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EERIE INDIANA. Tonight we’re featuring the classic 90s TV series, eerie Indiana. Underrated doesn’t even begin to describe this amazing series. It’s a crime that it didn’t last longer and it’s a crime that not many… https://t.co/583YBHLfHx
— boomstickvideo (@boomstickvideo) May 31, 2020

Checking out Eerie Indiana for the first time! PUMPED 💪🏻 • thanks to my best frand @halfthemike for the hookup!!

armourtheater: Tonight at 9pm.join @forever_bogus for a hallway to Halloween celebration with 90s nostalgic TV shows with spooky themes. Costumes encouraged! Free to attend but you must be 18+

halfthemike: This would be a dream event for me.

EERIE INDIANA. Full Series DVD. I used to love this show as a kid and I still love it! Sent a copy of this to @the.king.of.arthur.

Eerie Indiana: America’s Scariest Home Video / Heart On A Chain

This is the second time I pulled the “TV episodes count too” card, and I want to try to make it the last – because Eerie is a half hour show, I tried to pick two favorites. Despite taking place on Halloween, America’s Scariest Home Video is one of the more humorous episodes in the series, highlighted by a deadpan Tony Jay performance and the general idea of a bratty grade schooler replacing the monster in a 50’s horror b-movie and still managing to terrorize the female lead. Heart On A Chain is one of my favorites because the plot, where a young girl gets a heart transplant from a reckless male suitor and starts behaving like him and being unable to pursue any other romantic interests, feels like a classic urban legend. I also like how it’s one of the few episodes where, up until the ending, it’s left up in the air whether something seemingly supernatural is all in a character’s head. 3/5 / 4/5.

Has anyone spotted one of these in the wild yet? I live in hope...

This is the first episode to feature Dash-X, who’s going to become an important recurring character for the remaining five episodes. We don’t learn a lot about him just yet, just that he’s a young homeless amnesiac with a mysterious past. The plus and minus symbols on his hands that he named himself for aren’t even brought up, therefor the audience doesn’t actually know what to call him yet.

This initially seems like it’s going to be a credit card plot episode, which of course, they’ve sort of already done… However, while some comparisons could still be made to “The ATM with the Heart of Gold”, this is much more of a satire of consumerism – and actually a fairly gutsy one for a network TV show. Slick businessman The Donald (not Trump, though clearly they’re parodying him to some extent) arrives in town and promises to make Mr. Radford rich if he allows him to take over promotions for the World O’ Stuff – soon subliminal-message-filled commercials are turning everyone in town into sleep-walking shopaholics putting everything on credit. To me, the main thing that makes this episode is the over-the-top sleaze Rene Auberjonois puts into The Donald… And actually, this is the first episode in a while where I’ve appreciated the character of Dash-X, as Dash naturally starts working with The Donald, and Auberjonois and James Marsden just get so deliciously hammy together.

Side Notes:

This is the first episode in a while to feature the World O’ Stuff so heavily, and I always enjoy checking out all the odd set dressing in there. One item is the exact Elvis bust lamp that’s currently sitting in the office at TT The Bear’s Place, and it actually ends up factoring into the plot, as it’s what Simon ends up buying…. So they get a fun continuity nod in with the line “This is very cool… But why did they make a ramp just for some guy on your paper route?”

Once again, the show has some fun with using one-off characters as extras – Bertram and Ernest, the twins from Foreverware are back, as is the hippie-ish mother from the same episode. More surprisingly, there’s the basketball-playing triplets, who were in the voiceover introductions from earlier in the season, but haven’t seemed to appear in any actual episodes until now; I enjoy that they wear their uniforms to bed, but with bathrobes over them, and that they still dribble in unison while sleepwalking.

It’s a great detail that Dash-X not only starts dressing exactly like The Donald, he also somehow grows a similar ponytail in the course of a day.

I always knew that hell was a shopping mall.

I’ve decided that as a kid I must have stopped regularly watching this series about halfway through it’s run, then picked back up again for the last few episodes - this was the first one I’ve watched in a while that I can say I remember seeing before.

I’m actually kind of surprised the show didn’t have an episode revolving around a moose-lodge-esque organization sooner - such a thing is sort of the male equivalent of the tupperware parties that the very first episode dealt with, after all. This particular group of adults turn out to have much less sinister goals though - sure, everyone in the order is being brainwashed to do it’s true leader’s bidding, but said leader is just temporarily using them so he can get to his home planet.

Even though Dash-X has been a prominent part of the cast ever since his introduction, they’ve only been doling out development of his character pretty slowly, and this is the episode where we get at least the slightest bit closer to finding out about his origins: It turns out Dash’s distinctive hand-markings allow him to open up a secret compartment within the lodge, and more importantly, that Ned, the unassuming old bartender who secretly runs the lodge, has the same markings. Both of these sort of turn out to be dead ends, because Ned doesn’t really know why he or Dash have the markings either, but it’s clearly the set-up for something.

Side Notes:

It’s sort of silly that they attempted to make a commercial-break-cliffhanger-worthy twist of the fact that Dash-X is doing security for the Loyal Order Of Corn - we hear his voice before we see him, but few if any other people on this show could sound so much like Jack Nicholson with a sore throat.

On the other hand (no pun intended), it’s actually fairly clever that Ned has a bellboy-like uniform, and therefor his hands are concealed without it seeming too suspicious.

In the “hey it’s that guy” department, Ned is played by Ray Walston - the obvious gag is that we have the star of My Favorite Martian playing an interplanetary traveler…. But now I’m wondering if it was also intentional that his character’s hands are a plot point and his other most famous role was Mr. Hand.

Slightly before I decided to watch horror movies every day this month instead, I was thinking of marathoning Are You Afraid Of The Dark? - that show ran a bit longer than I thought and I couldn’t find it streaming anyway, but I was still in the mood to revisit something else that was nostalgic and vaguely supernatural-themed.

This and the incredibly meta series finale seem to be the two episodes I remember most vividly. What strikes me about the plot of this particular episode now is that, despite it’s horror/sci-fi trappings, it’s basically about a pretty everyday preteen concern: Pretty much any tween-oriented sitcom could do an episode where a main character who’s used to more laid-back parenting becomes concerned when his mom starts being influenced by a more old-fashioned neighborhood mother who seems to be smothering her kids. The difference is that in this case, the neighborhood mother in question is literally not letting her kids grow up - every night she and her sons are preserving themselves in giant tupperware containers. At the time I think this episode got me interested in the show because of the mix of off-beat humor and kid-friendly horror, but for this episode anyway, I now also appreciate how it deals with a down-to-earth subject in an unusual way - it’s sort of like all those early Buffy The Vampire Slayer episodes that used the monster-of-the-week to explore the real-life issues of the average American teenager. For this reason, the episode dates pretty well, so I hope the rest of the series follows suit.

I didn’t mean to be away from this blogging enterprise, or blogterprise, for so long - in the meantime, Eerie disappeared from netflix, but thankfully it’s still streaming for free on hulu, so I’ll be able to finish off the series after all.

The science-fiction/supernatural element here is just slightly less inventive than normal Eerie standards: a mind-transferring device is definitely an idea that’s been done before. However, the way it’s executed here leads to some pretty funny moments - for one, the device itself deliberately appears to be made out of various junk, which makes a certain amount of sense because it’s inventor, Charles Furnell, managed to rebuild it despite being homeless and having had his brain removed by his own invention. Part of it’s workings is a modified 8-track player, and everyone it’s used on has the indignity of having their mind being stored on a copy of The Knack’s greatest hits - in a great, absurd touch, a recurring leitmotif in the score is a variation on the main riff of “My Sharona”.

Another fun element of this episode is the inevitable mind-switching itself - Charles Furnell’s brain is transferred into Simon’s body after having spent years on that Knack tape, and in the climax Charles and Simon have swapped bodies, and Charles’ wife, who’s the villain here, has similarly swapped with Marshall - leading to a hilarious brief gag where “Marshall” looks down and is baffled by his new found cleavage.

I’ve noticed in every episode he’s been in so far, Dash-X has played a pretty formulaic “jerk with a heart of gold” sort of role - he’ll always start off doing something out of self-interest that either helps the villains or just endangers Marshall and/or Simon, then reluctantly end up saving the day. However, this one is sort of notable, because until now he’s always seemed to have another motivation in helping other than doing the right thing.

It makes sense that there would eventually be a werewolf episode, what with this show’s love of classic horror movie nods - here the title character’s name is of course a nod to Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolf Man, and there’s also mention of The Howling (Joe Dante has directed a few episodes, but not this one). I also detect just the tiniest bit of The Wicker Man in the plot as well: Every 13 years, Eerie sends a Harvest King out to the woods to find the “Eerie wolf”, which will bring the town plentiful crops and “lower taxes”, and this Harvest King has a tendency to disappear. Marshall is chosen as the new Harvest King (Dash-X overhears a plot to fix it so he’d win the raffle, so he fixes it so Marshall will win instead). Marshall is sent with Mr. Chaney to find the wolf, and of course, Mr. Chaney is the wolf. Apparently they’ve just been sacrificing people to Chaney so he doesn’t run rampant on the town instead.

While the episode still keeps with the show’s largely tongue-in-cheek tone, it also doesn’t ignore the unsavory fact that the town is letting a kid get eaten every 13 years just because it’s the easiest, most discreet way to deal with the problem. So surprisingly, this is the first episode with a “message” of sorts in a while.

Side Notes:

Dash-X isn’t constantly Nicholsoning it up, but it’s still there… Enough so that I fully support this theory. Oh, and this is the first episode where we get a good look at his hand markings, though you can also see them in The Hole In The Head Gang if you know what you’re looking for.

Mr. Chaney himself is none other than Stephen Root, which I didn’t realize until I looked it up. I enjoy his mannerism of always stuttering when saying the word “wolf”.

Twin Peaks comparisons must have been made while the show was still on the air too, hence Dash getting the line “Well, it sure ain’t the log lady”.

This is the first episode to feature Dash-X, who’s going to become an important recurring character for the remaining five episodes. We don’t learn a lot about him just yet, just that he’s a young homeless amnesiac with a mysterious past. The plus and minus symbols on his hands that he named himself for aren’t even brought up, therefor the audience doesn’t actually know what to call him yet.

The plot actually starts out tricking the audience into thinking it’s going to be an episode about Dash-X, and therefor that he’s probably just going to be another antagonist of the week: Marshall and Simon go out to investigate a supposedly haunted abandoned mill, only to find that he’s been living there and faking the paranormal occurrences Scooby Doo style. But of course, because this is Eerie, the place does turn out to be haunted anyway - The rest of the episode gets decidedly more comical as Marshall finds himself forced to assist the ghost of an incompetent bank robber (played by Claude Akins, best known as Sheriff Lobo from B.J. and the Bear). Eventually Dash returns, helps resolve the plot, and quickly vanishes to return another day.

The silliness of the rest of the plot could be considered a little anti-climactic after the initial and still unexplained Dash-X hook, but this is actually quite a funny episode. Claude Akins is naturally perfect for this sort of role, and it does lead to some memorable gags.

Side Notes:

The other notable change this episode brings is John Astin replacing Archie Hahn as Mr. Radford, owner of the World O’ Stuff. Mr. Radford is a minor enough character that they could have gotten away with switching actors with no explanation, but they make an amusing gag out of this: It turns out that the “Mr. Radford” we’ve known up to this point is a compulsive impersonator, who tied the real Radford up in the basement and took over the store. The impersonator is dragged out of the store, but the real Radford won’t press charges because the impersonator was a great salesman and drove up business. Even better, Hahn then shows up as a teller at the Eerie bank, which only Marshall notices.

I didn’t remember Dash-X having such Jack Nicholson-esque mannerisms. Maybe it’s something they toned down for the rest of his appearances, maybe it was something I just plain didn’t get as a 12 year old (though I’m pretty certain I had seen Nicholson play The Joker by that point).

As a big fan of this show’s continuity nods, I love that one of the creepy moms from Foreverware shows up as a bank customer.

I like episodes like this one because they involve the community of Eerie itself a bit more: Eerie isn’t just a magnet for weirdness, it’s also supposed to be weird in and of itself, so it’s fun to see an episode once in a while where the plot is actually set up by the town’s strange customs. Here, the Eerie citizens are preparing a picnic and festival in honor of Big Bob, a tornado that approaches the town the same day every year. While the action mainly follows Marshall, Simon and quirky one-off adult character of the week Howard Raymer (Hey, it’s Matt Frewer of Max Headroom fame) in their attempts to head off the rage of the conscious tornado, we do get a lot of funny moments at the festival itself. I particularly like Syndi’s bizarre tornado-shaped dress and matching hair accessory, Elvis leading the town in singing “Nearer My God To Thee” when disaster seems imminent, and the fact that the World O’ Stuff is marketing battery powered fans as “Little Bob”. Come to think of it, the focus on the town as a whole and the fact that it’s one of the more humor-based plots makes this episode feel a lot like Pete & Pete with a slight supernatural twist.

Side Notes:

The hurricane effects and stock footage are pretty goofy, but in a way that adds to the campy b-movie appeal of the show.

I love that Marshall ends the episode with the inevitable cartoony wind-swept hair look.

According to the credits, Big Bob appears “as himself”.

This episode is a bit of a change of pace, as there are some plot-important supernatural happenings, but for the most part about something mundane: Namely, Marshall meeting and becoming disillusioned with a paranormal-investigating idol of his. Of course, because this is Eerie, Indiana, the hoax Professor Zirchon is planning happens for real, but that’s more in the backdrop, and the focus is instead on Marshall being disappointed, but ultimately learning that even when your heroes let you down, you shouldn’t stop believing in the possibilities that they represented to you.

Side Notes:

Few things in this show have made me laugh as hard as Bigfoot wearing a big pink bow on it’s head.

Even though he doesn’t do much in this episode, I appreciate it whenever Old Elvis shows up - here, he’s inexplicably shown as being in some position of power in the town, seemingly helping the mayor negotiate the price of a small UFO.

I just now realized that minor recurring character Sgt. Knight is played by Harry Goaz, best known as Deputy Andy Brennan in Twin Peaks.

Whenever an episode prominently features a one-off adult character, I’ve learned to comb through the actors’ imdb page with interest - they always seem to be a respected veteran film/tv actor who generally tends to not get starring roles. Here Professor Zirchon is John Standing, who I figured out I recognized from V For Vendetta.

This is pure speculation, but I sort of suspected Broken Record got aired out of order due to having relatively dark themes of parental abuse, so now it seems like they’re taking a different potentially dark family situation and portraying it in a deliberately over-the-top, comedic way to offset things. Girl of the week Sarah Bob is belittled by her father and little brothers and expected to wait hand-and-foot on them, but her family are such buffoonish stereotypes that it feels less like a harmful environment for a child to grow up in and more like a variant of Cinderella’s wicked stepmother and stepsisters (I’m mainly thinking of the Disney version of course). Still, I had enough emotional investment in the plot just because Sarah herself is a pretty sympathetic character.

It’s sort of interesting how at one point, this episode seems like it’s heading towards one message, but ends up someplace different: Sarah Bob finds that by signing her drawings, she can make them into reality, so she brings idealized versions of her father and brothers to life, then since she can’t remember her own mother, she draws Marshall’s mom. Marshall gets her to undo everything, and instead of just wishing things away, she finally stands up for herself… It doesn’t work, and ultimately the solution is to wish things away, but make different wishes.

Side Notes:

Sarah’s family all have the middle name Bob - accordingly, everyone in the end credits also has “Bob” inserted into their name.

In this episode, Marshall is transported to “the lost hour” by setting his watch one hour ahead (as Indiana doesn’t have daylight savings time). This was one of the episodes I remember creeping me out the most as a kid - watching it now I sort of find that odd because nothing terribly scary actually happens, but I guess I was scared by the general concept of waking up and finding not just your family but the whole neighborhood has disappeared. The episode does establish the atmosphere of Eerie as a ghost town pretty well.

Before he can get back to his own dimension, Marshall has to find and rescue Janet, a girl from Eerie who disappeared for the same reason. She’s sort of one of the better-realized one-off female characters to come out of this show so far - it really does seem believable that she’d have managed to survive in a place like this for a year.

Overall, a pretty solid episode - maybe not quite as memorable as some because it’s sort of right in the middle of this shows’ scale of relative seriousness and silliness, but there’s a clever, well-developed concept.

Side Notes:

I like the strange outfit Janet has on when we first see her: Jeans and what looks to be half a womens’ suit, accessorized with mismatched earrings, a ridiculous amount of pins and brooches, and a belt with various things hanging off it. It does seem like something a thirteen year old girl might put together on their own if raiding the only store in town were the only option she had for clothing.

There’s a recurring motif in this show of milkmen and milk trucks appearing in minor, but plot-significant ways, and this episode puts that a bit more to the forefront with a mysterious old milkman who helps Marshall out in the lost hour and may in fact be Marshall from the future.

“Parental bonus” joke of the episode: Janet offhandedly mentions meeting “a nice man named Hoffa” during her time in the lost hour.

It amuses me that Marshall spends the majority of this episode in a t-shirt and boxers, as it’s what he went to sleep in. If you think of it he never really gets the time to put some pants on - even when he makes a trip to World Of Stuff he only picks up a sweatshirt as additional clothes. Although… maybe those were actually shorts with clocks on them? it was the early 90’s after all…

Eerie, Indiana: Dead Letter

This one reminds me a bit of Heart On A Chain - it’s another episode centered on a bittersweet supernatural love story. Comparing the two directly, I find this doesn’t quite stand up - Heart On A Chain had a more novel hook to it and perhaps gave a little more development to the romance aspect. However, taken on it’s own, it’s a pretty good episode. Like Heart On A Chain, it does a good job at fitting a more dramatic story into the quirky world of the show, and still works in it’s share of surreal humor and background gags.

The plot has to do with Marshall finding an unsent letter in a book and being tasked to deliver it in person by a ghost named Tripp McConnell (played by none other than Tobey Maguire). I do kind of like the treatment of Maguire’s character - he’s ultimately a good guy, and doesn’t want to harm anyone, but he is perfectly willing to use his powers to annoy Marshall until he helps achieve his goal and can move on. Overall, it can be said that this is perhaps a bit too typical a ghost story for the show’s sensibilities, but it does work, and further adds to the characterization of Marshall.

Side Notes:

While it’s sort of filler, I enjoy the dream sequence of Marshall’s that Tripp interrupts just for being one of the weirdest moments of the show thus far: Said dream involves a stuffed raven in diapers, Marshall’s family flying on a tandem bicycle over the moon, and Simon in a white suit standing on a pedestal while holding a cigar and guffawing in an unnaturally low voice.

This seems to be one that stands out in a lot of people’s memories, and I can see why - it’s still in keeping with the supernatural theme and overall tone of the series, but it’s the first episode to go for drama rather than horror-comedy, as well as the first one to have a romantic element that’s taken remotely seriously.

There’s a new girl in town named Melanie with a heart problem, and Marshall and newly-introduced rebellious thrill-seeker Devon both instantly fall in love with her. When Devon dies in an accident after recklessly skateboarding in the street, she gets a heart transplant from him, and mysteriously starts picking up his habits and fashion sense, as well as having mysterious heart palpitations whenever she starts getting romantic with anyone else. Unusually for this show, aside from one shot at the end, it’s kept fairly ambiguous as to whether this is actually supernatural or not - it could be that his spirit lives on inside her, but it could just be that she’s acting this way because she feels guilty and is also trying to keep part of him in her life any way she can. For having to wrap things up in half an hour, I think the show’s first “serious” plotline is handled pretty well - I wouldn’t want all of the show to be like this, but it’s an interesting exploration of other things that can be done with the setting and characters.

Side notes:

Either this was the first episode to actually use commercial bumpers, or just the first one where netflix preserved them. Regardless, they’re cute, but sort of clash with this particular episode.

We’ve seen Elvis before, and he’s in the credits, but this is the first time he’s had much of anything to do. I kinda like him in the “quirky adult mentor” role.

I love that we get a brief, out-of-nowhere The Fly homage during a transition shot, and that the grim reaper could be seen hanging around in the background during the final cemetery scene.

There’s somewhat of a similar theme to Foreverware here - both are about adult authority figures trying to force kids to conform to their own ideals. This time it’s at school instead of at home - new school nurse Nurse Nancy is brainwashing kids to be studious and dull under the guise of eye exams. Nancy is probably the first antagonist in this show to actually sort of creep me out as an adult - she’s just so cheerily fascist, plus the whole plot is sort of Disturbing Behavior except several years earlier and for a different audience.

That said, they do a good job of offsetting the potential spookiness with the show’s normal oddball humor (and do so without making things become too trivial). I love that the main tool in fighting Nurse Nancy’s brainwashing is a pair of Groucho glasses, as well as the fact that there’s such a huge, dramatic buildup to them. I’m not sure if there was some copyright concern or if they just wanted to keep it as in-joke for adults, but the g-word is never actually mentioned - they’re referred to as “GM 2020s” and said to be a mold from “the face of the master himself”.

The Halloween episode is maybe the weakest one so far - my main issue is that much of the first half, involving Marshall and Simon having to watch Simon’s newly-introduced bratty younger brother Harley (whose full name is revealed to be Harley Schwarzenegger Holmes, awesomely enough) feels like filler.

However, once the plot kicks in, things do get more entertaining: In a bizarre accident involving a video camera, a TV, and a bitten-into remote, Harley swaps places with the mummy from a classic horror movie. The premise initially seems a little too typically kids’ horror for the normal tone of the show (I was a little worried it was going somewhere near Are You Afraid Of The Dark territory), but they put a pretty funny twist on things: First of all, it turns out Harley is ultimately more of a menace to the world of the horror movie than the mummy is to the real world - the funniest moment of this episode is the damsel in distress cowering and screaming in a corner as a six year old runs around and breaks ancient Egyptian vases. Then it turns out that it wasn’t the mummy that was summoned out of the television, just the actor who portrayed him; Tony Jay puts in a fun, snarky appearance as obvious Boris Karloff stand-in Boris Von Orloff, who was apparently reincarnated into one of his own movies after his death. So, ultimately, while this one feels a bit more like a “kids show” than other episodes, it’s still fairly clever and entertaining. Oh, and hey, the writers remembered the fact that Marshall’s older sister Syndi existed for once.

Okay, so now I’m getting the idea that, so far anyway, there are two kinds of Eerie Indiana episodes - ones that use supernatural or sci-fi elements as a metaphor for adolescent concerns and ones that use them to answer those weird little questions that first come into your mind around that time and never really get solved: In this case, the question is “Why do important things disappear when you need them, and where does all this missing stuff go, anyway?”. As it turns out, there’s a secret organization dedicated to “losing” people’s belongings, which are all stored and organized in one enormous underground warehouse of sorts.

A lot of fun is had with the absurdity of this premise - the organization in question is in charge of losing everything, from pens to satellites, and the logic behind their existence is that if no one ever lost anything, they’d have no need to buy anything new, and thus the economy would be ruined. Henry Gibson puts in a really good guest-appearance here - his portrayal of the bureaucratic, humorless Mr. Lodgepoole is a lot of the reason the whole concept of this episode works.

Actually, given how this plot line is tied up, there sort of is a moral here: It’s that losing a material possession, even one that seems important, usually isn’t the end of the world.

Not that the first one wasn’t tongue-in-cheek, but this is a much sillier episode. There isn’t as much of the “adolescent fears” subtext as there was in Foreverware. There is of course a little bit about fear of dental work - Vincent Schiavelli, who had a long run of playing somewhat creepy characters in his lifetime, shows up as a stern town dentist with a penchant for experimental orthodontics. However, that’s really just a lead-in to a weirder plot: A neighborhood kid’s retainer is causing him to hear what dogs can think, and it turns out there’s a canine revolution afoot. It’s every bit as campy as it sounds, but they have a lot of fun with the idea. I particularly enjoy moments like a neighborhood dog begging for a sub (“Juicy meat on stale bread, my favorite!”) or when a group of strays howling at each other turn out be singing “Dem Bones”. And actually there may be a little basis in reality - growing up, my neighborhood was full of dogs who were allowed to roam as they pleased, and I did sort of wonder what they were up to when groups of them would be gathered together.

On a side note: I enjoy this show’s seeming tendency to name one-off characters with brand names that are relevant to the episode - in Foreverware, the Stepford Wives-like members of the women’s group are all named after frozen food or baking products (Winifred Swanson, Beatrice Pillsbury). This time, the creepy dentist is named Dr. Eukanuba.

This episode has a nice subversion of the typical “rock music corrupting the youth of today” message, and one that is fairly brave to slip into a family show (which might be why it was the last one aired despite clearly belonging earlier in the season): Marshall gets one-off character Tod, whose unemployed father frequently verbally abuses, into heavy metal band Pitbull Surfers. Tod starts listening to their music obsessively, dressing and acting differently, and more importantly, standing up to his father. However, aside from Tod ultimately not being that good at being a rebel, there’s a further twist I’m not revealing, though I’ll say the ultimate message is that parents who are blaming pop culture for changes in their kids’ behavior should also consider the messages they’re sending to their children themselves.

Side notes:

I’m not certain whether the name Pitbull Surfers is supposed to reference The Butthole Surfers, or just the “two random nouns” school of band names in general. The music definitely sounds too hair metal-ish if they are supposed to parody The Butthole Surfers. On the other hand, they at least sound like a band that could have been around in 1991, as that style of music was somewhat waning in popularity, but not entirely gone.

Syndi gets what could be considered her first actual subplot here - well what would have been the first were this episode aired in the right order. It’s a fairly funny one dealing with her tagging along with the police as a reporter, and while it isn’t really important to the main story, the two arcs do kind of link up near the end.

My favorite random background character is the tuba player who shows up at the accident scene and starts punctuating dialogue with his notes.

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