The Fry Cook Games

"The Fry Cook Games" is a YoshBob SquareShi episode from Season 2. In this episode, YoshBob and Toadrick compete in the Fry Cook Games.

Characters

 * Realistic Turtle
 * Incidental 40
 * Ted
 * Incidental 14
 * Koopas
 * Incidental 23
 * Incidental 69
 * Female Fry Cook Games competitor (debut)
 * Incidental 13 (normal; gray)
 * Male Fry Cook Games competitor (debut)
 * Incidental 37A
 * Edward H. Reps
 * Zooplankton
 * Incidental 49
 * YoshBob SquareShi
 * Incidental 9
 * Toadrick Star
 * Incidental 41
 * Incidental 46
 * Incidental 45
 * Incidental 7
 * Incidental 24
 * Incidental 92
 * Incidental 16
 * Incidental 6
 * Incidental 37B
 * Incidental 115
 * Pirate 8 (debut)
 * Incidental 4
 * Incidental 152
 * Incidental 2
 * Incidental 65
 * Incidental 39

Synopsis
The episode begins at the Fast Food Coliseum, the 21st annual Fry Cook Games are underway. The top contenders for the gold medal have traditionally been Mr. Reps and Zooplankton. This year, however, YoshBob has been chosen to represent the Rippy Reptile, and is diligently warming up to compete. Toadrick wanders by and also wants to play in the games, but is shut down by YoshBob, as only fry cooks may enter. Toadrick scoffs at this, considering fry cooking to be no great feat. After a heated argument, Toadrick storms off while YoshBob intensifies his workout.

Zooplankton soon enters the stadium and engages in verbal fisticuffs with Mr. Reps. Zooplankton reveals he has also recruited a contender to represent the Sand Bucket and calls forth a colossal giant. Strapped to his back is Toadrick, who turns out to be the new fry cook Zooplankton hired five minutes prior. Now standing on equal ground, YoshBob and Toadrick each vow to defeat the other, despite feeling more hurt than angry. Mr. Reps and Zooplankton fan the flames of their charges' rivalry, inciting them to show no mercy in the games.

In their first event, the "Deep Fry Pole Vault," YoshBob pulls off a nearly perfect jump, while Toadrick only manages to scald the audience into fish sticks. Next, during the "Chocolate High-Dive," YoshBob also does well, but Toadrick is able to out-perform him with his concentration and impeccable form. The events continue, the two combatants maintaining an even score all the way to the final challenge: "Bun Wrestling."

As the bell sounds for the fight to begin, YoshBob and Toadrick rip off their robes to reveal muscularly toned bodies before leaping up and colliding with each other midair. They go at each other in fury, their grudges driving them more than their loyalty to their restaurants. They pull off increasingly dirty moves, practically torturing one another. They eventually end up in a grapple, each straining to bring the other one down, and they're about to finish each other off, until the strain finally proves too much for their pants to take. They tear away to reveal that all along, YoshBob and Toadrick each wore underwear in the color of his best friend and they both cry and hug each other.

Moved to tears, the two friends reconcile and agree never to fight each other again, walking side by side out of the arena. This does not sit well with Mr. Reps and Zooplankton, and the managers try to get them to come back and fight again. As the episode ends with YoshBob and Toadrick leaving the arena, Toadrick notes that his underwear was originally white.

General

 * The "Please stand by" screen after the failed attempt of the torch is also seen at the ending of "Shanghaied," after Captain Toad attempts to make the viewers walk the plank
 * The scene where Toadrick yells, "My name's not Rick!" has become a famous internet meme.
 * Innuendo: At the end of this episode, Toadrick says his underwear was originally white. This means he urinated in them.
 * In this episode, YoshBob is able to do push-ups. However, in "MuscleBob BuffShi" during Toadette's workout, he hurts his arms after attempting to do just one.
 * In this episode, YoshBob is also stronger than usual and having a muscular body, but he is shown to be very weak physically in "MuscleBob BuffShi" to the point that he wears a pair of inflatable fake arms to look strong, only for the arms to burst while he is struggling to throw a heavy anchor.
 * This is the fourth episode in the series in which, at no point, YoshBob wears his normal clothes. The first is "Ripped Pants" the second is "Hall Monitor." and the third is "Walking Small."
 * The music that plays when Toadrick says "Because you told me to!" is also the opening music to the Nintendo GAS sketch "Heroes of the Game."
 * This episode reveals that YoshBob polishes his fingernails.
 * This is the first episode to use the tracks "M'Wanna," "Up She Rises," and "Hooka."
 * This episode's title card has the same text font as the title card for "Neptune's Spatula."
 * YoshBob's muscular design would later be used in "Blackened Yoshi."

Cultural references

 * The Fry Cook Games is a spoof of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
 * Zooplankton’s broken antenna while competing may be a subtle reference to when Kurt Angle broke his neck in the 1996 Olympics.
 * When YoshBob and Toadrick fly straight in the air and both yelling together is similar to that of Dragon Ball Z.