The Twinkie Squad - Garlic Squid

Garlic Squid

Doug's second "morale raising" effort is to cook a fancifully made-up "traditional Pefkakian delicacy" for the Grand Knights. His choice is decidedly pungent: garlic squid with mango and banana; but this creates even WORSE problems; he attempts to prepare the dish in the school's Home Economics kitchen and hides the half-prepared garlic marinated squid in a hole in the ceiling when a class starts and it gets sealed before he can retrieve it. It's teamwork time: the Grand Knights of the Exalted Karpoozi have a mission to eliminate the stench of the rotting squid by any means necessary, including:

• using the class's pet gerbils to eat it (they'll supposedly eat anything, but even they run away from rotting garlic squid)
• cheap perfume that only sharpens and enhances the odor, causing the school to be closed until it dissipates
• Dr. Footsie, an industrial strength foot powder used by Olympic athletes, which contaminates the principal's office and accidentally clogs the school's toilets

While the school is closed, Doug and Commando help the other kids in the Twinkie Squad, who are not really mentally challenged but are very shy, shed their shame, rebuild their lives, and become more social.

Meanwhile the school reopens but the rotting stench is still there; the Home EC room and the Principal's Office directly above it, are both closed off and abandoned because the smell is so bad that it makes people's noses and eyes feel a painful burning sensation.