Humanville

"**Humanville**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 2. In this episode, Helen moves to Human Acres.

## Characters

* Maggie Muffin
* Kira Moonhead
* Helen Luggins
* Spokesman (single appearance)
* Human childrens
* Strawberry the Octopus (in a picture; different coloration)
* Summer (single appearance)
* Groundskeeper (single appearance)
* Café stand owner (single appearance)
* Human guard 1
* Human guard 2
* Eddie Babyman (mentioned only)
* Professor Man (mentioned only)
* Science Boy (mentioned only)
* Angry mob

## Synopsis

As the episode opens, Maggie and Kira receive new reef blowers in the mail, and begin blowing and sucking things up with them. Eventually, they suck up Helen's windows and door, trapping him inside. Helen tunnels his way out and demands they put his door and windows back. In Maggie and Kira's attempt to do so, the reef blowers shoot them out with such force that Helen's house is completely destroyed. As the debris falls, a furious Helen tells them that this is the final straw and that he refuses to live next to them anymore. He mentions that he is going to move so far away, that he will be able to brag about it he would rather tear out brain stem, carry it into the middle of the nearest four-way intersection, and skip rope with it than go on living where he was now. Just then, his TV lands amidst the rubble and turns on, playing a commercial for Human Acres, a private community created exclusively for folks as desperate to move as he is. But before he can actually hear the name of the place, Kira changes the channel and says "I hate this channel." Luckily, Helen manages to take the remote from Kira and learn of the name and where it is.

Helen arrives at the front gate, and after a short interview over the intercom where he confirms that he is neither a sponge nor a starfish, he is allowed to enter. Although he has a run-in and small confrontation with another local resident, to his delight, Helen finds that the residents all look, sound, and act similar to him, even living in houses identical to his prior home. Before Helen can go to sleep, eager to start his new life, however, Maggie and Kira call in an attempt to get him to come back, but Helen refuses, saying that there is no possible way he is passing up the chance of being among his own kind.

Helen begins his first full day at Human Acres by going biking, and he finds that all the other residents are riding their bikes as well. He then goes grocery shopping, and is impressed by the local food market, which even carries canned bread. He then sees an Interpretive Dance Academy, where he joins the group in synchronized interpretive dance. At the end of the day, he sees a clarinet-playing trio performing in the park, which he makes a quartet by joining. Helen's second full day at Human Acres is just like the first, a fact he enjoys immensely. However, as more time goes by, each day exactly the same as the last, Helen slowly loses enthusiasm for the endless routine. Finally, Helen realizes that nobody in Human Acres stands out and that his dream life is in a complete loop. After some time, he leaves in the middle of another clarinet performance`.

While sitting on a park bench, lamenting his attainment of "too much paradise," Helen hears a reef blower. For a split second he thinks it's Maggie, but then sees that it's only a park worker. The worker leaves the reef blower unattended and Helen is slowly tempted to start playing with it, irritating and scaring his neighbors out of their wits in the process. They eventually become fed up with his behavior and form an angry mob to chase him down.

Meanwhile, Maggie and Kira come to the Human Acres to apologize to Helen, and try to convince him to return home. The surveillance guards tell them that their kind isn't welcome, and refuses to open the gate for them. However, Kira's bad breath from some fried oyster skins he had travels through the intercom into the security room, knocking the guards out and causing them to fall over onto the button that opens the gate. They enter the village and come across the angry mob cornering Helen, but are unable to identify Helen among the crowd of near-identical residents.

The mob presents to Helen a "well thought-out and organized list of complaints," then Helen makes a complaint himself about how everyone acts just like him in a single town. The police officer and the rest of the mob tell him that he doesn't have to live there, and Helen wholeheartedly agrees. As Maggie and Kira continue their search, Helen uses the reef blower to launch himself out of the village yelling "Freedom!". Maggie concludes, "Well, we know one thing: it sure isn't that guy!," just as the episode comes to a close.