Homecoming: A Shot in D'Arc is the sixth episode of Clone High.
Synopsis[]
Joan wants to play on the basketball team, but the rules don't allow girls or animals to play, so she dresses up as a boy and calls herself "John D'arc", who JFK finds himself strangely attracted to. Meanwhile the principal of Gesh bets Scudworth that the clones cant score a single point. Also Gandhi forms a relationship with Gesh's mascot, Geshy.
Plot[]
Clone High High School participates in a pep rally, to prepare them for their homecoming basketball game against their rival school, GESH High School (Genetically Engineered Super Human High School). The basketball team is led by Abe Lincoln (AKA "Abe Weakest Lincoln"), who fails to score a single point. Gandhi serves as the school mascot, DNA Dan and unveils a banner, which is supposed to read "Clone High Rules", only to find that it has been vandalized by some GESH students to say "The Clones Must Be High if They Think They Rule".
At The Grassy Knoll, Gandhi swears revenge on GESH for their prank and Joan says she wants to join the team to help them beat GESH. Abe laughs at the idea of Joan playing on the team and reminds her of the school rules, stipulating that no girls or animals are allowed to play on the boys' team. This frustrates Joan and Abe ignores her completely to ask her to try on his Letterman Jacket, which he plans to give to Cleopatra at the homecoming basketball game.
Joan practices basketball at home and her blind foster-grandfather, Toots, comes in to ask her what's troubling her, sensing something is up. Joan tells Toots her dilemma of not being allowed on the basketball team due to the school's sexist rules. Toots laments about how he was in a similar situation, when he was her age, saying that he wasn't allowed to play pro-basketball because he was black. (He fails to bring up his blindness, which might have been a contributing factor into him not being allowed on a professional basketball team) Joan is inspired by Toots to work her way around the sexist basketball team rules.
Principal Scudworth video chats with GESH High School's principal, Colonel Principal to place their annual wager on the upcoming basketball game. Colonel Principal bets that Clone High won't be able to score a single point on GESH and reminds Scudworth how he lost last year's wager, resulting in him losing custody of his first-born son, Brian. Scudworth takes him up on the wager and ups the ante, saying the loser has to do the winner's laundry for a week.
Colonel Principal organizes a pep rally for his own students at GESH High School, involving their school mascot, Geshy. Gandhi and Genghis Khan spy on them from a tree and plan to steal the mascot costume and poop in it as revenge for vandalizing their banner earlier.
Determined to beat Colonel Principal in his wager, Principal Scudworth mutilates Eleanor Roosevelt and takes over as the new gym coach. Joan comes to school in disguise as a male transfer student named "John Dark" so that she can join the basketball team and is immediately questioned by the other students about his legitimacy. "John" claims to be cloned from a famous explorer and rips off the entire Planet of the Apes movie to tell his story. Abe is quick to find "John" abhorrent. However, Cleo gets turned on by him, as does JFK, who gets confused, when he finds himself being sexually attracted to a man.
Gandhi and Genghis Khan go down to Geshy's mansion and kidnap him under the guise that they're selling squeakers. Gandhi unzips Geshy's costume, only to see a bunch of organs fall out of him, revealing that Geshy is not a guy in costume, but another one of Colonel Principal's genetically engineered creatures.
Abe threatens "John" to stop trying to move in on his girl, Cleo but "John" tells Abe that he should forget about Cleo and instead date Joan of Arc. Abe considers this for a second, before coming to the conclusion that "John" is just trying to get Abe into Cleo so that he can steal Joan for himself.
JFK goes home to tell his gay foster dads, Wally and Carl about how he's questioning his sexuality, via thinly-veiled metaphors about TV shows. JFK says he's considering switching over from watching SportsCenter in his room, to watching Will & Grace his with gay foster dads in the living room. Wally tells JFK that he understands his fear of switching channels and invites him over to join them, so he can help him get into the rhythm of a new show.
Cleo starts hitting on "John", making obvious sexual passes at him asking when he's going to pick her up for the homecoming basketball game. "John" rejects her, which comes off as incredibly odd to Cleo, as she's never been rejected before.
Gandhi keeps Geshy in his room, unsure of what to do with him now. He gives him some candy and Geshy gives him a kiss. Gandhi and Geshy quickly start laughing and getting along. Soon enough, they go through a whole happy montage of them just having fun together.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
- Abe Lincoln
- Joan of Arc
- Gandhi
- Cleopatra
- JFK
- Principal Scudworth
- GESH High School
- Colonel Principal
- Geshy
- Genghis Khan
Minor Roles[]
- Dan Patrick
- Chris Berman
- George Washington Carver
- Mr. Butlertron
- Toots
- Detlef Schrempf
- William Howard Taft
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Julius Caesar
- Wally
- Carl
- Peany (Cameo)
- Paul Revere (Cameo)
- Van Gogh (Cameo)
- George Washington (Cameo)
- Marie Curie (Cameo)
- Henry VIII (Cameo)
- Groucho Marx (Cameo)
- Catherine the Great (Cameo)
- Fedor Jeftichew (Cameo)
- Brian (Mentioned)
Trivia[]
- The title is a pun on the phrase, "A Shot in the Dark".
- This episode premiered in Canada before "Sleep of Faith: La Ru D'Awakening", causing a continuity error in the Canadian broadcast.
- Clone High High School has a basketball team. Members include:
- This episode contains the first major appearance of Clone High's mascot, DNA Dan. DNA Dan is portrayed by Gandhi in costume.
- Clone High has a rival school, called GESH High School. Like how Clone High is filled with genetic clones of historic figures, GESH is full of genetically modified students.
- Gandhi refers to himself as "Beige", for being an Indian.
- Joan of Arc is revealed to be very skilled at basketball. Contrarily, Abe Lincoln is very bad at it.
- This episode has the first appearance of Joan's House.
- Toots has a Ichthys on the back of his car, implying that he is a devout Christian, despite his daughter firmly identifying as an atheist.
- Principal Scudworth is revealed to have had a son before, and possibly more. Colonel Principal told him that the last time they made a bet, Scudworth wagered his first-born child, Brian, and lost. When Colonel Principal got a hold of Brian, he killed him, turned him into meat, and ate him.
- JFK finds "Joan D'arc" attractive, not realizing "he" is a she. This gets him to reconsider his sexuality.
- It's revealed Napoleon Bonaparte has a really small penis, implied when Joan laughed at him, walking around naked in the locker room. On the contrary, Genghis Khan has an extremely massive penis that presumably drags behind him when he walks, and made the sound of a boulder being moved when he walked around the locker room naked.
- Abe Lincoln briefly considers dating Joan for the first time in this episode, and says "Somehow, that doesn't sound so crazy." However, he still stayed loyal to Cleo and didn't go too in-depth with this thought.
- It is hinted that Cleo may be bisexual, when she gets slightly aroused by the thought of "doing it" with Joan. This is later confirmed a season later in the episode "Sexy-Ed".
Continuity[]
- Since their first date in "Sleep of Faith: La Ru D'Awakening", Abe considers himself Cleo's boyfriend. Apparently, after Abe won the race from the last episode, Cleo went home with JFK.
- Cleopatra is still a cheerleader, as she's been previously established as at the beginning of "Film Fest: Tears of a Clone".
Cultural References[]
- Chris Berman reminds everyone about starring in the movie Eddie, where Whoopi Goldberg coaches the New York Knicks. In that movie, Chris Berman played the role of one of the announcers, much like he did here.
- Mr. Butlertron retrieves the original playbook, used by the Harlem Globetrotters off the internet.
- John D'arc's historical backstory is just the plot of Planet of the Apes.
- Wally and Carl are fans of Will & Grace.
- JFK usually watches SportsCenter.
- When JFK realizes he's not a homosexual, he stops watching Will & Grace and goes back to watching Dharma & Greg.
- Principal Scudworth mentions having gone to Burning Man.
- Dan Patrick references The Raymond-Knowles Union Elementary School District in his final news report at the end of the episode.
- Joan (disguised as John) is seen reading Memoirs of a Geisha.
Historical References[]
- Gandhi said that "If Mahatma Gandhi stands for anything, it's revenge!", which is the exact opposite of what the real Mahatma Gandhi stood for.
- Joan of Arc mentions her clonemother getting burned at the stake.
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