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Ringo: I like the snazzy new suits. They’re much more freeing than those long coats we had before.
Yea, that was a mistake originally by me. I downloaded the long mandarin coat instead of the short one. Now you have the stylin’ short jackets.
So, how ’bout a tune to kick us off, boys? Because that’s how I like it.
John and George: How about a DANCE NUMBER!!!
um….
Perhaps just a song?
Please start the soundtrack now, by CTRL-clicking here, clicking the play all link, and returning to this page. The first 13 seconds of the first song are pretty darn cute to watch though, so you might watch those and THEN come back here to read. 
Ringo: And now we’d like to do something ,um, we don’t often do. Give someone a chance to sing who doesn’t often sing. And here he is, all out of key and nervous. Singin’ act naturally….. RINGO!
They’re gonna put me in the movies/ They’re gonna make a big star out of me
We’ll make a film about a man that’s sad and lonely/ And all I gotta do is act naturally
When last we left the Beatle family, Exhibitionist!Annie had just given birth to the 5th child and Sheldon’s ghost came out to do some laps around the house to celebrate.
Seriously. Sheldon’s an odd ghost. Most of the time all he does is come out, walks a lap or two around the house and then goes back in. Once or twice he stopped in to play some computer games.
Henry here, in the tradition of ridiculously adorable children, plays with his beloved bear Serena. Why he named it Serena…. I don’t know. But they have a deep unspoken bond.
Serena: When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful….
Not a Beatles song, Serena. (But a good song nonetheless. When Somebody Loved Me. From the Toy Story 2 soundtrack.)
Handsome young JoJo was reelin’ in the ladies from the get go, visiting the home of this… striking young lady as his first conquest.
Eliza Simovitch: *heavy breath* He’s my frieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeend.
Um…. o.O….. yea…. you know he can only marry a service sim, right….?
THANK GOODNESS.
So Eliza left him alone for the most part after that. I don’t think JoJo was too upset about it.
JoJo: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I’m free of that creeper breathing down my neck!!!!!!!!
Jude took on the lip-eating father (grandfather?) of Eliza, Vadim Simovitch in a round of chess once again.
Jude: Second time’s the charm! *smiles*
Aww, good job Jude. Nice to see you lost the cocky attitude too.
Annie was teaching the girls to walk. And she was even clothed for once!!!!
*headdesk*
Eleanor was a bit at a loss as to what to do with herself. She had retired from her job, her beloved Sheldon was gone, and she had maxed her guitar skill. But I heard the guitar challenges are massively difficult so we decided to skip going that route for her elder years. Thus, she jumped on the treadmill to see if we couldn’t get an athletic point out of her.
However, mid jog, she was called in to celebrate a birthday.
The Beatle family lives in style. Yup. Definitely no rotting juice cans here. No sir. That’s an airwick air freshener just SHAPED like a juice can. It’s releasing a puff of fragrant and lightly green colored perfume.
Eleanor: *tries to hold breath while celebrating*
Henry: YAY! I get to gwow up!
Awww, look at his enthusiasn. Little does he know that being a kid is just about the most boring thing there is in sims.
Henry: This is my faiwy dance. Like tinkerbell!! FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Apart from the yellow shirt, I think he turned out rather sultry looking. For a kid anyway.
He has also developped something of a crush on the man maid. He watches him whenever he’s around and gets this really bashful face if the guy actually acknowledges him.
Henry: Um… er…. welll… the win-win-win-windex is uh….. um…….
Brandt Samuels: It’s okay kid, I think I see it over there.
Henry: *swoon*
He’s kind of old for you Henry…. But since you’re adorable and my favorite, I shall secure you a handsome young gentleman… when you’re a bit older.
I’ve just seen a face/ I can’t forget the time or place where we just met
Henry: I don’t know if I can ever overcome this overwhelming love I feel for Brandt. *sigh*
Poor Henry. Love is tough.
I’m gonna break their hearts all ’round the world / Yes, I’m gonna break them in two
And show you what your loving man can do/ until then I’ll cry instead.
The best I could offer for the moment was to spend some bonding time with JoJo over a rousing game of chess.
Henry: I’ll take it.
I love how they think the longest about which pawn to move first. Seriously boys, it’s not a huge decision here….
While the boys were outside skilling, Eleanor finished up the last of her painting skill challenges. POINT!!!
Also, I think this is a kind of fun painting.
She gets interrupted a lot though. Mostly because Exhibitionist!Annie and Jude had a magic addiction. I guess if your assistant was an exhibitionist, you would have a magic addiction too.
Anywho, it’s time for Michelle, the last of the pack to enter toddlerhood. Phew.
Exhibitionist!Annie: OMG! What is IT??
Um…. your baby….. who is having a birthday….. remember?
Annie: Oh, right………. what’s her name again????
Little Michelle was a bit neglected during her infancy.
Didn’t stop her from inheriting the cute toddler genes though. Awwwwwwwww. And she actually aged up into a decent outfit too!!
I think it’s interesting to note that amongst the 5 kids, there are 4 different hair colors.
Here, Michelle displays a medium brown that is slightly lighter than Annie’s hair tone. JoJo has a similar color, but it’s the same darkness as Annie’s. Henry got Eleanor’s strawberry blonde, and the twins are standard blondes like Jude.
Fun!
The toddler pack wreaks mayhem on my house most hours of the day.
The pink one and the blue one are good buddies though. Here we see the pink one keeping an eye out for the blue one. Or perhaps I should say the aqua one? Since Michelle is wearing blue? Or maybe I should just bite the bullet and learn their names…?
…………nah. Not yet.
Annie: and then she said she was going to hit me with a shovel if I wore my underoos during another birthday party.
Michelle: Shovel!
… What??? I think Eleanor said that. Why on earth would you blame ME?? *innocent whistle*
Since all we have is toddlers, toddlers, toddlers. And a couple of kids…. pretty much the only thing happening ’round here these days is birthdays.
Speaking of which, it’s time for the twins to grow up! I haven’t worked out how to do simultaneous birthdays yet, since sims INSIST on cancelling what you tell them to watch whichever lucky birthday girl got to the cake first. So here’s the pink one first.
BLAST OFF!
Blonde, pouty, purple-blue eyes. Yep. It’s a Beatle kid.
This here is Prudence. Once I get the twins made over I promise to start using their real names. Practice makes perfect right???
Chants: Prudence in pink! Prudence in pink! Prudence in pink!
It’s like deja vu.
Only it ends with weirder shorts.
And Annie’s gold eyes.
So while the twins are changing into their outfits, I remove the cribs and set up their color-coded room.
I actually quite like the wallpaper. It speaks to my inner 7 year old girl.
TA DA!
Twins to the MAX! Seriously. I have never had such identical looking kids before. It’s weird. But cool.
For the record, Prudence (in pink) added bookworm to her traits. Sadie added coward.
Jude has been trying to soothe my aching heart after losing Sheldon last chapter by prancing about in his speedo next to the new house.
I appreciate the effort Jude. It might not be GAP ad undies. But it’s a close second.
He used his schmexy genes to mesmerize Lorraine Cantina before their chess match.
Despite the fact he put on some more respectable clothes during the match, his tactic won out on Lorraine. She couldn’t focus on the match because she kept thinking
Lorraine: I’d like to jump in bed with THAT!
Sorry Lorraine. He’s a married man. And a faithful one too, despite my early considerations of an affair with the handylady.
Papergirl Lydia Sauer comes sniffing around out lot quite a bit. I think she either wants to be triplets with the girls (she could be too. saving for the green eyes. which are cool.)
Or she’s in love with Jude.
She did stare at him for several hours while he was playing chess.
…….
What is with the CREEPY service sims. At least 50% have a hidden creepy gene. And 25% more have a run-away-from-legacies gene. Which only leaves 25% for me to choose from. Creepy is hard to breed out.
Is it one of the twins, gone rainbow conscious?
No!
It’s one of Lucy’s twins!!! I don’t really know which one. But there’s a giant pack of blonde twin girls running around this town. Kind of like a horror movie. ATTACK OF THE BLONDE TWINS!!
And now it is time for an irrelevant but timely blonde joke:
A blonde asked someone what time it was, and they told her it was 4:45. The blonde, with a puzzled look on her face replied,
“You know, it’s the weirdest thing, I have been asking that question all day, and each time I get a different answer.”
She was there to celebrate JoJo’s birthday! Huzzah!
Originally, I thought this was kind of a boring and generic picture when I then noticed Delbert in the background asking the brunette in the pink if she was single!
DELBERT YOU FIEND! Lucy is going to wring your neck if she finds out!! Probably literally.
It takes quite a bit of time for parties to be assembled enough to get on with the sparklies. So by the time JoJo was finally twinkling away, he was quite hungry.
He even made a dive for the cake mid-sparkle in a desperate plea for food.
JoJo: Something just dropped!!
Your voice?
JoJo: So, being it’s my birthday and all and I’m a teenager now I was wondering if maybe I could…. you know….
HANDS, JOJO!
JoJo: But… it’s my birthday!
I said NO! Besides, she’s too old for you. See how she’s taller than you?
Lucy’s daughter, like a good little girl, stared appalled at the pink twinset lady who was giving in to JoJo’s charms. While she simultaneously cleared the dishes. Aw. Now I feel kind of guilty for banishing her from the legacy to grow up in the home of an evil mastermind mother and a dimwitted flirting father.
Lucy, however, was a bit upset that her daughter was not acting in the evil fashion she had brought her up in and proceeded to give her a tongue lashing for her good deeds.
Strange messed up world, ain’t it?
After a long, eventful day of birthday parties, dealing with evil aunts and good cousins, and restraining teenaged boys hormones, the Beatle family went happily to sleep.
And stalker Lydia Sauer creeped around in the house until 3 in the morning.
CRAZY!
Sheldon came out to chase her away and watch over the well being of his family.
Also I think he just really missed Eleanor. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
Bus mysteries:
According to my user panel, it claims that there are 4 children on this bus. The twins and JoJo and Henry.
So….. where is Prudence???
Upon further investigation I have discovered that only 3 children ever ride the bus at a time.
Why? I don’t know….
Another potential spouse.
Possibly Lydia Sauer’s twin brother. Same green eyes.
I have Annie go chat him up, just in case he was lucky enough to be born without a hidden creepy stalker trait.
Annie: It’s really strange, all the kids teddy bears have disappeared. I mean, I knew they stopped playing with them awhile ago, so I put them in storage, but when I looked in storage they were GONE.
Mysterious.
Henry brings home this lovely young lady whose name I forget. Perchance to start a rainbow themed club?
Henry: And we could have everyone bring cookies to the meetings and do a cookie exchange!!! It would be so much fun!!!
Rainbow girl: I think that’s a great idea. Maybe you could bring some cake too!
Cake?
Ahhh. Yes. Once again.
Birthday!
(Insert something witty about birthdays here. There have been so many this chapter, I’ve run out of things to say.)
Henry: Then maybe you could focus on getting me OUT of this awful ensemble!
Right away!
Since I was sick of birthdays and it was only his YA to Adult birthday, Jude celebrated alone in the corner.
He looks exactly the same.
Just in case you were worried.
All is well.
Henry, on the other hand, got a stylin’ makeover as his induction into club rainbow.
Although Jude lectured him on his choice of pajamas.
Jude: Young man, in this house we all wear gray gap underwear.
While they argued, Michelle had her kidification party. YAY! No more toddler skilling!!!!!!
Is it just me, or does the toddler birthday almost always look like they have explosive gas….?
Michelle: Check it! I’m adorable!
But not as adorable as you WILL be.
Enter: adorable double bun hair!!!!!
(From NewSea)
The parade of birthdays continued. Annie cautiously approached the cake, knowing deep within her soul that as soon as she turned elder she wouldn’t be able to wear her exhibitionist undies anymore.
And so it was done. After a swift makeover, Annie is fully unrecognizeable. Seriously. I forget it’s the same sim. Sometimes I wander past her and I’m like, who’s that strange grandma sitting in the living room. Oh! It’s Annie.
However, as a birthday present, Annie got: the completion of the legacy house!!!!
Ta DA! Here it is, in all its gray symmetrical glory.
I’m not much of a builder or a decorator. The main point is that it’s a lot bigger than the temporary legacy shack was.
The biggest addition to the house is the TV, which the Beatles have yet to ever have in their home. Mostly because they are a black hole, stealing sims from their skilling and socializing pursuits. But I put one in. Because it looked like it needed one.
This picture commemorates the twin’s teen birthday. It is also one of the few pictures in which everyone in the family is at least partly visible.
From left to right (in case you forgot): Jude, Henry, Eleanor, Sadie (blue), Prudence (pink), JoJo, Annie, and Michelle.
One BIG happy family.
Prudence was quite cooperative and aged up into a pink pantsuit so I would recognize her. However, I think the pantsuit is not quite befitting her personality.
But she left it on while we did Sadie’s birthday.
Sadie was a bit less discerning in her choice of ensemble.
So Prudence got made over in a cute little pink sundress and the same hair she started with.
While Sadie got a blue top and jeans and some really cute hair that you can’t really see well. Apparently she’s still a bit shocked by the transformation.
Sadie: No, I’m stunned because you knew my name!!! That’s never happened before. Prudence has her own chant, but I’m usually just the other one!
Awww. Poor Sadie. Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but I actually like you better than Prudence.
Prudence: I heard that. Grrrr.
I’d like to mention at this time, yet AGAIN, that I am upset you can’t interact or get to know the drivers in any way, shape, or form. Because I like this bus driver man here. He would make the perfect spouse if one of the girls becomes heiress.
Henry always has a lot of girlfriends hanging out. I think they are drawn to his good looks, stellar fashion sense, and winning personality.
Sorry ladies, Henry isn’t for sale in that market!
Brenna Calhoun: Awwww. But he’s so dreaaaaaaaaaamy.
Michelle, meanwhile, brought home more questionable friends.
Dear Shravan Mather,
Despite have a fun name like Shravan, you are not elligible to marry the fair Michelle. Because first and most importantly, you are not a service sim. And second, as before mentioned, this is not an uglacy. But I will pass on word of your name to those who write uglacies.
Sincerely,
Chalcedony
The twins don’t usually bring home a lot of friends, but I think that’s mostly because they are besties. Here is a shot commemorating their BFF status. Awwwwwww. It’s good to see sisters getting along!
Spouse Scouting Edition #3346875
This young man is a good potential choice, being he is not blonde. However, I am not terribly fond of using the Annie hair two generations in a row. I am holding out for red.
I am considering Mara Hawks, our maid when Brandt Samuels is unavailble, though. Because she is gorgeous. Even with the same hair color as Annie’s.
I am NOT considering the pizza man, however. Because he’s blonde. And he booed Henry. NO ONE BOOS HENRY YOU CLOSED MINDED FRIM FRABBING LITTLE…. WHY I OUGHT TO COW PLANT YOU RIGHT HERE AND NOW, BUT THEY DON’T HAVE COW PLANTS YET SO YOU BETTER RUN YOUR LOW PAID BLONDE BUTT OFF MY LOT AND NEVER COME BACK.
Handylady gets a shot though.
Okay…. enough of the potential spouses.
Prudence decided to go for a visit to her cousin’s to see how things were going in the Jones manor.
Lucy’s girls, Jasmine and Felicia, are really quite stunning. They have Delbert’s full lips which I think gives them a kind of less trampy Paris Hilton kind of look.
*sigh* Why must the really interesting genetics be elsewhere?
Oh well.
Henry meanwhile was on the phone with his crush in the park, asking him out on their first date.
WHO COULD IT BE?????
No. It’s not Brandt. He’s too old, remember? Despite the depth of their love. I don’t want Henry to die old and alone!
So I found this winning Brandt replacement! Meet Jay Dunn, who I think might be Brandt’s nephew or something. They look strikingly alike. Only Jay has violet eyes.
Henry seems satisfied. He swiftly puts the moves on him.
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But Henry is a gentleman and doesn’t kiss on the first date. So they end a beautiful night with a nice little hug.
I was scoping Jay out in Henry’s relationship panel when I noticed he was a babysitter. Alas. All the pieces in place for Henry to be their heir, but unfortunately these two could not produce a bloodline child! I can’t move Jay in if he doesn’t contribute. I can’t call Henry heir unless HE contributes. I don’t have the same-sex hack. WOE is me!
However, I suppose I can be happy in knowing these two can be together in a gigantic spare’s mansion and live out their days in marital bliss and complete financial comfort, instead of being skilling baby machines in the legacy house.
It’s better this way. Really.
Henry’s tips for avoiding the cops when you’re out past curfew:
If you drive a cop car, they are likely to think you are also a cop and thus will not stop you when you are on your way home.
Sheldon’s old cop car really does get a lot of action.
While Henry was out on his date, Michelle took the liberty of having the LAST birthday party of the chapter. YAY!
You say it’s your birthday /It’s my birthday too–yeah
They say it’s your birthday/ We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday/ Happy birthday to you.
You were just waiting for that one all chapter weren’t you?
She’s airborne!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand…. she lands in a zebra top and tweed pants.
Um.
Yea.
Stop laughing in the background Jude, I see you. That’s not polite.
So Michelle gets a quick makeover. A bit of an edgier look for her, because she’s the baby and she wanted to break from the mold her prepster brothers and sisters before her had set. Also because it looks darn good on her.
And so was supposed to end another chapter of the Beatles legacy. But THEN I heard the sound of thunder.
Darkness descended upon the Beatle household.
JoJo briefly stopped talking to the former newspaper girl he’d been working on.
I scanned the premesis.
Grim lurked in a corner! But who is he here for??????
For that answer and more, you shall have to wait until next time.
George: Come back again for MORE exciting Beatles goodness. Until then, we hope you have enjoyed the show!
To conclude our chapter, here are some lyrics from a song I’d never heard before. Just because the Beatles have SO much material. It’s called Piggies.
Have you seen the little piggies / Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies / Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
There is an HEIR POLL now as well.
