loud's infancy was a strange time, because although she was born with anomalous intelligence, she still had the physical limits of a baby. She'd had a decent vocabulary by the time she was a month old but her vocal cords had only enabled her to speak by the time she was four months old, and even then, they were still fairly undeveloped, so she had a rather warbly, unpredictable voice for her first few months of being able to speak. When she was one, she began doing experiments, but was a lot more accident prone than she is now because her fine motor skills were imperfect, so until she turned two, her family didn't dare leave her unsupervised for more than a split second. One particular moment from her infancy happened at dinner when she was about five months old.

It was a normal scene at the kiddie table: Leni had graduated to the grown-up table a while ago, so now there was just Lincoln who was eating his hot dog, Lola who was refusing to eat her green beans, Lana who wanted to eat them, Luna who was trying to reason with the twins, Lynn who was trying to convince Lucy to have an eating contest with her, Lucy who was refusing because she thought eating contests were bad for you, Lisa who was in her high chair, and Luan, who was trying to feed her some mushy peas.

"Here comes the airplane, Lisa!" said Luan jovially, taking a spoonful of peas and making it move around the way an airplane would before finally having it "land" in Lisa's open mouth.

"This game doesn't make any sense," said Lisa with her mouth full of peas. Unfortunately, because her mouth was full and her voice was still developing, she was nigh incomprehensible.

"What?" said Luan.

Lisa swallowed her food with a loud gulp, then said as clearly as she could, "It doesn't make any sense. Firstly, that is clearly a spoon, not an airplane. Secondly, airplanes don't have food attached to them, and thirdly, if that was an airplane, then it would be piloted by some very tiny people. The notion of tiny people who fly airplanes with food attached in order to feed human babies is just ridiculous!"

For the rest of that meal, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lincoln, Lucy, and the twins just ate in silence, thinking about Lisa's words, and the more they thought about it, the more they decided it was true.