The Book

The Book is the 12th episode in the series.

Plot synopsis
On Halloween, Matt wants to go trick-or-treating as soon as possible, but Jay wants to clean up the house first. Unable to agree, they split up. While cleaning, Jay discovers a strange book of sheet music written in a foreign language. He starts to play a piece just as Matt, not having fun without him, returns home. Jay vanishes as Matt enters, who believes he has gone trick-or-treating and decides to clean the house to make up for it. Jay, however, has been shrunken down to microscopic size and is stuck on the piano bench.

Jay narrowly survives drowning under a spray bottle, being pushed off the bench by a duster, and being vacuumed up. He tries to communicate with Matt by making a facade of himself out of candy, but Matt laughs and throws it in the trash. Jay notices the papier-mâché heads they made of themselves and uses a potato chip to fly into his head, the hollow inside creating an echo chamber that Matt can hear his voice in. Jay has Matt carry him to the piano so he can show him how to play the piece, and it changes him back to normal size but switches their bodies.

Jay (in Matt's body) tries to play a piece to change them back, but all it does is summon the hunter from Jumanji. Jay reverses the spell just in time to save Matt from being shot, putting them back in their bodies and making the hunter disappear. Matt states that their ordeal is finally over just as the lights go out and Jay transforms into a werewolf. Initially despondent, Jay is cheered up when Matt explains how they could use his transformation as excellent band promotion. As Matt successfully books a show at the Rivoli and Jay hunts squirrels in the park, he is suddenly shot dead by the hunter. Unsure what to do, Matt stares distraughtly at Jay's body as it turns back into a nude human.

Appearances

 * Jay McCarrol
 * Matt Johnson

Notes & trivia

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