12 oz. Mouse: Xmas Special

12 oz. Mouse: Xmas Special is created by Matt Maiellaro. Aired on Adult Swim on July 25, 2021 at 7pm/central.

Synopsis
Mouse gets confused about Christmas and doesn’t know it’s mean. Everything change when forces of evil starts ruining Christmas. It’s up to Fitz and the boys to save this Holiday. Will they save this holiday and will it be naughty vs nice? They will fight robots, encounter spirits, and most of all, beers and eggnog.

Plot
The episode starts on a snowy night on Christmas’s Eve. Everyone is so excited for this holiday, except for one person, Mouse. He looks around at the decoration, along with Skillet. He wonders if ornaments grow on trees. Mouse wonders why everyone is celebrating, but he wants to drink. Going to the bar, he greeted Rhoda and ordering 12 beers at once, But Rhoda suggest Mouse to try eggnog. Starting a debate about what drink is better, With no choice, Mouse tasted Eggnog, but prefers beer.

Next scene shows Mouse and Skillet heading to a store to get their boredom out, according to Mouse. Entering the store, they encounter amount of presents. Skillet got one and this cause stack of presents fall into them. Mouse ask Skillet if he’s alright, Skillet got a big stocking on him. They ran off, Mouse thinks this Christmas thing is hard for him. Mouse stops at Liquor’s Store and spends another $300 dollars. While leaving Liquor's Store, Mouse decide to go to Roostre’s place, alone. Skillet saw something glowing and it disappears when he chase it.

Meanwhile, Shark looks at the citizens and thinks it’s pathetic for everyone, celebrating. Rectangular Businessman has a terrible idea. An evil and no-good idea and he wishes to smile with it. The plan is to destroy Christmas and cause devastation towards the citizens. Shark summons his robot army as elves with their shooting candy cane guns. Mouse goes to Roostre’s home and saw him. They talked for a moment about holidays and much stuff going on. Mouse’s still in embarrassed for not getting into this Christmas thing. Till, they saw floating things in the sky, Roostre thinks it’s shooting stars. But what Mouse saw was Robots heading to the city, they chase after them.

In town, Golden Joe, along with Peanut Cop, are doing shenanigans on the streets. Till, they saw a robot invasion coming down and start to destroy everything that is related to Christmas. Shark and Rectangular Businessman look at the robots’ status and think this night is the best thing they did. Mouse and Roostre came to rescue Golden Joe and Peanut. They hid inside the store, but their surprise, Skillet was here along with New Guy and Eye. A minute went by, listening silently outside the streets but a sound was heard inside the store. A light-blue spirit came out of a bell and she introduced herself as Clara. She told Mouse that he must save Christmas and defeat Shark and RBM’s evil bots. Mouse drinks beer and ask what she said again. Clara gave Mouse the bell to summon her for help. All of sudden, two bots appear and about to attack the boys, Luckily, Skillet used his AK-47 assault rifle to shoot the bots. Skillet reprogrammed the bots for use of help, having no time for names, Mouse called them #1 and #2.

Meanwhile in Shark’s Monitor Room, Shark saw Mouse is about to stop the robot invasion. Rectangular Businessman said he created a sleigh out of soild gold, along with rocket power and told Shark not to break it for not losing money. As they soared to the skies to go to the location that Mouse is. In the store, Clara told Peanut, Golden Joe, Roostre, and Eye to make many weapons as possible. She told Bot #1 and Bot #2 to look for materials outside. Clara took Mouse, Skillet, and New Guy to the woods and saw a sleigh, she summon the reindeers.

Flying in the skies, Mouse seeing the city below. Skillet screeches as he saw Shark and RBM following them. Mouse threw a bottle of eggnog at them. Clara took control of the sleigh and took dodges by looking at her shoulders. Mouse found a T-shirt canon, loading candy canes while Shark shoots hard coal at them. Mouse ask Clara to summon weapons. As a holiday spirit, it's their job to guide and help, not violence, according to Clara, herself. In the city, Rhoda and Liquor hid in the counter, Rhoda is still scared and worried if the robots will find them, Liquor told him to calm down and they won’t get caught. By their surprise, the bots found them. Liquor starts attacking them with a pipe, along with Rhoda helping Liquor to fight the bots. They escape quickly.

During all of this, Peanut, Golden Joe, Roostre, and Eye finished finding the materials they need it, Bot #1 alerted them that the evil bots are roaming the streets, the boys seeked carefully to avoid getting detected. Golden Joe spotted a limo, by his loud voice, it alerted the bots. They ran to the limo and drove fast as Bot #1 and Bot #2 were the front seat driving. Roostre got a weapon to shoot the robots. Golden Joe started complaining about why is this happening and why it should have been a happy holiday. Roostre argues to Joe about complaining in a time like this. Joe responses with a yes. Meanwhile in the night skies, still a battle with the two sleighs, Shark decides to shoot flare coal at them with one shot. Mouse, Skillet, and New Guy ride one of the reindeers, they landed on the ground, Mouse ask where's Clara. Without knowing RBM has the blue bell, meaning they got Clara. Shark and RBM returned back to the lair. Following the flying sheigh, Mouse stopped and sat down on a log said it's pointless. Skillet tells him not to give up and must rescue Clara, Mouse exclaimed that he can't save Christmas and ashamed for not knowing this holiday. Skillet brings a present to Mouse, he opened it and it was a warm hat and said "Thank you" to Skillet. Now realized that he's not alone and he has friends who care about him. Mouse stands up and says to New Guy and Skillet, "Let's end this scrooging night". Till, a limo came by as the boys came for their aid. Roostre ask them to hop on. "We're joining too!", Mouse turns around and saw Liquor and Rhoda. They hop on to the limo.

Meanwhile, RBM and Shark knew Mouse and Co. will come to them. RBM summons Clara, confused and realized where she's at. Shark demands to bulletproof the lair, Clara refused and exclaim that Mouse will stop them. RBM asked if she's a fortune teller or friendly ghost. Clara says why he's care only money, RBM  said, "More important is I’m rich and no use to listen to a so-call Christmas spirit which is you, of course". Then a wall broke! It was Fitz and the Boys. Shark activated his army of bots and a great battle started. Mouse saw the button for shutting down the robots. He dodges the bullets and shoots at the bots while running. Till, Shark use a crawl to catch Mouse, with surprise, Clara flew and rescue Mouse, while she carries him, he told her there's a button to shutdown the bots. He press it and made the bots turned off except for Bot #1 and Bot #2 (thanks for Skillet's reprogramming them) The co. tied RBM and Shark up. Shark starting arguing with RBM and RBM back talk as usual to Shark. With sympathy, Clara gave them gifts and waved at them for goodbye.

Fitz and Co. look at the city, decorations at the torn up and destroyed. Clara told them she can fix it in a flash and thanking Mouse and his friends saving Christmas. With her magic, the city is restored. Everyone came out of their hiding place and saw bright colorful lights and snow. Skillet noticed Mouse isn't anywhere, and he saw him watching the Christmas trees with his 12-beers. Mouse tells him that he got a gift for Skillet and thanks him for the hat. He gave Skillet a holiday sweater, he thanked Mouse, as the two look at the trees.

Cast
Matt Maiellaro as Mouse Fitzgerald

Adam Reed as Shark

Kurt Soccolich as Rectangular Businessman

Nick Weidenfeld as Peanut Cop

Matt Harrigan as Liquor

Vishal Roney as Golden Joe

Scott Luallen as Roostre

Dave Willis as Rhoda, Bot #1

Bonnie Rosmarin as Man/Woman, Clara

Melissa Warrenburg as Green-Sweater Woman

Nick Ingkatanuwat as Eye, Bot #2

Trivia

 * This is the second, TV special aired on [adult swim]. Along with 12 oz. Mouse Invictus Special on 2018.


 * The special is rated TV-14-DLV.
 * Matt Maiellaro never confirmed that Special is neither canon or non-canon.


 * Matt Harrigan and Dave Willis reprised their roles.
 * Producer Man appears in the show but without no voice, just a cameo.


 * A new character name Clara, the Christmas ghost spirit. According to Maiellaro, she was inspired by Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future was seen as a cameo when Clara summons the objects she adore, a photo frame of him and Clara. Knowing that there friends.


 * The song: 12 Oz. Mouse Jazz Intro was used in the outro credits and also used in the episode, Auraphull. Performed and sung by Mike Geier.


 * Carol of the Bells - Trans-Siberian Orchestra theme used for the scene when Fitz and the boys fights the bots.