| Crave Drive! | |
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| Season 1, Episode {{{number}}} | |
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| Air date | August 19, 1997 |
| Storyboard by | Greg Emison |
| Written by | David Feiss |
| Directed by | David Feiss Robert Alvarez |
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Happy Meat is the second of three segments from the episode "Crash Drive!, Happy Meat, The Power of Odor", the sixth episode of the first season of Cow and Chicken, and the sixth episode overall. The episode premiered on August 19, 1997 on Cartoon Network.
Plot[]
At the school's cafeteria, the kids stand in line to get their lunch. Chicken complains that he is sick of the food, since it is all made of ketchup, and he wants meat instead. The lunch lady, Mrs. Bare-Derriere, offers Chicken Stuffed Ketchup Surprise (the surprise is more ketchup). Chicken throws it on the floor in frustration. Bare-Derriere shouts at Chicken that she won't give him any food ever again, and if anyone gives Chicken their food, they'll starve along with him. All the kids run away from Chicken so they can keep eating, but Cow offers him a seat beside her.
Chicken gets hungrier and starts hallucinating. He sees a vision of an old farmer and his wife, a hen wearing a flowery bonnet. The farmer introduces himself and his chicken wife as Cow and Chicken's great-grandparents. He tells Chicken that he and his wife started a food cart called "Grandma and Grandpa's Happy Meat" so people wouldn't have to eat gross cafeteria food. He tells Chicken to do the same to run Mrs. Bare-Derriere out of business. As Grandma and Grandpa fade away, Cow asks who Chicken is talking to. Chicken tries showing her, but Cow can't see them. She offers Chicken a bite of her Ketchup Fish Balls, but the lunch lady snatches the bowl away, saying Cow is going to starve along with Chicken. Cow gets mad and asks Chicken to explain what Grandpa told him, which he secretly does.
The following day, it's lunch time again. Mrs. Bare-Derriere offers Ketchup-On-A-Stick to the kids, but they start walking over to the other side of the cafeteria. Cow and Chicken have opened their own Happy Meat cart, offering meatloaf, pig knuckle sandwiches, and hot dog balls. Bare-Derriere offers up a Honey-Roasted Faux Ham A la Ketchup and Ketchup on the half-shell, but the kids aren't impressed. Suddenly, Cow and Chicken bring out a catapult and load it up with pork butts and taters. They launch the food at the kids, and everyone loves it.
Unfortunately, Cow and Chicken didn't make back the money they invested into Happy Meat. Chicken still considers it a success until his stomach starts growling. Cow checks their stock, and they are out of meat. Chicken says he'll eat anything at this point. Cow looks over to the lunch lady's counter and sees her crying over her failure to run the cafeteria. Cow feels bad and brings Chicken over to the counter. Bare-Derriere is thrilled that someone wants to eat her food and sells Cow and Chicken two bowls filled with ketchup. Chicken is annoyed, but to his and Cow's surprise, the ketchup isn't bad. Bare-Derriere joins them, chugging a bottle of ketchup.
The spirits of Grandma and Grandma watch on and share a kiss, happy at the way things went with their great-grandkids.