New Year, Same Garbage

"New Year, Same Garbage" is the ninth episode of The Game of Life.

Plot
This episode was written between October 2020 and January 2021.

April’s friend shows up at the house and walks right past 2 people who are fighting outside of the house. April and her friend completely ignore the fight.

While sitting at the dinner table, the Grim Reaper suddenly announces to Adrienne that he is going to be moving out of the house soon. He does not state the reason why. Adrienne then becomes sad, not because Grim is leaving but because of the thought of Hallie growing up. She then decides to go to the doctor’s for medication.

At the doctor’s she is told to give some pills a go and call if she gets any out of the ordinary side effects. The pills are Xanax, Adrienne is straight-edge and refuses to take Xanax. She leaves them out on the table and Funky takes them. Funky pops a pill and waits for the effects to kick in, the pills take away the stress, anger, and tension in Funky Kong’s life.

Later that day, the effects start to wear off and Funky pops another pill. Popping multiple Xanax pills in one sitting is "generally not a good idea" and Funky is left dazed and confused, "like a zombie, albeit a happy one." He decides to go to the doctor about the side effects. The doctor’s solution to Funky having a Xanax overdose is to prescribe him more Xanax…

Grim quietly moves out of the household that night and it remains unclear why he has left.

Over at the SBFW household, Aidan harvests some weed from the basement and decides to make a weed pizza for him and the rest of the household. Aidan, SpongeBot, and Garfield all eat a slice of the weed pizza and become extremely high later that day.

At work, SpongeBot has just noticed a section of software that’s riddled with bugs. They report the bugs all by themself.

Even though the rest of the household are eating weed pizza, Aaron is happy because "it’s always nice to have other Straight Edgers around!" SpongeBot then gets promoted to Code Monkey, they will now make an additional 10 dollars per hour. They’ve also been given a 506 dollar bonus and a computer hard drive.

Aidan checks his kill count and learns that he has killed 1 sim. He then continues to write his book, "Box Productions is The Best."

Later that day Garfield watches The Simpsons while Aaron is asleep on the couch. Aaron eventually wakes up and goes to piss. Aidan gets hungry and decides to make some vegetable dumplings for the entire household. Aidan and Garfield have a conversation while eating the dumplings.

SpongeBot has a drink and sends a drunk text to Johnny Zest, who responds by saying "I get that you are having a party and all, but that message was largely incomprehensible. Please stop drunk texting me!"

Aidan invites his girlfriend, Janessa, over and they get talking, they have a nice conversation but it gets awkward when Aidan asks her a risque question and she declines. He tries to recover the conversation by joking about nacho cheese, but he fails and she leaves.

Garfield decides that he wants to make some quick cash, he goes outside and "dances" for the general public. He attracts a large crowd, including Aidan’s girlfriend, but despite the huge crowd, nobody tips Garfield and he makes no money.

(writer’s note: good god this episode is getting boring, let’s go back to the other household and see if they can spice things up)

Back at the Kongs, a lost child invades the house. Funky calls someone about it but the child continues to casually walk around the house. Later that day Johnny Zest goes to the house to buy some weed from Funky and somebody in the household complains that "something stinks." Not the weed, they’re complaining that nobody is cleaning up the house. Along with that, several household items like the shower and the bath are broken by ghosts. Nobody fixes them, but when the fridge breaks the household finally decides to call for a repair service. A woman shows up and stays at the household for over an hour fixing all the broken appliances… Just for them to break again later that day.

Funky Kong calls his drug dealer over and when he comes over, in a sudden fit of rage, the dealer kicks the wheelie bin over and then gets mad about the trash on the ground. April spots this and tries to calm him down, while they’re talking April buys some "bad speed" from him to help her energy levels as she is too lazy to go to sleep.

Johnny Zest sends Adrienne a message telling her that he won the lottery and is sharing his winnings. He gives her just 25 simoleons…

April wakes up from a nap hungover and says that she "feels like shit with a beat up nose!" Funky Kong heads out the back to use the swimming pool when he spots Mr. Krabs’ ghost. He asks him how he is and everything seems fine. Later that day Funky walks back in and claims that he was in a fight, it is reasonable to assume that the fight was with Mr. Krabs. Funky claims to have won the fight but despite this, he also admits to being bruised from the fight.

Out of nowhere, a sim on fire enters the house and for a while everyone ignores him. But Funky later on tries and succeeds at extinguishing the man, who disappears shortly afterwards.

Adrienne puts some trash in the bin and decides to rummage the bin for food, she finds some mac and cheese that she thinks is "still edible-ish" and decides to eat it… She thinks it was a "fairly tasty dish." She then gets a message from someone saying "the end is near, are you ready?" The message leaves her angry and wondering how they got her number…

April has spent the last few days abusing amphetamine and her parents have not yet noticed… She has a shower and a ghost, thought to be someone Mr. Krabs murdered in a previous episode, enters the bathroom and looks at her… This leaves April incredibly angry and she responds by attempting to hold him hostage for money, she puts the ghost in a chokehold while pointing a gun at him, eventually knocking him out. April feels good as the man totally deserved it and she goes to sleep. Despite seeing part of the fight, Amara doesn’t call the police…

When the ghost wakes up, instead of fighting April, he beats up the teddy bear. SpongeBob then goes upstairs and doesn’t question the ghost, he does however rant and rave at April for taking amphetamine. SpongeBob then cries in his bed...

Funky suddenly decides to plan a house party, inviting over the maid, Aidan, and Johnny Zest. After starting the party Funky receives a text from someone saying that he’s falling in love with him, Funky responds by saying that he feels the same way…

When the party starts, the people invited spend most of the party just hanging out in the street with some troublemaking kids. Eventually they enter the house and it would seem that the maid found out about Funky’s test message, as when Funky tries to flirt with her, they suddenly end up in an argument and the maid leaves the party.

Yet another sim on fire invades the house in the middle of the party, Aidan sees this and gets scared but an entertainer that Funky hired completely ruins the mood by telling jokes while the sim is in flames.