Friday, September 23, 2011

Week 3: A summary of the episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, "Bible Fruits"

This episode begins as Frylocke (the giant order of fries) is disturbed by Master Shake (the giant milkshake) and Meatwad (the giant wad of meat) while checking his Myspace. When Shake becomes frustrated that Frylocke won't tend to the matter, Frylocke tells him that he's busy talking to new internet friends who happen to be coming over to visit that night.

Shake is wearing a Hawaiian button-down in hopes to charm the single female of the three guests, but, to his unpleasant surprise, she is a giant Tangerine. As the conversation begins, Shake recedes into the back of the house, disappointed, and leaves Frylocke and Meatwad in a situation that becomes very dangerous.

The visitors are fruits: Tammy Tangerine's two friends are named Burt Banana and Mortimer Mango. But this certainly isn't the worst shock accompanying the visit; Burt Banana soon points out the coincidence that they are all food, breaking bread, as GOD intended.

When Frylocke offers Burt a drink, Burt refuses, stating that he quit drinking a long time ago -- "Those days are over." The fruits begin recounting stories of the "dark ages," where they would go out and get drunk, then pick up a stranger or even a hobo and have crazy, debauched orgies. As Tammy begins to tell them about how Burt used to beat her, Burt slowly reaches for the rum... Until Tammy barks his name, and asks him about the beatings.

Soon after, in the midst of a conversation that turns blatantly evangelical, Burt asks for "a little bit of a full glass of that rum." In response, Mortimer takes the pint of rum (despite Frylocke's irritated reminder that it's his), and runs into the kitchen to pour it down the drain. Burt rushes into the kitchen, opens the cupboard underneath the sink, and begins working at the pipes, reassuring Mortimer that he is not going to dismantle the pipes and drink from the U-trap.

Burt quickly becomes frustrated at this attempt, and while Tammy apologizes for his behavior, he stands up in a rage and accuses her of flirting with Frylocke. Tammy then says sorry to Burt, on the brink of tears, and to calm him down asks him to pray with her. The two fruits kneel together and begin ferociously speaking in tongues. But this isn't enough to cure his thirst for rum, and after a few seconds he goes into a rage. Fearing for their safety, Frylocke and Meatwad go outside.

As Burt rampages around inside the house, Frylocke and Meatwad play checkers on the front lawn. Mortimer decides that it might be a good idea to just find Burt some drugs, and steps onto the front porch to small-talk with Frylocke, obviously beating the bush, hoping to ask if he has any. Frustrated with Mortimer's continuing story about how he cut off three of his fingers while trying to build a bird-house on drugs, Frylocke asks him if he remembers the cup they had been with earlier -- he's filled with crystal meth. Mortimer excitedly runs into the house to tell his friends that the cup has the drugs, and all three of them carnivorously spread out into the house to find Master Shake, who had abandoned his two friends to these unstable guests.

As the fruits search for Shake, Meatwad is seen sitting in a tire with two split wires in his hands. Frylocke instructs him to press them together. When he does this, the house explodes with the Bible Fruits and Master Shake inside, and we presume the fruits go to Heaven.

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