Plane Crazy: Gate Expectations

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Clone High episode
“Plane Crazy: Gate Expectations”
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 7
Guest star(s) Ashley Angel as himself
Writer(s) Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Bill Lawrence
Director Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Production no. 107
Original airdate 8 December 2002
Episode chronology
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Plane Crazy: Gate Expectations is an episode of Clone High.

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[edit] Plot

[edit] Synopsis

Cleo gets a chance to be on guest star Ashley Angel’s Dance Academy, Abe is worried this might ruin their relationship, and Joan sees this as her chance with Abe. Gandhi becomes an international hip hop sensation, with JFK’s help. Scudworth is being bothered by a pesky skunk named Skunky-Poo, who has a fondness for TNT.

[edit] Episode walkthrough

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Abe is out with Cleo on an incredibly romantic date, a gondola ride complete with flowers, a violinist, fireworks, and “eight magazines worth of Drakkar Noir.” Abe is hoping to get his first kiss (not counting the kiss they shared in Episode 1, Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand), but she doesn’t think it’s romantic enough for a first kiss. Later, at her house, Cleo decides she’s ready, but they’re interrupted by Cleo’s Drunk Foster Mom. Cleo has received a letter, accepting her to the prestigious Spring Break Dance Academy run by Ashley Angel from O-Town. It’s an MTV-style dance show filmed far far away, on the sunny beaches of Canada. Abe is worried about the distance, but Cleo is too excited to notice.

Abe confides in Joan and Gandhi. Gandhi says “You wanted a kiss, but instead, you got bupkiss.” He realizes he has rhymed, and takes it as a sign he should become a rapper. He goes to see JFK, the only person he knows who has a recording studio in his house. JFK is busy recording his annual Fourth of July album, but, after hearing Gandhi rap, agrees immediately to take him on.

Meanwhile, Scudworth is busy performing experimental surgery on the clones to implant “brain-wave transmitters” so he can “see and hear everything they taste and smell,” but he is interrupted by “the pizzicato tiptoeing of a pesky skunk." It’s Skunky-Poo, a cute animated skunk with the slogan “Try and catch me, bitch!” Skunky-Poo gives Scudworth a lit stick of TNT, and then sprays him in his face. It’s Scudworth and Skunky-Poo in ‘Love Stinks!’ Scudworth moves his surgeries to a china store, but Skunky-Poo tricks him again, again exploding him, spraying him, and also destroying the priceless china.

Cleo is about to leave, but Abe catches her at the airport and convinces her to wear his letterman’s jacket on the show. They also make an agreement so that she remains faithful: No touching below the eyebrows. Gandhi also catches her at the airport, and slips into her pocket a copy of his single, "G*Spot Rocks The G-Spot," to give to Ashley Angel from O-Town. Later on, he watches the show with Joan and Gandhi, who inform him that his agreement is useless, because all celebrities are completely hairless. True enough, on the show, she is not wearing the jacket, and is grinding into Ashley Angel from O-Town so hard that Gandhi’s (or G*Spot’s) single flies out and into the DJ’s CD player. He plays it, and it becomes an instant hit.

Abe, however, is angry. He talks to Cleo, who is receiving a foot massage from Angel from O-Town. Cleo feels worried, and decides to leave to patch things up. Angel from O-Town, however, is smitten with her, and tries to convince her to stay. She goes home, but Abe is too angry and she decides to go back to Canada City. However, at the same time, Abe re-watches the video tape, and realizes that she was wearing the jacket. It had shrunk down in Angel from O-Town’s hot tub, and she was wearing around her neck. He gets to the airport as fast as he can, but her plane has already left. At that moment, Joan drives up and offers to help Abe out. Cleo’s flight has a stopover in Atlanta City, and Joan offers to drive Abe there. They make it just in time, but Cleo says she can’t throw away her future for him. She gets on the plane, and Abe watches it fly away. Then, Cleo suddenly appears right in front of Abe, saying “Love works in mysterious ways.” And it really is love, because right then and there, they share their first kiss (still not counting the kiss they shared in Episode 1, Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand).

Meanwhile, Scudworth decides to catch Skunky-Poo using a trap involving Free Bacon, but Skunky-Poo outsmarts him again, and Scudworth winds up exploded, sprayed, and smashed with an anvil. Scudworth finally gives up, and hides out on a tropical beach. He orders a hot dog, and the waiter gives him catsup, which is actually another stick of TNT. The waiter is a crab named Krabby Kakes, whose slogan is “You’ve got crabs, ass-face!” It’s a whole new show, Scudworth and Krabby Kakes in “Help! I Got Crabs!”

G*Spot is suffering a creative slump after the success of his first single. JFK decides to take a sample of one of his own songs, and then Gandhi can rap over that sample. He calls it songtaking. The episode ends with the booty-filled music video for his new song, "UR A G Old Flag."

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[edit] Deleted scenes

  • Originally, Gandhi’s photo of Sarah Michelle Gellar was supposed to be signed “Buffy,” not “Sarah Michelle Gellar.” It was changed by accident, when the person actually doing the signing simply was told to write the wrong thing. [1]
    • The person doing the writing was Sascha Escandon, the post-production co-ordinator on The Osbournes, whose office was right nearby that Clone High offices.[1]
  • Every time Scudworth smelled skunk, he would accuse Mr. Butlertron of farting, using a variety of colourful euphemisms.[1]
  • Originally, Scudworth was simply eating a sandwich when he was bothered by Skunky-Poo. The network executives were worried that this plot had nothing to do with the students. The writers rewrote it “so that the Shadowy Figures informed Scudworth that Chinese scientists were coming to Clone High to stick mind-control sticks into the students’ brains…. The Chinese needed the place to be nice and quiet, and the Shadowy Figures put Scudworth in charge of making the school presentable.” Eventually, this was whittled down in the interests of saving time.[1]
  • A long scene during Joan and Abe’s trip to Atlanta City, where they stopped for food at Arby's, and discussed at great lengths how wonderful Arby’s was.[1]

[edit] References

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  • The second part of the title is a reference to Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
  • Scudworth’s subplot is a tribute to Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes cartoons. The sound effects, music, animation style, and use of title cards are all similar to the Looney Tunes cartoons. One of the few differences is that Scudworth actually seems to get hurt a lot.
    • In the scene in a china store, Skunky-Poo cross-dresses in order to trick Scudworth; a technique often used by Bugs Bunny to trick Elmer Fudd.
    • Later on, Scudworth sets up a trap for Skunky-Poo involving a dish of free bacon in the middle of a desert highway an obvious reference to Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
  • Gandhi has a picture of Sarah Michelle Gellar, which is signed, “To Gary - Good luck ‘slaying’ that cancer! (Heart) Sarah Michelle Gellar”
  • One of Gandhi’s lines in “UR A G Old Flag” is “Do the Bartman,” which is the name of a rap song sung by Simpsons character Bart Simpson.

[edit] Trivia

  • Cleo’s Drunk Foster Mom is introduced in this episode.
  • This is the first time we see JFK recording one of his annual holiday albums and “laughing at gay lyrics.” This time, it's his annual Fourth of July album, and he laughs at the lyric “fruited plain” from America the Beautiful.
    • The next time is in Episode 11, Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode.
    • The joke about Buddy Holly’s plane ride is from the original nine-minute Clone High pilot. In that version of the joke, Joan saw Abe and Cleo making out at a party (not unlike in Episode 1, Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand) and decided to go home. She went up to Buddy Holly and asked if he needed a ride, and he responded that he had a ride with Richie Valens and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Valens then said, “Hurry up, Buddy! We don't have much gas!” and Vaughn said, “And that lightning storm won't fly through itself!”[1]
    • The legal department wouldn’t allow the makers of Clone High to show any of the people Buddy Holly mentions, actually sitting in the plane, because it would cost a lot of money in royalties.[1]
  • Despite the relatively complicated plot of the next episode (Episode 8, A Room of One's Clone: Pie of the Storm), the only thing featured in the “Next time on a very special Clone High” segment is the catfight between Joan and Cleo.
  • The geography in this episode is more than a little questionable. Canada has no “Canada city,” and is not known for its “sunny beaches.” Also, Cleo’s plane has a stopover in “Atlanta City,” a mix of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
  • Very similar scenes at airports, including calling someone’s name, running through a throng of mostly Japanese tourists, and yelling “Don’t get on that plane,” occur eight times throughout the episode.
  • The phrase, “Ashley Angel from O-Town," is uttered eleven times during the episode. It is also shown written out once - on the signs held up by his adoring fans.
    • The same phrase is uttered once during the previous episode (Episode 6, Homecoming: A Shot in D'Arc). It is said by the Announcer, during the preview for this episode.
  • It is implied Cleo has had sex with at least five people: JFK, a college boy at cheerleading camp, her dentist, her tennis instructor, and Ashley Angel from O-Town.
  • Scudworth gets blown up by TNT four separate times during the episode: in his office, in a china store, in a desert, and on a beach.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Pava, Adam. Episode Seven: 'Plane Crazy: Gate Expectations' Notes (HTML). CloneHighUSA.com.

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