Day in Court

"Day in Court" is an even weirder episode of The Game of Life.

Plot
Previously…

> SpongeBob tells Adrienne to move to the UFC world. Adrienne listens to this advice, and after trolling the forums, she moves out of the household and into an apartment. After moving, the landlord tells her not to forget to pay the rent. Adrienne cries in her bed and calls a sadness hotline.

> Only a few hours after Adrienne moves in, Amara gets this text message.

> Adrienne died inside her apartment and there's an unfinished grilled cheese sandwich that was being cooked on the stove…

Part 1
Earlier that day…

Feeling very uncomfortable, April decided to snort a line of coke and adderall at the sink, right in front of SpongeBob, who was about to make a coffee. SpongeBob pays no attention to this as he’s still very sad about his failed marriage. Coked up, April becomes very confident and decides to… snort more coke.

After this, April decides to go visit Adrienne to see how she’s doing. She goes to her apartment block and knocks on the door, Adrienne lets her in and April… uses the mirror in her bathroom to practice kissing. While Adrienne is watching The Simpsons on TV, April tries to cheer her up. It fails, and Adrienne goes to cry in her bed.

April then goes to cook a grilled cheese sandwich in Adrienne’s apartment, Adrienne tells her that this is inappropriate and asks her to stop. April then grabs the sandwich and attempts to choke Adrienne with it, it seems to have killed her, but she somehow manages to get up and check her mail. She doesn't call the police. April then resumes cooking her grilled cheese sandwich and then grabs a knife and stabs Adrienne’s neck, this time actually killing her (although the game thinks April was successful in killing her the first time, and gives April the serial killer status for killing 3 or more sims).

SpongeBob, still sad about the failed marriage, shows up to the apartment, possibly to make amends with Adrienne. Instead, he walks in on the murder scene and cries. The Grim Reaper then shows up and asks April to stop killing sims because he "doesn’t have all day to reap souls." SpongeBob pleads to the Grim Reaper by crying about Adrienne but is unsuccessful.

SpongeBob notices there is food left in the apartment and decides to eat some pasta pancakes while April washes off the blood that’s on her clothing. The Grim Reaper then reaps Adrienne’s soul and Amara gets the text message saying that Adrienne’s gone. After finishing his pasta, SpongeBob calls the police. April looks in the mirror, possibly to check if she has washed off the blood, and a cop arrives. SpongeBob reports April to the cop and she is quickly arrested. Just a few seconds later, April manages to break out of jail. SpongeBob reports this to the cop, who is still at the scene, but he determines that there is nothing suspicious about April breaking out jail after murdering her mother. SpongeBob then decides to pick up Adrienne’s urn and the two head home.

At home, April gives Amara her condolences about the loss of Adrienne… Might’ve been some sort of coverup. After April pays the bills so the lights can come back on (yes the lights have been out ever since they came home), Mr. Krabs gives toddler Hallie a bath. What a nice guy he is, I sure hope he does nothing bad later on.

Part 2
Remember that store Funky bought a few episodes ago? Y’know the one that got raided by the police because people were going there naked to buy drugs? Funky hasn’t learned his lesson and decides to restock the store full of drugs yet again. A naked Mr. Krabs also turns up to help the store, where he learns that he likes singing. Funky invites Luigi Mario to the store as a potential customer, he shows up naked and, well, behind Luigi’s suit is a bald man.

One of the customers that turns up to the store is… A zombie. Funky decides not to accept business from zombies, and shoots the zombie with an assault rifle. Mr. Krabs then gets a text from Waluigi saying "you’re so notorious that one of my unscrupulous friends has been asking to meet you. Can I give them your number?" He says OK.

After being open for 8 hours, finally the customers start to actually buy stuff from the store… The customers bought MDMA pill bottles and nothing else. 4 hours later, the store is closed, having lost $404 and only selling 3 items. One woman is still in the store however as her order was never dealt with, a naked SpongeBob (who was also at the store) deals with her order and then cleans the store.

After heading home, SpongeBob does the worst singing I have ever heard and then finds out he, and the rest of the household, will have to go outside again. It is the "Night on the Town" event, when local businesses want to show some customer appreciation ("the intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment") by offering the customers free food and drinks… There is no way the businesses make any form of profit out of this.

3 hours later, SpongeBob is still doing his awful singing and forgot to go pee. Funky wakes up and because he’s hungry, he decides to go to the local formal restaurant (y’know the one where the employees are dressed up as Wario and Bees from Bee Movie) to get some free food and drinks. Funky requests a table and orders a Gin and Tonic that would normally cost $21 but because of the event it is free. The mixologist starts to make Funky’s drink and somehow breaks a bunch of glass bottles in the process. SpongeBob comes over and somehow trusts the mixologist enough to order a Plasma Jane. Mr. Krabs also goes to the restaurant but simply sits on a bench outside. Eventually, he enters the building and orders a Long Island Iced Tea from the mixologist.

SpongeBob’s drink makes him feel nauseated as his drink contained Plasma Fruit. Mr. Krabs, as a "foodie sim," finds his drink disappointing and decides to confront the mixologist. He rudely introduces himself to the mixologist, who for some reason is already terrified. Mr. Krabs then gets a text from Waluigi saying "an acquaintance was telling me how much they dislike you… Try being a little nicer - becoming disliked is a slippery slope!" Mr. Krabs ignores this text, and threatens the mixologist with a gun to his head, holding him hostage so he can get the money for his drink back. Eventually, he stops, and the mixologist falls to the floor, causing the other customers to get angry at Mr. Krabs, including SpongeBob. Mr. Krabs gets the "violent sim" reputation, shortly followed by him getting the "offender" reputation. Mr. Krabs then rips out the mixologist’s heart. After laughing, he eats the heart, and does another evil laugh. Apparently if sims eat a human heat it fulfills hunger, vampire thirst, and extends age so they can live longer lives.

Mr. Krabs then gets a phone call saying "your enemy has passed away." I think he is aware of that. Cops then appear in the restaurant, shooting their guns immediately for no reason, and Mr. Krabs is quickly arrested. It is not made clear if Mr. Krabs actually got his money back.

April and Amara join the cast at the restaurant and for some reason the cast are unable to order food together, they each have to request a table individually… Except for April, for some reason she was able to invite a drug dealer to sit at her table. After inviting a drug dealer to her table, April buys almost every drug he sells and a fake ID…

At 2 AM, April is still at the restaurant and the event ends. SpongeBob thinks the event was awesome because he had a wonderful time and got to do everything he planned, as did April. Amara, however, thought the event was awful, as she was unable to order anything at the restaurant.

Part 3
Back at home, Funky tries to build a rocket, but is rudely interrupted by a wanted serial killer who is outside the house. Funky calls the cops, and she is quickly arrested. Funky then decides to eat some leftover food outside, and hears a fire alarm going off. After running inside, he spots a random woman who has broken into the house, and is on fire. Funky, Mr. Krabs, and SpongeBob all manage to extinguish the sim on fire, but not without waking up the entire household. A member of the fire department then messages the household telling them that "the fire has been put out" and to be a little more careful next time. Nobody in the household caused the fire, the fire department did not attend the scene.

This segment is off to a good start, Mr. Krabs then decides to have sex with the sim who was on fire. As if that wasn’t bad enough, this is happening in SpongeBob’s bed. Despite having extinguished the fire, Funky Kong is still outside protecting the toddler from the flames.

April then wakes up. Shortly after waking up, she smokes a cigarette, pops a pill of Xanax, does shroom, and ingests LSD. Afterwards, she snorts a line of coke, amphetamine, and smokes weed. And if that wasn’t enough, she then pours a cup of Lean. While all of these drugs start having an effect on her (you can literally see stars going around her head), she then has a Long Island Iced Tea, oh no. If THAT wasn’t enough, she then pops a pill of Adderall, snorts MORE coke, snorts MORE speed, ingests MORE LSD, takes another PILL of MDMA (she did that at some point, I think I forgot to mention but can you blame me?), drinks MORE Lean, rolls another joint, and this is before she even considers drinking the Long Island Iced Tea she made earlier.

This combination of drugs has so far only made April "very flirty." After originally deciding to go upstairs and go to sleep, she goes back downstairs, snorts MORE drugs, and pops another pill. She is unable to take any more LSD, as she is already "zonked out of her mind." It was at this point I also realized April went to a rehab session at some point but never attended her second session. Mr. Krabs walks up to her at one point, doesn’t question anything, just smiles and continues making his coffee like everything is completely normal… Oh, and April takes another MDMA pill.

April becomes "very energized" and decides to travel. She goes to the SBFW household. While outside, she takes one last pill of MDMA, drinks another cup of lean, and picks the lock of the SBFW household. After breaking in, it’s clear April is still tripping. Nobody in the SBFW household has noticed she’s inside yet, however, not even the dog. April then pulls out the gun she apparently brought with her, and threatens the household. She steals the downstairs computer, still tripping as April thinks she is "being bombarded by utterly extreme visuals." She laughs, and Johnathon Dog finally notices that his house is being robbed, as he starts to howl. Then he goes to sleep.

Aaron appears to call someone to help while April steals… The fire alarm. Keep in mind, there is a TV right next to her at this point. Garfield then notices something is going on and April threatens him with the gun, though he doesn’t seem to care that much. April then goes upstairs, where Aidan is using a computer that is on a blue screen, and April threatens him with the gun, this time actually generating a reaction from Aidan.

A cop is at the address now, not doing much about the robbery, and it seems SpongeBob is also aware of what is going on as he too is at the SBFW household now. April steals another fire alarm from downstairs, and goes back upstairs to steal a penguin-shaped TV (I am guessing this used to belong to Golf). She spends a long time looking at the TV in the room, while Aidan and Garfield are terrified in the corner. Aaron heads upstairs and shoots April.

April is now clearly wounded and seems to suddenly be more aware of what she is actually doing, as she screams. April and SpongeBob now both go to the hospital. And no, the cops did not do anything about the armed robbery April performed. And no, SpongeBob does not seem to be that annoyed about what April did.

After one of the longest loading screens I have ever seen, April and SpongeBob are now at the hospital. And guess who’s the doctor? Why, it’s Aidan Sponge, who was obviously a victim of the armed robbery. Nevertheless, after a very glitchy interaction, he is apparently more than willing to help April’s bullet wound. Though, apparently the cops followed April and SpongeBob to the hospital but it doesn’t matter, they don’t do anything about what happened anyway.

After April gets on the very glitched operating table, she quickly jumps off, pisses herself, and then smokes a joint… Still wounded, she slowly walks up to a table to drink another cup of lean. After watching some music streams, she asks Aidan again to have the surgery to remove the bullet wound performed. However, the game is glitched and the interaction fails. She asks again, and the same thing happens again, so she asks another doctor to have the surgery performed. This time the interaction is successful, though the game is still very clearly glitched as she constantly jumps from one operating table to the other..





Luckily, April’s surgery is successful and she celebrates by drinking a soda, ingesting more LSD, taking more MDMA, popping pills, and confetti. SpongeBob then walks up to her and April informs him that "crows can recognize individual human faces and hold grudges" and it’s only at this point SpongeBob realizes what happened. He yells at her for being wasted. Then they hug… The game is glitched again, sad music plays several times and a notification pops up saying the surgery was unsuccessful even though it was. SpongeBob has already gone home but before April leaves the hospital, she snorts more coke and speed.

Back at home and as if this segment wasn’t already terrible, Mr. Krabs has been diagnosed with the STD "Crab Lice."



At least it fits.

Funky goes to open his drug store and just a few minutes after opening it, he has customers! Loads of customers are in the store, all having a nice chat while in the nude. 3 hours after opening, people actually start buying things and it looks like the business is finally making a profit. Sure, 2 customers had a fight, but Funky quickly kicked them both out, it’s all good.

10 hours after the store opened, so many items had been sold that Funky had to call SpongeBob to help. Everything seems perfect, the business is making a profit, the customers have their stash, the cops… sighs The cops arrived at the store again. Funky quickly closes the store, having sold 10 items and making 2k in profit. After saying that he "feels like doing something really crazy" while the store is being swatted, SpongeBob heads home and the sergeant arrests a naked Funky Kong. After the arrest, the cops continue taking the drugs out of the store, slowly.

Several hours later, Funky is released and says that he "reckons the smart thing to do now is to lay low for a while." He is informed that a trial is coming up "in a couple of days." The smart move right now is to get a hold of a lawyer…

Funky heads home and transfers all of his business funds ($40,620) to the actual household and donates $1000 to the charity "Simoleons for Everyone." He also chooses the most expensive law firm for his day in court and is told that he "will not regret this."

Funky then travels back to his shop and sells the store, earning him $25,147. The people who now own the store still have it open, so I guess they just sell cigarettes now or something.

Part 4
After doing all her homework, April goes to school but for the last time. It is her birthday and she will become a young adult. SpongeBob invites some guests, including Mario Mario and Waluigi Waluigi. Mario Mario speaks to Funky Kong and April just stands still. I have been to work events more interesting than this. April eventually joins in on Funky and Mario’s conversation while a random guest plays Tetris on the household’s computer.

There’s also an entertainer telling jokes at the party and Waluigi is standing there just watching him. I also didn’t notice this when I was playing the game but SpongeBob was just floating in the pool. Like he was dead.



Eventually at the world’s most boring party, April makes a wish, blows out the candles on the cake, and ages up to a young adult. Lifelong responsibilities, burgeoning careers, and vast horizons await! She also now has the clubber trait. April applies for a university and gets a bronze reward saying "Happy Birthday! Shame about the party. At least someone left a book as a present…" This wasn’t fun.

The next day, Funky has his day in court. "Best of luck! Chances are he is going to need it…" A few hours later it starts to snow and Funky’s trial is over. Funky was found guilty in a misdemeanor for his drug offenses. He has to pay a fine of $7,443 (I have no idea if this includes law firm costs or whatever) and has been given a short prison sentence starting immediately…

While Funky’s in jail, Graggle Simpson takes care of Hallie. While doing so, he spots an arsonist outside. He makes SpongeBob aware of it, and SpongeBob calls the cops. But when the cops arrive, they end up on fire themselves. Graggle calls more cops over and helps extinguish the fire. But then, Graggle ends up on fire himself. A cop, who for some reason is inside the house, is also on fire, causing several fire alarms in the house to go off. Graggle can also be heard screaming out "WHY AM I EVEN DOING THIS!!!!!!" A cop walks up to Graggle and instead of helping him, the cop asks why they were called to the scene. Mr. Krabs decides to call the fire department because he just doesn’t like seeing Graggle Simpson in pain.

When the fire department arrive, and Mr. Krabs helps extinguish the flames, Graggle Simpson… Dies. I don’t know how, one second he was alive, the next he was dead. The cop inside the house also dies and Mr. Krabs cries about it. Wait, Mr. Krabs crying about a cop dying? That can’t be right…

It turns out, Graggle Simpson dying was just a bad dream April had. Graggle is still alive… Funky is still in jail though.