Special Delivery

**Special Delivery** is an episode of Spencer and Fridge.

## Summary

Spencer's dad gets a job as a pizza delivery man, which worries his mom when, at the same time, strange things begin to occur around New Hampshire. When it becomes apparent that Dad has disrupted the fabric of the universe by getting a job, his family desperately tries to get him fired.

## Plot

The episode starts in the front lawn with an unconscious Mom having a nightmare and being slapped awake by Ruby. It is revealed that she fainted at the news of Dad getting a job as a pizza delivery guy. Mom uneasily walks back to the house, assisted by Ruby, uncertain about her husband's newfound profession. Before leaving, she instructs Spencer and Fridge to watch over Dad, to which they comply. The boys express their surprise at Dad getting a job. He had originally called a hotline to Pizza Hut, but the number was a job application. He explains his method of getting "free" pizza: slicing off the middle segment for himself and hiding any evidence. After drooling a bit, he drives off on his scooter like a madman, dropping several pizzas. Spencer and Fridge notice this, lending their assistance by delivering the dropped pizzas.

Back in the house, Mom is still taken aback by Dad gaining employment. Ruby comforts her, saying that the additional income will be of tremendous help. She uses a family picture for reference, pointing out the fact that they have been wearing the same clothes for a week, Mom, Dad, and Spencer lacking autism, and Fridge's lack of girls. Mom initially concedes but notices something wrong with the picture: a huge crack where her husband is pointing on the stone model of the earth, and his red eyes. As a premonition, ominous music plays in the background.

In the meantime, Spencer and Fridge have arrived at the first house—438 Elm Street, home of two married pizzas, the Jalls. Their order is their "new baby," which Spencer presents to them. The couple gushes over the "new member of their family" while Mr. Jall gives Spencer a $20 bill. Unfortunately, as Spencer reaches for the money, he drops the pizza to the ground. Gruesomely, it slithers down the steps, leaving behind a blood-red trail of pizza sauce. The Jalls are horrified, and a panicked Spencer drops the empty pizza box and hands them a different one, which the Jalls accept, still horrified. They slowly walk down the stairs, making their departure, but not before Fridge accidentally skids the pizza across the pavement.

Dad, meanwhile, is singing a rap about his new job. He trips, and as he stumbles around on his vehicle, he leaves behind a trail of distorted reality.

Spencer and Fridge have fled to their next destination, a man's house. Unfortunately, his order is the replacement given to the Jalls. Spencer improvises and crams a clump grass and dirt into a pizza shape, adding a piece of gum from off the man's doorstep and spreading it on the pizza. As Spencer finishes, a starved man pops out, tearing into the pizza like a maniac immediately after explaining his new diet. After a few monstrous bites, he stops, twitches, and faints. He is still alive and well, denoted by the bubble of gum blown through his mouth. Fridge, relieved, asks him for payment.

At the house, Mom is filling a mug with tap water. Dad passes by the house, causing the water to defy gravity by floating up to the ceiling. Mom panics and turns the water off as Ruby walks in. Mom tries to show Ruby what had transpired, but with Dad long gone, the water is running normally. Ruby decides to tease her mother, talking about how running water did not exist during her childhood. Mom shrugs it off and solidifies her belief that Dad having a job is a bad thing, prompting Ruby to take her coffee mug away. This small action causes Mom to snap, exclaiming that she is not hysterical.

The final pizza that Spencer and Fridge need to deliver is to the Blue's Clues house. Steve answers the door and begins chanting "pita pita pizza" repeatedly. He is soon joined by the whole cast, as Spencer and Fridge uncomfortably watch. Then Dad zooms by, distorting reality once again by putting the family in a thousand-year loop. Spencer and Fridge, unaware of this, believes the cast is just crazy. Spencer teases them by asking questions where pizza is the answer. Their amusement worn thin, they leave the pizza in the house and close the door. Spencer takes one last peek at them through the mail slot and sees them still chanting but in slow motion. He dismisses it as the cast's regular pervertiness.

Ruby is trying to set Mom at ease. She describes Dad working as a change in the balance of the universe and that of the authoritative power within the family, which upsets her. Spencer and Fridge enter the house and tell her that they delivered the pizzas to their houses and nothing went wrong. Mom flips the TV on in time for a breaking news report illustrating many bizarre occurrences across Brantford. Nighttime has fallen early upon a Walmart store, there is snowfall elsewhere in Brantford, and Keanu Reeves is floating. Linking these events with her husband's employment, which she affirms as an anomaly along with other examples, Mom sets off to have him fired.

The family is driving with Dad's employer, Boss, who claims that tearing the fabric of the universe is not grounds for dismissal. They catch Dad in their sights, who speeds towards his destination and further distorts reality with repeated wrings on the throttle. His family gains on him, but Ruby warns them to be more cautious. Dad pushes the throttle many times, altering the family and Boss in different ways.

They find Dad's destination, New Hampshire Governor's Mansion, through a beam of light vacuuming everything in sight. Their hurried pace saves them from a falling, hardened cloud. He rings the doorbell and the beam grows brighter. Mom is turned into a puddle, and the children and Boss into many more variations of themselves, from the warped reality. Before accepting the pizza, the governor complains about its half-eaten appearance. Boss learns of Dad's crude method of obtaining "free" pizza and is given enough of an incentive to fire him, undoing the damage to the universe, restoring New Hampshire to normal, and turning Mom back to her original body.

Dad is stripped of his helmet, scooter, and job. The family comforts him over his termination, rekindling his drive to search for another and sending the fabric of reality hanging in the balance once more.

## Transcript

### A Shocking Revelation

*[Mom is passed out on the ground, and appears to be having a nightmare]*
**Ruby**: *[Slaps a hand on Mom]* Mom! Wake up!
**Mom**: Ah! Oh!
**Spencer**: Mom? Are you okay?
**Mom**: Oh, I had the weirdest dream, I was on the front lawn, and your father had a job as a pizza delivery guy!
**Dad**: Ha! That wasn't a dream, *[cuts to him wearing a pizza deliveryman outfit]* that's what I just told you! And you fainted! Ha ha ha!
**Mom**: Eh. Uh, I guess I was just overcome by a strange new feeling!
**Fridge**: What do you mean?
**Mom**: I think I'm pruhhh— I think I'm puhrulll— I think I'm *prood* of you, honey!
**Ruby**: You mean "proud"?
**Mom**: Yes, I think so. It's just, I'm not used to saying that word much, particularly to describe your father. Uh, uh, I think I need to go lie down. Something about this is not right. *[To Spencer and Fridge]* Please follow him to make sure nothing goes wrong!
*[Spencer and Fridge nod]*
**Spencer**: I gotta say, Dad, I never thought you were gonna get a job!
**Dad**: Neither did I! I found a number for Pizza Hut Delivery, but I didn't realize it was a job application. Should've known it was strange they wanted my Social Security number, but look at me now! I am an Italian Food Distribution Engineer! Your mother is *proud* of me, and best of all, I can eat as much pizza as I like!
**Spencer** and **Fridge**: *[Both gasp]* THEY GIVE YOU FREE PIZZA?
**Dad**: Technically, no. But what I do is...
*[Scene cuts to the cube showing how Dad gets his "free pizza"]*
**Sexy Voice**: Step one: Remove a slice from the center of the pizza. Step two: Eat the pizza slice. Step three: Push the remaining halves of the pizza back together, and cover your tracks. Step four: Put the pizza in its box. Step five: Enjoy how clever you are. Step six: Repeat.
**Dad**: Gawwh... Well, these pizzas aren't gonna deliver themselves! *[Gets on scooter]* Whoa whoa whoa! whoa! Ha ha ha, GAAAH!
**Spencer**: *[Proudly]* Look at him... *[Notices Dad dropped several pizza boxes]* He's not gonna keep this job for long unless we give him a hand.
*[Fridge shakes his head]*
### Whispers of Doom

*[Mom and Ruby are sitting on the couch, with Mom being wrapped around a blanket]*
**Mom**: Your father has a job... Your father has a job. *[Jumps at Ruby]* SOMETHING'S GOING TO GO TERRIBLY WRONG, ISN'T IT?!
**Ruby**: No, this is a good thing! We can finally buy all the things we need!
**Mom**: What do you mean? We've got everything we need.
**Ruby**: Mom... *[She shows Mom a framed photo of the family]* We've all been wearing the same clothes for the past week, all of us have shoes, *[Whispers]* and I think it's time Fridge had a girlfriend.
**Mom**: Huh... Wait a minute, show me that. *[Takes the photo]* Look at the crack down the earth, and your father's eyes! *[Drops the photo]* I've got a bad feeling about this.
**Ruby**: Mom, please. It's just delivering pizzas! How wrong can it go?
**Ominous Voices**: Very wrong...
### A Very Special Delivery

**Spencer**: Okay, four-thirty-eight Elm Street. That's the place.
*[Spencer rings the doorbell, Mr. Jall opens the door]*
**Mr. Jall**: *[Gasps]* Honey, come see what the stork brought us!
*[Rushing footsteps, Mrs. Jall appears at the door]*
**Mrs. Jall**: *[Gushing]* Oh look, he's got his father's eyes! Oh he's *beautiful*.
**Mr. Jall**: Thank you so much. Here's a twenty.
*[Spencer uses the hand holding the pizza box to take the money, causing the pizza to fall. The pizza slowly slides down the porch stairs, leaving a trail of blood red pizza sauce. The Pepperonis stare, frozen in horror. Spencer slowly puts down the now empty pizza box, casually handing them a different one, which Mrs. Jall accepts, still gaping at the previous spectacle. Spencer and Fridge inch down the stairs, then dash off, but not before stepping on the dropped pizza]*
### Dad on the Job

**Dad**: *[Beatboxing]* *[Rapping]* *Here I am, I got a J-O-B*
*Earnin' plenty o' dough for my family*
*Yeah, I'm Dad Gilpin, employee*
*So have some R-E-S-P-C-K-T*
*I got a pizza in the box*
*I got a cola in the bottle*
*And I'll get it to ya' faster when I'm pullin' on the throttl-AHHHH!*
*[Dad loses control of the delivery moped, starts skidding down the road. He distorts the existence of objects he passes by: a fire hydrant changes color, a dog and his owner change roles, a traffic light starts changing signals randomly, and the outfits of mannequins on display get swapped]*
### Made with All-Natural Ingredients

**Fridge**: Oh man, we gave them the vegetarian! What are we gonna do?!
**Spencer**: *[Strokes his chin]* Improvise! *[Rings the doorbell]*
**Fridge**: Are you *sure* this is going to work? Because right now—
*[The screen scrolls down to reveal a poorly improvised vegetarian pizza: a mud crust with random plants and rocks found in an average garden strewn over as toppings]*
**Fridge**: —it *kinda* looks like a load of grass and dirt...
**Spencer**: Ehhh, it just needs some mozzarella.
*[Spots a piece of old, chewed gum on the floor and picks it up, spreading it around their improvised vegan pizza appetizingly]*
**Spencer**: There!
*[The door opens, revealing an unnamed man]*
**Man**​​​​​​: *[Looking withered from hunger]* Ohhh, finally! I've been on this Tibetan diet where you're supposed to eat nothing but sunlight, but it's been really cloudy! I think I need to eat something that actually *exists!!*
*[The man digs into the "pizza", shoveling lump after lump of it in his mouth. After a few seconds, he stops, realizing what he just ate. His eye twitches]*
**Man**​​​​​​: At least it was organic.
*[The man faints, his body sprawling out over his porch. Fridge pokes him with his shoe]*
**Fridge**: *[Panicking]* DUDE! I think he stopped breathing!
*[The man blows a bubblegum bubble out of his mouth, signalling that he is, indeed, breathing. It inflates to a decent size, then pops. Fridge sighs in relief]*
**Fridge**: That'll be twenty dollars.
### A Healthy Dose of Unreality

*[At the Gilpin house, Mom is in the kitchen, getting a mug full of water from the sink. Dad passes by the house. With some ominous singing and his reality-distorting effect still kicking, he causes the water to defy gravity and flow up into the ceiling. Mom panics and shuts the water off. Ruby casually strolls in]*
**Mom**: *[Still shaken up]* Ruby! Did you see that?! *[Pointing at the faucet]*
**Ruby**: See what?
*[Mom turns the faucet on again, but since Dad is long gone, it flows normally]*
**Ruby**: *[Cheekily]* Yeah, I know, *running water!* Wasn't like that in your day, huh? You know...when the world was in black and white, and you could leave your front door open, and everyone cycled to school in a bike with one big wheel at the front...
**Mom**: I don't claim to understand it, Ruby, but something is going *wrong*. *Seriously wrong*. And I think it has to do with your father.
**Ruby**: *[Grabs the coffee mug and pats Mom's hand]* I *think* we're going to stop with the coffee...
**Mom**: *[Snapping]* DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE I'M FUCKING HYSTERICAL!
### A Creepy Bunch of Perverts

*[Spencer rings the doorbell to the Blue's Clues estate. Steve appears]*
**Steve**​​​​​​: Ah, pizza! *Pita, pita, pizza! Pita, pita, pizza!*
*[The Blue's Clues cast comes to join him]*
**BC Cast**: *Pita, pita, pizza! Pita, pita, pizza! Pita, pita, pizza!*
*[Spencer and Fridge look on awkwardly. Dad passes by and once again distorts reality, this time putting the Banana family in an infinite loop while glitching]*
**BC Cast**: *Pita, pita, pizza! Pita, pita, pizza! Pita, pita, pizza!*
**Spencer**: Okay...um, so...guess what's in the box?
**BC Cast**: *Pita, pita, pizza!*
**Spencer**: Correct! *[Fridge starts giggling]* And for ten points, what's round, from Italy, and sometimes has olives on it?
**BC Cast**: *Pita, pita, pizza!*
**Spencer**: Right again! And, for double or nothing: what is the name of the tower that leans to one side?
**BC Cast**: *Pita, pita, pizza!*
**Spencer**: Eh, it's "Pisa", but I'll give you that one.
**BC Cast**: *Pita, pita, pizza!*
**Spencer**: O-okay, okay, game's over, guys.
**BC Cast**: *Pizza, Pita, pita, pizza!*
**Spencer** and **Fridge**: Riiight.
**Spencer**: I'm just going to put the box down here. O-okay, bye now... *[Closes door]*
**Fridge**: Well, somebody likes pizza...
*[Spencer peeks through their mail slot. He sees the cast* *still* *chanting "Pizza" repeatedly, but in slow motion]*
**BC Cast**: *[Slow-motion]* *Pita, pita, pizza!*
**Spencer**: That's one creepy bunch of perverts, man.
### Media Blitz

*[Mom is still worried about the state of the world. She shivers on the couch as Ruby comforts her]*
**Ruby**: Mom, when you say "Dad having a job has upset the fundamental balance of the universe", are you sure you don't just mean he's changed the balance of power in the house, and that upsets you because you're a *little* bit of a control freak?
**Mom**: No...well, maybe uh, I don't know anymore!
*[Spencer and Fridge casually walk in]*
**Mom**: Boys! What's going on with your father? Has something terrible happened?
**Spencer**: Um, he dropped a few pizzas so...we delivered 'em. That's about it.
**Mom**: *[Relieved]* Maybe I should just try to forget about this...
*[Mom turns on the TV. A WMUR-TV breaking news report is on, alerting the citizens of Brantford of the strange things happening around the town]*
**News Reporter**: Reports of strange occurences all around Brantford! At Walmart, it's been nighttime all day!
**Man**: It's supposed to be 12AM!
**News Reporter**: Meanwhile, residents were confused by unseasonal snow!
**Woman**: It's supposed to be summer!
**News Reporter**: And Keanu Reeves seems to have inverted gravity!
**Keanu Reeves**: I'm supposed to be on the ground!
*[Mom shuts off the TV, angry. She realizes the only rational explanation for this is Dad getting a job]*
**Mom**: *[Angry]* SEE? I told you! This is all because of your father! Some things are not meant to be! Dogs shouldn't get on with cats, men shouldn't have ponytails, and your father is *not meant to have a job!*
**Fridge**: What are we gonna do?!
**Mom**: We have to *stop him*.
### The Eleventh Hour

*[Mom, the kids, and a kidnapped Boss rush to fire Dad in their car]*
**Boss**: *[Frantically]* Look, I'm sorry, but tearing apart the fabric of the universe is not a dismissible offence! Now please let me go!
**Mom**: Don't you understand?! You need to *fire* him!
**Boss**: But he's doing okay!
**Mom**: What if he delivers a pizza late?
**Boss**: Uh, well, yeah I guess I could fire him for *that*.
**Mom**: Then he's *not* gonna deliver this one.
### In Utter Darkness

**Dad**: *[Rapping]* *Mild or spicy, my flavors will exhilarate*
*You get them double-quickly when I'm twisting the accelerator!*
*Twisting the accelerator!*
*Twisting the accelerator!*
*[With every "twist of the accelerator", energy shoots out the engine of the scooter, shaking the existence of everything it makes contact with, like turning the sun into a moon, and erasing the force of gravity from anything the shock wave hits, Mr. Meeves ends up flying in the sky and falling down on earth. Boss, Mom, and the kids search for him in the wreckage, gaping in a mixture of awe and horror at the effects of Dad having a job. Ominous voices start singing monotonously as they drive on through this distorted version of their town; Blue appears floating on-screen]*
**Blue**: *[Sped up]* Pita, pita, pizza! Pita, pita, pizza...
**Fridge**: We must be getting close.
*[Dad drives by on the opposite road]*
**Fridge**: *[Off-screen]* That was him!
*[Mom backs up and turns the car, following Dad closely]*
*[Their car is now right behind Dad's moped. As they try to get closer, Dad twists the accelerator again, sending out another wave of distortion energy]*
**Ruby**: The closer we get to dad, the more warped the universe becomes! We've gotta be careful!
**Mom**: Then you better hold on tight...
*[Mom boldly approaches Dad's moped again. This time, the wave of energy switches their heads around. Mom has Boss's head, Spencer has Ruby', Fridge has Mom's, Boss has Fridge's, and Ruby has Spencer's]*
**Spencer**: *[With Ruby' head and thus, her genius brain]* What's happened? I feel really smart!
**Ruby**: *[With Spencer's tiny brain]* I don't...
*[Another wave hits them, swapping their positions in the car. Spencer is in the driver's seat but, being twelve years old, he has no idea how to drive]*
**Spencer**: AAAAHHHHH!
**Mom**: DON'T FORGET TO CHECK YOUR MIRRORS!
*[The car veers uncontrollably, nearly flipping over when another wave hits them. The wave puts them back in their normal places. Everyone in the car breathes a sigh of relief]*
**Mom**: This is not so bad...
*[Several waves start bombarding the car, each one altering the family into a different animation style. They scream throughout the entire process, their voices changing with each transformation that occurs. Suddenly, they all change back to normal, except they are outside the car. They breathe a sigh of relief]*
**Mom**: I think the worst is ov—
*[Upon noticing a car heading straight for them, and that they are not even in their own car, Mom and her passengers scream as she veers out of the way. They get bombarded by more distortions, the first one putting them back in the car but the subsequent ones changing the color of their bodies]*
**Mom**: I CAN'T... TAKE IT... ANY...
*[The family turns into the real-life versions of themselves.]*
**Mom**: *Meow*.
*[After getting hit by another wave, they turn back to normal]*
**Mom**: Where's he delivering this pizza?
**Boss**: Ah, thirty-fourth street!
**Mom**: I know a shortcut! We'll be there in no—
*[Gets cut off by another wave, this one sending them back in time to when they started the chase]*
**Boss**: Look, I'm sorry, but tearing apart the fabric of the universe is not a dismissible offence! Now please let me go!
**Spencer**: *[Realizing they went back in time]* What th—? Oh, man, we went back in time!
**Ruby**: We'll never catch up with him!
**Mom**: We'll see about that!
*[Mom slams on the gas, dodging floating cars in the way. They eventually reach a clear strip of road, on which they get put on an infinite loop. After the third attempt to cross, she stops and exits off a side road]*
**Mom**: We'll go this way... *[After finally making progress]* What's the house number?
**Boss**: Uh, I don't know!
**Mom**: Well, make an effort! This street is two miles long!
**Spencer**: *[Upon seeing a severely messed up house]* Uh, I think I know which house it is.
*[The rest of the family slowly turn and gaze upon a brilliant beam of light shining down on the New Hampshire Governor's Mansion. Dad gets off his moped and begins walking to the door to deliver the pizza and end the universe. Mom pulls up behind his parked bike]*
**Fridge**: There he is!
*[Dad starts walking up the porch stairs. With every step, he sends out another distorting wave of energy. He steps forward]*
**Mom**: BRACE YOURSELVES!
*[The first wave of energy turns the clouds to stone, causing them to fall]*
**Mom**: Run.
*[Mom and the kids escape from the car just as the clouds crush it. Dad continues walking up the steps, this time the waves he emits again changes the animation styles of the characters. Mom and the kids drag Boss, trying to convince him to fire Dad]*
**Mom**: FOR HEAVENS' SAKE BOSS, *FIRE HIM!*
**Boss**: But he hasn't done anything wrong!
**Mom**: He's destroying the universe—
*[Mom loses her outline, causing her to melt down into a puddle of blue ink. The kids and Boss look at her in horror]*
**Spencer**, **Fridge** and **Ruby**: MOM!
**Mom**: I'm all right! I guess... Now go and stop your father!
*[The kids continue dragging Boss to fire Dad. Ruby points towards the front door of the house Dad is delivering pizza to]*
**Ruby**: Spencer, look!
*[Dad slowly moves his pointed finger towards the doorbell, oblivious to what is happening. The kids outstretch their hands and scream for him to stop, all while sporadically changing shape and form]*
**Spencer**, **Fridge** and **Ruby**: DAD! *[Their voices sound distorted as they are experiencing sporadic transformations]* DON'T DELIVER THE PIZZA!
*[Dad succeeds in ringing the doorbell. Chris Sununu opens the door. The kids and Boss continue rapidly transforming into different variations of themselves. Still a puddle of blue ink, Mom watches with horror]*
**Spencer**, **Fridge**, and **Ruby**: *[Still transforming spontaneously]* NOOOOOO!
*[Right before Sununu accepts the pizza, he notices that a large portion of it is missing]*
**Governor**: Oh, hey!
*[Boss rushes to see what the problem with the pizza is. He is not happy with what he sees]*
**Boss**: *[Displeased]* HAVE YOU BEEN EATING THIS PIZZA?!
**Dad**: *[Nervously]* Just a little bit from the middle.
**Boss**: *[Furious]* Gilpin, in accordance with article thirty-four of the Pizza Hut handbook... *[In a strange deep voice]* *You're fired*.
**Dad**: WHAT?!
### Back to Normal

*[Dad being employed no longer, Concord returns to normal. A rainbow shoots out across the skies of New Hampshire, signifying that everything is at peace. Boss angrily drives away in the delivery moped, shooting a look of contempt back at Dad]*
**Dad**: *[Ashamed]* ...I'm sorry I lost my job, honey. I know you were really proud of me.
**Mom**: It's all right, honey.
*[The family gathers around Dad to hug him as comfort for his termination]*
**Dad**: *[Excitedly]* But don't worry! I'll get another one!
*[The dramatic music plays again, the camera zooms out, Mom, Spencer, Fridge, and Ruby look at the camera in shock, and lightning ominously strikes Dad's finger during clear weather. His eyes also turn red, just like in the photo. The episode ends]*