Ferekh

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## Credits

### **Story by**

Eric Acosta
 George Gendi
 Michael Gendi
 Deepak Sethi
 Sean Szeles

### **Storyboard by**

Sam Spina
 Kristen Woo

### **Directed by**

Bryan Mann (supervising)
David Ochs (supervising)
 Cheryl Johnson (art)

## Read transcript

Ferekh is the 7th episode of Season 2 of *Apple & Onion* and the 46th episode overall.

## Summary

Apple and Onion have to get Falafel's beloved rooster back from scientists.

## Plot

Falafel is struggling to feed his pet chicken, Ferekh, his special *molokhia* that he particularly wants Ferekh to eat when Apple and Onion enter his apartment by a hole in the door Apple makes. To celebrate the one year anniversary of Apple and Onion moving into the roof shack, they offer Falafel a day trip at a particularly seedy hotel that he questions ("This hotel look worse than ditch," he comments) in exchange for them cleaning up his place, but ultimately accepts after cajoling from the pair. Before he leaves, he sternly warns them to feed Ferekh the *molokhia* and to also not answer the door to anyone as Ferekh is all he has in life.

Apple and Onion proceed to get started on cleaning up the apartment, including establishing a "burn pile" and throwing away all of his mail before remembering to feed Ferekh. The chicken proves to be very stubborn, causing a spoonful of the dish to fling onto one of Onion's tufts. As Ferekh is now dirty, Apple decides they need to call a pet groomer to take care of the problem, despite Falafel's warnings. Hoagie, who is now a scientist, shows up at the door, muttering this is going to be yet another failed attempt to get the chicken, is surprised to see different people answer and pleas to take Ferekh off their hands, to which Apple agrees, thinking he's the pet cleaner, only for Dog Biscuit, the actual pet groomer, to show up a moment later.

Chasing down the van Ferekh was put in, the pair realize they need transportation to catch up to it, so they win money at Bingo. However, Apple proceeds to make a series of bad decisions, leaving them with no money and no means of transportation. Fortunately, the science facility was right near where they were.

Trying to get in, they are denied entry by Chicken Nugget yet again. Chicken Nugget informs them that the scientists have finally gotten "the important rooster", and chases the pair off. Apple and Onion return, dressed up as scientists, and Onion manages to fool Chicken Nugget into letting them in via a magic trick he passes off as science. Hiding from Hoagie and Professor Fish Oil by jumping into the ceiling, they eavesdrop that the scientists needed the rooster as Ferekh doesn't age, and wanted to research why.

Before they could begin the experiment, Apple distracts the scientists by looking at a lit Bunsen burner, even though Professor Fish Oil comments that Bunsen burners are meant to be lit, while Onion grabs Ferekh. Running away from the scientists, Onion gets a call from Falafel, who was stuck in a honeymoon suite with the newlywed Cookies in an awkward situation. Before they reach the exit, however, Chicken Nugget intercepts them, irritated that Onion tried to pass off a magic trick as science and gives Ferekh back to the scientists.

Now stuck outside and unable to get back in, Apple and Onion reluctantly agree that the only way the scientists will let Ferekh go is if they had the cure for aging, which means they would have to figure out why Ferekh doesn't age. Going back to Falafel's apartment, they open up the vacuum cleaner to examine Ferekh's feathers and attempt to deduce what could be the reason, only for the excessive thinking to stress age them to an advanced age, leaving them enfeebled. In spite of their geriatric state, Apple notices that Onion still has a flowing tuft of hair, as pristine as ever and unchanged by the aging before they realize that it was struck by the *molokhia*.

Back at the facility, Professor Fish Oil is giddy to begin testing on a nervous Ferekh, before he is interrupted by Chicken Nugget, who let in Apple and Onion on account of them being old and feeling bad for them. Apple splashes much of the *molokhia* on Chicken Nugget, reducing the cop to an infantile state, exciting Professor Fish Oil, and happily trades the stew for Ferekh.

Falafel finally comes home to see his apartment is a complete disaster, with dust everywhere and the burn pile aflame, yet is unbothered as he had to sleep out in the car park by the Cookies. Still very old, Apple and Onion are being pecked at by Ferekh, who is picked up by Falafel in excitement, as Onion asks if Falafel knew if his *molokhia* had special properties, to which Falafel insisted that was by design so he could have Ferekh forever. They turn on the news to see Butter, who is now a toddler, reporting that the *molokhia* doesn't exactly turn people young, but rather concentrates their age into a specific part of their body, leaving it old and deformed. Falafel solved that problem by replacing one of Ferekh's eyes, which pops out of his head as Chicken Nugget barges through the door to angrily arrest them on account of his now deformed foot.

## Characters

* Apple
* Onion
* Ferekh
* Falafel
* Hoagie
* Dog Biscuit
* Chicken Nugget
* Professor Fish Oil and Scientists
* Chocolate Chip Cookie
* Candy Cookie
* Butter

## Trivia

* It is revealed that a year has passed since the events of A New Life where Apple and Onion have met and lived on the roof shack for free.
* On a side note, this episode takes place 6 months after Not Funny.
* The embroidery hoop that Falafel has in his apartment says *"Life is not good"* after Onion dusts it, when it usually says "*Life is ... good"*.

* There are two potential reasons for Ferekh refusing to eat Falafel's molokhia. The first is that Falafel's Passion established that Falafel's cooking is suspect. The second is that Egyptian *molokhia* is often (though not always) prepared using chicken as either the meat or as stock, meaning that Falafel is likely encouraging an act of cannibalism.
* **Running gag:** Apple crashing through doors "only this time in the end Chicken Nugget crash through Falafel's door".

## Video

Operation Save The Roosters Apple & Onion Cartoon Network