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Today's episode is boy Scouts in the hood.
Nicely done.
I got it. Do the Z and the season five episode eight originally aired November 18th, 1993, directed by Jeffrey Lynch and written by Dan McGrath with special guest star Ernest Borgnine.
And in this one, we don't have a chalkboard scene. I never knew how they decide if one did or didn't have
one. I actually do know. Oh yeah. It's uh, sometimes things like that are cut for time because, uh, the networks were all well, um, usually have a very specific set of time that they need per episode. And so they trim that based on if the episode goes a little bit longer, a little bit,
if a joke's too good to not be substituted by the chalkboard scene. Yup. But we do have the couch gag. So we have that going for us. Uh, this one, it's a dark screen and the, we see the eyeballs coming in, all the cartoon style lights turn on. It's just a bunch of floating eyeballs and the buddies run in and they pop right back into them.
Ah, all right. I should, uh, point out full disclosure. I have seen boys in the hood. This episode has nothing to do with that. It's there are no references. It is not as. Uh, we start out with Bart and Millhouse at the arcade and Martin playing a, a dinner with Andre, our cake. Tell me more, tell me more. Oh my gosh. The out of money alarm, the code
red.
And all this buildup and it's just the greasy face team, just asking them to leave.
And then we have, I noticed in the background, I was looking at the arcade games. One of them is the touch of death game. Wasn't that word? Bart was going towards Lisa. And then we also have George Bush, senior saying winners don't use drugs, the good old line from the nineties, arcade
games, countless arcade
games. And then he just starts kicking the guy
and then we get Marge asking what Homer wants for dinner. And he goes, stay awake. And she goes, I don't know, we're a little tight on money. I don't know if we can do steak. And he goes, yeah. Stay.
So clueless, somethings
just killed me and Marge sorta gets a worried expression on
her face. I'm sure we'll get steak. And then we have Homer looking like he's going to sit down and do a whole evening of reading and he picks up the peanut jar
and. Absolutely this absolute classic scene with the peanut and oh, I wanted a peanut money. Can buy you many people. Explain how money can be exchanged for goods and services. Oh,
that's probably one of our, cause we quote sepsis all the time and it always fits that situation. But yeah, I feel like that's on our top five lists. Oh yeah. It's
got to be. And that that $20 floats out the window and somehow ends up with Bart and Millhouse. And I just love how that seems like so much money when you're a
kid, it kind of feels like a lot of money. Now, if I find a 20, I'd be excited,
I'd be happy. But when you're a kid, that's like a life changing
amount of money. He says we're young. We're rich.
Yeah. And of course I have to mention the dank. Ms. Raymond. Of young and rich. If you were going to talk about dank of us every time we do an episode with a reference, so look up dank, MSE on YouTube, young and ready. It's beautiful.
Thank you. Thank goodness. Thank you. Thank goodness. We listened to him in the car on the way.
Yes we did. So then they go into quickie Mart and order the all syrup squishy, and I love Bart's delivery here because he's so confident. And so sly made entirely out of,
he's just sitting there with his arm on the counter, like he just ordered an expensive drink at the bar. And the squishy machine. I love finding these things. I'd never noticed before the colors changed on the squishy syrup, they were red and purple and then angle changes and they're purple and purple. And then they go to purple and green
and then this squishy ends up being green at the end. Yep. Yeah. Love who's freaking out. She's got a blow and then all of a sudden he just goes, hold on.
And that turns the dial to experimental. Yeah. Just imagine if there was a dial at like McDonald's and the shake machine that you turned it to experimental
classical musical segment. And I have to admit, I saw this musical segment more from the clip show episodes. With the all singing, all dancing. Cause they played that a lot on TV when we were kids.
Yeah. It was their go-to spot
filler. Yeah. And I I've seen that, that entire musical segment much more from that episode than from this episode. And they do so much on $20.
I know with cats
that, that seems the most ridiculous because. Tickets to that sort of thing, like 50 to 50 and up pretty much. Yeah.
It doesn't have to always make sense, but like when Burt shoes shoots a spitball at the cat and this isn't ground.
Oh man. And then a Barney's magic pixie lines. Yeah. I love your pixie drink.
And there's one scene where. Up who is laughing in the montage and a bunch of buildings are going by in the background. Ah, I paused a couple of times. They're hard to see cause they're blurry from all the motion, but they all seem very kid-friendly like one of them is a big lit up sign that says triple G rated.
That's kind of cute. So the scene with, with Barney mentioning the pixie drink, Milhouse, his face looks so well. And I always noticed that for some reason, like his smile looks like a J almost, and it's probably just them trying to show them being on their sugar high, but I don't know that smile always
weirded me out. It's like a frantic creepy look.
Yeah. Yeah. And then Bart wakes up to a sort of semi sugar hangover from all this and Barney ends up on a cargo ship and they never mentioned him again for the rest of the episode,
because he's not around to be mentioned.
Yeah, I guess so. And so Bart wakes up with the junior camper outfit on that. That's the big regretful thing that he did on his big sugar bins. And he wants to weasel out of it. I'm just wondering why did they call it junior campers? Because if it was a copyright problem, they put it in the name of the episode.
Well, it, it can't be a copyright thing because later on a few minutes later, We'll get to it. They go into the meeting at the school, but the door says not affiliated with boy Scouts of
America. So I was wondering if maybe it wasn't so much them using them there, their name, but they didn't want them to show a bad image of that. Um,
maybe boy Scouts of America would have been upset if they were mocking them directly versus indirectly.
Yeah, that's all. I thought that was interesting.
But then we have March saying that they're not square or uncool. She gets the uncool and Eric
and yeah. Bart wants to weasel out of it. But then we get this, uh, pop quiz, um, in, uh, Mrs. class and a junior camper gets to leave. And I freaking love this kid that we pretty much never see again, other than this. Yeah. Other than this episode. And he just got it. Uh, I'm supposed to a little
panic. Like he just wants to, he feels like he's missing out on the meeting and he's just trying to express it so
well, that was me in elementary school. Just always nervous and just always feeling like I'm going to do something wrong and oh my God. And then Bart walks into the campers, sponge bathing, Jasper. Which is sponge bath, the old folks day, which is just waiting.
Could you imagine the headlines, if an elementary school had kids given a sponge bath to a man
that's just so weird. Um, the Bart passes out when trying to get away. And I love this Bart POV from the floor. It's kind of reminds me of when Lisa passes out in Lisa's rival the fish. This is not a dream. It's just a really weird POV in the embark. Big family becomes interested when Ned mentioned their knives.
Yes. That's the hook. Yep.
But then Bart leaves again. When he finds out he has to do a test to use it. And we get this whole sequence with
knives, the benefits of knife ownership,
small man pulling a giant machete out of his cane. That really weird shot. And then he falls over and more knife related scenes like this one with Dr. Haber.
Yes. That's my favorite one out of all of those random appendectomy on the street, and then throwing it and explodes. No anesthesia, no
suture. The guy just like buttons up his shirt afterwards and walks away.
And the way Dr. Hibbett says don't think me think the knife, it made me think of the inanimate carbon rod.
That's true. It's similar. Shot and everything. I'm loving this Danny don't thing.
Don't do it. Danny dump doesn't
it reminds me of like the nineties seem to have so many PSA's and they always had these sort of, these sort of characters they'd make up. Do they still do stuff
like that today?
I I've seen some, but it's more just like the characters from shows, giving PSA's.
I seem to remember it was kind of a thing. Shows with show a light PSA at the end. So they can say it was kid friendly. Just to kind of get that technicality in there. Sonic says you got Joe.
Oh my God. So then Homer makes fun of Bart and Marge reprimands him for it even going so far as to continue doing it. After Marge, isn't looking, Bart learns how to make traps and we get a couple of sequences of home. Falling into these traps with the pie as bait
for PI,
and that one of them involves a hole through the driveway. How did Bart pull that off, off with his knife? With his knife? We got to thank the
night. I think he has his rubber training method at that point. So yeah, that would take a while. And then we also have the itchy and scratchy cartoon was the tint and Bart noticing the technicality on why it's not accurate. And then that awesome line of oh, cartoons don't have to be a hundred percent realistic. And Homer walks by the window pass. He's also sitting on the Catholic.
That is such a fantastic line. That's just one of those golden SEMS in mind. And since this was our first itchy and scratchy episode, um, that we've covered in one of these, I think this is our first one that we've covered on the podcast,
because those are a key thing to mention, but we haven't talked about them
before. And one thing I want to mention is at least for me, I don't know if it was for you. I wasn't allowed to watch those segments as a kid. Our parents made it made me turn away. I remember
having to turn away from a few of them being really young. By the time you started watching, I was older
and okay. Because, and now as an adult, I do the same thing with my kid.
Yeah. It's definitely a stark contrast to the rest of the
show. Yeah. And it's funny. Cause even now those seem kind of new to me because it's. For, you know, the bulk of the time I watched the Simpsons was as a kid and the bulk of the time I watched it, I didn't watch it G and scratchy. And so there's still a little fresh to me. The same
for me. They don't feel burned in like the rest of the
series. Oh, and we get Bart putting the badges on his vest and I paused it. And his badges include archery debt, collecting embalming, TV, trivia, and patch.
Forgery. That last one probably came in handy. Yes.
Uh, so we have the announcement of the father son rafting trip, and we get eight special celebrity dad, which what the heck,
that poor kid, his dad's in
prison. And he says, well, my older brother can do it. And he's no, no, we got earnest board night, which even then was kind of. Old time actor. Um, and he's, he says, you might know me from here to return it. He, and all the kids recognize it. So,
yeah. I don't know how the kids knew that.
So Bart and Homer both don't want to go with the other. And I love how the scene works out. And then we get probably my favorite character in the whole show, which is Homer's brain
separate entity.
Oh yes. And Homer goes, okay. So if he asked you, you just say. Wait, are you sure that's how this works? So shut up Reno stab you with a Q-tip. No, of course he ends up saying yes and they both go dope.
It's genetic.
Yup. It truly is. So then we go to the camping trip. And they're all setting up their rafts and we get the sea captains line. You are, I don't know what I'm doing, which begs the question. Why is he even here? Cause he's not there with a kid. He just kind of shows up and then leaves, which says that maybe he's been hired to set up the boats, which he's had so many weird random sea or water related jobs. That I can't even keep track of him
and for him to sink a little raft. Yeah. It's scary for all the other responsibilities he's had.
Of course, the Simpsons and the Flanders get grouped together.
And I love Ned right in Homer's face that white nose. Hey, Homer. Want me to sync your sniffer? I love dad's random awkward lines. Oh yeah.
Of course. Homer loses the map and they take the wrong turn,
but he doesn't
have an alternate map. Oh yes. Which does come in handy later. And Homer is. Unseasonably jerky during this whole part on the raft, he seems almost like a later season Homer and some of these scenes just absolutely you're redeemable with we're doomed in your face.
And there's that whole scene. Once they take the wrong path and they end up going out into the ocean, why always stood out. Just the way it very quickly goes from a river to like the vast open ocean. So that overhead view it's very like eerie and creepy. Like imagine the fear you'd have, if you were in that situation, just getting pushed out into the ocean and the, when
they, when they kind of go far away from the land, the land kind of just sinks into the background, right? Yeah. And then we get the rest of the campers going down. The right path and we get the deliverance reference with the dueling banjos. I've never, I've never seen deliverance, but from what I've seen on Wikipedia, you don't want to be going that way. And then we get the whole airplane fiasco where Homer tries to shoot the flare gun and it ends up hitting the plane.
And then the plane comes to rescue the person. But on the other
plane, we also have home. We're using their last bit of what. To wash his socks and it goes home, or you're washing your socks again. Like you didn't learn the first time. And then we have homers, great interpretation, water, water, everywhere. So let's all have a drink out of like,
and they're almost rescued by dolphins and the dolphins just say, you're all going to die, which I'm wondering, could they be related to the evil dolphins from that Treehouse of horror could be. And then another iconic line when Homer tries to use the cheese doodle to go fishing and he says, God speed, little doodle.
And he just doesn't have the energy to the hold on the line, just a school. Oh my God. He'll be back. He'll be back. And then I love the knife. When he busts out the pocket knife and it bounces on the raft three or four times and everyone's gasping and then it finally rests nice and peacefully. And then it's the magnifying glass that gets them.
Um, oh my gosh. And then Homer's fake crusty burger map actually ends up saving them in the end when they sort of. Float over to a oil rig that has a crusty burger on it. And Krusty's freaking out because he's not getting any business. And they say, we told you it's an unmanned oil,
even if it was manned, how much business can you get from that? I don't know. I wonder
if that's something that happens that they do. If there is, but you think it'd be more like some sort of cafeteria thing, but I
dunno, it's just a plot device. It's
applied device. And then we get the ending with Ernest Borgnine and his group sorta being snuck up on at the camp. And that ending creeped me out
as a kid. Yeah. And to think that because of Homer's mistakes, They survived and everyone else got killed, possibly.
Yeah. It's Ooh, it's such, it's kind of out of nowhere too, and you really don't see any of those kids again. So,
um, and the episode just kind of ends there. There's not much resolution other than they got to the oil Reagan. We just assume they make it back from there. But yeah.
It's this, episode's got a lot of great classic moments in it, but I personally like the first half much better than the second half
it's it's a good one for grabbing a few choice lines out of.
Yeah. But there's a lot of anxiety in that second half and a lot of really hating Homer. It
gets a bit dark. Yeah. I really does.
Uh, I did still really enjoy it though. And I think there's a lot of great moments in it.
And that's what I love about the earlier seasons of the Simpsons. Even the week. Your episodes are still always fun to watch. Oh yeah,
definitely. All right. Thank you so much for listening and join us next week. We'll be going through season nine, episode 17 dumbbell, and Deviney watch the episode before you listen to get the full experience. And with that. Bye everybody.