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“Fun Dungeon Face Off” is the first episode in Season 1 of Clarence and the first episode overall. The episode was produced around 2013, but the show did not air until April 14, 2014.
Synopsis
Clarence's Mom treats Clarence, Jeff and Sumo to an afternoon at Rough Riders Chicken, a fast-food restaurant with a play emporium. When Clarence and Sumo steal Jeff's fries, Jeff is forced to confront his germ phobias head-on in the restaurant's seemingly unsanitary play area.
Plot
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The episode begins with Buckey O'Neill on the TV, sitting by the fireplace, telling a story about how he discovered chicken nuggets and “founded” the town of Aberdale.
Sumo is mesmerized by the TV while he watches the same video constantly repeat over and over again. Clarence is dancing and singing about how much he loves the food and Jeff tells him that he only likes the fries. Clarence keeps asking him if he likes any of the other food there but he keeps telling him that he only likes the fries. Clarence initially is shaken up, but then asks “What about the Fun Dungeon?”, as he gestures over to a playpen with a bunch of little kids running around in it. Jeff cringes in fear. Mary goes up to the counter and orders some food. Mary orders the Chicken Parfait, Clarence orders a Hip Watchers Salad, and when Sumo orders, he speaks so fast and slurry, the cashier can't understand him, Sumo orders a Chicken Burger with Sriracha sauce and Chicken Nuggets. Clarence translates the stuff that he said to her. When Jeff orders, he orders a scout meal without the burger. The cashier tells him that he can't order a scout meal without a burger. Mary suggests about just give the burger to Sumo instead, but Jeff continues to argue that he wants to have a scout meal without the burger. Mary whispers to the cashier to just put it on the side.
They all go to their table where Jeff takes a girly cow toy out of his bag and sighs because he not ask what he wanted. Jeff takes out his burger and throw it away where Sumo tackles the and goes to the ketchup machine, smothering the burger in ketchup. Clarence asks Jeff if he likes the Fun Dungeon, but Jeff tells him that he thinks it’s unsanitary because kids have probably vomit in there and nobody even cleans it.
Clarence and Sumo start eating their food in a rather very sloppy and messy way. Jeff is scared by this and then excuses himself to go to the bathroom. Clarence then asks Jeff if can have one of his fries and reaches it with his messy hands. Panicked, Jeff angrily shouts in objection, causing the customers to look at him in disbelief. Mary gets embarrassed and advises Jeff to use his inside voice. Clarence calmly settles Jeff as he apologizes for his overreaction, then asks Clarence to promise him to make sure that he nor anybody else touches his fries. Clarence agrees with him that he will do that. Jeff slowly walks away to the bathroom, looking back at Clarence. As soon as Jeff goes out of sight, Clarence hastily grabs Jeff's box fries. Clarence tells Sumo about his plan to get Jeff to come into the Fun Dungeon with them while he puts the fries into his back pocket and they both run into the Fun Dungeon.
When Clarence and Sumo get into the Fun Dungeon, Clarence puts his shoes in the cubby, takes out another pair of light up girly shoes from another cubby and puts them on. When they hear Jeff coming out of the restroom, they both run and hide behind the slide. After Jeff witnesses that his fries are missing and one of them is lying in the seat where Clarence was, he panics and chases them into the Fun Dungeon. Clarence climbs into the ball pit and swims through while Jeff angrily chases after him. Clarence climbs up into the net tunnel and then Jeff grabs the end of it and whips it, making Clarence slip and fall, getting his arms stuck in the holes. Clarence quickly pulls them out of net and crawls away before Jeff can get to him. Clarence goes to some tunnels and tries to decide whether he should go into the pink or blue one.
Clarence chooses pink and Jeff chases after him. In the pink tunnel, Jeff meets a little boy, who says “Hi” to him. Jeff goes to a window and looks for Clarence, only he sees Sumo in the restaurant playing with the girly cow toy. Suddenly, a giant hand covered in grease and ketchup slams onto the window, which scares Jeff. The hand is revealed to be Clarence who is on top of the tunnel. Jeff notices a broken window of which Clarence must have went through to get on top of the tunnel, he kicks it out and climbs on top of it. There, Jeff rips the foam padding off of the metal bars and starts slapping Clarence with it. Clarence gets another foam patting and uses it to defend himself. They jump down into a lower tunnel whereas Jeff keeps swinging and hitting the foam patting at Clarence while Clarence backs away, defending himself. This draws attention from all of the other kids in the Fun Dungeon.
Mary is back at the table where her friend Sammy comes up and asks if her son Sean can play with Clarence. Mary assures that it would be great if he could do that because everyone loves Clarence. The scene then cuts back to show Jeff screaming about going to kill Clarence aggressively. Clarence manages to enter inside of the playpen and goes to the slide where he slips and falls in, but he catches the sides with his feet and hands. Jeff puts his foot on Clarence's face and gives him his final warning to demand him about where his fries are.
Clarence reaches into his back pocket and pulls out the fries before throwing them back at Jeff, but by accident, he spills them out onto the slide and they slide down. Clarence fears that Jeff will get mad, but instead he just tells him that he has his own personal reasons and opinions for things that he would never understand. Clarence begins to slip until then Jeff grabs him by the leg and saves him. They both ended up slide down to the bottom where all the fries are and Sumo is eating them. Mary comes up and tells them that they're playing too rough and that it's time for them to go home.
While everyone all leaves the Rough Riders restaurant and to the Parking Lot, Clarence apologizes to Jeff for what he did. Jeff also apologizes too for trying to kill him anyway. Clarence holds out his hand, which is still covered in sauce, grease and salt, and Jeff hesitantly shakes his hand in acceptance. When Jeff grabs his hand, Clarence clenches it with both of his hands and shakes it, horrifying him. While going into the car, Clarence is completely unaware that he hasn't got his own shoes where the girl cries about her missing shoes. Clarence asks Sumo about where his girly cow toy is. Sumo lies to Clarence, telling him that he doesn't care about “some girl toy”, but in reality has a flashback to all the good times he had with that girl toy and how much he misses it, set to a song he sings. The girly cow toy and Clarence's shoes remains at the restaurant as it closed for the night.
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Characters
Main Characters
Supporting Characters
Minor Characters
- Sean
- Nathan
- Mavis
- Cashier
- Buckey O'Neill (actor)
- Dustin
- Rodney (debut)
- Blaide
- Patsie
- Courtlin
- Breehn
- Guyler
- Kennan
- Crendle
- Percy
- Marlie
- Darlie
- Todd
- Bertie
- Minor characters
Trivia
- This episode was released on Cartoon Network's official YouTube channel on April 6, 2014, 8 days before its official TV release, just like Uncle Grandpa had one of its first episodes officially on YouTube a week prior to its launch.
- Moral: Respect other people's property and complex reasons.
Production Notes
- For the Title card, the producers used french fries from a real life fast food restaurant, McDonald's.
Characters Connection
- This episode reveals that Jeff is afraid of playpens, mostly because he considers it an unsanitary place.
- It is also revealed that he only likes to order fries when he comes to eat to a fast food restaurant.
Cultrual References
- Buckey O'Neil was a real person in the rough riders yet never was mascot for a food chain, founded a town or related to the invention of chicken nuggets. His physical appearance resembles that of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States and leader of the Rough Riders, a volunteer military unit that participated in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Pop Culture References
- The Scout Meal is similar to a McDonald's happy meal, where you get a burger, fries, drink and toy, but you get other stuff like chicken nuggets in replacement of the burger.
- Rough Riders Chicken appears to be a parody to fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Chick-fil-A. The Fun Dungeon is even a reference to the play areas in certain McDonald's and Chick-fil-A's.
- Hip Watchers is most likely a parody of Weight Watchers.
- The song at the end where Clarence is shown wearing the pink shoes is a parody of “Oh Yeah” by Yello which is used famously in The Simpsons and the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It was made by Simon Panrucker.
- The scene where Jeff and Clarence fight each other with foam tubes is a reference to the lightsaber duels from the Star Wars movies.
Goofs
- In the original scene, Jeff slides his girl toy to the side of the table Sumo is eating at before tossing the burger away for the latter to catch. In "When I Got That Girl Toy", when Jeff slides the girl toy over to Sumo, the latter is already eating his burger.
Songs
International Airdates
- Latin America/Brazil — August 18, 2014
- France — September 20, 2014
- Italy/Nordic countries — September 24, 2014
- Turkey — October 15, 2014
- United Kingdom — November 3, 2014
- Portugal — November 30, 2014
- Germany/Netherlands — December 1, 2014
- Central and Eastern Europe/Poland/Russia and Southeastern Europe — December 8, 2014
- Southeast Asia/Taiwan/Philippines — January 7, 2015
- Spain — January 25, 2015
- South Korea — February 18, 2015
- Middle East and North Africa — March 2, 2015
- Japan — March 8, 2015
- India/Pakistan — June 2, 2015
- Czech Republic (in Czech) — November 7, 2017
- Ireland (in Irish) — September 18, 2019
Gallery
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Transcript
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