Coke of the Shoots of This Carl

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"" is the 4th episode of AniTales, It first aired on Greeny Channel in October 9, 2005, The episode was written by Neil Patrick Harris & Garrett Watts, and directed by Roy White III.

Summary
When Cindy Simpson visits the Mitchell's house and sees how messy it is, she invites Jerry's and Jack's sisters to come over as well. The guys' sisters threaten to move in unless the house gets clean.

Plot
Emma, Emily, and Jack enjoy a nice Saturday morning in front of the TV, until Mitchell calls him into the kitchen. There, Emily shows Mitchell and Jack a turtle, named Cruddas, that he brought home because it saved his life while he was on his way home from a gig. He then leaves the kitchen to get his guitar and bring it into the house. By the time he returns, the girls have noticed Cruddas, and they talk their dad into letting the turtle stay.

Emily happens to mention that Mitchell's sister, Cindy, is coming to visit from Seattle. It turns out that Jack forgot to mention that to Mitchell after Cindy called and said she would be over. Jack tells Mitchell that Cindy will be arriving at the airport at 5:12 pm. A now frantic Mitchell wants the messy house cleaned up as soon as possible, so he can prove to Cindy that he can handle things on his own, now that Joe is gone.

The guys take the girls out shopping for cleaning supplies with them. When they get home, it is still about five hours away from Cindy's arrival time. Minutes later, as the guys are about to start cleaning, Cindy shows up and sees the mess.

It turns out that Jack mixed up her arrival time; it was 12:05 pm, not 5:12 pm. A shocked Cindy has Jack's sister Danielle, and Emily's sister Jen, come over to see the mess. The guys tell the mothers to go shopping for a couple of hours, saying that the house will be clean by the time they get back. Mitchell tells them that if the house isn't in "house-shape" by then, they can move in and make their lives a living hell. After the mothers leave, the girls tell the guys that Cruddas is missing. They search the whole house, even the girls' room, but to no avail.

When the sisters return, the house is still a mess, but the mothers see how the guys help the girls handle the loss of Cruddas, to which all sides feel a little bit better. The mothers still threaten to make good on Mitchell's deal and move in because the house is still a mess, so Mitchell has the mothers take the girls to the zoo. After a huddle break, the guys actually get to work, and, as they clean.

This time, the house is clean when the sisters return, and with five seconds to spare, per Mitchell. Cindy admits that Mitchell can handle things on his own, and the moms check to make sure the guys held true to their word, and they did.

Then, Danielle Skanska, Jack's fiancé and a housemaid, enters the back door and asks for payment. Jen's surprised at this, but that doesn't stop Mitchell from paying her for the "services" that the guys did themselves, though the only things they really needed help with were the toilets and all the other hard stuff. The moms then realize that they will not need the guys' help anymore, but they can still come by anytime.

Cindy again admits how hard it is for the guys to juggle housecleaning with raising the girls, saying that they may be a little sloppy, but the girls are getting a lot of love. The guys and their moms hug just as the girls get downstairs. The girls wish Cruddas were there to see this, and that wish is granted, which elicits laughter throughout. And everyone hugs each other.

Goofs

 * A few characters (beginning with Emily) call the turtle, Cruddas, an "amphibian", and although some people think that turtles are amphibians they are actually reptiles