The TOON House Cartoon Stories: "Richard's Diet of... DESTRUCTION?!"

CHAPTER 5: BURNING Your Weight

Suddenly, the radio on her vehicle began to play a message, which would lead to the team of TOONs to figure out where Richard ran off to next.

We have a fire on West Elmore Boulevard. Wait, there's a guy! He's taking the hose. Sir, he's... he's posing with the hose! Sir?! SIR?!”

“M… maybe it's not him?” Steven asked nervously while shrugging awkwardly.

Look at the size of those biceps!

“Yeah.” Steven replied as he groaned in annoyance. “It's definitely him.”

At the scene of the fire, Richard did INDEED have the hose wrapped around his shoulder. His back to the burning house, he was showing off to the gathered crowd of animated residents and firemen.

“Sir, for pity's sake!” Fireman Sam exclaimed. “I need the hose to put out the fire!”

“There might be people in there, man!” Cousin Skeeter added in complete worry.

“He stole my helmet!” Emmet added as the crowd angrily scowled at Richard, who was STILL taking constant selfies.

“You join us here as our brave fire department are prevented from doing their job by a local muscular pink rabbit!” Kermit reported as he was covering the whole event on the news

As a siren was soon heard, Doug Maheswaran, who was also Connie's father, drove up to the scene as he got out of his police cruiser to stop all this craziness

“Sir!” Doug exclaimed. “Stop posing with the fire hose or I'll have to use this!”

But Richard just didn’t listen. AT ALL. He just took YET ANOTHER SELFIE!

“I warned you!” Doug exclaimed as he tased Richard before becoming awestruck. “Oh my gosh! It's just making his abs more defined!”

“Magnificent!” Cousin Skeeter gasped.

“Everything we try just makes him more beautiful!” Emmet added

“You'd feel so safe in those arms!” Fireman Sam added.

Suddenly, Drawer, Steven, Gumball, and Darwin all rode up to the scene on the mini-bike as they all ducked under the barricade and ran up to Richard.

“DAD!” Darwin shouted. “STOP!”

“You're taking this too far! You've become vain!” Gumball exclaimed. 

“Remember what's important to you!” Drawer added. “What means more to you than anything else?”

“Yes!” Steven agreed. “Remember your family!”

“No! Food!” Gumball added. 

“REMEMBER FOOD!!!” They all shouted.

As their command echoed into his voice, Richard turned to the onlookers and saw them eating various snacks. He then stumbled back, overwhelmed by his memories, and fell to the ground while the hose was ripped from the hydrant since it was wrapped around his foot and the resulting spray of water doused the flames.

“You join us here as a local hero has put out a house fire without the aid of our useless fire department!” Kermit the Frog exclaimed. 

Soon, Drawer, Steven, Gumball, Darwin, and Richard were all standing by an ambulance.

“I'm sorry, guys.” Richard said sadly. “I guess I went a bit too far. Let me make it up to you. Who wants pizza? And after that, we can go for Mexican. And after that, we can go for Chinese. Oh, and we should get a burrito too, and maybe some ice cream!”

Soon, the Watterson boys all walked off back to their proper homes after all of that terror, leaving Drawer and Steven to witness what was being seen in front of them

“You know what? I could also really go for a taco right now.” Richard chuckled. “There's this place I know where they toast the tacos first. Then, maybe a burger.”

“He's never gonna lose weight, huh?” Steven asked.

“Ehh… pretty much.” Drawer replied.

Even though working out didn’t last for very long, they were glad to know that regardless, Richard was still feeling well and just proud to be… well… his own self! As for Drawer and Steven, they both agreed that they shouldn't try to help Richard change the way he is. If he's gonna stay a fat middle-aged lazy man-bunny from now on, it won't ever bother them! Just… as long as that hotness doesn't go to his head TOO much…