Category: Game Over

Rip Smashenburn has two big problems – he can’t seem to win a race, and his wife is pulling in four times as much money as he is. Rip takes his competitive nature to extremes in an attempt to compensate, while Billy becomes obsessed with bagging a bitter and better trophy than the “participant” trophy he landed in a motocross tournament. But will either of them get the big win they’re looking for?

Guest Cast: James Sie (Sam Chang), Dave Sheridan (Alonzo / Eskimo / Announcer), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (Tiffany / Brandy), James Arnold Taylor (Sports Psychologist / Troll / Football Player)

Notes: Billy passes Frogger en route to cross a busy street to reach a trophy shop.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Billy is going to be in a school play, and Raquel discovers that her constant adventuring has earned her a label of being a bad mother in the eyes of neighbors and other parents, and she sets out to correct that perception – but perhaps she’s trying too hard. In the meantime, Turbo finds himself on the bad side of a loan shark, and Rip is disturbed when Alice starts to fall for a particularly lascivious member of his pit crew.

written by Ross Venokur
music by Jeff Sudakin
additional music by Christopher Tyng

Guest Cast: Marie Matiko (Dark Princess / Punching Dolphin), James Sie (Ninja), Jessica Glassberg (Sylvie Glassberg), John Michael Higgins (Ransom Transom / Sparks), Jeffrey Tambor (Dr. Zed), James Arnold Taylor (Announcer / Big Rubes / Zeke)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Rip is concerned about how Billy is growing up, and decides that some male bonding over a camping trip is just the thing – hunting, fishing, and roughing it in general. Turbo’s up for a bit of roughing it too, if only to avoid Ramona, a fellow video game character who’s figured out where he lives. In the meantime, Raquel discovers that Alice has been experimenting with an illicit substance: secret power-ups.

written by David Goetsch
music by Jeff Sudakin

Guest Cast: Common (himself), Jennifer Coolidge (Ramona / Amazon), John Michael Higgins (Sully / Frank / Cashier)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Alice’s C.A.T. test is upcoming, the score from which determines a video game character’s future. But Raquel is horrified when Alice completely and utterly fails – more than that, she didn’t even try. Billy, in the meantime, is facing a test of his own as he tries to win the heart of a girl named Suki, and may have to can his hip lingo long enough to ask his father for advice.

written by Gregory Greenberg
music by Christopher Tyng

Guest Cast: Marie Matiko (Suki), James Sie (Sam Chang), John Michael Higgins (Sully / Guidance Counselor / Proctor)

Notes: Rip says his father was “too obsessed with fixing toilets while gorillas hurled barrels at him.” And Suki says her family needs her back in Japan because “it is Godzilla season – we kill him many times.”

LogBook entry by Earl Green