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"Clarence's Millions" is the fifth episode in Season 1 of Clarence and the fifth episode overall.[1]
Synopsis[]
Clarence creates his own form of currency causing the school to be turned upside down.
Plot[]
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Ms. Baker is reading the class The Tale of The Quirksons as Clarence and Sumo have a rubber band war. It interrupts lesson, which costs them each a buddy star (Clarence is left with one buddy star and Sumo was left with -5).
In the hallway, Breehn, Blaide, Dustin, Courtlin and Darlie are talking about how Jeff has twenty-three buddy stars, and wondering if they have enough,
That night, Clarence wonders about the buddy stars, thinking they only make people sad. So, he decides to make his own reward system. He uses technical ways (such as turning off the light with trays of water), but rejects all of them, but then notices the answer right in front of him: crayons and paper!
So he then creates his very own set of my dick Dollars. The next day he hands them out, giving Crendle a dollar for showing up, Marlie for a matching teddy bear T-shirt and backpack, and Nathan for trying his best. Ms. Baker tells him that he can't give them out if someone hasn't achieves in something. Jeff agrees. At lunch, Jeff tells Clarence to stop giving out Clarence dollars. Clarence gives the dollars to Sumo.
The next day, Clarence sees everyone with Clarence Dollars. Sumo came up with the idea of trading them for things. So Clarence makes more and gives everyone dollars. Ms. Baker tells him he shouldn't reward people for bad things, but Clarence says that Clarence Dollars are for everybody.
That night, however, Clarence has three nightmares about his currency, and the next day, everyone (except for Clarence, Jeff, Breehn, Nathan, Sumo, Dustin and Hector) has lost their minds and fight over the Clarence Dollars. Jeff and Clarence devise a plan to dissolve the madness. Jeff suggests making so many that they become worthles. So they go to the copy room and copy a bunch of Clarence Dollars, and handed them out.
Everybody takes them, but notices everyone has the same amount and it isn't worth trading.
Just then, a kid shows up, explaining a deck of cards called "Tappy Cards" from his uncle in California (a reference to Pokémon). The kid says to win, you have to "Buy Them All" but with real money, not Clarence Dollars. Everybody drops their Clarence Dollars and runout of the room.
Clarence and Jeff walk down the hall and see Belson with a bunch of dollars in his hands. Belson calls the dollars Belson Bucks. Clarence tells him that everybody is into Tappy Cards, and then Belson drops his dollars in disappointment. Sumo then comes by and says he has freezy pops, he paid for with all his Clarence Dollars before the crash. Jeff wonders who would want that many Clarence Dollars, and then it reveals Chad, rolling around, laughing in piles of them.
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Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
- Mary
- Chad
- Breehn
- Dustin
- Nathan
- Percy
- Darlie
- Kimby
- Chelsea
- Blaide
- Crendle
- Gabbie
- Alison
- Mavis
- Kennan
- Guyler
- Debbie
- Marlie
- Patsie
- Gilben
- Courtlin
- Malessica
- Buddy
- Dunkin
- Coco
- Reed
- Tinia (cameo)
- Dennis (mentioned)
- Bully
- Gary
- Try
- Bos
- Tracy
- Todd
- Chet
- Maggie
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to premiere without another new episode.
Continuity[]
- This is the first episode Clarence gets his title in an episode.
Character Connection[]
- This episode shows that Jeff is Ms. Baker's class student with the most buddy stars, and Sumo is the one with the least of them with -5 stars. Clarence only has one star after losing the second one at the beginning of the episode.
- This is the first episode that Clarence thought of doing something that could destroy the school. First, he thought of burning the school down, and took Jeff's "flood the market" term literally, thinking of flooding the school.
Production Notes[]
- In the storyboard, there was a part where Mary enters the backyard and sees Chad raking the leaves while Clarence offers him a Clarence Dollar, this was cut from the final version.
- The original ending for the episode was to show Chad being arrested for trying to purchase something with the Clarence dollars.
- Ironically, judging by the background of where Chad was arrested at, the store building resembles a real-life store, Home Depot.
- The video that showed the original ending to the episode had "The Power of Love" playing in the background before he is arrested.
Episode Connections[]
- This episode was later referenced in "Straight Illin", as sick Clarence was willing to give anyone his Clarence Dollars.
Cultural References[]
- The episode's title is an allusion to the movie Brewster's Millions.
- The scene where Clarence dreams of swimming in money is a parody to the DuckTales intro, where Scrooge McDuck dives and swims in gold coins. The music also sounds very similar to the famous DuckTales theme song.
- While Clarence was in his room near the window, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figure can be seen.
- The montage music is styled after "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity" by Tomoyasu Hotei, most famously used in Quentin Tarantino's movie Kill Bill Vol. 1.
- Tappy Cards is a parody of Pokémon (a video game by Nintendo but became an anime and trading card game), although the look of the cards more resemble Yu-Gi-Oh!, another anime based also on trading cards.
- The "Space Moles" video game Belson shows up is implied to be a parody of Star Fox video games.
- When the kids were walking down the hallway with sunglasses on and Clarence poured a bag of Clarence dollars on the table and said "Alright come and get 'em'." it was a parody to another Quentin Tarantino's movie, Reservoir Dogs.
- The saturation of the market with Clarence Dollars is very similar to the concept of hyperinflation.
- The storyboard cover art for this episode is a parody of the iconic cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind".
- A parody of "Little Nemo" can be seen in Clarence's third and final nightmare.
- Clarence was being a millionaire with his Clarence Dollars. This references the character Thurston Howell III from the 1964-1967 sitcom Gilligan's Island. Another reference to the series, is Clarence having a dream sequence.
- The grade c-plus references the movie A Christmas Story.
- The buddy star system parodies The Good Noodle system from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "New Student Starfish."
- The Maroon-Shirted Girl's DNA looks just like Penny Proud from the TV series The Proud Family.
Errors[]
Belson listed as "Belosn"
- When Ms. Baker took Clarence's 2nd buddy star away, later on, it appears to still be placed.
- Ms. Baker gives Sumo negative 5, later on, it changes to negative 4.
- The kid with the Tappy Cards is labeled as "Naked Kid".
- It is unknown how Belson got many buddy stars in the buddy stars list. It could have been Jeff.
In the Epic Whoa-Ment Maker scene for this episode, only some of the audio is present. This may just be an error by Cartoon Network, or it could have been removed for a certain reason.
- Belson is listed as "Belosn" in the credits.
Censorship[]
- The deleted scene where Clarence tells Jeff to grab gasoline to destroy his own creation by burning them along with the imagination of the school burning before he said he'll flood it instead was deleted in Netflix Asia.
Gallery[]
The gallery for Clarence's Millions can be found here.
Transcript[]
The transcript for Clarence's Millions can be found here.
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