EPISODE

18. The Animated Episode

In an animated episode, the women endure dodgy beauty treatments, zombies, and a Cleveland that still has LeBron.

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The girls finally go into the caretaker's house where Elka lives, and it turns out to be entirely animated. While visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they meet Steven Tyler, who offers them three wishes. First, the ladies wish for eternal youth and beauty; in an homage to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, they are whisked away to a Parisian factory where they tamper with Elka's rejuvenation experiments, resulting in disastrous alterations to their bodies. Second, the girls wish that all men would be "hungry" for them; in a parody of The Walking Dead, they wind up in a zombie apocalypse and use parts of the zombies they kill to construct their ideal men in the style of Frankenstein, only for them to still have realistic relationship problems. Finally, Elka wishes that LeBron James never left Cleveland; in a tribute to The Wizard of Oz, Cleveland turns into a seeming utopia that the ladies find too similar to Los Angeles. When they convince James, now king of Cleveland, to leave, the city descends into dystopia. Realizing they should be more thankful for what they have, the ladies ask Elka to take them back to reality, where she advises them to forget about the experience despite George Clooney still appearing as an animated talking dog.

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