Makeover, Makeover, Makeover: The Makeover Episode
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| Clone High episode | |
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| “Makeover, Makeover, Makeover: The Makeover Episode” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 12 |
| Guest star(s) | None |
| Writer(s) | Eric Kentoff |
| Director | Harold Harris and Ted Collyer |
| Production no. | 112 |
| Original airdate | 3 February 2003 |
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Makeover, Makeover, Makeover: The Makeover Episode is an episode of Clone High.
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Synopsis
Prom is fast approaching, and Cleo is excited for Abe’s prom-posal, but Abe is more concerned with finding Joan a prom date. Gandhi wants a prom date to “dry hump,” and JFK makes a bet with himself that he can get Gandhi a prom date. Scudworth is depressed after having received a phone call from his high school rival, John Stamos, and Mr. Butlertron tries to cheer him up. Many makeovers ensue.
[edit] Episode walkthrough
It's prom season at Clone High, and, as Abe comments, "Prom is the single most important event in your life." Abe’s especially excited, because it’s the night "where everyone steps up a base sex-wise." Cleo also thinks prom is important, and expects Abe to ask her to prom (his prom-posal) in the most extravagant way possible, because, as she keeps reminding everyone, she is Cleopatra. Joan is, unsurprisingly, less enthusiastic about prom, but Abe vows to get her a prom date.
At dance practice, Marie Curie talks to Gandhi about prom. She clearly wants to ask him to prom, but is too nervous to do so. Gandhi doesn’t even notice her interest, and talks about how he just wants to find a girl to "dry hump."
Principle Scudworth is filming a documentary entitled Cloney Island: My Plan To Steal The Clones Away From The Shadowy Board: The Movie, which finally fully describes his evil plan to create an amusement park filled with human clones; similar to the amusement park in the movie, Jurassic Park III. His filming is interrupted by a phone call from John Stamos, who went to high school with Scudworth and beat him out for prom king. He now calls every year to brag about it, sending Scudworth into a hysterical depression.
Gandhi tries to find a prom date, but is rejected over and over. He is about to give up hope, when he is accosted by JFK, who has made a bet with his own reflection that he can get Gandhi a prom date. He gives Gandhi a makeover, turning him into GFK, "a shorter, browner Kennedy." Marie Curie finally gets the courage to ask Gandhi to prom, but he insensitively rejects her for the much more attractive Catherine the Great.
Abe is still determined to get Joan a prom date (while almost ignoring Cleo). He asks Joan to let him give her a makeover, and she agrees because it lets her spend time alone with him, but his makeover is so horrible that it just makes her feel worse. Toots tries to help her by giving her another makeover, again making things even worse. Cleo comes into the room as Joan is crying. Cleo is angry that Abe is thinking so much about Joan, and so little about her; but when she finds out Joan never had a mom, she feels sympathy for the first time in her life, and gives Joan another makeover. This makeover includes going to the Prom Dress Store, then the Lingerie Store, then the Guns n’ Ammo store, then robbing a bank, and then getting pedicures. When the made-over Joan is finally revealed, she looks "like a slutty teenage beach whore," but it makes Abe finally notice her. He then has a dream, where he realizes he may actually have feelings for Joan.
Meanwhile, Mr. Butlertron suggests a makeover to make Scudworth feel better. It does, and he decides to run for prom king in order to finally beat John Stamos. Suddenly, the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures come on screen, and tell Scudworth that they have a copy of his movie and know his evil plan. They inform him they’re coming to kill him and take the clones away, on prom night! Scudworth faints. To be continued...
Meanwhile, GFK and JFK have become good friends, but JFK accidentally lets it slip that his makeover of Gandhi was a bet. GFK realises the error of his ways, and goes back to being plain old Gandhi. He apologizes to Marie Curie, and asks her to prom, but she already has a date. This means Gandhi will have to go to prom stag! To be continued...
Meanwhile, Abe is finally ready for his prom-posal, but who will he ask: Cleo, or Joan? Finally, the words come out of his mouth: "Will you go to the prom with me, JCL--" To be continued...
[edit] Featured cast
- Sarah Chalke – Marie Antoinette
- Donald Faison – Toots
- Neil Flynn
- Murray Miller – Catherine the Great
- Debra Wilson – Eva Perón, Harriet Tubman
[edit] Featured clones
- Henry VIII
- Marie Antoinette
- Anne Boleyn
- Helen of Troy
- Nostradamus
- Marie Curie
- Catherine the Great
- Susan B. Anthony
- Eva Perón
- the Brontë sisters (mentioned)
- Harriet Tubman
- the Elvis twins
- Sigmund Freud
- Rock Hudson
- Frida Kahlo
[edit] References
[edit] Historical references
- While asking Marie-Antoinette to prom, Henry VIII accidentally decapitates her with his helicopter. He then asks Anne Boelyn. This incorporates several historical facts.
- Original Henry VIII had a total of six wives, several of whom died. Therefore, it would make sense for cloned Henry VIII to just keep asking out women, even shortly after the last woman he asked out died horrifically.
- Original Marie Antoinette also died by decapitation.
- Original Anne Boleyn was Original Henry VIII's second wife, just like cloned Anne is the second person cloned Henry asks to prom. Also, we don't see how this prom-posal goes, but considering that Original Henry VIII decapitated Original Anne Boelyn, we can assume the prom-posal goes similarly.
- After Catherine the Great rejects Gandhi's prom-posal, he says, "Ah, get off your high horse." This refers to the urban legend that Original Catherine the Great died by being crushed to death while engaged in bestiality with one of her horses.
- Gandhi asks Susan B. Anthony to prom by saying, "I got a dollar that says you got an addiction to friction." Susan B. Anthony is pictured on the rarely-used US dollar coin.
- While Abe is trying to figure out what his dream means, Sigmund Freud is sitting right behind him. Original Sigmund Freud was one of the first to study dream interpretation.
- Marie Curie says Rock Hudson "really knows how to treat a lady." Original Rock Hudson was gay.
[edit] Popular culture references
- While on the phone with John Stamos, Scudworth tells him, "Say 'hi' to Rebecca for me," referring to Stamos' supermodel/actress wife (at the time) Rebecca Romijn.
- Three magazines that appear in the episode are Kozmo, Mz, and Vanity, referring to Cosmopolitan (a.k.a. 'Cosmo'), Ms., and Vanity Fair, respectively.
- Gandhi uses slang from two notorious hip-hop songs: Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out?” and MC Hammer’s “U Can't Touch This”.
- JFK refers to Gandhi's slang as "all wet," a bit of slang that hasn't been popular since the 1920s.
- Scudworth makes passing reference to Subway's Sub Club program, of course not referring to it by name.
- Scudworth's fainting scene is reminiscent of the lady fainting during the intro of PBS' Mystery!
- The GFK makeover subplot is much like the plot of the film She's All That, as well as several other teen movies. GFK's line, "Tell me I was a bet! Tell me!" is taken from She's All That.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the fifth episode to feature the footage of Joan and Cleo fighting from Episode 8, A Room of One's Clone: Pie of the Storm.
- In the car, Abe calls Cleo 'Joan,' hinting at what's to come in the next episode.
- JFK apparently uses the women’s washroom.
- Abe’s makeover of Joan is inspired by three magazines: Kozmo, Med Journal News, and Sci Fi Gore.
- The double thinking docks from Episode 2, Election Blu-Galoo are back. In Episode 10, Litter Kills: Litterally, one of the thinking docks had mysteriously vanished.
- Abe’s poster to get Joan a prom date reads as follows:
- I WANT YOU
- To be my prom date
- -Janeane Garafolesque
- -Good birthing hips
- -Shaved
- -Not religious
- 'Janeane Garafolesque' refers to Joan's similar comedic style to the sarcastic dry wit of comedienne Janeane Garofalo
- 'Not religious' is particularly funny, considering Original Joan of Arc died for her religion.
- We find out Joan never had a mom.
- When Principal Scudworth throws the fetus jar against the wall, it cries "Mama."
- Scudworth's makeover takes places at the Hilarious Costume Shop, which has a sign on its door proclaiming, "Hijinks within."
- The movie detailing Scudworth's evil plan is titled, "Cloney Island: My Plan to Steal the Clones Away From the Shadowy Board: The Movie," a reference to the way Clone High episodes are titled.
- There are a total of five makeover montages during this episode.
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