The title is a play on Benjamin Franklin's quote, "Haste makes waste".Elmer Skloo's name is a reference to the infamous glue brand "Elmer's Glue".The Insane Tantrum scream follows as Elmer scrapes the man off. The Howie scream can be heard in this episode if you listen closely (when Elmer steps on someone after he's mutated from the paste).Elmer tells her that she is cool and Buttercup tells him that they must stick together. Later, Townsville is seen rebuilt with copious amounts of Elmer's paste, and Buttercup thanks him for helping to rebuild the school and Townsville proper. As the monster hears her take back the insults towards him, he forgives her and frees Blossom and Bubbles. With her combat strategy failing, Buttercup realizes that apologizing is the only way to stop Elmer, and she succumbs to her guilt to do just that. This proves difficult, for his body regenerates and changes form to compensate for damage. She attempts to use a heat ray on Elmer and dusts herself with flour to minimize the chance of her sticking to him. Buttercup, however, decides that she could fight him. ![]() The girls catch up with him and try to confront him physically, but they become attached to the monster in the melee, and until Buttercup apologizes, they will be stuck in the monster's body. Townsville, on the other hand, sees the other part of Elmer's rage, from bowling over the tallest buildings with paste to stepping on innocent civilians. Using a heat ray to dry the paste, the girls break free and pursue him. Blossom tells Buttercup that all this mess could have been avoided if Buttercup had just apologize to Elmer. Keane towards them and sets his sights on the unsuspecting Townsville. Blossom and Bubbles get slammed into the wall when he throws a paste-covered Ms. ![]() As the Girls begin to try to fight the monstrous Elmer. Blossom and Bubbles reluctantly refuse to help after her involvement in the earlier bullying incident until he smashes the school itself and takes Ms. ![]() Seeing too much carnage, Buttercup tries to intervene solo but fails after getting tacked to the wall. Sickened, however, by the exposure to toxins, Elmer then assumes the form of paste itself, transforming him into a towering, slimy, white paste monster.Įlmer's rage in the schoolyard leads him to torture his colleagues and the school proper, even by flicking his classmates every which way. Further bullying continues in the schoolyard when Mitch teases him pushes him down while he tries to stand up. With its ability to fly being compromised by the mutations, the fly eventually makes its way to Elmer's paste jar, where Elmer eats a handful of its contents along with the fly. The rag is eventually discarded, where a fly finds it in a trash truck and eats the contaminated product, causing him to mutate. Another person wipes his face with it, and tentacles grow from his cheeks. He uses a rag to clean it up but sees green glowing material on it. Meanwhile, the story cuts to a large industrial facility, where someone accidentally kicks down a vial containing a mutagenic toxic sample and it smashes to the floor. As Elmer later joins the rest of the group for recess, he sits alone voicing his ill feelings towards Buttercup for the incident as he eats through a jar of paste. Keane later helps Elmer clean himself up after the incident, explaining that despite Buttercup's actions (and those of almost all of the other children) being condemnable, his paste-eating is an imitable act that she herself does not recommend. Keane demands Buttercup to apologize to Elmer for her actions, but stalls long enough for the class to run out the room for recess, when she refuses to do so and says Elmer "should have ducked" the paste. Though Blossom and Bubbles observe this harassment with disapproval, Buttercup disappointedly finds pleasure in contributing and goes as far as to yelling "eat this, paste-eater" and pelting him with a glob of paste in slow motion to bring him to tears. Not one to take to the odd behavior, fellow student Mitch Mitchelson disgustedly calls him a "paste-eater", and a round of bullying and name-calling (mostly relating to him eating paste) for his habit erupts within the classroom. As she takes roll call, she notices Elmer is not responding like he normally would, and instead putting the paste in his mouth. Keane and the kindergarteners are making crafts with paste and popsicle sticks. Right after being bullied at school for eating paste, Elmer Skloo becomes a paste monster, It's up to Buttercup to admit her actions to Elmer in her least favorite way: apologizing.Īt Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, Ms.
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