Boy-Scoutz N the Hood
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood" | |
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| Episode no. | 89 |
| Prod. code | 1F06 |
| Orig. Airdate | November 18, 1993 |
| Show Runner(s) | David Mirkin |
| Writer(s) | Dan McGrath |
| Director | Jeffrey Lynch |
| Couch gag | The family's eyes all run in darkness - and when the lights come on, the bodies run in after the eyes. The bodies sit down on the couch and lean forward, sticking their eyes in their sockets with a popping sound. |
| Guest star(s) | Ernest Borgnine as himself |
| SNPP capsule | |
| Season 5 September 30, 1993 – May 19, 1994 |
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"Boy-Scoutz N the Hood" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' fifth season.
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[edit] Synopsis
Homer drops one peanut under the couch, and when he tries to find it, he finds 20 dollars instead. Homer accidentally slips on the peanut, and the money flies out the window, right in front of Bart and Milhouse. They use it to buy a super squishy beverage from Apu, and run wild around Springfield. The next morning, Bart cannot remember anything from the day before, and freaks when he notices he has joined the junior campers (an organization similar to the Boy Scouts). He takes his uniform to school with him, to return it, but goes on a meeting instead, since then he does not have to take a math test. Bart does not like the first meeting, but when he finds out that he gets to have a knife, he decides to keep going. Next, a father-son rafting trip comes up, so Bart has to bring Homer. Homer does not like it much, but it gets worse when he and Ned Flanders have to be share the same boat. They accidentally take the wrong way, and find themselves lost. They stay that way for a while, helpless with no food, but then Homer smells his way to a Krusty Burger off-shore oil rig/restaurant, and they are saved.
Meanwhile, the other Junior Campers (led by Ernest Borgnine) take the correct route...but things do not seem to go better for them. In fact, they're even worse off - trapped in a dark, tangled forest (and seemingly hunted by the mountain men from the film Deliverance), they are attacked by a bear - that Borgnine cannot fight since Homer stole his Swiss Army knife - and later they take refuge at an abandoned summer camp resembling Camp Crystal Lake from Friday the 13th (the other adults aside from Borgnine having disappeared somewhat mysteriously). As they happily sing Bingo, while what seemingly seems to be Jason (due to the music playing, and the fact that they seem to be at an abandoned camp, although you never see the figure of the attacker) attacks.
[edit] Trivia
- Bart is shown sewing a merit badge onto a sash that is shown to be a "patch forgery".
- When the 300th episode was shown in the UK, Sky One held a 'Golden D'oh-nuts evening in which viewers voted for their favourite episodes to win in each category. This episode won the 'Bart's Smartest School Prank' category.
- In the end of the episode, someone attacks the group of junior campers including Ernest Borgnine.The unseen someone may have killed Borgnine but real life persons getting killed in early episodes may have arrived in the episode "The Otto Show" when the school bus hits Spinal Tap's bus of the road and lands upside down in flames. Maybe the someone that attacks the group of junior campers is just a prank someone played on Borgnine.
[edit] Cultural References
- The episode title is a play on the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz N the Hood.
- The "Springfield, Springfield" number performed by Bart and Milhouse is a reference to the musical number "New York, New York" from On the Town, a film staring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.
- The scene in which Borgnine and the other rafters drift through a dark forest watched by persons unknown is a reference to the movie Deliverance, and features the music from the film's "Dueling Banjos" scene.
- The unseen person or creature that attacks Borgnine at the end of the episode is implied to be Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies. This is not said in the episode, but it is hinted at since the group is in an abandoned summer camp, like the one in the films and a music very similar to one of the main themes of the series plays when the screen fades to black.
[edit] Goofs
- On the Krusty Burger map, Krusty yells, "Hey Kids! Color in All Fifty States!", but the map only has the lower 48 states on it (and there are no insets revealing Alaska and Hawaii). The map also mislabels Mississippi as MI and shows the Canadian Maritime provinces as US states.
- Bart's and Milhouse's rub-on tattoos only appear for one scene.
- Dolph's shirt is blue throughout the episode, particularly in the scene where he, Jimbo, and Kearney play keep-away with Bart's uniform, instead of green (which it normally is).
- When the raft starts to fill with water (after the Swiss Army knife falls and the magnifying glass burns a hole in it), a number of patches suddenly appear on it.
[edit] Quotes
- (The bullies begin playing 'keep away' with Bart's scout uniform)
Bart: Yeah, whatever.
(Bart walks off, only to be menacingly threatened by Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney)
Jimbo: You better pretend you want your uniform back, twerp.
(Bart begins to play along with a distinct lack of enthusiasm)
Bart: (utterly bored) Oh no. Woe is me. My precious uniform. - Homer: Hey, there's a New Mexico!
- Barney: I don't know where you magic pixies came from but I like your pixie drink.
- Bart (after Itchy makes Scratchy into a tent): The guys who wrote this cartoon don't know squat. Itchy should have tied Scratchy's tongue with a taut-line hitch, not a sheet bend.
Lisa: Come on, Bart. Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic.
(at that time, Homer can be seen walking by outside, even though he is sitting on the couch during the whole scene) - Homer: Aw, twenty dollars...I wanted a peanut!
Homer's brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how.
Homer's brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services. - Bart (reading knife safety): "Don't do what Donny Don't does". They could have made this clearer.
- (Homer casts out the last cheese doodle)
Ned: Godspeed, little doodle.
(a fish grabs it, but Homer has no strength and is unable to pull the string to catch it. The fish then pulls off the entire fishing line)
Homer: He'll be back. (night comes) Here fishy, fishy, fishy. We're waiting. - Bart: Boy, a man on a Squishy bender can sure do some crazy things.
(cut to a Greek ship sailing on undetermined waters. Cut to interior where Barney is asleep on several bags of baklava. Barney wakes up)
Barney: Oh no! Not again! (belches) - Milhouse: You're lucky. You only joined the Junior Campers. I got a dirty word shaved into the back of my head.
Principal Skinner: What is it with you kids and that word? I'm going to shave you bald, young man, until you learn that hair is not a right, it's a privilege! - Homer: See that, boy? Your old man was right, not Flanders. We ARE Doomed. In your face, Flanders.
- Homer: Marge, don't discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasels.
- Bart (thinking): Oh no. Me bring Homer on a rafting trip?
(In Bart's imagination, Homer wears a paper sailor hat and faces the wrong way in the raft)
Homer: Duh, I'm the captain. My son is Bart.
(Homer splashes the other passengers with his paddle)
Father 1: What an oaf.
Father 2: How embarrassing.
Son: I'm glad he's not my father. - Ned Flanders: Homer, we have to ration the water carefully. It's our only hope!
Homer Simpson: Oh, pardon me, Mr. "Let's ration everything," but what do you think we're floating on? Don't you know the poem? "Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink."
- Bart: Okay, I don't want Homer to come on the trip with me, so I'll just ask him and he'll say no. Then, it'll be his fault.
Homer: Okay, I don't want to go on the trip with Bart, so if he asks me...I'll just say yes!
Homer's Brain: Wait a minute! Are you sure this is how this kind of thing works?
Homer: Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-Tip!
[edit] External links
- "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
