Hope Plank's Intervention

Enough is Enough
[We see Valentin on Twitter]

Valentin: So apparently, Hope said something stupid on Twitter again. What did she do this time?

[Valentin goes on Hope's Twitter to find...]

"Lol, too bad Joey's Transverse Myelitis got in the way. Was it upset that he was sober for too long?"

Valentin: (shocked) What the heck?! Hope, get over here!

[Hope arrives]

Hope: Yes, dad?

Valentin: Did you just disrespected Joey Jordison of Slipknot on Twitter?!

Hope: (facepalms) How many times do I have to say it? It was a joke!

Valentin: It was a mean joke. You need to remove it.

Hope: No I don't! The people who are chewing me out for it are nothing but idiots that can't take a joke! Slipknot was a horrible band, and all of its members, including Joey, were atrocious!

Valentin: Hope, even if you don't like Slipknot, this is just too far. Please delete it.

Hope: Nope!

[Hope runs off]

Brooke: So you found out what happened?

Valentin: Yep. I just don't know why my daughter's acting like this. She's been getting worse lately, and is getting hated on more and more...

Kim: Perhaps we should hold an intervention like on the show of the same name.

Valentin: Actually, yeah. It's about time we called her out on all of this! I'll even call Lei and BE!Maria and see if they can join us!

Calling Lei and BE!Maria
BE!Maria: What. The. Fuck?!

Lei: (arriving) What the hell are you complaining about?

BE!Maria: Well look what Miss. 500-IQ-Brain-Whose-Opinions-Are-Being-Treated-As-Facts just said!

[BE!Maria shows Lei the offending tweet]

Lei: Holy shit... is Hope seriously mocking the death of fucking musicians now?!

BE!Maria: Yep. And as expected, people are flaming her online.

[BE!Maria gets a phone call from Valentin]

BE!Maria: It's Valentin.

[BE!Maria answers the phone]

Valentin: Hey, Maria. Did you find out about the tweet?

BE!Maria: Oh, I found out alright. And so did Lei.

Lei: Honestly, how low can Hope go at this point?

Valentin: Well at this point, I think Hope is taking things way too far, and therefore, I'm going to be hosting an intervention on her tomorrow. I was wondering if you and/or Lei can come join us.

BE!Maria: Sure. I'll come.

Lei: I don't know if I should come, though. I don't want anything to do with her after she smashed my damn CD.

BE!Maria: I recommend you should. The more people in the intervention, the better.

Lei: I guess you're right. I'll come.

Valentin: Great! I'll have everything set up tomorrow!

[Valentin hangs up]

[Lei then goes to Jiayi]

Lei: Hey, Jiayi, can you babysit my daughter tomorrow? Me and Maria are gonna go out for an intervention.

Jiayi: Sure. I'll babysit Xiu-mei for the day.

The Intervention
[Cut to the next day, where Hope arrives home]

Hope: It was great to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Kyle's new projector. I called Valentin, but for some reason he didn't answer.

[Hope enters the home to find Valentin, Brooke, Kim, Chuck, Tyson, Serena, Larson, Lois, Blake, Lisa, BE!Maria, and Lei in the living room]

Hope: Wait, what's going on?

Valentin: Hope, please take a seat.

[Hope sits down]

Hope: What do you guys want? And BE!Maria and Lei, I thought you two were done with me!

BE!Maria: Hope, your father called us to this intervention.

Hope: Intervention?

Valentin: Yes, Hope. You need a wake up call.

Hope: What wake up call?

Lei: You know what he's talking about! Just yesterday, you posted one of the most vile shit I've ever saw. And considering I went through childhood abuse as well as killed some shitty fuckheads for a living, that's saying something!

BE!Maria: Yeah! Why the hell would you disrespect a recently deceased musician?!

Hope: It was a just a light-hearted joke, and I didn't mean to offend anyone!

Chuck: Yes you did. My friend is a huge fan of Slipknot, and he was utterly disgusted with what you said.

Brooke: For real. This is something Princess Starlight would do! Do you want to get down to her level?

Hope: No. But still, you know I hate most nu metal bands, and that includes Slipknot!

Valentin: Hope, there is nothing wrong with disliking a band. However, if your hatred gets to a put where you need to mock the death of a recent band member instead of putting aside your differences, then you need to take a break.

Hope: Okay, so I made a dumb joke on Twitter. Big deal!

Kim: Big deal? This is pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. If it was just the joke, then we could've cared less. However, this is just another thing among a HUGE history of your screwups.

Lei: Remember when you destroyed my fucking Deicide CD that my dead friend Jacob got me? That incident got me crying in the bathtub later that night because you couldn't think rationally and talked to me so I could've put it away.

BE!Maria: You also tried to stop Xiu-mei from watching Ponyo and suggested she watched Grave of the Fireflies, even though her parents don't want her to watch it due to its graphic scenes.

Tyson: You even sold my Nine Inch Nails albums as well as my Marilyn Manson and KMFDM albums because you thought they would make me a Columbiner! And to this day, I still need to replace a couple of other albums!

Hope: Tyson, shut your mouth right now! You and the other troublemakers are no better because you enjoy bad music and bad movies and behave terribly! You even made Lei's daughter listen to Cannibal Corpse!

Lei: Hope, has it ever occurred to you that the only reason the six troublemakers watch and listen to "bad movies and bad music" is because your tastes in movies and music is so strict and so insane that they need to rebel just in spite of you? A lot of the stuff they listen to is metal, which is what I also listen to, and if they want to listen to black metal, death metal, and thrash metal, that's completely fine.

Hope: I don't have a problem with heavy metal. I have a problem with extreme metal bands from the death and black metal subgenres who sing about Satan as well as gore, murder, sex, and even Nazism! And that's not to mention that they also enjoy Metallica's "St. Anger" and "Lulu", as well as nu metal, hardcore punk, horrible pop stars, and rappers. They're even into The Shaggs and Daddy Yankee! And that is just their music tastes! You don't wanna know their favorite movies! I hate things that are critically panned, are made for babies, and are inappropriate!

BE!Maria: Again, who the fuck cares what music they like? There is no need to demonize someone just because they like a music artist or movie that you don't like. I don't condone their poor behavior, but I don't blame them for rebelling against your strict movie and music tastes.

Chuck: And remember last week when you threatened to break up with me because I was gonna buy a CD to Ministry's "Dark Side of the Spoon"? You even threatened to smash it!

Hope: I only enjoy Ministry's first album "With Sympathy" because it is nice and appropriate. Their industrial and metal works are horrible, and the cover for Dark Side of the Spoon in particular is inappropriate and atrocious!

Serena: Hope, why do you hate this stuff so much? Did something happened when you were younger?

Hope: No, I didn't went through a traumatic experience when I was younger!

Valentin: Then why are you like this?

Hope: Because I like to watch good critics like Nostalgia Critic, ElectricDragon505/Animat, Mr. Enter, Cinema Sins, YourMovieSucksDOTorg, Karsten Runquist, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, Anthony Fantano, Todd in the Shadows, Rap Critic, and ADoseofBuckley. While I occasionally don't agree with them, they are reliable most of the time.

Blake: Hope, heavily relying on those critics for your opinions is stupid. You need to stop letting these people control your opinions!

BE!Maria: See? Even your younger brother who is 5 knows better than you!

Larson: Besides, not all of these critics are good. Nostalgia Critic in particular is the worst movie critic ever, and Mr. Enter comes at a close second.

Hope: Well even with their controversies, they still make awesome criticism videos!

Valentin: Hope, the bottom line is, you seem to blindly trust biased critics most of the time for your opinions. While most of us here have our own standards in movies and music, you take them too far and it's at a point now where you're willing to stop other people from liking/disliking what they like/dislike, destroy other people's property because you assume that your younger siblings were gonna get into it when they were just curious and wanted to put it away, and even mock a recently deceased musician because he was in a band that you don't like.

Lisa: And what's even worse is that you have your brainwashed followers believing in every word you say like it's gospel and they even defended your actions, even when you're clearly in the wrong.

Lei: And did we mentioned that you also attracted Karens and Moral Guardians with your shit? In some of your AITA stories, these people have come into your defense by saying that you were right to get rid of Tyson's albums and that those musicians were terrible people who made terrible music.

Hope: Okay, I don't understand what the point is. I have to just change my opinions to fit the masses? Ponyo is one of the worst films of all time, and everyone else likes it! Not even Tales from Earthsea was that bad! I hate movies that are too childish and stupid. You guys know that!

BE!Maria: Okay, so you hate Ponyo. Well then why the fuck would you ban all of your younger siblings from watching it?

Hope: Because I want them to watch films that have meaning in them. Maria, we've already went through this. If I let them watch Ponyo, then they'll get into even worse films like Fred: The Movie, Freddy Got Fingered, Barney's Great Adventure, Felix the Cat: The Movie, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Drop Dead Fred, Bio-Dome, UglyDolls, Mac and Me, A Troll in Central Park, Rock-a-Doodle, The Pebble and the Penguin, Flubber, Patch Adams, those movie parody trilogies by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Eight Crazy Nights, Little Nicky, Pixels, The Cell, Movie 43, Cats, The Room, and more!

Valentin: Hope, that is absolutely ridiculous. If you seriously think that them watching Ponyo is gonna make them get into much worse films, then you're crazy!

Lei: And I already told you in my letter of grievance that I had to watch those so-called "baby shows and baby movies" with my daughter. I even have to hide some of my more extreme albums from her since she is too young for them. I did had to cater to my daughter, but I still enjoy what I love.

Larson: Also, can we talk about a time where you didn't want me to play Pokémon Sword and Shield because you were super deep in the Bring Back National Dex movement?

Hope: Well I still stand by BBND. It's not fair that Game Freak can just cut out some Pokémon in the latest games. And even with the DLC, there's still some that need to be in the game!

BE!Maria: I've said this before and I'm gonna say this again: Game Freak removing some Pokémon in their latest game was inevitable. Hell, they technically already got rid of the Pokédex in the last games! It was only a matter of time before they eventually had to cut back some Pokémon to fit the ever-growing world. Do you seriously think Trubbish is a vital Pokémon character?

Hope: Well I don't care for a couple of Pokémon, at the same time, I'm sure some completists would love to catch them all.

Kim: Besides, BBND is made up by a lot of terrible people. They harass many folks for liking Sword and Shield and have hijacked BLM and Pride Month threads just to spread their agenda.

Valentin: Hope, we're saying all of this because for the past year, your antics have gone too far, and it's time to stop.

Hope: And how are going to stop it? What are you gonna say to me?

Lei: For starters, learn to respect other people's taste in movies and music. As long as it isn't some pro-Nazi shit or they get their bad behavior from them, it's fine.

BE!Maria: And also, you need to be more open-minded. Don't go blindly listening to critics unless you thoroughly checked out the media they're reviewing.

Hope: But if everyone else hates on something, then that probably means it's bad!

Larson: So if everyone was jumping off a bridge would you do it?

Hope: Now that's a ridiculous comparison!

Valentin: Hope, Lei and Maria gave you some good advice. Please use them.

Chuck: And also, delete that Joey Jordison joke! I still have no idea why you thought it was a good idea to post it!

Hope: YOU KNOW WHAT?!?! FINE!!! I'LL DELETE THE DAMN TWEET!!!

[Hope goes on her phone, goes on Twitter, and deletes the offending tweet]

Hope: There! I deleted the tweet. See?

Kim: Thank you. That's what we've been wanting you to do all along!

Lei: Too bad there are screenshots of it.