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Original air date: February 19, 2023

Written by: Thomas Reyes
Directed by: Mario D'Anna

When Beef's bed finally breaks and nearly kills him, the Tobin kids try to convince Beef to buy a new bed and have a competition on which bed Beef gets by telling him the best bedtime story based around The Lord of the Rings, The Devil Wears Prada, and Ford V Ferrari. Meanwhile, after Wolf and Honeybee accidentally get a newly married couple's package which contains a fruit bouquet by mistake, they take a journey to return it to them in Talkeetna.


Tropes In General:

  • Accidental Hero: When Wolf and Honeybee get Mark and Sheryl's fruit bouquet by mistake, they travel to Talkeetna to return it to them. Along the way, they accidentally eat the whole bouquet and make their own with stuff bought at a truck stop. When they make the delivery to Mark and Sheryl, they admit to eating their fruit bouquet, Mark and Sheryl reveal they're allergic to mangoes and melons and reveal the person who sent it to them was Mark's bitter ex, Nancy, who was trying to kill them. It's downplayed when Wolf asks if they're heroes for eating their bouquet, Sheryl points out they're not stupid enough to eat something they're allergic to, but they thank them for delivering it because now they realize Nancy is trying to kill them and they have to move to a different location again to avoid her.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • After Beef's bed breaks, Ham yells out to Judy and Moon "Code Mauve", which calls back to Moon's Emergency Binder that has different color codes for every possible emergency back in "From Tusk Til Dawn Adventure".
    • Ham is seen "Midnight Baking" in the opening, it was established in "Feast of Not People Adventure" that Ham is the Cake Lady and he makes the town's orders at night.
  • Couch Gag:
  • Embarrassing Cover Up: Moon mentions that one time when Beef dropped him off at school, Beef was so tired from being unable to sleep on his bed that he dozed off in the parking lot. It was embarrassing for Moon so he covered for Beef by telling people he was just drunk.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: The yeti can be spotted at the beginning of Ham's story where he's rolling down Beef-bo's home.
  • Ode to Food: The end credits has Wolf singing about his love for melons and mangoes after eating it during the episode.
  • Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is a reference to Enough Said, which Beef mentioned as his favorite movie back in "Code Enough Said Adventure".
  • Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Nancy is Mark's bitter ex who sent a fruit bouquet with mangoes and melons to Mark and Sheryl to congratulate them on their marriage, knowing full well they're allergic to the fruits. But her plan failed when the bouquet is accidentally sent to Wolf and Honeybee and they ate the fruit before delivering it to them. Also, Mark and Sheryl aren't stupid enough to eat fruits they're deathly allergic to. They have to move to a different location again just to avoid her.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Matthew refuses to sell Beef a racecar bed for him to sleep on not just because his kids are being selfish on what bed they want but because he points out the racecar bed is made for kids and it won't be able to support the weight of a grown man for long.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: Ham's story is based on The Lord of the Rings, Judy's story is based on The Devil Wears Prada, and Moon's story is based on Ford V Ferrari.

Tropes that apply to Ham's story

  • Accidental Hero: When Beefbo is about to toss the mattress down the volcano, the mattress stops him and picks him up to drop him down it instead. Before the mattress could do that, Meatball shows up and unintentionally saves him by jumping on the mattress where they both fall into the volcano, but Beefbo managed to save himself by holding onto a cliff.
  • Animation Bump: When the Fellowship first meets Meatball, he's animated smoothly to show how creepy his movements are.
  • Artifact of Attraction: While the Fellowship eat their third breakfast, the evil mattress uses its dark magic to tempt the Fellowship into betraying each other, by talking to them and asking them to talk it. It fails with Honeyborn and Jerromir but he succeeds with Moonli, but the others stop him before he starts hurting everyone.
  • Artifact of Doom: Going along with the Lord of the Ring parody, an evil object they must throw into the volcano is Beef's mattress that's filled with dark magic.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: While on their way to Junkyard Kyle-eron's garbage mountain, they encounter Meatball who wants to show them a shortcut to get there and he desperately doesn't want their mattress. Jerromir asks if they should trust him, but Hamdalf points out this is the part of the story where they make a bad decision, so they do and unsurprisingly Meatball leads into a Borc ambush in the mines.
  • Stalker Shot: During their travel to Junkyard Kyle-eron's garbage mountain, Ham lampshades that the characters sense that someone's following them and they're right when the camera zooms out to reveal Meatball is following them for their mattress.

Tropes that apply to Judy's story

  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Judy depicts herself in her story with brunette hair instead of blonde to make herself look like Andy Sachs from The Devil Wears Prada. Everyone else keeps their original hair color.
  • Serious Business: When Jandrea tells Beefanda she's having trouble telling the mattresses apart and she's still learning about these things, Beefanda gives her a verbal takedown how serious the mattress business is, making Jandrea feel like she's in way over her head.

Tropes that apply to Moon's story

  • Embarrassing Damp Sheets: During the race, Moon's pit crew discovers a "leak" in Moon's bed, as in, he wet the bed. His crew doesn't have enough time to change him so they have to send him off and hope he doesn't wake up because of his damped pajamas.
  • Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: During the race, Santiago sabotages Moon's racecar bed by installing a nightlight on it which wakes Moon up, causing him to crash. In response, Moon's pit crew sabotages Santigo's racer, Judy-etto, by stealing her favorite blanket, which will cause her to wake up if she doesn't have it.
  • Wacky Racing: To incorporate the racecar bed into his story, Moon based his story around Ford V Ferrari, but the racecars are racecar beds where the drivers move their vehicles by sleeping and the deeper they sleep, the faster they move.

Wolf:
♫ Melons and mangos (Mangos and melons)
I got a little taste and then I fell in love
Where'd you get those cantaloupes, hon?
Look so tasty
That you know I gotta grab 'em ♫
Honeybee: Uh-uh.
Wolf:
♫ Yes, watermelons, honeydews and casabas
Look so good you know I need you in my bod-ah ♫
Honeybee: Where in your body?
Wolf:
♫ I'm just really into fruit
I want it inside of me... ♫
Honeybee: Okay, I give up. Have fun with it, Wolf.
Wolf:
♫ Melons and mangos (Mangos and melons)
I got a little taste and then I fell in love. ♫

 
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Destroying the Evil Mattress

When Beefbo is about to toss the mattress down the volcano, the mattress stops him and picks him up to drop him down instead. Before the mattress could do that, Meatball shows up and unintentionally saves Beefbo by jumping on the mattress where they both fall into the volcano, but Beefbo managed to save himself by holding onto a cliff.

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