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Recap / The Wonder Years S 04 E 11 Heartbreak

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Kevin is happy when he hears that the upcoming field trip to a history museum will be a joint field trip with Winnie's school, meaning they will be able to hang out together on the trip. When the school buses meet up, Winnie reluctantly sneaks onto Kevin's bus. While Kevin's friends want to find a rumored room on the fourth floor, Kevin is annoyed that Winnie wants to stick with her friends from her school. Eventually, Kevin gets lost and talks with Madeline. Winnie walks in on them as they're talking and runs off. Kevin runs after Winnie to tell her that nothing came between them, but then Winnie informs Kevin that she met somebody, and breaks up with him.

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  • All for Nothing: Paul, Randy, and Doug all want to find a rumored room on the fourth floor, which they do not find. And Doug is upset that if they had stayed with the group, they would have seen an exhibit he wanted to see.
  • Call-Back: When Kevin gets back to his seat on his bus, he sees that Winnie had left behind the promise ring he had given her when she moved away.
  • Class Trip: Kevin and Winnie's respective schools have a joint field trip.
  • Downer Ending: Kevin learns that Winnie has a new boyfriend from her school.
  • Squick: Kevin's schoolmates seem a bit too keen on seeing John Dillinger's severed, preserved penis. Dovetails with Where the Hell Is Springfield?, as the specimen is supposedly on display in a branch of the Smithsonian—not in California, the supposed setting of the show, but in our nation's capital, some 3000 miles or so away, and hardly just a short bus ride from Kevin and Winnie's schools.

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