| abstract | - Summary: The episode starts with Numbuh 2 cracking bad puns during his report on King Arthur and his knights. Later, Numbuh 5 punches Numbuh 2 and he asks what was that for. Numbuh 5 says it's for having her listen to those lame jokes. Numbuh 2 counters with a newspaper column saying he's the four star riot of fourth grade. Numbuh 5 than says the column was written by Numbuh 2 himself. This doesn't effect Numbuh 2 and he asks if he should of given himself more stars. Outside of class, Numbuh 2 is confronted by a kid clown telling him to cut the funny business. Seconds later, Numbuh 2 tells a bad joke. The clown gets angry and has his two clown cronies to throw rhubarb pie (something Numbuh 2 hates) at him as a source of punishment. Numbuh 2 promises to never tell another joke again. During the next few seconds, Numbuh 2 frequently tells jokes and gets hit by pie. Every time he gets hit by a pie, the students near him run away in terror. With each joke, he gets more nervous telling jokes. After those scenes, Numbuh 2 confronts Numbuh 5 who's eating lunch. Numbuh 5 tells Numbuh 2 that lunch is almost over and notices the pie and asks, "I thought you hated rhubarb pie." Numbuh 2 says, "I do. But a couple of clowns offered me a pie I couldn't refuse." Numbuh 5 finds a fly in her soup and asks why would a fly be in her soup. Numbuh 2 attempts to answer this with a bad pun or joke but fails after glancing at the clowns, and breaks down wailing at not being able to take advantage of such a perfect setup. Later, when school is over, Numbuh 5 notices a chicken trying to cross a road and Numbuh 5 asks why would a chicken would try to cross the road. Numbuh 2 attempts to avoid saying the joke but is unable to resist the perfect setup to the oldest joke in the book. The clowns, nevertheless take him away and throw him in a room with the clown father, Tony Clownarelli AKA Bonko the Clown. Numbuh 2 asks why he's doing this and Bonko begins a story. When he and his partner, Chunko were at a kid's party, Bonko tried to answer the most funniest joke of all. But he forgot the punchline. The kids at the party threw things at him which lead him to pass out. When he woke up days later, he found that everyone had left and Chunko was gone. So now he's not letting anyone telling a joke so they wouldn't get hurt like he did. Numbuh 2 attempts to escape out of the room. Outside the room, is the inside of the circus where Numbuh 5 and her father are sitting watching. Numbuh 5 buys a excuse to send her father away. Numbuh 5 then helps Numbuh 2 escape from the clowns. This ends badly as Tony and the clowns trap Numbuh 2 and 5 and are about to punish the two but Numbuh 5's father steps up. Bonko recognizes Numbuh 5's father as his old partner and asks where he was all these years. Dr. Lincoln explains that although he did like being a clown, he realized that the job was kind of stupid (which Bonko and the other clowns agree that he has a point on) and explains that he makes more money as a doctor, and offers to get Bonko and the other clowns jobs at the hospital that he works at, which they accept. The clowns get excited and Tony hands his nose to Numbuh 2 who wears it with pride. Tony and Dr. Lincoln do one last act together for old times' sake but goes awry at the first joke.
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