Episode 2 of the Kiddy Girl-AND anime opens with Tweedledee working on upgrading the GOT's security systems to prevent a repeat of the first episode. Q-Feuille arrives to retrieve Tweedledee's coffee cup. Tweedledee takes the opportunity to thank Q-Feuille for stopping the assassins from the previous episode and assures her they won't have to get into anymore dangerous battles once the upgrades are done. Cue episode title.
After the title card, we find the Pink-Haired Nitwit in the cafe overlooking a tray of sweets. Already it becomes rather apparent that this forms at least half the episode's title. Ascoeur seems particularly interested in the pumpkin pudding. Mi Nou then gives Ascoeur one of the pumpkin pudding, which she had apparently been promised. Q-Feuille returns and the three girls (if we're counting Mi Nou as a girl) return to the dorms, with Ascoeur singing a ditty about pumpkin pudding the whole way. After meeting up with Alisa and Belle, Ascoeur and Q-Feuille depart to their dorm room where Ascoeur puts the pudding in the fridge and repeatedly opens and closes the door to check on it. She does this 52 times in a row, as Q-Feuille informs us. Subtlety is lost on this anime.
Ascoeur is pulled away from her precious pudding long enough to be served dinner along with the rest of the girls staying in the dorm. During dinner, Ascoeur asks for seconds, but Mi Nou refuses because she calculated the nutritional balance for everyone. Geez, OCD much? She even yells at Q-Feuille when she tries to share her's with Ascoeur! After dinner, we're treated to a bath scene with plenty of fanservice to go around and more obnoxious pudding obsession from Ascoeur. If you couldn't already tell, the pudding is going to play a major part in this episode.
Returning to their dorm, Ascoeur immediately retrieves her pudding from the fridge. She even nuzzles it, just incase you still haven't gotten the point. Now, personally, I was expecting someone else to have broken in and eaten the pudding by now. Afterall, with the way she's been obsessing over it, there's no way she was going to be eating it. What we get instead is far, far stupider.
Q-Feuille sneezes and bumps into a dresser, knocking over a stuffed dog on top of it. The dog hits a vase which falls onto a bunch of books inexplicably launching one across the room to hit a picture which launches another stuffed animal back across the room to knock over a can which bounces off the fridge and lands on Ascoeur's pudding to knock it out of her hands and onto the floor. Yes, a Robinson/Goldberg Contraption is what inevitably ruins Ascoeur's pudding. A Goldberg contraption that I'm pretty sure isn't even remotely viable. To add insult to injury, the can rolls back across the floor from out of nowhere to flatten the pudding against the floor.
Q-Feuille now tries to console the Pink-Haired Nitwit in a scene played so seriously, Ascoeur's expression aside, that you'd swear someone just died. I want to yell at the anime now, but I can already see where this is going. Sure enough, Ascoeur declares her intention to break into the cafe to get another one. We then cut to the two girls scaling the side of a building, Ascoeur still in her pajamas and Q-Feuille dressed in her ES Member uniform. Personally, I was hoping Ascoeur would fall off the building at this point and almost get my wish but Q-Feuille was able to grab her.
After crossing over the top of a skybridge, the girls are then make their way inside from the air ducts. The Pink-Haired Nitwit starts yelling about her pajamas getting dirty and generally being loud and obnoxious as usual, in spite of Q-Feuille's attempts to shush her. Fortunately, Q-Feuille disabled the sound sensors. This probably happened around the same time as when they found the air ducts to get inside. In other words, both events occur offscreen. We are, however, given a scene where Ascoeur nearly sets off several alarms before Q-Feuille accesses a computer to disable all the security in one fell swoop. All things considered, this break-in is going disturbingly well.
Cue a pair of eyecatches showing a fake superhero called Pumpkin Pudding Man. Really getting sick of pumpkin pudding now. On the bright side, we're now halfway through the episode!
Returning to the anime now, we see Tweedledee is on duty monitoring security and notices our two intruders. Wonder what this could lead to. Back with the girls, Q-Feuille is growing suspicious of this seemingly simplistic security system when they suddenly turn the corner and find... an arm-wrestling machine!? Apparently this thing is somehow part of Tweedledee's security system. I can't even begin to comprehend how. It doesn't even block the corridor!
Needless to say, the arm wrestling machine is easily dealt with. The two girls' combined strength breaks the arm of the machine and knocks it over. I still don't know what that was supposed to do but it was clearly entirely ineffective. Continuing along, the girls then find themselves in a mist that causes their voices to become masculine. I'm sorry, what? Apparently this is supposed to be some kind of psychological trap. That doesn't even BEGIN to make sense. Just what the hell is going on here!? I guess I shouldn't complain too much, though. For the briefest of moments, Ascoeur's voice was actually tolerable!
Continuing on again, the girls' voices return to normal and they then encou-WHAT THE HOLY BLEEDING HELL!? WHY IS THERE A CHASM AND TWO GREASED-UP SUMO WRESTLERS STRETCHED ACROSS IT!? And the girls are apprently expected to cross this while clinging tightly to their fat, greasy bodies! Why the hell doesn't Ascoeur just teleport across!? Oh, right, because she's the Pink-Haired Nitwit. So both of the girls have to crawl across the sumo wrestlers to get to the other side without slipping off their slippery, oil-covered bodies. I could have happily lived the rest of my life without having to type a sentence like that. This already disturbing scene isn't helped at all by the moaning noises the one Q-Feuille is crossing makes.
We then get a scene that tries to make all of this make sense, explaining these security measures as 'capture systems'. That doesn't remotely begin to make sense and, I'm sorry, but NOTHING IS GOING TO MAKE A SECURITY SYSTEM INVOLVING GREASED-UP SUMO WRESTLERS MAKE SENSE!
Now, I know what you're thinking. "How does one possibly follow-up a scene like that?" Why, by having the girls stumble upon an army of laughing, perverted robots wearing square-rimmed glasses! I wish I was making this up. They're even walking on the walls. And the ceiling. And there's something about their laugh that's incredibly creepy. Q-Feuille trips as they're fleeing, but fortunately the robots just trample over them and continue on their way. Yet another weird and completely ineffective security system.
Following the robot attack, Q-Feuille and Ascour find a safe place to hide and Q-Feuille says she's only slowing Ascoeur down. Never mind that the idiot would have clearly been unable to get past security at all if it weren't for her. The two then go through a trap door into a freight corridor, which will lead straight to the cafe kitchen. I should note that said freight corridor practically resembles a subway. Its here that the girls are attacked by a swarm of Genetech Dolls, which immediately start latching onto them. This results in Ascouer getting, and I'm not making this up, a giant afro made of dolls. If you've seen the tvtropes page for Kiddy Girl, you know what I'm talking about. Q-Feuille gets one too.
In all seriousness, this ends up making the most sense out of any of these so-called security systems as the dolls then begin latching onto the girls to try to keep them from moving and thus restraining them. Ascoeur gets swarmed, but Q-Feuille swats the dolls off of her and then urges her to go on alone. This scene has suddenly started laying on the drama, as if Q-Feuille were actually sacrificing herself so Ascoeur could... get pudding. They even try to make it look like Q-Feuille dies from all the dolls piling onto her. Ascoeur continues on and is almost there when suddenly... the same can from earlier rolls in from the kitchen and trips her. This can seems to just hate her. Though I certainly can't blame it. After the can trips her, the Pink-Haired Nitwit falls into a conveniently placed trap door.
The next day, in the cafe, everyone is suddenly ordering pumpkin pudding because of all the fuss Ascoeur had been making over it. The episode ends with the two girls running through... somewhere. Their's a stairs, which they run down in a kind of an odd fashion, a narrow corridor, and another stairs. And no background. Tweedledee enjoys her own pumpkin pudding after a hard night's work, credits roll.
Good GOD what was with this episode!? It started off stupid and predictable, but then suddenly descends into madness in the second half! And for what? Pumpkin pudding!? All this episode has managed to do is make me hate the Pink-Haired Nitwit even more and dragged Q-Feuille down to her level. But, hey! At least now we can see why they're partners!
...Oh, wait, but the next episode is called "Completely Incompatible?" Sounds like trouble is brewing between the two. Well, whatever is happening with the next episode couldn't possibly be as bad as this episode at least.
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