Fred's Mom is Missing

Fred's Mom is Missing is the eighteenth and final episode of the first season of the Fred YouTube series.

Synopsis
Fred's mom hasn't come back home from the bar since Fred had his play date with Bertha. At first Fred is extremely happy, but then reality hits!

Plot
Fred starts the video with his usual greeting, but is visibly worried. He says that his mother hasn't come back from the bar from the previous episode. Being gone for three days was okay, if it were five days, she told Fred to call the police. But at this point, she had been gone for a week.

Fred realizes that without his mom being there, he could do whatever he wants-- which he does, from cutting up her pantyhose, to flushing medication down the toilet, to jumping on his mom's bed. He mentions not having to be locked in a cage anymore, since that was a form of punishment used on him when he did bad stuff. He also plays with his mom's deodorant and shaving tools, accidentally hurting himself with the latter.

It's not until dinner that Fred also realizes that his mom wasn't there to cook TV dinners for him or just be there with him in general; despite the things she doesn't do anyway, he starts to miss her. With his dad in the state pen, he doesn't want his mom gone, too.

He doesn't want to call the police because he's afraid they're going to put him in a foster home. So Fred decides to make a bunch of posters while worrying about the possibility that the original channel owner would get to him while he was home alone. The episode ends with him saying he was going to put the posters up and reaches out to the viewers, asking if they could have also possibly seen her.

Trivia

 * There are more references to Fred's mom being a prostitute (wearing revealing outfits at street corners, making money from it).
 * This is the last episode he wears the hand-lettered blue FRED shirt; in subsequent YouTube appearances, he wears a red FRED shirt and a printed blue FRED shirt.