Gay Bash

**Gay Bash** is the twenty third episode of season five of the reboot.

## Synopsis

Ronald realizes that he's gay and tries denying that it's true. Rafael sees that Frida has a special talent for sewing and drives her as a slave who makes sneakers.

## Characters (in order of appearance)

* Pinkalicious Pinkerton (Kayla Erickson)
* Peter Pinkerton (Jaden Waldman)
* Brittany Anderson (Sarah Ann Kennedy)
* Ronald Mattey (William Hope)
* Rafael Martinez (Justice Quiroz)
* Kendra (Echo Picone)
* Nate Dawson (Justice Quiroz)
* Molly Garcia (Carla Henderson)
* Frida Martinez (Nicole Ruiz)
* Bizarro Nate Dawson (debut) (Justice Quiroz)
* Lord Slashstab (debut)
* Ronald's girlfriend (debut) (Sara Crowe)
* Ronald's boyfriend (debut) (Jamie Oram)
* God (debut) (James Arnold Taylor)

## Trivia

* This is Bizarro Nate Dawson, Lord Slashstab, Ronald's girlfriend, Ronald's boyfriend, and God's first appearance.
* Ronald officially comes out of the closet in this episode
* This episode reveals that Ronald's full name is Ronald P. Mattey.
* Peter makes his first appearance in the confessional in this episode
* In the scene directly after the discovery of the glory hole, Ronald is revealed to be uncircumcised.
* During the interrogation, Ronald puts a rubber glove on his left hand in anticipation of retrieving the lamp from Peter's rear end, but uses his right hand to reach inside Peter's rectum.
* Five of the fanon series's recurring cast members also provide voices for additional characters in this episode.
	+ Rafael and Nate's voice actor Justice Quiroz voices Bizarro Nate Dawson.
	+ Sara Crowe, the voice of Grace the Gnome, provides the voice of Ronald's girlfriend.
	+ James Arnold Taylor, the voice of Jeffery and the VIP, provides the voice of God at the end of the episode.
	+ Jamie Oram, the voice of Parade Announcer, voices Ronald's new boyfriend.
	+ The leader of the sweatshop kids is voiced by Brittany's voice actor Sarah Ann Kennedy.

* During the gay bash, two characters with blurred faces join Ronald: Elmer Fudd from *Looney Tunes* (with a brown moustache) and Snagglepuss. Since Snagglepuss is a kids' show character, he has no sexual identity in reality, but there is a long-running joke among animation fans that he is gay, due to his fussiness and his affected manner of speech (which is duplicated fairly faithfully in this episode). The characters' faces are blurred, possibly due to copyright issues. However, since characters under the same copyright were featured in other episodes, this is also likely a reference to reality shows censoring the faces of strangers.

* Another guest at the gay bash is Pac-Man, who has been pretending to be Ms. Pac-Man. Both Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man are video game characters created by Namco; this episode spoofs the fact that the only real difference between the two visually is that Ms. Pac-Man wears a bow. The version of Pac-Man that appears in this episode comes from the 1980s animated *Pac-Man series.*
* This is the first time Peter sobs instead of cries.
* The scene where Ronald and Brittany interrogates Peter has become a popular internet meme.
* This is the first episode Ronald and Nate wear their bedtime clothes.
* Ronald's elephant asshole pajamas have Mr. Goodman of SML on the shirt.
* Nate wears a yellow pajama shirt with red stripes, blue pajama pants with yellow stripes, and red slippers. His pajamas look a bit like Norman the Gnome's.
* This is the first and only time Brittany wears a robe over her nightgown.
* This is the first episode Molly is seen without her headband.

## References

* The sewing of the fake sneakers refers to the phenomenon of trademark piracy, which is common in East Asian countries (with Frida's participation in the activity).
* Frida's plot can also be seen as referencing Nike's accused use of cheap Asian child labor. Twice in the episode, Rafael nearly mentions the company by name, saying that Frida will make shoes everyone will "likey" (rhyming with Nike), and then saying "Just do it!" (Nike's catchphrase) as encouragement to Ling-Ling.

* When Kendra puts Ronald's ring in her chest to force Ronald to put his hand between them, a close-up shot of Kendra's cleavage reveals, in a realistic-looking painting, that her breasts are full of acne, dirt, and telangiectasia. This is an homage to the animated series *The Ren and Stimpy Show*, where disgusting realistic close-up paintings like this were frequently shown.

* The pterodactyl-powered record player is a reference to TV's first animated sitcom, *The Flintstones*, where many of the Flintstones' appliances were powered by miniature prehistoric animals, who frequently made wisecracks along the lines of the one the pterodactyl makes here. ("It's a living!") The fat woman that Nate is shown having sex with later in the episode repeats the line.

* After Frida demonstrates her sewing skills, Rafael introduces himself to Frida and hands her his business card, then asks her her name. In Japan, it is customary to exchange business cards (if you have one) with a new acquaintance, especially on a professional basis. Also in many East Asian countries it is considered impolite to hand over a business card using one hand, while using both hands shows humility and is much more polite.
* Frida's angry reply to Rafael ("My name is Frida, damnit! Me live here long time.") is a parody of the line from the movie *Full Metal Jacket*, "Me so horny. Me love you long time."

* The gay test that Molly administers to Rafael is produced by the Acme Corporation, the fictitious company that supplies Wile E. Coyote with all his devices for capturing the Road Runner.

* During the gay test, Molly presents a series of Rorschach images to Ronald, whose responses are all slang terms for penis. The images include: a cockerel (to which Ronald answers "cock"), a bearded man with a bandanna (Ronald's response is "Willie", referring to Willie Nelson), an Asian man (Ronald answers "wang", a gag on the stereotype of Asian surnames always end in "ing" or "ang"), three identical images of Woody Woodpecker, the popular cartoon character created by Walter Lantz (Ronald's separate answers are "woody", "wood" and "pecker"), a medieval catapult firing hot liquid (Ronald answers "blue-veined custard-chucker") and a dancing Welshman with an eyepatch (Ronald's answer is "one-eyed wiggling Welshman"). However, the last image, and Ronald's response, is a simple parody of slang terms for penis, as it is an over-complicated metaphor verging on the nonsensical. The image shows a banana wearing a helmet and firing liquid from a gun into the anus of a donkey, to which Ronald's answer is "pink-helmeted milk shooting man-banana plunging into the hole of an a\*\*!".

* Frida has a flashback of being released from a red and white pyramid by a teenage[1]boy, a reference to the way Ash Ketchum of the Pokémon anime would use a Poké Ball to release Pokémon to battle.

* The ritual in which Ronald is found to be gay is a parody of a scene in the 1980 film adaptation of *Flash Gordon*. The Wood Beast from that ritual can be seen later in the episode with the housemates when they confront Ronald about making too much noise while using up his extra lives.
* Molly's line "Everything the light touches is gay!" is taken almost verbatim from Disney's *The Lion King*. The line is accompanied by the word "homo" being sung by an African choir in a manner reminiscent of the movie.
* The episode's title and plot is a reference to Drawn Together.