Make a Fish

**Make a Fish** is the ninth episode in Season 1 of *I ♥ Arlo*.

## Synopsis

After secretly granting Bertie's wish at a coin fountain, Marcellus sees the sudden influx of wish-makers as a business opportunity.

## Plot

Marcellus goes for a walk one day, silencing a police couple's radio before proceeding to sing opera to himself, mooches off someone's chicken order, and refusing to help an old lady cross the street before taking her cart. Back at Seaside, he relaxes before seeing his fins start to dry out, prompting him to get back to the fountain to rehydrate. Bertie then comes over, her guitar broken, upset she cannot fix it and get any song out, so she makes a coin wish to the fountain for a new guitar. Marcellus doubts that wishes ever come true, which upsets Bertie more, but he soon decides to give in and help her.

That evening, Marcellus was about to break into Sam's Music to steal a guitar from the window until finds a different guitar in the dumpster, but breaks in anyway to steal other instruments as well. After leaving the guitar at Bertie's doorstep, Marcellus begins to dry out again and leaves for the fountain, just as Bertie finds the guitar. The next day, Arlo comes to the fountain to let Marcellus in on Bertie's wish coming true, and is soon joined by Alia, Furlecia, Tony and Bertie with her new guitar. She reveals she brought everyone over who each make their own wishes: Tony wishes to make pizza faster to make more money, Alia wishes for no distractions as she studies for her upcoming driver's test, and Furlecia wishes for birds to leave her alone. Marcellus is suspicious at first, thinking people would reward the fountain with sums of money as they think it grants the wishes of the townsfolk. When the others agree, Marcellus comes up with a plan.

Soon after, Marcellus begins fulfilling the wish requests of his friends. First, he finds old rollerskates in the dumpster and attaches pizza cutting wheels to them, allowing Tony to cut his pizza fast and oddly. Second, he constructs a device which he attaches to Alia allowing her to study her driver's manual without being distracted to her dismay. Finally, he secretly adds derogatory objects to Furlecia's hair which scares the birds away from her. Once all is taken care of, Marcellus begins to dry out yet again, and he successfully returns to the fountain that night before he is completely dehydrated.

The next day, Marcellus is surprised to get a round of Seasiders having heard of the "magic" fountain, who all have wishes needing to be fulfilled and toss their coins in to his delight. Suddenly, Arlo comes in with a wish of his own, complete with a gigantic coin. He was asked by his dad to get something nice with it, but he selflessly decides to use it to get a birthday present. Knowing he collects eggs, he wishes to get him a rare condor egg like the one on top of the Chrysler Building miles away. Marcellus is against it at first, as it's far away and might not be able to go out that far for long without holding in enough moisture, prompting the Seasiders to ask for their money back. With no other choice, Marcellus promises the fountain will grant Arlo's wish to Bertie's suspicions. That evening, through a sultry non-diegetic opera number, Marcellus climbs the Chrysler Building and retrieves the condor egg, but is unable to get back to the fountain in time to rehydrate, and succumbs to his untimely imminent death.

When Marcellus wakes up some time later, he finds himself back in the fountain alive and well; he comes out to find the Seasiders complaining to Bertie that the fountain wasn't the one granting the wishes, and claims she was the one doing it to let Marcellus off the hook. Turns out she knew Marcellus was granting wishes the entire time, and had to intervene. She also reveals she witnessed Marcellus nearly dying and saved his life by helping him back in the fountain, happy to do a favor for someone who did a favor for others. Marcellus does not care and only did it for the cash, and doesn't care if Arlo got the egg either, but Bertie says she took care of it and gives him his giant coin in return. Marcellus politely turns down the gift and asks her to tell Arlo the fountain did it for free which she agrees. Marcellus soon realizes all the coins from the fountain are gone; turns out, one of the seagulls took all the money to feed to its babies who have built a nest in Furlecia's hair, which Furlecia resignedly rolls with.

## Cast

* Michael J. Woodard as Arlo Beauregard
* Mary Lambert as Bertie
* Jonathan Van Ness as Furlecia
* Haley Tju as Alia/Kid
* Brett Gelman as Marcellus
* Tony Hale as Teeny Tiny Tony
* Maria Bamford as Granny
* Michelle McMillan as Chicken Vendor/Leisure Wear
* Fred Tatasciore as Unfulfilled Old Man/Chicken Customer
* Mark Whitten as Male Cop/Baby Teeth

## Trivia

* First episode to focus on Marcellus.
* Marcellus nearly dehydrates five whole times throughout the episode.
* Arlo is limited to two brief appearances.

## Errors

* When Marcellus sings "Will not diiiiiie..." in "Marcellus Opera", he has his right arm (viewer's left) stretching out and the condor egg under his opposite arm; when Bertie witnesses it, the arm positions are reversed.
* When Bertie witnesses Marcellus nearly dehydrated, she is able to see the fountain out her window, when the fountain is down the boardwalk from Arlo and Bertie's house ann can usually be seen from the doorstep to the right.