[The Loud house: The garbage is outside the house, and Lana and Hops come outside.]
Lana: [smells] "Is there any better smell than trash day, Hops?" [Hops ribbits] "Heh, yeah, litter box cleaning day does come in a pretty close second." [The garbage truck arrives, and Lana runs over.] "Heya, Dink!"
Dink: [comes out] "Morning, Lana!" [The two fist bump.] "Hey, don't forget to say hi to Greta Garbage. She's been waiting all week long to see ya!"
Lana: [She runs up to the truck's hydraulic cylinder, which has Greta and a kiss mark emblazoned on it.] "Aww, I missed you too, girl. You're getting some good eats from the Loud trash cans today."
Dink: "Alright, Lana, let's see if you remember what I taught ya. You ready?"
Lana: "Bring. It. ON."
[Dink takes out his phone and puts on an orchestra. Lana leaps over to a trash can in a dancing manner, grabs a can, and holds it over her head. She jumps over the one next to it, dances her way to the back of Greta, and throws the trash in her rear compactor. Dink and Hops approach her, and Hops leaps onto her head.]
Lana: "And the grand finale: Compacting all that sweet trashola!" [She grabs the compactor lever and is about to pull it, but Dink gets shocked, and green waves emit from his head. He quickly reaches out and stops her. Then he reaches into the back, and he pulls out Geo in his hamster ball.] "What the--Geo?! Dang, how in the heck did you know he was in there?"
Dink: "Well, when you been doing this job as long as I have, heh, you can sense when there's a disturbance in the trash." [He emits the green sensory waves again.]
Lana: "Wow, Dink, you are the best garbage flinger ever! I'm so lucky to have a great mentor like you!" [But Dink sighs in despair.] "Hey, what's wrong?"
Dink: "Ooh, I got, uh, bad news, kiddo. Uh, Mayor Davis told me this morning this is gonna be my, uh, last trash day. Greta and I are, well, being replaced by an automated garbage truck." [sighs] "Ironic, huh? All these years of collecting heaps, only to be tossed on one." [Just then, there's a groaning sound. Lana and Dink look over and see Mr. Grouse struggling to push his garbage can. But he throws out his back and collapses in pain. Dink runs over to him and helps him stand up.] "Now, Bud, I was gonna roll those out for ya, since you said your sciatica's been acting up." [He gives Mr. Grouse a hard shove in the back, and he immediately feels better.]
Mr. Grouse: "Hey there, you got hands of magic, Dink! Now, they're stinky, but they're magic!" [jumps and clicks his heels] "Wahoo!" [He heads off, whistling, and Dink rolls his garbage can over to Greta. He empties the trash and dusts off his hands.]
Dink: "Ahh, I'm gonna miss this job."
Lana: [walks up] "Don't worry, Dink. Hops and me are gonna go talk to the mayor and get her to change her mind! Isn't that right, Hops?" [Hops nods in determination.]
[Outside the city hall, Mayor Davis is testing out her new automated garbage truck, for which she has a remote controller.]
Mayor Davis: "Vroom, vroom!" [The automated truck hops past, then performs a stoppie. As she is playing with it, Lana marches up in annoyance.]
Lana: "Mayor Davis!"
Mayor Davis: "Lana! Check out the new trash truck I ordered!" [It rolls up in front of them, and Lana is shocked.] "It's called the Rubbish Rampager, version seven! I was about to try out its soft-serve ice cream!" [A door on the front side of the truck opens, and it pours ice cream into a cone, which it then hands to her. Lana is disappointed.] "Silky, smooth perfection!" [She tosses the whole ice cream cone into her mouth.] "So, what's up?"
Lana: "You can't get rid of Dink! He's the greatest trash guy there ever was!"
Mayor Davis: "Oh, I agree. Dink's the best! But unfortunately, no human will ever be as efficient at collecting the garbage as this vehicle. Watch. RR7, bring me the dumpster from the back of the Food & Fuel." [The RR7 starts itself up and drives off, and Mayor Davis looks at her watch.] "Five, four, three..." [The RR7 drives up with Flip's dumpster, emptying it--and Flip--in front of her and Lana. He and Nacho pop out of the garbage heap in annoyance, while Nacho spits some out and Flip throws a banana peel off his head.]
Flip: "Hey! Can't a fella and his raccoon son dumpster dive in peace?" [He and Nacho dive back into the trash heap.]
Mayor Davis: "You see? It's nothing against Dink, Lana. It's just that the RR7 can't be beat."
Lana: [She sighs, but then gets an idea.] "But what if it could? What if Dink could do the route as fast as this truck? Could he have his job back?"
Mayor Davis: "Hmm... You know what, after all of Dink's service, the least I could do is let him have a fighting chance. It's time for a good old-fashioned..." [A race finish appears in the background, and she appears in front of it.] "Debris grand prix!"
[At the city dump, Dink is doing jumping jacks while Lana sits on Greta before the race.]
Dink: "Thanks for setting this up, Lana." [stretches and squats] "I feeling real good about my chances against that rampager."
[The RR7 blasts its horn and drives up beside Greta, and Mayor Davis stands on top of it. A door opens and reveals a slide, and she jumps onto it.]
Mayor Davis: "Weee!" [She lands beside Dink.] "Okay, people, Dink takes half of the town, the RR7 takes the other. I want a nice, clean race: No trash talk unless it's talk about trash, no shortcuts, and every can dumped. First one back is officially Royal Woods' garbage collector!" [Lana and Dink are determined, and Mayor Davis pulls out an airhorn.] "Good luck, and may the trash be ever in your favor!"
[She blows it, and Greta and the RR7 drive in opposite directions. They leave behind a cloud of smoke, and Mayor Davis coughs. The flag appears as the scene transition.]
[Dink stops Greta outside the Louds' house and puts a trampoline on the ground. He grabs the trash can, jumps on the trampoline, and is flung over Greta, emptying the trash into her compactor. He tosses the can back into place, grabs the trampoline, and drives away quickly. Next, Dink drives up to Sunset Canyon, where four more cans are waiting. He grabs them all at once and throws them into Greta, then cartwheels to the other side, landing on a handstand and kicking all four cans back into place. Then, he reaches Tall Timbers Park and grabs the garbage can by the lake, quickly emptying it into Greta. But he suddenly notices a stray banana peel in the lake, so he rips off his vest and shirt and dives in. He swims to the banana peel and grabs it in his mouth, and as he jumps out, he is seen in slow-motion drifting through the air as he drops the banana peel into the compactor. He cartwheels along the ground and gets back into Greta, driving off. Greta arrives back at the dump, where Mayor Davis is checking her watch. Dink and Lana jump out of Greta.]
Lana: "Dink, look! The RR7 isn't here! You won!" [She and Dink cheer, but Mayor Davis looks nervous.]
Mayor Davis: "Oh, that's my bad. I was trying out the rampager's camouflage mode." [She presses a button on the truck's controller, and the RR7 becomes visible, showing that it indeed arrived first.] "It's been here for an hour." [Dink and Lana groan.] "Sorry, Dink, but I'm gonna have to go with the RR7." [salutes] "Thank you for your garbage service--" [stammers] "I mean, the service wasn't garbage--" [stammers] "You know what I mean."
Dink: [pats Lana's head] "Eh, I appreciate you trying, kiddo. Well, I guess it's time for Greta and me to ride off into the old sanitation sunset." [He climbs into Greta and drives away, but Lana gets determined.]
Lana: "This is not over! We gotta fight for Dink, whatever it takes! Hops, ready to shift into sneaky mode?" [Hops croaks and puts on gloves and a thief mask, ribbiting in confirmation.]
[That night, Lana and Hops are sneaking outside the city hall. They roll over to the RR7, and Lana notices its control panel is protected by a combination lock.]
Lana: [pulls out a screwdriver] "All I gotta do is adjust the RR7's trash detection sensor, and it won't pick up one single garbage scrap. The mayor will be dumping it in the dump in no time!" [snickers] "Alright, Hops, do your thing."
[Hops leaps over and sticks out his tongue, trying to open the lock. But as he does, an alarm goes off.]
RR7: "UNAUTHORIZED INTRUDER ALERT." [It grabs Lana and Hops with its trash grabber, and it flings them away. Lana screams as she and Hops are flung into a fountain across the street. They come out, and Lana groans in annoyance.]
[Next, Lana is mixing up a big batch of mud with a shovel in the park. But her shovel gets stuck, so she pulls at it as hard as she can. The handle breaks in half, and the other half sinks.]
Lana: "Once that hunk of junk rolls into our mud pit, it'll get stuck and won't be able to finish its route! And now to create the perfect bait!" [She leaps into the garbage can and knocks it over, coming out coated in garbage.] "How do I look, Hops, nice and trashy?" [Hops nods]
[Later, the RR7 passes by the park. Lana pops out from behind a sign, calls out to it, and shakes her butt to taunt it.]
Lana: "Look at me! Ooh, I'm just a ton of trash doing whatever the heck I want!"
[Taking the bait, the truck turns toward Lana and scans her using a heat radar. It detects the trash, and as Lana runs away, the truck drives after her. Lana hops over her mud pit, and the truck drives straight into it. It stops, and it sinks...]
Lana: [shakes off the trash] "Whoo-hoo! Yeah!"
[...but a mechanical hand rises from the mud pit and plants itself on the ground. The RR7 rises from the mud, but it has transformed into a giant robot. It lets out a menacing roar as it drops mud onto a horrified Lana and Hops. It walks away, and Lana groans.]
[The RR7 has changed back into its truck form and collects the garbage outside City Hall. It dumps the garbage into its compactor, then it puts the can back and drives away. Lana and Hops bike over with two wagons full of trash.]
Lana: "Okay Hops, new plan: We're gonna follow the RR7 and leave garbage everywhere it's been! That way, the mayor will think it's not doing its job and beg Dink to come back!" [Hops grabs two balls of trash and nods.] "All aboard the trash train! Whoo-whoooo!"
[Lana pedals away, leaving piles of garbage behind her. As the RR7 travels through town, it has a smiley face on its windshield as it is collecting the garbage from the cans and leaving them sparkling. Lana and Hops follow it, and as they do, they dump their garbage all over the streets. Lana is pedaling with determination while Hops throws all the trash. The RR7 stops at a stop sign and collects a can of garbage, and it makes an excited face as it drives off. Lana speeds through the stop sign, leaving piles of garbage all over the street--and even the stop sign.]
[The streets of Royal Woods are covered in trash and garbage bags. Near a car with several trash bags on it, Lana is eating a rotten banana. She tosses the peel away, and Hops ribbits in disappointment.]
Lana: "I know, it is a bummer we'll have to clean up such a trashterpiece, but I just can't wait to see that stuck-up truck finally get canned!"
[Just then, the RR7's alarm goes off.]
RR7: "LITTERBUG ALERT." [It activates a hose and sucks up Lana and Hops, along with all the trash, making the streets sparkly again. Then it spits out Lana and Hops, and it kicks them onto the car with a metal cowboy boot. Then it drives past them, and now Lana has given up.]
Lana: [defeated] "Well, looks like Mayor Davis was right. The RR7 can't be beat. Poor Dink. Now there's no way he's ever gonna get his job back."
Mrs. Gurdle: [offscreen] "Wait!" [She runs up, waving her arms.] "Wait! Come back here!"
Lana: "Mrs. Gurdle?" [jumps over] "What's wrong?"
Mrs. Gurdle: "That robotic abomination, that's what's wrong! It dumped our trash!" [She reveals her garbage can is empty.]
Lana: [confused] "Um, isn't that what it's supposed to do?"
Mrs. Gurdle: "NO! I mean, yes, but, after it's been shredded, which Dink would always remember to do for us. He knew our cans were filled with...certain info that certain visitors from certain galaxies would love to steal!"
Lana: [thinks] "You know, Dink would always do that kind of stuff for our family, too, like looking our for our pets. And just a few days ago, he was helping Mr. Grouse with his trash cans, and--" [gasps] "Wait a ding-dang sec! That's it!" [She runs off, leaving Mrs. Gurdle surprised.]
Mrs. Gurdle: [She looks in her trash can and gasps.] "Hey! Still something in here!" [She pulls out a note, glances around, puts it into her mouth, and shreds it through her teeth.]
[At City Hall, Mayor Davis is approaching the RR7.]
Mayor Davis: "Another job well done this morning, RR7." [But as she turns around, she finds Dink and Lana...] "Oh." [...and several more angry citizens.]
Lana: "Mayor Davis, there's something you need to hear. Go ahead, Mr. Grouse. Tell her what you told me."
Mr. Grouse: "What? About how I'll never vote for her?"
Lana: "No, the other thing, about Dink."
Mr. Grouse: "Oh! Right, sorry. Mayor, did you know Dink rolls out my trash cans for me whenever my back goes out? Ain't that nice?"
[Lana approaches Cheryl and Meryl.]
Lana: "How about you, Cheryl and Meryl?"
Cheryl: "That Dink is sweeter than rhubarb pie! He'd take time out from his route whenever we needed a boot-scootin' thirdsy!" [Dink joins them as they begin dancing. He bumps them, and they all cheer.] "Yee-haw!"
Flip: "Yeah, he'd let Nacho and me have the first dibs on everything he collected! Like this expired salad dressing." [He reveals the bottle and pours some into his hand, which disgusts Cheryl.] "Makes a great cologne!" [He places it on his neck and growls, but the revolting stench disgusts Cheryl.]
Chunk: [approaches Mayor Davis] "He once dug through all his rubbish to find a guitar tuner I tossed by mistake. If it weren't for Dink, me whole life would still be off-key."
[Lana walks back to Mayor Davis.]
Lana: "What we're trying to say, Mayor, is sure, Dink can't be as efficient as the RR7. But, the RR7 can't do all the nice stuff Dink does. And, well, to me, that means a ton more." [looks at the crowd] "What do you guys think?"
Citizens: [chanting] "We think Dink! We think Dink!" [They lift him up.] "We think Dink! We think Dink!"
Mayor Davis: "Okay, okay, the people have spoken. And since most of you voted for me..." [pan to Mr. Grouse, who shrugs; pan back to Mayor Davis] "Dink!" [He steps down.] "You're rehired!"
[The two shake hands, and everyone cheers.]
Dink: "I can't thank you enough, Lana!" [He runs over and hugs her.]
Lana: "Anything for the best garbage flinger ever."
Mayor Davis: "There's just one teensy problem: I signed a five-year contract on this thing."
Mrs. Gurdle: [snatches it] "I'll take care of that." [She crumples it into a ball and puts it into her mouth, shredding it, and the episode ends.]
