Spanish Onion is the debut animated mini-movie from award-winning Australian children's band The Vegetable Plot.
The film begins "in the land of nightshade", where we meet our singing narrator Tom Ato, a vampire tomato. He sings about the dark side of vegetables before telling us that there is no vegetable more fearsome than the one he is about to introduce.....[whip crack]... Spanish Onion!
We meet Spanish Onion walking into the Salad Saloon where his pungent odour makes his vegetable friends Blowbergine and Purple Haze cry. After Spanish Onion uses his whip to grab a drink from the bar, the outraged patrons of the Salad Saloon demand that he leave.
While Spanish Onion is sitting outside, feeling rejected, the villainous Bull Burger enters the saloon and devours Purple Haze and Blowbergine. Hearing the sound of his friends in distress, Spanish Onion swallows his pride and marches back into the saloon to save the day.
After a musical interlude where we visit the off-the-hook Salsa Party (where again Spanish Onion is denied entry) the film ends with the climactic showdown between Spanish Onion and Bull Burger.
After sizing each other up through a series of classic close-ups, Bull Burger lips his licks and makes his move. With a swipe of his blade he cuts off Spanish Onion's purple skin. Spanish Onion screams, but is amazed to discover that he has an identical purple skin underneath. Bull Burger cuts off the second skin, but again, Spanish Onion sees that he has another skin underneath. Becoming frustrated, Bull Burger charges at Spanish Onion, who uses one of his skins as a matador's cape, whipping it away from the charging bull at the last moment. Bull Burger crashes into the dirt defeated. With a final crack of his whip Spanish Onion removes Bull Burger's horns, freeing his two friends.
The film ends with Tom Ato at the piano, singing the final extended note of his song, before jumping on top of his piano, turning into a bat and fluttering off into the night.