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Sofa, So Good

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Sofa, So Good (ソファー、そうです)

Super ElamenSTAR Episode 406

Aired 30th October, 1999

Summary

Construction is coming along nicely on the Cerulean Citadel. The Four Underdogs decide to formalize some coursework for their small student body, causing Phila to sagely note, "A room does not a classroom make."

After blank stares all around, she sighs heavily. "We need some (expletive deleted) furniture, guys."

A handful of minor quests later, and much furniture has been gathered--some ambulatory, some not. A minor squabble between Phila and Wendel takes place, with Phila arguing that you can't use furniliars for classroom furniture. Wendel wins when most of the furniliars suggest that they rather enjoy being used.

The gathered furniture includes two virtually identical sofas, comfortable in appearance and pleasingly amicable. But one of them hides a dark and irritating secret...

Notes

Montgomery Sofa is most famous for his death at the Battle of Windfield Plains, one of the seventeen final battles of Book 12. In this episode we learn that he looks almost exactly like the Comfortable-Looking Sofa, and that this resemblance has plagued him for much of his existence.

Dragol the Dragon makes his first appearance in this episode, wearing a fake mustache and an overcoat that does almost nothing to hide his identity. He claims he is holding a large number of furniliars captive. Phila douses him with some cold water and he runs away crying, "I only wanted attention!" He is considered one of the most pointless and annoying characters in the series; his three appearances are apparently the direct result of Tomono Shuuan demanding for some unfathomable reason that his 5-year-old niece be allowed to write a part of the show.

This episode ends in a cliffhanger as Zula relaxes on what she believes to be Montgomery Sofa, but what is in fact the dreaded Comfortable-Looking Sofa.

Comments

Kenneth Pike This entire episode was just an excuse to tie in some minor characters from the books. The writing was horrible and the animation was sub-par, even for ElamenSTAR. It all just reinforced the fact that the fourth season was kind of aimless.
Crusader Not to mention, the whole "I'm furniture, I love how soft young student buttocks warm my weary frame" conversation was just downright disturbing.
Tim I don't know.. I sort of like the whole way that the stories took their time and established the setting for the final season. Plus the frenetic over the top action of the previous season pretty much wore me out of strings of epic battles. The subplot in this episode of the student who lost her Fortune Egg before she could read it was touching.

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