Hot Tub (Drawn Together episode)

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"Hot Tub" is the first episode of the animated series Drawn Together.

Storyline

The houseguests arrive and meet one another, with immediate friction resulting not only from Spanky's tendency to defecate into and onto everything and everyone, but also from Princess Clara's assumption that Foxxy is the household servant. Clara tries to patch things up with Foxxy, but her attempted apology contains so many references to black stereotypes that Foxxy is unable to take her seriously. Foxxy finally concludes that Clara is just a mixed-up white girl who doesn't know any better, and decides the time has come to open up Clara's eyes- and her mouth—by forcibly French-kissing her in the hot tub.

Meanwhile, Toot, struggling to retain her faltering self-esteem, tries to seduce Xandir; however, he is more interested in saving his girlfriend, who is forever being kidnapped by evil wizards. Eventually, Toot comes to terms with the fact that she is no longer a sex symbol by adopting the persona of the "household bitch." She first tries to cause friction between Xandir and his girlfriend by implying to the girlfriend that she and Xandir are sleeping together. Next, after noticing the state of bliss that Clara is in after her kiss with Foxxy, she tries to revive their feud by telling Clara that Foxxy "violated" her.

Clara declares that she won't stand for being treated like that, and angrily complains to the producers. They recommend a tequila brunch to clear the air, but the only result is that the results of the previous night are repeated, only in sped up fashion and with everyone wearing sombreros. Clara demands that the producers fire Foxxy. They decide to put the matter to a vote amongst the housemates as to whether or not to keep Foxxy.

Ling-Ling comes into the girls' bedroom to challenge Clara to a battle, but she mistranslates his words, and thinks he is telling her that she should try to live in harmony with Foxxy. Clara agrees with this, and immediately goes downstairs where the vote is being held. (Immediately after this, Toot walks into the bedroom and unwittingly accepts Ling-Ling's challenge. He then proceeds to kill her in graphic fashion.) Clara urges the housemates to vote to keep Foxxy, but her endorsements begin to bear an uncomfortably close rememblance to a slave auction. Foxxy attacks her again, but in the middle of fighting, they find themselves making out again.

Musical Number: "Black Chick's Tongue", a parody of Disney's Aladdin 's "A Whole New World", sung by Clara and Foxxy as they make out in a hot tub.

Notes and inside references

• In the Deleted Scenes option on the Season One DVD, there is an opening with each character getting to say a few introductory lines. From this original version the shots of the characters have been retained, with the exception of Captain Hero smashing a barrel on his forehead, which comes from the booze party in this episode.

• When Clara and Foxxy make out in the hot tub, Captain Hero's nipples erect like a woman who is aroused. This would happen later with Spanky (as well as Hero again) in "The Other Cousin". Xandir seems taken aback by the moment but not aroused, indicating that the show intended for the character to be perceived as homosexual, even though he has not been officially identified as such. Indeed, the introductory narration even describes Xandir as "totally gay".

• Princess Clara is the first housemate ever to occupy the confessional chair, and she also has the show's first line of dialogue (not counting the introduction): "The minute I met my new housemates, I felt like they were members of my family, only much, much poorer!"

• With the exception of Ling-Ling and Wooldoor, the characters' confessional scenes are accompanied by captions revealing their ages, playing on another reality show convention. However, the ages given are questionable. Where the ones given for Xandir, Clara, Hero, and Spanky (19, 20, 28, and 31, respectively) seem quite plausible, future episodes would strongly suggest that Toot and Foxxy are significantly older than the 22 and 23 years they are described here as being.

• All of the housemates occupy the confessional chair at some point in this episode with the exception of Wooldoor, who would not appear in the confessional until episode 3.

• Blue Ball is the first guest character to occupy the confessional chair. Guest characters would appear in the confessional with great regularity in the first season; in the second season, however, confessional appearances by non-housemates would become extremely few and far between.

• Captain Hero's wish for a hot, black woman in the house comes true immediately when Foxxy enters. However, his wish for a twelve-year-old girl and a donkey would not be fulfilled until they are provided in "The Lemon-AIDS Walk."

• When Toot tells Xandir's girlfriend that Xandir has never mentioned a girlfriend before, a montage plays of Xandir mentioning his girlfriend numerous times. One of the clips in the montage is of a scene that had yet to appear in the episode, the one where Xandir talks to Captain Hero just before departing to save her.

• One of ''Drawn Togethers most enduring running gags almost wasn't allowed to happen. Comedy Central had demanded that the producers remove the scenes of Toot intentionally cutting herself with a razor blade. However, after Frankie was shown doing something similar on ', they were allowed to keep them in.

• Foxxy and Clara's middle fingers are blurred out in the DVD version of the episode, marking one of two instances (the other being "Gay Bash") where the DVD is censored. In this particular case, however, the blurring is necessary because it's the basis of a joke, that being that Clara didn't know what hand gesture Foxxy was making behind the pixellation until she does it herself.

• In this episode, Ling-Ling develops spikes on his body when he goes into battle mode; like challenging someone to say his name three times, this would be the only episode where this is in effect. It largely resembles Super Saiyans from the anime Dragon Ball Z.

• Toot dies four times in this episode. She cracks her head on the table after sucking all the helium out of a balloon, cuts her head off trying to get Xandir's attention, cracks her head on the table again during the tequila brunch, and finally is eaten by Ling-Ling after she unwittingly accepts his challenge. This is the beginning of a long tradition of non-permanent housemate deaths on the show.
• *Toot's multiple deaths also indicate that like many other animated series, the continuity in Drawn Together is extremely loose. However, where many shows break continuity from one episode to the next, Drawn Together takes the idea one step further by deliberately breaking continuity within the episode.

• Two additional scenes appear in the DVD version of this episode. The first, which takes place right after the "Black Chick's Tongue" sequence, features Wooldoor coming back down to earth and escaping from the bubble he was encased in, causing him to die immediately (a reference to people with severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome, known in popular culture as bubble boys). The second is a live action sequence of a reporter surveying the decimated ruins of the trailer park that was destroyed by Xandir's tornado.

• The DVD version of this episode also contains several other lines which were either cut or changed in the televised version:
• *One of Clara's confessional bits is edited significantly in the televised version. The line, "I thought those people picked banjos, not fights! I was so upset about what Foxxy had done... I sure hope this comically misleading nose job makes me feel better... hey, not bad!" is chopped and rearranged into "I was so upset about what Foxxy had done... I thought those people picked banjos, not fights!"
• *Toot's line, "Would you just put it in me already? Even if you're just looking for a place to pee!" is shortened, eliminating the second part of the statement.
• *During the ball pit sequence, Spanky says to Clara, "If that'll get you out of that robe so I can check out that precious vertical smile of yours!" In the televised version, the word "robe" is replaced with "ball pit".
• *Also during the ball pit sequence, Clara explains in the DVD version of the episode that all of her servants at home are black or worse. In the televised version, the word "worse" is replaced with "Presbyterian".
• *Spanky's line, "I was totally looking forward to voting that hot black chick out. No, wait a minute. Not voting. I mean, EATING!" is cut entirely.
• *The scene where Hero waits patiently for the 12-year-old girl and donkey to show up is shortened considerably.

Animated cameos

• At the beginning of the second act, a Flintstones car drives by the house while a Jetsons-ish spaceship zooms by overhead.

• In the booze party, two Smurfs have a very grisly guest appearance as knife-wielding pit fighters. These would be the first of many cameo appearances on Drawn Together by famous animated characters.

Cultural references

• At the beginning of the story, a caption reading "Day 1" appears over a long shot of the house. This is a direct reference to The Real World, who used captions like this to let the viewer know how many days the current cast had been in the house together. The concept of the confessional comes from The Real World as well.

• Ling-Ling's comment about giving children seizures is a reference to the infamous Pokémon episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" which popular urban legend says gave hundreds of children seizures when it aired in Japan. The show then spoofs the scene by showing Ling-Ling's picture with rapid flashing lights for a couple of seconds.

• This episode contains several references to The Legend of Zelda and its protagonist Link (whom Xandir is largely a parody of).
• *There is (or piece of) a Triforce motif on the back on Xandir's thong bathing suit.
• *Xandir refers to "Quad-forces" at one point, another Zelda spoof.
• *When he departs to save his girlfriend, Xandir plays a magic flute that transports him away in a tornado, just as Link does in the original The Legend of Zelda.

• Concerning Xandir, there are two references to other (non-videogame) role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. When Xandir talks to his girlfriend on the phone, Spanky calls him "Dungeons and Douchebags"; and in his description of the tension following the fight between Foxxy and Clara, Xandir uses the term "+6 sword", which is an abstract weapon value in role-playing games in general.

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