Thought I'd enter. Apologies to Charley R for similarities regarding wildlife and meetings...it wasn't intentional.
A field near some bushes. A load of animals are gathered for a hastily convened meeting, including ferrets, toads, stoats, rats, squirrels and various others. Chairing said meeting is Brian the badger. Behind him scribbled in barely eligible writing is a sign reading ‘Wildlife Men’s Club WMC’.
BRIAN THE BADGER: Now then I appreciate you all turning up at such short notice. This won’t take long.
FRANK THE FERRET: That writing of yours is terrible Brian. Have you been on the sauce again?
BRIAN: Have you actually seen my claws? I’m lucky I could pick the f**king pen up. Ok, the reason we are here is that it’s time for us to convene and discuss if we still want the Lion to be the king of the jungle.
SIMON THE SQUIRREL: Oh not this again.
BRIAN: I’m afraid so, it’s up for renewal.
SIMON: Jesus Christ Brian. You’re always calling us together to discuss the stupidest of things. Last week it was ‘who would survive the longest if run over by a childs bike’, and now this. There’s no point.
BRIAN: And why is that? Pre tell.
SIMON: Well for one, we don’t live in the jungle, and for another, we’re sat on Hackney marshes.
STUART THE STOAT: I don’t mean to be pedantic or anything Simon but they are pretty much the same reason.
SIMON: Yeah but it’s a good reason though aint it?
THEODORE THE TOAD: Oh it’s a very good reason. This is going to be a bigger waste of time than the time we plied Samuel the snail with all those downers…we were there for days!
FRANK: Yes we didn’t do our homework there did we? Oh come on Brian no-one cares. Besides you can’t decide these things with a ballot, it’s survival of the fittest. Lion wins because no-one will take him on.
BRIAN: Nonsence. This is a democracy…we’re not wild animals.
ALL THE ANIMALS LOOK AT EACH OTHER. BRIAN REALISES HE’S MADE A MISTAKE.
BRIAN: Ok we are wild animals…but we are civilised with it. This is one of the only things we get to vote on and I’ll be damned if we let it go to waste. We are all members of the animal kingdom. We are all wildlife creatures, as a result and despite our geography our vote counts just as much as anyone else’.
THEODORE: How will them lot in the jungle know how we’ve voted?
BRIAN: The same way they’ve always known…we dial a premium rate number and vote for our favourite. The one with the fewest votes goes until we are left with our king of the jungle. Now then as the gaffer I vote that Lion stays as king of the jungle. Does anyone differ?
THE PLACE GOES SILENT.
BRIAN: Good. That’s decided then.
THEODORE: Ere Brian. How come you’re in charge?
BRIAN: Because I’m a badger. We’re always in charge. Did you never watch ‘wind in the willows’?
THEODORE: Damn right I did. David Jason’s performance was way over the top. Didn’t do my kind any favours that fella.
RAYMOND THE RAT: It could have been worse. I was played by that chap out of ‘last of the summer wine’. The bumbling old bastard.
BRIAN: Ok then, erm, any other business?
FRANK: Yes I’d like to know why all our first names start with the same letter as the first letter of our species.
BRIAN: Do they? Do you know I didn’t realise. I suspect it has something to do with dozy halfwitted humans trying to be cute. Ok then, meeting concluded, you may go.
EVERYONE STARTS TO FILE OUT
BRIAN: I’m sorry, if you could just stop a moment there is one further item up for discussion……which one of us would make the best pie filling?