Episode 63: Rip Invades Poland.

== Context ==
The year is 2002 and the date is September 14th. Rip Invades Poland releases, a day before the historical invasion of Poland in 1939, the present mimicking the past. The episode itself almost seems to tear a hole in reality with the sheer absurdity of the idea, that The Ripping Friends, would make an episode on something so controversial, but facing the hate head-on, and after the episode is banned in 109 countries, including Germany, Russia, Canada, the United States, and Japan. They release the episode regardless, known by many as the "Forbidden" episode, an episode that's three hours long, just as long as your typical historical documentary, it holds a special place in The Ripping Friends Legacy. 
== Plot Synopsis ==
Rip invades Poland begins with Rip doing his usual routine of campaigning for Lumbago awareness and ripping everyone who doesn't agree with him on the issues of Lumbago. When Slab (who is uncircumcised) introduces Rip to a quantum vortex machine, and as Rip does, he immediately declares that it must be ripped. Upon doing so however, it sends Rip and Slab back in time, Rip ends up in a very certain location, the back of the Fuhrer's car on his way to a speech, the day before the Invasion of Poland, Rip, being not the brightest, only hears about Adolf Hitler's plans of world domination and utter depravity and evil, and decides to do what Rip does best, and loudly declares "It's RIPPIN TIME", and he rips Adolf Hitler. With Hitler out of the picture, Rip doesn't know what to do next, now that his body has become more real then cartoonish, and that all color has drained out of the world. He decides to ask the person next to the newly RIPPED Adolf, and being a fluent speaker in German, hears of a plan to invade Poland, he then asks who was going to execute said plan, the soldier explains that the Furher was going to execute the plan, and that Rip just RIPPED the Furher, he is now the new Furher, so he follows along with the plan to invade Poland. There's a bit of a time-skip until Rip learns of his friend Slab's (who is uncircumcised) status in this new world, and as it turns out, Slab has become the leader of another powerful country with eyes on Poland, the Soviet Union.
Slab and Rip contact one another via radio, and decide that a joint-invasion of Poland is necessary for boths survival in this new world. But ripping is different than war, ripping never changes, but this war changes the world, unsuspectingly, the Allies consisting of the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Dominion of India, to name a few, declare war on the Rip Reich and the Slab Union, overwhelming both with their forces, alongside Poland's in mere days, as both Rip and Slab have no real leadership abilities. They both go into hiding, sneaking around until they can find a way back home.
63 years pass with Rip and Slab hiding out, they watch in horror as the United Kingdom slowly transforms back into the British Empire, retaking it's colonies, and then, the entire world. Declaring an authoritarian regime in which millions upon millions die, far more than both world wars from the original timeline combined. Slab and Rip watch as entire families are RIPPED, as they are powerless to stop it, afraid of blowing their cover, they sell out the innocent, and they become shallow husks of their former selves, unable to stop the wars, unrest, and injustice all across the world. One day, on that fateful year, on that fateful day, they find a Quantum Vortex machine, and with the horrors of war, and the horrors of strife fresh on their minds, they RIP it immediately, sending them back to the fateful days where they ripped both Stalin and Hitler, with one chance, they explain what they've done to their former selves, and offer them a choice, they can repeat the same mistakes they made in the past, or they can RIP their future selves, and return to the time they came from, with nothing changing in the past. With heavy hearts, the new Ripping Friends RIP their older counterparts, freeing them of the guilt and the pain they've felt the last 63 years as Rip and Slab return to our original timeline, with fears of what could have been, and the knowledge, to never RIP what you don't understand.
== Critical Acclaim: ==
Rip invades Poland, in the countries that it was not banned in, was critically acclaimed as one of the greatest alternate history discussion pieces in the world, showing a truly magnificent reality of what could have been. It was described as a work of art through and through, detailing that the past, no matter how horrible, should remain the past, and that if we cannot learn through our mistakes, RIPPING it might not even be the answer, instead just a unified effort from all people's of the world to learn from our errors, and to be like the Ripping Friends.