Mine & Dine: Part 1: Birds on a Cart

"Keep digging faster! He's catching up!"

- Red, commanding Matilda to dig faster away from Ross's Ant-Digger 3,000,000,000,000

Mine & Dine: Part 1: Birds on a Cart is the 1st part of the 10th episode in the 2nd Season of The Angry Birds Show and is the 1st part of the 60th episode overall.

## Summary

The Angry Birds discover that the Pigs are using underground tunnels leading to a secret underground tunnel to a secret mining cave. They follow them to fight Ross with a secret invention

## Plot

The episode starts with the Pigs, covered in bandages, limping to the couch in the living room. Ross puts a VHS tape of clips of the times the Birds defeated the Pigs. King Pig then gets enraged at the end of the tape & destroys the tape with a baseball bat. Ross tells him to calm down. He says that several months ago, he built a secret hideout to escape from the Birds. Unfortunately. they always found him.
King Pig gets the idea & decides to go into the secret hideout. They go outside & go into a field. King Pig asks Ross where's the hideout. Ross says that the hideout is underground. They then dig downwards as King Pig groans. They then decide to sneak into the Birds yard & steal the Eggs. They steal the Eggs & then go to the hideout, where they see is high-tech.
The Birds go out to eat some candy apples, but see that the Eggs are gone. Red sees a hole in their yard & asks why's there a hole. He then smells bacon & realizes that the Pigs are up to something. The Birds, confused of where it leads to, jump down & fall into the underground hideout. The Pigs notice the Birds & King Pig decides to split up. King Pig & Corporal Pig take the left path, Ross takes the middle & Foreman Pig take the right. Red decides that they must split up if they want to catch them faster. Red & Matilda take the middle, Bomb, Terence & Hal take the left & Jay, Jake & Jim take the right. Chuck is then left to destroy the underground hideout. Red & Matilda dig through tunnels & tunnels. Matilda gets bored & wants some music to play. Red then sings a rap number to make her less bored. They then go to find Ross, Matilda accidentally hitting her forehead with her pickaxe. They then encounter Ross behind them riding a machine he calls the Ant-Digger 3,000,000,000,000. They run away from him & see that there's a hole. They jump over it & Ross falls down. The machine explodes & Ross is torn to a pile of ash.
They cheer & Red asks her how's the others are doing. The episode ends with the ashed-up Ross shouting "OW!" in pain.

## Characters

### Focus

* Red
* Matilda
* Ross

### Supporting

* King Pig
* Corporal Pig
* Foreman Pig
* Chuck
* Jay, Jake & Jim
* Bomb
* Hal
* Terence

## Trivia

* This episode reveals that months ago, Ross built a secret hideout to hide from the Birds.
* This episode reveals that Red can rap.

### Continuity

* Clips from The King Pig, Danger Above!: Part 3: Skybound! & Crew Captain Boombeard! are shown on the VHS tape.
* The ball from Playtime & Shelly SuperFriend is shown, isolated in within the hideout.

### Cultural References

* The Ant-Digger 3,000,000,000,000 has the same design as an invention created in the Nick Jr. TV series Rusty Rivets.
* The title of the episode is a pun of the film Snakes on a Plane.

### Errors

* Despite the episode's title, no mine cart is seen ridden on by the Birds.

## Running Gags

* Matilda hitting her forehead with her basball bat.