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Heads of Beef

Heads of Beef Dark Toons

Released
July 23, 2021
Running time
11:06
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Doug: You might be wondering why I'm wearing the same clothes as last week. Because it takes courage to wear the same clothes as last week. Ha ha! Tie-in encouragement! I — I shot these all in a day.

(The title card for "Heads of Beef" is shown.)

Doug (vo): "Heads of Beef" came out in 2000.

Doug: It's another one that got a lot of requests, and there's definitely a reason for it. Let's take a look.

Nowhere Newsman: We interrupt this program...

Doug (vo): So this is one of those episodes where...

Doug: ...most of it you think something else is going on, and it's revealed at the end that the creepy thing you think is going on is not going on. So I was debating whether or not to...do it...

Doug (vo): ...but I think it leads you on so long...

Doug: ...and in such a creative way and a dark way that I — I think it warrants being here.

(The episode opens, showing that Muriel has fallen ill.)

Muriel (voice of Thea White): (moans)

Doug (vo): As you can see, Muriel is feeling very sick...

Doug: ...and Eustace is always supportive, as usual.

Eustace (voice of Lionel Wilson): Where's my dinner? You were going to make hamburgers.

Doug: (sarcastically) They belong together.

Eustace: If you ain't feeding me, I'm going out to get me something to eat.

Doug (vo): She (Muriel) asks him (Eustace) to go get a scone, but...

Doug: ...he's also very hungry, so he's gonna go and get a burger as well.

(It's nighttime, and we are shown the Sweet Stuff Bakery. Eustace drives right past the building, despite Courage trying to remind him.)

Doug (vo): I know this bakery is nothing like mind-blowing or anything, but there are two details I really like...

Doug: ...about this. One is that the sky is just full of stars...

Doug (vo): ...really giving you an idea that this is out in the middle of Nowhere, because the more you get away from...

Doug: ...the city and lights and buildings and so forth, you can really, really make out the stars super well. And I also really like the reflection of...

(The camera zooms in on the light from the bakery windows cast upon the road.)

Doug (vo): ...the light at the bottom from the building. That's just a nice...

Doug: ...little touch, especially with the floor being very blue...

Doug (vo): ...and you have a great contrast with the night sky there and everything.

Doug: So — I mean, it's a little thing, but it looks really nice.

Eustace: Gotta get me a hamburger first. Hee hee hee!

Doug (vo): I like how he (Eustace) laughs like he's...

Doug: ...getting away with something. I mean, that's just such...an odd person who — just by getting himself something to eat before he gets what he's supposed to go out there to get. Like he's doing something diabolical and evil.

Doug (vo): Like he wants to do something diabolical and evil against his wife...

Doug: ...but he can't, so he's seeing this as the diabolical and evil thing. It's weird. Maybe I read too deep into that, but... (beat) No, I read too deep into that.

(On one side of the road, a sign comes up: "Burgers, Really Cheap!" The sign indicates the place is just two miles away. Eustace finally pulls the truck up into the parking lot.)

[...]

Jean Bon (voice of Tom McKeon): Welcome to Jean Bon's, home of the best-looking juiciest burgers in all of Nowhere.

[...]

(Just as Courage is about to put ketchup on his burger, he notices what looks like the face of the gentleman at the counter.)

[...]

Jean Bon: It's my wife's special — a HEAD of beef! Ha ha ha!

[...]

(Courage attempts to warn Eustace, but the farmer just puts on his mask.)

Eustace: Ooga-booga-booga!

Courage (voice of Marty Grabstein): Aaahh!!!

[...]

Jean Bon: Dear, we have a new customer. He has...possibilities.

[...]

Jean Bon's Wife (voice of John R. Dilworth): Too precious.

[...]

Jean Bon's Wife: Sweetie, did you bring me that dog?

[...]

Jean Bon's Wife: I could just eat him up.

[...]

Customer: It is a true work of art.

[...]

Jean Bon's Wife: I still want to sink my teeth into that cute little dog.

(Courage's scream is heard as the episode ends.)

Doug: Well...who's hungry?

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