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{{Episode
|title1=The Chef
|air_date=September 16th, 2023
|season=4
|previous=[[Ultimate Minecart Race - AVM Shorts Episode 31]]
|next=[[Lucky Block Staff - AVM Shorts Episode 33]]
|episode_season=2
|episode_overall=32
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TheChefReaction.jpg|Original Video
AVM Shorts 32 thumbnail.jpg|Reaction Video
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"'''The Chef'''" is the 32nd episode of the ''[[Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts]]'' series, being the 2nd installment of [[Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 4|Season 4]].

==Synopsis==
Minecraft food is boring, time for an upgrade.

==Plot==
[[The Second Coming]], [[Green]], [[Yellow]] and [[Red]] sit at their table on Alan's PC hungry. While they express dissatisfaction at their vanilla Minecraft food, they hear [[Blue]] slurping down on a bowl of [[List of food in the Animator vs. Animation Franchise|ramen]], but refuses to share. Instead, Blue teaches them how to cook four bowls of ramen before serving. Green then takes out the recipe, asking where Blue got it, and Blue mentions that he got it from the [[Villagers#Titan Ravager Village|Plains Village]] where he [[The Raid - AVM Shorts Episode 28|helped train the Villagers]] in the past.

They head to the Village, where they are led to the house of the [[Butcher]]. The Chef notices them, and shows off the [[Blue's Master Cookbook|Master Cookbook]], but refuses to hand over to them until they complete the trading process. The stick figures attempt to bribe the chef with emeralds, and when that doesn't work, they try to steal the cookbook, but fail doing so before grudgingly accepting the task.

The first recipe is pancakes, with Blue documenting the process, and when they finish making them, they hand them over to the Chef, who gives them tomato seeds and unlocks the second trade.

The second trade is 5 pizzas for 3 oil buckets, and the process goes according to plan as well with the stick figures even add their own toppings before handing them over to the Chef, who gives them the oil and unlocks the third trade. While The Second Coming, Blue, Red and Yellow successfully cooked up the [[wikipedia:Hamburger|hamburger]] with [[wikipedia:French fries|fries]] and [[wikipedia:Fried chicken|fried chicken]], Green accidentally drops an unfinished [[wikipedia:Doughnut|doughnut]] into the fire. He tries to put it back into the oil, but he burns himself with the doughnut causing a fire to expand. After extinguishing the flames, the Stick Gang noticed that the last doughnut is ruined and might not accepted by the Chef. Before presenting the dishes, Blue attempts to conceal it between the other two.

The Chef approved of the dishes at first, but not before he noticed the burnt doughnut, thus calling off the trade. The Sticks beg for a second chance, but were denied after being kicked out of his house. 

The upset Stick Gang dejectedly killed a pair of mobs outside.

The next day, the Chef leaves his house to find the stick figures sleeping on his doorstep. Taking pity on them after seeing their work stations, he reworks his third trade, giving the stick figures three maps, and creating a fourth trade, featuring lots of different foods. Their goal now is to go to three exotic places around the world and make four dishes from each.

Green and Red ride a horse to a Latin American village to gather ingredients [[wikipedia:Taco|tacos]], [[wikipedia:Tamale|tamales]], [[wikipedia:Salsa (food)|salsa]] and [[wikipedia:Crème caramel|crème caramel]], Yellow and The Second Coming boat to an Asian village to prepare [[wikipedia:Pad thai|pad thai]], [[wikipedia:Sushi|sushi]], [[wikipedia:Baozi|steamed buns]] and [[wikipedia:Bubble tea|bubble tea]] and Blue heads to a French restaurant alone to prepare [[wikipedia:Beef bourguignon|boeuf bourguignon]], [[wikipedia:Quiche|a quiche]], [[wikipedia:Croissant|croissant]] and [[wikipedia:Macaron|macarons]]. After getting the necessary ingredients, and with Blue documenting the process, they all bid farewell and return to the Plains Village.

There, the Sticks prepare all twelve dishes and the Chef arrives to judge. He tries them consecutively, marking each successfully-prepared dish. After he finally samples the macarons, he approves, fulfilling the final trade. He grants the Sticks the Master Cookbook, but it turns out to only be a book cover. The Chef explains that the real Master Cookbook were the recipes written down by Blue all along. Blue rips off the cover of his journal, and places the golden cover on it, satisfied.

The rest of the sticks, however, were very hungry, with a starving Green punching the Master Chef in the face for taking a unnecessary journey to get just a book cover. He, along with the other Sticks except for Blue, dig into the dishes they made.

== Credits ==

=== Animation ===

* ‪Ellis02Media‬ ‪
* Fordz‬ ‪
* ARCpersona‬ ‪
* n8sterAnimates‬ ‪
* eds7236‬ ‪
* ichasedacrow2‬ ‪
* its_me_skim‬ ‪
* Nemo0501‬ ‪
* AnimatedZorox‬ 
* Exceld ‪
* smoilysheep4670‬ 
* Devil Boy Animation ‪
* Hexalhaxel‬ ‪
* Coperime‬ ‪
* SimpleFox1‬ ‪
* NotSoProishNoob‬ ‪
* oxob3000‬ ‪
* DaSassyOwl‬ ‪
* kayalartwork‬ 

=== Minecraft Assets ===

==== Pixel Art ====

* Double Apple 
* Luenfire
* Imp For Hire ‪
* Fabian_Banu‬ 
* Lorkhatosh 
* Kwinri

==== Minecraft Builders ====

* TheKaemble 
* Brian Nguyen
* SushiAndTea‬

==== 3D Tools ====

* UnderMineBlox‬ 

=== Sound Design ===

* e_soundwork
* dan_loeb‬ 

=== Music ===

* [[Scott Buckley]]

=== Production Manager ===

* hatena360‬

=== Project Lead ===

* n8sterAnimates‬

==Characters==
===Protagonists===
*[[Stick Gang]]
**[[The Second Coming]]
**[[Fighting Stick Figures]]
***[[Red]]
***[[Green]]
***[[Blue]]
***[[Yellow]]
*[[Butcher]]

===Other Characters===
*[[Minecraft Mobs#Red's Horse|Red's Horse]] (debut/only appearance)
*[[Villagers|Cultural Villagers]] (debut/only appearance)
*[[Village Horse]]
*[[Engineer Villagers]]
**Armorer
*[[Musketeers]]
**Farmer
**Fisher
**Shepherd

==Gallery==
<gallery>
AVMShorts32Teaser1.png|[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKWv2x9t6u8yZoB3KcPtnw/community?lb=UgkxCcBq1Hcp_aRjkH8HqstbNz9zDWf5RbfC 1st teaser].
AVMShorts32Teaser2.png|[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKWv2x9t6u8yZoB3KcPtnw/community?lb=Ugkxo3eLzOhjZ86P8htcIVcGJH7rc91opWXw 2nd teaser].
AVMShorts32Teaser3.jpg|[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKWv2x9t6u8yZoB3KcPtnw/community?lb=UgkxuNyEsEfiAsjsm57g8cPbn_YjKbB_MQ8u 3rd teaser].
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(17) The Chef - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep 32 00-00-25.png|Blue's ramen noodles.
Master Chef.png|The Chef.
(7) The Chef - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep 32 00-00-59.png
Mountain Village.png|Mountain Village.
Corn Village.png|Corn Village.
Rice Village.png|Rice Village.
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*[[Yellow]]'s pizza appears in "{{Actual Shorts|Bob Is Always There}}", when a bunch of dogs follow [[The Second Coming]] holding it.
*The horse Red and Green rode in the teaser was originally the same breed as the Village Horse.
*The scene of Blue stealing the recipe was first shown in "[[Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 3/Real Time|AvM Shorts Season 3 in Real Time]]", at the timestamp 55:10.
*This episode may be based on ''Farmer's Delight'' and its add-ons, which is a popular cooking expansion mod.
**The Tomato Seeds given by the [[Butcher]] have the same texture of ''Farmer's Delight'''s Tomato Seeds.
*When [[Green]] punches the Master Chef at the end of the video, the Chef’s pose on the ground is based off of Peter Griffin after he fell down the stairs in a meme from the popular TV show Family Guy.
*The [[Blue's Master Cookbook|Master Cookbook]] turning out to not contain anything and instead representing the skills they've learned along the way is a reference to the Dragon Scroll from the movie ''Kung Fu Panda''.
*This episode is the first AvM episode to use 3D models for weapons.
**In the 4th teaser for the episode, Green and [[The Second Coming]] use 2D axes and [[Yellow]] and [[Red]] use 2D swords, but in the same scene in the episode, they use 3D axes and swords.
*In the AvG reacts video for this episode, after [[The Second Coming]] and the [[Fighting Stick Figures]] arrive back at the village after following their maps, when [[Yellow]] and The Second Coming high five, an onomatopoeia of the high five appears in place of a sound effect, despite it not appearing in the original release.
*This is the fourth AvM episode that is longer than the original ''[[Animation vs. Minecraft]]''.
**The other three are "{{Shorts|Parkour|22}}", "{{Shorts|Monster School|27}}", and "{{Shorts|The King|30}}".
*The stick figures put out the grease fire by putting dirt on the cauldrons then pouring water on the fire that spread everywhere else. However, this was not how it was originally going to be until someone in Alan's team pointed out that using water on the cauldrons will worsen the grease fire.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwVBo26FcME&t=570s</ref>
*When [[Blue]] is making ramen noodles for The Gang, he cracks an egg open and a chicken comes out, which Blue picks up and gently tosses it away, which is a reference to the short {{Actual Shorts|Omelette}}.
*This is the only episode of AvM Season 4 not to feature [[Staff]]s in any capacity.

==Errors==
*When Blue gets the Master Cookbook, just before he opens it, all of the "pages" are there.
*The portal in the village, like in the black hole scene in "{{Shorts|The King|30}}", uses its normal size, instead of its enlarged state from "{{Shorts|The Raid|28}}".
[[File:Titan Ravager village with all stickmen.png|center|thumb|Portal errors: The portal is supposed to be larger, like it was in The Raid.]]
*At timestamp 12:52, the French Chef's watch is on his right wrist, but when he enters the building, it's on his left.
*At timestamp 14:06, the label on the boeuf bourguignon is misspelled as "boeuf bourgignon".[[File:The Pronounce Error.png|center|thumb|Spelling errors: "boeuf bourguignon" is misspelled as "boeuf bourgignon".]]
*At timestamp 14:42, Blue uses a 2D render of a golden sword, while the rest of the tools in the video are 3D, which is inconsistent.

==References==
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