Fool Me Twice...

**Fool Me Twice...** is the ninth episode of the first season of Veggie Animals.

## Plot

Laura is washing herself by a stream when a spider creeps down from behind her. When Laura turns around and sees the spider, she screams and runs away in terror. It is then revealed that the spider was actually a rubber spider that Larry and Mr. Lunt had used to play a trick on Laura. While Mr. Lunt is having fun playing tricks, Larry is a little bit uncertain, but Mr. Lunt tells him that it's just a few harmless tricks, which Larry agrees with, as long as no one gets hurt. Mr. Lunt tells Larry to trust him, which Larry has no other choice but to do. The two then sneak up behind a group of butterflies and scare the butterflies by yelling really loudly, which makes the butterflies fly away. When the two friends have a laugh about what they did, Bob approaches them, wondering what's going on.

Larry greets Bob before Bob asks him if he and Mr. Lunt are pulling pranks on the other animals again, which Larry confirms, before Bob tells Larry that he's not supposed to pull practical jokes on others, because you never know when someone could get hurt. Mr. Lunt asks Bob how you can hurt someone from practical jokes, because they haven't hurt anyone, Bob telling him that they haven't hurt anyone physically, but when you pull pranks on someone, it hurts them emotionally, which Larry and Mr. Lunt finally understand. Bob asks Larry and Mr. Lunt not to pull pranks on anyone else before they go too far, which the two promise to, all while crossing their fingers behind their backs without Bob knowing. After Bob has left, Larry and Mr. Lunt converse with each other about which pranks to pull now. Jimmy is standing next to the river while cleaning himself, just as Mr. Lunt comes up to him while holding what looks like a pack of gum. Mr. Lunt asks Jimmy if he would like some gum, and when Jimmy asks what flavor it is, Mr. Lunt answers that it's spearmint, which Jimmy proclaims to be his favorite flavor as he tries to get some gum, but it turns out to be snapping gum, as Jimmy gets his finger snapped by the wire of the spring coil, with Mr. Lunt having a little laugh. Jimmy is sarcastic about what happened, telling Mr. Lunt that he could do a better prank than him, before Mr. Lunt invites him to join him and Larry in pranking others. Larry approaches Jerry, who is laying next to a tree, but picks himself up when he sees Larry coming. Larry offers a glass of water to Jerry, who accepts the glass as he starts to drink, but while he is drinking, he ends up getting water spilled on to him, due to Larry having given him a dribble glass. Larry tells Jerry that he and Mr. Lunt are pulling pranks, before also inviting Jerry to join them.

Soon, Larry and Mr. Lunt meet up with again, now with Jimmy and Jerry with them. The four friends then start to discuss which prank to pull. Jean-Claude and Phillipe are doing an acrobatic act while singing "Alouette", before a bunch of firecrackers start exploding from underneath their feet, surprising them greatly, while Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry are hiding in the bushes having a good laugh. Mr. Lunt comes up with another prank after that. Archibald reading a book underneath a tree, not realizing that Mr. Lunt sneaks up behind him while holding a blown-up paper bag, then pops the paper bag, which surprises Archibald so much that he jumps up in the air and comes back down again, wondering what that was. The four friends have a good laugh about it once again, before Jimmy and Jerry also come up with a prank to pull. Pa is watering some flowers in a flower pot, when the flower pot suddenly starts to move to the left then to the right, much to Pa's surprise, thanks to Jimmy and Jerry hiding in the bushes and using some clear string to move the flower pot. This confuses Pa so much that he faints in surprise, while Jimmy and Jerry laugh about it before meeting up with Larry and Mr. Lunt once again. Mr. Lunt suddenly comes with another idea for another prank.

The four friends then approach Bob, who is taking a little nap, while Larry isn't too sure about pulling a prank on Bob, because Bob is his friend, but Mr. Lunt assures him that it's just a harmless little prank, which Jimmy and Jerry agree with, before Larry reluctantly goes along with it. The prank involves putting some tree sap on Bob while he is asleep, then putting some pieces of garbage onto the sap, before hiding in the bushes once the garbage has been applied. Bob wakes up from his nap after a while, unaware of the tree sap and garbage stuck to him, but when he puts his paw on his head, he becomes surprised when he feels the tree sap on his head and runs to the river to look at his reflection, becoming surprised when he sees the tree sap and garbage all over him. Mr. Lunt then comes up to Bob, telling him that he has contracted a rare disease called Garbage-itis, where your body develops sticky body oils that causes all kinds of garbage to get stuck to your body, adding that it's also terminal, which Bob is shocked to hear, when he understands what terminal means, before Mr. Lunt also tells Bob that he has only one hour left before he goes "belly up". Bob is shocked when he hears what Mr. Lunt means, so decides to take a little walk, feeling rather shaken up about what's happened. Mr. Lunt tells Bob that they'll miss him, before he gives off a little laugh.

Bob continues walking along sadly, while he still has the tree sap and garbage stuck on him, then sits next to the river, wondering how Larry and everyone else will get along with him, now that he caught Garbage-itis. However, a sapsucker has flown down and starts sampling the tree sap that it is on Bob's body, which Bob notices as he tries to stop the sapsucker because he has Garbage-itis. The sapsucker comments that the tree sap on Bob's body is the best he's ever tasted, even noting that it's Sycamore, with Bob angrily trying to tell the sapsucker that he doesn't care what it tastes like, but stops when he realizes what the sapsucker just said. When the sapsucker confirms that what Bob has on him is just tree sap, this causes Bob to angrily realize that Mr. Lunt had tricked him, even after he and Larry promised not to pull any more pranks too. Aristotle then flies down next to Bob, asking him if he met his friend, Berle the Sapsucker, which Bob confirms, before Aristotle asks Bob why he's so sad. The sapsucker, named Berle, explains to Aristotle about how his friends tricked him into thinking that he had Garbage-itis. Aristotle then informs Bob that there is no such thing as Garbage-itis, while Bob still laments that his friends tricked him, even after promising that they wouldn't do it anymore.

Aristotle is sympathetic, explaining that he has been watching Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry pranking the other animals and that he flew off to tell Bob, but he couldn't find him anywhere. Bob admits that he was glad that Berle was there, otherwise he still would have thought that he had Garbage-itis. Bob washes himself in the river, able to wash the tree sap off, though Berle is strangely accepting that Bob washed the rest of the tree sap off. When asked what he'll do now, Bob decides that even though he's not one for practical jokes, then he'll prank Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry back so that they'll know how it feels to be pranked. Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry are still laughing about tricking Bob into thinking that he has Garbage-itis, while Larry is still concerned that they might have hurt Bob, even when the others ask him what happened to his sense of humor. Berle then flies up to the four friends, explaining to them that Bob has gone up to Mt. Dusk, apparently not wanting to face life now that he has Garbage-itis, which Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry are shocked to hear, even more shocked since they made up Garbage-itis. When asked where Mt. Dusk is, Berle offers to lead the way so that they can stop Bob.

Berle has soon led the four friends to Mt. Dusk, an apparently spooky mountain surrounded by fog, before they look to see Bob climbing up the mountain. Not wanting their friend to climb the mountain, Larry, Jimmy, Jerry, Mr. Lunt, and Berle start to climb up Mt. Dusk, with Berle telling the four friends that they shouldn't be much further and that they have to stop Bob before he reaches the top of the mountain. When Larry asks Berle what will happen if Bob reaches the top, Berle answers that "he'll go over the edge", which Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry are shocked to hear, saying that they have to stop Bob. When the four friends and Berle reach the top of Mt. Dusk, they find Bob standing near the edge of a cliff. Larry asks Bob what he's doing, but just as Bob is about to answer, he loses his balance while standing on the cliff and falls into the fog, which Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry are shocked and horrified to see, thinking that they were too late to stop Bob. Jimmy angrily blames Mr. Lunt for tricking Bob into thinking that he had Garbage-itis, while Mr. Lunt defends himself, saying that he didn't know that Garbage-itis was real. Larry sadly says that they couldn't save Bob in time because of their prank, before sadly telling Bob that they were sorry for tricking Bob into thinking that he had Garbage-itis and that they'll never pull pranks on anyone else again. Bob then shows up from behind and forgives Larry, which surprises Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry when they see that Bob is alive and well, before Aristotle shows up and shows the four surprised friends that Mt. Dusk is actually famous for its hidden ledges that are concealed by the fog. Larry then asks if Aristotle and Berle were in on it too, which Bob confirms, telling Larry that now he, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry know how it feels to be pranked.

Mr. Lunt admits that it was a good prank, while Bob asks the others that now that they're even, if they promise to never prank anyone else again, which Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, and Jerry promise to do. Berle then says that even if it's not good to pull pranks all the time, he had a lot of fun getting in on the act, while Bob tells him that God doesn't want us to get carried away with the fun that we have, which Aristotle agrees with, saying that "a joke just isn't funny when it hurts someone else". Jimmy then asks how strong the ledge is as he jumps onto the ledge, unaware that it has begun to crack a bit under his weight, while Jerry also jumps onto the ledge with him, surprising Aristotle as he tells Jimmy and Jerry to get out of there because the ledge isn't stable enough to hold their weight. Unfortunately, the ledge breaks apart from underneath Jimmy and Jerry, due to their combined weight, as they start to fall, but they prevent themselves from falling even further when Jerry grabs hold of a nearby branch sticking out from the cliff while Jimmy grab's Jerry's tail. The others are shocked when they see this happen, while Aristotle is worried, saying that the ledge wasn't strong enough to support Jimmy and Jerry's combined weight, with Berle saying that he's not surprised, referring to the two jackal brothers as "fur balloons". The others have to think of a plan to save Jimmy and Jerry, while the two brothers argue with each other about the other being too heavy. Aristotle reminds the two brothers that arguing won't help anything, just as the branch that Jerry is holding on to starts to loosen from the cliff.

Bob comes up with an idea on how to save Jimmy and Jerry, finding some vines that they can use to pull the two jackal brothers up, which Aristotle agrees with. Bob, Larry, Mr. Lunt, and Aristotle throw the vines down to Jimmy and Jerry, who are able to grab hold of the vines, just as the branch comes loose from the cliff. The others are able to pull the two jackal brothers back up to safety once again, while Berle also helps out, carrying the two jackals by their tails. Once Jimmy and Jerry have been pulled back up again, the others are relieved that they are alright, while Berle claims that he helped too, Bob telling him that they can't forget him, which Berle is satisfied to hear. Aristotle also admits that Berle was especially helpful both in helping Bob with his prank and for helping Jimmy and Jerry back up the cliff before they could fall, which satisfies Berle even more. Larry then asks Aristotle if he has any bible verses for what they learned today, which Berle is confused about, with Bob telling him that they'll explain later. Aristotle is able to quote the verse, "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap." Berle is confused, asking what this verse means, Bob explaining that it means that God does not take kindly to mockery and deception of any kind and for us to be kind to those around us. Mr. Lunt then asks if they can go home now now that they know not to prank anyone anymore, which Jimmy and Jerry agree with because they're hungry. Bob, Larry, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy, Jerry, Aristotle, and Berle start to make their way home, all while talking about what's happened, even deciding to tell some jokes to pass the time while they make their way back home.

## Fun Facts

* The verse quoted is "Galatians 6:7".
* Character Introductions: Berle