Our second tale of entrapment is about the sourest character in Chowder, Truffles. It was set up with high expectations since it also featured elemelons on strike. Timely, eh? A cross between an elephant and a melon, the elemelons are being milked, or rather juiced by Chowder, Mung Daal, and Shnitzel early in the morning. The racket of the giggling lady 'melons and Mung's cajoling wakes his wife Truffles. She flies down, interrupts the juicing, and enrages the elemelons to the point of labor stoppage. Truffles thinks this is hilarious; after all, they're just fruit. However, Mung needs to finish his recipe and locks her in to negotiate for his juice.

The episode slowly transitions from a kid-friendly explanation of a strike ("I have tried everything— threats, intimidation, violence") into a surreal slumber party. Truffles makes nice, all right. After she starts treating the elemelons like her girlfriends, she pampers them into producing juice just for her. Then, as the old t-shirt goes, they don't get mad... they go shopping.

I can see where this episode was trying to go, but the difference between the set-up and the somewhat meta conclusion was too great for me. Truffles' change of heart, as it was, couldn't carry it over that gap. She was still mean and insincere. She just turned it on different people. Ah well, humor is a funny thing. Maybe one girl's slumber party is another guy's juice.