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This article documents all of the episodes so far in the web
cartoon Bonus
Stage.
Season 1
1-Car: Joel buys a
box, thinking it is a car. Since he sold his home to buy this car,
he and Phil are forced to live in the
box.<br>
2-Zombie: Joel creates a
t-shirt zombie, which advises him to leave the house. When he tries
to burn the shirt, it possesses their
house.<br>
3-Character: Phil is
fantasizing about Elly, so Joel brings him outside to play
football. While doing so, he points out that his character is
evolving, while Phil's character is
two-dimensional.<br>
4-Project: Joel
pitches his newest invention--a ruler that expands--to the new
neighbors, who happen to be alternate versions of him and
Phil.<br>
5-Yuletide: For the past five
years, Joel hasn't given anything to Phil for Christmas, so in
retaliation, Phil doesn't get him a gift. Also, Phil tries to buy a
tree from Treelor, but he insists on testing
Phil.<br>
6-The NYE: Joel and Phil go to
the New Year's Eve party next door, hosted by Topato. Joel
questions whether or not this is fair use. Joel is also the life of
the party, and kicks Phil out, because "he has
authority".<br>
7-Cube: Joel begins to
worship the timecube. The cube, in turn, sucks Joel and Phil into
several alternate universes, including Mega Man, Inuyasha, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Home Movies, and finally, a
very bizarre messed up dimension. While here, Phil makes a racist
comment, and Joel sues him for
35$.<br>
8-Recap: Phil tries to
remenisce, but is interrupted by Joel. Also, Joel plays Joel's
Adventure, an NES game that Phil got for
him.<br>
9-Morbid: Blakken White kills
Joel, and he goes to hell. Even worse, Satan bores him to tears.
Phil and Elly try to rescue him, but they die and go to hell as
well. They retrieve Joel from hell and escape. Unfortunately, Joel
kills everyone again, thinking that there are more characters on
the show.<br>
10-Out: Phil,
ex-superhero, goes to the watchtower bar with the Lackluster team.
While there, he gets recruited to a painful mission. Also, Joel
dies from a growth on his
head.<br>
11-Rivals: The Tandy Bros
declare that Phil is their rival. However, they prove to be very
incompetent. This, combined with Joel's general annoyance, prompts
him to allow the Tandy Bros. to blow up the house while Joel is
inside of it.<br>
12-Mic: Joel gets a
microphone for his laptop. This annoys the heck out of Phil, until
it steals his voice and makes him mute. When Phil realizes that the
voice is inside of his computer, he immedeately smashes it into
little tiny bits.
Season 2
13-Return:
The Tandy Bros. take over Phil's house, and they take Joel and Phil
hostage. After much aggrivation, they attack Joel, who gets sent to
the emergency room.<br>
14-Car 2: Joel
annoys Phil, so Phil kills him. This leaves him without a method of
transportation, so he can not get to
work.<br>
15-Zombie 2: Joel believes
that he is a zombie, after having died 5 times or so. When he can't
figure out how to deal with this, he decides to be thankful that he
is alive and well.<br>
16-Character 2:
Joel introduces Rya to his friends, and says that he will add her
to the cast if one of them dies. Phil decides not to kill anyone in
an attempt to get on Rya's good side, but it turns out that she is
a robot. Elly kills Treelor, and Rya is added to the cast of Bonus
Stage.<br>
17-Project 2: Joel uses
Phil's money to renovate his house so it resembles Bowser's
Dungeon. This is the final straw for Phil, and he kicks him out.
Joel moves into the house next door, which is apparently
cursed.<br>
18-2 Fast: Phil announces
that he's fasting, in an attempt to impress Elly. Joel invites his
friends over for a housewarming party--however, he has now mutated
into a giant blob-like creature, since the house is
cursed.<br>
19-2 Pack: Joel gets a
2-pack of pop. Each can contains a genie, and they each grant Joel
and Phil one wish. Joel wishes that his voice and Phil's voice were
switched, and Phil wishes that he had an infinite number of wishes.
He makes several odd wishes--including wishing Hell away--but the
genies reveal that the wishes are
permanant.<br>
20-2 Lips: Joel gets
another pair of lips that are rooted directly into Joel's
subconcius. Phil tries to help him by placing him in the room of
time (where a minute in the real world is a day in the room of
time). He returns 10 days later to realize that Joel died of
starvation.<br>
21-Go 2 Bed: After
Joel's dying of Starvation, Phil and Elly have trouble getting to
sleep. Since in 2 Pack Phil wished Hell away, Joel haunts
Phil's dreams, and soon everyone (that is, Phil, Joel and Elly) end
up travelling to a spirit world
Tournament.<br>
22-2 Bit: For no
particular reason at all, Stamp has gone loose, stamping people
into game sprites. It is up to June, Phil's rarely seen girlfriend
to save them.<br>
23-2 Legit: Phil is in
court for the 'murder' of Joel Dawson. It's up to
alien-smashed-turned-lawyer Keen to get Phil out of
this!<br>
24-2 Raider: It seems that all
of Joel's stuff has disappeared, it's up to the wacko Action Squad
Detective Force to crack this case and stop the
robbers!<br>
25-GRUFFO: In the Season 2
special, Joel and Phil check into E3 for a show that could only be
'Bonus Stage-esque'! Plus you get to find out the Truth about Bonus
Stage's Charismaville, New Jersey!<br>
Season 3
26-Virtual Apocolypse: And now we find out
the punishment for Phil's wishing Hell away. Everyone knows Hell
can be rebuilt in seconds, but, unlucky for Phil, those seconds can
take forever when you're with
Satan!<br>
27-Virtual Cooking: June is
stuck with the burden of cooking dinner for the neighbors. Rya
offers to cook dinner, and poisons everyone's
meal.<br>
28-Virtual Dating: Joel is
concerned about Phil, since he hasn't dated in a while and spends
time playing Sims Online. To help him, Joel tries out his dating
simulation, but winds up trapping Phil in several video
games.<br>
29-Virtual Mailman: In an
attempt to exact revenge on Keen, KOKOR has a bomb delivered to his
house. However, Craig winds up delivering the package to Phil's
house instead.<br>
30-Virtual Candy:
Joel profits off of the candy factory in the backyard--until
someone steals the fluffy
chocolate.<br>
31-Virtual Ad: Joel
invents a phone that you use to call someone in a different time
period. Despite the fact that this invention could change the
world, he hires Slim to market it, who does so by advertising the
phones as ice cream sandwiches.<br>
32-Virtual
Crossing: Joel and Phil go on the Internet to set up the
first Bonus Stage convention. They hire Ed, Manny, and Becky (from
pending series "interACTION") to help them
out.<br>
33-Virtual Pest: Three video
game blocks hang around the backyard, rambling about what video
games "used to be". It's up to Phil to convince them to
leave.<br>
34-Virtual Diary: While
looking through Elly's basement, Joel finds her blog. He reads it
to discover that Elly longs to be in the spotlight of the show, but
is always pushed aside for other
characters.<br>
35-Virtual Pirate: Joel
becomes a pirate. He invades Craig's ship and finds out that him
and Rya are an item.<br>
36-Virtual
Finger: Phil's fingers become dangerous weapons as
anything he touches disappears. He eliminates Joel's leg, much to
the glee of Joel, who replaces it with several odd accessories. Of
course, Joel is no help as to solving the
problem.<br>
37-Virtual Combat: Evil
gives out a free MMORPG and traps all the players inside--including
Joel and Phil.
Season 4
38-The Curse of
Xenis: A space creature named Xenis possesses Joel so that
he can take over the world. Too bad Xenis is incompetent in the
English language.<br>
39-CurSING!: Joel
attempts to start a musical number, but fails, so instead he tries
to start an underground city. This city quickly gets taken over by
Elly and Rya.<br>
40-Accursed Meeting:Waterman and friends
move in next door and transform the place into a frat house. Phil,
Elly, and eventually, Joel, all agree that they have to go.
Meanwhile, Joel tries to make Bonus Stage suitable for all
audiences.<br>
41-Cursplash: Joel is
forced to become a pirate again when a group of ninjas take over
the nearby lake.<br>
42-Cursive Written
Script: Joel gets a gig at Channel Five and doesn't show
up for the episode. Phil and Elly go to the Channel Five station,
but they wind up dying there, thanks to Blakken
White.<br>
43-Cursory Glance: Evil
breaks his glasses. He forces Phil to go to the shop to buy him new
ones.<br>
44-You Evil Curs: Rya and
Craig have a baby named Rygar. The new baby is homicidal, and runs
around defeating all the other Bonus Stage villians. Joel
challenges him to a duel. As a result of the baby, Rya divorces
Craig.<br>
45-First Cursh: Phil's mom,
Jessica, shows up, and despite being middle aged, she looks and
acts like she is 25. Joel falls in love with her. Rya, traumatized
by the divorce, exacts revenge on
everybody.<br>
46-For Better or Cursor:
Joel invents a giant mouse cursor, and uses it to mess with
everyone.<br>
47-Strong Liqcurs: Elly
builds a bar, but it attracts all the unpopular characters. Joel
blows up the bar, saving everybody.<br>
48-Get
Baccurs: Phil tells Elly why Jessica looks so young. She
was originally a fundamentalist christian. She went to Phil's house
to convert his friends, but Evil activated the sitcom reactor,
turning Jessica 25.<br>
49-HACKCURS Was The Worst
Movie Ever Made: The Tandy Bros. have taken over the
world! It's up to Phil, Joel, Jessica, and Will Ferrell to stop their
nefarious deeds!<br>
50-Evil's New
Groove: Evil captures the entire cast of Bonus Stage,
except Phil. At first, Phil is ecstatic, but he begins to realize
that there is no show without the rest of the cast. He goes to
Evil's fortress to rescue his friends. When he frees Rya, she
challenges Evil directly, but Evil deactivates her. Phil and
Jessica release the secondary characters. Joel battles Evil, and
Joel is victorious. Evil fires his new weapon, the HateBender, at
Phil's house, and it is destroyed. A fatal slip of the tongue
reveals Evil's true identity--Elly. Joel and Phil return home, and
decide not to do the show there anymore, but instead, to do it from
space.
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