History Recap / CowboyBebopSession17MushroomSamba

They come across some train tracks, where Shaft and the melon vendor from before happen to be waiting on the opposite side. Shaft sees Domino, but a train passes through, which Domino manages to leap onto. Shaft hijacks the melon vendor's truck to give chase, while Ed and Ein do likewise on her motor scooter. Shaft manages to make his way on the train first, but is interrupted by the arriving Coffee in her Porsche, who tries to get him out of the way. Ed, tailing behind Coffee, leaps from her scooter onto Coffee's car (as well as her head) and scrambles up the back of the train. She sends Ein on ahead, who rushes past Shaft and grabs one of Domino's bags of mushrooms. Yanking it away, it hits Shaft, who goes flying from the train and onto Coffee, who swerves and crashes her car. Both survive, but are out of the chase, allowing Ed to corner Domino at the front of the train. However, the train brakes when a cow appears on the track. Both Ed and Domino are thrown ahead, with Ed landing on Domino. Domino bargains with Ed to take the mushrooms, claiming they're worth more then his bounty. Ed accepts, while Ein thanks the cow for stopping the train (I am NOT making that up). The duo arrives back at the ship just as the crew are coming out of their stupors.

* WayPastTheExpirationDate: Faye eats all of Jet's emergency rations and rushes to the bathroom following a crash landing. Jet reads the labal and learn they spoiled "a year ago".

* ShesGotLegs: Coffee's introduction focuses on her legs.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: A cow standing on the railroad tracks finally puts a stop to the chase when the train brakes.

She tells the crew what Domino told her, and the crew are all for the priceless shrooms. However, a cop comes by to check on their ship. Faye and Jet try to act as if nothing's wrong, but just draw suspicion to themselves. Spike comes out with the bag of mushrooms and the cop scans them, revealing they're just ordinary mushrooms, much to Faye and Jet's dismay. Eventually, the Bebop is fixed and heads back into space. Jet makes the most of the mushrooms and fixes a variety of dishes with them; Spike and Faye soon tired of eating them, but Ed and Ein are more than happy to dig in-- though Ein hiccups after gobbling one, indicating there might still be some bad ones among the bunch. Hoo boy.

* ChaseScene: Shaft wants Domino out of revenge for accidentally killing his brother with a shroom that made him DieLaughing, Coffee just wants him for the bounty, while Ed just wants to get food and figures the bounty will pay for it--Domino is able to get rid of her by [[FoodAsBribe giving her a bag of mushrooms]] instead (ironically they turn out to be ordinary mushrooms).

* ChoosyBeggar: When the bag of mushrooms Ed brings back are regular shiitake mushrooms, Jet proceeds to make use of then with a variety of dishes. Aside from Ed and Ein, none of them are happy about having the only ingredient on the ship, but Jet decides that they should all be grateful to have food that ''isn't'' expired.

* KarmaHoudini: Ed decides to take Domino's shiitake mushrooms rather than arrest him for the bounty

The effects of the shrooms soon take hold, with each member experiencing a different hallucination. Spike, going up the stairs to the cockpit area, finds himself walking up an endless stairway encountering a talking frog who informs him it's a "stairway to Heaven"; Spike ignores him and keeps going. Faye, in the bathroom, suddenly sees the toilet grow and overflow with water; soon, she's underwater, and it's teeming with marine life. Jet, who was working on his bonsai plants, suddenly starts talking with them as if they were real people. Through all of these, Ed and Ein observe their behavior. They then turn on Big Shots, where Domino is revealed to be the bounty of the day. Ed decides to go after him, grabbing a motor scooter and putting Ein in a backpack before she sets off. As she goes through town, both the woman (now identified as Coffee) and Shaft see her and head off to follow for some reason. Ed locates Domino's ship and gets inside as he's plucking off mushrooms from the trees he's growing them on. Ed attacks with a gun that shoots out stink gas, but it backfires as she's affected too. Domino makes a run for it, with Ed in pursuit.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: What puts a stop to the chase.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Everyone save for Ed and Ein are affected by Domino's mushrooms.

* AllDesertsHaveCacti: On ''Europa?''

* ChoosyBeggar: When the bag of mushrooms Ed brings back are regular shiitake mushrooms, Jet proceeds to make use of then with a variety of dishes. Aside from Ed and Ein, none of them are happy about having the only ingredient on the ship, but Jet decides that they should all be grateful to have ''something'' to eat that ''isn't'' expired.

* CarChase: A three way one between Ed, Coffee and Shaft
* EverybodyMustGetStoned

* LaserGuidedKarma: Faye's the one who ate all the emergency rations. But since they expired years ago, she ends up getting sick from them.

* PunkInTheTrunk: When the cops search Coffee's car, they find Ed and Ein unconscious [[NotWhatItLooksLike and assume the worst]]. Ed and Ein weren't put into the trunk, they snuck in and took a nap.

* WayPastTheExpirationDate: Faye eats all of Jet's emergency rations. They spoiled "a year ago".

* BrainFreeze: Shaft gets this when he tries to scarf down his shaved ice before joining in an ensuing [[ChaseScene chase scene]]. The Three Geezers tell him "that's what you get for trying to eat it all at once."

* BeatBag: Domino bribes Ed not to turn him in with his bag of mushroom, claiming each is worth 100,000 Woolongs. Turns out they're some non-narcotic variety (hence why Domino called them "bad" while picking them), though they're at least edible. This may have been an accident on Domino’s part, though.

* BeatBag: Domino bribes Ed not to turn him in with his bag of mushroom, claiming each is worth 100,000 Woolongs. Turns out they're some non-narcotic variety (hence why Domino called them "bad" while picking them), though they're at least edible.