The Expired Cow

The Expired Cow is the fifth episode of the first season of Fred: The Show.

Synopsis
Fred drinks expired milk and hallucinates that a cow is trying to kill him. Will Fred survive the clutches of the evil Cow Man?

Plot
While eating a cookie, Fred tells a story that happened yesterday when he and Bertha were finishing their big Home Ec project (which Bertha mostly did). She doubts whether the cake will stay intact overnight at Fred's house, but he assures her it will. He wants to celebrate with milk and cookies, though the milk is five months expired. Despite Bertha's warning, Fred drinks the milk anyway.

He vomits and Bertha eventually leaves, reminding him about keeping the cake safe. He then hallucinates a character in the mirror named Fredo, who warns him about expired cows and how one is coming at 6:00 p.m. to ruin his cake since Fred drank his milk.

He wishes to defend his cake against the cow, and a giant, talking tough cookie named Steve offers to train him. He undergoes a training montage, complete with board breaking and karate-like moves, which reveals how he's still hallucinating; to his neighbors, he appears to be by himself doing random moves. When Steve is about to depart, he grants Fred a few words of encouragement and jumps back onto the plate of cookies.

The time comes. The expired cow appears and is about to destroy the cake until Fred challenges him to a duel of Jenga. He loses, so then they have a duel over Twister, chess, a breakdancing competition, arm wrestling, and he attempts to challenge him to No Limit Texas Hold-Up until the cow gets frustrated. The cow had won every time and starts to ruin the cake. Fredo comes back and remembers the cow's weakness, which is bad trombone playing. Fred plays and the cow explodes.

The next morning, Fred is sitting with the still intact cake in the middle of a messy house, still visibly unstable. Bertha comes over and is pleased that the cake made it; however, she bumps into the trombone and drops it. She reveals that she had made a backup cake that they could bring, making Fred outraged since he went through a lot to protect the first cake. Bertha assumes it's the milk he drank and assures him there's no expired cow, to which Fred seems reassured by. They go out, the door closes, and the expired cow is revealed to have been sitting on the stairs.

Trivia

 * Shayne Topp guest stars as Steve the Talking Cookie.