Sappy Anniversary

Title Card

**Sappy Anniversary** is the twenty-fourth episode of *Mike & Friends*. In this episode, Mary is angry that Mark forgot their wedding anniversary, and Mark tells Mike the origin of how they met.

#### Characters

* Mike Mormon
* Mark Mormon
* Mary Mormon
* Mac (debut)
* Wally (debut)
* Buster the Cat

## Synopsis

Mark forgot about his wedding anniversary with Mary to go to a golf tournament, and she argues with him about it. She goes upstairs to her room, and Mark sits down with Mike. Mike tells him he shouldn't have gone to that tournament and actually spent time with Mary. Mark agrees, and admits that he loves Mary, and he'll never forget the day he met her. Mike wants to hear about how they met, and Mark tells him.

We flash back to 1984, the year Mark was in high school, a young Mark skateboards down to school and walks in. Mac and Wally, the school bullies, lean on the locker, and Mac sticks out his leg and that made Mark trip on it. The bullies laugh, and a young Mary chases them away. Mary notices Mark and asks him if he was okay. Present day Mark points out that the moment his past self laid his eyes on her, he knew that it was meant to be.

Throughout the years, Mark and Mary spent time with each other, and we cut to their wedding afterward. We cut back to the present, where Mike gives Mark an idea on what he should give his wife. Mark walks into his room, and apologizes to his wife about forgetting about their wedding anniversary. Mark brings Mary downstairs and surprises her with a party in the living room. Mike plays the song "You're the Inspiration" by Chicago (the song that played when Mark first met Mary), and they dance slowly to the song.

## Production Music

* Awakening Memories - Paul Fenoulhet (title card)
* Lonely Heart's Club A - David Bell, Otto Sieben (opening)
* Glissando (A) - Skaila Kanga, Richard Myhill ("And I'll never forget the day we met.")
* The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News (flashback to 1984)
* You're the Inspiration - Chicago (Young Mark laying his eyes on Young Mary)
* Hollywood Holiday - Frank Samuels ("Surprise!")
* You're the Inspiration - Chicago (ending/closing credits)

## Trivia/Goofs

* This is the first episode to mainly focus on both Mark and Mary, and the first to use the Mark and Mary opening credits background.
* This episode reveals how Mark and Mary first met.
* The instrumental of the Huey Lewis and the News song "The Power of Love", plays in the beginning of the flashback, even though the song came out in 1985, and not 1984 (when the flashback mostly took place in). The song plays when young Mark skateboards to school, presumably a reference to the 1985 film, *Back to the Future*.
* The song "You're the Inspiration" by Chicago plays in this episode as Mark and Mary's song.
* According to their wedding photo, Mark and Mary got married on November 6, 1990, which means this episode takes place on November 6, 2020.
* Speaking on the fact above, this episode was originally going to premiere on November 6, but was changed to November 2, because Pakenham wanted to get this episode out as soon as production ended.
* This is the last episode to show the old M-Pack Productions logo from 2019. "Sugar Bash" would feature a new design of the logo, with animation on the logo itself.
* According to Pakenham, this episode is the backdoor pilot to the upcoming spin-off, *Mark Mormon's Yesteryears*, since this episode included a flashback to Mark's past.
* This is the third episode where "The Bachelor Life (a)" does not play in the end credits. The first is "Christmas Shenanigans", and the second is "How Mike Met Connor".
* The end credits look different too, as the background is black and the text is pink.
* This episode spawned a Mercy's Meeting parody remake of it, which is episode 39 of Mercy Returns.
* **Goof:** In the parts where "You're the Inspiration" plays in, the song is louder than the dialogue. Luckily, Pakenham provided subtitles for those parts alone so viewers will understand what they're saying on YouTube.
	+ In February 2023, the episode was taken down and replaced with a newly-edited version of the episode with the error fixed.

## Full Episode

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