Bad Joke Man was sitting in Loxx's stomach, amid partially digested food and stomach acid. "Eeew!" Bad Joke Man screamed. He had to concoct a brilliant plan to free himself from the belly of this villain. After sitting on the hood of a partially digested VW and thinking, Bad Joke Man decided that he would have to either come out Loxx's mouth, or come out the other way. He chose the coming-out-of-the-mouth way. He figured if he told a funny enough joke, Loxx's tummy would gurgle, and he would belch him out. "Hey, Loxx!"
"What do you want?" Loxx replied.
"I got a joke for you!"
"OK, shoot."
"What do you call a deeply depressed dog who eats nothing but cantaloupe?"
"Uh, I give up! What?"
"A melancholy!"
"Ha ha ha! Burp! Buuurrrrp!" Loxx's belly shook, and Bad Joke Man was burped up.
"Hooray!" Bad Joke Man cheered when his feet touched solid ground. He quickly ran behind the nearest tree, and changed out of his wet and smelly costume. Them he ran in the direction of home, where he could figure out an idea to destroy Loxx for good. When he got home, he was surprised to see Herbie on the couch with a black eye.
"Hi, BJ."
"Herbie! What the heck happened to you?"
"School."
"School?"
"Yeh. This one kid beat me up."
"Why?"
"He didn't like me, I guess."
"That's a pretty dumb reason."
"I don't like that kid."
"Yeh, I don't blame you. Maybe we oughta teach this kid a lesson."
"What kind of lesson?"
"A math lesson!"
"Uh, sure, BJ."
"He'll learn expressions like one fist plus one forehead equals five little birdies, flapping 'round his noggin."
"Brilliant! But isn't it a little violent?"
"So?"
"What if you just scare him off a little bit?"
"Awwww, maaaaaaan."
"BJ...."
"All right, all right."
"So, how are you going to scare that twerp?"
"I'm just going to tell him to watch his back, while cracking my knuckles."
"Sounds good. When you want to pull off the job?"
"As soon as I can!"
"How about now?"
"But school is out!"
"He stays for detention."
"OK. Bye." BJ walked to Herbie's school, and found the kid. "Hey, you!" BJ yelled to the kid. "I hear you been beatin' up on little Herbie Mann, the new kid."
"That's me!" the kid replied.
"You just watch yourself," BJ said, while he cracked his knuckles. BJ then walked out of the school. When BJ was out of earshot, the kid started laughing.