Bad Table Manners

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**"Bad Table Manners"** is the 47th. episode of Season 2 of *Russell Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil*.

## Plot

A new big screen TV has shown up and with that Ercole and Penny are the first to make claims to it. Paul Peterson makes them play ping pong to decide who gets control over the TV for a night (which is the way the Peterson Family used to settle things when Paul was younger rather than fighting). Ercole (who wants to watch Harley Quinn: The Musical), Mageed (who wants to watch The Fairly Odd Parents - Schools Out: The Musical), and Penny (who wants to watch Star Butterfly: The Musical) all have bad skills with ping pong, but things start to get out of hand when Paul (who is intent on watching the new episode of Mail Cop) picks up a paddle and beats Ercole with his signature move: The Return to Sender, causing destruction. Later, while Lynn is watching Mail Cop, Ercole asks to watch Harley Quinn: The Musical during the commercial break, but Paul says he'll have to play for it. This makes Ercole run away.

Patty, now fearing that the family will never be able to watch the family TV again with the return of Paul's passion for ping pong, she tries to convince Russell to play against Paul but to no avail. When Paul says that he intends to watch every second of the Gnarly Games (which are on later that night), Paul overhears and declares that he is going to watch a marathon of Mail Cop SPU: Special Postal Unit all night and every night, forever, making Russell scream in anger and finally convincing him to challenge Paul to a game of ping pong; if Russell wins, the family never has to play ping pong again, much to the family's happiness; but if Paul wins, then ping pong decides everything that the family does forever, much to the family's horror. Russell then tells his family that he will dethrone Paul and the game starts.

The beginning of the game's match point sees the ping pong ball open the garage door and deactivate the ping pong table's brakes which results in the table rolling out onto the street and all the way through downtown Mellowbrook with Russell and Paul fiercely playing the game throughout. Eventually, the clocks strikes 3:00, which is the time that both their favorite shows start. The climax of the point sees the table returns to the cul-de-sac where Paul attempts his signature move: The Return to Sender. The move ends up damaging a large part of the Peterson household before Russell manages to return the move when the table finally comes to a stop in the living room. Paul's attempt to return the ball once more results in the ball splitting in two and falling to the floor; giving Russell the win. However, his victory is short-lived as shortly after the game finishes, the TV falls off the wall and onto the ping pong table where it explodes. This results in the family trying to watch the Gnarly Games on a small, black and white TV later that night. Patty declares that there's only room for one and that they should settle it the way she did when she was growing up: bingo. The rest of the family runs away screaming after seeing that Patty's passion for bingo is just as strong as Paul's passion for ping pong.

## Cast

* Russell as Kick Buttowski

* Ercole Visconti as Brad Buttowski

* Patty Peterson as Honey Buttowski

* Paul Peterson as Harold Buttowski

* Penny Peterson as Brianna Buttowski

* Stoick the Vast as Mr. Vickle

* Hopper as Pantsy

* Molt as Horace

* Snotlout Jorgenson as Mouth

* Luca Paguro as Hush

* Alberto Scorfano as Razz

* Peach as Michelle