The Great North Season 4, Episode 1 Review: Infinite Ideas to Help a Struggling Ham | yahoo201027's Great North Reviews

 

Six months...that’s what it took for the wait since the end of Season 3 back in May of last year. Six months and a lot of uncertainty regarding the future of the series when the strikes from the writers and later the actors and thought that it would last all the way to the new year, and now, finally, after the writers and actors finally got their fair share, even if it’s going to last for three years until 2026 and a looming animation guild strike set for later this year, folks, to The Great North fandom, especially since y’all are no longer the defending champions, that title went back to the Bob’s Burgers camp, y’all were waiting to hear this...

Yeah. We’re back and we’re starting the new season in this week’s episode of The Great North and...it’s an anthology episode. Yeah, I know, I know, I know...right after that two-parter with everyone at the school almost being sent to the lobby thanks in part to a changing climate and a bunch of dumbasses long ago working for a defunct meat packing company, but there’s come a time where we need to calm the frick down, even if it’s an anthology episode. This is “Bad Speecher Adventure”.

And yes, we’re starting the new season with an anthology episode after a six-month hiatus since the end of the third season with the show’s first-ever two-parter, the third anthology episode in this series overall. The first is with Season 2’s “Wanted: Delmer Alive Adventure” with the family telling each story to entertain Delmer, who was recovering from a concussion while eating soup. Seriously, who gets a concussion while eating soup? And then going into Season 3 with “Enough Bed Adventure” with the Ham, Judy, and Moon competing on which bed of their choosing gets to replace Beef’s old one. Even though that episode was an anthology episode, it had a subplot with Wolf and Honeybee delivering a fruit basket that was accidentally delivered to their doorstep. And now, in this week's episode, you have the family (except for Moon) telling stories based on certain movies and tying in with historical events when helping Ham come up with a speech for his presentation. At this point, and I've seen this movie before with Bob's Burgers, where we're at the bare minimum of having one anthology episode per season. Hell, the now canceled Central Park had that and the show's second season has two anthology episodes.

The name of the game for this episode is simple, Ham struggles to find any inspiration for his speech as the Tobins are preparing to have dinner. You are probably wondering, why the struggle? What's so bad that you need the speech and presentation to be that good? Well, while he is being graded since Golovkin is the one who told him to do the presentation, the problem comes down to the audience when finding out that the audience that Ham is presenting himself with the presentation is Moon's class.

And man, Moon acting like a little bitch in this episode was the highlight for me. Ham knows that he may have entered the lion's den when being tasked to do the speech on the topic of what makes Alaska beautiful, resulting in Ham struggling to come up with something that should please Moon's class but knowing that it is in Moon's class and having to present his presentation in front of Moon and his classmates, they're going to scar him alive to make sure he'll regret being born. Carving him up like he's Thanksgiving dinner. And Moon adds pressure on Ham to make sure he fails so that he can be ridiculed as if he doesn’t care for his older brother, I mean, he does care for Ham and would at least try to help him out, but he, like his classmates, doesn’t matter if Ham is his brother as long as he messes up and the class goes on the attack. And he had gone full demon time throughout the episode when reacting to each of the stories as if all of this wasn’t helping Ham with his case, which it didn’t, adding more pressure onto Ham leading up to the day of the presentation. I mean...how can you not like Moon? Sure, I’m a Judy guy (my favorite character being Judy), but Moon is a distant second when it comes to the favorite characters list, whether it's the main cast or overall on the show. Again, no remorse for Ham as he acts like a little bitch when adding pressure on Ham to make sure he flops so he and his class carve him up to ridicule. You know how the saying goes when it comes to presenting something to give the younger generation something to learn about...

Yeah, that seems about right. And now, we get to the meat and potatoes of the episode, the stories. Judy thinks that it’s a good idea to help Ham by having each member of the Tobin family, including herself, tell each story to give Ham the inspiration he needs. Of course, Moon is excluded from telling the story and has been given the role of the judge to react to each story, and again, acting like a little bitch with him becoming critical with each story as the episode progressed. Though, I’m going to put a little disclaimer for y’all with this episode with the stories based on the three movies that they’re parodying, that being Top Gun, Good Will Hunting, and The Matrix, I have never even watched those movies, I know, I know, heresy, I know. Not my fault that I never even saw these films and I had to go through a Blade Runner run throughout 2022 leading up to the Bob’s Burgers Season 12 two-parter of a finale for Christ's sake. Besides, it was the holidays and your boy was working on the year-end countdown that I didn’t even have the time to get ready to know where these stories played out. And, of course, because it’s an anthology episode, like with Bob’s Burgers, I have to go through the stories and tell which of the three I like the best as if I’m doing the judging.

And we start with Judy’s story of her retelling of the movie Top Gun with her taking center stage as the well-known painter Bob Ross as the main lead of the Top Gun parody, filling in the main lead spot that belonged to Tom Cruise. And you’re probably wondering when watching this story, why Bob Ross? And what does Judy as Bob Ross, Jude Ross to be exact even though the official name is Bob-Judy Ross Maverick, have something to do with it? Well, it’s an anthology and each member has their own spin but actually, Bob Ross being a part of the military by parodying Top Gun was all true because Ross, before becoming a beloved painter we all know that even the newer generation are well aware of his existence, was a part of the Air Force. I’m not kidding, go search him up. Bob Ross was a part of the military as part of the Air Force and his time serving his country got the inspiration for him to become the chill artist that we know today. Though not know whether or not Ross was there when the Vietnam War was happening because Ross was enlisted in 1961 and the war didn’t even start until 1964, but it was an interesting fact that we didn’t even know about Bob Ross for this story by Judy to be brought into light.

Of course, taking notes from the movie Top Gun, which, again, never saw the film, you have Judy as Ross as the character of Maverick from the film, hoping to get Moon’s attention on a positive note instead of being heckled, by having Ross to don an Air Force uniform and piloting a jet along with Ham as his co-pilot, the plane ride doesn’t seem too bad as long as everything goes well. But, once Judy pulls out the painting canvas while piloting the plane that results in the plane crashing into the mountain with Judy’s character pulling out the parachute, but Ham’s character does not in time resulting in him being sent to the lobby, you swear that this almost looks like a potential PSA for the NTSB when it comes to airline safety if you’re the pilot that it would go towards every driver who owns a car. Judy’s character’s incompetence which led to Ham’s character’s accidental death led to her being scolded by Beef’s character after saying that this was her eighth partner who was killed off by her incompetence behind the wheel. Eight of her past partners died whenever being paired with Judy as if she either has bad luck whenever she’s flying the plane or would rather focus on her artwork than flying altogether. As if she’s channeling her inner Joseph Joestar when it comes to the experience, to the point where Judy’s character as Bob-Judy gets sent to the academy with Beef’s character coming along for, as Judy stated, for plot purposes. And everyone knows about the movie, everyone does. Whether if it’s people flying planes, questioning if this is considered military propaganda because the movie came out in the 80s in the later years of the Cold War, or in Wolf’s case...

The scene with the pilots-in-training playing hot bod volleyball because of course, you gotta add it there. This was fine for one story because it was there despite that the academy is in Alaska and playing in the brutal cold as if hypothermia won’t bother them and just bros being bros. Which turned into a tiring gag once we got to the other two stories later in the episode coming from Wolf.

Everyone knows about the movie Top Gun and how it goes aside from what I said about flying planes, hot bod volleyball, and possible military propaganda, especially when entering the classroom where she comes across Wolf and Honeybee’s characters as her rivals at the base and questioning her experience as if she can’t handle the pilot’s chair and bringing up Judy-Bob’s family history with the military and the fumbles that came with it from Beef’s character’s military reckless actions on D-Day in 1944 to her great-grandfather, though it would be great-great-great-grandfather, reckless actions during the War of 1812. So, talk about a deep dive to wear Judy-Bob down once she takes the plane when going into the next scene with her being paired with a pilot named Goose...

Who is an actual goose as if we’re getting the joke with the name. And if you’d think that Judy-Bob would learn her lesson when getting on the plane with a goose as her pilot and not fall into the temptation of getting the inspiration she needed to paint that would endanger her feathered co-pilot when shown in the next scene to end the first act and going into the second...

Goose getting cooked and shredded into goose nuggets thanks in part to Judy-Bob, for the ninth time in a row, got distracted due to her wanting to get the inspiration when seeing the scenery and wanting to get the chance before she forgets, but that distraction resulted in Judy-Bob to have her co-pilot being killed off and get sent to the lobby. As a result, we have the funeral at the start of the second act with Goose getting his twenty-one gun salute with Goose’s wife turned widow and kid, yes, that goose had a family in attendance, so we’re not going to pretend that Judy-Bob not only may have committed accidental murder because of her reckless piloting and now may have to add animal cruelty into the list. Again, channeling her inner Joseph Joestar when taking over the plane to the point where maybe she shouldn’t lay her hands on the planes for a bit.

Of course, we get to the action after Judy-Bob has her sad motorcycle moment when the enemy camp decides to fly in and come for the attack. Again, tell me that Top Gun isn’t a potential military Cold War propaganda, and the enemy fighters having to resemble what might be Soviet pilots. And wouldn’t you guess it, Judy-Bob’s paintings on the planes helped the military to score a dub by painting the planes to look like the sky that would fool the enemy. Which it did the job at first, but once the sun began to set, the advantage would turn against the camp but leave it to Judy-Bob to create the sunset mural in the warehouse, playing Looney Tunes rules, to fool the enemy that sent them into their demise. But Judy-Bob’s work did the trick to protect the country to end the story...that, and the celebration with Judy-Bob opening the champagne bottle that might’ve killed the widow of Goose the Goose, leaving the kid to be an orphan. Man, what is Judy’s deal with gooses? Like...did a goose mess her up to the point where she had to come up with two goose deaths in the story while helping her brother out to find inspiration for his speech? Anyway, that’s the end of Judy’s story and the reaction from Moon...he only liked the ending, so...that didn’t help Ham’s situation because it is the first of the three stories in this episode. So, this is where Beef comes in with the second story when bringing up the history of how the Alaskan state flag was created.

And...okay, might as we all get a bit of bias out of the way, you know me as someone who has a knack for social studies, especially history. And Beef for his part in helping Ham with his speech on what makes Alaska amazing to please Moon’s class was quite the history lesson if you’re both a history buff and also someone who has an interest in flags or someone who studied flags, case in point, a vexillologist, then something tells me that this story in this episode might be for you. So, I might as well give you a background even though I have never even seen Good Will Hunting, but know how the movie goes by the synopsis of a janitor who has a secret of being an intelligent person, that the history of how the Alaskan flag was made is based on one person behind the design. An Alaskan Native named Benny Benson, a 14-year-old orphan who designed the state flag that we know today. It contains the blue field that resembles the night sky with the seven stars that resemble the Big Dipper and the added star on the top right signifying the future of the state. Either you just searched it up online or just went to YouTube to go and watch a CGP Gray video on the details of the state flag. Hell, there’s a state song about the flag up on YouTube, so go check that out.

And what’s also interesting about this story, aside from the history, is that a side character gets to take over the spot for the main lead as Benny by having Quinn, an Alaskan Native, fill in the role. Sure, Judy had to call her father out for having Quinn take the role for the story of how the flag was designed in the Good Will Hunting parody to please Moon because of him (Moon) having a huge crush on Quinn and Moon having to continue to deny but is simple to please whenever Quinn’s name gets floated. As if the family somehow knew that Moon having a romantic interest in her, no matter how much he could deny the accusations, it was a nice fitting role to have representation towards the Native American community when talking about Alaska’s history. Which is something I like about this story coming from Beef to help his son to find his inspiration for the speech.

So, as the story goes based on the movie Good Will Hunting, you have Quinn, taking the name Benny Quinnson, as the janitor who has a super secret side of her being intelligent when working at a university...on flags. And not in the way you’d think as a college course, like an elective or a major or minor, nope, it’s a full university about flags. Because knowing that it’s an anthology episode, and the story is based on the movie, gotta make some changes. So, Quinn, as Benny, has a gift in flag design and wants to show it off to the world but thinks to herself that it would be a good idea to just keep her genius to herself. That and also the supposed trauma regarding the topic that she is the result of why she wants to keep it for herself. Especially when going into the next scene with her entering a bar and having a drink with Honeybee in what I’m guessing is supposed to be a Boston accent. Which I guess that would make sense for Honeybee to have the accent in the story because Matt Damon is in the film and he’s from Massachusetts. So, we have the set up for the story with Quinn as Benny wanting to show off her skills but a traumatic moment in her life prevents her from showing her skills to the public.

To the point where she goes to Wolf’s character as the therapist at the behest of Ham’s character when noticing the design on the chalkboard. Bringing out the reveal of the traumatic moment that prevented Quinn as Benny from revealing her true self as a flag-designing genius when talking to Wolf’s character during a therapy session. Apparently, the moment that made Quinn’s character hide her genius was because she once made a giant flag that both she and her horse Peppermint enjoyed and wanted to get a photo but as she is preparing to get the camera, down comes the flag and thus, killing the horse.

Okay, time out. A giant flag killed a living organism like a horse? A giant fabric to kill the horse and get sent to the lobby? I mean...that seems unrealistic, don’t you think? Sure, the weight can’t hold something that big as a giant flag, a garrison flag, the type of flag you would see whenever a national holiday is held or at a car dealership, but you sure that’s less of the flag with the fabric in question that resulted in the horse’s death than questioning how faulty the flagpole is? I mean, the flagpole has to be in question rather than the weight of the flag because then you would have to question the type of fabric that was used that would be heavy enough to crush a living being like a horse. Hell, the wind in question would also be brought up knowing how windy is it the moment Peppermint got sent to the gulag. But besides that, Quinn’s character told her traumatic story about that tragic day with one of her flag designs and then brought up something about assassins going after her.

As seen with Quinn in the story being a badass by showing off her actions, only for Honeybee to call Beef to correct the story for mixing up the movies that Matt Damon is in even though Good Will Hunting has that thriller label in the genre section. And most people would know what a thriller is when it comes to action. Don’t think that this film has it but again, I haven’t watched the film, so please bear with me here. The therapy session gets cut short to end the first half of the episode once Quinn’s character storms out of the room, despite that she has 44 minutes left of her appointment.

So when we get to the third act of the episode, once night hits, where Wolf’s character catches up to Quinn’s character sitting at the bench alone and this is where the talk and the inspiration for the flag come into play leading us to the creation of the state flag that we know today. Dangerously close to getting Wolf’s character’s backstory about his dead wife, but we don’t have time for that. Also, it’s not that character’s story, it’s Quinn’s as Benny and how the creation of the flag came to be. And oddly enough, the visuals for the constellations and the inspiration for Quinn as Benny when looking at the stars in her eyes look amazing with how the stars brightly shine as if she has a brain blast moment and got the inspiration she needed for the flag design to change the blank, white canvas of a fabric waving in public as if everyone is going to mistake it as a surrender flag. So, she got her inspiration for the flag that we know today, as well as her being cured of the traumatic moment of watching her beloved horse being crushed by her flag. Besides, if anything is to blame for that moment, it’s logic. You can always blame logic.

And so, the Alaskan flag is made as get to the final scenes of the story with Honeybee’s character reading a note that was placed at Quinn’s place about the inspiration design without even telling her and Wolf’s character seeing the flag in person. But knowing that this is the second story and we’re already in the third act and have yet to enter the fourth, of course, Moon had to downplay it, so, of course, he doesn’t like it. Not helping Ham’s case to get the inspiration that he needed for his speech. Yeah, you’d think that bringing in Quinn to take the lead role in Beef’s story would sell Moon the nod because we know that he (Moon) has a huge crush on Quinn since last season, this time last season, last year that came out of freaking nowhere. That should’ve sold Moon the story, and thus, helping Ham with his speech, but because we’re not even at the fourth act of the episode, and we already know where this is heading as the episode progresses, so for right now, Ham is massively screwed and Moon can’t wait for the war crimes that he and his classmates will unleash hell on come the day of the presentation.

Onto Honeybee with her story in the episode about the guy who invented the most overrated contentment in all of food, yeah, I fucking said it, parodying The Matrix with Honeybee’s character, who, instead of a hacker like in the movie played by Keanu Reeves, is a plumber who runs her own plumbing company. Don’t know if this was originally going to be a Super Mario movie parody but this was made long before the release of the film, so The Matrix has to be the one that has to be parodied. And knowing this is about Steve Henson, the creator of ranch dressing, and yes, it was made in Alaska, yeah, you thought it was all California’s doing, but no, it’s Alaska and it ties in with Alaskan history. You have people eating vegetables dry with no dressing to make it good to eat, and yes, you have to wash it before using it to make food, and it ain’t a food story with the invention of ranch from Honeybee to help Ham with his story without bringing in the man who is too familiar with all things food, Guy Fieri. Donning the Matrix look and asks Honeybee to join him and save the world with the scene of the movie where you have the two options, the blue pill or red pill, or in Guy’s case, a brussel sprout or a piece of garlic. Honeybee was about to go with the sprout but ended up picking the garlic and thus, we’re about to have ourselves a training session to end the third act and go into the fourth.

Ready to haul some ass when doing some training despite that the scene was short because we gotta get the show going. Well, not before being interrupted by Wolf bringing in the hot guys playing volleyball, which, again, was fine at first in Judy’s story because that happened in Top Gun, but ends up getting old as the episode progressed. But other than that, in a snap, Honeybee's training comes to a close, and decides to pay a visit to Judy in the story, but not before getting called out by Moon, who accuses Honeybee of her not watching the movie as if the story doesn’t feel like a parody of The Matrix and instead feels like we’re watching something else before getting back to being on-topic. As if Moon was slick into derailing Honeybee to make sure that Ham doesn’t get the inspiration he gets for the next day.

Honeybee and Guy decide to visit Judy with Judy in the story, who is busy baking cookies, telling Honeybee that she’s “The One”. As if she’s saying that she’s the chosen one and that she can free everyone from a dry vegetable world that leads to the creation of the ranch dressing. But not before Guy Fieri in the story decides to give Honeybee the Zenkai boost by having herself being coded with the abilities being downloaded into her mind before heading off to leave the house, though her character in the story had that moment where she almost went out of character when mentioning the story contest.

Only to come face-to-face with Beef’s character to make sure that vegetables shouldn’t be fun to eat and just be eaten as it is, resulting in a battle between the two when doing the style of The Matrix with the action and, of course, Honeybee stopping the carrots that were served as bullets as if she obtained the force from Star Wars and that battle has led to the creation of the ranch dressing and the downfall of Beef’s character, but mostly the creation of ranch dressing. In which Honeybee’s character in the story was this close to calling it donkey sauce and Guy Fieri heard the name as if Honeybee was about to declare it as her own and ready to sue the crap out of her and ends up calling it ranch instead. Ending the story with everyone getting out of their stasis pods with ranch being injected, resulting in having a party filled with the guys from the hot bod gag that Wolf in this episode had to invade Beef and Honeybee’s stories to celebrate the creation of the ranch and...

Didn’t do jack shit to help Ham with his struggles to find any inspiration after Moon doesn’t like all three stories that were laid out, just to hamper Ham’s chances of pleasing Moon’s class the next day. And, yeah, you already know where this was heading because the moment the synopsis and the photos came out for this episode, knowing that it’s an anthology episode, you already know the outcome for Ham with his situation. Him having to struggle throughout the episode, thinking that he’s not him when taking the elective despite not knowing until just now that he may have entered the lion’s den when having to present himself to Moon’s class, and have to pull something out of his ass, oh look, he pulled something out of his ass by the end of the episode once we reached to the end of the episode, and...

Okay, time out. Time out again. This is the one that bugs me with this episode. And this is about the school. Y’all remember in “For Whom the Smell Tolls Part Two” by the end of the episode when the school blew up because of the mysterious third bunker that resulted turned the school into rubble on prom night? And the questions that came with it on what to do with the school and the students going into Season 4. You know, whether or not the students might be placed in trailers for classrooms or be put in online classes. Well, this pretty much answers my question, never mind all of that. Just pretend that the school didn’t even blew up after the event that was “The Raw Meat-splosion of 2023”. You could say that this feels like a retcon and it sort of does feel like one because you’d think there would be some continuity into this the same way with Bob’s Burgers with the sinkhole for example where before the movie, Seasons 1-10, and the first five episodes of Season 11, there was no issue. Come Season 11, starting with “Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids” with “Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid” as the true starting point leading up to the movie where the conditions of the sidewalk get worsen each passing episode until it finally opens up in the movie before getting patched up by the end and the patched up spot was shown going into Season 13 and currently in Season 14. Thought it was going to be like that with this season, but I guess that’s not the case and just pretend that what happened in Season 3 is treated as a drunk night out in the town.

Oh, by the way, looking at Moon’s class once Ham presented his speech that turned into giving each student in the class a box of cupcakes that symbolize the state’s history, I noticed a few people being missing from this shot above. Yep, Russell, AWOL. Henry, AWOL. Debbie, she’s been AWOL’d after “Autumn If You Got Em Adventure” and I know she’s there in attendance in the assembly in “Bee’s All That Adventure” in the background, but an AWOL is an AWOL. God forbid if they become forgotten for this season. Please don’t let this be the case going into Season 4. I get that we have to develop Quinn and her friendship/potential relationship with Moon (and yes, even though Moon has feelings for her, let’s not pretend that Quinn has returned feelings for him), but please don’t let Russell, Henry, and Debbie be nothing more than chopped liver just to further Quinn, everyone has to get their fair share as long as the show continues to do what they’re doing since Seasons 2 and 3 in expanding the characters. They gotta have their time also. We have a long season ahead and we’re just getting started.

Reaction/Thoughts:

So all and all, what do I think about this week’s episode of The Great North? After playing the waiting game for six months and the fears regarding the fate of the show as if we’re not coming back, just be glad that it’s back. As for this episode...it was okay. It was okay. I mean, it’s not bad but it’s not great either. I’m not saying that the season premiere started the new season with a dud, I wouldn’t go that far. I can be critical but I’m not an asshole. And we knew right away that the episode was going to be predictable right away when finding out that it’s an anthology episode with Ham having trouble typing a speech and having to pull something out of his ass by the end by passing out cupcakes that he made to woo the crowd.

Knowing that it’s an anthology episode, I had to pick which of the three stories that I liked the best and I have to give it to Beef’s story. Mostly because of the background it was given tying into Alaska’s history with the state flag and how it was designed along with the story of a 14-year-old ophan being the one who created the flag that was flown today. As well as having Quinn taking the main lead in the story as the role of Benny. Representation matters and I enjoyed that when telling the story of the creation of the flag mixed with the movie Good Will Hunting...other than the idea of raw-dogging logic regarding how a flag that should be a lightweight shouldn’t kill a living being like a horse because of how big it was. Other than that, Beef’s story was my pick for this episode. Honeybee’s story was okay with the creation of ranch dressing and the same goes for Judy with the Bob Ross story with his military background mixing with the movie Top Gun. But I have to go with Beef’s story, mostly because of the history and that a side character had to take center stage, even if he tried to Mickey Mouse his way to get Moon to like the story just because Quinn is involved.

Of course, it was predictable with most anthology episodes in the past and this is the third one in the series, since the release of the synopsis and I knew that Ham would pull something out of his ass to find inspiration of his own to please Moon’s class. So I’ll give “Bad Speecher Adventure”...

A 5 out of 10. It’s not that bad but it’s not that great but just be glad that the show is back after a six-month wait and...yeah, good to be back. I would say tune in this upcoming Sunday but at the time of posting, yeah, might as well tell y’all and this isn’t coming from me, this is all FoxFlash that the next episode that was slated for Sunday...got flexed to TBD, probably February because of the NFL Playoffs. Because of course, it is. And you can’t compete with that. But we know what the next episode is going to be and it’s a Beef episode with him...let’s just say, his game was off, and having to rely on a giant cloud weiner to help him with his struggles in the second episode of Season 4, “Risky Beefness Adventure”.

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