[People gather at Chez Ernie as they greet Mayor McKrinkle, his wife, and children, who enter a restaurant called Chez Ernie] [chattering]
Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor, over here! Mr. Mayor! Do you think your recent triple heart bypass affect your campaign strategy?
Now, Leslie, I'm just here to eat.
Mayor and his family enter the restaurant
[French accent]
Ah, monsieur le maire, Madame maire, welcome to Chez Ernie. What an honour it is to have you in my humble bistro. Suivez-moi. You brought the little ones. The little bicycle thieves. Bonjour! Our very best table. Have you lost little weight?
Oh, I--
I think so! I think you may be buff! Je suisse enchante pour votre beaute. You know what I mean?
The Mayor's Wife: Oh, Monsieur Ernie... [chuckles]
Excusez-moi. Au revoir, les enfants! [enters the kitchen to cook the lobster loaf and sighs] The air's not so thin at the top. Just like the old man to die before I hit it big. [A cockroach in Ernie's father's box of cigars opens the lid, and scurries toward the food] Remember, everyone. Attention to detail is vital! Presentation is everything. [stops the waiter] No, no, no, no, no! These I must deliver myself. [puts a fire on Duck a l'orange, brings all of the food and places on the table] Duck a I'Orange avec du quack sauce... And for ze Mayor, la specialite de la maison, Lobster Loaf a la Ernest ou la bibliotheque. Bon Appetit.
Oh. [exhales]
Ah, bonjour!
Chef Ernie. How does it feel to be serving the mayor on the eve of his campaign reelection?
Well, Leslie... May I call you Leslie?
Ah, of course.
[eats the lobster loaf almond without noticing the cockroach in his food, mistakenly biting his head off]
Crunchy! Hmm. I love the almonds.
Leslie, cuisine, she is a fickle mistress...
[notices the cockroach's body]
EW! Look! [picks the cockroach's body up with a fork and sees his head missing] A cockroach!
[All the reporters, shocked, go to the family table]
That's only half a cockroach.
[as the mayor now realizes that he has eaten the cockroach's head, which is what he has eaten, he suddenly feels sick for seeing the headless cockroach, that grosses out the kids]
Daddy, you ate the head!
The Mayor's Wife: [clutches the mayor's shoulder] Honey, are you OK? [the mayor immediately spits his food and spews the cockroach's head out onto the table and chokes from his vomit as the cockroach's head crawls away from his puke. Becky and Betty grab knives, and start trying to stab the cockroach's head, which crawls away to avoid getting killed. The mayor holds himself, coughs while clutching his chest in agony until he falls off, then collapses to the floor, screaming, much to his wife's shock, forcing her to scream too when the news reporters crowd around him, due to this causing him to have a heart attack from the shock and fall over unconscious when he swallows the cockroach and passes out] Not again!
Was this an accident or did you murder him...? [traumatised at this incident, Ernie just stands there, looking quite aghast by this, as the news reporters now crowd around him, demanding to know if he either intended to murder the mayor or if it was an accident]
Clear!
[The paramedics take the mayor away, put him in the hospital ambulance truck van, and try vainly to revive him, but fail when it's no use as he's dead, and try again several times again to revive him. As they try again, hoping to revive him, the kids play outside, and much to Ernie's sorrow, the restaurant closes]
That's it.
I can do that better!
[The Mayor's Wife ends up crying and blubbering while Ernie feels sorry for what he accidentally did to the mayor]
