"You hang around a dump long enough, and the world comes to you."
There's a reason the elderly resident of a junkyard is reluctant to leave it. Based on the short story of the same name by Joe Landsale.
Nolan North voices "Ugly Dave" Dvorchack and Gary Cole voices the Inspector.
Tropes:
- All There in the Script: Dvorchack's first name Dave isn't uttered in the episode and only appears in the credits.
- The Assimilator: The monster in the junkyard absorbs whatever it eats into itself.
- Breather Episode: After horror of Beyond the Aquila Rift and melancholy of Good Hunting, this episode is a good ol' Black Comedy.
- Fan Disservice: An extended shot of an old man with his pants down.
- Forklift Fu: Dvorchack uses a forklift to ram and pin the monster.
- Framing Device: The story of how Dvorchack first met Otto is related to the city inspector.
- Groin Attack: The monster first attacks Pearly by targeting his balls.
- Non-Malicious Monster: The monster is just a bizarre puppy trying to survive.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: The city inspector doesn't really give off a good first impression when he refers to a family's kids as "scrawny fucktards".
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: We're supposed to side with Dvorchack because he lives in the dump and the city is attempting to evict him, but he allows the dump monster to murder an innocent (if very rude) man so he wouldn't have to leave.
