EDDIE: (A little tired as he fawns over himself.) I’ll be real with you… I can’t remember the last time I’ve gone out anywhere… Probably not since my last gig…

SALLY: Ha! I don’t remember either! Could’ve been as far back as that Welcome Home test pilot for all I know! Either way, it’s long overdue! This production is draining me of what makes me shine!

EDDIE: (He laughs more good naturedly this time.) Oh, you say that, but I know you like showin’ off what you can do!

SALLY: (Said dramatically as a joke.) Oh, I do… It’s my one and only flaw! (Back to her usual self.) But enough already- Are you decent or what?!

EDDIE: (Cheerfully said.) More than that! How do I look?

SALLY: Eddie! Okay! I dig it! Finally get to see you dressing up rather than being hunched over puppets all day!

EDDIE: Oh, yer sweet. Did you get Poppy to come with us?

SALLY: Noooo! She insists on staying home- But I’m wearing her down, I can feel it! I have a show planned just for that very day!

EDDIE: Ooh? Gettin’ serious, Sal?

SALLY: (Said nonchalantly.) Hmmm… I’m waiting to see… Labels might scare her off…

EDDIE: Then… Anybody else comin’?

SALLY: From work? No way! They’re all real drags! Oh, especially, uh… what’s-her-name! She’s such a wall flower and a total doormat!

EDDIE: (Playfully said.) Be nice! What about Ron?

SALLY: (Said in a huff of frustration.) Ohh, don’t even get me started on Ron! Like he’d come anyways! It’s like he never leaves his office!

EDDIE: You guys had a heavy talk, huh?

SALLY: (Insistent and frustrated. But she inhales and exhales to collect herself.) It went fine! We had a disagreement, is all. …It’s only a matter of time before he realizes how much potential I really have…

EDDIE: (Comfortingly.) Oh, you’ll move up before you know it, Sal. You got me in the writer’s room with ya, didn’t ya? I’d say you got more sway than you realize and I know it’s ’cause of how much Ron respects ya.

SALLY: (Proudly.) Hmph… He does, doesn’t he? And I get the job done better than anyone! But no more work talk, Ed! Here, give me that, you’re smudging it.

EDDIE: Thank you, Sal… (He hums, then laughs bashfully.) …One more thing about work?

SALLY: (Sternly said.) Hmm… Okay. Only one!

EDDIE: …Did I tell ya about what happened the other day? It’s while I was tailorin’ an outfit for you-know-whose li’l puppet… Well, he didn’t say it, but I knew he thought it was cute! It felt like we were…-!

SALLY: (Quickly interrupting him.) Ugh- Gag me! Do me a solid and stop talking about your little ‘used-to-be’ and phone in to the present, Ed! You owe it to yourself! He left you high and dry, remember? He’ll just do it again!

EDDIE: Well, I… (He laughs uneasily.) …I guess yer right…

SALLY: (Calling to EDDIE.) You’re right I’m right! Know what you're worth, or else you’re going to find yourself under his dweeby loafer before you know it.

EDDIE: (He laughs a little more good naturedly.) How could that happen when I got somebody like you lookin’ out for me?

SALLY: Not always, so you better keep me in the back of your mind- Ah, there! All done! Oh! Let’s book it already! I need to stretch my legs and be freeeee! …And theeen let’s swing by Poppy’s after! For a bite or whatever-!

EDDIE: (He laughs.) Oooh, you can’t fool me, you just wanna looove on her!

SALLY: (She laughs with him.) So what if I want to looove on her!