Survival of the Jerks

"**Survival of the Jerks**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 2. In this episode, Maggie and Kira get trapped in Johnny's cavedome during winter.

## Characters

* Maggie Muffin
* Kira Moonhead
* Johnny Uzumaki
* Sheriff Johnny (debut)
* Dirty Elise (debut) (mentioned only)
* Pinhead Nora (debut) (mentioned only)

## Synopsis

Maggie and Kira excitedly race to Johnny's cavedome to hang out with him. However, the entire dome has a metal cover over it and a "Keep Out" sign on the front door. In the entryway, they find a TV, which turns on, and plays a video of Johnny dressed for bed, and gobbling on loads of acorns. The recording of Johnny explains that she is hibernating for the winter, and asks for no one to disturb her, including Maggie as she said so explicitly at the end of the video recording. However, even though prohibited to do so, Kira opens the door anyway to reveal that the dome's environment is completely covered with snow.

Then Maggie and Kira quickly take delight in the snow, even being able to remove their water helmets because of the snow's moisture. When they hear a strange noise from Johnny's treehouse, they go inside to investigate. They then discover that Johnny is many times her original size from eating loads of acorns, and is sleeping soundly. At first, their gentle prodding, and poking do nothing to wake her from her dreams of catching the outlaws Dirty Elise and Pinhead Nora.

Soon enough, though, their merrymaking takes its toll, and then Johnny suddenly wakes up, assaulting Maggie and Kira in her sleepy stupor. Then she falls back to sleep in her bed. Kira then makes a pair of earmuffs from his belly button lint, which Maggie places over Johnny's ears to prevent her from waking up.

Then, Maggie and Kira leave her room to continue playing in the snow. They pretend to be the outlaws from Johnny's dream, but then they start fighting over which one of them will play the part of being Dirty Elise. Their roughhousing causes Johnny's earmuffs to fall off, allowing her to hear all the noise, and she attacks them in further half-asleep fury. Being battered and bruised, with the winter storm growing more intense, Maggie and Kira try to leave, but then they find that the door's frozen shut, leaving them trapped in the wintery treedome until spring. Some hours later, Maggie and Kira are covered in snow and they start shivering.

Unable to escape or survive in the cold weather, Maggie tries to take a piece of bark from the cavedoom, but the sleep talking Johnny, still thinking he is Pinhead Nora, threatens to put him in an iron lung. He takes it as a sign that he should put it back. They go into Johnny's room and, throwing caution to the wind, rip off all her fur. With their new fur-lined winter attire, Maggie proclaims that now they are ready for the "longest, coldest winter ever!" However, winter immediately comes to an end, and then Johnny wakes up with her winter pounds shed. Johnny sees Maggie and Kira outside from her window and is excited to see them. She then comes out of her treehouse, and Johnny is initially surprised and confused to see Maggie and Kira wearing her fur, but when she looks down at herself, she finds herself completely bald causing her to scream in horror. When Maggie and Kira realized that ripping her fur off wasn’t a good idea they now have to suffer the consequences.

As a punishment for what they did, Johnny forbids them from leaving her home as episode ends with her drinking lemonade with them, while their bodies are tied around her to provide her new spring coat to keep her warm until her fur grows back, to Maggie and Kira's discomfort and dismay.