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eerieindiana2015-10-17 04:00 pm
froodle) wrote in eerieindiana2015-10-17 04:00 pm
Entry tags:
- char: edgar,
- char: fred suggs,
- char: howard,
- char: marilyn,
- char: mars,
- char: old bob,
- char: sergeant knight,
- char: simon,
- char: syndi,
- char: wally,
- comm event: rewatch 2015,
- crossover potential,
- discussion: character,
- discussion: episode,
- ep: tornado days,
- non-canon: wizard of oz,
- org: werd-tv,
- place: normal illinois,
- place: world o' stuff
Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015: episode twelve, Tornado Days
Hope no-one here has been disrespectful, because Old Bob might carry you off in a fit of piques. Climb inside your Windmaster Trailer and let's have a picnic because these are... Tornado Days.
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I'm glad Simon will eventually learn from this experience and admit that he really wants to go do the thing with the rest of the family despite what Marshall thinks about it. I also love Simon's sense of morality in this one, and how excited he is when he's "won" the trailer.
So we learn an episode or two later that the reason they probably don't want everybody to go to the basement is because then they would find the original Radford--or possibly because the show just didn't have the budget to build a basement set, but I prefer believing this was all part of the master storytelling plan--but why exactly was the World O' Stuff hardened against nuclear strikes?!
Also, why are there tumbleweeds in Indiana?!
We learn later that Eerie's position on human sacrifice is...flexible.
Syndi's thing for police officers becomes apparent here again. Also, I love how she almost feels bad about all the mean things she said to Marshall.
And I adore Matt Frewer throughout the entire thing.
This is one of those episodes where the rest of the Teller family starts to get a glimpse of Eerie's weirdness, but eventually go back to dismissing it as just small town quirkiness. (Then again, weird town festivals for weird reasons are a real thing. I never saw a Tornado Day, but the annual festival in the place I grew up was to honor the day the town got burned down during the Civil War because being on fire is so obviously a thing that should be celebrated. With carnival rides.)
Between re-watches, I remember this one mostly for being the last episode before the series takes a major shift (though that depends on where Broken Record was originally supposed to appear) and for Marshall's hair at the very end.
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Sister city of Normal, Illinois. LOL.
The look on Marshall's face when he realises that he just helped a crazy and somewhat suicidal person trash talk a tornado...
Oh Simon, even though he saw Marshall cheat right in front of him, he really thinks that he won the raffle. *cuddles Simon so much*
For the sake of the comedy value and referring back to what was said earlier in the episode, it would have been funny if Old Bob had blown all the clothes off Marshall at the end....
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and the mayor is like, O RLY?! because chisel is the ultimate troll
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this never occurred to me but omg YES that makes total sense!
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normal Illinois is apparently a real place!
I love the idea of picking a fight with a tornado. like, how exactly does he expect that one to end?
we did have a whole ep of mars running aroun in his boxers earlier in the season, so it could totally have gone there!
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because wally.
Then again, weird town festivals for weird reasons are a real thing. I never saw a Tornado Day, but the annual festival in the place I grew up was to honor the day the town got burned down during the Civil War because being on fire is so obviously a thing that should be celebrated. With carnival rides
ditto. we have a queenie festival, a tin bath race, a soapbox derby and a thing where you dress as vikings and race lingboats to celebrate the fact that we got.invaded.n conquored by vikings. like, yay?
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this. it made.me really sad when he tried to cover.for the fact that he bought a ticket in front of mars, like, just tell him you want to go! you dont need his permission to do stuff!
I imagine its an age gap thing whichll fade as they get older n four years isnt much a big difference, but at the time, it made me feel so bad for simon
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It would have been a nice parallel with the nudity in "Who's Who?" as well.
Everybody and everything named Bob is kind of a force of destruction in Eerie.
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I think of slightly older Simon every time I watch a Gravity Falls episode where Dipper is trying to spend time with Wendy's group of friends. Only without the horrible aching crush issues.
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"THIS CHILD HAS LOST HIS PARENTS AND WE MUST LEAVE HIM WITH A RELATIVE!"
*plops him on the doorstep in the middle of the night*
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also I'm pretty sure re: human sacrifice that they wouldn't find Syndi quite as unsuspecting as they...suspect.
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did Simon enter the raffle just for funsies and to see if he'd win, or did he do it so he'd finally have a safe space away from his parents that wasn't Marshall's house?
because if it's the second one.
well.
ow.
ALSO it's so Simon because he'd probably worry about being a burden on the Teller's so he'd like. Make this little play house out of the trailer and it's just for him and Harley and..
I think I'm gonna go. just. get this dust speck out of my eye.
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the second prize was a weekend trip to normal, so do you think simon takes Harley there or sends his parents there and stays home to enjoy the quiet?
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I don't care if he is a fictional character, I want to go hug Simon so hard right now.
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