Cowboy Bebop Bell Peppers and Beef Gif

"Asteroid Dejection" is the first session, or episode, of Cowboy Bebop.

Credits

Written past:

• Keiko Nobumoto

Cast:

• Spike Spiegel
• Jet Black
• Asimov Solensan
• Katerina Solensan
• Laughing Bull
• Antonio
• Carlos
• Jobin
• Bartender
• Gangster A
• Gangster B
• Announcer A
• Announcer B

Animation Manager

• Toshihiro Kawamoto

Mechanical Animation Director

• Hirotoshi Sano

Plot

In the by, Fasten Spiegel, under the sound of church bells, carries a boutonniere of flowers down a street. The bouquet besides has a gun within, and he kills several men. When he runs out of bullets, he takes out a grenade and smiles.

Bell peppers and beef

In the present day, the Bebop is traveling through hyperspace near Mars. Jet has cooked his specialty, bell peppers and beef, while Spike finishes martial arts practice. During, Jet briefs Fasten about their next target, Asimov Solensan, function of a syndicate who killed his own men to escape a confrontation between his group and an enemy syndicate. Spike isn't interested, and, instead, comments that dinner tin't exist chosen bong peppers and beef since there is no beef. Fasten complains that they should have plenty of money from their last bounty, but Jet responds bluntly that Spike's reckless deportment have cost them the whole amount since he had to use the money to pay for the damages he caused to the two cruiser ships and injuring a police officer. Jet continues, noting the rumor that Solensan fled to an asteroid, Tijuana (aka TJ). Spike complains that he doesn't become later on "modest chips", judging by Asimov's crime and bounty cost (2.5 1000000 Woolongs, just Jet convinces him they need this bounty by reminding Spike that the "carnitas [on Tijuana] are out of this world!"

The ship exits hyperspace virtually the asteroids. While Jet gets some data from the police, Spike heads out in the Swordfish to see Laughing Bull.

On Tijuana, Solensan enters the El Ray bar with his plainly pregnant girlfriend, Katerina Solensan, as three old men play cards. Solensan sits down and makes an guild for vodka and tomato juice, just the bartender says there isn't any. It's a signal to go into the back for a transaction of something chosen Encarmine Eye. As the bartender requests a demonstration of bloody eye on Solensan, the syndicate men surround the bar and start shooting. The bartender is killed, merely Solensan, under the influence of bloody eye, shows the results of his greatly increased physical capabilities. Seeing his environs in dull movement, he hands bests the attackers, dodging punches and bullets before killing them and destroying the bar.

Eventually, Spike has spent quite a chip of fourth dimension with Bull, and his impending hunger makes his stomach growl. Balderdash, with his hands outstretched pouring sand on the floor, foresees Fasten finding a "red-eyed Coyote" at the north end of the town. He also says Spike will be targeted by a adult female and expiry volition result. Spike isn't concerned, proverb he's already died, due to a woman. Bull warns Fasten to have it seriously, simply Spike bids him goodbye. After he leaves, Balderdash asks that he be blessed by Wakan Tanka.

Jet arrives at the destroyed bar, having a beverage on the house, when two other syndicate men make it. He hides to hear what they have to say, which is that they need the encarmine eye dorsum, and don't like the thought of fighting Asimov if he's taking it himself. Jet knocks one of them out and gets more of the story from the other. Asimov stole bloody eye his syndicate makes and escaped, hoping to profit on information technology.

On his manner back from Balderdash, Spike stops at a gas station and, in the bathroom, encounters Solensan. Solensan, coming downwards off of the bloody middle, gets nervous and is ready to grab his gun, but Spike doesn't announced to recognize him, making a small comment about not bottleneck the drain and leaving.

Eyecatch

Walking back to his ship, he encounters Katerina, charming her out of some food and having a couple of laughs. Observed by Asimov from afar, they walk to Spike'southward ship and he tells her almost it. She appears to similar talking to him and asks him if he's been to Mars, every bit she wants to become there thinking it to be very prissy. Fasten says only the rich are happy, of which Katerina counts herself. The conversation turns south as he reveals he'southward a bounty hunter, and that he saw Asimov ill earlier. He dismisses him as a "weak nobody," and is promptly strangled by Asimov, who was hiding behind him. Katerina begs him to allow Spike go, and he does, just not earlier Spike discretely steals a vial of red heart from his jacket as he drops. The two make it their vehicle and leave.

In the car, Asimov confronts Katerina about her liking Spike, begging him not to impale him before. Katerina dismisses it and talks about the new life she wants on Mars. He doesn't respond.

Spike lies on the ground for a while and eventually Jet arrives. He gives Spike the whole story nearly Asimov, and recommends giving up, equally he's too hard to take hold of due to the bloody eye. Spike gets upward, stretches, and happily reveals he knows where they're going and that he got one of the vials, having encountered him. With Balderdash'southward phrasing, Spike says Solensan will be at the Zona Norte on the far side of town.

While the ISSP is now actively searching for Asimov, equally well as the syndicate men, Spike then stages a faux drug bargain with Asimov at the Denis bar. He reveals he took the vial from Asimov and destroys it in front of him. They get into a hand-to-hand fight, merely with Asimov merely partially feeling the effects of the drug he took earlier, Fasten overpowers him. Katerina almost shoots Fasten, but the former gang members prove up and interrupt the fight, causing Asimov and Katerina to run away and hijack a bystander's zipcraft. Before Katerina boards, notwithstanding, she is shot in the abdomen and her plainly pregnant stomach is revealed to actually be the stash of reddish eye vials. Asimov yells at her, shocking her.

Jet comes to Fasten'due south rescue in the Hammer Caput allowing Fasten to retreat to his ship in order to continue chasing Asimov. Asimov takes some other bloody eye to gain his edge back, while Katerina, seeing his aggressive behavior toward her, Spike on their tail, and the blockade of ISSP Cruisers waiting for them at the Astral Gate to leave Tijuana, increasingly realizes she won't get to Mars. Fasten suddenly realizes Katerina has shot Asimov and, as they share a glance, the cruisers open fire on the zipcraft. Katerina is blown out into space, surrounded by the encarmine middle vials to a higher place the atmospheric dome of TJ.

Back on the Bebop, Spike practices his martial arts and contemplates Katerina's situation as Jet throws him a cigarette and announces dinner – bell peppers and "beef."

Quotes

Main article: Memorable Quotes from Cowboy Bebop#Asteroid_Blues

[Spike is eating a plate of stir-fried bell peppers that Jet made.]

• Spike: Uh, listen Jet. Y'all said "bell peppers and beef." There'due south no beef in here. So you lot wouldn't really call it "bell peppers and beef," now would you lot?
• Jet: Yes, I would.
• Spike: Well, information technology's non!
• Jet: Information technology is when you lot're broke!

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[Antonio, Carlos and Jobin (aka The Three Quondam Men) are playing cards.]

• Antonio: This once more, son of a bitch. Taking my money like that you cheating dogs! Why, the just reason you can even alive here is 'cause of what I've washed. I busted my tail to dig that gate.
• Carlos: For criminy sakes you always say the same thing when you're losing. Nosotros all dug that gate together and you lot know it.
• Jobin: That nosotros did, we worked like there was no tomorrow.

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[Spike smokes a pipe in Laughing Bull's tent.]

• Spike: This is real mystic and all, but uh, do you have anything to eat here?

[Laughing Bull's stomach growls.]

• Fasten: I see.
• Laughing Balderdash: The red-eyed Coyote will announced in the Zona Norte at the far end of town. That is what I see.

Songs

• Retention – The cold open, a montage of Spike's memories and the bouquet of roses
• Tank! (Telly Edit) – Opening titles
• Spokey Dokey – Session title card, and through opening montage of life on the Bebop
• Felt Tip Pen – Plays in the bar when Asimov, Katerina, and the Three Old Geezers first appear
• Don't Carp None – As Fasten enters the bathroom where Asimov is
• "Spike's Whistle" – [Unreleased] Every bit Spike walks away from his chat with Asimov, he starts to whistle. This is known to accept been advertizement-libbed past Kōichi Yamadera. However the English language dub is different: Steve Blum (or another performer) improvised it in the dubbing sessions based on Yamadera's original riff^[1]
• ELM – Katerina realizes Spike is a compensation hunter, and Asimov begins to strangle him
• Don't Bother None – Police gatecamp, and at the Denis Bar
• Rush – Plays during the fight scene betwixt Fasten and Asimov
• Road to the West – Plays during the concluding hunt scene where Spike chases Katerina and Asimov
• Spokey Dokey – Jet and Spike dorsum on the Bebop
• The Real Folk Blues – Closing titles
• Want It All Back – Preview for Stray Dog Strut

Background

Themes and Motifs

Beingness the first episode, Asteroid Blues establishes some key aspects of the series immediately:

• The very showtime shot of Jet is him cooking dinner. This theme carries throughout the series where Jet is often portrayed as a fatherly figure and maintainer of the Bebop and its crew.
• Jet says he is cooking "bell peppers and beef", withal it turns out its only bell peppers. The viewer is immediately clued in that Spike and Jet are poor and hard up for coin. Money problems remain a common theme throughout the series (specially for Faye).
• Asimov is portrayed as being impossible to nab due to his cherry eye addiction, yet when he fights Spike, Fasten wins handily. The fact that Spike is an excellent combatant is established here.
• Asimov is chased by the syndicate members, the police and both Spike and Jet. The idea that the Bebop crew aren't really "proficient" or "bad" is a mutual theme in the serial. They are often found stuck between the law on one side and criminal offense organizations on the other.
• Missed Compensation: Solensan is killed at the cease of the episode, making retrieving the bounty impossible. Not actually getting the bounty advantage is a common theme of the serial as well; only on rare occasion do they actually collect one.

Homages and References

• The scene at the El Ray is an homage to Robert Rodriguez'south Desperado. The bar is a replica of a bar in the movie, which itself was filmed in Acuña, a metropolis in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Asimov bears a striking resemblance to Antonio Banderas' portrayal of El Mariachi (long pilus, dark skin, and dark-colored wardrobe) and travels with a beautiful Hispanic woman bearing a resemblance to Salma Hayek's graphic symbol in the picture. Asimov is as well able to unmarried-handedly defeat a bar total of mercenaries hired to kill him just similar the Mariachi graphic symbol. Some other scene reflecting this is when Spike confronts a motorcar full of people, in a similar fashion of Dany Trejo character confronts the same scenario in Desperado.
• Asimov is the surname of the famous science-fiction author, Isaac Asimov .
• Asimov and Katerina's death is highly inspired by the Arthur Penn film Bonnie and Clyde which both met their demise past a hail of bullets from the police.
• The poncho that Spike wears is a reference to Sergio Leone'southward Dollars Trilogy. Specifically, the attire worn by lead actor Clint Eastwood in his portrayal of the trilogies protagonist, The Man with No Name.

Trivia

• The astroid colony of Tijuana is named after the present-day city in Mexico's Baja California, thus the Mexican cultural elements depicted in this session (such every bit the sombrero Spike wears). Still, the astroid likewise seems to be very culturally diverse, with many street signs in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Hindi in addition to Castilian. Zona Norte, mentioned by Laughing Bull as a section of the colony, is really a red light commune in present-day Tijuana, United mexican states.
• Cowboy Bebop ofttimes depicts various unlike cultures in many settings. For example, the Martian city in next session "Stray Dog Strut" seems to be predominantly Chinese.

• Laughing Bull seems to be a Sioux Native American, since he makes a reference to Wakan Tanka, the "Dandy Spirit" in the Lakota Sioux way of life.
• Laughing Bull's tent is filled with a clutter of junk including what appear to be a Sony PlayStation i. (In the overhead shot of Spike and Laughing Bull, the PlayStation is next to Spike's right arm at the summit of the screen.)

Gallery

References

1. ↑ https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2018/07/19/5-memorable-moments-you-didnt-know-were-ad-libbed

Sessions

v•d•e The Sessions
. Asteroid Blues · Devious Canis familiaris Strut · Honky Tonk Women · Gateway Shuffle · Ballad of Fallen Angels · Sympathy For The Devil · Heavy Metal Queen · Waltz For Venus · Jamming With Edward · Ganymede Elegy · Toys In The Attic · Jupiter Jazz (Office one) · Jupiter Jazz (Part 2) · Bohemian Rhapsody · My Funny Valentine · Black Dog Serenade · Mushroom Samba · Speak Similar A Child · Wild Horses · Pierrot Le Fou · Boogie Woogie Feng Shui · Cowboy Funk · Brain Scratch · Hard Luck Woman · The Real Folk Blues (Office one) · The Real Folk Blues (Part 2) · Mish-Mash Dejection

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