All Work and No Play

All Work and No Play is the 13th episode of Season 2 of *Apple & Onion* and the 52nd episode overall.

## Synopsis

Apple and Onion build eye masks to sleep at work so they can have more time for fun.

## Plot

Apple and Onion have bought themselves a brand-new slot car racer, yet are unable to enjoy it due to the large loan they took out in order to pay for it. In order to pay back the loan, they've had to work non-stop at the Dollar Store, leaving them little time to do anything else besides sleep. Apple suggests they could just sleep at work and get paid for it, which Onion believes is a sound suggestion if for anything else, they have no other options.

The next morning, Apple and Onion head to the checkout desk and doze off, only for Patty to wake them up via the store's intercom and scold them for sleeping on the job, as well as docking them two cents pay for the three seconds they slept. Thinking to themselves, Apple and Onion devise a plan to sleep on the job without Patty getting wise about their antics with Onion coming up with high-tech eye masks that mimic eye movement as a method to fool her. Apple loves the idea but wonders how they'll get the materials needed to make the eye masks, and instead recommends buying two really good smartphones that they'll just tape to their faces.

To get the money, Apple and Onion ask Patty if they work the Saturday morning shift, annoying her endlessly until she gives in. She gives them the instructions on how they need to arrive at 4:15 in the morning, accept the delivery stock, then fill the shelves so the store is ready at 9am, and that if they mess up, they'll be in big trouble. Sleeping at the loading dock, they unload the truck and get the store ready so they can earn the money from Patty, who is satisfied with their efforts and leaves for the day.

Grabbing all the necessary parts needed for their plan, Apple and Onion build not only the eye masks to allow them to sleep, but also a means for customers to purchase from them without disturbing their rest via a convoluted setup. Street Dog comes in to grab a toilet brush and gets the automated response Onion made, to his annoyance, and is further confused by the goodbye greeting made for Apple. He then decides to grab two *stroopwafels* to see what's going on, only to get the exact same response from Onion for the both of them. Realizing a good value is to be had, he grabs the rest of them, and gets the same message, then goes grab even more merchandise for no change whatsoever from Apple and Onion. Seeing that the whole store is available to him, he fills his truck with everything from the dollar store, including the cash register, but decides to not even leave behind a dollar.

Waking up, Apple and Onion see that they have sold everything and are thrilled at what has happened when Patty comes back, surprised at the empty store. Onion tries opening up the cash register only to find it's not there. Patty grabs one of her slides in frustration, feeling the pair has done something very wrong, then tosses the shoe like a boomerang to snap them from their strings. Inside the security room, Patty sees the video footage of Street Dog stealing the entire store, as she asks why the pair allowed it to happen, ultimately forcing them to confess their wrongdoings. When she learns that they slept all day, Patty informs them she cannot pay rent for the store now that all the stock is gone, meaning they'll take the Dollar Store away from her, likely turning it into "something terrible, like a juice bar". As a tearful Patty leaves the room, an upset Apple destroys the smartphones in sadness, to which Onion points out that was a bad idea to destroy them, even though he agrees with the sentiment that they brought nothing but ruin.

Agreeing that they now must right the wrong they have caused Patty, they agree it is time to take responsibility. Going back home and grabbing the slot-car racer, they bring it to the store, partition it into smaller sets, and sell it to get it out of their lives forever. Using what little money they earned from the sale, they go to a wholesale warehouse to come up with potential ideas that could make them huge amounts of income for the store, at the cost of excruciating labor. Apple recommends buying a massive bottle of toothpaste and using it to fill much smaller, empty bottles, which is a struggle for them. He then comes up with the idea of finding all the needles in a thousand out-of-date haystacks that they can sell, which is even harder for them. He also suggests buying a grindstone to manually turn wheat into flour that they can sell, and Onion adds purchasing a literal mountain that can be ground into millions of decorative molehills. As Apple and Onion are working on their respective tasks, Onion curses the day they bought the race track, while Apple wonders if it'll ever end. But, in the end, they manage to make enough money to help pay Patty's rent. She is grateful for the struggles they went through to help her and the store, but also points out their only did it to write a wrong caused by their own selfishness, and tells them to be at the store in 17 minutes.

## Characters

* Apple
* Onion
* Patty
* Street Dog
* Ice Cream
* Strawberry Milkshake
* Churro

## Songs

* What a Great Deal
* Hard Work, Oh Responsibility

## Trivia

* This is the second time Apple is seen crying on the floor, with the first instance being "Apple's Short".
* The title of the episode could possibly be a reference to the most infamous line used in "Stephen King's" "The Shining" which is "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
* An episode of "The Wild Thornberrys" and "Happy Tree Friends" shares the same title as this episode.