Cupcake Replaces Queenie… Again

It’s time for some more GameCube Animal Crossing, so I grabbed my tutu and hit the town! Well, at least that’s how Belle thinks it happened.

Belle: Heya! Are you ready to hit the town, in a tutu?

There was a thunderstorm going on in Forest tonight. I checked my mailbox and found Queenie’s goodbye letter. The queen is dead. Long live the queen.

My little Jeff, I can't stand for anyone to see me cry... You must know, that's the only reason I left without saying goodbye. Even now, the tears are... I can't bear it! Farewell! -Yours, Queenie

Lately I’ve had a bad habit of waiting until the last day of the month to play. The problem is that I can’t sell anything on those days, because it’s raffle day! Here’s a look at today’s prizes, although I didn’t have any raffle tickets to use.

Nook's Raffle Day: A covered wagon, jukebox, and a NES game are the prizes available.

I met up with Queenie’s replacement, Cupcake the bear cub. She just moved in, and she’s already called me a dummy.

Cupcake: Why? Because that's where you store stuff, dummy! Wake up, sugar pie!

But there’s an interesting coincidence involving Queenie and Cupcake. Not only did they both live in Forest in 2011, but on Sept. 25, 2011, Queenie moved out and Cupcake moved in. Exactly like what happened today!

Many of my villagers were talking about the fireworks festival that’s coming up on Saturday. Static even said he’s going nuts! Well, he is a squirrel, so I guess that makes sense. I don’t plan on playing on the 4th, though.

Static: Why? Because I'm going nuts waiting for the July 4th fireworks festival!

Baabara asked me to play a game where I buy a bag with a mystery item inside for 1,270 bells. I could be buying a geltao shirt, an apple, or a pitfall. I agreed to buy a bag, because I actually wanted the pitfall! Unlike the middle games in the series, pitfalls are hard to come by on GameCube. I picked the middle bag, and I got what I wanted!

Baabara: It's a pitfall! And here you go.

I didn’t use it yet, but it’s always good to have one on hand…for those times when I need one! 😉

After I was done chatting with everyone, I made sure to pull all the weeds I could find. After tracking down a few well-hidden weeds, I eventually got my town status back to perfect.

Thanks for stopping by, and Never Stop Crossing!

Basketball Puck

Elmer has trotted out of town, and rode off into the sunset. While it would have been nice to see him stick around (like glue), I guess our bond just wasn’t strong enough. 😉

How ARE you, Jeff? Well now, I bet your bottom bell you didn't expect me to cut out and split town, huh? Nope, I shocked the world! I'm turning over a new leaf--see you on the flip side! Laters, Elmer

Today is the last day of May, so that meant it was raffle day. One of the “wonderful” prizes that Tom Nook was giving away was a photo of Tom Nook! Wow, he must really think he’s something special. 😛

Tom Nook displays his own photo as a raffle prize in Animal Crossing.

I didn’t have any raffle tickets though, so I couldn’t enter the drawing.

Puck the portly penguin tried to convince me that he’s really good at basketball!

Puck: Hey, Jeff. It may not look like it, but I'm actually really good at basketball. Honest.

I told him I didn’t believe him, and he admitted he was lying. He was just disappointed that he didn’t fool me, even for a second.

Puck: Yeah, no one's ever accused me of being good at basketball. Not even once, brrrrrrrrr.

He should have said hockey instead. That might be more believable, and it could explain his name.

Queenie the ostrich is my newest neighbor, and she seemed quite rude. Maybe she’s been hanging around Tom too much. 😛

Queenie: Stop shouting! I'm right here! I can hear you fine, chicken!

Queenie has lived in Forest before, in the summer of 2011! At this point, it’s pretty common to see villagers return for a second (or even a third) stint in Forest.

Over at the wishing well, Hank told me to leave him alone! You know things are bad when even Hank is in a bad mood!

Hank: What do you want?! Leave me alone!

Just a few other quick notes about today:

  • Maple bought my kitschy clock for 3,000 bells. That was especially helpful because I couldn’t sell anything at Nook’s today.
  • Tom gave me a free cherry! I cut down a regular tree and planted it.
  • Wendell will be visiting Forest soon, and several of my villagers were talking about him.
  • I found a pear dresser in the dump.

Elmer Returns

When I started up the game last night, I was happy to find that it was Derwin, not Rosie, who moved out of town.

Derwin's goodbye letter in Animal Crossing for Nintendo GameCube.

I started up a conversation with Candi, and she offered me some turnips for just three bells apiece. However, I knew she was lying and wasn’t really going to sell me any…so I declined her offer. She was glad to know I wasn’t one of those “greedy, turnip-trading types” (her words).

Candi: It's nice to know you're not one of those greedy, turnip-trading types!

She then admitted what I already knew (from seeing this dialogue before): That she didn’t actually have any turnips to sell.

Candi: I don't even own any turnips, to tell you the truth. Turnips are the root of all evil!

At Nookington’s, I bought myself a No. 1 shirt, and sold the zipper shirt I had been wearing.

Ursala asked if I wanted to her join her new football club, and I said yes. However, she said we now have two people…and need 20 more. Yeah, that’s not going to happen. 😛

Ursala: But we'll need twenty before we can start, right?

My new neighbor was Elmer the horse, although he was asleep in his house when I played. A few of you may remember him from GameCube Moments #3, when he fell asleep outside his house and I pushed him down the ramp (and he couldn’t get back up). 😂

But I played again today so that I could meet him and say hello. Despite that little prank ten years ago, I do like Elmer. He’s one of my favorite horses in the series.

Elmer: Um, just a sec... Yep, I've got nothing. I'll catch you later, tenderfoot.

Today is the last day of the month (April 30th), so Tom Nook was hosting a raffle. But I didn’t have any raffle tickets, so I couldn’t participate. And I couldn’t sell the fossils and fruit in my pockets, either.

Tom Nook: I just can't let you do this without five raffle tickets. You do understand, yes? I'm terribly sorry!

I asked Maple for a job a couple minutes later, and she politely told me she would like more flowers in front of her house. I blindly walked all the way up to Nookington’s and went inside, completely forgetting that today is raffle day. So I couldn’t buy any flowers for her. (And you can’t pick up existing flowers in this game).

Maple: I just wish my house had more flowers in front of it, honey.