| Season 5, Ep 26 - Corpse Collector (w/ Anna Garcia) | |
| Hello from the Magic Tavern episode | |
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| Air date | September 15, 2024 |
| Episode no. | S05E026 |
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| Cast | |
| Hosts | Arnie, Usidore, Chunt |
| Guests | Winthrop McRottibotti |
| Production | |
| Producers | Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, Adal Rifai |
| Associate Producer | Anna Havermann |
| Post-production coordination | Garrett Schultz |
| Editor | Chris Rathjen and Red Keener |
| Logo | Allard Laban |
| Theme music | Andy Poland |
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"Corpse Collector" is the twenty-sixth episode of season five of Hello from the Magic Tavern. It was originally released on September 15, 2024.
Description
Winthrop McRottibotti is here to collect any dead bodies and see what they have in their pockets.
Summary
Duncan Potatogrease from the previous episode is still in the Wanderlost, albeit injured and floating in the ceiling.
Chunt is incredulous that Arnie does not yet have a bag of holding. They discuss Arnie's favorite book, The Things They Carried.
Winthrop McRottibotti comes around with a cart, asking if anyone needs to dispose of dead bodies. Usidore brings down some bodies from his room. In response, Winthrop demands a substantial tip and a meal. To placate him, Chunt offers to buy a copy of his autobiography, "The Things They Buried". Usidore goes to the bar and gets a sinew pita for Chunt, and two frogs for Winthrop: one to eat, in the form of a waffle frog, and one to keep alive. Arnie receives a very well-done steak. Winthrop repeatedly asks for coins, assuming based on Usidore's bird-shit-covered robes that he is wealthy.
Winthrop explains that his great-grandfather started collecting bodies during the fourteenth dark plague and that the business runs in the family, though he denies being a nepo baby. Usidore notes that in Neverdell, the town the Wanderlost has stopped in today, body collecting is very lucrative. The hosts comment on Winthrop's strong dead-wife aura, and he shares that her name was Galintha and they met when her father passed. Winthrop courted her by asking for a coin, giving her a rose, and kissing her on her father's dead body.
Winthrop reveals that he lost his wife a mere four days ago and that she is in fact in the cart. She passed away due to a rare disease where one's organs explode and then try to come back together. Though she had a wealthy family, the prenup means none of her wealth goes to Winthrop. Winthrop admits further that he is trying to solve a riddle to reveal where the money has been buried in town.
The riddle reads: "Under and under, turning asunder, what you seek is not for you, though try as you might sticky as glue." Arnie asks if the answer is cum; Chunt explains that Arnie keeps pitching a show called "Is it Cum?" where you cut into two cakes to reveal which is in fact cum and not a cake. Usidore correctly guesses the riddle is referring to a dungeon located under a maple tree in town that produces a lot of sap.
Winthrop believes Chunt is a dog and gives him skritches behind the ears, and finds some coins Chunt has been storing in his fur. Chunt admits he's been charging ten gold for people to come peek and see Arnie sleeping at night. Usidore is surprised that people are actually interested. The boys sit on the pile of corpses with Winthrop's encouragement, just to see what it's like.
They go to the sap-producing maple tree and locate the entrance in the roots. They decide not to send the frog that's still alive (named Grape) in as a scout. Usidore goes in first and trips, scraping his knee. The rest follow with no problem. Grape the frog unlocks another level of the dungeon with its hand; Usidore trips again, getting badly injured. Grape the frog solves puzzles and performs acrobatic feats to get through various obstacles, though Usidore valiantly saves Grape from a rolling rock.
They venture on without Usidore, who is now quite injured, and meet a gnome who protects the treasure of the deceased wife. The gnome gives another riddle: what has 4 legs in the morning, 3 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs in the evening? Winthrop guesses the correct answer, which is a horny dog. Before they can open the treasure chest, Grape the frog warns that it was a cruel trap planted by Winthrop's wife. The gnome opens the chest instead and is turned inside out and killed.
They thank Grape for saving them, though Grape is in turn rude to Arnie. Chunt uses the healing rock on Usidore and confesses he's trying to gas up the frog to compensate for its companion's death. Winthrop is grateful for their help and says it would be an honor to collect their bodies one day, though Arnie is tentative about agreeing because he might owe his bones to the Bone Mage.
Emails
There are no new emails this week.
New Characters
- King Tiberius Rotfoot
- King Smelton Rotfoot
- Rotfoot Fox (has a son)
- Dan Rotfoot (sitting at the bar)
- Wil E. Potatoes, a rat with a wand through him
Earth References
- Body-ody-ody
- Is it Cake?
- Wil E. Coyote
- "Fly, You Fools" -Gandalf
- Various trials and tribulations from Indiana Jones
Notes
- The main pastimes of Neverdell are kicking dirt, rolling on a pile of dead bodies, and catching diseases.
- Neverdell's town mascot is a giant germ.
- Diseases in Foon are understood to be variously caused by disease demons, witch's fog, or by exchanging bodily fluids.