Abby Takes a Stand

Abby Takes a Stand is a first episode of the first season of AniTales, It first aired in The Greeny Channel in the United States in August 14, 2005, also, This episode was written by Patricia C. McKissack and directed by Gordon C. James

Synopsis
Abby was going to diner. It concerns an African-American grandmother, Abby, talking with some of her young relatives about the time she was a young girl in Nashville, Tennessee, her experiences with racial segregation, and her involvement with the Civil Rights Movement.

Plot
The episode begins with Mitchell playing a video game, when he hears a rumbling outside. It was a giant robot called Self Aware chasing its inventors, Leo and Ben. Jasmine was upset when he sees the robot destroys his tent. After Mitchell lends Ben his video game controller, the robot begins to eat Leo's car. Ben had made an elector-magnetic pulse generator. Abby was shocked when Ben is going to destroy their robot. Jasmine says that their robot needs a little love even though it destroys things and eats Leo's car. He quickly changed his mind to destroying it when Jack gets eaten by the robot. He points the generator at the robot and destroys it. Jack falls out of the robot when it falls over, and after that, Mitchell, Abby, Jack, and the rest of the gang celebrate merrily.

With the word "welfare" in his mind, Mitchell soon applies for a government assistance at a welfare office. But a processing error creates a weekly check for $150,000. Telling Jasmine he received a big raise, Mitchell spends his money on many foolish things. Mitchell rents the Statue of David, treats Rachel to cosmetic surgery and even goes so far to surround his house with a moat to protect them from the black knight.

Unfortunately, Mitchell is given the welfare check by the mail lady and storms at Mitchell. Mitchell decides to return the money to the taxpayers by dumping it from a blimp during Super Bowl XXXIX, and Jack accompanies him. They end up in prison.

Eventually, Mitchell receives the bad news and goes to court, where the judge sentences Ella to 24 months in prison. Jack tries to explain he's not that bad and she loves him, and insists that no matter what, she will always stand by her husband. The judge agrees, and sends her to jail with him. Ben, must have his parents by his side, regardless of his burning hate for them. He then kicks out his mind control device and forces the judge into letting his father go free and get his job back.

Mitchell states that he has learned his lesson and will never do it again. Instead he is going to try for such things as a minority scholarship, sexual harassment suit, and a disability claim.

Trivia

 * TV Times synopsis: Frankie asks Leanne to move into the Baldwin house; Vera decides she's had enough of being Jack's doormat; Shelley rejects Charlie; and Sunita gets a ticking off from Dev.
 * Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 9,690,000 viewers (3rd place).