The Manhattan Triangle
The episode starts with a news broadcast about the Bermuda Triangle, which in Felix's universe is sentient, incredibly dumb, and causes anything in its perimeter to become stupid. The Newscaster freaks out as it announces that the triangle is shifting its position for the first time in history, and its on course to New York City. At home, Felix is sleeping, but is awoken by his alarm clock Clarence, who tells him he's late for his date. Felix smashes Clarence. Felix is eager to go on his date with Candy, but finds out the date is in five minutes. Felix vacuums himself clean while humming a beautiful tune, grabs some wallpaper flowers to give to Candy, washes himself up at the mirror (with his reflection plucking a hair off him and wishing him luck) and heads off—with the reflection moping that Felix won't stand a chance. At first, Felix tries to impress Candy on the date, but she says she wants a quiet evening with down to earth, intellectual stimulation. Felix rolls with it and they both go outside, only to end up floating in mid air along with everything around them. Wondering what's going on, Felix turns on the news, and finds out the Bermuda Triangle is wreaking havoc throughout the city. Candy gets woozy from what's going on and asks Felix to take her home. They hitch a ride on the water-filled bus and travel around in a bubble, almost get eaten by a shark, but escape by a drain, which shoots them out of the bus' exhaust pipe. Almost everyone in the city is trapped in bubbles now, and Felix can't break out with his tail. Candy opens her purse and uses a file to pop it instead. They start falling, but building grab them, juggle them and play ping pong with them. They fly into the earwax of the Statue of Liberty, and Candy tells Felix that she is not happy about where the date is going. They start falling again—only for the cartoon to stop with Candy telling the audience that they're getting really tired of this—and start falling again. They land in Times Square, and see more surreal madness unfolding around them. Seeing the Triangle playing with airplanes nearby, Felix wonders what it's doing here anyway. Candy suggests it just wanted some excitement, and Felix gets an idea—he whistles, and Time Square itself rises from the ground, and transforms into a lady square. Felix introduces Bermuda to Times Square, and they hit it off right away. With him gone, New York returns to normal. Felix airlifts Candy down to the ground, and tells her how crazy he is over her—only for Candy to tell him that she's involved with someone else at the moment—the newscaster from earlier. They both walk off together, and Felix sighs and starts crying, but his reflection tries to cheer him up by giving him an invite to be the Bermuda Triangle's best man at his and Times Square's wedding. On the day it happens, Felix hands the wedding ring to them, and they're pronounce square and triangle. Chaos ensues in the city again as Felix laughs and winks at the camera as the cartoon irises out.
The Petrified Cheese
Tropes for The Manhattan Triangle
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Triangle is as tall as a building.
- Bigger on the Inside: The bus Felix and Candy go inside is basically an ocean in of itself compared to how small it is outside.
- Body Horror: Thanks to the Triangle's effects, the city major has a tree growing on his head that sprouts kumquats.
- Cartoony Tail: Felix turns his tail into a hammer to try and break a bubble he and Candy are trapped in, but it doesn't work. His tail also turns into an exclamation mark when he gets an idea. He also uses it as a helicopter in the ending.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The newscaster from earlier in the cartoon turns out to be Candy's love interest in the ending.
- Gonk: The Bermuda Triangle is as ugly as it is stupid.
- Interspecies Romance: Candy gets involved with the (cartoon human) newscaster in the end.
- Visual Pun:
- The Bermuda Triangle is represented as a literal triangle. To say nothing of Times Square, either.
- Candy literally gets her tongue tied up when a newscaster asks for her opinion.
- Wacky Land: New York City is turned into this by the Triangle's influence.
