HEADS OF BEEF
Featuring: Jean Bonne The Pig, and Mrs. Bonne
This one is a delightful nod to the story of
Sweeney Todd...and is also a bit misleading the first time one
sees it (continue reading to see what I mean).
Muriel is quite sick with a temperature and the flu, and asks
Eustace...who insists that since she won't get his dinner, he's
"going out and get me a hamburger!", to stop by the
bakery and get her a scone, but on the way out (accompanied by
Courage), Eustace passes by the bakery and stops at a diner,
telling Courage "Gonna get me a hamburger first...heh heh
heh!"
Courage almost immediately becomes suspicious: the owner, Jean
Bonne, is a creepy looking pig with yellow teeth. The other
customer, who asks Jean Bonne "where is the ...uh..."
(referring to the men's room), fails to return from behind the
door that Jean points out to him. The pig picks up the man's
attache case and hat, saying "I'll just hold on to
these...until he gets back!". Eustace and Courage are then
served their hamburgers...and Courage's has the face of the
missing man on it! Jean explains "It's my wife's specialty:
a head of beef!" Have Courage and Eustace entered a cannibal
diner?
When the sinister pig disappears, Courage goes through the door
in search of the missing man. Down in the cellar, he sees the
shadows of Jean Bonne and Mrs. Bonne...hovering over the shadow
of the man's head! Returning upstairs, Courage tries to warn
Eustace, who ignores him as usual. Jean Bonne returns and tells
Courage "My wife LOVES little dogs, in fact, my wife would
like to meet you...right NOW!" Chasing the terrifies dog
downstairs, Courage observes the shadow of Mrs. Bonne devouring
the head in one bite!
The Bonnes begin chasing Courage around, but the quick little
scaredy dog escapes them and hurries back down the road home,
with Mrs. Bonne shouting "Come back here you tasty
morsel!" Here's the twist:
Back at the diner, Eustace (to whom Jean Bonne said "My wife
would love to meet you!"), is in the cellar along with the
missing man and the Bonne couple...who are presenting Eustace
with a sculpture of his own head made from hamburger meat! Mrs.
Bonne's specialty is sculpting heads using ground beef instead of
clay! Yummy, yummy!