Bowtime

Bowtime
Season 2, Episode 1
Original air date	September 24, 2006
Written by	Matt Maiellaro
Directed by	Matt Maiellaro
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Bowtime is the eighth episode of 12 oz. Mouse. It was the first episode of Season 2. The episode aired on September 24, 2006.

Plot:

The episode begins as Peanut Cop, Golden Joe, and Roostre are still stuck inside of Mouse's jet from the last episode. Though, Joe and Peanut use their urine from their blurred dicks to bust through the window of the jet car. Their plan works, and they continue peeing everywhere, such as onto trash cans, Shark's car, and Joe even writes his name in urine on a wall, which says - "Golden Joseph." The screen cuts to the interior of Shark's building where Shark's party is still going strong. Liquor begins talking to the Man-Woman. She responds to Liquor's attempt to start a conversation by saying "Stop your stop talk. I'm trying to --" Liquor cuts her off by saying that she isn't reading, due to him knowing what she was going to say next. Liquor asks her "What's behind the case, or are you to scared to tell me?" She harshly says "make me", which makes angrily Liquor grab her and throw her against the shelf. The camera pans over to the bookcase, revealing what's behind it. It appears that Fitz is inside his old home, with his wife giving him a peppermint bowtie for a gift. His wife tells him that the bowtie needs to make contact with his flesh, which makes Fitz feel uncomfortable. The wife demands that he puts on the tie. Fitz holds the necktie up to his face, when the tie's arms pop out. He throws the tie onto his wife, which makes her warp away, revealing that she was a hologram of some sort. Fitz uses his gun to destroy the robot, but this fails, ultimately allowing the robot to multiply. Eventually, one of the bots makes contact with his flesh and it soon drills a hole through him. After Fitz has died, it is revealed that this was all a simulation controlled by Shark. Meaning that the house, Fitz's wife, and the robot bowties were not real, which means Fitz didn't actually end up dying. The camera pans into Shark's control room where it is shown that Skillet is tied up and gagged. The screen cuts back to the party, where Roostre and Golden Joe enter. They both agree that the party is lame. Peanut Cop is shown laying face down in the punch bowl, with the Green-Sweatered woman annoying him. Liquor approaches Roostre, while other people attending the party, including Golden Joe, are stealing items such as Shark's trophy, beer tubs, and beer ice buckets. Liquor shows Roostre the letter that he was given and after this, Liquor says "There's something I have to show you right now." They both head to Liquor's shop, where he leads Roostre to the basement. Liquor stands behind him and hits him in the head with a pipe. The next scene shows the Producer Man entering Shark's Private Quarters room, only to find the Rectangular Businessman hanging on the wall with arrows pierced through him. Eventually, the Producer's Man head is sliced off once again, by an offscreen buzzsaw, as Shark says "Where's the Zinger? We all love to laugh!" The camera cuts back to Liquor's basement, where Roostre is caught in a large web and Liquor tells him "You come too close to restarting everything. You'll set the alarm." Roostre is confused by this, as the shadow of a Spider is shown. Skillet is shown, still tied up and with the Clock moving towards him. Thankfully, the New Guy appears and covers the clock inside of his umbrella body. While its covered, Clock releases his time gas, which makes the New Guy inflate like a balloon, making sure none of it leaks out. As soon as this happens, Mouse jumps through the window to the control room and Skillet uses his laser eyes to tear through his rope. Mouse grabs the New Guy and eventually the wounded and unconscious Eye, with Skillet following behind him. They all jump out the window and escape into the desert. As they are escaping, Shark and the Rectangular Businessman are watching them on a television screen. The latter asks the former if this is the end, which Shark replies with "It's never the end". Soon after, Shark asks Pronto, who appears in front of him, to "take him out, for real this time." The shark and square being continue watching the gang run into the desert.

After the credits, Shark goes outside to his custom car, but finds it full of urine from the Peanut Cop and Golden Joe, saying that "I kinda want to open the door, but I'm scared to".

Characters/Cast:

• Mouse Fitzgerald (Matt Maiellaro) 
• Skillet 
• Peanut Cop (Nick Weidenfeld) 
• Golden Joe (Vishal Roney) 
• Roostre (Scott Luallen) 
• Liquor (Matt Harrigan) 
• Man-Woman (Bonnie Rosmarin) 
• Woman Mouse (Liz Maiellaro) 
• Bowtie Bots, Shark (Adam Reed) 
• Rectangular Businessman (Kurt Soccolich) 
• Clock
• Green-Sweatered Woman (Melissa Warrenburg) 
• Human Citizens 
• Producer Man (Matt Thompson)
• Baby Mouse 
• Spider 
• New Guy 
• Eye (Non-speaking role)
• Pronto 
• Bug

Trivia:

• This is the very first episode to be rated TV-MA in the series.
• A cat can be heard at the end of a scene when Peanut Cop is still urining.
• The skull from "Rooster", "Spharktasm", and "Adventure Mouse", makes one more brief cameo in a transition after Fitz finds a bowtie in a birthday present.
• When Fitz says, "Why? What's that? That sounds like a baby", an owl noise can be heard.
• The production music Ghost Games by Wayne Coster, is heard in this episode. It reappears again in "Eighteen", "Pre-Reckoning", and "Farewell" respectively.
• This episode reveals that the Producer Man has a boss at a restaurant that he works at, the Rectangular Businessman has his own investors, and Roostre has a teacher. None of these people are ever seen in the series.
• The crying emitted by Fitz's daughter from "Spharktasm" is heard again. It has also been heard in the Adult Swim series Squidbillies (in its pilot episode) and Aqua Teen Hunger Force (in the episode "Hypno-Germ").
• Despite this episode taking at night, the exterior of Liquor's store and the post-credits scene of Shark finding his car full of urine take place during the day. The latter of which is absent on 12 oz. Mouse Movie DVD.
• The cat-like statue in Shark's Private Quarters has its eyes glow red.
• Despite voicing the Producer Man, Matt Thompson's name is not present in the credits of the episode.
• After the credits, there is an anagram that appears and reads "Rules are the rules."
• This episode was originally available on Max (originally known as HBO Max), but has since remained missing/unavailable, along with "Surgery Circus" and "Corndog Chronicles" respectively, on there for unknown reasons.
  • Although, around March 2024, the rest of the 12 oz. Mouse series would be taken off of Max.

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Quotes

• Roostre: You say you've done this before, and it's gonna work.
• Peanut Cop: It's like rocketry. Your pee is like rocketry because it rockets out, you know, and if you have two rockets... step back. Here go the rockets.
• Roostre: Alright, just do it, and don't get any on me.
• Peanut Cop: Feels so good. Oh, was that your joe? Ha, ha, ha.
• Roostre: Holy crap, it worked. Okay, okay, it worked, now stop.
• Golden Joe: You can't tell me when to stop, man! You can't tell my jack to stop. Man, that's messed up. I can't stop. Man, you straight up. That's tore up. I can't stop. I gotta go.
• Peanut Cop: You can't stop pee man, it goes and goes... and no, no, no, no, no. Ha, ha, ha.
• Liquor: That's a tricky bookcase, isn't it?
• Man-Woman: Stop your stop talk. I'm trying to—
• Liquor: I know you're reading, but you're not reading. You're not reading, you're not doing anything here, but not doing.
• Man-Woman: Hardly.
• Liquor: What's... what's, uh, what's back there? What's behind the case? Or are you too scared to tell me?
• Man-Woman: Make me.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Oh, man, where's the, uh— What is this? Is this my— Wow, what is all this? What is— This is my office... Or is it? Necktie. Wow, this is a great necktie, thanks.
• Woman Mouse: You have to wear it.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: I really like it.
• Woman Mouse: You have to wear it now.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: I'll put it on in the morning.
• Woman Mouse: The morning was too late. Put it on now.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: What?
• Woman Mouse: You have to put it on now.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Okay. Here. How's this? Is that good?
• Woman Mouse: Tie it around your neck. It has to make contact with your flesh.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: It's late, I'll tie it tomorrow.
• Woman Mouse: Tomorrow is too late. Now is time.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Why? What's that? It sounds like a... baby.
• Woman Mouse: It's our baby.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: We don't have a baby.
• Woman Mouse: We had a baby. When we had her, the time is coming that— to her... us... Put on the tie.
• Rectangular Businessman: Facades of this expense are becoming unpopular with my investors.
• Shark: Your investors are one.
• Rectangular Businessman: I don't know if you know this, but there are many that make one.
• Shark: One is enough for too much.
• Rectangular Businessman: Your jealousy overwhelms your reputation.
• Shark: My reputation is big-time, and recorded. You are eyeless, and squared.
• Rectangular Businessman: 60 of what you think is a reputation for one, is your downfall.
• Shark: Well, we'll see about that in due time, won't we?
• Rectangular Businessman: Time is due, indeed.
• Shark: And you... You need a whiff of my friend.
• Roostre: What's up with this party, man, this blows.
• Golden Joe: Man, this party's straight jack! It's completely whack. I could'a got with Monique tonight.
• Roostre: Will you shut up!? Oh, damn, boy, your voice is like a human P.A. Now where's that baked cop at?
• Green-Sweatered Woman: Who are you? What are you doing at this party? You invited you? Who do you think you are? I know who you are, I know what you're doing here. You know I know. You're weird-looking, I'm not weird-looking, but you're weird-looking.
• Liquor: Hey, are you Roostre?
• Roostre: Sometimes all in caps, depending on—
• Liquor: If I'm yelling at you or not, right?
• Roostre: Uh-huh?
• Liquor: Do you have a son, by any chance?
• Roostre: No.
• Liquor: He went to camp, you went to camp.
• Roostre: How did you, uh—
• Liquor: This letter.
• Roostre: I'll be.
• Liquor: There's something I have to show you right now.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Just when I think I know that I'm thinking, I'm in this cloud. I know that when a man has memories, it's just electrical impulses through the brain that create the memories. And as those impulses travel at the speed of light. Therefore, the brain time-travels, and that's how he remembers... But how does he feel? How does he feel those memories? How does he feel those thoughts? What... what time is it?
• Liquor: In here.
• Roostre: In where?
• Liquor: See this?
• Roostre: Yeah, I see it. What the hell happened in here?
• Liquor: Your letter.
• Roostre: My letter did this? Man, you got a bar around here? 'Cause I'm tired as hell.
• Liquor: Come down here to the basement.
• Roostre: What's a liquor store doing with a basement?
• Liquor: It's, uh, it's for, uh, tornadoes, and s... and some other stuff.
• Roostre: What in the hell is that?
• Liquor: I think you know what it is.
• Roostre: First off, I don't even think you know what I know. Now I'm telling you, I don't know what this is.
• Shark: I did it. I did it and I won, and I beat them all... And it tastes good.
• Producer Man: Hey, kids, no one wins until I win! 'Cause I win at stuff all the time. Ha ha, you got that? Ahh! What the— Ooh! What's wrong, little man? Ha ha, ya got-- got, ya, ya... got some arrows stuck through ya. Ha, ha, ha, zinger! Boing! Ha, ha, ha! Up top! Let's tour, right? Am I right or am I right?
• Shark: Wrong.
• Producer Man: Achachachachacha!
• Shark: Very, very, wrong.
• Producer Man: Come on, Shark, we're a team! It's me and you, and... we go to the zoo, right!? Hehehe, come on, chuck along, buddy.
• Shark: It's over.
• Producer Man: Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga. Baah!
• Shark: Stop it.
• Producer Man: I do it at my restaurant every night, but sometimes I forget, and then the bossman's all, "Do your sidework!" and I'm like, "I'm marrying these ketchups as fast as I can!" Eeeh! Ha, ha, ha! I got these T-shirts made.
• Shark: Look, it's over.
• Producer Man: Shark, it ain't over, it's you, and me, and you, and me, and you, and me, and you— Bap! Damn it.
• Shark: Where's the zinger? We all love to laugh.
• Roostre: Hey, Liquor, come here for a second. I need to talk to you. Uh, this is very important. I need you to find my teacher, tell her I need to get back in the boat, and I need to go home.
• Liquor: Yeah. It's a web. Get it?
• Roostre: Yeah. I get it! Now can you let me out of here?
• Liquor: Let you out? No.
• Roostre: Why me? I mean, what did I do?
• Liquor: You come too close to restarting everything. I know you, you'll set the alarm.
• Roostre: I'll set the alarm? Is there is a beer down here?
• Rectangular Businessman: Is this finally the end?
• Shark: It's never the end. Take him out, and do it for real this time, okay? You're supposed to be good at this. No. you can't go with him because you'll just f*ck it up, because you're re*arded.
• Rectangular Businessman: I'm so extremely bored. What else is on?
• Shark: It's only this. Day after day after day. Mmm. I kinda want to open the door, but I'm scared to.

External Links

• http://www.adultswim.com/videos/12-oz-mouse/bowtime