Calabash (Episode)

## Calabash

**Calabash** is the fifth episode of Season 1 and the fifth episode overall of *Monkie Kid*.

## Synopsis

Short Description
MK wakes up to a perfect life... too perfect. He realises he's living in an illusion brought on by being trapped in the nefarious Calabash.

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MK wakes up to a perfect life… TOO perfect. Evidently, he’s defeated the entire Demon Bull King family, Pigsy tells him to take a break, and everyone treats him like a hero. What’s going on?! MK soon realizes everything is not as it seems, but that he’s living in an illusion, being trapped in the nefarious Calabash, an ancient magical device wielded by the mischievous Gold and Silver Demons. MK must shake off the illusion and break out of his prison to defeat his comically weird enemies.

## Plot

After experiencing an earthquake and accidentally sleeping in, MK rushes to Pigsy's Noodles to tell Pigsy not to fire him. Once he did, Pigsy questions him on why would he fire him, as he and Tang implied that sounded like Pigsy would never do. Moments later, when MK asked what happened to his staff, Tang told him that he used the staff to imprison the Demon Bull Family on top of the mountain. However, when Tang realized that MK doesn't recalled the imprisonment, Pigsy gives MK the day off. Overjoyed, MK goes around the city to have fun until he notices that the civilians were extremely creepy around him and that everything was too perfect.

Once MK runs off to tell Mei about the situation, he ends up on a romantic river cruise with her, with Sandy as their waiter. When MK tells Mei about what was happening all day, he notices that Mei is acting stranger than usual as well. Soon, Mei then admits to MK that she loves him since the day they first met, causing MK to feel nauseous. Unbeknownst to MK, the Gold and Silver Demons fight for an ancient relic known as the Calabash, which was used by them to trap MK in a simulation of Megaoplis. After Jin made a mistake for making MK and Mei's alternative counterpart fall in love, he and Yin go through their plan until he decided to fix his mistake by saying that Mei's alternative counterpart actually loves being MK's best friend instead. In the simulation, MK gets away from Mei by saying that he'll see her later.

Sometime later, MK meets up with the Monkey King and tells him what was going on. Despite this, Monkey King tells MK that the events that are happening to him are normal and that he should accept it until he notices that MK left. MK runs away when the Gold Demon playing as Wukong begins talking about Mei's confession. MK runs to the cave where his staff is sealing the Demon Bull Family, only to be stopped by Mei, Pigsy, Tang, Sandy, and Wukong. After Jin makes Sandy's cat talk, MK realizes his friends aren't real and grabs the staff. Once returning to the real world, MK meets the Gold and Silver Demons, who reveal that they trapped MK in the Calabash by baiting him into giving his name. MK then threatens the Demons with a fight, and the Demons panic and run away.

After the Gold and Silver Horn Demons left, MK heads back to Pigsy's Noodles and meets up with Mei, Pigsy, and Tang. There, Pigsy questions MK where was he until the latter embraces him. However, when MK said that he's glad that his friends aren't perfect, Mei, Pigsy, and Tang get mad at MK and start to yell that they are perfect while MK laughs.

## Features

### Characters

**Main:**

* MK

**Supporting:**

* Demon Bull Family (Calabash) (**illustration**)
* Mei (Calabash)
* Mo (Calabash)
* Monkey King (Calabash)
* Pigsy (Calabash)
* Sandy (Calabash)
* Tang (Calabash)
* Mei
* Pigsy
* Tang

**Antagonists:**

* Jin
* Yin

### Locations

* China
	+ Megapolis
		- Abandoned movie theater
		- Anti-Gravity Arcade
		- Harbor
		- MK's house
		- Pigsy's Noodles
		- The mountain

### Objects

* Calabash
* Cheese tea
* The Furnace (**illustration**)
* Green Ring of Samadhi (**illustration**)
* Golden Staff
* Magic cloud
* *Monkey Mech*
* Noodles

### Vehicles

* Cloud Board
* Sandy's boat
* Tuk-tuk (**flashback**)
* White Dragon Horse Bike

## Trivia

* This episode was adapted into a comic book in Monkie Kid Comic Story 3.
* This is one of the two Season 1 episodes that Villads Spangsberg revealed when episodes were being worked on.
* In Malaysia, the episode was originally going to be released on September 20, 2020, but was later rescheduled to the 26th.
* In Hong Kong, the episode was supposed to premiere on November 22, 2020, but was rescheduled to the 29th due to the live broadcast of the 2020 Macau Grand Prix.
* This episodes theme of being content with imperfection could be viewed as foreshadowing for the future conflict the with the Lady Bone Demon.

## Errors

* Seconds before MK was surprised by Pigsy's attitude after begging him not to be fired, the Pigsy's Noodles' insignia was missing on the back of Pigsy's jacket.

## Censorship

* This episode was skipped when the show aired on Cartoon Network Middle East and North Africa.

## Focus Characters

### Protagonists

* MK serves as the main protagonist of this episode.

### Antagonists

* The Gold and Silver Demons serve as the main antagonists of this episode.

## References

1. ↑ Calabash - Episode 5, Season 1 | LEGO Monkie Kid TV series
2. ↑ Villads Spangsberg's Instagram post
3. ↑ Facebook post