Food for Thought

Food for Thought is the first episode of the third season of Better Days, and the 17th overall.
==Plot==
Mr. Shicowa's daughter comes to town, in means to fix the food situation at the Retirement Complex, but it's more complicated than she thought.
==Transcript==
===Act I===
[Episode begins with an outer shot of The Retirement Complex, a bunch of trucks and a semi pull up to the building, we then cut to the inside where all the seniors are gathering into the auditorium.]
KRABS: What’s going on?
DAVE: Some presentation is being held and we’re all supposed to participate for some reason.
MURIEL: I was in the middle of looking for Crazy Frog Collectible Faces, I don’t have time for this!
MR. RICHARDS: You don’t have a lot of time to begin with, besides, this presentation won't take long, at least according to the guy who scheduled it.
SHICOWA: Didn’t we just have a presentation yesterday?
MR. RICHARDS: No, that was an intervention because someone took a dump in one of the urinals in the staff bathrooms.
SHICOWA: (begins laughing) Oh yeah.
MR. RICHARDS: It wasn’t funny! Now grab a seat.
[As Shicowa sits by Krabs, Betty, Muriel, and a few others, the lights go dark.]
MAN: I’VE GONE BLIND!!
[Lights start flashing and we begin to hear music]
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome… ELON MUSK OF TESLA!
[Some of the old people start clapping, some say “Tes-what?”, we cut to Elon Musk walking out on stage]
ELON: Thank you thank you. Now, It doesn’t look like anything else. So we’ll start off with the size, the dimensions. And the inspiration. So the functionality I’m going to describe is within a space that is less than the most popular pickup truck in the United States, the F150. So we didn’t cheat in either width, height, or length, and we’re able to achieve much greater capability in the same dimensions, same weight. Yeah. Part of this is the fundamental design change, we moved the mass to the outside. We created an exoskeleton.
STEVEN: Is that where you break up with your old skeleton?
ELON: No. So normally the way that a truck is designed, you have a body on frame, you have a bed on frame and the body and the bed don’t do anything useful. They’re carried like cargo, like a sack of potatoes. It was the way that aircraft used to be designed, when they had biplanes, basically. The key to creating an effective monoplane was a stressed skin design. You move the stress to the outside skin. Allows you to do things that you can’t do with a body on frame. So we’re able to make the skin out of thick, ultra hard stainless steel. It’s really hard. We’re going to show you just how hard.
[A guy comes out and hits the truck with a sledgehammer]
WALTER: (jumps out of his seat) HE’S DESTROYING YOUR CAR, SOMEONE STOP HIM!
[A few of the retirees get out of their seats and attempt to rush the stage but are stopped by some of the workers and are forced back into their seats, the presentation continues]
ELON: Why am I here you ask?
DAVE: We didn’t ask.
ELON: Well, today your Retirement Home will be providing you all, in groups of 4, Tesla Trucks, (quietly speaking) mainly to test them out (normally) and so you can all go and drive like how you used to.
BETTY: I drove last week!
MR. RICHARDS: Into a lamp post!
ELON: The trucks should be available later today after we calibrate them, so you can all resume what you were doing.
[The retirees begin exiting the auditorium when Mr. Shicowa is approached by a middle-aged girl.]
SHICOWA: Oh, I forgot!
KRABS: What?
SHICOWA: Guys, this is my daughter, Mackenzie.
EUSTACE: Nice to meet ya.
BETTY: Hello.
KRABS: Welcome to the complex.
MACKENZIE: Don’t mind me, just here for my annual visit. What’s going on anyway?
SHICOWA: We’re all getting these new Tesla trucks to test out.
[An announcement comes on over the P.A.]
WORKER: Everyone head down to the cafeteria, it’s time for lunch.
[All of them groan]
MACKENZIE: What’s wrong with lunch?
DAVE: It’s mainly all filler food, nothing good, nothing for our health, it’s basically just bread all day but it’s not even bread.
MACKENZIE: (thinks to herself) Let me see what I can do about this.
[They all walk off into the lunch room, Mackenzie walks in a different direction, we cut to black, end of Act 1.]
===Act II===
[We fade back into a Tesla Truck where Mr. Shicowa is in the driver’s seat and a Tesla worker is showing him the various buttons and things]
TESLA WORKER: Now here’s your auto driving function button, when pressed it will drive for you and if you don’t respond to its automatic check in system it will pull you over.
SHICOWA: Alright.
[Tesla worker hands him the keys]
TESLA WORKER: Have fun, and let us know if you encounter any problems.
[Betty raises her hand in the backseat]
BETTY: I have a problem.
TESLA WORKER: What?
BETTY: Oh I hate trucks.
[The tesla worker stares blankly, and walks away without saying a word. Mr. Shicowa starts up the car and drives out of the parking lot and onto the road, we cut to the streets where people notice them, a guy runs out.]
GUY: RUN EVERYONE! THE ELDERLY ARE DRIVING!!
[Everyone except the retirees in the Tesla trucks, begin screaming and running away, causing various fires and destruction in the process. Cut to the inside of the tesla truck.]
KRABS: What’s wrong with them?
EUSTACE: The president must be coming to town.
KRABS: Oh.
BETTY: Hey Mark where’s that daughter of yours?
SHICOWA: Oh Mackenzie? She’s going to complain about our food service to Mr. Terry.
BETTY: ...may she rest in peace.
[We cut to Mackenzie going up an elevator into a hallway where there’s a receptionist at a circular desk on the phone.]
MACKENZIE: Excuse me?
RECEPTIONIST: Yes?
MACKENZIE: Where can I find the boss?
RECEPTIONIST: Right through there.
[The receptionist points at a Doggy Door with a sign above that says “People Who Want to Change How We Run the Place” on it, Mackenzie gets on her knees and walks through the doggy door, we then cut to the inside of the office where it shows Mr. Terry standing up and Mackenzie slowly looks up.]
MR. TERRY: Who are you?
MACKENZIE: I’m the daughter of one of your retired senior citizens, Mr. Shicowa.
MR. TERRY: And what are you doing here of all places?
MACKENZIE: Well, it’s about your food service.
MR. TERRY: What about it?
MACKENZIE: Well, it seems that the seniors really hate the food that is being made in the cafeteria and I'm here to offer my cooking services to offer them better food.
MR. TERRY: Your funeral.
[She turns around and walks out of the office]
MR. TERRY: Sucker.
[We then cut to the elders driving around in Tesla Trucks, seeming confused on all the fancy features]
SHICOWA: Hm, I’ve never seen a car like this before. It’s confusing.
KRABS: Maybe all these things are here to make driving easier. Let’s see what this does.
[Krabs pushes a button which starts autopilot]
SHICOWA: Auto driving, that’s what the Tesla worker told us about.
BETTY: I am not putting my life in the hands of a truck! 
[Betty tries to take control over the truck]
TRUCK: WARNING - AUTO DRIVE NOT RESET. CANNOT PERFORM NORMALLY UNLESS SWITCHED BACK TO MANUAL CONTROL.
BETTY: I’m not trusting a word you’re saying!
[She starts to drive while on the autopilot, causing the truck to start moving out of control.]
SHICOWA: Oh no, that’s not good.
KRABS: Maybe it’s just a feature we don’t know about. I’ll try to replicate what she did.
SHICOWA: How are you gonna know what to do?
KRABS: I was able to glimpse at the truck for a few seconds to see what she was doing.
[Krabs does what Betty did, and the truck goes out of control as well. A few of the elders follow along.]
KRABS: Woo! I’ve never felt so alive!
[Cut to Mackenzie stomping around in the cafeteria]
MACKENZIE: This is unfair. I barely got to say anything! Now these poor people will continue to suffer. Unless…
[A few minutes later, we see Mackenzie setting up a stand and starting to make food.]
MACKENZIE: This should do it.
[An elder walks up to investigate.]
ELDER: Say, what’s this thing you're doing here?
MACKENZIE: Well, since I saw none of you liked the current food you were eating, I decided to set up my own stand so you can eat my better food instead.
ELDER: Ok, I’ll give it a try.
[The elder takes a sandwich, and enjoys it greatly.]
ELDER: Wow! I haven’t had something as good as this in several years!
MACKENZIE: I knew you’d enjoy it.
[More elders start coming up to get Mackenzie’s food.]
MACKENZIE: You did good, Mackenzie.
[Mackenzie serves lots and lots of elders while we fade to black, end of act 2.]
===Act III===
this act is unfinished so i'll probably post it when it is, could be later today, could be in 2 years, who knows.
==Appearances==
*Eugene Krabs
*Mark Shicowa
*Mr. Richards
*Sheldon Plankton
*Betty Grayson
*TBD
==Trivia==
*This is the first episode written after a year and a half of production hiatus.
*This is the only episode made with TheJasbre202 as solo showrunner, as Cicicicity holds co-executive producer role in this episode and would be promoted to executive producer/showrunner in the next.
*This is the second episode with a title card made completely from scratch.
**The first episode to do this was 'Cuz We're Movin' on Up, in the first season.
*The bulk of this episode was written in early 2020, with the remaining portion being done in March 2021.
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