Louis and Mr. Chocolate

The Many Misadventures of Louis and Mr. Chocolate was the short-lived spin-off to Fire.

It was conceived as a way to deal with Fire’s long-standing issue of having too many pointless characters with no personalities. It was basically the same show but only featured the title characters, and seemed to ignore the continuity of everything that came before it, serving as a total replacement to Fire.

While reception was hard to gauge when the comments were always disabled, Louis and Mr. Chocolate didn’t seem to catch on as much as Fire did; people were leaving me questions on Formspring and Tumblr asking when the next Fire episode was, when Louis and Mr. Chocolate was meant to completely replace it.

Episode Guide

Episode 1 - Popcorn Uproar

Holy shit, we have screenshots! This was back from when I thought the number “666” was the funniest thing in the world, and would share the 666th frame from every cartoon I made.

Yep, not only was I fixated enough on the movie theater plot to do it again, but it’s also the first episode again! Because nothing says “introduction” like a setting where your characters are required to sit down and be quiet!

It’s exactly what you’d think I’d do at the time. Louis is sitting at home watching TV (why is that always the best way to start a cartoon? Between this, Fire, and countless Family Guy and Simpsons episodes, it’s the most reliable cartoon opening ever!) when Mr. Chocolate calls him, asking him to come to the movies with him. Louis agrees, he arrives, and they sit down to enjoy a movie.

While the Fire episode focused more on the movie onscreen, Popcorn Uproar focused more on the shenanigans going on with the audience, from a riot breaking out for some unknown reason, to a guy talking loudly on his phone. Louis eventually gets fed up enough to pull out a random detonator and press it … except it’s not a detonator, according to Mr. Chocolate, it’s a button that summons the police. …Okay then.

Episode 2 - The Rodent

Mr. Chocolate tries putting away some stuff in their shed (which is never seen before or after this episode), but finds that there’s a mildly annoying rat living inside who refuses to leave. Mr. Chocolate asks Louis for help, presumably thinking that a giant cat would be useful in this situation, but Louis is initially more concerned with … wanting to buy a cow. Okay then.

Eventually, after some shenanigans, Louis pulls another random detonator out of his ass (God I was out of ideas and needed a break) which blows up the rat for the crime of being mildly annoying and not wanting to leave their shed.

Episode 3 - Bovine Madness

Louis and Mr. Chocolate must have had the shittiest home security ever, because now their backyard is taken up by a herd of bulls. Remember when Louis wanted to buy a cow? Originally the reason for the herd of bulls was that he bought the cow between episodes, which attracted them. But this was never explained in the episode itself, and the cow was never seen in this episode, or any episode. As far as the audience was concerned, the bulls just spawned in from thin air two minutes ago.

So they try a couple things to get rid of the bulls. They get a guy in a cow suit named Moe Milky, who sings “Hey Diddle Diddle” before being knocked over by a bull. Eventually, Mr. Chocolate decides to get Louis - who for this episode has been wearing blue jeans instead of his trademark red ones - to go get those red ones out and hold them up. This of course ends up with the two getting chased through town by the stampede of angry bulls, where the episode ends.

Episode 4 - … Idk, something stupid probably.

Louis and Mr. Chocolate somehow win the chance to be on TV with “Balney the Dinosaur”! Okay, what the fuck was it with me and Barney parodies at this time? Barney had already stopped airing episodes by the time I made this, and even the parodies had been old hat for years. It’s one thing to wanna spoof children’s television, but it’s another to keep recycling the same subject over and over.

Anyway, they get on set and … I’m gonna be honest, I remember what got cut better than I remember the actual episode, so I’m just gonna describe that since it was more interesting: the BJ parody named “Bill Jackson”, because apparently I was above the obvious blowjob joke, is tired of not being the star and getting mistreated by Balney, and decides to turn on him. Louis calls Bill out for being pointless and they get into a fight, somehow causing the whole set to get destroyed.

Back to what happened in the actual episode, it ends with Louis and Mr. Chocolate outside of the destroyed studio, where they spot a Teletubby who tells them, “You didn’t see anything!”.

Y’know, why didn’t I just continue Fire if I was gonna rehash plots from Fire anyway? This literally just turned into Kiddie’s Show again.

The unmade episode - The Succubus

A bad cartoon, that’s a short-lived spinoff of an existing property, with an unmade episode named The Succubus … Why does that sound familiar?

Anyway, Mr. Chocolate falls for the plainest, least convincing “succubus” ever designed. This was clearly before I fell for the NSFW art meme and actually learned how to draw attractive women. Louis, being a prude, tries to get Mr. Chocolate to see the truth but Mr. Chocolate is too head-over-heels.

But before the succubus can carry out whatever evil plan she had, she’s suddenly done in when the cow finally makes an onscreen appearance by crashing in through the roof and crushing her. Okay then.

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