Stuff.

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"**Stuff.**" is the fifth episode of season 3.

## Plot

After a freak accident brings an assorted pile of random objects to life, the sentient items experience all of life's ups and downs before the effects wear off. Paper Mike, the only remaining animate object, uses his genius to develop a machine to enable the animals to understand each other.

## Characters

* Fleshlight
* Baseball
* Shoe
* Receipt
* Toaster
* VHS Copy of "Hardly Can't Wait"
* Johnny Rat Town
* Yumi
* Chompy
* Phil Jr
* Phil (Dog)
* Hollie
* Sugar
* Phil (Gecko)
* Mike (Gecko)
* Nurse Deb
* Private Matarese
* Private Luciano
* The Lieutenant

## Trivia

* This is the first episode where the Lieutenant appeared without the General.
* Private Matarese wanting to date the General is mentioned again.
* When Private Matarese and Private Luciano are fighting over the flash drive, they were six hands over it.
* Private Matarese reveals he has DUIs, and Private Luciano reveals his 401(k) is a Princess Diana Beanie Baby.
* Apparently, Private Matarese swallows coins.
* When discussing uploading the flash drive and getting ten million dollars, Private Matarese considers using the money to reunite the band, *Baha Men*.
* The date on Receipt is labeled October 10th, 2017.
* The rat describing the objects' journey throughout New York is based off on Rod Serling from *The Twilight Zone*. Also, in the first few scenes after the intro of the episode and rat Rod Serling's first appearance, the shots were in black and white, just like in the original series of the show.
* The franchise *Jackass* is referenced at the beginning. Where a parody of the opening of the film is played with the American flag in the background with the title of the show. Six rats are based off the cast of the franchise, with Johnny Rat Town based off on Johnny Knoxville, with the rats doing a stunt involving riding in a shopping cart down a street.
* The VHS box is for the American comedy film, *Can't Hardly Wait*. Fleshlight mentions Seth Green, and the Shoe mentions the "girl from *Six Feet Under*, she was referring to Lauren Ambrose, who also starred in the said TV series Shoe mentioned, Baseball mentions Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Receipt mentions Ethan Embry.
* The animated objects were able to understand what the animals say, as Receipt was able to recall Phil Jr.'s crude remark to the other objects when they brought Toaster to the hospital.
	+ This contrasts with the animals as they can't understand different species except their own.
		- At the end, Receipt builds a machine that allows the animals to understand each other.
* In one of the scenes of Toaster's dream, *The Persistence of Memory* is shown with Baseball floating across behind Toaster.
* The fourth wall was broken a few times:
	+ The rat Rod Serling discusses the plot of the episode. In his first appearance, he talks to the audience about "exploring the forbidden in *Animals* on HBO." His second appearance where he claimed the audience was aroused when VHS and Shoe had sex and told them that's on them, and thought that sex was delicately handled. He then asks the viewers if they are enjoying the episode, then claimed it is weird. When he calls it back to the show, he gets hit in the groin by a swinging bag, and laughter was later heard. His third appearance, he is on a hedgehog while discussing that finding the truth to oneself is important, he also adds too much knowledge isn't a good thing. His final appearance is where the objects help Fleshlight regained his purpose while discussing the other objects' own purpose before being tossed away when Toaster barges through the doors.
	+ Johnny Rat Town introduces himself and the shopping cart stunt, Shopping Car Launch.
	+ While the objects were screaming after coming to life, Toaster came up to the screen and yelled, "Are you my mommy?!"
	+ When the objects naming themselves being "Mike", except the Fleshlight, he claims they can't all be "Mike", with the Fleshlight being "Phil", which is a direct call to the characters of the show who are named after Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano.
	+ Receipt narrates how he was the only object that didn't inanimate back, travel through New York while observing the animals' aggressive behavior towards different species where Receipt concludes to build a device to bring everyone together. He then built a Grand Communicator, he claimed he didn't need to use his friends, but felt leaving them in the hospital while also adding symbolic and satisfactory storytelling.
	+ During the credits, the objects appear waving at the audience. Toaster thanks the viewers for watching the episode while claiming they are other TV shows they could be watching. Toaster than mentions HBO that the episode is this show, with the title of the show *Animals* appearing crossed with "Stuff." appearing over. Toaster than tells the viewers to throw their toaster out a window and record it. He then tells the viewers to hashtag with "#StuffOnHBOIThrewMyToasterOutOfTheWindow" than Toaster's laugh is added to the label with Toaster bidding farewell.
* The events of the first four episodes were shown and/or mentioned in this episode:
	+ The orb that appeared in the first episode is the same that brought the objects to life.
	+ Johnny Rat Town considers butt-chugging rosé, something that rats Phil Jr and Mike did at Balaban's.
	+ Phil Jr running over Toaster.
	+ The objects were briefly at the school dog Phil works as a teacher, at the theater where dog Phil was doing improve comedy, and then at the dog hospital were Nurse Deb is looking over a clipboard regarding Fluffy.
	+ The geckos the rats Phil Jr and Mike met earlier are seen infiltrating GrabbagVille.
	+ While traveling through New York, Receipt passed dog Phil at the Quack Market entrance, pigeons throwing a seagull out of Pigeon Heights, and a carriage horse pulling a top hatter across town.
	+ Going through the events, the events of the episodes took around the same time. As such Toaster was run over by Phil Jr where the objects take him to the hospital that is where Nurse Deb is seen looking over Fluffy where dogs Phil and Mike came to meet him. Receipt is seen by Quack Market where dog Phil was going while passing a horse pulling a carriage with a top hatter horse on it.
		- Looking back, the events happened around Green Day as the objects met the rats Phil Jr and Mike, and the hospital where the dogs Phil and Mike went to.
		- It's unknown if the events of the third episode took place as Pigeon Heights was only seen with pigeons throwing out a seagull, as pigeon Phil previously wanted to ban all pigeons that are not from New York.
* The horse pulling a top hatter horse on his carriage shouldn't be included, as the class system between the lower class and top class horses were diminished and merged.
* Baseball happens to be signed by retired professional American baseball player, Benny Agbayani. When Baseball looks at the sky at night, before he was gonna inanimate again, a constellation formed into "50" and "M", Benny Agbayani wore his baseball uniform for the New York Mets and he had the number 50.
* After Toaster became inanimate again, Receipt suggested they are probably in a *Cinderella* scenario, where the spell placed on Cinderella by Fairy Godmother would come undone at midnight, to where the objects, except for Receipt, became inanimate at 8:16 PM after entering the orb.
* After building the Grand Communicator, Receipt leaves it at GrabbagVille, where it will be used by the animals to understand each other.