Mexican't Buy Me Love

Infobox Television episode
Title=Mexican't Buy Me Love
Series=Drawn Together
Season=3
Episode=6
Airdate= November 8, 2006
Writer= Reed Agnew


Caption = Toot becomes rich by cheating in cockfights by disguising Ling-Ling as a rooster.
Director= Dwayne Carey-Hill
Production = 307
Guests = Carlos Mencia as the King of Mexico
Prev=N.R.A.y RAY
Next=Lost in Parking Space, Part One

"Mexican't Buy Me Love" is the twenty-eighth episode of the animated television series "Drawn Together".

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The housemates are split into pairs to play "The Newlywed Game" for a trip to Mexico. Toot and Ling-Ling win, but their vacation immediately hits a rough spot when they accidentally kill a Mexican prostitute in their motel room one night. The Mexican police chief says he will let the pair off scot free in exchange for a 500 billion-peso bribe (which according to Ling-Ling is "almost twelve American dollars"). They try to earn the money by putting on a donkey show starring Toot, but their endeavors are unsuccessful, as the Mexican people would rather spend their money on cockfights. Upon seeing a cockfight, Ling-Ling decides that this is an honorable form of battle, and promptly enters the ring in the hope of earning the pair enough money to bribe the police. By using his battle powers, Ling-Ling becomes the most successful cockfighter in the land, even becoming something of a celebrity in the process (and causing the Queen of Mexico to become smitten with him). He is invited to appear on a talk show hosted by Jose Leno, a Mexican version of Jay Leno. Leno asks Ling-Ling if he considers cockfighting to be unjust, to which Ling-Ling responds that he considers battling to the death quite honorable. Leno remarks that it is easy for Ling-Ling to say that given how good he is, then informs Ling-Ling that the chickens he is killing in battle are defenseless creatures being forced to fight against their will. This causes Ling-Ling to suffer a crisis of conscience. In the middle of a cockfight, Ling-Ling pulls off his disguise and declares that he refuses to take part in such a horrible activity any longer. This greatly angers the King of Mexico, who orders Ling-Ling and Toot arrested.

That night, as Ling-Ling and Toot rot away in the prison cell, the Queen of Mexico suddenly shows up to bust them out of jail. Ling-Ling and Toot attempt to escape under cover of night, but as they are leaving, Ling-Ling stops and insists they go back and rescue the chickens. Toot refuses to help him, so Ling-Ling returns to the chicken pen to do the job himself. He tells the chickens that they must revolt, then leads them back to the arena where the fights are held to take on the man in charge of the cockfighting business, the King of Mexico. Ling-Ling prepares to go into battle mode to attack the King, but the King declares that he cannot be defeated as long as he has his magic potion. He then drinks the mezcal worm in a bottle of tequila and transforms into a giant worm. He grabs Ling-Ling and prepares to eat him, but just Ling-Ling is about to enter his mouth, Toot suddenly returns to the scene in a spaceship and kills the King in his worm form with a laser blast (after which she crashes the spaceship into a mountain and explodes). As the chickens devour the giant worm, Ling-Ling states the lesson he learned, that cockfighting is not honorable at all. He walks out of the arena carrying the now-single Queen of Mexico in his arms.

Meanwhile, back at home, the remaining housemates have split off into two , Hero decides enough is enough. He steps in and reminds the group that there was once a time when they all hung out together as equals, and tells them that they're all dorks on the inside. Everyone decides Hero is right, and they all become friends again. The episode ends with the meteor crashing into the planet, which apparently doesn't destroy the world after all.

Musical number: The chorus of "El Cascabel" takes the place of "Ling-Ling's Battle Song" in this episode during his cockfights. A mock-Spanish version is also used once as well, prior to the King of Mexico drinking his "magic potion". Also, a song called "Honey Baked Ham" plays during the dance in this episode; the song was also played during the dance in "A Tale of Two Cows". The song that plays whenever the cool kids are shown is "Feelin' Me" by Kynady Lee.

Notes and inside references

*Steve from Long Island, who was introduced (and killed) in "Clum Babies" makes his second appearance.

*At one point, the fourth wall is broken - when explaining to the cool kids why they aren't so different from the not-so-cool kids, Capitain Hero says that Spanky is voiced by Adam Carolla.

Cultural references

* In one part in the beginning of this episode, Xandir, Wooldoor, and Captain Hero were playing a set of cards. Xandir then said something about trading two of his Pikachus for Captain Hero's black star Ling-Ling. This could be a reference to the long-running anime series "Pokemon", in which Ling-Ling is a parody of Pikachu himself. "Black Star" cards are the name given to promotional Pokemon trading cards, named after the 'black star promo' logo on each.

* The Hero/Foxxy story in this episode is based on the 1987 film "Can't Buy Me Love", in which a nerdy teen pays a popular girl to pretend to be his sweetheart so he'll move up in the social hierarchy. The episode title combines the name of the film with the Mexican setting of Toot and Ling-Ling's story, and Xandir's tearful "You shat on my house!" line is verbatim from the movie.

* At the beginning of the episode, the housemates play "The Newlywed Game" for a trip to Mexico. Toot wins the trip by answering "up the butt". This refers to a famous blooper from that show in which a woman who was asked for the strangest place she and her husband had ever had sex gave "in the ass" as a response. [http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/newlywed.htm Mikkelson, Barbara and David P.; "Up the Butt, Bob"; snopes.com; August 7, 2007.] ]

* Ling-Ling appears on "The Esta Noche con Jose Leno Show", a Mexican version of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".

* After Hero finishes explaining why he now files electronically, Spanky comments that he is so much cooler than Lobot, Lando Calrissian's cyborg assistant in the "Star Wars" series. Ironically, thru the use of mousse, Captain Hero is transformed into Lando Calrissian.

* The King of Mexico transforms by drinking the mezcal worm in a bottle of tequila. As he changes, he says, "By the power of Mencia!" This is a reference to "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", in which Prince Adam would say, "By the power of Greyskull!" as he changed into He-Man. "Mencia" refers to the character's voice actor, Carlos Mencia.

* Toot's spaceship resembles the Millennium Falcon from the first 3 "Star Wars" movies. The scene in which she blasts the King of Mexico parodies the destruction of the Death Star in "".

* This is the fifth episode to use the song played at the end of Empire strikes back.

References

*cite web | year = | url = http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/drawn_together/videos/season_3/index.jhtml | title = Drawn Together videos season 3 | work = Comedy Central Shows | publisher = Comedy central | accessdate = 2006-11-24