Boy-Scoutz N the Hood
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| Boy-Scoutz N the Hood | |
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| Season 5 Episode 8 | |
| Production Code | 1F06 |
| Original Airdate | November 18, 1993 |
| Written By | Dan McGrath |
| Directed By | Jeffrey Lynch |
| Show Runners | David Mirkin |
| Special Guests | Ernest Borgnine as himself |
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Plot
Bart and Milhouse are playing games at the Arcade, but when Bart exclaims out loud that they are out of money, he and Milhouse are forced to leave. Meanwhile, Homer drops his last peanut under the couch, and when he tries to find it, he finds 20 dollars instead. Homer accidentally slips on the peanut, the money flies out the window and lands right in front of Bart and Milhouse. They use it to buy a super squishy beverage from Apu entirely comprised of syrup. After having hallucinations, they run wild around Springfield on a sugar rush daze. The next morning, Bart can't remember anything from the day before and freaks out when he notices he has joined the Junior Campers (an organization similar to the Boy Scouts of America).
He takes his uniform to school with him to return it, but learns that he can attend a meeting instead of taking a math test. Bart doesn't like the first meeting, but when he finds out that he gets to have a pocket knife, he decides to keep attending the meetings. Next, a father-son river rafting trip is to be held, so Bart has to bring Homer. Homer doesn't like it much, but it gets worse when he and Ned Flanders have to share the same raft. They accidentally take the wrong turn and find themselves lost at sea. They stay that way for a while, helpless with no food or water. All seems lost, but then Homer smells his way to a Krusty Burger on an off-shore oil rig in the thick fog and they are saved.
Meanwhile, the other Junior Campers (led by Ernest Borgnine) take the correct route. Apparently all the other parents aren't seen anymore, except for Borgnine. However, they end up in an even worse position: After initially finding themselves trapped in a dark, tangled forest (and seemingly hunted by the mountain men from the film Deliverance), they are attacked by a bear - Borgnine cannot fight it since Homer has stolen his Swiss Army knife. Eventually, they seek refuge at an abandoned summer camp, where they are ambushed by an unknown figure lurking in the woods.
Syndication cuts
The following scenes are cut in syndication broadcasts:
- Right after Bart discovers that he signed up for the Junior Campers and comments that "A man on a Squishy bender can do some crazy things.", there is a short scene featuring Barney waking up on a ship headed to Greece and saying "Oh no! Not again!".
- After Bart discovers that the junior campers carry pocket-knives, there is a scene where he encounters Moe kicking Hans Moleman out of his bar for not using a coaster and Hans brandishing a knife that is so heavy, it sends him crashing to the ground.
- Homer quipping "Mmm, apple..." after he falls in the disguised hole in the driveway with the pie.
- A scene where Chief Wiggum argues with Marge over the phone that Homer and Bart must be missing for at least a week before he starts searching for them, then resumes his game of checkers with a dog.
- A scene where Ned finds a group of dolphins and hopes they will save his group, but the dolphins swim away, speaking through subtitled dialogue, "You're all going to die." Ned subsequently becomes delirious, chanting "Done-Diddly-Doodly" until Homer slaps him more times than he should, saying that "It's better to be safe than sorry."
- A scene with Chief Wiggum and Lou about to embark on their search and rescue, with Wiggum opting to wait until their supply of beer and cold-cuts is fully stocked.
Trivia
- Bart is shown sewing a merit badge onto a sash that is shown to be for "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.
Goofs
When Bart tries to leave the Junior Boy Scouts, the doorknob is on the right of the door, but when he tries to leave again it is on the left.
Cultural references
- The episode title is a play on the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz N the Hoo].
- 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. At one point, a sailor appears to deliver the real lyrics, but then Bart points him to New York.
- 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. Also, while the children are singing, the camera plays the famous 'Jason Vorrhees' P.O.V. and his trademark whisper.
- The myopic character Hans Moleman's cane sword is a reference to the legendary chanbara film character Zatoichi. In addition, the scene where he pulls his knife out on Moe and says "You call that a knife? THIS is a knife!" references the famous line from Crocodile Dundee.
- Martin Prince is seen playing a video game based on the movie My Dinner with Andre
- During a hallucination, Homer imagines himself singing the song Sugar, Sugar by The Archies while dancing with lollipops and ice cream cones.