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The Back to Front Episode. The episode front to back is available on the Season 4 DVD.

The episode starts in a random city where Monster Hesh is wandering around. Two policemen are confronting Shanks about a weird noise in his apartment. He refuses to let them in without a warrant and they go to get one.

Across town, two Grizzlebee's executives, Dan and Don, are drinking at a bar. Dan is lamenting about their failed venture and claims they're washed up. Don says they aren't, and points out that even Ray Kroc had his bad ideas, such as the Hula Burger, but he followed that up with the Filet-o-fish.

Earlier, back at Sealab, an Asian woman is telling Quinn that a mysterious 'she' has gotten away. Quinn apologizes for breaking her boyfriend's neck. As a dead Sparks floats by, she says her boyfriend was being a jerk and appropriating black culture anyway. Then she and the other woman there offer Quinn a blowjob.

Earlier, Deep Diver, with boxes on top of it, sinks to the ocean floor. Don yells at Dan that he said he could drive a stick. Dan yells back that he never actually said that, he said 'does a bear shit in the pope's hat'. Don's angry cause Deep Diver's engine is now kaput. They argue some more before Dan has a breakdown over them arguing.

Earlier, Sparks speaks in ghetto slang and Quinn is angry, wondering who a mysterious 'someone' is. Sparks answers in more slang, to which Quinn says that if he finishes that sentence, Quinn was going to snap his neck. Sparks tempts fate. Quinn snaps his neck.

Earlier, Quinn enters the password to get into a sealed room, only to find the mysterious 'she' is missing. All that's left is a tape from Shanks, who announces he took 'her' because he couldn't stand the thought of her pumping out babies for grubby Africans to eat. Quinn is angry, but is glad that he still has the babies. Or does he?

Earlier, Quinn is tying the boxes on top of Deep Diver, when Dan and Don come in, asking for just two of 'them', saying they'll breed 'them' themselves. Quinn says that's impossible, since only the queen can breed. When Dan and Don reveal they're taking care of that too, Quinn runs to prevent that. Dan and Don decide to steal Deep Diver themselves.

Earlier, Quinn is helping something give birth to something with crustacean legs and tells 'her' she can't look because she'll get attached. He then tells 'her' that this scenario is not like Sophie's Choice since she will give up all her babies. He offers her some placenta to cheer her up. This 'her' was the source of the noise in Shanks's apartment.

In the air duct above, Shanks is complaining about his weight making it hard for him to get through. Then he sees 'her' and appears to have fallen in love instantly.

Earlier, Virjay says this is a bad idea and Debbie agrees that Stormy should stop eating it. A grossly swollen Stormy tells them that they aren't his mother. He then notes his mother died doing the same thing he's doing, before telling Virjay to pump harder, he can feel himself closing up as he eats a yellow steak-like product.

Earlier, Dan and Don are hiring Shanks to infiltrate Quinn's lab and steal 'her'. Shanks gets tangled up as he enters the air duct. Don notes that they still have Plan B, which involves nerve gas.

Earlier, Quinn enters his lab and tells the 'she', now identified as Queenie, that her egg sac is fully distended. Queenie apparently is protesting about something because Quinn tells her, no, her babies are going to end world hunger, and to prove his point, he shows an informercial starring Toni Carmell saying how the Africans need food, before going on a tangent about how the Africans need agricultural reform more than free food and they probably can't eat the food they send anyway, before the African teen she's holding dies in her arms.

Earlier, Dan and Don are threatening Sparks to help them get Queenie or else. Sparks speaks in slang and the Asian woman translates: Quinn's lab is impenetrable.

Earlier, 'Hybrid Crustacean Clinical Trials' have started, offering $50 to test subjects. Stormy is enjoying the yellow steak, now identified as a hybrid crusteacean. Debbie is enjoying it too, but Hesh can't eat any because it's not kosher. Debbie is surprised to find out Hesh is Jewish. Quinn comes in asking if there are side effects. Stormy says there isn't before going into anaphlyatic shock. It's then that Quinn finds out Stormy's allergic to shellfish, and after injecting him with epinephrine, asks why the hell he'd participate in a study involving something he's allergic to. Stormy replies that it's to afford to buy more epinephrine.

Earlier, Quinn's yelling to Dan and Don that they aren't frying his life's work. He created the hybrid crustaceans to end world hunger, not to join Grizzlebee's chain as the new special. They threaten Quinn with a gun, which Shanks quickly confiscates. They tell him Sparks already sold them the distribution rights, to which Quinn retorts that they weren't Sparks's to sell. Sparks is surrounded by money.

Earlier, a Grizzlebee's ad airs promoting the Shrabster, the hybrid crustacean, created from shrimp, crab, and lobster. Quinn is furious, and yells that they aren't frying his life's work.

Back to the beginning of the episode, Shanks tells Queenie that when the police come back, they'll split them apart. We finally see Queenie the Shrabster for the first time. Shanks says he can't live without her and convinces her to join in a murder-suicide. However, he shoots her twice and begins eating her.

The Stinger: Quinn declaring he liked this episode better when it was on Seinfeld.

The Other Stinger: One caveman nudges another.

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