Only a few weeks left in the season. Going into the latter half of April and with the playoffs taking place for both the NHL and NBA, you know that we have a few amount of episodes left in the current season before the summer offseason. Boy, how time flies so fast that we might be talking about the offseason. And soon, come the MVP voting, so stay tuned for that one once I get to announce which character made the cut for the ballot on who will be taking home the crown, aside from the Tobins, of course. For both The Great North and Bob’s Burgers that the MVP polls should be open and I should probably aim for sometime next week and will be announcing the candidates around the night of the NFL Draft or before night one of that. So stay tuned for that.
In this week’s episode of The Great North, Judy and Kima go on an adventure and a very special one as they go across town as the two besties get high and go on a “treasure hunt” while carrying a tub of cottage cheese as Wolf gets upset at the local sandwich shop when finding out that his signature sandwich gets removed from the menu is my spoilerific review of the eleventh episode of Season 4 of The Great North, titled “High Expectations Adventure”.
Quite fitting that this episode would come out on the weekend of the unofficial holiday where potheads across the country and the world celebrate what is pretty much their Christmas and you have Judy and Kima in this episode getting high. But if you see any stoner movies like Pineapple Express or any of the Harold and Kumar movies, it’s sort of like that with Judy and Kima from start to finish with them going through the town while being high and causing them to hallucinate like talking to a tub of cottage cheese and talking to the spokeswoman on the logo. And the trip to a seminar on a school field trip in the state’s capital city would be the setting for this wild trip to happen. Now, I have never even seen a stoner movie in my life but the episode, primarily in the main plot, does look and feel like it does where the main cast, or in this episode, one of the main characters and side characters gets paired and try out something that they’re not supposed to take but ends up doing it anyway, only to feel the effects of drug they took to take over systems, and you know what lies ahead if you seen any of those movies.
But there’s some representation, at least for a bit, within the episode during the school field trip to the capital city of Juneau regarding Kima because of the one issue that had with a certain state senator and a bone to pick with and having to carry a tub of cottage cheese that had to depict a racist caricature as the logo a la Land O'Lakes. We'll get to that in the breakdown portion of that. But Judy and Kima getting high on drugs, rather, marijuana, or marijuana-enhanced edibles, is the focus of the episode. Especially how fitting that this episode came out the day after 4/20, so I guess you could call it a quote-on-quote “4/20 holiday episode” of The Great North, the first time season that we would have to call it a holiday episode, and there's a subplot with Wolf being upset with his signature sandwich being taken off the menu... so that's a thing. That being said, might as well break this bitch down and go through what is pretty much the thought process of a stoner movie, once again, your boy has never seen in my entire lifetime, this is "High Expectations Adventure".
The episode starts with the night before the trip with Judy walking out of the room through her window in the middle of the night to talk to her imaginary friend Alanis Morisette, and yes, this is the first time this season that we have to see her on the show. Eleven episodes into this season without a Judy and Alanis interaction since the two-parter last season and here we are... with only a few episodes left in the season before the offseason. I know that Alanis outside of the show would be busy at the moment, probably betting on scheduling conflicts, with her music career going on, some will question whether or not Judy is starting to outgrow having an imaginary friend to talk to whenever she wants to talk with someone in the sky and while it might be the case, I would doubt that would be the case despite that Judy should be at the age range where she would getting old to have an imaginary friend but that's not the point for this episode. It's more on the line of Alanis's voice actress, the actual Alanis Morissette, who is busy outside the voicing booth.
So, Judy talks to Alanis on the night before the field trip but for the whole school, but it’s mostly her and Kima, to the state capital city of Juneau for a seminar for them and every other student across the state who were selected to make a speech in front of the state legislators, so basically, it’s sort of like a mock committee where a student would have to make a speech for their class that would benefit their college applications and the two girls are excited for them to take the stage and present what they have in store in front of the legislators when getting the know on how legislation works without having to tune in for a few seconds of watch C-Span while flipping the channels to see what’s even on TV. Once Judy goes back inside the house for her to leave the city by plane with Kima and a chaperone, so basically Golovkin in tow, to Juneau...
The morning arrives with Judy and Kima, at the hotel, getting breakfast for them to eat before preparing for their presentation at the State Capitol where Kima notices the racist caricature of the logo on the tub of cottage cheese and was not having it when seeing the said logo. This a take on the racist caricature that we see in certain items, primarily food items but other companies and organizations, on the logo of years past or that is still ongoing in the year 2024. Ranging from Aunt Jemima (now the Pearl Milling Company) to the Cleveland Indians baseball team (now the Cleveland Guardians) and the tub of cottage cheese that Judy and Kima had to encounter when getting their breakfast at the hotel is, of course, a jab of the Land O'Lakes logo. Land o' Lakes, for anyone who lives outside of the United States, is a butter brand whose logo, an old logo before making the change in 2020, long before the protests that summer, depicted a Native American woman holding the boxed butter with the O on the logo serving as the sun. I dare you to go Google it but I’ll warn you, it’s not going to paint a pretty picture if you haven’t been to a grocery store after 2019.
So, once the two girls got their breakfast, and appreciated Golovkin being their chaperone for the trip, mostly because Golovkin, despite serving as their supervisor throughout the trip, would treat the trip as a mini vacation, they sat at the table where a girl from another school with pink streaks in the bottom of her hair sat at their table who happened to be a rebel on her own right as if she doesn't want to be in the trip but ends up attending it anyway. She tells the two girls about the schedule for the event that includes going on a tour through the building and mentions one of the senators who would be giving the lecture to the students named Bonnie Bunch-Legg, who, according to Kima, she's a right-winger who is not kind to the Native population that peeved Kima and everyone else off. So basically, your standard white Republican who may or may not be aligned with the MAGA movement but then again, everyone in that party is probably aligned with it. Judy and Kima tell the random student, the sound of the voice gave a dead giveaway that it's Aparna Nancherla (the voice of Moon) doing the voice, about the presentation they would be doing, which is a reenactment of a speech from Elizabeth Peratrovich, who is a Native activist who told the all-white legislators back in the 1940s, back when Alaska was a territory, to shove it and grill them through a filibuster that would eventually have a law passed in her favor who Kima deemed as her idol.
Of course, Judy and Kima get called out by the random student for being rule followers, just for them not skipping the day even though the rules say that you can't, and that's where the plot device comes in for this episode when the girl presents the two besties a container of gummies for them to take. Not knowing that once Judy and Kima took one each, or rather two for Judy and three for Kima, is not the kind of gummy candy you would find in stores. Y'all already know where this was going after taking it because they don’t know what the items contain. Ending up being called out for being “goody two-shoes” and took that as an offense. To the point where Kima decided to take the tub with the racist caricature to the trash just to prove that she’s not a rule follower. And also an egg for Judy because... why not? As Judy and Kima begin to prove to themselves that they're not the rule followers she accused them of, not knowing that the candy they took is starting to take effect the moment they leave the breakfast table...
We switch over to the rest of the Tobin family on the road to the sandwich shop for them to buy to eat with Wolf being excited that he can try out his signature sandwich that he is proud to have on the menu called the "Wet Wolf". The Wet Wolf is his signature sandwich which is like your typical build-you-own sandwich but it's not the one you would usually think it would have on the sandwich bread. Consisting of a slice of Swiss cheese on untoasted bread, so basically a not-so-grilled cheese, slabbing it with mayo, mustard, ketchup, relish, hot sauce, and Thousand Island dressing. To Wolf, he'd think that he's the Albert Einstein of food creation over at the sandwich shop, but to everyone, including the rest of the Tobin family (and you can totally see the look on their faces), it's pure disgust and question why is that even on the menu in the first place. You can totally see the faces of each of the family members when Wolf explains to Dirt about his excitement for the trip to the sandwich shop. They know it's disgusting that Wolf would even consider that to be his signature sandwich that would be even on the menu or would even dare to try it but want to support Wolf either way. And that's not an assumption, that's the whole subplot to the episode when it comes to the context.
The Tobins arrive at the sandwich shop and it looks like Wolf is not pleased the moment he and the rest of the family enter the building and see that the Wet Wolf is not on the menu. He asks the employee of the shop, named Lydia, for an explanation for why the Wet Wolf had to be taken out of the menu. Which Lydia replies to Wolf that he should take it to her dad, the manager of the shop, who isn't in the building as of this moment as he is currently out to get his head treated. But that's not going to stop Wolf from making sure that he gets his signature sandwich back on the menu, setting up the subplot and you already know that despite that the sandwich that Wolf mentioned looks and sounds disgusting, it looks like the rest of the Tobin family aren't given that much of a choice whether they want to help Wolf get his sandwich back on the menu board or just leave it and be glad that they don't have to deal with what is pretty much an abomination of a sandwich. Thus, ending up helping Wolf to get his signature sandwich back on the menu board.
Already at the end of the first act of the episode and it looks like the effects of the “special” gummies that Judy and Kima ate after coming across a random student from another school at the breakfast table is starting to take over their systems. Whether it’s Kima letting her hand touch the light from the lamp and envisioning a face on the object to Judy thinking that her hands are still wet after drying, they’re feeling high. Those gummies the random student that Judy and Kima came across at the breakfast table said to them that they were "edibles" and accused them of being "goody two-shoes" because they didn't know what they actually were even though they should've put two and two together on what the gummies are before taking it from the container and ate it on their way out. However, if they do know that the gummies are CBD laced back at the breakfast table, they would right away put the candies back in the container or downright refuse but that would add more to the issue of them being rule followers as if those two don't know how to take risks. So taking the CBD gummies would be Judy and Kima’s way of saying they want to prove to themselves that they can be bad and will prove the doubters wrong. Even though it’s not even peer pressure per se, it almost sort of does sound like it is but again, it is not. It’s mostly being not being careful of what they got and thus, here we are with Judy and Kima getting high.
At least Kima, despite being high and when getting high, you would probably lose focus as if your mind is being clouded in a sea of fog, remembers what she was supposed to do by throwing away the tub of cottage cheese that contains the racist caricature and can at least breathe a sigh of relief while enjoying her time being high... that was until the hallucinations from the edible gummies really took effect as she begins to hear a voice from inside the trash can, that being the lady on the cottage cheese tub, and takes it out for her to speak to. Kima's hallucinations from the edibles imagine her talking to her hero Elizabeth Peratrovich taking the place of the random woman on the tub once talking about them being Alaskan Natives with Kima revealing her tribes to be Athabascan and Sugpiaq and the ghost of Peratrovich being Tlingit (the L in silent) and telling her, who then Kima telling Judy, about a mission she has in store for the two girls as we end the first act of the episode. Though here is what’s interesting about the edible gummies that Judy and Kima ate that caused them to be high, especially as we now enter the second act of the episode.
Yes, gotta get this one out of the way once the two girls are outside of the hotel with Judy trying to have what Kima did by wanting to have the same hallucinations and talking to the lady on the tub, thinking that she too would talk to Peratrovich but it only works for Kima. Not because both she and Peratrovich are Native, but it’s probably more of Kima taking one extra gummy than Judy because Judy took two and Kima took three, so I guess that would be the case that Kima can only see Peratrovich on the tub instead of both her and Judy because she took an extra gummy than Judy that would cause her to see a ghost. Especially if the ghost she had to see through the tub is a Native activist who once stood up to the government that she idolizes and now, through the power of hallucinations, has Judy and Kima go on a treasure hunt to find something that could help them with something, primarily with the inspiration they need for the recreation of the speech at the state capitol building.
And remember folks, weed, especially with those edibles that the girl from earlier in the episode supplied Judy and Kima with the gummies that made them high, is legal over there. It’d been legal since 2014. About ten years since recreational marijuana became law. Though looking at Judy and Kima when it comes to them being high, in my opinion, when it comes to people getting high, you usually get something to tell if the person is high aside from them behaving as if they're in a different world and feeling relaxed, would come down to a few things, or at least two to be exact, that being bloodshot eyes and the scent that would create secondhand. The duo is high but there are no bloodshot eyes once the effects of the edibles take over, but I guess what’s done is done.
Anyway, for the mission to begin, the duo needs a ride and the ghost of Peratrovich asks Kima to take a car, as if she thought either Kima or Judy drove their way to Juneau, only for Kima to tell her that she doesn’t have a car and telling her that both she and Judy came from the airport. So that means the besties may now have to commit a carjacking and drive under the influence as if it’s a game of Grand Theft Auto. Though Kima thinks that it's a bad idea to take a van unattended while also being under the influence, only for the ghost of Peratrovich tells Kima, "Hey, they stole our land, might as well consider it as calling it even." And so Kima and Judy do so by going and hijacking the unattended van... not knowing that their teacher and chaperone Mr. Golovkin is right outside by the ledge and sees the two girls stealing the van. And if we’re going to treat it as this show’s version of Grand Theft Auto...
Might as well give both Judy and Kima their first star for stealing the van, just for them to go on a mission and need a ride to get to wherever destination they're going. So that's the first star for the two besties as they leave the hotel with a now stolen van. Only for Judy and Kima to go for the two-star play because stealing the van was just the first offense on the list. When you factor in them being underage to take the edible gummies (while not knowing these were edibles despite being smart in their own right) before the whole thing began and now having to drive under the influence...
Three stars! Three frigging stars that Judy and Kima got if we were to follow Grand Theft Auto rules and we’re not even ten minutes into episode. Not even ten minutes and Judy and Kima, while being under the influence of the edibles they ate, have committed three offenses throughout the day; and the day has just started for them as they were supposed to be at the state capitol and going through a tour of the building and going through some lectures with a right-wing goon of a state senator that Kima has non-contact beef with. Also, are we not going to talk about how Judy is driving a moving vehicle that isn’t a snowmobile without any mention of a license or learner’s permit? Seriously? We are not going to bring that shit up? Because we have seen Judy behind the wheel a few episodes ago, even if it was for a brief moment when things almost went to shit to get the cake that Ham baked transported safely and undamaged to New Fork despite coming across a patch of black ice that almost caused the cake the fall. There has to be an explanation for this. I know you're probably going to say, "Oh, well maybe Judy get her permit." Yeah, well, where's the explanation? Surely she had to take a driver's test but we don't have an episode on that as of yet. And I do hope that we get that sooner rather than later.
So, as Judy takes the wheel, under the influence of course, Kima thinks that the mission would be to go to the governor's mansion and try to scare the governor and fool people that she has a kick-ass crib but in reality, that would be a prison sentence on the docket. But the ghost of Peratrovich would agree to the idea, she recommends to Kima and Judy that the girls should stop at the nearest restaurant because if there's one thing to do and feel when being high, and that is, of course, treat the cravings. Getting some munchies you might say because you can't go on a mission on an empty stomach.
That's what Judy and Kima did when making the pit stop at the restaurant and were about to order when the server, named Paul, came in but knowing that the two girls were high, they couldn't focus on what they wanted from the menu and instead, they're going for one of everything from the menu to treat their cravings. And the fact that the server knew right away that Judy and Kima would be high when noticing the girls' behaviors and knowing that the girls would be getting their cravings settled, getting a lot of food, and about to go through having an appetite for a Saiyan, someone's wallet is going to be burnt into a crisp because of how many stuff Judy and Kima ordered from the menu. And sure ain't going to be either of them would be paying the bill.
We check back at the rest of the Tobins back in Lone Moose with Wolf lecturing everyone at the table about him being upset over his signature sandwich being taken off the menu because he thought that him having the Wet Wolf on the menu would be something that he wants to be remembered by. Treating it as his so-called legacy even though another person's sandwich creation could be added in and replace the old one. Wolf comes up with an idea to get the abomination of the sandwich back on the menu by going into Plan A to get it back on the menu, which is making an order through the phone... a lot of those disgusting sandwiches because he thinks the demand will be so big, that the sandwich shop will have no other choice but to make the order. Too bad that Plan A had to backfire quickly because the phone at the restaurant once Lydia picked it up... yeah, it has caller ID, and knew right away that it was the Tobins making the calls, no matter how hard they tried to pretend that they're not actually the Tobins just to get out of dodge. I did say this was Plan A because Wolf thought that he would throw in the towel and believed that his legacy would be erased, that’s where Plan B comes into the picture but that won’t be happening until we get to the second half of the episode.
Because we go back to the main plot with a stoned Judy and Kima getting their food on the table and there's a lot of food for someone, not them, to pay the bill thanks in part to their antics courtesy of the edibles that they ate earlier in the episode. However, it looks like their time at the table, just as their food arrives, will be cut short once Judy spots Golovkin at the entrance and thinks it's a good idea to dine and dash to evade getting caught by their chaperone for the trip.
Yeah, that’s another star added to the list of stuff Judy and Kima may have committed and it’s still the morning hours for them. Still the morning hours and already, those two got four stars that they’re now becoming novices of committing rebellious acts despite that they’re currently under the influence of the edibles that they ate. Paul tells Golovkin that he has to wait for his table, as well as telling him that a dress code is required because he was wearing nothing but a robe from the hotel because his "mini vacation" was cut short thanks in part to seeing Judy and Kima stealing a van, was Judy and Kima's best bet to get away from Golovkin and make their way from the back. Not the front because Golovkin is right by the entrance, but the back of the restaurant that isn't an emergency exit, though both exits should be treated as one, and an exit where they don't have to go through the kitchen where the back door would usually be. Getting high while being underaged, stealing a van, driving while being under the influence, and now dining and dashing (even though their brunch plans had to be interrupted by Golovkin and those two wouldn't pay the bill anyway and instead would say to put it in a tab), it's still early in the day and already, the besties from Lone Moose, while being under the influence of the edible gummies they are, in GTA standard, are already at four stars. It has turned more into Grand Theft Auto for Judy and Kima to do all of that throughout the morning hours... well, without the hit and run, murder (or attempted murder), odd jobs, possession of weapons, gang-related activity, violence towards the police, going on a rampage towards random civilians, invading a military base, etc. I mean, I could also take the likes of Ferris Bueller or any of the Harold and Kumar movies, primarily the first one, but these four acts that Judy and Kima do sound like something coming out of GTA, even if they're underage, and shouldn't have done those things but we already guess the message of the episode is, and that is that Judy and Kima need to get out of their comfort zones and live a little.
The besties duo escaped from Golovkin within a 5-mile radius and after getting a bite as a precursor to their mission, or having to eat on the road because they got caught and had to evade getting captured, Judy and Kima are all set and ready to go perform the mission from Peratrovich but it looks like the girls, by the orders of the ghost of the Native activist through Kima’s hallucination of an imagination as if she’s Judy with Alanis (though that one was without the use of drugs), they make their next pit stop across town, that being a tattoo shop. Yep, Judy and Kima are getting tattoos as part of their "mission" once the owner of the shop comes up to the two ask them that they shouldn't get some ink on their bodies because they're not over the age of 18, which would the best bet because the owner doesn't want to get into hot water in planting body art into two teen girls who are high under the influence, but decides to do it when mentioning a $50 hush money payment and thus...
Moments later, around... 30-minute-ish later and another star had to be added to the girls' resume with them getting tattoos on their backs. Paying the hush money to get the body art on a special part of their bodies, that being their backs. By the tar pit, I mean like with Tina that one moment in Season 2’s “Bad Tina” with her getting a tattoo on her back, but that one was different than what Judy and Kima got. Because the tattoo that Tina got was one of those tattoos where it’s washable and can be easily removed when having to be forced to tag along with Tammy in her debut episode, you know, the type you see or get when attending a birthday party and I’d say that because they never brought it up since but that’s how I imagine. With Judy and Kima...
That shit is fucking permanent. Judy mentioned when she and Kima came out of the parlor that it hurt for a bit, implying that the duo had to go through needles to get the body art on their backs, showing off the twin designs of a dolphin in a top hat. And you can see the reddish, pinkish color on the back of their skins when showing the viewer the tattoo, fresh from having the needle injected onto their backs to get the design, as I said, that shit is permanent. That's going to stick with them for the rest of their lives unless they have to come up with enough money to remove it or worse, get caught by any of their family members or any of their friends.
Though the latter, they would have to tell someone in the group to keep it a secret, and knowing that the girls are under the influence, they would have no memory of what happened like it's a hangover, and either one of the two or both would try to remember when coming up with an explanation. Though a good friend would have to keep it a secret about the tattoo on their back once they get back home... Amelia. I can already bet my hedges that Amelia would be the one to keep it a secret with the tattoos since the three are really good friends. As for family members, if any of them can keep their mouths shut without letting Beef know of this (on Judy's side; the same goes for Esther and Walter on Kima's side of the coin)... fuck it, Aunt Dirt. I imagine Aunt Dirt being the one noticing and wouldn't rat her great-niece and her friend because you can imagine Dirt wants Judy to be rebellious for once in her life like with her in her pre-bunker days, aside from going out in the town for the night along with her (Dirt) and the others to find Doug De Luca while the adults are out chugging and tugging, her cheering and clapping and say to herself or at least towards Judy, "Hell yeah, that's my great-niece. That's what I'm talking about." Though Judy and Kima would try to remove it before getting found out, you would have them having second thoughts and treat it as a reminder that they're not goody-two-shoes and did stuff they’re not supposed to do. Proving the doubters wrong. End of the first half with Golovkin spots the girls coming out of the tattoo parlor and once again, Judy and Kima go on the run and away from Golovkin as we go into the second half. And, of course, out goes the robe, the only piece that Golovkin had to wear without even bothering to put on some clothes, thanks in part to his robe getting caught at the door of his Uber ride to track down Judy and Kima.
And now, going into the second half of the episode, and the first few minutes of the third act is primarily the montage of Judy and Kima enjoying their time away from what was supposed to be the day they were supposed to go to the state capitol and given a tour and lecture on how legislation works and guided by a state senator that Kima wished she shouldn’t have taken office just for being a racist asshole towards the Native population. We go through the montage of Judy and Kima having the time of their lives and if there’s one thing I enjoy from the show with this episode, or any episode in the past, aside from Judy being my favorite character and Kima climbing up the ranks on the list of favorite side characters, their friendship is what I enjoy and this episode, aside from the likes of “Skidmark Holmes”, the subplot to “Barrel Be Blood”, and the ”For Whom the Smell Tolls” two-parter, because, yes, they're intoxicated with the weed gummy inside their systems and having to go through a joyride of the town, it does feel nice to see those two having the time of their lives and hanging out.
Especially with them skipping the tour as if they're proving to everyone who deemed them as rule followers that they too can be rebellious in their own right, regardless of whether they take the edibles or not. From being in the playground at the local park to the pet store to look at the fishes to getting a lot of food from each of the vendors across town and lying on the ground and looking at the clouds with the two imagining the dolphins with the top hats that were planted on the girls' back, you can’t hate on the friendship that Judy and Kima has when going on a joyride despite being high. And I like to see more of them together. Them and Amelia because we don't want to forget about her. And I do hope we get something regarding the lore of the show with how Judy and Kima first met, like after the fallout with her (Judy) and Stacy that would result in Kima entering her life, you know, like a flashback or some shit and get an origin story. Like Moon's friendship with Henry and Russell, Judy's friendship with Kima (along with Amelia) is one of those is one of those relationships that I'd enjoy glossing through, for better or worse when it comes to any of the girls' behavior... rather Judy's behavior.
The joyride continues as Judy and Kima continue to go through the influence of being high from the edibles leading them to Sealaskan Native heritage institute, of course, the two girls have to respect the items that are on display despite feeling the effects of the edibles, and even though that this episode feels like a Judy-centric episode with her and Kima getting high while at a field trip, it does feel like an edge Kima episode because the trip includes a tour and lecture with a state senator who likes to screw over the Native population and coming across a tub of cottage cheese with a racist caricature, aside from the message from the episode that Judy and Kima needed to let loose for once in their lives, dealing with racism, especially back when Kima's hero Elizabeth Peratrovich was around in the 1940s, and yes, some racism is going on today, has also became the topic of conversation for the episode. We know, or should know, about the atrocities that the US did in the early years of the country’s history, primarily when it comes to expansion from one coast to another, that led to what is pretty much an ethnic cleansing of the population during the 1820s-1850s and again after the Civil War, after reconstruction, with the establishment of the territories that went on to become states. And yes, it does feel like I'm calling a certain country out that is currently doing it at this moment on the other side of the world and they need to cut the crap.
But it was a nice little scene during the montage with Kima and Judy touring through the heritage institute and I love the imagery of the scene with Kima looking through a traditional Native headgear and cloak and you have that scene with her through the reflection as if she's wearing the garb. The outfit, of course, was from the Tlingit tribe, a tribe that Elizabeth Peratrovich was a part of and envisioned her in Peratrovich's footsteps. Wanting to stand up to the man and tell everyone that the Natives deserve to be treated equally because times have changed and it's time to adapt. That and also giving their land back...it's the latter. Give them their land back. Otherwise, it was an interesting scene with the imagery and detail with Kima looking at the Alaskan Native garb on display, and the reflection of her through the glass as if she was envisioning herself in the wardrobe was a nice touch. Especially at the end of the montage with Kima showing a serious face as if she may have found her inspiration for what she wanted to speak about later in the episode because even though when being high on drugs, especially marijuana, you usually deal with the notion of losing your train of thought as if your brain is being clouded but sometimes, it has some benefits like discovering the inspiration that you're looking for like what Kima may have done when strolling through the building with Judy. Of course, the montage comes to an end with Golovkin finally apprehending them and confiscating the stolen van, but that's not going to stop Judy and Kima from going on a joyride once more, and... you'll already know where this was going. One more star to be added to the list.
Yep, six stars. We got the sixth star to be added to the list with Judy and Kima going on a joyride once more with this time around, taking the electric moped in what is pretty much a low-speed chase because the moped can only go up to 5 mph, maybe 10 mph at the minimum, with Golovkin also going at that exact speed when trying to catch up with the two girls on the moped. Shades of The Bob's Burgers Movie with the low-speed chase, especially when noticing that the girls and Golovkin are going up the hill, which if you're a moped driver, it's more of a steep climb than going down the hill that would make you lose control unless you have pads on and insurance on the ready to cover the hospital bills. So as the chase continues with Judy and Kima's attempt to escape from Golovkin's grasp once more on a moped in what is pretty much the slowest version of the White Bronco chase, I know, I know, bit too soon for an OJ joke weeks after his passing but tell me that re-releasing Shrek 2 in theaters, even if it was for a week for its 20th anniversary, on the same week of his passing, that would include the joke, doesn’t sound like a freaking conspiracy waiting to happen. So while the low speed was happening across the capital city of Juneau...
We go back to the town of Lone Moose with Plan B of Wolf’s plan to protect his legacy from being erased and if the sandwich refuses to put the Wet Wolf on the menu, the Tobins might as well sell the sandwich themselves to anyone who is walking by, either into the sandwich shop or passing by and Wolf almost got himself a patron to try the sandwich, for free, only to look at the sandwich and uh... the guy made the right choice and walk away and it looks like Plan B, like Plan A, has already backfired since it looks like no one wants to get their hands on a Wet Wolf. And let’s be real, no one wants to get their hands on that abomination of a sandwich. Not even for a dare your friends would force you to do it, even if you're pride is on the line. Dude, I would rather watch the Dallas Cowboys win a Super Bowl this century and have to deal with an influx of insufferable fans, and living in Texas would be a nightmare to deal, with than taking a nibble of Wolf's sandwich. This would make Gene's potato lasagna in "The Amazing Rudy" with the added shit baked into the dish look edible. Bitch, the Wet Wolf would make the nasty patty from SpongeBob look like something coming out of a five-star restaurant. I mean, it's pretty clear that no one wants to buy a Wet Wolf. Hell, when Moon tries to convince a mother who was carrying her child to try the sandwich, only to be pelted by her purse, which I'm sure has to be possible child abuse, even if that's not her kid. And if that's not enough, of course, Lydia, if you haven't noticed already throughout the scene, contacted the police to get the Tobins away from the sandwich shop. Mostly because they don't have permission to sell things at the business's property and also sell without a permit. So, Plan B for Wolf to get his “creation” back on the sandwich, to no one’s surprise, backfired.
We check back at Judy and Kima as we are at the end of the third act of the episode with the two girls arriving at a state park, and when you look at the map of the park, the map says Indian Point: The Original Village Site of the Aak’w Kwáan, which was once Native land and that is what the mission that Judy and Kima are currently in after going through two acts of the episode of going on a joyride and having six stars on their resumes, in GTA, and now, they made it to their destination despite that Golovkin did follow them to the site and making their way to the summit, or at least the part of the trail where you’re on top of one of the hills and you can see the mountainous landscape and showing off that Alaskan beauty. Like getting a picture and showing it off to your friends on social media type of beauty, that or a background to your desktop or laptop. And you know that we're nearing the final act of the episode because the effects of the edibles for both Judy and Kima are starting to wear off and now, they finally realize that the gummy candies that they ate from the container that the girl from another school earlier in the episode contain marijuana, or rather marijuana-laced like CBD, and they waited until this part of the episode to finally realize that they were high on marijuana, just as the effects are starting to fade, hence, why the ghost of Elizabeth Peratrovich on the logo is telling Kima that the effects are starting to go away, and thus, starting to lose contact with through her hallucinations.
So, going into the final moments of the third act, and before getting caught by Golovkin and being ready to be sent to the state capitol as they were supposed to be, Peratrovich, as she was fading away from Kima's subconscious as the effects of the marijuana-laced gummy continue to wear off, decided to give Kima a word of advice ahead of her and Judy's trip to the state capitol ahead of their speech, and it's not the message of her and Judy needing to cut loose for once, that's pretty much the message throughout the episode. But no, it's to tell Kima that if she's planning on taking the stand to perform the speech in front of the legislators, that includes Senator Bunch-Legg, if Peratrovich really is Kima's idol, it's to tell her to not reproduce her speech and instead, create her own. Find the inspiration she needed to knock everyone out of the park and the small moment at the end of the montage earlier in the act with Kima's reflection at the Native wardrobe that was on display should probably serve as a brain blast.
Entering the fourth act of the episode, right after the end of the third act with Golovkin finally catches up to Judy and Kima as the effects of the edibles, as he drives the two girls back into town before the day ends, going straight towards the state capitol and boy, Golovkin, as the chaperone, is already feeling the pressure on how to explain everything once the three return home to Lone Moose about the recklessness that Judy and Kima committed while being under the influence of the marijuana-laced gummy candies that a student from another school offered earlier in the episode at the breakfast table, not to mention having to pay the damages that Judy and Kima caused at the restaurant from their little dine and dash when attempting to escape from being caught. Though, again, whether or not this was mostly because of peer pressure, even though that may not be the case when they took the pieces and just took them right off the bat, the two just don't like the nerd label and be treated as the goody-two-shoes pair and for once in their lives, they felt free and out of their comfort zone to do whatever... despite that, according to Golovkin, the percentage of marijuana that was induced into the gummies would be the concern, especially when being given to two underage teens like Judy and Kima to a drug that would only be suitable for young adults and that 90% of the people who took it die, though I gotta need the Carfax on that one because times has changed and nearly half of the states legalized marijuana for recreational use.
Judy asks Golovkin if he’s going to tell their parents about what happened but calling in Beef, Walter, and Esther about their daughters’ actions would be the last thing Golovkin needs because he’s already in a very tight spot and the possibility of getting fired by Gibbons, so to keep things between them, just as they arrived at the state capitol and telling them that the girls made it in time... after missing a few hours of the day because of them going out joyriding, that they’ll have to serve detention for the rest of their high school careers but coming with an excuse for them to use for their parents and friends that they'll be grading papers. That's one way for Golovkin to hopefully bullshit his way out of the hot seat that was lit by Judy and Kima, that way, no one gets in trouble aside from Judy and Kima having to serve time. I mean, the six stars that they got when following GTA rules would be the icing on the cake.
We go back to the subplot and this is to the point where the bullshit needs to stop for Wolf to stop playing denialism when it comes to who's really in favor of trying out Wolf's abomination of a creation of a sandwich that should be banned all across the globe. Wolf and the rest of the Tobin family decide to go into Plan C of getting the Wet Wolf back on the menu board by imposing a sit-in protest and won't bothering to leave the building, and holding the place hostage until the Wet Wolf gets put back into the menu. Thinking that implying pressure on the company would be the way to go by imposing a protest. That, of course, caught the attention of the store's owner and manager, that being Lydia's father Mr. Hoagie, whose designs really bear the resemblance of what Beef would look like if he was bald and it does almost sound like Offerman behind the voice, telling Wolf the reason for why the Wet Wolf had to be taken off the menu board ad to no one's surprise, it's because no one bought it. No one even dares to get it when given the idea of what the sandwich looks like. Hell, not even the rest of the family doesn't dare order it. And oh boy, Wolf... you should've known by now when looking at their faces when bringing up the Wet Wolf. They freaking hate it. They hate the sandwich but try to put on a brave face because they don't want to upset Wolf. I mean, this is like the subplot to "As Goldie As It Gets Adventure" where Judy tries out pottery by attending a class and she makes the pottery that she created, but the family tries to put on a brave face and be appreciative towards Judy’s creation even though they knew that she’s horrible at making pottery.
Would you tell her?
— The Great North (@GreatNorthFOX) March 28, 2022
Hell, it has gotten to the point where the official Great North Twitter page responded to one of my posts during the liveblogs of the episode when it first came out back in March of 2022 but should've responded with the "Would you" tweet in reply in confidence and may or may not be turning it into a conversation. Not once...
If she gave you a gift, would you say that to her though?
— The Great North (@GreatNorthFOX) March 28, 2022
But twice. This subplot with Wolf treating the abomination of his sandwich as if he treats it as his baby, his creation might as well be a retelling of the subplot from two seasons ago with Judy learning how to make pottery. Both of those subplots have in common with the Tobin family trying to be appreciative, whether it's Wolf with the sandwich or Judy with the pottery, but in reality, they know that they're bad at this. So, Wolf is upset upon hearing that the family didn't even bother buying Wolf's sandwich, as well as no one in the public wants to buy the damn thing over how disgusting it is as if a five-year-old would try to be an amateur chef but in reality, it's pretty much mixing ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise into one sauce and to be fair... to be faaaaaaaaair... I may have done that back when I was a kid while living in Georgia. And that was long before the bottles of ketchup mayonnaise were put on shelves. I did not patent it. I wish I did but I ain't me. It's just me being a dumbass. Wolf's legacy is in shambles and now, he'll have nothing to be remembered, aside from having to create the Troll 2 of signature sandwiches, but that's where Mr. Hoagie steps in and comes up with a compromise to keep the sandwich in check... or rather, have the water station named after him as his way to keep Wolf's legacy in check. Wolf would probably be against it but we're already at the two-minute warning, so he might as well accept the compromise and have the water station named after him for the time being, even though the sandwich will not be for use for the foreseeable future and for good reasons.
We finally get to the final scenes of the episode, back to the main plot, with Golovkin announcing to the legislators of the Alaskan government, as well as every teacher and student from across the state who attended the tour and lecture, to present Judy and Kima, with a disclaimer that they’re not high and did not miss out even though they did, to do a recreation of Elizabeth Peratrovich, presenting the two girls to take the stage... or rather, Kima herself to be one taking the podium because Kima is now sober whereas Judy, she still is wasted, which is odd because for one girl to be sober quickly while the other have yet to have the effects of the edibles to be worn off despite that Judy took two of the edibles from the container and Kima to take three that resulted in Kima to have her to hallucinate talking to the ghost of Peratrovich but Judy doesn’t and then hours later, the effects on Kima’s body decide to wore off right away but Judy still has hers going, even though I can assure you that there's some effects left in Kima's system and won't be fully off until they arrive back at Lone Moose. Anyway, Kima takes the stage on her lonesome because Judy is still wasted and instead of a recreation of a speech made by Elizabeth Peratrovich, despite that she told Kima as the effects of the drug wore off to come up with an original speech, and that's what Kima is about to do once taking the podium. Only to end up realizing that it's not your usual speech that you would have to create through an essay and instead, she decided to grill the person in attendance, that being State Senator Bonnie Bunch-Legg. Even though Judy is still reeling from the effects of the edible gummies upon arriving at the state capitol, despite that she (Kima) was quickly sober according to Judy, she was nice enough for Kima to have the opportunity to go after the person who is a massive asshole towards the Native population. In short, despite being baked, Judy let Kima cook, and cook Kima did.
To the point we get to the end of the episode with Judy, still stoned, telling Alanis to shove it about the nerd label when telling her about a wild day that she and Kima had gone through. Especially the moment, off-screen, of Kima going off on Burch-Legg to the point where Golovkin had to abruptly end Kima's "speech" and take both her and Judy back to the airport and fly home. So, again, despite the dangers of using marijuana or any marijuana-laced items that could pose harm to a teen like Judy and Kima during the trip, that didn't stop the two girls from proving the doubters wrong that they're not the goody-two-shoes that they are and treat the joyride of a day after taking one too many edibles a victory for them despite the damages they have cost and the "crimes" they may have committed from stealing a van and driving under the influence to dining and dashing, as well as, of course, taking drugs at a young age despite that marijuana is legal in Alaska, if we're going to treat it as if it's Grand Theft Auto even though some will say Ferris Bueller, congratulations Judy and Kima for getting six stars on their resume and, of course, gotta respect their gangster. Though the way I said it sounded like I’m white despite that I’m Mexican-American for Christ’s sake. This does not apply to anyone for saying it unless you want to be called cringed.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So all and all, what do I think about this week's episode of The Great North? Well, I had to give it a rewatch to get a better understanding of the episode. When I watched it for the first time when it came out, it felt like an average, middle-of-the-road episode, but when I watched it a second time to get a better understanding of it, it’s actually a good episode... well, only for the main plot. The subplot with Wolf was the one that I didn't like from this episode because you already know the outcome for everyone, especially with the rest of the Tobin family, hating on the creation.
I might as well be biased with this episode and that is, of course, enjoying seeing Judy and Kima's friendship in full force in this episode. While I do enjoy the trio between those two and Amelia in certain episodes, Judy and Kima was the friendship that I enjoyed and them being high throughout the episode, while it does feel like something coming out from your usual stoner movies like Pineapple Express or any of the Harold and Kumar movies mixed in with Ferris Bueller, them hanging out and going on a joyride throughout the town when proving themselves, while being under the influence of the marijuana-laced gummies, that they're not goody two-shoes during their field trip. So, again, being biased, whether it's going on a joyride across the town with the van that they had to steal to get tattoos on their backs that will now forever be on their backs for the rest of their lives, I do enjoy their friendship, regardless of the use of narcotics, and I wanna see more of that in future episodes.
Even though it was supposed to be a Judy-centric episode with her and Kima getting high and going through the town in GTA, it does feel like an edge Kima episode when having to come across a tub of cottage cheese that contains a racist caricature to wanting to grill the ever daylights out of a state senator who is not kind towards her and the Native population to the point where she, while being under the influence of the gummies, to envision the ghost of her idol being on the tub was interesting. And the small scene of Kima and Judy visiting the heritage institute and the imagery of Kima's reflection through the glass when seeing an Alaskan Native wardrobe and imagining herself wearing it through the reflection that led to her getting an idea as if she is preparing to follow in Peratrovich's footsteps was nice. I did enjoy that.
The subplot, of course, downplayed the episode because you knew right away that the reason why Wolf's sandwich would be discontinued was that no one wants to order it, including the Tobins because no one wants to get their hands on it. It does feel like the subplot to "As Goldie As It Gets Adventure" with Judy's attempt to make pottery with the family wanting to be supportive but they know that they can't keep a straight face and tell the honest-to-God truth to their faces. Okay, with Judy, they tried to keep it straight in not wanting to upset her. With Wolf, took until the fourth act to tell Wolf that they don't like the sandwich despite wanting to be supportive of the guy. So, final thoughts, it's a good episode, but only for the main plot with Judy and Kima getting high and going on a joyride during their field trip. The subplot is what downplays it. So I'll give "High Expectations Adventure"...
A 7.5 out of 10. But that's my opinion and I wanna hear yours in the comments below. Only a few episodes left in the season we are about to end April and going into May, and it looks like Old Man Winter decided to stick around for a bit in the next episode where the Tobins are once again going through cabin fever with this time around with everyone playing the role of the British Royal Navy and the return of Moon Court since everyone is going to be trapped inside the house. Hopefully, there will be no death sentences being called from Moon, and have everyone to get the death penalty, even though he'll do it by the end of it, I'll guarantee it in the twelfth episode of Season 4 of The Great North, "Any Court in a Storm Adventure".
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