The Clowning

Carl juggles Frylock's things.

The Clowning
Season: 2 Episode: 20
Overall episode number: 38
Production code: 220
First Aired: December 7, 2003
Writers: Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis
Director(s): Jay Edwards
Guest starring: Matt Maiellaro as Styro-Head and Hayden Ward as Carl's Girlfriend.

Plot: Dr. Weird's buttock eats his hand and Steve orders a hoagie.

Carl shows up at the Aqua Teen's door to reveal that his house is infested with termites. He mutters that he won't sign for any more packages with "Congo" written in blood. Meatwad hurries over to receive a termite of his own. Throughout all this, Carl seems to be level headed, a trait that he does not usually portray. He reveals that he has gotten a wig, and it cost a substantial amount.

Carl is later reading a magazine on how to pick up girls, when Shake suddenly appears in his room. Carl tries to remove the wig, but finds it stuck to his head. Carl is distracted by Shake, who is rummaging through his belongings. When Carl leaves, his manikin head grows fangs and devilish eyes.

Carl wakes up to Shake standing in his room. Carl's hair has now changed color from brown to blue, and become much curlier. Shake is quick to anger Carl, and is then thrown out the window. As Carl leaves the room, his manikin head speaks to a floating head with a clown wig on. They argue, and then part ways as Carl reenters the room.

Later that day, Carl brings home a prostitute. The Aqua Teens follow him, and through the holes in Carl's wall, watches as Carl plays an air guitar solo, only to be interrupted by the Aqua Teens. As he steps outside to speak with them, his hair gains more mass and becomes red. After they argue, he proceeds to have sex with the now passed-out prostitute.

At the Aqua Teen's house, an examination of Carl's hair reveals that he is infected with Clown DNA. The prostitute runs out screaming, and Carl follows with white skin, purple blotches on his skin, a clown nose, huge feet, and a clown car. He goes to the Aqua Teen's house for help. Frylock attempts to cut Carl's hair off, but it only grows back and lands on Meatwad. Meatwad shortly develops the symptoms that Carl had, and Carl walks out with a balloon resembling a shotgun, asking God to kill him. Frylock freezes him until he can find a cure.

In the next scene, an apocalyptic future 67 years later is depicted, and Carl, being used as a coat rack (and still in a frozen state), is knocked over and presumably killed. The now over-the-hill Aqua Teens struggle to remember Carl's name, and the episode ends with Frylock yelling at Shake and Meatwad exclaiming that he has shattered his hip.

Also, at the end of this episode, Dr. Weird is in his lab presenting that it how the wig works. Now showing a frozen clowned Steve, the Styro-Head comes up to Dr. Weird. Dr. Weird exclaims, telling him "stop telling me to do things!".

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