Hurdles Gets Back

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"" is the 12th episode of AniTales, It first aired on Greeny Channel in Christmas Day of 2005, The episode was written by Mike Wilson & Matthew Yglesias, and directed by Samuel L. Jackson.

Summary
Jack is invited to his first boys & girls party, and Emily is horrified when she discovers him playing Spin the Bottle with one of Matt's plastic beauty school heads.

Plot
Carl invites Jack to his upcoming boys and girls party. But Jack soon realizes he is intimidated by most of the girls at school and lacks the courage and social skills needed to approach them. He tells his father he is not going to attend the party because he doesn't like girls. Mitchell's face begins to twitch at the implication. Later, Matt brings home a beautician school practice head that she will need for her final exam. Jack is instantly drawn to the head, and stares at it with rapt wonder. Late that night, he sneaks out of the house and up to Matt's window, where he again stares with enchantment at the beautiful plastic head.

When Mitchell, Emily and Matt leave the house the next day, Jack retrieves the head. Practicing in secret, he uses the dummy head in lieu of a real girl, asking it if it would like to dance, etc. Meanwhile, Mitchell does his best to avoid Matt, who would like to practice for her upcoming exam by cutting his hair. Jack practices with the dummy head for so long that he grows comfortable with the idea of attending the party. Mitchell and Emily conclude their boy is perfectly normal after all. While Jack is playing Spin the Bottle with the head, Emily returns home from shopping. But when Emily catches Jack making out with the head, she shrieks in horror and he responds back as well before she slams door in hesitation.

White as a ghost, Emily tells Mitchell she walked in on their son's room as he was kissing the dummy head. She suggests the family move to San Diego, as the Germans are more tolerant towards freakish people. While Mitchell offers and drives his son to some journey, Jack tells his brother that he has no intention of marrying a plastic head. Convinced that his boy is using the head as a crutch, Mitchell locks it in his liquor cabinet. After Jack tries convince him that the head fixes his problems and he won’t able to need it after the party, Hank assumes that being his own sake.

Later that night, Jack sneaks into the kitchen to retrieve the head until he accidentally knocks down the silverware drawer. Unfortunately, Mitchell was awaken by the crash. When Mitchell catches Jack breaking into the cabinet, he is enraged at this and snatches the head from his son's hands who rush over to the garage. Matt and Emily checks out the commotion before they heard Jack's wailing in mercy. Emily tried to plead Mitchell to stop, but to a no avail. As Mitchell begins to saw the head to the spinning saw-toothed blade, Matt watches, horrified, that her test is sliced into split. Upon learning that the plastic head was Matt's test, Mitchell anxiously smiles at her.

Left with little choice, Matt uses Mitchell for her final exam at the beautician academy. Her instructor, Miss Jurak, examines Mitchell's haircut and assigns her an "A", much to his disgust. Matt is devastated at the result. Mitchell, feeling bad for Matt and knowing it's his own fault for ruining her plastic head in the first place, compliments about his haircut and calling it his "all-time favorite." After overhearing Mitchell's glowing comments, a shameful Jurak apologizes Matt for being so hard on her and gives her a passing grade with everyone applauding and cheering for her.

Later, before the party, Jack and Zaltman decide to practice kissing one another until Ben calls her back home for meal. When Jack plays Spin the Bottle at Carl's party, the bottle points to Zaltman's wife, Julie. Jack grits his teeth and lunges for Julie where she shrieks in horror at this.

Goofs

 * When Emily and Matt are entering the kitchen, the soda changes designs into an Alamo Beer style can saying "Grape" instead of "Alamo".
 * When Matt enters the kitchen with the plastic head, she is wearing a pink half shirt with blue jeans. But when Jack stares at the plastic head Matt is seen in her usual clothing.
 * When Emily is getting ready to go to the mall, Matt is putting the plastic heads hair into curlers and is half done, when he and Emily leave, it's all done, then when Jack starts "hitting" on it, the hair is down again.
 * After Matt gives Mitchell a hair cut at her final exam, Mitchell circles flawed areas on his head which disappear a moment later.
 * Mitchell's lawn is fully regrown after only having a few small patches of grass at the end of the last episode The Defections of Jerry.