Clara's Dirty Little Secret

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Drawn Together episode
“Clara's Dirty Little Secret”
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 2
Guest star(s) Carlos Alazraqui as the voice of Prince Charming
Alex Borstein as the voice of Evil Stepmother
Writer(s) Matt Silverstein, Dave Jeser
Director Dwayne Carey-Hill
Production no. 102
Original airdate 3 November 2004
Episode chronology
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"Hot Tub" "Gay Bash"

"Clara's Dirty Little Secret" is the second episode of the animated series Drawn Together.

Contents

[edit] Storyline

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Weeks have passed since Clara's first encounter with Foxxy, and she's spent the entire time telling everyone the story nonstop, to the delight of all of the housemates except Toot. Thinking Clara needs to be taken down a peg, Toot convinces Clara that she's pregnant with Foxxy's child. This causes Clara to panic, as she realizes in horror, "Father would never allow me to birth a black woman's child!". Toot informs Clara that she can end the pregnancy by falling down a flight of stairs, a goal with which Toot is more than happy to assist her. After Toot pushes Clara down the stairs numerous times, Foxxy asks Clara what is going on, and Clara confesses to her that she is pregnant with Foxxy's love child. Realizing that Clara is completely ignorant about sex, Foxxy decides to set everyone straight by giving the housemates a sex-ed lesson, but rather than making her happy she can't be pregnant, Clara becomes despondent.

Foxxy confronts Clara to find out what the problem is. Clara reveals that after Foxxy's lesson (which stressed the importance of a woman's vagina), she now realizes that she will never be able to find happiness, since no man will ever want to come near her intimate areas. Foxxy tries to tell Clara that regardless of what her father might have told her, her vagina is a beautiful place, but Clara proves otherwise by revealing that her vagina is a gigantic, tentacled monster, the result of a curse placed upon her by her stepmother.

Although gentle on the surface, the Octopussoir (as Clara calls it) is revealed to be extremely sensitive to loud noises. Toot wastes no time exploiting this quality, and deliberately disturbs the Octopussoir, causing it to destroy the furniture in the living room, and consume Wooldoor (and a cameraman). Despite Foxxy's attempts to protect her, the other housemates temporarily adopt desperate measures and chase Clara before an alternative is found.

According to her stepmother, only the kiss of her true love can break the curse. To this end, the housemates stage a Bachelorette-type contest in which men compete to be Clara's true love, she meets Prince Charming, the man of her dreams. However, his kiss, rather than curing her curse, causes his penis to turn into an octopus itself. Dismayed at his new condition, Prince Charming commits suicide.

Since the curse now appears unremovable, the housemates once again take up arms to kill the Octopussoir. Clara tries to show them that the Octopussoir is actually quite nice and likes to help people, but it is not until the Octopussoir begins cleaning the long dormant pile of dirty dishes in the sink that everyone realizes that it's not such a bad creature after all. The housemates all come to terms with Clara's Octopussoir, and Clara makes peace with her stepmother. The episode ends with Wooldoor being expelled from Clara's vagina.

Musical Number: "La-La-La-La-Labia", a Hanna-Barbera style song sung by Foxxy and the houseguests a'la Josie and the Pussycats during a montage in which everyone chases Clara's vagina. Lyrically, the song is basically a long string of vagina metaphors.

[edit] Lyrics to "La La La La Labia"

Foxxy: La la la la labia baby you got something for me (in your wizard's sleeve)
La la la la labia baby you got something for me (some sweet PT)
Hoochie coochie gitchy gitchy yeah yeah yeah
Gotta snatcha gonna catcha yatcha yeah yeah yeah
Binja minja bearded clam
Furry burger smiley sam
La la la la labia baby you got something for me
Octopussoir: Oh yes siree!
Foxxy: Fluffy muffy stuffy in the yeah yeah yeah
I gotta fever for the beaver weaver yeah yeah yeah
Honey pot peachie pie
Octopussoir: Take it to the Y-clef
Foxxy: La la la la labia baby you got something for me (in your wizard's sleeve)
Bushy bushy fishy squishy yeah yeah yeah
Smelly jelly underbelly yeah yeah yeah
La la la la labia baby you got something for me (some sweet PT)
Cookie nookie slitty kitty yeah yeah yeah
I diggy giggy murky wiggy yeah yeah yeah
La la la la labia baby you got something for me (in your wizard's sleeve)
La la la la labia baby you got something for me (some sweet PT)

[edit] Notes and inside references

Foxxy gives the housemates a sex ed lesson.
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Foxxy gives the housemates a sex ed lesson.
  • When Clara tells Foxxy and Toot about her curse through interpretive dance, Foxxy misinterprets the move for "stepmother" as "stepfather". After Clara corrects her, Toot looks in Foxxy's direction and says, "Duuuuuuuuhhhhhh!" while her mouth is animated with a severe overbite, like a donkey. This would mark the beginning of one of the show's most frequently employed running gags.
  • In Foxxy's flashback where Wooldoor is dressed as a priest, he gives Clara a Christian bible, but curiously has an Egyptian ankh symbol on his sash. Wooldoor would also be depicted as a priest in several future episodes; his sash would have the ankh symbol on it in those appearances as well.
  • Ling-Ling's drum kit is composed mainly of suspended plates. The dishes are dirty the first time the song is played, but are clean during the song at the end of episode, having been cleaned by Clara's Octopussoir.
  • When Ling-Ling decides he's had enough of doing the dishes, he holds up a sign that says "Lock Out." However, since he is refusing to work, as opposed to not being allowed to work, he is actually on strike.
  • The Octopussoir writes a check to Jews For Jesus, a controversial evangelical organization devoted to converting Jews to Christianity- exactly the kind of charity one might expect Clara to contribute to, given her religious views.
  • The DVD version of this episode contains an extended version of the Clara-Toot exchange at the beginning of the episode. (Lines in italics were cut from the televised version.)
Toot: What happens in fairy tales after the princess has her first kiss, hmmm?
Clara: She runs away with a sexy one-eyed pirate who loves as fiercely as he lives!
Toot: Not that fairy tale, food for brains! The other one!
Clara: Well, let's see... they live happily ever after in a castle... with a couple of... KIDS! Oh my God, I am pregnant!
  • The televised version of this episode also cuts the shot of Prince Charming falling into the pool after shooting himself.
  • As Foxxy is in the confessional discussing Clara's peril, the group chases Clara through the confessional behind her, suggesting that the confessional segments occur simultaneously with the action in the episode. This parodies the confessional segments in The Real World, which are always shot separately at the end of the week. Drawn Together would go on to feature many future confessional segments of this nature.

[edit] Cultural references

  • Foxxy's book on tape is narrated by Droopy Dog, the animated Basset Hound created by Tex Avery for MGM. Droopy is known for his slow, mournful manner of speech, which contrasts humorously with Clara's saucy account of her hot tub kiss.
  • Foxxy thanks Roe v. Wade for her childless condition, referring to the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. This would be the first of many abortion-related gags concerning Foxxy's character.
  • Toot tells Clara that the only way to stop herself from being pregnant is to be pushed down a flight of stairs. Toot does this on the stairs in the house, but says it didn't work. Clara suggests the M.C. Escher room; M.C. Escher was a Dutch artist famous for a lithograph print named Relativity, which depicts a room made up entirely of staircases, all of which lead to nowhere and normal laws of gravity do not apply. The M.C. Escher room that Toot and Clara visit is a duplicate of this lithograph.
  • Clara falling down a flight of stairs while "pregnant" is reminiscent of Diana, Princess of Wales reportedly doing the same while pregnant with Prince William, though in Diana's case, it was a suicide attempt rather than an attempt to end the pregnancy.
  • Wooldoor's blocks spell out the message 2 PAC RIP, a reference to murdered rapper Tupac Shakur.
  • The concept of Clara's vagina being a tentacled monster is a reference to tentacle rape, a theme found in a number of hentai films. The monster might be more directly a reference to the anime Urotsukidoji, which is probably the most famous film dealing with the subject.
  • The scene where the screen splits into four frames depicting everyone in peril, with a time clock displayed, is a reference to 24.
  • The scene where Wooldoor Sockbat gets pulled into Clara's vagina and nearly crushed to death is a spoof on the infamous scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, where Luke, Han and Leia are trapped in one of the garbage smashers on the Death Star, but are saved from being crushed by C-3PO and R2-D2 shutting it down. When Clara's vagina begins to close in on Wooldoor, he calls out, "Threepio! Threepio!" on what looks to be a commlink.
  • The scene where Xandir cowers while Clara's vagina corners him and sticks out its tongue is taken from the film Alien³.
  • Foxxy's "neck-sprain well-lit pie diversion" is a reference to Scooby-Doo, which often featured villains deceiving people with false images created by highly implausible methods.
  • In this episode, it is revealed that Clara's mother died when she was a little girl. This fits in with her being a spoof of Disney Princesses, the large majority of whom have one or both parents deceased, usually their mother.
  • The character of Prince Charming is another stock fairy tale character, often used in stories as an idealized representation of the young female protagonist's true love. His kiss being required to break Clara's curse is based on stories (particularly "The Frog Prince") where the handsome prince has been transformed into a hideous creature of some sort, and the young woman's kiss is required to transform him back. "Beauty and the Beast" (which is also parodied in this episode) is a more complex version of this. Prince Charming's accent is wildly inconsistent in this episode, ranging from accented English to a thick French accent.
  • The scene in which a bachelor begins crying in the back of a limo and rips open his shirt as he implores the other bachelor, "Make me feel good!" is a reference to the Halle Berry/Billy Bob Thornton sex scene in Monster's Ball. According to the DVD commentary, the voices of the two bachelors are provided by creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein.
  • According to Clara's Evil Stepmother, the only way to break the curse on her vagina is with true love's first kiss. However, when Clara thinks she has found true love with Prince Charming, his kiss instead transforms his penis and testicles into a monster themselves. This is a parody of Princess Fiona's transformation scene in the movie Shrek, which itself is a parody of the Beast's transformation in Beauty and the Beast.
  • When Prince Charming shoots himself, he does not die, but his face is charred, and he blinks, reminiscent of the results of gunshots and explosions in Warner Brothers cartoons.
  • At the end of the episode, after Wooldoor escapes from Clara's vagina, he counts off, "Uno, dos, one, two, tres, cuatro", leading into a reprise of "La-la-la-la Labia". This is a reference to Sam the Sham's count-in at the beginning of the song "Wooly Bully".
Preceded by:
Hot Tub		 Drawn Together episodes
November 3, 2004		 Succeeded by:
Gay Bash
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