Yeah, I'm sure she'd have more self control than that. Besides she's young, I doubt her figure was in any trouble.

bum bum buuuuum. Better yet Mrs Bennet is Sylar.. she has givin up on killing supers and decided to go for small furry animals around town..first her little corner in Texas, then onto South America. Get all those little buggers that no one knows about yet!

Anyone else bummed when thost things got heaved? My roommate and I were. They looked pretty awesome. Plus cupcakes could have come in handy at the first metahuman get together, although I guess they wouldn't last that long.

Yea, I was all "What the?" when the mother actually dumped them in the garbage. I think the reason for doing so was pretty stupid.

Haha sounds like someone had the munchies j/k

You're damn right.

This is just a prime example of the well off being wasteful... they could have donated those tastey little cake to the starving stoners in the neighborhood..but nnnoooo they had to go toss them. Now the raccoons are gonne get into them and kill themselves on the sugar overdose. See that right there points to Claire's mom being a villian to. There is going to be a bunch of wild animal deaths in the neighborhood and she will be down in their basement next to the boiler in the dark wringing her hands and laughing maniacly, plotting her next mass slaughter of innocent wild animals... it all makes sense now!

We should be glad she tossed 'em out because...the cupcakes...were Sylar! O.O

Hmm...since you mentioned animals...

Why are humans the only species to have acquired super powers? How about a flying alligator, or a rabbit with a split personality, or a time-traveling gopher? Discrimination, I say!

No see the brilliant part about not making more cupcakes is that Sylar love the thrill of the hunt. With all that tastey brain activity it cant help but be nice and juicy!

As to the animal thing... yeah, whats up with that? But then again lets not forget the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle..they are heroes in a half shell. Perhaps after all the humans kill themselves off trying to stop the terror that is Mrs. Bennet, the animals will rise up and revieal that they do indeed have powers and more of them! like I can see the Ardvark with the powers of storm or the dolphin with control over flame! Lets not forget the sugar glider that hulks out!

I dunno. If she were Sylar she would have been like, "oh dear you don't have to worry about your weight, now how about we bake some more?" in an attempt to make Claire too fat to run from the inevitable brain snatching.

So Sylar and Peter are in this together. I should've known...not only can he borrow Sylar's shapeshifting powers, but he can borrow Claire's invulnerability, thereby making him the most powerful bathroom scale in the known universe.

We can do nothing to stop them...

Well did you see the picture him and peter, who consequently heard about claires unwillingness to hook up with the junkie decided to help sylar out and bring the tease down, she was only like 10-15 feet from the door. This might give credit to your chubby theory. But it would be a good thing that she didnt eat the cupcakes.. now she might just have a chance to escape the temptation put forth by Nikki's cracklike cupcakes.

I think Hiro is in on this scheme to.. when peter talked to him he pretended like he didnt know anything about this so called cheerleader. This must have been some weird private joke between what I think I will call the "Circle of Evil". He obviously was the one who stopped time and allowed peter and Sylar to bring down claire. See she did pass on that cupcake and resisted the temptations of Nikki and the only way they could get her is by stopping time.. shame on him.

But surely he must realize as a villain he needs to give himself some kind of leg up? As a cheerleader when a possible chase occurs she's going to be wearing sneakers and not the cliched damsel in distress heels, so some extra pounds would help him in the chase.

See but thats the beauty of the thrill of the hunt! You want your prey to be on at least equal ground with you. If anything Sylar could just lift her off the ground with his TK and it would be over.. let her run! Sooner or later hes going to catch her and when she has exhausted herself if brain popin time!

He'll be wishing he used the cupcake tactic when Claire whips out the PF Flyers, "guarunteed to make a kid run faster and jump higher" according to the Sandlot.

True. But just think what Sylar inherits once he gets that little hotties brain...

But Sylar is going the same route as every villain, gotta have a challenge, like the villains making the vents in their lairs large enough to crawl through. Well if he had baked more cupcakes, crawlspaces wouldn't be a possible escape route anymore.

Then again, by throwing them out, he could have possibly been going for a knock in her confidence:

"I'll probably eat them all."

She tosses them out, pretty much confirming "yeah honey, you have no self control and should probably watch how many of these you put away".

Either way he wins, assuming that was Sylar. Or someone working for him. The normals are not to be trusted!

Exactly! Now your starting to understand.. but the thing is, what normal? I am telling you the woman is out for the animals. Next thing she is gonna do before heading to south america is turn her little furball of a dog into the dog from blade 3 and then while she sugar poisons the world her little goon can be free to cause havok! Its a great way to take the attention off of yourself when commiting animal genocide

Ah, the subtle villainy.

But perhaps it is neither Mrs. Bennet nor the cupcakes who are Sylar, but rather the garbage can itself? Who better to steal away the cupcakes and feed them to helpless diabetic squirrels, or to confirm Claire's lack of caloric willpower? And what with his obvious ability of mind control, and sanitation, he could have easily forced Mrs. Bennet to dump them away.

oooo then that leads to the possibility that he has some sort of shapeshifitng ability! He did have what looked like some sort of jumpsuit on..coulda been a janitor. so he shifts into a trash can, feed all the fuzzies the sugar and takes them all out, turns the dog into vampire dog of doom, heads down to south america and lets loose the hell dog, comes back to texas and nabs Claire...it all makes perfect sense!

Hmm. Maybe if Claire was going to try digging them out of the trash, the lid would have come down on her hand (I'm thinking of this as a possibility because she would assume her body would help regenerate any harm bacteria would do).

If Sylar is the trashcan, I think he may be partnered with the bathroom scale. Reminding Claire of her lack of caloric willpower may lead to Claire thinking "I gotta go weigh myself". The scale then fudges the number, continuing the vicious cycle and making Claire susceptible to more knocks to her confidence. See this is what happens when you advance scales to the point that they talk. They turn on ya. When will we learn that we must make sure the machines do not advance to the point that they turn on us?

When we have to defend Zion is when! See the scale hops in on this cause its actually peter useing Sylars powers to shapeshift. He wants to be better then his brother so he takes a little bit-o-claire and keeps it in a little jar so that he always has her powers to.

Not so fast my friend.. lets pit them against Eden..she has no body weight at all. She alone will bring them to their knees with her mac and cheese.

I think we are getting a little off focus though..whos gonna stop Mrs. Bennet? That lady is crazy and is gonna mess up the whole world with her sugary delights and he rabid vampire dog!

Unless they mess with the wrong woman, namely Niki.

Claire would go on a diet. Niki would destroy the scale in a fit of alternate personality rage.

Although then the regeneration would kick in. Too bad "Bill Cosby" isn't around to send the parts of the scale to the far corners of Cah-nada.

How do we know that Nikki isnt part of this nefarious scheme? What if her alter ego started a chain of little food stand in that town that claimed to have no sugar added into the sweets but was secretly useing real sugar..not C&H like we get in the stores..no I am talking Sugar in the Raw like you find at yuppie coffee places. Also she adds and addictive chemical to all the food so everyone has to eat it. Claire take a bite and is forever locked in a vicious cycle of eating to much and never getting fat from the regenerative process..this again feeds her fear of being a freak! Yeah im keepin an eye on that Nikki lady

I dunno. I think Claire could still get fat. Would her regeneration thing burn calories? I think it would just mean more tissue her power has to regenerate, which probably means it has to work harder. So by fattening her up Nikki's making Claire's powers work harder, the fiend.

Yeah but I look at it like the fat is just damage she is doing to her body.. heck I dont see much fat on the girl right now anyways. But then again maybe her body of working twice as hard trying to keep the fat off from all those delicious cupcakes Nikki is selling... evil I say..pure evil

Well maybe she won't have an increased chance of certain diseases because her body fixes itself but she would probably still put on weight, preventing her from being her agile self and a knock to her confidence. I think she would know by now if eating junk had a negative effect on her figure or not. If that were the case she would have been like, "heck yeah I could put away these cupcakes".

oooo thats why she fell down in Issacs painting! See I think he might be in on this thing to...he actually paints what he wants to happen. He tried to hook up with her a year ago but that didnt go so well since she was like 16 so he turned to the drugs and started painting her has getting her nugget sliced up by the janitor who as it turns out has shapeshifting abilities, then it works out he actually has some funky power to tell the future and ends up writing her own demise! When will junkies learn?

Maybe, but if Niki's cupcakes had their complete intended effect there would probably be a panel of Claire only running like 10 feet until she had to catch her breath, or possibly getting stuck between two seats or something. So maybe it was good after all that Claire decided to pass on the cupcakes.

Nah, Hiro is too nice for something like this. If Future Hiro was going to make his move it would have been when she was at that first cupcake. He would have stopped time on the mother and been like, "yeah I've seen you in the future, you may want to cut back on those" leading to her lack in confidence. Or he would have said, "go for it, your metabolism will handle it" if he was helping the other two.

See the problem with that though is that only him and peter can do stuff during the timestops. future Hiro was all dressed in black.. which lends credit to his being in the circle. It would have been to easy to just go back and mess with claire...he had to go back to peter and let him know that there scheme worked like a charm. Sylar would want to know those things.

Well with Hiro's power I guess he could go back to that day and retrieve them in case they do need something at the first superhero get together.

I was just thinking, would tissue regeneration also regenerate unwanted tissue like excess weight? Probably not since removing that is a slow process. Wolverine would be like the Kingpin now otherwise.

I guess cupcakes aren't always good, like that cupcake Rob Reiner tried to give Cartman in South Park.

If Claies's mom was Sylar wouldn't we see at least one cupcake with the top removed before they were thrown out?

If they were baking them for the school bake sale why didn't she just send ALL of them instead of leaving some around the house? And is she the only person in the house? Didn't she think maybe somebody else might want to eat? Like her dad or her brother? Sheeesh. That was pretty self-centered. And has she ever heard of self-control? Just don't eat them piggie.

I think she came to that assumption that she might pig out because of the stress of having just met her parents (as far as she knows) and dealing with these weird abilities.

Haha! It will never die!

So I think we can all agree now that Mrs Bennet is in fact Sylar.

When zach came over she just brushed him aside. She was probably seeing how the little creatin was affecting her mark and how he could be a problem. Also its supposed to be Mr Muggles big day huh? That must be the day that he geting turned into demon vampire dog of doom! Its all unfolding...just as I said it would. Next Stop... the rain forest.

I'm thinking Mr. Muggles is the evil one and Mrs. Bennett is just a dumb housewife under his control. He probably had plans with the cupcakes to fatten up Claire so he could eat her, but Mrs. Bennett fouled it up like lackeys always do.

Muggles and Sylar may eventually have a villain vs. villain showdown.

I think I missed the tossing out of the cupcakes.. Must rewatch for this important scene!

I want cupcakes now... o.o

If nothing else it was a real bummer to see those great looking things tossed out because of Claire's lack of confidence in her self control.

Didn't she say her cheerleading time was almost done? In that case enjoy the teenage metabolism while you got it.



I saw this pic on another forum.

"What's that Mr. Cupcake? You want me to kill Mr. Muggles? Then eat you? It shall be done."

If you look closely, Mrs. Bennett is holding on to Mr. Muggles as usual, right over the cupcakes as they are being frosted up. So cupcakes + frosting + doghair = no thanks.

That darn Mr. Muggles. He has some kind of thing against Claire. I was speculating before that maybe Mrs. Bennett(or Mrs. Bennett controlled by Muggles) was trying to fatten Claire up so she couldn't run from Sylar, but Mrs. Bennett botched it by throwing them away.

But maybe Muggles was flat out going for the kill by making her choke on dog hair? Then the brain is an easy catch.

That also got me thinking of the Breakfast Club...when Bender said that Claire was a fat girl's name. I think Bender may be the mastermind of this whole thing, with Mrs. Bennett and Muggles as his underlings, ordered to bake cupcakes and have Claire eat them all to prove his point that Claire is a fat girl's name because Bender just can't be wrong.

Cupcakes: One Year Later

In episode six of season two, Claire sees Debbie shove a cupcake in another girl's face. Coincidence? Most likely. But it has been almost a year exactly since the Claire cupcake incident. Perhaps there is some kind of cupcake conspiracy going on around here...

man, i've never seen a cupcake before with so much icing on it

good job she threw them away, she was one baked good away from type 2 diabetes!