Red Takes The Cake!

> "Faster, Chuck! FASTER!!!!!!"
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> - Red & Chuck carrying the birthday cake
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Red Takes The Cake! is the 18th episode in the 2nd Season of The Angry Birds Show & is the 68th episode overall.

## Summary

It's Jay, Jake & Jim's birthday, but Matilda has forgotten the cake! Now, she sends Red and Chuck to get the cake while Bomb & Terence try to stall the triplets. Can they do it before time's up?

## Plot

The episode begins in Red's Room, & Red is sleeping. As the clock strikes 6:00, Red left eye instantly wakes in fear. He then rushes downstairs & hides every birthday decorations & wakes everyone else up. When Matilda asks him what's wrong. Red only replies with "BIRTHDAY! Jay, Jake & Jim!!!!! JULY 22!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and briefly starts crying. Chuck asks Matilda if she hidden the cake, but she replied that she was allergic to blueberry & had to burn down the cake. Terence angrily shouts in her face & tells her to get a new cakes but replies that nothing that could wash out the bad taste & had to stay up all night.

With her too tired to get a new one, she makes Red & Chuck go to the cake shop & get a different cake. Red tells her that their favorite food is pudding pop with seeds. She also makes Hal & Terence slow down the triplets, but it turned out that they already made the traps, but they used invisible soda on them. Matilda angrily asks them "HOW'D YOU KNOW-IT-ALLS KNOW THIS?!?!?!???!!!" Red explains that before he woke her up, he saw the list & grabbed it. Now that everything is ready, Red & Chuck set out for the cake. Everything is now set in motion.

### Race for the Cake

Red explain to Chuck that they have to get their on time. Chuck tells him that's it's gonna be alright because their home. He then rushes Red to the shop, but goes way to fast & crashes through the entire shop (Good thing he didn't destroy anything!) After a crazy crash course, Red wakes Chuck up & finds himself & Chuck in the desert. Chuck starts crying that they'll never get he cake home on time. Red tells him that they can't give up, & he agrees. The 2 then rush back to the house.

### Trap Troubling

With the traps all set, Terence & Hal keep watch if anyone doesn't step in the traps. However, this proves to be simple, but it gets harder by he second.

### The Surprise

As all of them reach the house, Red & Chuck accidentally open the front door & Jay, Jake & Jim see nothing. They then decide to go away & play with the ball in the yard. This gives the others enough time to put up the decorations, cake & presents. As the triplets finish playing they enter & everyone else celebrates the triplets' birthday. However, they reveal that the present is actually an exploding soccer ba-omb-ll, which explodes them into dust. The triplets then excitedly shout "BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!!!!!!!" Red then smiles & says "I can deal with that."

## Characters

### Focus

* Red
* Chuck

### Supporting

* Matilda
* Terence
* Hal

### Minor

* Baker
* Talking rattlesnake
* Jay, Jake & Jim

## Trivia

* This episode take place on July 22, which is Jay, Jake & Jim's birthday.
* This episode reveals that Matilda is allergic to blueberries, including blueberry cakes.
* It is revealed that Jay, Jake & Jim's favorite food is pudding pop with seeds.
* This is the 1st time Terence opens his mouth instead of speaking through his mind.
* The 4th wall is broken when Chuck notices the split screen. It's also broken when the screen wipe constantly splats onto the screen.

### Continuity

* Chuck briefly hums Speed is the Need from Songs Sucked Out.
* Red references this episode in Trapped on a Tree by listing some of the thing that would happen in the future.
* Red's ability to see the future is shown again from Mystery of the City Muncher & Trapped on a Tree.

### Cultural References

* The title references the idiom "take the cake," which means to win a prize or competition. In this case Red & Chuck beat the clock back home in a imaginary competition.
* Matilda references a line from the film Apocalypse Now when she wakes "You all know I hate the smell of blueberries in the middle of the night! Because it tasted like a allergic chicken!"

### Errors

* When Red wakes Chuck up, his eye becomes white for a brief second.
* Before the reach their home, the cake is gone, but when they get to their home, the cake is back.

## Running Gags

* Chuck hallucinating that the cake wants to be eaten & tries to eat it, but is stopped by Red.
* Terence & Hal accidentally tripping on a invisible soda infected trap.
* A cake splattering on the screen, which is a screen wipe.

## Focus

* Like the previous episode, this episode multiple plots:
	+ Red & Chuck are the focus of Plot A because of their face against time to get the car back home.
	+ Terence & Hal are the focus of Plot B, about them keeping a eye on the citizens of Bird City & trying to slow Jay, Jake & Jim down from reaching the house.