The Deli Guy

***The Deli Guy*** is the third episode of *Tuca & Bertie.* It aired along with the rest of Season 1 on Netflix on May 3rd, 2019.

## Episode Synopsis

While Tuca is out on a hot date with her crush, Bertie tries to spice things up at home—with a little bird porn.

## Plot

Tuca takes Bertie to a deli, where a guy she has a crush on works. Bertie is excited for her, and even narrates a potential sexual fantasy the two could share. Tuca asks if her sex life with Speckle is going ok because of it, and Bertie explains that ever since they moved in together due to their jobs everything has fallen into a routine, including their sex life.

Tuca goes to the deli counter and sees her crush, an orange and blue monkey guy. However, she’s surprisingly nervous to talk to him. When she gives him her deli ticket and their fingers touch, her skeleton comes out of her body. Bertie explains Tuca likes him and she wants his number. The Deli Guy happily gives it to her.

At home, Bertie is looking up mating dances to do at home. Speckle returns home, and the two begin their typical sexual routine, but Bertie interrupts and suggest they try something different tonight. She suggests role play, and Speckle starts to go along with it. He tells her to bend over and starts spanking her while saying she’s a bad girl. She starts to feel bad at being called bad and she starts crying, and Speckle quickly stops and apologizes. Bertie laughs it off, and Speckle suggests they jumped into it too quick. They agree to do it the usual way, to Bertie's disappointment, and Speckle goes to brush his teeth.

When Bertie goes in the dresser to get condoms, she notices the business card Pastry Pete gave her. She questions to herself why can’t she just call him, because he’s just taking up room in her head like a “sexy tumor.”

White at the library with Tuca, Bertie goes to the sex book section and finds "Hot Sex For Agreeable People." Bertie asks Tuca what she and the Deli Guy are going to do on their date, but Tuca instead suggests she third wheel with her and Speckle. Bertie realizes she’s nervous, eating she must really like him and that’s why she’s being all weird. After some prodding Tuca says she’ll call him.

Tuca is trying to figure out what to wear, but her mirror self starts to criticize her deepest fears and insecurities including her thick thighs and big beak. She even uses so much beak concealer it disappears.

At work Bertie is looking at her planner. She smiles when she sees her spending time with Speckle listed, but she begins to have an existential panic when she flips though the rest of the planner and the exact same routine is listed on every page until she dies, and even in her afterlife. She starts to read her sex book, and the first thing she reads is to watch a pornographic film with your partner to know their desires.

Tuca meets the Deli Guy on the subway for their date, and she’s wearing an abundant amount of makeup, is wearing a hot pink tube bralette and a large hat and carrying a parasol. Despite Deli Guy's chill attitude, having similar wacky ideas to Tuca (he even suggest having a dresser with cold cuts in it like what Tuca herself did in the previous episode) and being surrounded by ham at his job, Tuca is nervous and awkward during the whole date, acting flustered and shooting down any attempts at first unit or romantic situations. Her hands are sweaty when he tries to hold hers, and she turns the light on in a glow worm cave when it feels too romantic. Deli Guy attempts to go along with it, at one point even joining in on her making loud noises, and still flirts with her when he gets the opportunity. Later, at the amusement park, while on the Gut Scrambler together, Tuca flashes her breasts at him, which is the last straw, and he questions why she’s acting weird. Tuca simply says she just can’t be in a relationship right now and jumps off the moving ride and ditches her date, running off crying.

Meanwhile Bertie has Speckle show her the porn he likes. It’s about two blue birds who look very similar to him and Bertie, with the guy being more muscular, and are a couple who just moved in together, and they have respectful missionary sex. He apologizes for it being weird but Bertie assures him it’s fine and she appreciates he honest with her, and then the woman in the film says the same thing to her boyfriend. After the porn ends, Bertie reveals what turns her on - The Nests of Netherfield, a historical drama series. Speckle doesn’t get into it though, and is confused by the plot lines. Bertie explains she likes being surprised, and apologizes if he thinks it’s dumb.

After Speckle falls asleep while she’d watching the rest of her show, Bertie decides to try and call Pastry Pete, when she hears Tuca sad moaning outside in the fire escape. She reveals to Bertie she screwed up the date, and reveals this is the first time she’s been sober on a date, andshe doesn’t know how to act on one while not being drunk. She doesn’t even know Deli Guy’s name. Bertie apologizes for pushing her into asking him out, saying she’s been caught up in her own issues, and Tuca accepts. Bertie reveals the sex book didn’t work, and she doesn’t know what her issue is, she loves Speckle and she has a good job, she doesn’t know what she’s missing. Tuca says at least this moment is nice, but the shortly after she starts flashing her breasts again, making Bertie laugh.

The next morning, as Bertie is running late for work, she notices a nest left in the bathroom with a note in it, and in the living room she finds multiple nests outside just like The Nests of Netherfield. Speckle shows up role playing as one of the characters, and the two passionately make love.

## Post Credit Scenes

Deli Guy is alone on the Gut Scrambler where Tuca left him, but he has the large Jamaican banana plushie he was seen with earlier. He smiles and puts his arm around and kisses it.

## Trivia

* Tuca is revealed to be either bi or pansexual, as she is seen hooking up with men and women during a montage.
* Tuca doesn’t wear makeup
	+ She’s self conscious about her big beak and thick thighs
* The porn Speckle shows Bertie is called "Two Birds One Nest", the name is a spoof of "2 Girls 1 Cup" an infamous pornography film.
	+ The blue birds look exactly like him and Bertie except the man is more muscular and they’re completely blue.
* Nicola, the British bird watcher who watches Bertie and Speckle have sex and narrates to herself, is the only human shown in the show so far.
* Bertie is afraid of heights