The First Stage

"The First Stage" is the seventh episode of the first season of Thursday Spin-Off, and the 7th overall.
==Plot==
The guys initiate the first step in their plan to expose CrazySponge.
==Transcript==
[Cuts to Gary and Thomas sitting on the couch watching Hoopla’s Fantastic Beach]
Gary: Haha, this writing is so bad. I feel sorry for whoever had to write this shit.
Thomas: Umm… that would be me.
Gary: Oh really? Pfft, your writing is terrible. [Carl and Stan walk by] Yo, dudes! Can you go sauce me and Tommy a beer?
Thomas: Don’t call me that, Gary.
Gary: Alright, sorry.
Carl: How about you get it yourself. In fact, we don’t have time for this right now. We’re supposed to be sabotaging Box Productions right now. [Carl and Stan walk away, Thomas leaves the couch too. Gary sits there for a second and then jumps up a second later.]
Gary: Ay, wait up! [starts to run into the other room as his pants sag down] Oops. [tugs them back up]
[We cut to the short title sequence. We then cut to CrazySponge sitting back in his office chair as the workers around him do everything.]
CrazySponge: That’s right, that’s right, get er goin. We need to make some money. Gotta make up for those lousy interns.
[cuts to all the workers working intensely on multiple machines and computers, clearly distressed]
CrazySponge: Oh, that’s right. Hard work. Speaking of hard work, it’s time for me to start doing some of my own.
[whips out laptop and looks up a video of the Hoopla Fish from SpongeBob as we can hear him yelling]
CrazySponge: Now THIS makes me feel good. [at that moment, FireMatch walks in abruptly.]
FireMatch: Sir?
CrazySponge: [shuts laptop] I WASN’T WATCHING EROTIC HOOPLA VIDEOS!
FireMatch: Who cares if you were? We have a bigger problem on our hands!
CrazySponge: Well, I would’ve had another problem on my hands if you didn’t barge in like that.
FireMatch: [facepalms] Listen, you know how you fired Thomas? And suspended Carl and Stan? Well, I’m starting to think that was a bad idea.
CrazySponge: Why?
FireMatch: Don’t you think they’re gonna have more ground on us now that they’re not there?
CrazySponge: Can you elaborate, I don't understand.
FireMatch: [eyes narrow] You laid them off. They’re gonna have a motivation to sabotage the good name of Box Productions.
CrazySponge: Can you dumb that down just a teensy bit more? 
[shows FireMatch with his arms folded and eyes narrow as it cuts back to the apartment. The four of them are standing in a room together. Stan has a notepad.]
Stan: Alright, we need some ideas. 
Carl: The way they treated us was awful. Right, Thomas?
Thomas: Uh… yeah, this show has drilled that in for the last six episodes. You wish you would’ve been here before, because wow. CrazySponge treats his opposition worse than he treats his employees.
Stan: Really? [jots down notes] What do you mean by that?
Thomas: One day… [cuts into a flashback where Thomas is at his desk. CrazySponge rushes down the hall with a stack of letters.]
CrazySponge: Matchy, Matchy, come quick! It’s urgent.
FireMatch: What, boss? [Thomas stares at the encounter] 
CrazySponge: That punk Purple is producing 3 shows that can easily put my company in the dumpster.
FireMatch: You mean our company?
CrazySponge: No, mine. Anyway, Cult of Squid, Evicted!, and Total Drama SBFW are all skyrocketing in value! Universal acclaim for all three of them!
FireMatch: Damn, this rivalry stuff is harder than I thought.
Thomas: [gets up from desk] Sir, we need to think bigger. We need to think of a show that can rival Cult of Squid’s humor, Evicted!’s zaniness, and Total Drama SBFW’s plot! I have some ideas!
CrazySponge: Shut up, intermediate, that’ll never work. [raises hand for effect] Instead, we need to discredit those shows and tell the public how boring they are. Like a campaign ad! I’ll get started right away.
[cuts back to the present]
Stan: Yikes. That’s pretty fucked up.
Gary: Well, their business practices as a whole are terrible. Like what they did to me. [cuts to flashback where CrazySponge is in his office with Parad0xGamerYT. Gary walks in.]
Gary: You wanted to see me, sir?
CrazySponge: Well, not really. You’re fired.
Gary: What?! Why?!
CrazySponge: Gary, what the hell is this? [projects coding job that Gary did onto a screen]
Gary: Um… something that took me 3 months to make?
CrazySponge: Awful, absolutely awful. Pathetic. Pathetic, abysmal, in fact. Totally disgraceful. No effort was put into this at all. And this patent you made with the coding style?
Gary: Ye-- HOW DID YOU GET THAT?!
[Cuts to a broken apart desk drawer that was obviously broken into.]
CrazySponge: I have my reasons, this patent? It’s now mine. Sorry not sorry, Gary, you’re out! 
[Gary walks out with his head down as he slams the door behind him. CrazySponge then turns to Parad0xGamerYT.]
CrazySponge: Hah, sucker. That was a great job by him. And now I don’t even have to pay him! AND I OWN THE CODING STYLE HAHA!!
Parad0xGamerYT: Doesn’t that sound cruel, sir? I don’t mean to argue with you, but-
CrazySponge: Silence, slave. It’s just business. Now time for me to flex Toon Disney over Pluto like I’m jingling keys to a baby. [flashback over]
Stan: Woah. How did you know that last part?
Gary: Tommy Boy is a great whistleblower.
Thomas: For the last time, Gary, MY NAME’S THOMAS! NOT TOMMY!
Gary: Easy there, Tom, easy. Don’t wanna blow a fuse.
Carl: Woah, woah, calm down there, guys. We’re in this together. Now, Stan, did you remember what CrazySponge did to Polar?
Stan: Hmm… 
[curs to another flashbook through the lens of Stan, who is stacking shelves filled with scripts. He looks over to see CrazySponge on the phone.]
CrazySponge: I’m telling you, Matchy, you shouldn’t have been out for this. Polar copied my stuff!
FireMatch: [on other end] Are you sure, boss? That’s a pretty serious accusation. 
CrazySponge: Look at this! Fakality Island?! Look at this BS!
FireMatch: Uh, sir, we’re on a call. I can not physically see what you’re trying to show me.
CrazySponge: Oh, right. Well, he copied Mr. Craps’ Survivor! We worked so hard on that!
FireMatch: Damn. What should we do about it? Have a discussion with her?
CrazySponge: Nah, we can’t do that. We need to look at the bigger picture. What we really need to do is make fun of Piece! I mean hey, if The Simpsons and Family Guy did this back and forth shit, then so can we.
FireMatch: Are you sure boss? This is the type of stuff that starts wars.
CrazySponge: Eh, who cares if we do start a war. Wars are fun!
[cuts back to present]
Stan: [writes down the last of it] Wow, look at all this. Instigating the war, insulting outside companies and workers, spreading falsehoods? Boys, we are so ready to take on BP.
Gary: Damn right.
Thomas: Gentlemen, I believe it is time.
[Cut to the credits sequence with “Creep” by Radiohead playing, credits end and we cut to Gary, Thomas, Carl, and Stan sitting on the couch again.]
Gary: You know, Carl? (looks over at him) You never got us our beers.
Carl: You know what? (heads over to the kitchen)
Gary: Oh boy, nothing like a cold beer out of a fridge you didn’t pay for.
[Carl comes back with a couple of bottles and throws them both at Gary]
Carl: There’s your beer, bud. 
[Gary is soaked with beer while he looks off into the distance. Episode ends.]
==Appearances==
* Carl Fabbro
* Stan Jonathan
* Gary
* Thomas
* CrazySponge
* FireMatch
* Parad0xGamerYT
==Trivia==
TBA
==Reviews==
*B+ - This episode felt much more competent than the other 6 thus far. - FireMatch
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