Jackpipe Wrestler

**Jackpipe Wrestler** is the third episode of Season 4 of California City and the 143rd episode of the entire series overall. premiered on CCTV Network on January 18, 2021, and marks Sean (Junichiro) Wilson Jr.'s second canon appearance in total.

## Synopsis

Junichiro visits Lapis and Leon Lapis at their house and invites them to visit the junkyard to grab catalytic converters and make money off of them. At first, Lapis disagrees, but his dad signs up for it with Junichiro and they all head off to the junkyard to grab parts. Just as Leon starts driving out of Narrow Alley, a bus is trying to get through from the other direction, in which case Junichiro makes Leon swerve to the left of it and dodge it. Leon keeps driving until Lamar questions them as to where they're going. Junichiro replies that they are going to grab parts from a junkyard, but Lamar replies that it is dangerous and illegal to grab parts, though Junichiro insists that they won't get in trouble for entering the junkyard as the cars are abandoned. Lamar also questions as to why they swerved around the bus, with Leon replying that there was a bus in which they had to dodge it.

Just as they hit the junkyard, Junichiro hands both Leon and Lapis their saws to get parts, specifically catalytic converters. Junichiro encourages both to get as much as they can, with Leon becoming excited, and his son Lapis only having some excitement. They find more than a hundred vehicles to choose from to grab catalytic converters, but some of them were missing them already due to prior thieves. One of the thieves, which was there, notices the three and warns them to be alert on the junkyard people which live there and are known to be very territorial and highly aggressive. Junichiro responds that he (and Leon and Lapis) are trying to get jackpot on some precious metals to make money and become rich, but the thief replies that when the people are asleep, there are often police officers on the watch (though there are none present during the time they were there). Lapis feeling anxious responds that he has warned him about it, but the thief tells him that if the police aren't there, then the people living in the junkyard (the owners) will come there themselves, but he tells them that police officers don't usually go in there too far and as long as they don't go through the main entrance that they would be safe.

After talking to the thief, the trio continue their scrapping plans as usual and so far they have 17 catalytic converters in the cart (and counting). Around 15 minutes later with 52 catalytic converters, Junichiro notices a bare chassis which turns out to be a wedgecar from the Brusky And Friends series by Wedgehead Studios. Junichiro then pulls it out and has Lapis cut out the converter from it, only for the cart to start groaning in pain when he tries to saw it off, which turns out to still be alive. Lapis asks Junichiro why it's screaming, the wedgecar replies angrily that it hurts. Junichiro tells the car to shut up, and then looks at the converter only to realize that it is only made of aluminum and that they would hardly make any money off it. The car still angry demands that they put it back in him. Junichiro then becomes worrisome and confused as to why the cart is even living, but the car still in pain angrily yells that he will get the junkyard people to kill them if they didn't put the converter back in him, but Junichiro yells sorry mate to the car and all three run away, only to get caught by the junkyard people, which appear to be rednecks and it turns out that the junkyard is actually a colony of more than 100 rednecks, and the junkyard turns out to be Scrapp's Junkyard, which is home to people all speaking in a thick southern country accent.

The trio eventually run back home, only for them to be arrested and booked into the junkyard's jail, which is made entirely of wood planks and metal scrap constructed by the rednecks in a warehouse (piles of planks are seen in the scene where the trio are in jail). After Lamar becomes curious as to why they were taking so long, he decides to drive there to find them, only for the two police officers at the entrance to shoe him away. Lamar however concocts another plan to find them and calls his friend who is a police officer and both of them together enter the junkyard together to look for them. They eventually enter the warehouse where the jail is and eventually find the three exhausted, sweaty, and dehydrated from sitting there for hours with no air conditioning whatsoever and Lamar with Travis Joiner (his police officer friend) rush quickly to bail them out. Both Travis and Lamar discover that the junkyard is a hidden city with it's own government that consists of a mayor, a vice mayor, two senators, and two house of representatives, all having control of the junkyard. Among that are ten sheriffs deputies (which hardly have any uniform whatsoever except a badge) which carry revolvers and maintain law and order throughout the junkyard.

The trio alongside Lamar and Travis are eventually caught by the people of the junkyard, with the mayor warning everyone "I don't care who, but somebody's gonna be getting hit with a stick!" and the crowd with lumber planks and metal beams aiming to catch them, alongside some with shotguns and some with revolvers (including the ten sheriffs deputes of the junkyard). The trio still got away with all of the catalytic converters that they got while there, including the one from the wedgecar, which appears right in Junichiro's driveway the next morning alongside the junkyard's mayor.

The mayor of the junkyard begins beating on Junichiro's door and begging him to come out so that he can shoot him with his shotgun, only for Lamar to come out and taze him. The wedgecar then tells Lamar to stop and listen, in which Lamar does so and listens to him. At this point, the wedgecar then explains that a group of punks came and cut off his catalytic converter that he uses to filter particles, though here he is seen with a new one that the junkyard's mayor installed onto him. The mayor commands that Junichiro install his original converter back or that he will have him arrested by the sheriffs of the junkyard. Lamar then forces Junichiro to put the wedgecar's converter back to avoid problems and encourages the junkyard's mayor to be less hostile and perhaps stop calling himself a mayor and instead a leader. The mayor then takes this to heart and then changes the rank's name to Leader, but that he will still keep his senators, house of representatives, sheriffs, and judges for the junkyard civilization.

After leaving, the junkyard's mayor decides to allow the trio to keep the catalytic converters, but will not be allowing him back. Lamar then gets pizza with the trio at a pizza hut that Jenna Burkins owns. All four grab cheesy stuffed crust pizza to eat after a night of work and adventure to free the trio.

## Trivia

* This is Junichiro's second canon appearance in total, despite appearing in later episodes of Season 3
* The bus that comes from the other direction on Narrow Alley is a 1998 Bluebird TC1000 that someone had purchased from an auction site
* Even though California City is mature and realistic in terms of society, this is the first episode where a gag is thrown in since The Strange Green Horse from nine months prior.
* The Engineer from TF2 makes a cameo appearance in the lumberyard.
* Analyssa Escade makes a cameo appearance in this episode towards the end.