My Tummy, Your Hurts

**"My Tummy, Your Hurts"** is the third episode of the second season of *Centaurworld* and the 13th episode overall.

The title is also the name of Glendale's eponymous book as featured in this episode.

## Official Synopsis

Horse tries to enlist the fierce Coldtaurs in her battle — but they capture Glendale! Back in the human world, Waterbaby sends a message to Rider.

## Plot

After returning to the ground, Horse once again attempts to recruit the coldtaurs, only to learn that they already know of the war from her song making its way through Centaurworld, but are choosing to fight on the Nowhere King's side. They claim that it's because of how cold their home is and that they believe he will reward their loyalty with warm things. Horse becomes confused and frustrated that they are complaining of the cold without doing anything to warm up, while Glendale asks whether the cold is the real problem or if they're simply afraid.

The coldtaurs deny this and prepare to attack, but the herd runs away while they're distracted. After Comfortable Doug shows up and comments that the coldtaurs are dangerous adversaries to have, Horse decides they should break up a section of ice to slow them down. Unfortunately, as soon as they do they realize that Glendale is not with them and that they have trapped her on the coldtaur's side of the water, which is too cold to swim across.

When the others point out that Wammawink has once again left Glendale behind, Wammawink becomes defensive and tells them that she's doing her best, but Glendale's tendency to run off and steal things aren't her doing. Horse suggests knitting a rope bridge which Wammawink hurries to make, however two coldtaurs show up and capture Glendale; when Comfortable Doug points out that she is likely the most susceptible to Stockholm syndrome before leaving, Horse attempts to leap across the water to rescue her, but falls in and is frozen in a block of ice, which the other ride across.

Durpleton frees Horse from the ice and the herd goes to rescue Glendale, who they see letting the coldtaurs store their weapons in her portal, and believe has already joined their side, especially after she insists that she's fine when they try to rescue her and invites them to come listen to her talk later. Meanwhile, Waterbaby is imprisoned in the Nowhere King's dungeon and has not been able to escape or get her rutabagataurs to remove the key from the machine, Comfortable Doug shows up and agrees to deliver a message to Rider.

Later, the herd is watching the coldtaurs to try and find an opportunity to rescue Glendale, but are spotted; though she keeps the coldtaurs from immediately killing her friends, the herd is taken to listen to Glendale's talk, which they have concerns about as they believe she's been fully indoctrinated by her captors.

Instead her presentation is about the difficulties of living with anxiety and ways of coping with it, which resonates with the coldtaurs. Though they initially still plan to fight for the Nowhere King, Glendale points out that taking the side of what they fear in hopes that they will be protected is not a real solution, and instead they should trust in their own value and in each other. This wins over the coldtaurs who join the herd's side, while the others are surprised but impressed by the way she connected with them. However, Horse has mixed feelings as she presumed her job would be to recruit the army, but her friends are all succeeding where she failed.

Elsewhere, Comfortable Doug delivers Waterbaby's message to Rider, and is sent flying by a kick from Becky Apples.

## Features

### Locations

* Centaurworld
	+ Coldtaur region
* Human world
	+ The Nowhere King's castle

### Songs

* So Cold
* Durple-Drop
* Breathe in a Bag
* Glendale's Giggle cakes song:

## Trivia

* This episode is dedicated to the memory of Maryam Chin Graul.
* While the herd breaks up the ice, part of the theme song for the *A-Team* plays.
* Glendale's outfit and speech pattern during her lecture are a reference to Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of fraudulent pharmaceutical company Theranos. Incidentally, Holmes was involved in a legal battle around the time *Centaurworld* had been released. According to the show creator, the reference was intentional but the timing was an unexpected coincidence.
* The walrustaur has a similar design to the walrus merman briefly seen in one of Megan Nicole Dong's *About Merpeople* comics.
* According to series creator Megan Nicole Dong in an interview , the scene where Comfortable Doug talks about Glendale slowly falling into hypothermia madness was inspired by a Werner Herzog nature documentary about penguins (link) where he narrates about a penguin separated from its herd as it unknowingly gets itself more and more stranded and towards death.
* The scene where Stabby deeply regrets hailing the Nowhere King is an example of him beginning to accept Centaurworld before his actual magical transformation, as confirmed by series creator Megan Nicole Dong.
* Wammawink's "with Goose as my witness" line may be a reference to *Gone with the Wind*, specifically the protagonist Scarlett O'Hara's most infamous line.
* Glendale and the puffintaur children can be heard singing a modified version of the children's rhyme *One potato, Two Potato*. Their lyrics before the scene change are:
	+ *Giggle cakes and icing, one potato, four.*
	+ *Beartaurs from the cabbage patch are knockin' at your door.*
	+ *Salmonella sundae, hot dogs on the lawn.*
	+ *Gobble up the soccer balls until the break of dawn.*
	+ *Smother mother, smother mother, hold onto your kids.*
	+ *Time out’s in the portal tummy, they know what they did.*
	+ *Gramble, gramble, sponge bath. Steal a merman’s egg.*
	+ *Pizza pies are in the-*
	+ (full audio recording)

* Comfortable Doug's grandmother's recipe from the closing scene, when translated from German, reads:
	+ *Grandmother's Ground Meat*
	+ *300g raw pigtaur meat*
	+ *2 red onions*
	+ *1 pickled cucumber*
	+ *pepper*
	+ *salt*

* **Items stolen by Glendale:** ice water, an icicle peak, the coldtaurs' entire weapon armory, a mound of snow

## Gallery

### Production art

Storyboard planning by Charlie Bryant, Story ArtistBackground painting by Bruce Skinner, Background Artist
### Screenshots

How many snowmen can she fit in there?Where's this elevator goin'?The Nowhere King is a false savior

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