| "Johnny Cakes" | |
| Season 4, Episode 21a | |
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| United States Airdate: | September 20, 2010 |
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| Invention(s) Featured: | Construction Drones |
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It is Lila's birthday and the Test kids try to make it the best one ever.
Full Summary
The episode starts with the annoucement of Lila's birthday, so Hugh want a super suprise breakfast and budget appropriate presents. However Mary insists on a better gift than last year. They suggest the new kitchen she wanted, but Hugh refuses to buy it because it's too expensive. While he went out to buy her present, Hugh told Johnny to keep an eye on Lila and for the Test girls to make the breakfast. Johnny hated that job so he traded with Susan and Mary because their horrible cooks.
Not knowing a clue about cooking, Johnny and Dukey start by adding just about every ingredient they could find. But it fails. When Susan and Mary don't help he take their lab keys and sneak into the lab to get the construction drones to make the pancakes for them. The drones use way too much batter, so Johnny and Dukey had to eat it to get rid of it. Meanwhile the smell of the cakes fell into the woods where lumberjacks caught the scent and ran to the source. They busted into Johnny's house only to see a lumberjack sized pancake. They ate it all up for them but they didn't leave any for Lila.They were still hungry and they weren't going to leave until they were satisfied. So the construction drones made many pancakes and threw them in the lumberjacks' mouthes. They were overloaded because they had to move so fast and explode and get hungry again. So they destroy the dining table. While construstion drones make even more Johnny cakes which overwork them so much they explode! So then Johnny says this motivational speech on moms making the lumberjacks cry. Then the lumberjacks try to make the best birthday suprise ever! Lila gets so creazed to know whats happening she uses a jackhammer through the floor to get to the kitchen. IN the end the lumberjacks designed a new dining set and made Johnny cakes.
Subplot
Susan and Mary try to keep Lila in her room. However they try everything to withstand her but end up failing in the end.
Running Gag
- Hugh kept trying to found an inexpensive gift for Lila.
- Lila tried to escape her room but was foiled by Susan and Mary.
Trivia
- We learn that Hugh can only spent $43.87 on Lila's Birthday every year and that he bought her a jackhammer on her last birthday.
- This is the first time we see Lila barefooted.
- This episode is yet another instance where we see Hugh's miserly ways, as he gets cheap, defective presents. He is aware of this, though, and keeps calling himself a failure at gift shopping.