Film Fest: Tears of a Clone is the fourth episode of Clone High.
Synopsis[]
The school holds a film fest and Joan, Gandhi, Abe, George Washington Carver, JFK and Cleo all submit films. Meanwhile, Scudworth gets ready for the Board of Shadowy Figures to come to dinner.
Plot[]
When Abe decides to organize a Clone High Student Film Festival, he spends much time working on a movie about a misunderstood football-playing giraffe; Cleo stars in an autobiographical epic about how difficult it is to be as perfect and glamorous as her; Joan directs an avant-garde film which expresses her love for Abe through psychoanalytic dream imagery; and Gandhi and George Washington Carver work together to make a comedic mixed-race buddy cop action comedy called Black and Tan. Meanwhile, JFK plans a film but never manages to leave the casting couch with his various wouldbe female co-stars, and Principal Scudworth starts to panic when his bosses on the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures invite themselves to his house for dinner, but thankfully for him, Mr. Butlertron is there to save the day.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
- Abe Lincoln
- Joan of Arc
- Gandhi
- Cleopatra
- JFK
- Principal Scudworth
- Mr. Butlertron
- The Secret Board of Shadowy Figures
- George Washington Carver
- Thomas Edison
Minor Roles[]
- Doug
- Genghis Khan
- Julius Caesar
- Buddha
- Van Gogh
- Mr. Sheepman
- Peany
- Catherine the Great
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Frank Sinatra
- John Belushi
- Dean Martin
- Sheriff
- Ang Lee
- Giraffe
- Sigmund Freud
- Brontë sisters (Cameo)
- Marie Curie (Cameo)
- Elvis Twins (Cameo)
- Adolf Hitler (Cameo)
- Confucius (Debut, Original, Cameo)
- Nostradamus (Cameo)
- George Washington (Cameo)
- Paul Revere (Cameo)
- Karen Carpenter (Mentioned)
- Andy Warhol (Mentioned)
- Mother Teresa (Mentioned)
Music[]
Trivia[]
- A brass instrumental of the theme song, played as background music during the Big Cross Country Meet.
- It's first seen that Abe and JFK are members of the track team and Cleo is a cheerleader.
- Mr. Sheepman makes an oddly specific remark, claiming that between 10:00 and 10:15, he unleashes his anger on a pillow that looks like his father.
- It's learned that Joan makes independent movies. But she prefers to call them "experimental art films".
- Principal Scudworth's house is seen for the first time.
- Principal Scudworth reveals to have gone to ASU College.
- List of movies and their directors:
- "It Takes a Hero" by Abe Lincoln
- "The Truth Wears Sideburns" by Joan of Arc
- "Black and Tan" by Gandhi and George Washington Carver
- "The Best of The Best of The Best of The Best" by Cleopatra
- "JFK's Big Movie" by JFK
- Unnamed Teen Slasher Sex Romp by Mother Teresa
- During the song, "Expressing Ourselves", Cleo, JFK, Abe, and Joan all do the Hands of Sincerity.
- Judging by the critical reception of the only three films that were shown, it's most likely that Black and Tan won, getting a rousing cheer from the audience. The Truth Wears Sideburns came in second, but only because a mildly enlightened "huh" from the audience was enough to outrank the sheer boredom and lack of interest in the losing film, "It Takes a Hero".
- This episode marks the debut and final appearance of the original version of Confucius before being replaced by his rebooted version in Season 2.
Continuity[]
- Cleo and JFK are still not on good terms, after breaking up in the last episode.
Cultural References[]
- Principal Scudworth likes Olive Garden, because it feels like he's eating in a stereotypical Italian's kitchen.
- JFK refers to his couch as the "Casting Couch", in reference to a pornography trend wherein girls sit on the titular couch, interviewing to be porn stars, and then prove their skills by having sex with the interviewer. This is pretty much the same thing JFK was doing for his "movie", which very well could have been a porno.
- Cleo promises that her movie will involve a soundtrack from Smash Mouth.
- Cleopatra's movie and the production that goes into it is a reference to the famously-troubled production of the film Cleopatra by FOX in 1963, which had its trims and outs destroyed by the company in order to save costs.
Historical References[]
- Shadowy Figure tells Scudworth, that he's walking on "Karen Carpenter-thin ice". This is a reference to Karen Carpenter becoming an anorexic.
- After breaking into the TV/AV room, Julius Caesar exists with books instead and exclaims “YAH, BOOKS!” which is very likely a reference to the burning of the library of Alexandria, which the real life Julius Caesar is known for: causing a fire during a battle that destroyed a relatively large part of the library.
- Abe mentions that Mother Teresa is working on a violent teen slasher sex romp, which directly contrasts with the personality of her clonemother, who was a very kind-hearted and saintly woman who would never dream of killing and took a vow of celibacy.
- Cleopatra's movie features her being treated as an Egyptian goddess, fitting for her character.
- Similar to the Mother Teresa gag, Adolf Hitler appears in the audience and is seen with a peace sign on his armband, rather than a swastika, implying that he's a very peaceful man, which of course, directly contrasts with his clonefather's hateful bigotry and philosophy that war is the solution to life's problems.
Gallery[]
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