Since Fred works at a movie theater, she let Kevin and Hiromi, as well as Gretel and Bailey, watch an early screening of a new Larry the Magic Boy movie. However, a beginning film director wants to intercept said screening with his own experimental arthouse film, and make sure that everyone will watch it.
Tropes:
- Captive Audience: Arthouse puts shackles on the theater seats so that when the movie starts, they trap the audience and force them to watch his movie. The only ones who weren't trapped were Kevin and Gretel, who were out getting more popcorn, and Hamster, who was too small to get trapped but stayed anyway because he liked the movie.
- Covered in Gunge: Kevin gets imitation butter from the popcorn covered all over his jacket, which is why he had to leave the theater and wasn't trapped. It congeals shortly afterwards, but when he and Gretel get tied up by Arthouse, he asks Gretel to melt the imitation butter with her heat vision so he can slip off the ropes.
- Description Cut: Kevin says that Fred got him into the Larry the Magic Boy preview because she's in "the industry." Cut to Fred working as a theater usher.
- Gratuitous French: Arthouse's projector has a self-destruct mechanism that, once activated, counts down in French.
- I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday: Arthouse cues up a flashback to film school with "I remember it like it was three months ago." The flashback begins with a caption reading "Two months ago (His memory is really bad)".
- Le Film Artistique: Arthouse's experimental short film is one of these, and ticks a lot of boxes: 4 hours long, Deliberately Monochrome on a 4:3 ratio screen, narration with subtitles in Esperanto, a lot of random shots with no sign of any characters, ending on "Fin", etc. Suffice to say, just about no one enjoyed the experience... except for Hamster.
- Logical Weakness: Arthouse creates numerous holograms of himself that look perfectly identical to himself which would be a case of Spot the Imposter...had it not been for the fact the original has a shadow.
- Not a Date: Inverted; Kevin was really hoping he could spend the night alone with Hiromi, without chaperoning Gretel and Bailey, in the foolish hope that it might be a date after all. Everyone else is fully aware that it's not actually a date.
- Only One Finds It Fun: Hamster is the only one who likes Arthouse's movie, calling it the greatest movie ever made.
