On Jackson's day in early September, Jackson woke up, smiling. Mugman smiles back at him.

This day was moved up by a few days due to stuff the family had going on, and university also started back, not leaving much time to do much as summer ended. Today was September 7th.

"There's my favorite little star!" He says and hugs him. "You get your birthday today! Isn't that exciting?"

He babbled as Mugman took him to eat some breakfast.


Meanwhile, in the triplets' dungeon…

"Okay, we gotta get out of here, we can't trust those triplets. They've assisted villains before!" Alem tuber says.

Bill uses a hairpin and tries to unlock the cell door.

After a few tries, Bill broke the door down

"All right!" Alex says.

"What if Luke comes?" Emma sniffed.

"We kick his butt." Alem tuber says.

"We just lost to him yesterday." Emma says.

"And we beat him and his crew once, so round 3 is imminent." Alem tuber says.

"This is going to be ugly…" Emma says.

"The things I do for love…" Angry Luigi says.


Meanwhile, Margo came down. She smiled when she saw Mugman playing with Jackson.

"The cosmic buddies are locked up and Jackson is happy. Today is a good day." Mugman says.

Jackson holds up three fingers. "I'm this many!" He says.

"You sure are!" Mugman says and lifts him up.


Lucy wakes up and goes to set up. But Luke did most of the work.

Lucy frowned, she felt a bit useless. But she did wrap a lot of the gifts.

Mugman and Margo took Jackson out. Jackson giggles as he runs around.

"Jackson really wants you to win." Margo says.

Jackson nods he couldn't bear to see his hero lose. He considered Mugman his hero as well as his father. Mugman smiles and picks Jackson up.

They go to the park as Margo pushes him on the swings.

"He's more like you every day." Margo tells Mugman.

He smiles. "I'll win this show for you and our son." Mugman says.

Tonight, they will perform in Dallas. After Jackson's party. The halftime show-based performances would literally be a halftime show for tonight's Dallas Cowboys home game at AT&T Stadium.


Later, Chalice was dressing up for the show. But she knew Jackson's party was before the show.

Mugman took Jackson to his party.

"Surprise! Happy 3rd birthday, Jackson!" everyone says. Jackson giggles and looks around.

"I think he loves it!" Margo says.

Jackson points to the picture of himself as Dirk Dangerous. "Me!" He says to Mugman.

"Yes, that is you!" Mugman says. "You looked so cute on Halloween, dressed like your other favorite hero!"

"Dirk! Dirk!" Jackson says, clapping his hands.

Leni got him a new costume for his birthday.

"Yay!" Jackson says as Mugman helps him into the costume.

Cuphead got him comics. Jackson laughs and hugs Cuphead.


Soon, Luna performed a song called "Peanut Butter & Jelly" (watch the season 7 episode). Jackson smiled at Luna.

"You want more?" Sam asked. Jackson giggles.

"Now it's our turn!" Cuphead says.

They perform some kid-friendly versions of some of their songs.

"Thank you, Luke!" Jackson says as he goes to play party games.

Lucy groaned, feeling a bit sick as she headed to the bathroom.


Soon it was piñata time. Jackson looked at his piñata and looked unsure at first. He then began to cry.

"It looks like Dirk! I don't wanna hurt him!" Jackson cried.

Mugman just removed the ribbon as candy fell out.

"Yay!" Jackson says. "Dirk didn't get hurt!"

Jackson then got some candy and smiled.


Lucy thinks about planning Luke's birthday.

Jackson opened Mugman's gift and gasped. "It's a Dirk Dangerous plushie! I love it!"

He hugged it. "Thank you, Daddy! Thank you!" Jackson says.

"You're welcome, son." Mugman says.

Jackson found Luke's gift. He opens it, seeing a snow globe. He smiles and hugs Luke.


Meanwhile, Luna was walking and she overhears something.

"It's okay, Brandy, we won't treat you differently." Skylia says.

"Does Brandy have a disability? No way, that can't be true…" Luna says.


Luke plays "rocket" with Jackson, smiling. Luke then smiles and pulls out his second gift.

Jackson opened it and saw a train set. "It's the same as mine from when I was your age." Luke says.

He giggled. "Can we play trains sometime?" Jackson asked Luke.

"Of course!" Luke says with a smile.

"Awesome!" Jackson says. "I love you, uncle Luke!"

Luke smiled and hugged Jackson.


Soon, it was cake time. Luke smiled and set it before Jackson. Jackson smiled at it.

It looked like the number 3 and it had a Dirk Dangerous theme on it. Jackson grinned and showed his dad the cake as Margo lit the candles.

"It looks awesome!" Mugman says. He then starts singing as everyone else follows suit.

Jackson wished for Mugman to win the show and blew out the candles.

Lucy reads a poem as everyone enjoys the cake.


After a while, it was time to get ready for the show. Margo kisses Mugman, and Mugman kisses Jackson's forehead as he was asleep in Margo's arms.

"Good luck tonight, my love." Margo says to Mugman.

"Thanks." He says and kisses Margo back.


Angry Luigi accidentally made a wrong turn, hearing voices in his head as he was in the middle of the football field during the game and the ball landed in his hands. Luke just watched in pure jealousy.

"Oops…" he says as he leaped and runs, pretty scared as he made a touchdown, then ran off.

Troy looked really mad. He called in the SWAT team.

Luna looked concerned for Brandy; she had a soft spot for him, seeing him as a brother.


Meanwhile, Cuphead and Mugman had an interview.

"Hello, boys. How are you feeling about the show tonight?" April says.

"Great! Jackson is counting on me." Mugman says. "He just turned 3, and he's my pride and joy."

"He seems to really look up to Luke." April says.

Mugman smiled a bit, but was starting to feel unneeded. After all, Luke just gave Jackson what he wanted. All in four hours. He thought of asking Luke about his parental skills, just to get some tips.


Soon, April and Gemma came on stage as halftime began.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to AT&T Stadium! Tonight, our top 25 teams are here to give you a show!" April says. "Welcome to our Halftime Havoc show!"

"I bet they're going to say the next round will take place in Equestria." Cuphead joked as Beth gets annoyed.

"Tonight, it will be an eight-team elimination to make our spectacular 17 to move on to our School Spirit Spectacular at a local high school in Charleston, South Carolina!" Gemma says. "So as always, get those votes in for your team of choice, America!"

"Ha, told you Equestria wasn't a nice dimension!" Cuphead says. "Oh, and our team is better than yours!"

"Coming up first is Bella and Beth!" Gemma says as people cheered.

"Oh we'll show you that Team Real can do cool things." Bella says as they go on stage.

They perform "Hot For Me" by AKA.

Fans cheered as Bella shape shifted into AKA as fans cheered for that.

Soon they finished as Cuphead looked annoyed.


"Coming up next the stars of the show Luke Huntingtion and Mrs. Chalice!" Gemma says.

Luke didn't appear on stage.

"Come on, Luke." Chalice says.

"When everyone decides they want to stop arguing over who is the best, then I will come back!" Luke says, storming off.

Everyone agrees to stop arguing as the show was put on hold because Luke wasn't willing to attend. No Luke, no show. He was that guy and some fans even wanted to leave and get their money back.

Cuphead goes to Luke. "Luke, I'll stop with that stuff…just come back!" Cuphead says as Bella was never really the problem. Cuphead just triggered her by insulting an entire dimension, which is kinda rude when you think about it.

Luke looks at him. "Fine. You owe me 70 bucks." he says.


Luke decides to do it as the entire stadium rocketed with cheers. Heck, 80% of these fans aren't even football fans. They just wanted Luke and Chalice, not caring for the other teams.

Luke and Chalice soon appeared on stage in their chef's outfits. They were on a kitchen set, and they began their "Cooking Couple" medley, which consisted of "Simply Irresistible" by Robert Palmer and the song "Best Served Cold" by JT Music.

The crowd was loving the choreography and the creativity this show segment was bringing.

Fans cheered wildly as Chalice and Luke finished with a twirl, a wink, and two dazzling smiles.


"Coming up next, the champions of last season, Savannah and Tina!" April says.

The crowd cheered as they started their performance of "Where Have You Been" by Rihanna.

"Come on, you're cheering for Savannah?! She destroyed a bridge along with her team, even destroyed a restaurant!" Troy says "That was supposed to be Luke's 6th anniversary celebration, the celebration of his dreams!"

Savannah was overridden with guilt. They actually fixed the place and actually gave Luke a party, but all people seemed to remember was the chaos. Luke heard it all and fled the show area with Chalice in tow.

"And Tina's friends with her. Friends with a fiend and we all know the saying…guilty by association." Troy says.

"Please stop…" Savannah teared up. She had been insulted ever since the fight and it was getting to her.

Security escorted the triplets from the premises. They couldn't fight back as they were taken away from the stadium.


Luke was a mess of tears as Chalice was consoling him.

"It's okay, Lukey. That was a long time ago. Plus you've had better memories on the other anniversaries. No need to focus on bad memories when you can think of grand memories." Chalice says. He holds his calendar in his hands and thrusts it at Chalice, sobbing.

"We won't forget your birthday." Chalice says.

Luke's tears overtook his eyes. He couldn't handle this right now.


Savannah didn't even finish her performance. Normally, she would take this well, but she and Tina left the stage.


They cut to a small break to give an interview to Connor and Carol. Connor talks about Luke.

"He deserves to win." Connor says.

"Yeah, he really does." Carol says. "That poor boy has been through enough."

"Awww, that's sweet." Gemma says.


Savannah looks at Tina.

"Tina, I don't want to be friends with you at this moment. Right now, it's dangerous being friends with you. You're going to get killed. It's best if I just drop out." Savannah sniffed.

Tina looked heartbroken. Savannah was her only friend. The only one who was there for her when things fell apart for her. The only one who accepted her when no one else would. Tina was now mad at the triplets for ruining their friendship.

Savannah leaves. Tina had never seen Savannah this upset.


"Coming up next is the duo you love so much…" April starts to say.

"Cuppy and Mugsy! Cuppy and Mugsy! Cuppy and Mugsy!" The crowd chanted.

"That always gives us more…Cuphead and Mugman!" Gemma says.

Fans cheered as they came out in custom football jerseys and helmets. They perform "Halftime (Stand Up And Get Crunk)" by the Ying Yang Twins ft. Homebwoi.

The. Crowd. Went. Insane for the cup brothers as they took their performance onto the field throughout the whole song.

They soon finished getting the platinum button as fans cheered.


"Coming up next is another pair of twins that are ready to take the field!" April says.

"Presenting Randy and Brandy Waterlash!" Gemma says.

They come out with a radical entrance. They performed "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice.

Fans cheered. And during the song, Alem tuber kicked the football for a field goal as people cheered even more.


Chalice and Lucy had been both feeling weird.

"Luke, I know you need Chalice, but I need to examine." Lisa says and does her work before soon coming out.

"Luke, can you call Cuphead and mom and dad?" Lisa asked.

Luke gives that job to Luna as he just walks off, wanting his space.

"Luke, no, this is important for you, too!" Lisa says as they soon come.

"Luke, you and Cuphead are going to be fathers in 3 months." Lisa says. But Luke was too worked up and stressed out to be excited right now.

"Really? Yes!" Cuphead says.

Luke's reaction was different. He teared up and left. He knew it was that type of news. The type of news that he didn't want to hear at the moment.


"Coming up next is the sibling duo of Connor and Carol Pingrey!" April says.

The crowd cheered as they came out and performed "Watch Me" by Nick Jonas. They loved the performance and the way the duo stayed in sync.


Luke was a complete wreck. He was literally falling apart. He knew his performance career was over now.

"What's wrong?" Lucy asked.

"My career is over!" He says angrily.

"Mugman has a child and he's still doing these things. Who said you have to stop? You can still be a great father and performer! Damn, the critical viewers…" Lucy says.

"And I know I'll have to spend my birthweek in a hospital! Because that seems to be the only thing everyone all of a sudden decided to care about more than my 21st birthday!" Luke sobbed.

"You're overreacting…no one knows except a few people. You guys can still have fun on your birthweek, Luke. You don't have to stay at the hospital." Lucy tells him.

But Luke just tears up more. "I'm telling Mom to cancel it. I think all everyone will care about is baby showers and doctor's appointments and nursery painting! They won't care a bit about me!" Luke screamed as he just stormed out of the stadium.

The siblings heard all of it

"He has a baby?" Leni asked.

"You guys can't care about the baby, you have to choose Luke. Maybe I should get an abortion." Lucy sniffed. But Cuphead puts a stop to that suggestion.


"Coming up next is Lisa Huntington and Beau Yates!" Gemma says.

Fans cheered as they performed "Let's Hear It For The Boy" by Deneice Williams.

People cheered for their performance.


Luke was long gone. Away from the stadium and on the phone with his friends.

"You're having a baby? Congratulations!" Garrett says.

"That's all my siblings seem to care about now." Luke says

"Did you actually talk to them or did you just assume?" Lonnie asked, knowing Luke judges people a lot.

"I know that's all they're caring about now!" Luke shouted.


"Hey, guys, what should I wear for my Halloween concert?" Luna asked as Leni was preparing Luke's birthday suit.


Lana feeds her pets. Lola thinks of her pageants.

Lucy frowned, knowing she has to stay in the hospital in December. She was worried if she'd even survive, because some mothers pass away.


Meanwhile, Tina walked home. "Just great. I have no friends. My siblings don't seem to care and they never loved me at all. I don't need anyone!" Tina hisses darkly.


Luke hisses darkly in his Dallas hotel room. He wanted nothing to do with anyone right now.

Chalice feels guilty. It was her fault. She thought this would be a nice early birthday gift for her husband. But she remembers how Luke felt when Charity birthed Griffin and how much it hurt him then. All she can do is talk him through this. It would be hard. But she had to try. She looked up at Luke.

"Luke, you're going to be a father! Isn't that special enough?" Chalice asked.

"It's going to take my day from me…" Luke sniffed.

"Really? Why can't you be happy for me? I've wanted to have a child. Sure, it might take your day, but we'll celebrate. Lukey, I know this is a lot. Can you try to be happy for me?" Chalice asked.

"Fine." Luke says as he lays on his bed and looks away.


"Way to go, sis! I'll help you if you need it." Lynn says to Lucy.

"I don't care." Lisa says.

"How could you be so cruel? We all have to pitch in." Lola says.

"Lucy asked me to not care." Lisa says. "I'm only doing as she requested."

"Lucy needs you, Lisa. What if someone screws up her birth? You're smarter than any doctor I know." Lola says

Lisa blushed a bit at that, then she went back to work.


Whitney finds Tina.

"GO AWAY!" Tina screamed. But Whitney took Tina to her place. She wasn't leaving her out in the cold like this.