Litter Kills: Litterally
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| “Litter Kills: Litterally” | |
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| Clone High episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 10 |
| Guest stars | Luke Perry as Ponce |
| Written by | Judah Miller & Murray Miller |
| Directed by | Harold Harris, Ted Collyer |
| Production no. | 110 |
| Original airdate | 19 January 2003 |
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Litter Kills: Litterally is an episode of Clone High.
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Synopsis
JFK’s best friend, Ponce de León, a popular kid at school who thinks littering is cool, is horrifically killed by litter, which crushes JFK. Cleo tries to console him, but Abe believes JFK is faking sad in order to get back with Cleo. While wearing orange warmups, Gandhi is mistaken for a death row inmate and gets carted off to prison. Joan tries to save Gandhi and stop all the littering. Scudworth is fighting with Glenn, Clone High’s janitor.
[edit] Episode walkthrough
Ponce (a clone of Ponce de León and a very similar character to Fonzie) appears for the first time ever on the show, as the resident cool kid, who teaches the other clones that littering is cool. JFK and Ponce are best friends, and say so over and over to make sure we understand.
Ponce suggests Cleo and Abe to go to the Teen Sex Cove. Abe is apprehensive, but excited. He thanks Ponce, but says he’s worried that JFK still likes Cleo. Ponce assures them JFK will get over it, and says that “JFK is a good dude.” Abe suggests that Ponce should tell JFK that.
Gandhi shows off his new orange warmups, which promptly get him confused with a death row inmate picking up trash, and then sent off to prison.
Glenn, the high school janitor, is cleaning up Scudworth's office. Glenn is probably the nicest character in the entire show, but Scudworth hates him.
At Abe's suggestion, Ponce tries to tell JFK how much he cares about him, but JFK is put off by the sentimentalism. The two wind up fighting, and Ponce tells JFK that he hates him as JFK storms off. Joan confronts Ponce about littering but he refuses to stop, saying, "Is litter going to kill me?" Ironically, it does. Six-pack plastic rings handcuff him as candy wrappers picked up by the breeze cut him several times. A stray cranberry apple juice box stabs into this throat, shooting juice into his bloodstream. A candy bag lands on his head. He slips on a banana peel and his head hits a plastic jar on the ground. He begins bleeding, and the blood fills up the plastic bag on his head, drowning him. He is dead.
At Ponce’s funeral, Glenn, Ponce's foster father, is interrupted in his eulogy by Scudworth, who wants him to clean up a student's vomit. It is then JFK’s turn to speak. He is wearing Ponce's pants, which were left to him in Ponce's will. JFK is despondent that Ponce's last words to him were cruel. He tries climbing in the coffin with Ponce, and then jumps back out of the coffin screaming. He runs off, followed by Cleo. JFK is slipping further into depression, and that night imagines that he is visited by Ponce's ghost, who he takes to be a genie, despite his insistence that he is just a figment of JFK's imagination.
Gandhi calls Joan to beg for help. He desperately wants to escape prison before shower time, at which point he believes the other inmates are going to rape him. Joan visits the prison to try and help out, and also to tell Gandhi that Ponce is dead.
The next night, Abe and Cleo go to Teen Sex Cove to make out, but tensions rise as Abe confronts Cleo about how much time she has been spending with JFK, who is in the backseat with a GameBoy. Abe believes JFK is only pretending to be sad, in order to get Cleo back. He begins following Cleo and JFK around as JFK grieves in a church. He realizes that JFK is actually sad, and feels guilty. He goes to talk to Joan, who tells him that he must make things right with JFK.
Back at prison, it is shower time. Gandhi enters cautiously. Suddenly, five giant naked inmates surround him. It turns out they don't want to rape him; they just want to welcome him. They are in fact a group of really nice, sensitive guys. Gandhi talks to them about Ponce’s death, and they vow to help him escape.
Abe talks to JFK, apologizing for not helping him out in his time of need. They have a moment. Abe convinces JFK that Ponce would want them to put an end to litter, and they decide to clean up the school. Abe brings Joan and Cleo, as JFK summons the animals of the wild to help out and Gandhi shows up with his death row friends. The group cleans all the litter in the school.
However, because the school is now litter-free, Scudworth fires Glenn the janitor. The clones realise that maybe littering is good, in moderation.
[edit] Featured cast
- Luke Perry - Ponce
- Andy Dick – prison guard
- Donald Faison – inmate
- Neil Flynn – Julius Caesar, Glenn
- Judah Miller – inmate
- Murray Miller – Catherine the Great
- Don Novello – Sunshine (inmate)
[edit] Songs
[edit] I Am Missing You
- I am missing you.
- What am I to do?
- The tears stream down
- Like a flood
- Since you drowned in your own blood.
- Why are you so dead?
- Miss your bloody, bug-eyed head.
- Oh, we can’t replace
- Your dead bloated face.
- You’ve touched us all with the life you led.
[edit] Featured clones
- Ponce de León
- Catherine the Great
- Julius Caesar
- Genghis Khan
- Vincent van Gogh
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- George Washington
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- George Washington Carver
- Nostradamus
- Paul Revere
- Jesús Christo
[edit] References
[edit] Historical references
- Ponce says at one point, "There's no fountain of youth." According to legend, Original Ponce de León spent much of his life looking for the Fountain of Youth.
- Ponce calls JFK “Jackie boy.” Jack Kennedy was a nickname for Original John F. Kennedy.
- JFK says, “I’m a Kennedy. I’m not accustomed to tragedy!” This is an ironic reference to the Kennedy Curse.
- The episode ends with a dedication: "In Loving Memory: Ponce de León 1471-1521, 1987-2003."
- It is in fact not known when Original Ponce de León was born, though most place his birth at c.1460.
- This is the first time we've heard anything specific about when the clones were created, beyond the series' theme song, which simply states it was "way way back in the 1980s."
[edit] Popular culture references
- This episode features Neil Flynn as the voice of Glenn. Flynn also plays the Janitor (named 'Janitor') on Scrubs, another series created by Bill Lawrence. Though the two characters look almost identical, their personalities are opposites. Glenn is one of the nicest characters on his show, Janitor from Scrubs one of the meanest on his. When Glenn first appears, a squirrel runs through shot. This is a nod to Janitor's obsession with squirrels, which includes his own "Squirrel Army".
- Mr. B tells Scudworth he found Scudworth’s secret files “in the bathroom, next to your YM .... and your BM.” YM is a popular teen magazine; BM is a slang abbreviation of bowel movement.
- JFK says he killed Mario when playing his Game Boy and says, "Why couldn't Ponce have had three lives like Mario did?" In the original Super Mario Brothers games, Mario started with three lives.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the only episode of Clone High that begins with a special warning: "Tonight's episode of Clone High is intended for mature audiences only." This warning may have been required by the censors (based on the violent death, nudity, and prison rape jokes contained in the episode); or it may simply have been added by the writers in order to build tension.
- In the spirit of the sad nature of the episode, the normal opening music is sung by a woman, and played at a slow tempo on a piano.
- Early on, Julius Caesar calls Ponce "a regular character", meaning that he’s a joker. Of course, Ponce is not a 'regular character' on Clone High. In the same vein, Ponce refers to Gandhi as "a total original," when in fact he’s an identical clone.
- The thinking dock (from Episode 2, Election Blu-Galoo), where the sun is always in the process of setting, makes a return in this episode. However, unlike in Episode 2, there is only one thinking dock, not two.
- JFK apparently has the ability to control animals to do his bidding. Some of the animals JFK summons are Krabby Kakes (from Episode 7, Plane Crazy: Gate Expectations), Geshy (from Episode 6, Homecoming: A Shot in D'Arc), Woodsy Owl, a unicorn, and, obviously, a dolphin.
- The two writers of this episode, Judah Miller and Murray Miller, also provided voices for an inmate and Catherine the Great, respectively.
- Ponce's theme music, which plays while he talks with Abe, is American Football's "Summer Ends."
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