Eight Manages His Anger

**Eight Manages His Anger** is an episode of The Number Yoshis. Its sister episode is Distorted Proportions.

## Summary

When things go a little too far with Eight's anger issues, Seven takes him to an anger management school, where Eight must learn to control his temper.

## Plot

The episode starts with three of the Number Yoshis (Zero, One and Five), who are ready to Twister. The three Number Yoshis ask Two, Four, Six and Seven if they would like to play; all four Number Yoshis decline. Two is busy writing a song, Four is solving a Rubik's cube, Six is rolling dice and Seven is making another necklace.

Zero then suggests to One and Five that they should ask Eight if he would like to play Twister with them. Five is skeptical about it, saying that Eight is in a very bad mood and that it's best for Zero to leave him alone. One disagrees with Five, going with Zero to ask Eight.

When Zero asks Eight to play Twister, Eight shouts at the two of them, making One cry. The two confront each other, until Seven arrives to firmly tell Eight that she is signing him up for an anger management school.

In the present day, Eight tells a red Goomba that the above was how he had ended up in anger management school. The red Goomba starts to tell his story, until the teacher gets all the students to pay attention. The teacher then shows the students how to control their anger "in a good way". The students (except Whomp) do this, and meanwhile, Zero, One and Five are now playing Clue with Nine. When Five wins the game, Nine gets up to grab tissues.

Back at the school, Eight spots Topper, who claims that he will kidnap all the Pokémon. Eight tries to work it out, only to see Whomp attempt to crush him. Eight then tells Whomp not to get mad, but Whomp is now after Eight. The teacher puts Whomp in detention after he sees that Whomp has made Eight into a flat version of himself when Whomp crushed Eight. The bell rings and all of the students (except Whomp) go home.

When Eight comes home, he appears to be happy. One hides from Eight, but he reassures her that he is better now. After the Number Yoshis solve a very challenging problem (by Eight's request), they introduce themselves by saying their names and the episode ends.

## Quotes

**Zero**: "I've got an idea. Why don't we ask Eight to play Twister with us?"

**Five** (skeptically): "I don't know, Zero. You'd want to leave Eight alone right now; he's in a really bad mood."

**One**: "Who cares! I'm going to go with Zero!"

**Zero**: "Hey, Eight, want to play Tw—"

**Eight** (furious): "I'M BUSY! LEAVE ME BE!"

(One begins to cry. She then runs away)

**Zero** (unamused): "Aw, look what you did. You made One cry."

**Eight** (still furious): "SHUT UP!"

(We see the rest of the Number Yoshis hearing Eight shouting)

**Three**: "What's going on?"

**Six**: "Eight's taking his anger too far. Seven has got to do something about this."

**Seven** (peeved): "Hey, I never caused Eight to be angry."

**Six**: "Seven, what I meant was you've got to take Eight to an anger management school. Get my drift?"

**Seven**: "Ohh, okay. Yeah, I get it now."

**Seven** (firmly): "Eight, I'm enrolling you to an anger management school. You've taken this *way* too far."

(We are now in the present day)

**Eight** (to a red Goomba): "And that's how I ended up here."

**Red Goomba**: "Wow. I came here because... well, it's quite a bit of a story."

**Teacher**: "Class, we're going to do some problem solving!"

(We see the anger management school outside)

**Bowser** (looking at a nearby object): "How's *this* going to help us with our anger issues?"

**Teacher**: "We're going to solve problems *assertively,* which means we're doing this the good way. Now, why don't you start us off, Whomp?"

(Whomp angrily pounds at the object)

**Whomp**: "I HATE YOU, MARIO!"

(A nervous Bob-omb slowly backs away)

**Teacher** (annoyed): "Whomp! That's not how we solve problems assertively!"

**Topper**: "I'm going to kidnap every single Pokémon on this land!"

(Eight tries not to get angry by inhaling and exhaling)

**Eight** (assertively): "Now, Topper, why don't we work this out?"

**Topper**: "We can work this out the easier way!" (uses his spinning method to attack Eight)

**Eight** (dodging Topper): "No, no, no! Not *that* way! I mean *this* way!" (tosses a stress-relieving object to Topper) "Here, take this!"

## Trivia

* From this episode onwards, Eight is now able to control his bad temper.
* Eight also no longer has a bad temper.
* This episode reveals that Two is a songwriter.