Ah... Where's your face, Frybo? Being part of the Fryman family means you gotta sell fries! And be my son, which you are. [Peedee sighs] So... you're already halfway there. Keep at it, Frybo!
PeedeeI'm Pee— [Fryman closes door] dee...
Peedee
When I told my Dad I wanted to be part of the Fryman family business, I didn't think it meant being stuck in a sweaty old costume. Things used to be different, Steven. Nothing to worry about back then except making myself dizzy on the old seahorse ride at Funland...
Oh, Frybo, you're hilarious. [Peedee clenches his hands, sighs]
Peedee
I wish there was a way for this costume to do its job without me in it! [Steven thinks for a beat]
Maybe it can, Peedee... Maybe it can...
Peedee
This seahorse used to make me so happy. Now it's just giving me whiplash. [ride stops] I feel like there's just no point to it, y-y'know what I mean?
[shaking on jellyfish ride] I just feel tingly-y-y-y-y!
Peedee
[sighs] You'll understand when you have a job.
I do have a job! I protect humanity from magic and monsters and stuff!
Peedee
I mean a real job that you get paid for.
I'm paid in the smiles across the town's faces.
Peedee
I don't see anyone smiling. You pick up a job to buy a house, or raise kids, or to... impress your dad. You work away your life, and what does it get you?
Peedee
No! You get cash. Cash that can't buy back what the job takes. [leans, observes the gloomy beach] Not if you rode every seahorse in the world... [sighs]
Whoa... [beat] Wanna try the jellyfish?
You were great, Frybo. The kids today just didn't understand. And now... [cries] they never will...
Weren't people scared of it before he attacked them?
It's time... [takes out lighter] to send him off.
[he lights the suit on fire, as Pearl, using the end of her spear, along with Steven's clothing push it out to the moonlit sea]
[sighs] As greasy in death... as he was in life.
Peedee
Dad? Um... I'll... Are you going to get another costume? [long beat]
..Nah, I don't need another Frybo. I've got... [puts arm around Peedee] the Fryman.
[beat. Steven turns to Pearl smiling and posing heroically while standing naked]
Pearl, I think our work here is done.
[frowning] Put your clothes on, Steven.
RRonaIdo
I am now going to attempt to make contact with the mysterious, reclusive, [Steven comes out] and—ahh!
Hi, Ronaldo! Uh, hi, Peedee. Is that a camera?
Peedee
Yeah. We're making a movie about—
RRonaIdo
It's an investigative report, shot camera vérité.
RRonaIdo
So... you wanna participate in a groundbreaking interview?
Hmm. Only if you participate in a glass of fresh-squeezed lemonade! [walks back inside]
[cue Ronaldo and Steven in the Beach House]
Ohh, that giant hand? It was a spaceship coming to get us.
RRonaIdo
Us?! I knew it! Steven, we know too much!
No, not "us" us. I-I meant me and the Crystal Gems.
RRonaIdo
Wait. So the hand wasn't here to snatch up humans for a human zoo? Or interfere with our subsidized Beach City wind farm?! Or thaw the cryogenically frozen pets of the one percent!?!
Uh... no, I'm pretty sure it came to Beach City for me and the Crystal Gems.
RRonaIdo
Oh. So, if you and the Crystal Gems weren't here, we wouldn't have been attacked by the giant hand?
Ohh-hoh-hoh! Definitely not.
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