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Paint your hair and room black and red and stick Pitbull Surfers patches on everything you own, because we're about to rewatch the Broken Record.

Sirens wailed, bells clanged, wheels screeched, and Mayor Chisel watched without much interest as a Dalmation in a bright-red hard hat opened the door of Eerie's single gleaming fire engine and men in black robes poured out.

He noticed in passing that some of their axe-heads were looking a little dull, and made a note to speak with the Fire Chief. Dull blades were fine for house fires and rampaging lizards escaped from the drive-in movie screen, but they wouldn't do if there was trouble at the Eerie Bingo Parlour.

And there was always trouble at the Eerie Bingo Parlour.

Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Eerie Dairy versus Eerie Fire Department

Paint your hair and room black and red and stick Pitbull Surfers patches on everything you own, because we're about to rewatch the Broken Record.

The Eerie Bingo Parlour was on fire again. Syndi, in a heat-resistant helmet and a sweatshirt that read "I Heart Eerie FD", leaned against the town's only engine, scribbling furiously.

The was the third time this week she'd been out here, and at least the seventh since the start of the month. Men who'd joined the department with dreams of free ice-cream scavenged from crashed milk trucks and confused kittens rescued from trees stood around her, complaining bitterly.

"The parlour doesn't even have a deep fat fryer!" said one. "How the hell did they manage to start a grease fire?"

Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History

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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Paint your hair and room black and red and stick Pitbull Surfers patches on everything you own, because we're about to rewatch the Broken Record.

It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Eerie Fire Department versus Eerie PD

I so wish we'd gotten more Syndi-centered plotlines in the show. *sigh* What could have been for S2
— Citizen D (@TheCitizenD) March 26, 2019

I would have loved to see her have storylines that played into her role in the school newspaper - the Eerie PD, the fire department, the ghost of Tobey Maguire - and I wouldn't have been adverse the a follow up to Tornado Days featuring her role as Miss Tornado Day. #eerieindiana
— eerieindianadw (@eerieindianalj1) March 26, 2019

I was rewatching Fluffy's introductory scene in the Retainer and noticed the fire hydrant he's standing next to is yellow:

I thought hydrants were always red (they're not really a thing in the UK) and wondered if this was like when a town produces an Olympic athlete and repaints a telephone booth or a post box to celebrate. A quick Google search says that a yellow fire hydrant can mean it's connected to a public water supply, and gold brings up the hydrants from the 1906 San Fransisco quake. However, it seems like these are guidelines rather than rules, so now I'm wondering what a yellow/gold fire hydrant means in Eerie.

No-one understands you, no-one digs your dreams... put black shoe polish in your hair and crank up your Pitbull Surfers album, because it's time for... Broken Record.

Tengo tele con cable y a veces siento que estoy en "Eerie Indiana" ya que se cuela por unos segundos las trasmisiones de ambulancias, bomberos u otros sólo en el canal 19 que es TVN...
— emilioelmago (@emilioelmago) August 2, 2018

I'll try to eliminate any confusion regarding this episode right off the bat here: This is the nineteenth, and final, episode of “Eerie, Indiana”. It was not originally the final episode, that title going to the excellent “Reality Takes a Holiday”, however “Broken Record” was added to the rotation after the show was syndicated. So, technically, this one is kind of like a bonus episode, especially considering Dash-X is nowhere to be found for the first time since he was introduced.

“Rock n' Roll Has Come To Eerie” exclaims a new sign being raised at the World o' Stuff. That sign is a reference to the “Pitbull Surfers”, a popular metal band that finally ends up in the small town...it seems that Eerie is the last to get everything. Marshall suggests the band's new album, "Eardrum Lobotomy", to his friend, Tod McNulty; his family lost their farm a while back, and his father is still out of work, so he figured some aggressive music might take his mind off things for a while. (Sample lyrics from the titular track include, “No one understands you, no one digs your dream, just crank up the music, don't want to hear your parents scream. What you need is eardrum lobotomy, eardrum lobotomy, yeah, yeah, yeah!”)

Tod, Marshall, and Simon go back to Tod's house, where he breaks out his old record player and throws the record on. And that's when his father Phil storms in, calling him a “loser” and accusing him of polluting his mind with mush. Whoa, whoa, whoa, those are some harsh words coming from a guy who can't even take care of his family by finding a job! Tod's mother storms in, interrupting her husband during his brutal tirade, and wondering why he's been acting that way; Tod leaves the room crying, leaving Marshall and Simon stuck in the room with Tod's parents. Talk about awkward. The duo excuse themselves after the parents notice them standing there.

Rather quickly, the band's music takes hold of Tod, who starts dressing like a “punk”, complete with black shoe polish in his hair, and a Pitbull Surfers T-shirt; he desperately wants to see PS in concert, as they are playing in Indianapolis soon, and he feels like it's his duty to see them live. He asks Marshall to go with him, but Marshall says that he always thought their pro-Nazi viewpoints were meant to be taken as a joke, an idea that offends Tod (“They tell it like it is!”) who still plans on hitchhiking to Indianapolis to see the show. That plan is quickly derailed when he sees his parents looking for him, forcing him to switch to plan B: Get home before they do. So he steals a milk truck in a desperate bid to beat his parents to the house—a plan that backfires miserably when he crashes the damn thing.

With Tod on the way to the hospital (more as a precaution, as he is not seriously injured), the police officer on scene (whom Syndi is shadowing for a school project) has to let his parents know about the crash. Immediately, his father assumes it was the music that was taking over his mind, and attempts to prove to the officer that there are subconscious evil messages embedded in records when the vinyl is played backwards. In an interesting twist, what he hears is evil, all right: it's recorded passages of him constantly berating his son, which breaks him down until he finally realizes the error of his ways. And with that, he apologizes, and we assume everything is returned back to normal.

Some of it, especially in the beginning, is heavyhanded and a little too “in-your-face” in execution, though the central themes (alienation, music as therapy, etc.) remain relevant as they always will. The relationship between Tod and his parents, though, is once again a step above normal family fare in that it feels fleshed out, or at least as fleshed out as a 24-minute episode can be. The family dynamic is also refreshing; far too often in media it seems that the mom turns a blind eye to everything and lets the dad do what he wants. But here, the wife is constantly defending her son; there is a surprisingly tender moment where she appears in his bedroom, apologizing for his father's behavior, and assuring Todd his father loves him. Todd then asks, “Well then why doesn't he tell me that himself,” to which the mother replies, “I don't know,” with a look of absolute devastation. It's far more hard-hitting than expected, and somehow works.

I didn't remember being too enthralled with this one the first time I saw it, but I have to say that it's a good overall episode, despite its occasional over-the-top approach. It's definitely not worthy enough to be the series finale (it should have aired earlier in the series), but it's entertaining and heartfelt, with the usual splash of comedy thrown in for good measure. Now that I think about it, this would make a good “starter episode” for those looking to get into the series, because many of the show's strengths are on display here, and with the added bonus that it would leave "Reality Takes a Holiday" as the final one, the way it was meant to be. It's worthy of a watch, especially if you missed the episode during its initial run.

EPISODE RATING: 7/10

Paint your hair and room black and red and stick Pitbull Surfers patches on everything you own, because we're about to rewatch the Broken Record.

It's the 14th of the month, and that's the date we put aside to think about all those amazing minor characters, places, organisations and general backdrop that make Eerie so compellingly watchable.

This month's theme is: Eerie Fire Department

Written for Day 19 of the

31daysoffandom challenge. The prompt I used for this was "full moon"

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No-one understands you, no-one digs your dreams... put black shoe polish in your hair and crank up your Pitbull Surfers album, because it's time for... Broken Record.

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