- So excited for this year's forest festival.
I hear our favorite band sounds way better live
Than they look in drawings.
- You know their drummer added a drum?
- What? One guy on two drums?
Too gimmicky. They just lost a fan.
- Forest fest isn't about the music.
It's about hooking up with strangers.
I hear nymphs really put the "nymph" in "nymph."
- Before we head in, let me tell you
What I've learned about how to party.
The key is to-- - not walk in with you.
Good idea. Bye.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- You're not really a party guy, little bro.
More of a party... Killer.
Like, I kill for a living,
And I get jealous watching you murder a vibe.
- Take that back!
- [laughs] oh, look at him go, folks.
Listen, I'm going in. I wanna have sex with someone
Before our parents have sex with everyone.
- [sighs]
Hi. I'm apparently a party killer.
Just kidding. I'm actually a king.
You guys are lizards?
Are you talking lizards?
You're unable to talk?
You just don't want to talk to me.
Wow, this is off to a great freaking start.
Nice forest. It smells like dirt.
- Thanks for the disguise, darling.
I love our son to death, but he's party quicksand.
- Shush! Don't call him our son out loud.
It lowers our party value.
- True, and I want to have sex with everyone
Before stupendous has sex with anyone.
[upbeat lyre music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic chanting]
♪ ♪
- ♪ whoo ♪
- ♪ people from the city, creatures from the wood ♪
♪ everyone's a neighbor in nature's neighborhood ♪
♪ my name is tom and I'm not part of this band ♪
♪ I just saw they were playing and thought I'd lend a hand ♪
Which I'm learning is not necessary.
Good night.
- Okay, so no point trying that.
- I figure, like, maybe six, seven hundred people.
How about you? What do you do for violence?
- Well, I'm originally from the ocean.
Have you ever been?
It's basically a large, wet forest.
- You guys see that centaur eat it up there?
Hi. Great forest. Thanks for having us.
I'm king of the city.
- Ty! Mom and dad are here.
- Yeah, go say hi. Go.
- Who invited the control freaks? [laughs]
Hi, I'm tyrannis, king of the city.
I see you ladies are bushes.
Is that a chosen form?
Were you born that way? Do you have a ruler?
King? Queen?
Perhaps a nongendered bush supervisor.
- Way to go. - You asshead!
We talked about this!
- This is ridiculous. I can't possibly be that bad.
- They turned into bushes! I wish I could.
- You asked, like, six questions,
And you don't even care about the answers.
- We tried to be nice about this.
- I don't know if that's true.
- You wanna compare it to something?
- You're going to kill me? My sister's gonna kill me.
That's how much I suck at parties.
- Now you're getting it. Shoo. Go.
- Oh, you grew back. - Where were we?
- Oh, this one's delicious.
- This one too. Lemony.
- Care to switch? - Let's do.
- Deliria! - Hegemone!
Darling, this is hegemone,
The goddess of plants blooming and bearing fruit.
- Oh, I love that you've got a mantitore.
They've gotten so popular.
- I think you'll find I'm one of a kind, my dear.
- Mine would disagree.
Paizo, approach.
- Sexy evening.
Great gods, aren't you a handsome old monster?
- [laughs] likewise, my charming young friend.
- I found paizo on delos.
Where'd you get yours? - In a blackout,
But let's not waste the night discussing men.
Let's find the coolest god at the party,
And if we can't, that means it's us.
- Win-win.
Oh, you two won't fight now, will you?
- Not in our nature, love.
- We seem to be a pair of very lucky monsters.
- Indeed! Perhaps by the night's end,
We may even double our luck.
- As will our goddesses.
[both laugh]
- In all seriousness, though,
I'll understand if you're hesitant
To let yours be with me.
- Well, not if that's what she wants,
You stunning cad.
We aren't the competitive type.
- Correct! Although in my case,
It's because I never lose.
[both laugh]
- Ah, yes, yes. Ah.
- And that's why it's so important
To install the drainage ditches
Before you lay in the paving.
- Will you excuse me? I have to just...
- You have to turn into a flower
Because everyone just turns into stuff
Instead of walking away.
- Walking away is a human thing.
You walked away from the forest,
Or don't you remember? - Remember?
Do I remember humanity leaving the forest?
No. I'm 29.
But I can guess why we did.
Stupid party. Ridiculous--
- Why's that? - Whoa! Why's what?
There's a whole world out here.
This is where you're dangling?
- Why did humans leave the forest?
- Obviously to get fresh air and be free from...
Judgmental flowers and snobby animals.
- Sounds like we've been misrepresented.
I'm daphne.
- [sighs] tyrannis.
- King of the city. - Yeah.
Are you, like, plant-bassador? Tree-aison?
- [laughs] we don't have a government.
- Oh, brother.
Even the gods say that, and they're lying.
If you've got a face, then you've got
Someone at some point yelling in it.
- Definitely true at the moment.
- Sorry. What am I doing?
I'm ashamed because apparently, I'm bad at parties.
And I'm not natural, so nature intimidates me,
And now I'm throwing a tantrum at a harmless tree lady.
- Well, see, that's honest, and honesty is natural.
Would you like to take a walk down by the river,
Where it's quieter?
You can tell me all about your government.
- I would love that.
Can you just hold on one moment?
Don't go anywhere.
[sly music]
[tree chimes]
♪ ♪
- The chief of centaurs seems quite taken with echo.
- That won't sit well with pan.
Tell echo to seal it,
And we'll offer to keep it quiet...
If he migrates.
Why are you here?
Your target's in the wind.
- I blew him back.
He's simple. He'll be here all night.
He wants to tell me about his government.
- I missed the reason you're here.
- He's simple, sister.
I don't know how humans are picking kings these days,
But this guy may have won a contest.
Or his people lost one.
He's not what I'd call a threat.
- Oh. What's he king of again?
- A city. - What do cities make?
All: Humans! - What do humans make?
All: Cities! - What do they make them from?
All: Wood! - What are we?
All: Wood nymphs!
- So what do wood nymphs do?
All: Kill!
- Thanks. I just lose perspective sometimes.
I'll get back to work.
[partygoers cheer]
- Hey, guys. No big deal,
But just wanted to let you know
I'm talking to the hottest tree nymph in the forest.
And you know, I'm not saying it's romantic,
But I am saying she probably gets to choose
How she spends her time at parties.
- And you left her
To brag about it to your big sister.
[laughs] - [laughs]
No, seriously, man, congratulations.
Sounds like you finally found someone
Out of their mind.
- Or someone that knows you're king,
And she's up to something.
- I love this response, because it confirms
That this was always about some sad competition.
- Yeah, for you. - No, for you.
Look at you guys.
You're worse at partying than me, so I win.
- But not really, because I think
When partying is a competition,
You automatically lose.
- Sounds like you lost, then.
- No, you did. - No, you lost,
Because for you, it's a competition.
- You guys competing about partying?
All: No. - Okay.
Because if you are,
No better way to settle it
Than who does the most beans.
- What are we, children? Get out of here.
- Hey, man, all you had to say was "we don't do beans."
- I do beans, dumbass.
- Me too. Your beans probably suck.
- Oh, man. Have fun, guys.
Dude, these mortals just swallowed an entire bean.
- We weren't supposed to take a whole bean?
- You said you do beans! - Everyone does beans!
- Relax! Everyone relax.
He was hazing us,
And he's waiting for us to freak out, so don't.
Just kick back and enjoy the party.
- Right. Right.
- How you doing? - What's up?
- Cool party.
[all screaming]
- Why am I so small?
- Why do I have two heads?
- Where's that cool nymph I liked?
- I'm not a second head, idiot.
I'm your inner critic.
- What's an inner critic?
- You can hear him? - Everyone can now.
That's how messed up you are.
Why don't you stuff more magic beans
From random weirdos into your face?
- What, you don't have a voice in your head
That tells you you suck?
- Yeah, it's called mom.
[gasps] we gotta find mom.
She'll make me big again!
- I have to find daphne. We connected.
- You're connecting with more than that.
- Oh, no, I can taste through my feet.
Why is dirt delicious? Ugh! Yuck!
I refuse this.
- Wait, you can just refuse it?
I refuse this!
Come on!
- Is that hephaestus over there?
- No, just a normal ugly person.
We may be the coolest people here.
- And what about mortals?
Who're those idiots tripping on magic beans?
- I'm afraid those are my children.
- Interesting. I think that makes me
The coolest person here.
- Congratulations.
- To be clear, there's a solid chance
I'll be making love to your wife tonight.
- That's been established and permitted.
- Dad! Down here!
- Hi, kids. Is your night
As completely free of concern as mine definitely is?
- Stupendous shrank,
And I have an external inner critic.
- Nice to meet you.
And can I just say,
You were wise to neglect
This pretentious, living scrotum.
- Wow. You're pretty high, son.
- Uh-huh. - Where's mom?
- If I knew how to know that,
I wouldn't be her husband, honey.
- How you going to do it?
- I don't know. - Should look like an accident.
Late night swim? - Overdose.
- Won't they just replace him with a stronger king?
- [mockingly] oh, no. Then we have to kill him?
[forcefully] it's almost like war is hard work.
- I'm just saying,
If we're protecting the environment,
Why not keep someone we can influence on the throne?
I'm trying to be strategic, not lazy.
- Be strategic with your target,
Not with us.
- Hey, stranger.
- Why, hey, hey. Sorry, lost you.
Wow. Do you wanna dance?
Is that a thing in the forest?
[grunting]
- Are you on beans?
- I may have done a whole bean. Is that dangerous?
- Well, no.
They're way safer than people think.
You could take ten of them. [laughs]
But you didn't hear that from me.
- That's a relief. [sighs]
- Hey, why'd you take any?
- If I'm honest, I wanted to be cool.
- Honestly, the forest isn't always cool
It's not even always honest.
- Really? Because I kind of bragged
To my sister that you were hanging out with me,
And she said you were probably up to something,
Like you had an agenda, and I thought--
[upbeat dance music playing]
[partygoers cheering]
♪ ♪
[thunder claps]
- Holy balls! It's dionysus!
[partygoers cheering] - spit in my mouth!
- Raise my children! Whoo!
- Somebody here
Just started partying so hard
That I personally felt it clear across the world,
Where you better believe I was at an even cooler party.
Bring this party child to me.
What's your name, party child?
- Tyrannis. - What made you party so hard?
- A girl kissed me.
[all gasp]
- That is the only right answer!
This is now the coolest party!
[partygoers cheering]
[frenetic music playing]
♪ ♪
- Hey, hey, hey! I know you!
- Look at these goddesses!
- That's my mom!
- Is it true my child summoned you with his partying?
Do you know how weirdly close I am to admiring you tonight?
- I love you, mom.
I want you to meet someone very special.
Where'd she go?
- Don't just stand there, party child.
Go to her!
- Yes. Thank you. I will!
I love you guys! We should all hang out more!
- We should hang out more!
- I don't know why we don't.
- I guess because you take it
To some pretty dangerous extremes
And never really know when to stop.
- Like this!
- Did you just dose me? - Yeah.
- Good. Next time, don't take so long.
We should hang out more!
- This party just got tremendous.
- Agreed! - I've decided not to ruin it
By making love to your wife.
- What? Why? - Because I respect you.
- Well, if you respect me,
You very much will make love to my wife.
- I think we know you'd rather I not.
- Take that back.
- Easy now. We're not a competitive breed.
- Exactly, my dashing friend,
Which is why I find it a bit offensive
That you continue trying to make me jealous.
- No mantitore can make another mantitore jealous,
My sexy brother.
There's simply some that are and some that aren't.
- I'm afraid I can't hear you over my wonderful fantasy
Of you and my wife in bed together.
- Sorry, old man.
I think you're just saying that.
- My god. - That's right,
You gorgeous monster.
I told you I never lose.
I've proven you're possessive.
- [yelps]
- How could you let this happen?
- It's insane that you're blaming this on me.
- Oh, is this your family? Too early for me to meet them?
- I just need a moment, tyrannis.
- You need to get dionysus out of here.
- You want me to ask the god of parties
To leave a party.
- Yes! You summoned him.
- Well, we did, with our love.
- [laughing derisively]
- That's not the reaction
One wants to that, but okay.
- You humans think love is when someone smiles at you.
- I can't really argue with that.
I mean, it's a pretty big deal
When we're not killing each other.
- Exactly. You're like termites to us,
But that's misleading because we don't hate termites.
But you're like a mentally diseased colony
Of giant termites.
- This would go down easier if you jumped in with
"my sisters are just really protective."
- Tyrannis, grow up!
How naive can you be?
The forest hates you. You are our enemy.
I was assigned to you. I'm supposed to kill you!
- See, daphne, you were doing so good,
And then wow.
- Assigned? To kill me?
- Ty, sweetheart, everyone loves a love story,
But when it stops being fun, you move on to the next one.
- So glad to hear you say that.
We'd like you to leave our forest.
- Excuse me?
- Take it easy, daphne. He's a god.
- Enough with this. You're destroying our home.
- Not to mention their place of work.
- I'm sorry. What's your name?
Don't answer. Nobody cares.
Every party in the world is my home.
I decide who stays in it and who leaves,
And I don't like you mistreating
My rare, beautiful party child.
[snaps fingers] [partygoers yelling]
- Whoa!
- Tyrannis, hear my tale.
I was once you. I wanted to be cool.
You know what everyone said?
"stop wanting that.
It's not cool to wanna be cool."
Well, isn't that convenient for the already cool?
Well, now I'm one of the already cool.
Now nobody tells me anything.
There's no ceiling to a party, but there is a ladder,
And we are climbing to the top.
Come on, I wanna introduce you to some leopards.
- Hey, baby!
Oh, where's shlub?
- He fled in great humiliation.
Frankly, in a jealous rage.
- My husband was jealous? Odd.
- I agree. If you'd like,
I can... Make love to you. Maybe later.
- Hey. It hasn't come up yet,
But if deliria and shlub are down,
I might want to have a threesome with them.
- What about me? - Ooh, possessive much?
This isn't working. Find your own ride home.
- Where are we? - Oh, no. Look.
A guy playing an instrument nobody asked him to bring?
Two people trying to solve racism?
A girl puking and crying at the same time?
- My god.
We're at the party's outer edge.
- Well, yeah.
Where'd you think you'd end up, dork?
- This next song is about a very wondrous wall.
- [wails]
- Are you all right?
- Stop pretending you care about others.
- I'm fine, but you people should run
While you have a chance.
- Why? It's just a party.
- Wrong, tiny girl.
There isn't any party like a dionysus party
Because a dionysus party never stops.
[partygoers clamoring]
- Wow, our little brother wins again.
He's not a party killer. He's the party king.
- Oh. You're tyrannis' sister.
You might be able to save his life.
- Is he in danger?
- Everyone here is.
Dionysus doesn't eat or drink to stay alive,
And he doesn't leave until the party is dead.
- How do we get ty out of there?
- Honestly? Give him your approval.
He's the single most emotionally deprived human
I've ever met.
I was assigned to kill him,
And he wanted to marry me.
But the first thing on his mind
Was bragging about me to you.
He cares about your opinion. You're his family.
Both: Gross.
- Listen to the leaf lady, ass-face.
This is your chance to do something useful.
- Why would you want that? You hate me.
- Are you--how stupid are you?
If I hated you, I wouldn't talk to you.
I want you to be better.
I just happen to know it's impossible.
- Ow!
- There! Come on, go!
- The party's too awesome!
- Just dance your way over!
- I can't, okay?
- Hey, jackass, you wanna know
What the worst thing about you is?
- Not really.
- Well, I'm gonna tell you anyway,
And after that, you're on your own.
- Wait, what are you saying?
- You know what really sucks about you?
You're too hard on yourself.
- Whoa.
'sup? How you doing?
Party! No wrong answer.
- Look at the little fish bowl baby.
- Oh, my god, I love you, fish bowl baby.
- Oh, no, I'm undone by my own confidence!
- I got it from here!
I respect you. - You do?
- Yeah, basically.
I mean, you stand up for what you believe in.
Daphne was right when she said that--oof!
- What did daphne say? That was my sister.
- Well, now she can join the tree wench
Outside the party, because they are zero fun.
- Is that what you do
With the things that aren't fun?
You just toss them aside like you did with daphne,
Like you did with my sister?
What about the serious stuff,
The important stuff like saving the forest,
Like believing in a better future,
Like family?
- I'm sorry. I'm so bored.
What are you talking about?
- What happens when the party's over?
- The party's never over.
The party never ends!
- Then I guess you haven't met tyrannis,
King party killer.
Hi, I'm tyrannis.
What's your favorite form of government?
- What are you doing? - Hi.
Would you like to hear about sewage maintenance?
It's more complex than you'd think.
It's essentially a network of feces.
- What are you trying to prove, party child?
- What's your favorite color? - Ugh.
- Guess how old I am. - Ugh.
- I had the craziest dream last night.
Aren't politics the worst? Let's argue about them!
- I had such hopes for you.
- There's so much hunger in the world.
What do you know about cockroaches?
Do you know you have something in your teeth?
It's okay. So do I.
- Go, you boring son of a bitch, go.
- Is this how you do this? Here we go.
I think I've got it. Bear with me.
♪ la, la, la, party song ♪
♪ la, la la ♪ everybody!
- That's it!
This party sucks!
[thunder rumbling]
[leopards roar]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[partygoers mumbling]
- Did you just defeat the god of parties
By ruining his party?
- Yes. - My son!
My son.
- My love, I was possessive tonight.
- Of me, I assume.
- Of course.
- Makes sense. I am incredible.
I'd be possessive of you as well
Under very specific,
Impossible-to-achieve circumstances.
- Mama, can you enlarge me?
- Afraid not, darling. The only antidote to bean magic
Is pure sincerity.
Tell us what animal you find most attractive.
Don't think. Just say it.
- River otter! - [laughs]
I'm kidding. I can enlarge you.
"river otter."
[laughs]
- Do I have to run?
- No. You almost killed the forest.
We almost killed you. You saved the forest.
I'm not killing you.
We have to figure out
A better way to deal with you idiots.
- What a gift. So I guess for now,
Screw you and thanks.
- You're welcome, party child.
- [grunts]
[pained grunts]
- Mm, asleep, sleeping.
Asleep. Dead? Asleep.
Dead asleep. Ah, what do we have here?
Don't mind if I do.
Thank you, my handsome man-horse.
Hello, you stunning son of a bitch.
- I could say the same, so I will. Hello.
- What brings you around these parts?
- Why, you did, with the beans.
Speaking of, may I?
- You may and you must.
- [laughs] well, it looks like my lucky morning.
- Indeed.
To think I just gave up on an orgy.
- What? Have you gone mad?
[all laugh] - we laugh.
- Hopefully, that's not all we do.
- Speaking of, bean?
- I'll take whatever you're offering.
- Don't tempt me. - Why not?
- He just did.
- Here I am. - Prompt and perfect.
Just how I like it.
- Go tell base we've got
A level-seven cascading bean orgy.
- Well, you gobbled that right down.
- Did you get any of that?
- Bento.