Mexican't Buy Me Love

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“Mexican't Buy Me Love”
Drawn Together episode

Toot becomes rich by cheating in cockfights by disguising Ling-Ling as a rooster.
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 6
Written by Reed Agnew
Directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill
Guest stars Carlos Mencia as the King of Mexico
Production no. 307
Original airdate November 8, 2006
Episode chronology
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"Mexican't Buy Me Love" is the twenty-eighth episode of the animated series Drawn Together.

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The housemates are split into pairs to play The Newlywed Game for a trip to Mexico. Toot and Ling-Ling win, but their vacation immediately hits a rough spot when they accidentally kill a Mexican prostitute in their motel room one night. The Mexican police chief says he will let the pair off scot free in exchange for a 500 billion-peso bribe (which according to Ling-Ling is "almost twelve American dollars"). They try to earn the money by putting on a donkey show starring Toot, but their endeavors are unsuccessful, as the Mexican people would rather spend their money on cockfights. Upon seeing a cockfight, Ling-Ling decides that this is an honorable form of battle, and promptly enters the ring in the hope of earning the pair enough money to bribe the police. By using his battle powers, Ling-Ling becomes the most successful cockfighter in the land, even becoming something of a celebrity in the process (and causing the Queen of Mexico to become smitten with him). He is invited to appear on a talk show hosted by Jose Leno, a Mexican version of Jay Leno. Leno asks Ling-Ling if he considers cockfighting to be unjust, to which Ling-Ling responds that he considers battling to the death quite honorable. Leno remarks that it is easy for Ling-Ling to say that given how good he is, then informs Ling-Ling that the chickens he is killing in battle are defenseless creatures being forced to fight against their will. This causes Ling-Ling to suffer a crisis of conscience. In the middle of a cockfight, Ling-Ling pulls off his disguise and declares that he refuses to take part in such a horrible activity any longer. This greatly angers the King of Mexico, who orders Ling-Ling and Toot arrested.

Toot in the Mexican confessional.
Toot in the Mexican confessional.

That night, as Ling-Ling and Toot rot away in the prison cell, the Queen of Mexico suddenly shows up to bust them out of jail. Ling-Ling and Toot attempt to escape under cover of night, but as they are leaving, Ling-Ling stops and insists they go back and rescue the chickens. Toot refuses to help him, so Ling-Ling returns to the chicken pen to do the job himself. He tells the chickens that they must revolt, then leads them back to the arena where the fights are held to take on the man in charge of the cockfighting business, the King of Mexico. Ling-Ling prepares to go into battle mode to attack the King, but the King declares that he cannot be defeated as long as he has his magic potion. He then drinks the mezcal worm in a bottle of tequila and transforms into a giant worm. He grabs Ling-Ling and prepares to eat him, but just Ling-Ling is about to enter his mouth, Toot suddenly returns to the scene in a spaceship and kills the King in his worm form with a laser blast (after which she crashes the spaceship into a mountain and explodes). As the chickens devour the giant worm, Ling-Ling states the lesson he learned, that cockfighting is not honorable at all. He walks out of the arena carrying the now-single Queen of Mexico in his arms.

Meanwhile, back at home, the remaining housemates have split off into two cliques: the Cool Kids (Spanky, Foxxy, Clara, and Steve from Long Island) and the not-so-cool kids (Hero, Xandir, and Wooldoor). Hero is desperate to become one of the Cool Kids, but when he approaches them about joining their group, they laugh, then stuff him into a garbage can and light him on fire. Humiliated, Hero runs away from the Drawn Together house. As the Cool Kids are "tickle torturing" Xandir (actually, they are beating him savagely), Foxxy sees a news report on TV that there is a giant meteor speeding toward Earth. Realizing that Captain Hero is the only one who can save them from the meteor, Foxxy manages to track down Hero, but when she tries to convince him to return, Hero balks. Foxxy then tells Hero if he returns to the house and saves everyone from the meteor, she will get the Cool Kids to allow Hero into their ranks. She does this by making over Hero into a suave figure she dubs Hero Calrissian and telling everyone he is her boyfriend.

The Cool Kids.
The Cool Kids.

The Cool Kids are skeptical, but they take Foxxy's word for it and allow Hero into the group. Hero Calrissian proves to be quite a hit with them; before long, his popularity eclipses that of Foxxy. The attention goes to his head, however, as Hero decides he is now too good for Foxxy and dumps her. Foxxy responds to being shunned by announcing to the group that Hero's "coolness" was all a sham on her part, and tells them that Hero isn't cool at all. The Cool Kids decide Foxxy is right, and shun Hero once again. Hero tries to go back to his non-cool friends, Xandir and Wooldoor, but angry at the way he treated them earlier, they won't take him back either. The next day, when the Cool Kids try to give Xandir a chainsaw wedgie, Hero decides enough is enough. He steps in and reminds the group that there was once a time when they all hung out together as equals, and tells them that they're all dorks on the inside. Everyone decides Hero is right, and they all become friends again. The episode ends with the meteor crashing into the planet, which apparently doesn't destroy the world after all.

Musical number: The chorus of "El Cascabel" takes the place of "Ling-Ling's Battle Song" in this episode during his cockfights. A mock-Spanish version is also used once as well, prior to the King of Mexico drinking his "magic potion". Also, a song called "Honey Baked Ham" plays during the dance in this episode; the song was also played during the dance in "A Tale of Two Cows". The song that plays whenever the cool kids are shown is "Feelin' Me" by Kynady Lee.

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Ling-Ling on Leno.
Ling-Ling on Leno.
  • In one part in the beginning of this episode, Xandir, Wooldoor, and Captain Hero were playing a set of cards. Xandir then said something about trading two of his Pikachus for Captain Hero's black star Ling-Ling. This could be a reference to the long-running anime series "Pokemon", in which Ling-Ling is a parody of Pikachu himself.
  • The Hero/Foxxy story in this episode is based on the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love, in which a nerdy teen pays a popular girl to pretend to be his sweetheart so he'll move up in the social hierarchy. The episode title combines the name of the film with the Mexican setting of Toot and Ling-Ling's story, and Xandir's tearful "You shat on my house!" line is verbatim from the movie.
  • At the beginning of the episode, the housemates play The Newlywed Game for a trip to Mexico. Toot wins the trip by answering "up the butt". This refers to a famous blooper from that show in which a woman who was asked for the strangest place she and her husband had ever had sex gave "in the ass" as a response.[1]
  • After Hero finishes explaining why he now files electronically, Spanky comments that he is so much cooler than Lobot, Lando Calrissian's cyborg assistant in the Star Wars series. Ironically, thru the use of mousse, Captain Hero is transformed into Lando Calrissian.
  • This is the fifth episode to use the song played at the end of Empire strikes back.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mikkelson, Barbara and David P.; "Up the Butt, Bob"; snopes.com; August 7, 2007.
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N.R.A.y RAY		 Mexican't Buy Me Love
November 8, 2006		 Succeeded by
Lost in Parking Space, Part One
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