The Fun Fair

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= The Fun Fair =

The Fun Fair is the fourth episode of Season 2.

Synopsis
Martha uses newfound power to supply her labor camps.

Plot
In an executive order, President Martha decides to abolish standardized testing, leading to a 98% presidential approval rate among United Statesians. Now that she has such high ratings, Martha can commit more acts of treason than ever before without being suspected. She teams up with PBS to throw a huge fun fair to celebrate the educational victory, which will take place on the outskirts of the Plutonium Forest, home to Martha’s many underground labor camps. Martha’s latest plot involves cloning thousands of children, then using the clones as free labor for her underground dog biscuit factory. By stealing Evil Scientist Truman’s “Times Two Machine,” installing it into one of the fun houses at the fair, and creating a vacuum chamber that will transfer the fresh clones to the factory, Martha has her nefarious setup ready to go for the big day.

The date of the fun fair has arrived, and Martha is all decked out in PBS attire, posing for pictures with unsuspecting children. The turnout for the event climbs into the ten thousands by 11 am, and all the roads leading to the site are blocked up with traffic, since attendants of the fair decided to park in the middle of the street. Police helicopters arrive on the scene in the early afternoon, and tell Martha that she has to end the event due to the traffic issues it has caused. Martha is indignant, as she does not think enough clones have been produced yet. She runs over to the cloning machine to check on the progress, only to discover that the vacuum chamber has malfunctioned and the clones are running around the fun house, terrorizing the children that spawned them. Martha, panicked at this unexpected malfunction, begins stuffing what she thinks are the clones into the vacuum chamber and pressing random buttons, hoping that it will begin to work. The machine spazzes out, sucking up everyone who was in the fun house, including Martha. Luckily, Martha is able to dig herself out of the tunnel and back out to the fun house site. When Martha emerges from the ground, the police are nowhere in sight, and parents are milling about, looking with a bit of concern for their missing children. Martha suggests that the parents who have lost their children take a look inside the fun house, as it is large and their children could be hiding in there. Predictably, when the parents enter the fun house, the vacuum machine sucks them up, and they join their children in the labor camps. By the time the sun has set, there are no parents left onsite who are without their children. Martha is happy to have obtained so much free labor with minimal effort. Martha and the fairground crew dismantle everything except for the funhouse, which Martha says she will take down herself. Everyone leaves except for Martha, who cackles evilly at the sight of the fun house, its vacuum machine still running. As the Plutonium Forest expands over the years,  she knows that the fun house will remain and anyone who ventures inside of it will be of gain to her underground industrial setup. The episode closes with a panning out over all of the cars still left on the road by the families who are now in Martha’s labor camps.