Season 2, Episode 6: Dance Dance Revelations 2ndMix Link Version

*The following article contains spoilers for Season 2. Please listen to the season in its entirety or be warned!*

Template:Infobox episode**Dance Dance Revelations** **2ndMix Link Version** is the 6th episode of season 2 of *Dungeons and Daddies*.

## Episode description

*It's time to dance! But when stopping eldritch incursions on your reality is part of the festivities, this dance is going to be anything but normal!*

## Introduction

Pepperoni Tony narrates a Bachelorette-style recap of Scary's process of choosing a date for the dance.

## Rad Facts

* Taylor Swift (Freddie Wong): Taylor has been unsuccessfully trying to sell his signature dance, the Swift-step, to *Fork-knife* (the contemporary pronunciation of *Fortnite*).
* Lincoln Li-Wilson (Matt Arnold): Link started going with his parents to dance classes, which helped develop his soccer footwork. He is very skilled at the *whatnot*, a dance from a popular hip-hop song in 2040, which is just simulated sex via hip gyrations.
* Normal Oak (Will Campos): Normal's submission for the school mascot contest was secretly chosen by Vice Principal Pepperoni Tony when he feared that the school would face blow-back from the front-runner, the San Dimas demon.
* Theresa "Terry/Scary" Marlowe's (Beth May): As part of her bid to join a heavy metal band, Scary planned to wring a guitar lesson from the orchestra teacher by bringing the instrument to school in a cello case, but she was caught by her parents.
* Dungeon Master (Anthony Burch): While watching wrestling, Anthony discovered the phrase "Daddy Magic" in use by wrestler Matt Menard.

## Plot Summary

### Lark and Sparrow

Normal Oak rushes onto the dance floor after seeing his missing father (Sparrow) and uncle (Lark) T-posing and flossing. He tries to embrace them, but his arms pass through them, revealing them as projections. Lark explains that, wherever they are, it's affecting their minds but that they've managed to contact Normal using Daddy Magic. Lark begins to say that they have important information to convey, but Sparrow breaks in to tell Normal that he loves him, would love for him to be less weird, and is a little disappointed in him. He tells Normal that they can save them by gathering Daddy Magic. Normal is taken aback by his father's behavior and asks what's happened. The brothers inform him that Sparrow drank alcohol to protect his mind but that Lark is beginning to forget things, offhandedly mentioning that he slept with Sparrow's (now) wife at some point during their engagement.

Sparrow explains that Daddy Magic is based on fulfilling the relationship between them and that he can strengthen it by acting normally at the dance, without the mascot suit on, to make him proud. Lark interjects that Normal has another option: to enact Code Purple. He explains that each of the fathers were only given one part of the plan as a safeguard and for their own sanity and that they are in another plane near incursion points located within the school. He informs Normal of a machine in the archives of D.A.D.D.I.E.S. called the Amplifier, which is a critical part of Code Purple. Lark apologizes for Sparrow's behavior, mentions a Glock under his desk, and as the pair begins to fade, Normal declines to speak to either of them again and heads towards the bathroom to take a minute to think, passing Hermie Unworthy along the way. Lincoln Li-Wilson approaches Hermie to point out Normal's misery, nudging Hermie (as Normal's date) to intervene.

### The Bathroom

Hermie enters the bathroom to find Normal standing at the mirror with his mascot head removed. He asks Normal if he can offer any comfort and mentions that his behavior until this point had been part of the preparation for his role, which Scary Marlowe reveals to be the stage adaptation of *Joker,* bursting in after him. Normal confides that he has to act more ordinary in order to win his dad back and asks for Hermie's advice on being a normal student. Hermie advises him to look to examples in popular culture, and Normal resolves to emulate the extras from teen movies. Link joins the group and gives Normal a pep talk, but Scary points out that he has to comply with Sparrow's wishes in order to free him.

Hermie provides Normal with a tear-away tuxedo to change into, but he remains protective of the mascot costume. Link offers to wear the costume and points out that if people notice the mascot is gone, it would create an even less normal situation. After Link finishes changing into the mascot costume, they hear a loud boom from outside of the bathroom followed by a series of exclamations from Pepperoni Tony that turn to gibberish. Link dons the mascot helmet as they prepare to leave the bathroom but is overwhelmed by the accumulated stench of Normal's continuous wear and vomits into it, which overpowers the scent inside the helmet with a scent he's more comfortable with.

### The Incursion

The Teens exit the bathroom to find the dance floor empty with the attendees pressed up against the wall in terror. Near the stage, they spot a large dome resembling "massive acne" with a protruding black tentacle wrapped around Pepperoni Tony's neck. The tentacle begins to apply itself to his lips, turning them into an eldritch lip-monstrosity with its own tentacles deemed **Puckeroni Tony**. Puckeroni grabs three varsity soccer players - Jeffrey, Kool Kris, and Sean - and pushes their mouths together before spraying them with an adhesive gel.

Scary grabs the microphone and tells everybody to run but finds that it's been switched off. Taylor Swift goes to pull the fire alarm but is unable to do so with his Gundam costume hand before the monster smashes it off the wall. Link dons his cleats, and Normal commands the monster to release the trio of bound soccer players. After doing so, the monster lashes his tentacles at Normal and Taylor. Taylor uses his cosplay shield to defend against it, but the tentacle smashes through it and grabs him. Normal tries to dodge away but is unaccustomed to his center of gravity without the mascot costume and tumbles into the tentacle. The monster commands them to kiss and smashes and sprays the pair together. 30 pairs of tiny white pairs of lips begin to emerge from the monster and crawl towards the fleeing kids.

Taylor manages to free an arm as Puckeroni whips the pair around. Link empowers his cleats with Divine Smite and delivers a bicycle kick to the tentacle holding Normal. Normal tries to free himself from the adhesive by doing the Worm vertically, shattering the adhesive, and strikes the monster with Guiding Bolt. Scary prepares for a future attack with True Strike while the monster is distracted. The tiny white worms begin to climb on the other students and teachers and attach themselves to their lips. Seeing that Normal and Taylor have separated, the monster lashes out at Normal. Link casts Protection and blocks the first tentacle, but the second strikes his head, and he performatively falls to the ground.

Taylor draws his sword-cane and severs one of the tentacles. Link uses Lay on Hands to heal Normal, restoring him but subsequently damaging him mentally as he sees Link performing the mascot role so well. Normal rushes at the monster and punches its lips. Scary delivers a line that mentally devastates Pepperoni Tony. The monster manages to grab her but fails to grasp Normal, who falls to the floor with a sarcastic eye-roll. The students and teacher controlled by the monster's worms begin to attack Scary while she is immobilized.

At that moment, a fire (that originated from a cupcake left on the stove in the teacher's lounge) reaches the cafeteria, and the rafters begin to burn. Taylor uses Zephyr Strike and attacks again with his sword, destroying the enormous lip monster. Soon after, the lips controlling the teacher and students deliver a garbled message in a distorted voice before shriveling and falling to the ground, freeing their victims.

Normal confides that he has a plan to deal with the incursion but requires a distraction, as what he intends to do is not "normal". Still in the mascot costume, Link takes to the dance floor to do the *whatnot* dance, drawing everybody's attention and gaining the students' admiration for the mascot. Normal takes the Kellog K Nife from Scary and channels all of his frustration, failure, anger, and resentment into a single blow to the incursion bubble, bursting it like an enormous pimple.

## Quotes

* "My dads don't drink, but you know, sometimes they have a little too much soda pop and they get a little, you know, bubbly. And sometimes they say things that they don't always mean." - *Lincoln Li-Wilson*
* "Oh my god, gross! Um... Nasty, eww. I sure wish that I had a hot car. Vroom vroom!" - *Scary Marlowe, trying to be normal during the incursion*
* "Harrison Ford wielded a short sword in the swarthy shores of Swarthmore." - *Freddie Wong inventing a tongue-twister*
* "Hey Tony, your wife helped me out with some pre-law stuff the other day; she said I had a keen legal mind. When's the last time she said anything to you?" - *Scary Marlowe, to Pepperoni Tony*
* "Call me chapstick, because I cut the shit out of those lips." - *Taylor Swift*
* "Well Normal, you popped a zit, you got humiliated, and you didn't have fun at your first dance. That sounds pretty normal to me." - *Hermy Unworthy*

## Trivia

* The episode title is a reference to *Dance Dance **Revolution** 2ndMix - Link Version*.
* Matt initially describes Link's Divine Smite attack as a ground pound from the Super Mario series of video games before changing it to a bicycle kick.

## Continuity

* Beth rolled a 72 to check for Scary's early death for being left-handed and a 12 for the Kellog K Nife, meaning she survived and did not masturbate recently. This brings the knife up to 5d4 damage.