The Heart, She Holler

Using her psychic powers, Hambrosia is startled to discover that the Holler is deserted. MeeMaw then summons Hambrosia to come to her in the hospital, where she briefly assumes the form of a child before telling Hambrosia a story about the holler.

The story starts with Hurlan asking Hoss for advice after destroying his genitals with a paper shredder. Alarmed that this would mean the end of the Heartshe bloodline, Hoss orders Hurlan to steal some of Hoss's old semen from a sperm bank. Knowing Hurlan lacks the drive to pull off a successful heist, he also orders Hurlan to smoke the blood of a black man, which will fill him with a lust for theft. However, Hurlan blows instead of sucks, creating a bubble of blood that floats out of the office with Hurlan in fast pursuit.

Meanwhile, Sheriff is rejected by Hurshe, who is more interested in hooking to make money. Dejected, Sheriff returns home to Hambrosia, who tells Sheriff that MeeMaw wants the two of them to have a baby. Although Hambrosia is barren, she has hired her sister, Hurshe, to be their surrogate, although she insists it be done surgically.

In the hospital, Doc combines Sheriff's semen with Hambrosia's eggs. After Doc puts the resulting goo into Hurshe, she immediately gives birth to a giant, glowing, yellow maggot, with which she feels an immediate and very intense bond. She refuses to give it up, planning to peddle the creature's love to her Johns in order to afford a high class singing bass.

Hurlan, meanwhile, keeps chasing the bubble of blood hither and thither until he throws up and collapses in exhaustion.

We return to the A plot by learning that Hurshe's glowing maggot of love is so popular, there is a three month waiting list to see Hurshe. Her walls are covered with singing bass. Unfortunately, Hurshe arrives home to discover her baby maggot is missing. It has been kidnapped by Hambrosia, who hastily hides the baby maggot in a pot when Sheriff comes home. Thinking the pot contains stew, Sheriff turns the stove on to get it hot, cooking his own baby maggot son.

Still telling Hambrosia this story, MeeMaw says that Hambrosia was meant to keep the baby maggot safe until MeeMaw summoned Hambrosia (in another story flashback) to reveal a dreadful secret: MeeMaw must shed her current body in order to avoid a catastrophic event called "The Comening." She plans to put her spirit in the body of the bug baby, unaware that it has been cooked.

Hambrosia hurries home to discover that the cooked baby bug is gone. Hurshe, after breaking in to search for her child, grows so hungry that she eats the baby bug stew, not knowing what it is. She later takes a massive and painful dump.

Hurlan, meanwhile, is down in the dumps, after being unable to capture the blood bubble. After giving up, the blood bubble approaches him and steals his wallet, which we later see in the hands of MeeMaw, who tells Hambrosia that her mistake has cost MeeMaw her mortality. Hambrosia says that this is impossible, but MeeMaw says impossible things become possible when their surrounding reality is also impossible. We flashback to the hospital from the beginning of the episode to discover that there are two Heartshe Holler realities. In each one, MeeMaw is telling a story of the other one, so each reality creates the other, which is impossible, meaning MeeMaw's death -- once just impossible -- is now impossibly impossible. In other words, possible.

This revelation gives Hambrosia a headache. Understandably.

Thinking Hoss is saving his juiciest secrets for the end of his video will, Hurlan skips ahead to the very last tape. Before Hoss can reveal any secrets, however, Hurlan falls asleep. Annoyed, Hoss changes his own channel to a station showing "Wake Up, White People," a racist talk show hosted by Jacket. His first guest is MeeMaw, who vociferously warns the holler about an upcoming catastrophe (The Comening) that can only be averted by sacrificing "the purest one among you." She then disappears. Literally.

Jacket takes calls from about this admonition, one of which is Doc, who tells Jacket that his wife is having sex with a black man who she was canoodling with at Oodle's House O' Noodles. This news perturbs Jacket. His producer reminds him that the call was a plug planted as part of a nested marketing strategy, but Jacket worries the part about his wife was true.

Meanwhile, the rest of the townsfolk are at the bar, worried about the Comening. They believe that the "purest one" among them must be the child-like Hurlan. They go to Hurlan at night and chop off his head.

Jacket, wanting to soothe his troubled head, goes to Hurshe for sexual healing (which involves nested marketing for beef stew). At the same time, Jacket's producer is banging Jacket's wife. Post-coitus, he mentions a new type of "holistic" marketing that he's been working on.

Partying at the bar for averting the curse, the townsfolk are surprised to discover that Hurlan is walking around with his head in one hand, apparently still alive. They realize he is too dumb to know how to die. Disgusted, they decide they must use education (their worst enemy) in order to smarten Hurlan to death.

After sex, Jacket discovers a brand-shaped blister on his lip. Hurshe reveals this is part of a sexually-transmitted marketing strategy concocted by Jacket's producer. When she informs Jacket that his wife is sleeping with his producer, Jacket says he is going to kill him.

The townsfolk try to educate Hurlan, but nothing works until Hurlan accidentally electrocutes his severed head with a carton of milk, which turns him into a genius.

Jacket goes to Grub's Guns but cannot afford any of the weapons. Grub says he will give Jacket 50% all guns if Jacket kills his wife and producer live on the air and mentions Grub's gun shop as a nested marketing strategy for his killing spree.

Hurlan uses his new-found genius to extrapolate all of the holler's secrets. Foremost among them: MeeMaw is Virginia Dare, the first white person born in America, and therefore cursed by the gods of the indigenous people. "The Comening" is her attempt to avoid the curse. He is about to warn the holler, when he realizes what death is. Realizing he is still decapitated, he dies.

Hoss takes us back to "Wake Up, White People," we see that Jacket has tied and gagged his wife and producer. After plugging Grub's Guns and Uncle Sambo's Edible Gravy, he shoots his producer in the head. He plugs a sponge to remove blood from your walls, as well as a NegrNa, the DNA of a black man that you can sprinkle on crime scenes to avoid incarceration. However, to his horror, he discovers that NegrNA is made in China. Aghast, he realizes he can't kill his wife for cheating on him if he is guilty of a bigger crime: cheating his audience with inauthentic products. He hugs his weeping wife while the townsfolk dance on set with Hurlan's head, celebrating his death.

This episode about redneck hell and true identity of Hoss from another dimension.