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(Episode begins at the Park Managers' Lodge. Gene is starting a meeting.)
Gene: Alright, alright. Everybody settle down. The annual Park Managers' Lodge $50 Chili Cook-Off will be this weekend, and as always, the cost of your ingredients cannot be more than $50.
(Benson is sitting at the apprentice table with two other lodge members, drinking from an orange juice box.)
Gene (continued): Day 1 will be an elimination round, and Day 2, finalists will complete in a no-holds barred arena match. Celebrity chef Sean Ben Pimento will judge.
(The lodge members talk among themselves.)
Gene (continued): The winner will get the undivided respect of the entire lodge!
(The lodge members cheer.)
Benson: (gasps) Respect...(stands up) I want to enter!
(The lodge members gasp.)
Park Manager #1: Benson, no!
Park Manager #2: Gene wins every year.
Gene: Ah, let the apprentice enter. Not like he's gonna beat me.
(The lodge members laugh.)
Park Manager #2: Let's have a preemptive celebration in Gene's honor!
(The lodge members rush off to celebrate, leaving Benson alone.)
Benson: (quietly) I gotta win this chili cook-off!
(Cut to Mordecai, Rigby and Skips at the Snack Bar.)
Mordecai: So I saw my 5th grade teacher at the grocery store yesterday.
Rigby: What?
(Benson walks up with cook gloves and holding a pot of chili.)
Benson: Hey guys, Hope you saved some room for chili.
Rigby: Oh, right, For the competition.
Benson: It was tough staying under 50 bucks, But I did it. (gives spoon to them.) Dig in.
(Mordecai, Rigby and Skips tastes Benson's chili.)
Benson: So?
Mordecai: It's good.
Rigby: (to Mordecai) Yeah, It's good.
Mordecai: It's good.
Benson: Okay, good.
Rigby: Yeah, it's not bad.
Benson: You said good before.
Mordecai: Yeah, it's fine, Benson.
Benson: You say not bad before.
Skips: It's cafeteria level at best.
Benson: Ugh! If I only could see a jade phantom pepper, (flashbacks to Benson's search for Jade Phantom Peppers in the jungle.) I used to come across them when I studied abroad in Venezuela. It's spicy and sweet with hints of lavender. (His monkey climbs up to tree and throws a jade phantom pepper into Benson's pot of chili.) It made a chili go from "Regular" to muy bonito. (Flashback ends and returning back to present.)
Skips: Benson, You know the jade phantom pepper is "Muy Expensivo" in the states. It costs 20 grand. You got work with what you got. That's the whole point of this contest.
Benson: You're right. If Gene can do it, I can do it.
(Scene changes with Mordecai and Rigby cleaning the gutters as Benson appears with chili in window.)
Benson: Guys, you guys!
Mordecai and Rigby: Aah!
Mordecai: Dude, we're trying to work here!
Benson: I know, I know, just try my chili.
(Mordecai and Rigby tastes a second part of Benson's chili.)
Mordecai and Rigby: Oh, it's pretty good.
Mordecai: Yeah.
Benson: Award winning good?
Rigby: ... Maybe?
Benson: Not good enough.
(Mordecai and Rigby throw the spoons away. The scene cuts to Mordecai and Rigby sleeping. Benson enters their room and wake up the duo.)
Mordecai: Benson, we're trying to sleep!
Benson: Just try this one last bite.
Rigby: Ugh! (Mordecai and Rigby tastes chili for last time, madly.)
Mordecai: Oh... oh wow.
Rigby: Benson... This might be the best chili I've ever had.
Benson: Really? Great, that's perfect. Now to get some sleep before the competition. (We hear audio from a clock ticking as Benson is seen walking to his car with his pot and then driving back to his house. One he arrives, he drops his keys. He picks them up, unlocks the door and enters the kitchen where he places a plastic wrap around the chili pot. He goes to bed and gets up a split second later when his alarm clock beeps at 7:00am. We later pan to the Annual Park Manager's Lodge $50 Chili Cook Off. We see Benson is seen making his chili.)
Benson: (gasps) Oh, wow, There he is.
Mordecai: There's who is?
Benson: Celebrity judge Sean-Ben Pimento. (Pimento walks up to a contestant and smells his chili. After smelling it, he walks away, feeling disgusted by its smell.)
Benson: He's coming this way. Scatter! Hello, Mr. Pimento. It's an honor to meet you.
Pimento: (hisses)
Pimento's Assistant: He's saving his vocal cords for the announcement.
Benson: Oh, say no more.
Pimento: (drinks the chili and he's impressive and he walks away with his assistant)
Mordecai: So how'd it go?
Benson: I. I think he liked it.
Rigby: That's awesome. Cause I think he likes Gene's too.
[Pimento and Gene Laughs as Benson watches in Frustrated]
Benson: I need you guys to do me a favor. Can you steal me a cup of Gene's chili?
Rigby: On it.
Gene: But you get where I'm coming from. Hey! (Mordecai and Rigby scream) I know exactly what you're up to.
Mordecai: Uh, what's that?
Gene: You're here to try some of my world famous chili. Go right ahead. There's plenty for everyone.
Rigby: Thanks. See you, Gene.
Benson: So?
Mordecai: Spicy and sweet.
Rigby: With hints of lavender.
Benson: What? Give me that. Jade Phantom pepper.
Pimento's Assistant: And now, judge Sean Ben Pimento to present our competitors for tomorrow's final round.
Pimento: Gene. (Audience cheers) And Andrew Arronson.
Andrew: Yay. Woo. All right. Yes, yes, that's me, Andrew Aaronson.
Pimento's Assistant: Wait, wait. We just got a random price test back from our labs, and it looks like Andrew Aaronson's chili is over budget at $51.20. He is disqualified.
Pimento: You disgust me. Take him away.
Andrew: But I. What?
Pimento's Assistant: Well, I guess we'll have to go with our Next runner up, Mr. Ben Pimento.
Pimento: If I had to choose a third option, I suppose I would begrudgingly select him.
Benson: Thank you, thank you. But while I appreciate this honor, we have a cheater among us. Your chili cost more than $50, Gene.
Gene: I don't know what you're talking about.
Audience Member: Where's your proof?
Benson: I. I don't have any.
Gene: You got here in a technicality, apprentice. Just smile and bring your mediocre chili tomorrow.
Benson: Mediocre? You did not make a $50 chili. And I'll prove it.
Benson: Those peppers have got to be in here somewhere. Huh? Oh, my. I bet there's a receipt for those peppers in here. Come on, come on. Where's the receipt? Park Manager's Lodge. $2 trillion. That's how he can afford all those peppers. The stems.
Gene: Benson? What are you doing in my office?
Benson: I'm on to you, Gene. I know what you've been doing.
Gene: I see. You know all about it, then.
Benson: Yes, I do. You've been using the Jade Phantom, and I've got the stems to prove it.
Gene: Wha? (laughs)
Benson
Cheating is no laughing matter, Gene. This is a $20,000 pepper.
Gene
For you, maybe. You see, I've been growing these babies myself, so technically, they're free.
Benson
What?
Gene
It takes 10 years to raise each one, and I've been growing 'em my whole life. Why do you think they cost so much?
Benson
Oh, well, wait, then what are you doing with $2 trillion in lodge money?
Gene
High level lodge business. Now get out of my house, Benson.
Benson
So he's still gonna use that pepper, and I'm always gonna lose to Gene.
Mordecai
Well, what do you have that Gene doesn't?
Benson
I don't know. But whatever it is, it's gonna have to be something that nobody's put into chili before. Of course!
Pimento
A chili contest winner shows a mastery of tomato, bean, and spice. The defending champion, (audience cheers) the goober who embarrassed himself, (Audience grumbles) and me, Sean Ben Pimento. Welcome to my world of chill! With 60 minutes on the clock, ready, set, MAKE CHILI NOW!
(Benson's friends cheer)
Pimento's Assistant
Benson getting his start, looking a little frazzled. Gene going for his patented Jade Phantom Peppers. And I, of course, mean that literally. He literally has the patent.
Pimento
Oh, what's Benson doing? Gene, of course, breaking no sweat.
Pimento's Assistant
Benson feeling the pressure. Gene not concerned at all.
Pimento
I just loved your Christmas card.
Gene
Oh. The wife thought the antlers would be funny.
Pimento's Assistant
For Benson, with mere minutes remaining, any distraction could mean disaster.
Pimento
Benson. (Benson yelps) So what is this you're making? Let me look at it in the light.
Benson
I got it.
Pimento
Oh, what's this? This thing I'm touching with my unwashed finger. What is that?
Benson
It's...
Pimento
Oh, geez. Somebody get him a new knife.
(Mordecai and Rigby grimace)
Pimento's Assistant
Five minutes. Gene is just running down the clock at this point.
Benson
I need more wings.
Pimento
30 seconds. Remember, if the chili isn't plated, the contestant is disqualified.
Pimento's Assistant
That's it. Gene's done.
(Benson's friends gasp)
Pimento
10 seconds left.
Pimento's Assistant
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5...
(Park Crew gasp)
Pimento's Assistant
2, 1. Zero. I suppose he technically plated it.
Pimento
Time is up.
(audience cheers)
Pimento
And now I will begin the tasting. Excellent aroma. Gene, you have presented this wonderful chili for 10 years, and still I am surprised and refreshed.
Gene
Thank you, Chef.
Pimento
Chef Benson, interesting present. This is incredible.
Benson
(Sighs in relief)
Pimento
What is this flavor I'm tasting? This tang.
Benson
Uh, chicken wings, Mr. Ben Pimento.
Pimento
How novel. I must have a second bite.
Benson
Oh, go ahead, please.
Pimento
What is this?
Benson
It's a chicken bone. I ran out of time, so...
Pimento
You have given me a lot to think about. And now, time for the final judging. Gene, you gave me a reinvention of an all-time classic bursting with exotic aromatic herbs. Benson, your chili provided a red hot tang all too new to me, but it contained inedible elements, so I'm sorry to say, Gene, you have won.
Gene
Yes!
Benson
Aww!
Pimento
Many years in the past, but not this year! (laughs) Benson wins!
(Park Crew cheers)
Benson
Yeah!
Gene
You're alright, Dunwoody!
Benson
Yeah!