My Big Fat Stinky Wedding is the 19th episode of season 2. It first aired on September 3, 2009[1].
Plot[]
The episode starts with Chowder wearing Truffles's clothing and Kimchi wearing Mung's moustache and glasses. Mung and Truffles stumble into Chowder's room, blindsighted, where Chowder is scolded. Soon after, Chowder receives a large letter from the postal beast. It reads that Kimchi is the groom in an arranged marriage, much to Kimchi's dismay. They get off at the same swamp they met in, where they go in Kimchi's old home, the alligator's mouth. They are greeted by a person who looks identical to Chowder named Porridge, who is seemingly a foreign exchange apprentice. Chowder and Kimchi are invited inside for dinner, where they discuss the marriage. They meet Kimchi's "bride", whom they are both not particularly fond of. The bride wears a bag over her head, but Porridge explains that the groom is forbidden from seeing his fiancée's face until the wedding. (He also explains that her face is burned with acid, but when it happens in her life is not clarified.) Chowder talks about how Kimchi never talks about his culture with him, but in doing so, Porridge calls them both out by calling Chowder an outsider and Kimchi ashamed of his culture. Chowder says how he saved Kimchi's life, and Porridge is shocked by this. The episode goes to a flashback where Chowder takes Kimchi from his alligator abode. The family is not pleased to find that Chowder supposedly "rescued" Kimchi, and kicks him out of the wedding, where they then inform him that Kimchi will move back into his old home after the wedding, and Chowder won't be allowed to see him again. So he comes up with a plan to try and stop the wedding before it's too late. He trades Porridge's glasses for a wrench (who unintelligently puts it over his eyes) and puts them on the alligator, so he can be small enough to climb into his nose. Chowder enters the alligator through the nasal cavity, where the wedding is taking place. Chowder tries to interrupt the wedding, but stumbles and hangs from a pit of fire, which is most likely heartburn. Kimchi flies Chowder away from the pit, returning his so-called "favor". Porridge then reveals his true occupation as a detective of the Marzipan City Police Department. He arrests the bride, who is revealed to be Robert Limburger, otherwise known as the "Bridal Bandit". Porridge knew that the only way to reveal his identity was by an arranged marriage, and apologizes for not being able to let Chowder and Kimchi know in advance. Chowder then says that Kimchi is still welcome to live with him even after his debt is broken rather than living in the "crocodile". At this point, the alligator is fed up with his misnaming and promptly spits out the entire family, where he tells them to find a crocodile if they want one so bad. With no place to live, the family stays in the kitchen, and the scene ends with Mung, Shnitzel, and Truffles wearing gas masks and unenthusiastically saying "Yay...".
Trivia/Goofs[]
- This is the first time:
- Mung is shown without his glasses.
- Kimchi's family is shown.
- Chowder is shown younger in a flashback.
- This episode's name is based off the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
- This is Kimchi's first major role since Stinky Love.
- His family is also revealed and they live in an alligator's body (though they constantly mistake him for a crocodile).
- The postal beast apparently thinks that Chowder is Mung's son, referring to him as "Mung Jr.".
- This episode reveals how Chowder and Kimchi first met.
- This episode takes place in a swamp setting, so it was released a couple of months before Disney's The Princess and the Frog. Which is odd, that there's an alligator character and the alligator is voiced by Jim Cummings, the voice for Ray, a lovesick firefly.
- Chowder states "The cake was a lie!" after being kicked out of Kimchi's wedding, a reference to the infamous phrase, "The cake is a lie", in the video game Portal, where the player was rewarded with a black forest cake at the end of the game, that has spawned an internet meme.
- The syndrome Porridge describes is a real-life condition called "Stockholm Syndrome", where, just as Porridge says, the kidnapped forms a bond with his/her kidnapper, and in some cases, vice versa.
- The ride Chowder makes is a reference to the Trojan Horse in The Odyssey, where the Greeks hide in a huge wooden horse that the Trojans accept as a gift, and the Greeks climbed out at night to assassinate the sleeping soldiers. The scenario Chowder is in is similar, though he uses it as a ride with no real contribution to the plan.
- It's implied that Chowder and Porridge are brothers.
- Porridge is voiced by special guest star, Jeremy Shada, the voice actor for Finn from Adventure Time.