Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015: episode twelve, Tornado Days

[froodle]

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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[deifire]

They are paying so much homage to The Wizard of Oz with this one.

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.

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

I love Marilyn's jellyfish earrings!

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....

[ftrbestseller.livejournal.com]

This is undoubtably my favorite non-Dash episode - I mean, Eerie? Tornadoes? A MAN WHO LITERALLY RIDES IN TORNADOES? It's like the universe went, hey, here's all these things you love PACKED INTO ONE AWESOME PACKAGE.

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

no but the real question is:

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.