Lost in Parking Space, Part Two

Infobox Television episode
Title=Lost in Parking Space, Part Two
Series=Drawn Together
Season=3
Episode=8
Airdate= October 4, 2007
Writer= Elijah Aron and Erik Sommers


Caption = Clara decides that she loves being evil.
Director= Ray Claffey
Production = 308
Guests = Phil LaMarr as Delivery Guy
Billy West
Qarie Marshall
Prev=Lost in Parking Space, Part One
Next=Charlotte's Web of Lies

"Lost in Parking Space, Part Two" is the thirtieth episode of the animated television series "Drawn Together".

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Picking up where the previous episode left off, the housemates in the van are in a panic. Desperate for water, Toot grabs hold of Ling-Ling's aquarium. Toot suffers detailed internal damage and hallucinates a polar bear monster with a scorpion tail outside the van (actually an old woman). All but Ling-Ling believe her. The housemates cower in fear from the old woman and Hero accidentally suffocates Ling-Ling. The group decides to eat him.

Clara promises loyalty to the delivery driver, promising to fulfill his fantasies. He uses her to use the carpool lane. Bored, Clara notes an ox by the side of the road...a nice ox. Realizing she has broken the Ninth Commandment, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ox", she realizes she loves evil. She takes control of the van, kills several people and dumps Satan/the driver into a pool of mutant babies, who devour him. She ends up heading to the mall.

Xandir bonds with two hobos who live in the mall parking lot. After some time of filthy living, Xandir realizes, via a talk with the old woman Toot spotted before (and a Lion King hallucination in a puddle of urine), that his friends need him. He heads back just before the old woman mutates into a polar bear monster with a scorpion tail, killing the two homeless men.

Meanwhile, the Hot Topic clerk drags Foxxy Love through a dark corridor where she can see other cartoon characters being brutally tortured. He tells her that Hot Topic is unable to support itself selling novelty items, and that the store chain has turned to torturing disliked cartoon characters as its main source of income.

Princess Clara arrives to torture Foxxy, both are surprised to see each other. Foxxy explains no actual Rapture happened. Clara decides to rescue everyone in the Hot Topic prison as a way to get back to Jesus. Despite this, she brutally murders the Hot Topic clerk. A fire erupts. Pressed for time, they try and free the other prisoners. A grateful Goliath thanks Clara for saving them. Clara tells them she isn't doing it for thanks, she is doing it to make up for her sins and get into heaven. Goliath informs her that all she needs to do to get into heaven is to ask for Jesus to forgive her. Clara decides that is much easier, and throws the keys down a sewer grate and runs out with Foxxy following close behind her.

Back in the van, the housemates are shivering. Toot collapses and the others crawl inside her, all except Captain Hero who won't fit. Hero exclaims that he will keep warm by using his heat vision to blow up the gas tank. Wooldoor screams to Hero that he is being insane and that they can't keep on coming back from the dead every episode. Ling-Ling, back from being eaten, agrees.

Xandir returns, giving an inspirational speech. Spanky admonishes him that if he says "drawn together", he'll cave in his skull with a tire iron. The housemates build a vehicle from the interior of the van and escape just as it collapses (from the removal of building materials).

They pick up Clara and Foxxy in the parking lot. Gleeful at the reunion, Xandir does make a pun at 'drawn together' and Spanky crushes Xandir's skull with a tire iron.

The mall is seen burning down. The homeless men, inspired to a new life by Xandir, are slain by the old woman, who really was a scorpion polar bear.

Musical Number: "Scum-a Bum-a Grub-a Moochie", sung by Xandir and the two homeless men in the mall parking lot. The song is a parody of "Hakuna Matata" from "The Lion King". The homeless guys are named Ernie and Nathan, references to Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane, the actors who sang "Hakuna Matata" originally. The song also represents the first time in the series that Xandir has sung on television; Xandir's only singing appearance prior to this episode was as part of the "Shit Sandwich" sequence in the extended DVD version of "The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II".

Notes and inside references

* This episode aired Sunday, August 26, in Latin America, over a month before its debut in the US.

* Wooldoor's Pyromania, previously mentioned in A Tale of Two Cows and Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable! is brought up again in this episode by the Wooldoor's own dummy. The dummy mentions how Wooldoor set fire to an orphanage; the first specific mention of something Wooldoor has set fire to. Unlike the previous two times fire was mentioned it was not accompanied by the image of a burning building in reflected in Wooldoor's eyes.

* The Hot Topic clerk is voiced by Jess Harnell.

* The Hot Topic clerk refers to the hatred high-school graduates have for Drawn Together. The joke is that Drawn Together is actually highly popular with the 18-24 demographic.

* The female passenger of the car Clara hits with a package was previously seen in N.R.A.y RAY as a member of the public observing Foxxy's trial and twice said "He is delicious." in response to Judge Fudge's catchphrase.

* The old woman in the parking lot is voiced by Cree Summer.

* The two homeless men are voiced by Jess Harnell and James Arnold Taylor.

*The way Scrappy-Doo is tortured is remarkably similar to the one of the ways Foxxy tortures Captain Hero in Requiem For a Reality Show.

* When Clara checks herself to see if she is getting her period gagging noises are heard. These are probably coming from her Vajoana, seen in Alzheimer's That Ends Well.

* The "Ling-Ling pizza" Wooldoor ate is probably another reference to how the housemates never truly die, mentioned by captain Hero in the first part of this episode.

* A mysterious voice breaks the fourth wall and heckles Foxxy and Clara. This voice has previously been heard in Ghostesses in the Slot Machine and Captain Girl and will be heard again in Drawn Together Babies.

* Spanky stops Xandir saying the title of the show, Drawn Together, in his speech. The title had been used in many speeches during the past of the show when the characters were going through a difficult situation together the first instance being used by Wooldoor in The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist Part one.

Animated cameos

* The fish tank that Toot drinks from near the beginning of the episode contains the fish from the dentist's tank in "Finding Nemo", including Nemo himself.

* While the Hot Topic clerk is dragging Foxxy Love through the corridor, several well-known cartoon characters can be seen being tortured, including Fred Flintstone (who is being severely beaten with a crowbar), Wish Bear (who is having her body pulled apart in a bear trap), Daria Morgendorffer (who is having a nail driven into her right eye), and Scrappy-Doo (who is being disemboweled).
**Fred Flintstone is voiced by his current voice actor James Arnold Taylor. This marks the second time on "Drawn Together" that a character has appeared who is voiced by one of the "Drawn Together" actors outside the show. (Bubbles from "The Powerpuff Girls", who is voiced by Tara Strong, appeared in "Foxxy vs. the Board of Education", but did not have any dialogue.)
**Similarly, Daria is also voiced by her original voice actress, Tracy Grandstaff.

* After Xandir decides to become a hobo, the image of "The Lion King"'s Mufasa appears in a puddle of urine and tells Xandir to reclaim his position as troop leader and save his housemates.

* When Clara and Foxxy return to the torture victims, Davey and a severely disfigured Goliath are among them. Homer Simpson's legs can be seen with nails hammered into them, and Popeye can also been seen from the neck down with his arm in a sling (even though he was seen dead in "The Lemon-AIDS Walk"). Scrappy Doo, Atom Ant is vaguely in, covered with bandages. Hägar the Horrible and Snagglepuss can also partially be seen before Foxxy runs away.

Cultural references

* Foxxy's story in this episode is based on the film "Hostel"; several scenes are taken from the film almost exactly. This was hinted at during one of the final scenes of the previous episode when the Hot Topic clerk captures her in a manner similar to that of the film.

* Xandir's story in this episode is largely based on "The Lion King" (see "Musical number" and "Animated cameos" above).

* Xandir's tattoo, Living Positive (which is never seen), backfired on him because of the 80's AIDS pandemic

* The two homeless fellows, Ernie and Nathan, are named after Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane who voiced Timon and Pumbaa in "The Lion King"

*Captain Hero's remark about making the ventriloquist's dummy "feel like a real boy" is a reference to the classic fairy tale Pinocchio

* When talking about his great-great-grandfather's encounter with a chicken, Ling-Ling says, "It takes different strokes to move the world", quoting the theme song from the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes".

* Responding to Foxxy's query as to his motives, the Hot Topic clerk asks, "You think Hot Topic can support itself on the sale of "Hello Kitty" coin purses and "Invader ZIM" steering wheel covers? What kind of business model is that?"

* After Clara helps Foxxy escape, the Hot Topic clerk says, "Old Man Topic is not going to like this"; immediately afterward, an organ drone is heard. This is a reference to old-time radio soap operas, which punctuated dramatic moments with organ tones.

* An hour after eating Ling-Ling the Housemates are starving again, this plays on the stereotype that Chinese food is only filling for an hour then leaves you hungry again. The other Joke here is that Ling-Ling is Japanese, not Chinese.

* Wooldoor asks his housemates if he should rent "that Greek wedding movie", referring to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".

* After Toot collapses to the floor, Wooldoor pulls out a lightsaber to split her open so that the housemates may crawl inside and be sheltered from the cold. This is a reference to the scene in "" when Han Solo split open his Tauntaun in order to warm Luke.

* Xandir says that Spanky gave up on imagination and made "The Nothing" come, a reference to "The Neverending Story". The scene then cuts to a shot of Spanky with hands made of rock, who says, "They look like big, strong hands," a reference to the character of the Rock Biter.

* When Xandir and the housemates dismantle the van in order to escape, music similar to the theme from "The A-Team" plays. The show did a similar "A-Team" parody in "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree".

* The subplot involving Ling-Ling being mistaken for a chicken and smothered by Captain Hero parodies the finale of the long-running series "M*A*S*H". In that episode, the staff psychiatrist Sidney Freedman helped series star Hawkeye Pierce (played by Alan Alda), who had finally cracked under the strain of the Korean War. Freedman led Hawkeye to stop suppressing the memory of seeing a Korean mother who had smothered her coughing and crying baby in an effort to keep it silent so that threatening North Korean troops wouldn't hear them and kill all in their group. (In Hawkeye's suppression, he had 'remembered' that the mother had killed a 'chicken', until Freedman brought the memory into the light.) He convinced a reluctant Hawkeye that the best thing for him now was to return to duty for the last days of the war.

* The explanation for Toot's medical condition after she drinks the saltwater from the fish tank is similar to that of "I Shouldn't Be Alive" or the medical drama "House".

* The idea of using parts of the old van to build a new vehicle comes from the novel/movie The Flight of the Phoenix. The design of the new vechicle, including its sail, bear a resemblance to the plane constructed in the 2004 remake of the film.

* The guitar Clara plays is a BC Rich Ironbird, similar to the one Trey Azagthoth uses in the band Morbid Angel.