Boy-Scoutz N the Hood
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"Boy-Scoutz N the Hood" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' fifth season.
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[edit] Synopsis
Bart and Milhouse are playing games at the Arcade, but when Bart exclaims out loud that he's out of money, he and Milhouse are forced to leave. Meanwhile, 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 entirely comprised of syrup, and run wild around Springfield in a sugar rush daze. The next morning, Bart can't remember anything from the day before, and freaks 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 attends a meeting instead, since then he does not have to take a math test. Bart doesn't 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 doesn't like it much, but it gets worse when he and Ned Flanders have to share the same boat. They accidentally take the wrong way, 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 off-shore oil rig/restaurant in thick fog, and they are saved.
Meanwhile, the other Junior Campers (led by Ernest Borgnine) take the correct route, only to 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 - that Borgnine cannot fight since Homer stole his Swiss Army knife. Eventually, they seek refuge at an abandoned summer camp-- Crystal Lake, from the Friday the 13th Film Series, where they are apparently attacked and killed by Jason Voorhees.
[edit] Syndication cuts
The following scenes are cut in syndication broadcasts:
- A short scene featuring Barney on a ship headed to Greece right after Bart discovers that he is wearing the junior camper uniform.
- After Bart discovers that the junior campers carry pocket-knives, there is a scene where he encounters Moe and Hans Moleman wielding their own knives.
- Homer quipping "Mmm, apple..." when he falls for a trap made by Bart involving a pie.
- A scene where Ned and Bart greet each other, with Bart saying, "You knowdely-know it, Neddy."
- 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 be, 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.
[edit] 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.
- When Lisa says "cartoons need not be one hundred percent realistic", in spite of Homer sitting in the background, another image of Homer walks past the window.
[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. 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
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