Episode 42: Boyboyhood (2021)

One year after the Ripping Friends released the controversial episode (Boyhood (2014)) which was just (Boyhood 2014) broadcast with flashes of sexy muscled men, did the Ripping Friends television show release Boyboyhood (2021).

Boyboyhood is an episode, no a film, unlike any other. Boyboyhood follows Boyboy, not as the lovable superhero sidekick played by Micheal Cera previously but, as a new character. A boyboy in a manman world. Boyboyhood starts with the death of Manman. Manman perishes after being ripped by the ripping friends for the last time. They rip his body in two, tearing his guts apart and laughing the whole way through his slaughter. Boyboy looks at the Ripping Friends, heros he once saw, and sees them as the monsters they truly are. Boyboy is faced with a decision in his small terrible apartment. He is so depressed he wonders about what he could possibly do now that Manman has gone. With Manman's inheritence money he can buy himself a house, and start a new life, free from the misguided superheroism of his past. His boyfriend tells him not to pursue revenge and to instead offers to help him move on but, boyboy is having none of it. He swears the ultimate revenge against the Ripping Friends. He swears to rip them from their Ripcot, and see their world be ripped before them. We spent the next hour and a half with Boyboy, watching him train and lose all of his friends, family and even his boyfriend as he desperately beefs up and learns to rip just like the ripping friends. He plans meticulously his revenge and plans to use the friends hubris to destroy them. Rip eats lunch at 3 pm, Slab (who is uncircumcised) fucks Chunk at 1pm, Crag makes his inventions at 2pm. He-Mom eats a health lunch at 2:30pm and it spends the next while crunching. All of them are vulnerable during these hours.

When Boyboy finally strikes, he gets so close to killing the Ripping Friends. He sneaks up on them, and rigs up to poison their air supply and set Ripcot to blow up in a way the Ripping Friends can't possibly rip their way out of. As he's preparing the last of his plans all he has to do is press the button and take his revenge, when he sees Jimmy. Jimmy is a small boy, just like him once, who looks up to the Ripping Friends. Jimmy points to Boyboy and asks who he is. Boyboy pauses. Should he end the lie that is the Ripping Friends that keeps this boy so happy? Is his revenge really worth the sacrifice of a single life? One that resembled him? One that very well could have been him at a younger age? If the Ripping Friends were so evil, why had they kept him around? Boyboy thinks no, he has to and Rip appears behind him. Despite how long we see Boyboy for, his final words, like so many others, are "It's Ripping Time". As he's ripped apart, his control falls to the ground, revealing that no matter what you do, those with the power will always maintain it, and will always rip your justice out of your hands.