Sweet nutcracker

Template:Itemheader Dude, this is one sweet nutracker! It's basically a machine for crushing nuts (stop snickering) disguised as a cute little soldier in a curiously lacy uniform. When you pull the lever in his back, his jaws open and close with a loud 'clop.' It kind of sounds like a one-legged horse, or a guy holding one-fourth of a coconut shell.

Type: familiar
Cannot be discarded

Notes

• Becomes a Sweet Nutcracker.
• December 2005's special of the month from Mr. Store.

When Used

You put the sweet nutcracker in your Familiar-Gro™ Terrarium.

It snaps at your other familiars, then does a strange, stiff-legged little dance, which, given that it has no knees, is not actually all that strange.

References

• The name of this item is a play on The Nutcracker Suite, a condensed version of The Nutcracker, a lengthy ballet composed by Tchaikovsky.
• In the description of this item, making a 'clopping' noise with coconut shells to sound like a horse, is from a notable scene in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.