"No Escape" is the second segment of the ninetieth episode of Big City Greens.
Synopsis[]
In an inescapable escape room, Cricket must decide between family and freedom.
Plot[]
The Greens have decided that for Halloween they will attend an escape room. Cricket is determined to finish it, but is put off by his family's somewhat cheesy song of working together. The tenant, who is dressed as a Croblin, tells the Greens that the fastest team had two minutes to spare and Cricket wants to try and beat the time. The group enters the room and Cricket is quick to try and finish the puzzle, but Bill becomes frightened by everything in the room, Gramma Alice is too distracted by an off-handed comment on her age and tries to prove she is in her prime, and Tilly tries to mimic a robotic Croblin to solve the room, though she is really just being annoying.
Unbeknownst to the Greens, the Croblin tenant is revealed to be Wholesome Greg who is working for Chip Whistler. The escape room is really another scheme by Chip in an effort to get back at the Greens. Cricket manages to solve the room's puzzle by himself, confusing his family who were unaware of what he was doing. They enter the next room which has four doors. They split up and discover that each room is a simplified version of the rooms in their home. Chip, as a puppet Croblin, offers that they can escape by pushing the red button at the entrance, but it will permanently lock the other doors, trapping them forever.
Cricket seemingly pushes the button to escape, but this is a fake. Nevertheless, this succeeds in demoralizing the Greens. As Chip beckons Cricket to escape for real, he instead realizes the meaning behind his family's togetherness and escapes through the roof to free his family, encouraging them, and reveal the truth. Chip is angered so much that he accidentally makes his chipped tooth wider. Cricket apologizes for his selfishness and the Greens end up back in the lobby, having beaten the original time by one second, and wonder who was behind the escape room. They enter the employee room, but find it completely empty. They head back home, unaware of the piece of Chip's tooth on the floor.
Cast[]
- Chris Houghton as Cricket Green
- Marieve Herington as Tilly Green
- Bob Joles as Bill Green
- Artemis Pebdani as Alice Green
- Paul Scheer as Chip Whistler
- Shane Houghton as Wholesome Greg
Trivia[]
- Morals:
- Things are more accomplished if you work with your family.
- Don't abandon your family in their time of need.
- This is the third episode set during Halloween, after "Blood Moon" and "Squashed!"
- The rooms the Greens get locked in are poorly drawn recreations of rooms back at the Green house, and each is tinted a different color to represent the key flaw of the Green who gets locked in:
- Cricket: The kids' room, red (Selfishness and egocentricity)
- Tilly: The living room, indigo (Role-playing and losing herself in character)
- Bill: His bedroom, green (Fear, anxiety, and cowardice)
- Alice: Her bedroom, violet (Fragileness and feeling her age)
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