Flipping Out

Flipping Out

May 10, 2011

Hey, guys.

So, a strange kid named Flip Turner constantly tries to offer Yuma a card named Baby Tiragon, though his friends try to keep him from taking it. Meanwhile, Astral continues to explore Yuma's key, finding a machine that he could activate. Flip eventually manages to get the card to Yuma under the guise of a fan letter. The next day, Yuma is accused of causing several pranks and is shunned by his classmates. Afterward, Flip challenges Yuma to a duel, where he tricks Yuma into summoning Baby Tiragon so he can take control of Utopia.

But we don't stop there, because Benson informs the gang that the cart is in need of new suspension (he says while looking in Mordecai and Rigby's direction), the abandoned cemetery is falling apart, and the house is in need of general repairs, such as loose floorboards that break under Muscle Man's weight. Because there's not enough money to cover the costs for any of the repairs, he asks the gang to put their heads together to think of a fundraising solution. Rigby demands to know what's in for the gang if their goal is reached and Benson proposes that whoever comes up for their recipe for success will earn a paid day off. Muscle Man suggests a sports tournament with some pristine sports equipment in the shed before falling through the floorboards altogether. Benson asks for more ideas; he shoots down Pops' idea for a bake sale, remains undecided on Skips' idea for a concert, and reluctantly hears out Mordecai and Rigby. The two of them propose a scary movie night in the abandoned and trash-covered cemetery and Benson is all for it. while Muscle Man remains unconvinced, Skips states that there was a movie screening hosted in the cemetery a long time ago that proved a huge success and Pops likes the idea of exploring the art of Macabre in such an appropriate way. Benson greenlights the operation and gives everybody their assignments: Skips will set up the chairs, Pops will handle concessions, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost will rig the decorations, Benson will man the admissions booth, and Mordecai and Rigby are in charge of getting the movie and getting the word out. When Benson warns the two of them that earning a paid day off is dependent on the success of their Horror Movie Screening, they gloat that their idea will work in one of their sing-song duets. Benson shuts them up out of anger, prompting the boys to proceed with their mission.

At the Movie Shack Hut, the boys scour the Horror section looking for the right film. Rigby suggests Mounties of Death: Hoser Spree, but Mordecai doesn't recommend it, citing the book was better. He then finds Libraria, an Italian Horror classic, but Rigby shoots that down right away, saying that any audience would avoid the need for subtitles. When the store clerk overhears their conversation, he lures them in with a notorious Horror blockbuster from his personal stash: Zombocalypse 3D. Rigby remembers this very film from a few years ago, but the clerk explains this is not the same version - It's the foreign bootleg director's cut, which he explains is "3 hours and 28 minutes of remastered pee-your-pants horror and gore that'll make [your] eyeballs barf." He then explains the film's video tape is a zetamax 3D unit which is said to be the only way to truly experience the movie. He then shows the boys the pièce de résistance: the Zetamax Projectron LLX that will play the movie and make all its zombies really "pop". That clenches the pitch and the boys are set for their movie. The clerk hooks them up with enough 3D glasses for their inevitable audience and proceeds to ring them up and the boys high-five, looking forward to their equally-inevitable paid day off.

Once they have their movie secured, the boys proceed to clean up the abandoned cemetery enough to be presentable for their Horror Screening. Once that's done, they proceed with Phase 2 of their operation: Getting the Word Out. It proves difficult at first, as nobody is interested in the fliers they try handing out. Fortunately, the rest of their preparations are coming along wonderfully. Skips has finished setting up the chairs, the new Projectron works like a charm, and the decorations Muscle Man and High Five Ghost are putting together are dressed to kill. As for getting the word out, the boys hang up as many fliers as they can and Benson is soon overwhelmed with customers when the two of them find the right traffic for Horror lovers everywhere. The event is totally sold out and Benson's currency chest is overflowing with cash.

By the time the night of the screening arrives, the venue is packed with customers. While Pops treats everybody to cotton candy, Benson is still in total awe at Mordecai and Rigby actually coming through. Muscle Man, still disappointed about Mordecai and Rigby's idea being chosen over his, sticks with the belief that this movie night will be a failure and keeps his sports equipment handy as a fallout plan. The boys start the movie and it starts off to cheers from the audience. Rigby is afraid when the movie hits a particularly frightening scene. Mordecai tries to comfort him, but only succeeds in startling him into freaking out and he hits the Projectron, knocking the tape out. The movie is interrupted and the audience gets restless, so Benson silently orders the boys to fix the problem right away from his seat in the audience before people start demanding their money back. They scramble to set the Projectron back up and in his haste to clean the tape, Rigby spits on it before putting it back in the Projectron. When it doesn't play, Rigby climbs on it and tries rocking it hard, desperately trying to turn the movie back on in a hurry. His struggling only causes it to fire a laser from its projector scope that hits every tomb in the cemetery, and the electrostatic charge from it seeps down into the ground until it reaches the sleeping corpses, awakening them. Mordecai fixes the problem with the Projectron when he realizes Rigby put the tape in backwards and the movie is allowed to pick up right where it left off just fine. Just then, an actual zombie arises from its grave and tears through the projection screen. At first, the boys are marveling at the claims regarding the state-of-the-art 3D evidently being true, only for them to realize that neither of them are wearing their 3D glasses. When the zombie approaches one of the guests, they realize they've created an actual zombie and must think of a way to get rid of it quickly. When they watch the methodology of the zombie slayer in the movie, they resort to Muscle Man's sports equipment and Mordecai swiftly decapitates the zombie with a perfect discus throw. Just when the two of them think they're in the clear, the entire ground shakes and the rest of the cemetery's "residents" arise from their tombs, ready to devour the audience, who are totally oblivious to the threat thanks to their 3D glasses and the excitement of the movie. Realizing they're about to face a real-life zombie hoard, Mordecai and Rigby team up to keep the zombies away from the people and charge off into battle with the rest of Muscle Man's sports equipment. The two of them shred down the brain-dead monsters left and right while inadvertently entertaining the oblivious audience with their heroism. Just when the two of them appear surrounded, Muscle Man and Skips come to the rescue. Skips mirrors an attack from the movie's hero by kabobbing 3 zombies on a bo staff and Muscle Man saves Pops from one with a shot put. Skips, Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and Hi Five Ghost contain the zombie hoard while the customers still believe it is part of the movie. Just when it looks like the gang will triumph over the undead, a zombie body builder whose name was Howard "Hellion" Fightington (1880–1923) arises after all the others have been defeated. This beast serves as the final boss of the zombie hoard, just like the Master Zombie in the movie's final battle. He defeats skips quickly and redirects Mordecai and Rigby's javelin attacks. With no way of defeating him head on because of his brute strength and nigh-invulnerability, the boys find a golf cart and move it right to the central isle in the audience. Mordecai heroically monologues his declaration of justice to the monster alongside the movie's hero and floors the cart's gas, ramming him head on after jumping out at the last second and destroying him for good in the resulting explosion. The fire from the explosion burns down the screen right as the movie ends and the audience gives a standing ovation to such a spectacular event (still totally unaware of the danger they were in). As soon as they leave, Mordecai and Rigby are able to declare their victory and Benson congratulates them for event, claiming he felt like he was in the movie itself (as stated before, little does he know). He cordially awards them with their paid day off, and declares that they'll earn another one by redoing the exact same thing tomorrow night. As Benson walks off laughing, Mordecai, not wanting to fight another zombie hoard to the death, asks Benson if they could instead take their paid day off tomorrow.

But we're not done yet, because it's dusk, and Finn and Jake are visiting Marceline to show her and her friends the movie Heat Signature. When they enter her house, Marceline introduces them to her ghost friends, Wendy, Booboo, and Georgy. Finn and Jake then try to have a seat on Marceline's couch, but it is apparently very uncomfortable. Marceline says she never really uses her couch because she is always floating, so after a short session of deliberation between the two, Finn and Jake decide that they want to be turned into vampires or ghosts. Marceline agrees to turn them into vampires, but whispers to her friends that she has something even better in mind. She then tells the boys to close their eyes so she can perform the Biting Ritual. Rather than biting them, she merely pinches their necks and dabs ketchup on them to simulate a bite wound. When she is done, Finn and Jake are asked how they feel; Finn says he feels the same and Jake says his neck hurts.

Marceline and the ghosts then continue their prank by making Finn and Jake think that they can suck the color red from things and turn invisible. While thinking that they're invisible, the duo tries to mess with Lumpy Space Princess, who is in the woods. However, it soon becomes apparent that the ghosts are more concerned with harming Finn and Jake when they kick the two for no reason and try to kill them by tossing them off a tower while telling them to fly. Marceline becomes furious at her friends for trying to harm Finn and Jake, but they simply ignore her and try to eat Finn and Jake's guts through their brains after they lure them to their home, 25 Blood Drive, with an invitation to a party. At this, Marceline warns Finn and Jake of the imminent danger, but they ignore her and attend the so called party anyway, where they are almost devoured through their brains. Marceline arrives just in time, seemingly to save them, but she says that she cannot defeat the ghosts and was only there to apologize. Finn laments that they are about to die just because they wanted to be comfortable watching Heat Signature. This reminds the ghosts that they wanted to watch the movie, so they go back to to endure sitting on a solid chair, complaining they would rather go back to being devoured, but Marceline and the ghosts are so captivated by the movie that they do not even care.