Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood vs. Bart on the Road

Post by **stip** » Mon August 01, 2016 1:04 pm

Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood

After being forced to leave the amusement arcade for being out of money, Bart and Milhouse find $20 that Homer lost and order a Super Squishee made entirely out of syrup from Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart. With their senses reeling from the high sugar content of the drink, they spend the rest of the money on a night out in town. The next morning, Bart wakes up with a hangover and realizes that in the revelry of the night before he joined the Junior Campers, a Boy Scout-style organization that is not affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America.

Although Bart initially intends to drop out of the group as soon as possible, he decides to attend a meeting to avoid a pop quiz at school. Bart dislikes the first meeting, but when he finds out that he gets to have a pocket knife, he decides to keep attending. After a while, Bart starts to enjoy being a member of the Junior Campers, which Homer mocks him relentlessly for. Next, a father-son rafting trip is to be held, so Bart has to bring Homer. Homer does not enjoy the experience, especially when he learns that he and Bart have to share a raft with Ned Flanders and his son, Rod. Due to Homer losing the map after making it into a makeshift hat, they accidentally take the wrong turn and find themselves lost at sea. They stay stranded with no food or water for several days, as no rescue is forthcoming; the Springfield Police Department refuses to search for them because the Coast Guard boat they were using is out of refreshments. After several other failed attempts at being rescued or finding food, the raft springs a leak after Homer accidentally drops a pocket knife he was intending to gift to Bart. All seems lost, but then Homer smells his way to a Krusty Burger on an off-shore oil rig. They are saved, and Bart is proud of his father.

Meanwhile, the other Junior Campers, led by Ernest Borgnine, take the correct route, ironically they end up in an even worse position: after finding themselves trapped in a dark, tangled swamp (while being hunted by mountain men), they are attacked by a bear that Borgnine tries but fails to fight off (due to Homer stealing his Swiss Army Knife), and they finally flee to an abandoned summer camp. At the camp, they start singing songs, but are soon attacked by an unseen figure lurking in the woods, and their fates are left unknown.

Bart on the Road

Principal Skinner closes school the day before spring break and sends the children on a "go to work with your parents day" in order to take a trip to Hong Kong. Bart is forced to go to the DMV with his aunts Patty and Selma, and Lisa decides to go to the nuclear power plant with Homer, where she bonds with him. At the DMV, Bart makes himself a fake driver's license, which he, Nelson, Martin, and Milhouse use to hire a rental car with $600 Martin earned in the stockmarket. The boys tell their parents they are going to attend the "National Grammar Rodeo" in Canada, but secretly take the rented car for a road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee after finding a brochure for the 1982 World's Fair. During the car ride, chaos ensues as they stop in Branson, Missouri to see Nelson's favorite singer Andy Williams, and Nelson later manages to provoke an agitated father of a Canadian family traveling to Cape Canaveral to turn around and head back to Winnipeg.

In Knoxville, however, they find out that the fair was held fourteen years earlier, and that its featured attraction, the Sunsphere, is now being used as a warehouse for a wig shop, now called the Wigsphere. The boys' car soon gets destroyed by the Sunsphere being toppled by a rock Nelson threw, and they are stranded without any money or transportation. They sign up as couriers and then go to Hong Kong. Bart places a collect call to Lisa, who has spent the entire spring break with Homer at work, to ask her for advice. Lisa obtains Homer's promise that he will not get upset and she reveals Bart's predicament, causing Homer to scream in his safety helmet. To get Bart home, Homer contacts a power station close to the boys' location, and orders a new command module for the power plant, after spilling soda over the current one, and ships it via courier from Knoxville, with Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin stowed away inside the crate and Bart as the courier.

The ending credits begin with an unsuspecting Marge getting phone calls from Principal Skinner (who spotted Bart in Hong Kong), the Tennessee State Police (who inquire about the crushed rental car), and the courier office (which has an assignment for Bart). Homer snickers at these calls, which leaves Marge furious.

Post by **stip** » Mon August 01, 2016 1:04 pm

Bart on the Road is good, but it should not have beaten Lisa the Vegetarian and it should not beat Boy Scoutz either

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Mon August 01, 2016 1:48 pm

Boy Scoutz, easily

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Tue August 02, 2016 4:39 am

You're operating without a T-437, Springfield!

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 4:39 am

I think I gotta go with Bart on the Road.

LoathedVermin72 · Post by **LoathedVermin72** » Tue August 02, 2016 4:41 am

BOTR is one of the best ever

Post by **Jorge** » Tue August 02, 2016 4:41 am

Yep yep. Bart on the Road.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 4:42 am

It's up there.

LoathedVermin72 · Post by **LoathedVermin72** » Tue August 02, 2016 4:42 am

"Remember - we're parked under the Sun Sphere."

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 4:45 am

That's it! Back to Winnipeg!

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 5:34 am

Ok I've thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home, and then I will murder him.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 5:41 am

Boy Scoutz is fucking classic though.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 5:50 am

Post by **Jorge** » Tue August 02, 2016 5:41 pm

Okay, I LOVE Bart on the Road, but I watched Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood last night and it's a pretty amazing episode. It really works despite Homer's weird out-of-nowhere mean-spiritedness about Bart's interest in the Boy Scouts. Lotta laughs. I'm tempted to change my vote.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 5:44 pm

theplatypus wrote:Okay, I LOVE Bart on the Road, but I watched Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood last night and it's a pretty amazing episode. It really works despite Homer's weird out-of-nowhere mean-spiritedness about Bart's interest in the Boy Scouts. Lotta laughs. I'm tempted to change my vote.

I did the same thing.

LoathedVermin72 · Post by **LoathedVermin72** » Tue August 02, 2016 6:50 pm

Boy Scouts is a classic but BOTR is better.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue August 02, 2016 7:07 pm

I don't know. They're very close to each other in terms of overall quality, but BSntH has that season 5 aesthetic, which is better than the season 7 look.

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