So...you're probably wondering why there's a Great North review only for this week and not expecting a Bob's Burgers episode review or anything related to the show for this week now that the Super Bowl is over. Yeah, I can't easily answer when it comes to the scheduling of when the next episode is going to air. This season regarding Bob's Burgers when it comes to the scheduling has been one huge question mark that you're probably going to get more questions than answers now that we're in the Spring half of the season despite being only eleven episodes into what is supposed to be a 17-episode season.
Look, the last thing the Bob's Burgers fandom needs is complete and total panic from the fandom thinking that the season might already be over with or thinking that the show might be on its last leg even though Season 15 is currently in the works regarding the production process. Season 16 and possibly beyond...who freaking knows. Guys, we had gone through this type of hiatus before with certain shows. Take a look at Steven Universe or Gravity Falls, those fandoms are pretty much experts on how to deal with these things. Hell, Doctor Who back in 2019, went through a year without a new episode aside from the one that aired on New Year's Day. Similarly goes for Final Space throughout 2020 even though that led to the show's cancelation the following year, but the point is that this isn’t the time of panic. This isn’t the time to think of abandoning the ship. We've been through this with the movie news when it jumped from one release date to another all the way to 2022 from the original 2020 date. And that one had a reason because that was during a global pandemic.
So, a reminder that this isn't a time for panic. We've been through this before and hopefully, this doesn't result in a jinx, even though it might as well be, be patient. Be calm. Bob's Burgers will be back before you know it and I’ll be back to my rambling bullshit. But for right now, my rambling bullshit with The Great North since this will be the reviews I will be doing for the time being.
In this week’s episode of The Great North, the struggle of Beef getting back into the saddle continues after having a near-death experience and becoming the butt of the town after a bad date and his rizz game being completely off in the op-ed as Jerry and Moon compete against a pair of clowns over superiority in the costume game in my spoilerific review of the second episode of Season 4 of The Great North, titled “Risky Beefness Adventure”.
A week after Valentine’s Day and love is what we’re talking about for this week’s episode. Most importantly, getting back into the game. The dating game I might add. Alright, so, we all know that Beef isn’t the most sociable person on planet Earth, that’s something that we can all agree on. Especially when attempting to get back into the dating game following his divorce with Kathleen. It’s been hard on the guy since that moment happened to the point where the rizz game becomes extremely off when deciding to go back into the dating life. Granted, he doesn’t want to mess things up and doesn’t want to go through the same thing he had gone through with Kathleen when they were together, but when it comes to how to get a date, it’s pretty much playing a dangerous task of holding a candle and getting across from one side to another and walking through a rickety old bridge that seen better days and the candle you’re carrying can wipe out half of the planet. But how the fuck should I know, I’m not the one in the relationship because I’m still single and kept on getting bombarded by porn bots in my DMs.
But other than that, Beef is down and it took a near-death experience to realize that he should get back to the saddle as quickly as he can and we'll get to that in a bit since that is where the episode starts. Not to mention, you also have Moon and Jerry with their side story with them coming across with a couple of clowns that turned into a turf war regarding the parties they’ve been entertaining. Yeah, in the year of our Lord 2024, we have a turf war regarding people in costumes having turf wars. Might as well jump our way to the episode breakdown, and yes, because Bob’s Burgers isn’t on for right now, this has to be the way to go. This is “Risky Beefness Adventure”.
The episode starts with Beef on the Mighty Kathleen, doing his job in trying to nab a couple of fish out in the open waters and minding his business by checking on the nets to see if it's properly set up. He gets a phone call just as he is inspecting the nets and it happens to be Debbie's mom Carissa, who is inviting him to join her, Dorothy (Mrs. Tuntley, i.e. Henry's mom), and Marie (Russell's mom) for a night out in Kenai for some drinks. So, it's nice that Beef has become a prominent member of the group since Season 2's "Beef's Mommas House Adventure" when being around a group of moms who had gone through a divorce...well...two...three with the addition of Beef out of the four members because we saw Mr. Tuntley last season, but other than that, nice to know that the group is going strong with Beef now a member of the small group. And not because their kids, that being Moon, Henry, Russell, and Debbie are friends. Anyway, Carissa invites Beef to join her alongside Dorothy and Marie to have drinks in Kenai and brings up that there are some single ladies available for him to interact with and at least hook up with. But knowing Beef, he decides to take a rain check, knowing his luck and how he acts when it comes to trying to get back into the dating game. So once the phone call ended and Beef readying to go for the after-hours portion of fishing in the open waters, things decided to go wrong for the guy.
By being thrown overboard into the open, cold waters and being unable to swim because of his leg being stuck by the net. Which Beef thinks that he was caught in the current, even though the waters for light now appeared to be smooth sailing with no waves coming through, so a low tide at best but with a side of hypothermia if Beef doesn't try to untangle the damn net from his leg and swim his way back to the boat. Beef is having his near-death experience with his body feeling the freezing waters after accidentally being thrown overboard when being caught by his own net causing him to not be able to swim towards his boat, not to mention that he's the only person out in the waters, meaning that there's no freaking Coast Guard members going through the premises and notice a bearded man swimming for his life as if he's about to become a human popsicle. And folks, this is where the wonkiness comes into play as advertised by the show's co-creators for this episode as seen in the next scene. Beef is about to have himself a near-death experience when struggling to get back to his boat and out and about from the clouds, a voice comes out from the sky. And if you think that it's God and think that it would be Beef's time, you're sadly mistaken. Because the voice is coming from Beef's imagination in what is pretty much his way from being sent to the lobby and the cloud that is hovering over Beef is none other than...
Yep...yep. A giant wang in the sky. A cloud shaped like an elephant trunk. So uh...a penis appears from the sky just as Beef is about to drown in the frozen waters. If this review were to be a YouTube video, I would probably be hit with two things: a copyright notice and an age restriction note with a side of demonetization. Surprisingly, this made it past the censors for this episode to be made. And this isn't like the show having to make the cloud into the shape of an eggplant like how most people would the emoji for when describing the male genital, it's the shape of an actual dong. If the early seasons of Bob’s Burgers can show vibrators in their episodes to air, then why not let The Great North do the same but this time, one-up Bob’s Burgers by showing a penis, even though it’s the shape in the clouds because the show isn’t aired on a cable network where it’s free game.
The penis, voiced by Jack McBrayer, appears out of the sky through Beef’s imagination as the hypothermia begins to take its place on his body and the body part’s visit through Beef’s imagination isn’t a normal visit like with most imaginary figures or just jumping in for no apparent reason other than a case of daydreaming, but instead, the dong appeared in the clouds to tell Beef that he’s deceased. What he means that is he’s calling Beef out for not yanking it one too many times. Accusing him of not being able to land a single woman for him to meet and greet and mate as if he participated in No Nut November for the past years, if not, decades outside of the month of November. Beef tries to recuse himself by telling his imaginary dong that he had beaten his meat by looking through a pile of magazines that has fisherwomen pictured for him to...well, beat his meat. But that’s not enough according to his dong and since Beef is going back into the dating game, he has to get laid as if he's treating Beef like he's a virgin. The forty-something-year-old virgin even though he's not because he did Kathleen that led to giving birth to four kids. But the moment that Beef denied Carissa's invitation to join her and the other moms in Kenai where he would've had some shot in find a single woman to mingle, that was the line for the penis to declare himself deceased. As if he thought that the invitation to a night out was Beef’s only shot and he blew it. And his rizz game is off.
The dong just waives that white flag and asks Beef to do the same as he is on the verge of potentially drowning in the freezing water as the hypothermia continues to take its place and join him to the lobby, but Beef doesn't want to do that because it's not his time just yet. Asking the dong in the sky for a little bargain if he wants to get out of his predicament with the net tangled in his leg. The deal is that Beef gets to live another day if he gets back into the dating game and to go and get laid. But not by a lot by going towards a committed relationship. A one-night stand has to be a take-it-or-leave-it offer, in which Beef agrees to the offer that he'll go and improve himself to give his male genitals a workout. Lo and behold, the deal has been made between Beef and his dong, and thus, Beef is freed from the tangled net and made it back to the boat. Establishing the main plot for the episode.
Once we get to the Tobin household later in the day and go into the night with Beef arriving, drenched and freezing from being in the cold waters after accidentally being overthrown by his own net and telling the family and Honeybee that he had gone through a near-death experience and a meeting with his imaginary dong in the sky. Telling the family that he needs to go back into the dating game. And the family’s reaction to the news is priceless, especially Moon and Judy. This is Moon’s reaction when Beef brings up his penis following his near-death experience out in the open waters...
That is his reaction as he leaves the table and continues to eat his dinner outside on the patio of the house. Mostly because Moon wants no part of what Beef is saying when mentioning his penis and the desire to have sex and it has gotten to the point where Moon doesn't want to be a part of this conversation that resulted in him leaving the dinner table and taking his dinner plate with him outside and we'll get to him in a bit to establish the subplot. But Moon's reaction is priceless of him having to leave the family hanging when Beef brings up that he needs to have a one-night stand and later when the family celebrates Beef finally getting laid and noticing the cake the morning after, thinking that the family is about to have cake for breakfast as if it's someone's birthday, only to find out that it's to celebrate Beef's achievement of finally getting laid after many years. Granted, he's 10 and 10-year-olds shouldn't know or even want to know what sex is or how it works. And this is the same kid who helped a reindeer gave birth and accidentally stumble into a porn site with naked ladies and a pile of hay when researching that led to him self-diagnosing having OCD.
But Judy...good God, Judy. Judy's reaction to the news was pretty much the highlight of this episode. The facial expressions on her face alone paint the picture of her trying to hold herself together and this happens throughout the entire episode when helping Beef how to land a date and wants to support her father in getting back into the dating game. Originally, like Moon, Judy would want to dip out and probably lock herself in her room and probably scream into her pillow, just to get the thoughts of what Beef said to the family after his near-death experience but, of course, she wants to be supportive that her dad is finally getting back into the saddle. Even if it was mostly because Beef talked to his imaginary penis while the hypothermia was setting up camp in his body. And laud, Judy’s facial expression...her trying to keep herself together when being around the family when helping Beef to find a date and just be there for support...putting on a brave face throughout the entire episode all the way to the end of the third act where she just lost it to the point where she breaks her portion of the table and makes her way to her room and wanting to talk to a therapist, so I guess talking to her imagination with Alanis. Other than that, Judy's reaction to the news has been the highlight of the episode with her having to put on a brave face and wanting to be as she puts it as "sex-positive" and wanting to show her support for her dad and wants him to be happy for him to finally getting back to the saddle. Oh yeah, and there's also the support from Ham, Wolf, and Honeybee as the main plot is fully established and ready to rock and roll.
We cut over to outside with Moon continuing to eat his dinner after storming out following Beef’s news about him wanting to get back to the saddle and wanting to have a one-night stand where Jerry comes into the picture in his bigfoot costume to retrieve a spare bigfoot head for his costume that he left it behind the last time he paid a visit to the Tobin household. This is where the subplot to the episode begins to establish once Moon asks Jerry to hand over the mascot head of his costume for him to try on, leading Jerry to create an idea of having Moon be his sidekick and hiring him to go a joint gig with him for a birthday party that he is going to attend to entertain. If it means getting out of the house and not dealing with the grown-up stuff like getting Beef to find the right date for him to do a one-night stand, then it looks like Moon got himself a gig to be Jerry's sidekick, or as Moon prefers to Jerry as his "big brother", rather brother-in-law, when bringing up that they'll be paid for the night. Nothing beats free money, I guess for Moon to tag along and get him out of the house for a while. With the subplot now set in stone...
We go back to the main plot of the episode with the Tobins finishing setting up a dating profile for Beef in hopes for him to land a date and smash for a one-night stand with the finishing touches being the profile picture of Beef smiling when they had to take it when Beef saw a monkey wearing human clothes that made him hold on to a laugh. Gotta make an impression when creating a dating profile to make sure you don’t scare off the potential matches that the AI would link you with. But with the profile set, the operation to find Beef a woman to mingle is a go. And let's just say...when it comes to finding dates online, you'll never know what kind of person you'll be paired with courtesy of what the AI would decide who would be paired with. Mostly by the radius of the area you live in.
And boy, the meet-up for Beef when finding the right woman to meet...yeah, this isn't good for the guy. And this isn't only a one-night thing. Because this happened almost every night in the past week since the near-death encounter. You could say that Beef’s rizz might be off since it has been a long time since he last went out on a date, but most of which in the montage of Beef's series of flops is either because he can't control the way he speaks or act or the woman he meets is out of Beef's control. The first date was more of Beef's rizz being off when trying to create a conversation with his first date that he found online. Mistakenly called himself Sex Tobin instead of his usual name. Okay, first time with the online dating thing. Getting back to the saddle and the night didn't go as planned but this is the first time, so learn from the mistakes and try again. Which Beef did with his second date for the next night and this is where the weird things when it comes to online dating come into the picture for the remainder of the montage. Starting with the girl in the blue dress who you'd think that Beef can't mess this one up...only to find out that the woman happened to be a right-wing nutjob. Thinking that she invented cups and accusing Beef of being Hillary Clinton in disguise. So a potential QAnon member that Beef that got paired with and decided to bail on her. And a QAnon member that you’ve been paired with on a date is a QA-nope. But why stop there when it comes to a slot of dates that Beef had to endure throughout the week?
Whether it's coming across with conspiracy theory nutjobs like the woman the night before or meeting up with NPC models, let alone an NPC model, one of which has to wear a wig over her head and it's the same model who Beef had endured a couple of nights ago. Hell, if that's not enough for Beef in his mission to find the right girl, you have the quick return of Zelda Blop. Dressed in her wedding dress as if she had never taken off since her debut back last season. But regardless of the kind of date Beef had to encounter each time he presses the check mark to approve the meet-up, you probably can't tell if he's actually getting catfished just by clicking the check mark. Online dating, I don’t know what to tell you. And I don’t even use those things. I’m not even dating right now?! I’m single as fuck and if I see one spam message, I will file a police report on your IP address.
The two plots intertwine for once in this scene going into the next day with Beef getting exhausted from him having to meet with various women in the past week at the restaurant and can’t land a single woman for him to do a one-night stand with. Trying out different dating apps and dating sites and they all have Beef being paired with someone who is either a crazy person or an NPC model. And even if Beef found someone who isn’t in one of those categories, the dude has no game. And this isn’t like with Beef’s encounter with Alyson or Del or Meatweep, and we’ll get to Meatweep in a bit, where you have some connection with either of the three women in the past seasons in the show and while bashful and not wanting to mess things up, you have to create some small talk when introducing to someone who you barely met and knowing Beef, he's not a great small talker or giving out introductions when being out and about when trying to find a woman into his life. But Beef decided to give online dating another shot when Honeybee noticed that Beef may have found his match through another dating app and being paired with a girl named Dee, who is expected to wear head-to-toe plaid. Oh yeah, and as for the subplot since the two subplots had to intertwine for a bit? It's basically Moon coming down the stairs the moment Jerry comes by to pick up to do another gig with the spare Bigfoot head on the ready as the two plots once again go their separate ways.
The night arrives once more back at the restaurant with Beef waiting for his date to arrive and once Beef's match has arrived...apparently, "Dee" whom Beef had been hooked up with through the dating app ended up being Delmer, who dressed up in head-to-toe plaid and carrying flowers in his hands. Beef comes up to him and tells him that there was a mix-up when it came to the meeting. And thus, we have Beef going home empty-handed and pretty much failed to do his end of the bargain with his penis to find a single woman for him to mingle following his near-death experience. Treating it as if the mission is a failure after going through various dating sites and being unable to find a single woman in his area to be the right one for him to do his end of the bargain with his penis. You could say that Beef is pretty much down bad because he didn’t find the right woman from whatever the AI had paired him with through the app, but again, knowing that it’s from the internet and having an AI to do the job, you never know who you’re going to meet. One moment you get paired with a nice woman with a nice personality and then the next comes an NPC model or someone with a shady background. You could say that Beef may have fumbled the bag one too many times, but again, knowing that it's coming from an online dating app, you never know who you're going to end up with. And again, how the fuck should I know since I'm currently single and don't know how to give out relationship advice other than telling them to be themselves. Just as Beef was about to make his way back to his van, he stumbled across an old face who was in the way of reaching his vehicle on his way home.
The person was Greta Meatweep, who was lying on the ground for no obvious reason, though a dangerous thing to do knowing that she was in a parking lot at night when doing that. Greta was about to enter the restaurant to grab herself a drink but her knees had other plans that caused her to lie down on the concrete as what she called it “cottage cheese knees”. And if you think that the small encounter would come to an end with Greta and Beef going their separate ways, Greta going inside the bar and Beef making his way to his van, this is where things begin to click between the two to wrap up the first act of the episode, and this is going into five, going into six pages in a Word document to break down the first act of the episode. Most of which is solely because of the introduction to the review. Greta and Beef are starting to click with one another, especially after a series of bad dates that Beef had to endure in the past few nights, and the next thing you know to wrap up the first act of the episode...
Boom goes the dynamite. Our boy finally got laid after a few days of failed attempts to find himself a fella and here we are. Beef finally got laid and thus, finally got his end of the deal from the start of the episode with his penis, and all it took is a random meetup between Beef and Greta at the parking lot. The two did have some history with each other in the past seasons dating back to Season 2 with some romantic intricacies with each other whether it's Beef trying to woo Greta with the poem back in Season 2 or having to share a dance with her, Alyson, and Del at the Fall Frenzy Dance, you know that their...I guess romantic, not really a romantic intricacy between the two even though the start of the second act has them officially have them at the "friends with benefits" stage, this was bound to happen. The promo images for the episode leading up to the premiere have this scene with this screencap of Beef and Greta on Greta’s bed naked with the blanket covering themselves gave it away but other than that, Beef finally got laid. His first time having sex since the fallout with Kathleen. And he is happy about it.
Going into the second act of the episode, the morning after the one-night stand with Greta coming into the kitchen in a robe seeing Beef, already dressed up, making breakfast for the two even though you look at the table and you see six sets of plates and silverware set up at the table as if he was expecting for his family to visit when making breakfast, even though it’s just Beef and Greta alone at her house. Even Beef admits that it was out of habit because usually, he makes breakfast for himself and the family back at the Tobin household. But why stop there with Beef being generous in making Greta food after finally laying for the first time since the divorce? And, of course, the friends-with-benefits label, or at this rate, the friends-who-boned label has been attached to the two but it's pretty much them finally becoming friends-with-benefits. Not yet a couple despite that they "did the do” overnight but they’re getting there despite being friendly to one another.
Beef makes it back to the Tobin household after spending a night at Greta’s for his one-night stand with the family waiting for his return with a cake on the table. Well, you have Ham, Wolf, and Honeybee waiting to hear the deets on what is going on with Beef since his overnight stay at Greta's home while you have Judy trying to keep herself together because, again, like Moon earlier in the episode, wishing she doesn't want to be here but wants to be there to support her father getting it out there. Of course, the details had to be shared off-camera but you have Moon coming down the stairs and seeing the cake on the table as if it's somebody's birthday, only to find out that it's to celebrate Beef finally getting laid and that's more than enough for him to move away from the conversation once more. Him saying, "Welp, I heard enough. Byeeeee!" as he goes back upstairs, and Judy...good freaking God, Judy. Still wanting to get out of the conversation about Beef and his wanting to have a one-night stand and sees Moon walking back upstairs. Wishing she would join him and probably want to lock herself in her room for a day or wish she was taking a bye week and not appear until the next episode. You can really feel the meter starting to show some cracks as Judy continues to hold herself together as the episode progresses.
But that’s not going to stop Beef from celebrating going into the next scene with him on the Mighty Kathleen and celebrating him having sex for the first time since the Bush or Obama Administration the same way you won the million dollar jackpot in Powerball after a few tries when purchasing a ticket with the numbers hoping to get called to be the correct numbers. But you have to let Beef celebrate because for once in his life since Kathleen’s departure, he finally got back to his feet and finally did the deed of banging someone, with consent of course, and this is an emotion that he hasn't felt in a long time. The feeling of joy. The feeling of wanting to do the down-and-dirty without having to deal with some PTSD moment with Kathleen. To him, and I hope what I said doesn't make me a "womanizer", which I'm not, just had trash social skills and still do, this feels like a victory for him. He finally got his end of the deal with his penis and feel joyous for the first time in a long ass time that isn't about fishing or any other stuff that piqued his interest...like fishing.
We check on Moon and Jerry at the diner with Moon being glad that he doesn't want to deal with the conversation about sex and making some money by being the Robin to Jerry's Batman when tagging along to do any performances at various birthday parties throughout the past week. So you'd think that the way they've been working, as well as having Moon and Jerry interact with each other, an interesting duo to dive into for the subplot in this episode, you'd think that things would be easy breezy for the duo as long as they make money by doing some performance, right? Sadly, that's not the case because there's another party performing duo who aren't too pleased with Moon and Jerry stealing their gigs. A couple of clowns just came out of nowhere and stormed into the table where Moon and Jerry are, and if you have coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, when watching this episode...yeah, I feel like this isn't helping with your fear as long as you try to not focus on the clowns and focus on the plot. The clown duo isn't too pleased with what Moon and Jerry are doing by taking up the gigs for various birthday parties and telling them to stop what they're doing and let them do the job before storming off. Jerry thinks that both he and Moon may have entered deep territory in the entertainment gig as if they just stumble into a turf war, but Moon doesn't budge and thinks that the clown duo's threats don't scare them. Yeah, but knowing that we're now halfway through the episode, be careful what you say, Moon. Because that is going to haunt you and Jerry as the episode progresses going into the second half.
And we're at the end of the first half of the episode where while things are looking good for Beef at his end, the newspaper paints a different picture as the rest of the Tobin family read the poem piece on the paper from Greta regarding...well, the one-night stand that she and Beef had as if she is treating her poem onto the paper like a hit piece. Fearing that it could hurt Beef's feelings after finally getting laid for the first time in a long while, the family tries to hide the paper just as Beef is about to take a look once entering the kitchen. But doesn’t stop Beef from getting his hand on the paper just as he was sitting at the table, reading the date before skipping through to the poem piece and Beef’s victory ends up becoming short-lived...even if that was 24 hours ago after the one-night stand with Greta and now, his penis has become the talk of the town through the paper for the entire town to read. And knowing Beef as we end the first half of the episode and going into the second, the fucker doesn’t like attention and his penis getting mentioned and the one-night stand being brought up, he’s now the talk of the town. And normally, you’d think that this would be considered a hit piece and would think that it’s nothing more than a bad date, even though it’s not because the two did click earlier in the episode, you know, think that it would be more negative than positive.
And going into the second half of the episode, the start of the third act, again, Beef doesn’t like the attention and the fact that his encounter with Greta a few nights ago has landed on the paper for the whole town to see, and Lone Moose is a small town, everyone will know through physical media like a newspaper the moment the piece gets published. The family tries to be optimistic about the whole ordeal with the piece being published and with Beef's one-night stand being brought up, as well as the mentions of his member word for word on the piece, he thinks that the people in town wouldn’t even bother touching on the poem piece on the paper and go on with their day. But he only brought up the young people, that being the Gen Zers, the Gen Alphas, and the Millennials, and didn't even bring up the older generation, and the paper in this day in age can be seen online. But yeah, brush it off and hope for the best that the town won't catch on the poem piece on the paper.
Boy, that thought of hoping people wouldn't catch blew up right at his face the moment Beef decided to leave the house for the day and whether it's at the diner where he sees Alyson, Elba, and other women there giggling and blowing kisses at their seats or the grocery store and have Diondra picking up a cucumber and pokes fun at the shape, a reference to Beef's penis, yeah, they pretty much caught on. And again, Beef doesn't like the attention. He's not a big fan of being the talk of the town but the piece on the paper that was sent and published by Greta about the one-night stand pretty much made the encounter public. I mean, sure, you have the women in town swooning towards him as if they want the piece of the action after describing Beef’s penis on the paper, which almost sounded like Greta was doing Beef a favor because of the attention he’s getting, but again, Beef doesn’t like the attention he’s getting. He doesn’t like how he became the talk of the town, thus leading us to later into the night with him sitting on a log and the family catches him to talk things out.
Well, Ham had to talk things out with Beef and when it comes to these types of things, you’d think someone like Wolf or Honeybee would be the ones being the voice of reason, but instead, it’s Ham. This is an interesting role for him to take throughout the whole escapade following Beef's near-death experience at the start of the episode. He became an expert on romance and he brought up that he knows this stuff for three years, long before dating Crispin. Ham tells Beef to tell Greta to keep the one-night stand private and not publish it in the paper. Not want to have what they did in public so he doesn't want to continue to be the talk of the town. Which is what Beef will be doing courtesy of Ham's advice.
We check back at Jerry and Moon as they leave the house after performing their gig at a birthday party and, yeah, that's a little too close for comfort there, Mr. Yeti. Especially when digging through the owner of the house's trash bin just as Moon and Jerry were about to make their way to Jerry's car. You're just lucky that no one has turned their heads around and seen the actual yeti digging through the trash can like it's a late-night buffet. But that was a careless act of the yeti to have himself appear out in the open without anyone looking. Because otherwise, that's going to be a problem. Sure, Moon and Jerry might mistake the actual yeti as a missing third member or at least someone out of town and think they were at the wrong party or at least made the wrong turn from Times Square, and Times Square is flooded with people in knock-off mascot costumes of characters. Putting the difficulty level to preschool easy mode for this episode with the yeti digging through the trash bin. Quite the careless act for the yeti on being dangerously close to being figured out.
Moon and Jerry made it back to Jerry's car when they noticed the car being vandalized with pies that hit every part of the vehicle once they entered the car, Jerry wiping the pies off the front window, the clowns that were waiting for Moon and Jerry to come out of the house did more than just vandalizing Jerry's car but ended up breaking into the car, and whether or not Jerry left the car unlocked, that is still considered breaking in. You know that this little scuffle, turf war, whatever you want to call it is turning a bit ugly between the two parties and the clown duo aren’t fucking around about them having their gigs quote-on-quote “stolen” by Moon and Jerry because of the traction they’re getting. It has gotten to the point where they now have to challenge both Moon and Jerry to a "costume battle". A costume battle is pretty much a duel where local party entertainers duke it out where they have to fight for pride...and keep their costumes. Think of it as how in shows or movies you saw where you have one side holding down the fort and the other side wants to take control or take back control; you get the idea. An invitation and declaration that Moon and Jerry can’t back out once the clowns make their way out of Jerry’s car. Yeah, they knew that this was going to turn ugly and this is getting ugly for them for fanning the flames that they didn't even know that having a partnership would hold some dire consequences.
Going back to the main plot with Beef, taking Ham's advice, arriving at Greta's doorstep, and telling her that while he appreciated the poem Greta put out, he tells her to not make things public about their one-night stand and have the whole town know about it...or was about to do that because he can’t control himself the moment he laid eyes towards Greta. Thus, abandoning the mission, and once again, their encounter ended up on the paper once more the next day. Just gonna throw away the advice that was given and an opportunity to lock the one-night stand into the box through a nice talk for some time in bed. There's down bad and then there is this. It's sort of like with "The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene" with Gene when he was about to break up with Courtney, we're talking about the first time Gene and Courtney dated and that wasn't their proudest moments, only to lose his focus when seeing Doug's musical equipment. It's like that with Beef, but exchange it with...everything. Love is a drug, man. Love is a powerful drug that caused Beef to lose his focus and his second one-night stand with Greta, once again, making headlines.
And now, it has gotten to the point where Judy can't keep herself together and breaks the portion of the table. She held it in for a few days since the announcement from Beef's mouth earlier in the episode and again, you can feel the awkwardness in the air with Judy when trying to keep herself together. She wants to be sex-positive and wanting to be supportive of her father wanting to get back in the saddle but at the same time, wanting to get out of the situation where she doesn't want to deal with anything. Wishing that she should've taken an additional bye week but instead, tried to hold it in for three-quarters of the episode and the second poem by Greta was the straw that broke the camel's back. She's a trooper. Judy is a trooper for trying to keep herself together for three-quarters. And you knew that she was going to break eventually. You knew that it was going to happen. Held long enough to have super strength to break a table. I bet you she was screaming in her pillow each day each day after the news broke. And all because she wanted to not deal with the whole escapade like what Moon did but also wanted to be supportive. You really have to feel for Judy after having to go through a few days of trying to keep herself together from wanting to have a mental episode to help her father get back into the dating game.
And this is this where the subplot abruptly ends apparently with Moon and Jerry in their costumes making it to the forest, the location where the costume battle will be held, at a bonfire filled with other people in costumes that uh...if you think that the Carnies living in Carniapolis from The Bob’s Burgers Movie would be considered the most intimidating, then look no forward to a bonfire pit with people in mascot costumes and knowing the atmosphere of the place, not an ideal place to take someone like Moon, a 10-year-old kid, to a location like this. Hell, we even saw Noodie the One-Armed Noddle Mascot for a bit getting wasted. There’s a lot of questions on who or what the fuck Noodie is. But alas, the insane clown duo came up towards them once arriving and ready to have the duel ready to go. But not before laying out a few rules: they can’t be in their costumes, so they have to be stripped down to their underwear, the loser has to burn their costumes, oh yeah...there’s gonna be a lot of blood for what is pretty much going to be a fistfight, and also having to take drugs before partaking in the duel. So red flag, red flag, red flag, and a super red flag for the costume battle. So Jerry has to tell Moon that even though enjoyed hanging out with him as a "fun big brother", he also needs to keep Moon safe because, again, he's 10 years old, and this type of stuff isn't suitable for someone like him but hoping they can do some stuff that isn’t mascot-related. This results in the subplot abruptly coming to an end with him and Jerry making a break for it so they don’t want to get any of the action. It's a good call to get the fuck out of here, mostly because the stuff they had isn't suitable for a kid like Moon, and putting him in harm's way would not be a good look for Jerry.
At the end of the third quarter of the episode and about to go into the fourth and this is where things are about to go from good for Beef to bad in a snap once the next day arrives and the family reading the newspaper and this time around for the poem piece, the poem isn't about Beef and the past two one-night stands. And instead, it's about another guy. A vegan whom Greta came across for the poem to be established on the paper. As if Greta was moving on from Beef and going towards another guy. Either that or Greta was using Beef to make her poems work, but that would be the stupidest option to describe what just happened in the paper. So Greta moved on from Beef as it paper stated from the paper, enough for the family to now become concerned for Beef's emotion and what his reaction would be if he were to read the poem piece. Sadly, he did once he entered the kitchen and picked up the paper from the table and his reaction to the poem and putting two and two together when noticing that Greta may have moved on from him, despite the friends-with-benefits label that was established earlier in the episode. End of the third act of the episode with Beef finally gets a reaction from the poetry piece that Greta put out and we begin the fourth and final act with him leaving the house in a depressed state as if he and Greta had something between them since the two one-night stands in the past few days.
And you have to give Ham some credit on where he’s going with this when it comes to being knowledgeable when it comes to being in a relationship. I know that Judy's facial reaction throughout the episode was the highlight, you might as well just hand the MVP title for this episode to Ham to be wise on how relationships work. Wolf wanted the family to check up on Beef and wanted everyone to be there for him in what is pretty much his first heartbreak. Well, his first heartbreak since the fallout with Kathleen but regardless, a heartbreak's a heartbreak. And as Ham mentioned, the family shouldn't intervene. He (Beef) got to deal with it for himself because he chose to sleep with someone, twice to be exact, and it got really complicated. Ham had that thought back when he was 12 and watching one episode of Knight Rider later, love isn't easy. A love life isn't easy to control. Ham knows that the moment he realizes he was gay and knew that he will face some scrutiny, but he can't just keep things private. Ham had to process the notion and that's what Beef needs to do once we head over to the final three minutes of the episode out in the water. So, pointers to Ham for being the wise one in the family for this episode when it comes to romance.
Speaking of the final three minutes and Beef, as I mentioned in the last paragraph, he’s going into the open water, of course, in full scuba gear into the freezing waters and attempting to fake his drowning just to get the attention of his imaginary penis in the clouds. And lo and behold, the penis in the sky appears and congratulates Beef for finishing his part of the deal from earlier in the episode but Beef tells the penis cloud about what happened regarding Greta. Of course, the penis cloud knew about the piece…mostly because it's his penis and he is attached to Beef, so he has to know from the mind. Mentioning the word one too many times is definitely going to get me demonetized. But other than that, we already know where this is going regarding Beef's recent heartbreak when it comes to Greta moving on from him to a guy who is Vegan, everything comes crashing back to Kathleen. Beef has moments where he is jealous of Kathleen but doesn't feel the same with Greta and doesn't feel devastated over the fact that she moved on to another guy. A question that his penis shouldn’t be the one that should answer Beef’s question about his dilemma, and instead, decided to talk to another part of his body to find some solace to aid his heartache...
That being his heart, voiced by Jon Hamm. And I swear, this isn't the show's way or the network's way of having Jon Hamm voicing a character on The Great North and having the show air before Grimsburg, which is another FOX animated show voiced by, you guessed it, Jon Hamm. Beef needs to talk to the heart about his problems regarding his recent heartbreak following the poetry piece that solidified Greta moving on from Beef to a different guy who happened to be Vegan. And much like his penis as he stated earlier in the episode, the heart is also dead of Beef being unable to find another woman to date. Haven't felt any romantic feelings for years, if not, a decade, and I said that because Kathleen did straight up abandon the family after Moon's birth, and despite the few times where he had some romantic encounters in the past within the show's continuity, whether if it's him spending some time for a bit with Del back in Season 1 or wooing Alyson on the ferry last season, it pretty much boils down to Beef being down bad and I mean "bad" since the fallout with Kathleen and having her being the Tobin family's personal boogeyman, or rather boogeywoman, like she’s serving as a personal barricade for anyone, but mostly Beef and his struggles to move on from her. The point in the matter is that Beef needs to get back to the dating game like what he was doing earlier in the week. And maybe treat the heartbreak by Greta as a learning experience so you can learn from your mistakes and try again. Gotta continue to ride on the saddle until you find the perfect woman. Or at least have an active sex drive, just with consent. And protection. Don’t forget about protection. But other than that, Beef decides to do his heart and penis a favor and try to go out to find a date for once in his life and move on, to which he ends up agreeing. Oh yeah, the heart's name is Dennis and the penis is called Cindy. Just had to put it out there.
We reached the episode and Beef finally decided to take the advice from both his heart and his penis and decides to try to move on and do his part of the deal of getting back into the saddle and the first thing to do so in moving on from Kathleen and get back into the dating game would be to throw away the magazines that he was beating his meat to into the trash...well, not before deciding to give it one more beating before he finally throws it away into the dumpster for good. At least he's finally following the advice that he got from his heart and penis while being in the freezing water. And as Ham put it, he had to process it after his first heartbreak in a long ass time and well, he succeeded. And I hope Beef finally gets the thought of Kathleen finally out of his mind...well, until we get a scenario where Beef finally moves on and finds someone, and the next thing you know, Kathleen makes an appearance, and boy...that's gonna be a wild episode and hopefully, Beef can stand up to her and move on. No, really, Beef needs to stand up for himself and not let the past restrain him from moving on. Better put that shit on pay-per-view if that were to happen.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So all and all, what do I think about this week's episode of The Great North? Well, this was an interesting, if not, a good episode if I have to be honest. A bit on the wild side for this one when it comes to the main plot for the episode with Beef trying to get back into the dating game and having a one-night stand. As well as him talking to an imaginary penis in the sky following his near-death encounter. The subplot had some moments too with the supposed turf war between Jerry, Moon, and the clown duo over the gigs they're getting since Moon became Jerry's sidekick. But the main plot of the episode had been the highlight of the episode.
The highlight for me would be Judy trying to keep herself together throughout the episode following Beef's announcement of him wanting to get back into the dating game and for him, and again, you can feel the awkwardness in the atmosphere for Judy when having to deal with the events of the episode. She wants to not deal with anything with Beef wanting to get laid but at the same time wanting to be supportive of her father. And she lasted for three quarters in the episode for her to finally break to the point where she had to break a portion of the table, so, that was something. Ham being the wise relationship expert was something as well when helping Beef to get back to the saddle and he does have a point of not having the family intervene and have Beef deal with the heartbreak himself, like...you have to give Ham some pointers on what he is doing when being the relationship expert in the family. An expert since he was 12 years old. So that's something. And the whole thing with Beef trying to find a date and then getting laid following his conversation with his penis was interesting. Still surprised that the penis in the sky made it past the censors but as long as it's not the real deal, then I guess it's free game. And again, Bob's Burgers in the earlier seasons had vibrators that made it into the show. So it sort of feels like that. And hopefully, Beef can find the right person anytime soon...yeah, just watch as it's going to be Alyson. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
The subplot was all alright. It was nice to have Moon and Jerry interact and hang out in this subplot when Moon tagged along for the ride as his sidekick to do a couple of gigs at multiple birthday parties. And the clowns in the show, hey, they're the type of folks that you don't want to mess around. Sure, it had to abruptly end by the end of the third act of the episode, just to make room for the fourth act with Beef talking to his heart and penis, kinda wish they sort of did a little more to the subplot but other than that, it was an alright subplot but the main plot pretty much stole the show for this episode. So I'll give "Risky Beefness Adventure”...
A 7 out of 10. But that's my opinion and I wanna hear yours in the comments below. And again, I don't know when there's going to be news on when the next episode of Bob's Burgers is going to come out, we have to wait and see. Play the waiting game. And please don't make any speculation by thinking that the show is getting canceled because we didn't get a new one this week or the next. Just cut the crap, man. Just cut the crap. Other than that, that's my opinion on this week's episode of The Great North and I wanna hear yours in the comments below. Beef had some advice about getting through heartbreak for this episode and uh...yeah, might as well keep the advice train going for the next member of the Tobin family to deal with what is about to come for this Sunday's upcoming episode. Oh yeah, Moon, it's your turn next in the third episode of Season 4, "Aunt Misbehavin’ Adventure”.
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