Suck It Up

A sick Scales lies in bed, apparently suffering from a stuffed up nose, when he spies an ant stealing a cookie from a plate next to his bed. He attempts to suck the ant into his mouth, but his illness prevents him from consuming his prey. The ant takes all of Scales' cookies and mocks him as he walks off. Scales gets angry, but suddenly comes up with an idea.

Scales builds a vacuum-like contraption he puts over his snout, enabling him to suck up a bowling ball from across the room. He fires the ball at the ants, who are currently standing around the cookies they stole. They run into a hole in the wall, while Scales sucks up and eats the cookies. One of the ants pours a box of tacks on the floor which cut Scales' mouth when he eats them.

Another ant removes the knob on the machine, so that Scales can't turn off or reduce the sucking power of his invention. Another ant knocks a beaker of acid on its side. Scales sucks up the acid, burning off his snout. Scales stumbles backwards and slips on a test tube an ant has rolled behind his feet. Scales stands up, revealing that the tube of the machine is pressed up against his head. As his brain and right eye get sucked through the machine, one of the ants replaces the knob on the machine and puts it in reverse. As a result, Scales' brain and then his entire body are sucked through and shot out the entrance of the tube, leaving Scales as nothing but a bloody, cylindrical mush. The ants celebrate their victory, but before the episode ends, the smallest ant sneezes, apparently having caught Scales' cold.