Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts

"Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts"

Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts is an episode of Clone High.

Plot

Template:Spoilers Larry Hardcore gives a concert on drug awarenss and in the process plants the idea of smoking raisins in the minds of the students of Clone High. A "scarling looking hodded fellow lurking in the shaddows" who calls himself the Pusher appears to sell them.

Joan makes a passionate speech persuading the crowd not to smoke raisins, but JFK appears with bags of raisins and quickly persuades everyone to smoke raisins with him in his van. Abe follows the crowd, worried that Cleo will hook up with JFK if he doesn't.

Meanwhile, Slugworth contemplates the untapped powers of the PTA, planning to harness the group twoard his evil ends at the next meeting.

Smoking raisins appears to be like "LSD on acid". Gandhi immediately begins hallucinating, imaginging a Hunkycorn—a portmaneau of Humming bird, Donkey, and Unicorn. Abe and Cleo become Captain Lavender and his common-law wife Rainmellon.

Meanwhile, the PTA decides that Raisins are a "gateway fruit" and worry that the Clones will next try to "shoop up apricots."

In Gandhi's fantasy, he is eaten by a cat and discovers a strange combination of the Olsen twins. Following the Hunkycorn's instructions he acquires the amulet with the inscribed text: "cut it out." As Sargent JFK's magical mystery tour comes crashing into the PTA meeting, the PTA authorizes Slugworth to build a giant fence to contain the raisin epidemic.

Next on Gandhi's quest, he encounters Daniel Feldspar, the stereotypical vegemite-peddling Australian dragon. He declares: "I'm thinking of going on a hunger strike but I've never tried vegemite." That line would become immortalized when the show was cancelled due to hunger strikes in India.

Gandhi next uses the power of the amulet to turn the Hunkycorn into a princess, who offers to "thrice lay you" but he awkwardly passes.

The raisin-smokers attempt to destroy Slugworth's wall with "love" but are unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Joan tricks the parents into burning a pile of raisins, an act which causes them to get high, and causes the clones to think that raisins aren't rebellious anymore. Reminiscent of Scooby-Doo, the Pusher is unmasked as none other than Larry Hardcore, the rocker from the beginning of the episode.

Songs

Everything's Normal

Cast:

Everythings normal, nobody's moping.

Let's take it for granted, the campus is open.

Our freedom will be here, that is a given."

Scudworth:

I'm Principal Scudworth, to power I'm driven.

Abe:

Cleo, only Cleo. Cleo, Cleo, Cleo, Cleo, Cleo.

Cleo:

Cleo, only Cleo. Cleo, Cleo, Cleo, Cleo, Cleo, Cleo, Cleo.

Joan:

Abe.

Cast:

Organically awesome, fantastical place.

It's something that happened—

The Pusher:

—It probably sounded like this.

Cast:

Normal!

Manic Sexualized Dancing

Mud dance, gravy trance, butterfly, tree

Hog, log, taking bread, sunflower, cream

Tye-dye, contact tie, loveboat, the sun

Smoke, fly, raisins, high, Vietnam

Merry Clark, pistol—

The Pusher

I got something that'll make all your problems go up in smoke. Check it:

I'm the Pusher!

The Pusher!

I push raisins on kids,

And kids think it's cool,

Cause they're told not to do it,

By the parents and school.

I'm the Pusher!

I'm the Pusher!

[...]

First they'll smoke raisns,

Then they'll shoot up apricots.

I know you can't resist me.

You want to smoke some frut?

Check out my sweet ass, matching pantsuit.

I'm the bad-ass, low-class Pusher.

I'm the booty-licking, taco-sticking Pusher.

Kids think drugs are cool,

That is why I rule.

I revoke civil folk then we smoke.

Get your foot of my cloak.

I'm the sky-high, hammer-dry Pusher.

I'm the smokescreen Pusher.

I'm the booty-poking, raisin-smoking Pusher.

And in summary:

I'm the Pusher!

So, how many scoops?

Higher

Scudworth:

I'm building a fence.

It's our last defense.

Things will be past tense,

And I'll rule the parents.

Build it higher.

Build it higher.

Build it higher.

Abe:

Grounded? For what?

For growing up? For being free?

Abe's foster dad:

We're doing this for you boy,

Not doing it for me.

You're not going to the hippie, beachdrum, circle peacefair.

Abe's foster mom:

Abe—

Abe:

Abe's my slave name, square.

Abe's mom:

Captain Lavender, raisins are building a barrier,

And we need to build a wall to break it down.

Abe:

You don't understand us, you and this stinking town.

I wish I could die.

Your barbecued chicken's very dry.

[Interlude]

Abe:

They're not going to crush our freedom.

We smoke raisins, but they just eat 'em.

The sun is raising us to a higher plane,

After this line there's gonna be a refrain.

JFK:

Watch me, hold me, sign my cast for me.

Wheel, me..."

Clones:

And it's raising us higher, and higher.

Raisins are from heaven, now we're raising hell.

Parents:

Higher, and higher.

Scudworth:

Build the pickets higher,

Don't give on that barbed wire.

Clones:

Higher, and higher.

The Pusher:

My power grows higher with each raisin buyer.

Scudworth:

I'm king of the wall!

Abe:

You're going to fall.

When push comes to shove,

We'll conquer will love.

Clones:

Love, only love. Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love.

Cleo:

This isn't working. Love's just an abstract concept. It can't knock down stuff.

Scudworth:

I build it higher.

Abe:

I'm getting higher.

Scudworth:

Higher.

Abe:

Higher.

Scudworth:

Higher.

Abe:

Higher.

Abe:

Where am I?

Abraham Lincoln:

Inside of you

Inside of me, too

And me is you

You must see the truth about the evil raisin.

You're all enslaved by the joints that your blazing.

If you free up the kinds it'd be you that they're praisin'

Cleo would do you, and I hear she’s amazing.

Easter eggs

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There are many one-frame easter eggs featured in the episode:

• Mr. DNA with the text "Let's Go to the Darkside!"
• A picture of a Raisin smoking a human (specifically, Abe's foster dad)
• A picture of Scudworth with hearts and the text "Scudworth in your favorite character"
• Abe and Cleo naked
• The text "I Burried Ponce" flashes on the screen, forshadowing the events of the next episode
• Joan dressed as the Virgin Mary, parodying Jesus Christ Superstar
• The text: "For more information on raisins consult your local library