Even mc chris has stated that he favours this episode. The underlying sentiment is truly priceless here amidst some slightly dry humour.
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At first glance, there is nothing in this episode that hasn't been done at least three times in previous episodes throughout the past seasons.
We are treated to the character that started out as MC Pee Pants being once again reincarnated and devising some sort of elaborate scheme for personal gain.
The difference in this episode is that the character does not want to die. Little Brittle is an ailing and aging man who is basically sitting alone in a hospital waiting to die.
Fortunately, he was blessed with some rapping talent. Along with his colostomy bag, he releases a single with a message embedded specifically for vampires. That being a request that one visit him in the retirement home in which he currently resides and subsequently bless him with the gift of eternal life.
Of course along the way Meatwad, being the impressionable and decaying wad of meat that he is, manages to heed to the request (despite not being a vampire) and he, along with his other cohorts (Frylock and Master Shake), visit Little Brittle only to discover and remind him that they have encountered him before (as a giant spider and a cow) and that each time he has been sent packing straight to hell.
Little Brittle manages to regale them with a sob story and makes his plea toward actually wanting to live when a vampire finally appears (in a floating coffin as a means of transportation, no less) and turns Little Brittle into that which he desires.
Unfortunately for Little Brittle, he fails to realise that sunlight is deadly to vampires. Both he and the vampire who turned him subsequently blow up and Little Brittle winds up in hell once again, only to be chastised by Satan, apparently never to be granted the chance for reincarnation once more.
Overall, the episode is a solid offering that differs from what most have come to expect (the humour in it is perhaps a little more dry and less zany than that which is depicted in other episodes but is still worthy of laughs just the same).
The one thing I find most humourous of all is the seemingly skewed interpretation regarding the subject of reincarnation. As those who watch the show regularly have seen, our ill-fated MC has been a variety of forms. Each one seems to be depicted as being on a lower rung of the ladder of life than the other (from spider to cow to worm to old man). That bit of realisation alone is enough to provoke a laugh from me, even if others have a hard time wrapping their minds around it.
On a final note, the attempts at sentimentality shown in this episode were not high calibre but were definitely not things to be easily overlooked. The sombre nature of Little Brittle (the character, and the episode itself) was definitely something different within the collective of off-the-wall episodes this show has come to offer to us.