Human's Day Off

"**Human's Day Off**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 2. In this episode, Helen secretly tries to take the day off.

## Characters

* English Narrator
* Jellyfish
* Maggie Muffin
* Helen Luggins
* Florence Owl
* Kira Moonhead (cameo)

## Synopsis

As the episode begins, Helen laments having to work at the Lightbulb Office on a Sunday, a day where the restaurant is utterly devoid of customers. His nerves are further frayed by Maggie continually testing the service bell. Helen reminds Maggie that he will ring the bell to call in orders, of which there will be none because there are no customers. His frustrated pounding of the cash register causes it to burst open and several coins spill out. Ms. Owl hears the noise and comes storming out of his office.

Helen attempts to pick the coins up, but Ms. Owl shoves him out of the way and hurriedly scoops them up to wash under the tap. However, Maggie comes up, startling Krabs, and a dime drops down the drain. Ms. Owl quickly sticks his claw in the pipe to catch the dime and grabs hold of it, but his claw gets stuck. Refusing to relinquish the dime, he has Maggie assist him in pulling it out. After yanking too hard, Ms. Owl is detached from his arms, flies backward, slams against the wall. The impact knocks a shelf lose, causing several items to fall onto his head, knocking him unconscious.

As Ms. Owl is being taken away to the hospital, he leaves Helen in charge of the restaurant. Helen seizes the opportunity to take the day off, with the excuse of running a few "very important boss-like errands," and leaves Maggie in charge of both the grill and the cash register, giving his employee hat to him. As he happily walks home, his mind turns to Maggie, imagining him foolishly giving Patrick enough cash to bankrupt the establishment as change for a quarter. This sudden fear causes Helen to hurry back to the Lightbulb Office. After witnessing Maggie's impeccable ability to make precise change, Helen resumes his "errands."

Returning home with the intent to relax, Helen next envisions Maggie accidentally setting the Lightbulb Office on fire. There is a coincidence where a fire truck passes by making Helen think the call is for the Lightbulb Office. Upon rushing back with a fire extinguisher, he finds things quite un-charred and everything in fine shape with Maggie eagerly awaiting the completion of Helen's errands. Helen goes home once more, vowing he will not return to the Lightbulb Office, but visions of Maggie's increasingly destructive behavior send him back again and again, only to see the Lightbulb Office unchanged from his previous frantic visit, and to ask each time by Maggie if he has completed his errands.

On the brink of insanity, Helen finally resorts to welding his own door shut so he cannot get out. While attempting to relax with a bath, Helen thinks he hears Maggie's laugh outside, but sees it is merely a branch of coral scratching against his house. He thinks that he sees Maggie behind the shower curtain, but it is just his toilet with two toilet paper rolls on top. Then he hallucinates Maggie in the bath asking him if he is finished with the errands yet, then escapes down the drain, which drives Helen to burst out of the house naked with only bubbles for clothes, dashing toward the Lightbulb Office attempting to beat him there while passing Sadie, her son, Patrick, and Ms. Owl, just as the latter left the hospital recovered. The sight of Helen running insane and unclothed causes Ms. Owl' arms to come loose again.

By the time the deranged Helen bursts into Lightbulb Office, Maggie is "already" there — as he never left. Helen slowly winds down and regains his sanity, relenting that his errands are finally complete, just in time for the last of his bubbles to pop. Maggie lends Helen his pants and notices that in all this time, nobody came to the Lightbulb Office because they never switched the "Closed" sign to "Open" and that they very easily could have taken the whole day off. As Maggie laughs at this, Helen's nose falls off and his head slowly deflates, thus ending the episode.