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BRADY PLUNKETT

This outspoken twelve-year-old video virtuoso has a passion for misunderstood

Monsters everywhere. It all started during a lightning storm when he was

barely four. Arlene, his ornery older sister, convinced Brady that the

scratching outside the window was not a branch, but a Monster wanting to come

in... and eat Brady. Well, it turned out it actually was a Monster, and it actual-

ly did want to eat Brady. So, feeling sorry for the hungry beast, Brady tossed

that night’s leftovers out the window. The Monster scarfed it, gave a final sniff

toward Brady, who had sought refuge under his covers, and then vanished into

the cluttered depths of Brady’s closet.

And though he didn’t know it at the time, the spark of Brady Plunkett’s noble

cause was ignited. Like kids everywhere, Brady had come to love and fear his

monster for the fright it was... an undeniable part of every childhood. In the

years to come, he’d take the “Monster by the Horns”, and attempt to introduce

these eerie creatures to domesticated life.

And now, with a wholesome intent that would rival “Opie Taylor”, yet

with an “Eddie Munster-ish” delight in the macabre, Brady has a

unique way of reaching the inner feelings of most any monster. A

real “Doctor Ghoulittle”. But he’s also a somewhat hapless boy with

misguided confidence, determined to maintain his ideals for a

perfect world in which man and Monster can live together in harmony.

In the not-too-distant past, he was simply one kid among many,

but Brady is now the B.M.M.O.C. (“Big Monster Maven On

Campus”)at his local school. At home, though, he’s a slightly

flawed diamond in the rough, where his comically dysfunctional

family is, according to Brady’s perspective, out to make his life

as rotten as a zombie’s fart. (Okay, so we can’t say fart, but

you get the idea.)

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