Food of the Clods

"Food of the Clods"

Season

1

Airdate

September 28, 1997^[1]

Staff

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Norb sleepwalks while watching movies and Dag intends to prove his brother's crazy habit.

Episode Summary[]

the Episode starts off with Norb who is preparing spicy junk foods to watch an old B movie called, The Amazing Colossal Colossus, on the TV. He invites Dag to join him, but Dag declines, stating as he goes off to bed that they've already seen it multiple times. While watching the movie, Norb engorges himself on spicy junk foods and falls asleep in front of the TV, hypnotizing himself into acting out the movie in his sleep and waking Dag up by spraying him with water. Dag puts his brother to bed, commenting how their mother told them never to wake a sleepwalker or they'll "go bahooties."

The next night, Norb denies having sleepwalked and prepares to watch another B movie called, X: The Creeping Thing. Once again, he falls asleep in front of the TV and begins to act out the movie, scaring Dag awake. After Norb wakes up the following day with no memory of the previous night's events, Dag decides to stay up with Norb and keep an eye on him. As the two watch yet another B movie, Viking Women From Venus, Dag Says that he will not fall asleep so that he can prove his brother's crazy habit. but just 15 minutes later, Dag falls asleep in front of the TV. but then he is quickly awoken by sounds coming from behind the Tv, Norb dressed as a Viking woman jumps out from behind the Tv, This Causes Dag to Scream in shock, he recounts the spicy foods and the bad horror movies, as Norb slams his makeshift battle axe down onto the living room table and eats more spicy foods dag then realizes what's Going on With his brother Norb, who begins chasing Dag around the dam. Norb is not sleepwalking, but "nightmare-walking!"

As Norb chases his brother around the dam Trying to strike him with a make shift battle axe, Dag quickly tries to reason with Norb Recounting if he is Nightmare-walking then he is never to wake a sleepwalker or they'll "go bahooties." but as he hides behind the sofa Norm Slices the Sofa in half with his Makeshift battle axe, Dag then Guesses that he is "Going bahooties." he tries to wake Norb but fails. Norb chases Dag around the living room which then it leads to Dag Running into their Closet and Norb chases in after him and then Dag Traps Norb inside their closet and Locks the door and then he panics trying to figure out what to do, then he sees the Spicy snacks and the movie still playing, he decides to become a Viking woman in order to combat Nightmare-walking Norb as Norbs Makeshift Battle Axe pierces through the door almost hitting Dag on the head. so he begins to overeat with the intention of sleepwalking himself. Right as Dag falls asleep, the movie cuts to a hair loss/dance commercial. As Norb begins to stalk his brother, Dag goes into the closet putting something on then Norb slowly approaches the Closet about to strike Dag, Dag reveals himself as a dancer with a fancy hairdo acting out the commercial he just saw; Norb, after a brief moment of confusion, attacks him anyways with his Axe Trying to hit him But Dag's Dance moves Make Him Doge all Norbs attacks, Dag moves towards the Tv and wiggles his Hip's Saying "aaaaaaand Wiggly Hips! Wiggly Hips!", Norb Confused he decides to throw his Makeshift Battle Axe onto the floor and Attack Dag with his bare hands. The beavers begin to mimic the movie to the point where they are shown in the movie itself with the professor in the movie saying "....it's like some...some kind of night mare..." Dag and Norb Both Keep Battling one another still Nightmare Walking which ends up both of them tumbling right into the living room table which still has the spicy snacks on it, As the Viking women in the movie drink more radioactive lava, the beavers eat more snack foods. As the beavers' stomachs expand, the Viking women in the film explode.

The next morning, Norb and Dag lie on the couch bloated and nauseous from eating way to much spicy foods last night, blaming each other for the previous night's events not realizing that it's both their own faults for Previous night's events. As the TV begins to play another B movie, The Oozing Flesh of the Rotting Hand, the beavers are heard to vomit, thus ending the first season of the series.

Production Information[]

This episode, along with "Bummer of Love" is the season 1 finale of the series.
Despite this being the final episode of Season 1 to air, it is not the final episode of Season 1 to take place.
- According to the Timeline, "Long in the Teeth" is the next Season 1 episode to take place after this episode.
- The actual final Season 1 episode to take place is "I Dare You."
This episode, along with "Bummer of Love" aired exactly one year after a previous Season 1 episode titled "Go Beavers!" took place.
This was the last episode to have aired in 1997.

Trivia[]

This is the second episode with the title card to be animated. (The first being is "Bummer of Love").
This is the first episode in the title card to have in black and white. (The second being is "It's a Spootiful Life").
This is the only episode to use Associated Production Music.
One planet was mentioned: Venus (the planet of thick clouds and many volcanoes), thought Venus doesn't have life (like the viking women for example).

Allusions[]

The episode title is a play-on the H.G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods.
The Amazing Colossal Man - The B-movie The Amazing Colossal Colossus is an obvious spoof on the 1957 black-and-white science-fiction film.