The Pilot

**"The Pilot"**is an Antonio Cool Guy ep**i**sode from Season 1. In This episode, Antonio gets a job at Burger King. It is based off of the Spongebob Squarepants Pilot Episode "**Help Wanted**".

## Plot

In the United States Of America, the audience is introduced to a small little town known as Wareham, Massachusetts; a narrator with a French accent muses on the wonders of civilized life. The narrator introduces the audience to one of his favorite person in Massachusetts, a 12 year old boy named Antonio Chaves. Inside the house where he lives, the hunky and carefree Antonio sleeps soundly in his twin sized and a diving board attached. On the floor nearby is Antonio's pet Venus flytrap named Scar, next to Antonio is an alarm clock, which soon loudly goes off and awakens him.

Antonio climbs the diving board, and tells his pet plant that today is "the big day”. Antonio jumps off of the diving board, and lands neatly into an outfit consisting of blue jeans, a black shirt, and black Vans shoes. To prepare for the day, he goes to a barbell with two 20lb weights attached, and struggles to lift it, barely managing to get one rep before dropping it with it making a hole in the floor. He then proclaims, "Yeetsicles!" and runs outside, heading past a bus stop with his best friend Boonsong Oulette outside, cheering Antonio and getting on his bike.

Antonio walks by a path to his destination where a narrorator announces the name of the show, and a slideshow of colorful images of Antonio appear.

Arriving outside the Wareham Burger King, Antonio psyches himself up to answer the call of the Help Wanted sign in the window and ask for a job as a fry cook. However, his fears get the better of him and he turns to leave, only to find Boonsong in his way. The latter convinces the former that he is truly ready for the job, giving Antonio the confidence to make his way over.

Joe Demora, a Burger King employee busy cleaning graffiti off the windows, sees Antonio approach, and voices his displeasure, wondering why he is coming so early. He then notices the sign, and shrieks in horror, sprinting inside toward his boss and owner of the restaurant, Chris P. Bacon. Before Joe can warn him, Antonio enters, and confidently states his intention of joining the King. He starts to approach Mr. Boss and Joe, but trips and bounces around the restaurant before landing square on his back in front of them.

Mr. Boss expresses his concern that Antonio is not ready for the job, but the latter asks him to reconsider, and have Joe vouch for him, who takes Mr. Boss aside and flatly refuses. Giving Joe a wink, Mr. Boss approaches Antonio, and says that he can apply once he is completed a simple test: purchasing a seemingly rare "super -mega-future spatula." Antonio eagerly heads out in his new employee hat to find one, leaving Boss and Joe to laugh together about his errand.

As Antonio runs to the Shaws, a convoy of buses arrives at the Burger King. Mr. Boss literally smells trouble approaching, and soon after, a hoard of thugs swarms in, and clamors for food. Joe calls for their attention, asking them to behave themselves, and make a neat single-file line. His request is rejected, and the thugs grow more ravenous and unruly, pulling out guns in the process. Joe and Mr. Boss climb into the cash register cubicle as the thugs form a rolling ocean, bullets fly all over the place, but their cubicle breaks, and they climb a pole to the ceiling. Facing the end, Mr. Boss and Joe say their goodbyes and sob.

From the sky, however, arrives Antonio, wielding his new flight-capable hydro-dynamic spatula. Leaving the flabbergasted workers behind, Antonio flies into the kitchen, and starts whipping up a batch of Burgers. The thugs are satiated one by one down to the last, leaving behind a huge fat sack of cash. Mr. Boss jumps with joy and proudly presents Antonio with his own nametag. Joe tries to protest, but Mr. Boss is too busy cheering, and carting away the money to notice.

Boon then arrives, and orders a single Burger, but Antonio engages the spatula once more, and sends Boon flying out of the restaurant with a flurry of Burgers. Joe haughtily asks Mr. Boss to come back, and see his new employee at work, as the song reprises one last time.

## Production

### Art

First drawing of Rachel and AntonioVery first image promo for the entire show
"The Pilot" was written by series creator Antonio Chaves, along with T.J Chaves and Andrew Chaves, and produced by Antonio Chaves. Antonio functioned as a storyboard director and artist while RushLight Invader, who worked on TheOdd1sOut, was the movement animator. Antonio Chaves began developing Antonio Cool Guy into a series in June 2019. Chaves began making little sketches of Rachel and Antonio, and eventually make a comic about them which would then become "SICK BEATS"  Antonio came up with the idea of "The Pilot" based on an experience Chaves has in baseball and another expirence based on trips on Bus 42.

This episode, along with "The Blower" and "True Lovin" premiered on Youtube on November 9, 2019, the same night as the rematch of Logan Paul and KSI.

### Music

* "Big House Blues" (Closing Theme) – Chris Reccardi, Jim Smith, Scott Huml, John Kricfalusi [Original composition]  *[title card]*

* Aloha Oe - Hans Haider, Queen Lili'uokalani *[The opening]*
* Honolulu March - Hans Haider *["Today's the big day, guys."]*
* The Land is Ours - Gregor F. Narholz *[Antonio lifts 20lbs weights.]*
* Grand Orchestral Fanfare - Gregor F. Narholz *[Antonio lifts his 20lbs weights.]*
* Honolulu March - Hans Haider *["I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready..."]*
* SpongeBob Action Theme - Brad Carow *[intro]*
* Next Door Neighbour - Rick Cassman, Vyvyan Hope-Scott *["Burger King, home of the King Burger."]*
* The Land is Ours - Gregor F. Narholz *[Boon encourages Antonio.]*
* Grand Orchestral Fanfare - Gregor F. Narholz *["Who's a 12 year old peice of greatness?"]*
* Honolulu March - Hans Haider *[Antonio runs to the Burger King.]*
* What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor - Okko Bekker *["Permission to come aboard, captain!"]*
* Main Street- Alec Gould *[Mr. Boss gives Antonio a test.]*
* Bartmania A - Guy Moon *["That sounded like loaded guns"]*
* Menace from the Deep - Robert Cornford *["That smell... a kind of smelly smell."]*
* Bartmania A - Guy Moon *[Thugs rush into the Burger King/Thugs shoot up the Burger King/"All hands on deck! Get your anchors out of your pants!"]*
* Lost  - Thomas Newman *["Batten down the hatches, Mr. Demora!"]*
* Bossa Cubana - Gerhard Narholz *[Antonio shops for a hydro-dynamic spatula at Shaws.]*
* Swim Down - Thomas Newman ["Climb, Mr. Demora, Climb!"/The Super Mega Future Spatula is revealed/"WHO'S HUNGRY?"]
* Jump Around - House of Pain [Montage of Antonio making burgers for the thugs/ending]

## Characters

### Major

* *Antonio (Debut)*
* *Mr. Boss (Debut*)
* Joe Demora (Debut)

### Minor

* Thugs (Debut)
* Narrorator (Debut)
* Bus Driver (Debut)
* Venus Flytrap (Debut)

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of the show.
* This episode's production code is 84147-101
* If one listens closely, this episode uses music from the 2003 Walt Disney and Pixar movie, "Finding Nemo"
* If one listens closely, this episode uses music from the 1991 Nicktoons show Ren and Stimpy