Darker Parker

"**Darker Parker**" is the first segment of episode 7 in Season 1 of *Middlemost Post*.

## Synopsis

Parker makes snowcones for everybody in town and learns that saying 'no' isn't always a bad thing.

## Plot

It's an hot day on Mt. Middlemost, with everyone living there complaining due to it. Amid it, Mayor Peeve tells Ryan happily on about the ship's shadow covering his mansion, due to the heat, and calls on for his swimming suit; boasting on about how he is the only one with shade on the entire mountain. He suddenly finds out that the whole town is chilling out on his building's shadow; thus shocking him. Meanwhile the Middlemost Post are out delivering mail, Parker doesn’t seem to mind the heat, while Angus and Russell are miserable from the heat, Russell passes out from the heat, Parker decides to take over Russell and he decides to use his breath to help cool of Angus, but that doesn’t work, he then decides to use water, but that also doesn’t work, he than comes up with using ice to make snow cones to cool off Angus and Russell, Angus and Russell try his snow cones and they end up feeling much more cooler and happier now. Parker than decides to give everyone snow cones, but Angus tells Parker that doing that might be to much work for him, but Parker wants to make snow cones for everybody and make them happy, Angus decides that he and Russell will finish making deliveries while Parker makes snow cones for everyone. Back at Mayor Peeve’s place, he decides to use a hose to get everyone at his place to leave, but that doesn’t work and they end up loving the water for the hose, Ryan then goes back with a snow cone, and Mayor Peeve asks where he got that snow cone, and Ryan says he got it from Parker and says that he’s giving them out for free, this surprises Mayor Peeve as he decides to go see all about the snow cones. Meanwhile Parker is still giving out snow cones to everybody, Mayor Peeve and Ryan come and Mayor Peeve sees the snow cones, Mayor Peeve thinks about having Ryan build a wall to keep everyone from coming to his place, Lily then comes to show Parker her invention of staying cool, Parker then says that he is to busy with giving out snow cones to everybody, Lily then starts to notice how Parker is getting paler every time he makes snow cones, Lily tells Parker how he is giving himself away by giving out snow cones, a water girl complains on how a guy got two snow cones and that she should get two, Parker then yells at her for being ungrateful, Lily then says that she doesn’t like seeing him act very rude, Parker gives a snow cone to her. Later on Parker arrives home as he is even more pale now and looks like a emo, he then acts very rude and disrespectful towards Angus and Russell, Angus and Russell find out that the snow cones he was giving out made him like that, Angus decides to take him to the doctor to have back to his regular self, but unfortunately the doctor does nothing to fix him, and Parker then leaves to go give out more snow cones. Meanwhile at Mayor Peeve’s place he decides to try out the snow cones and he ends liking them, but unfortunately he has no way to get more snow cones since he told Ryan to make a wall. Meanwhile Parker is about to give at more snow cones, Angus and Russell come to him again, and Angus tells him to just say no, but Parker refuses to do so, then Parker notices that nobody is coming to him for more snow cones, then Parker, Angus, and Russell hear lots of people cheering, and they see that Lily made a machine to make snow cones, Parker is absolutely furious at this and says that a machine can’t replace him as he makes his snow cones from his heart and he says that part of his heart got scoped out when he was making the last pach of snow cones, Lily says that she doesn’t like seeing him give his heart away, Angus agrees with her, Parker ends getting angry and he ends up destroying Lily’s snow cone machine, he then begins to feel bad for he has done, Lily says that it’s just a snow cone machine, a Stewart comes to him as he wants another snow cone from him, Parker decides to give him a snow cone, but then he thinks about if he should say no or not, he decides to say no and that causes him cool off the whole town and ends up ending the whole heat wave, and he learns that saying isn’t really that bad, then the episode ends.

## Characters

* Parker J. Cloud
* Angus Shackleton
* Russell
* Lily
* Mayor Peeve
* Ryan
* The Drizz
* Stewart
* Gordy
* Terry
* Mrs. Short
* Tina
* Darold Short (no lines)
* Doug
* Santa Claus (partial debut; cameo)
* Santa's Reindeer (partial debut for all; cameo)
* Two Reggies (one has no lines)
* Aquarium Fish (debut for all; cameo)

## Trivia

* This is the first episode/segment to debut internationally prior to airing in the U.S.
* The posters of Blinkin Park and Nine Inch Nimbus in Parker's room are likely parodies of the real-life bands Linkin Park and Nine Inch Nails.
* On March 25, 2022, The Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe Yotube Channel posted a clip from the episode.
* This is episode and it's sister episode Lady of the Tree both episodes were storyboard directed by Ari Castleton.[1]

1. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1-SjcQ8kz94KB0pNbRJs3-le8f-mh6HIgYjb\_8JnkhqU
2. ↑ https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-friday-10-29-2021-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html