History Recap / CollaboratoryHereThereBeDragons

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: The setting is described as similar to Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribean. Blanche is in the employ of the British crown, although they also considered making her an agent of the East India Company, which points to this era. They also reference the existence of guns, although they were very rudimentary.

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: The setting is described as similar to Film/PiratesOfTheCaribean. Blanche is in the employ of the British crown, although they also considered making her an agent of the East India Company, which points to this era. They also reference the existence of guns, although they were very rudimentary.

-->Dan (as Mel): Animals aren’t malicious, only humans are malicious!

-->Claire: It’s probably pretty bad...She would dress kind of like a bard, in like an over-the-top colorful thing.

''Here There Be Dragons'' is the first episode of the Smash (Meta)Fiction project Collaboratory. It features [[Series/TheGoldenGirls Blanche Devereaux]], [[Series/{{Friends}} Joey Tribbiani]], Franchise/{{Godzilla}, and [[Music/FlightOfTheConchords Mel]].

In a Pirates of the Caribbean-esque time period, schoolteacher Mel is bored of her life and daydreams about bards, whose life she sees as romantic. She stops some children from poking a small animal, insisting that only humans are malicious. While lingering after a performance by Joey the bard, she witnesses him killing the Pirate Queen. He gives her the Pirate Queen's slippers, which control Godzilla, to frame her for his crime as he escapes. Mel and Godzilla go on the run from the pirates and Blanche, who is trying to retrieve the slippers. Godzilla and Mel form a friendship as they escape from pirates and Blanche on the high seas, but soon discover a village the Pirate Queen forced Godzilla to destroy. The pirates catch up to Mel and Joey takes the slippers, but Blanche rescues Mel and joins forces with her, leading to a climactic fight.

Characters:
* [[Series/TheGoldenGirls Blanche Devereaux]]
* [[Series/{{Friends}} Joey Tribbiani]]
* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}
* [[Music/FlightOfTheConchords Mel]]

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: The setting is described as similar to Film/PiratesOfTheCarribean. Blanche is in the employ of the British crown, although they also considered making her an agent of the East India Company, which points to this era. They also reference the existence of guns, although they were very rudimentary.

* BuddyPicture: The genre. It focuses on the relationship between Godzilla and Mel.
* ClearMyName: The goal, from Film/TheFugitive. Mel has been accused of killing the Pirate Queen.
* ClotheslineStealing: Mel assembles an outfit from this.
* DirtyOldWoman: The archetype for Blanche. Bob uses this word-for-word to describe her archetype. In the story, she appears during the catalyst scene in a seedy bar, surrounded by young men in a “compromising position.”

* HaveWeMet: Blanche runs into Mel while the latter is in her bard disguise. Mel insists that she is a bard who has never met Blanche before.
* InterspeciesFriendship: Between Mel and Godzilla.
* LivingWeapon: The pirates used Godzilla as one of these. Mel and Godzilla happen across one of the towns destroyed this way, with Godzilla feeling remorse for what he was forced to do.

* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Mel’s bard outfit. It includes a floppy hat and foldover boots.

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: The setting is described as similar to Film/PiratesOfTheCarribean. Blanche is in the employ of the British crown, although they also considered making her an agent of the East India Company, which points to this era. They also reference the existence of guns, although they were very rudimentary.