Something Good

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**Something Good** is the seventh episode of the Canadian–American animated anthology series, *A Bunch of Munsch*, after *Mortimer*, which is based on the 1990 Robert Munsch's book of the same name. It was followed by *The Boy in the Drawer*.

## Plot

Some kids. Julie, Andrew, and Tyya are on a trip to Super Super Market with their father, thinking they're going to do other actives that are more fun such as going to the movies, the beach, etc. the father, who resembles Robert Munsch himself, acts boring and tired, and only wants to buy stuff that is healthy and nothing of the nature of Junk food for his kids at the store. Despite the kids begging otherwise. When they enter Super Super Market, the store they will be shopping at, it is a rather large and high-tech supermarket with nearly everything, the kids wreak havoc trying to convince their dad into letting them get food that tastes good.

They do this in many different ways, they want a pet lobster, cereal, candy, soda, and a bunch of other junk food. Each time they request it, the father thinks up multiple excuses on why they shouldn't he shouldn't have to buy that food, and he resorts to healthier alternatives much to the kids' annoyance. In the process of this, Tyaa especially makes a mess of everything and asks for everything, and the dad gets even more and more annoyed with the kids the more destruction they cause, and much to the manager's annoyance as well who continues to correct everything/sends a squad to fix every problem.

Pretty soon at one point, even the store employees and the manager himself try to convince the dad into letting his kids get what they want, until Tyya causes a great big mess which causes the dad to have enough of all of it and make her calm down by making her stand still in the middle of the store, and for her to not move a muscle due. She does this, but then she is standing still so much that she is mistaken for a doll by the store employees, and they put her up for sale. Then people try to buy her. But every time they do, she comes to life and the people get frightened.

At one point, having had enough of people trying to buy her, she cries and yells for her father and for him to come to her rescue. She says that it's all his fault for making her clam down, and that the store employees put her up for sale and that people are trying to buy her as she continues to cry and yell loudly. Then the dad reassures her that nobody is trying to buy her, and they go to the checkout. But as soon as they try to leave, due to the price tag on Tyya, the father is told that he has to pay for his daughter before she can leave the store. After a small argument between the cashier, the dad, and the manager, the dad finally agrees to pay for his own daughter. Officially declaring that he has got, "something good".

## Trivia

* This marks the first appearance of Super Super Market. The second and final would be, "Moria's Birthday".
* Tyaa would go on to be Angela from Angela's Airplane.
* The grandpa from "I Have to Go!" makes an appearance at one point.

## Goofs

* The lady in the green and pink striped dress, who was a backup singer in the song, "Something Good", sounds a lot deeper when she tries to buy Tyaa thinking she's a doll, unlike when she was singing.
* The older lady with the orange curly hair goes from sounding squeaky, and shrill sounding, to like a deep woman when she tries to get Tyaa's attention and concludes that she might be a doll and puts her up for sale on the shelf.
* Realistically, the store would've been sued for human trafficking, and would not be able sell human beings, or anything insinuating it. This means the father could have sued them for it, and they would have faced criminal charges for such.
* In the scene where they demonstrate the shampoo for sale, the woman's hair has a bow on it suddenly, and there does not appear to be any water to make it work either.
* The dad, nor the kids suffered any injuries from the trouble they have caused from all of the products knocking over and causing havoc in general.
* It is unknown if the dad is supposed to be Robert Munsch, or someone else, or if it was just a cameo appearance from him. As he appeared as him narrating the story in, "The Paper Bag Princess".
* When Tyaa comes down from the stack of products on the cart, she doesn't feel any resistance or bumpyness from the slide ride down.