The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II

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“The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II”
Drawn Together episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 1
Written by Matt Silverstein, Dave Jeser
Directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill
Production no. 201
Original airdate October 19, 2005
Episode chronology
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"The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II" is the eighth episode of the animated series Drawn Together.

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[edit] Storyline

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The conclusion of the cliffhanger involves the cast crash landing on a supposedly deserted island, a parody of Survivor presumably forthcoming. However, just as Survivor host Jeff Probst shows up, Foxxy tells the other houseguests that after a season on a reality TV show they're officially celebrities, so they go to the airport located in the city on the other side of the island and head to Hollywood. Toot (who had fallen out of the helicopter just before it crashed) is left behind, where she becomes an object of veneration for the island's native people, who think that she's a beached whale. In order to please her, they begin feeding her everything—and everyone—they can get their hands on. In Hollywood, the houseguests discover that no one really cares about reality TV stars; Wooldoor, depressed, hangs himself. After the funeral, the other houseguests all head back to the Drawn Together house, the only place they really belong. The producer allows them to return, but demands that they find a new housemate to replace Wooldoor. After exhaustive interviews, they finally select Strawberry Sweetcake, an eighteen-year-old who looks eight, which satisfies Captain Hero's long dormant pedophile urges. Harmony is quickly broken, though, when Wooldoor—who was still alive—comes back to the house and reveals that his people were systematically slaughtered in a mass genocide by the Sweetcake people and turned into snack foods. Strawberry Sweetcake insists that it's all in the past, and everyone should just let bygones be bygones. Wooldoor is skeptical, but even he succumbs to Sweetcake's charms, and finally, everyone forgives her. Everyone except Foxxy, that is, who is convinced that Sweetcake is up to no good.

Foxxy snoops around Sweetcake's living space, but just as she discovers a vital clue, she gets captured. In the meantime, Strawberry Sweetcake tags Wooldoor, and induces him to climb into a boiling pot. The houseguests confront Sweetcake about what she is doing, but it is not until Foxxy manages to get free that she shows them the full horror of Strawberry Sweetcake's plan—a vending machine filled with snack foods made out of dead Sockbats, including several close relatives of Wooldoor. The houseguests prepare to capture Sweetcake and bring her to justice, but she manages to get hold of Xandir's sword and threatens to kill them all. Back in the islands, the native people have given all they have to Toot, and have nothing left to feed her, so they pack her with dynamite and blow her across the ocean; the resulting rain of vomit from everything Toot ate destroys the island. Toot crash lands back in the Drawn Together house, where she saves the day by eating Sweetcake. The episode ends with everyone- including Wooldoor- eating Sweetcake's Sockbat Snacks.

Musical number: "Sunshine", which plays while Sweetcake and the housemates enjoy a series of fun activities together, including flying kites together, riding a seesaw, playing Russian roulette, having a massive group orgy, and clubbing baby seals.

[edit] Notes and inside references

  • At one point in the episode, a one-liner by one of the characters is accompanied by a native playing a drum response on a turtle shell. Throughout the rest of the season, once in a while, a one-liner by one of the characters cuts to a scene of the same native playing the same drum riff. This is a reference to old-fashioned nightclub comics, who, after delivering a one-liner, would gesture to the drummer, who would then play a sting.
    A Survivor parody? No, Hollywood stardom!
    A Survivor parody? No, Hollywood stardom!
  • The creators told TV Guide in their 2005 Fall Preview Issue that a main character would be killed off; this was fulfilled in a variety of ways, albeit not in the way fans expected. Wooldoor does appear to die, but then he's proven to be alive and well; Strawberry Sweetcake dies when Toot eats her, but she was technically a guest character.
    • Fan speculation was that Toot would be the character replaced due to a preview clip on Comedy Central's website that showed her falling out of the helicopter when it comes apart in midair.
  • After the crash, Clara takes a roll call of the characters to see if anyone's missing. She refers to her fellow castmates as: "little retard, swine, rat, big retard, Xandir, blacky boo" and "fatty fatty two by four can't fit through the kitchen door," referring to Wooldoor, Spanky, Ling-Ling, Hero, Xandir, Foxxy, and Toot, respectively. Oddly enough, she does not have a condescending nickname for Xandir.
  • Right before Jeff Probst arrives, Xandir is seen fishing with a harpoon, which consists of Ling-Ling tied to a stick with his ears as the point.
  • When Jeff Probst introduces the island's natives, the three kids in the foreground all look a bit like him.
  • Apparently, Jeff Probst's three-foot long penis, Foxxy's breasts, and the island virgin's full frontal nudity were all actually animated into the episode and then covered with censor bars for airing; they will most likely appear unedited in the Season 2 DVD. An uncensored version of the "Simon Says" scene will likely appear on the Season 2 DVD as well.
  • Wooldoor's age is finally revealed in this episode. When he hangs himself, his birth and death dates are given in the Anno Mundi reckoning used by the Hebrew calendar. His year of birth is given as 5753, which equates to the Gregorian year 1993, making Wooldoor about thirteen years old as of the episode's airdate.
  • During the revolving door montage, Princess Clara is seen getting turned down by Double Hemm, the production company that makes Drawn Together. Ling-Ling is denied an audition with Disney Food Supply.
  • After discovering Foxxy in the closet, Captain Hero finds two "clues"; lubrication jelly and tissues, items commonly used in masturbation. Later, after Toot falls through the ceiling, Captain Hero is shown with a belt around his neck, an act commonly committed as part of autoerotic asphyxiation.
  • The "this season on Drawn Together" teaser that airs at the end of this episode confirmed that Season Two would include the unaired "Terms of Endearment" episode, as the creators had already indicated on the Season One DVD. Clips from the next four episodes (through "Clum Babies") are included as well.

[edit] Animated cameos

[edit] Cultural references

Xandir tries to get a role outside reality TV.
Xandir tries to get a role outside reality TV.
  • The blowing off of the helicopter's back and one of the passengers being sucked out is a spoof of the movie X-Men 2; in that scene, Anna Paquin suffers the same fate. It's also widely believed to be a reference to the pilot for the hit ABC drama Lost.
  • Captain Hero's line, "With my super powers, I easily could have saved us, but I couldn't react. Why not? Because I smoke marijuana. Still think drugs are cool?" is a reference to a series of advertisements in which marijuana use is shown to be directly responsible for horrific tragedies (often involving a child dying); all of the ads end with a brief voice-over commenting on marijuana's dangerousness in comparison to its public perception as a harmless anti-drug. As implied by the creators' use in this situation, most people who have seen the commercials consider them to be lurid, ludicrous, over-dramatic, and exaggerative.
  • When the cast return to the decimated ruins of the Drawn Together house and meet up with the Jew Producer, he expresses frustration over what it will take to repair the house. Just then a giant paintbrush sweeps over the ruins and returns the house to its original form. This is reminiscent of the classic Daffy Duck cartoon Duck Amuck, in which Daffy is tormented by an unseen animator.
  • The situation between the Sweetcakes and the Sockbats is an obvious parody of the Holocaust; the constant references to pajamas are a reference to the striped, thin uniforms concentration camp prisoners were forced to wear. Sweetcake makes it clear at the end of the episode that the Sweetcakes are supposed to represent the Nazis, and that Wooldoor's people are supposed to represent the Jews when she refers to him as "hook nose," a common derogatory remark for Jews. After Wooldoor explains the genocide of his people to the housemates, Clara dismisses his story as part of a plot by the "Sockbat International Bankers," a satirical swipe at Holocaust revisionists and Zionist conspiracy.
  • When Wooldoor wakes up in his coffin, he says that he was able to escape because he'd seen Kill Bill. The music that plays while he breaks out of the coffin is the exact same music that plays during the "buried alive" scene in Kill Bill Vol. 2. The following scene of Wooldoor digging back to the surface is a reference to the arcade game Dig Dug.
  • Toot's dynamiting by the natives is a parody of the exploding whale incident in Oregon, down to the view of the explosion and the smashed cars from the falling pieces.
  • The scene where Wooldoor hangs himself is a parody of Brooks Hatlen's suicide in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. The paper clip that offers Wooldoor advice while he writes a suicide note is a reference to the computer program Microsoft Office, in which users can activate an animated Office Assistant that offers them advice; one of the icons users can choose is an anthropomorphic paper clip nicknamed "Clippy".
  • When Wooldoor "dies," the screen fades to white and a title card appears listing Wooldoor's birthday and date of death. This is a reference is to the HBO show Six Feet Under where every episode begins with a death, and after the death the screen fades to white and the card gives the deceased's name and birthday.
  • Xandir's special video game move is called the "reach around," a slang term in gay sex for the penetrating partner masturbating the penetrated partner.
  • The way the Sockbats are turned into food is reminiscent of the film Soylent Green, which involves the only affordable food in the future being made from people's corpses.
  • At one point, the leader of the island natives makes a speech to Toot listing all the things she has taken from them, culminating with the pledge that "We will never let you take—our freedom!", a direct reference to the speech Mel Gibson delivers as William Wallace in Braveheart.
  • When the houseguests fly away from the island and pass over Toot in the water, she yells "Wait!" while an instrumental piece from Titanic plays. At the end of that movie, Kate Winslet's character yells "Wait!" to a departing search and rescue boat, only for them not to hear her.
  • The soiled underwear in the vending machine and Ling-Ling's enthusiastic reaction is a reference to a trend in Japan in the 1990s in which girls were paid money for their used underwear, which was then sold in vending machines. The panty-machines were eventually outlawed; they have since become objects of fetishism in Japan and can be found in underground and illegal pornography stores.
  • After Sweetcake is chosen as the new housemate, a new opening sequence is shown which features Sweetcake as a housemate instead of Wooldoor. At the end of the opening, Toot jumps out of the water over a boy standing on a rock, a reference to the movie Free Willy.
  • After Foxxy exposes Strawberry Sweetcake's plan, she angrily says, "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that meddling schwoogie!" This is a direct reference to Scooby-Doo, where the villain would always say, "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" as the police take them into custody.
  • Wooldoor's red ribbon is a conflation of two different concepts: the awareness ribbon used to show support for a cause, and the string tied around the finger, a device that forgetful people use in order to remind them of some important piece of information. In Wooldoor's case, he is using it as a reminder to "never forget" the slaughtering of the Sockbats.
Preceded by
The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist		 Drawn Together episodes
October 19, 2005		 Succeeded by
Foxxy vs. the Board of Education
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