The Courting of Ms. McBrisk

"**The Courting of Ms. McBrisk**" (French: "Gunther in Love") is the sixth episode of season one of *The Crumpets*.

## Synopsis

Cordless falls in love with Ms. McBrisk and tries to win her heart under an online dating profile known as "Furious Bull". Caprice is concerned with Marylin's possible ignorance of her and Cassandra tries to cheer her up.

## Plot

Cassandra is with her mother Ms. McBrisk sitting on lounge chairs outside, applying nail polish, and hears on the phone of Caprice's obsession with a boy named Marylin. Feeling ridiculed, Caprice describes him as an "alpha male" and tells her friend not to judge a boy by his name. Ma and Pa, who are in a car going to a country trip, fare goodbye to their sunbathing children and the latter reminds him of vegetable pie for dinner, in which Bother, Blister, and Pfff dislike. Cordless, who is next to Lil'One (who is on a kiddie pool), orders fast food at the request of his Crumpet cousins, which instantly deliver via helicopter.

After Lil One jumps and fails to catch his meal, Caprice throws a meal to the McBrisk yard intended for Cassandra but hitting McBrisk at the face. McBrisk slaps her daughter and goes through her hedge to confront the kids. Already finished with the first bite at his hamburger, Cordless looks at the incoming McBrisk and falls in love. He dreams of her admiring him as a muscular playboy but is disrupted by the reality of her splashing a beverage and blaming him. As she walks back, the twins fire a water hose at her and wash away her mess. Cordless enthusiastically wonders who she is to which Lil One replies she's their "nutty neighbor".

Cordless rings the doorbell of the McBrisk house and the phone-talking Cassandra opens the door. She lets him in as he pushes a rack of bikinis to the house for his apology. Cordless finds McBrisk in her laptop in the living room and greets her if she "got lucky", scaring her and kicking the "little eavesdropper" and rack out. Despite the rejection, Cordless is left impressed by McBrisk being another internet addict and vows to contact her again on the web.

In the Crumpet house, T-Bone licks a burger box until Lil One grabs it and licks it too. At the same time, Cordless is at the phone complaining of a delivery not going to be done the same day. After requesting the delivery to come before tomorrow noon, he gets angrier and throws his phone which would get eaten by T-Bone. He asks Lil One for a computer in the house, which leads him to approach Granny. As Cordless begs, she refuses lend her computer to him. After she shuts her door, Cordless seeks conditions for the deal and she returns to give them to him. Later, as she relaxes in a hot tub in her bedroom, Granny allows Cordless to borrow her computer for strictly one hour.

Lil One looks at himself in a mirror as Cordless brings the computer to the former's room. Lil One objects Cordless basing himself there and suggests for "plenty of room in T-Bone's doghouse". Cordless looks at McBrisk with a set of binoculars and requests Lil One to be alone for five minutes, to which he agrees in exchange for burgers. Cordless would then utilize the computer to communicate McBrisk.

Caprice would be seen talking in the phone and crying of Marylin's apparent lack of interest in her. She discovers Cordless brainstorming a username in the online dating service, and he comes up "Furious Bull". Caprice backs off using Cordless' face and brings her cutout of Cradley Booper. Cordless fulfills her conditions and he captures the head of the cutout to be the avatar of "Furious Bull".

Reviewing a school photo, Cassandra tells Caprice on the phone that Marylin isn't a "hunk" and that she deserves someone "better". Her mother finds "Furious Bull" on the web as well as an incoming message, and gets excited to meet someone "serious". Once she messages the account she likes flowers, a huge delivery of flowers instantly arrive to her house to her excitement. She communicates "Furious Bull" more as her daughter recommends Caprice to find someone else. Caprice resists and gets teary-eyed before the viewer discovers Cassandra keeping to be the girlfriend of Marylin once she finishes cutting the photo.

With additional instant gifts delivered to McBrisk, she proposes meeting "Furious Bull" in person. Upon reading her message, Cordless gets surprised and happy for this opportunity to meet. Granny arrives and retrieves her laptop back to Cordless' disappointment. He comes up with ideas to compensate her but she turns them down in favor of her "business and bids". Lil One comes back to his room saying he tried stopping her and is eating a hamburger.

Cordless uses the binoculars again at a sad McBrisk at night and wishes to get back the computer. McBrisk returns to hers, feels that she said something wrong to "Furious Bull", and wants him to come back. Cassandra ends a phone call with Caprice while holding a heart pendant with the cut school picture framed to herself and Marylin. Cordless slips a mail envelop to the crying Caprice's bedroom. She finds pictures of Marylin which don't provide clues of a relationship with another person. At Lil One's room, Cordless cries out McBrisk's screen name and bangs his head, waking Lil One. Following their consumption of burgers, Lil One questions him about the name, to which Cordless explains it's "deep inside" him and must be kept a secret. Cordless whispers him a website, its details inaudible to the audience. Lil One gets excited about Cordless' plan for McBrisk but gets slapped so he can keep this a secret. The scene switches to the other house and McBrisk drinks plum juice before falling asleep and Cassandra exiting the house.

At the next day, Cordless is handsomely dressed and groomed, and vows no more "cyberdating". Caprice says he's "gorgeous" at an unimpressive tone, but hopes for his best. Cordless hands her another envelope as Cassandra enters her friend's bedroom. Caprice discovers a picture revealing Marylin to be the boyfriend of Cassandra, becoming furious and fights her. Panicking, Cordless decides to call Cradley, getting the attention of the girls. Cordless asks the celebrity if he can come over, but hears that the latter is booked for the next six months. With Caprice crying hopelessly on Cassandra's shoulder, she finds the heart pendant on the floor and mercilessly chases Cassandra out the house. Left behind, Cordless prepares to have his romantic moment.

In front of the McBrisk house, Cordless rings the doorbell and is accompanied by Lil One holding the drink tray and other Crumpets watching him. He finds McBrisk sobbing by a big pile of flowers and announces his arrival as "Furious Bull". Lil One presents her the tray to her pleasure and Cordless pulls out a bouquet, but the latter doesn't get seen by her until Lil One throws up at her. With Lil One running away and Cordless presenting the flowers, McBrisk screams and banishes the "filthy savages", then throws shoes and a bottle at Cordless before crying miserably again. Caprice and Cassandra would be seen fighting covered in mud.

To Cordless' surprise, Granny lets her use the computer again and he contacts McBrisk again. McBrisk gets excited at "Furious Bull" returning and changes clothes to a raunchy nurse outfit. It's shown however that Cordless is accompanied by several Crumpets at the online dating who chanted "needle him" before they leave him alone. Once he leaves for a potty break, these Crumpets return to the computer to make jokes at McBrisk, including one that forces her to clean her garden from "toxic junk". McBrisk would notice the weirdness going on, cries, and shouts that love makes her head as she stomps her computer. Once Granny and the other Crumpets leave and Lil One goes back to the computer and types, Cordless finds the undesirable contact made to McBrisk and ends the deal with Lil One. He throws Lil One out the room to be met by Granny and the twins. Granny promises Lil One that they'll "smoke" him.

With Granny displaying the Cradley cutout in the window, Lil One rings McBrisk's doorbell and encounters the annoyed woman. He stutters and tells her of the "man" waiting for her, then she happily goes through her hedge and to the other house to pursuit "Furious Bull". At McBrisk's arrival to the room, Cordless runs to her and gets grabbed and choked by her, who demands him where "Furious Bull" is. Granny moves the cutout and Cordless points it for McBrisk, although he warns her that it's a trick. Realizing his plan won't work, he calls his parents to pick him up. Granny and McBrisk move outside while the girls are still fighting. After Uncle Hurried drops the ladder from his helicopter, Cordless grabs and pulls the helicopter to the ground. He observes Granny going on board and leaving the Cradley cutout with him. McBrisk looks at the departure of "Furious Bull" and sobs, to which the other Crumpets shout "because". Meanwhile, Cradley's helicopter arrives and seeks Cordless, but it unleashes a ladder which Caprice and McBrisk goes after. They bump each and other and faint, then Cassandra reaches the ladder and gives the fainted Caprice the pendant, allowing the latter to be Marylin's new girlfriend.

The ending shows the return of Pa and Ma in their car, and Pa asking his family if the vegetable pie was "gorgeous" before the couple show their affection.

## Trivia

* It's very likely that this episode is set before the show's third episode "Crum-Step". In that episode, Cordless does internet dating antics to Ms. McBrisk and is disguised as "Furious Bull". In "The Courting of Ms. McBrisk" however, he gets introduced to her and he creates the "Furious Bull" alias.
* Cordless refers to McBrisk as "Miss Brisk" at the part he throws Lil One.