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Lord of the Poppies is the 40th episode of the fourth season of We Bare Bears and the 137th episode overall.
Synopsis[]
Grizzly and The Poppy Rangers go camping on an island, but they soon find themselves deserted.
Plot[]
Grizzly, Ranger Tabes and the Poppy Rangers are canoeing to an island to earn their Island Camping badge. While the other Poppies are eager to do so, Wallace and Nguyen are not too keen on Grizzly tagging along, since their previous camping experiences ended up with Grizzly causing fires. Once they reach the shore, the Poppies start setting up camp with Tabes check-listing them with the Elite Ranger guidebook until she realizes she forgot their lunch packs at the Ranger Station because of Grizzly distracting her with a problem (accidentally getting bug spray in his eyes), much to the Poppies' dismay.
Tabes takes responsibility and decides to canoe back to the city to get food, leaving Grizzly in charge. Time passes and Tabes is still not back, causing the Poppies to argue about it after Wallace assumes that Tabes got devoured by seagulls, which is put at odds with Nguyen. That is until Grizzly takes charge and promises them that he will find food for them. The group go berry picking as their first attempt, but Grizzly feeds Diaz the wrong berries despite Wallace attempting to get him to reconsider, causing her to vomit, which dissatisfies the Poppies with Grizz. Next, the group attempt fishing, but the fish somehow manages to seize Grizzly's spear, prompting Grizz and the Poppies to frantically flee for their lives from the fish with the spear. After a number of failed attempts for nourishment, the Poppies' sanity begins to approximately decrease from too much starvation; evident by them drooling and having more psychotic expressions on their faces, and their eyes being more deranged. As a last-ditch effort, the group resort to hunting and attempt to catch a bird with Wallace making a plan to take it by surprise, but Grizzly shoots the flare gun, scaring it away along with several other birds, much to the Poppies' shock and aggravation, with Nguyen lashing out at Grizz for foiling their last chance at food, although Grizz reassures the Poppies that the bird he attempted to shoot at was not the only bird in the island, but the explosion of the flare gun's bullet caused all of the birds to fly from the island, prompting the Poppies to growl angrily at Grizz.
Finally having had enough of Grizzly's incompetence, the Poppies' mental state diminishes to its lowest point and starvation takes over, with Nguyen being the first one to break down and fall down to her knees from succumbing to starvation. The Poppies comfort her, with Parker telling her that "it is gonna be okay," but Nguyen hallucinates that her hands are getting blurrier. Meanwhile, Murphy starts the creepiness off by chewing on a tree branch before doing so on a log out of sheer insanity with deranged eyes, thinking that it "tastes like chicken." Wallace, on the other hand, psychotically demands that she needs to chew on something edible while growling vehemently and aggressively, having her sanity virtually broken. Parker lies down on the grass, attempting to withstand her starvation, stating that her stomach can "eat itself." Grizz, now traumatized by the Poppies' psychotic breakdown, still continues to seek for an attempt of nourishment, but upon mentioning the specific words, "edible animal," that is when everything takes a darker turn: Wallace is temporarily taken aback by those aforementioned words, but later taking advantage of this, she immediately turns her attention to Grizz and gives him an obsessive glare that turns into a menacing grin. The other Poppies follow Wallace's attention to Grizz as well, and all five of them hallucinate Grizz as a delicious hamburger from too much starvation. Grizz is initially unaware of this, that is until Diaz suddenly bites onto Grizz's leg without warning, which traumatizes the latter and prompts him to sway Diaz off of his leg, but this causes the Elite Ranger Guidebook to fall out of his hands in the process, which Wallace seizes from him. A cautious Grizz politely asks Wallace to give him back the guidebook, to no avail, as Wallace does not oblige and instead gives Grizz another obsessive and more intimidating stare, and intends to make usage of the guidebook against the latter's life. A psychotic Diaz and Nguyen approach Grizz and stare at him obsessively while breathing heavily. Having her hallucinations and insanity take over, Wallace takes advantage of the guidebook and commands the Poppies to devour Grizz, much to the latter's terror. Following her orders, Diaz and Nguyen start psychotically pursuing Grizz with saliva coming out of their mouth to eat him, prompting Grizz to frantically back away from them until getting jumpscared by a psychotic Parker (who wields a fork and spoon) and Murphy (who takes a huge bite out of the log she was chewing on earlier, albeit with a much more aggressive expression on her face), and the Poppies begin to pursue and ambush a helpless Grizz, which culminates to the Poppies surrounding Grizz and Wallace kidnapping him, entrapping and victimizing a helpless Grizz to the Poppies' sweet and cannibalistic tooth. A scarred Grizzly finds himself being cooked for food and the Poppies becoming more primal as Wallace asserts dominance and leadership over how they are cooking him with the guidebook. On advice from his "shoulder angels," Grizzly willingly decides to turn the girls against each other for leadership. He first influences Nguyen that she is more qualified as a leader than Wallace, thus she should get the Elite Ranger Guidebook, much to Nguyen's surprise and determination, but it would soon spiral out of control; it causes the Poppies to have a brief, yet extremely heated and toxic quarrel against each other with each of them insulting and yelling vulgar remarks to one another. However, unbeknownst to Grizz, the Poppies' rage would rise as the argument continues, culminating to Diaz lunging onto Wallace for the guidebook, shocking Grizz, prompting the Poppies to unleash a brutal Ranger War that involved the Poppies brutally fighting against one another for the guidebook in a fit of fury; examples include Nguyen throwing wooden spikes at Diaz, the latter using bug spray to temporarily stun Murphy and Nguyen, Wallace biting the guidebook from Parker's mouth, and Diaz kicking the guidebook out of Murphy's hands, causing it to land at the middle.
The Poppies glare at each other with pure hatred and charge at the guidebook and at each other for the final time to unleash the worst of the Ranger War (which would have involved even potentially killing each other), but realizing and having had enough of this, Grizzly yells at the girls to stop before they can advance on each other and allows himself to be eaten for them, which brings them back to their senses. Despite the Poppies now being reluctant on eating Grizz at this point, the latter admits that he screwed everything up and allows the girls to eat him to redeem himself nonetheless. The Poppies reluctantly agree and are about to do so before Tabes suddenly arrives with pizza to feed everyone. Seeing the damage everywhere, she lamentably reveals that she was only gone for an hour, much to everyone's shock as Wallace asks if they still get the Island Camping badge.
In the end, the Poppies untie Grizz out of imprisonment and successfully achieve the Island Camping Badge by Ranger Tabes, even despite all of the previous chaotic events, and the Poppies ultimately forgive Grizz because the latter is still their best friend.
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Trivia[]
- This is the 6th episode not to feature Panda and Ice Bear.
- Everyone is on the same island the Baby Bears ended up in the episode, The Island.
- The Poppy Rangers turn primal in this episode, which seems heavily similar to when Panda and Ice Bear turned primal in the episode, Primal.
- Due to the Poppy Rangers being one of the characters closest to devouring (and almost killing) Grizz, this is one of the most darkest episodes in the series.
- A distorted edition of the Poppy Rangers song plays as the Poppies hallucinate Grizz as a hamburger.
- During the Ranger War, a hyped-up and energetic remix of the Poppy Rangers song plays.
- It is unknown if Grizzly still remembers being on this island.
Cultural References[]
- The episode is a direct reference to the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, where a similar group of young children turn against each other while stranded on an island.
International Premieres[]
- October 8, 2020 (United Kingdom and Ireland)
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