Original air date: November 13, 2022
Written by: Kashana Cauley
Directed by: Michael Baylis
Directed by: Michael Baylis
Beef and Judy both had a wild and disastrous day at the mall and they tell their alternate versions of it to each other. Beef's story has him worried about embarrassing Judy at the mall while Judy's story is about meeting her boyfriend there. The rest of the Tobins and Jerry try to finish reading a challenging and boring novel called "The Electric Monocles" before they see the movie adaptation of it, but Wolf goes straight to see the movie instead.
Tropes:
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Honeybee tells Beef not to do anything embarrassing in front of Judy when he's at the mall with her. When Honeybee was 15 when she worked at the mall, she forgot her jacket so her dad came and used the mall intercom to tell her "Sweetie, it's Daddy, I'm here with your jackie". When she meets with her dad, he booped her nose in front of everyone and they laugh at her. Honeybee doesn't want something like that happening to Judy so she tells Beef to never to things like that at the mall. But it turns out none of the other Tobin children don't mind Beef showing up at their work and would never get embarrassed by him.
- Bad Liar: After Wolf gets caught skipping reading the book and goes to the movie instead, Wolf said he got a phone call from someone with a deep voice who told him "put on a Dracula cape and come to the mall, we have a nuclear submarine" and he was like "No!". No one buys it, not even Ham.Ham: Wolf. I don't want to be judgmental, but I don't believe your story.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Honeybee and the rest go to the guest cabin to get Wolf for the movies, they notice his snowmobile is gone, his wallet is gone, and they see on his laptop that he bought tickets to an earlier screening of "The Electric Monocle". Ham concludes that Wolf has been kidnapped, but Honeybee tells him Wolf went to see the movie instead of trying to read the book.
- Couch Gag:
- The boat in the opening says "Fleet Fetish"
- Wolf's T-Shirt says "The Disaster Fartist."
- Disaster Dominoes: Beef suffers an escalating series of events that he thinks completely embarrassed Judy. First, he rips his pants and has to get new ones, the only ones available being decorated yoga pants. Then he tries to get Judy some gravy, but he spills it all on himself. And to top it off, he slips down the stairs and falls on the mall train, causing it to crash into a candle booth. One of the candles falls inside the train's smokestack and ignites, turning on the sprinklers and soaking everyone in the mall.
- Doorstopper: Honeybee, Wolf, Ham, Moon, and Jerry try to read "The Electric Monocles" before they see the movie adaptation, but the book is so long that Ham calculate that if they split the book into sections with one of them assigned to read that section, they would have to read 99.2 pages. But the book is so boring and filled with padding that they all fall asleep. Wolf only barely read one sentence and instantly gave up. They hate the book so badly that they convince Chief Edna to order them to stop reading the book or they'll be sentenced to life in prison.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The yeti, who's asleep from reading "The Electric Monocle", can be spotted sleeping against a tree at the moment where Honeybee and the others go to the guest cabin to get Wolf to go to the movies.
- Hipster: Holden is a 2010s version, having pretentious taste in books and movies and liberal political views (Judy's imagined version of their future together includes them owning a hybrid car but mostly biking everywhere).
- Honor Before Reason: Honeybee refuses to watch a movie adaptation of a book until she finishes the book first, no matter how long or bad the book is. Jerry had to get Chief Edna to order her to stop reading "The Electric Monocles" because she knows that it would be against the law to disobey a cop.
- How We Got Here: The episode opens in the aftermath of the sprinkler incident at the mall, and then we see Beef and Judy's retelling of the events that led to it.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Judy and Holden's "first dates" include going to the cuckoo clock store at the moment when all the cuckoo clocks go off at once, and visiting the place where they throw out all the misshapen corndogs at All Corndogs Go to Tummy.Alanis: So he... took you to a trash can?
- Klatchian Coffee: In order to stay awake to finish the novel, Honeybee and the others decides to drink a new energy drink Wolf bought called "Testosti-throne", but on the label it states "Do not drink", which they find confusing so they ignore the warning. When Chief Edna visits them, she confiscates their drinks because the drink is so dangerous that she mentions two guys in Ketchikan drank a case of it and then tried to switch hearts.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: While Honeybee, Ham, Moon, and Jerry struggle to finish reading "The Electric Monocle", Wolf only read one sentence and instantly gives up and decides to watch the movie adaptation instead.
- Meaningful Name: Holden shares his first name with another famously pretentious teenage boy.
- Once More, with Clarity: First we see Beef's version of the events, then Judy's. At first, Judy's actions seem to show her being embarrassed by her father's actions, but when she tells her story, she is actually reacting to her boyfriend cheating on her and never even noticing what Beef was doing.
- Padding: In-universe. The Electric Monocles is so long and bad that is contains a map of the lands that the story takes place, an entire section in a made-up language that requires the reader to go the glossary to look up every single word, a list of a thousands things that are also round like monocles, and all the different types of light refraction. All these things puts everybody to sleep.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Wolf disguised himself to avoid being recognized in the movies, his disguise is a Barrister's Wig and a Dracula Cape that does not hide his identity at all when Honeybee catches him in the movies.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a pun off of Memento.
- Rewatch Bonus: It isn't until Judy's version of the story that Holden is introduced. Once you know what he looks like, it's easy to recognize him and his new girlfriend as the people who ran into Beef and made him spill all his food in Beef's version of the story.
- Romantic Rain: Holden's favorite movie is an indie drama called Rain Kiss, and the climax involves the main couple kissing in the rain. Alanis warns Judy against doing this since one time Alanis tried it and the water made her face so slippery she head-butted a telephone pole after the kiss.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After realizing how bad "The Electric Monocles" novel is, Wolf buys a ticket to an early screening of the movie adaptation of it and leaves the others behind to suffer through the book.
- Shout-Out:
- Holden's name is likely a shoutout to Holden Caulfield, the prototypical pretentious teenage boy in pop culture.
- One of the restaurants in the mall food court Judy and Holden go to is All Corndogs Go to Tummy.
- When Wolf is on the phone with Honeybee in the movie theater lobby, a store called To Buy a Mockingbird can be seen behind him.
- When Honeybee, Ham, Moon, and Jerry are confronting Wolf about going to see the movie without them, one of the posters behind Wolf is for a movie called "The Carpet Peddler's Neighbor." The poster features a woman dressed and posed like Maria in the opening scene of The Sound of Music standing in front of several mountains and a man pushing a cart dressed like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.
- Slap Yourself Awake: Among the things to keep themselves awake is having Moon poke them with a stick.
- Splitting Pants: Beef rips the seat of his pants reaching down for something. This is the least embarrassing thing that happens to him at the mall.
♫ You can get busy in a blizzard
Feel your heart beat loud when you see one cloud
I've been to third base in a cyclone
But only rainkisses take me home
I've nuzzled noses in the snow
Gotten down to business while the wind blows
Yet the only action I'll ever miss
Is a soft, perfect rainkiss (Soft, perfect rainkiss)
Nothing makes me feel like this
Except the tenderest rainkiss. ♫
Feel your heart beat loud when you see one cloud
I've been to third base in a cyclone
But only rainkisses take me home
I've nuzzled noses in the snow
Gotten down to business while the wind blows
Yet the only action I'll ever miss
Is a soft, perfect rainkiss (Soft, perfect rainkiss)
Nothing makes me feel like this
Except the tenderest rainkiss. ♫
— Misshaped Corndog
