Fitness Fiend

King dedede gets carried on a giant piece of wood and marched downtown.

Fitness Fiend is the 61st episode of Kirby: Right Back At Ya!

## Synopsis

King Dedede wishes for a snack and suddenly comes across a box of chips intended for Kirby. Thinking they are tasty, he eats several bags of the chips to have himself become obese as well as Kirby. To make them fit again, King Dedede hires a monster named Max Flexer who gives effective, yet painful workouts.

## Episode Summary

The episode starts with Dedede watching his own comedy show in the throne room.

He then orders the Waddle Dees to fetch him some snacks, but the Waddle Dees are too busy cleaning up the room. Then he sees several boxes filled with chips near the wall. He runs to them, only to be blocked by Waddle Dees. Despite knowing that the chips are for trapping Kirby, Dedede wants those chips either way. Dedede becomes very angry, he knocks the Waddle Dees out of the way and proceeds to the chips. He tries a bag. He finds that they are so good that he eats many more. Since Waddle Dees can't stop the king from eating the chips, they bring them to the king instead.

Meanwhile, Kirby is walking through the yards of Castle Dedede, singing. He finds a bag of chips. He tries the last chip in the bag and like Dedede, finds them extremely tasty. He then sees another nearby and runs to it. Little does he know that Escargoonis nearby. Escargoon, hiding in the bushes, laughs.

He runs back to Dedede's throne room saying that the plan is going well, only to see all the chip bags empty, with Dedede eating the last one. Escargoon becomes angry. He tells Dedede to stop, but Dedede interrupts saying that he is watching a movie. Escargoon says that Channel DDD does not show movies, but Dedede says that he hijacked Nightmare Enterprises' channel. Escargoon says that it is illegal, but Dedede once again interrupts. Suddenly, Dedede says he needs to use the bathroom. He pauses the movie, then presses a button on his chair that rooms him to another room. A flush is heard and his chair zooms back. Disgusted, Escargoon walks away. Meanwhile, the citizens of Cappy Town are wondering where Dedede is, some even suggesting that he's dead. That night, King Dedede is watching a horror movie, eating chips, his seat starts to buckle under his weight. The next morning, Kirby walks into Tiff's home and sits down for breakfast. He inhales all the food on the table. Lady Likecomments that he might get fat if he eats too much.

All of a sudden, a scream is heard. Sir Ebrum, Lady Like, Tiff, Tuff, Kirby, and Escargoon rush to Dedede's throne room. To their horror, they see a gigantic Dedede lying on his back, still eating chips. Escargoon takes the chips away and says that Dedede can die if he keeps eating. Then all of the Waddle Dees pick up Dedede and bring him to Cappy town. The Cappies laugh at him. They bring him to Yabui, who says that Dedede will keep growing and that something is wrong with the chips. Tiff, Tuff, and Kirby go back to Dedede's throne room. Tiff takes a sample of chip crumbs and Tuff follows, leaving Kirby behind. Kirby starts eating the remaining chip crumbs. Tiff examines the chips and finds that a special ingredient has been placed inside that causes the consumer to inflate like a balloon. Tiff then rushes back to the throne room to find a giant Kirby.

They hear the sound of Escargoon rushing Dedede back in and hide Kirby behind a pillar. Dedede calls N.M.E. and asks for a cure. Tiff rolls Kirby back in and demands one too. The NME transporter glows and out comes a highly energetic monster named Max Flexer, who starts dancing and singing. A huge machine comes up and grabs Dedede and Kirby. As Max Flexer sings, Dedede and Kirby are forced into a variety of cruel yet useful exercises, such as running on a treadmill leading to a spinning pit of spikes, being stretched and poked by the machine, being flattened by Max Flexer's steamroller, and being forced to be squeezed through a thin tube. Tiff comments that it is torture, but Escargoon insists that this is the cost of weight loss. Finally, the machine places Kirby on a table with a spiked ball above.

Max Flexer says "finish him" and the ball drops on Kirby. Kirby, being crushed, exhales all the chips that he swallowed, returning to his regular fit state. He then inhales Max Flexer's headset, becoming Mike Kirby. Mike Kirby starts singing the same song the Max Flexer sang and Castle Dedede collapses and Max Flexer explodes. In the rubble, Dedede and Escargoon emerge. Dedede sees that he is back to normal. All of a sudden, Kirby hops out and starts singing again, causing Dedede and Escargoon to start running.