Spares is an Eddsworld animation by Edd Gould. It was released on May 16, 2008.
Synopsis
A film director decides to create multiple clones of the gang to make more money as they were the only people who watched his movie, however the clones get out of control.
Plot
Edd, Matt, Tom, and Tord are watching a film (The Big Named Monster), clearly enjoying it. The movie ends and the gang leaves the cinema while commenting on how good it was. On the other hand, the evil director, Christopher Bingbong (aka "the Evil Director") is frustrated that his movie was a commercial failure, getting only four viewers. Larry, his assistant, suggests that Bingbong should make a better one, but Bingbong develops a plan to make 4 million clones of the boys by using the DNA that was left on their seats to have, at least, 444 more viewers.
Bingbong makes the clones, fills up the movie theatre, and runs his movie, with a clone of Tom getting sent to a room full of defective clones for not understanding one of the movie's jokes. When Bingbong sees the clones leave the theatre at the end of the movie, he blames Larry for not thinking this through.
Outside of the movie theatre, a clone of Edd asks where should the clones go now, with all of them (except for a clone of Tom who suggests to go shoe shopping) suggesting they should go to the arcade. They all go to the arcade, where they all collectively acquire a massive pile of tickets, only for them to receive a small shark keychain in the prize counter. In retaliation, the clones set the arcade on fire. The clones all decide to go home, after throwing away another clone of Tom in a dumpster for suggesting to go kitten shopping.
Bingbong and Larry both set off to look for the clones, with a passerby pointing them towards a nearby twin convention. Larry notices a trail of empty Coca Cola cans that belong to Edd. Bing initially denies this, but he ultimately decides to follow the trail.
The boys are watching TV when the doorbell rings. Matt opens the door, causing a wave of clones to burst into the living room, much to Edd and Matt's shock, Tom's excitement, and Tord's confusion. Edd grabs a can of Coca Cola from the refrigerator and politely invites the clones to also have something to drink. They all reach for the Coca Cola cans, and a clone of Edd steals the Coca Cola can that was on Edd's hand. Edd gets angry and kills the clone of Edd with a shotgun. The other clones all proceed to push Edd to the kitchen wall until Tom, Matt, and Tord intervene, and a massacre ensues.
Meanwhile, Bingbong notices that the trail of Coca Cola cans ends by a sewage drain near Edd's house. He deduces that the clones must have crawled into the sewage and spread through the many tunnels to establish an underground civilization. There, the clones would get superpowers from the raw sewage they would hibernate in and use those powers to enslave mankind within a thousand of years. He gets interrupted by a clone of Edd flying out of Edd's house.
As Tord kills the last remaining clone, Bingbong and Larry step into the house, intending to dispose of the clones, but they quickly notice the carnage. Just then, Matt and a clone of Matt that has managed to survive the massacre step in. The boys, unable to tell the two apart, decide to throw Tom in a garbage can and have the clone of Matt wear his clothes. Everyone laughs, but Larry eventually snaps and shouts "How do you morons even breathe?!"
In-Jokes
- In the arcade, there is an asdfmovie toy in the skill crane.
- The Eddsworld Cereal from Ruined is a prize at the arcade.
- Bingbong wrote stuff like "I have large genitals" and "AlgeBRA ← heehee" on the chalkboard.
- There is a game called Zoombies!, which was a quote from Zombeh Nation.
- Audio from "Kill Bing", a video from Tom's YouTube channel called, can be heard on the television. However, a sound effect that wasn't from the original video has been added before the doorbell rings.
- In The Big Named Monster, a character has a shirt that has "Moving Target" written on it, foreshadowing Moving Targets, an Eddisode that came out about two months after Spares.
- When the clones get their brains put in, an Edd clone's head gets a toaster put into it. This is most likely the inspiration to the cover of the book Toaster Brains, a collection of Edd's comics.
- On the tickets, it says their value is £0.0001, and the number on it is 5318008, which spells "BOOBIES" backwards.
References to other media
- In both movies, an actor called George Cloonberg can be seen. This could possibly be a parody of George Clooney.
- Larry mentions the famous monster movies Godzilla, King Kong and Jurassic Park.
- One of the rejected Matt clones has real-life Matt's head. The way he speaks is similar to South Park's version of Saddam Hussein, as well as the Canadians.
- During the arcade montage, one clone of Matt looks like Wally/Waldo from Where's Wally/Waldo? Matt was intentionally dressed as Wally/Waldo because of his original YouTube username, wallycube.
- There are 3 games in the arcade similar to real games.
- House of the Lead - House of the Dead
- Fap Fap Revolution - Dance Dance Revolution
- Dunkee Punch - Dragon Punch
Goofs
- The Where's Wally/Waldo Matt was not put in the rejects room. It's theorised that he changed his clothes after he left the movie theatre, but this is unknown.
- The shoes/kittens-loving Tom clones were not put in the rejects room.
- Bingbong most likely didn't notice.
- The Trigger-Happy Tord clone, Nude Edd clone and Where's Wally/Waldo Matt clone were also possible rejects that were overlooked.
- Larry's eye patch switches eyes more than once, this is due to his model being mirrored, or it was just forgotten which side it was on.
Gallery
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Transcript
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References
- ↑ https://tomska.bandcamp.com/album/before-todd
- ↑ TomSka – "Synthdos" on Eddsworld's Bandcamp.
- ↑ TomSka – "Evil Director Theme" on Eddsworld's Bandcamp.
- ↑ TomSka – "Arcade Theme" on Eddsworld's Bandcamp.
- ↑ Sam Houston – "Death Mental" on Eddsworld's Bandcamp.
- ↑ High Five Spaceship – "Spares" on Eddsworld's Bandcamp.