"Hang on baby, I'm coming!" John shouted as he hurried down a side road into the field, trying to figure out how he was going to track down a single small coin in the midst of so much tall grass. His mind raced with ideas - he could try dragging his feet along, see what he ran across? Maybe he could toss rocks aroumd, and listen for the sound of them clanking against metal? Maybe he needed to just rip out the grass handful by handful until he stumbled across her...
Wait a moment. Stopping right outside the field, he remembered exactly where he was. ToonWorld! A place that ran on cartoon physics! Abandoning all practical and realistic concepts, he instead started thinking about how a character in some classic old cartoon would solve a problem like this. Quickly he arrived at something, a smirk appearing over his face as he realized exactly what he needed to do.
Gripping two handfuls of the grass at the edge of the field, he made sure his grasp was tighting before yanking it upwards, causing the entire field of grass to whip and flap like a rug being shaken out from one end. All the debris in the field was quickly thrown into the air, rocks and little branches - and a glint of something shiny and metallic. Carrie! He dropped the end of the gras field and rushed out, sprinting over the still-waving dirt out to where she had been launched into the air.
Hands held out, he deftly caught the coin in his hand, letting out an excited cheer as his hands closed around his bride's coinage form. It was only now that he looked up, and recalled other elements of cartoon physics - namely, that things in the air remained in the air until someone looked at them - and there had been a lot of stuff in the air. He gulped aloud before the rocks and branches came plummeting down, dozens of them slamming into his head and knocking it down inside his shoulders.
It hurt, of course, but the pain was secondary to the bizarre sensation of his head being stuffed back into his body like he was some kind of turtle. One hand kept a tight hold of Carrie as the other reached up to grab some of his hair, getting a firm handful of the stuff before yanking up. There was a soft pop as his head shot back up, neck stretching back out and allowing him to see again. At least he still had Carrie, now all he had to go do was find that damn goblin again and get her changed ba-
He paused as he looked down at his hand. The coin was missing. With a gasp he turned around, seeing it rolling away at a breakneck pace - he must have dropped it! Once more John sprinted ahead, trying to catch up but finding that the coin was moving just a bit too fast... and before he knew it, the little golden circle rolled right into a nearby river, floating away from him towards a steep waterfall. He kept running along the side of the river, hoping he could find some way to grab her - but how was he going to catch his bride before she vanished into that drop-off, never to be seen again?
"In the water stupid, you have to get in there!" he suddenly shouted to himself. Cartoon logic, of course. With a deep breath, John dove into the frigid and rushing river, momentarily getting swept up in the current before remembering - he just had to do whatever stupid shit a cartoon character would do. Reaching down, he stuck his feet together as tight as he could, before smacking his hands against them from opposite sides. The force applied, combined with a bit of absurd cartoon physics, allowed his feet to stretch out into a wide shape - and a bit more whacking allowed him to smack his legs into something sort of like a very flat merman's tail.
Good enough. With his new tail, he swam ahead at full speed, reaching out and desperately trying to grab up the coin. Just barely, his fingers managed to get around it... right as they both reached the waterfall, and he found himself being thrown out into a steep fall, his head slamming into every rock on the way down before he hit the water, and found himself blacking out, the coin floating away from his hand...