All at once
Synopsis
No town, no rule and no guest who explains anything. This one runs on the Superjail engine: somebody starts a stupid scheme to satisfy something personal, and the episode climbs in noise and surrealism until it ends somewhere psychedelic.
Plot
The scheme is Malios's and it is pure pride: the booth coughs up a part that is not hers, he works out there are other booths out there broken, and he decides he is going to fix all of them today. Not to help anybody: to be the one who fixed them. It escalates on its own logic: fix one by robbing the next, then the next, then his own. Then the good idea: wire them together so they lend each other parts. It works. And then they start finding each other and swallowing each other, and by the middle of the episode there is one thing the size of a building made of booths, with eighty tonearms and doors opening and closing like gills. And it walks.
Tag
After the credits, a secondary character from this episode, later and somewhere else.
The cat, alone on the mixing desk in the dark, pushes a brass screw a few centimetres across the wood and stops. Then it pushes it the rest of the way to the edge and follows it down with its eyes. It jumps down and noses the screw into the gap under the bottom shelf. It starts again.
Trivia and continuity
The price is paid by the cat: the thing finds its half built Rocola, four years of stolen screws, and eats it in front of him. The climax is all ten records playing at once and the place being ten places at the same time. They leave changed and nobody says it: to stop it, Malios has to take it apart with his hands in front of everybody and give up being the one who fixed it. Kenya does not help him. She watches, which is what he has asked of her for years.
Malios
Kenya
The cat