「SUPER STRENGTH」

**「SUPER STRENGTH」**is the 21st episode out of 39 total, and the 8th episode of season 2.

## Characters

* Popee
* Kedamono
* Papi

## Summary

Popee and Papi engage in a strength contest. Who will win? How far will they go to prove themselves? A cautionary tale about drugs.

## Plot

Papi and Kedamono, eating bananas, watch on as Popee prepares to lift a large barbell. Popee struggles to lift the weight, but finally manages to do so. His legs are buckling under the weight of the barbell, however.

Kedamono is impressed, but Papi shakes his head. He approaches Popee, and has him step aside as he easily lifts the barbell with a single hand, and Popee anguishes as Papi upstages him, going so far as to balance it on his head.

Determined not to let Papi get the best of him, Popee injects himself with a steroid. The immediate effects of doing so are terrible, as he shakes and blood sprays from his nose, but he appears to get over it in a matter on seconds.

Confident in his newly acquired strength, Popee approaches Papi, his body making mechanical sounds as Kedamono watches on with fear.

Popee easily takes the barbell off of Papi's head and laughs as he throws it high into the stratosphere. Night comes, and it finally falls back down to earth, landing at their feet.

At Popee's smugness, Papi appears to have another trick up his sleeve, as he gets a scheming look on his face. This angers Popee, as Papi wags his finger at him.

Suddenly, Kedamono's awoken by a loud noise, and when he sits up and blearily looks around, he sees Papi carrying an entire truck.

Popee's irritated as Kedamono's entirely terrified, watching as Papi gets closer. Finally, Popee laughs, and Kedamono jumps back as he hits the ground hard enough to cause a crack in the earth. Popee laughs as Papi falls in it, and in retaliation, Papi throws the truck at Popee.

Kedamono watches in shock as Popee catches the truck one-handed, then starts to balance it on his head, laughing and grinning as Papi tries to get out of the crack in the earth. Apparently, however, it seems that one of the other two was careless earlier, as there's a banana peels on the ground. Popee, of course, slips on it, and the truck appears to crush him.

Papi tries even harder to get himself out of the crack, and then gets an idea. He uses his enormous strength to pick himself up out of the crack, pulling himself out.

As he's doing this, Popee manages to pick the truck up off of himself. But when he looks, Papi's still lifting himself, higher and higher. Papi himself is shocked by it, as he looks down in the air over the circus.

Enraged, Popee throws the truck at him, sending both Papi and the truck even higher into the sky. Popee's very pleased with himself, laughing joyously. But then, Kedamono's getting his attention, pointing up at the sky.

The moon is coming closer. They both look at each other, confused and perhaps afraid. It's Papi, who then throws the moon at the earth. As the moon gets even closer, Popee and Kedamono run around in panic. The moon is destroying buildings and upsetting trees,

With nothing else to do, Popee finally stops, and he manages to catch the moon. He even balances it on his head and does a little dance, very happy as Kedamono applauds him.

But another banana peel appears, and Kedamono quickly tells Popee, who manages to stop just before he steps on it. Instead, he bends over and picks it up.

But when Popee looks up...Papi, who is very angry, now has the sun.

The final shot is one of the moon destroying the earth, with the sun overlooking it all.

## Trivia

* This episode has an alternate ending, aired for New Years 2002.