I Am Cliched is the 2nd episode of semi-finale season of I Am Weasel.
Plot[]
An employee calls I. M. Weasel and I. R. Baboon and tells them the recording starts in 5 minutes when they were dressing up (or making... up... ?) in the lobby, then Weasel asks the employee to bring him some coffee, but the employee refuses. I. M. Weasel is tired of his job because every film he is in is just one stupid cliché after another and wishes to go back to the theatre instead, and he's is taking to I. R. about this.
And then, the Red Guy shows up, under the name of the film director Louie B. Bare. Then Weasel complains to Louie that every film he makes is full of clichés and tells him the definition of a "cartoon cliché". But the director apparently, refuses to believe Weasel as he thinks his latest script is the most original episode yet, and afterwards, B. Bare tells Weasel and Baboon to hurry up and move it to the film set.
Then the film starts. The currently-in-production film begins with Weasel asking Baboon about something and then being squished by a falling anvil and telling the director that it's the oldest cartoon cliché in the book. After that, a piano falls on Baboon, after which comes another squish for Weasel. He gets hit by five more anvils, an elephant and a baleen whale, and then I. R. tells him that a kitchen sink is missing from the scene.
Next scene: "Wild Takes"
Louie B. Bare promises that this scene is original and rolls away. Then, Weasel points at a penny and Baboon stares at it with bulging eyes in shock. Shortly after, I. M. points out that "Wild Takes" are older than his grandmother, implying that this scene is a total cliché, and gets shocked by an egg spotted by I. R., after which an anvil lands on both of them.
Next scene: "Wabbit Season"
Louie B. Bare promises that this scene is original, yet again, and the recording begins. I. R. Baboon sneaks up on an unknown rabbit and mimicks Elmer Fudd[1], after which Weasel says "What's up, Baboon?" (What's up, doc?) and sticks the weenie in the gun, blowing I. R. down to dust. I. M. Weasel says that he's never seen this scene before and I. R. Baboon gets crushed by an anvil, yet again.
Next scene: "Coyote vs Roadrunner"
Weasel ("Ferretis i-amis") stops at the rock while he is fleeing from Baboon ("Pinheadis redbuttis"), then he paints a fake tunnel and then runs into it with Baboon, after which, Louie B. Bare shows up asking them about how stupid they are[2] and tells the camera man to "cut" and gets hit by an anvil.
Next Scene: "Pie Scene"
Weasel hits Baboon in the face with a pie and another anvil crushes Baboon.
Next Scene: "Birthday Party"
Baboon is playing the sad birthday girl Sybil amd Weasel is playing her best friend Floretta. After Sybil's husband José left her to sell perfume in China while she is forced to slave away at home with 12 children and their skin-conditioned dog Raoul, Floretta wans to give her a birthday gift to cheer her up. The present is just an explosion that turns Baboon into ashes; he is then crushed by another anvil. "Cut! Now that's comedy!" Louie cheers. Weasel threatens to quit until Louie explains the next scene.
Next Scene: "Weasel Babies"
After a theme song of a diaper-clad Weasel and Baboon, Louie tells Weasel to hold up a "screwball" sign. After he does, a safe falls on Babboon to Weasel's sarcastic disappointment that it wasn't yet another anvil. That is reserved for Weasel instead.
After all of this, Weasel is fed up with Louoe's direction, calling out every cliché and pointing out how old scripts were redone just under Weasel's name. Either Louie gets an original idea or Weasel leaves. Louie accepts Weasel's demand and gives him a new script he wrote.
Final Scene: "The Young and the Wrestlers"
Weasel and Baboon are now starring in a soap opera where they are MD's, operating on wrestlers. Louie comes in as a pregnant nurse. Weasel ultimately decides he preferred the clichés before getting crushed by one final a vil. Louie bids the ladies hello before the episode ends.
Characters[]
- Red Guy (Antagonist)
- I.M. Weasel
- I.R. Baboon
Minors[]
Trivia[]
- Running gags: Getting hit by an anvil (which Weasel comments as one of the oldest clichés in cartoons), Explosions. Red Guy saying that his scenes are "original"
- Cultural references
- Tex Avery's Wild Takes- When Weasel and I.R.'s eyes where stretched during overreaction
- Bugs Bunny- The famous hunting scene with Elmer Fudd (I.R. Baboon)and Bugs Bunny (Weasel) pays homage to the famous hare.
- Road Runner Show- Chasing scene in the desert as well as the famous tunnel painting escape scene.
- Rugrats/Tiny Toon Adventures/The Simpsons/Jim Henson's Showbiz Animal Babies (Weasel Babies)- The logo for Weasel Babies is actually a parody of the said Nickelodeon animated series. The theme song tempo for Weasel Babies pays homage to The Itchy and Scratchy Show from The Simpsons. The name for Weasel Babies is possibly a reference to Jim Henson's Showbiz Animal Babies and the tempo is similar to Tiny Toon Adventures. Another reference of Tiny Toon Adventures is when Weasel mentions Buster Bunny replacing Bugs Bunny in the Red Guy's old script.
- Tiny
- Error: When Weasel was looking at the Red Guy's Bugs Bunny script and says that the director (Red Guy) "Scribbled in Weasel", the former actually points out the word Weenie replacing the word Carrot