Muscle Maggie Muffin

"**Muscle Maggie Muffin**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Maggie orders fake arms with inflatable muscles to impress Johnny.

## Characters

* Maggie Muffin
* Johnny Uzumaki
* Strawberry the Octopus
* Florence Owl
* Nine
* Helen Luggins
* Sanjay Owl (mentioned only)

## Synopsis

Maggie starts his day off by posing in front of a mirror as he gets ready to make himself "large and wide." He goes to his stuffed animal barbell weights, and with great effort manages to lift them over his head before falling to the side. Just then, Johnny comes inside and Maggie shows off his stick arm "muscles," bragging about his "state of the art weight set." However, Johnny bluntly tells him that he is not going to gain any muscle mass lifting those. She then shows him her arms and asks if he wants arms like them. He then decides he could use some help and Johnny recommends he starts using her own personal training program. Maggie is ecstatic, imagining himself being big and muscular in various situations - flipping burgers, jellyfishing, and sleeping - with a bodybuilder's physique, and agrees to come to Johnny's cavedoom at 5 AM to begin his new workout.

At the cavedoom, Maggie is put through a progressively intense series of warm-up exercises from push-ups to boxing to running on a giant hamster wheel, each resulting in his arms separating from his body. Johnny now takes the less than enthusiastic sponge to the "arm cruncher," to which the sight of the contraption drives Maggie away, only leaving a phone in Johnny's grasp. Back home, Maggie is despondent and in pain at how difficult working out actually is until a voice addresses him from the TV, calling him a wimp. It is a commercial for the Anchor Arms, a set of inflatable muscle balloons with options ranging from normal to "veiny," and "for the ladies... hairy!," with the shark demonstrating its uses. Gary meows skeptically, but Maggie is interested and goes to buy some.

Later, while wearing the Anchor Arms, Maggie heads towards Mussel Beach, freaking out everyone else along the way. Once he gets there, everyone is awestruck by "MuscleBob BuffPants," and follows him to the Juice Bar. Johnny comes along asking where Maggie is and finds him surrounded by his new fans. A short moment where Maggie cannot move his drink reveals the downside of his Anchor Arms: because the "muscles" are just air inside an arm-shaped balloon, he is still a weakling, but manages to avoid detection by sipping the straw from a distance. Johnny is naturally confused as to how he managed to gain muscles so quickly, to which Maggie replies that he found his own secret workout. Intrigued, Johnny asks what the secret was; putting Maggie on the spot as everyone else also wants to know.

Maggie manages to fool them by claiming armpit farts are his secret workout, pushing aside skepticism by pointing out the results. Everyone else promptly begins armpit farting, while Johnny congratulates Maggie for finally finding a workout that works for him. To Maggie's surprise, she then suggests he needed to put those muscles to the test, and it just so happens the Anchor Toss Competition is today. Completely caught off guard, Maggie doesn't notice a drink being placed on top of his Anchor Arms and tries to tell Johnny he is not interested, but she decides to go sign them up anyway. Scared of being exposed, he tries to stop her but finds himself pressured down by the drink. The panicking Maggie finally catches up to Johnny after the waiter takes the drink off of his hand, sending him flying into the pole next to her. Unfortunately, Johnny has already signed them up, and there's no turning back.

At the Anchor Toss, everyone is preparing themselves, except for the worried and unsure Maggie. He nervously says he is ready when Johnny comes by to check, but quickly begins inflating more into his Anchor Arms in desperation when she turns away. Perch Perkins announces the start of the 8th Annual Anchor Toss Competition, with Don the Whale making the first toss. His anchor lands at 200 yards, with an "instant replay" crushing the helpless measurer. Next up is Larry the Lobster; the measurer, not wanting to be crushed again, tries to run out of firing range, but the anchor tracks him and crushes him at 210 yards. Johnny is up next and launches her anchor with her signature karate kick; the measurer desperately tries to outrun the anchor but is hit at 510 yards, putting Johnny in the lead.

It's finally Maggie's turn, with the crowd chanting his name as they do his armpit farting workout. Maggie tries to lift the anchor, but only manages to pull it on top of himself. He manages to pass it off as a joke but knows that he can't keep the charade up; he is going to be exposed as a phony. However, he decides he has to try anyway and blows his arms up to the "jerk" size, apparently breaking them. He puts all of his might into lifting the anchor, but all it does is push the air into various parts of his body and eventually the Anchor Arms explode out of overinflation, revealing Maggie to be a weak fraud. Upon realizing this, the crowd exclaims that he lost and start cheering for Johnny, since she won. Johnny herself is very disappointed in Maggie's revelation, tapping her feet expectantly; Maggie gets the hint, realizing he never should've taken the easy way out of exercising as there's no substitute for hard work and trudges after her.

The episode ends back at the cavedoom, as Maggie's new exercise is changing the TV channel 100 times with his thumb, much to his discomfort. Johnny figures they have finally found an exercise that works for him right before Maggie's arm falls off again, and he asks if she can pick it up.