Other dub names: I'd Rather Diet (Studio 100)
Wally wants to invite Rosa for a picnic, but when he enters her house, she tells him that she is fat and ugly. She decides to go on a diet and not eat anything at all. Wally quickly hides the fruit basket behind his back and invites her for a walk instead. Rosa is happy that now she does not depend on food and feels light and airy.
Back at home, Rosa starts feeling hungry and goes to the buffet for food, but after glancing at her dress, she resolutely locks it. Krash and Chiko are playing "Edible Inedible" when Rosa comes up to them and decides to join them. Krash and Chiko explain the rules to her, but they only mention edible things, increasing her hunger pangs. Rosa, in a rage, declares that they are inedible, calls the game stupid, and leaves. She comes to Wally, who was just about to have lunch, and asks him to read her poetry. Wally begins to read, but it turns out that all his poems are only about food. The diet starts taking a toll on Rosa, and she starts having nightmares at night. The next day, she goes to Barry's garden. Barry invites her to a salad. and Carlin notes that if you add more vegetables, you can cook an amazing borscht. Rosa sees her friends as a watermelon and a saucepan and runs away in terror. Olga examines her and asks if the diet has given her anything other than exhaustion and if anyone started treated her better. Rosa replies that things have only gotten worse. Olga gives her a piece of cake and asks to forget about the diet.
Wally visits Rosa again with a basket of fruit, being glad that her diet is over. Krash and Chiko also tell her that she is not fat at all, the opposite in fact. Rosa eats a big sandwich and says that she had to go through a lot for the sake of such simple and necessary words.
Tropes:
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: As soon as Rosa goes on a diet, food begins to haunt her everywhere. Krash and Chiko make her various delicious things during the game, all of Wally's poems are really about food, and Barry and Carlin invite her to a salad.
- Delicious Daydream: Rosa has a dream in which candy falls on her.
- Diet Episode: As the name indicates, Rosa goes on a diet for this episode. It last around three days and Olga asks to drop it, since it didn't help Rosa at all.
- Food Porn: Wally eats at a table full of various dishes, and in the finale Rosa sets herself a similar table.
- Meat-O-Vision: Rosa sees Barry and Carlin as a watermelon and a pot of soup out of hunger.
- Shout-Out: Rosa’s dream with floating sweets a reference to a dream with floating rose petals from American Beauty.
