Woke Up Drunk

***Woke Up Drunk*** is the sixth and final episode from the first season of *Perfect Hair Forever*. It first

## Woke Up Drunk

### Writer

Matt Harrigan, Mike Lazzo, and Matt Maiellaro

### Director

Dave Hughes

aired on December 25th, 2005 on *[Adult Swim]*.

## Plot

During a parody of the variety shows and classic American sitcoms, Gerald and his companions get closer and closer to Tuna Mountain. Between one segment and another (such as Sherman and Felix singing a duet onstage, Gerald singing on how his life is a failure, and one scene with a bear fighting with a shark), the scene passes to a conference of company television executives who worried about the few plays of a sitcom called "Japanese Bear Dad." The Executives are abruptly interrupted by a drunken Space Ghost looking for work. While Gerald and his companions continue to walk towards Tuna Mountain, Brenda is lying down with her ass in the air on a rotating platform while Uncle Grandfather looks at her. The episode ends with the three military policemen in the bed of a Motel room, apparently intent on sexual intercourse. However, none of them are moving and they're only standing in their usual position while blaming the standards and practices for not allowing them to push on each other.

## Characters/Cast

* Gerald Bald Z (Kim Manning)
* Uncle Grandfather (Matt Maiellaro)
* Brenda
* Action Hotdog (Will Armstrong)
* Inappropriate Comedy Tree (Nick Ingkatanuwat)
* Coiffio (Dave Willis)
* Catman (Dennis Moloney)
* Young Man (C. Martin Croker)
* Sherman the Giraffe (MF Doom)
* Felix the Bear (Nicholas Day)
* Gerald's Sitcom Mother / Naked Apron Woman (Charlsey Adkins)
* Network Executive (George Lowe)
* Television Executives (Jim Rich and Craig Hartin)
* Native Americans (Ned Hastings and Barry Mills)
* Space Ghost (George Lowe)
* Narrator (George Lowe)
* Secret Military Policemen (Nicholas Day)
* Secret Military Policemen Audience
* Gerald's Ear (sentient form)
* Model Robot (cameo) (severe head)
* Crucified Clowns
* Geese
* Shark
* Students
* Astronomic Cat
* Terry/Twisty (cameo)

## Trivia

* Despite this episode being originally aired as the Season 1 finale, this episode was produced before "Tusk." The fifth episode that originally aired, but was produced last. The episode's production code is also 105. On the *Adult Swim.com* website, this episode is listed as the fifth episode instead of the sixth on the website. The series' last episode "Muscular Distraction" even placed these two episodes in production order. Though, Gerald's crashed motorcycle from "Tusk" is briefly seen when Gerald and his companions are walking through the forest.
* The plot of this episode is only briefly referred to as an "electronic transmission that interrupts Gerald's quest" on *Adult Swim*'s website.
* This is the only episode in the entire series where Rod the Anime God doesn't make any physical appearance in.
* Several live-action imagery are present throughout this episode.
* An audience full of the Secret Military Policemen are seen when Sherman and Felix sing on the stage.
* The head of Panda and two purple squids appear in the episode's television commercials. Additionally, Uncle Grandfather, Action Hotdog, and Gerald's sentient ear are seen in these commercials as heads replacing the heads of the live-action people.
* The background music that plays during Japanese Bear Dad is a piece of production music called Girl In A Bottle, composed by Chris Many and Geoff Levin. This piece of production music was also used in one episode of the *Adult Swim* series *Space Ghost Coast To Coast* and one episode of *12 oz. Mouse*.
* Gerald's Sitcom Mother is one of the Japanese-speaking women from the post-credit scene in "Cat Snatch Fever."
* Model Robot appears as a severe head in this episode. The severe head also reappeared again in "Return to Balding Victory."
* The Japanese men from the "Beware of the Wolf" opening theme in "TiVo Your eBay" make cameos in the window of Japanese Bear Dad.
* The music that plays when Brenda is onscreen in the pilot episode, plays again when Brenda appears in "Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party."
* When the Young Man appears in this episode, he doesn't have a small parrot on his shoulder and his hand still remains intact on his body, despite it technically being ripped off of his arm in "Happy Suck Day." This error was even present in "Tusk."
* The episode's ending theme is by Diplo.

## References & Allusions

* This episode is a parody of sketch/variety shows and network television as a whole. Laugh tracks are even featured in several of the episode's segments, such as the credits sequence with Cat Man.
* Japanese Bear Dad is a parody of American sitcoms from the 1950's.
* The name of the street where Felix (or Japanese Bear Dad) lives on is called the "Desolation Row", which is a reference to the homonymous song by singer Bob Dylan.
* Clown Planet and the clown honking sound from "The Clowning" episode of *Aqua Teen Hunger Force* appear again.
* The Bear and Shark fighting may be a reference to the band *Bear Vs. Shark*. It may also be a reference to the "Kentucky Nightmare" episode of *Space Ghost Coast To Coast*.
* The executives laughing at Space Ghost is a reference to cancellation of *Space Ghost Coast To Coast*. Additionally, the final episode of the series aired months before the *Perfect Hair Forever* pilot aired.
* A photo of Mouse Fitzgerald from the *Adult Swim* series, *12 Oz. Mouse*, appears as a photo when Space Ghost was drunk in a room, calling his mother, and when he was shot by Japanese Bear Dad before the bear drives away with his jetpack.
* "Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party" is a parody of any school anime, presumably *School Days*.

## Videos

Japanese Bear DadBear with a sore head - Perfect Hair Forever - Adult SwimPHF Soundtrack
## Quotes

* **Narrator**: From Los Angeles, California, it's the "Perfect Hair Forever Comedy Variety Hour." Featuring Steve Martin (Vishal Roney), Ruth Buzzi (Melissa Warrensburg), and Steve Buzzi (Warren Roneyburg)
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: Clap your hands, say ho.
* **Felix The Bear**: He's a little bit comedy.
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: And he's a little bit anime cartoony. Watch out!
* **Felix The Bear**: You're a Japanese Hotdog.
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: Actually I'm the giraffe and you's a California bear.
* **Both**: Together, we have married to produce.
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: Watch that high note there.
* **Both**: Perfect Hair.
* **Felix The Bear**: You a hotdog, you know.
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: I don't know nothing about nothing about nothing.
* **Felix The Bear**: Sh... Yeah. You just a Japanese Hotdog Giraffe, that's what you are.
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: You watch you mouth there, boy.
* **Felix The Bear**: Heh, heh!
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: I ain't gonna give you too many changes now.
* **Felix The Bear**: Uh, Okay.
* **Narrator**: Our Japanese Bear Dad.
* **Gerald Bald Z**: What's wrong with dad?
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman**: H-He's a bear.
* **Gerald Bald Z**: Goodness. Was he a bear this morning?
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman**: He was... Until he got his morning coffee. Now he's a Japanese Bear Dad.
* **Gerald Bald Z**: Was dad a Japanese Bear Dad this morning?
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman**: I don't know. I was too drunk. I woke up drunk. Weren't you?
* **Gerald Bald Z**: I'm too young to drink. That bear sure looks hungry. Even if he is our dad. Dad, I'm home from school. Guess what, I've just invented the internet, but it's made of wood. That reminds me of a song. It's called "I'm a failure." I can't do anything right. Everything I touch turns to wood. Except the things he need turn to wood. I used pills for that, but that makes my eyes bleed so my life is a failure. My life is a failure. My life is a failure. My life. Is a failure. I'm a failure. This journey is a failure. That song is a failure.
* **Action Hotdog**: Do the la, la, la.
* **Inappropriate Comedy Tree**: Knock, knock.
* **Narrator**: His life is a failure.
* **Gerald Bald Z**: Mom, where's my bike?
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman**: Uh... Oh, you know what? Japanese Bear Dad sold it to himself to use in his Tokyo circus act.
* **Gerald Bald Z**: Hey, let's find that circus and buy back my bike.
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman**: Oh, can we do it tomorrow?
* **Gerald Bald Z**: Tomorrow? Japan isn't open on Sundays
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman**: Not your tomorrow. My tomorrow. My tomorrow's Wednesday.
* **Gerald Bald Z**: What are all these f\*\*king (Eff) birds doing here?
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman:** I don't know.
* **Narrator**: From Los Angeles, California, Geese.
* **Gerald's Sitcom Mother/Naked Apron Woman**: And--and I don't celebrate Wednesdays.
* **Narrator**: And from Los Angeles, California, Steve Buzzi.
* **Network Executive**: We've just got the test results from Japanese Bear Dad. It's a disaster. Bears are scary. No child wants to be raised by bears.
* **Television Executive 1**: And this bear doesn't do drugs, so there's no "B" story.
* **Network Executive**: Fund it.
* **Television Executive 1**: Hey, hey, hey, how about the hotdog?
* **Action Hotdog**: Do the la, la, la, la, la, la, la-
* **Network Executive**: Fund it.
* **Television Executive 2**: Let me ask you this-- Does anyone here know how the moon was formed?
* **Space Ghost**: Hey!
* **Television Executive 1**: Congress.
* **Television Executive 2**: That's--that's--
* **Space Ghost**: Hey!
* **Television Executive 2**: Ding!
* **Television Executive 3**: Ding! Ding!
* **Television Executive 2**: And what about the oceans?
* **Space Ghost**: Hey!
* **Television Executive 1**: Congress.
* **Television Executive 3**: Ding! Ding! Ding!
* **Television Executive 2**: Ding! Ding! Ding!
* **Television Executive 1**: Ding! Ding! Ding!
* **Space Ghost**: Y'all--y'all have any work for me? D'oh. Oh... There ya go. Now, wait a minute. Y'all have any work for me? Well, let's call someone and tell 'em the bad news. Let's call-- Let's call... Mom. Hey, check it out, man, there's a bear coming. Hey, buddy--
* **Narrator**: From Los Angeles, California, it's Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party.
* **Coiffio**: Okay, Brenda.
* **Network Executive**: Fund it.
* **Coiffio**: Present. Heh, heh, heh. Astronomic Cat.
* **Astronomic Cat**: Meow.
* **Coiffio**: Present. Ghost Bear. Ghost Bear? Uh-oh. Tardy again. Heh, heh, heh! Oh, Ghost Bear. I guess you're here after all. And... Taylor, I'm gonna mark you down as absent. Forever.
* **Narrator**: From Los Angeles, California--Ahem. Hello voice. Have some coffee.
* **Uncle Grandfather**: Oh, yes. Let's play spin the bottle, hot girl. Climb aboard me and start to be spinning... On my bottle. Heh, heh. Oy.
* **Network Executive**: Fund it.
* **Native American 1**: Whoa, ho. Look at those turquoise fish.
* **Native American 2**: Those are bracelets.
* **Native American 1**: I can't believe we paid 80 dollars for this.
* **Uncle Grandfather**: Heh, heh, heh.
* **Narrator**: Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Brenda and her amazing revolting buttocks. Computers. It's Gerald.
* **Gerald Bald Z**: Tuna Mountain sure is far.
* **Sherman The Giraffe**: I'm famished, how's about we go back to the bay area and get some crabs?
* **Young Man**: Let's see how the judges react. Judges? Come on, judges, react.
* **Secret Military Policeman 1**: This sex sure is good.
* **Secret Military Policeman 2**: Yes, it is.
* **Secret Military Policeman 1**: And I'm envisioning you thrusting all over me right now in an extremely graphic way.
* **Secret Military Policeman 3**: This is good. Oh, man.
* **Secret Military Policeman 2**: Yeah. That's right. That's right. We can't thrust at each other because that's a standard's problem.
* **Secret Military Policeman 1**: But I'm feeling you thrust all against me anyway.
* **Secret Military Policeman 2**: Oh, Thank you.
* **Secret Military Policeman 3**: I love it when it touches my hot dog.
* **Secret Military Policeman 1**: Hotdog.
* **Action Hotdog**: Do the la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
* **Secret Military Policeman 2**: I like it, too.
* **Network Executive**: Space Ghost.
* **Cat Man**: That's it, bitch. I'll suck it. Cat Man will f\*\*k (Eff) you up. I want to go pick up some cold ones and knock 'em back.

## Links

* https://www.adultswim.com/videos/perfect-hair-forever/woke-up-drunk