Season 2, Episode 20: I Brought You My Catbus, You Brought Me Your Love

*The following article contains spoilers for Season 2. Please listen to the season in its entirety or be warned!*

## I Brought You My Catbus, You Brought Me Your Love

### Air date

18 October 2022

**I Brought You My Catbus, You Brought Me Your Love** is the 20th episode of season 2 of *Dungeons and Daddies*.

## Description

*Scary steps into yet another leadership role as the team plots their next course of action.*

## Introduction

The intro is a parody of the song ‘Lose Yourself’ by American rapper Eminem, with the Black Parade's former drum major (poorly) rapping.

## Rad Facts

* Taylor Swift (Freddie Wong): Taylor was a fan of the Berenstain Bears growing up. His favorite is the one where they get addicted to junk food.
* Lincoln Li-Wilson (Matt Arnold): Lincoln is not named after Grant's dog. His parents agreed that Marco would name the first kid and Grant would name the prospective second. Lincoln is, instead, named after Andrew Lincoln from The Walking Dead. They were going to call him Andrew, but Grant's last ex was named Andrew and he preferred thinking about his dog to thinking about the ex. (As pointed out, Andrew Lincoln is actually the actor. They couldn't have named him after Rick Grimes because of Grimes.)
* Normal Oak (Will Campos): Normal is trying to plan out the future of his mustache. He is looking up styles and waiting for it to grow in. He looked up an article on Men's Health and considered a Henry Cavill combination beard and mustache, but eventually decided he liked a Smokey And The Bandit-era Burt Reynolds-type mustache. He will not shave. He might be there in seven years.
* Scary Marlowe (Beth May): Scary's favorite word in English is the word "ache," because it is both a noun and a verb. It's closely aligned to the feelings of her soul.
	+ Her favorite word is Season 2 of The Walking Dead.
* Anthony Burch: His favorite word might be midst. He does not like Daylight Savings Time.

## Plot Summary

Vince hands Scary the tape measure and asks who they're going to go kill. Scary thinks they should kill their inner demons and also ants. When Vince suspects that Scary isn't as dark as previously posited, Taylor insists she is.

Vince thinks Taylor is confident because he's stupid and Link is just sad; he thinks there's something in Normal, though. Vince decides that Normal is miserable and in complete agony. Scary's tummy hurts; Normal wouldn't call himself miserable even if he's upset about his dad and no longer being the mascot. He's very happy about his mustache and under the impression that everyone else is. Link knows that Vince isn't about to get violent. Rather, he's just trying to see who is more miserable.

Scary takes Normal being miserable as a personal attack. Normal assures her that she's the meanest person of all time. Unfortunately, Vince points out Normal's doormat-ishness. Normal thinks that Scary's attitude is an outward expression of her inner pain (especially given the Terry situation), which is something Scary agrees with. Normal does let a bit of resentment through.

Vince pulls out a knife and holds it to Terry Jr.'s throat. Scary insists that she wouldn't feel *nothing* if he died; she would feel sadness like she does all the time. Vince takes this as potential proof that Scary is The Dark One and capable of helping the Black Parade to bring others to the Forever Sleep. (The Forever Sleep is like death but less sad.)

Link and Taylor try to get the band to start marching. Scary instructs the Black Parade to insult each other twice "in a really hurtful way." They agree to do that. On the ground, the teens spot the Drum Major Baton. Scary picks it up, which bums Normal out just a little.

The teens huddle. Normal insists on the bloodthirstiness of band kids. They discuss the amount of work they're willing to do here. Taylor calls Terry Jr. into the huddle and asks for an exit strategy. This would probably just be walking away, back to the Pussy Wagon. Normal, Link, and Taylor all think this is a good idea; Lincoln also thinks that everyone should hold hands to keep Terry Jr. from dying or getting separated. Scary can't hold hands with him because that isn't goth (though Link does suggest punching Terry Jr. in the back of the head as they walk). Scary punches her stepfather in the shoulder. She decides she has an exit strategy. The boys try to give her a leader name, but she insists it's just Scary. Terry Jr. thinks she is enough as she is (it's something that one of his parents said). Normal tries to explain it; Scary insists that she's no good. Normal decides they should have this discussion later, messing up Terry Jr.'s breakthrough with Scary. (This whole time, Taylor has been finger-tutting the information back to Hermie.)

Scary announces to the band that it would be an honor to be their leader, which is why she has to step down. It might make her too happy, thus interfering with her sadness and (clinical?) depression. She commands them to march in a direction and be sad.

Vince realizes that Scary hasn't actually tasted true despair and calls her a poser. He tries to start a chant about it. Scary insults him, calling him a loser, fucko, and two-dimensional squid person. The members of the Black Parade around them raise their instruments. Vince tells her she has to prove she's hardcore and delight him, or the band will play their music, make her miserable, and make her take up the drum major position.

Lincoln leans over to offer the use of his gun to her, as a way to make her seem cooler by killing "herself" (i.e., her clones). Taylor thinks itmight be better to let them play the music for a clone of her. Normal offers himself as a bullying target and drops to his knees; Link agrees that he could also be roasted; Taylor doesn't think he could at all.

Scary announces that these are the only people who love her. She tells Normal he has really bad B.O. and that he should be scared he won't make his parents proud; she tells Taylor that he isn't cool and is a sad little dude and (at Normal's whispering) that his father is in Hell to get away from him (this affects Taylor); she tells Lincoln he's named after a sub-par actor and he's way too pre-occupied with what his parents think about him. The boys enter a boy pile. Scary tells Terry that she hasn't been able to love herself her whole life, so what gives him the right to try for these past eight months? She calls him a dummy. This is definitely a roast on him. Scary decides that her first dad is really cool because he knows how dark and scary she is (which is why he stays away from her). At Link's insistence, she tells him he has fat ankles. She also thinks he's needy and has eyes that are too close together.

Scary tells Terry that she is never going to love him. Terry believes her wholeheartedly and steps back, near crying.

The members of the Black Parade look at the boy pile. This is not enough for them. They insist Scary roast herself.

She says she is a poser and a phony. Black isn't her favorite color (it's pink). She just gets so lonely that she thought she could push everyone away. It was a stupid game she was playing. She misses soccer. (Lincoln is glad about the soccer.)

Vince thinks this isn't a bad attempt at roasting herself. Scary keeps talking, opening up about her father abandoning her and her mother when she was a baby. In her mind, he's probably too cool for her. She's so lonely, her tummy hurts, and she thinks nobody is paying attention to her. This convinces Vince that the Black Parade should follow her instructions. They march away, instructed to come up with another sad song that she'll listen to later. They tell her to talk to someone. Before they leave, Vince gives her the tape measure.

Vince explains that the Undergrove is a place full of people they don't like, and that they are no longer going to do war there. The teens make some My Chemical Romance references as the parade moves on.

## Trivia

* This episode's title is a reference to the My Chemical Romance album *I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love*.
* The version of the Berenstain Bears that Taylor is familiar with is actually the Berenstein Bears.
	+ Whether or not the entire world switched to this spelling is unclear.
* Sad is different than dark.
* The Drum Major Baton can be used as a weapon (bo staff); it can also be used as a distraction. Similar to Glenn's nunchucks, it has a chance of injuring the wielder. Successes on increasingly difficult tosses, tricks, and spins will increase its power. Every successful check (for Normal) heals him for 1d4; every failure deals 1d4 psychic damage to him. This has a lot of influence on Normal.
* Terry thinks that Andrew Lincoln is a bad actor.
* Terry is a grown man and not insecure about his ankles.
* My Chemical Romance songs referenced in this episode inclue (but are not limited to):
	+ Welcome To The Black Parade
	+ Teenagers
	+ This Is How I Disappear
	+ The Sharpest Lives